Vin Zhang and Mao Xiao Tong’s ‘Light Beyond the Road’ exceeds 300,000 reservations – celebratory poster drops
While many of us have been waiting for the Chinese psychological thriller Light Beyond the Road to eventually premiere for months now (note: there still hasn’t been an announcement as to when we can expect the C-drama to drop!), at least we are getting periodic updates about its status.
Updates that include today’s announcement from Tencent Video that Light Beyond the Road has now earned 300,000 reservations.
Not a bad number, considering the Chinese streaming service has not done much promotion for the drama at all as of yet.
A poster celebrating Light Beyond the Road‘s 300,000 reservations, and featuring main couple Vin Zhang and Mao Xiao Tong, was also dropped on Tencent Video’s Weibo this morning with a comment:
Congratulations🎉 #Light Beyond the Road# has surpassed 300,000 reservations!
Fireworks gather, and hope quietly blooms in the eyes of the Northern-Southern couple — Vin Zhang and Mao Xiao Tong. In the days to come, let us all walk forward with smiles.
The Chinese psychological romance drama not only stars Vin Zhang (The Blossoming Love) and Mao Xiao Tong (The Ingenious One), but also includes the supporting cast of Shi Yung Peng (Romance in the Alley), Yang Yu Xi (Be Your Knight), Ma Ya Shu (When Destiny Brings the Demon), and Lu Zhong (Fangs of Fortune).
The plot of Light Beyond the Road is quite sad although, hopefully, hopeful by its end:
She was an utterly ordinary woman—born into a family that favored sons over daughters, working a job with meager pay, married to a man of few words. She believed she would always remain insignificant, until one night, when misfortune struck abruptly, plunging her into darkness.
She lived in fear—fear that someone might mention her presence at the drinking gathering that night, fear that someone might comment on the dress she wore.
She dreaded her husband’s accusations of impurity and feared her family’s curses condemning her morality.
When the truth could no longer be hidden, her habitually silent husband sat on the sofa, finished his last cigarette, and looked at her—curled up in the corner, weeping uncontrollably.
“What did you do wrong?” he asked.
Then he took her hand, reported the crime, pursued the perpetrator, and appealed for justice.
With his remaining life and unwavering determination, he sought fairness for her, demanded righteousness from the world, and gave her a love that never wavered.
Yep. Hopeful and uplifting I would say, wouldn’t you?
Like I said, no word yet on when Light Beyond the Road will premiere.
But with Tencent Video now promoting the number of reservations the Chinese drama has earned, and the drama itself previously expected to air at the beginning of 2025, it probably won’t be too long.
