Joy of Life

Created by Mao Ni

On CCTV-8, Zhejiang Television

A sprawling wuxia-inflected political drama about a gifted young man navigating court intrigue, martial challenges, and moral tests in a fantasy kingdom, framed as a historical fiction written by a modern student.

Zhang Qing, a present-day college student in culture and history major wants to study in professor Ye's postgraduate class, so he decides to write a historical fiction to elaborate his perspective of analyzing ancient literature history with modern concept. In the fiction, Zhang himself acts as a young man Fan Xian with mysterious life who lives in a remote seaside town of Kingdom Qing in his childhood, under the help of a mysterious mentor and a blindfolded watchman. Fan goes to the capital when he grows up, where he experiences plenty of ordeal and temper. Fan persists in adhering the rule of justice and goodness and lives his own glorious life.