Joy of Life

About Joy of Life

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 chil…

CCTV-8's Joy of Life is a comedy, science fiction, and fantasy series. It has run to 3 seasons and 83 episodes since November 2019. That is around 28 episodes a season.

Zhang Ruoyun appears as Fan Xian, Li Qin as Lin Wan'er, Chen Daoming as Emperor of Qing, and Wu Gang as Chen Pingping. Production companies include CCTV and Tencent Penguin Pictures.

Shelv files it under royalty, political, wuxia, and power struggle.

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Scarlet Heart: Ryeo, and Love Between Fairy and Devil make useful companions to Joy of Life, all filed under hidden identity, murder, and reincarnation. It scores 8.0 out of 10 from 121 TMDB voters.