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The Litchi Road

2025 · 1 season

A tense, wry bureaucratic scramble through Tang-era China, mixing dry humour with genuine stakes as impossible logistics unfold.

Created by
Ma Boyong
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lei Jiayin, Yue Yunpeng, Nashi
Overview
The story follows Li Shande, a man deceived by his colleagues and demoted from his supervisory role. Now forced to become the “Lychee Envoy,” he faces a near-impossible mission to deliver fresh lychees from Lingnan to Chang’an as a birthday gift for the Noble Consort. The saying goes that lychees change color in one day, lose their fragrance in two, and their flavor in three days. With more than 5,000 li between Lingnan and Chang’an, and under tight deadlines with limited resources, how can he possibly pull it off?

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Created by
Ma Boyong
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lei Jiayin, Yue Yunpeng, Nashi
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • power
  • survival
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Ma Boyong
Starring
Lei Jiayin, Yue Yunpeng, Nashi, Vivienne Tien, Lü Liang, Gong Lei, Feng Jiayi, Lu Fangsheng
Length
1 seasons, 35 episodes, 48 min each
Network
CCTV-8
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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