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- Oct 16, 202670% CONFIDENCEfrom sina.cn
Where the Mask Ends (嫁金钗) Premieres
- Youku has not announced an air date. Bloggers' autumn schedules list it as tentatively premiering on 16 October 2026 as a Youku exclusive (others say 13 or 20 October), as one of Youku's S-level Q4 period dramas, with Youku reservations above 1.22 million[1][4][5]
- Filming wrapped in early April 2026; the November 2025 casting call planned a 120-day shoot at Hengdian starting in December 2025[1][7]
- Tian Xiwei (田曦薇) plays both Wei Rao, known as A Chou (阿丑), the true daughter of the Earl of Cheng'an's house who grew up in the streets as a night-soil woman, and Jun Dai (君黛), the pampered, ruthless false daughter who took her place; it is her first dual role. Yan An (闫桉) plays Lu Zhuo (陆濯), heir of the Duke of Ying's house, and Mao Linlin (毛林林) plays Wei Rao's birth mother Zhou Fu, with Chen Zihan (陈紫函), Dai Chunrong (戴春荣) and Tien Niu (恬妞) guest-starring[1][2][6]
- When Lu Zhuo lies near death after a battlefield wound, Jun Dai refuses to marry him for luck (冲喜) and forces her look-alike A Chou to go in her place; he wakes on the wedding day and suspects his new wife, who wins him over, uncovers the truth about her birth and later goes to the border war with him[2]
- It adapts 笑佳人's Jinjiang novel of the same name, is written by Zhou Mo (周末, Story of Yanxi Palace) and directed by Yang Long (杨龙, The Glory), and is produced by Youku with Damai Entertainment (大麦娱乐) for Youku and its TV app 酷喵TV[1][2][7]
- Yang Long's previous drama, The Glory (雁回时), wrapped at Hengdian on 12 July 2024 and premiered on 18 March 2025, about eight months later[3]. A 16 October premiere would come about six and a half months after this drama's April wrap
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- [1]50%news.qq.com/rain/a/20260404A073MO00news.qq.com· Posted Sep 27, 2026· Starts Oct 16, 2026· 18% of score
Estimated: Youku has not announced (定档) a date. Drama bloggers' autumn schedules list 嫁金钗 as tentatively premiering on Youku on 16 October 2026 (some say 13 or 20 October), Youku has called it a fourth-quarter release, and it put out a new trailer and poster in mid-September. Filming wrapped in early April 2026, so 16 October is about six and a half months later, a little quicker than director Yang Long's last drama The Glory (雁回时, about eight months from wrap to premiere) but inside the Q4 window. Re-date once Youku announces the date.
- [2]75%嫁金钗 - 维基百科zh.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 27, 2026· 18% of score
The drama's Wikipedia[3] entry: 30 episodes, Youku, writer Zhou Mo, director Yang Long, the cast and roles, the story outline, and an expected October 2026 airing.
- [3]80%雁回时 - 维基百科zh.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 27, 2026· 18% of score
Director Yang Long's previous drama: filming began at Hengdian on 23 March 2024, wrapped on 12 July 2024 and premiered on 18 March 2025. This wrap-to-air gap is the comparison for the estimate.[1]
- [4]70%《嫁金钗》正式定档播出时间是什么？ - 新浪新闻k.sina.cn· Published Sep 17, 2026· 17% of score
A Sina[5] explainer saying Youku had not yet announced a date, that rumours point to 16 October (or 13 or 20 October), and that reservations had passed 1.22 million.
- [5]70%九月剧集已开播 / 十月剧集 - 新浪新闻sina.cn· Published Sep 12, 2026· Starts Oct 16, 2026 ✓· 17% of score
A TV blogger's Weibo schedule on Sina[4] listing 嫁金钗 as tentatively (暂定) premiering on Youku on 16 October 2026, with 30 episodes.
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