Scarlet Heart
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Promotional poster
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| Also known as | Bubu Jingxin Startling by Each Step |
| Genre |
Romance Historical fiction Fantasy Time travel |
| Created by | Tong Hua (original story) |
| Directed by | Lee Kwok-lap |
| Starring |
Cecilia Liu Nicky Wu Kevin Cheng Yuan Hong Lin Gengxin |
| Opening theme | 1. One Persistent Thought (一念执着) performed by Hu Ge and Alan |
| Ending theme | 1. Three Inches of Heaven (三寸天堂) performed by Ivy Yan 2. Season of Waiting (等你的季节) performed by Cecilia Liu |
| Composer(s) | Raymond Wong |
| Country of origin | China |
| Original language(s) | Mandarin |
| No. of episodes | 35 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Karen Tsoi |
| Location(s) | China |
| Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Tangren Media |
| Release | |
| Original network | Hunan Satellite TV |
| Original release | 10 September – 29 September 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | New Stories of Princess Pearl |
| Followed by | The Glamorous Imperial Concubine |
| Related shows | Palace, Scarlet Heart 2, Scarlet Heart: Ryeo |
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| Simplified Chinese | 步步惊心 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 步步驚心 | ||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bùbù Jīngxīn | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bùbù Jīngxīn |
| Scarlet Heart- Original Television Soundtrack (步步惊心电视剧原声音乐大碟) | |
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Soundtrack album (Audio CD/Digital download) by Raymond Wong Hu Ge Alan Dawa Dolma Cecilia Liu Ivy Yan |
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| Released | October 2011 |
| Length | 46:50 |
| Label | Chinese Entertainment Shanghai |
Scarlet Heart, also known as Startling by Each Step, is a Chinese television series based on the novel Bu Bu Jing Xin by Tong Hua. It premiered in China on Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) on 10 September 2011.
A pioneer of the time slip genre in Asian television, Scarlet Heart is a commercial and critical hit, both in China and across Asia. A sequel, Scarlet Heart 2 first aired in China on Zhejiang Satellite TV on 22 April 2014.
Zhang Xiao (Cecilia Liu), a young woman from the 21st century, suffers a near-fatal accident that sends her back in time to the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi Emperor's (Damian Lau) reign. She finds herself trapped in the body of one of her previous incarnations: Ma'ertai Ruoxi, the teenage daughter of a Manchu general. In this new timeline, she has an elder sister, Ruolan (Annie Liu), who is a concubine of the Kangxi Emperor's eighth son, Yinsi (Kevin Cheng). Ruoxi initially tries to return to the future, but she soon adjusts to life in this era. She meets some of Kangxi's other sons, including the fourth prince Yinzhen (Nicky Wu), tenth prince Yin'e (Ye Zuxin) who falls in love with her, and fourteenth prince Yinti (Lin Gengxin). She also forges a close friendship with the thirteenth prince, Yinxiang (Yuan Hong).
Ruoxi attracts the attention of the emperor with rumors of her brashness and bravery, and manages to charm him with her intelligence and wit. Later, at the imperial palace's "beauty draft" (during which concubines and wives are chosen for the princes or the emperor himself), conflicting arrangements are made by Yinsi and his first wife, Gogoro Minghui (Shi Xiaoqun), leading to Ruoxi being drafted into the service of the dowager empress to keep the peace. Ruoxi is given an appointment as a servant to the emperor himself, specifically to prepare and serve tea to him and those he hosts.
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