Drama series blooms into trending topic

The drama series In the Name of the Blossom, the sequel to the hit costume drama Flourished Peony, which premiered earlier this year, began airing on Mango TV on Monday.

Actress Yang Zi plays the lead role as the daughter of a business owner who inherits her late mother's skills in cultivating peonies in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Actor Li Xian portrays Jiang Changyang, a seemingly corrupt official with the title hua niao shi, or "imperial envoy of rare flowers and birds", tasked by the emperor to collect treasures from across the country.