Legend of Hao Lan Chinese Drama - TV Series DVD * Subtitles: Chinese/ English * Language Option 1: Chinese * Language Option 2: Mandarin/ Cantonese * Release Year: 2019 * Run Time: 2170 Mins * No. of Episodes: 62 * No. of Discs: 12 * Director: Li Dachao * Actor: Wu Jinyan, Mao Zijun, Nie Yuan * Synopsis: The series is set during the Warring States period, and chronicles the rise of Li Haolan to become the Empress Dowager. Betrayed by her family and her first love, Li Haolan finds herself in desperate circumstances at the start of the series. Her father, State Censor Li He, arranges marriage between her and the far-older Yu Ping, who treats his other wives brutally. When she tries to circumvent this fate by begging her first love, Prince Jiao, ask to marry her, Li Haolan's stepmother, Gao Min, orders her killed and thrown into the river. Surviving only by chance, Li Haolan crawls back from the brink of death to discover her reputation in tatters, as Gao Min spread the rumor that Li Haolan shamed the family by eloping with a stranger to explain the girl's disappearance. Li Haolan's mother, Wang Wan'er, a lowly concubine, has gone mad with grief over her daughter's unknown fate. Gao Min orders the murder of Li Haolan's mother and sells Li Haolan into slavery, just as Li Haolan watches her sweetheart marrying her little sister, Li Xiuyu.