The Long Ballad (Season 1)

The Long Ballad (2021) is a Chinese historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Set during the Tang dynasty, it opens on the bloody coup at Xuanwu Gate that wipes out the family of Princess Li Changge in a single night.

Disguised as a man, she heads to Shuo Province to raise an army and avenge herself on the new emperor, Li Shimin. War derails the plan: after a losing siege she's taken captive by Ashile Sun, a general of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, who keeps her as his personal strategist. Caught between vengeance and an unlikely ally, Changge has to work out who she truly is.

Dilraba Dilmurat plays her as a tactician and warrior rather than a weeping beauty; adapted from Xia Da's manhua, the show balances large-scale battles with a delicate romance. Watch all fifty episodes online on iFILM.