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Ashes to Crown(2026)

Drama

First Air Date: 2026-06-02

Average Runtime: N/A

Rating: 8.7

Votes: 3

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

The general's daughter, Chu Zhao, refuses to accept her fate as nothing more than a pawn to be sacrificed in Xiao Xun's rise to power. Taking matters into her own hands, she fights her way out with the help of Xie Yanlai, protecting the emperor's grandson as he makes his way to the emperor's presence. Through a tense standoff in the imperial court, she helps the young prince secure the throne, cutting off Xiao Xun's path to power. But with a new emperor comes new crises. The realm is torn by internal strife and foreign threats. Working alongside Xie Yanlai, Chu Zhao navigates the treacherous currents of the court, leads troops into battle, and ultimately rewrites her own destiny, sparing the people of the State of Chu from the ravages of war.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 24

E01

Episode 1

Air Date: 2026-06-02

47m

Ruthless Emperor Xiao Xun wipes out the Chu clan and strangles his empress. Mysteriously reborn on the eve of their w...

E02

Episode 2

Air Date: 2026-06-02

50m

Xiao Xun launches his rebellion early, but Chu Zhao fights her way into the palace to thwart his ascension and reshap...

E03

Episode 3

Air Date: 2026-06-02

47m

Now regent, Chu Zhao appoints her trusted ally to lead the Imperial Guard. But as tensions mount, Xiao Xun lays a tra...

E04

Episode 4

Air Date: 2026-06-02

43m

Xiao Xun accuses Chu Zhao of poisoning the young emperor, but she turns his plot against him — until an assassin stri...

E05

Episode 5

Air Date: 2026-06-03

41m

Chu Zhao sets a trap to frame Xiao Xun as a defector, but Deng Yi aids his escape — putting Xie Yanlai in deadly peri...

E06

Episode 6

Air Date: 2026-06-03

40m

Xie Yanfang flexes his power by engineering an invasion on the frontier. With her father gravely ill, Chu Zhao defies...

E07

Episode 7

Air Date: 2026-06-04

41m

Chu Zhao disguises herself among dispatch riders to evade Xiao Xun's ambush. Meanwhile, Yanlai risks everything to fo...

E08

Episode 8

Air Date: 2026-06-05

40m

Chu Zhao and Yanlai take shelter at Cangmu Stronghold, where she reveals her rebirth and past life to him. He vows to...

E09

Episode 9

Air Date: 2026-06-05

45m

Chu Zhao sets up an ambush for Tie Ying at the Cangmu stronghold. Later, Xiao Xun colludes with the Northern Desert t...

E10

Episode 10

Air Date: 2026-06-06

43m

With Wangcheng under siege, Chu Zhao devises a daring chain of stratagems to break free. Far away, her ailing father ...

E11

Episode 11

Air Date: 2026-06-07

42m

Chu Zhao reaches her gravely ill father, but a shocking discovery follows. Elsewhere, Deng Yi falls into Yanfang's de...

E12

Episode 12

Air Date: 2026-06-08

39m

Chu Zhao learns a shattering truth about her birth mother from Chu Ling and that Yanlai is partially responsible for ...

E13

Episode 13

Air Date: 2026-06-09

45m

Chu Zhao buries her grief to fight alongside Yanlai against the Northern Desert — but victory demands a staggering pr...

E14

Episode 14

Air Date: 2026-06-10

47m

Xiao Xun intercepts Chu Zhao's victory dispatches and marches on the capital. As rivals scheme for power, he burns th...

E15

Episode 15

Air Date: 2026-06-11

44m

Chu Zhao and Yanlai use the Longwei Army to force the Lord of Xiaonan to withdraw. Back in the capital, Deng Yi and X...

E16

Episode 16

Air Date: 2026-06-12

44m

Chu Tang devises a plan to capture Xiao Xun, giving Chu Zhao leverage to force a surrender. Deng Yi issues an amnesty...

E17

Episode 17

Air Date: 2026-06-13

45m

After exchanging a lifelong vow, Chu Zhao and Yanlai part ways. She returns to the capital to court allies and secure...

E18

Episode 18

Air Date: 2026-06-14

45m

When Deng Yi blocks Chu Zhao's bid to give Yanlai command of the frontier troops, Yanlai stakes his life on a vow to ...

E19