Love Yunge from the Desert

Love Yunge from the Desert is a 2015 Chinese television series based on Tong Hua's novel Song in the Clouds. It is a sequel to Sound of the Desert (2014), also based on a novel by Tong Hua. The series was produced by Yu Zheng and stars Angelababy, Du Chun, Lu Yi, Chen Xiao and Yang Rong. It aired on Hunan Television from 13 September to 23 November 2015. The series was criticized for its poor knowledge of history and poor acting performance. Synopsis During the Western Han Dynasty, eight-year-old, Liu FuLing, Emperor Zhao of Han meets a young girl, YunGe (daughter of Huo QuBing and Jin Yu from Ballad of the Desert), who rescued him from the dangers and cold of the desert. He tells her his name is Zhao Ling. He hears her sing a song which is the same song his mother used to sing to him and falls in love with her. They make a promise to find each other when they grow up. He gives her his hair rope locket (given by his mother, her last gift to him) and she gives him her embroidered shoe. He has to leave her. As he rides off, he tells her his actual last name is Liu & will be living in Chang'An where he will wait for her there when she grows up. Nine years later, YunGe is now a beautiful young woman with excellent cooking skills, who cannot forget Brother Ling, the boy she rescued from the desert. Her parents are trying to marry her off to a distinguished man whom her family likes. She doesn't want to marry anyone but Brother Ling & decides to leave home. She ventures out to Chang'An to find him. Brother Ling also has not forgotten her all these years & is now Emperor. He still has the embroidered shoe she had given him when they parted ways & has been waiting for her in Chang'An as promised.