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If there is one word that best describes LeTV's newest online drama Go Princess Go Cheap Vegas Golden Knights Jersey , that word is "addictive." Unlike the disappointment that came after the highly anticipated The Legend of Mi Yue hit the airwaves, Go Princess Go started off as a relatively unknown before becoming a major hit. Currently holding a high score of 8.210 on media site douban, the show has raked in more than 700 million views after releasing two-thirds of its 35-episode season. It is currently one of the top trending topics on social media in China.


Man in a woman's world


Each episode of this online drama is only about 20 minutes long and so makes for a quick treat for people who are working or studying and don't have much time to watch something heavier.


The biggest draw for audiences seems to be the transgender nature of the main character Zhang Peng.


A modern playboy who jumps into a swimming pool to save a girl's life, Zhang is accidently kicked in the head and falls unconscious. Upon waking Cheap Winnipeg Jets Jersey , he discovers that he now inhabits the body of a beautiful woman living in ancient China named Zhang Pengpeng (actress Zhang Tian'ai), who Zhang later realizes is the wife of a prince. Comedy ensues as Zhang tries to survive as a woman with a straight man's mind.


A transgender focus is not a new topic. It's been used as a focus in US movie The Hot Chick in 2002, UK movie It's a Boy Girl Thing in 2006, South Korean film Change in 1997 Wholesale NHL Hockey Jerseys , Chinese movie If I Were You in 2002 and some TV dramas like the Japanese series Papa to Musume no Nanokakan in 2007. Just last year in The Danish Girl, Eddie Redmayne played as Lili Elbe, an artist who underwent sex reassignment surgery.


While most of these gender-bender movies and TV series focus on how a person gradually comes to understand the opposite gender, this online drama is a bit more daring. Sure it has instances where it pokes fun at a man having to deal with a woman's menstrual cycle Wholesale Hockey Jerseys , but for the most part it focuses on how this princess begins developing romantic relationships with both men and women.


When the show first starts, Zhang often flirts with his maids and his husband's other concubines, most of whom are voluptuous woman who don't care when Zhang comes into contact with their bodies since he's in a woman's body. These scenes are clearly meant to tantalize. However, as Zhang's husband and his brother-in-law end up finding this attractive and daring woman even more attractive and so begin romancing Zhang Wholesale NHL Jerseys , the latter finds himself accepting the more feminine side of his nature and even has sex with his husband.


It's rare to see a bisexual role such as this appear so prominently in a Chinese drama. With Zhang's male spirit and female body, each relationship between the two sexes develops quite naturally.


Even though the tone is kept light and funny instead of being a dramatic psychological