The Vendetta of An

2025 28 episodes CCTV / Youku Historical Action Thriller Political Drama Netflix
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Fifteen years ago, the Huben Army — Chang'an's elite shadow guards — was massacred when feudal lord Xiao Wu Yang seized power. Xie Huai An, the son of the Huben Army's creator and one of the few survivors, has spent those fifteen years becoming someone Xiao Wu Yang's people would never recognize: a lowly registrar, patient, methodical, and working entirely from the playbook of Sun Tzu's Art of War. His return to Chang'an is not vengeance in the hot sense — it is vengeance as architecture, each stratagem building toward the structural collapse of an illegitimate power. The Vendetta of An is C-drama's most strategically constructed revenge thriller in recent memory, Cheng Yi's most physically and emotionally demanding performance, and one of the first Chinese dramas to adapt 'The Art of War' not as aesthetic but as actual operating logic.

Where to Watch
RevengeStrategyLoyaltyBetrayalJusticeSacrificePower StruggleCunning
Long Game RevengeHidden IdentityStrategic Male LeadPolitical ChessFallen EliteArt Of WarFalse Persona
TenseStrategicDarkCerebralAction HeavyEmotionally Intense
Cast
Cheng Yi as Xie Huai An / Liu ZhiLiu Yi Jun as Xiao Wu YangZhou Qi as Xiao Wen Jing / Zhang Mo

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