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- 30 episodes long.
- Sunny Chan will play the
Daoguang Emperor (道光). He wants peace in the palace so that he can take more time to deal with the matters of the country. He wants to be a good emperor.
- Jessica Hsuan will play Quan Fei (全妃), a favoured imperial concubine. She was initially the wife of Gigi Wong's first son.
- Myolie Wu will play Empress Xiao Shen Cheng (孝慎成), a bad empress. She will fight with Jessica for power. She and Jessica will compete in conceiving, and will fight for the affections of Sunny. She does not really know how to scheme. She is not really evil, but to protect herself and her family's status, she will fight with Jessica the most. Her mother is the mastermind behind everything; however, her mother will die at some point in the series, so Myolie will have to rely on herself to uphold her position as empress. She will play a pregnant woman.
- Gigi Wong will play the Empress Dowager. She will cause the death of her grandchild.
- Joel Chan will play Rui Qin Wang (瑞親王), the Daoguang Emperor's younger brother. He will help Sunny deal with the matters of the country. He will try to snatch Sunny's position as emperor, but is unsuccessful in the end. He and Myolie have an unspeakable secret. He will have an affair with Myolie. He and Myolie will have a tragic ending.
- KK Cheung will play a eunuch who serves Gigi. He and Elena Kong are acquaintances. He falls in love with Elena, but he ends up killing her.
- Nancy Wu will play Cailan (彩藍). She is initially a maid in the palace who serves Jessica. She has always been very content with herself, hoping to leave the palace one day. Because she is very obedient, she is loved by all, including Myolie and Jessica. Then she becomes Myolie and Jessica's spy. Because she no longer wants to be manipulated by them, she does things to capture the affections of the emperor so that she becomes a concubine. Because some things happen in between, she comes to believe that she needs power in order to survive. She will seduce the emperor with her specialty in song and dance while Myolie and Jessica are pregnant. She will even use Myolie and Jessica's secrets to survive. She later becomes Jing Fei (靜妃), and fights with Myolie and Jessica for power. She is a villain.
- Sire Ma will play Luoxin (樂欣), Myolie's cousin. She is naive, lively, and romantic. Her father is an important minister. She admires Joel a lot, and he later becomes her husband; however, he doesn't truly like her, as he likes Myolie.
- Rebecca Chan will play the empress' mother and the wife of a prime minister. She is motherly. She will pair up with Gordon Liu.
- Ben Wong will play a student of Chinese and Western medicine. He has a crush on his classmate, Jessica.
- Kong Hon will play Jessica's father and Ben's master.
- Jess Sum will play Cheng Fei (成妃), a concubine who always talks about others.
- Vivien Yeo will play Yun Fei (芸妃), a concubine with a bad character. She is greedy and will frequently frame and torment Macy Chan. She will not have a good ending, as she will die early on. She only appears in the first four episodes.
- Macy will play Caiqiao (彩喬), a maid in the palace who experiences many things. She will serve Jessica. She has a good character. Because of Vivien, she will become mute from poison; however, Jessica takes her in, and finds someone to cure her. She also later finds her biological father.
- Charmaine Li will play a concubine.
- Lee Yee Man will play Caiyan (彩燕), the empress' chief maid in the palace.
- Elena Kong will play Xin Huang Tai Fei (信皇太妃), a concubine of the Jiaqing Emperor. She and the Empress Dowager are at odds with each other. Her first love is Kwok Fung.
- Skye Chan will play the younger version of Gigi's character.
Clips (costume fitting):
Sunny Chan's TVB Blog
Sunny Chan's TVB Blog
Myolie Wu's TVB Blog
Nancy Wu's TVB Blog
Sire Ma's TVB Blog
Ben Wong's TVB Blog
Jess Sum's TVB Blog
Vivien Yeo's TVB Blog
Macy Chan's TVB Blog
Lee Yee Man's TVB Blog
Clips (blessing ceremony):
Sunny Chan's TVB Blog
Myolie Wu's TVB Blog
Blessing Ceremony @ TVBE Clip
FYI: The official English title of this series is "Curse of the Royal Harem".
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Personal Note: Elena, Sire, and Sherry looked better in these costumes. He he.... :P
*Credits to www.myoliewu.org, nancywu.org, tungstar, headlinedaily, the-sun, and Weibo
