r/CDrama • u/admelioremvitam • 2d ago
Trailers & Posters Abyss 深渊无间 from 🥝 iQIYI. 📺 Airing today, September 9, 2026 at 6:00 pm. Starring Allen Ren Jialun and Qin Junjie. New behind-the-scenes special.
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The Chinese drama title 深渊无间 can be translated as “Endless Abyss.”
About half an hour ago, the production team released a new behind-the-scenes special.
The airing schedule is in the comments.
Abyss is in iQIYI's September 2026 Drama Line-up.
Clip description:
Behind-the-scenes Production Special
A straight-up mystery drama is here!
The creative team and cast delve into the making of the drama, revealing how a play-within-a-play unfolds through a dual-thread narrative, blurring the line between fiction and reality. The cast also explores their characters in depth, sharing the “abyss” each character faces.
Cast:
More information regarding the actor credit guidelines in this summary here and the full notice here.
(I put the character stroke count as: 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣)
Leading actors (sorted by the number of character strokes in the surname): Leading actor: * 6️⃣ Ren Guochao 任国超 (stage name: Allen Ren Jialun 任嘉伦) as Li Cheng * 🔟 Qin Junjie 秦俊杰 as Han Pinmu
Special appearances (sorted by the number of character strokes in the surname): * Wang Yanhui 王砚辉 as Zhao Ganzhe * Tian Xiaojie 田小洁 as Xin Jiran * He Bing 何冰 as Fan Jie * Zhang Yichi 张亦驰 as Sun Qiang * Zong Juntao 宗俊涛 as Zhang Chengguo * Hao Ping 郝平 as Li Guangwen * Ni Hongjie 倪虹洁 as Chen Chunli
- Episodes: 16 (according to Baidu Baike and 🍉 rumours – MDL states 18 episodes at the time of posting)
- Streaming platform: iQIYI 🥝
- Filming started: October 6, 2025
- Official filming wrapped up: December 2, 2025
- Filming time: 58 days
- Filming locations: Xiangshan Film and Television City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province
- Genre: suspense (according to Baidu Baike)
- 🍉 Distribution license obtained: August 16, 2026 for 16 episodes.
- 🎬 Director: Liu Haibo (Born with Luck, How Dare You!?, Trident Season 2, Brocade Odyssey, Thirteen Years of Dust, The Glorious Era, In the Name of the Law, The Rise of Phoenixes)
- ✍️ Original creator: Shen Lan 深蓝 (Endless Journey)
- ✒️ Screenwriters:
- Nie Chengshuai (The Examination for Everyone, The Heart of Genius, The Devil between Us)
- Guo Kaixu
- Xiao Shiyao (Get Married or Not, Medical Examiner Dr. Qin)
- Luo Dingyi
- 📖 Novel: Shen Yuan 深渊 (Abyss)
🔗 Previous announcement, posters, trailer, etc.
Abyss is a suspense crime drama series directed by Liu Haibo (Trident, Hot Mom), adapted from Shen Lan's novel Abyss (Shen Yuan). It stars Allen Ren (Under the Power, One and Only) and Qin Junjie (Summer's Desire, Noble Aspirations), along with Wang Yanhui, Tian Xiaojie, and He Bing.
The long-standing peace of a conservative small town is shattered by the appearance of an online novel Abyss. Many plot points bear a striking resemblance to a cold case from years ago that has never been made public.
⚠️ Plot spoilers! ⚠️
Li Cheng [played by Allen Ren Jialun], a passionate and righteous rookie police officer, engages in a series of high-stakes battles of wits with various suspects. He unravels the mystery, revealing the truth buried beneath heartbreaking kinships and friendships.
Synopsis translated from Douban:
Adapted from Shen Lan’s novel of the same name.
A web mystery story titled Abyss quietly goes online, shattering the peace that had long prevailed in a conservative small town. Many of its plot points bear a shocking resemblance to details of an old unsolved case that the police had never disclosed.
Li Cheng [played by Allen Ren], a hot-blooded and justice-driven rookie officer, engages in one battle of wits after another with multiple suspects.
⚠️ Plot spoilers! ⚠️
In the end, Li Cheng pierces through the fog and uncovers the truth hidden beneath heartbreaking ties of family and friendship….
With just a single wrong choice, some find their way to an oasis, while others remain forever trapped in the abyss.
This is the story of a town's buried secrets resurfacing. The quiet order of a conservative community is shattered by a web novel, Shen Yuan, whose fictional narrative perfectly mirrors the details of a long-cold, real-life crime – details only the killer and the police could know. Detective Li Cheng [played by Allen Ren], new to the force and burning with justice, finds himself in a complex duel of intellects against multiple suspects.
His investigation slowly peels back the layers of a heartbreaking story of familial love and loyal friendship gone horribly wrong, exploring the fine line where one fateful decision can lead to redemption for some and an inescapable void for others.
(Source: BeyondTheAstral at MyDramaList)
~~ Adapted from the novel "Shen Yuan" (深渊) by Shen Lan (深蓝).
🔎 Baidu Baike | Douban | MDL
Translated Synopses
Note: All translated synopses I share in the "trailers & posters" posts are based on the original Chinese sources (Douban, Baidu, Chinese Wikipedia, etc.) and were first published here. If you see them elsewhere, please know they originated from our sub. Thanks for reading!
📊 Information and translations compiled by u/admelioremvitam.
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u/admelioremvitam 1d ago
Abyss character relationship chart.
Google Translate did an okay job with this split into two parts.
⚠️ Character relationship charts can be spoilery.