If you spent 2024 yelling at your screen over Blossom, this one’s for you. Tigers Sniff the Rose reunites Meng Ziyi and Li Yunrui in a brand-new Chinese period drama. Singapore viewers can stream it on Disney+ from today, Friday, 23 October 2026.
Quick Guide: How to Watch in Singapore
🗓️ Date: Streaming from Friday, 23 October 2026
📍 Where to watch: Disney+ (Singapore)
📺 Episodes: 40, according to WeTV’s listing
🌏 Mainland China: Premiered on Tencent Video the same day
📖 Based on: Esteemed Princess by Yiren Kuikui
🎭 Cast: Meng Ziyi as Princess Mu Wanyao, Li Yunrui as Yan Shang
🎬 Director and screenwriter: Qin Zhen and He Fang
📱 Clips and updates: @DisneyPlusSG on TikTok
#️⃣ Hashtags: #DisneyPlusSG #TigersSnifftheRose
Also on Disney+ now: Moonlit Reunion and Zhao Zhao Adventures
Coming to Disney+: The Remarried Empress and Portraits of Delusion
Princess, Meet the Scholar
The setup is a romance built on a class gap. Meng plays Princess Mu Wanyao. Li plays Yan Shang, a common-born scholar who becomes a brilliant but humble court official. She was born into the palace, and he had to study his way through its gates. According to Disney+, the pair must sort out their feelings while surviving the power struggles of the imperial court. Their hope is to end a national crisis and bring peace and prosperity back to the kingdom.
That gap between them drives the show. A princess can walk into any room she likes. A scholar with no family name to protect him has everything to lose in court politics, so every glance between them is a risk. If slow-burn romance with real stakes is your genre, this premise checks the right boxes.
The series is adapted from Esteemed Princess, a popular web novel by Yiren Kuikui, and its Chinese title is 尚公主. Stories that already have a reading fanbase tend to arrive with a built-in audience, and that’s exactly the kind of title Disney is chasing.
Why This Reunion Is the Draw
Here’s some quick context for anyone outside the C-drama bubble. Blossom was a 2024 period drama on Youku, one of China’s major streaming platforms, and it paired these same two leads. Meng’s other credits include The Untamed, and Li’s include Love Like the Galaxy, so both have plenty of history in costume dramas.
Any reunion raises a fair question: can the chemistry work twice, or was Blossom lightning in a bottle? The team behind the camera is the best argument for optimism. Director Qin Zhen helmed Lost You Forever and Love Scenery. Screenwriter He Fang adapted Till the End of the Moon and Blossoms in Adversity. This crew has real experience turning long novels into bingeable television, and a good script tends to matter more than a familiar pairing.
Be ready for a long haul. The series premiered on Tencent Video in mainland China on the same day, and WeTV lists it at 40 episodes. Plan on a few weekends rather than one marathon night.
Disney+ Is Building Its Asian Shelf
Tigers Sniff the Rose is the latest Chinese-language series to join Disney+’s growing library of APAC (Asia-Pacific) content. Disney Asia-Pacific executive Luke Kang has said the company looks for popular source material, including web novels, webtoons and folktales, with stories strong enough at home to travel across borders. An adapted web novel with two proven leads fits that brief neatly.
If you sign up for this one, two other Chinese-language titles are already waiting on the platform: Moonlit Reunion and Zhao Zhao Adventures. Period-drama fans also have two Korean titles coming, so the shelf is filling up fast:
- The Remarried Empress stars Shin Mina and Ju Jihoon. It’s the obvious next stop once the palace intrigue here wraps up, since the title alone promises royal politics and a messy marriage.
- Portraits of Delusion stars Suzy and Kim Seonho. Watch this one for the star power, because plenty of K-drama fans have been waiting for this pairing.
Worth Your Weekend?
For Blossom fans, this is an easy yes, because the cast, the writer and the slow-burn formula are all lined up. Newcomers get a clean entry point too, since it’s a fresh story with no prior seasons to catch up on. If your watchlist still needs topping up after our Valentine’s Day binge picks, start here.
A princess, a scholar with nothing but his wits, and two leads that fans already trust make a strong case for clearing your weekend. Head to Disney+ to start Tigers Sniff the Rose from today, and follow @DisneyPlusSG on TikTok for clips and updates on the Korean period dramas still to come. Happy bingeing!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Disney+.
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