Rogue Emperor (Chinese: 流氓皇帝; literally "Rogue Emperor") is a 2016 Hong Kong pre-modern romantic-comedy television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Kenneth Ma, Niki Chow, Mandy Wong, Benjamin Yuen, Koo Ming Wah and Brian Tse as the main cast.
[3] In November 2016, it was announced that the drama will finally have an air date of 12 December 2016, with the number of episodes decreasing to 17.
Rogue Emperor is a remake of TVB's 1981 drama The Misadventure of Zoo, which starred Adam Cheng and Louise Lee as the leads.
[4] Poor village boy Chu Gam Chun (Kenneth Ma), lives with his step-mother Yau Yue Si (Rainbow Ching), the village matchmaker and half-brother Chu Cheung Fun (Benjamin Yuen), a woodcutter that is jinxed with finding love.
Gam Chun has been in-love with his childhood friend and next-door neighbor Yi Yung Yung (Niki Chow) since they were young, but her grandfather Yi Sang Kei (Joseph Lee), a well-to-do merchant that owns the village pawn shop forbids them from associating with each other.