I think what's going on is they're treating Palace as a franchise and Palace 2 will have the original love triangle reappearing but Dong Li Ya (she played the girl who loved Si Ah Ge) won't be in it from what it looks like.
Ming Dao is still the lead in Palace but it's Palace the Movie. So Yang Mi's character isn't Qing Chuan and Ming Dao is actually playing General Nian. So it's like an AU adaptation that happens to share the same name with completely different story and characterizations. From the sense I get, it's supposed to be a bit more comedic.
But this could change once they're actually released since my info is secnd or thirdhand since it's from following the news as repeated/leaked to the Chinese media. I do understand the fans going hulk smash though if the movie with Ming Dao in it was the only follow up to Palace and there was no continuation of the story. I just hope Palace 2 will have a good plot and doesn't fall prey to curse of the sequel a la Meteor Garden 2.
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Ming Dao is still the lead in Palace but it's Palace the Movie. So Yang Mi's character isn't Qing Chuan and Ming Dao is actually playing General Nian. So it's like an AU adaptation that happens to share the same name with completely different story and characterizations. From the sense I get, it's supposed to be a bit more comedic.
But this could change once they're actually released since my info is secnd or thirdhand since it's from following the news as repeated/leaked to the Chinese media. I do understand the fans going hulk smash though if the movie with Ming Dao in it was the only follow up to Palace and there was no continuation of the story. I just hope Palace 2 will have a good plot and doesn't fall prey to curse of the sequel a la Meteor Garden 2.