Ayothaya Ayeyarwady official iQIYI Original poster with two armoured princes facing each other among red roses

Ayothaya Ayeyarwady

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What happens

Losing a war comes with a bill, and in Ayothaya Ayeyarwady the bill is paid in sons. A northern city of Siam has fallen, and the defeated court must send hostages to Pegu, the royal seat of the Toungoo kingdom. One of them is the elder son of the lord of Phitsanulok.

The story runs in a parallel version of history, so the maps look familiar and the rules are its own. In Pegu the Siamese prince meets the crown prince of the house that holds him. On paper they are rivals from the cradle: one is the guarantee of a broken kingdom, the other is the heir of the kingdom that broke it.

Daily life has other plans. Year after year, under the shadow of war, the two grow up side by side. Distrust turns into habit, habit into friendship, and friendship into the kind of closeness neither of them has a word for at court.

Kingdoms keep their own accounts, though. Siam and Toungoo were never meant to become one land, and the day of open war arrives. The friends who learned to stand together end up facing each other from the backs of war elephants, blades drawn. History will call that battle a matter of hatred. The series asks a quieter question: was it hatred at all, or a love that national duty never allowed either man to say out loud?

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
อโยธยาเอยาวดี
Original Title
Ayothaya Ayeyarwady
Also Known As
อโยธยาเอยาวดี, Ayothaya Ayeyarwady iQIYI Original
Adaptation
A popular Thai comic, adapted for the screen by iQIYI with Bow as lead script writer.
Genres
Childhood FriendsDramaForbidden LoveHistoricalRomanceRoyalty
Themes
BL
Key Themes
Love Across Enemy KingdomsRoyal HostagesDuty Against the HeartWar and FriendshipAlternate History
Country
Thailand
Language
Thai
Networks
iQIYI

Before You Watch

  • Platform: a Thai BL with the iQIYI Original badge on its official poster.
  • Reveal: it opened the IP announcement block at iQIYI iJOY Thailand 2027 at ICONSIAM in Bangkok on 5 November 2026.
  • Writing: Bow leads the script work as lead script writer.
  • Release: iQIYI has not announced a premiere date, an episode count or a trailer yet.

Reviewed by Renkaze

Uff, a BL that ends its first act on elephants. Ayothaya Ayeyarwady takes one of the most retold rivalries in Thai history, Siam against Toungoo, and plants a love story right in the middle of the battlefield. I have been waiting for someone to try this.

A Hostage Story With a Heart

Royal hostage plots are usually about leverage. A prince is a bargaining chip, and the court counts him the way it counts gold. This premise keeps the leverage and adds time. The two princes do not meet as enemies across a table; they share a childhood in the same palace, under the same war, and that is where the knot gets tied. By the time their kingdoms march, the friendship is older than the politics. It is a cruel setup, and a smart one for a BL, because the obstacle is not a rival suitor or a disapproving parent. It is a whole country on each side.

History, Bent on Purpose

Thai history remembers a royal elephant duel between Ayutthaya and Toungoo in 1593. The series moves its story into a parallel world, which gives it room to ask what the history books never could. The battle on the poster is the ending everyone expects. The interest lies in everything that leads up to it, and in whether the two men on those elephants still mean what their banners say.

The poster tells you the tone in one look. Two armoured princes face each other with drawn swords, and red roses grow over the armour. Steel and petals in one frame: that is the series announcing it will be tender and brutal at once.

From a Comic With a Following

The source is a Thai comic with a big readership, and the team said on stage that adapting something this loved is a real challenge. Their answer is Bow as lead script writer, with a promise to keep everything readers love about the original. Coco from iQIYI added a second goal: reaching people who have never watched a Y series before. A period epic is a sensible door for that, since war and forbidden friendship need no genre introduction.

Yuke on Stage

Yuke Songpaisan joined the reveal, and he did not sell it as light entertainment. He called the script very intense, with emotions that run deep and put real pressure on the actor, and said that intensity is exactly why he wanted the project. His character has not been named yet. iQIYI also revealed How Come I Became the Protagonist? in the same block a few minutes later, so the 2027 slate swings from a lawyer's comedy to a war epic in one sitting.

What I Am Waiting For

I want to see the childhood years handled with patience, because the final battle only hurts if the friendship had room to grow. I also want both courts drawn with care, so neither kingdom becomes a cartoon villain. The score waits until I see whether the series lets its princes speak before the elephants do.

My tip: bookmark the iJOY livestream at the start of the IP announcements. The first look at Ayothaya Ayeyarwady played there, and iQIYI Thailand is the channel that will post the teaser.

Themes and Messages

Ayothaya Ayeyarwady is about loyalty split in two. Each prince owes his life to a crown, and each finds the person he trusts most on the other side of the border. The story treats that conflict as the engine of the romance: every year of friendship makes the coming war harder to face.

It also questions how history is told. A famous battle is usually remembered as pure enmity. By moving the events into a parallel world, the series asks what private feelings official history leaves out, and who gets to decide what a war meant.

Did You Know?

  • The official poster carries the JUVE9 logo beside the iQIYI logo.
  • The first look played before any guest came on stage, as a video that opened the IP announcement part of the night.
  • Phitsanulok, home city of the Siamese prince, was known in older times as Song Khwae, the city of two rivers.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

When and where can I watch Ayothaya Ayeyarwady?

It is an iQIYI Original, so it will stream on iQIYI. The premiere date has not been announced yet.

Who is in the cast of Ayothaya Ayeyarwady?

Yuke Songpaisan is the first confirmed cast member. iQIYI has not yet said which role he plays or who else joins him.

Is Ayothaya Ayeyarwady based on a novel or a comic?

A comic. The series adapts a well known Thai comic of the same name.

What does the title Ayothaya Ayeyarwady mean?

Ayothaya is an old name for the Siamese capital Ayutthaya, and the Ayeyarwady is the great river of Myanmar. The title pairs the two kingdoms of the story.

Is there a trailer for Ayothaya Ayeyarwady?

Not on YouTube yet. The first look played inside the official iJOY Thailand 2027 livestream on the iQIYI Thailand channel.

Is Ayothaya Ayeyarwady a historical series?

Yes, it is a period BL set during the wars between Siam and the Toungoo kingdom, told as a parallel version of history.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 10 November 2026

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