Intense Love Special (2020)

Paraller universe story (translation included)

This is a short story about the same couple meeting in another universe, with their professions and temperaments exchanged. There are a lot of flashbacks to the original drama, so it's mostly for reminiscing, but there is also a part of the original couple celebrating their one year anniversary. It's worth watching if you liked the original drama.

As the special episode is currently online with only Chinese and Thai subtitles, I translated some of the conversation in English. You can read it below.

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- When they meet at the stall she is buying the snow globe. The girl (who buy the way is not ZSY's daughter but his niece) says she wants one too. ZSY asks if there is another one, but the seller lady says only that one, so SJB says she will give the globe to the girl.
- When the girl hurts herself SJB says she is a doctor. Every time they ask the girl if it hurts she answers it doesn't.
- When they are on the roof and have fed the bird SJB ask ZSY why he is wearing the mask, does he have the flu. He responds he is an actor. She asks his name, and then in what he has acted in. He tell but she shows no reaction, so he understands that she does not know him and says also that he does not need to wear a mask then.
- After they have finished re-building the castle SJB tells ZSY she always thought actors were sort of good-for-nothing people so she's surprised he is so handy.
- Then their stomachs make the sound and SJB says there are only noodles. ZSY says noodles are fine. She asks if they should wake the girl up, but he says let him sleep and when she (the girl) will smell the food she will naturally wake up. SJB laughs and says that she didn't know the girl was as into food as she is too.
- When the food is on the table SJB points out that the girl has not woken up, so the smell/taste is not good enough, ZSY tells him to taste it first.
- After the power has gone out and there is the memory of the other them, ZSY asks if there could be another world where she would be the actress and he would be the doctor. She says there might be and they could be besties - she uses the word for female best friends here. He says why couldn't they be best friends using the male word. She says they might be even lovers, and after that he starts saying why again, then they fall quiet and he completes his sentence asking why the power isn't back on. She says it's the rural area and he says in rural area there is scenery you can't see in the city so they go to the roof to do the falling star vs. airplane bit.
- They come back to find the girl up. She says she the would does not hurt anymore and also that she was hungry so she ate some of SJB's snacks. SJB tells her to eat more but she says she's full and tells her uncle let's go.
- After ZSY and the girl are gone SJB thinks there might not be a chance for them to meet again, but then she sees the crystal ball. When they meet at the door ZSY asks for her number and she says she was going to give them the crystal ball. The girls says she will give it to SJB. ZSY says let's keep in touch.
- Then when we see ZSY talking to his phone he says this is the place where he met SJB one year before because of the snow globe and that he has now brought her back as his fiancee. She comes closer and asks him if he thinks there is another ZSY and SJB in another world and if they are also in love. He answers "of course".
- Then there is text saying "one year later", but it refers to the original ZSY and SJB. SJB is sending a message to ZSY saying the the scenery is beautiful and his suggestion to spend the weekend there was great. Then she asks him when he is coming, but he answers that there is an emergency surgery and another the next day so he can't come the whole weekend. He says that he has ordered some snacks and the package should have arrived so she has to remember to eat.
- When ZSY is in the box he asks his friend is he is sure SJB will be surprised, he assures she will and it's very romantic. Meanwhile she's happy with the scenery.
- When SJB comes back she says that the weekend without ZSY is boring and how great it would be if he was there. He says her wish is fulfilled. When he comes out she asks when did hie come and if he has waited the whole day. He answers by wishing her happy wedding anniversary. She has totally forgotten so she apologizes and blames her brain. He says she doesn't have to remember, because she will have him for every important day (remembering for her). She thanks him for loving him.
- On the bed SJB asks if there are another them in another world, he says there might be, she asks if they are also in love and he says "of course".

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No English Subs

I don't know if this is considered a "true" review since I was only able to find this 30-minute movie online with Thai subtitles and had no idea what they were saying, but I still wanted to write something.

This definitely seemed a lot more natural and easy-going and low budget, which is a 180 from the original drama. I loved the calmness of both mains carried with these roles. Bei Bei's voice wasn't as modified in this special as it was in the original, and her voice was a tad deeper which had this calming and easygoing effect. Zhou's character also had this outgoing coolness, but still also came off like a soft boy from the original drama. Also, I don't know why I also loved his long shaggy-ish hair in this.

This movie/drama was also mainly 15-20 minutes worth of flashbacks from the original drama - no idea if they were "past-lives" memories or just filler for the audience to remember what happened in the original drama.

The remaining 10-15 minutes was a cute little story about (this is me assuming based on the footage and not dialog) about two strangers (Zhou Shi Yun was an actor as he kept referencing names of movies; not sure what Bei Bei was - it is assumed she is a doctor, but all she did was perform a mediocre first aid job) who met by chance at a little street market where they were both were pulled in by a snow globe. Bei Bei let's the little girl that is with Zhou have the snow globe and asks them to come to her house to perform first aid when the little girl get hurts. There, Bei Bei and Zhou get to know one another by fixing a barbie lego castle thats gets knocked down and some midnight "power-outage & candle lit" ramen dinner. From there, they add one another on we chat and they, we assume, start their relationship.

Very simple, very sweet.

Not sure if they remember a possible past life since this snow globe seems to have some kind of power. But without the English subtitles, we will never know. Overall, I will give it a 7.5/10 just because I didn't know what was being said. If someone finds a version that has English subtitles, please let me know and I will write another review :)

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Eh

its not that great but not bad. i watched the drama around when it aired but forgot the special episode.
heres a few things that i took note of:
characters: both the ml and fl in this drama are kind and polite, overall very similar. theres almost no contrast, making it boring. it feels like the only thing bringing them together was the fate and the other universe. the story line was alright ig. majority was moments/flashbacks. the moments shown was prob not seen by the actual characters, but rather for us to know that they are feeling something. overall it was just alright. a little bit nostalgic but ehh

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the different special episode

Quite funny to see really different special episode from another special episode like this. Usually the other special episode either fill with the director cut or story after the drama. But here they have another universe where our main lead have reverse job.

Quite cute actually see them from different perspectives and also different personalities. Where at the main drama we see Su Jin Bei kinda narcissistic and easy going, but here she kinda a little bit cold. And Zhou Shi Wen still with his cool self....

But I like how they still included the part of scene from the main drama to remind us what the scene referring to in the main drama.

What I don't like actually only one from this special episode. I don't like the style of Ding Yu Xi hair. Haha... kinda not match with him I think...

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