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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I mostly enjoyed watching this drama. As an adult is was nice to see more mature storylines, eg. the main couple sleeping together before marriage as a normal part of the relationship. This series was a rare find in that aspect that I was actually interested also in all side couples and their storylines. The first 20 episodes were also a bit painful to watch because of the problems the main characters had in their relationship and second male lead causing trouble, so I was all the time fearfully waiting when it would backfire. However the same episodes also contained the best, very very good romantic scenes, so I wouldn’t miss them. Especially as the main lead was probably the hottest Chinese actor I’ve ever seen. The second half of the series was lighter and funnier.

I was happy with the actor’s performance, though I have to say even though the main lead was perfect in romantic scenes, he was not convincing when acting drunk. I have previously seen Zhang Yujian (He Canyang’s actor) in Coup The Foudre where he was very sombre and too old for the teenage parts, and I enjoyed very much seeing him in this role. All in all I think the people in this series were not as much stereotypes as in many Chinese dramas but more versatile and real. The production was also well done, there wasn’t too much repetition or unrealistic scenes. Some scenes were really funny and even though this is not a comedy, the humour fitted it very well.

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Canyang and Minmin were a cute couple, but I wish they would have made Canyang’s feelings for Minmin more clear. Now it felt like he was with her just because she was around, in which case he could have just as well been with someone who his parents don’t oppose.

I agree with the other reviews that the ending felt a bit rushed. It would have been nice to see He Fanxing and Yuan Song get back together earlier and see some scenes with their everyday life as a couple out in the open, with parents and friends.

It was nice that the fact that Yuan Song was from a rich family was not emphasized too much, and He Fanxing said that she hadn’t thought too much about it because it didn’t matter to him. I might have liked it better id he would have been from a normal family, but maybe the writers wanted it to be all about the age gap so Yuan Song couldn’t be inferior to Ye Luming in any other way.

I was a bit confused about the girl who came in the end, Luo something. Was she sent there by Yuan Song’s parents to seduce him or was it a coincidence? The way she behaved and the way the parents kept asking about her and Yuan Song made me think it was not that simple. In the story the reason for her existence was of course to make He Fanxing jealous and to show that Yuan Song didn’t care about anyone else, but as almost every other piece in this drama fell together and was realistic, this on bothered me.

The storyline with cheating and divorce was good. What she said about not being able to forget the words he had used to ridicule her were spot on.

This was not one of my favourite dramas but it kept me hooked and I will probably watch it again at some point.

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If you are thinking about watching this, take note:

If you are thinking about watching this, take note:

- this is not a drama with three seasons but one 36 episode drama split in three
- there are a lot of loop holes, you'll find yourself saying a lot of times "but..."
- the romance scenes are really good but sometimes scarce, you have to be interested in police drama too
- there are a lot of rapes and multiple rape scenes, beware if you are triggered by this
- you can buy iQIYI to watch this with high quality picture, but the subbing there is made by an AI and quite crappy. Take note that the police Cold Noodles is actually called Cold Face, and in the first season when they talk about the FL being "lu chi", it means she has a bad or no sense of direction at all.

If all this is fine for you, give this drama a chance! I myself found it entertaining and watched it in a few days, without getting bored.

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Great from episode 21 onwards

It was hard to rate this, as the first about 20-21 episodes were mediocre and often boring, but starting from around the episode 21 all the way until the drama was good: it held my interest, made me laugh and made me cry. For people who start this and find themselves wanting to give up, I recommend you read the recap for the first episodes and start then watching from the 21st episode, since that's where the most important storyline starts. This is actually were the novel starts, episodes 1-20 are told in flashbacks. I felt the same way with Eternal Love (TMOPB): the best part in the drama starts from the same point as the whole novel.

I have read most of the novel and I can say that this adaptation is very true to the original. Even though some things are changed, most of even the smallest details follow the way they were in the novel.

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