Positives: That one bromance pairing delivers. The ML still has a few crazy moments, but he's much more under control in his acting than in Mysterious Love. The FL delivers a better FL performance, and does the double role thing well. The relationship doesn't have as many creepy things on the ML's part, and I suppose the leads' chemistry is more palpable.
Negatives: The cute kid isn't really cute-kidding (was the best part of Mysterious Love). The background music is horribly bad, like Netflix copyrighted stuff replacement level. In the first episode or so, audio/dubbing sucks. Fortunately it gets better.
Never before did we have to stop so often just to laugh at what the ML's face is contorting into.
For a while, the second leads are a lot better than the main leads.
The only stand-out acting performance and character is the child Xingxing. The show essentially sucks before she appears.
The whole "5 years ago" thing is told so poorly and the set pieces of it make so little sense that drip-feeding a little back story in each episode can be infuriating. Yet so much screentime is spent on it that virtually nothing happens in the present timeline.
tldr: awful story, somewhat disturbing ML, chemistry a wacky mix of zero attraction with decent kisses; only the child and maybe the SML are good in their roles
THE OST ALBUM IS OUT ON SPOTIFY Y'ALL https://open.spotify.com/album/5hvNRtyWXFRD8lzmgPGR9H?si=zj4ZuVXoSoyqho1xcq1j_A
Wasn't there a fourth song that's only used like once? Maybe I'm hallucinating.. (I don't mean that the one song has a male singer version that's used only once, which is of course available on Spotify there.)
She changed things by revealing the secret. if you continue, You’ll get to see them together more. This is just…
You can view it as: The first version of the ML makes her enter the novel so that she meets and falls in love with the second version of the ML there (which changes her views completely as Soocrafty wrote) and finally has a happy end with the mayyyybe third version of the ML.
This show is not an adaptation of the novel; the novel is the base of the 90s world that the FL transmigrates into. However, the novel is set up very differently (it's more about one sided feelings, realizing what you had after you lost it, selfless vs selfish love, and so on). A lot of the characters and arcs in the 90s world of the show are not in the novel, and characters that are "evil" in the drama are not in the novel.
It's a quick few hours read, just don't expect it to be the same story or have the same message.
Spoiler:I totally agree with you - I literally cried too and in a lot of ways - Gao Haiming realizes the fact…
"thinking she drown like his mom did (?) in the past" My understanding was that his mother had postnatal depression and tried to commit suicide by jumping into the sea (together with him). Hence the bodies-of-water phobia.
ruined a great drama with a crappy ending Yet Again. i can think of like 3 different ways to fix it without changing…
What part did you hate, that he escapes the novel-game 'through the power of love', or that due to transmigration censorship "it's a story", or that he has all the novel props in the supposed real world, or that he's ambiguously maybe-aged, or..?
Worth the sub if you love C-Dramas. iQIYI if you love Thai dramas.Viki for the best subs.
I feel "Viki has the best subs" is not true anymore. It sure was/is when comparing to bad Netflix subs of older K-dramas, but we're talking about C-dramas here.
It seems Viki has people who relentlessly edit the subs to work for their free Viki subscription, and this makes subs get more and more altered over time (without getting better, and often worse). A number of times, I compared some older subtitles from Viki with their state like 2 years after a show's release, and it seemed like some users are intentionally forcing their way of speaking into the subs (lessening the characters' own flair), or just pointlessly add & remove italics.
Positives:
That one bromance pairing delivers.
The ML still has a few crazy moments, but he's much more under control in his acting than in Mysterious Love.
The FL delivers a better FL performance, and does the double role thing well.
The relationship doesn't have as many creepy things on the ML's part, and I suppose the leads' chemistry is more palpable.
Negatives:
The cute kid isn't really cute-kidding (was the best part of Mysterious Love).
The background music is horribly bad, like Netflix copyrighted stuff replacement level.
In the first episode or so, audio/dubbing sucks. Fortunately it gets better.
For a while, the second leads are a lot better than the main leads.
The only stand-out acting performance and character is the child Xingxing. The show essentially sucks before she appears.
The whole "5 years ago" thing is told so poorly and the set pieces of it make so little sense that drip-feeding a little back story in each episode can be infuriating. Yet so much screentime is spent on it that virtually nothing happens in the present timeline.
( Far below in the comments, this deleted scenes video was linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWXemyDi_rw )
tldr: awful story, somewhat disturbing ML, chemistry a wacky mix of zero attraction with decent kisses; only the child and maybe the SML are good in their roles
I preferred the follow-up: https://mydramalist.com/721489-mysterious-love-2#comment-25134398
=> 4h 57m if you watch intro and outro once each
You're not from this world either, are you?
What's your quest?
(When FL met ML in the weirdly communal bathroom.)
(I don't mean that the one song has a male singer version that's used only once, which is of course available on Spotify there.)
https://mydramalist.com/780406-zai-jian-ye-you-shu#comment-25070714
https://mydramalist.com/780406-zai-jian-ye-you-shu#comment-25076026
https://mydramalist.com/760693-ya-xi can offer you a lot more the-leads-together cute scenes with the same ML actor.
The first version of the ML makes her enter the novel so that she meets and falls in love with the second version of the ML there (which changes her views completely as Soocrafty wrote) and finally has a happy end with the mayyyybe third version of the ML.
However, the novel is set up very differently (it's more about one sided feelings, realizing what you had after you lost it, selfless vs selfish love, and so on). A lot of the characters and arcs in the 90s world of the show are not in the novel, and characters that are "evil" in the drama are not in the novel.
It's a quick few hours read, just don't expect it to be the same story or have the same message.
https://mydramalist.com/780406-zai-jian-ye-you-shu#comment-25076026
Not sure if EP1 ML and end ML are the same though https://mydramalist.com/780406-zai-jian-ye-you-shu#comment-25070714
(This show isn't a novel adaptation per se)
My understanding was that his mother had postnatal depression and tried to commit suicide by jumping into the sea (together with him). Hence the bodies-of-water phobia.
It seems Viki has people who relentlessly edit the subs to work for their free Viki subscription, and this makes subs get more and more altered over time (without getting better, and often worse). A number of times, I compared some older subtitles from Viki with their state like 2 years after a show's release, and it seemed like some users are intentionally forcing their way of speaking into the subs (lessening the characters' own flair), or just pointlessly add & remove italics.