Like the intertwined strands of a double helix, some lives, once connected, are inseparable by fate.
Spanning across a decade, Cheng Yi Chen and Lu Feng’s story starts in high school, where two seeming opposites are drawn together by an undeniable pull. What starts as rivalry and friendship slowly deepens into something far more fragile, forbidden, and profound. Navigating the blurred lines, the two best friends enter into a budding romance while at University, only to be torn apart abruptly by family expectations and societal judgement.
Separated without warning, Lu Feng is trapped by his family in the United States, while Yi Chen is forced to transfer schools and rebuild a life around the absence of the one person he cannot forget. Oceans apart and with no promise of tomorrow, their love becomes a memory neither can escape.
Years later, the couple reunites in a twist of events when Yi Chen realises his new boss is Lu Feng. Overcoming old wounds, buried truths and misunderstandings, they find their way back to each other, only to be pulled apart once more by family and duties. Caught between the life expected of them and the love that has defined them, Yi Chen and Lu Feng must decide how much they are willing to lose for the chance to finally belong to each other.
Spanning across a decade, Cheng Yi Chen and Lu Feng’s story starts in high school, where two seeming opposites are drawn together by an undeniable pull. What starts as rivalry and friendship slowly deepens into something far more fragile, forbidden, and profound. Navigating the blurred lines, the two best friends enter into a budding romance while at University, only to be torn apart abruptly by family expectations and societal judgement.
Separated without warning, Lu Feng is trapped by his family in the United States, while Yi Chen is forced to transfer schools and rebuild a life around the absence of the one person he cannot forget. Oceans apart and with no promise of tomorrow, their love becomes a memory neither can escape.
Years later, the couple reunites in a twist of events when Yi Chen realises his new boss is Lu Feng. Overcoming old wounds, buried truths and misunderstandings, they find their way back to each other, only to be pulled apart once more by family and duties. Caught between the life expected of them and the love that has defined them, Yi Chen and Lu Feng must decide how much they are willing to lose for the chance to finally belong to each other.
If you enjoy morally dubious love interests, unreliable narrators, Faustian deals, and romances with body counts, might I suggest that fans of one will enjoy the other? 7 Days Before Valentine is about a struggling actor while Don't Be Too Emotional is about a university student preparing to take over his family's Traditional Chinese Medicine pharmacy, but the implications of supernatural elements is played in much the same way across both series and to similar effect.
Both of these dramas main plot point is that the ML is a 'demon'. In both dramas the ML who is a 'demon' makes binding contracts with people and comes to collect at some point. In both dramas this ML who is a 'demon' falls in love with the other lead who has an innocent quality to their character. And in both dramas this lead can't help but love them even when they know they shouldn't. Besides all of this, these dramas are drastically different. So you get a whole fresh story with fresh plot points which is great.
