Chasing Butterfly (2025)

Chasing Butterfly: Edge of Memory

🔹If you could bring someone back, how many times would you try?
🔹Would I rewatch? No

📕 Overview
🔹Episode count: 24 episodes, short episodes
🔹Wang Xing Wei portrays Ding Chong Xi: a devoted boyfriend whose hope fades with each failed attempt.
🔹Gong Fang Ni as Lin Yu: drifts in and out of the story’s shifting realities
🔹The story begins with a cycle of resets that keep pulling everything back to the start
🔹At the time of this review, 12 episodes have aired.
🔹I feel that with the 2025 wave of reset dramas, it doesn't always avoid the pitfalls of repetition.
🔹At the same time, it echoes Goodbye My Love (2099) in its virtual-romance theme but in a modern setting.

🌸 How It Felt Watching
🔹Watching Chasing Butterfly started out intriguing, but after a few episodes, the repetition became tiresome
🔹Tone: bittersweet, tense, weary
🔹Themes: love, memory, sacrifice, science, fate.

✨ Cast & Acting
🔹Wang Xing Wei plays Ding Chong Xi, though he is sometimes limited by the script's repetition and short run times
🔹Gong Fang Ni portrays Lin Yu, a character who finds herself caught between reality and simulation.

🎞️ Production Style
🔹Cinematography: The realism of modern scenes contrasted with VR scenes.
🔹In my opinion, the pacing is tight, but after the initial loops, it began to feel repetitive.

☕ Tea Notes
🔹What worked: Strong lead sincerity, emotional concept, visual contrast between worlds.
🔹What didn’t: From my perspective, the brief episode format limited how much depth the side stories could reach

SpillTheDramaTea’s Rating: 7/10
Tea-Scale: A plain cup, heartfelt but not always memorable.

✏️ While the resets sometimes dulled the impact, I could still feel an emotional pull that kept me invested, which is why I’d finish the series and stay with a 7/10.

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