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Most university students at the time got some (or good) martial arts training in PE classes before and during college, and were very fit, unlike couch potatoes nowadays.
Zhou Cheng did study in a top university, one of those where both intellectual AND physical skills were required (not "or" like football or baseball students at other times or elsewhere).

ps Did you notice when Zhenzhu got her signed poster of Bruce Lee in an episode before? 🤣

Yes. No spoiler from novel to hope for, there (I peeked although did not read all the chapters) 😊

Actually, I prefer it so. Just hoping the title does not mean production turned the whole story into a banal dream from which she will wake up! Thinking: since that alarm clock seems to act unbidden, Xiaolan ought to smash it decisively at some point. 🤣

I like it a lot. Never a dull moment.
It has become my Zhou Ye favorite drama to date 😍, and Zhai Xiao Wen 🥰 is also excellent. Most characters are played so well that we don't forget them even if there is a hiatus before they reappear, same or similar, or with changed face.

Since some expressed interest for the Canto songs in bgm, I have hunted up those heard till ep.30, adding links to recordings and also to lyrics MVs to sing along, when available. I added in a separate post the links to "Xiao Sa Zou Yi Hui", as a tribute to our martial arts secondary (now official) couple Zhenzhu and Pan Ge 🤭
https://kisskh.at/discussions/776939-again-my-life/149650-1983-dream-of-golden-years-ost-music

ooooh the cliffhanger end of ep.30!! Well, 17 hours to wait until the clearing up of decision and the hopefully successful get-away from gangland "Gandao"...

Yes all that from 1983 to 1992, taking the Gaokao entrance exam to university in 1984, and moving to (SZ) around 1988 together with fresh out of college lawyer Zhou from up North in "Jiancheng" (BJ).

Cheers to the new c-drama fan ; have fun and enjoy what you watch ! 🤗

Yes, I like this series too, and also enjoy the mando- and cantopop music along the ride. For more about the songs, singers, composer and lyricists, you can visit the Discussions section above this Comments one, and explore the pages there, or go directly to 🎶 https://kisskh.at/discussions/776939-again-my-life/149650-1983-dream-of-golden-years-ost-music. 🎶 Clicking on pictures or highlighted parts of text links in the "ost & music" page will open recordings or more info. 🤝🙂

Ji Ya is gone now. Good riddance.

The new years have more or less been celebrated since Xiaolan and her mother took refuge at her aunt and uncle's homestead in the village, so I'd say more or less every year with some fireworks or jiaozi dumpling making since 1983 and now we reached the 1990s years before HK retro-cession : I did not count, but surely there were more than 3 new year celebrations 🤗 edit: there is a date stated for the opening of the Mall ; in 1992.

That's a funny synopsis, but in fact the woman did not at all decide to go to 1983:

It is her alarm clock which was apparently bewitched, that sent her to suffer in a village at a time when women were beaten for any reason by the awful grandma and turning criminal cousin of a ... namesake, whose life she unwittingly found herself trapped in 🤪 The drama is about her rebuilding a life from that point in that past before her times (initially, before transmigrating involuntarily as a 30ish oppressed and wronged office worker, she was born in the 1990s, but she woke up in the body of an 18 year old who struggled to be able to take the Gaokao and get a degree - that part is swiftly dealt with.) Since she had some memories about business and other events she heard or read about in the "future", she could forge ahead to build her success story in Shenzhen, with the help of her "new" mother and good and tender friends. She did not avoid paying taxes or escape reality !

Douban rating is out with a 6.7 from around 18,300 ratings.

sadly adulterous - perhaps he'll end up with a lawsuit of his own...
Too many ladies trust their partner/husband, only to find themselves betrayed. It's no use thinking of "communication" when some are just driven by their lower body and/or ambition 😥 and that guy has zero excuses for his behavior. Ruan Yu's best friend is unlucky. Like lawyer Liu and the scammer girl.

Ah, they corrected the mistake 😁

link to the translation of the novel is in Discussions section

For our enjoyment, I have added the visuals and links to the OST songs already translated by Peachey Blossom, together with links to the official MVs (beautiful videos) in the Discussions thread for Love Beyond The Grave OST initiated by wasabi
Direct link to this : https://kisskh.at/discussions/750689-bai-ri-ti-deng/149816-love-beyond-the-grave?pid=3488404&page=1#p3488404 (or scroll up to Discussions section to explore what members have pinned there for infos and opinions ✌️)

Douban rating https://movie.douban.com/subject/36782155/ started at 6.5 but has now risen to 6.6 from about 11,589 ratings in China. (but less than 50k is too low a sample in China, meaning the drama did not find its audience easily...)
Still, 6.5/6.6 Douban is NOT BAD (few get over 7, and just for numbers comparisons, the often vaunted "Eternal Love /Ten Miles of Peach Blossom" rates at 6.6)...
Our Dazzling Days is a drama that may better be appreciated with time.
The MDL 7.5 rating by 383 raters at time of writing is too low.

It shows that this drama was not the usual easy to consume romcom or youth drama that the foreign audience expected when they happened to notice it - it did not get much hyped, so only 2,390 declared on MDL that they watched one or more episodes... At a time when more flamboyant dramas mobilized attention (PoJ in March...) sadly, this non idyllic drama spanning years from 1990s Reform era till more recent times did not find its audience among that general public.
Those who like Xu Ruohan, Guan Xiaotong and Johnny Huang Jingyu could still appreciate it and its nice OST.

I checked on the Baidu drama page. It also lists 30 episodes. Dramawiki also has it for 30 episodes.
Perhaps someone in MDL mistook a 0 for a 6 (the admins are few and overworked, as volunteers, and are usually very particular about not admitting other than English language sources, but that does not mean the typing in of data can't go wrong...)

Thanks for liking it. 😄 If you like, you or I can copy it into your Synopsis Discussion thread + maybe the one I wrote before with brief introduction to lead cast might be useful as points of view? with links to my "spoiler" posts if you think it is useful What do you think?

I am peeking at the novel although I have not finished it yet, so just enjoy the drama independently, noticing some parts that got incorporated into the screen adaptation from other moments in the book, although the adaptation looks quite true-to-model 😄

ok it was not clear to me that you meant the mid or low level celeb. He looks shady, sure and we already know he had a connection to Cen green tea. From XHS reaction to the celeb, it looks like there is something else than simple "third wheel" and "likes" trouble,

Who do you refer to as third wheel? The other lawyer who is close friends with ML ? No I think it is not that at all.

The novelist wrote her explicit fantasies about her crush, whom she believed had expatriated and would not be aware of her "fanfic" which might cause her trouble if he took offense at being thus used. She was not a wealthy person, and the lawyer could retaliate to destroy her current relatively cozy life. It's not being "a chicken" but not revealing things that could become a weapon against herself, and she knew the novel had pages that could be considered as going "too far".

The lawyer had a reputation so even if he still had a crush on her, even if he knew more about her than she thought he did, the reverse was not true and the novel, if revealed that it was modeled on him, might have repercussions on his business. The fact that his own fantasies were revealed in his sister's "plagiarized" or "different" novel, put online without his approval, made it awkward: he could not tell her who that other novelist was before making sure that the long ago attraction was still alive in her mind, since both appeared to have "moved on". Meanwhile, damage control was : proving that both stories were not a same true one about actual people. Letting readers believe the similarities were due to a leak in synopsis but that each had big differences, from pov etc.

Ruan Yu was too prideful to let go of her shield that all that she had written was fantasy and nothing else than an imaginary person, so even if he knew she had had a crush on him in the past, he couldn't be sure she would accept him as suitor suddenly., especially if he tore away that shield too brutally.

It's a game of hide and seek, until something happens to let them admit their mutual feelings. Up till now both strive to keep relations "professional" between client and lawyer, and even the small gestures can be seen as only "acknowledging a friendly visitor". (Except when Xu Huaisong, perhaps calculatingly, to check her reaction, started to unbutton his shirt 🤣).

Anyway, romance dramas are not real life, they are "for entertainment" and often more like fairy tales. If RY and XHS fell into each other's arms too quickly, there would be no drama. The fun is how long the charade will keep up and what mysteries may give more flesh to the story. It's a ride on the roller coaster, a game, a tango.... Fluffy enough to relax with. Just what was promised.

Nobody stole Ruan Yu's novel. You must mistake this story with another one.
In this drama, there's an evil green tea who kept trying to frame the novelist for some still murky reason, but clearly not sentimental.