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The drama is a great production, though it certainly could have been better in some areas. Interestingly, both the drama and the novel seem to improve upon each other in different ways. Together, they make for a truly enjoyable story, as each shines where the other falters.

In the drama, Qu Hua and Fang Mujing’s relationship is given much more depth. By tempering Mujing’s character to actually voice her emotions, the show allows a subtle sense of their story to evolve naturally. A particularly strong moment was the depiction of Mujing’s letter to her parents, which was drawn out enough to let us fully consider the weight and consequences of her rational choices.

To keep the leads sympathetic, the more opportunistic characteristics of Fei Ni and Mujing are toned down and instead pushed onto characters like Feng Lin and Ling Yi. This allows those characters to act as proxies for that selfishness and, ultimately, to bear the narrative punishment for it.

The drama enriches the backdrop of the 1970s and brings it to life. It is understandable that the direction aims to control the narrative of that era in China, showing restraint rather than the OP nature and eventual wealth of the Fang family found in the novel. This reflects a reality that while change will eventually come, it will be gradual and not through sudden wish fulfillment.

Meanwhile, FMY is slightly more reckless due to this shift as he lacks the means like he did in the novel to to cushion the consequences of his actions. His black belliness and general artistic nonchalance is toned down leaving his relationship with FN to feel a bit more sanitised, even a bit more childish, leaving FMJ and QH to bring the passion and steam.

The workshop also plays a much bigger role in the drama with all the shenanigans of Director Xu, Feng Lin, Ye Feng and Fei Ting adding a lively backdrop.

A combination of the novel and the drama would have been the perfect sweet spot. The novel shows pragmatic choices without tempering them with warmth, while the drama emphasizes the values of a collectivist society, suggesting that even when rules are softened, it is out of human connection rather than a rejection of those values.

Review with novel comparisons

She wasn't after him for money that's the thing. She got together with him because she loved him. She became extreme and lied about her parents because his parents were snobs.

She also never knew that he was aware of that. She never knew that he considered their whole relationship a deal. That's why she acknowledged that she was wrong for lying but she loved him still.

A lie is a lie is a lie. Even when you feel you did it for a good reason.

I think that detail was only in the novel. In the drama, they just showed that he picked their names on a whim not knowing that SL was female and FR was male.

Exactly. That was my final straw and took the drama down to an 8 for me. They should have left him dead when she got back to the past.

Tae Min watched people beat his cousin. Took the car his Parents died in. Covered for his evil father and mother who killed them. He Isn't innocent at all. kissed HS without consent.

They have different vibes not necessarily that hidden love was better. The couple had Zero drama, a larger friend group and the ml and fl liked each other and got together quicker.

Also the plot is widely different. This focused more on the voice actor indus try, it had beautiful singing, voice acting and food. If you like hidden love for the wholesome couple, You'll like this. If you like it for the school life aspect then this isn't that vibe. Both had wonderful friendships and family.

I loved this from Start to finish. This was a true tribute to voice actors in the cdrama industry. The drama expanded on the novel "Really Really miss you" in a beautiful way. Zhou Ye has come a long way. She and TJC really sold the romance. 10/ 10 drama ❤️❤️

The main similarity with a date with the future is that it's about firefighters. That's about it. The dramas are completely different in vibe and plot in other regards.

He does not like her at all. The person who likes her is someone else.

That whole plot line is different from the novel. In the book, his mom and her adopted father and his mom might have had something together and so her adpoted mom hated his mother and said their marriage was almost canceled because of her. They didn't really go deep into it. According to the book, how dad died drunk and in the snow like that and he was so angry after his mom left.

He "hates" her for more than than just a simple breakup. But it's not really hate, he's just disappointed at her, himself and life.

I think it's a bit lost tbh. But I'm not surprised I notice it a lot in Chinese dramas the ages are never consistent. It's always a range. So I only use their age gap as s good determiner of someone's age

I think they didn't want the drama to be a Xueying only story and remember the novel was all about him. So they sort of "balanced" it. But I think that was s mistake. How many dramas do we have with s super OP lead? I think the drama would stand on its own and they'll end it after defeating the demon clan.

Another tidbit from the novel you might like, in the novel there are deities and there are world deities. So there could be many deities from a world but s world deity controls the world itself. Xueying later became a guy with multiple deity hearts but he was also the world deity of the Xia Clan. So basically he owned the planet 😊

Xueying and Jingqiu loved each other a lot. And they ascended to god's together. I don't think they will get to that part so that's why they're only focusing on the human realm. I suspect they will end the drama when they both get strong.

Very different. I don't mind some of the changes it's just that the reason he trained alone is because that Black wind place is supposed to be impossible to survive so there's no way someone will actually go down with him. He was said to be protected by his anscestor bloodline and also pure ml halo. Also the major conflict of the book was bigger than the drama. It was s fight between Transcendents and really powerful demon generals do there's no way little students would help. They also didn't have to kill his father. As for his relationship with Jing qiu, I don't mind the changes they made to her. In the novel she wasn't fully fleshed out. She fell in love with him because he saved her and he was cool, strong etc. He also had good feelings towards her but their relationship only started when they became Transcendents. They trained in the same special place because Jing qiu is special too. She possesses an ancient weapon/she's the reincarnation of s powerful goddess. Her identity will later be revealed in the novel later. So I guess they could have allowed them to be Transcendents before doing the training sequences. Also Si Borong who is super annoying died very early in the novel. Finally Kong Youyue wasn't well defined in the book she was just a money hungry childhood friend of xueying who didn't like him cause he loved his spear too much. She later left and married someone else

Way better. In the novel Xue Ying became a Transcendent all by himself and never joined their Changfeng academy. Also he activated his bloodline. His mom and dad were imprisoned together and he saved them and then went on to the Transcendent world. There he became one of the most promising students and the reason is all because of his love for the spear. Actually they didn't make this drama epic enough and I don't know why. We have a lot of xianxia dramas with heavenly realm so how hard was it really to implement? When he fell down to black wind cliff in the novel he trained alone and got the inheritance of the Black wind god. Jingqiu was not there. Also the demon fight was a lot more epic. Idk the novel was just an overall experience that's missing. I'm just taking this story as something else altogether.

I am not too sure about that. Put it this way, after her parents find out about them. The end scene is after that. So we just need to wait for that 😂

He did say it. I doubt they'll leave it in the drama

I think it's more the fact that he has to wrestle with all of these things. Later, like in the novel it shows that he actually thought it through. Their relationship doesn't start when he discovers he starts liking her. He will ask to pursue her later and she will hesitate to accept. She will worry whether he likes her just because she likes him to. Both will be insecure for various reasons. Her for feeling she loves him more. Him, for thinking he doesn't deserve her and his life is messy. Having thought all of that through then deciding to still ask her out. I will admit that that doesn't seem as critical as him actively wrestling or coming to terms with falling for his besties sister but I still like it because I took it for what it was. More slice of life, more him basking in her sunny nature