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Hmm I have the opposite impression of Zifeng. I've never seen her in anything before THOG and she's pretty natural and relatable so far. She's definitely one of the better FLs I've seen in a c-drama 😅.

I don't think this is the right drama if you're looking for a drama centred on kids since the kid actors mainly only appear in a short arc that last up to ep 10. But if you're into the parallel worlds / butterfly effect type of premise you might want to keep watching. It seems they jumped back and forth more than once.

In the book, only LCX travels between the worlds so whenever she went to the Cheese world, her interactions are with Cheese PZ. The drama isn't following the book at all on this point.

But the FL did hint in an interview that there's a scene where Steven has to play Cheese PZ and Strawberry PZ in quick succession so it seems we will see Cheese PZ again ...

I think I can finally get why the scriptwriter seems to have made things so much harsher for PZ in the strawberry world in the drama compared to the novel. The strawberry world is his harsh reality while the cheese world is a too good to be true utopia for him. The juxtaposition makes it so easy to understand why he'd be tempted to stay in the cheese world even though he knows it's not his place (and not his actual family).

I'm guessing PZ is about to find out that not everything is as rosy as it seems in the cheese world and that he can't solve his problems by running away ...

Gosh, that moment in last night's ep where the PZ broke down after that glimpse of his mum and his dad in the cheese world T____T poor kiddo (and gdi, Steven always manages to make me tear up with him).

There's a scene in Episode 12 where the strawberry world ML talks about his poor health and explains why he went to Germany and disappeared from the FL's life after high school. The ML has a mental health condition that's inherited from his maternal grandfather who's currently in a mental institution in Germany - his mum thinks the ML will end up like his grandfather if he follows his footsteps and studies math in depth too. In reality, it seems the ML's mental health got worse after his mum found out he was studying math with the FL's dad in high school and they started fighting over him wanting to pursue a math major in college. So the ML wound up staying in Germany to get treatment and reading a major not related to math in college ...

Anyway, they didn't name the condition ML has in the subs but there's a scene in one of the trailers where he's having a seizure of sorts on the ground.

The summary reminds me of 1 Litre of Tears which made me cry a river ;_;

I'm so curious too! It seems they changed a lot of the plot / characters for the drama (although idk if it's for the better hahahha). Right now, I suspect that the person who gave LCX the photo is cheese!PZ - he could be the person who gave strawberry!PZ the mysterious recorder too.

From the last few eps, LCX's characterization and her circumstances (and really the circumstances of most of the older versions of the main cast) seem to be very different in the drama compared to the book. I guess what I'm saying is - I don't think she's mis-cast so much as playing a very different version of LCX.

Yes, he seems to have a pretty good eye! I wouldn't say he has no misses but imo his hit/miss ratio is good considering he's a young actor and not from a well-known acting agency. It's only lately that he seems to have access to more high profile / big budget projects.

Aww he seemed so tiny there. He's a bit bigger in THOG (but still adorable as heck).

LCX is actually the main character in the source novel (although PZ really doesn't crop up all that much) and most of the story so far has been centred on her younger self but we'll have to see how this plays out. There's no telling how the scriptwriter may have changed things up after all ^^;

Oh gosh! Was he the kid the FL rescued in the first few eps? I didn't recognize him hahaha.

Yess. Hua Jun really stole my heart in every scene he's in. Definitely looking forward to his next work.

The drama is a bit different from the novel in that PZ from one of the worlds also seems to be one of the dimension travellers - it adds an additional layer of complexity because now it's not clear which version of PZ and LCX wind up liking each other. I hope the scriptwriter manages to wrap things up well!

Yeah I've watched up to ep 8 and so far LJY is the only one of the three leads that has significant screen time. But I think it's expected because the parts where they're in elementary and middle school are pretty extensive in the original book too.

I'm guessing they might age the characters up a bit for the next jump back to the cheese world and play out the events that were supposed to happen in middle school in a high school setting instead - there are a lot of shots of ZXC and ZZF in school uniform in the previews.

It seems like one or more characters travel back and forth between the original dimension (strawberry world) and alternate dimension (cheese world) throughout the story. The first jump back to the strawberry world is probably around ep 10 from the episode teasers.

Ahhh so either a lot of this got cut or the writer is just ... not good. The first few eps are quite slow. Deng Jia Jia and Steven Zhang have great chemistry though - I'm literally just watching for the love line at the moment. I wish they'd do an outright romance drama together :')

It's on Youku's official YT channel too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9S8nAr6JA -

The trailer was really on fire. I really hope I don't get let down by this one because my expectations are now sky high. (And omg I knew we'd probably get good chemistry between DJJ and ZXC because they're good actors but I was not ready for that amount of skinship.)