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How come there aren't pics posted on MDL? Usually, practically every drama has lost of stills, promo pictures, pics from the episodes and there's nothing! I wonder why.

Yep, Jirong was the problem in this marriage. She chose to believe her husband cheated on her in the beginning, leading to her death, and now she chose her brother, even knowing about how he gambled, lied, and tried to kill her and Jialan. She chose him over her husband.

Why did she marry Sheng Hao? I have no idea. He loved her, she didn't love him. Maybe liked him and thought it would be enough but I don't believe for one minute that she loved him.

Anyway, in this drama (which might be a made up story by Jia Lan while in a coma), could it be a case of "a life for a life"? someone has to die so if it's not Jirong, then it's Jia Lan?

Hey, in episode 3, the FL talks with the ML and she mentions having seen "Javier" on the net. Isn't that the spanish(I think?) guy who claimed to have woken up from a coma in the year 2027 and the whole world was empty? And he was filming empty streets, museums, police stations, malls, to prove what he was saying?

Is that a hint that this drama is happening in the FL's coma, in your opinion?

Weird, I thought Dear Diary was a taiwanese production and that was why it hadn't be released on DVD. I wanted to buy it. I thought that maybe in Taiwan, some drama producers prefered an internet release, on Amazon for example.

Also, wasn't the ending sad? It's been a year, for Dear Diary and I think it had a sad ending. But there was a bonus 10 minutes mini-episode which gave some hope.

Still, it's weird that both Dear Diary and First Love again, which have taiwanese actors in a chinese production, went for the time travel ending, when most chinese dramas don't. I wonder why.

I don't know, actors are supposed to act according to the script and the directions given by the director.

"Dear diary" was fantastic, but I think it was a taiwanese drama. Same with "First love again", that was a great, suspensful time travel drama.

I'm starting to suspect Jirong. I mean, she was dead in the original timeline but the more I see her, the more I find her weird. She looks constantly tired, sad and not as much into this marriage as Shang Hao. Maybe this marriage was doomed to fail because of Jirong and not because of Shang Hao.

Now, why is she like this, I don't know. Personality disorder? Self-sabotaging herself?

Let's say that they met at the wedding of their friends and they didn't connect at all but she found him handsome? Maybe once in a coma, she made him her soulmate because she remembered this handsome man.

So if the story, in the end, was made up by the FL while in a coma (the overlap, 2021/2022, Jirong's death, her brother's gambling debt), there's still the possibility that once she wakes up from her coma, she remembers the entire made up story.

Which would be heartbreaking for her because in her coma, she had fallen in love with the ML and he with her but in reality, she remembers a made up story but the ML barely knows her.

Unless she wakes up from her coma and doesn't remember anything but somehow, since they are connected by their friends (if that part of the story is true) , they meet again and this time, they fall in love for real?

I post that because I think if the ending is "oh she was in a coma all along, or it was just a book her friends were reading her while she was in a coma", viewers here on MDL will be angry and give a bad ratings for this drama while it is, IMO, a great one.

Just, the viewers have to get that in China, time travel is not appreciated by the authorities so writers for a drama have to find a loophole to get their dramas to air, that's why many, many chinese time-travel dramas end up with clichés explanations: book, novel, coma, and so on.

I hope I'm wrong because I would love if for once, the time travel aspect of the show was kept for the ending. But I'm not holding my breath.

i fear the "censorship ending" (meaning, the writers's ending was "it was time travel all along but because of censorship, we'll write a censorship ending) will be that the entire drama was a story the FL made up while in a coma.

In episode 15, the 2022 ML is with her at the hospital and there are fireworks on tv. And in the 2021 scene just before that, they were both watching fireworks. A hint, maybe, that somehow, the FL in the coma can access information and use it for her made up story while in a coma? So both 2021 and 2022 are the made up stories.

If true, the ending? Hmmm, not sure, she wakes up and remembers everything from when she was in a coma, the entire story she invented. And she kept the feelings she had for the ML. Who, in reality, barely knows her.

So for her, it would be back to square 1: she would have to fight so that he falls in love with her.

I would much prefer this drama to be about a real time travel drama but experience taught me that in China, those kinds of themes in dramas aren't appreciated so there's always a realistic twist in the end: it was a book, a movie, a parallel world, a coma...

Yeah, I call that the "censorship ending" versus the real ending. Aka, the writers didn't take us for fools and were writing a real time travel story for us to enjoy and then comes the censorship ending, which is NOT the real one, IMO. It's one I can reject because I KNOW it's not the one everyone involved in the project (writers, producers, actors, crew members) were working on.

So it makes the censorship ending not the true one, for me. Which is a good thing because otherwise, I wouldn't watch supernatural / time travel dramas, which are my favorites.

So now that i know that this ending IS NOT the true intended one, I reject it, plain and simple. I stick to what the writers wanted us to watch and enjoy: a real time travel drama.

At this point, yeah,it's become a joke. Other shows like "Heart of a genius", "The day of becoming you", "Mr Bad", shows where there's an entire drama about time travel and then bam, you have the censorhip ending, aka it's a novel or a dream or a coma.

I'm watching Love in time, I love that time travel story, it's a remake of another show where it was a real time travel drama but I fear that the chinese remake ? there will be the ending the writers wanted (aka a time travel ending, it was all true) and then the censorship ending. IN this case, I bet on a coma kind of end.

Hmm interesting. I guess he is too good to be true. I mean, at some point, I was wondering about him, if there was some hidden agenda BECAUSE he is a too good character and I tend to be wary of this kind of character.

But I didn't think too much about him, you know? It was just a passing idea. To be honest, I thought that maybe the husband had finally did it, in an accident, or maybe his family had played a role, because he is from a wealthy family who didn't accept his wife.

Or the FL is a journalist and maybe she tickled the wrong tiger.

I think we can forget this one. China took cancel culture to another level so this drama might never air at all.

I adore time travel stories and I recommand "Love in time", absolutely griping and gorgeous drama.

Yeah, I feel like there's a twist, it's like Wu is being the too obvious guilty party. So the ML and FL try to change Wu's past to prevent the accident but what if it still happens because in fact, he is not the one who hit the FL? Another mystery maybe? I would like that.

She admires her senior colleague (he is more of an idol to her) but I wouldn't call that a crush. And she falls pretty quickly for the ML.

I would love that, if the next 12 episodes were about discovering what happened to her and preventing her from ending up in a coma or dying.

Knowing China and time travel dramas, I wonder how it will end. I think the 2022 ML will save the FL and will die, or vanish because once he saves her, then h is past self life will change and therefore, the actual 2022 ML will vanish because starting in september 2021, his life will take another turn, with the FL as his girlfriend.

And either the 2021 ML won't remember his future timeline, and start a new relationship with the FL, who will remember, or there will be some kind of merging of the two consciences and the ML will remember.

For those who have watched the original drama, does it end like this? I tried to watch it but I dropped it early on, maybe 4 or 5 episodes in. I love time travel dramas but the original just didn't work for me. And I didn't like the FL.

Okay, so after watching episode 12, my thoughts: the mystery of who killed Jirong is solved and our couple is together. BUT, there are 12 more episodes so what's going to happen during those 12 episodes?

- either there's going to be a twist and Jirong doesn't die in the end, because somehow, one little action in 2021 changed her fate. But is it a case of a life for a life? Aka, Jirong is alive but Jialan is dead? or in a coma after an attack and is assumed dead to protect her until she wakes up?

- or Jialan investigates a brand new case and this leads to her death, or coma and it's up to 2022 Zheng Hu and 2021 Jialan (pre-attempted murder on her person) who investigate during the overlap?

This drama is underrated, that's too bad, it seems to have a good budget, nice sets, quite diverse too, the actors are fantastic, they have great chemistry, they kiss for real (or rather the characters kiss for real and hug) and icing on the cake, they are both handsome so real eye candy. Plus a nice mystery to solve and enough twists to keep my interest.

In the latest episode I saw (10), 2022 ML goes to find her in his timeline. He learns from 2 gossipy women that she is Mu Shi Ming's girlfriend. He goes to MSM and he acts, IMO, weird and he basically tells the ML to get lost and acting as if the FL is HIS girlfriend.

IMO, something happens to her, she was attacked or something like that and is in a coma and MSM is kind of protecting her by not telling the ML what happened to her and where she is. After all, in Mu's eyes, the ML could be somehow involved in what happened to the FL.

So, so far, I'm giving Mu's the benefit of the doubt. Or he could just be jealous because he likes the FL and the FL loves the ML.

I think this scene between the two men will prevent the ML from trying to reach out to 2022 FL again, at least for a while.

I didn't mention XKC as innocent. I said "innocent persons", meaning crews, colleagues, producers, who have to pay for an idiot who shouldn't have taken back this man when he cheated on her the first time. Let's hope for your sake that you won't have to pay, one day, because of someone like this woman doing this kind of thing to YOUR employer.

Why on earth did she take him back, did she have no pride and no brain cells??? Why did she record him, didn't she think of other persons who would have to pay? apparently not.

I just hope that nobody will trust her, colleagues, friends or producers. Nobody likes a cheater but nobody likes a snitch, too. Especially one who could cause so much damage to her colleagues, co-workers and employers.

And apparently, you would feel no remorse for all the unfortunate innocent persons, societies, companies and colleagues who would have the bad luck of being on your way to your revenge and who will pay the price.

Charming.