Chinese Drama 2021

Always Have Always Will (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: School, Youth, Modern, Romance
• Release Date: 20 January 2021
• Origin: China
• Cdrama: 24 Episodes

 

Cast

• Li Ge Yang as Luo Yan
• Dawn Chen as Fang Li
• Nate Gong as Shi Xu
• Wen Mo Yan as Qi Fei Fei
• Jesse Ren as Sheng Ze
• Li Yang as Si Qi Yang (Luo Yan’s Chem Friend)
• Tu Bin Bin as Lao Yi Man
• Luo Yi as Sun Jia Yi
• Xu Ling Luo as Mo LI
• Zhang Xing He as Gu Qian Qian
• Tong Yue as Teacher Zhao

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Episode 1

Awww Typical tsundere bullying a defenseless girl.

Fang Li had just started college.  She was studying chemistry.

She went out for a get-together-get-to-know-each-other dinner with her roommates so she can bond with them.

But it turned horrific the moment Luo Yan turned up.  He is the college hunk and one of the mean-girls of her dorm, Jia Yi immediately confessed to Luo Yan who turned her down immediately.

Jia Yi was not amused especially when they started playing a game.  Luo Yan had to pick a girl to kiss for three minutes.

All the girls were looking at him expectantly especially Jia Yi.

Luo Yan though picked Fang Li.

Fang Li refused at first but they forced her to comply with the rule of the game.

Luo Yan kissed her after the kiss Fang Li accidentally dropped her glass in a soupy bowl which went all over Luo Yan’s shirt.

He then told her to have his shirt dry-clean which would cost 300-500 rmb?

Meanwhile, that is just the start.  Her roommates started ganging up on her.  They thought she seduced Luo Yan when nothing of the sort is ever her intention.

In fact if she does not see him again, it would be too soon.  They have a history which he had forgotten but she had not.  They were classmates in first-year high-school.  He tortured her, made her do things that got her punished by her school like stealing their teacher’s wig.

At present, her roommates made her life in the dorm and sometimes in the classroom unbearable but she tried to bear it.

She thought instead of dry cleaning Luo Yan’s shirt, she will use the chem lab to clean the shirt.

She blew up the lab and Luo Yan rescued her.

Episode 2

The story is a bit of a mess.  The two leads are bitterly hating one another that they are both hateful and I don’t like them.

The girl said that she did not blow up the lab but when Luo Yan was asked, he said he saw no one else aside from her when he rescued her.

Then it came out that they knew each other in high school and was suspected that they were dating in the lab.

He would not help her to explain, she started making the insinuation that they are in a relationship. He attacked her laptop with a virus, she failed to submit an important assignment.

She then kissed him while playing basketful with his mate.

Episode 3

They were still bickering non-stop.  She accused Luo Yan of having deleted her report on her laptop which he denied.

Fang Li was delivering chicken to someone by the swimming pool.

Luo Yan happened to be the only but the swimming pool, after insulting one another, Fang Li tried to leave but lost a step and almost fell on the pool.

Luo Yan caught her but in doing so he fell to the pool himself.  It looks like he has a phobia of water/pool because Fang Li had to save him otherwise he would have drowned.

When he came to, he looked at Fang Li and felt the warmth of her touch on his hand as she held on to save him.

He told her to get away from him but he thought she might have been someone important to him.

Fang Li was with Qi Yang in the garden.  He was helping her to analyse the soil and plants if they were greatly affected by the lab explosion.

Luo Yan found them rather chummy and made sure Qi Yang left.

Before Qi Yang left, he mentioned that his friend said that the explosion in the lab was caused by liquid nitrogen.

Fang Li told him that she never touched the liquid nitrogen.

Luo Yan remembered who touched the liquid nitrogen.  It was Shi Xu to make ice-cream for his crush, Sun Jia Yi.

Luo Yan told Shi Xu to confess what he did to Teacher Zhao who told them that the plot is thickening.

But he did accept that it sounded plausible that Shi Xu caused the explosion.

Luo Yan also took Fang Li’s laptop and recover her report.  She found out that it was Sun Jia Qi who sent her a virus.  Sun Jia Qi is majoring in IT just like Luo Yan.

Fang Li rather begrudgingly apologised to Luo Yan who asked her if he was horried to her in high school.

She gave him a disgusted look.

Episode 4

After the lab explosion was sorted out, Fang Li texted Luo Yan that she hopes they never have to meet again as the university is big enough for them both not to bump into each other again.

As it happens they ended up classmates in their dance elective.  There were not only classmates but actually dance partners.

Jia Yi pranked Fang Li by showing her a gaudy dress as their uniform.

She turned up on it the next dance lesson as they were laughing at her.

Next time Luo Yan turned up on their lesson wearing a matching dance costume as Fang Li.

Fang LI found out also that because of the lab explosion, she was penalised and her bursaries were canceled.

She had a part-time job but the boss was taking advantage of her good nature and when she finally complained, he fired her without paying her salary.

Luo Yan took her to the restaurant where she was previously employed and ordered a lot of dishes.  After the meal, he told the owner to deduct the bill from Fang LI’s salary.

The boss refused at first but Luo Yan called people to tell them to come to the restaurant to dine for free.

The boss ended up paying Fang LI the rest of her salary and was grateful to Luo Yan.

Episode 5

Luo Yan noticed that Fang Li is getting really close to Qiyang. He was not liking it so he challenged Qiyang to a contest of taekwondo.  They were both excellent but Luo Yan ended up in the hospital.

Qiyang also ended in the hospital about exposure to some chemicals in the lab.

Fang `Li went to the hospital.

Luo thought she was visiting him but found her happily chatting by text to the temporarily mute Qiyang.

But the budding relationship was nipped in the bud by the arrival of Qiyang’s childhood sweetheart.

Luo Yan wanted Fang Li to tell him everything that happened in high school.  Apparently, he has amnesia, thus can’t remember her at first.

Episode 6

Fang Li and Qiyang are back together again and they even went on a date at the cinema.

Fang Li saw Luo Yan with a girl and thought that they were on a date.  What she did not know was that Luo Yan was asking the girl about psychology and how to develop an affinity with others.

Luo Yan was told to smile more.

When he next saw Fang Li, he smiled at her and was gentle but Fang Li only found him weird.

Luo Yan asked her why she found him weird.

Fang Li said that he lacks affinity and sincerity.  So she taught him how to smile sincerely and all.

They were in a store eating noodles when the girl Fang Li thought was Luo Yan’s girlfriend turned up.

Immediately Fang Li told him to go after the girl.  This confused Luo Yan and he ended up having another fight with Fang Li.

Meanwhile, Qiyang’s father had surgery and his childhood sweetheart paid for the operation.

Episode 7

Luo Yan helped Fang Li with her English homework.

Fang Li was so happy to attain first place in her class she invited Luo Yan to dinner.

They were deciding what to eat and where to eat when Fang Li saw Qiyang waiting for her.

Immediately she told Luo Yan to take a raincheck on the dinner.

Luo Yan was annoyed.

Qiyang said that they should invite Luo Yan to dinner to thank him.

Luo Yan thought the dinner was with just Fang Li and was upset and disappointed that Qiyang was there as well.

The two boys started competing for her attention.

Fang Li and Luo Yan were finally alone.  Luo Yan asked her if she was in love with Qiyang.

She said yes which devastated Luo Yan, who started avoiding her.

Fang Li told Luo Yan that he can’t just avoid her because they are dance partner when he did not turn up for the class.

Anyway, Qiyang invited Fang Li to an intimate dinner.

FeiFei realised that she had seen Qiyang before.  He was with another girl.  She thought that Qiyang was two-timing Fang Li which she told Luo Yang and Shi Xu.

Luo Yang went to find Fang Li.

Fang Li was heartbroken in the middle of the road.

Qiyang had invited her to dinner to tell her that he was going abroad to study.

Fang Li told him that she was willing to wait for him and have an LDR.

Qiyang said that he was not going alone, he was going with a girl, his childhood sweetheart, Manman.  He was telling Fang Li this because he does not want any misunderstanding because Fang Li is his best friend.

Fang Li was upset that he only sees her as a friend.

Luo Yan found her in the middle of traffic.

She told him that it seems her first love have already ended.

Luo Yan said that it has not even begun.

Anyway, Luo Yan sent her to her dorm.  She saw a plant seller and she bought a plant which she gave to Luo Yan.

Luo Yan was so overwhelmed when she wished him a happy birthday.  He hugged her but told her that he does not celebrate his birthday because it was on his birthday that his mother left him.

Episode 8

Fang Li thought that she was not good enough and started a diet regime which was concerning Feifei, Shi Xu and Luo Yan.

The three agreed that Fang Li needed to cry out Qiyang out of her system.

Episode 9

Fang Li is crushing on Luo Yan but he just doesn’t get it though he likes it too.

So Fang Li was driven into inventing a boyfriend to make Luo Yan jealous.

It so happens that a senior from their high school Sheng Ze turned up just in time for Fang Li

Episode 10

Luo Yan was so jealous but he couldn’t verbalise what he felt or wanted to say to Fang Li.

Episode 11

Luo Yan refused to believe that Fang LI and Zheng Ze are really dating.  He said that they have not complied with the Lovers’ To Do List.

First, they have not changed their avatars, second, they have not had a couple’s clothing, third, no sign of PDA on their Moments and finally being an IT guy, Luo Yan found out that Fang Li and Zheng Ze don’t have interaction according to their Wechat.

Anyway, there was a fire in Fang Li’s dorm.  Zhang Ze just stood outside while Luo Yan went inside the dorm to look for Fang Li.

Luo Yan confronted Fang Li about the boyfriend and she finally confessed that there was really no relationship.

Meanwhile, Luo Yan asked Fang Li to help him with his project which involved falling in love.

Episode 12

Fang Li was rather enthusiastic in helping Luo Yan with his girlfriend project.  He did treat her like a real girlfriend and even got jealous

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Episode 24

Luo Yan and Fang Li are totally loved up that is until Luo Yan found an encrypted album in Fang Li’s mobile phone.

When he asked what the album was, Fang Li honestly told him that it was of her first love and offered to show the album to Luo Yan.

He declined but he can’t get it out of his mind or his heart that Fang Li had a first life when despite his previous amnesia, he knew that she was his first love.

Shi Xu told him that if it bothered him a lot then why not used his talent in computer technology and hacked Fang Li’s album if Luo Yan is so jealous but to proud to ask to the album.

Luo Yan did contemplate hacking the phone but stopped himself at the last minute.

Fang Li noticed Luo Yan was acting weird and even asked her to complete a survey form about their love life.  Fang Li refused because she said she and their love were not commodities that can be quantified.

Later on, she did try to make up Luoyan, she found him rather chummy with another girl so she left them alone.

But she bumped into another boy who happened to be the other girl’s boyfriend.  The boy told Luoyan about seeing Fang Li just by the door.

Luoyan went after Fang li and explained that the girl was the boy she bumped into’s girlfriend.  That having cleared up Luoyan told her that he was also upset about her first love.

Fangli showed him the encrypted album and was amazed that her first love was him all along.  She told him that it was love at first sight.  She liked him even before he liked her.

Awww

The End