Chinese Drama 2023

Where Dreams Begin (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

Where Dreams Begin poster

• Genre: Romance, Youth, Life, 70s Generation
• Release Date: 1 June 2023
• Origin: China
• Cdrama: 40 Episodes

Cast

• Xiao Zhan as Xiao Chun Sheng
• Li Qin as Tang Xiao Mei
• Liu Ruilin as Ye Guo Hua
• Cao Feiran as He Hong Ling
• Zhao Xin as Ye Fang
• Cui Hang as Chen Hong Jun
• Zhang Lingxin as Xiao Yan Qiu
• Lu Nuo as Qi Tian

Quick Precis

Six youths in the seventies navigating a changing society.

Snippets

• 8 June 2022:  It is a wrap.
• 31 May 2023:

Episode 1

Beautiful cinematography.

It all started one wintry day in Beijing in the 70s.

Xiao Chusheng sneaked into the back window of a library which has been closed to the public.  The library contained banned books. He was surprised to see a book about nursing which was well-thumbed and found a bookmark in between the pages.

Not long after another person crept into the library.  She is Tang Xiao Mei who was flummoxed when she could not find the nursing book she usually read and left on a small table.

The two did not know of each other but somehow, Chusheng helped her to leave unnoticed when two guards investigated the mysterious activities inside the locked library.  They found Chusheng who had such a good way of influencing people, he managed to get away unscathed.

Meanwhile, Ye Guo Hua was falling in love with a girl who he saw on the bus and he can’t wait to tell his best friend Chusheng.

But when they met up, they almost ended up in trouble because another friend had his hat snatched by the local hood.

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