Chinese Drama 2024
Love Endures (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
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Stories of Youth and love poster
Genre: Modern Romance, Youth, Life
- Release Date: 20 January 2024
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 32 Episodes
Cast
- Yang Zi as Huang Ying Zi
- Fan Cheng Cheng as Jiang Yi
- Zhu Yan Man Zi as Fang Ming Yu
- Jin Shi Jia as Ding Ye
- Wang Qian Yue as Zhuang Yuan
- Fang Yue Qian as Lan Yi Fei
- Zhao Rui as Guan Chao
- Zhang Chen as Lao Zhou
- Wang Zhuo Cheng as Gao Shan
- Zhao Shu Zhen as Grandma
- Paul Che as Hao Ping
Snippets
- 17 October 2023: It is good to go. It has obtained its broadcasting licence for 32 episodes.
- It is expected to air sometime in November 2023.
Episode 1
I like the first episode. It is very atmospheric. It started with a lovely tight friendship among six friends.
Huang Yuan Zi, Jiang Yi, Fang Ming Yu, Zhuang Yuan, Lan Yi Fei, and Guan Chao were friends since they were very young. Huang Yuan Zi was usually the leader of them all and they would never had it any other way.
The drama started during around the 2008 Beijing Olympics time where Huang Yuan Zi wrote a play about a dystopian era where a rice cooker would always save the day.
Though the friends were so tight knit, they have different aspirations.
Guan Chao was the hyper one and did well in the 100 metre so he is practising for the Olympics.
Lan Yi Fei who is Guan Chao’s crush wanted to be a ballet dancer.
Zhuang Yuan is the techy one so he sure to do well in university.
Fang Ming Yu was very methodical and knows what she wanted.
And so did Jiang Yi, he was sure that he wanted to be not doing or engaging into anything.
As for Huang Ying Zi, she wanted to write…
A few years later….
The long friendship seemed to have undergone a drastic change because they hardly talked anymore. Probably because real life happened.
Huang Ying Zi was not happy at her job as a news reporter. She got a good news but was told to bin it as the person involved was influential.
She met up with Yi Fei briefly at the airport. Yi Fei had become a successful ballet dancer. Anyway they talked about Guan Chao’s wedding. YingZi wanted to know where Yifei minded but Yifei said she was really happy for Guan Chao.
Yifei then said that they should all attend the wedding and who better to organise the reunion among old friends that Ying Zi.
Ying Zi was purturbed because she hardly spoken to the others of late.
She tried to contact the friends but they have now their own lives.
Fang Ming Yu had no time to speak so Ying Zi went to her company where she saw first hand how stressed Ming Yu was.
Ming Yu had to play the bad guy as she had to lay off many employees. The employees took the bad news against her personally and abused Ming Yu. Having seen first hand what was happening Ying Zi decided to leave but left a Mcdonal choco pie for Ming Yu. The choco pie used to have a happy memory of their friendship.
Ying Zi saw Zhuang Yuan who was doing his Phd.
The last one she saw was Jiang Yi who seemed not to want to see her but Ying Zi was determined.
The first episode laid an intriguing plot and I want to know more what happened to the friends who used to be as thick as thieves?!!!
Episode 2
Ying Zi had not seen Jiang Yi for the last twelve years since he left for the UK with his parents after high school.
Their old camaraderie was no longer there, instead their friendship was stilted. Ying Zi assumed that he came back for Guan Chao’s wedding.
Anyway, Ying Zi who is still bossy dragged Jiang Yi to Ming Yu’s apartment where she was having dinner with her boss/boyfriend.
The boss left Ming Yu to speak to her old friends. Mingyu said she could not go to the wedding.
Meanwhile, Guan Chao was the only one of the friends who stayed in their town and would often go see Grandma. Guan Chao told Grandma that he really wanted to see his friends to come in his wedding.
Grandma assured him that they will be there.
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