Chinese Drama 2021

Don’t Think of Interrupting My Studies (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: School, Romance, Idol Drama
• Release Date: 10 March 2021
• Origin: China, Based on a novel by Yue Liu Guang
• Cdrama: 24 Episodes

 

Cast

• Edward Lai Kuan-lin as Lin Xiaoran
• Li Landi as Nan Xiangwan
• Wang Runze as Liu Yubai
• Zhang Zi Jian as Zhu Cong
• Chen Shujun as Chen Shiyun
• Zhao Xuan as Zeng Jianfei
• Bai Yufei as Yu Meili
• Zhang Chen as Zhang Chao
• Liu Kehan as Hu Bingbing
• David Liang as Teacher Wang
• Ryan Liu as Teacher Liao
• Wu Yang as Department Head Zhang

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Episode 1

Good start.

I am not sure why this drama did not do as well or got the hype.  Both Li Landi and Edward Lai are dropped dead gorgeous with oodles of chemistry.

Anyway, Nan Xiangwan works as HR manager.  She’s very strict and much-feared i their company.  Even her own manager who interviewed her for her job had once told her to be firm with her decision and only worked for the good and betterment of the company had told her that she was too strict.  She just laughed it off and told her boss that she was getting soft.

When Nan Xiangwan went back to her office she found the latest book of her high school best friend which was about Nan Xiangwan.

She started reading the book and it said that one regret that Nan had was not having been able to study at Nanguan University.  If she could go back in time she would do everything …

Then Nan fell asleep.

When she woke up it was 30 August 2011.  She was in middle school in Xiangli School in the middle of a science test which will determine which class section she would end up with.

As can be expected Nan thought that what was happening was part of an extreme reunion.  So she acted rather wildly which kept her classmates laughing and sniggering.  They thought that she had gone totally bonkers in the middle of the exam.

Nan then acted as if she was an HR Director and even borrowed her teacher’s phone to call her work.

Her teacher told her to wake up but she told him that he was a good teacher but even better as an actor because he was really into the extreme school reunion.

She was told to leave the classroom, and then she noticed the date on the noticeboard.  She was beginning to realise that she was in another timeline.

She went to her mother’s house and was happy to see her mother looking so young and beautiful.

Anyway, she thought she was in a dream and when she wakes up the next morning it would be back to normal but nope when she woke up she was still at her mother’s house being woken up by the young cat called Mango.

She borrowed her mother’s dress to look older and went to see her boss.  She tried to tell her boss that she went back in the past.

Her boss tolerated her and even told her if she was really having a second chance, then she was lucky.  Take it.

Nan did try everything to go back into the present.

Anyway, Nan was able to get a personal guarantee from her boss to hire her after she had graduated from university.

She went back to school and sauntered to class 2 but Lin Xiaoran came to fetch her because they were classmates in class 7.

Episode 2

Poor Nan was victimised by her classmates because they think that it was all due to her that Zeng Jianfei was expelled.

But Nan was so cool and treated her classmates like they were just little children.

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Teacher Wang became the headteacher/homeroom teacher of Class 7.

Episode 6

Mr Wang announced that the school had reconsidered.  Zheng Jianfei can come back to school.

Lin Xiaoran does not like it that Nan is treating him like a young boy.

Liu Yubai is crushing on Nan.

Lin Xiaoran invited Nan to go on a picnic with their other classmates.  They had a good time.

When they went back to school Xiaoran as Nan if he was her boyfriend.

Nan just flicked him on the head like a naughty little brother.

Episode 7

It was a basketball tournament and Xiaoran was playing against another school.

Nan was not interested in watching the game.

The game got so dirty that poor Mr Wang end up being hurt.

Director Zhang went to see how Mr Wang was.  He was ok but she was worried about him.

Teacher Wang was ready to go back to class but Nan told him to make a bigger impact so the students would be feeling good to try their best for him.

So Teacher pretended that he got so ill and when he returned to class he appeared to have amnesia.

But he said he was just kidding seeing the worried faces before him.

Then he said he was happy to be back and he has a surprise for them.

It was Zeng Jianfei who was returning and then leaving immediately because he realise school was not for him.

Episode 8

Chen Shiyun and Yubai were asked to be the poster students for their school.

Chen Shiyun did not really want to do it but she was inadvertently forced to.

She looked so good with Yubai that she ended up trending on Weibo.

However, old photos of her when she was a child surprised. She was chubby and the other students started sniggering.

Poor Shiyun was upset but even Lin Xiaoran did not know who posted the photos.

He asked Nana if she knew what to do as she usually seems to know everything.

She said might have an idea but she wanted something in return.

He asked what?

Nan said his time.  She wanted him to be at her beck and call at school so she could concentrate at her studies.

He agreed.

Episode 9

Lin Xiaoran’s mother was not happy that he might be dating Nan.  She was so unhappy she went to seen Nan’s mother.

Meanwhile, Nan and Xiaoran solved the case of the poster of Shiyun’s photos.

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Episode 15

The students are holding the Xiangli Art Festival to save their school auditorium.

The council chairman was moved by the festival but said that it was not up to him whether the auditorium is renovated or pulled to the ground and build a simple cubicle-like.

Episode 16

`Lin Xiaoran returned back to the basketball court.  Nan did not really want to watch the game but she heard the Xiaoran was hurt.

She rushed to the game and ended up enjoying it and cheering for Xiaoran who won the game for the school with his last seconds three-pointers.

Episode 17

So cute.  The classmates are now beginning to pair up.

Xiaoran was trying to be grown-up by drinking coffee just he just doesn’t like it.  Nan found it cute.

Zeng Jianfei is back to school once again and this time he said he is serious.

Nan is inundated with requests for tutoring from her classmates and it became problematic as all she wanted to do was to revise as well so she could be upgraded to Class 2.

So she had an idea of getting a tutor for her classmates.

She chose Zhu Cong, who was a self-confess genius who doesn’t need to revise anymore.

But when she asked him, he looked down on her classmates and said that it would not be a challenge.

So her classmates wrote a physics problem in pieces of paper.

Zhu Cong was flabbergasted that he could not solve one of the problems.  But he was not giving up.

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Episode 2

Zhu Cong challenged Nan to solve a board physics problem.  Nan won which surprised the overly confident Zhu Cong.

But poor Nan ended up collapsing because her mother had been over nourishing her with good rich food and supplementary medicine.

She was taken to the hospital by Yubai but when she woke up Xiaoran was also there because he was having his medical exam as part of the qualification to passing the pilot student exam.

She told her mother that she was very unhappy at class 2 and wanted to return to class 7 which she did.

Her mother worried that she might not be able to qualify for Guanzhou University.

Luckily she was one of the top 10 graduating students in Xiangli.  Ms Zhang, the student advisor doesn’t know how she did it.  It was miraculous.

Episode 23

The students are almost on breaking point studying for their GAOKAO.

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A happy ending and I can totally recommend this drama.