Chinese Drama 2021
Out of the Dream (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Aka: Dreamt of a Lion
Out of the Dream poster
- Genre: Modern Romance, Opera Theatre/ Music,
- Release Date: 28 October 2021
- Origin: China; Adapted from a novel by Xiao Hu Ru Wei called Meng Jian Shi Zi
- Cdrama: 30 Episodes
Cast
- Yao Chi as Bai Fei Li
- Chen Yusi as Yu Fei
- Fu Jing as Guan Jiu
- Xie Xing Yang as Dao Ge
- Wu Yu Heng as Hao Zhi
- Sun Zhen Ni as Ling Jiu
- Shi An as Ni Lin
- Sheng Gang Shuai as Shu Ji
- Jiang Yan Jun as Xiao Zhu
Quick Precis
Apparently, this is going to be a romance between a performer in the Peking Opera and the producer.
Episode 1
It is quite an entertaining drama but for westerners who are not used to Beijing Opera, this might take getting used to.
Yu Fei is an up-and-coming performer of Peking Opera. She had been studying opera since she was 12 years old and now her time had come for her to shine.
The master had said their performance that night would be attended by some of the aficionados of Peking Opera so everyone must do their best.
Everyone was excitedly going about their business including Yu Fei.
But this changed in a heartbeat when she found out that her mentor/uncle was getting married the next day.
She was heartbroken. She had been in love with Uncle for an eternity and he was the reason why she persevered in her training of opera.
She brought her heartbreak into the show, unmindful that she was creating quite a furore from the classists of Peking Opera. Despite Uncle whispering to her to behave, Yu Fei went on emoting her feelings of betrayal.
Someone from the audience saw what was going on and in order to save her from the growing outcry of the aficionados, he turned off the electricity and told her that he wanted her to work for him. He was Bai Fei Le.
Yu Fei got angry at him and screamed that he turned of the electricity.
Her master was shamed and punished her the next day using the old method of flogging.
Still, Yu Fei could not be stopped. She was still bemoaning the fact that she was hard-done-by and that she had been in love with Uncle and why was he marrying someone else:?
The master had had it with her for so he dismissed her.
Meanwhile, she did not tell her mother, who she had not seen for a long time, of what had happened.
Her menopausal mother was temperamental. Yu Fei got it from her how she behaves, living with how they felt regardless of consequences.
Anyway, to get away from her mother, she went drinking in a bar.
It so happens that Guan Jiu was also at the bar. As Yu Fei was getting drunk, she started singing opera which impressed Guan Jiu, she called her boss, Bai Fei Li.
Yu Fei drunkenly mistook Fei Li as Uncle and asked him to take her home.
Episode 2
She was in Fei Li’s bed the next morning when she woke and she could hear him in the shower. She was annoyed and thinking of beating him up for taking advantage of her but then she remember that she insisted that he took her home and then threw up on him.
Instead, she left money for him and then she ran off.
She went home and her mother slapped her. Her mother found out that due to her misbehaviour, she was fired from her job.
Yu Fei told her mother not to worry, she will continue to provide for her, buy everything she wanted including the cheongsams she was living on these days.
Anyway, her mother told shoved an envelope on her which showed a scan of her cervical cancer. She told Yu Fei that she was dying and all she wanted was to see Yu Fei become famous and get married.
Yu Fei told her mother to live for a very long time because her wishes would happen one day.
Fei Li tried everything to make Yu Fei work for him but she was not interested
Episode 3
Yu Fei continued to decline to join Fei Li’s company.
But then when Yu Fei came home she found her mother collapsed. Hospitalisation would cost 50K which she did not have.
She called Fei Li to tell him that she will join his company after all but she needed 50K upfront.
And Yu Fei started practising the play.
Episode 4
Yu Fei successfully played Lin Xiupeng (?) in South Song. Unfortunately, while she was on the stage, her mother had an attack.
Yu Fei was too late to see her mother which was not helped with circumstances like being harassed by another stage producer which injured her best friend, Dao Ge, who was bloodied.
Yu Fei saw Fei Li in his car but he was catatonic with fear when he saw the blood.
Yu Fei did not know that Fei Li had a blood phobia. She thought that he was just arrogant and selfish.
When she finally got to the hospital, it was to see that the doctor declared the time of death of her mother.
Poor Yu Fei was so heartbroken but it did not end there because she met the bitter legal wife of her father.
The wife hated Yu Fei’s mother so much because she said Yu Fei’s mother waited until Yu Fei’s father married the stepmother to reveal that she has a daughter. Thereby, ruining the stepmother’s happiness.
She said that this time she will continue her revenge by paying the hospital so Yu Fei can’t raised her head up.
Yu Fei dismissed her telling her that a man without a mother can’t be threatened anymore.
Fei Li got to the hospital but when he learned that Yu Fei’s mother died, he fainted. He came to not feeling his old self.
He then spent days, months looking for Yu Fei who seemed to have vanished on the face of the earth.
Not quite! Yu Fei had moved to Shanghai.
Episode 5
Fei Li finally located Yu Fei.
Yu Fei doesn’t want to have anything to do with him or return to Jiubai Studio.
Episode 6
Yu Fei found out about Fei Li’s trauma about blood. She ended up looking after him and went home the next morning but was seen by Fei Li’s grandparents who were excited that he has a girlfriend.
They told him to bring her back to meet them.
Episode 7
Yu Fei went to her biological father to give him the monthly payment for her mother’s hospitalisation. Her father did not want to take it but Yu Fei insisted.
Since her stepmother had left, Yu Fei cooked her father noodles as he had broken his arm.
He was just about to eat it when Fei Li’s grandparents came for consultation as Yu Fei’s father is a doctor.
Later on, they insisted the Yu Fei go back with them where Yu Fei met Fei Li who was on a flirty mode which only made the grandparents extremely happy.
Episode 8
This is such a cute episode.
Yao Chi is gorgeous and so is Chen Yusi.
They are not officially together.
Poor Dao Ge who had been Yu Fei’s number 1 for 18 years was upset when he saw Yu Fei and Fei Li kissing as if they can’t get enough of each other.
Yu Fei had also joined Jiubai Studio which upset Guan Jiu.
Episode 9
Ling Jiu was annoyed that Yu Fei was her double in the drama she was filming so she made Yu Fei have an accident that could have turned nasty.
Yu Fei who turned up warned Ling Jiu that is she does anything to harm Yu Fei again, he will send her to jail.
Episode 10
It was exam time for Yu Fei.
Meanwhile, Jiubai Studio had a good chance of landing an investor but it immediately went wrong when the songs in their program were leaked online and copyrighted by another.
Jiubai Studio is imploding. No one can trust anyone. Fei Li left money for those who wanted to leave.
Gun Jiu was very upset about anyone leaving because they all started together from scratch as Jiubai.
Episode 11
Yu Fei had her practical exam for a Beijing Opera course. She was surprised to see Uncle as one of the interviewers.
In the meantime, Fei Li and Gun Jiu were always busy with work and Yu Fei was jealous that Gun Jiu knew her way around in the house and even the hamster likes her.
Dao Ge was promoted to manager at the club.
Yu Fei wanted to fly a wishing lantern and it was Dao Ge who went with her.
Episode 12
Fei Li swallowed his pride and dignity and abhorrence of his father and stepmother for the sake of getting investment. He went to his father to ask him to invest.
His father had warned off other investors against putting in money in Fei Li’s little studio.
Episode 13
Fei Li felt rather romantic and took Yu Fei to a fancy western restaurant to celebrate their 100 days together. They had spaghetti with bacon.
Jiubai Studio had a performance battle with another studio. Fei Li helped Yu Fei to make everything but in the end his syndrome kicked in and he fainted.
Gun Jiu who was near him helped and looked after him as she was familiar with what ails him.
Yu Fei found them and she thougbt that they were intimate so left them alone.
Yu Fei went home to see her aunt.
Fei Li followed her to her aunt’s.
they were so sweet, their misunderstanding was sorted immediately.
Episode 14