Chinese Drama 2022
Reset (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
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Reset
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
- Release Date: 11 January 2022
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 15 Episodes
Cast
- Bai Jing Ting as Xiao He Yun
- Zhao Jin Mai as Li Shi Qing
- Liu Yijun as Zhang Cheng
- Tamia Liu Tao as Du Ju
- Huang Jue as Wang Xingde (Bus 45 Driver)
- Liu Dan as Tao Yinghong (Passenger)
- Song Jiateng as Yue Chinan (Passenger/Vlogger)
- Zeng Kelang as Lu Di (boy at the backseat of the bus)
- Zhang Xiqian as Ma Guoqiang (Passenger)
- Ma Lan as Yao Po
- Jiao Peng as Jiao Xiangrong (Passenger: Construction Worker)
- Bu Yuxin as Er Jinan
- Leon Li Gan as Jiang Feng
- Fan Shuaiqi as Ye Qian (young policewoman with the same ringtone)
- Ju Jin Zhan as Xiao Lu
- Yu Pei Shan as Yu Lei
Quick Precis
A young couple died in a bus explosion, they were then resurrected ten minutes before the explosion.
Their existence became a loop restarting ten minutes before the explosion. They decided to find out the reason for the explosion and to make sure that the bus reaches its final destination.
Snippets
- 6 August 2021: It is a wrap.
Episode 1
Wow! This first episode is so riveting. I wanted to watch more.
It started with an explosion of bus No 45.
Prior to the explosion, a girl passenger woke up from a vivid dream of the bus exploding.
The boy sitting next to her saw her looking rather agitated and sweating so he opened his backpack to get a tissue but he inadvertently elbowed her in the breast.
Immediately, the girl shouted that there was a pervert in the bus and demanded that she be let out of the bus.
The driver said that it was illegal to just halt the bus at an undesignated stop.
The girl though was going mental and would not take no for an answer so left really with no choice as the other passengers begged the driver to let out the unruly girl, he stopped.
Before the girl got out, she asked if anyone wanted to leave the bus with her. No one wanted to so she dragged the boy with her.
The other passengers were shouting, “why take the pervert with you?” as the bus door started closing.
The poor boy was absolutely clueless about what was happening and puzzled when the girl started smiling.
Anyway, they parted ways. she was no more than a few yards when she heard an explosion. She was standing on the edge of the pavement totally shocked. A motorcyclist sort of crashed into her leaving her prostrate on the ground.
When she woke up, she was in the hospital. She was totally confused but became more so when she saw the boy from the bus who was now badly burnt being wheeled into the emergency room.
Meanwhile, the police were investigating the explosion, whether it was a terrorist attack.
They sort of knew that there were ten people on the bus but they only found eigth bodies.
They got intel and a CCTV of two passengers getting out at an illegal stop.
The girl was Li Shi Qing.
Police officers came to interview her but she refused to talk until a more mature officer, Zhang Cheng, came to see her.
She asked him if he believes in a dream within a dream.
Zhang Cheng was intrigued and began to listen and record her statement.
He heard that she was in a dream within a dream, within a dream. It happened six times. In her fifth dream, she was able to clearly see what happened.
Bus 45 tried to avoid a purple cyclist but crashed instead into an oil tanker causing the explosion.
Zhang Cheng suddenly became more alert. He excused himself and asked the other police officer if they had mentioned the presence of the purple cyclist to Li Shi Qing. He asked that they investigate the staff at the hospital if they talked about it under Li Shi Qing’s hearing.
Li Shi Qing also told Zhang Cheng about the boy she left the bus with. He was severely burnt and in the same hospital.
Episode 2
This episode is Heyun’s loop.
Heyun saw and felt his own death which woke him up all hot and bothered inside the bus.
Li Shi Qing told him knowingly that he was in the loop.
At first, Heyun did not want anything to do with Li Shi Qing but he started to be in a dream loop as well and he began to believe.
Heyun and Li Shi Qing decided that getting out of the bus was not really an option as they both end up on the bus again.
So Li Shi Qing had the idea of making the bus faster or slower and avoiding a rider on a scooter and a tanker.
They were able to avert the explosion but before Li Shi Qing could really feel more comfortable, she heard a mobile phone ringing. Just like the one she heard before the explosion.
She and Heyun managed to get out but as soon as they did, Li Shi Qing called the police to report that there is a bomb on the 45 Bus.
Though the police sent some officers to intercept the bus, they were really more interested in their callers.
They became more focused on the caller.
I had to double-take when I saw Tamia Liu as Du Ju. She was looking like Cressida Dick, the highest-ranking police officer in the UK.
I am loving this drama.
Episode 3
A bomb residue was found on the burnt bus.
Du Ju decided that a time loop is too stupid to report officially, so she ordered to break Heyun as he was more emotional. She then charged Heyun and Li Shi Qing as prime suspects for the bus explosion.
Episode 4
Li Shi Qing is on her tenth loop.
At every loop, the time is going backward. During the tenth loop Shi Qing and Heyun managed to get off at the next stop.
Li Shi Qing called the police immediately to report the bomb on Bus 45.
Heyun went ballistic because he was still traumatised by how he was treated like a criminal during the previous loop by the police.
Li Shi Qing told him that he doesn’t have to go to the police station with her. She will not mention his name.
Anyway, the police managed to stop Bus 45 and Jiang Feng led the police inside the bus.
The passengers were being let out one by one. But an old man with a sack got agitated and refused help from anyone. The sack contained a conical object which exploded killing everyone including Jiang Feng.
Li Shi Qing was being interrogated when she received a call from Heyun.
Heyun told her that it was time to sleep.
Sleeping seemed to bring them back to the loop.
Episode 5
Heyun was so desperate to go back to sleep, he went to the pharmacy to get sleeping pills and then went to the opposite corner store to get whisky.
The police later found him almost asleep.
He started talking about the loop and that he was very regretful that they sent the police who then died in the explosion.
It was now Li Shi Qing loop 11. They suspected the guy at sitting at the back who was wearing mask and black cap who was protective of his backpack.
They tried to prise open the bag from him but the bag exploded.
it was now loop12, they save the guy a the backseat of the bus.
They found out that it was a cat that he was protecting.
Episode 6
The boy was Lu Di. Lu Cat Apostle Di. He was an asthmatic boy who loves cats. His parents absolutely forbade him to keep cats but he rented a little flat where he keeps a few rescued cats.
He took Heyun and Li Shi Qing to his secret place where he got to make them tell him about the loop. He believed them because he had read about it in his manga.
Episode 7
There was another incident of explosion.
This episode eliminates the baldy guy Ma Guo Xiang from the bombing. The sack with round objects were not bombs but melons he specially grew for his son, Xiao Long.
Ma Guo Xiang was an excon but two months before he was let out of prison, his wife told him that he must not come back home as he will ruin their son’s chance of a good and decent life.
So Ma Guo Xiang went to a farm where he became a labourer.
To eliminate him, Heyun and Shi Qin had to interrogate him subtly at first but they did not notice that Ma Guo Xiang did not want them to touch the rounded object in his sack.
Heyun and Shi Qin managed to tell the son that his father loved him dearly.
Episode 8
The next story is of Xiao Liu. He was a construction worker who was renting a garage as his place to stay.
The owner of the garage threw him out because the neighbourhood watch was on to people renting their garages and an inspection of garages was imminent.
He was on bus 45.
He was really kind and when he heard Shi Qin asking a lady passenger if she happened to have a sanitary napkin as her monthly visitor had come. This was of course so she could see the woman open her bag.
She was overheard by Xiao Liu who voluntarily opened his suitcase to give her a sanitary napkin for his daughter.
The bus ended up exploding with them on it.
Shi Qin woke up but it take ages for Heyun to wake, he said he had sleep paralysis.
Shi noticed that this time around the time did not go back.
Heyun and Shi Qin thought that perhaps the loop is broken and this was their last one.
As it were, they did their best and tried to take the heavy bag from a woman who was rather anti-social.
The woman was armed with a knife and stabbed Heyun who fell back so Shi Qin grabbed the bag but the woman grabbed her and stabbed her in the throat.
They woke up again. Shi Qin was inconsolable at first because her being stabbed in the throat was still fresh.
Heyun tried to convince her that they should get out at the next stop to get over the trauma but Shi Qin said that she would give it another try.
She tried again and the woman was about to stab her but Heyun grabbed the woman. It ended with him stabbing her to death.
They got out but the driver got to the bag and the bus exploded.
Episode 9
The police were after Heyun and Shi Qin not only for murder but the bomb explosion as well.
Poor Heyun was so traumatised of having killed someone. In hindsight, he said he would have rather been blown up than kill someone.
Shi Qin told him to calm down.
Heyun believes that he will not be able to clear his name because the loop had stopped.
Despite being very afraid, Heyun told Shi Qin to tell the police if they get caught that he was holding her hostage.
The police investigated Old Jiao and found it to be innocent but Tao Ying Hong, it was found out that there was a fire in her garage and the neighbours also heard an explosion. This trigged Zhang Cheng’s suspicion.
Heyun and Shi Qin ended up at Lu Di’s rented apartment. Heyun had a badly injured arm so Shi Qin had to go to the chemist to get bandages and disinfectant. So she does not get recognised, she dressed up in cosplay complete with blue wig which suited her so well.
By the way the OST of this drama is very affecting.
Episode 10
Heyun took Shi Qin to his friend’s house. The friend was so annoyed with him because the scandal involving Heyun had basically killed their new game.
Heyun and Shi Qin stayed by the seaside. They talked about getting the passengers off the bus.
It almost worked as well but the lady was determined to blow the bus.
So they looped again.
Heyun and Shi Qin who pretended to be police officers found helpers, Lu Di and Old Jiao.
They found out that Wang Xing De, the bus driver was in cahoot with the lady bomber.
Episode 11
Heyun and Shi Qin found out more about Wang Xing De and that he was in the process of divorcing his demented wife.
To gather more information, Heyun and Shi Qin went voluntarily to the police as witnesses. But the police found them suspicious as they seemed to know too much about the other passengers.
The policewoman at the station had the same ringtone Shi Qin heard on the bus just prior to the bomb exploding.
The ringtone spooked her which was noticed by Chief Du Ju. She said later that Shi Qin has survivor’s guilt.
Anyway, Heyun and Shi Qin found out from the police that the woman in grey, Tao Yinghong was a former chemistry teacher who found employment in a chemical factory. She was married to Wang Xing De, the bus driver.
Episode 12
Because of the excessive information they gave the police, the police started investigating Heyun and Shi Qin.
The police found out that Heyun and Shi Qin had been to Wang Xing De’s work as well as in his apartment.
The young policewoman. commented that perhaps it was Heyun and Shi Qin were the culprit but setting up Wang Xing De and Tao Yinghong for the crime.
Zhang Cheng was calm and told Ye Qian, the young policewoman, not to. jump into conclusion.
Everyone found out that Wang Xing De and Tao Yinghong had a daughter called Mengmeng who died from an accident at the bridge almost five years ago to the date.
Shi Qin asked Zhang Cheng if the bombing could happen again and if they send message the police reporting a bomb on board the bus, what would the police do? Would the police act on the message or treat it as a crank call?
Zhang Cheng took the question seriously. He said that the police will check up on the message seriously and if they found out later that it was just a prank, then the caller or messager will be severely punished for wasting police time but certainly, they would investigate the message seriously first.
Heyun then asked for Zhang Cheng’s number.
Heyun woke up with a bleeding nose. He told Shi Qin that the time loop has been creating havoc with his body and he was getting weaker and weaker each time.
Heyun quickly took a photo of Tao Yinghong, where she was sitting and sent it to Zhang Cheng. He said about the bomb and the driver was in on it.
Heyun immediately rallied the police. He message back to Heyun that they were on their way.
Heyun and Shi Qin created the same fuss to delay the bus but the driver did not stop at the next stop where the plain clothes policemen were waiting to board.
But in the end the police managed to stop the bus by the bridge and Zhang Cheng the bomb out but he became a casualty of it.
Episode 13
Apparently, Tao Yinghong and Wang Xing De started investigating the death of their daughter. But Tao Yinghong was rather overpowering in the investigations that often they ended up in trouble with the police.
Zhang Cheng was in a critical condition.
Du Ju was investigating why Mengmeng insisted to get off the bus.
Sadly Zhang Cheng died and Jiang Feng was having a hard time accepting it. He went to Heyun and Shi Qin to ask them why they knew there was a bomb inside the bus and why they also knew Zhang Cheng mobile number.
Shi Qin said that Zhang Cheng gave it to them himself. The other police came to get Jiang Feng from Heyun’s hospital room because he was borderline harassing a couple of witnesses.
The police was questioning Wang Xing De and Tao Ying Hong. The actors who played them are commendable. Good find actors. You feel for them, the emotion is so palpable.
They asked the police why did they not fully investigate the death of Mengmeng. That was all they wanted in the first place. They did not even accept a cent of compensation because all they want was the truth.
Episode 14
What really broke Mengmeng’s parents’ heart was not only her death but the nastiness of people who commented on the video of her actual accident saying that she deserves it because she was immoral.
Tao Ying Hong was a teacher. She found her students ogling the death video of her daughter during class.
Tao Yinghong started blaming Wang Xing De for not answering his phone. He was the one Mengmeng called before her accidental death and Tao Yinghong kept harping at him that he ignored his daughter. He could have saved her.
Tao Yinghong has totally lost the plot. She only quietened up when Wang Xing De said that they would move to Jialin. She then used a shed/garage as her workplace where she experimented on bomb making.
At last, they found a witness for Mengmeng’s issue and accident. According to Liu Yao, Mengmeng was being groped inside the bus.
Episode 15
Liu Yao saw what happened to Mengmeng. She accidentally videoed the pervert rubbing his private parts on the frightened Mengmeng.
Liu Yao wanted to go to the police with it but she was advised by her mother to remove herself from it. Liu Yao also saw that though Mengmeng was the dead victim, she still became a subject of online bullies.
As Heyun was spitting blood and really weak, he later told Shi Qing to leave the loop by herself.
Shi Qing asked if they wake up one day not knowing each other…
Heyun was very sure that he would never forget her. He said that he will go to her school and look for her. He will introduce himself to her and asked her to be his girlfriend.
Shi Qing said she will answere, ‘I will”
And then…
The kiss. ❤️
On their way to the police station, they had another loop.
Heyun was in a pretty bad way, Shi Qing could not wake him up so it was up to her to contact Zhang Cheng.
For a while, it looked like it would go wrong once again but this time, Shi Qing was able to show the parents the photo of the guy that molested Mengmeng.
Mengmeng did not just go crazy, she was trying to get away from a pervert who was trying to molest her.
This was really all Wang Xing De and Tao Yinghong wanted to find out.
Wang Xing De handed the bomb to Zhang Cheng who managed to through the kettle bomb into the water safely.
Happy Ending
Heyu woke up happy to be home and not inside the bus once again. The loop is over and he was alive. He immediately texted ShiQing who smiled and looked fresh and beautiful.
justice served!
The police honour the 8 brave bus passengers with certificate of valour and. 30,000 yuan each.
The pervert was arrested at his office.
Wang Xing De was at the same prison as the pervert. Who knows what would happen!
The woman with a bagful of medicine is still playing Florence Nightingale to her husband and enjoying her grandchildren.
Melon man met up with his son and gave his son’s workmates the sweetest melons.
LuDi celebrated his birthday with a present from his parents of a Sphynx cat (hairless cat which is more suitable for his asthmatic condition.
Old Jiang had a new job as a delivery man with his own motorcycle.
The muscle guy was doing his extreme sport, bungee-jumping.
The Livestreamer was more popular than ever.
Heyun and Shi Qing are now officially dating. They went to put flowers on Mengmeng’s grave.
The ending is heartwarming but it somehow lack the adrenalin excitement of the whole drama.
By the way, what caused the reset?!!! So was it just a figment of their imagination?
Despite the fairly bland ending, it is still worthy of high recommendation.