Just finished this drama and I looooove it! It's been ages since the last time I watched a good Taiwanese drama. It tends to have different genres compared to mainland cdramas; they focus more on idol dramas. I accidentally found about Someday or One Day when I browsed on drama fan accounts on Instagram. Searching for the reviews, it's highly rated by many drama lovers and there's Alice Ke as the main lead; of course I need to watch it! She's been one of my favorite actress since Marry Me Or Not in 2015. The story starts with Huang Yuxuan (Alice Ke) in 2019, who has lost her boyfriend for two years, Wang Quansheng (Greg Hsu) and still couldnt move on. She believes he's still alive since there's no news about him after the airplane accident. One day, a mysterious package is sent to her consisting of a walkman and a cassette of Wu Bai's Last Dance. Listening to it inside the bus, she is thrown back to 1998 and lived as Chen Yunru, a highschooler in Tainan, having the exact same face but different personality. Yunru is a timid girl with no friends except the popular Li Ziwei (also Greg Hsu) and Mo Junjie (Patrick Hsieh). Junjie liked Yunru, but Yunru confessed to Ziwei she liked him. Ziwei rejected her to respect his bestfriend. She was surprised to see Ziwei having the same face with her boyfriend but lived with a different name. Having no clue why she could be back to 1998, she tried to figure out what happened in the past with the help of Yunru's diary she got from Yunru's uncle in 2019. Yunru died in 1998, and her uncle gives her the diary hoping she can prevent her death and searched for her killer. Living back and forth between 1998 and 2019, Yuxuan changed Yunru in a good way; she became the happy and outgoing girl who rose to be one of the favorite girl in the school, made lots of friends, and joined the basketball team. Ziwei and Junjie were confused because she definitely wasnt the friend they knew, but both of them kept quiet while trying to figure out what happened. After some time, she told them about the truth that she came from 2019 and named Huang Yuxuan searching for her boyfriend Wang Quansheng, but of course no one believed her. The story goes on with Yuxuan trying to find the connection between her and Chen Yunru, and what happens between Wang Quansheng and Li Ziwei. Ziwei starts to fall in love with the new Chen Yunru because of her bright and lovable personality. Another thing happens in the present is that Junjie died in 2009 because of suicide in the exact same place Yunru died, and Ziwei had a car accident making him unable to walk normally. I watch this drama meticulously because many people say they are giving clues in tiny details but still I need some time to understand how everything connects. It's highly addictive in a unique way; there's friendship, love, family, murder, and mystery about what is happening in this time traveling period. Alice Ke's acting as both Huang Yuxuan and Chen Yunru are amazing because they have completely different personality; Yuxuan is a firm and outgoing woman, knowing what she wants in her life while Yunru is a very timid and introvert girl, trying to live her life and making no one realize about her existance in this world. Greg Hsu isnt also a newcomer, but this drama is probably the breakthrough for his career. His emotion is delivered well to the audience although this is his first main lead in drama I guess. Patrick Hsieh also acts really well, not to mention how the chemistry between Alice, Greg, and Patrick are the perfect for one another. Finished watching it in four days, I finally understand why it gets a lot of hype and currently is the most watched Taiwanese drama. And there's even an extra scene after the ending which satisfy me a lot! Highly recommend this one. Happy watching~!
Rate: 9/10
Synopsis:
The year is 2019. The 27 year-old Huang Yu Xuan terribly misses her boyfriend Wang Quan Sheng, who has been missing for two years and is presumed dead. Her birthday wish for this year is to "see him."
The year is 1998. The 17 year-old Chen Yun Ru is in love with a boy who doesn't feel the same way for her. Her birthday wish for this year is to "become the girl Li Zi Wei likes."
One day, Huang Yu Xuan receives a walkman and a music cassette from an unknown person. She falls asleep listening to its songs and wakes up to see Wang Quang Sheng sitting by her side. She believes she has finally been reunited with her boyfriend, but there's a very big twist. She learns that she is no longer a 27-year-old woman but a high schooler named Chen Yun Ru, who is in the hospital recuperating from a head injury. The year is now 1998. And the man by her bedside is not her boyfriend after all, but a schoolmate named Li Zi Wei.
Trapped in what appears to be the past, living another person's life, Chen Yun Ru's death in 1999 will be her death if she doesn't figure out how the girl landed in the hospital.
All the while, Li Zi Wei finds himself strangely drawn to the girl who used to be Chen Yun Ru, despite the fact that he knows his closest friend Mo Jun Jie has had a crush on her. Can true love find a way to bridge a seemingly insurmountable time gap? (mydramalist)
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