A supermoon teleports a girl into a man’s arm ten years later.
Notable Actors/Actresses
Zheng Ye Cheng: Xu Xiao Dong
Ju Jing Yi: Lei Chu Xia
Mi Re (Merxat): Wei Xuan He
Sun Yi Ning: Yuan Yuan
Chinese Title
滿月之下請相愛
[Ep1] Girl Falls Off Cliff & Into Arms
Aunt Wei Wei is at a conference and so is Astrophysics Professor Chen Mo His voice is so soothing. Aunt WW is trying to sell her insurance policy and our professor is telling people to eat healthily and just listen to their mothers for longevity. CP of the show. Aunt WW goes to visit Xiao Dong and meets Chu Xia and is glad Chu Xia has a big butt so she can bear children for Xiao Dong (lol). Aunt WW has a blazer jacket for Professor Chen whom she has decided to pursue because he corrected her speech and tells Xiao Dong to deliver it to the university. Xiao Dong takes this chance and shows professor Chu Xia. Shows the professor Chu Xia's wavelength-interfering capabilities when she's triggered better said. Professor Chen's assistant eavesdrops and finds out about Chu Xia too. Mr Wei is also at the university (he was there in episode 1 too) and sees Chu Xia. He ain't happy his gf came back from the death though. He's displeased at the encounter. Think the man who forced Chu Xia off the cliff is Mr Wei? Mr Wei notifies Chu Xia's parents hewants to will hold a memorial service for Chu Xia. Parents get mad because she's never been declared dead! Xiao Dong continues with his own investigation. Someone stole the program his father created for company X and framed his father for thievery instead of crediting him as author.
[Ep18] Time Traveling
Finally, the plot picks up.
Mr Wei and the professor's assistant finally succeed in sending Chu Xia back to 2011. Qing Yue realizes how evil Mr Wei is. Chu Xia is startled and saddened to be back in 2011, but then purposefully time travels back and forth between 2011 and 2021 to change destiny, but, you guessed it, you can't change the past. We finally find out Xiao Dong's "little goddess" is indeed Chu Xia who had already experienced 2021 and traveled back to 2011 to change the past. 2021 Chu Xia didn't know it before Ep 18 because she only started time traveling in Ep 18 and Xiao Dong didn't know it because his goddess always had a scarf over her face to intentionally hide that she was time traveling!
[Ep19] Going with the Flow
Chu Xia finally understands why she was in the pic the day Xiao Dong's father was framed 10 years ago. This is the same proof Mr Wei used to gaslight her. It's time-traveling Chu Xia again trying to warn Xia Dong's father of Piggy Tech. What a name right? Both Chu Xia and Xiao Dong accept the past can't be changed and Xiao Dong welcomes Chu Xiao to "his world” per his own words. Mr. Wei's company goes IPO but Chu Xia is not that poor either because she has been wearing Chanel since Ep 3 and Xiao Dong has a black AMX cc.
Chinese Title
滿月之下請相愛
Network: iQIYI
Recapper: jesspepperwang
Recap Grade: B → C -
First Impression: 3/5
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First Impression: 3/5
Jump to Review
My peeps, I have a volunteer recapper! jesspepperwang has kindly offered to slave herself to recap this drama <3 Just a reminder, she’ll be under the same rule I have for myself: she has no commitment to finish the drama if it bores the heck out of her. And now I’ll leave the rest to jesspepperwang ~
jesspepperwang – am a fan of Chinese dramas and a VP of Content irl.
Mini Recaps
Winter, 2011. Lei Chu Xia (FL) is being chased through the woods in the snow under a Super Moon. The man chasing her lets her arm go when he can save her from falling off a cliff. Summer, 2021. Programmer Xu Xiao Dong (ML) is launching an updated version of his online game Battle of the Saints on a rooftop under a Super Moon as well. No one knows he is the famous game creator Winter. FL's "Xia" means Summer by the way, but let's not get carried away. Chu Xia disappears into thin air due to the gravitational force of the Super Moon in 2011 and reappears because of the same gravitational force in 2021 and falls into Xiao Dong's arms. Servers crash and signals experience interference right before FL's re-appearance. Both ML and FL are shocked so FL smacks ML in the face and runs away! And soon enough she reappears in the back of his van again after ML drives home from the launch event. She has 0 memory, is still 22 and not 32, and can't understand her teleportation abilities
ML is in his apartment and his Aunt Wei Wei is crying to her deceased sister (ML's mother) how ML has never held a full-time career job. We get a glimpse of ML's secret work studio--entry is through his bedroom closet. He has enough money to buy both floors in this building to create a secret passageway so he's not your average IT geek. He also has enough skills to build his own AI named Turing like the creator of the computer so definitely not your average programmer
Next morning, Xiao Dong showers and Chu Xia wakes up in the back of the van. She walks to buy breakfast but is zapped right into ML's shower. ML has a 6 pack. ML is asking FL why she is in his house and our sassy FL says "Exactly, you explain that to me!" as if she is one who was exposed in the shower. It hurt her eyes to see his 6 pack, how dare him? She leaves through the front door before he can reprimand her more but she's zapped back into his bedroom again. They decide to stick together throughout the day so Xiao Dong doesn't get anymore surprises
Meanwhile, at a university, second ML appears. It's Mi Re from Legend of Yunxi. He's never gonna get Ju Jingyi as long as they are in a drama together. Mi Re plays the polished, smart, and suave Mr Wei and our host Qing Yue, second FL, from the Battle of the Saints event, is also at the university participating in Mr Wei's talk and questions him about what ifs i.e. What if you have a gf but she gets ignored in public … I am rolling my eyes already because she already stopped by Mr Wei's office earlier demanding for is whereabouts
Turing has decoded that FL and ML have to stick together and stay within a certain distance before she's teleported back to his side again. Mr Wei goes to visit Qing Yue in her apt, she is his secret gf/side piece for professional gain. One second they fight, the other they sleep together. Second ML reminds me of toxic Christian Grey and hence I am calling him Mr Wei instead of his full name. Why didn't Mr Wei take off his shirt? Does he have a 6 pack too?
ML is in his apartment and his Aunt Wei Wei is crying to her deceased sister (ML's mother) how ML has never held a full-time career job. We get a glimpse of ML's secret work studio--entry is through his bedroom closet. He has enough money to buy both floors in this building to create a secret passageway so he's not your average IT geek. He also has enough skills to build his own AI named Turing like the creator of the computer so definitely not your average programmer
Next morning, Xiao Dong showers and Chu Xia wakes up in the back of the van. She walks to buy breakfast but is zapped right into ML's shower. ML has a 6 pack. ML is asking FL why she is in his house and our sassy FL says "Exactly, you explain that to me!" as if she is one who was exposed in the shower. It hurt her eyes to see his 6 pack, how dare him? She leaves through the front door before he can reprimand her more but she's zapped back into his bedroom again. They decide to stick together throughout the day so Xiao Dong doesn't get anymore surprises
Meanwhile, at a university, second ML appears. It's Mi Re from Legend of Yunxi. He's never gonna get Ju Jingyi as long as they are in a drama together. Mi Re plays the polished, smart, and suave Mr Wei and our host Qing Yue, second FL, from the Battle of the Saints event, is also at the university participating in Mr Wei's talk and questions him about what ifs i.e. What if you have a gf but she gets ignored in public … I am rolling my eyes already because she already stopped by Mr Wei's office earlier demanding for is whereabouts
Turing has decoded that FL and ML have to stick together and stay within a certain distance before she's teleported back to his side again. Mr Wei goes to visit Qing Yue in her apt, she is his secret gf/side piece for professional gain. One second they fight, the other they sleep together. Second ML reminds me of toxic Christian Grey and hence I am calling him Mr Wei instead of his full name. Why didn't Mr Wei take off his shirt? Does he have a 6 pack too?
ML takes FL to his first day of work at Yao Yang Tech and explains she is his cousin and must stick by his side because she doesn't have real world experience, so all the programmer geeks call FL "Cousin". The geeks pierce their eyes at our pretty FL while ML pierces his eyes into an office. Our male lead has a separate agenda; he is there to investigate a case. Both FL and ML are home from work and just when they thought they could have a peaceful rest, ML's best friend knocks! Jin Xiao Rui (JXR) appeared earlier as the clingy, metro, and loyal friend
[Ep2] Romance Starts and Stalls
FL hides in the bedroom. JXR think's ML is nuts because ML is "imagining" a pretty girl that fell from the sky. JXR says: "You have been single for too long. Hurry and call Qing Yue, your crush!" JXR gets kicked out and FL gets shown the secret work room by ML. Turing finds 0 information on Chu Xia. Technically, nobody knows FL is named Lei Chu Xia yet not even herself. ML takes a second to read all his Winter fan mail. Guess who messaged him? Our FL did when ML gave her his phone so she can play Battle of the Saints while she was hanging out at work/Yao Yang Tech. Important detail: ML uses a 10 year old NOKIA sliding phone. ML gets the bed while FL gets the sofa per ML's rules. Mei Shi Qing from Truth or Dare anyone?
Mr Wei doesn't go see Qing Yue and sends his PA w/ a gift instead and the PA reminds her to stop throwing fits and that Mr Wei's missing gf of 10 years is irreplaceable. Mr Wei is FL's boyfriend from 2011. Qing Yue and Mr Wei's relationship is stalled at FWB per his attitude
FL is scaring ML by popping up next to his bed in the dark. FL gets the bed and ML gets the couch but FL is hAngry now so in a moment of annoyance and sleep deprivation, ML pops up from the couch and gets too close to her face. He finally sees what his geek squad at Yao Yang Tech saw on the first day: her beauty. He takes her out for food and she complains it is not authentic although she ate 3-4 bowls so ML starts a ledger. He's going to bill her later for all her expenditures. ML no longer thinks FL is an alien, but can't explain what she is. On the way home, they run into a box of kittens. FL plays with them and it starts raining so our ML uses his jackets as an umbrella to shield both of them while they run home. The romance is starting…
I want to say awww but this is too soon
Mr Wei has a bad dream and wakes up due to thunder from rain. He sleeps shirtless and he has a 6 pack too. He never gets Ju Jingyi but he's got a 6 pack.
FL doesn't let ML sleep in on a Saturday, pours water over him, and he still teaches her how to ride a bike and after she fails, he just gives her a ride on his bike, takes her to the beach, buys her ice cream and clothes. Our ML might be the most patient ML ever given his circumstance. Next, comes Prince Qin in Maiden Holmes but our Detective Su Ci was never sassy nor unreasonable. ML continues ledgering her expenditures. JXR comes over again and even Chu Xia says "Doesn't your friend have a life?!" She hides! JXR hides too so he can spit a mouth full of cleansing water on Xiao Dong's face so he wakes up from possession! JXR goes as far as giving Xiao Dong playboys and porno magazines so he can get some "real" women. Xiao Dong and Chu Xia wake up early on a weekend to go to his part-time job as a server at a golf simulator club. And no, Xiao Dong doesn't need the money so he's there to investigate. He pretends to open a bottle of wine so he can download data from some businessman's phone and right when he's about to get caught….
Mr Wei doesn't go see Qing Yue and sends his PA w/ a gift instead and the PA reminds her to stop throwing fits and that Mr Wei's missing gf of 10 years is irreplaceable. Mr Wei is FL's boyfriend from 2011. Qing Yue and Mr Wei's relationship is stalled at FWB per his attitude
FL is scaring ML by popping up next to his bed in the dark. FL gets the bed and ML gets the couch but FL is hAngry now so in a moment of annoyance and sleep deprivation, ML pops up from the couch and gets too close to her face. He finally sees what his geek squad at Yao Yang Tech saw on the first day: her beauty. He takes her out for food and she complains it is not authentic although she ate 3-4 bowls so ML starts a ledger. He's going to bill her later for all her expenditures. ML no longer thinks FL is an alien, but can't explain what she is. On the way home, they run into a box of kittens. FL plays with them and it starts raining so our ML uses his jackets as an umbrella to shield both of them while they run home. The romance is starting…
I want to say awww but this is too soon
Mr Wei has a bad dream and wakes up due to thunder from rain. He sleeps shirtless and he has a 6 pack too. He never gets Ju Jingyi but he's got a 6 pack.
FL doesn't let ML sleep in on a Saturday, pours water over him, and he still teaches her how to ride a bike and after she fails, he just gives her a ride on his bike, takes her to the beach, buys her ice cream and clothes. Our ML might be the most patient ML ever given his circumstance. Next, comes Prince Qin in Maiden Holmes but our Detective Su Ci was never sassy nor unreasonable. ML continues ledgering her expenditures. JXR comes over again and even Chu Xia says "Doesn't your friend have a life?!" She hides! JXR hides too so he can spit a mouth full of cleansing water on Xiao Dong's face so he wakes up from possession! JXR goes as far as giving Xiao Dong playboys and porno magazines so he can get some "real" women. Xiao Dong and Chu Xia wake up early on a weekend to go to his part-time job as a server at a golf simulator club. And no, Xiao Dong doesn't need the money so he's there to investigate. He pretends to open a bottle of wine so he can download data from some businessman's phone and right when he's about to get caught….
[Ep3]Unfavorable/Favorable Encounters
Chu Xia causes ruckus and that buys him time. Isn't it great when you can bring your "cousin" to work and her clumsy nature saves you from getting caught copying private data? Xiao Dong gets fired and pays all damages to the complaining owner with his black AMX. Chu Xia calls Xiao Dong "hot" after the golf club incident but she retracts it when ML ledgers the damages.
JXR brings a psychiatrist to "cure" Xiao Dong at his 2nd part-time job: barista at a dessert shop. Xiao Dong downloads data again from the register and he says "They are not the culprits" again. Chu Xia plays a prank on JXR and JXR finally realizes Chu Xia is a real person/woman.
Chu Xia causes ruckus and that buys him time. Isn't it great when you can bring your "cousin" to work and her clumsy nature saves you from getting caught copying private data? Xiao Dong gets fired and pays all damages to the complaining owner with his black AMX. Chu Xia calls Xiao Dong "hot" after the golf club incident but she retracts it when ML ledgers the damages.
JXR brings a psychiatrist to "cure" Xiao Dong at his 2nd part-time job: barista at a dessert shop. Xiao Dong downloads data again from the register and he says "They are not the culprits" again. Chu Xia plays a prank on JXR and JXR finally realizes Chu Xia is a real person/woman.
Aunt Wei Wei is at a conference and so is Astrophysics Professor Chen Mo His voice is so soothing. Aunt WW is trying to sell her insurance policy and our professor is telling people to eat healthily and just listen to their mothers for longevity. CP of the show. Aunt WW goes to visit Xiao Dong and meets Chu Xia and is glad Chu Xia has a big butt so she can bear children for Xiao Dong (lol). Aunt WW has a blazer jacket for Professor Chen whom she has decided to pursue because he corrected her speech and tells Xiao Dong to deliver it to the university. Xiao Dong takes this chance and shows professor Chu Xia. Shows the professor Chu Xia's wavelength-interfering capabilities when she's triggered better said. Professor Chen's assistant eavesdrops and finds out about Chu Xia too. Mr Wei is also at the university (he was there in episode 1 too) and sees Chu Xia. He ain't happy his gf came back from the death though. He's displeased at the encounter. Think the man who forced Chu Xia off the cliff is Mr Wei? Mr Wei notifies Chu Xia's parents he
[Ep4] Xiao Dong and JXR talk about Xiao Dong's father was framed. Xiao Dong turns ¼ of his secret office into a bakery for Chu Xia. Boys are surprised how good of a baker Chu Xia is. Qing Yue comes look for Xiao Dong to help her with a live stream she has next day. The livestream? Chu Xia's funeral of course. Both Chu Xia and Xiao Dong are shocked remotely and go to the funeral and officially find out her name is Lei Chu Xia. And Mr Wei is at the funeral too BTW. Chu Xia goes sees her parents to check on them and her mother faints from shock and is heart broken because she doesn't understand why Chu Xia won't come back to her side if she is alive. FL and ML go back to Professor's Chen to ask for a way back to 2011 so Chu Xia deduces the best way is to jump off the roof from building where she first landed on Xiao Dong. Hand holding on the roof! Mr Wei is working out at his fancy home and he's having creepy thoughts of the night Chu Xia disappeared.
[Ep5] We meet FL's parents, who are still waiting for her return. Xiao Dong uses his alias Winter again to inmail FL. Winter is her guardian angel technically. Mr Wei sends people to find Chu Xia and find out everything about 2021 her. Xiao Dong takes Chu Xia to Summer Kiss bakery and we meet Yuan Yuan, Chu Xia's best friend trying to hold on to the bakery albeit unable to make rent payments. The girls reunite. Chu Xia doesn't recognize Yuan Yuan because YY lost a lot of weight. Mr Wei shows up at the bakery too. No reunion for Mr Wei and Chu Xia. Xiao Dong tells Chu Xia not to meet up with Mr Wei (especially not alone) to help her recover her memory. Xiao Dong finds it strange how Mr Wei wasn't happy to see Chu Xia alive--good point! Chu Xia goes to meet Mr Wei with Xiao Dong. Professor Chen has designed a bracelet that can control Chu Xia's gravitational force/magnetic waves. And we find out Chu Xia's portal to 2021 is Xiao Dong's 10 yo old NOKIA
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[Ep17] Chu Xia Confesses Her Love
Qing Yue apologizes for sabotaging Chu Xia's bakery because she believes Chu Xia is indeed evil while her boyfriend/ man who treats her like a side piece is good. Chu Xia confesses her love to Xiao Dong at the technology museum and just as he is running towards her, Mr Wei kidnaps her and takes her to a warehouse where the professor's evil assistant sends her back to 2011. Qing Yue could have prevented this from happening since she's also at the scene but she acted too late. Chu Xia meets Xiao Dong in 2011 while covering her face with a plaid scarf he can't recognize you sista and you still have Chanel earrings on in 2011.
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[Ep17] Chu Xia Confesses Her Love
Qing Yue apologizes for sabotaging Chu Xia's bakery because she believes Chu Xia is indeed evil while her boyfriend/ man who treats her like a side piece is good. Chu Xia confesses her love to Xiao Dong at the technology museum and just as he is running towards her, Mr Wei kidnaps her and takes her to a warehouse where the professor's evil assistant sends her back to 2011. Qing Yue could have prevented this from happening since she's also at the scene but she acted too late. Chu Xia meets Xiao Dong in 2011 while covering her face with a plaid scarf he can't recognize you sista and you still have Chanel earrings on in 2011.
[Ep18] Time Traveling
Finally, the plot picks up.
Mr Wei and the professor's assistant finally succeed in sending Chu Xia back to 2011. Qing Yue realizes how evil Mr Wei is. Chu Xia is startled and saddened to be back in 2011, but then purposefully time travels back and forth between 2011 and 2021 to change destiny, but, you guessed it, you can't change the past. We finally find out Xiao Dong's "little goddess" is indeed Chu Xia who had already experienced 2021 and traveled back to 2011 to change the past. 2021 Chu Xia didn't know it before Ep 18 because she only started time traveling in Ep 18 and Xiao Dong didn't know it because his goddess always had a scarf over her face to intentionally hide that she was time traveling!
[Ep19] Going with the Flow
Chu Xia finally understands why she was in the pic the day Xiao Dong's father was framed 10 years ago. This is the same proof Mr Wei used to gaslight her. It's time-traveling Chu Xia again trying to warn Xia Dong's father of Piggy Tech. What a name right? Both Chu Xia and Xiao Dong accept the past can't be changed and Xiao Dong welcomes Chu Xiao to "his world” per his own words. Mr. Wei's company goes IPO but Chu Xia is not that poor either because she has been wearing Chanel since Ep 3 and Xiao Dong has a black AMX cc.
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[Ep24] Wedding Bells
Yuan Yuan is the only one getting married but both girls are wearing wedding gowns and our FL is not wearing Chanel #peasant Chu Xia is already secretly saying goodbye to everyone because she is to disappear soon and even gets her parents a dog she names "Xia" for them as well. Human Xia disappears the day of the wedding right in front of Xiao Dong's eyes. Xia returns to 11/18/2011 again and keeps in mind what Professor Mo told her: option 1: a time loop in which she meets Xiao Dong again but both experience misfortune after misfortune or option 2: change destiny which means don't time travel and don't meet Xiao Dong. She convinces Mr Wei to let go of his evil plan to steal from Xu senior with her support and love. She stayed in 2011 and lived out all 10 years till 2021. Yuan Yuan is getting married in 2021 and it's to 2021's JXR after meeting for 10 days, yes, I repeat 10 days His best man is Xiao Dong and obviously, Yuan Yuan's MOH is Chu Xia. FL and ML meet again and Chu Xia says: "I am leaving summer early while you are coming back from winter, so we meet in autumn." I told ya the season thing was a theme but, once again, let's not get carried away since it's the end anyway!
[First Impression (Ep1-3)] The first 3 episodes were draining: inconsistent pace (fast with romance but slow with plot), plot holes, information overload, and unrealistic sci-fi theme = bad combo.
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[Ep24] Wedding Bells
Yuan Yuan is the only one getting married but both girls are wearing wedding gowns and our FL is not wearing Chanel #peasant Chu Xia is already secretly saying goodbye to everyone because she is to disappear soon and even gets her parents a dog she names "Xia" for them as well. Human Xia disappears the day of the wedding right in front of Xiao Dong's eyes. Xia returns to 11/18/2011 again and keeps in mind what Professor Mo told her: option 1: a time loop in which she meets Xiao Dong again but both experience misfortune after misfortune or option 2: change destiny which means don't time travel and don't meet Xiao Dong. She convinces Mr Wei to let go of his evil plan to steal from Xu senior with her support and love. She stayed in 2011 and lived out all 10 years till 2021. Yuan Yuan is getting married in 2021 and it's to 2021's JXR after meeting for 10 days, yes, I repeat 10 days His best man is Xiao Dong and obviously, Yuan Yuan's MOH is Chu Xia. FL and ML meet again and Chu Xia says: "I am leaving summer early while you are coming back from winter, so we meet in autumn." I told ya the season thing was a theme but, once again, let's not get carried away since it's the end anyway!
Remarks
by jesspepperwang
[First Impression (Ep1-3)] The first 3 episodes were draining: inconsistent pace (fast with romance but slow with plot), plot holes, information overload, and unrealistic sci-fi theme = bad combo.
[Actors/Actresses] Reasons I wanted to watch originally: FL, FL's bestie, second ML (Mi Re), sci-fi theme
Reasons why I actually watched: ML (Zheng Ye Cheng), FL's bestie (Amy Sun from The Eternal Love 1-3), ML's Aunt Wei Wei (Wang Ting), and Professor Chen Mo (Zhu Yong Teng)
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Reasons why I actually watched: ML (Zheng Ye Cheng), FL's bestie (Amy Sun from The Eternal Love 1-3), ML's Aunt Wei Wei (Wang Ting), and Professor Chen Mo (Zhu Yong Teng)
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