Lost You Forever (Eternally Yearning For You, 长相思) is a novel written by the well-loved Tong Hua, and is the sequel to Once Promised (drama version is called A Life Time Love with Huang Xiao Ming and Song Qian in 2017).
It is a world of gods, demons, and mythical beings and they all live alongside humans, divided into three different kingdoms. I want to preface this by saying that most of the characters have multiple identities (very confusing to me as I only wanted spoilers!). Our heroine, Xiao Yao (Yang Zi), is a small-town doctor and spends the majority of the first part (multiple volumes) of the novel as a man. She has no memories of her past in the beginning of the novel. In her life, three important men will sweep in and only one shall remain by her side. The first man that we meet in according to the novel is Tu Shan Jing (Deng Wei). He’s beaten to a pulp and in no condition to survive, left to die on the streets. But our heroine picks him up and heals him. And in return, he promises to be her servant, to listen to only her. He’s actually the 2nd young master of a powerful family. The second man we meet shortly after is part of the past that she doesn’t remember. He’s Zhuan Xu (Zhang Wan Yi), a long-lost cousin she spent time with during her childhood. His side of the story isn’t told until the third volume, which makes for an interesting WAH moment (hidden for so long?!). Lol. The third male lead is a general with white hair; he is Xiang Liu (Tan Jian Ci), a nine-headed demon and wildly considered as her soulmate.
Koala has translated the novel, read chapter one here. Please go to her index to find the rest of the chapters.
Airing 7/24 ~
To watch or not to watch…. YZ looks very pretty in here but her dramas are mostly tragedies… Lol…
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4 thoughts on “Lost You Forever with Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi, Deng Wei, and Tan Jian Ci joins July broadcast”
I watched the first 4 episodes and so far it looks really promising. I know nothing about the novel – so this is just based on how the show has been done so far. It’s also visually quite beautiful to watch, but I also think the characters are interesting
4 thoughts on “Lost You Forever with Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi, Deng Wei, and Tan Jian Ci joins July broadcast”
Gosh, the cast are all so good looking. I’ll watch it because I think she chooses pretty good projects to act in, and I have a love hate relationship with tragedies: I don’t want to watch them, but I always end up watching them. LOL! Anyone else like me?
4 thoughts on “Lost You Forever with Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi, Deng Wei, and Tan Jian Ci joins July broadcast”
The drama follows the novel closely thus far and I the actors have done an awesome job playing the relative characters. I love them heaps!! Not to mention, the production crew have done a wonderful job of the sets, details to the props, costumes and editing the scenes. I’m enjoying it immensely! Fingers crossed the standard is maintained until the very end.
“Lost You Forever” is one of my favourites novels of all time and I didn’t want to have too high hopes for it in the event that the drama turned out terrible (which is what I heard the prequel- A Life Time of Love with Huang Xiao Ming was, lol… So I didn’t bother watching that). I am elated that so far the drama exceeds my expectations and is so great!
@Kappy: the ending is a HE except true to Tong Hua’s (author) style there are elements that are tragic without going into details and spoiling anything for fellow drama followers who don’t know about the storyline, lol…
Also a small correction: when our heroine, Xiao Yao is going incognito as the small town doctor Wen Xiao Liu, she still retains all the memories of her past. She just chooses not to talk of it or reveal that she knows her true identity because of all the tragic and painful memories and secrets she’s trying to escape from.
But I have read some of Ms Koala’s translations, and she does it beautifully so those who want to read the novel definitely should check out her site 🙂
4 thoughts on “Lost You Forever with Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi, Deng Wei, and Tan Jian Ci joins July broadcast”
Thanks for the correction Nhube! I only read a few chapters then went straight to the spoilers (Lol), so I dont remember whether she retains her memories as a human doctor or not. So kept it neutral for non-novel readers.
Looks like novel readers are happy so far with the drama adaptation!