TV series

Granting You a Dreamlike Life

2018 · 1 season

A lush, slow-burning romance that drifts between past and present, wrapping you in old Shanghai glamour and quiet heartache.

Overview: A French-Chinese food critic returns to her family home and finds an old diary that chronicles a grand love story between a popular actress and the son of a triad leader in 1920s Shanghai.
How it feels: Romantic, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, memory, family, betrayal
Content: Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.
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Tone: romanticstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
memory
family
betrayal
class
Places: big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Genres: drama
Starring: An Yuexi, Zhu Yilong, Leon, Fang Yilun, Kevin Chu, Eva Cheng, Yue Yueli
Length: 1 seasons, 40 episodes, 45 min each
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin