With Love With You 有你的时光里 Review: A Quiet, Female-Led Healing Drama

A spoiler-light review and overview of With Love With You, with reflections on its themes of sisterhood, resilience, and healing.

With Love With You centres around Wang Yan (Tong Yao) and Wang Lingjun (Zhou Yiran), two sisters with starkly different personalities. Wang Yan is a highly successful account director in a creative agency who is independent, efficient, and fearless. Lingjun, on the other hand, is aimless, resentful, and wilful. Despite Wang Yan's considerable influence within the family and her insistence that the 30-year-old Lingjun obtain her medical practitioner's certificate before even considering leaving their hometown of Leshan, Lingjun defies everyone's wishes and relocates to Shenzhen, determined to be near her sister. This upheaval disrupts Wang Yan's carefully managed life, sparking conflict between the sisters and within their family.

Breaking the Shadows 乌云之上: A Review (Sort Of)

This isn’t a full-series review—I stopped at episode five, and frankly, that’s all I could manage. Honestly, I was looking forward to this series; I like Sun Li and generally enjoy crime dramas. With a cast full of notable actors and its connection to the Light On anthology, it should have guaranteed some level of quality—or at least been enjoyable.

Revamping Tong Yao 童瑶's Filmography & TV Guide

I spent the last few days cleaning up the HTML on the Tong Yao (童瑶) ~ a film & TV guide for fans. The HTML was such a mess that it was causing issues with fonts and layout. I had to learn some CSS and get help because my understanding of HTML and CSS is pretty rudimentary—so it took a while.

The page was really in bad shape, and it was long overdue for a cleanup. This also gave me a chance to make some layout changes to the filmography links. I think it looks neater now.

The Miracles: Tong Yao & Hu Ge Reunite for an Exciting New Anthology Series

#TheMiracles #奇迹 #TongYao #童瑶 #HuGe #胡歌 #cdrama

Hello fellow Tong Yao fans! Apologies for the delay, but I'm finally catching up on the announcement from late January about Tong Yao's role in The Miracles 奇迹. This also gives me a good excuse to update her filmography.

CCTV announced on January 21st that they are partnering with the Shenzhen Municipal Publicity Department to create The Miracles, a collection of short dramas celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and its incredible journey from a small border town into a modern international metropolis. The CMG and Shenzhen Municipal Publicity Department believe that Shenzhen exemplifies Chinese modernization and the pursuit of a better life, and they're aiming to gather stories from around the world to commemorate this transformative journey.

Cesium Fallout Review: Disaster with a Touch of Tong Yao

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I’ll admit, my main reason for watching Cesium Fallout was Tong Yao—I’m working through her entire filmography. A friend who reviewed the movie warned me that her screen time would be limited. Even before his warning, I suspected as much when I saw her credited as a guest star in a disaster film. That usually signals a brief but pivotal role.

Chinese Drama: 四喜 (Si Xi) - Wrap Up & CCTV 2025 TV Series Release Event

  #TongYao #童瑶 #四喜 #CDrama #黄明昊 #HuangMinghao #蒋欣 #JiangXin #ThoseDays

Si Xi (unofficial English title Those Days) announced that production wrapped on December 15th. As is often the case, the production team released stills and a wrap SP video to mark the occasion. A few days earlier, on December 11th, Si Xi was featured at the CCTV 2025 TV Series Release Event. This suggests that the series will likely air on CCTV as well as receive an online release through Tencent's platforms.

I’ve already written an English summary of what the story might be about, but with a caveat: these summaries are often based on the novel that the series is adapted from, and TV adaptations sometimes take creative liberties. The series’ official Weibo account has yet to provide much concrete information about the plot.

Chinese Drama: 足迹 (Zu Ji) - 杀青 - production wraps - write-up

 #TongYao #童瑶 #足迹 #RyanChengLei #丞磊 #LiuYijun #刘奕君 #CDrama 

Zu Ji’s official Weibo account has announced the completion of production. We still don't have an official English title for this series, so I'll keep calling it Zu Ji for now. As is often the case with Chinese drama series, they have also released stills and a video to celebrate the wrap-up.  Tong Yao looks stunning in the stills and videos; I hope the story will be just as good.