{ "id": "ep8864bj9t", "slug": "another-me", "title": "Another Me (七月与安生)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia", "label": "East Asian drama series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama", "label": "Chinese modern and contemporary drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama.yr-1998-2023", "label": "Premiered 1998 to 2023", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama.yr-1998-2023" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020: Chinese modern and contemporary drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials", "label": "International serial drama and telenovelas", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_international_serials" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama", "label": "Chinese modern and contemporary drama", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Another Me (七月与安生) is a 2019 Chinese drama series adapted from Qing Shan's (Annie Baobei) novel, directed by Cui Liang, starring Shen Yue and Chen Duling as best friends who love the same man; 53 episodes on iQiyi from July 22, 2019.", "snippet": "Another Me (七月与安生) is a 2019 Chinese drama series adapted from Qing Shan's (Annie Baobei) novel, directed by Cui Liang, starring Shen Yue and Chen Duling as best friends who love the same man; 53 episodes on iQiyi from July 22, 2019.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.chinese_modern_drama.yr-1998-2023", "markdown": "# Another Me (七月与安生)\n\n**Another Me** (七月与安生) is a 2019 Chinese television series adapted from the novel *Qi Yue yu An Sheng* by the writer Qing Shan, who previously published under the pen name Annie Baobei (安妮宝贝). It stars Shen Yue as An Sheng and Chen Duling as Qi Yue, two girls of opposite temperaments who become close friends at 13 and whose bond is strained when both fall in love with the same man, Su Jiaming.[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html) The series premiered on July 22, 2019 and streamed exclusively on iQiyi.[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 七月与安生 (Qi Yue yu An Sheng)[2](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/another-me/j9YYUlGIEehLJyED27ebT5/) |\n| Source | Novel of the same name by Qing Shan (Annie Baobei), first published in 2001[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html) • [3](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml) |\n| Broadcast | July 22 to September 4, 2019, exclusively on iQiyi[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html) • [4](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/44445/another-me) |\n| Format | 53 episodes of about 45 minutes each[5](https://www.cpophome.com/another-me-shen-yue-chen-duling/) |\n| Lead cast | Shen Yue (An Sheng), Chen Duling (Qi Yue), Xiong Ziqi (Su Jiaming), Zou Tingwei (Han Dong), Liang Jingkang (Jiu Yue, special appearance)[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html) |\n| Production | Directed by Cui Liang, written by Bai Yicong; lead producer Ningbo Film & TV Art Co. with Perfect World Pictures, Air Galaxy Pictures, and Zhejiang Hualang Yixing Film & TV[6](https://www.dzwww.com/yule/ds/201907/t20190723_18975848.htm) • [3](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml) |\n| Preceding film | *Soul Mate* (2016), whose leads Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun shared the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress[7](https://www.jiemian.com/article/3334190.html) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Cast and characters\n\nShen Yue plays Li Ansheng, described in coverage as a rebellious, free-spirited girl, and Chen Duling plays Lin Qiyue, a gentle, well-behaved good student. Xiong Ziqi plays Su Jiaming, the warm-hearted classmate whose arrival disrupts the friendship, and Zou Tingwei plays Han Dong, a mature \"workplace mentor\" figure. Liang Jingkang appears as Jiu Yue, Qi Yue's younger brother.[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0728/c40606-31259725.html) • [1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html)\n\n### Story and adaptation choices\n\nThe series follows the two girls from their meeting at 13 through school, university, and working life. An Sheng helps the shy Qi Yue pursue Jiaming, but Jiaming is drawn to An Sheng; to protect the friendship, An Sheng leaves town with a bar singer, A Pan. After the two women enter different universities, Qi Yue and Jiaming drift apart, and An Sheng, after breaking with A Pan, meets the businessman Han Dong. After graduation Qi Yue plans her wedding to Jiaming, who repeatedly delays it, and she discovers his relationship with An Sheng.[5](https://www.cpophome.com/another-me-shen-yue-chen-duling/) In the drama's later arc, Qi Yue is fired from her company, An Sheng opens a bar to seek her forgiveness, and Qi Yue's brother Jiu Yue dies saving An Sheng, driving the friendship to its lowest point before the two reconcile.[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html)\n\n**Expansion of the source.** Director Cui Liang and screenwriter Bai Yicong treated the original as a small story that required substantial enlargement. The production kept the friendship-and-growth spine but added characters, including university roommates, workplace colleagues, and storylines for the parents' and grandparents' generations, and moved the emphasis from campus life toward urban professional life.[6](https://www.dzwww.com/yule/ds/201907/t20190723_18975848.htm) Cui said the romantic plotlines were written to reflect the life experience of viewers born in the 1990s, and executive producer An Jian described the two women as each harboring \"another self\" who wants what the other has.[1](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html) Cui also said the characters' ages were shifted forward to center on the post-1990 and post-1995 generations, and that new characters such as Jiu Yue and the parents' storyline were created for the series.[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0728/c40606-31259725.html)\n\n## Production and development\n\nThe project entered the national television filing register in February 2018 as a 48-episode series produced by Air Galaxy (Tianjin) Culture & Media, with filming planned from April 2018 over a ten-month cycle.[8](https://m.fx361.com/news/2018/0403/3348103.html) The filing followed renewed attention to the property after the 2016 film version had performed well at Chinese-language film awards.[8](https://m.fx361.com/news/2018/0403/3348103.html)\n\n**Studio lineup.** At the May 2018 kickoff ceremony in Ningbo, Ningbo Film & TV Art Co. was named the first producer, joined by Perfect World Pictures, Air Galaxy Pictures, and Zhejiang Hualang Yixing Film & TV, with Lingyu Media and Beijing Ruibo Xingchen Culture Media as co-producers; iQiyi was set as the intended streaming platform.[3](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml) The distribution license for 53 episodes was issued to Ningbo Film & TV Art Co. on December 24, 2018.[9](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201901241288247611_1.pdf)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe series entered a crowded summer 2019 streaming season and was widely measured against the 2016 film. A review in the [Guangming Daily](https://www.edgepedia.org/guangming-daily) commentary channel argued that the drama padded a simple story across its long run, manufacturing repeated conflicts between the two leads and obstacles between Qi Yue and Jiaming, and judged the lead performances of Chen Duling and Shen Yue uneven.[11](https://wenyi.neamco.com/2019-08/14/content_33092469.htm) The same review credited the film version with turning a formulaic story into a study of self-recognition, a standard the series was judged against.[11](https://wenyi.neamco.com/2019-08/14/content_33092469.htm) On Rakuten Viki, where the series streams with English subtitles, it holds a user rating of 7.9.[12](https://www.viki.com/tv/36283c-?locale=en)\n\n## The wider *Qi Yue yu An Sheng* property\n\nThe novel, first published in 2001, has been reprinted many times and has sold more than 600,000 copies.[3](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml) The 2016 film *Soul Mate*, directed by Derek Tsui and produced by Peter Chan and Xu Yuezhen, starred [Zhou Dongyu](https://www.edgepedia.org/zhou-dongyu) and Ma Sichun, who jointly won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, a rare double award in the ceremony's history, and the film was described as a dark-horse success among 2016 Chinese-language romance films.[7](https://www.jiemian.com/article/3334190.html) The film received seven nominations at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards and twelve nominations, including Best Film and Best Actress, at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.[3](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml)\n\nA Chinese original stage musical based on the novel and licensed from the film was announced with its creative team in June 2023, with the composer Peter Kam, who scored the 2016 film and has won the Silver Bear at the [Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/berlin-international-film-festival) and multiple Hong Kong Film Awards for original film music, serving as producer, composer, and music director.[13](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%83%E6%9C%88%E4%B8%8E%E5%AE%89%E7%94%9F/63134172?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\n## References\n\n1. [剧版《七月与安生》7·22开播，沈月陈都灵贴近90后, The Beijing News (July 12, 2019)](https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/156289907114439.html)\n2. [Another Me – TV Series, Moviefone](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/another-me/j9YYUlGIEehLJyED27ebT5/)\n3. [宁波广播电视集团: 电视剧《七月与安生》开机, Ningbo Radio and TV Group](https://www.nbgdjt.com/38/38jtdt/1661.shtml)\n4. [Another Me, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/44445/another-me)\n5. [Another Me – Chinese Drama 2019, CPOP HOME](https://www.cpophome.com/another-me-shen-yue-chen-duling/)\n6. [《七月与安生》开播 导演崔亮建构90后青春集体回忆, Dazhong Wang (July 23, 2019)](https://www.dzwww.com/yule/ds/201907/t20190723_18975848.htm)\n7. [影视IP间的相互转化，如何破解先入为主的刻板印象？, Jiemian News (2019)](https://www.jiemian.com/article/3334190.html)\n8. [剧版《七月与安生》《泡芙小姐》立项 2018年2月立项表分析, Zongyi Bao via Cankao Wang (April 3, 2018)](https://m.fx361.com/news/2018/0403/3348103.html)\n9. [电视剧发行许可证表（宁波影视艺术有限责任公司，七月与安生，53集，2018-12-24）, East Money PDF](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201901241288247611_1.pdf)\n10. [剧版《七月与安生》挤入暑期档 导演谈\"沈月哭戏\", Yangcheng Evening News via People's Daily Online (July 28, 2019)](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0728/c40606-31259725.html)\n11. [《七月与安生》：注水剧毁IP，尬演技毁角色, Guangming Wang commentary channel (August 14, 2019)](https://wenyi.neamco.com/2019-08/14/content_33092469.htm)\n12. [Another Me | Watch with English Subtitles, Rakuten Viki](https://www.viki.com/tv/36283c-?locale=en)\n13. [七月与安生（中文原创音乐剧）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%83%E6%9C%88%E4%B8%8E%E5%AE%89%E7%94%9F/63134172?fromModule=lemma_inlink)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › Chinese modern and contemporary drama › Premiered 1998 to 2023*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/another-me", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/another-me.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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