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Count Your Lucky Stars (我好喜欢你)

Count Your Lucky Stars (我好喜欢你; also known as 交换吧，运气, The Exchange of Luck) is a 2020 Chinese urban romantic comedy-drama about an arrogant fashion magazine editor-in-chief and an unlucky young designer whose fortunes are swapped after an accidental kiss. It stars Jerry Yan (言承旭) as Lu Xingcheng and Shen Yue (沈月) as Tong Xiaoyou, and ran for 34 episodes on Youku and Mango TV from August 3 to late September 2020.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	我好喜欢你 (Wo Hao Xi Huan Ni); alternate titles 交换吧，运气, The Exchange of Luck, I Really Like You¹^•²
Source	Adapted from the novel Jiao Huan Ba Yun Qi (交换吧，运气) by Mo Xi (漠兮)¹
Lead cast	Jerry Yan as Lu Xingcheng, editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine CHIC; Shen Yue as Tong Xiaoyou, an unlucky aspiring designer¹
Production	Directed by Lin Ziping (林子平) and Huang Changzuo (黄常祚); screenwriter Gao Wei (高巍); producer Sun Jin (孙金); produced by Youku and Juhao Pictures (剧好影视制作)³^•⁴
Broadcast	34 episodes of about 45 minutes; premiered August 3, 2020 on Youku and Mango TV, airing Monday to Thursday at 20:00; final episode September 28, 2020¹^•²^•⁵
Recognition	Named one of the Top Ten Quality Web Series of the Year at the 2020 Golden Bud, the Fifth Network Film and Television Festival¹
Streaming abroad	Available with English subtitles on Rakuten Viki, where it holds a 9.3 user rating⁶

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Premise

Lu Xingcheng is the sharp-tongued, haughty editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine CHIC and a legendary figure in the fashion world famous for his good luck. Tong Xiaoyou is an unknown designer for whom everything goes wrong, from exploding faucets to traffic accidents, yet she holds onto her dream of becoming a designer. After an accidental kiss, the two believe their luck has been exchanged: Lu Xingcheng falls from widespread acclaim to notoriety, while Tong Xiaoyou rises from jinxed obscurity to overnight fame.²^•⁷

As they live each other's reversed fortunes, Tong Xiaoyou gradually uncovers Lu Xingcheng's hidden past and the loneliness behind his arrogance. A dress called the "Niji" from ten years earlier is revealed as the start of their connection, and she resolves to help her idol return to his place as a designer. The drama's ending brings Lu Xingcheng reconciliation with his past and a championship win at the Fengshang Cup design competition, alongside the couple's confirmed romance.⁸

The premise belongs to a recognizable 2020 trend: the same season's The Girl in Armor also used the device of a kiss that changes a character's luck, and trade commentary at the time grouped Count Your Lucky Stars with the summer's cluster of "sweet pet" (甜宠) romance dramas on Youku.⁹

Cast and characters

Jerry Yan plays Lu Xingcheng, and Shen Yue plays Tong Xiaoyou. The supporting cast includes Li Jiaqi (辣目洋子, credited on some platforms as Lamu Yangzi) as Song Ruru, Miles Wei (魏哲鸣) as Lu Yanzhi, Shen Yao as Wen Xi, Wang Sen as Mu Yang, Li Yuyang as Jiang Yan, Yu Si Lu as Sarah Lin, and Eddie Cheung as Lu Ren.¹^•¹⁰

The pairing drew attention because both leads had played the central couple in different versions of Meteor Garden: Jerry Yan was Dao Ming Si in the 2001 Taiwanese series, and Shen Yue was Shancai in the 2018 remake. Entertainment coverage framed the show as a reunion of the two "Meteor Garden couples," separated by a widely noted age difference between the actors.¹¹^•¹²

Production choices

Producer Sun Jin said in an interview that she read the source novel in one sitting and decided the adaptation had to faithfully preserve the novel's characterizations, which she called the root of its appeal. The script was written by the male screenwriter Gao Wei, which she said added a male perspective to Mo Xi's female-oriented original. The production set a light-comedy tone from the start, and director Lin Ziping, previously known for the film Our Times, used more exaggerated techniques to heighten the humor.⁷

Visually, the drama avoided the pink and purple filters common in the genre and instead used a clashing-color retro palette to match Tong Xiaoyou's "ordinary fairy tale" life. Sun Jin described the show as having an A-side of fairy tale and a B-side of reality, showing how the lucky and the unlucky actually live rather than deliberately playing up romance.⁷

The series passed China's copyright-protection early-warning list in September 2020, with licensed streaming on Youku through 2070 and on Mango TV through 2023.¹³

Reception

The premiere drew a strongly negative first wave of reviews. A Sina commentary published on the premiere date reported that the early Douban short reviews were almost all one- and two-star ratings, criticizing the leads' lack of on-screen chemistry, which the writer attributed to their large age gap, and calling the direction amateurish.¹⁴ A Sohu piece likewise called the early episodes formulaic, arguing that the show's problems lay less in the leads' ages than in its clichéd setup.¹⁵ A later Douban review took the opposite view on the age question, noting that the character Lu Xingcheng is written as a 35-year-old self-made editor, and praised the second half's dramatic scenes, particularly Jerry Yan's scenes with Jiang Yan and Lu Ren.¹⁶

Aggregated ratings diverge sharply by platform: IMDb lists 7.0/10 from 234 users¹⁷, JustWatch lists 7.1¹⁸, and Rakuten Viki's user score is 9.3⁶. Despite the divided reviews, the series received a Golden Bud festival honor as one of the year's top ten quality web series¹, and Baidu Baike records that it topped five trending topics on the day of its premiere.³

Not to be confused with 我，喜欢你

A separate 2020 mainland Chinese romance drama with a near-identical Chinese title, 我，喜欢你 (international title Dating in the Kitchen), aired a few weeks later, premiering September 15, 2020 on Tencent Video and WeTV. That series, directed by Chen Chang and starring Lin Yushen and Zhao Lusi, adapts Lan Baise's novel Zhong Yu Deng Dao Ni and follows a picky gourmet CEO, Lu Jin, and a hotel chef, Gu Shengnan. The two shows are frequently mixed up in searches because of their titles, but they share no cast, source material, or production company.¹⁹^•²⁰

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026