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Dui De Shijian Dui De Ren

Dui De Shijian Dui De Ren (对的时间对的人, also printed 对的时间，对的人) is a 2025 Chinese urban romance web drama adapted from Gu Xijue's (顾西爵) 2014 novel of the same name, starring Xiong Ziqi and Cai Wenjing as a CEO and his first love who reconnect through an online game. It premiered exclusively on Tencent Video on November 19, 2025, and is known internationally as Love Is Always Online.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Native title	对的时间对的人 (also 对的时间，对的人); romanized Dui De Shi Jian Dui De Ren¹^•³
Format	37 episodes of 45 minutes each; premiered 2025-11-19 at 12:00, Tencent Video exclusive¹
Source	Adaptation of Gu Xijue's 2014 novel (Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, 288 pages)⁴
Leads	Xiong Ziqi as Jiang Anlan (game ID 君临天下); Cai Wenjing as Yao Yuan (game ID 若为君故)¹
Director	Zhou Xiaopeng (周晓鹏), chief director¹
Production	Lingyu Film & Television Media, Zhejiang 1CM Film & Television Media, and Enlight (Qingchun Guangxian) Film & Television Media¹
Reception	MyDramaList user score 6.9 from 88 users; Maoyan all-network heat 1556.39 at retrieval²^•¹

Spoilers

Premise and source material

The drama adapts Gu Xijue's novel 对的时间对的人, published in July 2014 by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House under its Baima Shiguang imprint, 288 pages, ISBN 9787550009844, priced at 28.00 yuan.⁴ MyDramaList credits the adaptation to the novel "Time" by Celine Gu (顾西爵).²

The plot follows the entrepreneur Jiang Anlan, CEO of the Ruishi company, who enters a virtual online game in search of his first love, Yao Yuan, a campus beauty; the pursuit brings them back together in the real world.²^•⁷ As the couple prepares for their wedding, an old family feud resurfaces and tests the relationship.² The synopsis adds that misunderstandings, heartbreak, and even illness precede their reconciliation and a happy ending.³

Genre placement is consistent across databases: Maoyan categorizes it as idol, romance, and urban (偶像, 爱情, 都市), while MyDramaList tags include Online Friendship, Professor Female Lead, Company President (CEO) Male Lead, Online Gamer Supporting Character, and Death Of A Mother, with a 13+ content rating.¹^•² Unlike the same-titled 2018 series, it involves no time travel or science fiction.⁶

Identification and titles

The series carries the native title 对的时间对的人, which DramaWiki prints with the comma as 对的时间，对的人 and romanizes as Dui De Shi Jian Dui De Ren.¹^•³ English-language databases list several alternate titles, including Love's Always Online, Right Person at the Right Time, and The Right Time, the Right Person.²^•⁵

The title is shared with a distinct 2018 iQiyi web series, 对的时间，对的人, which is covered separately below; the two works differ in cast, genre, format, and platform.⁶

Cast and production

Leads and director. The chief director is Zhou Xiaopeng (周晓鹏). Xiong Ziqi (熊梓淇) plays Jiang Anlan (江安澜), whose in-game ID is 君临天下, and Cai Wenjing (蔡文静) plays Yao Yuan (姚远), whose in-game ID is 若为君故.¹ A China.com entertainment feature dated August 8, 2024 confirms the casting, describing Jiang Anlan as CEO of the Ruishi company and Yao Yuan as a campus beauty whose bond with him moves from a virtual game into real life.⁷

Companies and filming. Production companies are Huoerguosi Lingyu Film & Television Media (霍尔果斯领誉影视传媒有限公司), Zhejiang Yicentimeter (1CM) Film & Television Media (浙江壹厘米影视传媒有限公司), and Huoerguosi Qingchun Guangxian (Enlight) Film & Television Media (霍尔果斯青春光线影业有限公司); DramaWiki lists 1CM and Enlight Media, and Chinese coverage describes the drama as jointly produced by Lingyu Media and Enlight (Light) Media.¹^•³ Filming began quietly in Hangzhou.¹ The screenwriter is credited as Liu Rui Xuan (刘蕊瑄).³

For Gu Xijue, this was another work brought to the screen, following adaptations of 《何所冬暖何所夏凉》 and 《我站在桥上看风景》; her debut 《最美遇见你》 had won a large readership.¹^•⁴

Broadcast and availability

The series premiered exclusively on Tencent Video on November 19, 2025 at 12:00, with 37 episodes of 45 minutes each.¹ TheTVDB (Series ID 470758) lists the network as WeTV, Tencent Video as the production company, an average runtime of 45 minutes, original language Chinese (China), Wednesday airings, and a status of Ended.⁵

By the numbers

The series runs 37 episodes at 45 minutes each, about 27.75 hours of total runtime.¹ Maoyan's real-time all-network heat (全网实时热度) figure stood at 1556.39 at retrieval, when the series had been online 175 days.¹ MyDramaList users score it 6.9 from 88 ratings.² The source novel holds a Douban score of 6.6 from 2,360 ratings, with 28.8% five-star and 32.5% two-star ratings, a middling reception for the book itself.⁴

Reception

On MyDramaList, the 6.9 user score from 88 users sits in middling territory, and user reviews since airing describe the writing negatively, with one reviewer giving an overall 3/10 rating.² The only quantified audience measure besides the MyDramaList score is Maoyan's heat figure of 1556.39.¹^•²

The same title, twice: the 2018 iQiyi series

A separate web series with the near-identical native title 对的时间，对的人 aired on iQiyi on July 20–21, 2018, with 12 episodes of 45 minutes, directed by Liu Tao.⁶ It was produced by Beijing Renxing Film and Television Culture Media (北京任性影视文化传媒), co-directed by Liu Tao (刘涛) and Han Feizhou (韩非洲), and starred Liu Jikai (刘济恺), Shao Xingying (邵星颖), and Xu Jiaman (徐嘉曼); its second season streamed exclusively on iQiyi from November 7, 2018.⁸

The two works differ sharply in genre and format. The 2018 series is a soft-science-fiction urban romance in which a male lead sealed away for 400 years by a time catastrophe awakens the female lead Mo Xiaozhu, blending science fiction, suspense, and love; the 2025 series is a conventional 37-episode CEO romance adapted from a novel, with no speculative element.⁶^•⁸ The 2018 series also spawned a second season; no sequel or remake of the 2025 series is documented.⁸

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026