# I Belonged to You (从你的全世界路过)
**I Belonged to You** (从你的全世界路过) is a 2016 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yibai, written by Zhang Jiajia from his own bestselling story collection, and starring [Deng Chao](https://www.edgepedia.org/deng-chao), Bai Baihe, Yang Yang, Zhang Tian'ai, Yue Yunpeng, Du Juan, and Liu Yan. It was released in mainland China on 29 September 2016, ahead of the National Day holiday.[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) The film earned about 813 million yuan and set a new box-office record for a domestic Chinese romance film, while critics and audiences split sharply over its sentimental style.[2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz) • [3](https://file.iyanbao.com/pdf/94ffd-27c0ee96-fa5a-4f36-bc61-feafe2ee27b0.pdf)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | 29 September 2016, mainland China; 113 minutes; Mandarin[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) |
| Source | Adapted from Zhang Jiajia's story collection of 33 tales, first posted on Weibo as "bedtime stories"[4](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2014/06-23/6310340.shtml) |
| Cast | Deng Chao, Bai Baihe, Yang Yang, Zhang Tian'ai, Yue Yunpeng, Du Juan, Liu Yan[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) |
| Box office | 786.6 million yuan by 21 October 2016, surpassing *Finding Mr. Right 2* (786.53 million) for a domestic romance record; about 813 million yuan total[2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz) • [3](https://file.iyanbao.com/pdf/94ffd-27c0ee96-fa5a-4f36-bc61-feafe2ee27b0.pdf) |
| Ratings | Douban 5.3/10 (368,038 ratings, 4 September 2025); Maoyan 8.7 with over 80% positive reviews[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) • [2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz) |
| Awards | Golden Crane Award for Best Film, 30th Tokyo International Film Festival China Film Week (2017); Huabiao Award nomination (2018)[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) |
| Filming | Chongqing and Daocheng, 13 April to 15 June 2016[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) |
## Spoilers
### Story and production
The film weaves three love stories around radio DJ Chen Mo (Deng Chao), who falls into self-neglect after his girlfriend Xiao Rong (Du Juan) leaves him, until the intern Yao Ji (Zhang Tian'ai) joins his declining program. His friend Zhutou (Yue Yunpeng) has supported his girlfriend Yanzi (Liu Yan) abroad for years, only to be met with a breakup on her return, and his cousin Mao Shiba ([Yang Yang](https://www.edgepedia.org/yang-yang)), an eccentric inventor, falls in love with the police officer Lizhi (Bai Baihe).[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) • [8](https://www.e-eagle.com.tw/products_detail_388.htm?pg=14) Zhang Jiajia wrote the screenplay over two years, building a new main storyline that runs three or four plot threads at once, since the original book consists of independent short pieces.[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0922/c22219-28731662.html)
Zhang Jiajia invited his friend Zhang Yibai to direct, and the two announced their collaboration at the end of 2015; the film was shot in [Chongqing](https://www.edgepedia.org/chongqing) and Daocheng between April and June 2016.[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) The original novel was set in Nanjing, but Zhang Yibai moved the story to his hometown Chongqing, whose night scenery and street life feature prominently, alongside the scenery of Daocheng Yading.[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/885029.html) The soundtrack includes the theme song "Bu Shuo" (不说), written by Wyman Wong and composed and performed by Li Ronghao, and the ending song "You Wait for Me at the End" (你在终点等我) performed by [Faye Wong](https://www.edgepedia.org/faye-wong).[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805)
## Source novel
The film adapts *I Belonged to You*, a collection of 33 love stories that Zhang Jiajia first published on Weibo under the name "bedtime stories." The posts reached 1.5 million reposts and more than 400 million reads within days, and the published book sold 2 million copies in six months, breaking a ten-year record for single-volume fiction sales in China.[4](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2014/06-23/6310340.shtml) • [5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/885029.html) Zhang Jiajia later said he had begun writing the stories in 2012 after a year of travel left him without income, and that nearly every story attracted interest from film directors; he ultimately committed to writing screenplays for five adaptations.[6](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0922/c22219-28731662.html)
Because the stories were sold individually, different film rights went to different buyers. A separate adaptation of the collection's story "The Ferryman" (摆渡人), produced with [Wong Kar-wai](https://www.edgepedia.org/wong-kar-wai), was announced in June 2014 and released in December 2016 with Zhang Jiajia as director.[4](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2014/06-23/6310340.shtml) • [7](https://epaper.guilinlife.com/glwb/images/2016-12/25/16/WB16.pdf)
## Box office
The film opened strongly. Its first day brought in 74 million yuan, the highest September opening of 2016, with a 46 percent screening share on release day, and it led the National Day holiday frame.[9](https://en.jiemian.com/article/915385.html) • [10](https://m.1905.com/m/news/touch/1102865.shtml?fr=newsmjyh5_xgxw_01) It passed 600 million yuan within roughly ten days of release.[11](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1539551) On 21 October 2016 its total reached 786.6 million yuan, overtaking *Finding Mr. Right 2: Book of Love* (786.53 million yuan) and setting a new box-office record for a Chinese domestic romance film.[2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz) Its final total was about 813 to 814 million yuan.[3](https://file.iyanbao.com/pdf/94ffd-27c0ee96-fa5a-4f36-bc61-feafe2ee27b0.pdf) • [12](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201712291071224500_1.pdf?1514545418000.pdf=) As of 4 September 2025, its cumulative global box office stood at US$119,107,580.[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805)
The record mattered in context: romance films rarely led Chinese release windows, accounting for only 8 percent of 2016 summer-holiday box office and 6 percent in 2015 in ticketing-platform data cited by the Qilu Evening News.[2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz)
## Reception
Reception split along platform lines. On ticketing apps the film scored 8.8 on Maoyan, 8.9 on Taopiaopiao, and 8.6 on Weipiao'er in its opening days, and Maoyan later reported 8.7 from 502,000 ticket-buying raters with over 80 percent positive reviews.[13](https://jinan.dzwww.com/jryw/yule/201610/t20161002_14979223.htm) • [2](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz) On Douban, by contrast, the score was 5.6 shortly after release and stood at 5.3/10 from 368,038 ratings as of September 2025.[14](https://www.jiemian.com/article/890957.html) • [1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) Critics described the film as sentimental and contrived; supporters called it moving. Zhang Jiajia responded that ratings should be read on Maoyan rather than Douban, arguing that paying audiences and professional reviewers formed different publics, and defended the film's structure, saying the released cut ran five plot threads after two were removed.[11](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1539551)
Positive professional notices credited Zhang Yibai with linking the three stories in a clear structure and with using drone footage of Chinese cities at morning and night, paired with radio voiceovers, to convey urban loneliness; *Beijing Daily* singled out this sound-and-image combination.[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805) The film won the Golden Crane Award for Best Film at the China Film Week of the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2017 and received a Huabiao Award nomination for Outstanding Feature Film in December 2018.[1](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805)
## Aftermath
The film's success made it a reference point in discussion of Chinese literary IP adaptations, appearing in industry analyses of best-selling-novel film projects alongside titles such as *The Left Ear* and *[My Old Classmate](https://www.edgepedia.org/my-old-classmate)*.[3](https://file.iyanbao.com/pdf/94ffd-27c0ee96-fa5a-4f36-bc61-feafe2ee27b0.pdf) Its Chongqing and Daocheng locations drew tourist interest, with commentators joking that the film worked as a travel promotion for the city.[5](https://www.jiemian.com/article/885029.html)
## References
1. [从你的全世界路过（2016年邓超主演的爱情电影）, Baidu Baike](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BB%8E%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%85%A8%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%87/16325805)
2. [猫眼联发影片《全世界》破国产爱情片票房纪录, 齐鲁晚报 via 凤凰网](https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fbb5mSAfCz)
3. [中国动画电影的领航者 (industry report listing the film's 8.13亿 total)](https://file.iyanbao.com/pdf/94ffd-27c0ee96-fa5a-4f36-bc61-feafe2ee27b0.pdf)
4. [张嘉佳《从你的全世界路过》销200万册 将改编电影, 中国新闻网](https://www.chinanews.com/cul/2014/06-23/6310340.shtml)
5. ["鸡汤使者"张嘉佳+"青春片教父"张一白=重庆旅游宣传片？, 界面新闻](https://www.jiemian.com/article/885029.html)
6. ["从你的全世界路过"张嘉佳：最初写故事想挣点钱生存下去, 人民网](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0922/c22219-28731662.html)
7. [电影《摆渡人》正式上映报道, 桂林晚报](https://epaper.guilinlife.com/glwb/images/2016-12/25/16/WB16.pdf)
8. [從你的全世界路過 產品介紹, 鴻聯國際](https://www.e-eagle.com.tw/products_detail_388.htm?pg=14)
9. [电影《从你的全世界路过》创国产爱情片票房新纪录, Jiemian Global](https://en.jiemian.com/article/915385.html)
10. [内地票房：影市回暖仍未爆 《全世界》独领风骚, 1905电影网](https://m.1905.com/m/news/touch/1102865.shtml?fr=newsmjyh5_xgxw_01)
11. [张嘉佳：《从你的全世界路过》评分，别只看豆瓣要看猫眼, 澎湃新闻](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1539551)
12. [行业研究报告 (poster/box-office figure 8.14亿)](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP201712291071224500_1.pdf?1514545418000.pdf=)
13. [电影《从你的全世界路过》两日票房1.38亿领跑国庆档, 大众网/新华娱乐](https://jinan.dzwww.com/jryw/yule/201610/t20161002_14979223.htm)
14. [《从你的全世界路过》：既不接地气也没新鲜感, 界面新闻](https://www.jiemian.com/article/890957.html)
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