# Le Coup de Foudre (我只喜欢你)
**Le Coup de Foudre** (我只喜欢你, also known as *I Only Like You*) is a 2019 Chinese youth romance streaming television series adapted from Qiao Yi's essay collection *I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You* (《我不喜欢这世界，我只喜欢你》), which records the author's real-life relationship with her husband, known to readers as "Mr. F", from their first meeting in high school through reunion, courtship, and marriage.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html) The series consists of 35 episodes and was broadcast on [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video) and Youku from April 29 to June 3, 2019.[2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/42270/le-coup-de-foudre)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Native title | 我只喜欢你 (Wo Zhi Xi Huan Ni); French title Le Coup de Foudre; also known as I Only Like You[2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/42270/le-coup-de-foudre) |
| Source material | Qiao Yi's essay collection *I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You*, a real-life romance memoir[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html) |
| Run | 35 episodes, April 29 to June 3, 2019, on Tencent Video and Youku[2](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/42270/le-coup-de-foudre) • [3](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Le_Coup_de_Foudre) |
| Director and writers | Wang Zhi (director); Ming Yuan and Shao Zi (screenwriters)[4](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/) |
| Main cast | Wu Qian as Zhao Qiaoyi, Zhang Yujian as Yan Mo, Zhao Zhiwei as Zhao Guanchao, Ma Li as Hao Wuyi[4](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/) |
| Production | Huace Film & TV, Zhongnan Tianshi Culture Media, and Tencent Penguin Pictures[4](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/) |
| Early performance | Over 330 million views on a single platform in the first week; over 500 million in two weeks; the Weibo main topic reached 1.27 billion reads[5](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2019/05-13/8835323.shtml) • [6](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0506/c1012-31070157.html) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Zhao Qiaoyi and Yan Mo are high school desk mates: she is a poor student who struggles academically, he is a top student who is bad at expressing his feelings. On the eve of graduation the two make a pact to study abroad, but the plan falls through because of a family upheaval in Qiaoyi's household, and they lose contact after graduation.[7](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/7ru8ssua8824ncs)
Four years later, a class reunion brings them together again. After a series of misunderstandings, Qiaoyi recognizes her feelings for Yan Mo and moves to the city where he works to pursue her happiness, only to find that another woman appears to be at his side.[4](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/) With help from friends, the two clear away the obstacles between them and fulfill the promise that runs "from school uniform to wedding dress"; the story is framed by their married life, in which the couple looks back on how they grew up together.[4](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/) • [8](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0429/c233222-31058120.html)
## Adaptation from the memoir
The source book is a fragmentary essay collection: each episode of the author's real story occupies only a few hundred words, so the screenwriters had to expand the material substantially to fill more than thirty episodes. Producer Wang Yan said the author Qiao Yi, not wanting to disturb the real people behind the characters, gave the adaptation team wide latitude.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html)
**Invented storylines.** Much of the series follows episodes from the book, but several threads were created by working backward from the characters. Most notably, Qiaoyi's older brother Zhao Guanchao and her best friend Hao Wuyi barely interact in the book, yet in the drama they become a bickering couple who eventually marry; Wang Yan argued that two extroverts who spent their school years side by side would plausibly have developed feelings.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html)
**Reversed family backgrounds.** The drama also inverted the leads' family situations. In the book, Qiaoyi grows up in a single-parent household with an unkind father, while Mr. F comes from a comfortable, happy family; the series instead gives Qiaoyi a kind stepfather and gives Yan Mo parents who divorced early and concealed it from him. Wang Yan said the change was made for dramatic plausibility: with the original gap between the families, the heroine's insecurity would logically have been worse, and the production wanted to show that love made both characters better people.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html)
## Casting and style
Because the story concerns ordinary people, the producers did not cast top-tier stars. Wu Qian was the first to be signed, her temperament matching Qiaoyi's; Zhang Yujian was met by chance while Wang Yan visited Wu Qian on another set, and his deadpan manner was judged right for the outwardly cold, inwardly warm Yan Mo.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html) Viewers nonetheless joked about the actor's expressionless "iceberg face" in the school scenes, and Wang Yan defended the performance as consistent with the book's description of Mr. F as a solitary character.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html)
The high-school scenes use a warm, soft, slightly blurred look. Wang Yan said this was on-set lighting rather than a post-production filter, applied to give the school-era footage a nostalgic, dreamlike quality; because viewers watched on different devices and versions, the effect sometimes obscured the actors' faces more than intended.[9](https://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2019-05-17/doc-ihvhiews2478596.shtml)
## Reception
The series premiered on April 29, 2019, updating two episodes each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening.[8](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0429/c233222-31058120.html) Within one week its single-platform view count passed 330 million, and within two weeks it passed 500 million, with the Weibo main topic reaching 1.27 billion reads; Chinese News Service reported rising Douban scores and viewer praise for its faithful recreation of school-life details.[6](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0506/c1012-31070157.html) • [5](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2019/05-13/8835323.shtml) An industry index placed it eighth among web dramas for the first half of 2019, with a composite score of 436.9.[10](https://www.cmmrmedia.com/UpLoadFile/Files/2019/6/28/21459823bf1784e7-d.pdf)
The broadcast also revived interest in the source book. *I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You* had accumulated more than 280,000 reader reviews on Dangdang, the highest of any youth-literature title on the platform, and had appeared in the site's top 20 youth bestsellers every year from 2015 to 2019, topping the list in 2015.[11](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0524/c1013-31100833.html)
The series carried nine original music tracks, including a theme song of the same name performed by Hu Xia.[12](https://www.sohu.com/a/313750522_549401) • [13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dILwqd83Kg) It later became available internationally on platforms including Netflix, iQIYI International, and WeTV.[14](https://www.netflix.com/sg-zh/title/81190446) • [15](https://www.iq.com/album/le-coup-de-foudre-2019-19rrhuduil?lang=en_us)
## Context in the sweet-romance genre
*Le Coup de Foudre* aired during a boom in Chinese "sweet pet" (甜宠) dramas: in 2018 alone, more than a hundred titles in the genre went online, and 2019 saw further releases such as *Put Your Head on My Shoulder* and *Falling in Love with the North Star Boy*.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html) Wang Yan argued that sweetness alone could not sustain the genre, and pointed to this series's added family and friendship storylines as its answer to formula fatigue.[1](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html) A 2019 newspaper commentary likewise grouped the show with the wave of sweet-romance adaptations that displaced period and mystery dramas in online popularity that season.[16](https://epaper.lnd.com.cn/lswbepaper/pc/att/201905/08/0c543fe4-1f87-4608-bfec-2a9b005fc0ae.pdf)
## References
1. [《我只喜欢你》制片人：若只有甜喂不饱观众 (The Beijing News via People's Daily Online, May 26, 2019)](https://media.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0526/c40606-31103044.html)
2. [Le Coup de Foudre, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/42270/le-coup-de-foudre)
3. [Le Coup de Foudre, DramaWiki](https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Le_Coup_de_Foudre)
4. [Le Coup de Foudre – Chinese Drama 2019, CPOP HOME](https://www.cpophome.com/le-coup-de-foudre-janice-wu-zhang-yujian/)
5. [《我只喜欢你》热播 被赞细节还原满分, China News Service (May 13, 2019)](https://www.chinanews.com/yl/2019/05-13/8835323.shtml)
6. [《我只喜欢你》高甜来袭 吴倩张雨剑"土味情话", China Youth Daily via People's Daily Online (May 6, 2019)](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0506/c1012-31070157.html)
7. [我只喜欢你 – 高清视频在线观看, WeTV](https://wetv.vip/zh-cn/play/7ru8ssua8824ncs)
8. [吴倩张雨剑《我只喜欢你》今晚开播, Beijing Youth Daily via People's Daily Online (April 29, 2019)](https://ent.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0429/c233222-31058120.html)
9. [《我只喜欢你》制片人:滤镜模糊是为营造治愈风格, The Beijing News via Sina Entertainment (May 17, 2019)](https://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2019-05-17/doc-ihvhiews2478596.shtml)
10. [2019年上半年全网剧集网络传播数据, CMMR Media report (June 2019)](https://www.cmmrmedia.com/UpLoadFile/Files/2019/6/28/21459823bf1784e7-d.pdf)
11. [热播剧带动原著小说走红 畅销书难掩青春文学窘态, Beijing Daily via People's Daily Online (May 24, 2019)](https://culture.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0524/c1013-31100833.html)
12. [专访|《我只喜欢你》制片人王艳, Sohu (2019)](https://www.sohu.com/a/313750522_549401)
13. [胡夏 - 我只喜欢你 | 同名主题曲MV, Huace Official YouTube channel (May 24, 2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dILwqd83Kg)
14. [我只喜欢你, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/sg-zh/title/81190446)
15. [Le Coup de Foudre (2019), iQIYI International](https://www.iq.com/album/le-coup-de-foudre-2019-19rrhuduil?lang=en_us)
16. [WBA15B20190508C, Liaoshen Evening Bank epaper (May 8, 2019)](https://epaper.lnd.com.cn/lswbepaper/pc/att/201905/08/0c543fe4-1f87-4608-bfec-2a9b005fc0ae.pdf)
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