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Long For You (我与你的光年距离)

Long For You (我与你的光年距离) is a 2017 Chinese fantasy romance web drama directed by Mao De Shu (猫的树), starring Song Weilong, Zhou Yutong, and Wang Yilun, and adapted from the Korean fantasy girl manhwa Snow Girl (雪姬) by Jiang Jingyu. It was jointly produced by LINEKONG Pictures (蓝港影业) and LeTV, and streamed exclusively on LeTV from 14 February 2017.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	我与你的光年距离 (Wo Yu Ni De Guang Nian Ju Li); also listed as I Grant You A Light Year of Distance Away from Me²^•³
Format	21 episodes of 25 minutes each; romance and fantasy genres; Mandarin¹
Premiere	14 February 2017, exclusive on LeTV; two new episodes each Tuesday and Wednesday¹
Source material	Korean manhwa Snow Girl (雪姬) by Jiang Jingyu¹
Main cast	Song Weilong as Gu Shiyi, Zhou Yutong as Xue Ji, Wang Yilun as Li Zhe⁴
Viewership	100 million views within 58 hours of launch; over 1 billion within 32 days; over 1.1 billion by 19 April 2017⁵
Award	Annual Top Ten Quality Web Dramas, 2017 Golden Budoom Network Film and TV Festival, 18 August 2017¹
Sequel	Long For You 2 (2018), produced by Mango TV with LINEKONG Pictures, 24 episodes⁶

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Premise

The story follows Xue Ji (雪姬), played by Zhou Yutong, a woman who gained an ageless, immortal body after an incident involving aliens. A thousand years of life have made her inwardly rational and detached, while she presents a simple, playful exterior. She has searched for centuries for the reincarnation of her true love, Lai Enshan (莱恩山), and in 2016 she meets Gu Shiyi (顾世一), played by Song Weilong, who looks exactly like her lost husband. Drawn in by his very different view of love, she falls in love again and regains her passion for life.⁴^•⁷

The opening episode establishes her situation through an inheritance plot: the wealthy businessman Li Shizong leaves most of his estate to Xue Ji, who grew up on a remote island, and his resentful fourth wife Qin Si hires killers to ambush and murder her in the countryside.⁸ Supporting characters include Li Zhe (Wang Yilun), Li Shizong's adopted son who becomes drawn to Xue Ji; Jiang Huai (Gao Xi'er), Gu Shiyi's friend and Xue Ji's housekeeper; and Chun Shan (Wang Xudong), a depressed former musician.⁹

Sequel

A second season, Long For You 2 (我与你的光年距离Ⅱ), was produced by Mango TV with LINEKONG Pictures and directed by Jiang Jinlin, starring Wang Yilun, Xu Xiaonuo, and Wanyan Luorong. It wrapped filming in Hengdian on 15 August 2018 after nearly three months of shooting in Shenzhen and Hengdian, and tells a separate story of a time envoy, Ye Gu, who crosses a millennium to reunite with his past-life lover Xia Xi. The 24-episode season streamed on Mango TV.⁶^•¹⁴

Production

A fast, manga-first pipeline. LINEKONG Pictures, the film and television arm of the games company LINEKONG Interactive, was founded on 30 March 2016 and acquired the manhwa's adaptation rights that same month. The project was approved in June, entered preparation in July, and began shooting on 28 August 2016. Filming took place in Xiamen, then moved to France for 15 days from 4 October, completing all 48 days of shooting that year.¹⁰

The French unit, handled by a European production-services company, covered castles, headlands, an isolated island, and a graveyard in Brittany, matching the drama's fantasy premise.¹¹ President Yan Yusong stated that each 25-minute episode cost more than 1 million yuan, which he described as a large production for a web drama, and that the visual style, with every frame composed like a music video, followed Japanese and Korean television production standards.¹⁰

The adaptation deliberately targeted the post-95 and post-00 pan-2D audience. The company hired Mao De Shu, a post-90s director then known mainly for short aesthetic videos with a large Weibo following, and cast new actors including the 1999-born Song Weilong. Screenwriters Yang Nan, Yang Meiwei, and Yu Duoduo adjusted the story for Chinese audiences while restoring classic lines and scenes from the manhwa, and the script continued to be revised during shooting from the sixth episode onward.¹⁰^•¹²

Release and reception

LeTV was chosen as the sole streaming platform after all major platforms approached LINEKONG during production; the company announced the exclusive deal on 14 December 2016.¹⁰^•¹² Promotion ran from 22 December 2016 with posters, stills, and a music teaser sung by Xue Zhiqian, followed by further stills, couple posters, and a final trailer in January and February 2017, and a Beijing press conference on 13 February with the director and main cast.¹

Viewership milestones. The drama passed 100 million views within 58 hours of its Valentine's Day premiere, 180 million within one week, 200 million within two weeks, 400 million within three weeks, 700 million within 23 days, and 1 billion within 32 days; the finale pushed the total past 1 billion within 48 hours of its release, and the cumulative count exceeded 1.1 billion by April 2017. The show ranked among the top three of the 61 web dramas launched in the first quarter of 2017, and Song Weilong entered the quarter's top ten web-drama celebrities on the strength of the role.¹^•⁵

Critical commentary at the time praised the fresh, aesthetic visual style, poetic dialogue, and the blend of suspense, fantasy, and romance.¹³ The audience score has since settled low: Douban records 4.6 out of 10 from 14,173 users as of 14 September 2025.¹³

Music

The opening theme is "One More Time"; the insert song "Fight For You" had its music video released on 10 February 2017. A promotional music teaser was sung by Xue Zhiqian, and a report on the finale period states that his song "Gang Gang Hao" (刚刚好) served as the drama's theme song, his first recording for a web drama.¹^•⁵

Notes on the record

Most Chinese and English databases list 21 episodes,¹^•² but some listings, including TVMao and a pre-broadcast interview with LINEKONG's CEO, give 20.⁹^•¹⁵ The lover's name also varies across sources: Chinese platforms write 莱恩山 (Lai Enshan), while DramaWiki renders it as Cai Enshan.⁴^•²

References

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 › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles Iv to My

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

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