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Love in Time (还来得及再爱你)

Love in Time (还来得及再爱你； literally "Still Have Time to Love You") is a nine-episode Hong Kong supernatural romance television drama produced by Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) and first broadcast from June 2 to June 12, 2015, starring Danson Tang (唐禹哲) as a 224-year-old vampire and Michelle Wai (衛詩雅) as the human woman who reawakens his emotions.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	還來得及再愛你； English title Love in Time, alternate title Still Have Time to Love You²
Broadcast	HKTV, June 2 to June 12, 2015, nine episodes on weekday evenings²
Leads	Danson Tang as Roy Thackeray; Michelle Wai as Lok Hei-lam³
Premise	A 224-year-old man who has guarded his heart for 200 years after a demon killed his village and his love; he was saved by a vampire baron and lives with an immortal body¹
Central tension	He cannot die, while the female lead may have only about eighty years of life⁴
Production	City Telecom's 2012 annual report lists the series among its dramas then in production, with Tang playing a vampire baron who lives 224 years⁵
Reception	IMDb rating of 6.2/10 from 279 votes; 45-minute episodes³

Spoilers

Story

The male lead, Roy (唐禹哲, credited in English sources as Roy Thackeray), grew up in a village where a demon killed everyone, including the woman he loved; only he survived, saved by a vampire baron. He has lived 224 years with an immortal body but a frozen heart, unable to cry, until he meets an energetic, life-affirming young woman who unknowingly melts it. The promotional outline frames the drama around the mismatch: he has an undying body, she may have only eighty years, and the story asks whether their love is heaven's cruelty or heaven's match.¹^•⁴

The romance unfolds inside an idol-drama frame. One reviewer who watched four episodes described repeated hero-rescues-beauty setups in the first two episodes and a story whose direction was easy to predict, concluding that despite the vampire subject the show is essentially a pure idol drama, closer in feel to Meteor Garden than to Hong Kong's older vampire classic My Date with a Vampire.⁶

The vampire clan

The series defines its own version of vampires, which the drama calls 吸血族 (the "vampire clan") rather than the usual 吸血鬼. According to a viewer's summary of the show's rules, members are immune to sunlight and have superhuman speed, mind reading, and the ability to knock a person out with a single glance; the reviewer compared the power set to the alien lead of the Korean drama My Love from the Star.⁶

The same clan rules drive the finale. In the last episode, Marcus, the vampire demon who killed Roy's village two centuries earlier, breaks free of his seal and returns, forcing Roy and George Spenser (尹子維, Terence Yin) into a fight they cannot avoid, because Marcus will kill everyone around them as he did before. The vampire woman Mirai (未來) had promised to use her endless life to move George, and when he is endangered she gives up her own life without hesitation; watching what she has done, George sheds tears for the first time, described in the episode guide as a vampire's first tear. Roy, to keep Lok Hei-lam safe, coldly pushes her away, though she refuses to abandon the man who has loved her devotedly for 200 years.⁷

Cast

The main cast listed in HKTV's own promotional material includes Danson Tang (唐禹哲), Michelle Wai (詩雅), Terence Yin (尹子維), Yiu Lai-Yi (姚樂怡), Ying Cheung-Yau (應昌佑), Tong Yee (湯怡), Chan On-Ying (陳安瑩), Carlos Chan (陳家樂), Sin Ho-Ying (冼灝英), Chan Siu-Pong (陳少邦), Lam Hei-Tung (林熹瞳), and Wong Ho-Ting (黃浩霆).¹ English-language databases credit ten principal cast members, with Tang as Roy Thackeray, Wai as Lok Hei-lam, Yin as George Spenser, Sherming Yiu as Koo Yuet Mei-loi, Carlos Chan as Max, Kathy Yuen as Adelina, Rachel Lam as Man Sze-tung, Charles Ying as Ngai Sum, and Bond Chan as Marcus Morris.³ IMDb lists the television director as Ben Fong.⁸

Production and place in HKTV's catalog

The series was developed while its parent company, City Telecom, was preparing its free-television venture; the 2012 annual report presents it alongside other early HKTV dramas such as Fairy Tale Love 201314 and Second Life, describing Love in Time as an "undying romance" in which Taiwanese idol star Danson Tang plays a vampire baron of 224 years whose love with the female lead, played by Michelle Wai, cannot be accepted by the world.⁵ The company's English investor presentation from the same period calls it a story of a "224-year old vampire who falls in love."⁹ A reviewer notes that HKTV took on the idol-drama format, a genre almost absent from Hong Kong television stations, even though the result played it safe.⁶

By the time of broadcast, the company had been renamed Hong Kong Television Network, and the drama aired in a nine-episode run on weekday evenings at 19:00, ending on June 12, 2015.² HKTV's own channel released a ten-minute preview of the first episode on YouTube on May 26, 2015, three years after production had begun.¹

Reception

On IMDb the mini-series holds a rating of 6.2 out of 10 based on 279 votes, with user reviews and a listed genre mix of drama, fantasy, and romance.³ A retrospective reviewer praised Tang's casting as a vampire and his ease in the role while finding the female lead's performance adequate and the plot formulaic, scoring its watchability at 5 out of 10; the same reviewer valued the supporting thread between George and Mirai more than the central romance and noted the episode count, nine 45-minute episodes, as short for the genre.⁶ An episode-by-episode English-language recap blog described the show as an unexpectedly engaging watch despite a "Twilight inspired" preview and rough CGI, noting that Hong Kong rarely makes idol dramas, which made the series unusual.¹⁰

Title confusion

Several unrelated titles share the English name. A 2012 Hong Kong romantic comedy film Love in Time (等．我愛你) stars Bosco Wong and Stephy Tang.¹¹ A 2020 Youku web series Yue Ding Qi Jian Ai Shang Ni and a 2022 iQIYI series directed by Zhao Jintao, starring Yang Xuwen and Xiang Hanzhi, are also cataloged as Love in Time on English databases.¹²^•¹³ A separate Chinese drama title, 《趁一切还来得及》, was filed for production in December 2013 by a Beijing company as a 30-episode contemporary urban drama about a hotel floor supervisor and her estranged dying father, and is a different work entirely.¹⁴

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