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Love me, Love my voice (很想很想你)

Love Me, Love My Voice (很想很想你) is a 2023 Chinese television romance series adapted from Mo Bao Fei Bao's (墨宝非宝) novel of the same name, following the love story between a commercial voice actor and an amateur guofeng (ancient-style) singer who meet through their voices. It was directed by Sha Weiqi, written by the original author, and starred Tan Jianci and Zhou Ye, running 33 episodes on Tencent Video from 30 November 2023¹^•². The production was marketed as a "new guofeng voice-romance drama" (新国风声恋剧), a label coined for its blend of voice acting, guofeng music, and food¹.

Key fact	Detail
Chinese title / English titles	很想很想你; Love Me, Love My Voice, also listed as Missing You¹
Source novel	Mo Bao Fei Bao's urban romance, serialized on Jinjiang Literature City in 2013, published in book form in June 2015³
Lead cast	Tan Jianci as Mo Qingcheng; Zhou Ye as Gu Sheng²
Broadcast	33 episodes, about 45 minutes each, Tencent Video exclusive from 30 November 2023¹
Production	Penguin Pictures, Qishuo Pictures, and Xinguang Light; filming 16 September to 27 December 2022 in Guilin and the Jiangsu No. 1 film studio¹
Music	13 original soundtrack songs, 7 of them sung by Tan Jianci; the music was developed over roughly two years⁴
Reception	Tencent Video heat value passed 26,000 after 12 episodes; Douban 6.7/10 from 64,148 raters and Tencent 9.2/10 from 1.716 million as of 4 March 2024¹

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Plot

Gu Sheng (周也 as 顾声) is a fourth-year student who loves composing music and maintains a hidden identity as "Shengshengman" (声声慢), a little-known figure in the guofeng music circle. She hopes to collaborate once with her crush, the voice-acting star "Qingcici" (锖青磁). By chance she meets Mo Qingcheng (檀健次 as 莫青成), the man behind that online persona, at an event, and with her friend Geng Xiaoxing's help the two grow closer. Mo Qingcheng then courts her using food and his voice⁵.

The registration filing for the series describes the same story from the heroine's side: Gu Sheng, a television director-in-training who loves composing, dreams of working with the famous voice actor Mo Qingcheng but has never told anyone. An accidental "voice" encounter in which he reads her a recipe stirs her heart. Ten years earlier Mo Qingcheng had co-founded the Perfect Dubbing group, but after graduation he left the voice-acting world to practice medicine; the reunion at a company anniversary celebration draws the two together again, and after Gu Sheng's own rise and vindication as a songwriting talent, the two become a couple⁶. Sources differ on his medical specialty: the filing synopsis calls him a cardiologist (心内科), while a Beijing News interview with the director describes him as a cardiac surgeon (心外科)⁶^•⁷.

Origin and development

The source novel was serialized on Jinjiang Literature City in 2013 and first published in print in June 2015 by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House, with later editions in 2018 and 2022³. Producer Zhang Weilin, CEO of Qishuo Pictures, has said she first encountered the story through its audio-drama adaptation, in which a passage of the male lead reading a recipe aloud convinced her to listen to the whole thing overnight; she later bought the rights and worked with Mo Bao Fei Bao on the adaptation⁸.

Zhang described the novel's material as roughly one third voice (guofeng songs plus dubbing), one third food, and one third romance, with the love line serving as the main thread that the other elements support⁸. The production brought in specialist help at the script stage: a consultant for the anime-and-dubbing subculture, voice director Bian Jiang, the costume team from Rattan for styling, and a documentary director for the food scenes⁹.

Music and voice production

Music was the production's largest challenge, according to director Sha Weiqi, who had previously worked at a record company and as a music producer. He spent about a year selecting songs before shooting, because songs heard in the drama could not be added in post-production; the team wrote roughly a dozen original songs in both guofeng and modern styles, with multiple versions of each¹⁰. The guofeng music was planned nearly two years in advance, and composer Zhu Jintai, who leads a Chinese folk-instrument ensemble, deliberately wrote a lighter, more playful sound than the mournful register typical of the genre, to match the young characters⁹.

The drama contains 13 original soundtrack songs, of which Tan Jianci sang 7; to make the voice-acting scenes credible, the crew built a working professional dubbing studio⁴. The soundtrack was released on QQ Music, Kugou Music, and other platforms, and the closing-credits song Yu Jun Gui (与君归) is a duet between Tan Jianci and the guofeng singer Bucai, composed by Huang Shifu with lyrics by Huohuo, drawing some lyric and spoken-word text from the novel¹¹.

Broadcast and reception

The series premiered on Tencent Video on 30 November 2023 as a platform exclusive, with five episodes in the first week for members and thereafter two episodes Thursday through Saturday and one on Sunday¹. After 12 episodes its in-platform heat value passed 26,000 and ranked first in real-time heat on the platform; in the fourth quarter of 2023 the first two episodes drew 1.05 million views on YouTube and the drama's TikTok hashtag entries totaled 160 million¹. The Weibo topic #很想很想你# accumulated 910 million reads with nearly 800,000 discussions¹⁰.

As of 4 March 2024 the drama held a Douban score of 6.7/10 from 64,148 users and a Tencent score of 9.2/10 from 1.716 million users¹. Reviewers noted that its niche focus on the dubbing and guofeng circles, plus food, gave the "sweet drama" format fresh material, and that Zhou Ye's guofeng costumes drew particular praise¹. Audience analysis found the viewership skewed heavily toward women under 30, matching the guofeng and dubbing fan base¹².

Critical responses were mixed. A review in The Paper argued that, because the source web novel was a decade old, some of the male lead's courtship behaviors read as dated or intrusive to part of the audience, even though the production itself was polished¹³. Director Sha Weiqi framed the whole drama around the theme of "loving life," saying he wanted viewers to come away with a positive outlook toward the people around them¹⁰.

References

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