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Love Under The Full Moon (满月之下请相爱)

Love Under The Full Moon (满月之下请相爱) is a 2021 Chinese urban science-fiction romance web drama produced by Beijing iQIYI, co-directed by Li Haishu (李海蜀) and Huang Yanwei (黄彦威), and led by Ju Jingyi as Lei Chuxia and Zheng Yecheng as Xu Xiaodong. In the story, a woman who falls from a cliff under a super full moon in 2011 reappears ten years later, landing in a game designer's phone, and the two must stay within a shrinking distance of each other while uncovering the truth of what happened a decade earlier.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	满月之下请相爱 (Mǎnyuè zhī xià qǐng xiāng'ài)
Format	24-episode Chinese urban sci-fi romance web drama, about 45 minutes per episode¹^•³
Broadcast	iQIYI, August 26 to September 11, 2021; new episodes Thursdays to Saturdays at 20:00, two per day, with VIP members getting six episodes ahead⁴^•⁵
Directors and writer	Co-directed by Li Haishu and Huang Yanwei; written by Hao Hui (郝慧)¹^•⁶
Lead cast	Ju Jingyi as Lei Chuxia, Zheng Yecheng as Xu Xiaodong, Merxat as Wei Xuanhe, with Sun Yining, Shen Yao, and Zheng Fanxing¹^•⁵
Production	iQIYI with Shangxi Media, Henglong Pictures, and Qianjin Pictures; made by iQIYI's Aisatang studio and Yujian Chuntian Film & TV⁷
Where to watch now	Rakuten Viki (free with ads) and Amazon Video (purchase), with English subtitles³

Spoilers

Premise and plot

The drama opens ten years before its main timeline. On a night lit by a super full moon, Lei Chuxia is chased by a man and falls from a cliff, vanishing in mid-air. Ten years later, at the same moment and under news coverage of another super full moon, the launch event for the game Battle of the Saints (《圣者之战》) suffers an unexplained disturbance, a gap opens in spacetime, and Lei Chuxia falls out of falling snow into the arms of Xu Xiaodong.²

Lei Chuxia wakes with no memory, and a stranger's problem follows her: she can only move within a certain distance of Xu Xiaodong, and if she goes beyond it an unseen force pulls her back, with the allowed range shrinking over time. Xu Xiaodong tests the phenomenon with Turing (图灵), the smart butler system he developed, and confirms that exceeding the distance triggers unpredictable events, so the two are forced into an involuntary cohabitation.² Xu Xiaodong is secretly Winter (温特), the reclusive genius designer behind Battle of the Saints, working out of a high-tech studio hidden behind a wardrobe switch.²

As the two live through comic and sweet daily mishaps, Lei Chuxia recovers her identity and finds her family, and also finds Wei Xuanhe (卫宣禾), the boyfriend she had dated since university. Her heart, however, keeps tilting toward Xu Xiaodong. The investigation into her fall also exposes a ten-year-old injustice involving Xu Xiaodong's father and an original patent document that Lei Chuxia had hidden.² The official synopsis frames the story as two people who, after being thrown across time by a cosmic anomaly, discover the truth connecting them from ten years earlier, rescue each other through hardship, and reach a happy ending, though a final separation is said to span another ten full-moon years.⁸^•²

Cast

Actor	Role
Ju Jingyi (鞠婧祎)	Lei Chuxia (雷初夏)
Zheng Yecheng (郑业成)	Xu Xiaodong (许晓冬)
Merxat (米热)	Wei Xuanhe (卫宣禾)
Sun Yining (孙艺宁)	Yuan Yuan (袁媛)
Shen Yao (沈瑶)	Qin Yue (秦悦)
Zheng Fanxing (郑繁星)	Jin Xiaorui (金晓睿)

Cast and roles as listed by iQIYI and TVmao.¹^•²

Production and release

The series was the sixth title in iQIYI's 2021 恋恋剧场 (Romance Theater) slate, a seasonal lineup of romance dramas that also included Moonlight, The Day of Becoming You, and One and Only; it was positioned as a sci-fi fairy-tale romance continuing the lineup's sweet tone.⁴ It premiered on August 26, 2021, with two episodes each Thursday through Saturday at 20:00 and VIP members able to watch six episodes ahead.⁴

For the two directors, the drama was their first attempt at a modern web idol drama, after their film Mr. Pride and Miss Prejudice (《傲娇与偏见》) won a most-anticipated film honor at the 2016 China-Britain Film Festival. Filming took place during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zhuhai, and pandemic restrictions on movement meant that guest actors from nearby Guangzhou and Shenzhen could not reach the set, forcing late dubbing for supporting scenes that the production had wanted to record with live sound.⁹

Reception

Pre-release promotion was heavy: the Weibo hashtag #满月之下请相爱# drew 260 million reads, the lead-actor hashtags reached 2.48 billion and 200 million reads respectively, and more than 1.012 million users reserved the show on iQIYI. iQIYI also ran a tie-in livestream with the official China Weather account about the moon and constellations, which drew a cumulative 917,000 live viewers.⁴

Critical response was mixed. A Sina News review of the first episodes judged the two leads' acting passable but the story insufficiently fresh and not gripping.¹⁰ A Phoenix Net review was harsher, calling the drama a typical sample of the Romance Theater's problems and saying its sci-fi premise was used mainly as a device to justify the forced cohabitation.¹¹ Audience scores varied by platform: 7.0 on iQIYI's domestic page, 7.2 on JustWatch, and 8.8 from about 6,575 users on Rakuten Viki.²^•³^•¹²

A same-title 2024 short drama

The Chinese title 满月之下请相爱 is also carried by a 2024 iQIYI micro short drama of about 100 episodes, with a different story about the heiress Tong Xinyue (童心月), her fall from grace, and her contract marriage to the executive Huo Tingye (霍霆夜). The two works share only the title and platform.¹³

References

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