# My Deepest Dream (乌云遇皎月)
**My Deepest Dream** (乌云遇皎月) is a 2022 Chinese urban fantasy suspense romance streaming series adapted from Ding Mo's (丁墨) novel of the same name, starring Li Yitong as the novelist Tan Jiao and Jin Han as the mathematics prodigy turned auto mechanic [Wu Yu](https://www.edgepedia.org/wu-yu), who fall in love on a cruise and then travel repeatedly between two timelines while trying to recover their lost memories and solve a murder.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Native / English title | 乌云遇皎月 / My Deepest Dream[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |
| Original work | Novel 乌云遇皎月 by Ding Mo, serialized on Yunqi Academy from September 2017, completed November 13, 2017[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |
| Run | 30 episodes, October 1 to November 10, 2022, on Tencent Video[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [4](https://bgm.tv/subject/486834) |
| Directors / screenwriters | Cai Cong and Yu Zhongzhong; Xu Pengpeng and Fan Kan[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |
| Main cast | Li Yitong (Tan Jiao), Jin Han (Wu Yu), Zeng Keni, Wang Zirui, Fan Jinwei, Wu Jingyi, Lu Yuxiao[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) |
| Production | Tencent Penguin Pictures and Liubai Entertainment (东阳留白影视)[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [2](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/) |
| Genre | Urban suspense, romance, fantasy; time loop, amnesia, and murder-mystery elements[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) • [5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html) |
## Spoilers
### Premise
Wu Yu and Tan Jiao meet on a cruise voyage and fall in love at first sight. After the voyage both lose memory to different degrees: Wu Yu loses the memory of a few days after the trip, while Tan Jiao loses nearly a year and a half.[2](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/) In the drama's framing, the two fall into a rift in spacetime caused by a folding triggered by a spatial magnetic field, and they begin traveling back and forth between a land timeline and the cruise timeline.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
**The two leads.** Wu Yu is described as a well-rounded academic with a promising future whose life collapses after the trip: his only family, his mother and sister, are killed, and he gives up his career to hunt the murderer, working as a car mechanic. Tan Jiao, a web novelist of mystery stories, reunites with him when she brings her car in for repair. From then on the two time-travel once every half month.[2](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/) The loop rule is stated explicitly in coverage of the finale: for every 15 days the pair spends in the land timeline, the switch opens automatically and carries them back to the cruise timeline.[5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html)
### Story structure and cases
The drama stacks several speculative devices on an urban romance: murder mystery, time loop, parallel timelines, and amnesia, with the leads shuttling among settings that include the cruise ship, a lifeboat, a deserted island, and the city.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) Coverage of the finale describes a multi-case architecture: a children's disappearance case, a wedding-kidnapping case centered on Chen Ruying that turns out to be staged by the bride herself, and the murder of Wu Yu's sister Wu Miao, which conceals a hidden mastermind manipulating other people's actions.[5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html)
The "cloud and moon" couple (Tan Jiao and Wu Yu) and the second couple, Zhuang Yu and Shen Shiyan, who fall in love at first sight in every timeline regardless of how events change, were the focus of much viewer discussion.[5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html)
## The original novel
Ding Mo wrote the novel as a modern romance with suspense and science-fiction elements, her characteristic "suspense romance" (悬爱) style. It ran on the Yunqi Academy platform from September 2017 to November 13, 2017, in 273 chapters of about 310,700 characters, told through alternating first-person narration by the two leads.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink) A print edition in two volumes appeared from Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House in April 2018.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
The novel's structure builds a "time tree" rather than a single timeline: each crossing can land at a different point in time, changing events and the characters' fates.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink) It won the Sina Weibo "annual popular work" award at the 2018 V Influence Summit and a bronze prize at the third Network Literature Biennial Award, and as of January 2023 held a Douban score of 7.1 from 1,908 raters.[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
## Production and broadcast
The first poster was released on August 2, 2020, and the cast was announced with the start of filming on November 23, 2020.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink) The series premiered on [Tencent Video](https://www.edgepedia.org/tencent-video) on October 1, 2022, with six episodes on the first day and daily updates for seven consecutive days, then settling into a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule from October 12.[6](https://k.sina.com.cn/article_3267556574_c2c2f4de001018sux.html) • [4](https://bgm.tv/subject/486834) It ran to a finale on November 10, 2022.[4](https://bgm.tv/subject/486834)
The promotion used an unusual device: Li Yitong introduced the story background, characters, and main quest in the manner of a jubensha (script murder) game host, and during the run the cast released new clues to lead viewers through the mystery.[7](https://m.thepaper.cn/baijiahao_20191434) Before broadcast the series repeatedly topped Weibo's chart of most-anticipated dramas.[5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html)
## Reception
**Scores.** The series opened on Douban at 7.6, and coverage of the finale quoted viewers praising the combination of time loop and modern suspense and the unexpected final villain.[5](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html) By April 13, 2023 the Douban score stood at 7.2.[8](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/7221014983311458342)
**Criticism.** Early reviews were mixed. A Sina Entertainment review published on premiere day judged the suspense insufficient, arguing that the script lacked escalation from one mystery to the next, and that the leads' performances carried a drama whose suspense and sweetness both fell short.[9](https://k.sina.cn/article_2492353974_948e4db6001012z6q.html) A Sohu analysis likewise found the high-concept premise fresh but the suspense feeling weak, attributing part of the problem to the directors' handling of pacing, camera language, and color grading, and noted that the love line lacked sweetness for a "suspense romance."[10](https://www.sohu.com/a/591648915_114941) A Qilu Evening News review quoted by Baidu Baike called the premise novel but the production not polished.[1](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
Because its time-loop mystery structure resembled the hit drama *Reset* (开端) while being set on a cruise ship, viewers nicknamed the series a "cruise-ship version of *Reset*."[3](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
## Adaptation differences
A reviewer comparing the drama with the novel noted that the ending was changed: the drama supplies the murderer with an origin event and a coherent motive linking his victims, which the novel leaves unexplained, and it softens the novel's final stretch, in which Wu Yu spends a long stretch recovering his memories.[11](https://eshinelian.pixnet.net/blog/posts/16073641403)
## Availability
The series streams on Tencent Video and its international service WeTV, and is also available with English subtitles on Viki and on iQIYI.[2](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/) • [12](https://www.viki.com/tv/38875c-my-deepest-dream?locale=zh) • [13](https://www.iq.com/album/my-deepest-dream-2022-kwkgk15ohh?lang=en_us)
## References
1. [乌云遇皎月（2022年李一桐、金瀚主演的都市悬疑剧）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/53533048?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
2. [My Deepest Dream – Chinese Drama 2022, CPOP HOME](https://www.cpophome.com/my-deepest-dream-li-yitong-jin-han/)
3. [乌云遇皎月（丁墨创作的网络小说）, Baidu Baike](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%8C%E4%BA%91%E9%81%87%E7%9A%8E%E6%9C%88/62113168?fromModule=lemma_inlink)
4. [乌云遇皎月, Bangumi 番组计划](https://bgm.tv/subject/486834)
5. [《乌云遇皎月》暖心收官 全员遇见大结局找到爱的真谛, 闽南网/北青网](https://www.mnw.cn/tv/guonei/2706374.html)
6. [悬疑爱情剧《乌云遇皎月》开播，李一桐、金瀚开启奇幻之旅, 新浪新闻](https://k.sina.com.cn/article_3267556574_c2c2f4de001018sux.html)
7. [多重设定、剧情高能，《乌云遇皎月》探路无限流与奇幻悬爱深水区, 澎湃新闻](https://m.thepaper.cn/baijiahao_20191434)
8. [乌云遇皎月, 快懂百科](https://www.baike.com/wikiid/7221014983311458342)
9. [《乌云遇皎月》首播，悬疑不够，甜宠不足，金瀚李一桐靠演技硬撑, 新浪娱乐](https://k.sina.cn/article_2492353974_948e4db6001012z6q.html)
10. [《乌云遇皎月》遇冷！"捧不红"的李一桐，"等风来"的无限流题材, 搜狐](https://www.sohu.com/a/591648915_114941)
11. [《烏雲遇皎月》四個人的命中注定, 痞客邦影劇筆記](https://eshinelian.pixnet.net/blog/posts/16073641403)
12. [乌云遇皎月, Viki](https://www.viki.com/tv/38875c-my-deepest-dream?locale=zh)
13. [My Deepest Dream (2022), iQIYI](https://www.iq.com/album/my-deepest-dream-2022-kwkgk15ohh?lang=en_us)
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