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My Story for You (为了你我愿意热爱整个世界)

My Story for You (为了你我愿意热爱整个世界, also translated as For You I Am Willing to Love the Whole World) is a 48-episode Chinese urban romantic drama that premiered on iQiyi on June 18, 2018. Directed by Yu Cuihua and Guo Hu and written by Mo Bao Fei Bao, it stars Luo Jin as Zhang Changgong and Zheng Shuang as Li Muzi, and it is adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by the internet writer Tang Jia San Shao, with the story modeled on his own love experience with his wife.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	为了你我愿意热爱整个世界 (Wei Le Ni Wo Yuan Yi Re Ai Zheng Ge Shi Jie)³
Premiere	June 18, 2018, iQiyi exclusive streaming; 48 episodes²
Source	Autobiographical novel by Tang Jia San Shao (real name Zhang Wei), based on his relationship with his wife⁴
Main cast	Luo Jin as Zhang Changgong; Zheng Shuang as Li Muzi²
Creative team	Directors Yu Cuihua and Guo Hu; screenwriter Mo Bao Fei Bao; producer Xiong Xiaoling; production by Huace Croton and XINTIANDI STUDIO¹
Reception	Douban score of 7.3 from 34,643 users; about 1.7 billion cumulative views on iQiyi by the finale in August 2018⁵^•⁶
Setting	Late 1990s to the 2010s, following China's internet boom, the dot-com crash, and the rise of online literature⁷

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Story

The drama opens in the late 1990s, when Zhang Changgong, a young man working at an IT company, tastes early success in the internet business sector thanks to his professional skills. As his career rises, he falls in love with Li Muzi, a talented college student. His close friends set out on their own paths at the same time: Han Dong goes abroad to study, and Wei Xiaoshan prepares for doctoral studies.⁷

The turning point comes when the internet bubble bursts in the early 2000s. Changgong falls from a celebrated industry newcomer to an overlooked job seeker, and he tries a series of occupations to get by, including modeling and long-haul truck driving.⁷^•⁶ Under the pressure of life and Li Muzi's expectations, he adjusts his mindset and eventually builds a second career as a well-known online writer, while his relationship with Muzi survives repeated trials and ends in marriage.⁷^•⁶

The series spans roughly twenty years, and the supporting characters' arcs track the maturing internet industry: Han Dong and Wei Xiaoshan each search for their way forward amid trends such as going abroad and online shopping.⁷ Changgong's younger sister Zhang Yaozhang, played by Zhang Yishang, and his circle of friends round out a story that gives roughly equal weight to romance, friendship, and family life.⁶

Source novel and autobiographical basis

The drama adapts the first urban inspirational romance novel by Tang Jia San Shao, one of China's most prominent internet writers. The novel is written with the author and his beloved wife as prototypes and recounts seventeen years of the couple's relationship, including a much-discussed exchange of 137 love letters; it also follows a future leading internet writer through hardship to success.⁸ The Huace announcement of the adaptation described it as the author's first work to be adapted for the screen and framed the project as a realistic portrait of the post-1985 generation from the late 1990s onward.⁹

Production and release

Production companies were Huace Croton and XINTIANDI STUDIO, with Xiong Xiaoling as producer and Teng Huatao as executive producer (监制).¹^•¹⁰ The series was streamed exclusively on iQiyi, which used a release model in which VIP members could watch all 48 episodes.² Episode length is listed as 40 minutes by Douban and 45 minutes by some international databases.⁵^•¹ The finale aired in August 2018, closing with Changgong's first formal post-wedding proposal to Muzi.⁶

Reception

By the finale, iQiyi's cumulative playback count had reached 1.7 billion, and the show drew coverage in Guangming Daily and Jiefang Daily praising its portrayal of striving youth.⁶ On Douban it holds a 7.3 rating from 34,643 users, ranking better than 75% of drama series and 82% of romance series on the platform by that site's comparison.⁵ Reviewers highlighted the show's period detail: episodes revisit shared memories such as chat rooms, the Y2K bug, China's Olympic bid, SARS, Super Girl, and the Beijing Olympics, alongside obsolete objects like pagers, IC cards, and flip phones.⁶ A Guangming Daily commentary argued that the drama's focus on concrete individual stories, rather than grand historical narrative, made the era's changes tangible for viewers.⁴

Internationally, the series streams on Rakuten Viki under the English title My Story for You with subtitles in English and more than seven other languages, and it is listed on IMDb with a 2020 spin-off titled My Story for You among its connections.¹¹^•¹²

Themes

The drama is built around the idea that personal fortunes track the technology economy: the same internet that lifts Changgong into the industry's new elite destroys his job when the bubble bursts, and the rise of paid online literature gives him his second career.⁴ Commentators read the romance itself as an expression of this theme of perseverance, with the characters' constancy to each other mirroring their persistence in work.⁴ The production also emphasized everyday texture, from the family's hutong household to sibling banter, as a deliberate contrast with the polished conventions of internet-era youth dramas.⁶

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