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See Her Again (太阳星辰 (电视剧))

See Her Again (太阳星辰; Cantonese: Tai Yueng Sing San, Mandarin: Tai Yang Xing Chen) is a 2024 Hong Kong-set crime drama in which a 1990s police inspector investigating a serial murder case is transported twenty-five years into the future and resumes the hunt in 2018. It ran for 18 episodes, was directed by Wong Kwok Keung (黄国强), written by Tong Yiu Leung (唐耀良), and starred William Chan and Cya Liu as a father-daughter detective pair.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	太阳星辰 / Tai Yueng Sing San (Tai Yang Xing Chen)¹
Episodes / runtime	18 episodes, about 45 minutes each¹^•³
Premiere	November 20, 2024, simultaneously on Tencent Video (China) and Netflix (international)²
Production	Tencent Video and Drama Apple Limited (海棠果影业, Hong Kong); director Wong Kwok Keung, screenwriter Tong Yiu Leung¹
Lead cast	William Chan as Yang Guangyao, Cya Liu as Chen Kaiqing, with Stephen Fung, Tse Kwan Ho, and Niki Chow¹
Ratings	MyDramaList 8.3/10 on debut day; Douban 7.3 (later 7.4); IMDb 6.9/10⁴^•⁵^•⁶
Distinction	First mainland Chinese Asian crime drama to premiere simultaneously on Tencent Video and Netflix⁵

Spoilers

Premise

The story begins in 1993, when a series of serial murders in Hong Kong is tied to a building fire. Yang Guangyao (杨光耀), a senior inspector of the Regional Crime Unit played by William Chan, pursues a suspect into a residential building, enters an elevator, and is knocked unconscious when the car plummets. When the doors reopen, he steps out into 2018.²^•⁷

In 2018 his wife and daughter are missing, the old murders remain unsolved, and a new killing shows connections to the dormant case. With help from his former superior, Officer Yip (Ye Cheng, played by Tse Kwan Ho), Yang returns to the police force under the cover identity of a young undercover officer and is partnered with Chen Kaiqing (陈凯晴), a detective with an investigative style very different from his own, played by Cya Liu.³^•⁷ The central twist is that Kaiqing is Yang's own daughter, now the same age as her father; Yang's wife, he learns, died in the years after his disappearance, and his determination to catch the killer and return to the past drives the story.³

One platform synopsis dates the triggering building fire to 1990,⁸ while most other accounts, and the drama's own dialogue, place the story's start in 1993.²

Cast and characters

The main cast pairs a Hong Kong star with a mainland actress in the father-daughter roles:¹

William Chan (陈伟霆) as Yang Guangyao / Yeung Kwong-yiu, the 1990s inspector displaced to 2018
Cya Liu (刘雅瑟) as Chen Kaiqing / Chan Hoi-ching, Yang's 2018 partner and daughter
Stephen Fung (冯德伦) as Chen Zijun / Chan Tsz-tsun
Tse Kwan Ho (谢君豪) as Ye Cheng / Yip Sing, Yang's former superior
Niki Chow (周励淇) as Zhou Manyi / Chau Man-yi
Kevin Chu (朱鉴然) as Zhang Tianming / Cheung Tin-ming, a stoic fellow detective
Ling Man Lung (凌文龙) as Mai Zhihong / Mak Chi-hung, the suspect at the center of the case

Chan said the dual-timeline setup and the character drew him to the project, and he performed the role in Cantonese, his native language, after several years working in mainland China.⁹^•¹⁰

Production and style

Director Wong Kwok Keung described the project as a chance to portray Hong Kong across two eras, building on the fast pacing and strong plotting of classic Hong Kong police procedurals while adding more emotional depth and social observation, a combination the production promoted as "new Hong Kong drama" (新港剧).²^•⁵ The two timelines are visually distinguished: the 1990s scenes use warm orange tones, old tong lau tenements, and neon-lit streets, while 2018 is rendered in gray-blue with modern office environments.⁵

Screenwriter Tong Yiu Leung used pop-culture symbols to anchor the 1993 setting, including the songs of Wong Ka Kui and the film The Untold Story (八仙饭店之人肉叉烧包), the latter woven into the characterization of the suspect Mak Chi-hung.² Beyond's song "Qing Ren" (情人) appears in three versions, serving as the love theme of Yang and his wife, the expression of Kaiqing's bond with her father, and the shading of Kaiqing's relationship with Zhang Tianming.¹¹

Release and platforms

The drama premiered on November 20, 2024 on Tencent Video in China and on Netflix internationally, in both Mandarin and Cantonese versions, and was the first mainland Chinese Asian crime drama to launch simultaneously on both platforms.²^•¹² It also rolled out on Tencent's international service WeTV and on regional platforms including TVB's myTV SUPER, Starhub in Singapore, Astro in Malaysia, and Viki.¹³ TVB later broadcast it on Jade from January 30, 2025, where its debut week reached a peak rating of 13.6 points, about 880,000 viewers.¹⁴^•¹⁵

Before release, the series was selected for the 8th MIPDrama screening at the Cannes television festival in April 2024, reported as the only Asian series in that selection.¹³^•¹⁶

Reception

The drama opened to strong early numbers. On its debut day it scored 8.3 out of 10 on MyDramaList, and by its third day it was the second most popular Hong Kong TV show on Netflix.⁴ On Tencent Video it reached first place among suspense dramas, and it placed second on Netflix's daily chart in Hong Kong and fourth in Singapore.⁵ Douban users rated it 7.3 at launch, later 7.4, and IMDb listed 6.9/10 from 114 votes.⁵^•⁹^•⁶

Commentary was divided on the time-travel device itself. Reviewers praised the dual-timeline structure, the father-daughter emotional core, and the portrayal of Hong Kong across eras,¹⁷ while some critics noted that cross-time detective stories were well established in Hong Kong television, pointing to TVB's 2004 series The Last Breakthrough era drama 隔世追凶 (Fathers and Sons) as an earlier example, and argued the mechanism functioned more as a hook than as a fully developed premise.¹⁸ The series won Best Web Series at the Chinese American TV Festival's Golden Angel Awards and received multiple nominations.⁶

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › Hong Kong and Taiwanese serial drama

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

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