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Time and Him are Just Right (时光与他，恰是正好)

Time and Him are Just Right (时光与他，恰是正好) is a 2022 Chinese youth campus drama directed by Chen Ronghui (陈戎晖), starring Lu Yuxiao and Wu Junting, and adapted from Jiang Mutong's (蒋牧童) novel of the same name published on Jinjiang Literature City.¹^•² It ran for 25 episodes and premiered on Tencent Video on December 25, 2022, as the platform's exclusive web broadcast.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Native title	时光与他，恰是正好
Format	25-episode youth campus romantic comedy, 2022, mainland China³
Director / writers	Chen Ronghui; screenwriters Liu Fei and Liu Chenguang⁴
Source	Jiang Mutong's novel of the same name on Jinjiang Literature City; drama and web-drama rights signed in 2019²
Leads	Lu Yuxiao as Lin Xi; Wu Junting as Ji Junxing¹
Premiere	December 25, 2022, Tencent Video exclusive²
Production	Penguin Pictures (企鹅影视) production, made by Kaihuo Culture (开火文化), by the team behind the web drama My Huckleberry Friends-rival hit 我才不要和你做朋友呢⁴

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Plot

The story follows Lin Xi (林惜), a stubborn and endearing girl who transfers to Chunhui (春晖), the strongest high school in the province, and deliberately approaches Ji Junxing (季君行), a scheming, aloof top student, intending to become his friend.⁵ Ji initially rebuffs her, telling her she can be his friend only if the stars fall from the sky, but Lin Xi keeps working at it with wit and energy, and the two gradually develop feelings for each other while growing up together.⁵ Along the way they gather a circle of friends, the "East Gate squad" (东门口小分队), chase their own dreams, and move from classmates to lovers, from school uniforms to a wedding dress.⁵^•⁶

The drama is billed as a "fox girl, rabbit boy" pairing of two strong students, playing against the usual tropes with a double-top-student setup.⁵ In a structural choice that reviewers highlighted, the first episode presents the couple's happy ending in advance, giving up a suspenseful finale and putting the emphasis instead on the process of reaching happiness, tracing the pair's shift from classmate affection to romance.⁷

Production

The series was produced by Penguin Pictures and made by Kaihuo Culture, with the original creative team of the well-received web drama 我才不要和你做朋友呢 (Le Coup de Foudre-era hit, literally "I Don't Want to Be Friends with You"); Liu Fei and Liu Chenguang wrote the screenplay.⁴ Filming began on November 18 in Nanjing, with the young cast led by Lu Yuxiao and Wu Junting and supporting roles for Lu Junjie, Xiao Yu, Dong Zifan, Li Mingxu, and Zhang Hengming, plus a special appearance by Hu Jiaxin.⁸^•¹ The shoot wrapped on February 4, 2022, after 78 days of filming.⁴ In May 2022 the drama was registered with an online release filing number in the National Radio and Television Administration's key online film and television drama filing system.⁴

Reception and style

Chinese press coverage classified the show as a typical campus light comedy: a simple plot that pursues sweet romance and slapstick humor at the same time, with gags such as Lin Xi tying fallen leaves to balloons, accidentally pulling off the dean's wig, and yanking down Ji Junxing's pants in public.⁶ A Qilu Evening News review placed it in the wave of youth-plus-sweetness campus dramas that favor fast pacing, pure romance, and small, polished stories, calling such shows easy, comforting viewing even where the plots lack novelty.⁶ A Douban review praised the leads' direct communication as the basis of the relationship and contrasted Ji Junxing favorably with the colder genius-lead archetype of the contemporaneous drama Lighting Up the Stars-era hit 点燃我，温暖你 (Lighter and Princess).⁹ A viewer review on the Taiwan board PTT highlighted the ensemble's high-school antics, including a group scheme against school rules staged purely to get a shower, as the adaptation's best stretch.¹⁰

The series is distinct from the unrelated 2024 Chinese drama 时光正好 (The Best Thing), which shares part of its Chinese title but is a middle-age family drama.¹¹

References

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