Lost Love in Times

Qingchen (Cecilia Liu), a sorceress of the Mages, a group of Wu shamans tasked with protecting the royal family, and Yuan Ling (William Chan), fourth prince of Great Wei, were born with the destiny of the dual stars, which makes them fall in love at first sight, but with their love follows calamity. As Qingchen is the Great Sorceress of the Mages and can't marry into the royal family, at first she attempts to fight her feelings for the Prince for the sake of the kingdom, but in the end believes in their love. When Ling legitimately ascends to the throne, he decides to marry Qingchen despite the opposition of both the royal court and the Mages. Seventh prince Yuan Zhan, who hungers after the throne, launches a coup on the day of the wedding ceremony, and Qingchen uses the Sacred Pebbles of Nine Transformations to create a new timeline in an effort to prevent the imminent bloodshed. The Sacred Pebbles send the sorceress a year before the coup, but in a parallel world where no one knows her and with people who now have different histories, most notably the Seventh Prince Yuan Zhan. Forearmed with the knowledge of the dual stars and calamity, the sorceress now makes it her quest to prevent Yuan Ling from falling in love with her and fulfill his destiny to become Great Wei's greatest emperor.

The series is helmed by the team behind the 2015 hit drama The Journey of Flower; producer Tang Lijun, director Lin Yufen and scriptwriter Rao Jun.[1][3] Other notable cast members include style director William Chang, who won a Golden Horse nomination for Best Costume Design with The Grandmaster; costume designer Fang Sizhe (Noble Aspirations), artistic director Chen Haozhi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Last Supper) and stunt coordinator Cao Hua, who often works with director Zhang Yimou.[1] The White Rabbit Entertainment, helmed by cinematographer Charles Lee (Monster Hunt), handles the special effects; they are the first Chinese company to attain the Content Protection & Security Program (CPS Program) by the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA).[4][5]

The script was completed in two years. Scriptwriter Rao Jun received the help of the original author to ensure a faithful adaptation.[6] Together, they made innovations to the novel, improved the characters and the plot at the same time, and added new ideological contents, along with elements of oriental fantasy such as double time and space.[7] In designing the clothes, William Chang referred largely to the Western Wei Dynasty style.[8] A 30,000 square meters set was built from scratch.[7] It took two weeks to make each of Liu Shishi's costumes by hand, and three months for the twenty different hairstyles; the team also spent almost five months on the preparation of more than 500 armors.[9]

Principal photography officially begun on 24 October 2016,[10][4] and wrapped up filming on 20 March 2017.[11][12] The first trailer, titled "Tears, Kiss, Forgetfulness" (泪吻忘情), was released on May 15.[13]

Additional music provided by Jonny Easton[15]

• Highest ratings are marked in red, lowest ratings are marked in blue

• Hong Kong - myTV SUPER (Jul 25, 2017 ~ ), TVB Jade (Jun 26, 2019 ~ )
• Malaysia - Astro TV (Aug 14 ~ Nov 16, 2017)
• Singapore - Starhub TV VV Drama (Aug 19 ~ Nov 19, 2017), Mediacorp Channel 8 (Mar 13, 2019 ~ )
• ,,,, Sony ONE (Coming Soon, Sat- Sun 19:15 SIN/MY/PH, 18:15 JKT/BKK)
• Taiwan - GTV (Jun 27, 2018 ~ )
• Japan
• Korea - Zhonghua TV (Dec 25, 2017 ~ )
• Thailand - GMM 25 (Jan 22, 2018 ~ )
• Cambodia

Seeing the good reception of the main series, and the popularity of princes Yuan Che and Yuan Li, in the middle stage of Lost Love in Times the production crew started producing a side story, which was released on Youku on October 11, 2017 under the title Lost Love in Times Side Story: Exquisite Drunken Dream (Chinese: 醉玲珑番外之玲珑醉梦).[17] The 12-episode web series serves as a continuation to the television series and focuses on the 11th prince Yuan Che and his love interest, Yin Caiqian, portrayed by Gong Jun and Xu Muchan respectively.[18] Yuan Che, Yin Caiqian, Yuan Li, Mingyan, Yuan Hao, Zhang Shu, Yin Jianzheng and the Guardian of Nine Transformations return from Lost Love in Times, together with the following new characters:

• Gong Zhengnan as Mo Qingli, dark sorcerer and Yuan Li's childhood friend.
• Zhang Yang as Qing Bingling, dark sorceress and second chamberlain of the Jade Blood Chamber.
• Zhou Yanchen as Yi Huai, Che's personal guard and friend.
• Qiu Hui as Chen Mu, vice commander of Wei under Che's command.
• Tan Limin as Noble consort Su, Yuan Che and Yuan Li's mother.

• Lost Love in Times Side Story: Exquisite Drunken Dream (side story) on Youku (in Chinese)