
We Live in Time(2024)
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.


Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?

Jing Boran
Lin Jianqing

Zhou Dongyu
Fang Xiaoxiao

Tian Zhuangzhuang
Jianqing's Father

Qu Zheming
Chen Dewen

Zhang Zixian
Jianqing's Neighbor

Liu Qiheng
Zheng Huan

Su Xiaoming
Mao

Li Dong
Sun Yilong
Us and Them is a drama, romance film released in 2018 exploring themes of family relationships, unrequited love, break-up, tearjerker, slow burn romance, friends to lovers. Directed by René Liu, it stars Jing Boran, Zhou Dongyu, Tian Zhuangzhuang. Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?
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