Someday or One Day

Someday or One Day 想見你
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Also known as	KR: 상견니 JP: 時をかける愛
Genre	Romance Comedy Time travel Inference Suspense Thriller Mystery
Written by	Jian Qi-Feng（簡奇峯） Lin Xin-Hui（林欣慧）
Directed by	Huang Tien-jen（黃天仁）
Starring	Ko Chia-yen Greg Hsu Patrick Shih Kenny Yen
Theme music composer	Wu Jia-Xiang（吳嘉祥） Lin Guo-Kai（林國凱） Xu Qi-Yang（徐啟洋） Chen Renshuo（陳人碩） Xu Yi-Hong（許一鴻）
Opening theme	"Someday or One Day" by Shi Shi
Ending theme	"Miss You 3000" by 831
Country of origin	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Original language	Mandarin
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producers	Chen Zhi-Han（陳芷涵） Ma Yi-Ting（麻怡婷）
Production location	Taiwan
Editors	Zhang Fei-Qi（張斐棋） Li Yong-Han（李泳漢）
Running time	90 minutes
Production companies	Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Three Phoenixes Production Co. Ltd. （三鳳製作）
Original release
Network	CTV
Release	23 November 2019 (2019-11-23) – 22 February 2020 (2020-02-22)

Someday or One Day (Chinese: 想見你) is a 2019 Taiwanese TV drama, which was directed by Huang Tien-jen（黃天仁） and starred by Ko Chia-yen, Greg Hsu, Patrick Shih and Kenny Yen as the main role. It was produced by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific and Three Phoenixes Production Co. Ltd.（三鳳製作）, and the drama was subsidized by NT$22 million from the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, and produced by Hualien Media International.

The drama was premiered at CTV on every Sunday at 10:00 pm, from November 17, 2019 to February 16, 2020, and then it was jointly screened at Star Chinese Channel on every other Saturday. It broadcast the behind-the-scenes footage of "Someday or One Day - Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave" at the end of the drama.

Plot

The plot describing a 27-years-old (2019) woman Huang Yu-Xuan (Ko Chia-yen), pines to re-meet with the love of her life, her long-time boyfriend Wang Quan-Sheng (Greg Hsu), after her boyfriend died in an aviation accident. She was missing him deeply and kept sending him messages, updating her social media as normal, hoping that he will somehow see them.

On one fateful day, Huang Yu-Xuan receives a mysterious parcel containing an old-school Walkman portable cassette player and a cassette tape of the song "Last Dance" sung by Wu Bai. When she is heading home, she falls asleep with the Walkman with the cassette tape. By virtue of the feeling, the song which brings her back to 1998, and her soul was exchanged with a high school girl named Chen Yun-Ru, a girl who looks exactly like herself. One night, Chen Yun-Ru was hit by a car, and when she regains consciousness and saw a boy called Li Zi-Wei sitting by her hospital bed, who looks exactly the same as her dead boyfriend. She believed he is Wang Quan-Sheng, and finally been reunited with her beloved, but there's a very big twist......

Li Zi-Wei looks exactly the same as Wang Quan-Sheng, but he was not her boyfriend at all. Li Zi-Wei had a best friend Mo Jun-Jie (Patrick Shih), who secretly had a crush on Chen Yun-Ru for years.... The three became best friends then......

Trapped in what appears to be the past, living another person's life, in various mysteries and complex and interlaced time and space, Huang Yu-Xuan tried to change the fate of Chen Yun-Ru from the past and the future. Huang Yu-Xuan eventually comes to realize all about the shrouded in mystery "traffic accident" that happened to Chen Yun-Ru. On the other hand, Wang Quan-Sheng had a chance to travel back to the past, as he hope to in love with Huang Yu-Xuan again......

The story cleverly integrates various types of elements, discusses the issue of "self-identity", and leading the audience to make a painstaking investigation with the reversal of the brain-burning plot.

Cast

Main cast

• Ko Chia-yen as Huang Yu-Xuan（黃雨萱）／Chen Yun-Ru（陳韻如）
• Greg Hsu as Wang Quan-Sheng（王詮勝）／Li Zi-Wei（李子維）
• Patrick Shih（施柏宇） as Mo Jun-Jie（莫俊傑）

Other cast

• Kenny Yen（顏毓麟） as Hsieh Tsung-Ju（謝宗儒）／Hsieh Chih-Chi（謝芝齊）
• Yen Yi-Wen（嚴藝文） as Wu Ying-Chan（吳瑛嬋）
• Da-her Lin（林鶴軒） as Chen Si-Yuen（陳思源）
• Chang Han（張翰） as Wu Wen-Lei（吳文磊）
• Guo Wen-Yi（郭文頤） as Kombu（昆布）
• Da-Fei（大飛） as Ah-Cai（陳財裕／阿財）
• Zhang Guang-Chen（章廣辰） as Ah-Tuo（阿脫）
• Lin Zi-Shan（林子珊） as Xiao Dai（小黛）

Special Appearance

• Zhang Jiahui（張家慧） as Sister Na（娜姐）
• Joanne Tseng as Ms. Sunny（Sunny老師）
• Dewi Chien（簡廷芮） as Vicky
• Prince Chiu as Yen Li-Zheng（顏力正）
• Bokeh Kosang as Instructor
• Erato Liang（梁洳瑄） as Cai Wen-Rou（蔡雯柔）
• Yang Qiao-Shuo（楊翹碩） as Zhang Chi-En（張奇恩）
• Ahan（阿翰） as Yue（澟月）
• Ma Hui-chen（馬惠珍） as Grandma Mo（莫奶奶）
• Any.C（Any安偉） as A-Nan（阿南）
• Zhu Zhi-Ying（朱芷瑩） as Yang Bi-Yun（楊碧雲）
• Simon Lian as A-Che（阿哲）
• Alien Huang as Tu Chi-Min（杜齊閔）

Production

Background and creation

The screenwriters Jian and Lin were tacit partner who were worked together for many years, they were the finalist of the "Award for Drama Screenwriter" in the "Golden Bell Awards", by the drama "Ex-boyfriend" and "Marry Me, or Not?". They were worked with the director Huang again after "What Is Love" and "Attention, Love!". Jian revealed the creative opportunity of "Someday Or One Day" at the preview that was the producer Ma wanted to make a "drama that made people being touch insensibly" as she said at once, and Jian was taxed his brains by this concept for a long time, until he had a dream one day, "In my dream, I am writing in a hurry, writing about a love story of the male and female protagonists who have been in love for 13 years. The drama was using a flashback approach, they were back to high school days slowly from the age of 29, and they had found out the evidences of their love." He told his partner Lin about this story, and they put the story pieces altogether and wrote it down together. They conceived those ideas for three years, and used a year for writing scripts, and the result was described as "The God was grabbed the handwritten script of the screenwriter".

Producer Ma mentioned the preparation was the most difficult part of the drama. The first was the pre-casting period, because of the main actors are needed to act as two characters in one person, so they must be skilled with acting skills, and the combination of male and female protagonists should be refreshing for the audiences; Secondly, it was the scenes. There are two eras in the drama, 1998 and 2019 respectively. It was necessary to make a difference to restore the sense of the times in 1998, but it should not be too abrupt. In addition, producer Ma revealed that the freedom of creative space of screenwriters was given by the production company Three Phoenixes Production, the distribution company was found after the script was actually completed, and the drama was started to filming then. The screenwriters also expressed that they have a lot of dominance of the script, there was no need to make changes or amendments as followed the requirements from the production completely, so that many wonderful ideas can be retained.

The screenwriter expressed in an interview that they're like to challenge the topics that others dare not to write, under the packaging of love, fantasy, inference, suspense, thriller, and the mystery within the drama, the real issue was the "self identity of youth". The screenwriter Lin would said that there were some special traits within the three main young protagonists, but they're unable to take their traits seriously. She supposed that the troubles of adolescents were being overlooked easily, adults may think what a big trouble that they are still so young, but this problem was serious in fact, she said. The screenwriter Jian continued that people seems to think that everyone should be brave and not being hurt, however, this was a very important feelings of everyone. That's why they chose to spend an entire episode at the beginning to describe how the female protagonist suppressed her sadness; If you can’t understand that kind of sadness as a screenwriter, you will never write a good script, he said. He realized at the moment that it is easy for everyone to ignore where the others were being hurt. In addition, they mentioned that although the plot was gradually pieced together from a broken time and space, although their thoughts were very clear when they wrote the scripts. Jian said that he was not persuading the director only with Lin, but it was everyone. Especially in the seventh episode, they didn’t feel anything when they wrote, but everyone will think that the world will be destroyed if two souls was met, the audiences had been constrained by the rules of the past TV series, and breaking the framework and create the new game rules that belong to "Someday Or One Day" was thing that what they wanted to do. About the conception of the character names in the drama, Jian said that he would like to take the names from those around him, and Lin would like to use those homophonic names. From the perspective of Jian, the names of the person which used in this drama were real person. He said that Wang was the classmate from his elementary school, Mo was the classmate of secondary school, and Li and Chen were his classmate from high school. The words were exactly the same, only Huang was made up and pieced together slowly.

The drama was originally titled with "Read but ignored（已讀不回）", and it was changed subsequently to "Love, Read but ignored（愛，已讀不回）". As the protagonists were able to travel through time and space because of their tenacious with seeing each other, so it had the English title as "Someday or One Day", which represents "There is a possibility that one day when the future is the past, and the past is also the future?", and the meaning of "I want to see you, not only on a certain day, it is from the past to the future, and from the future to the past". The script was using "Want to see you（想見你）" as the as the subtitle in Chinese, and finally uses it as the official title.

Filming and taking place

The university where Huang and Wang (Li) attended, which is took place at Kainan University.

The lawn where Li and Chen (Huang) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk, which filming at Luodong Sports Park.

Filming for "Someday Or One Day" was began officially on December 27, 2018, and concluded on May 10, 2019, the filming lasted five months. The process of field research was quite time-consuming, the whole crew were participated in the discussion together according to the progress of the script release after the screenwriters had finished the script. The time and space within the drama had divided into 1998 and 2019, so that the amount of scenes were doubled of the normal drama. In order to find out the scene with a sense of the generation, the house of the heroine (Chen) had been surveyed for three months, the director had seen the hundreds of houses, said that Chen’s house was actually quite large. For the convenience for filming, He sealed some corridors and made the compartments to look smaller. The records store had also been searching for a long time, but he preferred as the one which showed in the drama at his first glance, then they had changed the interior furnishings. Director and the producer Ma Yi-Ting were attached great importance to the sense of life with the scene, the director was required those props to be "moved" in the scene, which the position of the items cannot be same as it showed every-time. He explained that as the home where the protagonists lived in the drama, it was impossible which the shoes were at the same place and the calendars are all on the same page every time they entered the scene. Therefore, he was required no matter which scene, as long as it was not a coherent plot, all the small objects have to moved once. Regarding the atrium that presenting Chen's, the art director had proposed with several proposals, while the director proposed to build an atrium with a Möbius ring to symbolize the endless and circulation. The design of a circular arc-shaped scene with the dynamic projection was the concept extended of Möbius ring within the drama, he revealed that the concept of atrium had been discussed for a long time, and the decision was not finalized until one month prior the filming was began. The Möbius ring was the way he wanted to perform most, to let Chen meander back and forth inside and unable to get out of it, and she was always surrounded by those images. However, the actual scene settings were too difficult to present, he decided to use a white curtain combined with motionless photos and dynamic projection for presentation therefore; He explained that the scene of the atrium was concentrated on the last three days of filming, because it was required a lot of material, and these contents need to be filmed earlier to made those can be presented. The producer Ma Yi-Ting said that she decided to build a house with white curtains combined with the static photos and dynamic projection after many discussions, and they found a VJ team that specially organized the concert to fit with the images. The shape of the house was projected with those images, which it can be switched at any time according to the performance of the actress; She emphasized that if the image was processed by post-processing, the visual would be distorted easily, and the actors must rely on imagination when performing. If you let Ko to act with the imagination first, and perform the projection afterwards, she would thought that was a pity and it will sacrifice those performance from the actress.

The Miao-Shou-Gong, Anping was the place where Li bought the white sugar rice pudding, and the place of encounter with the little Huang.

Tianhou Temple was the place that Li making candy with little Huang.

This drama was filmed in various cities and towns in Taiwan, the scenes of Huang being a office lady was mainly filmed in Taipei, and the protagonists’ campus life in 1998 was filmed in Tainan. During the press conference at the premiere, the actors revealed that in order to film the scene of 1998, Ko, Hsu, Shih and Yen were lived together in Tainan for two months. Therefore, they were still get along with the same group of people after the filming everyday. Hsu said that the understanding tacitly and sensibility between actors were became very good. Ko said that she was felt heavy often while watching the script during that time, and she would walk around to relax to get rid of Li and Mo, but she didn't expect to see them again while she opened the door. Shih described that everyone really became a family member while the time they spent together for filming in Tainan. The actors were established a profound friendship during the filming of the drama. Ko, Hsu, Shih and the crew members returned to Tainan specially for the visit of the filming locations after the drama was broadcast. The scenes of the drama attracted many fans to visit after the drama was broadcast.

Actors and roles

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Ko Chia-yen was the actress as the role of Huang Yu-Hsuan and Chen Yun-Ru.

Ko Chia-yen, the best actress of the 51st Golden Bell Awards for the drama "Marry Me, or Not?", she plays as the role of Huang Yu-Hsuan and Chen Yun-Ru this time. This was her second time worked with the screenwriter. Producer Ma talked about the audition about the cast selection, she said that Ko's eyes were very clear and haven't polluted by the environment for so many years she working at this industry, which is needed for portrayed the role of Chen in this drama. The screenwriter revealed that Ko was the prototype at the time of creation. She got the traits of both Huang and Chen. The characters of Huang and Chen were substantially different, the former was lively and confident, while the latter was introverted and quiet. Ko was resonated with Chen's role because of her own experience. She was crying with couldn't help after filming a scene, she said that Chen really wanted to grasp the happiness, however she found that even Li, the person who crushed secretly, and everyone liked Huang. Girls were tend to feel awkward and lock themselves up during adolescence. She said that used to be very introverted in her study life, and feeling uncomfortable whenever going anywhere, she felt out of place with everyone with the whole environment, but she had contacted with a lot of people because of work, ans acting was the only way to explore her soul, it is very important to embracing everything about yourself. She also encourages people with the same experience to feel the changes in their mood. The bad thing was just a process, it won't be rain forever and the sunshine will come in the end. She revealed that the drama was a relatively hard work she had filmed since her career. However it made her very happy that she can feel many states that have not been felt before during the character journey. At the careful study with the role, she has been in a sorrow and missed state for a long time when filming, she might felt very uncomfortable sometimes, she went home to read the scripts and follow those characters to produce those emotions. She simply not ready to prepare as she would cried once she read it. She said that she didn't have a sense of reality at the moment of last day of filming. She felt that she can keep filming. This drama also allowed her to find the passion for acting. She said it’s hard to encounter a story and a special type that she liked so much, it could be said that it was acting with the love of her whole life.

Greg Hsu was the actor as Wang Chuan-Sheng and Li Tzu-Wei.

Greg Hsu, the finalist for supporting actor of the 52nd Golden Bell Awards for the drama "Have You Ever Fallen in Love, Miss Jiang?", he plays as the role of Wang Chuan-Sheng and Li Tzu-Wei in ths drama. This was working with the director and screenwriter of him again after the drama "Attention, Love!". The producer Ma revealed that she had seen him many years ago, just before not yet he performed at the Qseries（植劇場）, and she had saw many traits of him, she thought that he got a special temperament that other actors do not have, something both good and evil, very clean, and he made people to feel that he had an old soul inside, but he would not be too sophisticated. The screenwriter Jian also revealed the reason for choosing Hsu that was originally proposed by the producer Ma, to let the leading role play by the newcomer Hsu, and he said that he had felt the charm of him when he previously worked with Hsu, and praised him as the best of Wang Chuan-Sheng and Li Tzu-Wei. Li's role spans from 17 years old to the end of his 30s. He was needed to perform in the sunshine of high school and the mature with steady vicissitudes from the adulthood, and it was a very difficult challenges for Hsu specially he took part in this drama immediately successively filmed the movie "A Sun" and the drama "Nowhere Man". Therefore, he was not much preparation and speculation for the role. But Jian thought that the most important thing was to made the mentality conform to the state of character. And he interprets the real character of Wang that compared with Li' bright and clear, Wang's character was more feminine and delicate. Hsu was referenced with the movies he'd watched as the template, and revealed that Wang was treat himself as a girl, therefore the pace of walking would be smaller and the manners would be more gentle. During the drama, Hsu tried to make the contrast and separation with Li's personality.

Patrick Shih as Mo Chun-Chieh, Li's best friend.

The actor Patrick Shih（施柏宇）, who played as Mo Chun-Chieh, he was performed at "HIStory 2 - Crossing the Line". The Screenwriter Jian revealed at the screening that he had voted for the alternate actor of the role, and he was passed the audition with fully voted due to his outstanding performance. Producer Ma also believed that his own characteristics were quite consistent with Mo. Mo had to wear the hearing aid due to his ear diseases since childhood, and suffered with bullying since then. Shih revealed that he had just put his own experience into the role that he had the experience of being bullied also in his school days. He described Mo as a blank piece of paper that do not ask for return for the contribution to Chen. The audiences can see the purest form of love in him, which is haggle and the simplicity that everyone ever had. Shih was lack of performing experience in acting compared with those leading roles, so that he gave a lot of pressure on himself during filming. He considered that he was dragging down the crew and the actors, and felt everyone were more and more getting into the character's state, but he was standing still stagnantly, he even hiding in the closet to review himself, and he was gradually integrated and get it straight with the help of Ko and Hsu. He also said that he had learned a lot of performing skills after filming this drama.

Kenny Yen（顏毓麟）, the actor who portrayed as Hsieh Tsung-Ju（謝宗儒） and Hsieh Chih-Chi（謝芝齊）, who once performed at "Life Plan A and B", it was his second time worked with the director Huang. He expressed in the interview that he was able to interpret the role relying on the guidance of director and the circumstances of the scene. He also shared the most difficult part of the scenes that, there had a scene where he felt his neck was being pinched by an "invisible power", and it was stopping him to spoke the lines. He said although he was scared at the moment, however his performance was helped by that kind of state, and fit in with the emotions of the role, and made the tension of drama was more sufficient. His role as the physical and mental physician Hsieh Chih-Chi, he had the breakthrough performances with very dark sides, and the director praised him as the next Anthony Wong. Yen said that he thought Hsieh Chih-Chi would had a romance scene with Ko Chia-yen, he discovered the truth until they read the script. He remembered that the director had said that it would have a dark side with this character, and it was those part of his memories would be removed from his brain and the fragments of his abnormalities will be deleted.

The actress won the best actress of the 50th Golden Bell Awards from the drama "Angel's Radio", Yen Yi-wen（嚴藝文）was portrayed as Wu Ying-Chan, the mother of Chen Yun-Ru and Chen Ssu-Yuen, and the elder sister of Wu Wen-Lei. Different from the image of solemn mother in the past, she had portrayed as a warm mother this time, who had suffered from the affair with her husband, then took all the burden of household expenses solely and running the karaoke business in order to raise her children; Yen explained that she had never had a child in fact which could not fully understand mentality of being a mother. However, the actress had the ability to empathize those sentiments as she had read the script, she had understood those messages the role was given to express, and tried to get it as close as possible. Rather than she would be treating her role as a "woman", she revealed that she would not treating her role as "a mother" when she was trying to figure out the role. After she had analyzed the character's personality, she had found out her favorite characteristics, and did her best to show them. She was participated in the filming of this drama while she was directing the drama "The Making of an Ordinary Woman（俗女養成記）" in Tainan.

Chang Han（張翰）, who was portrayed as the younger brother of Wu Ying-Chan and the uncle of Chen Yun-Ru and Chen Si-Yuen. The actor was shortlisted for the Golden Bell Award by the Taiwanese movie "Upstream" and a student showcase named as "One step away（一步之遙）" which was broadcast on public television. His role was a man who was the owner of the 32 record store, and he possessed a romantic and uninhibited artist character, which was a key figure in the plot.

Da-her Lin（林鶴軒）, who was the best supporting actor of the Taipei Film Awards, by the film "Secrets in The Hot Spring（切小金家的旅館）". He plays the role of Chen Si-Yuen, the younger brother of Chen Yun-Ru, who was a secondary school student in a revolting period. Da-her said that he got a great pressure for interpret the secondary school student, and he was worried about his acting like a fool that just because of his young age; In order to conformed with the appearance of his role, he had applied some facial treatments very often with taking supplements, and the result was made him to got acne afterwards, and it made him more like a secondary school student finally; He had mentioned a scene impressed him the most that, it was the last scene with his sister who said goodbye to him and asked him to learn for growing up. He stated that he was being moved deeply when he was reading the scripts and filming officially.

Broadcast

On 23 February 2019, the press conference of the drama was held. In addition, a campus premiere was held on 27 September of the same year, with first published of the 3-minute of international edition trailer. The preview screening of the drama was held on 5 November of the same year, a number of media and artist friends were invited, and the 40-minute of footage was broadcast live. The press conference of the premiere was held on 15 November the same year, and the 17-minute version of the trailer was firstly released.

The live interactions with audiences were held at drama's community site before and after each weekly episodes that broadcast on CTV. The finale was originally selected to be watched with the audiencea together with the actors in the cinema, however it was canceled due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, and the live broadcast was changed to broadcast proceed on Taiwanese Yahoo.

On 15 April 2020, a post-credits scene concert was held by the TME Live, named "Want to See You Someday Or One Day", the cast member Ko Chia-yen, Greg Hsu, Patrick Shih were participated at the webcast online, and the singers Sun Sheng Xi, Nine Chen and the band 831 were take-over with the live performance of drama soundtracks, Wu Bai & China Blue were being the last but best one to performed with many classic songs. When the interlude "Last Dance" was performed by Wu Bai, the three leading actors were turned into audiences, they were reproduced the classic movement of the song which covering their eyes with their fingers when he sang with the lyrics "So temporarily closed your eyes（所以暫時將妳眼睛閉了起來）".

Broadcast channels

The drama was broadcast on the main frequency of CTV starting from 17 November 2019 to 16 February 2020, at every Sunday night 22:00pm to 23:30pm, then rebroadcast at 00:00am every other Sunday; The Star Chinese Channel was broadcast from 23 November 2019 to 22 February 2020 at the same time every Saturday, and replay on the next day. CTi Entertainment was aired on every Sunday night at 22:00, starting from 1 March 2020, and re-broadcast on every other Saturday. The channel of WeLike (위라이크) at Korea was aired for two consecutive episodes available on every Saturdays and Sundays at 11pm KST, starting on 18 April 2020. The Star Chinese Channel was re-broadcast the drama at 10pm on every Saturday from 16 May 2020, and re-broadcast on the next day (Sunday) at 2pm and 8pm. The drama had been broadcast on J2 channel at 21:35 to 22:35 on every Mondays to Fridays (except Wednesdays), starting from 28 May to 7 July 2020, and then re-broadcast on 03:05am, replayed it at 13:00 on the following day of every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and every other Mondays. Some fragments of this broadcast version had been cut away and split into 21 episodes, 60 minutes (including advertisement) per episode of show time. Japan's Family Drama Channel will be broadcast the drama at 2am JST on every Thursday commencing from 16 July 2020, and the aired version will be split into 26 episodes.

Terrestrial/Cable/Satellite

The following is a simplified schedule of the drama.

Broadcast channels	Country/Region	First Airing Date	Timeslot (GMT +8)
CTV	Republic of China (Taiwan)	November 17, 2019	Sunday 10:00-11:30 pm
Star Chinese Channel		November 23, 2019	Saturday 10:00-11:30 pm
CTi Entertainment		March 1, 2020	Sunday 10:00-11:30 pm
Astro Shuang Xing	Malaysia	February 17, 2020	Monday-Friday 7:00-8:00 pm
WeLike	Republic of Korea	April 18, 2020	Saturday-Sunday 10:00 pm
TVB J2	Hong Kong	May 28, 2020	Monday-Friday (except Wednesdays) 9:35-10:35 pm
Home Drama Channel	Japan	July 16, 2020	Thursday 1:00 am

OTT Platforms

The show was made available on iQIYI Taiwan, LINE TV, myVideo at 00:00 after CTV's first broadcast every Sunday; FOX+ and the Star Chinese Channel from every Saturday after CTV's first broadcast; KKTV would be available at 00:00 every Sunday beginning from 24 November 2019, and Hami Video and CHT MOD were available on every Sunday; myTV SUPER in Hong Kong listed the show on every Sunday starting from 18 November 2019. The C-POP TV from Japan commenced broadcast from 6 December 2019, with each of the original 13 episodes being split into 26 episodes. iQIYI and Tencent Video from Mainland China listed the show on every Sunday, starting from 22 December at 23:00, with each episodes being reviewed by the Mainland media authority and it was split into 26 episodes with several scenes being deleted due to viewing guidelines.

Network	Country/Region	Airing Date	Timeslot (GMT +8)
iQIYI Taiwan	Republic of China (Taiwan)	18 November 2019	Monday 12:00 am
LINE TV			Monday 12:00 am
Taiwan Mobile myVideo			Monday 12:00 am
KKTV		25 November 2019	Monday 12:00 am
Chunghwa Telecom Hami Video			Monday 12:00 am
Chunghwa MOD			Monday 12:00 am
FOX+		23 November 2019	Saturday 10:00 pm
iQIYI	People's Republic of China	22 December 2019	Sunday 11:00 pm
Tencent Video			Sunday 11:00 pm
TVB myTV SUPER	Hong Kong	18 November 2019	Monday 12:00 am
WAVVE	Republic of Korea	18 April 2020
Astro On Demand VOD	Malaysia	17 February 2020

Reviewed in Mainland China

The drama was repackaged in simplified Chinese when the streaming platforms of Mainland China began to air simultaneously with Taiwan after the fifth episode had been broadcast. At the same time, the pictures with the meaning of sovereignty from Taiwan, such as the passport, flag, identity card, police badge, and maps etc. were edited by being blocked and cropped or by deleting fragments. In addition, some scenes from the episodes were deleted during the broadcast in mainland China, for example, the kisses of protagonists who were in high school, it had been deleted due to their puppy love; the entire plot of the homosexuality involving Wang had been cut out, retaining only the shots in the sea; the shots of masturbation and cruelty to animals from Hsieh Chih-Chi was deleted too. The line of "Was that your first day?" in one of the episode was also deleted as it hinted on women's menstruation, which sparked dissatisfaction from audiences in mainland China, with them ironically saying that "Do Chinese girls not have the right of a menstrual period?", and they criticized the censorship system was an act of "forbidding human nature".

Outflow of illegally pirated finale

On February 10, 2020, some netizens found that the there had several discussions openly with the un-broadcast endings were leaked by the forum of Mainland China. At the next day, the production team had issued a formal statement that the outgoing ending was not the final version. In order to respect and protect the efforts of creators and cast members, they had urged the audience do not watch the leaked version and do not distribute the pirated links. The actors were made public statements on this matter also.

Easter eggs

On February 15, 2020, the main actors of the drama, including Ko, Hsu, Shih and Yan were attended the book signing event of the drama. They were announced with surprise that they had filming for the "Easter egg" especially. Producer Ma expressed they were being upset and discouraged after receiving the news of pirated scenes had leaked out, so she called a meeting for the whole crew on the day the statement was issued. She originally planned to use another version of the ending as the egg. However, the screenwriter and director conceived and discussed three egg versions in a short time, and the filming was started officially at the next day. Actors were arranged their schedules in particular, they woke up early with freshen up and make up for the shooting, and devoted efforts put into it. Those egg fragments were not directly related to the finale. The clip was broadcast on CTV on the day of the finale which was on February 16, and then it was aired at Satellite TV Chinese Channel on the other week. After it was broadcast on CTV, the episode then uploaded to the official social platform at 0:00 am that night.

In addition to the easter eggs in the drama, Shi Shi and the band 831, the singers who participated in the songs of the drama, they had released the eggs just before the finale broadcast, they combined with the opening and ending songs into a song named as "Miss You 3000 Someday or One Day". They finished recording, arranging, editing music video just before the day of finale, and released it at the next day.

Soundtrack

Someday or One Day Original TV Soundtrack (OST)
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	6 May 2020
Genre	Mandopop
Language	Mandarin
Label	Rock Records

Sun Sheng Xi tailored the opening song "Someday or One Day" and the song "Come Away".

Someday or One Day Original TV Soundtrack (OST) (想見你 電視原聲帶) was released on May 6, 2020 by various artists, published by Rock Records. The songs within are tailored to the drama and interspersed in the drama with many Chinese popular songs from the 1990s, which can fit the mood of the protagonists and also evokes the youth memories of many drama fans. In order to obtain music authorization, the Three Phoenixes Production contacted several record companies, and decided to cooperate with Rolling Stone Records finally, because it had own many classic songs from the 1990s. In addition, the Rock Records also tailored five songs for the drama. The producer Chen Zhi-Han said that, compared to the Chinese title, she prefers the English title with "Someday or One Day" more. At the first production meeting of the TV soundtrack, Chen proposed the idea that a theme song could be presented in English. It made the title of the song named as "Someday or One Day". She felt the song title fits the feeling of time-travel, which "Someday" represents a day in the future, and "One Day" represent now or a day in the past. She stated that she did not expect the proposal would come true when she proposed, and she did not expect Sun Sheng Xi would be done finally. She believes that this song not only represents the entire drama, it also a portrayal of the mood of heroine.

The OST contains a total of 22 tracks, with the first 10 tracks being the drama's main soundtracks, while the other 12 tracks being the drama's incidental music. The album is available for streaming on music streaming platforms Spotify, KKBOX, Apple Music and YouTube Music.

Track listing

CD 1: Songs

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	演唱	Length
1.	"Last Dance"	Wu Bai	Wu Bai	Wu Bai	4:31
2.	"Someday or One Day"	Christine Welch	Sun Sheng Xi	Sun Sheng Xi	4:12
3.	"Miss You 3000"	A-Pok@831	A-Pok@831	831	4:17
4.	"Is It true?"	Chang Chen-yue	Chang Chen-yue	Karen Mok	5:21
5.	"See Your Voice"	Nine Chen	Nine Chen	Nine Chen	4:15
6.	"Come Away"	Sun Sheng Xi, Molly Lin	Sun Sheng Xi	Sun Sheng Xi	4:55
7.	"Secret"	Chang Chen-yue	Chang Chen-yue	Chang Chen-yue	5:22
8.	"Embrace"	Ashin	Ashin	Mayday	4:14
9.	"Someday"	Zhan Yi-Jun, Huang Xuan	Huang Xuan	Huang Xuan	4:08
10.	"Will We Remember?"	Li Yu-Huan	Li Yu-Huan	Faith Yang	5:15

CD 2: Incidental music

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Meet again with memories（背著回憶再遇見）"	3:20
2.	"We're together for a long long time in the dream （夢裡面的我們在一起很久很久）"	2:44
3.	"I'll go to find you if I can back to the past（如果可以回到過去，我會去找你）"	2:29
4.	"One white sugar rice pudding（一份白糖粿）"	2:48
5.	"The darkest star in the universe（宇宙中最黯淡的那顆星）"	3:10
6.	"Silent you and silent me behind（無聲的妳，身後無聲的我）"	2:53
7.	"I missed you so much as the first thought of wake up （醒來的第一個念頭，就是我好想好想你）"	1:59
8.	"Letting you to leave me was the only thing that I was regretted（唯一後悔過的事，是讓你離開我身邊）"	1:46
9.	"The third wish that cannot be told（不說出口的第三個願望）"	2:18
10.	"Someone who is living in my heart（一直住在我心裡的某個人）"	2:12
11.	"If I can saw you in my dream（如果可以在夢裡見到你）"	4:51
12.	"You would come back to me one day（你會回到我身邊，總有一天）"	4:41

Plot outline summary

The story is divided between 1998 and 2019, where the multiple timelines are interspersed. The overall plot is a loop of interlocking loops as the chart followings:

← Huang's soul crossed with Chen's body Chen Being attacked (1998) (aged 17) Chen Died (1999) (aged 18) Huang Studying in University (2010) (aged 18) Huang Being adult (2019) (aged 27) → Huang's soul travels back to 2019 Chen gets to know each other with Li and Mo (1998) Mo went to jail (2000) Huang in love with Wang (Li) (2012) Huang and Li recognize each other (2019) → Li's soul crossed with Wang Li Car accident (2003) (aged 22) Mo released from the prison in 2008 Mo suicide in 2010 (aged 27) Li Died in 2019 (aged 38) Wang Jump off the sea in 2010 (aged 18) Wang （Li） Aviation accident in 2017 ← Li's soul travels back to 2003 Hsieh Tsung-Ju rescue Chen Hsieh Chih-Chi attack Chen (1998) Hsieh murdered Li (2019) ← Hsieh Chih-Chi's soul travels to his brother Hsieh Tsung-Ju's body Hsieh Tsung-Ju in coma at 1998 (aged 17) Hsieh Tsung-Ju in 1999 (aged 18) Hsieh Chih-Chi Arrested in 2019 (aged 32) → Hsieh Chih-Chi's soul travels back to 2019

Reception

Episodes ratings

Chapter	Air Date	Average Ratings	Rank
1	17 Nov 2019	0.54	2
2	24 Nov 2019	0.57	2
3	1 Dec 2019	0.73	3
4	8 Dec 2019	0.83	3
5	15 Dec 2019	0.96	1
6	22 Dec 2019	1.14	1
7	29 Dec 2019	0.92	1
8	5 Jan 2020	1.25	1
9	12 Jan 2020	1.30	1
10	19 Jan 2020	1.55	1
Jan 26, 2020: "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" was broadcast during the time slot due to Chinese New Year holidays
11	2 Feb 2020	1.81	1
12	9 Feb 2020	1.83	1
13	16 Feb 2020	2.35	1
Average ratings			--

Competing dramas on rival channels airing at the same time slot were:

• FTV - The Mirror
• SET Taiwan - Top Singers
• TTV - Let's Go Crazy on LIVE!, The Wonder Woman
• Numbers in red denote the highest rating and numbers in blue denote the lowest rating for the drama's tenure.
• Ratings are obtained from AGB Nielsen.
• Information obtained from 台灣-偶像劇場 and 凱絡媒體週報

The reaction of the drama was flat at first, but there was gradually climbed with the rhythm of the plot reverses constantly, the audiences were started to lead a highly discussion at the PTT, and the rating had also risen steadily. The first broadcast ratings of CTV ranks first among the four wireless channels in the same period. Satellite TV Chinese Channel, which is re-broadcast at the following week, it also set a new record of high ratings for 11 years in their same air-time period. The finale was broadcast on 16 February 2020, with an average rating of 2.35 for people who over the age of 4, and a total of 73.5 million viewers nationwide, including the rating of 3.23 among audience aged 22 to 44, and female aged 25 to 39 was regarded as 4.65; The highest point of viewing was the scene at the end, where Li was riding motorcycle with little Huang, and later transformed into the adult Huang. The ratings had reached 2.46; The rating of the finale from various channels has reached a new high in the drama, it had ranked first in the same period of rating. In addition, the keyword of "the finale of Someday Or One Day" was the second place at the Google search ranking in Taiwan. Satellite TV Chinese Channel re-broadcast it on 22 February 2020, with a ratings of 1.01. The rating of the premiere by the exclusive tidbits also ranked first in the same period, which was the highest-rated Taiwanese drama in the past 13 years. According to the statistics of the TV channel, a total of 6.07 million people had watched the drama through TV channels across Taiwan since the beginning of broadcast. In iQiyi Taiwan, it had also surpassed from 10 million internet clicking rates.

This drama had been broadcast in more than 100 countries around the world and it was translated into multiple languages. As of February 2020, there were more than 30 million views accumulated at the Taiwanese OTT platform; On Tencent and iQiyi, the audio-visual platform in mainland China, the number of views had exceeded 700 million times; The total number of clicks on the global legal audiovisual platform was roughly estimated up to 800 million; The overseas copyrights are sold to more than 100 countries and regions, and those were translated into 12 languages, including English, French, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.

After the drama was broadcast in mainland China platform, it had received a good reputation and discussion rate, with scored in high ratings on various media sites. There were more than 6 billion readings on the topic of "Someday Or One Day" at Sina Weibo. It had ranked the first at the list of keyword search in Taiwanese search engine Naver after the drama had been aired on cable TV in South Korea. The drama was subsequently well received and triggered a lot of discussion.

"Someday Or One Day" had several peripheral products launched by Shui-Ling Culture & Books, such as photo-books, novels, handbooks, those were all tailor-made for the drama. The response was enthusiastic among the original novels. The 5,000 copies of the first edition pre-ordered had been sold out upon it was launched, therefore 5,000 additional copies were printed. The publisher revealed that, the prepaid royalties of authorized novels, photobooks, handbooks amounted to approximately 2 million TWD. The "Limited Hardcover Edition" of TV soundtrack for the drama was released by the Rock Records, the paperback edition of the soundtrack was released simultaneously after the limited edition of 8,000 copies were sold out. The TV soundtrack had won the championships of many rankings in Taiwan, and airborned the first place in the sales record of the Hong Kong Record Merchants Association.

Wu Bai's song "Last Dance" which was released in 1996, became popular again after the drama was broadcast.

Wu Bai & China Blue's "Last Dance" was throughout the episode, the song which became very popular after the drama had been aired. The click rate of its music videos on YouTube had increased rapidly. After the finale was aired, "Someday or One Day", the opening song had won the champion of the Western Singles Daily Chart in KKBOX, the ending song "Miss You 3000" reelected for the championship of the Chinese singles daily chart, and the song "Last Dance" also scored to the top five at the same time. Two months after the drama had been ended, the episode "Last Dance" counterattacks the first runner-up of the Chinese single track-list; the opening song "Someday or One day" had won the champion of 10 consecutive days in the Western singles chart; and the ending song "Miss You 3000" had won the 48-day championship in KKBOX's Chinese single track list, with the champion of sixth consecutive week in the Chinese single weekly chart. As of July 2020, the ending song "Miss You 3000" had won the championship at the KKBOX Chinese annual cumulative list in the first half of the year, and the episode "See Your Voice", "One Day" and "Escape" were also on the list.

Ratings and effects

Audience Rating

Media	Highest rating
Facebook	5／5
LINE TV	4.9／5
HamiVideo	4.8／5
Viki	9.5／10
Tencent	9.5／10
Douban	9.2／10
IMDb	8.6／10
iQIYI	8.3／10

The film critic "Bird（雀雀）" was highly praised after reviewing the complete works with the screening. She believes that "Someday Or One Day" was the successor of another drama "The World Between Us", that was a high scores regardless of the aspects in terms of drama structure, overall completeness, and the performance of actors. She expressed that the plot was much more deeper and wider than she had imagined. The drama as a whole was quite average and error-free under the accommodating of multiple elements and performance. She also believed that the vocabulary used within the drama had been achieved, and the details were stood up for inspection.

Another film critic MAPLE believed that the theme design was very unique which combined with fantasy, suspense and romance, instead of two elements were put together, they had put the suspense puzzle solving inside the theme of romance. Regarding the performance of the actor, he said that Hsu had a good tacit understanding with the director Huang since they had worked in the "Attention, Love!". In addition to his previous breakthrough performance at "Nowhere Man", he believed that Hsu was not only made a delicate distinction between Li Zi-Wei and Wang Quan-Sheng during the high school days, he had also hid the complex memories and emotions in different periods of the character. At the same time, Hsu's charm was also exerted to the extreme under the skill of the director, making him as the biggest bright spot in the drama. Patrick Shih had showed his handsome and sunny side within "Crossover". MAPLE believes that his performance in this drama also impressed him. The role of Mo was introverted and considerate, it made him to show the different temperament and complex performance details from his previous works; MAPLE said that the actress Alice Ko was performing the heroine Huang Yu-Xuan, the character which was tailor-made for her in the drama, the character looks like a fish back in water. However, he believed that she got lightly laborious at the part of interpreting of high school student Chen Yun-Ru, leading the sparks of the hero and heroine in high school on and off throughout the drama, there was the deficiencies he pointed out. MAPLE gave a good evaluation of the overall performance of the drama. He thought that "Someday Or One Day" was a love idol drama that above the standard, it was interesting at the part of mystery, suspense, puzzle solving and romance, it was indeed handled quite well. It had a stable level in shooting and performance.

The production team had broke through the formulation of Taiwanese dramas, and embarking on a new path through the new theme of crossing, and relying on the plot withstand scrutiny, it can even be said to set a milestone for the Taiwanese drama.

── Movie Search（電影神搜）

The drama critic Lin Mei-Ling expressed that "Someday Or One Day" was second to none in terms of the theme of the story, the structure of the script, narrative method and the performance of the actors. It was both a story about missing and a drama that explored the sense of existence and sadness. For the actors, Lin believed that the slender figure of Ko, and her crystal-clear eyes, with her excellent acting skills, which was portrayed the different stages of a girl being woman; Hsu act as brilliant life of a high school student, the youth of college student and the affectionate and steady state of a man; Patrick Shih had interpreted the innocence of high school student and shown up the restrained of a mature men. Kenny Yen was interpreted vividly with the anti-social personality of a high school student, and the physical and mental physician Hsieh Chih-Chi; Da-her Lin acting alive with the secondary school boy who nonchalant about his family but caring deeply in fact. Lin said that there had not existed the problem of the sense of discomfort for inverse performance of age at the drama, she was also thought that the success of the drama was credited to having great scripts and excellent actors.

The media producer Ke Zhi-Yuan was praised both the screenwriters Jian and Lin for their outstanding skills, the first was they've told a story with a stable and meticulous structure in a layer of a blurred intricate story, and secondly was many key messages were laid out and hidden within the drama. He mentioned that Wu Bai’s "Last Dance", which throughout the drama that played the subtle role of timeline jumping within the plot. He also believes that "Miss You 3000" was a work written mostly in "Characters Growing inside the Story". For the performance of the actors, Ke was praised Ko for the interpretation of multiple personalities of two roles, she had completed the tough challenge with solid weight; And the role of Li that portrayed by Hsu that was opposing the right way, acting with vigorous and energetic, he made the audiences were expected to see a delicate look on Wang or middle-aged Li, which were more restrained and genuine, and praised his performance as "the integration of actor and drama"; In the end, Ke said that the appearance of Shih was pleasing, and it was an unexpected surprise and a bright spot in the drama. The character of Mo was requires further subtext, he was relatively depressed outwardly, but he was actually covered by more sensitive and darker waves of thinking than his actual age. Shih had unfolded his rare early wisdom in perception at a few scenes with clash of outbreak and forbearance.

External links

• Someday or One Day at IMDb