A Weekend Delight: The Day of Becoming You (2021)

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Brownie: Jiang Yi is one-third of a popular boy band. He isn’t your average cold just-for-the-hell-of-it type of male lead which I won’t deny I made that presumption when I first started watching the drama. To me, he came across as someone distant who didn’t like to communicate with the public or rather, he wasn’t as enthusiastic as a celebrity should be when meeting fans (I’m laughing out loud, right now). He seemed a bit awkward initially as well, but once we start to get to know a little bit more about him and his background, you’ll start to understand why he seems distant and weird. Due to his childhood, and whilst Jiang Yi does have his bandmates around him, he is a very closed up and lonely person. That all changes not long after meeting Yu Sheng Sheng.

His smile is just priceless and so contagious, making everyone smiling widely!

I’m sure some of you remember this scene from the drama!  [Note: From C.A. Magazine Cover photoshoot}

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^{(Official photo source:} Huaceinfo on Twitter)

Cryssy:  Yu Sheng Sheng is surely not your ordinary entertainment reporter! “Why?” you might ask. Because even though she leads a hard-working life, encountering many setbacks and awful prejudices from the people she encounters, she always takes each challenge head-on, steady but without fear as this bold attitude of hers and a warm smile starts to slowly change Jiang Yi’s awful first impression of her, as a harmful tabloid reporter, who’s only out for juicy scandals. 

As if fate played a bad joke on them, after a few days, one fateful night, their souls suddenly get intertwined after a strange incident in an elevator. From this point onwards, Sheng Sheng and Jiang Yi are forced to rely on each other, setting some funny rules for their exchanged lifestyles, but eventually ending up feeling all kinds of moods, from happiness to anger, sadness, worry and even longing, turning slowly into first love, as she tries to bring back the colors into his unbelievably bland life, becoming a sunflower, that sheds light into his closed-off heart, by always finding the real him behind the mask he hides away, first becoming friends, then lovers, both getting to learn the power of the healing process, comforting each other during the impending storms of life, as they try to build a place meant for them called home.

Major supporting roles:  Huang Hai Bing as Yu Guo Hua [Sheng Sheng’s father]

^{(Photo source:} iQiyiofficial on Twitter)

Brownie: Yu Guo Hua was honestly one of the best fathers I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch. There are not that many parents in dramaworld that actually love and support their children wholeheartedly and unconditionally, so when I saw how strong his love for Yu Sheng Sheng was, it honestly melted my heart! If I could be adopted in some parallel universe, I’d hope someone like him would be my father. I felt that the father-daughter bond could’ve been shown slightly more, but honestly, that’s more to do with the fact that loving parents are what I seek in dramas, so I feel like I was a bit starved. Or I am a little too greedy? Either way, family time in the Yu household means everything. 

Zhang Lei as Jiang Dong Hai [Jiang Yi’s father]

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Cryssy:  Jiang Dong Hai is not the kind of parent anyone would want to have. In fact couldn’t be any worse, because he has a very distant and cold relationship with Jiang Yi ever since his childhood days, since he was always neglecting him and his needs, be it emotionally or physically, only drinking away his anger or sorrows, until their relationship started to be shattered even further, to the point of no return, giving Jiang Yi only heartache, unwanted responsibilities, nightmares and awful misunderstandings that still remain entangled in the present, even as a grown-up, despite his surging popularity as an idol band leader. Because he was completely isolated from affection as a child, Jiang Yi now lives with fake smiles, scars and painful memories, as he distances himself even more from his stepmother and little sister. Though a  hidden reason must exist for all of this, otherwise, it will just be too sad to be true. In time, I believe even the darkest clouds will disappear so that the father and son will eventually start to rethink twice the importance of family and communication, which was never present in their lives before.

The entire staff members from this amazingly comical production are mentioned here:  Cast

On a different note, here are some of the most 

captivating and hilarious moments ever:

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Sprinkled with cute and sudden romantic moments

 that will surely make your heart skip a few beats!

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Comedy with truly relatable moments that bring out the potential even further:

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Brownie:  About episodes 1 up to 13

In this half of the drama, we are getting introduced to Sheng Sheng’s and Jiang Yi’s both private and professional lives but more comes to light after the swap has taken place. We also witness them trying to place each other whilst keeping the swap completely under wraps, some people notice, but they don’t really question it more than the average person would. I mean, who would? I think I struggled with the first few episodes, but I thought the first half was really funny as the actors were doing each other’s jobs while being in the presence of each other‘s families and peers. 

Sources: iQiyi, MyDramaList, Netflix, ChineseDrama.info, while official posters used as main cover and other photos are from Twitter, Weibo, here, here, here, here, here, here here and here. Official audio soundtracks and lyrics are available on YouTube. Other lyrics source is Genius.com and here. Wallpapers used for banners are from here, here, here, here and here. GIF images source are from here and here. All the pictures were edited by Cryssy Anne with an online tool called Pixlr X. This article was loosely inspired by my first Premiere Recap article that has a different fantasy theme, my newest Summer editorial and my second News Diary article. The last poster source is here, and photoshoot source is here. Summer photoshoot photo is from Weibo. Additional photo is here. The present article was written in collaboration with Brownie. 

 _{Edited by: YW (1st editor)}

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