That Lost August

When everyone woke up, they had lost all their memories of August.

Some had been healthy in July but were in the hospital by September. Some had been happily surrounded by family in July but had lost loved ones by September. Some had been preparing for their weddings in July but were still alone in September...

In July, Li Yue was an ordinary university student studying film and television production. By September, he was a suspect in a classmate's disappearance.

Li Yue: A disappearance? How could that be?

Officer Zhang: You were the last person she contacted before she vanished...

As luck would have it, he also met Wei Ming, a suspect in a death case, at the police station.

In August, Wei Ming had somehow gotten married, then somehow his wife had died.

More importantly, his wife was a child from a wealthy family who had been lost to them, and a huge inheritance was waiting for her to claim it. Wei Ming, as it happened, was desperately short of money.

Officer Zhang: What exactly happened in these cases?

The two suspects: We don't remember!

And so, they began searching for the truth while filming a show called Lost August to document the stories that had unfolded that month.

A beauty salon owner who'd married in a whirlwind was convinced she was possessed. A programmer who had moved into an unfinished building with his wife and child climbed thirteen flights of stairs every day. A naive man who'd lost over a hundred thousand yuan to an online romance discovered the other person was a cross-dressing beauty...

The stories of others came to an end, but their own story had yet to reach its final page.

Li Yue: Do you think you're the kind of person who could kill someone?

Wei Ming: People die for money. Li Yue, I'm no good person.

One day, the truth behind the cases would come to light. The two would finally clear their names, and at last, recognize their own feelings.

"So we'd already met in August?"

"Then this is us picking up where we left off."

Mystery plot + episodic stories

Light mystery, healing, one-on-one romance, happy ending, both each other's first and only (the top had his reasons for getting married)

Internet cafe owner and interior designer, top x film student and director, bottom

Theme: Every memory matters.