Gen Z: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Sun Tou Tou is an orphan in her twenties. One day, she gets into trouble while fighting injustice. Ren Xin Zheng, a professor at the University of Chinese Medicine, comes to her aid and learns her life story. Professor Ren accepts her into the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) course to give her a fresh start in life. Sun Tou Tou accepts the challenge to learn under Ren Xin Zheng and eventually inherits his family's TCM practice.

Professor Ren's son, Tian Zhen, is a classmate she dislikes for causing her some difficulties. The quest of gaining knowledge is challenging enough without the added generation gap between students and lecturers. Maturing, she persists and finds herself taken with traditional medicine.

Tou Tou and Tian Zhen become closer as they learn to understand and empathize with each other. Tou Tou, her classmates, and their lecturers can now begin to follow their dreams.

Series details

• Title: Gen Z
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Chinese
• Genres: Drama, Romance, Medical
• Premiere date: 2023-05-14
• Final broadcast date listed: 2023-06-05
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Youku
• Network country: China
• Typical episode runtime: 45 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 68681
• IMDb ID: tt27687545
• TVDB ID: 434504

Cast and credited roles

• Wu Gang — Ren Xinzheng
• Zhao Lu Si — Sun Toutou
• Luo Yi Zhou — Ren Tianzhen
• Zhang Meng — Yang Xiaohong
• Jiang Shan — Song Linglan
• Zhou Cheng Ao — Peng Shiyan

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-05-14; final listed air date 2023-06-05; episode order: 40.

Source and licence

Adapted from Gen Z on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.