I watched this movie first before the drama and read the novel after watching both. That was a long time ago though, so I have no problems interchanging the sequence of which to do first. Between this movie and the drama adaptation, I actually prefer the movie.

Let me talk about Angela Baby here. Well, as what I mostly saw in the comments, many prefer Angela Baby as Bei Weiwei (BWW). Like, why wouldn't they, right? Compared to Zheng Shuang, Angela exudes more of the cool charm with confidence and the intelligent yet easy going vibes BWW should have and what has the novel portrayed her to be. She's not overly timid when facing Xiao Nai compared to what I felt with Zheng Shuang in the drama.

About Yang Yang and Jing Bo Ran. Well, I honestly don't feel the need to compare who played better since they gave off different auras. Yang Yang naturally has that killing charm that made him shining, while Jing Bo Ran has more of the laid back personality. They both gave justice to Xiao Nai's character.

Now, let's talk solely on the movie, setting the drama and novel aside. For the plot delivery, it can be understandable after watching the movie. It can literally be summarized as Yi Xiao Nai He, the top 1 player in the server, married the newly divorced Luwei Weiwei, the only female player who entered top 10 in the overall server ranking. They then revealed their real life identities— Yi Xiao Nai He as the top student in the Computer Department, who's just starting his own company with his friends, and Luwei Weiwei as the beauty of Computer Department, Bei Weiwei.

All the important scenes and lines in the novel were delivered. Such as their meet up where Weiwei greeted her senior Xiao Nai with a "What a coincidence...", and Xiao Nai replying "It's not a coincidence, I'm waiting for you..." Another is when Xiao Nai picked up Weiwei from a meet up gathering, that iconic "As long as she's willing to be with me, I don't care about anything else..." My apologies if the lines were not exact, I'm only relying on my poor memory here..

Overall, this movie can be watched before the drama as it gives a good summary of the whole plot. Highly recommended !