HD and SD versions

A Clear Midsummer Night comes in both High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) versions. While both versions are largely the same, the HD version has fewer, longer episodes, with additional scenes, while also (rarely) omitting some scenes.

While it may appear at first that the SD version is the canonical version and the HD version simply has extra bonus scenes, audiences watching the SD version alone have been confused at times. For example, the whole argument preceding the moment where Jin Fan appears to threaten Lai Xue with a metal bin, is skipped in the SD version. To viewers of that version, it looks as though Jin Fan is threatening her completely unprovoked, which seems quite odd. For this season, Clear Midsummer Night Wiki considers the HD version to be the canonical version.

Episode numbers in this wiki will refer to the HD episode numbers. While these roughly match the SD episode numbers at the beginning, by the end of the show they completely diverge. The HD version has 46 episodes in total, while the SD version has 51. This means that episode 46 in the HD version will correspond to episode 51 and part of episode 50 in the SD version.

Nevertheless, each episode does have an "SD version" section, where differences from that version are explained.