Well-Intended Love (2019) [+]
Feb 14 2024
Well-Intended Love is a Chinese romance series that ran for two seasons.
Xia Lin (Simona Wang) is a small time aspiring actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and the only available donor is Ling Yizhou (Xu Kaicheng), CEO if the Lingshi Group, a family conglomerate. She is able to convince him by agreeing to pose as his girlfriend/fiancée/wife for two years.
He's reserved and she's more emotional but an attraction develops. There's competition from Yizhou's best friend Chu Yan (Ian Yi), an accomplished actor who doesn't trust Xia Lin yet later falls in love with her. There's machinations from Yizhou's estranged mother and half brother. And there's the secret that Yizhou arranged for the leukemia diagnosis in order to force Xia Lin into his life.
It's not an especially different romance series than I've seen before.
I do like the twist of the season two where they reset everything as an alternate universe. Xia Lin now starts out as a rising actress with much more fame than previous and Chu Yan is her friend and mentor actor. Ling Yizhou is still CEO of Lingshi Group and once again, though this time through happenstance, manages to get Xia Lin into a secret girlfriend/fiancée/wife contract.
In season two Yizhou's assistant Wen Li (Huang Qian Shuo) and Xia Lin's best friend Jia Fei (Liu Jia Xi) begin a romance of their own which gives them more screen time. Season two is a few episodes shorter which is good because season one's last few episodes were quite gonzo.
Season one had a few episodes where Yizhou loses his memory right at the time when Xia Lin realizes she likes him. In Season two it's Xia Lin's turn to lose her memory after finally falling for Yizhou and this time as she reviews publicly what happens she comes to believe Yizhou has been manipulating her all along. Until the final episode when she regains her memory for a happy ending.
I liked the series. I like Chu Yan as a possible rival. The main protagonists are attractive and a good-looking match. Season one latter half had some plot lines that were a bit too much but they fixed it in season two. Overall an enjoyable series.
Xia Lin (Simona Wang) is a small time aspiring actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and the only available donor is Ling Yizhou (Xu Kaicheng), CEO if the Lingshi Group, a family conglomerate. She is able to convince him by agreeing to pose as his girlfriend/fiancée/wife for two years.
He's reserved and she's more emotional but an attraction develops. There's competition from Yizhou's best friend Chu Yan (Ian Yi), an accomplished actor who doesn't trust Xia Lin yet later falls in love with her. There's machinations from Yizhou's estranged mother and half brother. And there's the secret that Yizhou arranged for the leukemia diagnosis in order to force Xia Lin into his life.
It's not an especially different romance series than I've seen before.
I do like the twist of the season two where they reset everything as an alternate universe. Xia Lin now starts out as a rising actress with much more fame than previous and Chu Yan is her friend and mentor actor. Ling Yizhou is still CEO of Lingshi Group and once again, though this time through happenstance, manages to get Xia Lin into a secret girlfriend/fiancée/wife contract.
In season two Yizhou's assistant Wen Li (Huang Qian Shuo) and Xia Lin's best friend Jia Fei (Liu Jia Xi) begin a romance of their own which gives them more screen time. Season two is a few episodes shorter which is good because season one's last few episodes were quite gonzo.
Season one had a few episodes where Yizhou loses his memory right at the time when Xia Lin realizes she likes him. In Season two it's Xia Lin's turn to lose her memory after finally falling for Yizhou and this time as she reviews publicly what happens she comes to believe Yizhou has been manipulating her all along. Until the final episode when she regains her memory for a happy ending.
I liked the series. I like Chu Yan as a possible rival. The main protagonists are attractive and a good-looking match. Season one latter half had some plot lines that were a bit too much but they fixed it in season two. Overall an enjoyable series.