Yang Yue is a Chinese actress and TV personality who was born in Changde, Hunan Province, China, on October 11, 1991. She graduated from the Dance and Performance Department at Sichuan Normal University and made her entertainment industry debut in 2015 when she appeared on a popular variety show. She followed up with her acting bow in the short film “The Bird of Love,” also in 2015. She became the main presenter of the variety show title “Hello Food” in 2016, and some of her more recent acting credits include the dramas “Serenade of Peaceful Joy” and “Irreplaceable Love” (both 2020).

Yang Yue

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Gu Xi Xi (Wang Yu Wen) is a kind and budding fashion industry shopper. She runs a small e-commerce business for couples planning their weddings, helping them buy designer dresses for their big days. But when she attends a private reception one day, she meets Yin Si Chen (Wang Zi Qi), the cold, distant, and aloof CEO of a major company. The CEO has come to talk about a possible business cooperation with a fashion designer.

But when an unforeseen incident takes place, the two are forced to get married and pretend that they are a happily married couple – when in reality they are anything but. In fact, they are polar opposites, and initially cannot stand each other. But as they begin to spend more time together, Gu Xi Xi starts to understand that Yin Si Chen is not quite as icy as he first seems. And the powerful CEO starts to wonder if Gu Xi Xi might become someone truly special to him. Things get very complicated when his disapproving mother attempts to intervene – and Mo Zi Xin (Ian Yi), Gu Xi Xi’s male middle school friend – also seems to want to derail this “contract marriage!”

“Once We Get Married” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Li Yao Bo and Chu De Jian.

Once We Get Married

Till Contract do us Part 

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A prosperous entrepreneur in modern-day China is undercut by a business partner, who tells him that he will have to take his revenge against him in another life – and then has him brutally beaten.

When he awakes, he has traveled back in time hundreds of years and now inhabits the body of a young man named Ning Yi (Guo Qi Lin).

He soon discovers that he is engaged to be married into the family of a successful cloth merchant. He also learns that he will become a matrilocal husband, which will mean he must live with his wife’s family, rather than the other way around, as per traditional Confucian custom.

At first, he is reluctant to go ahead with the marriage, and even attempts to escape. But when he meets his beautiful and charming fiancee Su Tan Er (Song Yi), he changes his mind, and the couple ties the knot.

But marrying into this family has a wide range of consequences. He soon discovers that scheming rival business rivals and dangerous bandits are planning to undermine Su Tan Er’s family.

He resolves to help his new wife, in-laws – and nation – by channeling his business acumen, knowledge of modern values...and his growing affection for Su Tan Er.

This drama was based on a novel by Fen Nu de Xiang Jiao.

“My Heroic Husband” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Deng Ke.

My Heroic Husband

Husband is Awesome

Xia Lin Xi’s (Xiang Han Zhi) senior year of high school was as perfect as anyone could ever hope one’s would be. With good friends, good grades, and a bright future ahead of her, she was ready to face whatever life brought her way with confidence and a smile. Jiang Zheng Han (Wang An Yu), on the other hand, didn’t have quite the same experience during his final year of high school, but he did have Xia Lin Xi. The brightest part of every day, Lin Xi was the friend who helped him through his most trying times and from their friendship, a profound love blossomed. But it didn’t happen overnight.

Moving from high school to university, Lin Xi and Zheng Han found themselves attending the same school. Spending their university days together, the love and friendship they had fostered during high school began to grow. As their feelings for each other deepened, they began to make plans for their future, certain the other would always be a part of whatever lay ahead. But life has a way of taking you down unexpected roads and as their university years drew to a close, Lin Xi and Zheng Han found themselves walking along different paths.

Even so, their relationship never faltered. Now as working professionals, the two are beginning to see that the feelings they have for each other have only gotten stronger with time. Recognizing that the feelings they have for each other are strong enough to last a thousand lifetimes, Lin Xi and Zheng Han begin to wonder, is it time to take their relationship to an entirely new level?

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Su Guang Tong, “Forever Love” is a 2020 romance drama directed by Wen De Guang.

Forever Love

💞 Loving Connections Team 💞 

Jiangsu TV

Life is tough for Li Chu Yao (Sun Yi). Her mother is in a very frail mental state, and when her younger brother dies in a tragic accident, Li Chu Yao finds herself at her wit’s end – worried that if her mother learns what has happened, she will be pushed over the edge.

In a bid to preserve what is left of her mother’s sanity, Li Chu Yao turns to Li Luo Shu (Bai Jing Ting), an orphan who lives across the street from the family house, for help.

Her plan involves having Li Luo Shu pose as her dead brother, living in the house to keep up the masquerade.

Li Luo Shu agrees, and while living in his new home, starts to develop feelings for Li Chu Yao. However, he decides to keep his emotions a secret, while Chu Yao falls in love with another local man, Han Zi Mo (Zhu Jia Qi), and agrees to marry him.

But when it emerges that Han Zi Mo is deep in debt – and violent mobsters come hunting for their money – it is Li Luo Shu who comes to Li Chu Yao’s rescue. Will she realize how much he loves her…before it’s too late?

“Irreplaceable Love” is a 2020 Chinese drama series that was directed by Lin Ke.

Irreplaceable Love

Invaluable Affection Team

Hunan TV

In early 11th-century China, Emperor Renzong of Song (Wang Kai) is on a bold mission to reform the government.

His plan involves boosting administrative efficiency and strengthening local government – measures that prove exceptionally unpopular among his power-hungry ministers. The ministers attempt to slow down his progress – and hope they can force him to abandon his reforms altogether.

But the Emperor is sidetracked in his struggle when he learns a secret about his true identity. His biological mother is not, as he had thought, the Empress Dowager, but her maid and his imperial father’s concubine.

Overcome with guilt on learning this news, he decides to marry off his daughter Zhao Hui Rou (Ren Min) to a member of the concubine’s family.

However, the marriage does not go well. Zhao Hui Rou finds her new husband to be a bore, and begins to show her displeasure by flaunting court etiquette – irking the conservative court ministers more than ever!

How will the Emperor choose to deal with his freedom-loving daughter – and what impact will his decisions make on the future of the realm?

“Serenade of Peaceful Joy” is a 2020 Chinese period drama directed by Zhang Kai Zhou.

Serenade of Peaceful Joy

MEI DAXIA (大俠)

Chai Xiao Qi (Wan Peng) is an alien woman from a faraway planet. When she lands in her spacecraft on Earth, she comes across Fang Leng (Bie Thassapak Hsu), a handsome, control-freak CEO, whose car has crashed and is about to explode. She uses her superhuman powers to save him from the blast, but it takes its toll on her – leading her to lose a homing device that she needs in order to return home. Now she is stuck on Earth and forced to pretend she is a normal earthling – when in fact she is anything but. To add to the trouble, she finds she is uncontrollably attracted to human male hormones.

Fang Leng, meanwhile, cannot remember what happened to him on the night of the accident. He also suffers from a strange form of amnesia that leads him to forget the women he knows when it rains. Chai Xiao Qi’s quest to retrieve her device leads her back to Fang Leng. Over time, the duo becomes attracted to one another. Can a man – and an overbearing man with such a strange predicament at that – really fall for an extraterrestrial being? And what will happen when Fang Leng’s half-brother Fang Lie (Wang You Jun) also develops a crush on Chai Xiao Qi?

“My Girlfriend Is an Alien” is a 2019 Chinese drama series that was directed by Deng Ke and Gao Zong Kai.

My Girlfriend is an Alien

🛸UFOund me in the Star 💫

Tencent TV

When life throws you a curveball, can you recover in time to save a relationship?

He Luo (Bu Guan Jin) lives in her own little world. She loves to spend time fantasizing and imagining how she can incorporate the people around her into her webcomic plots. 

Over the summer, He Luo goes to a tennis competition and sees Zhang Yuan (Bai Yu), the leader of the tennis team. The studious Zhang Yuan is the polar opposite of He Luo. As the two develop a growing bond, Zhang Yuan agrees to tutor He Luo so that they can try to get into the same university.

But as fate would have it, Zhang Yuan is the one who ends up failing his college entrance exams, and he and He Luo are placed at two different universities in different cities. Can their relationship survive the distance and the many misunderstandings that result?

“Suddenly This Summer” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Lu Ying.

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