Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestThe plot revolves around the "forced love" of the cunning CEO Chen Changzhi for Zhao Man, a newcomer to the workplace: the male protagonist devises a plan to break up the female protagonist's relationship with her boyfriend, due to a childhood obsession, and lures her into the trap with well-paying jobs, mansions, and studies at Harvard. The story then unfolds into a mutual redemption.
The plot revolves around the "forced love" of the cunning CEO Chen Changzhi for Zhao Man, a newcomer to the workplace: the male protagonist devises a plan to break up the female protagonist's relationship with her boyfriend, due to a childhood obsession, and lures her into the trap with well-paying jobs, mansions, and studies at Harvard. The story then unfolds into a mutual redemption.
Acting
Chen Si's eyes do ALL the threatening
Production
Mansions so cold they feel like prisons
Writing
Redemption that actually earns its keep
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'forced love' trope dominates Chinese web dramas, but this one interrogates the power fantasy rather than serving it straight.
Chen Si reportedly insisted on filming the Harvard scenes on actual campus to ground the fantasy in tactile reality—notice how Zhao Man never looks comfortable there.
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