Chinese Drama 2021

Unusual Idol Love (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

---

• Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Idol Drama, Sci-Fi, Robotics, AI
• Release Date: 27 March 2021
• Origin: China, Based on a Manhua by Guo Si Te
• Cdrama: 24 Episodes

Cast

• Ao Rui Peng as Hu Li/Shi Tu
• Rain Lu as Ji Nian
• Jackey Zhu as Bai Dong Chen
• Huang Hao Yue as Zhou Yi Fei
• Xie Yan Feng as Zhuo Yuan

---

Episode 1

Ji Nian is a budding journalist who was tasked to report on a popular idol, Hu Li.

As luck would have it, she found him quite easily.  She secretly recorded his conversation with his assistant about refusing Youhu Award but he thinks his rival, Bai Dong Chen is undeserving and overrated.

Ji Nian reported it immediately.

The next day it was all over the news that Hu Li was so depressed he committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

It turned out that Hu Li was a very special idol because he is secretly an AI, a robot who seemed to be developing a mind of his own.  He had to be destroyed because he was getting out of control.

His management wanted him gone but Yang zhe, Hu Li’s creator secretly found that Hu Li was at Ji Nian’s.

Ji Nian was approached by Hu Li who cannot remember anything and had only Ji Nian’s business card with him.

Ji Nian felt guilty that she almost drove him to death so he allowed him to stay for a little bit.

Yang Zhe turned up and gave her a lot of money to look after Ji Nian and not to let anyone find him.

He suggested to her to make Hu Li think that he was her live-in boyfriend.

Episode 2

At first, Hu Li would not believe what was happening, but as he could not remember anything, he allowed Ji Nian to dictate everything including a name for him.

Jinian started calling him Shu To.

It looked like it was Bai Dong Chen who saved Hu Li from the water.  Is Bai Dong Chen another AI?

Bai Dong Chen then followed Hu Li and saw him following Ji Nian.  He was wondering why Hu Li chose Ji Nian.

Bai Dong Chen had been given Hu Li’s apartment where he now lives.

Meanwhile, Shuto had become protective of Ji Nian and wanted to be with her everywhere including where she worked.

Ji Nian now works in a cafe because she was dismissed from her reporting job when they thought that she hounded Hu Li to death.

Shuto got himself a job at the cafe as well and promised Ji Nian that he will work so hard, he will get her an even bigger cafe one day.

He wanted to sleep with her but Ji Nian said that though they love each other, they were having a platonic relationship and so much so now that he lost his memory.  She doesn’t want to take advantage of him.

Hu Li indulged her but still they ended up falling in bed and as idol dramas go, she fell on top of him and her lips landed exactly against his lips.

Episode 3

Ban Dong Chen went to see Yang Zhe, who had based himself permanently in his laboratory.

Ban Dong Chen asked Yang Zhe chose Jinian for Hu Li.

Yang zhe said that because Jinian is the daughter of Zhou Hong Wei and it was important for Jinian to fall in love with Huli so he could live.

Meanwhile, Jinian and a masked Huli were in the town centre when Jinian made Huli promised to stay put, to move around while she was doing some errands.

Hu Li was intending to do just that until he heard familiar music which drawn him.  Before he knew it he was on the stage dancing.  The crowd got interested in how he looked like so they surrounded him and asked him to reveal his face.

Hu Li got frightened and ran away.  He was so distressed that he could not then find Jinian/

Jinian was also worried that Hu Li was not where she left him.

When they found one another, Hu Li hugged her tightly and made her promised never to part with him because he was scared without her. Awww

Jinian, though suprised, promised him but told him that from then on he had to do what she asked him.

When they got back to the cafe, Ban Dong Chen was there.

Immediately, Jinian told Hu Li to go upstairs.

Ban Dong Chen said that he will make her restaurant better.  He will throw a party and he would like her to cater for it.

As he was leaving, he told her to be careful.  He can find her so someone else also can.

And this someone else was Yi Fei Fei, the daughter of the CEO, who tried to get rid of Hu Li.

Fei Fei has a massive crush on Hu Li and when she saw a photo of a boy who looked like Hu Li falling over on a stage, she immediately went to look for him.  She told Ban Dong Chen that she heard the boy work in a cafe.

Episode 4

Ban Dong Chen called the police and had Yi Fei Fei arrested so Hu Li could get away.

Jinian’s best friend who has face blindness asked her who Shu To really was as he seemed to be involved in something mysterious.

Jinian was forced to admit that he was Hu Li.

Her friend said that she had to let him go. He might be a monster but a after watching Hu Li played the piano sublimely, her friend changed her mind.