Chinese Drama 2025
Love’s Ambition (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Love’s Ambition
- AKA: Let Me Shine, Let Me Dazzle
- Genre: Business, Modern Romance, Urban Drama, Family, Tearjerker
- Release Date: 26 September 2025
- Origin: China, Adapted from a novel, Da Qiao Xiao Qiao
- Cdrama: 32 Episodes
Cast
- Zhao Lusi as Qiao Yan/Xu Yan
- William Chan as Shen Haoming
- Wan Peng as Qiao Lin
- Tang Xiao Tian as Yu Yi Ming
- Fu Bo Han as Shen Hao Chen
- Wu Ya Heng as
- Wei Xiao as Yao Yao
- Guan Zi Jing as Lin Tao
- Zhong Ya Ting as Fang Lei
- Wang Yi Yao as Sun Si Wei
- Wang Ya Jia as Huan Huan
- Li Fan Cheng as Chen Lin
- Gao Rong as Guan Guan
- Xu Ya Jun as Shen Jin Song
- Wen Zheng Rong as Yu Lan
- Liu Min as Wang Ya Zhen
- Feng Hui as Qiao Jian Bin
- Wu Mian as Xu Chang Hui
- Fan Shi Qi as Jiang Liang
Quick Precis
Xu Yan is a younger sister of Qiao Lin. Because of the ‘one child policy’, their parents tried to abort the fetus Xu Yan as her birth would be illegal.
Xu Yan’s grandmother intervened and became the guardian and gave her surname to Xu Yan.
This complicated family situation gave birth to many emotional upheavals especially when Qiao Lin was always favoured over Xu Yan.
Xu Yan eventually left for Beijing where she fought tooth and nail to climb the ladder of success including completely reinventing her family background.
The heir to a conglomorate fell for Xu Yan. They ended up getting married but then problems started when there was an issue with fertility. Due to the many concoctions her mother took to induce abortion, it somehow affected Xu Yan’s own abitlity to conceive.
Added to this, a pregnant Qiao Lin showed up.
The sisters later became each other’s support. Awww
Snippets
- 28 April 2024: Lusi teased that she went to South Korea to shop for her wardrobe for her new drama.
- 19 May 2024: Melons have it that this drama will star Zhao Lusi with William Chan.
- Adapted from a novel called Da Qiao Xiao Qiao (Big Qiao Little Qiao) by Zhang Yueran
- Filming Location: Beijing beginning early June 2024 for 110 days.
- 24 May 2024: Rumours of filming commencement as 10 June 2024.
- 2 June 2024: Tencent had confirmed Lusi, William and Wan Peng to star in this drama and booting ceremony on 10 June 2024 which will be televised by Tencent.
- 5 June 2024: Rumour has it that Daddi Tang will join this drama. If this is true, he will reunite with Lusi after their yet unshone, The Story of Pearl Girl.
- 5 June 2024: The official Weibo blog for Let Me Shine had been launched.
- 7 June 2024: Let Me Shine had been retitled Love’s Ambition prior to its booting ceremony.
- 7 June 2024: The cast have started to gather in Beijing but our girl, Lusi, is in South Korea doing last minute costume shopping. She should be credited for costume design or a producer for Love’s Ambition.
- 10 June 2024: The booting ceremony was held today. A very happy affair. Filming commences.
- 15 June 2024: Lusi and William quick kiss trended on Weibo and other soc med. Their obvious chemistry was jumping out of the sceen.
- Since day one of filming, Lusi continues to set fashion trends. Her drama costumes and accessories sell fast or sell out. Latest is a flowery Mango dress which sold out in 30 minutes of Lusi being shwon wearing it.
- She continues to scintillate in more fashionable high end clothes and accessories. I supposed she is the perfect walking-ads for clothes and accessories as she is scrutinised by the second. It is a win win for fashion houses to loan, give, costumised clothes for her. It is a well spent advertisement for their brand.
- 23 July 2024: today is the filming of Xuyan and Haoming’s wedding scene. They do scrub up so well.
- 10 August 2024: For the Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, a minute video and a poster was released for Love’s Ambition. Beautiful.
- 29 August 2024: Filming wrap up is expected between 15 -17 September 2024.
- 15 September 2024: it is coming to a wrap. Endorsers of Zhao Lusi sent in bouquets of flowers and food truck.
- 16 September 2024: Finally, it is a wrap. It was a happy and exciting time for all, though a little poignant. Jiayou, Team.
- 18 October 2024: The first trailer was released today and it was so good.
- 10 March 2025: Tentatively scheduled for a May 2025 broadcast.
- 18 March 2025: A new poster was released today signifying 1.5M reservations have been accumulated for this drama. Wow
- 24 June 2025: the trailer for Love’s Ambition was released at the Tencent conference, the Versace Medusa ’95 bag Zhao Lusi’s Xu Yan used to smack a man on the head has sold out. Whoa, The Medusa ’95 is a weapon of man’s destruction 🤣
- 18 August 2025: After a very protracted in deciding of an airing period, Love’s Ambition might actually be airing soon the cameraman of the drama had confirmed.
- 24 September 2025: Apparently broadcast is imminent.
- 25 September 2025: Rumoured to broadcast from tomorrow, 26 September 2025
- 26 September 2025: Yes!!! 👍 🙌 👏 It is finally here with three episodes. Woohoo!!!
- 10 November 2025: LA held a celebration banquet.
- 10 November 2025: Yunhe confirmed that LA breaks 63.28M average views per episode during its hot broadcast.
- 11 November 2025: The National Drama Research Center, which awards dramas biannually, congratulates Love’s Ambition for being The Most Prestigious Drama of the Year.
- It has also won the Annual Champion for Overall Viewership Champion Across All Platforms + Annual Champion Across All Online Platforms 2025 Top Annual Drama Across All Platforms ( No. 1 in online streaming ) Yunhe has accumulated an average of 65 million per episode , totaling over 2 billion.
- CONGRATULATIONS!!!
- It has also won the Annual Champion for Overall Viewership Champion Across All Platforms + Annual Champion Across All Online Platforms 2025 Top Annual Drama Across All Platforms ( No. 1 in online streaming ) Yunhe has accumulated an average of 65 million per episode , totaling over 2 billion.
- 30 May 2026: LA won iQIYI’s Golden Screenwriter Award which is a rival platform of Tencent which produced Love Ambition.
Episode 1
What a cracking first episode. I am so blown away. Zhao Lusi once again claim the throne. It breaks my heart though that she is not filming right now, because she is born for dramas and films.
Anyway, Love’s Ambition delivers!
Qiao Yan had a difficult life. She was born with congenital heart disease which made her father give up on her thinking that she was not worth the money to have her treated.
Her Grandma furiously demanded that she will look after Qiao Yan herself so Baby Qiao Yan grew up with her Grandma.
Still she misses a well rounded family life so she started imagining and lying about having a happy family life, being a well loved daughter.
But at the age of 18, she decided to be truly independent. She cast away her old self by legally changing her name by dropping the Qiao and became Xu Yan.
She was taking her fate on her own hands.
Xu Yan works as a planner in a variety show called Family Feast. The host, Si Wei, was a difficult woman who demands everything to go her way and expect Xu Yan to get on with it no matter how impossible the task was.
Siwei wanted an interview with a Shen Haoming who was known to shun being in the limelight.
Xu Yan knew that doing her job well is a step forward towards her goal of becoming a host, an anchor herself. So she applied herself to the task. She studied everything about Haoming’s love of succulent plants.
it paid off too because when she finally met him, he was intrigued.
Six months later…
It was meet the parents.
Xu Yan hired actors to play her mother and father to meet Haoming’s posh parents. It was a very torturous meet up but the actor parents did well from the rigorous coaching from Xu Yan.
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