Chinese Drama 2025
Back For You (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Back For You
- Genre: Mystery, Investigation, Romance, Historical Drama Fiction, Republican
- Release Date: 2025
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 12 Episodes
Cast
- Angelababy as Yang Manru/ Lu Na
- Wang An Yu as A Lai
- Zhang Yu Jian as Zi Dan / Mu Xue Feng
- Kuang Mu Ye as A Jia
- Cheng Xiao as Chun Ying
- Jelly Lin as Li Li
- Sheng Ying Hao as Jia Hua
- Niu Chao as Da Bing
- Jim Yu as A Ming
- Li Dian Zun as A Xiao
- Xing Han Qing as Si Tu Xiong
- CiCi Wang as Liu Meng / Xiao Rou
- Patrick Zhang as Yuan San
- Lu Hong as Ai Lun
- Chen Bo Hao as A Feng
- Wu Xu Dong as Wei Lun
- Guo Qian Wen as Xiao Qiao
- Liu Xun as Bai Lang
- Da You Wei as Dao Ba
- Ben Wong as Li Qi
- Celina Harto as Mi Xue Er
- Su Dan as Ma Ke / “Mark”
- Liu Lei as Xiao Zhao
Snippets
- 20 November 2021: Filming ceremony was held today.
- 18 December 2021: It is a wrap.
- 3 February 2025: Rumoured to broadcast tomorrow, 4 February 2025.
Episode 1
Blurb: A young girl Yang Manru seemed to spend her life daydreaming but one evening a monster was about to attacked her but a blurry shadow of a young man protected her. Before he could save her the blurry shadow disappeared only leaving a lighter with Lai engraved on it.
Since then it became Yang Manru’s mission to seek her protector.
Years later, Manru was daydreaming on her desk holding the Lai lighter when there was an earthquake. Mysteriously she was sucked into a vortex of light.
In the year of the Bingyin a rare phenomena happend. Venus aligned with the moon, this conjuction created a series of stories that began to unfold.
The first one was the Street Corner Story.
Lai was being hunted by an axe-weilding gang as they believed that Lai was the murderer of their Boss Si. Despite many blacksuited gang members fighting him, Lai was on top of the action. But he was subdued when Fei turned up with a gun pointed at Lei
As Fei turned the trigger, there was a mysterious calamity from the sky and Manru run out toward Lai to save him. She got shot in the chest instead of Lai.
Lai took her to the hospital. The doctor said that she was alive but may be brain damaged. Lai asked who the girl was but she was a Jane Doe. Lai wanted to know why she would save him. He found her bag and saw her notebooks. Her name was Lu Na. What surprised him was that the notebook was a comic book and it was about him. It looks like Lu Na came to the pages of her comic book.
Lai was actually and undercover rookie policeman. He was convinced by Officer Huang to join the Maritime Gang who deals with raw opium as Lai grew in the pier and knows his way around.
Maritime Gang was headed by Boss Si. One a month, Boss Si would convene a raffle where the one who gets the highest number on a fortune stick would do the deed, mainly of killing. This time Lai got the highest number. His task was to kill a rival gang leader, Ling Qi.
Lai was shocked as he is cop and should not kill but he had no choice. He tried to call Chief Huang but he was told that Chief Huang had been killed.
As he had nowhere to turn to, Lai went to Ling Qi. It all happened suddenly, Boss Si’s men came to Ling Qi’s den and there was a rumble. Lai ended up helping Ling Qi.
Ling Qi was so grateful and promised Lai that he would return the favour. Lai asked for the favour to be returned. He put Ling Qi in a sack and dragged him to Boss Si’s den. Lai was so upset because Boss Si was sexually harrassing Pei Tung, who Lai considered as his little sister.
Lai tried to fight Boss Si but Pei Tung stopped him. Pei Tung confessed that she would like to stay with Boss Si.
Boss Si became agressive but Ling Qi shot him as he get out from the sack. Ling Qi and Lai jumped in the window to get away as the gang members started to arrive.
Outside, Lai declared that he knew that Ling Qi was also an undercover cop assigned by Officer Huang.
Lai confirmed this at the truth. But he said that after working as the gang leader for eight years, he can’t be starting over as a cop again. Being the leader has more power and freedom.
Lai tried to arrest Ling Qi but Ling Qi ended up dead when a neon light signage fell directly into him.
Lai went back to the hospital and saw the comic once again. It seemed to write what had just happened to the point when Ling Qi died.
Very watchable, Angelababy was so pretty and Wang Anyu suits his role as a young and rather naive cop.