Chinese Drama 2023
Fish Show You (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Fish Knows You poster
- Genre: Youth, Romance, Fantasy, Merman, Disease
- Release Date: 15 June 2023
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 18 Episodes
Cast
- Tang Min as An Xin Er
- Gala Zhang as Yu Sheng
- Kevin Xiao as Yi Fan Yi
- Fan Xiao Dong as Ling Zhi
- Yume Ma as Xia La
- Zhu Wei Ling as Su Qing
- Li Meng Ying as Li Xin Yi
- Du Shuang Yu as Wang You Ming
- Tao Hui Min as Ye Fang
- Li Nuo as Yu Jiao
- Ophelia Yang as Li Ning
- Xu Xiao Han as Xin Qing
Quick Precis
A rich girl fell into the sea and was saved by a kind-hearted merman, who was really an alien from the planet Kepler. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Filming was wrapped beginning in early January 2021.
Episode 1
Yu Sheng is a merman who came from the Planet Kepler. Because of his planet drying up, Yu Sheng ended up alone on Earth when his father, who traveled with him died during the journey as he sacrificed himself to give the last remaining water to the young Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng live in his spaceship which was able to camouflage itself and blend in with the surrounding
Young Yu Sheng used to swim to the seashore to listen to a girl who often played her guitar. The girl, An Xin Er, was not frightened of him, and they became friends.
Yu Sheng develops legs when he is ashore but one day, a group of naughty boys assaulted him because one of them saw him with a fishtail.
An Xin Er came to the rescue but ended up banging her head on the rock while a rather perturbed Yu Sheng accidentally scratched her. Some sort of chemical/physical change started happening to her.
Her family found her and took her away and that was the last time Yu Sheng saw her.
A few years later…
An Xin Er developed ichthyosis, which made her self-conscious. Who wouldn’t? She had green scaley scabs all over her arms and face so she started wearing a netted veil.
An Xin Er became a lonely subdued girl. To encourage her, her father and grandma hired a handsome tutor, Ling Zhi, for her.
Before long, she fell in love with him and he pretended that it was a mutual feeling.
An Xin Er comes from a very wealthy family. She is an heiress to a film production company. Alas, her father was dying, and seeing that she was happy with Ling Zhi and he seemed to be good to her, her father told Ling Zhi to marry An Xin Er who will get 70% of his business shares while Ling Zhi will get 30%. Ling Zhi will manage the business as An Xin Er couldn’t. But if they ended up divorcing, Ling Zhi had to return the shares.
The father then died.
Grandma was poorly in the hospital but she seemed to have gotten the true nature of Ling Zhi but a little bit too late.
Anyway, Ling Zhi convince An Xin Er to transfer her shares to him as well so that he will not be gossiped, so he said. Being so in love and absolutely trusting him, she did as she was told.
After the transfer, Ling Zhi threw a yacht party where An Xin Er stayed in a secluded and quiet corner of the boat.
A girl sought her out but the next moment, An Xin Er was falling into the water.
She was drowning and a hungry shark was zoning on her but Yu Sheng was there like Flash Gordon. He realised that she was the girl he used to see playing the guitar.
To revive her, Yu Sheng lends her his life crystal. She woke up looking like a different girl (Tang Min had now taken over the part🤣). All her scaley scabs are gone.
She was supposed to have a memory loss but it did not happen. She remembers Ling Zhi and is excited to get back to him.
Yu Sheng told her that he does not think that Ling Zhi is a nice guy and is in love with her because the other girl who also fell into the water was the one he went to rescue instead of An Xin Er.
An Xin Er took this on board so she went back and saw with her own eyes that Ling Zhi was already binning her personal things. She overheard Ling Zhi sigh of relief that he does not have to suffer her repulsive face.
An Xin Er was heartbroken and went back to Yu Sheng. She told him that she had to find her grandma.
Grandma was at death’s door. Grandma told her that she must find her biological aunt who can help her sort Ling Zhi.
It is really watchable. It is fast-paced and well-acted.
Episode 2
An Xin Er found her aunt. At first, her Aunt refused to help her because she was not worthy of losing her shares, and the business from the An family as well as having made a mockery of the An name.
But An Xin Er was single-minded about taking back what Ling Zhi took from her. So her Aunt finally agreed. And taking Yu Sheng as well; one mouth more to feed is nothing.
Episode 3
An Xin Er was serious about learning but then Yu Sheng was even better. He was like Superman who could read superfast and retain what he read in his memory.
An Xin Er is now her Aunt’s apprentice and decided to change her name to Li Zixin.
Episode 4
Li Zixin came face to face with Ling Zhi and he did not recognise her.