Chinese Drama 2020
Something Just Like This (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Something Just Like This poster
- Genre: Modern Romance, E-commerce, Foster Siblings
- Release Date: 8 November 2020
- Origin: China
- Cdrama: 48 Episodes
- Network: IQIYI
Cast
- Johnny Huang as Duan Ran
- Wu Jin Yan as Qiao Xi Xi
- Xuan Lu as Zhang Jia Yun
- Cao Yu Chen as Jiang Zhe Yang
- Zhao Luo Ran as Su Su
- Xu Li as Ou Yang Mei Xuan
- David Liang Dawei as Chen Lang
- Wang Maolei as Yu Shi
- Shi Nan as Qi Yuanyuan
- Joy Wang Jiayu
- Dong Si Yi as Yuan Bao
- Linda Zhang as Sister Jing
- Wang Mao Lei as Yu Shi
Episode 1 – 8
When Xi Xi’s parents died, she was fostered by Duan Senior and became a sister to Duan Ran. They were as close as real siblings.
Duan Ran had just returned from the UK from studying Business and Finance. He is a chaebol, heir to a big business specializing in e-commerce.
He was surprised to find that Xi Xi had become quite a popular live streamer.
She was now working for RuiLive selling clothes of all types via live streams ala QVC.
RuiLive is 80 percent owned Duan’s company after it was rescued by Duan Senior when it was ailing and owned wholly by Chen Lang.
One day, Duan Ran came to pick up Xi Xi from her work and rather arrogantly sat on the chair of Chen Lang.
Chen Lang did not take kindly to this and started applying his dastardly plan to take back Rui Live from the Duan corp.
He did this by taking all the live streamers, other than Xi Xi, the staff, and the clothes to a pseudo-holiday in order to sabotage an airing of RuiLive. If RuiLive fails to air, it would be fined heavily.
So it was a race against time to find where Chen Lang took the broadcasters and the clothes.
Xi Xi and Duan Ran finally tracked them to Sanya.
Chen Lang was blackmailing via negotiation Duan Senior, who was very forgiving.
He told Chen Lang that he was willing to give him 49 percent share of RuiLive if he goes on with the streaming.
Chen Lang refused because he wanted his company back and he had already found a backer.
Meanwhile, against all odds, Xi Xi managed to get new clothes to sell by going to every clothing shop in Sanya to buy merchandise.
The streamers were convinced to return and they had a very profitable on-location streaming.
Yuan Yuan was the number one streamer but she had decided to retire because her dream was really to become an actress.
After the show, Chen Lang managed to get all the current streamers to sign a contract with him and new company called CloudLive.
With RuiLive in tatters, Duan Senior and the board decided to shut down business on it but Xi Xi had other ideas.
Backed by Duan Ran, they continued to run RuiLive and going as far as back to back with CloudLive.
At the moment there was no sign of romance between Xi Xi and Duan Ran. They are comfortable as brothers and sisters.
Episode 9
CloudLive won against RuiLive because the backers of CloudLive sent someone to cause a power outage at RuiLive during their live streaming.
CloudLiive got the Pineapple contract but Ruilive so impressed the CEO of Pineapple, he gave them the skirt contract.
It was the day when the CEO for RuiLive is going to be announced.
Everyone expected Duan Ran to get the appointment but Xi Xi got it.
Duan Ran was fuming.
Xixi held her first CEO meeting and gave her staff their office job titles and duties.
Duan Ran asked her what would be his role. She told him that he is going to be her intern.
Episode 10
Ruilive is strapped for cash. So Xixi agreed with the treasurer to rent 50sqm of space to a funeral company.
Duan Ran was annoyed but he can’t really do anything.
Seriously, he is stupid. With his background and money from dad, why not create his own company?
Anyway, in the end he was the one who found the money for RuiLive but he was still humiliated by Xixi for his enthusiasm.
Episode 11
Episode 12
Xi Xi discovered that her tenant, Yuan Bao, had created a coffee called Bulletproof Coffee that they can see in their live streaming.
Episode 13
The owner of Onyx Coffee wanted to take over Bulletproof Coffee. It was then found that Yuan Bao was actually an heiress of the Onyx Coffee.
Episode 14
Duan Ran had managed to sign Jiang Zhe Yang for Perfect Blue and a contest to work with Jiang Zhe Yang ensued amongst the broadcasters.
Xi Xi and the broadcasters were annoyed that Duan Ruan had already pre-selected Yuan Yuan.
Episode 15