Chinese Drama 2020
To Love (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
To Love poster
- Genre: Modern Love, Mystery, Crime, Policing, Undercover, Drug Trafficking
- Release Date: 19 November 2020
- Origin: China; Adapted from the novel of the same title by Shu Yi
- Cdrama: 40 Episodes
Cast
- Kenny Lin Gengxin as Yan Jin
- Cass Gai Yuexi as Ji Xiao ou
- Du Chun as Zhao Tinghui
- Qin Hailu as Xiao Mei Ren
- Ringo Yu Rongguang as Father Yan
- Wei Zi as Chief Li
- Li Kunlin as Feng Weixing
- Luan Yuanhui as Liu Wei
- Joyce Feng Wenjuan as Yan Shen
- Liu Mingming as Cheng Ruimin
- Lin Cheng as Fang Ni Ya
- Li Qing as Zhan Yu
Quick Precis
An ex-cop went back to the force as an undercover cop to investigate the death of a good friend which happened five years ago.
He then fell in love with a coffee shop owner which upset a boy with one-sided love for the coffee shop owner. The boy dies and he became a suspect.
Episode 1
I love him Lin Gengxin. I still remember him clearly from Princess Agents.
Anyway, this first episode has so much going on it.
Yan Jin is a businessman who had been recruited to go back to being a cop to work as an undercover and infiltrate the Beauty Group which is involved in drug trafficking.
This happened a year ago.
Ji Xiao Ou was being interrogated by the police how and what she knew of Zhan Yu and Yan Jin.
Xiao Ou said that she first met Zhan Yu on a bus. He looked so kind and innocent that she was drawn to him. Then he fainted and she had to take him to the hospital.
She paid the fee because all he had was a few notes and a smashed mobile phone. She felt pity for him and told him that she will be back the next day to visit him.
When she got there the next morning, he was no longer there. She thought she will never going to see him again.
As to Yan Jin, they met in a club. Her flatmate, who is a bit of a thief, is a flight attendant who took her to the club to meet some guys as it was Valentine’s Day.
At the club, the gregarious Fang Niya got herself a man immediately while Yan Jin was bored.
She went to the toilet, which was unisex. She was removing much of her makeup when she noticed a man retching into the sink next to her.
He was very handsome and knew it too well and warned her that she was not his type.
After a cursory look, she ignored him.
But he got interested when he saw she was pretty but wearing such a minuscule dress. He tried to lift her dress but she slapped him so hard it partly sobered him up.
Then the drug police came as there was a tip-off that a drug dealer was in the club.
Yan Jin immediately went into one of the cubicles and flushed the drug that Liu Wei secretly put in his pocket and called the police.
Liu Wei was a gangster who works for Ms. Mei of the Beauty Group. He was jealous of Yan Jin’s success with Ms Mei.
Anyway, Yan Jin went back to Ms. Mei’s party and he got so drunk, Liu Wei ended up carrying him into a hotel room.
Liu Wei would have killed him if one of Ms. Mei’s men was not there.
Anyway, when Yan Jin woke up he was tucked up in bed wearing a bathrobe. He was very disorientated.
They someone came out of the bathroom. It was Zhan Yu wearing a bathrobe.
Zhan Yu implied that they had fun that night and he had photos to prove it, showing his photo to Yan Jin. Zhan Yu said for 10K he will erase the photos.
Yan Jin grabbed a knife and put it on Zhan Yu’s neck.
Zhan Yu promised to erase the photos. He showed his mobile to Yan Jin who saw that the photos were gone. For added measure, Yan Jin smashed the phone.
Yan Jin got dressed and left hurriedly. Then he realised he was missing his lighter, the one item that was left to him by his friend, Er zi.
He went back to the hotel but the lighter was gone and so was Zhan Yu who works as a violinist at the hotel.
He asked his police friend to find Zhan Yu for him.
Zhan Yu was traced and Yan Jin stalked him and found him dealing drugs in a club.
Very interesting first episode. Kenny Lin is gorgeous and so was Cass Gai.