Revenged Love

Your ex dumps you, rubs it in, and then shows up with a shiny new boyfriend. What do you do? If you are Wu Suowei (Zi Yu), you make a plan so petty it is almost beautiful: you go after the new boyfriend yourself. Revenged Love (逆爱) starts right there, with a straight guy down on his luck deciding that the sweetest revenge is stealing Chi Cheng (Tian Xuning) away from her.

Chi Cheng is the cool, arrogant young master of a wealthy family business, the kind of man who looks at everyone like they owe him money. Wu Suowei is building a small business of his own and has never once been interested in men. On paper the scheme is simple. Flirt, hook him, walk away laughing. Uff, if only feelings followed the plan.

The official story line puts it neatly: Chi Cheng takes the bait, and Wu Suowei falls even harder. The two start out unable to stand each other, then slide through misunderstandings, chance meetings and a lot of charged bickering until the rivals turn into lovers. The tagline asks the question you will be shouting at your screen: is it rivalry or love?

Around them, Guo Chengyu (Zhan Xuan) and Jiang Xiaoshuai (Liu Xuancheng) bring a second pairing with its own sparks, with Liu Jun as Wang Shuo and Sun Qianyu as Yue Yue in the supporting cast. And just when the romance gets deep, the ex flies back into the country, a secret comes out and identities flip. Did the revenge plan win, or did love? My tip: keep a snack close, because you will not stop at one episode.