Scripted series · YOUKU International
Love is Real
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Love is Real actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Love is Real reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Haunted by past regrets and a devastating loss, Chen Xiao-an finds unexpected hope when a childhood acquaintance, Ding Yu-ting, reenters his life.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Where to watch
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