Scripted series · Mango TV
My Rival in Love is Me
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How My Rival in Love is Me actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
My Rival in Love is Me reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Serialized.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
A socially awkward programmer, Yang Can, develops an immersive experience system to fulfill his girlfriend Ye Bingbing’s dream of a romantic, drama-like love story. Using this technology to express his feelings, Yang Can plans to propose to her during the experience, but as the story unfolds, the line between fantasy and reality blurs, revealing deeper truths about love and self-growth.
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