Native Name: | 我租了一個情人 |
Alt Name: | I Rented A Lover |
Genre: | Romance |
Creator: | Sanlih E-Television |
Director: | Lin Qing Zhen |
Starring: | Ann Hsu Chris Wang |
Opentheme: | Gave You 都給你 by Chris Wang |
Endtheme: | Happiness is like 幸福就好 by Soo Wincci |
Country: | Taiwan |
Language: | Mandarin |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 16 |
Producer: | Fang Xiaoren Rong Junyi |
Location: | Taiwan |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Company: | SETTV |
Channel: | SETTV |
Love Me Or Leave Me is a 2012–2013 Taiwanese television series created and developed by SETTV. It stars Ann Hsu, Chris Wang as the main leads with Albee Huang, Lee Kang-i and Alan Kuo as the supporting cast. Filming began on September 16, 2012, and finished on February 17, 2013. It began airing on SETTV ETTV on November 8, 2012. The last episode aired on February 21, 2013, with 16 episodes total for the original Taiwan broadcast and 29 episodes for the mainland China and Hong Kong version.[1]
Ji Qing (Ann Hsu) has commitment issues due to her parents' failed marriage and her father's infidelity. Even though she is in a stable and loving relationship with her longtime boyfriend Fang Hao Ming (Chris Wang), she hesitates when he talks about marriage. To test if Hao Ming will remain faithful to her, she hires Zhao Shan Shan (Albee Huang) to test if he will cheat on her. Ji Qing's plan seems to backfire when Shan Shan seemingly has falls for Hao Ming for real.[2]
Produced from the same team that produced SETTV 2011 to 2012 hit Taiwan romance drama "Inborn Pair". Hoping to strike double rating success with their "Inborn Pair" leads, Annie Chen and Chris Wang was then split up to film two different new romance dramas to be aired back to back.[3] Chris Wang was paired up with Ann Hsu to film "Love Me Or Leave Me". While Annie Chen was paired up with George Hu to film "Love, Now". Both dramas started filming at the same time. "Love Me Or Leave Me" is Ann Hsu's first drama as the lead actress after many years of playing supporting roles in Taiwanese dramas.
Country/Region | Channel | Timeslot | Episode premiere | Episode finale | Avg rating |
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Taiwan | SETTV | Friday 20:00 | 9 November 2012 | 22 February 2013 | – |
ETTV | Thursday 22:00 | 8 November 2012 | 21 February 2013 | – | |
Singapore | StarHub TV VV Drama | Sunday 22:00 | 26 November 2012 | 22 February 2013 | |
Hong Kong | J2 | Monday to Friday 19:00 | 21 August 2013 | 5 September 2013 | |
Malaysia | Astro Quan Jia HD | Monday to Friday 22:30 | 16 May 2013 | 31 May 2013 | |
Episode | Date of Broadcast | TTV Ratings | SETTV Ratings | ETTV Ratings | Notes | |
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01 | 2012/11/08、11/09 | 0.51 | 1.21 | 0.52 | ||
02 | 2012/11/15、11/16 | 0.57 | 0.76 | 0.33 | ||
03 | 2012/11/22、11/23 | 0.32 | 1.09 | 0.25 | ||
04 | 2012/11/29、11/30 | 0.43 | 0.82 | 0.38 | ||
05 | 2012/12/06、12/07 | 0.43 | 0.57 | 0.29 | ||
06 | 2012/12/13、12/14 | 0.33 | 0.60 | 0.24 | ||
07 | 2012/12/20、12/21 | 0.27 | 0.62 | 0.24 | ||
08 | 2012/12/27、12/28 | 0.33 | 0.49 | 0.21 | ||
09 | 2013/01/03、01/04 | 0.34 | 0.72 | 0.23 | ||
10 | 2013/01/10、01/11 | 0.38 | 0.63 | 0.27 | ||
11 | 2013/01/17、01/18 | 0.45 | 0.87 | 0.36 | ||
12 | 2013/01/24、01/25 | 0.38 | 0.74 | 0.21 | ||
13 | 2013/01/31、02/01 | 0.44 | 0.54 | 0.30 | ||
14 | 2013/02/07、02/08 | |||||
15 | 2013/02/14、02/15 | 0.38 | 0.70 | 0.32 | ||
16(End) | 2013/02/21、02/22 | 0.42 | 0.95 | 0.42 | ||
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