Borrow Your Love


Borrow Your Love, also known as Borrow Ur Love, is a 2013 Taiwanese romance drama starring Dylan Kuo, Amanda Chu, Shi Yi Nan and Cherry Hsia. The drama is about two people who wanted to set their friends up together but end up falling for each other. Filming began in November 2012 on location in Taiwan and finished filming in March 2013. The drama began airing on channel CTV on March 3, 2013 every Sunday night at 10:00 PM with episodes re-broadcasting on cable channel CtiTV every following Saturday night at 10:00 PM. It finished airing on June 2, 2013 with 14 episodes total.

Synopsis

Ping An, a blunt girl with a warm personality meets Ye Chen, a cold and reserved guy who has just been released from prison. Their chance encounter leads to misunderstanding and being kidnapped together. But the two pretend to be a couple in order for their friends Li Zi Wen and Xie Xi Le to get together without feeling guilty. In addition Ye Chen helps Ping An uncover her true identity and find her long loss mother.

Summary

Xie Ping An and Xie Xi Le are best friends who grew up together in the orphanage. Not having a sense of security, each sees each other as their only family. Both work as servers at the Qing Cheng mall food court and have a crush on Li Zi Wen an Executive assistant who also works at the same mall. Ping An works part-time at a floral nursery while Xi Le attends University part-time. They might be poor but both are happy with having only each other in their life. Their peaceful lives turns up side down when they encounter Ye Chen and when one of them is possibly the biological daughter of Bai Ming Li, the stern, ruthless and manipulative chairwomen of the Qing Cheng mall.
Ye Chen is a brave and loyal person who took the blame and served an 8-year prison sentence for an accidental murder Zi Wen committed, thinking Zi Wen would take care of his sister Wei Jin, who Zi Wen was dating at that time. On the day that he is released from prison he meets Ping An when saving her from being run over by traffic, they have a misunderstanding and argue because of where he had grabbed her on her body when saving her. Later that same day he encounters the kidnapping of Bai Ming Li orchestrate by her chauffeur in broad daylight, since Ping An got kidnapped too while trying to save Bai Ming Li early, Ye Chen recognizes her and decides to rescue them.
When Ping An and Bai Ming Li are saved, Bai Ming Li offers Ye Chen her business card so she can compensate him for saving her. Ye Chen is not interested and throws away her business card, seeing that Ye Chen is not greedy Bai Ming Li offers him a task for a great reward. She asks him to help find her long lost biological daughter because this is a private matter and he is the only person she can trust. Bai Ming Li cannot trust anyone because she is a ruthless and cold hearted business women who had made many enemies while building her late husband's once small family run supermarket to the huge shopping mall corporation it is now.
Ye Chen traces Bai Ming Li's long lost daughter to Xie Ping An and Xie Xi Le. Both girls are asked to take an DNA test. While waiting for the DNA test results Bai Ming Li receives a phone call from her former chauffeur who was part of her earlier kidnapping telling her he will tell her who is the mastermind of the kidnapping if she gives him a great sum of money, but her former chauffeur dies in what looks like an suicide before she is able to reach him. Knowing that there is someone still out to get her she lies about the DNA results by acknowledging Xi Le as her daughter in order to protect her real biological daughter Ping An. Ye Chen finds out about Bai Ming Li's lie when seeing her many worried reactions towards Ping An, after understanding why she had to lie she asks him to continue working for her as her personal bodyguard and chauffeur. He agrees knowing that the real culprit behind the kidnapping has not been caught.
Li Zi Wen and Ye Chen were best friends when they were younger, he even dated Ye Chen's younger sister Wei Jin. He works as an Executive assistant at the mall and is friendly with all the staff. He likes Ping An because she reminds him of Wei Jin whom he had loved very much. During his college years his family business went bankrupted, both of his parents not being able to face the set back committed suicide. Zi Wen blamed Bai Ming Li's ruthless business dealings with the bankruptcy of his family's business and cause of his parents suicide. Wanting to avenge his parents he cuts Bai Ming Li's car brakes, but Wei Jin finds out and tries to worn Bai Ming Li, but she gets killed when the car is out of control.
Zi Wen has since blamed Bai Ming Li for everything that was taken away from him. Knowing he is no match for Bai Ming Li, he quietly and patiently works by her side as an trusted assistant in order to learn all her underhand business dealing tricks so he can exact revenge on her one day. When news comes out that Xi Le is Bai Ming Li's biological daughter he gives up on his love for Ping An in order to pursue and pretend to love Xi Le so he can carryout his revenge plan.

Cast

Main cast

Majority of filming took place at the "Urban One" mall in the Songshan District of Taipei. Its exterior and interior is depicted as the mall where the main characters work at. The mall's actual food court stood in for the food court of where "Xie Ping An" works at. Filming also took place outsides the mall's exterior and neighboring places around the area. Other filming locations included Ximending District of Taipei. The house that serves as the residence of "Bai Ming Li" is an architecture show piece house called "The Designer's House" located at Yilan County, Taiwan. The same house was previously featured in such dramas as 2006 CTS drama "Miss No Good" and "Hana Kimi". The plant nursery where "Xie Ping An" works at part-time is the "Taipei Garden Mall" located in the Shilin District of Taipei, Taiwan.

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