Love Me Or Leave Me |
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Promotional poster for Love Me Or Leave Me
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Also known as | I Rented A Lover |
Genre | Romance |
Created by | Sanlih E-Television |
Written by | Ye Feng Ying 葉鳳英 |
Directed by | Lin Qing Zhen 林清振 |
Starring |
Ann Hsu 許瑋甯 Chris Wang 宥勝 |
Opening theme | Gave You 都給你 by Chris Wang 宥勝 |
Ending theme | Happiness is like 幸福就好 by Soo Wincci 蘇盈之 |
Country of origin | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Original language(s) | Mandarin |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
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Producer(s) | Fang Xiaoren 方孝仁, Rong Junyi 戎俊義 |
Location(s) | Taiwan |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Production company(s) | SETTV |
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Original network | SETTV |
Picture format | SDTV(480i) |
First shown in | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Original release | 8 November 2012 | – 21 February 2013
Chronology | |
Preceded by | What Is Love () |
Followed by | Big Red Riding Hood () |
External links | |
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Love Me Or Leave Me (Chinese: 我租了一個情人; pinyin: Wo Zu Le Yi Ge Qing Ren) is a 2012 to 2013 Taiwanese idol romance drama television series created and developed by SETTV. It stars Ann Hsu, Chris Wang as the main leads with Albee Huang, Li Kang Yi and Alan Kuo as the supporting leads. Filming began on September 16, 2012 and finished on February 17, 2013. It began airing on SETTV on November 8, 2012. Final 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.
Produced from the same team that produced SETTV 2011 to 2012 hit Taiwanese idol romance drama "Inborn Pair". Due to the success of SETTV previous romance drama "Inborn Pair" Sanlih decided to split their "Inborn Pair" leads Annie Chen and Chris Wang to film two different new romance dramas to be aired back to back. 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".
Ji Qing (Ann Hsu) has commitment issues because of 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. But Ji Qing plan seems to have backfired when Shan Shan seems to have fallen for Hao Ming for real.
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. 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.