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 "excerpt": "Laogong Qing He Wo Lian'ai Ba (老公请和我恋爱吧) is a 2025 Chinese 86-episode vertical short drama by Tinghua Island, starring Han Yutong and Chen Si, adapted from a Fanqie novel about an 18-year-old waking up eight years in the future married to her nemesis; distinct from the 2024 Huace series 请和这样的我恋爱吧.",
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 "markdown": "# Laogong Qing He Wo Lian'ai Ba\n\n**Laogong Qing He Wo Lian'ai Ba** (老公请和我恋爱吧, \"Husband, Please Fall in Love with Me\") is a 2025 Chinese vertical short drama produced by Tinghua Island Theater (听花岛剧场), consisting of 86 episodes with a total runtime of 2 hours 39 minutes, released on September 18, 2025.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> It stars Han Yutong (韩雨彤) as Ruan Tang and Chen Si (沉思) as Leng Jing in a time-travel romance in which an 18-year-old woman wakes up eight years in the future, married to her high-school nemesis and raising his child.<sup>[2](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1p80in6nbyh.html)</sup> The series became one of the most-watched short dramas of late 2025, with first-day playback exceeding 100 million views on the Yunhe measurement service.<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | 86-episode vertical short drama, total runtime 2 hours 39 minutes, roughly 2 minutes per episode<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/94931/lao-gong-qing-he-wo-lian-ai-ba)</sup> |\n| Producer | Tinghua Island Theater (听花岛剧场)<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> |\n| Release | Online September 18, 2025 on Hongguo Short Drama; IMDb lists a September 20, 2025 release date in China<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38427760/)</sup> |\n| Leads | Han Yutong as Ruan Tang (阮棠); Chen Si as Leng Jing (冷璟)<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> |\n| Source material | Adapted from the novel *I Woke Up and Had a Baby with My Nemesis!* (一觉醒来，我和死对头生了个崽！) on Fanqie Novel<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> |\n| Viewership | First-day Yunhe daily playback over 100 million; 2.35 hundred million cumulative in three days; Hongguo heat peaked at 99.43 million<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup> |\n| Ratings | 9.1 on Hongguo; 8.1 on Duanjubaike; 6.5/10 on IMDb (10 user ratings)<sup>[6](https://hongguoduanju.com/detail?series_id=7551419927798746137)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38427760/)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nThe premise places the heroine in a triple identity displacement from the first episode: an unfamiliar time, a legal husband who was her father's-style archrival in school, and a child she does not remember.<sup>[7](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)</sup> At eighteen, Ruan Tang wakes up eight years in the future to find she is married to Leng Jing, her former nemesis, has a child with him, and has a public reputation as a scheming villainess who allegedly cheated and ruined her own family's business.<sup>[2](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1p80in6nbyh.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38427760/)</sup> She launches a \"reputation-cleansing\" plan: cutting off scumbags and fake friends, caring for her neglected child, and recovering the Ruan family's old residence from greedy relatives.<sup>[4](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/94931/lao-gong-qing-he-wo-lian-ai-ba)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)</sup>\n\nLeng Jing, whatever her reputation, trusts her unconditionally; he is in fact the childhood friend who secretly loved her for years.<sup>[2](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1p80in6nbyh.html)</sup> The story follows her redemption arc alongside a romance that moves from antagonism to marriage-based affection, a structure the genre labels \"marriage before love\" (先婚后爱).<sup>[6](https://hongguoduanju.com/detail?series_id=7551419927798746137)</sup> Subplots include Ruan Tang returning to the ballet training she abandoned, and comic conflict driven by the couple's son, who relays his mother's private jokes about his father verbatim, turning one remark into a multi-episode quarrel.<sup>[7](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)</sup>\n\n## Cast\n\nHan Yutong plays both the 18-year-old and the 26-year-old Ruan Tang, with the two stages of the character differentiated through changes in gaze and bearing; Chen Si plays Leng Jing as a restrained, devoted chief executive.<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup> The supporting cast includes Ye Xiaomao as Xuanxuan, Hu Tutu as Leng Nianchen, Ma Ruiqing as Ye Wenqing, Wang Zongyan as Han Cheng, Shan Mingkai as Qin Yu, and child actors Zhang Zhiyue and Tang Keren as the young Leng Jing and Ruan Tang.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> The two leads were pairing for the second time, a collaboration that trade coverage credited with on-screen chemistry.<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup>\n\n## Production and release\n\nTinghua Island, the production company, has stated that home, love, and warmth are the themes it most wants to express, and the series was positioned as a light comedy sweet-romance rather than a melodrama of misunderstandings.<sup>[8](https://www.zgshwz.com.cn/html/2025/chengshi_0924/23498.html)</sup> The drama premiered on Hongguo Short Drama, ByteDance's free short-drama platform, where non-members could watch the first 11 episodes free and VIP members the full series; it also circulated on iQIYI.<sup>[2](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1p80in6nbyh.html)</sup> A script-analysis study of the released episodes counts 203 scenes across the 86 episodes, an average of 14.8 lines of dialogue per episode, and 9 paywall points, the earliest in episodes 1 to 10; the first episode carries the series' dialogue peak at 44 lines.<sup>[7](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)</sup> Each episode ends on a \"reverse cliffhanger\" in which an antagonist or the male lead, rather than the heroine, initiates the next complication.<sup>[7](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)</sup>\n\n## Reception\n\nThe series opened with what trade press called a phenomenon-level performance: Yunhe daily playback broke 100 million on the first day, cumulative effective playback reached 2.35 hundred million within three days, Hongguo's in-app heat value peaked at 99.43 million, and Douyin native playback also exceeded 100 million on day one.<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup> On Douyin, hashtags such as the show's high-sweet scenes and Han Yutong's eye acting repeatedly reached the hot lists, and user-made clips of scenes like Leng Jing searching a rainy night for Ruan Tang's discarded wedding ring spread widely.<sup>[3](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://m.sohu.com/a/940918825_122159796/)</sup> The \"matching dog-print family outfits\" worn by the chief-executive lead drew over 2.5 hundred million topic views on Douyin.<sup>[9](https://m.sohu.com/a/940918825_122159796/)</sup>\n\nPlatform ratings diverged by audience: Hongguo users scored it 9.1 and Duanjubaike 8.1, while IMDb's small user base gave 6.5 out of 10.<sup>[6](https://hongguoduanju.com/detail?series_id=7551419927798746137)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38427760/)</sup> An industry report on 2025-2026 short-drama consumption placed the series at number 22 on the Hongguo annual awards' top-30 public-recommendation list, with a recommendation value of 2.096 million.<sup>[10](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202603311820911021_1.pdf?1774972350000.pdf=)</sup> Reviewers highlighted the drama's avoidance of heavy melodrama, its life-detail scenes such as the couple's height-comparison flashback, and the male lead's line \"because she is her, I will always believe her\" as the emotional core that resonated with female viewers.<sup>[8](https://www.zgshwz.com.cn/html/2025/chengshi_0924/23498.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://m.sohu.com/a/940918825_122159796/)</sup>\n\n## Source novel and related adaptations\n\nThe drama adapts the web novel *I Woke Up and Had a Baby with My Nemesis!* (一觉醒来，我和死对头生了个崽！), categorized on Fanqie Novel under wealthy-family, modern-romance, sweet-pet, and secret-crush tags, with 47,702 readers recorded on the platform.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup> The same novel has been adapted into at least ten other live-action short dramas with titles such as *I Woke Up Married to My Nemesis and Had a Baby* (73 episodes, rated 8.9) and *Eight Years Later, My Aloof Childhood Friend Is My Baby's Dad* (60 episodes), reflecting the common practice of licensing one hit web novel to multiple short-drama producers.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)</sup>\n\nThe title is easily confused with two other works. *Qing He Zheyang de Wo Lian'ai Ba* (请和这样的我恋爱吧) is a 40-episode 2024 urban romance television series directed by Zhang Boyu and starring [Hu Yitian](https://www.edgepedia.org/hu-yitian) and Liang Jie, produced by iQIYI and Huace Media, a full-length drama with no connection to the short drama.<sup>[11](https://www.huacemedia.com/mobile/index.php/television/info/173.html)</sup> *Laogong Kuai Qing He Wo Lian'ai Ba* (老公快请和我恋爱吧) is a separate 9-episode 2025 short drama on iQIYI with a similar ten-year time-jump premise.<sup>[12](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1ya23o9gb8p.html)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [《老公请和我恋爱吧》 - 短剧百科](https://duanjubaike.org/zh-Hans/drama/78)\n2. [老公请和我恋爱吧 - 高清正版视频在线观看 - 爱奇艺](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1p80in6nbyh.html)\n3. [上线3天狂揽2.35亿播放！听花岛《老公请和我恋爱吧》爆火 - 新浪财经](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2025-09-25/doc-infrsnhm8777656.shtml)\n4. [Lao Gong Qing He Wo Lian Ai Ba - TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/94931/lao-gong-qing-he-wo-lian-ai-ba)\n5. [Lao Gong Qing He Wo Lian Ai Ba (TV Mini Series 2025) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38427760/)\n6. [老公请和我恋爱吧 - 红果短剧](https://hongguoduanju.com/detail?series_id=7551419927798746137)\n7. [《老公请和我恋爱吧》短剧剧本拆解：甜宠虐恋·86集 - 我爱剧本](https://52juben.com/show/learn/j/6svydx)\n8. [韩雨彤新剧《老公请和我恋爱吧》，让流动的爱意治愈渐冷的秋天 - 中国产业新闻网](https://www.zgshwz.com.cn/html/2025/chengshi_0924/23498.html)\n9. [全民追更上头！《老公请和我恋爱吧》凭什么承包全网少女心？ - 搜狐网](https://m.sohu.com/a/940918825_122159796/)\n10. [艺恩-短剧行业：2025-2026年短剧内容消费偏好全景观察](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202603311820911021_1.pdf?1774972350000.pdf=)\n11. [请和这样的我恋爱吧 - 华策影视](https://www.huacemedia.com/mobile/index.php/television/info/173.html)\n12. [老公快请和我恋爱吧 - 爱奇艺](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_1ya23o9gb8p.html)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles symbols to Co*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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