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Intense Love (韫色过浓)

Intense Love (韫色过浓; also romanized as Yun Se Guo Nong) is a 2020 Chinese urban romance television series produced by Mango TV, directed by Cai Cong, and starring Zhang Yuxi and Ding Yuxi as an actress and a doctor who discover they are bound by a childhood engagement.¹ The 24-episode series premiered exclusively on Mango TV on May 2, 2020, and is adapted from the novel of the same title by Liu Mang Xing (六盲星).¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Title	Intense Love (韫色过浓, Yun Se Guo Nong)¹
Format	24 episodes, urban romance drama, Mandarin, mainland China¹
Broadcast	Premiered May 2, 2020, exclusively on Mango TV; series status ended¹
Lead cast	Zhang Yuxi as Su Jinbei, Ding Yuxi as Zhou Shiyun, with Wanyan Luorong, Wu Yang, Lin Xinyi, Zhang Yao, and a special appearance by Shi Mingze¹
Source novel	Novel of the same title by Liu Mang Xing, 208,550 characters, completed in 2016²
Early performance	Viewership passed 100 million within 3 days of premiere and 300 million within one week¹
Recognition	Nominated for the 3rd "Chuxin List" 2020 Top Five Young Directors award³

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Premise

The story follows Su Jinbei (苏矜北), a driven, high-profile actress, and Zhou Shiyun (周时韫), a dedicated doctor. On the day of the engagement arranged by their families in childhood, Su Jinbei fails to appear and Zhou Shiyun also rejects the marriage agreement. Shortly afterward, Su Jinbei is hospitalized after a car accident, wakes to find her first kiss lost, and discovers that her attending physician is the very "fiancé" she was supposed to meet. Smitten at first sight, she pursues him openly: staging chance encounters in various outfits by the roadside, and even stealing a kiss during a photo session, all to draw his attention. Zhou Shiyun, who already knows her real identity, watches her bold pursuit without reacting, and Su Jinbei sets about melting his unresponsive "iceberg" a little at a time.¹^•⁴

The source novel frames the same dynamic from the heroine's side: Su Jinbei's life creed of "never forsaking high heels or fresh young men" is hastily revised once she meets Zhou Shiyun, and a comic exchange has Zhou Shiyun name his favorite thing about her as her beauty and his least favorite as "too much beauty" (美色过甚), a play on the title.²

Production and broadcast

Filming. The series held its opening ceremony on November 17, 2019, with director Cai Cong and leads Zhang Yuxi, Ding Yuxi, and Wanyan Luorong in attendance, and shot from November 18, 2019 to January 5, 2020 in Beijing.⁵ The production credits list Tang Fan as chief producer and Zheng Huaping as chief supervisor, with a screenwriting team led by Jiang Yu.¹

Release. The premiere date was announced on April 28, 2020, with a teaser trailer and stills; further trailers, a character-relationship chart, and behind-the-scenes features followed on successive days before the May 2 debut.⁵ Episodes streamed on Mango TV, with two episodes per airing day on a weekend schedule; TheTVDB's airing order runs the 24 episodes from May 2 to June 7, 2020, while TVmaze lists the final episode on May 30, 2020.⁶^•⁷ The series was also released with English subtitles on Mango TV's international service and distributed on platforms including Viki and iQIYI.⁸^•⁹

Music

The original soundtrack album was released on May 2, 2020, composed by Zhang Kun (Johnny). The opening theme is "在等我吗" (Are You Waiting for Me) and the closing theme is "爱上你" (Falling in Love with You).¹

Reception

The series opened strongly: viewership on Mango TV passed 100 million within three days of the premiere and 300 million within a week.¹ In 2020 it received a nomination for the 3rd "Chuxin List" (初心榜) 2020 Top Five Young Directors award, recognizing the direction.¹ A Baidu commentary piece judged the drama by the core standard for the "sweet pet" genre, its sweetness, citing the leads' on-screen chemistry, the density of high-sweetness scenes, and the actors' promotional appearances, while noting that some viewers saw room for improvement in plot polish.¹⁰ On Viki the series holds a 9.2 user rating from more than 49,000 ratings.⁹

The source novel

The drama adapts a completed 2016 web novel by Liu Mang Xing serialized on Jinjiang Literature City, totaling 208,550 characters and told from the heroine's point of view. The novel's rights for mainland publication, Asian publication, audio drama, and web-drama adaptation were all signed, and it carried year-end roundup honors on the site.² A separate 2025 short drama with a similar title, 绯色过浓, is an unrelated work.¹¹

References

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 Cr to In

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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