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Love The Way You Are (爱情应该有的样子)

Love The Way You Are (爱情应该有的样子; also known as 漂亮姐姐, Piao Liang Jie Jie) is a 2022 Chinese urban romance drama broadcast on iQiyi, starring Angelababy (Yang Ying) as Yin Yike and Lai Guanlin as Xu Guangxi, childhood acquaintances separated by a seven-year age gap who reunite as adults and fall in love.¹^•² It is a Chinese version of the Korean drama Something in the Rain (JTBC, 2018).¹^•³

Key fact	Detail
Original title	爱情应该有的样子 (Ai Qing Ying Gai You De Yang Zi); English title Love The Way You Are; also known as 漂亮姐姐¹
Broadcast	iQiyi, 2022-06-17 to 2022-07-07, daily at 12:00; 30 episodes of 45 minutes¹^•⁴
Director and writers	Directed by Yu Zhongzhong (于中中); written by Li Jingling, Wu Xiangling, and Yezi⁴
Leads	Angelababy as Yin Yike, Lai Guanlin as Xu Guangxi; the characters differ in age by 7 years²
Source	Chinese version of the Korean drama Something in the Rain (JTBC, 2018)¹
Production	Jointly produced by iQiyi and Jinhe Film (金禾影视); first romance drama of iQiyi's 2022 Lianlian Theater (恋恋剧场) lineup⁵
Douban rating	5.3 from 22,594 users; rated better than 26% of drama titles and 41% of romance titles on the platform⁴

Spoilers

Premise and characters

Yin Yike is a capable marketing manager at a beauty company, known there as the "forever OK lady" (永远的OK小姐), who appears to have a perfect life with a stable job and a longtime boyfriend, the lawyer Li Zelin.²^•¹^•⁶ In reality she endures harassment from a superior, distance from her family, and a boyfriend who treats her as an accessory.² Xu Guangxi, a designer seven years her junior whom she knew as a child, returns from studying abroad, and his childhood dependence on her turns into romantic feeling.²^•³ As their relationship develops, Yike regains the courage to rebuild her life while Guangxi, under the pressure of a fast-paced career, readjusts his pace and pursues his professional dreams.²

The supporting cast includes Qiao Zhenyu as Li Zelin, Zhang Xilin as Yin Chenggong, Zhao Ziqi as Zheng Ying, Tian Yitong as Qin Yiran, Liu Yitong as Yin Yibo, Zhang Tao as Chen Ye, Ling Meishi as Xia Xiaomian, and Guan Zijing as Chen Musen.⁴^•³ Secondary storylines pair these characters: Qin Yiran and Chen Ye grow close while caring for Chen Ye's son, and Yin Yibo confesses his feelings to the livestreamer Xia Xiaomian during her broadcast.⁷

Production and broadcast

The drama was jointly produced by iQiyi and Shanghai Jinhe Film (上海金禾影视传播有限公司) and directed by Yu Zhongzhong.⁵^•⁸ It was announced in May 2022 as part of iQiyi's Lianlian Theater (恋恋剧场) slate for that year, a lineup that also included Love Between Fairy and Devil (苍兰诀) and My Rebel Boyfriend (我的反派男友), and it opened the 2022 romance lineup.⁸^•⁴ All 30 episodes aired on iQiyi between June 17 and July 7, 2022, with new episodes released daily at noon.¹^•⁹

The series uses what its promotion called a documentary-style (记录式) narrative intended to return to love's most ordinary appearance, pairing healing and sweetness in a story of an older woman and younger man.⁵ On the finale day, an MV for the ending song "Come to me," performed by Angelababy with singer Wang Sulong, was released with behind-the-scenes footage of the lead couple.⁵ The finale brings the couple's families to accept the relationship, a proposal from Guangxi, and a re-creation of the convenience-store scene where they met.⁵

Adaptation source

The drama is a Chinese version of Something in the Rain, a 2018 JTBC Korean drama, and DramaWiki lists it as related to that show.¹ The adaptation changes the setting to a Chinese city and the male lead's profession to animation design, while keeping the structure of an older woman whose settled life is unsettled by a younger man from her childhood.²^•⁶

Reception

Audience scores differed sharply across platforms. On Douban the drama holds a 5.3 from 22,594 users, with 30.3% of raters giving three stars and 23.4% giving one star, placing it better than only 26% of drama titles on the site.⁴ On Viki it holds a 9.0 from 15,769 users,¹⁰ and on IMDb a 7.8 from 65 users.¹¹ Chinese press coverage at the finale emphasized the lead couple, nicknamed the "Cola CP" (可乐CP), and reported continuous positive response since the premiere.⁵

Other uses of the title

A different Chinese drama with the English title Love The Way You Are, original title 身为一个胖子, aired on Mango TV in December 2019, starring Judy Qi and Derek Chang; it is unrelated to the 2022 iQiyi series.¹²

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026