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Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling (一不小心捡到爱)

Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling (Yi bu xiao xin jian dao ai, 一不小心捡到爱) is a 2021 Chinese urban romantic comedy streaming series produced by Youku and Galaxy Cool Entertainment, directed by Zhong Qing, and starring Zhao Lusi and Liu Te. Adapted from the novel Yi Bu Xiao Xin Jian Dao Ge Zong Cai (一不小心捡到个总裁) by Chun Feng Yi Du, it ran for 24 episodes on Youku beginning May 20, 2021.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original title	一不小心捡到爱 (Yi bu xiao xin jian dao ai); English title Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling²
Source material	Novel Yi Bu Xiao Xin Jian Dao Ge Zong Cai (一不小心捡到个总裁) by Chun Feng Yi Du¹
Broadcast	24 episodes, Youku exclusive from May 20, 2021; finale June 9, 2021¹^•³
Lead cast	Zhao Lusi as Gu Anxin; Liu Te as Ling Yue²
Episode length	About 45 minutes¹
Early performance	Youku heat peak of 9809; first place on the platform's drama and sweet-drama heat charts for six consecutive days as of May 31, 2021⁴
Later ratings	Douban 4.3/10 from 25,774 raters; Youku 7.2/10 from 1.54 million raters, both as of March 18, 2024⁵

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Plot

Ling Yue (Liu Te), second son of the Ling family and president of the group's subsidiary Niuwei Group, is tailed by men sent by his older brother Ling Fang (He Peng) during the fight over the family conglomerate's succession. Driving too fast to shake off the pursuers, his brakes fail and his car plunges into the sea. When he climbs out, delivery courier Gu Anxin (Zhao Lusi) knocks him over on her way to work. Ling Yue conceals his identity and pretends to have amnesia, demanding compensation; unable to pay, Anxin is forced to take him home to recover, and the two, sharply different in personality and social position, begin living together.⁴

A promotional account adds a motive on Ling Yue's side: after the accident he discovers that Anxin is the "5% girl" who holds a key to the Ling family's succession, so he feigns amnesia to stay close to her.⁶ The series closes with Ling Yue exposing Ling Sheng as the schemer behind the succession conflict and proposing to Anxin.⁷

Cast

Zhao Lusi as Gu Anxin, a hardworking delivery courier²
Liu Te as Ling Yue, also known as Xiao Ba²
Zhou Junwei as Gu Ansheng, Anxin's foster brother²
Qi Peixin as Ling Sheng, Ling Yue's step-brother²
Li Muchen (Daisy Li) as Gu Xin'er⁸
He Peng as Ling Fang⁸

Production and release

The drama was announced with a concept poster on May 23, 2020, when filming began in Ningbo, Zhejiang; costume posters and the main cast were revealed on July 28, 2020, and the production wrapped on August 7, 2020.¹ The premiere date of May 20, 2021 was announced on May 18, with early access for VIP members.⁹ On Youku's "Pet Love Theater" (宠爱剧场) slot, VIP users received four episodes at launch, then one episode on Sundays and two on Mondays and Tuesdays.¹⁰

Beyond mainland China, the series streamed on LINE TV, MyVideo, and LiTV in Taiwan from May 20, 2021, and was released worldwide on Netflix on November 15, 2021; by November 24, 2021 it ranked in Netflix's top 10 for recent viewing.¹ Rakuten Viki carries the series with subtitles in English and more than 20 other languages.¹¹

The soundtrack includes the opening song Jian Dao Ni De Xia Yu Tian (捡到你的下雨天) and the closing song Wo Men De Gu Shi (我们的故事).¹ A title song named after the drama, performed by Liu Yixuan with lyrics by Wang Mingyu and music by He Huihui and Wang Zitong, was released on May 30, 2021 as part of the original soundtrack album.¹²

Reception

Early popularity. Within days of launch the series reached a Youku heat peak of 9809, held first place on the platform's drama heat chart and sweet-drama heat chart for six consecutive days as of May 31, 2021, and topped Youku's romance-drama heat chart.⁴^•⁶ Coverage credited its character setups, a paranoid "domineering CEO" and a tough, sweet-natured courier heroine, and its high-energy plot devices of a car crash, fake amnesia, and debt-driven cohabitation.⁶

Diverging ratings. Audience scores split sharply by platform: as of March 18, 2024 the series held 4.3/10 on Douban from 25,774 raters against 7.2/10 on Youku from 1.54 million raters.⁵ Critics were also divided. The Beijing Youth Daily praised its pure, warm love story as standing out among sweet-dramas that mix in suspense, science fiction, or horror elements, while the Yangzi Evening News criticized it for failing to escape the domineering-CEO formula and for weaknesses in realism and internal logic.¹

The drama also drew attention to its heroine's profession: actors Zhou Junwei and Liu Te worked as couriers for a day to promote the series, prompting public discussion of couriers' real working conditions.¹

Same-title short drama

A separate Chinese short drama with the same title, 一不小心捡到爱, unrelated to the 2021 series, went online on August 7, 2024. Directed by Stanley, it runs 85 short episodes totaling about two hours and stars Han Zhongyu as Lin Xi and Ye Yi as Fu Chenzhou in a story about a woman separated from her child and a later romance with a Fu family heir.¹³

References

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

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