Love or Bread: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Frank is a guy who lives his life in a façade, letting the world believe he's a wealthy young gentlemen. When in fact he's a lazy, procrastinating in debt pauper. While Shan Mei is a poor young woman, but kind, filial and very hard-working bread winner of her family. They encounter each other when both are in need of housing, they end up sharing a broke-down old house together. Their characters totally opposite of each other, so they ultimately butt heads with each other, but share in common the need of money and a new destiny.

Series details

• Title: Love or Bread
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Chinese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2008-11-16
• Final broadcast date listed: 2009-02-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CTV
• Network country: Taiwan, Province of China
• Typical episode runtime: 90 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 15878
• TVDB ID: 124071

Cast and credited roles

• Ariel Lin — Zeng Shan Mei
• Joe Cheng — Frank

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2008-11-16; final listed air date 2009-02-08; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

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