The Lady and the Lies: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Zheng Xue Er, a strong woman with a successful career, has no plans to get married. However, her mother was seriously ill, and in order to reassure her that she will found a decent husband, Xue Er decided to lower the criteria for choosing a mate and find an honest and stable person to marry and have children as soon as possible. Under the introduction of her best friend Mi Li Li, she met Song Hao Tian and married him in a flash. Soon her mother died and Zheng Xue Er put her efforts to achieve happiness on her new, small family. After marriage, Zheng Xue Er has been infertile due to physical reasons, and her mother-in-law is extremely dissatisfied with this. But even when she successfully became pregnant through test-tube technology, her mother-in-law's attitude towards her still didn't improve. As it wasn't enough, soon women discovers that Hao Tian, who like to adore his wife publicly, cheats on her with her friend, and they both plan to takeover her property. At first, wanting only to secretly investigate her husband's adultery, Zheng Xue Er, when she found out that her mother's death was also related to her husband, possessed by the need to avenge her, and pay for all the cruel things, those both do to her, began her revenge plan.

Series details

• Title: The Lady and the Lies
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Chinese
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2023-06-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 2023-06-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Youku
• Network country: China
• Typical episode runtime: 10 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 69218

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-06-12; final listed air date 2023-06-19; episode order: 20.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Lady and the Lies on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.