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| Zhao Lusi’s Love’s Ambition Drops Without Warning – Even She Wasn’t Told |
Tencent quietly rolled out Zhao Lusi’s new urban romance Love’s Ambition (许我耀眼) this morning — and the biggest twist? Even Rosy herself didn’t know it was happening.
Rosy was busy posting a cheerful selfie with a friend captioned “Nobody told me” when fans discovered the first four episodes of her boldest drama to date were already online.
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The release hit at 10 a.m. on September 26, perfectly timed to ride the National Day holiday wave and push straight into China’s drama traffic frenzy.
Within hours, the series clocked a popularity score north of 25,000 and started climbing Tencent’s trending charts.
At the heart of Love’s Ambition is Xu Yan, played by Zhao Lusi, a live-streamer from modest beginnings who reinvents herself as a dazzling heiress to marry into money.
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| Love's Ambition - 25k Heat Index |
With her ruthless mantra — “A good woman earns a reputation, a bad woman gets everything” — Xu Yan is no sweet heroine.
She hires fake parents, learns elite skills like piano and etiquette, and transforms a web of lies into a new reality.
Zhao Lusi’s performance already has fans buzzing; it’s a sharp contrast to the bubbly rom-com roles that made her famous, and a daring choice in a year where she’s been in the headlines as much for her agency dispute as for her acting.
Opposite her is William Chan as Shen Haoming, a shrewd businessman who knows his wife’s secret from day one.
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Their marriage begins as a cold contract, but as feelings creep in, the façade becomes harder to maintain.
Expect plenty of icy standoffs, loaded glances, and a cat-and-mouse dynamic that blurs the lines between power play and genuine connection.
The drama is adapted from Zhang Yue Ran’s web novel Da Qiao Xiao Qiao (大乔小乔) — the same author behind Zhao Liying’s suspense project The Unseen Sister.
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While Love’s Ambition trades crime and shadows for glitz and gamesmanship, ambition is still very much the theme.
Alongside Zhao Lusi and William Chan, the cast features Wan Peng, Tang Xiaotian, Jian Renzi, with Fan Shiqi making a special appearance.
ICYMI: Love’s Ambition Crew Spill the Tea on Wan Peng During Filming.
For Zhao Lusi fans, the “surprise drop” feels like an early holiday gift. For the actress herself — judging by her amused post — it’s more like being blindsided by your own comeback. Either way, Love’s Ambition has landed, and the buzz is only just beginning.