Love or Bread

Plot Synopsis

One is Zeng Shanmei, a girl who is striving upward and working hard to support the whole family. The other is Frank, a boy who is ignorant and uneducated, always daydreaming of being rich and cheating people. Due to the relationship of sharing the rent, their lives are intertwined. Forced by livelihood, they start a noisy cohabitation life. In order to pay off the usury, Frank deceives Shanmei by claiming that she has lost the expensive ring left by his mother and forces her to pay back the money as soon as possible. However, as they spend more time together, they gradually fall in love. Frank is deeply touched by Shanmei's kindness, her striving, her perseverance and her never-giving-up spirit. The reformed Frank becomes the person who silently devotes himself to Shanmei behind her back. He secretly tries hard to transform into the ideal image in Shanmei's mind. On the surface, he still appears to be carefree and unrestrained. Until Enhao starts to pursue Shanmei, this balanced situation is broken. Frank fe