Main Cast: Yang Mi, Xu Kai
Background
She & Her Perfect Husband is a Chinese drama starring Yang Mi (Qin Shi) and Xu Kai (Yang Hua) as the lead female and male characters. The story follows Qin Shi, a single, yet up and coming successful attorney. In order to be hired by any respectable firm and continue to progress throughout her career, Qin Shi must be married. Rather than losing yet another opportunity to work at a top firm, Qin Shi changes her marital status to “married” and is eventually becomes a key lawyer at Cheng and Hui, one of the country’s top law firms. For 2 years, Qin Shi’s “white lie” works flawlessly until her “husband” Yang Hua suddenly appears one day at a company party.
Hoping to remediate the situation and prevent her secret from leaking and ruining her career, Qin Shi quickly pulls Yang Hua aside and begs him to continue to be her fake husband. However, Yang Hua quickly judges Qin Shi as an opportunistic and inconsiderate individual and quickly rejects her proposal and gives her 3 days to finalize their “divorce”.
Meanwhile, Yang Hua is a successful trader who lives at home with his parents. Despite successfully amassing a small fortune through his successful portfolio, Yang Hua’s mother doesn’t understand his work and considers him to be unemployed. In addition to constantly nagging him to get a job, she also constantly sets up dates for Yang Hua and aggressively pesters him to get married. Much to his mother’s disdain Yang Hua does not believe in getting married. But, he quickly realizes that Qin Shi may be the solution to his problem and decides to partner with Qin Shi and play each other’s fake spouse.
Thoughts
She & Her Perfect Husband is a really cute yet funny series. The stark contrast between Qin Shi and Yang Hua’s personalities adds an interesting twist in their relationship. Rather than following the traditional standards, Qin Shi is considered the provider in the relationship due to her large salary, while Yang Hua performs most of the house duties. However keeping a tidy house is no easy task since Qin Shi is arguably one of the messiest people in the world. Yang Hua is also reserved and keeps to himself while Qin Shi is very vocal and emotional. Despite being complete opposites, Qin Shi and Yang Hua’s differences provides an entertaining yet balanced dynamic within their relationship.
One of the most entertaining aspects of the show is whenever Qin Shi interacts with Yang Hua’s mother. Qin Shi definitely leverages her negotiation tactics and strategies that she picked up during her career. Rather than being the traditional accommodating daughter-in-law Qin Shi pushes the envelope during her conversations with her “mother-in-law” in an attempt to get her off of Yang Hua’s case, but Yang Hua’s mother is a control freak and is shocked by her son’s sudden decision and is suddenly against their marriage. However, she does not want to admit that she is against their marriage and admit defeat to her son’s trick, so she constantly re-thinks her strategy. Qin Shi’s interactions with Yang Hua’s mother is definitely one of the highlights of the entire show, especially as you hear their inner dialogue and frustrations with one another. Each conversation is definitely a showdown between 2 alpha females and it leaves me giggling every time.
Honestly, I would recommend watching She & Her Perfect Husband! The episodes go by quickly and are very entertaining and so far has a well executed plot and you can’t help but wonder how long Yang Hua and Qin Shi can continue to go without being caught OR actually falling in love with each other!
