''Absolutely Charming'' (simplified Chinese: 糊里糊涂爱上它) is a Singaporean

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fantasy drama which will be telecast on

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's free-to-air channel,

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. It stars

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, Zhou Ying, Zhang Zhenhuan,

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and

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as the cast of this series. The series was repeated at 7am on

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on weekends.

Plot

Hu Liqin, a Fox Spirit, is banished to Earth for being unable to suppress her feelings of love in heavens. The only way she would be permitted back to the Celestial Court was if she could find a man who is willing to sacrifice his life to love and protect her.

Cast

as Hu Liqin, a fox spirit. *

as Song Haomin, one of the designers at Foxy * Zhou Ying as Xie Enlin, one of the designers at Foxy *

Zhang Zhen Huan Zhang Zhen Xuan (; born 2 February 1984) is a Chinese actor, formerly based in Singapore and was named as one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill. He was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2008 to 2018. He changed his name to Zhang Zhenx ...

as Wu Zikang, one of the designers at Foxy *

as Song Xinmei, owner of Fragrance Inn *

as Song Tiancheng *

as Liu Bingbing * Jason Lee Kok Yang as Song Renjie

Production

The drama series was announced in August 2011 with

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and

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as the main lead characters. In January 2012, it was announced the lead characters were changed to Cherry Hsia and Elvin Ng respectively. Channel 8 responded that they changed Aw out to prevent viewers' fatigue of constantly seeing Aw on television and also the network is producing a new series, ''Beyond'', which stars Aw. Fans and viewers protested the reasoning, citing there was only two drama series, ''

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'' and ''Jump!'', featuring Aw on two different networks and comparing to

Rui En Loh Rui En (born 29 January 1981), better known by her stage name Rui En (瑞恩), is a Singaporean actress and was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006. She was under contract of MediaCorp and managed under Hype Records ...

, Rui En had more series showing on the same time period. The drama series was originally titled 我爱狐狸精 but was renamed 糊里糊涂爱上它 (''Absolutely Charming'').

Episodes

References

{{Reflist Singapore Chinese dramas 2012 Singaporean television series debuts Channel 8 (Singapore) original programming