Love's Ambition Episode 12

Influence game on background of repressed or delusional relationships

The below detailed synopsis contains spoilers and an opinion about one supporting actor.

Fang Lei and Xu Yan had different approaches to help Haoming connect with the Jiang of Yuanhang fund., Jiang Yun and Jiang Liang (played by "Adrian" Fan Shiqi, see note below the episode synopsis). Jiang Liang had met Fang Lei before and took her to a drinking party with three other returnees. Xu Yan arrived late, inappropriately dressed on purpose, to catch the attention of Jiang Yun and her thorough preparation paid off: she charmed the unapproachable Chairwoman. Fang Lei,weakened from alcohol, had mood swings and helpless jealousy while Haoming got annoyed but, for old times sake, took care of her and had her driven home by his assistant Chen Lin (played by Li Fancheng) .
As she was leaving, Haoming picked up her bracelet and put it in his pocket. On their way back, Fang Lei said to the assistant that her heart "belonged solely to Haoming" before and in the future, hinting to a past history that Haoming, left alone, also recalled.

Although the influence battle was not totally won, Haoming gave a precious necklace to his wife as reward for her help. He also had a silk robe sent to her and invited her to his agave shop to celebrate her birthday. But he got sidetracked by Fang Lei who had met Haochen (although she had been forbidden to meet him). She told Haoming that the boy looked like herself.
While Xu Yan was waiting for hours, Haoming was rushing Fang Lei to hospital. When he finally got home and gave Xu Yan a peck on the lips for having waited patiently, he was still brooding on the deeply hidden memory in his mind of his lover Fang Yu, Fang Lei's sister, who had drowned, and of the body bag in which he had last seen her.

Meanwhile, Dr Yu got an unwelcome visit from Lin Tao who shrilly accused him of interfering with his "his wife". Both Qiao Lin and Dr Yu thought he must be mad.


------Side note : "Adrian" Fan Shiqi is a singer and actor who gained increasing popularity since 2013 before being subjected to a witch hunt linking him to the death of 7 years older "Alan" Yu Menglong on Sept.11, 2025.

Alan was another popular and successful singer-actor with whom Adrian Fan was acquainted since the Super Boy competition in 2013 and who dined with him and a handful of friends on the eve of the tragic accident that triggered a full fledged conspiracy theory with wild rumors flying. Passionate fans flung conflicting rumors about, targeting variously both "unknown powerful people", and the friends and owner of the Beijing apartment from which YML had fallen after locking himself in one of the bedrooms. Through a swiftly orchestrated network campaign, the fans and people they called to rally to slogan, were convinced that the truth had been "hidden" and tried to blow it up into an anti China campaign, linking the death to Xinjiang since the Han actor was born in Ürumqi, (although he was not known as controversial or a known dissenter or even as a Moslem! despite clearly doctored videos put on tik tok after the actor's death).

The mother of Yu Menglong called for calm, convinced by the findings of the swift inquiry which ruled the fall as accident caused by drunkenness. The authorities consistently gave information about the death and the using of it for sensational purpose and clickbait by "influencers", three of whom were arrested and admitted to fabricating lies and videos with false evidence, such as photoshopped pictures, AI speech imitation "recordings", strange items "found" such as "a USB" and "one or two Rolex watches"....
But foreign agents, among which a group in Taiwan, kept fanning the flames, having found a "convenient martyr" to stir up opinion and if possible cause unrest. Irate fans of Yu Menglong and other people following rumors called for punishment of the people he dined with, together with "unknown powerful people".
They did not recoil from naming Xi Jinping (!!!), naming and shaming the other actors, and even demanding the removal of Fan Shiqi from Love's Ambition cast list -despite only rumor supported their opinion- managing to bully his promotional pictures into being taken away and cause a boycott of a smaller Chengdu concert.
Up till now, Fan Shiqi and other actors involved in the witch hunt have not been let down by their agency, suing and issuing statements denying specific rumors, and continue the filming projects and work they were involved with before the whipped up scandal, where things now have grown more murky than in vertical drama revenge plots! (from which attentive watchers could surely recognize elements, but newcomers or others with previous bias swallow the bait, hook, fish and line).

The drama Love's Ambition continues its stellar career online, despite the backlash from the scandal lovers joining cyber bullying rings against the leads - although the drama was filmed one year ago and had no link with YML work. This while they simultaneously complain against (non existent) censoring YML images or removing dramas he played in from viewing platforms.
But anyone can check that star dramas like 2015 "Go Princess Go!" (that one on YouTube because it was a minor drama not widely accessed before the 2023 released sequel "The Princess and the Werewolf", which did not feature Yu Menglong since it focused on the previous characters' descendant), 2017 "Eternal Love (Ten Miles of Peach Blossom)", 2019 "The Legend of White Snake", are still available online. If Netflix really streamlined the extensive cast listing and did not include his name in present description of "Eternal Love", that has nothing to do with China since Netflix is not a Chinese owned platform.

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