This is the recap for Chinese drama Love Designer: Episode 1. We go to a beach. The bride and groom are shooting wedding photo. They’re asked to turn around by the photographer.
Episode 1
Note: From here on out there are specific plot spoilers for Love Designer: Episode 1.
We learn that the bride is Zhou Fang. The photographer asks the bride and the groom to come closer. Zhou Fang laughs. The groom asks her what she’s laughing at. She denies it. He tells her that she’s pretty. He tries to play her hair. But she reminds him that his phone is ringing.
Zhou Fang apologizes to the photographer that they need to pick up a phone. The groom takes a look at his phone. He finds out that the one who is calling him is Xiao Zhang. He takes a deep breath. Zhou Fang asks him who called him. He reveals it was Xiao Zhang in his company.
He adds that Xiao Zhang wanted to talk about the contract with him. He shows Zhou Fang the phone. She wonders if the employee cannot make decision on the contract. The groom promises to scold Xiao Zhang letter. She persuades him to call Xiao Zhang back for avoiding the trouble. He goes to call Xiao Zhang.
We find out that we are at a villa. Zhou Fang apologizes to the crew. He promises to buy them coffee. The girl holds Zhou Fang’s hand for helping her walk. She thinks her wedding dress is pretty. She asks her if she customized her wedding dress.
Zhou Fang denies it. She reveals she designed the wedding dress on her own. The girl praises Zhou Fang. A man drives a motorcycle on the road alone the beach. The groom calls Xiao Zhang. We find out that Xiao Zhang is a girl. She asks him why he didn’t pick up her phone.
He explains it to her that he was having a meeting. He promises to buy her a present later. But she asks him to turn around. He turns around and he finds out that she’s staring at him when she stands on the stairs. She cries.
Zhou Fang goes to the coffee shop to buy coffee with the assistant. The assistant wants to carry the coffee for Zhou Fang. She thinks it’s not convenient for Zhou Fang because Zhou Fang wears the wedding dress. But Zhou Fang claims that she can carry it.
The assistant is envoy of Zhou Fang and the groom Ze Yang because the two love each other. Zhou Fang comforts the assistant that she will encounter a good guy like Ze Yang. But she sees Ze Yang with a girl after she walked out of the coffee shop.
Ze Yang asks the girl Pei Pei to go home. He promises to explain it later. But she asks him to explain it right now. She mentions he was having meeting. She complains it to him that he has cheated her for two years. Zhou Fang calls her fiance Wang Zeyang. She walks to him and she asks him who the girl is.
Pei Pei claims that she’s Wang Zeyang’s girlfriend. She scolds Zhou Fang when she asks her who she is. Zhou Fang asks Wang Zeyang to hand over his phone to her. He gives his phone to her. She calls Xiao Zhang. Pei Pei’s phone is ringing. It shows Wang Zeyang’s name.
Wang Zeyang tries to explain it. But Zhou Fang slaps him. She walks downstairs and she disappears. Wang Zeyang tries to explain it to Pei Pei. But Pei Pei slaps him as well. Zhou Fang walks in the middle of the road along the beach.
She takes off her heels. She carries her heels. She continues to walk. A man who drives the motorcycle rushes to her. The motorcycle runs over her dress. It flips over. Zhou Fang and the motorcyclist fall down. Zhou Fang gets up. She walks to the motorcyclist and she wakes him up. We see the motorcyclist’s hand is bleeding.
The motorcycle opens his helmet. He asks Zhou Fang if she wanted to die. She talks back that he didn’t have any general knowledge of safety because he drove very fast around the bend. But he blames her for wearing wedding dress to walk in the road. He thinks she intended to marry the guy who hit her.
But she thinks he wants to marry her. He scolds her when he thinks she thought it too much. She blames him for hitting her. She asks him to apologize to her. But he reminds her that it’s a motorway. He tells her to leave. The guy Song Lin’s phone is broken.
He asks Zhou Fang to lend her phone to him. She asks him what he wants to do. He reveals he wants to call for help. But she tells him that she didn’t take her phone. He asks her to help him up with the motorcycle. It makes her think he’s not a man.
He yells at her that his arm was almost broken. She helps him up with the motorcycle. He thanks her and he follows her when he pushes the motorcycle to walk. She wonders why he follows her. He denies it and he points out that there’s only one road. He notes that she’s hungry. He offers to buy her a meal if she helps him push his motorcycle. She does it and she’s tired.
The two have dinner at a restaurant. Zhou Fang plans to pay Song Lin back after she sees her friend. But Song Lin rejects it. Because he thinks he and Zhou Fang are strangers after tonight. The waiter brings the beer to them. Zhou Fang drinks up the beer.
She complains it to Song Lin that her boyfriend remembered her friends and her parents’ birthdays. She reveals she thought she encounters the man who loves her most and cares for her feelings. She adds that she made the wedding dress on her own because she thought the man is worth her life. But she knew the man had a relationship with another woman when she walked to him.
Zhou Fang asks Song Lin if he thinks she’s very silly. She claims that she’s fine. She thinks she was luck to find out the true face of the man. She thinks she doesn’t have any way out if she finds it out after she gets married. She tells him not to pity her. She cries because she thinks she’s very poor.
Song Lin thinks it’s a good thing that Zhou Fang found it early. He decides to leave. She agrees to it because she thinks men are the same. She falls asleep on the table. He watches it when he’s going to start the motorcycle. He sighs.
Song Lin goes to the hotel. He asks the reception to open two rooms for him. But he’s told that there’s only a king-size bed room. He carries Zhou Fang to the room. He carries her to the bed then. He takes off her heels. He calls someone outside. He reveals the motorcycle is broken. He asks the person to prepare two phones and a car for him.
Zhou Fang wakes up when Song Lin is taking a shower in the bathroom. She goes to the toilet to vomit. He watches her until she returns to the bed. Zhou Fang wakes up in the morning. She walks to the door and she opens the door. She finds out that Song Lin falls asleep in a small room. She closes the door after she confirmed that he’s a gentleman.
Wang Zeyang calls the police station. He reports to the policewoman that his fiancee is missing. Song Lin knocks at the door. Zhong Fang opens the door. He finds out that she changed her wedding dress. He asks her to leave because he needs to get changed.
Zhou Fang and Song Lin walk out of the hotel. Song Lin asks Zhou Fang to drive the car because his arm was hurt. They get in the car. Song Lin gives a phone to Zhou Fang. He calls a girl. Zhou Fang notes that Song Lin cares for the girl. The police car arrives at the hotel after Zhou Fang and Song Lin left.
The cop hands over Zhou Fang’s photo to the reception. He asks her if she saw the girl. The reception reveals the girl just left. The two cops are fast to get in the police car. Song Lin lets Zhou Fang stop the car after he noted that there’s a police car tailing them. He thinks she was speeding.
The cop gets off the police car. He walks to Zhou Fang and Song Ling’s car. He asks Zhou Fang for her ID. But she didn’t take it. She also tells the cop that she doesn’t know Song Lin. The two are taken to the police station.
Zhou Fang calls her best friend Qin Qing. We learn that the police refused to let Zhou Fang leave because they don’t know her identity. Song Lin’s phone is ringing. He tries to pick up the phone. But the cop stops Song Lin because he didn’t allow him to do that.
Wang Zeyang shows up. He grabs Zhou Fang’s hand when he tells her that he worried about her. She shakes off his hand. He admits to the cop that he was the one who reported police. He tells him that he’s Zhou Fang’s fiance. But Zhou Fang claims that she doesn’t know the guy.
The cop walks Wang Zeyang, Zhou Fang and Song Lin out of the police station. He tells the three that they can leave. Wang Zeyang tries to tangle Zhou Fang. But she asks him to let go of her hand. Song Lin pushes Wang Zeyang away.
Wang Zeyang is furious to ask Song Lin about him and Zhou Fang’s relationship. Song Lin claims that he likes to care for the business. Wang Zeyang tries to persuade Zhou Fang when he grabs her hand. But he’s hit by someone. We sees a girl who wears sunglasses. We learn that she’s Qin Qing.
Qin Qing runs to Wang Zeyang. She beats him after knowing he has a mistress. Song Lin persuades Zhou Fang to change a place to beat Wang Zeyang because it’s in front of the police station. Zhou Fang stops Qin Qing. Wang Zeyang flees aside when he thinks Qin Qing is a crazy woman.
He explains it to Zhou Fang that it’s not what she thinks. He asks her to come back with him. But she rejects it. Qin Qing offers to come back with Wang Zeyang. She picks up a brick. Wang Zeyang runs away. Qin Qing throws away the brick. She tells Wang Zeyang not to let her see him.
She recognizes Song Lin. He denies it and he tries to leave. Zhou Fang stops Song Lin. She returns the clothes to him. She tries to pay him back via Qin Qing’s phone. But Qin Qing’s cell phone is dead. Zhou Fang asks Song Lin for his number. She plans to return the money to him after she goes back. But he ignores her and he puts his clothes on her. He leaves.
The guy drives Zhou Fang and Qin Qing home. Qin Qing pretends to be nice to the guy until he drives away. She asks Zhou Fang to have the next round with her. Zhou Fang rejects it because she just fell out of love. Qin Qing wants to take Zhou Fang to see the world. But Zhou Fang wants to sleep because she’s too sleepy.
Zhou Fang and Qin Qing go to the night club. The two are excited when they dance on the dance floor. They join the guys in the room when they call them friends. Zhou Fang notes that the guys ignore Qin Qing. Qin Qing reveals the guys don’t know her when she eats the snacks. She laughs.
Zhou Fang learns that they’re eating the free snacks. Qin Qing thinks it’s very exciting. She hits the guy and she calls him cat king. She thinks his hairstyle is pretty good. She asks him whose friend he is. He reveals it’s Old Brother Nan.
Qin Qing claims that she has been friend with Old Brother Nan for many years. She and Zhou Fang go to sing. The guy blames Old Brother Nan for not introducing his beauties friends to him. But Older Brother Nan claims that he doesn’t know the two girls.
Old Brother Nan scolds Qin Qing and Zhou Fang when he thinks they walked into the wrong room. Qin Qing denies it. The girl points out that there’s nobody knowing Zhou Fang and Qin Qing. She thinks the two came to enjoy the service for free.
Qin Qing claims that she and Zhou Fang aren’t such people. The girl asks Qin Qing who she knows. Zhou Fang claims that she knows Old Brother Nan. But she doesn’t know Older Brother Nan is standing in front of her. Older Brother Nan asks the two beauties who they know.
The guy claims that he knows Qin Qing. Qin Qing joins the guy Zuo Yulin. She blames him for not calling her early. Zhou Fang goes to vomit. Qin Qing shakes hands with Zuo Yulin. She gives him a toast. But he reveals he’s not a good drinker.
She thinks he’s an elementary school student. He claims that he graduated from college. He adds that he came to gather with his classmates. She thinks his nature is bound. She gives the name 53 to him. She persuades him to drink the beer.
Qin Qing and Zhou Fang are in the restroom. Qin Qing tells Zhou Fang that she found a boyfriend for her. But Zhou Fang rejects it. Qin Qing thinks Song Lin is good. She mentions the man Zhou Fang encountered on the island. She reveals Song Lin is the president of Wanfeng Group.
Qin Qing tells Zhou Fang that Song Lin is popular. But he has a rumor girlfriend Luna. Luna and Song Lin attend the press conference of Wanfeng Group. Luna endorses Song Lin’s brand. The reporter thinks the two aren’t just work relationship.
Zuo Yulin waits for Qin Qing outside the Women’s Restroom. He sees her walking out of the restroom with Zhou Fang. He worries about her because she looks drunk. She thinks he’s not fine. She pokes his chest with her finger. Zhong Fang pushes Qin Qing to Zuo Yulin.
She decides to leave because she doesn’t want to be a light bulb. But Qin Qing stops Zhou Fang. She asks Zuo Yulin to take them house after knowing he drove his car. Qin Qing, Zuo Yulin, Zhou Fang and driver are in the car. Qin Qing laughs when she thinks about Zuo Yulin telling his friends that he knows her. She thinks he used a trick.
But he tells her that he actually knows her. She thinks he knew her in their previous life. Zhou Fang tells the two to get together. She asks the driver to send her to the company. Qin Qing wonder why Zhou Fang wants to go to the company. She mistakes that Zhou Fang worries that she will run into Wang Zeyang at home. Zhou Fang denies it. She reveals she needs to sign a very important paper.