''Absolutely Charming'' () is a Singaporean

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fantasy drama which was 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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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 *

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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

Tay Ping Hui Tay Ping Hui (born 10 November 1970) is a Singaporean actor and director, known for starring in many Chinese-language television dramas in Singapore and mainland China. In 2014, Tay made his directorial debut with the basketball film '' Meeti ...

as the main lead characters. In January 2012, it was announced that both Aw and Tay had been replaced by Cherry Hsia and Elvin Ng respectively.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

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, 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