Inborn Pair

Synopsis

Two strangers, who never had much luck in the love arena, found themselves betrothed by their families. Figuring they will never find true love, they agreed to the arranged marriage. They bickered throughout their marriage. But bickering slowly gave way to genuine fondness for one another. In the end, the couple discovered that true love is not to be found but has to be cultivated.

Plot summary

Song Yi Jie (Annie Chen) is a paralegal who is studying to obtain her legal practitioner license. She is a righteous girl who cannot tolerate the weak being bullied. When she see an abusive husband at her law office refusing to divorce his suffering wife because he want to keep his good clean image, she volunteered her service by pretending to be an escort in order to obtain evidence against the husband's infidelity.

Ke Wei Xiang (Chris Wang) is the General Manager and runs his family hotel corporation. He mistakes Yi Jie to be an improper woman when he meets her at his hotel. The two get off on the wrong foot when she thinks he is a womanizer while he thinks she is a home wrecker. Wei Xiang is actually an obedient son who will listen and do everything his parents and grandmother tells him to do.

The two meet again when they find out they are betrothed to each other over a promise Wei Xiang's grandmother made to Yi Jie's grandfather years ago for saving her life from a robbery. No one agrees to this marriage not even them but in order to make their grandparents happy they hesitantly proceed with marrying each other, but once they learn more about the other person the two do eventually fall in love and make their marriage real.

Main Cast

Chris Wang 宥勝 as Ke Wei Xiang 柯偉翔

Ke Wei Xiang is the General Manager of his family resort, Weihai Group as well as the grandmother's boy. He has the career he wants, but is looking for his special someone. When he was still in the womb, his grandma has betrothed Wei Xiang to the granddaughter of the man who saved her life, and grandma has been dreaming of the day her grandson can fulfill her promise. Wei Xiang is the reverse of the typical haughty, cold, and rude rich boy. He is instead a very considerate and kind person who doesn't have the heart to say no to his grandmother's lifelong dream.

Annie Chen 陳庭妮 as Song Yi Jie 宋奕婕

Song Yi Jie is a legal assistant at a law firm who is in the process of obtaining her lawyer's license. She's a righteous young woman who believes in standing up for justice and doesn't care for love when she's got a career to pursue. Wei Xiang thinks Yi Jie is a homewrecker while Yi Jie mistakes Wei Xiang for a playboy who toys with women.

Supporting Cast

Xie Kun Da 謝坤達 as Ke Wei Cheng 柯偉呈

Youngest son of the Ke family. He is the Marketing Communications Manager of Weihai Group but doesn't go to work and stays home on most days.

Puff Guo 郭雪芙 as Li Er 黎兒

Li Tian's daughter. She was bullied by Wei Cheng when they were younger. She meets Wei Cheng again.

Jennifer Hong 洪小鈴 as Ke Yan Ni 柯雁妮

Oldest child and only daughter of the Ke family. She married her husband Wang Ke Fan for business purposes.

Chris Lee 李至正 as Wang Ke Fan 王客凡

Ke Yan Ni's husband. Worked eight years at Weihai Group. Kind and gentle family man who loves his wife.

Tan Ai Zhen 譚艾珍 as Ke Huang Rui Yin 柯黃瑞英

Ke Wei Xiang, Ke Wei Cheng and Ke Yan Ni's grandmother. She was saved by Song Yi Jie's grandfather during a robbery years ago. To show her gratitude, she betrothed her eldest grandson before he was born.

Ai Wei 艾偉 as Ke You Xin 柯有信

Ke Wei Xiang, Ke Wei Cheng and Ke Yan Ni's father.

Yang Jie Mei 楊潔玫 as Fang Xue Ru 方雪如

Ke Wei Xiang, Ke Wei Cheng and Ke Yan Ni's mother. Originally disagreed to her mother-in-law's betrothed marriage for Wei Xiang and Yi Jie.

Chen Bo Zheng 陳博正 as Song Jia Bao 宋家寶

Song Yi Jie's grandfather. Song Lin Hao Yun's father-in-law. Saved Ke Huang Rui Yin during a robbery years ago. He is a rail train enthusiast.

Yang Li Yin 楊麗音 as Song Lin Hao Yun 宋林好韻

Song Yi Jie's mother. Song Jia Bao's daughter-in-law. Good with verbal debating.

Wang Si Ping 王思平 as Luo Yun 羅芸

Ke Wei Xiang's college classmate. Likes Wei Xiang and does not agree with his betrothed marriage to Yi Jie.

Chris Wu 吳慷仁 as Zhao Dong Yang 趙東陽

Song Yi Jie's college senior classmate and ex-boyfriend.

Mini Bin 迷你彬 as Ke Xiao Sing 柯小星

He was thought to be Ke Wei Xiang's illegitimate son but is actually Wei Cheng's.

Luo Bei An 羅北安 as Li Tian 黎田

Li Er's father. He's a triad boss but also a loving father.

Tao Chuan Zheng 陶傳正 as Luo So Sai 羅總裁

Luo Yun's father. He is the president of a tour group company and does business with Weihai Group.

Chen Yan Zhuang 壯壯/陳彥壯 as Yu Neng Qian 于能謙

Ke Wei Xiang's personal assistant. Becomes Jennifer (Ba Zhen)'s husband later on.

Lin Xin Bei 林欣蓓 as Jennifer (Ba Zhen) 巴珍

Works as a secretary at Weihai Group. Later marries Yu Neng Qian.

Yin Fu 茵芙 as Wu Jia Jia 吳佳佳

Yan Ni and Yi Jie's friend. Ceng Jian Ren's ex-wife. Was in a bad marriage due to her husband's violence and cheating.

Xie Qi Wen 謝其文 as Qian Zhen Wu 錢振武

Lawyer at Da Tong law firm. Song Yi Jie's boss.

Gao Ying Hsuan 高英軒 as Ceng Jian Ren 曾建仁

Wu Jia Jia's ex-husband. Kindergarten principal. Horrible husband who had cheated and beat his wife. Refuse to grant Jia Jia a divorce due to wanting to remain his respectable image for his job.

Darren Qiu 邱凱偉 as Huang Zi Ang 黃子昂

Manager of a construction company.

Soundtrack

Inborn Pair did not release an official soundtrack. However, there are songs used in the series. In particular, the series had six songs from different artists released in their respective albums. The opening theme song used is "Conductor" (指揮家) by Richie Jen while the ending theme song used is by Mayday entitled "I Don't Want to Leave You Alone" (我不願，讓你一個人).

Reception

Inborn Pair received positive reviews from audiences and garnered successful ratings, hitting above the 5.00 rating average on certain episodes. Right after Inborn Pair finished airing, the production team went into development for Sanlih's next romance idol drama. However, hoping to strike double-rating success, they decided to split Chen and Wang up to produce two different new dramas airing back to back on Thursday nights. Annie Chen was paired up with George Hu to film Love, Now, while Chris Wang was paired up with Ann Hsu to film Love Me or Leave Me. Both dramas are from the same writers as Inborn Pair and filmed at the same time. The staff who worked on the series were also split into two team to work on both new dramas since they were produced and filmed at the same time.