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''Summer's Desire'' a 2010 Mandarin production based on a book by Ming Xiao Xi that was aired in UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}} and mainland UsefulNotes/{{China}}. The story revolves around three people: Yin Xia Mo, who dated Ou Chen in high school. Ou Chen was a jealous rich kid, who forgot Xia Mo due to traumatic amnesia. Meanwhile, Luo Xi, an orphan who was taken into Xia Mo's family. The teenage tensions escalated until Luo Xi was forced to leave the country. Five years later, they meet again. She is an aspiring performer, Luo Xi is already a popular actor, and Ou Chen is the head of a vast entertainment conglomerate. And the LoveTriangle is rekindled.
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!! The series contains the following tropes:

* ArrangedMarriage: The marriage between Xia Mo and [[spoiler: Ou Chen]] was set for a finite time, and the divorce papers were drawn up at the same time as the marriage contract.
* BrokenBird: Both Xia Mo and Luo Xi; it helps that they are orphans.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Ou Chen, to the point of sending Xia Mo's other ''potential'' LoveInterest on the other side of the planet.
* DestructiveRomance: Due to Ou Chen's CrazyJealousGuy tendencies, his and Xia Mo's relationship has shades of this.
* DevotedToYou: From the day they met her, there always was only [[IceQueen Xia Mo]] to Ou Chen and Luo Xi...
* FirstGuyWins
* FirstLove: Despite their somewhat twisted and complex relationship, Ou Chen was Xia Mo's just as she was his.
* GreenEyedMonster: Luo Xi.
* HappilyAdopted: Xia Mo, her brother and later Luo Xi, during the high school arc.
* HealthcareMotivation: Xia Mo agrees to marry [[spoiler: Ou Chen]] so that he would give one of his kidneys to her sick half-brother, who also happened to be [[spoiler: ''his'' half-brother.]]
* HospitalGurneyScene: Just about anyone who was in the hospital.
* IceQueen: Xia Mo, as well as a StepfordSmiler.
** DefrostingIceQueen: To some extend with both of her {{love interests}}, more so after the time skip.
* IdolSinger: Xia Mo wins a singing audition in order to enter the entertainment business.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: What first drawn both guys to Xia Mo.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Luo Xi, which makes him also being a StepfordSmiler very weird.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Ou Chen loses the 5 years of memories during which he met and fell in love with Xia Mo.
* LoveHungry: ''Both'' of Xia Mo's {{love interests}} have this kind of tendencies, especially after the time skip.
** She does too, but to a ''far'' lesser extend.
* LoveHurts: Really, it could be the series' subtitle.
* LoveInterest: As befitting a LoveTriangle, Xia Mo has two of theses: Ou Chen and Luo Xi.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Just look at [[CrazyJealousGuy Ou Chen]] and [[GreenEyedMonster Luo Xi]]...
* LoveTriangle: The plot driving the series: Ou Chen and Luo Xi both love Xia Mo, who cannot seems to decide which one ''she'' loves.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Yin Cheng's father is Producer Yin. [[spoiler: He is also Ou Chen's father as well.]] In both cases, he himself doesn't know until late in the series.
* MissingMom: Luo Xi's mother abandoned him in an amusement park, of all places, leading to him being put in an orphanage.
* OneTrueLove: Xia Mo is Ou Chen's, to the point that he still loves her even when he can't ''remember'' her.
* ParentalAbandonment: The situation Ou Chen ''appears'' to be in. [[spoiler: And then we learn that those are substitutes engaged by his trusted aid to play the part, since his real mother is dead and his father doesn't even know he is his.]]
* PullTheIV: Xia Mo and Luo Xi during their respective stays in the hospital.
* PutOnABus: In-universe, what Ou Chen attempted to do with Luo Xi at the end of the high school arc by sending him oversea; it doesn't end well.
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: The main reason why up to the very end, we don't know which guy Xia Mo will end up with.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: During the high school arc, Ou Chen is the obscenely rich one and Luo Xi the poor one; however after the time skip, they're ''both'' rich, even if Ou Chen is still richer.
* SchoolIdol: Ou Chen was the most popular (and richest) high schooler.
** Luo Xi was also quite popular with girls, before getting sent away.
* StepfordSmiler: Xia Mo and Luo Xi.
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