Apartment of Love

**Apartment of love**, also known as **Love Apartment**, is a Chinese romantic comedy movie directed by Wei Zheng and written by Wang Yuan. It premiered August 10, 2018.

Apartment of Love is a work of meta-cinema which informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction. It is a combination of the different franchises, iApartment and Daomu Biji.

## Plot

Zheng XiaoXian is a host of a radio show who is dedicated to read books, especially the book of Daomu Biji which he despises, since he thinks the characters are overrated, especially Wu Xie. He reads the novel till the point where Wu Xie, along with Wang Pangzi, fulfills his promise and go to pick up Xiao Ge (Zhang Qiling) at the entrance of the Bronze Door, at the Chang Bai Mountain, after 10 years of Zhang Qiling guarding the Bronze Door. Xiao Ge( Zhang Qiling) also tells Wu Xie and Wang Pangzi that he needs the Guarding Spirit that lives in an armor that used to belong to the Zhang Qiling of his family, to protect and guard the Bronze Door while he can leave. The armor is somewhere inside the Chang Bai mountain.

Zheng XiaoXian is very jealous of the Daomu Biji characters, which leads the other characters of "iApartment" to tease him with that, as he also has some love problems with Hu YiFei.

As his jealousy grows he is determined to say a very bad review about the novel on his last day of broadcasting but a call from Hu YiFei stops him. She tells him to go to a gathering they have already planned but that he had forgot about. Since she was really mad on the phone, he decides to go as fast as he can to meet her and the others (Chen MeiJia, Tang Youyou, Lü Ziqiao, Zhang Wei).

He got on the elevator but it started to go up really fast, making him fall and get hit. He arrives at the gathering which is actually a reunion of characters of all the series in the Chinese industry, they were invited as the characters of "iApartment season 5" series.

The meeting is to praise the best protagonist and give him or her, the "Protagonist Halo" which will allow him or her, to do extraordinary things in their respective series, needless else to say, the winners were, indeed, Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, and Wang Pangzi from Daomu Biji.

The characters of "iApartment" were able to get to the security system to get into the meeting except for Zheng XiaoXian, who was qualified as a C- character (a character of very low quality). He then gets very upset and the bodyguard sells him a cheap "Protagonist Halo" just to make him pass and stop causing trouble at the entrance.

As he was arguing with the bodyguard, Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, and Wang Pangzi were passing by, so the other characters of "iApartment" were very exited since they were huge fans. As they distracted them, Zheng XiaoXian took advantage of the situation and changed the cheap and fake " Protagonist Halo" with the real one Wu Xie had, without them noticing.

The Iron Triangle went back to the Daomu Biji universe and encountered the perfect opportunity to use the "Protagonist Halo" since an old enemy of Wu Xie's grandfather, Wu Laogou, Huang Heihong tries to convince Wu Xie into opening the Bronze Door to steal the supposed treasures he thinks are there.

Wu Xie refuses to help him several times, since he is an enemy of the Wu Family but Huang Heihong assures him he would make him help.

Wu Xie thinks now is the opportunity to use the "Protagonist Halo" to know where the "Guardian Spirit" was to help Zhang Qiling and also stop Huang Heihong from opening the Bronze Door. But he fails as the "Protagonist Halo" turns out to be fake and it ends up frying his brain, causing him to loose his memory.

As this happens, the characters of "iApartment" are discovering what it feels to be a protagonist since all 6 of them, are now wearing the "Protagonist Halo", which cannot be taken away unless the bearer dies.

While they are living their best lives, Zhang Qiling came after them trying to take the "Protagonist Halo" of one of them in order to save Wu Xie. Who was kidnapped by Huang Heihong, who manipulated him as he doesn't have his memory, into making Wu Xie help him open the Bronze Door.

Even though Zhang Qiling tried his best to kill them, he couldn't since the "Protagonist Halo" protects them from being murdered is they can protect each other (they are not bulletproof tho), so Zhang Qiling makes an arrangement with them, in which they will help him save Wu Xie, and they will finally feel as protagonist for the first time in their lives.

They find, by accident, a round shaped robot that was about to get destroyed by a newer version of him, but the "iApartment" save him and in exchange he help them to get to the Chang Bai mountain before Huang Heihong does.

With their help Wu Xie recovers his memory and together fight against Huang Heihong in the Chang Bai mountain, while Zheng XiaoXian is trying to find the secret of where is the Guardian Spirit, by entering the Bronze Door with Hu YiFei, who eventually dies from a bullet she took, saving Zheng XiaoXian live. While this is happening, on the other side of the gate, the other characters of "iApartment" also die shot by Huang Heihong, Wu Xie and Wang Pangzi are bad injured and taken captive by Huang Heihong as well, while Zhang Qiling is hide, also injured but making time for Zheng XiaoXian to come back.

Zheng XiaoXian thinks he found the answer after chatting a bit with Xu Lei, who reveals him the the Bronze Gate is the deepest hole of all the mysteries he had ever created, Xu Lei tells him somehow that the spirit is on the armor, but when Zheng XiaoXian comes back from the Bronze Gate, he realizes that he as his friends, are all dead.

They met Zhang Qiling and said that as ghosts they can't do much, but thanks to the blood of Zhang Qiling the armor is capable to give them temporary powers and prevent them from vanish.

Then they fight again, against Huang Heihong and they finally defeat him with the help of the round shaped robot.

with the dead of the "iApartment" characters, Wu Xie recovers the "protagonist halo" which prevents him to die.

With the end of the fight, the characters of "iApartment" disappear instantly, since the armor lost the effect of the Qilin Blood of Zhang Qiling, and also right away Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling and Wang Pangzi forget immediately that they were helped by external people, even though Wu Xie feels like there where people helping them, Wang Pangzi assures him that there was no one else, and that they have always been just the three of them. They then, help each other they way out of the mountain.

The characters of "iApartment" seem to wake up and share their thoughts of the weird "dream" they then realized they all had, was exactly the same experience.

The movie ends with a reflection of live, said by Zheng XiaoXian in his radio show.

## Cast

* DMBJ cast
	+ Yuan Hong as Wu Xie
	+ Zhao Zhi-wei as Zhang Qiling
	+ Liu Tian Zuo as Wang Pangzi
	+ Xu Lei as himself
	+ Zhang Shuang Li as Huang Heihong
* iApartment cast
	+ Chen He as Zheng XiaoXian
	+ Lou Yi Xiao as Hu YiFei
	+ Deng Jia Jia as Tang Youyou
	+ Sun Yi Zhou as Lü Ziqiao
	+ Li Jia Hang as Zhang Wei
	+ Kimi Li as Chen MeiJia

## External Links

* Tencent (streaming)
* YouKu (streaming)
* iQiYi (streaming)
* *Apartment of Love* at Wikipedia