"Desire" is a 50-episode TV series produced in 1990, directed by Lu Xiaowei and Zhao Baogang, starring Zhang Kaili, Li Xuejian, Huang Meiying, Sun Song, and Lan Tianye. The play tells the story of Liu Huifang, a young and beautiful female worker who hesitates in the face of two suitors. One is Song Dacheng, deputy director of the workshop, and the other is Wang Husheng, a college graduate who comes to work in the factory. She longs for love, but the former is kind to her, while the latter is in trouble and needs help, which makes her in a dilemma.
Broadcast on CCTV in December 1990.
The story begins with a complicated love affair. The young and beautiful female worker Liu Huifang hesitates in the face of two suitors. One is Song Dacheng, the workshop director, and the other is Wang Husheng, a college graduate who comes to work in the factory. She longs for love, but the former is kind to her, while the latter is in trouble and needs help, which makes her in a dilemma. Wang Husheng's father, Wang Zitao, was a famous scholar. He was suddenly arrested at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and his whereabouts are unknown. His mother was worried and died of illness. His sister Wang Yaru was a doctor. After seeing her fiancé Luo Gang off to the cadre school, she found out that she was pregnant. She ignored Luo Gang. With Gang's dissuasion, Luo Gang secretly gave birth to a daughter, named Luo Dan. Luo Gang suddenly returned to Beijing late at night. Wang Yaru was surprised and did not notice that his expression was different. Luo Gang took his daughter and left quietly, leaving a letter to inform him. Being wanted and with no hope of survival made Wang Yaru forget about him. Liu Huifang and Wang Husheng got married, and Liu developed a motherly love for the abandoned baby Liu she picked up. Wang Husheng was reluctant, so she had to take him in and named her Liu Xiaofang. A year later, they had their own child - Wang Dongdong. Song Dacheng, who was deeply disappointed, married Xu Yuejuan, Liu Huifang's good friend, but did not have deep feelings for Xu. Liu Huifang met her teacher Luo Gang at Ye Da. Occasionally, Xiaofang's life experience came to light. At this time, after several years of research, Wang Yaru finally cured Xiaofang of the same illness, and life once again forced Liu Huifang to make a choice.