Chou Ping-ke is Chu Ai’s friend who undergoes personal growth as he falls in love with Ai. In Let’s Talk About CHU, Kai Ko plays Ping-ke.
As Ping-ke’s father is a rich man, Ping-ke has no need to work. He gets to do whatever he wants with his credit cards.
Although Ping-ke and Ai initially share a friends-with-benefits arrangement, it doesn’t take him long to develop genuine feelings for her, which motivates him to turn his life around.
Ping-ke and Ted
Ping-ke does not have a good relationship with his father, Ted, who wants Ping-ke to work at his company. He feels pressured to work for him.
Ping-ke’s mother, Doris, keeps trying to get Ted and Ping-ke to have a meal together, but Ping-ke avoids him whenever he comes home.
When Doris and Ted fell in love, Ted was a married man. Ted had a family, yet he had Ping-ke with Doris. Ted and Doris are still together.
Apart from that, Ping-ke’s dislike for Ted is fueled by his belief that Ted hurts his mother. He wants to retaliate against him for causing her pain.
Ted does not punish Ping-ke for avoiding him, but when Ping-ke keys his car and refuses to apologize, Ted blocks all his credit cards.
One night, Ping-ke comes home to find his drunk mother passed out with the stove still on. She would not have survived if Ping-ke had not come home when he did.
It is after this incident that Ping-ke talks to Doris about the reason behind his dislike for his father. Doris explains to Ping-ke that Ted never hurt her.
She also promises to give up drinking if Ping-ke has a meal with Ted, and Ping-ke agrees. Now that he knows Ted does not hurt Doris, Ping-ke does not dislike him as much.
Ping-ke even apologizes to him for keying his car and asks him not to reopen his credit cards when Ted offers, as Ping-ke is learning to be independent.
When Ping-ke tells his father that he does not want to work for him, he discovers that Ted had only insisted on Ping-ke working for him because Doris had promised to quit smoking and drinking in exchange.
Ping-ke realizes that his father cares about his mother, so he stops avoiding him. As a result, Ted and Ping-ke’s relationship improves.
Ping-ke learns to make his own way
Ping-ke is a good friend to Ai. He is there for her whenever she needs him, but she always pushes him away.
Ping-ke gets a job at a convenience store when his father blocks his credit cards and Ai makes a comment about him living off his father’s black card.
Things get awkward between Ping-ke and Ai when Ai starts seeing her ex-boyfriend, Bonner, again. Despite that, Ping-ke does not stop being a good friend to her.
When Ai assumes that her father is cheating on her mother and gets upset, it is Ping-ke who distracts her and helps her feel better.
In return, Ai compares Ping-ke to unfaithful men, leading to Ping-ke ending their friendship and cutting all ties with her.
Additionally, he gets fired for getting into a fight with a customer to defend Ai. Ping-ke then asks Chang, the owner of a bike repair shop Ping-ke frequents, for a job.
However, since Chang does not get many customers, he doesn’t need help, so Ping-ke decides to renovate his shop.
Ping-ke’s efforts bear fruit, and Chang’s business starts booming. He no longer relies on his father’s cards; instead, he works hard to earn his own money.
Eventually, Ai realizes that she has been unfair to Ping-ke, who has always cared about her and been kind to her.
When she is ready to accept her feelings for him, she apologizes, and Ping-ke forgives her. He grows as a person and ends up with the girl he loves.
