Love or Bread (Chinese: 我的億萬麵包; pinyin: Wǒ de yì wàn miànbāo; lit.

'My billion dollar bread') is a 2008 Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin.

Frank (Joe Cheng) is a young man who wears designer labels and thinks he's suave when he is actually poor.

He considers pawning his mother's gold ring, the only thing he had left of hers, but he can't do it.

Zeng Shanmei (Ariel Lin) is a poor but very loving, caring, and hard-working girl.

She has a boyfriend (Jing Rong), but he moves to mainland China for university and promises that they will get married after he graduates.

At that time, Shanmei worked as a bank employee during office hours and as a janitor at a shopping mall at night to earn money to send to her boyfriend Jing Rong in Hangzhou.

The gold ring fell out of Frank's pocket in the girls' bathroom and the policeman stuck it into Shanmei's bag.

When Shanmei reaches her destination in Hangzhou, she helps her boyfriend Jing Rong's two roommates put out the fire that was burning in the shared kitchen of the motel room.

Eventually, Jing Rong couldn't take the guilt and admitted to Shanmei that he betrayed her and fell for Xiao Bo, who is actually a girl.

She was recommended by two of Jing Rong's roommates to work as a maid in Jin Enhao's house in Hangzhou.

Many previous maids had been fired like this, so Shanmei always tried to finish the housework quickly and avoid Jin Enhao.

But Shanmei misunderstood that Jin Enhao's foster father had bad intentions toward her, so after she received a salary as a maid, she bought a plane ticket to fly from Hangzhou to Taiwan.

Her best friend, Huang Linglong (Zhang Yuchen) was constantly nagging at her not to go and even said "don't come crying to me."

Introduced by Lin Meiru, Frank went to work as an aircraft engineer but he wore a pilot's outfit on the first day and was ridiculed.

Shanmei was introduced by Lin Meiru to work as a manager of a clothing section in a shopping mall.

However, thanks to the advice of Frank and the fortune teller, Shanmei gave up the idea of killing herself because of her failure in love with Jing Rong.

Jin Enhao's men went to Jing Rong's room to look for her, but couldn't find Shanmei.

After being fired from his job selling cars, Frank turned to working as a magician at bars with his childhood friend Da Tou to earn money.

In July 2008, GTV announced that lead actress Barbie Shu will be replaced by Ariel Lin.