Ending: Being the Friend who Loves You Most by Zhang Han
Story/Synopsis:
After a failed relationship with her former boss and ex-boyfriend Gao Zi Qi, Lin Xiao Jie decides to start her own business with the support of her internet pal Tom. When she finds out that one of her employees, Tang Jun, is actually Tom, and that he’s the son of a wealthy business tycoon, she begins to doubt his intentions, resulting in a series of misunderstandings.
Peng Xiao Qian is a commoner who lives in a life of running away for debtors because her father was a huge gambler. She gets small jobs, such as tour guide, to make a living and is a very good liar. One day, she gets a temporary job as a Chinese-Korean translator for the CEO of a hotel, Shao Feng. They meet several times afterwards, Shao Feng finds himself dealing with a liar and cheater. However, he offers her to become his fake cousin to help save the life of his grandfather. They will become cousins and live under the same roof. How will their relationship develop as they get closer and closer?
Opening: One Persistent Thought by Hu Ge and Alan Dawa Dolma
Deng Ni De Ji Jie by Liu Shi Shi
Ai De Lian Yi by Alicia
Ending: San Cun Tian Tang by Yan Yi Dan
Story/Synopsis:
Zhang Xiao, a contemporary, ethnically Han Chinese young woman from the 21st century, accidentally travels back in time to the Qing Dynasty period during the reign of Kangxi Emperor after experiencing a deadly combination of traffic collision and electrocution, resulting her somehow reliving the life of one of her previous incarnations and forcing her to assumes the identity belongs to her past avatar: Maertai Ruoxi, teenage daughter of a Manchu nobleman, who also had a near-fatal incident in her own time which Zhang awakes from.
Being stranded in the past, in the body of a centuries earlier incarnation of herself, and believe by many of Maertai’s family and friends that the sudden change of her behavior and memory loss is resulted of her head injury, Zhang Xiao awares that there will be a dangerous power struggle known to history between the scheming princes for the throne, which will results Aisin-Gioro Yinzhen to succeed as the Yongzheng Emperor after his father’s death. Zhang Xiao tries to change the future outcomes for the better, hoping to prevent any casualty as written in the future without interfering a man’s destiny, while trying to find a way to return to her time period. However, Zhang ultimately realizes that, not only she fails to alter the course of the approaching events, but also, under a predestination paradox, she is fated to become an instigator of the tragedy she tries to prevent resulted by her actions in the past and the princes’ romantic affections towards her.
Opening: Yi Bu Xiao Xin Ai Shang Ni (一不小心爱上你) by Zhang Han & Jiang Ying Rong
Ending: Can Que (残缺) by Li Wei 李炜
Insert Songs: Jin Sheng Jin Shi (今生今世) by Zhang Jie
Yan Lei (眼泪) by Wu La
Story/Synopsis:
Qin Qing who lived in a wealthy family until she was 12, when she learned that she and another poor girl Mi Li were switched at birth. Ever-since their lives totally change as both family agree to switch back the two girls rightful identity. Qin Qing and her former brother Qin Lang had a close relationship, both unable to forget each other even after 10 years. Eventually after 10 years of separation Qin Lang return to find Qin Qing whom both fell in love.
幸福最晴天/ Xing fu zui qing tian / Happiness is like a Sunny Day / The Sunniest Day of Happiness / Sunshine Day
Cast:
Mike He as Xiang Yun Jie
Janine Chang as Fang Yong Yong
Li Yi Feng as Xiang Yun Chao
Zhou Zi Han as Wang Lan
Li Jin Ming as Kong Xin Jie
Li Zhi Nan as Huang Si Han
Zheng Wei as Wang Nian Jie
Year: 2011
Episodes: 25 x 45 mins or 16 x 75 mins
Opening: 有温柔 by 郭静
Ending: 伤日快乐 by 张韶涵
Related to 幸福一定強 and 幸福三顆星
Story/Synopsis:
Xiang Yun Jie (Mike He) is rich man who was once divorced, and unknowingly had an eight year old son. He is also a young owner of a hotel. Fang Yong Yong (Janine Chang) is an orphan. She works as a housekeeper in the hotel that Xiang Yun Jie owns. The two of them started their fairytale like love story from a ‘fake marriage’. Xiang Yun Jie’s brother, Xiang Yun Chao (Li Yi Feng), is always hiding in the shadow, he is also the one who completes the love triangle.
欢迎爱光临 / Huan Ying Ai Guang Lin / Welcome Love (direct Translation)
Cast:
Joe Cheng as Xia Tian (Summer)
Li Fei Er as Ye Zi
Emma Pei as Flora
Sun Jian as Wang Bao Qiang
Year: 2010
Episodes: 12 (30 minutes)
Opening: Dear Stranger (亲爱陌生人) Della Ding
Ending: Thank You for Being Wonderful (谢谢你的美好) by Yen-J
Story/Synopsis:
Ye Zi is a girl working at a convenience store in a big city. She has to support her family – her brother’s school fees and her late father’s debts. The day that she was finally going to be free of loans, a fashion photographer who recently came out of a 7 years-old relationship, Xia Tian, unintentionally steps in the store. With her head elsewhere, Ye Zi gave him the wrong change and the error almost crushed her dreams of living her own life. Fortunately, Xia Tian noticed and came back and slowly, the distance between them decreases. They each start to influence each other, but they still do live in different worlds. How will they figure this out?
StrawBan’s Review
80%
Joe Cheng is back! Maybe it’s me, but I find that he changed a bit. I don’t know, maybe it’s his acting or something, but it doesn’t feel like the same. Probably because I’m way too used to seeing him with Ariel Lin :P. Well anyways! Starting off with the story. I guess it’s a pretty epic story. I think I could predict almost everything that could’ve happened in the drama already. It totally fits in the stereotyped drama skeleton. It’s not a bad thing, I guess, but I think I would’ve preferred if there was something more unique and original about it.
As always, his acting is just … non criticizeable. And he has this cute smile when he does smile. Okay, that was unrelated. Anyways, nothing to say about on this side of the story. On the other hand, I feel that both the main and supporting female leads were somewhat … inexperienced. Ye Zi, although she did a good job in portraying that lively and cute girl that has to support the rest of her family thus leading a pretty hard world, her passion and love is not that well expressed. Even when she is afraid, scared or sad, I still feel that it’s acting. Flora too, but she just gives off a cold feeling. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because of her character, but I mean, when she is supposed to be warm and caring (like the times when she used to date with Xia Tian), it was warm alright, but there was this fresh cold layer beyond her happiness. I don’t know if this is making sense to you. If you haven’t watched the drama, you probably are completely confused with what I just tried (and epically failed) to explain.
It’s a very very very veryyy short drama! 12 episodes of 30 minutes? That’s like … 6 episodes of Korean dramas; 8 episodes of Japanese drama. So short! I don’t really like short dramas, because although they don’t have enough time to develop some utterly complicated and dramatic stories, I feel that they don’t have enough time to present the characters deeply enough.
Essbee’s Opinion
76%
It was a really simple love story. Of course, the drama was really short, so the development between the characters was pretty fast. I just find everything really simple. Yes, they have breakups, but they don’t die over it. The second female character is annoying, but we don’t want to kill her. The girl is naive, but not stupid. Anyways… Everything just seemed so easy going.
Joe Cheng is an awesome actor, nothing else to express. Li Fei Er is also really pretty, she has this pureness that I really like. It’s hard to present the characters because the drama was so short, but to make it short, they were all significant characters.
It’s enjoyable and refreshing. It let me understand the passion of photography. Two beautiful song supported this online drama.
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