Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Inoue Mao as Fukunaga Mio
Ito Hideaki as Kano Kazuki
Hiraoka Yuta as Yuki Akio
Matsuyuki Yasuko as Takagi Renko
Gekidan Hitori as Shindo Ichiryu
Abe Sadao as Nikaido Masaru
Takenaka Naoto as Banba Dai
Natsuki Mari as Fukunaga Rieko
Sakai Wakana as Saito Haruna
Warabino Tomoya as Shohata Takeo

Synopsis:
A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart. --groink (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Inuoe Mao's second role as a leading actress after Hana Yori Dango? Her character seems the same as Makino's just the only difference is that she is sick :( Good drama to watch, especially if you like Inuoe Mao as an actress.

Rating out of 10: ******** 1/2

Proposal Daisakusen (Operation Love)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Yamashita Tomohisa as Iwase Ken
Kitamura Kaito (third grade)
Nagasawa Masami as Yoshida Rei
Matsumoto Tamaki (third grade)
Hashimoto Kurumi (primary school)
Fujiki Naohito as Tada Tetsuya

Synopsis:
Iwase Ken and Yoshida Rei have been friends since elementary school. Ken, is obstinate and unskilled in love, but he fell long ago for the lively and cheerful, Rei. But Rei is about to get married to another man. While Ken and other friends from high-school attend the wedding ceremony, a fairy appears and sends Ken back in time, giving him a second chance to win the girl he loves. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I used parts of this series for my tech Ed. project that I had to do :P It really reminded me of those Back to the Future movies that I used to watch before. It was pretty sad that she was about to marry someone else, while all along her one and only love was making a speech...letting her get married to whom she didn't really love :( The special episode was a little pointless, I just wanted them to get married already :\

Rating out of 10: ******** 'for Yama :)

The Legend of Brown Sugar Chivalries (Hei Tang Chun Hsia Chuan (Hei Tang Qun Xia Chuan))

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Wang Zi as Linghu Cong 令狐聰
Xiao Xun as Ren Ying Ying 任瑩瑩
Ah Wei as Guo Jing 郭敬
Ya Tou as Lu Jian Ning 陸見寧
Xiao Man as Xiao Long Nu 小聾女
Ah Ben as Wei Xiao Bao 韋曉寶
Xiao Yu as Chu Liu Xiang 楚琉香
Xiao Ma as Yi He Cang Tai 伊賀蒼太
Carmen Tang as Lan Feng Huang 藍鳳煌
Mei Mei as Guardian Sheng Nu 聖女護法
Mini Chang as Guardian Xie Nu 邪女護法
Michelle Zhang as little nurse

Synopsis:
The story took place at West Side High School, during a time when the Jianghu was still the goods against the evils. For the two legendary martial art books which is hidden in 4 different schools, both of the groups uses all their power to get it. The ones who gets it will have the power to rule over Jianghu. People from all over the place whether it's male or female gathered together to search for it.
Amongst the students of West Side, Linghu Cong is the most powerful. A person who doesn't care about fame and wealth, who just wanted to be with his Lu Jian Ning. Meanwhile, he slowly developes a friendship with Ren Yin Ying, the seemingly-cold daughter of leaders of the Evil Clan. Later on Guo Jing has caught up to him in martial art and also develop feelings for Lu Jian Ning. Because of saving someone he lost all his internal power. In the end he learned "Gudu Swordfight" and "Yijingjing". (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

For all the Lollipop fans :)

Rating out of 10: ******* 1/2

Brown Sugar Macchiato (Hei Tang Ma Chi To (Hei Tang Ma Qi Duo))

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Ao Quan as Ao Quan
Wang Zi as Wang Zi
Xiao Yu as Xiao Yu
Xiao Jie as Xiao Jie
William as Wei Lian
Ah Wei as Ah Wei
Ya Tou as Ya Tou
Chou Yi Chun as Da Ya
Gui Gui as Gui Gui
Julie Cai as Tong Tong
Mei Mei as Mei Mei
Xiao Xun as Xiao Xun
Mini Chang as Xiao Jie
Apple as Apple
Xiao Man as Xiao Man
Xiao Ma as Xiao Ma
Li Quan as Li Quan
Ke En as Ke En

Synopsis:
One day, six boys with different personalities and backgrounds are notified they shared the same father. And on top of that they are entitled to a large inheritance. There is only one catch. They must attend the same school and live in the same house for one year to become loving brothers.
But, the boys not only hate each other, they have to deal with nine mean girls from their class. Will the brothers band together and successfully pass the inheritance test? Or, will falling in love with their classmates pull them farther apart? (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Totally unrealistic :P Hahah, but if I were to dream of becoming rich, probably this is how it would've happened :) I loved Lollipop in this drama :) Wang Zi ♥ Gui Gui was really funny as always :)

Rating out of 10: ********** 'I have to say it, even though it's not realistic. The casting was great :)

Let's Go to School, Sang-doo! (Sang Doo Ya, Hak Kyo Ka Ja!)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Bi as Cha Sang-doo
Gong Hyo Jin as Chae Eun-hwan

Synopsis:
Cha Sang-doo (Bi) and Chae Eun-hwan (Gong Hyo Jin) grew up as the best of friends. One day, Eun-hwan's family goes bankrupt and debtors rushed to collect their belongings. When her father's old record player was being taken, Sang-doo goes after the guy, accidently killing him. After being released from prison, he finds that his family and Eun-hwan have left him. Years later, he becomes a gigolo (with his uncle) to pay off his sick daughter’s hospital bills. He eventually meets his long-lost first-love, Eun-hwan as a high school math teacher. In an effort to regain her love, he returns as a high school student in her class. As everything seems to be going smoothly, circumstances prevent them from staying together. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

An okay drama, I don't exactly know why I put this one up. All those who are fans of Bi Rain might be interested in this one I guess :)

Ratings out of 10: ****

A Love to Kill (Jukilnomui Sarang)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Bi as Kang Bok Gu
Shin Min Ah as Cha Eun Seok
Kim Sa Rang as Han Da Jung
Lee Ki Woo as Kim Joon Sung
Kim Young Jae as Kang Min Goo (Bok-ku's older brother)

Synopsis:

In A Love to Kill, Bi (Rain or Jeong Ji Hoon) plays a tough guy as the role of a K-1 Fighter, Kang Bok Gu. Bok Gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love with a woman whom he should not love. It was because of the woman, his emotionally-wounded brother fell off from the rooftop and became a human vegetable. So, his love is forbidden and inevitably tragic.
The woman is Cha Eun Seok (Shin Mina) who is a TV talent and movie actor. It was not that she jilted his brother on purpose, but upon a basis of misunderstanding, his hatred toward Cha Eun Seok grows more and more burning.
By becoming Cha Eun Seok’s private bodyguard, Bok Gu keeps concretely practicing his revenge upon her. He only desires ‘to bring his brother’s woman to her knees.’ He is gradually taking Cha Eun Seok to destruction, while he feels his love toward her growing deeper and deeper in his heart.
Bok Gu is a cold guy character without any special concern for woman. Martial art of hand-to-hand fighting was just kind of his escape he choose from the shock of a spinster’s death whom he loved from a distance. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

The title of the drama really says it all. This is one of those typical sad korean dramas where you know that they have to die in order to be together again. I hated it when that moment came up in the end. I have to say their acting towards the end was really believeable, haha..but them dying ruined my moment of them wanting to be together again. Especially when they both died at the same time, just after they promised to part away from each other again. So sad :(

Ratings out of 10: ******** 1/2

Full House (Pool Ha-woo-seu) *Wanting to Watch!

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Bi as Lee Young Jae
Song Hye Kyo as Han Ji Eun
Han Eun Jung as Kang Hye Won
Kim Sung Soo as Yoo Min Hyuk

Synopsis:

Han Ji Eun is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young Jae to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young Jae. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she entered in a contract marriage with Young Jae for one year. In spite of losing all, Ji Eun manages to be cheerful and takes things in strike and the business relationship between the two becomes personal as they start to rely and care for each other. Based on a popular manhwa of the same title. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Reason:

Smiling Pasta was based on this drama! And I've also watched bit of it in the Philippines. Also I really want to watch the sequel of Full House as well, but in order to do that I must watch the first season to get the story :)

Miss No Good (Bu Liang Xiao Hua)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Rainie Yang as Jiang Xiao Hua 蔣小花
Xu Qiong Yun (許瓊云) as childhood Xiao Hua
Will Pan as Tang Men 唐門
Dean Fujioka as Jia Si Le 賈思樂
Chen Yan Xi as Jiang Mi 江蜜
Jian Chang as Jiang Da Shu 蔣大樹
Yan Sheng Yu (鄢勝宇) as younger Da Shu

Synopsis:

Jiang Xiao Hua is a jewelry store owner with no sense of style. When prince charming Jia Si Le comes back from Japan with intentions of dating her, she blackmails Tang Men, a poison-tongue style guru, into helping her become a lady worthy of Si Le. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I can't really make a productable review about this drama since I haven't entirely watched the drama itself. Probably because I was so tempted to fast forward everytime during the drama, which could account for this lack of a review. Rainie Yang's high pitched voice was a little irritating, I find her more believeable if she were to speak normally and still have her cute appearance. Rather than having the cute appearance, and still trying to make that squeaky tone voice. The ending was adorable though :)

Rating out of 10: ******* 'Rainie's squeaky voice :(

Why Why Love (Huan Huan Ai)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Rainie Yang as Tong Jia Di 童嘉蒂
Mike He as Huo Da 霍達
Kingone Wang as Huo Yan 霍彥
Judy Fukumoto (福本幸子) as Yang Yan Shu 楊妍書
Chen Yan Xi as Jiang Xiao Nan 江小南
Wang Dao as Huo Zhen Hao 霍振浩
Ge Wei Ru as Liao Cai Juan 廫彩娟

Synopsis:

Tong Jia Di needs a life besides work, paying down family debt, and more work. So her best friend Jiang Xiao Nan sneaks in a “Love” coupon in Jia Di’s raffle box praying that the lucky guy who draws it will sweep Jia Di off her feet. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella’s love, it doesn’t mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his “Master/Angel” coupon for her servitude. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Yet another Rainie Yang and Mike He pairing, but this time including Kingone from Devil Beside You. Awe, too bad Figaro (Ah Rang) wasn't in this drama or else it could've been more interesting to watch ;) It was an okay storyline, not was expected. Rainie Yang's performance in Devil Beside You was way better than in this drama. Mike He however, did look better in this drama. Probably because he wasn't wearing any bobby pins in his hair :P

Rating out of 10: ********

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (For You in Full Blossom)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Horikita Maki as Ashiya Mizuki
Oguri Shun as Sano Izumi
Ikuta Toma as Nakatsu Shuichi
Konno Mahiru as Hara Akiha
Kamikawa Takaya as Umeda Hokuto

Synopsis:
The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya, which has already been dramatized in Taiwan. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi (Oguri) compete in the high jump on television. She begins to idolize him, and decides to move to Japan to attend the same school as him. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy to achieve her dream of being with her idol. - Tokyograph (http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-1069) (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Awe, another remake of one of the most popular manga sold in Japan. I really liked the taiwanese "Hana Kimi", but I prefer this one instead because the story made more sense. The choice of characters weren't so shabby as well ;) Oguri Shun, who played Rui in Hana Yori Dango was a perfect choice to play Sano Izumi ! I really loved him in Hana Yori Dango, so that also made me excited to see him play this athletic role :)

Rating out of 10: ********** ♥ Oguri Shun (Rui forever♥)

Stairway to Heaven (Cheon-kuk-ui Gye-dan)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Kwon Sang Woo as Cha Song-ju
Choi Ji Woo as Han Jung-suh
Kim Tae Hee as Han Yu-ri
Shin Hyun Joon as Han Tae-hwa

Synopsis:
Jung-suh and Song-joo grew up together. They were always there for each other. Tragedy begins when Song Joo begins his studies overseas without Jung-suh. Jung-suh's father remarries Tae Mira. Mira takes in her two children from a previous marriage, Tae-hwa and Yuri. Yuri is envious of the life that Jung-suh leads and is determined to take everything away from her, including Song-joo. Tae-hwa begins to develop feelings for his stepsister, however Jung-suh still loves Song-joo. Five years later, tragedy occurs when Jung-suh gets into a car accident causing her to lose her memory. Together with Tae-hwa, they start anew. Song-joo is led to believe that she is dead. However, when they meet again one day, he is determined to remind her of the love they had for one another. When fate finally seemed to be on their side, Jung-suh is diagnosed with eye cancer. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I absolutely loved this drama :) I wished I could have watched it again, but I don't really have the time to watch it. Especially with all those episodes. When I first watched it, the scenes were so dramatic. That part where Yuri her step siter hit Jung-suh with her car, leaving her with her father away from the family was already dramatic. But what was even worst was that she was able to keep a smile throughout the whole thing like nothing ever happened, and that she never even attempted to kill someone. Her brother whom she knew was madly in love with Jung-suh found out, and lived with her to recover. Even though he knew that if she were to find out who she really was, she might have left him. He kept on thinking that she could still fall in love with him, regardless of their previous relation. Cha Song-Ju on the other hand never knew what happened, a must see drama for sure :) ♥

Rating out of 10: **********

Tree of Heaven (Chunkookeh Namoo)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Lee Wan as Yoon Suh
Park Shin Hye as Hana

Synopsis:
Hana is a bright young girl who lost her father at a young age. When her mother returns to Japan, she comes with her new Korean husband and his son Yunsuh. Yunsuh’s mother died during his 10th birthday and after her death, he becomes autistic. While Hana is fond of her new step-brother, he wants nothing to do with her. When their parents leave on their honeymoon, Hana’s mother leaves the children with her deceased husband’s sister who will manage their inn during the trip. While they are gone, the aunt and her daughter Maya abuse Hana and make plans to sell the inn in order to pay for gambling debts and college. Despite all of this, Hana finds comfort in her brother who begins to open up to her and eventually speaks after his 20th Birthday and the day his mother passed away. Yunsush's mother died on the same day as he was turning 10, 10 years ago. As they start to have feelings for one another, Hana is afraid to love him. She soon leaves with her "senpai", Fujiwara Ryu, who also likes her. Later on, Maya gets jealous, and decides to make Hana's life even more miserable. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I mostly watched this drama to see Lee Wan :) Hahaha, I guess because he was pretty good in Stairway to Heaven, Park Shin Hye also co-starred with him as well previously. I still think that she looks a little childish to play the role :\ And that he seems too good for her, they should have had a different girl play her role. But I still like her as an actress, just not this character :)

Rating out of 10: *******

Kurosagi (The Black Swindler)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Yamashita Tomohisa as Kurosaki (Kurosagi)
Horikita Maki as Yoshikawa Tsurara

Synopsis:
Kurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up to become a con artist known as Kurosagi. As Kurosagi, he swindles other con artists and returns the money to the original victim. He works with the master swindler Katsuragi Toshio even though Toshio had a hand in the destruction of Kurosaki’s family. Kurosaki's life begins to change when he meets Yoshikawa Tsurara, a young law student who disapproves of his disrespect of the law. Can she persuade Kurosaki to give up swindling and his quest for revenge? (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

This is more of a mystery, suspense sort of drama. Really interesting once you really get into it. I didn't exactly know if Kurosaki and the girl went together, more like in the movie they did. Yamashita Tomohisa plays this role fairly well, I haven't seen him in many of the dramas I've watched so I can't really tell. Still a good drama though...

Rating out of 10: *****

Nobuta wo Produce (Makeover)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Kamenashi Kazuya as Kiritani Shuji
Yamashita Tomohisa as Kusano Akira
Horikita Maki as Kotani Nobuko

Synopsis:
Kiritani Shuji is the popular guy who gets along with everyone, from the jerks to the nerds to the just plain weird. The one person Shuji cannot stand is Kusano Akira. To Shuji, Akira is just plain annoying. He laughs, talks and acts funny. Things heat up when a new student comes to school. Her name is Kotani Nobuko, a girl who has no self confidence at all and is content at being made fun of and bullied in school. Shuji and Akira come to an accord that in order to make use of their "youth" they will "produce" Nobuko as the next popular girl. One of the conditions, however, is that nobody should find out that they are working together as a team to make this concept possible. Unveiled here is the story of true friendship between three unlikely candidates who would not have been friends if not given the special circumstances.
(Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:
How they made school life appear in this drama seemed very troublesome. I don't exactly think that people today would go as far as to do all of these things that they have been doing to Nobuta. Probably it does happen from time to time, but not like what happens in the drama. The fact that the two guys took the time to turn her into someone more likeable, and more approachable was the main story plot of the drama. It was pretty sad that they all had to separate and leave Nobuta to live alone like she was before. At least she has come to realize that there were people who actually cared for her, and that she wasn't alone in life. Haha, when the two guys end up going to the same school leaving Nobuta. They all became happy, because Nobuta had the life she had always wanted and the two guys became closer friends.

Rating out of 10: ********* 1/2 'some parts were confusing :S

Honey and Clover (Hachimitsu to Clover)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Narumi Riko as Hanamoto Hagumi
Ikuta Toma as Takemoto Yuta
Harada Natsuki as Yamada Ayumi
Mukai Osamu as Mayama Takumi
Narimiya Hiroki as Morita Shinobu
Takizawa Saori as Teshigawara Miwako
Kimura Yuichi as Lohmeyer-senpai
Matsushige Yutaka as Professor Shoda
Maekawa Yasuyuki as Teranobori Yasuhiko
Kashiwabara Takashi as Nomiya Takumi
Izumiya Shigeru as Yamada Daigoro
Murakami Jun as Hanamoto Shuji
Seto Asaka as Harada Rika

Synopsis:
About the lives of 5 young inspiring college students, hoping to one day become successful in life. Hagumi is one of the main characters in the series and is a very gifted artist that end up living with Takemoto and his colleagues. Takemoto had scene her from a distance before and is excited to find out that she is living with them. Can these 5 young students hold up to their challenges? And what will come of Takemoto and Hagumi’s relationship?

Review:

It wasn't really long, but still okay. Hagumi's character is innocent and sweet with a gifted qualities. Nothing much to talk about this drama, except that it is based on the manga version and was even turned into an anime/remakes as well. Two thumbs up :)

Rating out of 10: ***** 'I was disappointed that Takemoto didn't get the girl (Hagumi) I found out later when watching the anime, that she ended up with the TEACHER >_<

Tokyo Juliet (Dong Fang Zhu Li Ye)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Ariel Lin as Lin Lai Sui
Wu Chun as Ji Feng Liang
Simon Yam as Chu Xing
Tang Zhi Ping as Ai Li Ou
Huang Hong Sheng as Lu Yi Mi
Kagami Tomohisa as Ke Xing
Lu Jia Xin as Gan Li Sha
Janel Tsai as Gao Gang Quan
Cai Yi Zhen as Pei Mei Zi

Synopsis:
Lin Lai Sui (Ariel Lin) had her design, Daisy, stolen by Chu Xing when she was five. She vowed not to fall in love till she beats Chu Xing. But, she meets Ji Feng Liang (Wu Zun) who has the ability to change her way of thinking. They started dating and it wasn't long till Sui discovers Ji Feng Liang's father is Chu Xing!
They meet many obstacles in their relationship. This includes, Ai Li Ou, Guang Xi & the newest rival, Lu Yi Ming.
Liang is spotted by a fmous designer and decides to go to Italy to further his skills. Sui is also given this opportunity, but she turns it down as she had agreed to help Lu Yi Ming with his new designer brand. She is shock to realise that a new designer in chief has been appointed in place of her. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Reviews:

Relates to anyone who loves fashion. The fact that Sui was able to draw a fanatastic design and end up winning as well was remarkable. It was awesome seeing her brave attitude towards the person whom she dispised. And even accidentally falling in love with her rival's son Liang, which was out of the ordinary. Liang also hated his own father as well, which helped Sui get her way about fighting Chu Xing. Along the way their own encounters including love rivals and their own competiveness against each other made it more lively in the series. I also loved the opening themesong of the drama by Garden Sister. Ariel Lin has also co-starred with one of the other actors in the Love Contract. Too bad Ariel Lin and Wu Chun aren't in any more drama's together, I'd love to see them in another drama since he now has a better haircut...:] I found it funny that Wu Chun's voice had to be synced with someone else's, but this is forgiveable since he wasn't able to speak Mandarin fully. He's acting skills make up for the loss of his voice :) The wig that Ariel Lin had to wear for the first few episodes looked real. I thought that it was her real hair, and that she was also required to cut off her hair for the drama. Who knew it was only a wig that she had to put on temporarly :P She acts more serious in this drama, all of her co-stars love to have her around. This drama is highly recommended again :) hahah, in general all the reviews I've made so far are must-sees ;)

Rating out of 10: ********* 'ending could have been better :

Boys Over Flowers (Kgotboda Namja)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Koo Hye Sun as Geum Jan Di
F4:
Lee Min Ho as Goo Joon Pyo
Kim Hyun Joong as Yoon Ji Hoo
Kim Bum as So Yi Jung
Kim Joon as Song Woo Bin

Synopsis:

Jan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store located near the luxurious and well known Shin Hwa College. Jan Di meets the four richest and most spoiled boys known as the F4. After saving a boy from jumping off the roof of Shinhwa High School, she is admitted into the school on a swimming scholarship. Jan Di tries to avoid confrontation with the F4 at all cost because she knows what happens to those that stand against them. However, when Jan Di's friend, Oh Min Ji, accidentally gets ice cream on the leader of the F4's shoes, she's forced to declare war on the leader of the F4, Goo Joon Pyo.

(Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Just another alternative, probably one the best out of the remakes. I'd put this remake second, the first one would be the Japanese remake version. My favourite character in this remake is Joon Pyo ♥

Rating out of 10: **********

Hana Yori Dango Final (The Movie)

Fans of the "Hana Yori Dango" drama series will get one more chance to see the cast in action, as a movie has been announced for the summer of 2008. Titled "Hana Yori Dango Final," the film is being described as the last chapter of the live-action adaptation.This will be Mao Inoue's first starring role in a movie. Jun Matsumoto, Shun Oguri, Shota Matsuda, and Tsuyoshi Abe will reprise their roles as the group known as "F4."The film is set one year after Tsukushi Makino's graduation. The story focuses on a major incident that the five main characters become involved in, while also depicting the ups and downs of Tsukushi and Tsukasa's relationship.Filming is scheduled to take place overseas for about two months, starting in January. The series' director Yasuharu Ishii will helm the picture. The story is currently being developed by the original mangaka Yoko Kamio and the series' screenwriter Mikio Satake (actor Takayuki Takuma).

Inoue Mao (as Makino Tsukushi) - Last spurt! I will do my best!!Matsumoto Jun (as Domyoji Tsukasa) - We made you wait, didn't we!Oguri Shun (as Hanazawa Rui) - I'm sleepy...but if I can see everyone (again, I will do it.)Matsuda Shoota (as Nishikado Soojiroo) - Keep your hopes up for the finale.Abe Tsuyoshi (as Mimasaka Akira) - Lets meet at the movie theater. [hehe he wrote in Chinese.]

Credits: tokyog.raph.com & Pinkujisatsusource: http://www.mao-inoue.jp/diary.htmlThis is the official website:http://www.tbs.co.jp/hanadan2/final/

Hana Yori Dango: Final begins as Domyoji holds an extravagant press conference to announce his wedding to Makino the following spring. The press is playing her up like a modern-day Cinderella and everything seems to be going well. Later, the families offer congratulations to the couple. Even Domyoji’s mother—who was formerly vehemently opposed to the relationship and tried desperately to break them up at every opportunity—is suddenly happy for them. She even offers Makino a family heirloom: a tiara worth 10 billion yen (about $95 million USD) called “Smile of Venus”.
Later in their hotel room, Makino begins to worry that her life is about to take a drastic change from what she’s used to. Domyoji consoles her by telling her he’ll spend the rest of his life protecting her, but just as he says that a man dressed in black crashes into their room through a window and steals the “Smile of Venus” tiara. Domyoji tries to chase the man but he vanishes into the city. By the time they get back to the hotel room the glass is completely cleaned up and the window is replaced as if nothing had ever happened. Obviously there’s some sort of conspiracy going on. Could Domyoji’s mother be meddling again, hoping to make it look like Makino carelessly lost the tiara herself? Or is someone at the hotel trying to cover up the crime? Domyoji and Makino are determined to get to the bottom of things, and end up going on a wild adventure together which takes them through Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and various places throughout the world. And don’t worry fangirls, the rest of F4 will show up too.

Source: www.nipponcinema.com/.../

Hana Yori Dango 2 (Boys before Flowers 2)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Inoue Mao as Makino Tsukushi
Matsumoto Jun as Domyoji Tsukasa
Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui
Matsuda Shota as Nishikado Sojiro
Abe Tsuyoshi as Mimasaka Akira
Nishihara Aki as Matsuoka Yuuki
Kato Natsuki as Okawahara Shigeru

Synopsis:

This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.
Some time later, Domyoji's mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. There, they hold a giant super-rich and classy birthday party for Domyoji and announce something very important. Domyoji, like in the first season, is engaged to a rich girl and heir. The only difference is that they are to be wed soon. What will Makino do?
On the side, Rui begins to fall in love with Makino... will this become a love... square?
Rui --> Makino --> Domyoji --> Shigeru (arranged fiancee of Domyoji) (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Lots more drama in the sequel :) && Rui is shown more which I love ♥ ♥ hehehe you have to watch it to find out the story...I don't really want to show any spoilers, when you can just watch it yourself :)

Rating out of 10: ********** !

Hana Yori Dango (Boys over Flowers)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Inoue Mao as Makino Tsukushi
Matsumoto Jun as Domyoji Tsukasa
Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui
Matsuda Shota as Nishikado Sojiro
Abe Tsuyoshi as Mimasaka Akira
Sato Megumi as Sanjo Sakurako
Nishihara Aki as Matsuoka Yuki

Synopsis:

Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4’s bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school.
Makino hopes to pass her days quietly-- without drawing any attention to herself-- but one day, she stands up to Domyoji in defense of her friend. The next day, Makino gets the dreaded red notice. Even though she is harassed, Makino decides to keep going to school because she is a “tough weed”. She declares war right back on the F4. Her resolve gets the attention of her crush Hanazawa Rui and oddly enough, rouses romantic feelings in her worst enemy, Domyoji Tsukasa.
The series is based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Hana Yori Dango" (Boys Before Flowers) by Kamio Yoko. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

Just watch the drama! I can't really describe the story since it is practically the same as Meteor Garden, with more good-looking actors and more interesting parts. Excluding Dao Ming Si name into Domyoji, and excluding the fact that he stopped eating x) If you're looking to find an alternative to Meteor Garden I'd watch this one for sure. Way better ratings, and way better storyline! More parts added :)

Rating out of 10: ********** ♥ ♥

Goong (Princess Hours)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)
Yoon Eun Hye as Shin Chae-kyung
Joo Ji Hoon as Lee Shin
Kim Jeong Hoon as Lee Yul
Song Ji Hyo as Min Hyo-rin

Synopsis:

Goong (궁) is based on the same titled manhwa by Park So Hee.
Goong is a story about young love in face of tradition, politics, and intrigue. In the imaginary world, modern-day Korea is a constitutional monarchy and the Royal Family lives in a grand Palace, the Goong. Story opens with the sudden death of the reigning the King. Faced with the decreasing popularity among the public for the Royalty, a grand wedding for the Crown Prince, Lee Shin (Joo Ji Hoon), is decided to be the best publicity move to improve the image of the Royalty and at the same time prepare Shin for immediate succession. The intended bride? The headstrong, awkward, and sweet spirited Shin Chae-kyung (Yoon Eun Hye) that just happens to go to the same exclusive art school. Chae-kyung was betrothed to become the next Crown Princess by her grandfather and Shin's grandfather.
After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul (Kim Jeong Hoon) appears all of a sudden. He is Shin's cousin as well as the former Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae-kyung's optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul. As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae-kyung's relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?

(Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I'm not going to make a very long review for this drama and for the upcoming ones after. Takes too much time to type :P Goong from the start was giving me different vibes in if I should actually take the time to watch this drama. I saw it once in the Philippines, dubbed in Tagalog of course, but it wasn't that interesting to me. Especially with all the episodes which made it very time consuming for me :( It was worth it after I watched the whole thing, kind of confusing but way different from what I've been watching all along. This was more of the imperial household involving royalty, the only other drama that came close to royalty was Romantic Princess. But even then, the storyline wasn't as specific as it was in Goong. All of the actors/actresses in this drama were not even known in drama's yet. Well, maybe the main girl was since she did play in Coffee Prince, but even that was after Goong was made into a drama itself. The characters where lovable so it made it possible for people like us to actually understand the story line. She was forced to marry because of her grandfather's wish to his friend. Self-explanatory right there, her love was doomed from the start. Her wild, energetic personality causes her to get into the most craziest situations. The guy who played Yul looked like Rui in Hana Yori Dango :P (mostly the hair colour I suppose)

Rating out of 10: ********

My Girl (Ma-i-geol)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Lee Dong Wook as Seol Gong Chan
Lee Da Hae as Joo Yoo Rin
Lee Joon Ki as Seo Jung Woo
Park Si Yeon as Kim Seo Hyun

Synopsis:

When Gong Chan Lee Dong Wook meets the lively and beautiful Yu Rin Lee Da Hae, he finds out that she has connections to his missing cousin, who his grandfather has been searching for a long time. He asks Yu Rin to lie about being his long missing cousin until he can find his real cousin. She says yes, but soon their feelings for each other get in the way of their plans. Gong Chan's friend Jung Woo Lee Joon Ki falls for Yu Rin while Gong Chan's ex girlfriend, Seo Hyun Park Si Yeon, a pro tennis player, tries to win him back. Will the two ever tell each other how they feel? Will Gong Chan ever find his real cousin? My Girl was a Top Ten hit in Korea in 2006, aided by the appearance of hot new actor, Lee Joon Ki. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I also heard of this drama from a cousin of mine in the Philippines, so I decided to watch it. At first I thought that this drama had a second season, so I didn't exactly want to watch the first season. But turns out it only has one season, so I did end up watching it. The characters are really worth watching for. How Yu Rin was caught stealing the oranges from Gong Chan's family garden made me laugh so hard :) That was one of my favourite parts in the drama, including Jung Woo's love for Yu Rin. Lee Joon Ki starred in the korean movie "Virgin Snow" and was really good in it. He actually looks better now, but only a bit though. The Philippines even made a remake of this drama, it was good too. Just that the guy who played Jung Woo didn't look manly enough LOL ♥ I really didn't want this drama to end, the ending was perfect for me. It wasn't like the main characters died like what commonly happens during korean drama's like "Stairway to Heaven", and "A Love of Kill". The ending was short and sweet, my type of ending :) Even though I never even heard of the main guy playing in the drama's that I've watched, he was an excellent choice to play Gong Chan. His role became pretty dramatic towards the end, which made me love him more :P I'd watch this drama again for sure :)

Rating out of 10: **********

Smiling Pasta (Wei Xiao Pasta)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Cyndi Wang as Cheng Xiao Shi 成曉詩
Nicholas Teo as He Qun 何群
Gino as He Rui Zhe / Ah Zhe 阿哲
Joyce Zhao as Rita
Jian Chang as Cheng Gang 成剛
Zhao Shun as Cheng Jin 成金
Wang Juan as Chen Lin Ma Li 成林瑪麗
Hu Kang Xing (胡康星) as Cheng Ming 成銘
Song Zhi Ai as Huang Qian Hui 黃千慧
Wu Zhen Ya (吳震亞) as Lei Long 雷龍
Shen Meng Sheng as He Meng Yuan 何孟元
Bao Zheng Fang (鲍正芳) as Bi Li Ling 毕丽铃
Di Zhi Jie as Vincent

Synopsis:

Xiao Shi is a girl who has gone through many short relationships, 17 to be exact, not one lasting more than 3 months hence, she was cursed with a three-month curse. After being dumped by her 17th boyfriend, the world looks grimmer than ever. At that time, a famous idol, He Qun runs past, bumps into Xiao Shi, and they end up "kissing" on the street. Paparazzi swarmed by and to avoid a bad reputation, He Qun’s manager declared Xiao Shi as He Qun’s girlfriend of one year and fiancée. Thus, a love contract was made. This story is about how the couple learns to like each other after having disagreements in the beginning, as well as fighting the injustices the media throw at them. Will Xiao Shi finally break her 3 month curse? (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

One of my favourite drama's that I've watched so far :) It was based on Full House the Korean version. I was hooked onto this drama from the first episode. Nicholas Teo was also eye catching haha ;) My bad. It's more of a comedy/romantic sort of series, which is something I would definitaley watch :) There are so many cute scenes in the drama and had one of my favourite quotes, "Just smile and you can overcome absolutely anything" (Xiao Shi to He Qun). Her family is also hilarious, especially about the three month curse. I for one, don't believe in such superstitions, but it's pretty amusing for someone to go through all that trouble because of one superstituous curse :P I can't really pick just one favourite scene so I'll just point them out :)

1. Xiao Shi and He Qun first meet, and how he tried to made his ex-girl friend jealous :)

2. When Rita's friend locked Xiao Shi in the girl's bathroom leaving her until midnight, Ah Zhe saves her (while He Qun looked from afar)

3. He Qun's nickname "Jinx" and Xiao Shi's nickname "Turtle Girl" for eachother

There's probably a lot more, but I'll just be spoiling all the good parts :)

Rating out of 10: ********** ♥

Love Contract (Ai Qing He Yue)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Ariel Lin as Cheng Xiao Feng
Mike He as Ah Ken aka Liu Jian Dong
Zhang Rui Jia as Ah Kai aka Lin Kai
Zhong Xin Yu as Li Xin Lei
Lai Zhi Wei as Xiao Bai aka Zhang Yuan Bao
Lin Yi Hong as Mu Tou aka Lin Song Bo
Phyllis Quek as Cheng Xiao Yun
Mary Hsu as Doris
Yi Zhe Li as Fu Bu Mei Li

Synopsis:

Outwardly, Xiao Feng (Ariel Lin) is a stubborn tomboy and the captain of the Kendo Club at her college. In her group of friends, she is the leader with her demanding nature and abrupt ways. Inwardly however, Xiao Feng is a girl scarred by her past and searching for what she wants most, love. Her friends, Ah Kai (Zhang Rui Jia), Xiao Bai (Lai Zhi Wei ), Mu Tou (Lin Yi Hong), Xin Lei (Zhong Xin Yu, and, Xiao Xiao (Yang Pei Ting) don't know about that part of her past but they are all loyal friends to Xiao Feng; that is, until Xiao Bai and Ah Kai leave the Kendo Club for the Swim Team. Xiao Bai and Ah Kai are immediately regretful when the captain of the Swim Team, Ah Ken, turns out to be a captain as grueling as Xiao Feng. When one night Xiao Feng announces to her friends she wants love the most, Xiao Bai and Ah Ken devise a prank called the love contract. In exchange for finding swim team members to recruit, Ah Ken must court Xiao Feng. (Taken from DramaWiki)

Review:

I only watched it mainly because it had the ever so handsome Mike He HAHA :) and Ariel Lin from ISWAK. It wasn't that bad of a drama, just a bit confusing. I didn't really get their relationship at first, but it did make sense afterwards. I also find that the characters where some of the people in Tokyo Juliet that also starred Ariel Lin as the main protagonist. Mike He seemed younger in this drama, probably because he was. He didn't look that good looking as he was in Devil Beside You, but we will all live :P Mike He's character involving his mother and father was pretty sad once you get his full story. Also of how his mother was still trying to find his father after so long, made you feel sorry for his mother. It was so sad when she ran out because she thought it was his father, and then died because of her Asthma..Mike He and Ariel Lin also looked like a good couple together, but I still prefer the Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng couple :) What I found was the most confussing about this drama was the ending. It sucked. At first the ending appeared as if it was suicide, and next ending turned out it was all fake, and the third it when they actually did commit suicide but can back from heaven to meet their friends. I must say, the ending was really bad. If I were to choose an ending out of the three choices, probably the suicide one. Not because I wanted it that way, I just wanted it to be sad and more understandable. She was already bed bounded for life, and he was already heart broken, his reactions did look suicidal. I would recommend this drama, only if you are bored :P

Rating out of 10: ****** 1/2

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Barbie Xu as Shan Cai
Jerry Yan as Dao Ming Si
Vic Zhou as Hua Ze Lei
Ken Zhu as Shi Men
Vanness Wu as Mei Zuo
Michelle Saram as Ye Sha
Winnie Qian as Teng Tang Jing
Mary Hsu as Dao Ming Zhuang
Edward Ou as Qing He
Megan Lai as Mimi
Wu Pei Ci (吳佩慈) as Xiao Qiao

Synopsis:

F4 graduates from Ying De Xue Yuan. Dao Ming Si invites Shan Cai to go on F4's graduation trip with them to Spain, which is actually F4's way of letting Shan Cai and Dao Ming Si spend some time alone. Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai becomes inseparable during the trip. Just before Shan Cai and Si leave for Spain, Hua Ze Lei gave Ah Si an envelope with a "smart advice" in it. When Ah Si opens the envelope, he finds that the advice from Hua Ze Lei was to ask Shan Cai to marry him in an old church with a legend. Dao Ming Si buys a "Meteor Ring" which Shan Cai had her eyes on, and prepares to propose to her in a church that had special meanings of "love".
However, on the way to the church, Dao Ming Si gets into a car accident which had causes him to lose his memory. He met Ye Sha at that time, who helps him and looks after him. The sudden disappearance of Ah Si causes Shan Cai to worry, so she asks Jing to help her. The other three members of F4 also came to Spain immediately after they hear the news.
What follows is a story full of ups and downs as Shan Cai tries to find Dao Ming Si and help him regain his memory.
In this continued story of Meteor Garden, the love story of Xi Men and Mei Zuo are shown. The reason why Xi Men is such a playboy is revealed, as well as Mei Zuo's own love story since he was in elementary school. (Taken for DramaWiki)

Review:

There's really not that much to say about the sequel. I just find it very boring and lacking any realism. Who would actually forget all of his memories so quickly? The story in the middle of the series became more interesting. I just wish that he had remembered about Shan Cai a little sooner, instead of making so many episodes about his new love Ye Sha (who was later to be revealed as a princes). Ye Sha had an illness that could kill her, but Dao Ming Si still went to Shan Cai, which I find really cute. lol, true love never dies ;) But it did make the episodes for this season extend a bit more. The ending could have used some help, which goes back to my previous statement of the Japanese/Korean versions to have better and more worth while ending than the Taiwanese version. It was cute to have Dao Ming Si remember all of a sudden about all the hurt he has done to Shan Cai, then them being together again. Vic Zhou looked way better in "Silence" but when his character feel in love with Shan Cai, it made me really hope that he would end up with Shan Cai instead of Dao Ming Si taking her away from him again. I kept thinking that my poor Hua Ze Lei will never find his own love :( I actually thought that he was going to marry his childhood (who was older) friend, but that completely ruined the story when she didn't accept him. In the end though, Hua Ze Lei became happy just because Shan Cai was happy, I guess friendship is more important even though he loved Shan Cai that much. If I had known that the ending was only going to be that lame, I would have just watched the first season and end it right there. But if you're willing to want to watch the sequel, there's no stopping you :)

Rating out of 10: *******

Meteor Garden (Liu Xing Hua Yuan)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Barbie Xu as Shan Cai
Jerry Yan as Dao Ming Si
Vic Zhou as Hua Ze Lei
Ken Zhu as Xi Men
Vanness Wu as Mei Zuo

Rainie Yang as Xiao You

Synopsis:

Shan Cai is a hardworking girl who has many jobs just to support her family and for herself. She lives in a broken down house along with her two parents. Even though her family is poor, she manages to get into Ying De University where all of the rich (stuck-up) people go to school. Most common students who are rich include the group F4, who is the most popular and definitely the most wealthiest out of all the students in Ying De University. After befriending a girl in her school, her friend soon gets into a negative situation with Dao Ming Si the leader of F4. Being as protective as Shan Cai is, she stood up to her new friend and gets herself in trouble. The next day she gets the red note (You will be dead- F4). What is worst is that Dao Meng Si seems to be smitten by Shan Cai. Can she withstand F4 and defeat them?

Review:

This drama also aired in the Philippines, but instead of Mandarin was dubbed in Tagalog. When I went to the Philippines to visit my cousins, that was probably when I first got introduced to this drama. All of my cousins were watching the drama, but I didn't really seem to get the storyline since I only watched the middle of the series while at the Philippines. Once I got home to watch from beginning to end, I fell in love with the drama. Haha, I guess it's a bit weird to like a drama so much but it was a really good drama I'm sure of it. Some parts were not that realistic like the fights they've been having, but all in all the episodes had really good plots. Rainie Yang only had a small role in this drama. I hated how her hair looked in this drama, and of her lack of acting abilities. Don't get me wrong though, I really do like Rainie Yang as a singer/actress, but just not in this drama. Probably because it was one of her first roles as an actress after being disbanded from her girl group. Barbie's role as Shan Cai made her become more famous, from what I believe. She really is a good actress, having to do all of those crying scenes and being able to remember all of those lines by heart. Jerry Yan was pretty amazing ;) LOL. But yeah, I really did like him playing Dao Ming Si, especially when his character became more childish to Shan Cai when he was revealing his true feelings towards her. I like the Japanese/Korean a little bit more than the Taiwanese, but it's still worth while to watch.

Rating out of 10: ********* 1/2

Devil Beside You (E Mo Zai Shen Bian)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Mike He as Jiang Meng 江猛
Rainie Yang as Qi Yue 齊悅
Kingone Wang as Sang Yuan Yi 尚源伊
Ivy Fan Xiao Fan as Xin Li Xiang 辛莉香
He Du Lin as Jiang You Hui 江友暉
Ge Wei Ru as Huang Xue Wei 黃雪薇
Masuyama Yuki as Yu Yang Ping 于陽平
Tsai Pei Lin as Qing Zi 晴紫

Synopsis:

About a young girl named Qi Yue who has finally can to her senses to confess to her long time crush Yuan Yi a basketball coach at her school's basketball team. As she sees Yuan Yi walking and brings out the letter to confess, her accidentally confesses to Jiang Meng, the school's bully and is someone you do not want to get involved with. Shocked, she runs away leaving her love letter to Yuan Yi behind for Jiang Meng to see. The next day she goes to school, only to find out that Jiang Meng was trying to find her. Turns out that he has her love letter and that he will print out millions of copies if she does not become his personal slave. Devastated by the fact that Jiang Meng might reveal her true feelings for Yuan Yi, she abruptly agrees for the time being to become his personal slave. What's surprising is that Qi Yue's mother's surprise to her daughter is that she is getting married....to Jiang Meng's father...

Review:

This was the first drama I've ever watched, and is still my favourite out of all the dramas I've watched so far. I did watch Rainie Yang in Meteor Garden, but I have to say that her perfomance as Qi Yue in this drama was probably one of her best that I've seen. I wasn't sure at first if this drama was going to become a good one, since it was a bit of a brother-to-be and sister-to-be relationship going on between the two. But it did go greatly in the end, the drama itself even had good reviews and everything. Mike He's character was one of those tall, sleek, and handsome type of guys that you would see in dramas. I love his character, especially when he slowly became all sweet towards Qi Yue about his true feelings for her. I also love how the story revolves around students going to school, it made it more believeable that something like this could have happened to us (minus the sister-to-be and brother-to-be relationship). I don't exactly know why Qi Yue's other friend is rarely mentioned in the drama, actually I find it pointless to have her even show up if her job is to appear only three times. Haha, but I guess it's just business, I mean she does earn money for appearing at least once in the series. The drama itself was not too long, actually I still wanted it to continue, possibly to have another season/sequel to the story. Or maybe even a movie type of thing, showing what their live would have been afterwards. I know that in the manga itself, the story doesn't stop at the drama's very end. It showed that they both got married...awe...that would have been more interesting :) Definately watch this one!

Rating out of 10: ********** ♥

Romantic Princess (Gong Zhu Xiao Mei)

Cast: (Credits to DramaWiki)

Wu Chun as Nan Feng Jin 南風瑾
Angela Zhang as Mai Qiu Sui (Huangfu Shan) 麥秋穗(皇甫珊)
Calvin Chen as Nan Feng Cai 南風彩
Gu Bao Ming as Huangfu Xiong (EMP) 皇甫雄
George Hu as Nan Feng Lin 南風璘
Li Ang Lin as Nan Feng Ying 南風影
Genie Cho as Gong Mo Li 宮茉莉
Hsia Ching Ting as Yi Sen Chuan 伊森川
Bu Xue Liang as Mai Cong Guang 麥聰光

Synopsis:

Xiao Mai (Angela Zhang) lives in a broken down house along with her very poor parents. One day she is discovered and finds out that she is really Huangfu Shan, the long lost grand daugter of Huangfu Xiong also known as EMP. She goes and lives with his at his palace along with others in the Huangfu family. Not only does she have to leave her family but she must get married to Nan Feng Jin, who from the start disliked her appearance once they've met. He doesn't believe that a poor girl like her can actually be the long lost grand daughter, and refuses to marry her because he has other dreams in life. EMP is already as his limits about Nan Feng Jin and threatens that he will lose everything if he disobeys his orders. Since he has finally found his long lost grand daugther, he will certainly not take any risks to lose her ever again. Xiao Mai wants to believe that she is the real grand daughter, but doesn't know if she can. She has already many struggles like her parents leaving her, and her forced relationship with Nan Feng Jin. Can she be able to uphold the title of Huangfu Xiong's grand daughter and manage to get along with Nan Feng Jin? It all goes down to her role as the princess of the household, with a twisted romance.

Review:

This drama sort of reminds me of Gossip Girl, not because their people in the drama are like the ones who play in Gossip girl. It's just because of the school Xiao Mai has to attend and of the rich status of all the other people around her. Her character being as poor as she was before and then managing to get her way from rags to riches is really something. Everyone seems to be accepting her, except for Nan Feng Jin who dispises her from the start. Jin's character seems to be uptight and serious upon their first meeting. The EMP also has a funny side to him, regardless of how serious he may seem to be. I did find some parts to be a little dragged on like when EMP hired Gong Mo Li to pretend to be the real grand daughter to trick Xiao Mai into thinking that she was indeed the real grand daugter. What is worst is that the ending absolutely sucked....I think that I could have made a way more interesting and lively ending than what was made up by the producers of the series. That is probably why the drama lacked votes near the ending of the whole series, I mean they could have had maybe another two/three more episodes if they made a better ending. However, other than that the characters and story plot where really good. Not as good as It Started with a Kiss, but I'd say it's something to watch :)

Rating out of 10: ******** 1/2