In A Good Way Episode 1 Recap
I haven’t watched a good Taiwan drama all year and I despaired of this sad reality ever changing any time soon. King Flower was addicting in a trainwreck way though ultimately the great chemistry between the non-canon OTP that ended up becoming the OTP was a wild and weird watching adventure I gladly relished while it lasted. But good acting chemistry does not a good drama make, and these last three weeks finally convinced me to pick up my recapping pen again for a TW-drama that promises to remain as good as it’s been right out of the gate. SETTV premiered two dramas recently, the higher profile Sunday night drama Deja Vu was an immediate fail for me, whereas the quieter Friday night offering of In A Good Way (Chinese title: My Era of Independence) has been a hidden gem that has mushroomed into a bona fide domestic drama sensation among the younger viewers. Starring Lego Li, Kristen Jen, Jay Shih, Smile Wen, and Steven Sun, the entire cast is absolutely endearing right off the bat and so easy to watch. It helps that this drama is refreshing and the plot makes sense, adding a dash of nostalgia for those who attended college in the mid-90s and want to relive the experience in dramatic fashion.
The drama is set in the year 1995, but differs from the modern day-past period juxtaposition used in similar-themed K-dramas such as last year’s Answer Me 1997 and this year’s Answer Me 1994. There is no “who is the husband” nor is the story told in flashbacks. The story is narrated by leading lady Lin Jia En as she talks about her college life and that era of independence she spent with her best friends. It’s remarkably funny and uses the fantastic mando-pop catalogue of songs from the mid-90s well so I keep humming along to what are not oldies but still goodies when I’m watching. It’s safe to say that leading man Lego Lee (Lee Guo Yi) is the breakout star of this drama, playing a character written as almost too perfect but he plays him with such a down-to-earth feeling of sweetness and class. He’s so gorgeous in that boy next door way I just want to squish his character Liu Shan Feng (nickname Liu Chuan) and its crazy how fast and hard I’ve fallen for his being OTP with the fresh-faced and inexperienced Jia En. I love the low key vibe, the fun way it captures the atmosphere of a college campus and life, and this drama has already delivered some great positive messages that don’t come across as lecturing but instead as a logical learning lesson for kids just taking the first steps towards adulthood. I would call IAGW an unnoticed gem except it’s such a surging popular drama in Taiwan that it is hardly underrated at all. I hope the international audience takes notice of this unexpected treat and join me in watching along.
Episode 1 recap:
Childhood friends Lin Jia En (Kristen Ren) and Cheng Ren Wei (Jay Shih) grow up together in Pingdong, Taiwan. It’s the Southern most county on the island and the farthest from the capital city metropolis of Taipei. The year is 1995 and the two high school seniors discuss the results of the college entrance exams and the latest pop music. Jia En does well and is here to get Ren Wen to go home to see his test scores. Ren Wei shows off his new scooter which is a present from his parents for finishing the exam. They bicker comfortably as Ren Wei rides his scooter and takes Jia En home.
Ren Wei goes home and mom and dad start nagging him about his poor scores from college entrance exams. Ren Wei insists he’ll get in, and not only will he get in, he’ll get into a college in Taipei and off he goes to live his big city dreams. Dad scoffs and says the family pond fishing business is waiting for him to come back and inherit and there is nothing in Taipei to hang his future on. Plus he doesn’t think Ren Wei will get into a Taipei college, snarking if he does then Dad will go with him to be his pageboy during his college years. Ha! Jia En says his scores can get him into a public university at least. Turns out she lives with them after her parents went to Taipei to open a tea shop and asked their good friends, Ren Wei’s parents, to take care of her. Ren Wei’s parents adore her and not so subtly tells Ren Wei to just come back and marry Jia En when he’s done with college.
Jia En and Ren Wei are in school filling out the all-important college+major ranking sheet. College entrance exam results will be matched against each students ranking of college+major. Jia En clearly relies on Ren Wei for comfort and keeps sneaking peeks at his list. She asks if he is putting down all Taipei colleges and if he’s serious about going there. She decides it’s okay to go that far if he’s there to keep her company and decides to put down Taipei colleges as well which annoys Ren Wei that she keeps tagging along.
He tells her that college is about becoming more independent which she understands but thinks its so hard. When Jia En steps away to go to the bathroom, Ren Wei takes her ranking list and sees that she’s listed all the same colleges as him and intends to keep tagging along wherever he goes. He knows her test score is much higher than his schools so he erases her rankings and puts down better schools and better majors thinking it’s a waste for her to go to his level of colleges. Oh noes!
The day of the college match results are out and Ren Wei gets into his first choice Cheng Dong University in Taipei majoring in business management. Jia En looks and looks but doesn’t see her name on any of the lists. She doesn’t get into any college, becoming one of the dreaded “not on the list” high school seniors. Ren Wei celebrates with his parents as Jia En looks crushed.
Jia En narrates as months later she and Ren Wei’s parents walk him to the train station as he heads up to Taipei for college – she found out years later that Ren Wei changed her ranking list to better schools and majors, but he didn’t know that 1995 was a year where the finance industry inexplicably grew red hot so finance was the hardest major to get into any college that year. That was how Jia En got high test scores but ended up not getting into any college. Ren Wei goes off to college and asks if his dad is going to follow through with the promise to be his pageboy in college? Dad says he’ll go if Ren Wei wants him hanging around and ruining his Taipei college life? Ren Wei tells him no need and hops on the train.
Jia En mopes all alone in their little town without Ren Wei around to keep her company. She decides to go live in Taipei with her parents while studying to retake the college entrance exam next year.
A montage of Ren Wei living the life of a busy college student. He runs out of the dorm room and leaves his pager on the desk on the day Jia En wants to go up. Jia En tries calling her parents in Taipei but no one answers. She pages Ren Wei but gets no response either.
She decides to be a bit more independent and takes a train to Taipei by herself. As she arrives she gets her purse stolen since she looks like such a clueless college bumpkin.
Jia En manages to get to her parents tea house around the Cheng Dong University (CDU) college campus and sees it closed as the owners are off traveling for three days. Jia En enters the CDU campus to look for Ren Wei and marvels at the busy college students milling around. She goes to find the posted dorm room assignments and sees that Ren Wei is in room 339. Jia En walks to the dorm and passes by a basketball game being watched by a big crowd chanting the name “Liu Chuan. Liu Chuan. Liu Chuan.”
She stops to watch and sees a guy in red shooting baskets. It’s Liu Chuan aka Liu Shan Feng (Lego Lee) and he finally misses a basket and the ball rolls out of the court and his little Pomeranian dog chases after it. Jia En greets the dog named Momo and picks up the ball. Liu Chuan runs over to get both back and there is a moment where they stare at each other.
Liu Chuan heads back to the court and all the girls swarm him, offering him drinks and towels and its clear he’s the big man on campus. His buddy Xie Qing Yo aka Ah Qing (Steven Sun) is upset at the loss of female attention and challenges Liu Chuan to another shoot-off. Jia En smiles at the typical campus stuff which is all new to her and then walks off to keep looking for Ren Wei.
Jia En arrives at Men’s Dorm #1 and enters to find the Dorm Lady Ma Li (Mary) who welcomes her warmly. Mary allows her up to room 339 to go wait for Ren Wei. Jia En walks through the dorm and marvels at college rooming life. Jia En enters the room after finding the door unlocked and puts her things down to wait.
Back at the basketball courts, Ren Wei walks by with his two dorky college roommates. There is Agricultural major Wang Jian Guo nicknamed Ah Di and also Pre-law major Chang Zi Xi nicknamed Zai Zai. The three guys marvel at the ladies swarming around campus big wigs Liu Chuan and Ah Qing. Ren Wei finds out that those two guys, along with a third guy named Liao Ri Qi, are called The Three Musketeers and all belong to the Foreign Languages major.
Ren Wei hilariously scoffs at that name and decides the three of them need a team nickname. The naming process leads them down a free association path of calling out anything that comes in threes or has the number three in its name – The Three Little Sky Kings, Three Bowl Chicken, Three Sided Sandwich, Three Treasures Rice, Triangle, Three Edge Briefs, The Three Blades, etc. Ren Wei decides to think outside Threes comes up with their name – CDU Men of Steel! As the Men of Steel head off to bask in their self-naming glory, a pretty girl on a bike passes by and Ren Wei is smitten at first sight. No wonder he’s so taken because he learns that she is Bai Xue Feng aka Bai Xue (Snow White), the prettiest girl on campus and the school flower.
Liu Chuan walks back to his dorm room number 339 to shower after playing basketball and he starts taking off his clothes before noticing Jia En sleeping on the sofa in the adjacent room. Momo wakes her up by licking her hand and then Jia En screams upon seeing nearly naked Liu Chuan. He hides behind the closet while she runs out with her eyes covered.
Once outside, she realizes Momo followed her out so knocks on the door to return the dog. She asks Liu Chuan if a student named Cheng Ren Wei lives here since he lives in room 339 and she saw it posted on the dorm assignments list. Liu Chuan is certain no such student lives here and takes back Momo and closes the door. Jia En knocks again to go and get her luggage from inside before leaving. Jia En walks out of the dorm and goes to wait outside on the park bench. We see Ren Wei hanging with his roommates at a comic book store all night.
Later that night it starts to rain and Liu Chuan peeks out his window and notices Jia En hiding under the dorm awning from the rain. He goes down and hands her an umbrella and finds out she still can’t find her friend Ren Wei. Liu Chuan figures out Jia En’s mistake which is that Ren Wei lives in room 309 in Men’s Dorm #2 whereas she’s at Men’s Dorm #1. He finds out she got her wallet stolen off the train and her parents are also out of town. Liu Chuan decides she can’t stay outside all night and sneaks her into the dorm.
Liu Chuan takes her back to his room and hands her toiletries to sneak her into the men’s shower now that’s already so late. Jia En has to dive under the bed to hide when roommate Qing Yo comes back with some buddies to spray paint his hair pink to because he lost the basketball shoot out with Liu Chuan.
Mary comes by checking all the room after hearing a report that a girl was seen sneaking in here. It’s verboten to sneak girlfriends into the Men’s Dorm under her watch! Liu Chuan manages to divert them and sneak Jia En out to the men’s showers.
He takes her inside to shower while he stands guard outside. He tells her to hurry up because Mary is doing checks. Jia En is getting dressed when Mary walks in wanting to check the showers so Liu Chuan has to take his shirt off and hop into the shower Jia En is using. She’s dressed but they press up against each other with her very close to the now shirtless Liu Chuan.
Mary checks the stalls and asks why Liu Chuan hasn’t turned the water on. He turns the water on and Jia En yelps which draws Mary’s attention. Liu Chuan smoothly lies that Momo has been sad lately so he’s learning to yelp in a high pitched way to communicate better with him. LOL.
Mary leaves and Liu Chuan hurries Jia En back to his room. He passes by Qing Yo who saw a girl enter their room and gives Liu Chuan the room for the night with a wink wink nudge nudge. As Jia En goes to put her things back into her luggage, she doesn’t notice that Liu Chuan’s necklace falls into her bag.
That night Liu Chuan and Jia En spend listening to music without talking because he can sense her discomfort so turns on the music to lighten the mood. Turns out they both love Wu Bai and his modern Taiwanese rock.
Liu Chuan wakes up the next morning and Jia En has already left, leaving him a note thanking him for last night. He realizes his necklace is missing and is pretty frantic so it must be of some importance. He goes running outside to search for Jia En.
Ren Wei and his two roomies finally held back to campus after a night spent reading comic books. Jia En runs into Ren Wei who wonders what she is doing here? She explains that she came to study for her exam but got her wallet stolen, couldn’t reach him, and her parents happen to be out of town. Ren Wei asks where she stayed last night and Jia En lies that she slept in the dorm common area. She asks why Ren Wei didn’t return her page and he lies that his pager broke, but then her parents page him right then but Jia En is so trusting that she believes his story that his pager just got fixed.
Ren Wei and Jia En go make a call to her parents at the telephone booth just as the sweaty Liu Chuan finally spots her after running around the campus.
Thoughts of Mine:
I love how this drama isn’t selling any love triangles, nor does it use the campus setting as just an excuse for the kids to be college students but don’t actually do anything remote college-related. So far the themes of going off to college and exploring a new world is wonderfully rendered through the eyes of Ren Wei and Jia En. Even better is that they resemble comfortable siblings and even though its clear Jia En likes Ren Wei more than he likes her, it’s not overwrought and she doesn’t live and die by is attention. Which makes the OTP of Jia En and Liu Chuan all that more exciting, because I can bask in their adorableness without worrying much about third party angst. Jia En took me a bit to warm up to since her character starts off so simple and unassuming, melting into the background and needing a bit of real world practicality knocked into her. I see that happening soon and Liu Chuan seems like such a lottery ticket falling into her lap. What are the odds that she barges into the room of the most popular guy on campus, sees him shirtless twice, and gets to spend the night on his sofa listening to music with him. That’s the part where this drama total fanservices me by throwing in the improbably first meeting between them, and then letting it sort of take its course as the drama progresses.
Episode recaps: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
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So Koala’s checked this one out too! I just so happen to watch the first two episodes myself last night. This could easily become my TW drama crack for this year since nothing recently from TW has been worth my time watching. You hit it on the spot; it’s endearing and nostalgic. Makes me remember college days long gone. Thanks for the recap!
Loving this drama so far. Liu Chuan may not recognize his feelings yet, but he’s pretty intense in his staring at Jia En!
I. LOVE! THIS! DRAMA!
I watched all three episodes after finishing college apps last week (the odds of choosing a college drama to watch, haha), and now I’m beggin’ for Friday to get here already.
It’s a huge hit in Taiwan, but I’m hoping it gets its well-deserved international audience as well. The Liu Chuan & Jia’en OTP is to die forrr.
I’m loving this drama, it seems like forever since I’ve watched a good college drama! I’m also watching The Pursuit of Happiness, and am enjoying Sonia Sui’s An Lei and Tony Yang’s Yi Kang growing a lovely partnership on screen.
I love The Pursuit of Happiness too!! I’m really loving the build up between Lei Lei and Yi Kang from friendship and companionship to love. *sighs happily*
I’m so glad you’re recapping this drama! It’s been awhile since I’ve enjoyed a good Taiwanese drama too. So far, the acting, chemistry, directing, and storyline have connected so well in creating something that’s unsssuming yet wonderful.
Wow. Koala, I’m glad you are liking and picking this one as your Tdrama recap! There are too many uninteresting T-drama airing atm..Two of Yao Yuan Hao’s dramas are airing at the same time, mehh. Hopefully IAGW get more viewers through your recommendation because this drama very heartwarming. It’s the first time I see Selina’s sister and her character Jia En is very likeable. Liu Chuan is such a hottie! Looking forward to more stories, can’t wait till this Friday.
Last Taiwan series I each was ” Fated to love you”.
Btw… I’m off topic here but I just saw
” Heirs” EP 17 preview… Looks like its all about Tan looking for Eun Sang. I guess he really does go crazy to the point where he’s beat -up.
We don’t care and you can go to soompi and fangirl there please.
@ck1Oz No one’s fangirling, simply mentioning another drama. Chill out.
I watched it too! Kristen Ren improved so much from her stiff acting in Ko3ango!
Wait. wait. wait. Before I get sucked into another drama (the recap for Episode 1 is sooo good), is the OTP Liu Chuan and Jia En? If not I can’t watch it. I’m tired of having to guess who the OTP is lol.
It’s definitely Liu Chuan and Jia En, there’s no guessing here. It feels different from Korea’s reply series (which I love too!), it’s more like a feel-good nostalgic campus drama that focuses on character growth and the lives of these people.
Thank heavens. Reply 1994’s “cute” husband guessing game has become unbearably tedious.
Okay thank goodness. I’m tired of playing the “who’s the husband game” hahahaha. Also, I like Liu Chuan better :p
You have no idea how happy I was when I saw this recap!! Its my T-crack of this season as well!! Thanks a lot unnie!! pls keep on recapping this 🙂
Yes! Break out for Lego Li! I find him simmering with leading man potential in the 2010 (abysmal) drama Because of You and have been waiting for him to step up to fill the leading man shoes! I was wary to check this out because it made me thought of last year’s makjang-fest-disguised-as-a-period-drama Blissful Dandelion, but I may have to watch this now.
Hmmm… I have up on pursuit of happiness because I found it a little slow – not that I could talk given I enjoyed ‘just you’ which was sooo bland I don’t have words.
Maybe I’ll try this out and make my Fridays better with 1994 and Noonas over flowers already being a treat…
Are you planning on recapping the whole drama? Cause that would be awesome
I just started this two days ago and couldn’t stop watching. It’s a fun and easy watch. The show uses a lot of drama tropes I’ve seen before but is a feel good drama that I don’t mind the cliches. More importantly, I like how Jia En is growing so much already in the first 3 episodes, and I’m really enjoying Lego Li as the male lead, even if he is too perfect.
Too bad it comes out on Fridays- it’s the only day of the week I’m looking forward to for my drama fix, with Reply 1994 being the only show I’m following.
AWWWWWWWWW!! OMG! I can’t believe I’m seeing this drama recap in Koala’s site. I’m so happy and overjoyed! I’ve been addicted to this drama since ep1 and I really regret myself from clicking onto the episode so early. I wasn’t having any expectation from the start but I just thought the premise sounds nice and I love Lego Li (It’s been too long since I saw him in tw-drama that I missed him so much, he still have his trademark intense eyesmex… LOL).
I hope that more international viewers come to notice this drama and love it as much as the taiwanese audience! In a Good way is the most discussed tw-drama among the dramas that are currently airing at the same time.
I even started a thread for this drama in soompi： http://goo.gl/cO4Gtu
Please join me for discussion!!
I actually think that Jia En is the most thoughtful written character in this drama so far, I see her growing to be an independent girl who starts to think for herself and not follow the tide. Liu Chuan’s words seem to affect her for the better. She’s becoming more independent on her own. She makes mistakes but learn from it and I adore this part of her.
Liu Chuan on the surface is totally perfect as a character and I totally love him for both the shallow part and his character. However, It seems that he never really show his inner self to anyone, even his besties. There’s still many sides that we’ve yet to explore about him.
I feel like Jia En is also affecting him in a good way, there’s more expression from him other than being the perfect classmate, the perfect student, the perfect guy.. The way he always seem to notice Jia En and he always seems to care for her more than others (where he always seem to keep others at arm-length).
Even the slight stare from both of them is sizzling with chemistry, they’re my perfect OTP!
Anyways campus+love+friendship=the perfect drama for me T_T
First time commenting here., but I was just too excited when you posted this.
This is the first time in ages I’m returning to Taiwan drama, its partially due to Lego Li *I have been having a crush on him for YEARS*(fan-girling mode)and like you said the cast is just fabulous and the plot have been great so far, with tons of fan service that I can’t help covering my eyes, while peeking through my fingers and blushing every time the OTP interacts! <3 <3 <3
anyway, this was the MV 4 years ago, where lego li stole my heart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhMktBrHk9I
I am always happy to watch a good TW drama. I’d rather watch a good TW drama than a good Kdrama. ….I don’t know why that is…..it’s just so much more relaxing. …..I guess I just like the laid back culture of Taiwan ….those lovely trains……they don’t seem so fixated on latest clothes, hairstyles, smartphones….I also prefer the TW osts. I have just read the recap and I already love the vibe …..so refreshing compared to boring shallow world of Heirs. Thank you.
I was just talking about how good this drama was and Koala made a recap!!! Thank you!
I’m loving this drama so much, i’m like eagerly waiting for every friday to come. That I haven’t done so for a long time for tdramas.
This gived off a very different vibe from the usual tdramas!
Love Jia En en Liu Chuan together and the songs.
Such a great and refreshing drama! Hopefully it will stay like this all the way!;)
Indeed,more people should watch this!
THIS DRAMA IS SO GOOD SO FAR! I enjoy it so so much! I am SO glad you are recapping and watching this along with me, Koala!
Okay didn’t know about this but the recap made me smile. A lot. So off to watch it, thank you Ms Koala
Okay 3 episodes all done this morning. Gosh it made me smile and chuckle. Consider me sold on this drama. It’s so good.
I get such Jo Jung-Seok from Lego Li it’s ridiculous.
*Jo Jung-Seok vibes
I just saw this comment – I totally agree! I keep thinking of Jo Jung Suk haha
Omg I thought I was the only one feeling JJS vibes from Lego’s Liu Chuan. I watched this right away after skimping through the recap. I liked the premise and it reminds me of The Apple of My Eye…without the wackiness. In fact it’s so real and laid back it sorta caught me off guard. ..I was totally prepared for overly cutesy lead girl with cartoonish parents but this one is really the anomaly. I wish Taiwan would make more stories and productions like these than the cartoonish live actions of mangas. The last drama that elicit the same feelings is in time with you.
I always prefer dramas from taiwan mainland or Hk because I can watch without subs and relate the the situations more but like you said good dramas aarefew and in in between. Thank you for shifting through all the crappy ones and recommend good ones. Saves me lots of time cherry picking the ones I’m interested in . Let’s hope this one is a winner!
So spot on! I was thinking the same thing and I only checked the screencaps.
Haha thank goodness I’m not the only one. And Sohee from Kristen Jen lol. I know, I’ve been too immersed in the K world. This drama is my latest crack. Lovin it so far. Keep up the great recaps, Ms. Koala 🙂
I just started watching episodes, and I was getting the vibes, too. Thank goodness my search for “Li lego jo jung suk” brought me straight back to KP!
Waah!! I’m loooving this series right now!! I’ve watched the 3 episodes that are out right now and I can see that Jia En is starting to sorta like Liu Chuan now and I’m so happy ^^
I honestly only checked out the drama cus I thought the theme song is good and really liked the way it was directed? But it’s turning out pretty good! & I always thought Kirsten Ren was pretty in K.O.3angou but acting wasn’t great but I think she got better here~ not to mention her character is likeable unlike other female leads lol.
Somebody tell me I’m not the only one who thinks Liu Chuan looks like Jo Jung Suk at times? Anybody?
Me! They could be brothers.
And me… They definitely resemble and have the same understated demeanor.
Thank you for introducing me to this drama, just caught up with all three episodes. Such a lovely drama, probably one of my best taiwanese drama I’ve enjoyed in a long time and one that I’m looking forward to watching.
Just swooning over this Tdrama and here you are recapping it. Love the OTPs just because they are so cute and more important thing is the four leads seems all nice and no evilness seen yet.
Oh just wanted to point out the room number is 339 not 309. Minor details I know. And Qing had to spray his hair in red because he lost the bet to break Liu Chuan’s record on the basketball court snd not to impress his girlfriend. The red hair is a tribute to Sakuragi’s hair change in the manga/anime Slamdunk! In fact there are so many references to that iconic sports manga it’s making the fan in me squeal, besides the OTP. It’s one of my favourite manga ever….
Trivia: Lego’s nickname is Liu Chuan which is the name of Rokawa in the manga. But Rokawa was way cooler and antisocial and a bad student. Lol. The only similarities are he’s talented in basketball and he’s handsome with lots of fan girls in school.
The current batch of airing TW dramas are certainly better than many this year. I’m watching this, as well as the Pursuit of Happiness and Marry or Not?. (What is with all the generic English titles?)
One thing in common about In a Good Way and the Pursuit of Happiness is that they’re both rather slice of life, so it moves pretty slowly. In a Good Way in particular, sometimes feels like it’s adding filler (ep 3’s race went on absolutely forever!).
I’m glad the international audience is warming up to these dramas, it’s nice to be able to talk about them in English. 🙂
I noticed the filler-like scenes as well (the bike race, Jia’en’s first ride on Renwei’s motorbike, the Wu Bai concert, etc.), but I don’t think it’s an accident since there are more than one. Stylistically, it creates a unique pace sprinkled with slice of life, like you said.
I love every single encounter and interaction between the OTP, improbable or not. To me, there are two types of fanservice: one that sacrifices substance for viewer gratification, and one that doesn’t. In a Good Way is the latter, which is why it’s so satisfying all around.
It is a very good drama. I’m not sure if the Three Musketeers are all in the foreign language department though, because Liu Chuan is supposedly double majoring law and history
i think so too, since in the first ep ZaiZai said LC is double majors history and law, RB is history major(currently hiking somewhere), QY is addressed but my guess is law. With LC’s the connection of there friendship.
Thanks for the push to watch.
I am jonesing BIG time for a good T-drama – ready to watch My Queen again again if necessary.
So happy this is good AND on viki!!
As soon as I watch, I will be back to read.
This is such an amazing drama. I cannot wait till friday!!!!! Please keep recapping this drama!
I am soooo happy finally have a good taiwanese drama to watch. My last taiwanese drama was Fated to love you and Skip Beat. Yes this is trully a hidden gems. I am going to recommend to my sister. According to the dramawiki its 21 episodes together, still have 17 episodes to go. Woohoo!