Thursday, May 29, 2008

Chen Qiao En and Ethan Ruan Film Fated To Love You's Tragic Scene in the Rain

IMPORTANT: SPOILER ALERT!

Source: Liberty News

Translation Credits: tammiest @ asianfanatics

Yesterday, SETTV drama Fated To Love You filmed their "car accident in the rain" scene. Joe Chen QiaoEn, clad in a white dress, is hit by a car during a heavy rainstorm.
(Translator's Note: Have purposely omitted to translate the remainder of this paragraph; it is about QiaoEn's white dress becoming transparent in the rain and the danger of her exposure, despite some precautionary steps she took, including wearing an extra layer beneath the dress. Basically, trash and flash.)

In order to make the accident seem as lifelike as possible, the director requested that Chen QiaoEn climb up onto the hood of the car and fall and tumble heavily to the ground. Chen QiaoEn's arms and legs were covered in scrapes and bruises as a result of her flipping and falling, and she caught a cold from being soaked with rain on such a cold day. She also narrowly avoided a wardrobe mishap that would have revealed the nipples of her D-cups to all those present. All in all, the disasters she met with on set that day made her seem as miserable as her character in the series, Chen XinYi.

This particular scene is, out of all the scenes QiaoEn has filmed thus far in the eight years of her career, by far, the most tragic. The drama plotline has progressed to the point where QiaoEn (XinYi), in order to allow the pair of lovers, Ethan Ruan JingTian (CunXi) and Bianca Bai XinHui (Anna), to stay together, resolves to bow completely out of their delicate little love triangle. Consequently, she purposely avoids Ethan and hides from him, determined not to let him find her. It is on a rainy day that Ethan, after much hardship, finally finds QiaoEn. Focused completely on running away from Ethan, she accidentally runs into the street and is struck by a car, falling to the ground.

The recent crying scenes in Fated To Love You have evoked a similarly emotional, crying response from the audience. This scene follows on the heels of the one from last week, which showed Ethan crying. It has been reported that the film editor sent a text message to QiaoEn to tell her that he was crying as he put the "car accident" scene together; we can expect that the "crying factor" will be raised another level!

This is another scene worth waiting for. I could not believe it when I first saw this news. Seems to it that they're sticking with the plotlines from the novel. Where Xin Yi will have miscarriage because of the car accident and that's the reason why she will go with Dylan in Shanghai.....ok so much for spoilers. Don't get mad if you got spoiled. I had the alert up from the top! Can't wait for the next episode.
~Ruthie

Fated to Love You: Cast of Characters

Main Cast:


Chen Qiao En as Chen Xin Yi


Ethan Ruan as Ji Cun Xi


Baron Chen as Dylan


Bianca Bai as Anna

Cast from Jiang Mu Island (Chen Xin Yi's side):

Lin Mei Xiu as Chen Lin Xi Shi



Song Xin Ni as Chen Qing Xia



Zhong Xin Ling as Wu Chen Feng Jiao



Chen Wei Min as Wu Qi Qi and Luo Bei An as Wu Lu Lu



Cast from Magic Cleaner (Ji Cun Xi's Side):
Tan Ai Zhen as Ji Wang Zhen Zhu (GRANNY)
(ep2)
Wang Juan as Ji Liu Xiu Ling (Auntie)
(ep2)
Tian Jia Da as Ji Zheng Ren (step bro)
(ep2)


Na Wei Xun as Anson

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Fated To Love You Synopsis

CREDITS: Translated by Mesoles from AsianFanatic Forum

In this city, there is a "stick here stick there" love story…

The story starts from a girl whose type is common throughout Asia.

This type of girl is called "sticky note girl". She is plain, simple, law-abiding, wishes are simple, has never been a Somebody and has never aspired to be a Somebody. Their functions are small but indispensable; like a sticky note which can be torn away easily, inconspicuous and ordinary, but she will be around you! A "luxury cruise" journey let this ordinary girl encounter the most extraordinary events in history.

Since young Chen Xin Yi was afraid that people would not like her, so she tried very hard to be nice to people. As long as someone responded to her a little, she would fall in love with that person easily. Everyone called her a sticky note girl. Because whenever anyone needed her, they just need to tear her down and use her. If they don't need her, they can just throw her away and it wouldn't matter. But she was a fool who treasured relationships and her weak-willed character often caused her to soften during the times when she needed to make a firm decision. One day, in order to win back her philandering boyfriend Gucci, she splurged on a love cruise but accidentally entered the wrong room. When she woke up, she was stunned to find that she had a one night stand with a stranger, and subsequently discovered that her boyfriend Gucci had betrayed her and hooked up with a rich widow. Her boyfriend then dumped and left her, causing her to suffer a severe blow.

One month later, when Xin Yi saw her pregnancy test results, she regretted not jumping off the ship. A twenty-five years old staff at a law firm, because of a lousy man, had to bear a debt of two hundred thousand dollars and was carrying the child of an unknown man. This had to be the most ironic joke on earth. She took one month's leave from her company and prepared to return to her hometown "Jiang Mu Island" to consider what she should do.

The stranger in the bed that day was called Ji Chun Xi. He was every girl's prince charming, rich and handsome, young and capable. When he met the ordinary office girl Chen Xin Yi, he didn't know whether this was the start of his troubles or the beginning of his happiness.

Because of the Ji family's heredity illness, there are few males in each generation. Up to now, there was only one male heir for the past nine generations. This causes the matriarch of the family, Zhen Zhu Granny, to lose sleep with worry as she feared that this tiny family flame would be extinguished! Granny hoped that her grandson would be like the scions of other rich family and had many women. Unfortunately this grandson is decent and self-respecting. One day, granny accidentally discovered that Xin Yi is carrying Chun Xi's baby. Maybe the Ji family's ancestors had blessed her and finally gave her a "little golden great grandchild". Therefore granny insisted that Chun Xi marries Xin Yi so that on the day she dies, she can face the Ji family ancestors. Granny forced Chun Xi to marry Xin Yi by threatening to call and tell his girlfriend of three years, so Chun Xi has no choice but to marry Xin Yi in order to fulfill her wish in life. But Chun Xi discovered that he could not face the fact of his marriage and couldn't decide whether to run away at the last minute or pluck up the courage to take responsibility. At this time, he discovered that they must date and romance under his granny's request.

Actually Chun Xi has a girlfriend of three years Anna. He had proposed to her many times before but was gently turned down each time. But Chun Xi continued to quietly wait for Anna to promise to marry him and leave everything behind. Anna did not want to marry because of her career and now he accidentally caused Xin Yi to become pregnant. But fortunately Anna was away on an overseas performance tour, giving him time to settle this mixed-up affair. Chun Xi, without his granny's knowledge, secretly signed a pre-marriage contract with Xin Yi which states that they would divorce after the baby is born. Chun Xi promised to give Xin Yi a sum of money and after that they would have nothing to do with each other. Xin Yi agreed after careful consideration for the sake of her baby. Chun Xi's plan was that, after the baby is born and Anna returns back after her tour completed, he and Xin Yi's contract would be due and he can resume his relationship with Anna.

The unknowing Xin Yi moved into Chun Xi's house and began to learn to get along with Chun Xi. The two strangers, from being unable to adapt initially, learned to get used to each other. This is a very subtle change, of the two people who lived under the same roof but has nothing to do with each other, slowly started interacting due to the trivia matters that happened in their lives. Xin Yi moved into Chun Xi's bedroom under granny's request and Chun Xi then went to the guest room to sleep under a pretext. But he slowly discovered that he doesn't like the loneliness of sleeping alone and would often go back to his original room in the middle of the night. After some time, sleeping with someone by his side became a habit. The Chun Xi who doesn't like to return home for dinner started to return home regularly and the Chun Xi who vowed not to help in anything also started to shop for baby's wallpapers and children toys.

When they thought that they are happy, the ticking time bomb Anna who had been kept in the dark returned. Chun Xi never thought that his unresolved relationship with Anna would hurt Xin Yi, who disappeared after leaving behind a divorce agreement. He had thought that this would be the best ending, but Xin Yi had unknowingly captured his heart. He vowed that if he can find Xin Yi again, he would start over and pursue her; and this time it would not be the way a father treats the mother of his child, but as a man treats a woman…

This is another super hit Taiwan drama that is currently airing now. They just aired the 7th episode last Sunday. I hope that you guys did not miss it! Don't forget to check this out on your local TV channel in Taiwan! Now I wish that I know how to speak/understand Chineese and Korean! Soon I'll be! But for now...let's just wait for the english subs ok? Have a nice day everyone!
- Ruthie