6.2 /10 2 Votes
Starring Show LuoBarbie Shu Final episode date 22 April 2007 Number of episodes 16 | 7.4/10 Viki Directed by Lin He Long First episode date 7 January 2007 Number of seasons 1 Cast Show Luo, Barbie Shu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Also known as 轉角*遇到愛Zhuán Jiǎo Yù Dào AìLove at the Corner Opening theme "愛的勇氣" (Love's Courage) by Megan Lai Ending theme "愛*轉角" (Love*Corner) by Show Luo Similar Hi My Sweetheart, Miss No Good, Hot Shot, Why Why Love, Romantic Princess | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Corner With Love (traditional Chinese: 轉角＊遇到愛; simplified Chinese: 转角＊遇到爱; pinyin: zhuán jiǎo yù dào aì) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama starring Show Luo and Barbie Shu (aka Da S). It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production (可米瑞智國際藝能有限公司) with Chai Zhi Ping (柴智屏) and 黃京 as producers and directed by Lin He Long (林合隆). The drama started filming in May 2006 and wrapped on 13 August 2006. It was filmed on location in Taipei and Kaohsiung in Taiwan; and in Shanghai, China.
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It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television (CTV) (中視) from 7 January 2007 to 22 April 2007, on Sundays at 22:00. It was also shown on cable TV Eastern Television (ETTV) (東森電視) from 22 January 2007 on Saturdays at 16:30.
Corner With Love was nominated for Best Marketing Programme of the Year at the 42nd Golden Bell Awards in 2007.
Synopsis
Xin Lei (Barbie Shu) is an intelligent, confident and beautiful girl who has never known a day of hardship. Her father is a wealthy business tycoon in Shanghai and she is engaged to Yin Shang Dong (Chen Zhi Kai) who in her eyes is also perfect in every way. She lives a life of fairytale as everyone dote and treat her like a princess. Until one day, she meets Qin Lang (Show Luo), when her car and his bicycle crash into each other by accident at a corner. Qin Lang is a frustrated artist whose father abandoned him and his mother to pursue his passion for painting. He went to Shanghai with the hopes of pursuing his dream of becoming an artist but was cheated out of his money, passport and plane ticket. In order to earn enough money to go home to Taiwan he works as a cook, making oyster omelette, a skill passed down by his grandmother.
Xin Lei and Qin Lang meet again when she goes to a restaurant that specialises in Taiwanese food, that Qin Lang happens to works at. She wanted to learn how to make oyster omelette (ô-á-chian or 蚵仔煎), in order to impress her fiancé's parents with her cooking skills. He is initially reluctant to teach her as he is annoyed by her princess complex but at the same time, he is drawn to her. After much bickering and mis-understanding they become friends.
Then, Xin Lei's parents' company goes bankrupt and they go into hiding to escape their debtors. They mis-guidedly thought that Shang Dong would take care of her, hence only left her a plane ticket and a key to their house in Taiwan. Unfortunately, Shan Dong breaks off their engagement, at the insistence of his parents, and becomes engaged to another girl whose family can help them financially. Meanwhile Xin Lei is left to rely on her best friend Xi Xian and Qin Lang, who found himself wanting to protect her and does everything in his power to cheer her up. However at the bidding of his grandmother, he had to leave Xie Lei to return to Taiwan, thinking that they would never meet again. Then, after seeing Xin Lei at his engagement party, Shan Dong is unable to go thru with it. So his parents asked her to break away and leave Shanghai. Whereupon she goes to Taiwan to stay in the house her parents left her.
Coincidentally, it turns out that the house that was left to Xin Lei by her parents is Qin Lang's house. Xin Lei tried to drive Qin Lang's family out of the house which infuriated his grandmother and wanted Xin Lei out of the house since she can show no proof of ownership of the house. Knowing that Xin Lei has nowhere else to go, Qin Lang lied to his grandmother saying that Xin Lei is his girlfriend who is now penniless and homeless and plead to let her stay. The grandmother reluctantly lets her stay under the condition that she has to help with the household chores and she has to find a job and pay her rent for staying in the house.
A series of unfortunate events happen which leads Xin Lei to face up to her life's situation and learn to adapt to her new environment. She is unable to give up her princess complex but little by little, warmed up to Qin Lang's family and the kind of life they live. In the end, she would have to make a choice between staying as a princess in her castle or to lead a simple life of a commoner for love.
Ratings
Before the pilot episode was aired, Barbie Shu bet that Corner 's highest rating to be around 2.9, while Chai Zhi Ping bet on around 3.3. It ended up posting a final average of 2.81, with a peak at around 3.25.
Rival dramas on air at the same time：
Soundtrack
Corner * With Love Original Soundtrack (轉角*遇到愛 電視原聲帶) was released on 19 January 2007 by Various Artists under Sony Music Entertainment (Taiwan). It contains twelve songs, in which four songs are various instrumental versions of the six original songs. "Ai De Yong Qi" or "Love's Courage" by Megan Lai (賴雅妍) was the opening theme song of the series.
Track listing
In addition, there are two songs not included in the original soundtrack: The ending theme song entitled "Ai Zhuan Jiao" or "Love*Corner", and an insert song, "Ji Fen" or "How Many Points", both by Show Luo released in his 4th album Speshow Corner With Love Special Edition.