cause it's a taiwan drama

my grandma loves watching dramas. it used to be those hong kong dramas, the doctor ones, the police ones, the firemen ones, the lawyer ones, the olden days ones, etc.

and i think starting last year, it was taiwan dramas. the hokkien ones. we rarely catch any mandarin dramas. one thing about these taiwan hokkien dramas is that they are SUPER SUPER SUPER long!! like they're showed five times a week and they're more than one year long. yeah, do the math.

it's like the kids can grow up, fall in love, have their kids and their kids grow up and continuations like that. and it's not fast forwards and flashbacks, it's long! yeaps.

and they're so so so drama. in the middle of some huge dilemma kind of thing they can cry at every episode for weeks! where do their never ending supply of tears come from?

other than that, 8tv has been showing a few of these dramas like from 4pm to 7pm. so, one drama is an hour, the times are back to back, 4pm to 5pm, 5pm to 6pm, 7pm to 8pm. my grandma watches it straight through!

but the thing about that is there are a few actors who act in all three shows! it get so confusing! it's like, he was the bad guy here and then he's the hero in the next show. and these two were a couple in one show, and they're with different people in the next one. urgh, confusing!

i only allow myself to watch one of these now so it's not too bad.

haha, but i admit sometimes i get pretty intrigued by the dramas too, like how can their lives be so over excessively filled with drama! and i watch with my grandma too, only if i so happen to be in the living room while it's on. :)

the last episode i watched sparked my desire to put this here. seriously, where do they get their storyline from? it's long, twisted, filled with different kinds of drama...

i'll tell you a bit. and you see how super duper duper drama it gets! and you don't know what other dramas and dilemmas they've been having since the show began. neither do i, cause there's too many.

okay, where do i begin.

this starts in the middle of the series, so i can't start with once upon a time. it starts with, in the middle of the show somewhere...

De Hui the daughter of a lady called Yue Mei starts working for a company with a lady boss named Yu Qin and her spoilt daughter named An An. so there's some drama between De Hui and An An who cannot get along. Yu Qin and An An live with Yu Qin's old rich father in law. Yu Qin's husband, Wen Bin, is apparently dead.

fast forward, and we find that Yue Mei once knew Wen Bin and were lovers and De Hui is their child. but when Yu Mei was pregnant with De Hui, Wen Bin left them to go back as a filial son to help his father by marrying some business man's daughter which is Yu Qin. Wen Bin doesn't love Yu Qin (duh, cause he loves Yue Mei) and Yu Qin has a daughter named An An. everyone thinks An An is Wen Bin's daughter but actually she's Yu Qin and Tian Bao's (some manager in the company, he's like the bad guy) daughter. which only Yu Qin and Tian Bao know and maybe Wen Bin but he's dead so never mind.

after many weeks of drama, finding Wen Bin's secret rooms, letters...everyone knows De Hui is also Wen Bin's daughter and so Yue Mei and De Hui join the rich family.

then i stopped watching for a while, until last week.

and the update is, Wen Bin didn't die! he was in a coma, sent to america and was being treated there and now he's awake and he comes back to taiwan. next thing you know, Yue Mei's in a coma (i'm not too sure why, must've not watched those episodes) and suddenly, she's awake again and they have a surprise wedding for the two of them. some corny lines thrown in between, 'i love you's and 'i can't stand to be not married to you for a single second now...'

fast forward again, suddenly, Yue Mei is kissing Tian Bao?! HUH?! right, i know. and she's saying stuff like 'try to remember when i promised i'll be by your side forever...' and there's flashbacks of Yu Qin and Tian Bao. then suddenly this lady, Yu Hua, bursts into the room and scolds Yue Mei for trying to break her and Tian Bao's relationship. she's Yu Qin's sister. plot thickens. Yu Qin has apparently committed suicide. so they start shouting at one another. and Tian Bao says he loves Yu Hua now and that he will marry her. Yue Mei's devastated and no one knows why.

Yue Mei treats An An nicely and it's weird cause they were arch nemesis earlier on. well, An An isn't as spoilt as she used to be. suddenly this girl named Shan Shan who is the daughter of some man and who knows Yu Hua as the woman her father loves pops into the picture and tells Yue Mei she knows everything! turns out this Shan Shan girl is very smart but i don't know how she knows (i must've missed those episodes too).

so, turns out. the real Yue Mei never woke up from her coma and is undergoing treatment in america (everyone goes for coma treatment in america). Yu Qin jumped off the dock but was saved by Yu Hua and brings her to america. Yu Hua is a super canggih plastic surgeon. and Yu Qin wants revenge, so Yu Hua does some super plastic surgery on her and she becomes Yue Mei! i know, how twisted! so, "Yue Mei" who is actually Yu Qin comes back to taiwan and the first revenge she has is, she marries that Wen Bin guy. poor Wen Bin has been tricked twice to marry the woman he never loved. things get out of hand though and she wants to go back and be the original Yu Qin cause she still loves Tian Bao. but but but, Yu Hua, her plastic surgeon sister has started a romance with Tian Bao and refuses to change Yu Qin back to her old self, cause that'd mean she'll lose Tian Bao.

and then, fast forward again, Yu Qin who looks like Yue Mei now wants to prove that she is Yu Qin to Tian Bao so she is going to do a DNA test. clever lady. so, she gets his DNA and gets a strand of hair from An An their daughter. Shan Shan who is also quite clever finds out and switches An An's strand of hair with her own. she says as long as the results a screwed up.

so there's a whole drama session between Tian Bao and "Yue Mei" who is actually Yu Qin while Shan Shan listens nearby. shouting, crying, explaining, i don't belive you's, you are crazy, all that sort of thing.

so, time for the DNA results to be shown. it's a 99.99% match! Tian Bao is stunned. Shan Shan stomps in and says, cannot be! and assumes that Yu Qin is so clever to have taken another hair sample. but Yu Qin says she didn't. aiyo. at that time, Yu Hua comes in and says, yes, the DNA results are true and that is doesn't only show that Yue Mei is Yu Qin but that Shan Shan is actually Tian Bao and Yu Qin's daughter. didn't expect that, did you!

the story is, Yu Qin had twins. and Yu Qin says impossible, i mean how can you not know that two babies are coming out of you, right? Yu Hua explains that there were complications, and she fainted so she doesn't know what happened in between. and that An An was born healthy but Shan Shan was a weak baby that the doctors said had a low chance of survival. so, without the knowledge of Tian Bao and Yu Qin, they decide to discard Shan Shan. Yu Hua cannot bear it so she saves Shan Shan and takes her to america or some where else to live. and puts her under the care of her so called father. of course Shan Shan is wrecked!

and then the episode ended.

twisted twisted, drama drama. i'm just showing you a tiny bit of the show. there's like a thousand and one more cases such as mixed up kids, finding out of real parents, lost siblings suddenly found, etc.

two things learned,

firstly, when you want to take a character out of the series for a while and you don't want it to be permanent so that maybe you could use them to add to the drama later on, put them into a coma.

secondly, send all your coma patients to america for treatment. :D

oklah, i'm off to study now. taa! :)