Someone Like You (2015)

GENRE: Romance, Melodrama

SYNOPSIS: On their way to have wedding photos taken, a department store owner and his fiance are involved in a car accident that takes his eyesight and her life. Two years later, in an attempt to hide his blindness from the public eye, Fang Zhan Cheng is harangued by a woman who looks just like his deceased fiance, Liang Luo Han. Needing a new caretaker, his friend hires Chen Yu Xi while the two men work out the reasoning behind why Yu Xi looks so much like Luo Han. Another woman, Xu Ya Ti has received Luo Han’s heart from a heart transplant and begins to show some of Luo Han’s personality, giving Zhan Cheng a very difficult decision to make.

STARRING: Kingone Wang (Fang Zhan Cheng), Lorene Ren (Liang Ruo Han/Chen Yu Xi), Lee Shiau Shiang (Li Bo Yan), Nita Lei (Xu Ya Ti), William (Shen Wei Lian), Katie Chen (Xie Fei Fei), Miao Ke Li (Wang Yu Zhen), Angela Li (Wang Xiao Lin), Yin Fu (Vanessa), Hu Pei Lian (Yang Yi Min), Dong Zhi Cheng (Xie Qian Jing), Xu Hao Xuan (Chen Yu An), Bii (Gu Long), Fu Lei (Gu Dong), Ying Wei Min (Gangster)

EPISODES: 33

VIEWING SOURCE: Netflix; November-December 2016

Easy Fortune, Happy Life (2009)

GENRE: Romance, Comedy

SNYNOPSIS: Yan Da Feng’s grandfather, Wang Cai, was a hunter in his earlier years who was treated for an injury by Xie Fu An’s grandmother, Chun Xiang. After falling in love, Wang Cai promised to return for Chun Xiang but his family had other plans for him and he never returned to her. Sixty years passed and Chun Xiang grew older but never gave up waiting on the man she loved. Instead she became caretaker of her two grandchildren, Xie Fu An and Xie Pi Dan. One day Fu An is treating patients in a local hospital and becomes Wang Cai’s healer. Wang Cai, seeing Fu An’s resemblance to Chun Xiang, decides to announce that he will give away his fortune to the one who marries Fu An. Disapproving of his grandfather’s decision, Yan Da Feng sends out a hit man to put an end to Fu An. Realizing that Fu An was someone he had met before, he agrees to marry her for the money and ends up having feelings for her, regretting the attempt on her life. What will the end result be for Fu An and Da Feng’s relationship? Will it be love or redemption?

STARRING: Lan Cheng Long (Yan Da Feng), Chen Qiao En (Xie Fu An), Roy Qiu (Han Dong Jie), Jocelyn Wang (Jiang Zhen Zhen), Chen Zi Xian (Xie Fu Jiu/Pi Dan), Ding Qiang (Yan Yun Gao/grandpa Wang Cai), Lan Cheng Long (young Wang Cai), Dong Zhi Cheng (Chairman Yan), Wang Juan (Yan Feng Feng), Xiu Jie Kai (Yan Yang), Tan Ai Zhen (Huang Chun Xiang), Chen Qiao En (young Chun Xiang), Gino (Lawyer Li), Hsia Ching Ting (Village Chief), Na Dou (Pang Dai/Ru Hua), George Zhang (Ken), Pan Hui Ru (Kelly), Huang Tai An (taxi driver), Guo Shi Lun (A Pao), Guan Yong (uncle Da/Han’s adoptive father), David Chao (A Bao), Du Shi Mei (Mrs. Wang), Adriene Lin (veterinarian)

EPISODES: 27

VIEWING PLATFORM: Netflix; June 2014