Xiao Fung (Ariel Lin)lives with her two parents and an older sister Xiao Yun. Although she appears close-mouthed and a bit indifferent to the going-ons around her, nobody, not even her group of loyal friends, knows how serious it actually is except for her family. It was because of a fight between her parents that Xiao Feng became hideously scarred and burned when her dad threw a candle at her mom and she jumped in the way. Xiao Feng has never loved in her life because she is too scared, always thinking that a relationship might turn out twisted and ugly like the tattered remains of her parents’ marriage. But she does, she wants so badly to fall in love with a Prince Charming who doesn’t care what she looks like, who will love her no matter what. On her birthday, Xiao Feng and friends congregate at the beach where they build a small fire and talk about old times. “What is your birthday wish, Xiao Feng?” they ask her. Of course, it is to fall in love. To find love and fall in love, what she’s wanted since forever. Her friends, ever loyal and helpful to her (two of the guys are even in love with her), decide that they MUST help her. Of course, if they fix her up with someone, then she can be happy and they will approve of whoever she ends up dating. The perfect opportunity comes up when Ah Ken (Mike He) comes to town. Right away, he sets up a swimming team at the school, but no one wants to join because he trains like a slave driver. The guys devise a Love Contract and promises Ah Ken that if he agrees to take Xiao Feng to see a movie, they will supply him with a team of swimmers that are both hardworking and talented. He agrees, and the Love Contract is underway……… Only, of course, Xiao Feng doesn’t like Ah Ken at all. To tell the truth, he wouldn’t be pursuing her at all if it hadn’t been for the Contract, because she’s not exactly his type. Feisty and hardheaded make for bad girlfriends, says he. Everytime the two set a date, Xiao Feng finds a way to avoid the movies altogether. She either gets hungry (and the two go off to a bakery to sample everything in stock) or drags him to the dentist (where his wisdom teeth are removed.) But somewhere in between sweets and root canals, Xiao Feng seems to be warming up to him, and Ah Ken starts to see the real person behind this facade. Okay, you say. So what’s so bad? Well, everything would be smooth sailing, if it weren’t for the fact that both Xiao Feng and Ah Ken grew up with bad parents. More specifically, bad fathers. Both have scars, both mental and physical, that they try to hide from the other because to show their ugliness would be to lose the one person that they have ever loved. Love can only take you so far, and the two find out the hard way. Skip about 6 episodes later, and Xiao Feng ends up in a coma from which she has little chance of waking up. Ah Ken blames himself (and has perfect reason to, which we won’t delve into) and feels he must make it up to her. He thinks that she hasn’t forgiven him yet, although she has. She so desperately wants to tell him, but cannot wake up. During the last episode, during which I would advise you get your tissues ready, the group visits the grave of a beloved friend, and then head to Xiao Feng’s house to visit her mother and her. Ah Ken asks that he spend the day with Xiao Feng, revisiting some of their happiest moments. Halfway through, a friend tells him, why not do the things you never got the do instead of things already gone by? Ah Ken takes her to a performance put on especially for her by their friends (very funny and touching) and then he takes her to his house where he cooks for her. She doesn’t eat, of course, but he tries to make the best out of a bad situation by pretending to be both her AND himself. As Xiao Feng, he compliments the great cooking, and replies to “her” as Ah Ken, inducing both tears and laughter. He sits her outside to enjoy the night and sings for her, which was just so touching that I nearly became dehydrated because of crying so much. The ending, it is up to you to decide whether or not it is happy. We find out that Ah Ken and Xiao Feng were originally a god and goddess up in heaven, sent down to earth to find the Love Contract as punishment for being too rowdy and unloving. Ah Ken decides that if they cannot be together in life, it is better to die together, and he brings her to the ocean that had brought the two of them together so long ago and, carrying her bridal style in his arms, walks bravely into the crashing waves. (This is the part where my tears, which had been streaming down in two continous rivulets, blind me so badly that I had to pause the video to find another tissue box.) The ocean once again brings the two together. As they have finally understood the meaning of love, the two are allowed to resurrect as immortal beings again. The lovers are reunited and they run around the beach and laugh and play before continuing on their way, presumably to heaven. Then, time goes on (and a hermit crab scuttles across the camera) and Xiao Feng and Ah Ken return to earth to do something that they never got to do. Get married. Dressed in their wedding glory, they speak of how much they miss their friends. Suddenly, all of their friends run toward them (we’re presuming that their friends have also died) and congratulate them. “It’s been too long since we last saw each other!” they say. Everyone is very happy to see each other. Even Xiao Bai, who had died so much earlier than everyone else, is able to join them. The drama is over, and after so much tears and pain for everyone, they are finally able to indulge in something that is 100% happiness!