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(portrayed by Shaun Tan Jun Yan) - 24 years old.
When Xiao Qing and Shao Han
first met, they both act as if they will never get along with
each other. When she finds out that Shao Han is a Virgo, her
reaction is like that of someone discovering something
astonishing: "Ha Ha, I knew it!" This is because Xiao Qing's
first impression of him is not good and it has left behind a bit
of prejudice feeling. Guys with Virgo signs should be the type
that all the girls would look at but afraid to step close to,
but Shao Han is not like that. Not only does he not have any
weird habits, but he would simplify any big matters into small
things. He is always late and frequently leaves things behind.
He doesn't seem a bit like a Virgo at all. He has a habit on him
that all computer engineers are used to - inferior complexity.
But inferiority is not his entirety, occasionally, he would show
some of his enthusiasm and rashness. These characteristics, Xiao
Qing would slowly discover. In the end, she will find out that
he is the close friend that she has been in contact with on the
internet for a long time. As a result, she starts to like him.
Yet, gradually, she will also discover that Shao Han is sure
enough a Virgo because he possesses special thoughts on love
within him. He has only loved one girl. When this girl passed
away in an accident, from thence on, he has refused to accept
any other love. It's only within a deep and microscopic part in
his heart would he truly be a deep-rooted Virgo. Especially on
the part of love, Shao Han's persistence would bring forth the
utmost devotion. Shao Han grew up in Hong Kong. After his
parents divorce, his father, who works all the time in Taiwan,
remarries. The year that Shao Han graduated from High School,
his father passed away in Taiwan. Shao Han came to Taiwan to
attend the funeral and that's when he gets acquainted with his
father's other family. Faced with his younger sister, Ding Ding,
whom they share the same father but different mothers, Shao
Han's sense of responsibility rises up. For this reason, Shao
Han stays in Taipei to attend college and after graduating, he
continues to stay in Taipei to work, for the purpose of staying
nearby and taking care of his younger sister who has no one to
rely on. His father's two marriages, now there is only him and
his younger sister to take care of and depend on each other. Not
only because of the blood-related relationship that is between
Ding Ding and he, but it is also because Ding Ding is the
unfinished promise that his father has left behind for him. Shao
Han doesn't hate his father for this reason, it's simply that
from then on, he doesn't allow himself to accept love so easily
and also make any promises so easily. Because once a promise is
made, then one must carry it for the rest of his life and cannot
violate or give up so easily. |
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Xiao
Qing / Shen Yun Qing |
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(portrayed Cherrie Ying Cai Er) - 23 years old.
Xiao Qing, a woman, who is beautiful and full of confidence. She
is a photographer. Her studio, car, purse, the picture's inside
her camera, the pictures that she takes are all totally on the
images of birds. She looks carefree and lively on the outside
but within her own private domain, there is only a world filled
with bird related things. Xiao Qing loves birds, because she
puts all the happiness and trust that she has in the world on
her most beloved animal. Xiao Qing has lost her parents since
she was young. She grew up within the gentle protection of her
maternal grandmother and aunt Wan Yao. Her aunt, Wan Yao tells
Xiao Qing, who has been smart since she was young, that her
parents are a couple who both love each other and makes people
envious of their relationship. All the love that they have for
life, they have handed it off to their only daughter. Her
parents passed away one closely followed by the other because of
an illness. Wan Yao takes over the role of her parents and at
the same time, lets Xiao Qing continue to possess a happy
environment to grow up in. Even though she grew up from a single
parent family, her kind grandmother and aunt Wan Yao, provided
Xiao Qing with abundant love and care and has never let Xiao
Qing be injured in a relationship in any way. Because of this,
Xiao Qing's nature is much more frank and open-minded then
ordinary girls. Towards life, she is full of expectations and
hope. Until she accidentally discovers that Wan Yao deliberately
concealed the truth of her parents' marriage. The truth is her
mother did die of an illness, but afterwards, her father
abandoned Xiao Qing and moved away. Xiao Qing is shocked and
confused yet she couldn't help but chase after this
unexplainable mystery.
Xiao Qing, a woman, who is
beautiful and full of confidence. She is a photographer. Her
studio, car, purse, the picture's inside her camera, the
pictures that she takes are all totally on the images of birds.
She looks carefree and lively on the outside but within her own
private domain, there is only a world filled with bird related
things. Xiao Qing loves birds, because she puts all the
happiness and trust that she has in the world on her most
beloved animal. Toward people, she really doesn't have that much
of an interest: Or maybe it should be said that she is a bit
afraid of the human world. Ever since her father abandoned her
twenty something years ago, she is afraid of all the unbearable
things in this human world and is also afraid that she will be
hurt. But the more she tries to hide, the more she isn't able to
hide from love. When she and Shao Han meets, a whole succession
of sweetness, pain, choices, comes up… |
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Xiang
Zi / Li Young Xiang |
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(portrayed Guan Ying) -
24 years old.
Everybody calls her Xiang Zi.
Sometimes they would call her "bin" because she would always
carry this small wooden box on her back. The winter vacation
before her college graduation she gets acquainted with Shao Han
and they both got caught up a passionate relationship very
quickly. Her father, Li Jing Bai, is a supervisor of a big
financial company. He wholeheartedly wants to train her into a
manager and has gotten her a foreign passport since she was
young. However, she just wants to be an ecologist. Her father
wants to send her aboard to further her studies and also
prohibits her from having any contacts with Shao Han. To her,
this is not only a choice of love but also a choice of which
road she will take down her life. In the beginning stage, faced
with her father's prohibiting order, she could only maintain a
long distance communication with Shao Han. Until one day, Shao
Han brings along a message that says that he has set up a
website for birds and is waiting for her to go online to meet
with him. When she gets online, she sees a single black-faced
spoonbill flying alone and starts crying. Finally she returns a
message to Shao Han and calls herself "Hei Pi." Until this
moment, she finally makes a decision to be together with Shao
Han. Her own life, she will live according to her own dreams.
She chooses to run away from home yet she gets hit by a car just
as she leaves. Her father was extremely heartbroken. Toward the
outside world, his statement was simple. He only said that his
daughter was dead. In fact, Xiang Zi isn't dead. It's just that
this car accident has caused her to turn into a living "dead"
person. She has lost the consciousness that an ordinary person
has. The Xiang Zi after the car accident is as pure as a piece
of white paper. Towards her recovery, her father did not carry
with him too big of a hope. Until one day, he discovers that
Xiang Zi's consciousness is starting to revive and that's all
because she sees Shao Han…
Within a pair of lovely eyes, there gives off a quiet
gentleness. Hard to imagine that she is a strong-willed and
carefree girl. She would always be carrying wooden box,
unknowingly gathering the curiosity of everyone. Three years
ago, in order to meet up with Shao Han, she got into an accident
and was hurt. Three years later, it is also because of Shao Han
that she revives again… Xiang Zi, who gradually recovers her
consciousness, faces a whole new and unfamiliar world. She
faintly knows about Shao Han's love for her, yet he truly loves
the outgoing and carefree Xiao Qing. Xiang Zi can remember the
love from the past! Why not start anew and possess the right to
love and be loved! |
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(portrayed by Chen Jian Zhou - Hei Ren) - 25 years old.
Everybody calls him Xiao Wang. Clever, humorous, has a pair of
sharp eyes, adept in grasping opportunities. When he smiles, he
would always look like a big kid. If you offend his friends, his
would jump out and beat you up without a care for himself or get
beaten up by you. Xiao Wang is adept at "presenting" himself and
even more adept at creating opportunities for himself. He
doesn't mind people blaming him for his outward behavior for
loving money because, he, who understands the reality of
society, could lead his friends towards the direction of their
goals together. He and Shao Han have been best buddies since
their college days and then later they also became work
partners. They both share everything that they have including
their love relationships, until they both fell in love with the
same woman. He is originally a playboy who is used to carelessly
going from one woman to another. However, Xiao Qing's appearance
changed all of this. He believes that Xiao Qing is the last
harbor that he will be anchoring down to but unexpectedly, the
one that Xiao Qing truly loves is Shao Han. Towards love, he has
always not given it too much thought and comes and goes as he
likes. Unconsciously, Xiao Qing caused him to change his
attitude, caused him to be aware that he doesn't want to lose
this woman for the first time and also possess the desire to
love for the first time. Because of this, he and Shao Han's
friendship is faced with a severe challenge. He has always
treated Shao Han's younger sister, Ding Ding, as a sister, as a
young girl that never grows up. Until one day when he discovers
that Ding Ding secretly likes him. He of course wasn't able to
accept it and laughingly loosened up Ding Ding's awkwardness and
treated her like a sister just as before. He never imagined that
Ding Ding's feelings for him have been planted since she was 6
years old and there was no way of breaking that up. Also,
because of this, when he breaks up with Xiao Qing and tastes the
bitterness of losing a love for the first time, in his state of
confusion and emptiness, he unexpectedly kisses Ding Ding.
Afterwards, he was very regretful because he knows that Ding
Ding is not like those other girls that he meets at the clubs,
where he can come and go as he pleases. Let alone, Ding Ding is
Shao Han's younger sister and Xiao Xie also likes Ding Ding. |
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Ding
Ding / Jiang Ding Han |
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(portrayed by Rainie Yang Cheng Lin) - 20 years old.
Everyone calls her Ding Ding.
She's Shao Han's younger sister. An adorable, kind-hearted girl.
If you don't know her, when you see her happy smiling face, you
would absolutely not associate her with a handicap person, a
girl who is crippled in one leg. When Shao Han sees this younger
sister, who shares a father but different mothers with him for
the first time, he made a decision to stay in Taiwan. Because no
one would be able to leave this good, strong girl with no one to
take care of. Smiling is Ding Ding's weapon to defend herself,
defending against her fragile and soft heart. She is a teacher
in a kindergarten school. Living in a world full of children and
never has a chance to meet boyfriends. Nor does she dare to meet
boyfriends but she looks toward her brother and Xiao Wang as her
male friends. She does this because she just doesn't want Xiao
Wang to find out that she secretly likes him. Xiao Wang is her
brother, Shao Han's elementary classmate. Since she was young,
when she gets bullied, it was always Xiao Wang and her brother
who gets together to fight and protect her. When the two of them
gets bloody noses and swollen faces from fighting, the one that
cries the most is her. But when she finishes crying, she would
be giggling away. Since then, she has started to like Xiao Wang.
Until she has grown up, she is aware that Xiao Wang has a habit
of going from one woman to the next. She turns herself into a
"tree" that serves Xiao Wang during his wandering journey.
Watching Xiao Wang floating to and from and also supplying Xiao
Wang with a shade whenever he permits himself to stop and rest
before leaving again. In Xiao Wang's eyes, she would forever be
a little girl that doesn't grow up. Xiao Wang would never dream
that since she was 6 years old, he has become the only man in
her heart. When Ding Ding finds out that Xiao Xie likes her, she
was very startled because she never thought that any boy would
take the initiative to like her. From this, she wasn't able to
accept this feeling at first and is still longing for Xiao Wang.
Until she finds out that for the studio and for her, Xiao Xie
has done many, many things that she would never have imagined…
She's Shao Han's younger sister. Has a brave and out-going
personality. Because she has a small paralysis, she has a limp
when she walks. Yet she always has on a dazzling smile in order
to cover up the uneasiness and inferiority in her heart. On the
surface she and Xiao Wang are friends. She calls him Brother
Wang yet she secretly has a crush on him. She never thought that
her own love-sickness would pull her into her brother's love
relationship too. |
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(portrayed by Victor Huang Pin Guan) - 25 years old.
Everybody calls him Xiao Xie. A very honest person. So honest
that even when he hurt someone that he didn't mean to, he would
be extremely regretful; so honest that he sees his friends as
himself. He would rather suffer himself than to let his friends
suffer. Faced with Shao Han's talent, Xiao Xie always believes
that he didn't have any capabilities. Until the day that his
father, who lives in the South and has an agriculture business
passed away. He sold off this piece of farm land and squeezed
out all the money that he has to establish a software designing
studio. Shao Han and Xiao Wang misunderstand and think that Xiao
Xie is the second generation of an enterprise family. Xiao Xie
deliberately doesn't tell them the truth for the purpose that he
doesn't want his companions to worry about money. In the studio,
Shao Han is responsible for developing the software and Xiao
Wang is in charge of developing the business. Even though he
knows that the economy is not good and that they might lose
money, he still didn't give up because he wanted to let his two
friends unfold their talents. Even if he loses all the money, he
still wouldn't care. He doesn't know that his biggest ability is
in possessing forgiveness and coordination. Without him then
there would be no studio, no team. These abilities would only
become conscious to him after Li Jing Bai points it out. From
this, it could be seen that Xiao Xie doesn't have too much
confidence. His confidence would slowly build up after
experiencing many hardships. He could be considered as a small
business proprietor, who doesn't request his workers to clock in
and out of work, lets them off two days a week, and he would
stay overtime until late at night, a workaholic who never has a
day off. Xiao Xie looks as if he is weak and fragile, but as
long as one of his team members or friends gets caught up in a
crisis, you would see his strength. For his friends, he would be
able to fight against the biggest law case. For his friends, he
would not hesitate to lose everything and start all over again.
Xiao Xie is actually a person that is weak on the outside but
strong on the inside. He has heard early on that Shao Han has a
younger sister called Ding Ding. Until the day that he sees Ding
Ding for the first time. At that time, she was sitting inside
Shao Han's house. He happily invited her to play basketball and
Ding Ding also accepted with a smile. After a few minutes, he
discovers that Ding Ding is crippled in her leg. Xiao Xie was so
regretful and ashamed. How can Ding Ding play ball in her
condition? He never thought that Ding Ding would play ball with
him for the rest of the afternoon with a smile. From then on, he
fell in love with Ding Ding.
Shao Han and Xiao Wang's senior classmate. Honest and sincere,
gets along with people easily and is also someone that is very
unwilling to hurt others. It's because of this that he is a bit
clumsy with love relationships. He would rather silently protect
Ding Ding then to let himself hurt her with his enthusiastic
feelings. Yet when it comes to helping out with a hand, he would
be abnormally brave. |
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(portrayed by Gao Jie) -
50 years old.
Everyone calls him Professor Guo
because he always show ups at Cigu Lagoon as an ecologist. He
always looks so compassionate and good-hearted that no one is
able to guess that his heart has been dead a long time ago. More
than 20 years ago, his wife, Xiao Cui, passed away not long
after giving birth to their daughter. He was not able to bear
the pain of his wife's passing away and sent his newborn
daughter back to his wife's family to be raised. He's not able
to face his daughter because when he sees his daughter, he would
remember his perished wife. For all these past years, he has
continued to write letters to his dead wife and mailed it off to
a place where he thought no one would be able to receive it. For
the remainder of his life other than watching birds, he is only
living in a perished soul. Never thought that his daughter, Xiao
Qing, would be able to find him by means of these letters. When
he finds out that he has a terminal illness, he wrote a letter
to the daughter that he has never seen, hoping to be able to see
her for one time, yet doesn't hope for her forgiveness. However,
his daughter failed to show up and he disappointedly went back
South. During Lao Guo's career as an ecologist, there were two
students who were his favorite: Xiang Zi and Shao Han. These two
young people got together because of their interests and their
love. He was very optimistic of their future, but who would have
thought that Xiang Zi would disappear after a car accident. On
the day of the car incident, he was supposed to go and pick up
Xiang Zi. He often thinks that if it wasn't because he was late,
then perhaps, the car incident wouldn't have occurred.
An ecology professor, Xiao Qing's father and also Shao Han and
Xiang Zi enlightener on ecology. Twenty something years ago
because he can't accept the shock of the death of his wife and
not being able to face his daughter who has the shadow on his
wife in her, so he left his daughter to her aunt, Wan Yao. Since
then he gave up on himself, hanging around with flocks of birds
all the time. Until his daughter, who has the same gene as him,
enters into his realm. |
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(portrayed by
Zhang Guo Zhu) - 50
years old.
Xiang Zi's father. An elderly
with a very powerful and strict stature. Looking at him for the
first time, you would believe that he is a ruthless person yet
he truly is a ruthless person and also a strict father. When he
was young, he and Lao Guo both entered into a large corporation.
He started off as basic level engineer down in the factory
production assembly line. He has gone through a whole lot of
hardships and endured many years, and his honesty and logical
analysis wins the boss's trust and respect. Eventually, after
the company adopted his proposal for a new investment and gained
a tremendous profit, he gets promoted as a supervisor to look
over the daily duties for one of the industry companies that his
company is associated with. He's not a stockholder and also not
a member of the company's family, yet he gets appointed to
general supervisor. This is a unique honor and also miracle in
the industry. The difference between him and his friend, Lao Guo,
is that he believes that Lao Guo is just too old fashioned and
also doesn't have a plotting mind. When they were 35 years old,
because of the problem of the factory's population, they had
some disputes. Their disputes lie in the fact that Lao Guo's
viewpoint is to set up a factory to process the filthy water and
Jing Bai's viewpoint is biased toward the financial affairs of
whether there would be a profit or loss in just getting rid of
the factory. Jing Bai's viewpoint gets approved by the superiors
and because of this there is a crack in their friendship. Lao
Guo believes that Jing Bai betrayed the matter and the
colleagues yet Jing Bai believes that he is loyal to his job.
And that's how, these past 15 years, even though they
occasionally meet because of their job relationship, they both
would not speak one word with the other. However, this crack in
their friendship becomes both of their biggest regrets. Until
Xiang Zi gets into a car accident that's when he finally spoke
to Lao Guo again: "I will never forgive you."
Xiang Zi's father. A strict and harsh business family. He gave
Xiang Zi an excellent environment to grow up in and personally
planned Xiang Zi's life and career for her. He never thought
that his daughter would leave his grasp. Originally it was
suppose to be an explosive situation for father and daughter,
but because of his daughter's car accident, it changes both of
their lives. He can only silently protect his paralyzed
daughter. Holding onto his tears and complaints during these
past three years. Unexpectedly, Shao Han who caused his
daughter's accident, appears again. Once again getting involved
in his and his daugther's future. |
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(portrayed by
Xiao Ai) - More than 40
years old.
Xiao Qing's aunt. Smart and
skillful, a modern woman who forges ahead optimistically. She
has received a very good upbringing since she was young, so
towards herself, she is full of confidence. She doesn't believe
that women need to depend on marriage to obtain security. She
believes that based on one's own hard work, one can create one's
own happiness. More than 20 years ago, her elder sister passed
away and her brother-in-law, Lao Guo suddenly brings back her
sister's daughter, Xiao Qing and entrusted her to raised Xiao
Qing. Without saying anything, she raised Xiao Qing into an
adult. Wan Yao has never fallen in love and also haven't gotten
married. Xiao Qing is like a daughter that Heaven has bestowed
on her. Wan Yao works diligently, operating a small convenience
shop. Financially, they are living well enough and gives Xiao
Qing a worry-free environment to grow up in. The outgoing Wan
Yao has always had a very good relationship with her gentle and
soft elder sister. She even lets Xiao Qing keep the family name
Shen. She tries her best to protect Xiao Qing while she was
growing up and lets Xiao Qing enjoy sufficient love and warmth.
Wan Yao hopes that Xiao Qing will acquire an independent
personality. Even though she has no father or mother, she can
still be strong. Starting from when Xiao Qing is young, Wan Yao
has never spoken a word about Lao Guo's abandonment in front of
Xiao Qing. As for Xiao Qing, she never knows what kind of person
her father is or how he looks like. Xiao Qing believes that her
parents that have passed away are perfect. Wan Yao covers up
everything about Lao Guo because all along she has this private
feeling that she has hidden in her heart. When Wan Yao sees that
Xiao Qing likes birds and also photography, she has this unknown
pain and shock in her heart. Because these two things are also
Lao Guo's most beloved. She understands that within Xiao Qing's
body, she has the same talent and gene as Lao Guo. Yet she never
dares to let Xiao Qing know about it. The more that this is the
way things are, the more her heart is filled with these
complicated feelings that she has for Lao Guo.
Lao Guo's wife's younger sister, Xiao Qing's aunt. A strong
woman, sacrificing her youthful years to bring up Xiao Qing. It
wasn't easy protecting and raising Xiao Qing to adulthood and
Lao Guo shows up again. In the past, she concealed her love for
her brother-in-law and treated Xiao Qing as her own daughter.
Now Lao Guo appears again, an irresponsible father who comes
back and wants to acknowledge his daughter! Yet how can she bear
to break up the father, daughter's blood relationship? What a
shame that nothing in this vast land can compare to the pain and
suffering in this human world. |
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(portrayed by Lin Jia Li) -
20 years old.
Rather than saying that Qi Qi is
Xiao Qing's colleague and best friend, it would be more
appropriate to say that she is Xiao Qing's fans. For Qi Qi,
regardless of Xiao Qing's appearance, view on life or artistic
quality, all of this makes the seventh grader full of admiration
for Xiao Qing. Qi Qi, for the purpose of one day being like Xiao
Qing, becomes Xiao Qing's assistant and never leaves her side
while eating or drinking. Qi Qi takes care of the trifling
matters in the photography shop for Xiao Qing and follows her
around to chase after birds… All the external or internal
perfections of Xiao Qing are Qi Qi's objective. There is only
one thing that she doesn't have confidence in and that is she
needs to lose 30 kilograms in order to be as skinny as Xiao Qing.
Qi Qi is honest and kind-hearted. Xiao Qing is the photography
shop's chief photographer and also the most troublesome artist
and biggest headache in the boss's mind. In order to make the
independent Xiao Qing abide by a bit of the company's rules, the
boss thought of everything possible to go through Qi Qi to
control Xiao Qing. Never thought that Qi Qi would always have a
way of taking care of the weird Uncle and covering up for Xiao
Qing. People might question that Qi Qi has a crush on Xiao Qing
and that's why she would always be hanging around Xiao Qing.
Even Xiao Qing is somewhat worried about this until she meets
Shao Han and Xiao Wang. When she sees that Qi Qi would get all
worked up over cute guys, only then would Xiao Qing be at ease…
Xiao Qing's photography assistant. Lively and straight-forward,
a happy, young girl. Occasionally she will be a little crazy.
Her good intentions might not always bring about good luck for
her. She is Xiao Qing's loyal colleague and friend. |
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