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Sunday, November 9, 2014

TDrama to Watch: Easy Fortune Happy Life

Taiwanese Drama: Easy Fortune, Happy Life (2009)

Grade: B-
27 Episodes (42 minutes each)

Country girl Xie Fu An lives with her younger brother and Chinese herbalist grandmother Chun Xiang in the mountains. One day while out gathering medicinal herbs, Fu An and her brother find a protected rare fungus after it falls off a poacher's truck, which they bring home until they can turn it in to the proper authorities. Meanwhile, the cold and self-centered Yan Da Feng contacts the poachers in order to find a gift for his grandfather's 80th birthday – the man who founded a $2.5 billion pharmaceutical company, Ba Bao Tang – and get on his good side. The poachers steal the fungus, starting a house fire on their way out, leading to the grandmother's death. Fu An vows to fulfill her grandmother's last wish: to see the man whom she had met 60 years ago, fallen in love with, and waited for her entire life. That man is none other than Da Feng's grandfather, the owner of Ba Bao Tang, and the one who had pretended to love Chun Xiang in order to steal her herbal remedy recipe. What will happen to Fu An in the big city?

*I actually liked this drama a lot more than I thought I would, considering some of the cinematography is very cheesy and it's definitely a lower-budget drama than most Kdramas I've watched. It seemed to not take itself too seriously, as can happen with some Kdramas - perhaps because in Mandarin there just isn't the same range of verbal expression, since their speaking patterns are so much more structured. Some of the clothing and scenes were more risque than what's in most Kdramas as well, but nothing exceeding a mild PG-13. I didn't like that the main character never really acts like a changed man, but it had a fairly positive message about the importance of family life and the ability to change and become better. Might watch this again.*

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