Editor's note: This is a nostalgic theater.
Wang Xinling on the first stage of "Riding the Wind and Waves", wearing a short skirt and a song "Love You", brought the post-80s and post-90s back to the sweetheart era full of pink bubbles. With the popularity of Wang Xinling, the Taiwan idol dramas "Smile Pasta", "The Wedding Dress of the Kingdom of Heaven", "West Street Boys", "Falling in Love with Chameleon" and other dramas she starred in have also returned to the public eye, and even "Smile Pasta" "The hero Zhang Dongliang, who is his partner, also followed on Weibo's hot search.

"Smile Pasta" stills

As the 2006 Taiwanese idol drama ratings champion, "Smile Pasta" starring Wang Xinling and Zhang Dongliang can be said to be a pure entertainment article——
Cheng Xiaoshi (played by Wang Xinling), the daughter of a pasta shop owner named Pasta with a smile, and He Qun (played by Zhang Dongliang), the top singer in the idol singer circle, kissed because of an accidental collision on the street, and they had a funny romance. . With the help of He Qun's agent Vincent (played by Di Zhijie), the two started a contracted fiancee life.
The two have their own hearts to solve. Cheng Xiaoshi, who is locked by the love spell, has dated 17 boyfriends, but each boyfriend will break up with her within three months, and the flowers will not bloom for one season. On He Qun's side, he and his younger brother A Zhe (Gino), who played in the underground band, died unexpectedly because of A Zhe's girlfriend. A Zhe ran away from home, and the stalemate could not be resolved. His father's preference for his younger brother also became a heart wall that He Qun could not let go of.
The great pain brought by the original family made He Qun very envious of the harmonious and warm affection of the Xiaoshi family. The pair, who were really happy in the fake drama, gradually healed each other during the show, fell in love with each other, and sometimes staged some old-fashioned but easy-to-use heroic rescue dramas.

The beauty-saving technology that took the bottle in one second must be someone who practiced martial arts.

Cheng Xiaoshi, played by Wang Xinling, has red hair, big innocent eyes, and slightly exaggerated eyelashes. Cheng Xiaoshi conforms to the audience's psychological projection of Cinderella. In the play, she is directly described by the second male A Zhe as "a white swan who thinks she is an ugly duckling".

Wang Xinling as Cheng Xiaoshi

Due to the full care given by her native family, she has been defeated and fought repeatedly in everything, and the more she fought, the more courageous she was. The opening is an inspirational life motto: "You don't live to please others." Her survival belief is optimistic and tenacious, as sung in the theme song "Rainbow Smile": "Smile, it's no big deal."
On the male protagonist's side, if this drama is substituted into the current fan circle system, He Qun can be called a "collapsed house idol" who has fallen into all kinds of troubles: a romance bursts out, and a plagiarism is suspected (actually two brothers). co-authoring), but also face the urgent man-marking of paparazzi and the threat of investors' urging drafts anytime, anywhere.

Zhang Dongliang as He Qun

But Du Wei's arsenic is the honey of Xipi powder. What's more, Zhang Dongliang performed the biggest special between He Qun and other arrogant male protagonists: gentleness. Even when he quarreled with Cheng Xiaoshi, he would only blushed and said in a milky voice, "You big idiot!" The words in his mouth were stupid, but his eyes were full of pity.

Even the hostess's mother is on the head...

It seems to be a replica of the entertainment circle of Prince and Cinderella, but their love activities are participating in campus marathons, going to roadside stalls to shoot, or eating cheap steaks of NT$99, which are very common people. Oh, in addition to being asked by the agent to frequently fit and show affection.

Fit show affection

What's interesting is that the high-profile love that is "heinous" in the eyes of fans today, in the context of 2006, has instead become the selling point of the idol singer's conference in the play. The behind-the-scenes team is well versed in the way of hype in the entertainment industry. The agent who loves to make troubles either called He Qun's childhood sweetheart Rita (played by Zhao Hongqiao) to the scene of the autograph to give him flowers, or arranged for his fiancee Cheng Xiaoshi to help at the press conference. Build momentum to make big headlines.
The various lovelines in the play are very bloody: He Qun liked Rita for many years before, and the object of his love was A Zhe; Xiao Shi also gave A Zhe a bento for several years, but he was slow to appreciate it. He Qun belongs to the poor first male who holds the second male script. Fortunately, there is Cheng Xiaoshi's heart in the middle and late stages. The four corners of the dog's blood is full of love, and even brotherhood is inexplicably good.

He Qun (right) combined with A Zhe to sing "Tears of the Polaris".

In 2006, Taiwan's idol drama market was in the era of "one drama with one OST". The advantage of both male and female protagonists is that the original soundtrack is also durable. The classic songs in the film, such as "Smile of the Rainbow", "Tears of the North Star" and "Dawn of Twilight", naturally became the annual playlist of that year. Even He Qun's "Little Turtle" written to Cheng Xiaoshi can hear the heat of love in the playfulness.
So I can understand the reason why Wang Xinling became popular. Life is like coffee, it's bitter enough, and the audience needs that sweetness. Cheng Xiaoshi's tortoise spirit seems to emphasize again and again that no matter how many times you encounter wind and rain, you must remember to treat the sky as soft candy.