The Rose

The Rose

Details

• Title: 薔薇之戀 / 蔷薇之恋 / Qiang Wei Zhi Lian
• English Title: The Rose
• Genre: Family / Romance
• Episodes: 26
• Broadcast network: TTV
• Broadcast period: 2003
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• Opening theme song: 花都開好了 (Hua Dou Kai Hao Le) The Flowers Bloomed by S.H.E
• Ending theme song: 葉子 (Ye Zi) Leaf by Ah Sang

Synopsis

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Bai He

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Kui

A stone with an ugly outward appearance and not catching to the eye: Would people be able to see the glittering gem that is wrapped around inside?

Being looked down by people for a long time, cold and indifferent treatments, It will gradually turn rusty and lose its brilliance; Or maybe after experiencing all these hardships, It's lustre and beauty will be highlighted even more?

"The Rose" correctly narrates out this kind of story ──

Bai He is an extremely ordinary young girl in the story. She has a kind generous heart, but being short and chubby, she is always being refused by people because she is not attractive enough. Her appearance has always been the origin of Bai He's inferior feelings. Because it's a fact that no matter how much strength she uses, she is unable to change. This inferior feeling deeply influences Bai He's life, her interpersonal relations, and even her own emotions. There are lots of beautiful girls that always appears by Bai He's side. The radiance that they give off is like that of a peacock spreading its feathers, conceited and arrogantly striding ahead with their chins up. And Bai He is always used to retreating to the back. In her mind, she says, "I am always ugly." Long ago, it became an established law that refuses to change. When other people harm her and make her doubt this established law of hers, she would turn around and make excuses for that person, comforting her own wavering, uneasy heart.

Bai He is a girl that is gentle and soft, yet has inferior feelings of herself. Even though her beautiful heart far surpasses outward appearances by a thousand hundred times, but in a society that has all along judged people by their appearances, she is just like many of the other girls who also has ordinary appearances - she deeply feels miserable over their lack in their looks and forgets about the other characteristics and merits that they have. That is, until she finds the confidence and courage to love herself from all those people that loves her. She eventually reveals the brilliant glitter of her inner gem and helps the people that she loves in her family to untie the knot of many years of disputes, to accept each other once again.

The Rose preserves the established roles of the original story and the story's infrastructure, also strengthens the personality of the roles, making them stand out, detailing the turning points of the character's mood within the show, hoping that within the entertainment, it can give the audience even more moving feelings. Furthermore, guiding the audience through an even deeper layer of thinking on love, family and friendship.

Source: Lunardreamz

Cast

• Ella Chen as Zheng Bai He (鄭百合)
• Huang Zhi Wei (黃志瑋) as Han Jin (韓菫)
• Joe Cheng (鄭元暢) as Han Kui (韓葵)
• Joelle Lu(陸明君)as Han Fu Rong (韓芙蓉)
• Ye Tong (葉童) as Han Li (韓俐)
• Selina as Zhuang Zhe Qin (莊哲芹)
• Hebe Tien as Xiao Feng (曉楓)
• Hong Jiao Nang (紅膠囊) as Mao Ji (貓吉)

Cameo

• Ai Sha (愛莎)
• Dylan Guo (郭品超)
• Kenji Wu (吳克群)
• Z-Chen (張智成)

Production Credits

• Director: Ju Yu Ning 瞿友寧

Trivia

• Based on shoujo manga "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura
• The director, Ju Yu Ning, made a cameo appearance as Fu Rong's elementary school teacher.

External Links

• TTV Official Site