I can't understand how this thing can have good reviews. Yes, it has YangYang in it, but that's the only good thing about it, the only thing that helped me bear it till the end, other than my stubbornness since I don't like leaving series unfinished. He more or less plays his usual character, the great guy who talks little but is so good in everything he does.
The worst thing about it is the female protagonist, the character I mean, not the actress. The Qi BaiCao character, to me, is almost unbearable. Yes, she's good hearted, but she's a pouting child really, and she also keeps crying from the first episode to the last, I couldn't bear it anymore, anything happens: she cries a river... I mean, get a hold of yourself! Also, I found her attitude really annoying when she was like, without him I won't go on... this series is full of people going out of their way to help her, and she's like 'yeah, let's throw all that away without a second thought, who cares...' :-/
In this series not two but three characters fall in love with her at the same time! Come on, really? And she chooses one because she thinks that he gave her a particular gift, not knowing it wasn't him? Really?
Other characters:
--RuoBai (YangYang) is her taekwondo instructor. He pushes her to work hard and do better, and he secretly helps her in any possible way without ever telling her, this selfless guy. He has health problems, but instead of taking care of his heart (literally, he has heart-problems) he keeps training her because she won't go on alone, risking his own life so she can win a championship... ehm... I mean, I understand the 'keep fighting' philosophy so dear to Asian writers, I often admire than, but in this case it's different: did he think she would cherish that trophy after his death?
--TingHao is the arrogant rich guy. Luckily he turned out to be a decent human being after all, but I still don't like arrogant rich guys.
--ChuYuan, well, at the beginning he seems such a nice sweet guy, but as the story goes on... honestly I wanted to smack his face more than once. I was specially annoyed at his behaviour towards TingYi who always thought they loved each other, and well, he let her think that. He should have told her very very clearly that he only thought of her as a sister, and he should have made it clear soon. This kind of behaviour, is it really kindness, or is it cowardice? Not doing anything is much easier, no doubt, but it's shameful.
The episodes:
1
Ten years ago it was said that a man used drugs to win a championship, and since then he's the disgrace of his town, the children throw stones at him (wow, good parenting at its peak, children throwing stones at people :-/), his own daughter keeps away from him, everybody accuses him and insults him, all but BaiCao who was rescued by him when she was little and always stayed by his side. She's part of a gym (this is the town of taekwondo, there are gyms everywhere) but she doesn't really train with them because of him. When they banish her, he tells her to go away too because he thinks that being near him is bad for her, and her good friend XiaoYing takes her home.
Her shifu's name is Qu XiangNan
2
She brings food for her shifu, missing him and thinking about him and his teachings a lot. (Is XiaoYing's house attached to their gym?) The other guys in training don't want her. Xiu Da challenges her but she refuses because her shifu taught her that taekwondo can't be used for revenge... so she stays put lost in her thoughts and doesn't dodge when he kicks her and hits her in the head. She goes down and Chu Yan helps her, carries her to his home and medicates her. Xiu Da is about to be kicked out of school so BaiCao intervenes saying that he did warn her first.
3
Some Korean students of Yuan Wu Dao come visiting, also the little brat Jim MinZhu (the daughter of Jim YiShan from the first episode). She's very young but very strong and beats three students then insults them all talking again of Qu XiangNan, so BaiCao of course accepts her challenge, and she wins. She meets Chu Yan again.
Her shifu comes begging the school to accept her in , so she can fulfill her dream and compete, but she refuses to call anyone else shifu because to her it means dad. When he faints, he's taken to a hospital. Too many years of drinking, now he needs rest.
4
BaiCao cooks for her shifu - and when she fell asleep RuoBai put a cover on her and helped with the cooking - but he's already gone, he left a letter saying that she must work hard and when she'll compete he'll come cheering for her, so she starts training with them; there is only one place for girls though, so she must defeat XiuQin first. The institute competition goes on as expected and it's all between them now. She's very strong but she has no defence.
5
Fang TingHao in introduced, the world champion, and he wants to fight ChuYan.
Everyone's mean at BaiCao saying that she cheated, and RuoBai chooses XiuQin for the competition. She cries (what a surprise) that she won and can't understand why. TinYi fights her easily to show her that she's not so good and she feels very low. She doesn't want to see ChuYan, so he talks to RuoBai about her, but he's still angry at him for quitting taekwondo. RuoBai talks to her, tells her not to give up and she goes back. She finds a book on taekwondo's moves, then she meets TingHao who likes her (which makes it three... )
6
She keeps practising and following the book's advises
7
At the competition, BaiCao leads the cheerleaders to cheer for all the athletes of their gym, and they cheer for XiuQin too and they all win, and it's peace all around.
She tries to read her opponents but it works only with XiaoYing because she knows her well, and not on others. BaiCao starts thinking that she likes ChuYan.
TingHao pretends that she kicked him and hurt him and says she must buy him a meal then he pays the expensive bill and they run, but she insists on paying so at last he admits that he paid already. She gives him all her money and goes away, saying she'll pay the rest (he took the money!!! he lied to her because she never hurt him, he made her feel guilty about it, he played her making her eat with him while worrying all the time because she believed that she had to pay such expensive meal and then making her believe that they were escaping without paying (basically stealing) , and then, he takes her money?!?!?!? what an arrogant jerk - it's easy not to dwell on such trivial matters, when you have plenty of money :-/ )
8
She's mad of course, thinks he humiliated her with her money, which is true. He tries to give it back (only tries, not very sincerely, it would have been enough to explain to her that she didn't owe him anything...) but then he gives her advice and she changes her attitude.
ChuYan treats her bruises but TingYi is jealous and tells her to stop pretending to be hurt to see him.
So she won't go anymore.
An important coach is attending, and they are all excited. TingHao challenges ChuYan again.
XiuQin is hit by a car so BaiCao has to replace her in the championship - who would have thought, what a surprise!.. :-/
9
A bad start, but then she wins. XiaoYing thinks that she likes ChuYan so she calls him to see her and they work together at the noodle shop and TingHao sees them.
10
TingHao goes singing for her outside her practice and gives her flowers and also a flower-petals shower and he asks her to be his girlfriend, but she rejects him.
BaiCao wins again. GuangYa is having a hard time, nobody cheers for her and she's very disheartened, so BaiCao go cheer for her and RuoBai approves so all the girls go too (otherwise they wouldn't have?? ); she wins and they talk.
TingHao lies saying that he knows where her shifu is but offer her to train with him instead.
11
Angrier than ever she cries saying that she hates him and runs out. XiaoYing wants to make big cheerleading hands overnight and has YiFeng help her so he has no sleep and he loses....
12
They go to a karaoke bar to celebrate going into the semifinal and play the marshmallow game (rollingeyes) than she falls asleep and RuoBai carries her home.
TingYi and ChuYan have dinner together, TingHao sees them and gets angry and hits him then she stops him and yells at him. She confesses her love to ChuYan.
The big coach is Qu XiangNan's dead wife's sister, and she hates him.
The next match will be BaiCao against TingYi.
13
YiFeng loses.
ChuYan encourages her and gives her a strawberry rubberband, he says he watches all her matches and puts it on her hair.
TingYi versus BaiCao (and we're back at the first minutes of the first episodes). TingYi is angry that ChuYan gave the band to her. Her shifu runs to watch the match. When she falls she sees him and get up. ChuYan arrives too; she keeps at it, until TingYi hits her head again hard, and all the three guys rung at her, and her shifu too, but RuoBai gets to her and holds her...
She recovers at ChuYan's home and her shifu is there proud of her. She lost but he agree to not going away
14
RuoBai lost badly to TingHao. Since ChuYan left them, they've never beaten the other team, and now RuoBai won't train them anymore. He talks to BaiCao, tells her that he wanted to bring back glory to SongBai but failed...
BaiCao keeps at it, cleaning and practicing, and XiaoYing leads them to cheer him up.
TingHao go threaten ChuYan that if he doesn't accept his challenge and fight him, he won't allow coach Shen to take any SongBai athlete. SongBai is angry and refuses, they are all upset, she's a crybaby. ChuYan keeps defending him to BaiCao. He wants to go but he without attacking. BaiCao goes there earlier to challenge TianHao.
15
He refuses to fight because she's a girl, so instead they have tests. She wins so ChuYan doesn't have to fight him. RuoBai and YiFeng are chosen, but not BaiCao, so he wants to let her have his place
ChuYan tells BaiCao that he's going to America for a year to find a way to help TingHao's mom, and TingYi wants to go with him, even after he says she's like a sister to him. BaiCao buys an expensive pen for him and leaves it outside the door so TingYi finds it (rollingeyes)
16
BaiCao hurries to the airport to say goodbye but she misses him, but meets TingYi who acts mean and lies to her, saying that he only cares for her as an athlete, that he asked her to go with him and also to give the pen back.
RuoBai, YiFeng and BaiCao and all the other best athletes start training with coach Shen.
Two years later, GuanYa is training with them too because Shen is her aunt, and there's also XiaoYing. BaiCao becomes a champion. RuoBai does a lot for her, and XiaoYin is still in love with him.
17
XiaoYin learns now that RuoBai doesn't like soup, and that all the ones she brought, YiFeng had those. RuoBai is very concerned about BaiCao; there's a city competition and only one place, it's her or TingYi. He pays for everything, trains with her all the time, it's all for her...
TingHao takes her out and has people do her hair and makeup, gives her new clothes, it's a complete makeover, like a poor little child in an old story. Then he introduces her to his family as his girlfriend, most of all to his grandfather and then tells her to make it true and train with him, but she's all "I believe in RuoBai" and he hears.
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