I happen to encounter this series when I rummaged a Chinese store in Divisoria, heheh! When I saw Joe Cheng on the cover, I immediately bought it because I still had this “Joe fever” since I just finished watching “ISWAK.”
“Re Qing Zhong Xia” or “Summer x Summer” is a 12-episode series based on a Japanese manga "Nice Summer" by Yachi Emiko. It was shown early part of this year but it seems it did not do well in the ratings game opposite “Hana Kimi” starring Wu Zun of the boy group Fahrenheit and Ella Chen of the all girl singing group S.H.E.
The story is so light since it is story-oriented than character-oriented. No heavy emotional scenes but more on how a not so pretty girl attracted this famous handsome model.
Joe Cheng’s character here as Lei seems a bit crazy and a lil mischievous. I just observed that in this series and in “It Started with a Kiss,” he becomes wacky only in dream sequence (maybe his agency does not want him to be more of a comedian like Show Luo so as not to de-glamorize his image as a model) and his character in these two seems “gay-ish” (Mike He doesn’t like this, nyahaha).
As to her leading lady, Cai Yi Zhen who plays Xia Ya, her character is kinda irritating because aside from being ugly, she is also clumsy and loud. In reality, I think it’s hard to attract a popular and good-looking guy with this kind of personality. But with her, it came effortless, hahah! Well in this life, it‘s not always about outward appearance.
The scenes that I find cute…first, is when Xia Ya and Lei were walking holding hands along the street and the former saw the billboard where the latter was on it whose arm was around a partially-hidden girl. In real life, if this happens to me, of course I will feel very proud and exultant because it’s like a dream come true having one of the most fantasized guys as my bf. And second, when Lei taught Xia Ya how to do the catwalk on a busy street. That was so brilliant and at the same time romantic (sigh).
Tang Yu Zhe as Tian Guang Zhen was Lei’s antagonist here. I first noticed him on the preview of “They Kissed Again” (ISWAK 2) because he’s cute there and since then I begin to wonder who that guy was. But I only knew his name after watching this drama. Well, this is another cute guy to watch for.
Unfortunately, the copy of this drama that I bought has no subtitle, I only understand very minimal words such as why, what, where, thank you, sorry, happiness, because, but, right, therefore, 1-2-3...nyahah! Luckily, there’s this character half-way, an English guy who can’t speak Mandarin so I managed to understand some scenes. And even though I could not fully comprehend the dialogues, I could still understand the flow of the story because of the actions and reactions. But just to make sure, I downloaded it and chose some parts which caught my attention. At first, I thought I would not be tickled by the romance between Ou Yang Lei and Xia Ya. In the latter part, I became drawn to them but the story immediately came to a halt…tsk, tsk…
But then honestly, I am now biased with Ariel Lin after watching “ISWAK.“ I guess, this show would be a hit if Ariel Lin was the one who acted as Xia Ya. But many of you will suppose it is just like a sequel of “ISWAK” like Rainie Yang being teamed-up again with Mike He in “Huan Huan Ai” this year where most people think it’s like a sequel to “Devil Beside You.”
Well, I watched this show mainly because I have started to admire Joe Cheng. Again, like “Magic Ring,” this is a must-see for all his fans out there.
“Re Qing Zhong Xia” or “Summer x Summer” is a 12-episode series based on a Japanese manga "Nice Summer" by Yachi Emiko. It was shown early part of this year but it seems it did not do well in the ratings game opposite “Hana Kimi” starring Wu Zun of the boy group Fahrenheit and Ella Chen of the all girl singing group S.H.E.
The story is so light since it is story-oriented than character-oriented. No heavy emotional scenes but more on how a not so pretty girl attracted this famous handsome model.
Joe Cheng’s character here as Lei seems a bit crazy and a lil mischievous. I just observed that in this series and in “It Started with a Kiss,” he becomes wacky only in dream sequence (maybe his agency does not want him to be more of a comedian like Show Luo so as not to de-glamorize his image as a model) and his character in these two seems “gay-ish” (Mike He doesn’t like this, nyahaha).
As to her leading lady, Cai Yi Zhen who plays Xia Ya, her character is kinda irritating because aside from being ugly, she is also clumsy and loud. In reality, I think it’s hard to attract a popular and good-looking guy with this kind of personality. But with her, it came effortless, hahah! Well in this life, it‘s not always about outward appearance.
The scenes that I find cute…first, is when Xia Ya and Lei were walking holding hands along the street and the former saw the billboard where the latter was on it whose arm was around a partially-hidden girl. In real life, if this happens to me, of course I will feel very proud and exultant because it’s like a dream come true having one of the most fantasized guys as my bf. And second, when Lei taught Xia Ya how to do the catwalk on a busy street. That was so brilliant and at the same time romantic (sigh).
Tang Yu Zhe as Tian Guang Zhen was Lei’s antagonist here. I first noticed him on the preview of “They Kissed Again” (ISWAK 2) because he’s cute there and since then I begin to wonder who that guy was. But I only knew his name after watching this drama. Well, this is another cute guy to watch for.
Unfortunately, the copy of this drama that I bought has no subtitle, I only understand very minimal words such as why, what, where, thank you, sorry, happiness, because, but, right, therefore, 1-2-3...nyahah! Luckily, there’s this character half-way, an English guy who can’t speak Mandarin so I managed to understand some scenes. And even though I could not fully comprehend the dialogues, I could still understand the flow of the story because of the actions and reactions. But just to make sure, I downloaded it and chose some parts which caught my attention. At first, I thought I would not be tickled by the romance between Ou Yang Lei and Xia Ya. In the latter part, I became drawn to them but the story immediately came to a halt…tsk, tsk…
But then honestly, I am now biased with Ariel Lin after watching “ISWAK.“ I guess, this show would be a hit if Ariel Lin was the one who acted as Xia Ya. But many of you will suppose it is just like a sequel of “ISWAK” like Rainie Yang being teamed-up again with Mike He in “Huan Huan Ai” this year where most people think it’s like a sequel to “Devil Beside You.”
Well, I watched this show mainly because I have started to admire Joe Cheng. Again, like “Magic Ring,” this is a must-see for all his fans out there.
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