A promise sealed in lavender, a decade of waiting, and Taiwan's most extra 2000s melodrama.
Season 2 • Episode 3
LatestSince her birth, Ah Xun (Chen Yi Rong), as well as her sister Yicheng, have been suffering from a heart disease which makes them unable to run or do a lot of activities that other kids do. Because of this she is picked on by all her schoolmates. Her only friend is a boy named Qing Chuan. Always together, Ah Xun is saddened when Qing Chuan tells her that he and his family are moving to America. Unwilling to never see each other again, Qing Chuan gives her a glass bottle filled with a piece of lavender as a token that he will never forget her, and promises her that he will meet back up with her 10 years later on Ah Xun's 20th birthday.
Acting
Rainie Yang's breakout before she became a superstar.
Production
Peak 2001 aesthetic—frosted tips, moody lighting, lavender everything.
Creator
Chun Chieh Liu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This helped define the 'idol drama' boom in Taiwan, where terminal illness + childhood promises became a whole subgenre. Lavender itself became shorthand for bittersweet romance in Mandarin pop culture.
The glass bottle prop became so iconic that fans actually bought lavender-filled bottles as relationship tokens. The show basically invented a weird cottage industry.
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