Portocal Journey

The series tells the tale of two sworn sisters: Xiao Yanzi, an orphaned adventuress, and Ziwei, a talented young lady with an interesting history. Ziwei is actually the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Qianlong. Eighteen years ago, Qianlong had had an affair with her mother, Xia Yuhe, at Lake Daming in Jinan. Because of political reasons, Qianlong left Yuhe, promising to return for her. However, she was already pregnant with his child and waited faithfully for his return. On her deathbed, Yuhe asks Ziwei to find her father, Qianlong.

With her servant Jinsuo, Ziwei travels to Beijing, only to discover the challenges of entering the Forbidden City. While trying to find a way in, they meet Xiao Yanzi at a wedding. Having been abandoned at a young age, Xiao Yanzi lives with her friends Liu Qing and Liu Hong in the Da Zha Yuan. Ziwei and Xiao Yanzi become close friends, with Ziwei moving in with Xiao Yanzi as she runs out of supplies and money. The night after they take a vow of sisterhood, Ziwei tells Xiao Yanzi her mother's last request and her secret mission.

Xiao Yanzi agrees to help Ziwei, and they plan to meet Qianlong during his hunting trip to a local mountain. However, the climb proves to be a challenge for the frail Ziwei and Jinsuo, and Ziwei decides instead to send Xiao Yanzi as her trustworthy messenger. She gives Xiao Yanzi a fan and painting, both gifts that Qianlong gave Yu He years ago.

In the chaos of the hunt, Xiao Yanzi is shot with an arrow by Fifth Prince Yongqi. Wounded and barely conscious, Xiao Yanzi cannot explain her mission to Qianlong, and seeing Xiao Yanzi carrying his fan and painting, he assumes Xiao Yanzi is Yu He's daughter. He treats Xiao Yanzi kindly as she heals, and with having had a parentless childhood, she decides to "borrow" Ziwei's father for a few days. However, she is soon overcome with guilt.

Meanwhile, Ziwei is frantically worried about Xiao Yanzi, afraid that she was captured and executed as a female assassin. One day, Ziwei sees Xiao Yanzi parading the streets with Qianlong in a palaquin with the title "Huanzhu Gege" and believes Xiao Yanzi has deceived her. Hurt and confused, she chases after the palaquin, screaming Xiao Yanzi's name and causing a commotion. The emperor's guards rush to restrain her, but when Fu Erkang, one of the Emperor's bodyguards, hears hints that she might be telling the truth, he rescues her. The Fu family soon learns the full truth.

Ziwei and Jinsuo are persuaded by the Fus to live in the Fu household, Xue Shi Fu, temporarily. Around this time, Xiao Yanzi learns she could be beheaded for lying to the emperor if the truth comes out. Because both Yongqi and Ertai are infatuated with Xiao Yanzi, they ask Ziwei to keep quiet about her secret.

Slowly, Erkang and Ziwei begin to fall in love. Erkang realizes their marriage is impossible, however, because he cannot marry Ziwei if she only has the status of a commoner. Meanwhile, Xiao Yanzi has her own troubles in the Forbidden City. Her outlandish behaviour and lack of sense of propriety shock and offend the Empress, and one day, even Qianlong becomes overwhelmed with Xiao Yanzi's disobedience and outspokenness. Punished by him with twenty beatings despite pleas from Consort Ling, Yongqi, and Ertai, Xiao Yanzi briefly dreams of fleeing palace life. However, Qianlong and Xiao Yanzi soon mend fences and become even closer.

Sensing the romance between Ziwei and Erkang, Erkang's parents, Fu Da Ren and Fu Jin, kindly ask Ziwei to give up Erkang. Heartbroken, Ziwei and Jinsuo leave Xue Shi Fu without notice, leaving Erkang in panic. Unsuccessful in his search, he calls for the help of Xiao Yanzi, who finds out where Ziwei is from Liu Qing and Liu Hong. When the friends finally find Ziwei, they decide it is perhaps best to sneak Ziwei into the Forbidden City as well.

Ziwei, along with Jinsuo, enjoys an excellent start in the Forbidden City. Although only a court maid, she quickly attracts Qianlong's attention with her talent, intelligence, and kindness. This arouses the jealousy of the Empress, who views Ziwei as a potential political threat. She secretly brings Ziwei to her palace, Kunning Gong, and pierces her with needles. Ziwei nearly dies but is rescued by Qianlong, Xiao Yanzi, Erkang, Ertai, and Yongqi. The incident impresses Qianlong with Ziwei's inner strength, and his love for Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei becomes so great that he takes them on his Wei Fu Chu Xing.

Qianlong uses the time to enjoy life outside the Forbidden City. Hoping to reveal Ziwei's true identity without angering the emperor, Erkang, Yongqi, and Ertai plan to find a chance to request a special order from Qianlong, promising that he will never execute Ziwei and Xiao Yanzi.

During the trip, feelings between Xiao Yanzi and Yongqi begin to arise. Yongqi had begun to develop a crush on Xiao Yanzi after discovering she is not really his sister. However, their relationship is awkward because they are currently considered brother-sister. When Yongqi first admits his feelings to Xiao Yanzi, she is confused and bewildered, but quickly becomes jealous when another girl named Cai Lian likes Yongqi. Xiao Yanzi could not eat or speak during his presence because of her jealously. The day after, when Xiao Yanzi suddenly got a horse and ride away, Yongqi chases after her. Xiao Yanzi got injured and Yongqi told her that she is the only one in his heart and Cai Lian doesn't have the tiniest part of his heart. Once they kissed,Xiao Yanzi returns Yongqi's feelings, and in the meantime, romance between Ziwei and Erkang grows deeper. Unfortunately, Qianlong, subconsciously recalling Ziwei's mother, falls in love with Ziwei as well. Throughout the journey, Xiao Yanzi fights injustice, rescuing many civilians.

Qianlong's Wei Fu Chu Xing is abruptly put to a halt when an old woman tries to assassinate the emperor. Ziwei shields Qianlong from the knife, and though the others get rid of the assassins, the damage is done. Thinking she is on her deathbed, Ziwei asks Qianlong never to execute Xiao Yanzi, which he agrees. She then asks Erkang to marry and thus provide for Jinsuo, her loyal servant and friend.

Miraculously, Ziwei surviving the stabbing, and Qianlong admires her all the more for her remarkable bravery and unbelievably wise, which is very rare for such a girl like her. After returning to the Forbidden City, Qianlong hints that he wants to take Ziwei as his concubine. Meanwhile, Princess Saiya, have arrived in Beijing.

Saiya and Xiao Yanzi quickly develop a rivalry, as Saiya's kung fu skills stir up feelings of competition. After fighting against Erkang in a match, Saiya develops a crush on Erkang. Her father asks Qianlong if he can arrange a marriage between Saiya and Erkang. Although Qianlong originally intended to save Erkang for Xiao Yanzi, he agrees, creating huge dilemmas for Ziwei and Erkang.

At this point, Xiao Yanzi, Ziwei, Yongqi, Erkang, Ertai, and Jinsuo decide it is time to reveal their secret. Qianlong is shocked to discover Ziwei is his true daughter, as he had once considered taking her in as a concubine. He is hurt to know that Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei, two people he trusted most, had tricked him. The Empress takes advantage of the situation to tell Qianlong that she always knew something was wrong with Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei. Under pressure from the Empress, Qianlong agrees to imprison Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei in Zhong Ren Fu, even though Consort Ling pleads that he reconsiders. Jinsuo, wanting to risk her life rather than Ziwei's, joins them.

Hoping to finish Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei once and for all, the Empress conspires with Liang Da Ren, the man in charge of Zhong Ren Fu. She orders him to force Xiao Yanzi, Ziwei, and Jinsuo to sign a statement that their disguise was for an attempt to murder Qianlong. Refusing to sign such a ridiculous document, the three girls are whipped harshly. Knowing that the three cannot survive long in such conditions, Yongqi, Erkang, and Ertai risk their lives and break into the jail to free the three girls. Because they have broken the law, the six decide to run away forever.

At the same time, Qianlong begins to regret his actions. He realizes how much he has grown to love Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei. His officers and Consort Ling also beg that he release them. Qianlong goes to Zhong Ren Fu and decides to let them go, but is aghast that they had already escaped. Furious, Qianlong orders that they all be found and executed.

Feelings of guilt arise as Xiao Yanzi and her entourage run away. Ertai decides to return to the Forbidden City and explain matters to Qianlong. Knowing that Ertai would most likely be beheaded, Ziwei begs that they all return and face Qianlong. They soon agree and return to the Forbidden City.

Despite his original intention to behead them all, Qianlong is heartbroken to see that the three girls have been whipped. He orders them to return to their house (Shu Fang Zai) in the Forbidden City to rest, but they refuse to go until he has forgiven Yongqi, Erkang, and Ertai. Feigning reluctance at first, Qianlong soon admits the entire matter is actually his fault for getting involved with Yu He in the first place. As he also cannot bear to kill his favourite people, he forgives them all. At Shu Fang Zai, Qianlong recognizes Ziwei as his daughter. He hand-feeds her medicine and the two share a father-daughter hug. Despite not being of royal blood, Xiao Yanzi keeps her title as the beloved Huanzhu Gege.

Only the Empress and Nanny Rong are displeased with these developments. The Empress reprimands Qianlong for being tricked by "some eighteen-year-old girls." Qianlong ignores her and questions her on her involvement in conspiring against the girls. Angered, Qianlong orders the Empress's and Nanny Rong's immediate removal to Zhong Ren Fu. Yongqi begs Qianlong to reconsider: it is inappropriate to punish the "Mother of the Country." In her desperation and fury that Qianlong no longer considers her thoughts, the Empress snatches a nearby scissors and cuts part of her hair off, intending to flee to the monastic Buddhist life. Ziwei pleads mercy on their behalf, hoping to make peace with the Empress. Qianlong relents, and the rivalry seems to have ended.

The last obstacle, the proposal between Saiya and Erkang, is solved when Ertai courts Saiya as a favour to Erkang, and the two fall in love. The story concludes with a ceremony, during which Ziwei is proclaimed Ming Zhu Gege (明珠格格, lit. Princess Bright Pearl). Qianlong also announces a betrothal between Xiao Yanzi and Yongqi, Ziwei and Erkang, and Ertai and Saiya. The three couples and Jinsuo end the series by riding on horseback through the countryside, singing with joy.

“The sky in Ganseng, Wonju, Gangreung and Chuncheon. Seemed flying plate-shaped object. It was really big and bolted as fast as an arrow. Concurrently with a thunder, it’s gone in a glance. Then the sky cleaned up without any cloud.”

In 1609, the first year of the reign of King Gwanghae, was the first time for Do Min Joon arriving on Earth. He came from a planet what humans called KMT 184.05, a planet which was very similar to Earth. And now, Min Joon has lived for more than 400 years on this planet where we live in. He has adapted with the whole magnetic fields, gravity and even water. His hearing and sight are 7 times better than the common humans’. He can grab something far just by opening his hand, teleport ability to move from his current position to another location and he can also stops time for 1 minute.

From a human’s point of view, he is just 1 mm in distance from being perfect. But there are two prohibitions he must protect himself not to break. First, it’s forbidden for his body liquid (saliva) and blood to mix with human’s. If not, he will partially lost his power and energy. Second, he will die if he kills humans. The first prohibition is not something really crucial as it only needs some time to heal. But for the second one, Min Joon has to protect himself from that one if he wants to live safely in his last three months living on Earth, before going to return to the star where he comes from.

In other side of that country, an actress is waiting for her next shoot in relax. She is Chun Song Yi the arrogant high levelled-star. Fans scream her name and fight to snap her pictures. Manager and assistant have been trained to never make her waiting to be served. Everything she needs, orders and even thinks should be there in time. She appears on TV, magazines, internet or newspaper, either for movie, drama or commercial breaks. It must be a main role if she takes a part on a movie or drama. She gets the most expensive valued contract and her selfie poster hanged on the most luxurious building with the highest monthly payment for an advertisement. In short, she is the Nation Goddess.

But a fame is only a name. Song Yi’s intelligence is not as bright as her career. She always humiliates her own image without realizing she has just shown people her stupidity. She clearly shows that she can not differentiate mokhwa seed (cotton) and mocha. She mentions she consumes profol for anti-ageing instead of propolis. Even a kid knows what ‘garlic’ is. Shame on her when she tweets she wonders why she smells ‘garlic’ on ‘garlic pizza’. Lol.

Another characters are Se Mi, Hwi Kyung, Jae Kyung, Yu Ra and Lawyer Jang. Se Mi is also an actress. She has been Song Yi’s best friend since they were in junior high. Together they transform from kid actresses to be how they are currently. But Se Mi has to accept the fact that Song Yi is hundred steps further than her. She is the first and Se Mi is the least. People call her Song Yi’s shadow and she gets her fame from her status as a close friend of Song Yi. Since they were young, there has been a big lack of success between them.

Song Yi always gets the main role like she always being the employer's daughter and Se Mi is the daughter of servant of Song Yi’s family on drama. Something has intimidated Se Mi for years is the truth that almost the whole role she acts as, are because Song Yi always asks the directors to involve Se Mi in every projects she is in. But Se Mi is the true actress, she can act without script. She hides her true feeling and waits for the right moment to reveal. Hwi Kyung causes her hatred to Song Yi becomes worst.

Hwi Kyung is the second son/heir of the most powerful company in South Korea. He loves Song Yi since forever. Can be guessed! Se Mi loves Hwi Kyung. Or more precisely, she has loved him as long as Hwi Kyung has patiently waited for Song Yi to accept his heart. Song Yi just considers him as the bestest best-friend. Song Yi instead hoping she can meet again with her first love, the man saving her 12 years ago from a car accident. Hwi Kyung is a very understanding man. Without forcing, he keeps by Song Yi’s side and offers her any helps he can give.

Who’s the 12-years-ago man? He is Do Min Joon. He looks the 12-years-ago Song Yi really looked alike Seo Yi Hwa, the first human girl Min Joon had different feeling to. 400 years ago, Min Joon helped Yi Hwa but she then died in his hug to be shield for him from the archery by men chasing to kill them. 12 years later for Song Yi and Min Joon, in her new apartment, it turns out Song Yi is being neighbor with Do Min Joon who is also a professor in the campus Song Yi is studying at.

Song Yi with her overdosis confidence that she is Chun Song Yi the Nation Goddes, pissed off by Min Joon’s indifference showing he never know who she is and never try to find info about her because he needn’t to know. He never pay her attention till unintentionally Min Joon sees a family picture of hers which he finds Yi Hwa on it. Min Joon forces Song Yi to tell who the real she is.

In a private wedding party held by one of Song Yi’s celeb friend on a yacht, Yu Ra, her rival in entertainment industry, found dead. Police announced it is a suicide and people start to attack Song Yi verbally. They curse her to die. It’s not a secret what a bad sunbae (senior) and hoobae (junior) relationship the two actresses have. Yu Ra is older than Song Yi in age while Song Yi is the senior in this industry. (In South Korea, age is not only a number matter. It’s something affects someone in social life and their utterance with others).

Netizens blame Song Yi. They malign that Yu Ra must be desperately for having been simultaneously mocked by the younger. That’s why she commits suicide. This rumour ruins Song Yi’s career. She loses many contracts and has to pay the penalties. She is removed from her on-going drama which is replaced by Se Mi. Even the CEO who always lures her with perfect facility to make her keep staying in his company, secretly arranges a plan to kick her out from his management. But Song Yi is still Song Yi. She has her head straight and walks gracefully and states she is the party who terminates the contract, no desire to continue the drama and she has bored in collaboration with her old CEO. The truth is she has lost everything. But at least she finally knows what the real nature her best friend has is.

There’s still Hwi Kyung, actually. But she wants to lock herself in her loneliness for awhile. Unexpectedly Min Joon is the only one left by Song Yi’s side. He helps her at any time she needs it. Nevertheless, he does it forcefully. He uses his power to stop time to protect her from an antifans wants to hurt her, suddenly appear from nowhere when she almost falls into ravine. And flashback, Min Joon had helped her in the private party when the drunk Song Yi would fall headlong to Han River.

Min Joon who knows more than common humans do, finds Jae Kyung (Hwi Kyung’s older brother) is someone behind Yu Ra’s death. Jae Kyung is a psychophat who has sent his normal ex-wife to a mental hospital and now, Song Yi who knows he and Yu Ra are dating, will be his next target. It’s because Song Yi keeps Yu Ra’s pouch on the night of her death, which there is a USB that stores Jae Kyung’s crimes evidences. Jae Kyung desires Song Yi’s death because he worries she will tell the detectives (one of them is Se Mi’s older brother) working on Yu Ra’s case about his relationship with Yu Ra, who are suspicious it is a murder. That if it’s known Jae Kyung and Yu Ra date, there’s a possibility he will be inspected and his crimes will be revealed. They are indeed dating. And Yu ra who knows his crimes was pregnant of Jae Kyung’s baby. 

The weak, careless, stubborn and outspoken Song Yi has won over Min Joon’s heart. Not to mention she is being in her lowest power, makes Min Joon wants to help her more. Song Yi, too. She knows that she has been too dependent with Min Joon but she can feel other than needing calls love. She confesses her love. Remembering there are only two months left to stay on Earth, and when it comes, it will hurts Song Yi more than a rejection, Min Joon tells he never like Song Yi and never feel nervous when they are contiguous. Song Yi doesn’t give up.

Min Joon then lies he never interests in Song Yi as herself. Song Yi’s resemblance with Yi Hwa is the only reason why Min Joon always there to help her. Except than that, nothing. To make her give up, Min Joon reveals his real identity that he actually is an alien. Instead of fear like Min Joon’s old friends who scampered after knew the truth about him, Song Yi precisely considers that’s only his trick to stop annoying him. It breaks her heart and pissed her off at once. If Min Joon fools her by telling he is an alien, so Song Yi is a vampire. Lol. 

Min Joon lover her. Loves her so much. That’s why he can’t do what Song Yi orders to never care about her anymore and go away from her life, just leave her alone. Min Joon knows Jae Kyung is targeting her, he applies so many cunning ways to kill Song Yi. Like harming her on shooting set that also hurts his brother to coma and trapping her materialistic mother to sign an exclusive contract with a management under Jae Kyung’s company. Min Joon starts to think killing Jae Kyung is the only way to save Song Yi. But, Lawyer Jang who has been Min Joon's only friend for 30 years, begs him to return to his star safely.

Min Joon then takes a step to be a Manager-lawyer for Song Yi when she acts on action movie where Se Mi gets the main role and she is only a supportive actress. Song Yi asks why. Min Joon says it’s because Song Yi keeps doing things to worry him, like signing contract with random guys and getting caught up in engagement rumours (with Hwi Kyung after he helps Song Yi from an accident in shooting set). Finally he tells the honesty, he loves Song Yi, too. He then explains of how he and his team made the trip to Earth, which involved terraforming an asteroid to make it seem like an ordinary comet, to hide it from the Erath’s view. And to time its arrival to coincide with Earth’s orbit at the point where it’s the nearest the sun. This orbit takes 404 years, so this a month’s time in Min Joon’s last chance to return to his home. Or if not, he will die.

Song Yi hardens her heart, saying she is good in waiting. But waiting for Min Joon to comeback to Earth is not something like waiting for one year even not 10 years. Because Min Joon will never be able to return back to Earth. Song Yi cries. She ask if it’s really impossible for Min Joon to just stay on Earth with her. It has been hundreds of years he lives on Earth and he will go in the minutes they meet? If Min Joon can’t stay, Song Yi asks Min Joon to leave her alone quietly.

Min Joon says yes. But still, it’s far far away from possible for them to forget each other. Song Yi asks Min Joon to spend his last one month to do what couples will do in one or three years of their relationship. Like wearing couple ring in the hundredth day, dinning in Namsan Tower and lock love-lock there, or travelling to Europe in their thiusandth day. Song Yi asks Min Joon to do so because maybe she will bore with Min Joon before the one month period is over. Min Joon agrees, but only less than 1 minute Song Yi can’t see him, she screams and cries telling she worries Min Joon will leave her without saying good bye.

A Korean idol group consists of  Hwang Tae Kyung as the lead vocalist, guitarist and as well as the group leader, Kang Shin Woo the bassist and pianist and Jeremy the vocalist, rapper and drummer, are under waiting their CEO President Ahn’s decision to add a new member into their group. Then through an audition, it has been decided to choose Go Mi Nam as the fourth member in A.N.Jell. But in the last minute several days before revealing the new member, Mi Nam suffers an injury while going under eyelid surgery and have to be sent to America to be healed.

It forces Manager Ma who gets the responsibility to take Mi Nam’s case to find Mi Nam’s identical twin sister, Mi Nyu, to replace her brother’s position. And President Ahn never know about his plan. Mi Nyu is dreaming to be a nun and now is being the student in a junior nun school. With Mi Nam, Mi Nyu have been orphanage since their father’s death and their mother left them without leaving any message. Mi Nyu rejects Manager Ma’s wish but thinking that by appearing on a television is possibly can be seen by her mother, Mi Nam agrees to join A.N.Jell with her brother’s identity, as a boy.

The perfectionist Tae Kyung really hates Mi Nam at the first time and makes her life very hard in their dormitory. Shin Woo is the most kind hearted to her and Jeremy is kinda indifferent. Till Tae Kyung finds that Mi Nam actually is a girl and threatens her to reveal it to President Ahn. Mi Nam begs him to keep the secret till their first showcase, maybe her mother will watch and then search to find her. Tae Kyung agrees but Mi Nam has to hear the worst news. Her mother has died.

But Tae Kyung is not that cruel to chase Mi Nam. He lets her stay and it turns out Mi Nam has won him over.While Tae Kyung thinks he is the only person knowing who Mi Nam is after Manager Ma, Kang Shin Woo actually has known Mi Nam’s real identity. Shin Woo with his gentleness and Tae Kyung with his indifference compete to protect Mi Nam. And Jeremy who still thinks Mi Nam is a boy, curious why everyone tries to be nice to Mi Nam, then starts to feel what his two hyungs feel and worries he is abnormal to like a boy.

Then comes Yoo He Yi, a double-faced actress who tries to keep her fake National Fairy image by crying in front of the camera when seeing a sick kid in hospital then wipes her hand while the camera turns off. Accidentally, she continuously looks being together with Tae Kyung and the netizens spread rumour they are dating. 

He Yi starts to love Tae Kyung and asks him to make a fake dating. Been forcefully framed by He Yi’s plan, Tae Kyung acts He Yi’s lover in front of the screen but ignores her in behind the scene. He Yi who is a real woman, can feel there is something weird about Mi Nam who too often acts not like a boy should be. She knows Mi Nam is actually a girl and uses it to threaten Tae Kyung when he wants to tell public that Tae Kyung and He Yi have ‘broken up’.

Tae Kyung’s mother who has abandoned him since he was a boy, is a senior singer that wants to comeback with a song written by a man she really loves and ask Tae Kyung to rearrange the song. Tae Kyung who starts to show his love to Mi Nam and treats her as a girl, knows that the man his mother loves then makes her leaving the young Tae Kyung is Mi Nam’s father. Conflicts by conflicts build to brick their love. Tae Kyung knows Mi Nam has nothing to blame but he can not lie his heart is hurting to know she is the daughter of the man causing his mother leaves him. 

Fortunately the truth can be found. Tae Kyung’s mother only has an unrequited love and that song is written by Mi Nam’s father to her mom. Finally the real Mi Nam comebacks from America and Mi Nyu can show up as a girl. And it would not have happened without He Yi's help.

It’s a story about Han Jung Suh and her best friend Cha Song Joo. As childhood friends, Jung Suh and Song Joo had a special bond that blossomed into love. They were always by each other’s side when Song Joo’s father dies and Jung Suh’s mother dies due to an eye cancer. After a few months, Jung Suh’s father meets an actress Mi Rae and falls in love with her. The two of them get married and Jung Suh is very happy that her father is finally smiling, stating to Song Joo that she hasn’t seen her father smiles like that since her mother died.

After the stepmother moves in, she brings her daughter Yuri and her son Tae Hwa. The two siblings are children of Mi Rae and her drunken jobless man who had been hidden from public to keep her image clean. In front of Jung Suh’s father, Yuri and Mi Rae act like a perfect kindhearted new mother and sister, but when Jung Suh’s father leaves for work, her stepmother shows her true nature as a cruel woman. And Yuri, in their new school, spreads the rumour that Jung Suh is the kid hidden by the actress Mi Rae. Mi Rae also thwarts Jung Suh’s attempts to study abroad with Song Joo by using it has not been yet a long time since they become a new family as a reason. 

So, Song Joo leaves to America to study alone, leaving the sad Jung Suh behind. Jung Suh is left alone to suffer in the silent cruelty of her step sister and mother. Mi Rae’s plotting for her own daughter to win the affections of Song Joo, who comes from a rich family, and thwarts any attempts of Jung Suh’s to be with Song Joo, like never gives the letter sent by him from America to Jung Suh. All the while, Jung Suh tries to be nice to her new step brother, Tae Hwa, who in return mistakes his friendship for affection. Tae Hwa falls in love with her step sister. 

Time passes. The four teenager have grown up and it’s the time for Song Joo to be back to Korea. Jung Suh who has heard the news about Song Joo’s comeback, is in rush to go to the airport but Yuri chases her from behind with their father’s car. Jung Suh is the first one reaches the airport but she has not met Song Joo yet. Yuri can not control her car then hits Jung Suh. She brings Jung Suh to a hospital. In there, there is a chaos for having been a big accident that kills some people. Yuri looks a corpse who has been really hard to be recocnized because of the bad injured in her face. 

Yuri takes Jung Suh’s pendant and put it to the cprpse and she then brings Jung Suh’s body to her biological father’s house. She asks her father to be a good daddy for her at least once in their entire life, which is willing to save her to hide the truth that she is someone behind Jung Suh’s fake death. Knowing that his Jung Suh has died, Song Joo desperates so badly. Tae Hwa and his father then take care Jung Suh together. And when Jung Suh awakes, it turns out the car accident has had her an amnesia. She doesn’t know who she is and who the two men in front of her. Tae Hwa says that she is his sister. Ans secretly Tae Hwa promises himself not to bring Jung Suh back to her family.

Tae Hwa having passion in painting, get a project to paint in an indoor amusement park owned by Song Joo’s family. And the young graceful Jung Suh has changed to be a brave woman. It has gone a long time for Jung Suh to live together with Tae Hwa and his father, finally Song Joo meets her in one place. Jung Suh who is still under her amnesia, can not recognize who Song Joo is. Song Joo ensures Jung Suh that she is indeed Jung Suh. He brings her to their house nearby a beach where they spend their childhood before they move to big city.

Jung Suh still can not remember who Song Joo is. Even Yuri gets really shock when she meets her step sister and it turns out Jung Suh will work in the same company with her. Yuri treats Jung Suh so badly till Yuri reapeats the same mistake like she ever did to Jung Suh. She almost hist Jung Suh with her car that brings Jung Suh’s memory back. Jung Suh knows who she is and runs to find Song Joo that now she has remembered him. Unfortunately Song Joo has given up and it makes him not too happy when he says Jung Suh has remembered everything. He takes it as a joke.

Till her father meets Jung Suh and asks his daughter to go home. Mi Rae acts by crying so loudly how she misses her loss daughter. The grown up Jung Suh is different with the young weak Jung Suh. Now, she can protect herself from her step mother’s and sister’s pressure. Yuri thinking she has been success to replace Jung Suh as Song Joo’s fiance, has to swallow the bitter pile when she knows that Song Joo wants to marry Jung Suh.

  

Tae Hwa and his father who can not stand to see Mi Rae’s and Yuri’s bad habits, reveal the truth that Yuri is someone who has hit Jung Suh and brought her body to be took care by her father. Mi Rae becomes crazy and be brought to jail with Yuri and her father. But happiness is still not siding to Song Joo and Jung Suh. Jung Suh having an aye cancer like her mother and it has been in final stadium. Tae Hwa who wants Jung Suh to be happy, makes a testament that he will donate his eyes to Jung Suh. Then he kills himself by hitting his car on the highway. But the great effort by Tae Hwa still can not save Jung Suh. The cancer finally sends Jung Suh to death. Song Joo spreads Jung Suh’s ash to the beach where they used to play in their childhood.

Sam Dawsen, although he is a mental retardation man, is a lovable daddy to his 7 years old daughter, Lucy. She is not his biological child because Sam's friend has left Lucy not long after she gave her birth. Sam gets to be supported by his group of friends with developmental disabilities and his kind neighbour, Annie, who always helps Sam to take care Lucy when he can not. Sam has tried his best to provide a good loving environment for his daughter but time has passed and Lucy becomes cleverer and cleverer till surpasses her daddy's mental ability. Not to mention Lucy's friends always tease her to have an idiot father. As a little girl, Lucy starts to feel embarrassed with the fact that her father is a 'retard'.

Sam is not cleverer than a 7 years old kid and he is a low-income. The government takes those reasons to decide Sam is not a decent father for Lucy. Because of that, Lucy is taken by the government and Sam is allowing to have two supervised visits per week. His friend then advices Sam to visit a lawyer to help him wins over Lucy's custody. The woman names Rita Harrison. Materially, Rita has had everything. But mentally, she is underprivileged. Her husband is philandering and she has a fractious relationship with her son. Fast-paced schedule and difficult personal life have earned her a reputation as cold and unfeeling. Rita is reluctant to help Sam at the first place, but his stubborn has melted Rita to finally obliges him. Besides, she wants to prove to others that she is not heartless.

March 28, 2009, by driving with his wife from their home in Underhill, Vermont, Captain Phillips is ready to be the captain of Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container ship moving from Salalah Port, Oman, to Mombasa through Gulf of Aden which is a location known for the pirate activity off the coast of Somalia. In the middle of their journey, Captain Phillips can see through his binoculars that there are two skiffs look like approaching them. To find out if they are pirates who try to hunt their container or not, he orders his crew to change a little bit of their direction and the two skiffs are indeed following them.

Phillips deceives the skiffs by acting he is calling for help from air military causing one of the skiffs turns back. But in the next day, one of the skiffs, led by Abdulwali Muse, comes back to hijack the container with his three crews: Hufan, Bilal and Najee. The pirates are equipped with complete guns and start to shoot the container crews. Captain Phillips orders to spray them with high-speed water with their ship hose. It can hamper the pirate's plan but unfortunately it can not stop them. They install a ladder to the ship body and climb up, to take control the ship with the guns in their hands.

The Captain orders his crew to hide in the engine room while he tries to negotiate with Muse and his gang. He offers them $30.000 saved in the ship's save and they will consider nothing happens. The pirates ask more. They ask 1 million dollars from the ship crews' insurance. Muse tell that he is the captain and orders the Captain to bring him to the engine room, which he does not know is the place where the crews are hiding. The crews have turned off the engine so most of the parts of the ship are dark. One of the pirates get feet injured so badly in the engine room so Phillips offers to help to heal him. They go back to the control room and Muse is left behind in the engine room. The dark room is taken as a chance by Phillips' crew to attack Muse to ransom their captain and they will bring the pirates a lifeboat, too. 

Captain Phillips tells them where the lifeboat is but the pirates asks him to tell them how to use it. His crews have prohibited Phillips to follow what the pirates ask but Phillips is on his own way. He follows the pirates to enter the lifeboat and gives them the explanation in how to run the lifeboat. Unexpectedly, Muse stabs him and now he is their hostage; something he has emphasized to his crews not to happen.

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Richard Phillips returned to Vermont on April 17, 2009 and was reunited with his family and on July 25, 2009, the captain went back to the sea. Whereas Abdulwali Muse, the only pirate survivor, was convicted of piracy as is currently serving 33 years at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana.

The Real Captain Phillips and the crew of the Maersk Alabama

Had been declared as the first couple winner of 74th annual game by Capitol, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark spreding love in the air of the whole 12 districts. President Snow saw that as a threat for the continuance of Panem regime since people started to realize there was still hope for them which the regime worried  would happen a revolution. Panem desired to rid Katniss of as she was the role model for the people to start hoping, but in a right way because now, she is the attention centre. Not to mention President Snow couldn't be lied that Katniss' and Peeta's love story in Hunger Games arena was only a scripted act.

Snow announced a special Hunger Games, the Third Quarter Quell, where all tributes would be selected from previous victors. From District 12, Katniss and Haymitc were chosen to be sent to the arena but Peeta volunteered himself to replace his place. This game was arranged to make people believe that Katniss, the source of hoping, was not someone they could believe in. She would kill her friends in the arena, too. And for Katniss, the game was arranged to desperate her and of course to kill her. And the first step to do so was by killing Cinna right in front of her eyes.

The remaining rival tributes had found where Katniss and the gang were and at that time Johanna attacked Katniss and slashed her hand but ensured her to keep lying without sounding. Johanna then run to distract their attention. Back to the place where they would run their plan to make trap by manipulating the cruel artificial weather, Katniss found the unconscious Beetee and Peeta was lost. When Finnick came, she almost shoot him but Finnick calmed her down, reminded her who the real enemy was. Katniss attached the remaining wire to an arrow and shoot it into the arena forcefield as the lightning hit, causing a power failure that took down the dome's forcefield as well as the Capitol's surveillance.

Katniss awakened in an aircraft to find Haymitch, Beetee, Finnick, and Plutarch Heavensbee, the head Gamemaker, who was revealed to be a rebel against Snow. He told her they were bound for District 13, headquarters of the new rebellion, and that half of the tributes were aware of the plan to escape with Katniss, as a symbol for the growing rebellion. They were unable to rescue Peeta and Johanna, who were taken by the Capitol. A distraught Katniss was sedated after attacking Haymitch. She later awakened and found Gale by her side, who reassured that her family was safe but also told her that District 12 was no longer exists.