Screen caps from the opening of Si Si Xin Dong
In the recently released trailers for new drama Si Si Xin Dong/Strands of Love (丝丝心动) , the beautifully romantic scenes immediately won accolades from fans. The drama, the first new script by romance queen Qiong Yao (Huan Zhu Ge Ge, Romance in the Rain, Dreams Link, etc) since Huan Zhu Ge Ge 3 in 2003, stars Qiong Yao favorite Zhang Jiani and actor Blue Lan and will air on Hunan TV in July.
The cinematography for the drama is one of the most romantic for an Asian idol drama I’ve seen in a while, as fitting for a Qiong Yao drama.
Unfortunately, I can’t get it on YouTube, so here’s the Tudou version:
Si Si Xin Dong tells of a love that really begins with using the right shampoo. A country girl who followed her dreams of being a TV host to Shanghai, Zhang Xiaorou (Zhang Jiani) moves in to her new rented home with her best friend. Except it turns out that their new home was actually rented out secretly by the actual owner’s goofy friend (Super Boy Lu Hu). Still recovering from the disappearance of his love Lu Tian’er (Ying’er), the real owner, Ouyang Chen (Blue Lan) , returns home to see Tian’er’s room lighted. The familiar glossy hair and scent (of shampoo) makes him think Tian’er has returned, and he goes forward to hug the girl facing away from him, only to find a half-naked stranger in his embrace. …
In the whirlwind of Shanghai, Xiaorou is caught between her pursuit of her dreams as a star and the wishes of her father for her to inherit the family restaurant as well as between the tender support of her coworker Andy and the insecure romance that blossoms between her and Chen.
Beside the prettiness of the drama, I’m highly impressed by how well Hunan TV is doing with product placements. Despite Meteor Shower’s awkward commercials, both Ugly Wudi and this seem to have successfully used the product to enhance the plot of the story rather than deter from it. After all, if the main character has to make a commercial for something anyways in the series, why not make a shampoo commercial?
