It Started With a Kiss

Cast
Ariel Lin as Yuan Xiang Qin 袁湘琴
Joe Cheng as Jiang Zhi Shu 江直樹
Jiro Wang as Jin Yuan Feng 金元豐
Tiffany Xu as Pei Zi Yu 裴子瑜

Synopsis:
The story starts out where you see a high school girl named Yuan Xiang Qin (Ariel Lin) holding a love letter in her hands. Approaching her, was the genius Jiang Zhi Shu, who had an IQ of 200. He was Xiang Qin's crush for 2 years and she finally had the guts to tell him her true feelings. But a cold rejection is given to Xiang Qin and she falls back to the ground, still holding the love letter. When she goes to their school's gym, her constant admirer Jin Yuan Feng (Jiro Wang) is pleased about the rejection, but unhappy about Xiang Qin's sadness. On the same day, the house that Xiang Qin's father (Tang Tsung Sheng) built collapses in a level 2 earthquake, destroying the house completely. Luckily, Ah Cai's [Xiang Qin's father] high school friend, Jiang Ah Li (Chang Yung Cheng) helps them out and asks them to live at their house. Little does Xiang Qin know that her father's friend is Zhi Shu's dad and she is forced to live with them until then. Xiang Qin spends more time with Zhi Shu and gets to know him more. She lives with the Jiang's until graduation day. On their graduation night, Zhi Shu kisses Xiang Qin without saying anything more about it, which meant to Xiang Qin that the kiss meant nothing. Then the following year, the two are admitted to the same college. Zhi Shu meets the beautiful and smart Pei Zi Yu (Tiffany Xu), who happens to have a big crush on him. Soon after, Ah Cai decides they should move out, thinking they can't spend the rest of their lives at the Jiang's house. They do move out, but only for a short while, because Zhi Shu's mom (Cyndi Chao) finds out about their kiss and she makes them move back in their house, hoping that one day the two will get married.

Trivia
*The series was based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Itazura na kiss" (Mischievous kiss) by Tada Kaoru.
*The are 23 volumes of the manga.
*There is no ending for the manga; the series was still running in Margaret when the author passed away at the age of 38 from a brain aneurysm.
Itazura na kiss (1996) is the Japanese adaptation.
*The filming of It Started with a Kiss lasted one entire year. Some scenes were filmed in different seasons, which resulted in many goofs.
*The director, Qu You Ning, made two cameos in the drama: One as the fat, middle age woman on a bus who accuses Ah Jin was taking advantage of her and another as Zhi Shu's boyfriend in *Xiang Qin's imagination (birthday gift giving scene).
The sequel is set to air in September 2007 due to the show's high ratings in Taiwan.