Cruel Palace: War of Flowers

In high school, Zhu Qian Shuang secretly liked popular student Qiao Ye but never confessed, focusing instead on losing weight. Despite her efforts, she only saw minimal results, and her crush remained unrequited. After graduation, they went their separate ways, unaware that Qiao Ye had experienced similar joys and sorrows. Both missed the chance to express their feelings, and the bond they shared faded, leaving them to disappear from each other’s memories of youth.

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.

A group of high schoolers forms a band as they near the end of their schooldays, but romance soon threatens their harmony. Lead singer Yoo Ha Young, whose viral YouTube cover song made her famous, wants to be known for original material. However, both her close friend and guitarist, Lee Ji Hoon, and the older keyboard player Gong Chan Young develop feelings for her. Meanwhile, bassist Lim Seo Eun and the band’s drummer Shim Tae Young also find themselves drawn to each other.

The story arises from the aftermath of a catastrophic car crash that has temporarily blinded the billionaire Kaden. Isla has been smitten with Kaden since his masterclass on slow dancing at her sixteenth birthday event. In the present, Isla attends to the ailing Kaden with a dose of deception.

Maging Sino Ka Man was a critically acclaimed Filipino primetime drama series that premiered on ABS-CBN on October 9, 2006. Book 1 ended on May 25, 2007. Due to its success, a sequel was aired on December 10. The same year, the drama series ended.