Ai Sha 17 / Bump Off Lover

Cast

Zhang Shao Han as Yi Zhen / Yi Jing

Lu Ting Wei as Zhou Ke Qiang

Julian Yang as Lin Jia Wei

And the other supporting cast are pretty important to the story as well, actually (unlike typical dramas).

Characters

The story revolves around twins (yi zhen/yi jing). Yi zhen is portrayed as an outgoing, bubbly, strong minded, rude, sometimes unreasonable girl. Yi Jing is her twin, an asthmatic who seems gentle, polite and soft. Their mother is the principal of the school they go to. Yi Zhen has a boyfriend, Jia Wei, whose mother is a newsreader, and who is secretly having an affair with the twins’s father. The twins meet Zou Ke Qiang when they go on a holiday trip, who ends up being the brother of Zou Ke Jian, Yi Jing’s classmate, and sort of boyfriend in the end (of her life, that is).

This is generally a murder mystery; Yi Jing is mysteriously thrown off the school roof. Yi Zhen sets out to find out who did it – is it the evil teacher who got fired for sexually harassing her in the chemistry lab? Is it the weird Zou Ke Jian? Or is it the mysterious person who set up DarkHeart whom Zou Ke Jian was trying to warn them about?

The storyline is way too complicated for me to bother trying to outline in detail, because most of the little side plots actually end up meaning something later on in the series and also because I don’t want to be a spoilsport.

The theme songs are quite catchy although I still think zhang shao han isn’t an amazing singer – I liked the opening theme, kou dai de tian kong - very FIR-ry, and the closing theme was yin xin de chi bang – has a very catchy tune.

Overall one of the best series I have watched recently - a deviation from the recycled storylines that have been churned out in the last 2 years. Its not as scary as the Ice World (a japanese murder series) - that was way more creepy, which suited me just fine :) the acting was pretty good too - I was skeptical at first but in the end I had to admit Zhang Shao Han did a good job, as did the guy who was acting as Jia Wei.