Chinese Drama 2019

 

Sweet Tai Chi (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Modern Wuxia, Martial Arts,  Youth, Romance
• Release Date: 25 December 2019
• Origin: China
• Cdrama: 24 Episodes

 

Cast:

• Bi Wen Jun as Wei Chu
• Sun Qian as Feng Piao Piao (PP)
• Jia Zheng Yu as Bai Hai Yang (Taiji Faculty New Leader)
• Ding Ze Ren as Chen Bing (Cheng Taiji heir)
• Yang Ning Que (Yang Taiji heir)
• Krystal Zhang as Xiao Xiao (PP’s Bestfriend)
• Qi Pei Xin as Tan Lin (Boxing Faculty Leader)
• Sato Kanta as Yue Shan Xun (Japanese Exchange Student)
• Rebecca Chan as Weic Chu’s grandmother
• Xinrou & Ajia (Meangirls)

 

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Episode 1

Wei Chu is the heir to Taiji.  Once upon a time his life was tai chi/martial arts.  He was the president of Taiji club and was revered and envied by classmates and schoolmates for his prowess, wealth and good looks.

Then something happened that required him to undergo bone marrow transplant.  Suddenly the thing that he loves most, he cannot do anymore.  For a year he was away from school but his legend lived on.

Then he was back.  Some were glad to see him returned but there are those who wanted him to be humbled, gone and the Taiji faculty with him.

Feng Piao Piao is a practitioner of Tai Chi.  She had been coached by her grandpa all her life and she was quite good at it. Piao Piao wanted to enroll to Shiang Xiang College to study art, she had really worked hard to be able to do so.

The day that she had to submit her final work of art as part of the entrance requirement for Shiang Xiang College was rather hectic.  Piao Piao grabbed the painting which she was to submit.

She learned later that her painting was much admired because of its beauty, content, and maturity in technique.  She realised that she submitted her grandfather’s latest painting instead of the one she actually did.  She wanted to confess to the teacher but she can’t do it because he had fulsomely complimented her and the painting against others who suspected that she did not paint it as she was very young and lack maturity for such a subject in the painting.

Whether she had confessed or not in the end, it did not matter as someone defaced her art and her teacher asked her to repair it or paint another one.  She was given three days.

Piao Piao was stressing because she knew she can’t paint as good as her grandpa and therefore won’t be able to replicate a drawing like his.  This would mean expulsion from school before she actually really begins.

So she decided that she had to go and see her grandpa, beg him to let her borrow of his painting despite the curfew in place at school/dorm.

On her way to her house, she saw Wei Chu and noticed that at least half a dozen boys were threatening to beat him up.

She used her mobile phone to replicate the sound of a police car alarm.  The boys ran away but they returned when they reliased that it was a fake alarm.

Again they were getting ready to beat Wei Chu again but Piao Piao, ripping material from Wei Chu’s shirt  then improvised a mask.  She did beat the boys, 7 guys in all, one by one.

Afterwards, she dragged Wei Chu away.  He asked her what she was doing out after curfew?

She said that she doesn’t go to school.

She went home and her grandpa was waiting for her and asked her what was she up to.  He knew she had been fighting.

She confessed about everything including the painting.  He was very understanding and allowed her to take one of his paintings.

Meanwhile, Wei Chu was intrigued by her and searched online who she was.

Episode 2

After PP gave her painting to the professor, she sent to find Wen Chu.  She asked a couple of girls where he lives but they purposely gave her conflicting directions.

So she had to rely on herself to find the place herself.  She had walked for sometime when she saw Wen Chu by a scenic hill.  She immediately went to him and started rather aggressively to push him against a tree trunk and threatened him that she beat him to death if he reveals that she knows Taiji.

They did not know that they were being recorded by one of the girls PP asked direction from.

Anyway, after Wen Chu agreed to keep her secret, she left him.

There was a faculty meeting involving the Taiji Faculty and Baxing Faculty.

The Boxing Faculty led by Tan Li proposed that Taiji should be abolished being of their dwindling numbers of members.  They only have twelve at the moment but under ten it would be automatically put forward to abolition.

The teacher advisers said that it was early days to talk about abolishing.

Wen Chu went to the Taiji Dojo to hand back the leadership seal back to Bai Hai for obvious reasons that he can no longer lead because of his current condition. Any fighting for him would delay his recuperation.

Just after he left, the members of the Boxing club also turned up at the dojo to challenge Taiji to a fight to be held in a week’s time.

Bai Hai was a good fighter so he accepted the challenge.

It was raining when PP ran into a shady pergola, she bumped into someone and realised it was Wen Chu.  they started arguing immediately but she did sort of felt guilty that it might be because of her that Boxing challenged Taiji because they were looking for her.

Wen Chu noticed that PP was shivering and sneezing so he took off his gorgeous limited edition jacket and draped it around her shoulders.

The jacket ended up with a burnt hole on it cased by accidentally putting an hot electric iron over it while she was talking to her best friend and dorm mate Xiao Xiao (XX).

When she returned the jacket to Wen Chu, she found out that it was quite expensive so she tried to save for it including not eating lunch.

So Xiao Xiao, who did not know about her money problem went to the school cafeteria.  She was about to pay for her lunch when she noticed that she was missing her money seal.  Bai Hai generously paid for her meal.

While Bai Hai was eating members of the Boxing Faculty came and distracted him.  They drugged his glass of water so that he could not attend the preliminary competition that was about to happen.

Bai Hai ended up in the hospital.

But the atmosphere of the contest was so heady that PP went to watch it.

The Taiji was on a losing streak with Bai Hai.

It was almost a foregone conclusion that the contest was lost by Taiji until someone shouted that it was not finished.

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Episode 8

Wei Chu is determined to train Feng PP and had now determined to control every aspect of her life.

He would not even allow her to escort a new Japanese student, who just transferred to their school, after Feng PP said that the boy looked like a hero who jumped out of a manga story.

Feng PP also complained that his training made her dead tired.  There is no longer fun in taiji unlike when she was training with her grandad.

Wei Chu said that training with her grandad for a hobby but she did to work hard and concentrate if she wanted to win the martial arts contest.

PP began to be gossiped about because they thought she has a rather master/slave relationship with Wei Chu.

There are also gossiped that she was also having a relationship with Shan Xun, therefore she was deemed shameless.

Wei Chu got to find out about the gossip so he made sure Shan Xun thought that he was in a relationship with Feng PP.

It was the Spring Festival.  The New Year vacation.  Feng PiPi went home to her grandad.  They were happily making dumplings when there was a knock on the door.

It was Wei Chu who wanted to spend the festivities with Grandpa and Feng PiPi.

Wei Chu told grandad that he wanted to Feng PP to enter the contest for World Martial Arts.

Wei Chu was so jealous when Feng PP received a call.  He kept asking who the call was from but she ignored him and continued smiling.

Xiao Xiao met up with Feng Pi Pi ang brought Shan Xun with her. they ended up having a lovely fun time together.

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Episode 10

It was finlly revealed that Feng Pi Pi did not paint the painting she submitted for the admission requirement.  The punishment for this is expulsion.

Wei Chu, however, intervened and said that Feng PiPi should be give two weeks to prepare and paint in front of everyone.

Feng Pipi was unsure about this but Wei Chu said that she has him.  He will tutor her.

Poor Xiao Xiao was told by Bai Hai that he was so busy with resurrecting Taiji Faculty that there is now room for her in his heart.

Episode 11

Ajia tried to sabotage Feng PP’s painting ‘exhibition’ but in the end PP showed them and everyone else that she can really paint.

Ajia got found out that she did something on the table/desk leg causing it to collapse while PP was doing her painting.

Wei Chu knew that he had a strong rival in Shan Xun.  He got jealous when he saw a photo of Feng PP and Shan Xun looking so friendly.

He also tried to be more accomodating to her, and buying her little treats like a set of manga books.

When she found the books, he said that he bought for her so she stays longer by his side.

Wei Chun went to his Chinese Medicine doctor who told him that he was getting better fast.  He was now 80 percent recharged.

Episode 12

Shan Xun was going back to Japan and said before he leaves, he would like to say something to Feng PP. He confessed to her.

But Feng PiPi told him that when she things of romantic things she thought of another person.  She then told him that he was gorgeous and kind and she was pretty sure Shan Xun is popular with the girls wherever he goes.

Both sadly said farewell to each other.

This made Feng PiPi realized that she really likes Wei Chu.

She did try to get closer to him but he found her attentiveness strange.

Episode 13

Wei Chu was attacked by a strong female ninja wearing a mask.

Unfortunately, she caused major damage to  Wei Chu’s meridian.

The doctor told him later that his new injury was so bad it has undone all the 80 percent curative effect of his recuperation.  The worst-case scenario was he might lose the use of his legs.

Poor Wei Chu had gone into a full depressed mode.

He told Feng PP that his meridian was badly damaged and there is no use used for coming around anymore as he could not be her shifu anymore.

Wei Chu, though, was missing Feng PP so much.

Episode 14

Meanwhile, Wei Chu’s current condition spread like wildfire and some members of the Taiji Faculty started leaving the dojo.

At the same time, there was the long-awaited contest with the Boxing Faculty.

Feng PP told Wei Chu that she wanted to transfer to the Taiji Faculty.

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