Gloomy Salad Days

I'm Gloomy Salad Days
Gloomy Salad Days poster
死神少女
Genre	Romance Mystery Suspense School
Directed by	Zero Chou
Starring	Aaron Yan Serena Fang
Country of origin	Taiwan
Original language(s)	Mandarin
No. of episodes	20
Production
Producer(s)	Zero Chou Hoho Liu (劉芸後)
Production location(s)	Taichung, Taiwan
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	PTS
Original release	9 October – 11 December 2010
Chronology
Preceded by	Year of the Rain
Followed by	Days We Stared at the Sun
External links
Website

Gloomy Salad Days (死神少女; pinyin: Si3 Shen2 Shao4 Nv3) is a 2010 Taiwanese television series starring Aaron Yan and Serena Fang. It aired its first episode on Saturday, 9 October 2010 at 9 pm on PTS Channel; two episodes were broadcast back-to-back every week.^[1]

Synopsis

The drama consists of 12 different stories, being fictionalised accounts of teenagers, taken from real life social cases. The main character, is Du the Death Girl, and she is the guardian of the bridge called the "Nai He Qiao", she is the Chinese equivalent of Charon and the river, over which her bridge spans, the Chinese equivalent of the Styx.

The bridge is crumbling and its masonry is falling away, so Du sets off to look for people who are willing to be turned into a rock, with which to repair the bridge, in exchange for a wish. Du can only be summoned when a particular person has a rock from the bridge and wants to die because he or she can not continue through a difficult time. However Shen Qi, who has a brain tumor, can see Du even without desiring death nor possessing a rock. After he learns that Du took Huang He away, Shen Qi tries to save people from Du and prevent her from taking their lives away.

Shen Qi slowly becomes curious about Du and tries to find out who she was in her previous life. He discovers that in Du's previous life she was a girl named Du He, whose Death Girl comic won first place in a competition. He also learns that in her previous life, Gao Chao who was also chosen to take part in the competition, substituted the better of his work for an inferior one, in order for Du He to have a better chance at winning the prize money because she needed it more.

Not long after, Gao Chao asks Du He to marry him and she does. However, one night, Du He's brother, Du Ji becomes drunk. He has fallen in love with his own sister and is upset at her marriage. Enraged, Du Ji uses a wooden plank to hit Gao Chao, causing him to fall into a pool. Du He, shocked, comes out screaming for Gao Chao. Du Ji tries to calm her down and tells her the reasons for his actions. Du He reveals that she feels the same way as Du Ji does; however she does not wish to wrong Gao Chao and jumps into the pool. With the thought that her existence only brings tragedy to the world, she becomes brain dead and falls into deep coma. Gao Chao recovers but Du He does not. He flies to Japan by himself and becomes engaged to another woman.

Shen Qi, who started out pitying Du, begins to love her and Du comes to love him too. When Shen Qi's father learns that Shen Qi has a brain tumor, he immediately plans for it to be operated upon. However Shen Qi does not wish to have the tumor removed, as he knows that once removed he will never be able to see Du in this life again. Can the lovers be together though they are from two different worlds, or will they be forever separated?

Episodes

Cast

Production

Gloomy Salad Days was filmed at the National Dongshih Industrial High School at Taichung, Taiwan (國立東勢高工; pinyin: guó lì dōng shì gāo gōng). For the filming of this drama, the school's name was changed to 石雨高校 (pinyin: shí yǔ gāo xiào).

Broadcasting info

Ratings (PTS)

Other media

Publications

News

1. 27.04.2010 Director Zero Chou shares "Death Girl filming concept (In CHI).
2. 27.04.2010 Aaron Yan and Serena Fang have a ghostly romance mid-air.
3. 28.04.2010 Peter Ho shows support as guest star, seeing Aaron Yan, turns into a incest psycho.
4. 28.04.2010 Aaron Yan's brain tumor gives him the sixth sense, Wu Chun's migraine helps out.
5. 31.07.2010 Death Girl will air at PTS on 18 September.
6. 02.08.2010 Aaron Yan rushing drama had not shut eye in 24 hours.
7. 20.08.2010 Aaron injured on Gloomy Salad Days's set.(In CHI)
8. "Death Girl," staged a "close contact body struggle scene" with Aaron.
9. Aaron Yan & Serena Fang's Bed Scene Makes Director Blush.

References

External links

• Gloomy Salad Days PTS Website.
• Gloomy Salad Days at Fahrenheit Globa1.