Tang Zhi Wei is a Taiwanese actor and TV personality who was born on July 27, 1961. He studied at the Chinese Culture University, later going on to study filmmaking at the University of London’s Goldsmiths College. He began acting in earnest in the late 1980s, and has appeared in scores of hit drama and movie titles, including more recent drama hits such as “Rock Soulmate” and “Lost Romance” (2020).

Tang Zhi Wei

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Long Jie (Kent Tsai) is a high school student whose life appears to have been cursed with endless rotten luck. From his family life to his studies and his social life, nothing seems to ever go right for him. When a family tragedy compounds his misery, leaving him alone, he thinks things can’t get any worse...until things take a turn for the bizarre.

All of a sudden, he finds himself face-to-face with a merman name Ren Yu (Bruce He). The latter cannot survive out of water for long, and claims that it is Long Rie’s fault that he has been brought ashore. Long Jie agrees to help and takes this half-man-, half-sea creature back to his home, where Ren Yu promptly takes over the bathtub! Forced to live with this unlikely marine being, Long Jie eventually finds that Ren Yu is actually quite a lot of fun – although the whole situation gets weirder still when the merman becomes his classmate. But there’s magic in the air, and if too long goes by without Ren Yu returning to the sea, there could be trouble ahead. What will become of their friendship when the call of the ocean begins to grow louder?

“49 Days with a Merman” is a 2022 Taiwanese drama series that was directed by Zhang Xi Ming.

49 Days with A Merman

🧜‍♂️ My friend is a Merman 🧜

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Romance novel editor Zheng Xiao En (Vivian Sung) finds herself daydreaming constantly about He Tian Hang (Marcus Chang), the handsome CEO of the company that occupies the building opposite from hers. One day, she magically finds herself transported into the pages of a romance novel, where she comes face-to-face with a business leader who looks identical to her crush. Excited, she decides to put her years of editing romance novels to work, utilizing all the tips and tricks she has read about to capture his heart. But there’s a catch: in this fictional world, she isn’t the heroic female lead character who’s destined for romance. Instead, she is an evil side character on the road to ruin. Can she flip the story on its head to end up with the man of her dreams? This 2020 Taiwanese drama series was directed by Hao Xin Xiang.

Lost Romance

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Could anyone be more excited to reach her 26th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo (Megan Lai) had an inauspicious start to her life. When she was born 25 years ago, her parents and extended family – along with their fortuneteller – eagerly awaited her arrival in the delivery room so that they could bless the beginning of the Pi family’s heir. Upon hearing her first cry, the fortuneteller predicted on the spot that the baby boy would be a great success and a natural-born leader. But when the nurses announce that the baby is a girl, the stunned fortuneteller immediately announces that the girl would not survive her childhood unless she lives as a boy for the first 25 years of her life. Only then can Ya Nuo change her bad fate and bring prosperity to her family. On her 26th birthday, Ya Nuo can go back to her true gender without any repercussions. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Ya Nuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. One day, she accidentally helps out Du Zi Feng (Baron Chen), who happens to be a triad leader, and his sister, Du Zi Han (Mandy Tao). While Zi Han falls in love with Ya Nuo, Zi Feng becomes Ya Nuo’s “sworn brother” and best friend. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Ya Nuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped? “Bromance” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

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