Devil Beside You

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Devil Beside You (Traditional Chinese: 惡魔在身邊) is a Taiwanese drama starring Mike He and Rainie Yang. This series is adapted from the Japanese manga Akuma de Sourou, which was written by Mitsuba Takanashi. The series was broadcast on China Television (CTV) in 2005.

Summary

Qi Yue (Rainie Yang) is a college student in her second year. Having a crush on the captain of the school's basketball team, Shang Yuan Yi (Wang Chuan Yi), she writes a love letter to him and prepares to pass it to him. Qi Yue, being clumsy, accidentally hands the love letter to Jiang Meng (Mike He). Jiang Meng, called Ahmon or Ah Meng by his friends is a freshman and the school's bully, smiles devilishly at Qi Yue as she gapes in shock, dropping the love letter carelessly and running away. Qi Yue soon hears from her best friends that Ahmon is the school president's son. Being rich and powerful, Ahmon and his gang go around bullying other people to amuse themselves. While walking around school, Yue runs into Ahmon. He shows her the letter and reads the front of the envelope out to her. Qi Yue then realizes that Ahmon picked up the letter that she dropped. Ahmon blackmails Qi Yue and threatens to print 1000 copies of the love letter and scatter it around the whole school if she doesn't become his slave. Unwillingly, Qi Yue is forced to cater to Ahmon's every desire.

Qi Yue hates Ahmon at first but as she gets to know him, Qi Yue realises that he is simply "hard on the outside, soft on the inside" and is actually a nice person and just does things differently. In turn, Ahmon finds that Qi Yue is an unreasonably cute and innocent girl who is compassionate towards everyone and melts his heart. Very soon, Qi Yue finds herself flirting with her favorite devil and vice versa. As they start to fall for each other, Qi Yue is shocked to know that her widowed mother is about to marry Ahmon's father, which links them (Ahmon & Qi Yue) into a stepbrother-stepsister relationship. Various other complications ensue over the course of the series, but eventually Qi Yue and Ahmon gain the acceptance of their parents and end up having their happily ever after.

Cast

* Rainie Yang as Qi Yue
* Mike He as Jiang Meng
* Kingone Wang as Yuan Yi
* Tsai Pei Lin as Qing Zi
* Ivy Fan Xiao Fan as Xin Li Xiang
* He Du Lin as Jiang You Hui
* Ge Wei Ru as Huang Xue Wei
* Masuyama Yuki as Yu Yang Ping
* Yuan Jun Hao as Guo Kai
* Figaro Ceng Shao Zong as Yuan Chuan Rang
* Katherine Wang Kai Di as Liu Mei Di
* Fu Xiao Yun as Xiao Cai
* Wu Zhong Tian as Tian Si Shen
* Wang Jian Min as Chui Ming
* Tang Qi as Grandma Jiang
* Meng Ting Li as Yuan Mei Jin

Characters

* Qi Yue: Qi Yue is a sweet and innocent sophomore in college who lives with her widowed mother. She is very shy and sometimes clueless, but she has a loyal and kind heart that shines even through the toughest of times. She harbors a crush on the captain of the basketball team, Yuan Yi, but her life was turned upside-down by Ahmon. Eventually, she falls out of love with Yuan Yi and starts developing feelings for Ahmon. Qi Yue is also one of the managers of the basketball team.

* Jiang Meng: Nicknamed Ah Meng and Ahmon by his fellow peers, he is the son of the president of the school. He is a freshman at the college, yet he has power of his teachers due to his father's position. Ahmon is also frightening to a lot of people and is known to bully girls, yet he is also known as the "prince of seduction." Despite his cool composure and "bad" attitude, Ahmon has a gentle side and often sticks up for what is right. Li Xiang has a crush on him, which he does not reciprocate, but Ahmon has feelings for Qi Yue. Although she is his future stepsister, he does love her and enjoys teasing her. Ahmon also joins the basketball team and has faster reflexes that rival Yuan Yi's. Ah Meng also has a little brother.

* Shang Yuan Yi: Yuan Yi is a boy in Qi Yue's class (teasingly nicknamed "Ah Yi (Auntie in Chinese)", and is the captain of the basketball team. Qi Yue is initially in love with Yuan Yi for his gentle personality. Yuan Yi reciprocates her feelings and they become a couple. When Qi Yue falls in love with Ahmon, she breaks up with Yuan Yi, wishing not to lead him on. Yuan Yi is angry and hostile towards Ahmon at first, but gets over it and realizes his feelings for Qing Zi after she kisses him.

* Qing Zi: Qing Zi is Qi Yue's outspoken best friend. She and Xiao Cai are the ones who encourages Qi Yue to confess her love to Yuan Yi, even though Qing Zi herself had a crush on him. Qing Zi cares for Qi Yue a lot and spends a lot of effort in helping her. After Qi Yue and Yuan Yi break up, Qing Zi starts dating Yuan Yi. Qing Zi and Yuan Yi's relationship is tested when Qing Zi feels that Yuan Yi is spending more time playing basketball than being with her. Feeling dejected, she meets with a stranger she chatted with online. She later gets into a tussle with him and Yuan Yi comes to her rescue.

* Xiao Cai: Xiao Cai is Qi Yue and Qing Zi's friend. She and Qing Zi were the ones who supported Qi Yue to confess her love to Yuan Yi. Unlike Qing Zi, Xiao Cai appears to be more calm. She also alerted Yuan Yi of Qing Zi's escapade with the stranger because she was worried about Qing Zi's safety.

* Yuan Chuan Rang: He is nicknamed Ah Rang and the little brother of Ah Meng. Their father tried desperately to forget about him, and naming Ah Meng as the successor of the company. Ah Rang follows and stalks Qi Yue everywhere, trying to force her and blackmail her to like him, who in turn, does everything she can to stop him. He tries to ruin Ah Meng's name, and puts Ah Meng and Qi Yue in lots of danger. He is later softened by Qi Yue, who later feels sorry for him and reaches out to him, and becomes more open. Ah Rang actually really looks up to Ah Meng and sees him as a hero, and actually cares deeply about him, but his mother chose him instead of Ah Meng. This causes Ah Meng to envy his younger brother. Ah Meng would often ignore him and never look at him, and act coldly toward him. Ah Rang is also being helped by the school president's assistant who is in love with Ah Rang's mother, who does not reciprocate that love. Plus, Ah Meng had accidentally shoved Ah Rang into a vase that had severely injured and cut his neck, which was the reason for his hate. Because of this injury, he usually is weak and can collapse due to breath failure. [He has asthma] After a "fake" attack, he and Ah Meng rekindle their relationship and become brothers once more.

* Meidi: A girl who Ahmon saved when she dropped her glasses in the middle of a traffic. He took her to an optician and bought new glasses for her. She never got a good sight of him but fell in love with him. Coincidently, Ahmon's grandmother arranged a marriage for him and Meidi.

* Li Xiang: In high school, she was an asocial girl and acted snotty to all the girls in the class. Whenever she got bullied, Ahmon would protect her. Li Xiang has also devoloped a crush on Ahmon, calling him "Prince". She would do anything to get Ahmon to notice her, she would even go as far as hiring girls to beat her up so Ahmon could "save" her. Finally she realizes that this is not the way to get him to love her.

* Ahsen: Qi Yue's first crush. He was her father's student when they were younger. He studied overseas for sometime. And when he came back, he became a substitute for a short while at her college. He also became the coach for the basketball team.

Theme songs

* Opening: Jerk (臭男人) by Huang YiDa
* Ending: Ambiguous (曖昧) by Rainie Yang