After the ending of Marriage Not Dating, I ended up taking a break. While I love recapping, sometimes just experiencing a drama -- without having to stop and recap it -- is what I feel like doing. So I got on Netflix and found Princess's Stand In (aka Jin Da Hua De Hua Li Mao Xian or Jin Da Hua's Extravagant Adventure or Substitute Princess or King Flower).
Substitute Princess
Substitute Princess tells the story of Jin Da Hua (Nikki Hsieh), a woman desperately in need of plastic surgery. Everyone who doesn't know her calls her ugly because of the huge wart on her face and her horrible buck-teeth. (It's bad, so bad.) Since childhood, she has been in love with Lin Guan Jun (James Wen), but he only looks at her like a sister, even though it's obvious to everyone how she feels (she's not subtle). Right after it's revealed that her father owes over NT $2 million in gambling debts, she meets Ouyang Tai (aka Terry) (Chris Wu). His fiance, Du Liang Yan (also played Nikki Hsieh), has been badly injured in a mountain-climbing accident and it will take her a year to recover. In order to keep Liang Yan's condition secret and to retain his position as General Manager of the corporation Liang Yan's father runs, Terry offers to pay Da Hua's family's debt and give her the opportunity to get plastic surgery. All Da Hua has to do is fill in for Liang Yan until she recovers. To save her family and to try and catch the eye of Guan Jun, Da Hua says yes.
