Say Again Yes I Do (Chinese: 再說一次我願意; pinyin: Zai Shuo Yi Ci Wo Yuan Yi) also known as I Do2 is a 2014 Taiwanese television series created and produced by Sanlih E-Television. Starring Lin Yo Wei, Mandy Wei, Michael Zhang and Vivi Lee as the main leads. Filming began on August 6, 2014, and wrapped up on December 31, 2014, the drama was filmed as it aired. The series began airing on Sanlih's TTV channel on Sunday nights August 30, 2014 at 10:00 PM and will take over the timeslot of previous TTV drama "Fall in Love with Me 愛上兩個我". The 20-episode series concluded on January 4, 2015, when its final episode was aired.
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Synopsis
Can you rush true love before its time? Shu Xin Kui (Mandy Wei) met Xiang Zheng Yang (Lin Yo-Wei) four years ago and got married after a whirlwind romance of only a couple of months. But as the stress of married life set in – trying to get used to each other's habits and dealing with the extended in-laws – the young couple began to bicker and ended up divorcing just six months into their marriage. Four years later, Xin Kui and Zheng Yang meet up again when they both start working together as managers-in-training at the same hotel. As the same chemistry they initially felt toward each other starts to brew, can Xin Kui and Zheng Yang make a relationship work the second time around?
Plot summary
Xiang Zheng Yang and Shu Xin Kui meet by accident when he takes her cup of coffee at a cafe. Later that day the two encounter each other again at a singles party that their friends dragged them to. After that faithful day the two embark on a whirlwind romance and decided to get married after only dating for a few months. After their flash marriage the two starts to see faults in each other and find each other annoying. She sees him as a controlling neat freak who has a love for amphibians. While he sees her as a messy clumsy oath who pigs out on junk food. Unable to cope with each other anymore the two agree to a divorce after six month of marriage.
On the day Zheng Yang and Xin Kui divorce is finalized and they divide their assets, the two have a huge fight over belongings. The two swear not to ever encounter each other again. While at the beach reminiscing of the good times he had with Xin Kui, Zheng Yang sees a woman about to drown and saves her. Ge Qian Qian has also just ended a relationship. After a few kind words about relationship issues from Zheng Yang at the hospital the two part ways.
Four years later fate brings Zheng Yang and Xin Kui back together, when their best friends who dragged them to the singles party, get married and ask them to be the best man and maid of honor at their wedding. The day after their friends wedding, both also find out they're candidates at the same "Mars Hotel" management training course, which is a job promotion for those who survive and passes the training course. Also a trainee at the same course is Qian Qian, the women Zheng Yang saved from drowning four years ago. Things get more complicated when the strict director of the training course is Ji Shi Yu, Qian Qian's former fiancée who she ran out on four years ago without giving any explanation.
Shi Yu is the stern supervisor who believes the guest at the hotel are always right even though they are not. He tells his trainees that no matter what the guest must always leave "Mars Hotel" feeling satisfy with the best hospitality provided to them. He acts cold towards Qian Qian because of how she ended their relationship, but deep down he still cares for her and wants to know the reason she had left him. Qian Qian truly loves Shi Yu and was set to marry him four years ago until she found out she could not fulfill his dream of having lots of children since her doctor told her she could never have a child.
Cast
Main cast
Lin Yo-wei 林佑威 as Xiang Zheng Yang 向正陽 - Male age 30
Shu Xin Kui's ex-husband and later husband again. The heir of Dong Hua Hotel and a trainee at Mars Hotel. He is a neat freak who has a love for amphibians. He meets Xin Kui by chance when he accidentally grabs her cup of coffee and later on the same day at a singles party. He proposes marriage to Xin Kui after dating for only 2 month but the two divorce after putting up with each other for 6 month. 4 years later the two encounter each other again at their friends wedding and when both are trainees at Mars Hotel. After learning about each other more a second time, the two give their relationship another try, but his family business crisis and his mother comes between them.
Mandy Wei 魏蔓 as Shu Xin Kui 舒芯葵 - Female age 27
Xiang Zheng Yang's ex-wife and later wife again. An unorganized klutz who likes to pig out on junk food. She meets Zheng Yang when she has to chase after him for grabbing her cup of coffee. She agrees to marry him after dating for only 2 months but later divorces him when she can't stand his antics. Wanting a better life and better pay she signs up for the Mars Hotel training course in hopes of landing a manager position after completing the course. She was an orphan who was abandoned by her mother when she was young. Mother and daughter encounter each other again at the hotel. After realizing her ex-husband Zheng Yang is a caring and understanding man the two give their relationship another try but his family business, his mother and his childhood friend Liang Man Ni tries to come between them.
Michael Zhang 張勛傑 as Ji Shi Yu 紀時宇 - Male age 31
Ge Qian Qian ex-fiancee and Director of Mars Hotel management training course. A strict and stern supervisor who believes the guest are always right even if they are not. He highly believes in offering all guest the best service the staff can offer. Still in love with his former fiancee Qian Qian, he is clueless to way she ran out on him 4 years ago until a mutual family friend tell him that Qian Qian in unable to have children.
Vivi Lee 李維維 as Ge Qian Qian 葛芊芊 - Female age 28
Supporting cast
Yvonne Yao 姚采穎 as Xiao Li Wen 蕭莉玟
Mars Hotel manager.
Qiao Zi Qi 喬子齊 as Xiao Li Wen's assistant
Jenny Huang 黃甄妮 as Weng Mei Fang (Omega) 翁美芳
Mars Hotel trainee.
Yao Chun Yao 姚淳耀 as Dai Zhi Cheng 戴志誠
Mars Hotel trainee.
Wu Zhong Qiang 吳仲強 as Lan Yan Hu 藍晏琥
Mars Hotel trainee.
Angie Tang 唐琪 as elder sister Yuan 阮大姐
Senior Mars Hotel house-keeping employee. Family friend of Shu Xin Kui.
Tan Ai-chen 譚艾珍 as Gao Grandmother 高奶奶
Wife of the founder of Mars Hotel. She and Shu Xin Kui's grandparents where friends.
Xenia Yang 楊雅筑 as Gao Yu Rou 高雨柔
Daughter of Mars Hotel's Chairman. Arrogant and spoiled she ask for unreasonable demands from the hotel staff.
An Wei Ling 安唯綾 as Chen Mo Li 陳茉莉
Shu Xin Kui's friend and Cai Tao Gui's wife. She was the friend that dragged Xin Kui to the singles party. At first not interested in her husband Tao Gui but the two get married 4 years later. She helps her husband run and manage a manga rental shop.
Lin Jun Yong 林埈永 as Cai Tao Gui 蔡陶貴
Soundtrack
Say Again Yes I Do (再說一次Yes I Do) by Lin Yo Wei 林佑威
Remembering (念舊) by Lin Yo Wei 林佑威
Let Go, Travel (放下, 旅行) by Dino Lee 李玉璽
Dance With Me by Dino Lee 李玉璽
The Next Hug (下一次擁抱) by Miu Chu 朱俐靜
Run (跑) by Miu Chu 朱俐靜
My Little Life (我的小生活) by Miu Chu 朱俐靜
We In The Same Frequency (我們在同一個頻率) by Miu Chu 朱俐靜 & Ian Chen 陳彥允
Publications
* 6 December 2014 : Say Again Yes I Do Original Novel (再說一次我願意原創小說) - ISBN 9789863662259 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製 & Chen Bi Zhen 陳碧真 - Publisher: KADOKAWA Media (Taiwan) 台灣角川
A novel based on the drama was published detailing the entire story line of the drama. Spoilers are revealed in the novel before the drama finished airing. The book comes with a desktop foldout 2015 calendar
* 5 November 2014 : S-Pop Vol. 22 November 2014 (華流 11月號/2014) - Barcode 4717095578623 - Author: Sanlih E-Television 三立電視監製
Main leads Lin You Wei and Mandy Wei were featured on the regular issue of November 2014 issue of S-Pop magazine. The issue came with the gift of one of two random 2015 calendar with the Pleasantly Surprised drama theme.