10-Oct-2008
Story Timeline: 44 days
When baby plays Cupid, a young couple in a shotgun marriage find love - in the top-grossing Taiwanese TV Show. WHEN the cameras started rolling, Joe Chen Qiao En and Ethan Ruan Jing Tian took a romp in the sack. And, the two barely knew each other. Lest you misunderstand, it was all in a day’s work for the two stars of You’re My Destiny (Ming Zhong Zhu Ding Wo Ai Ni). In the series, Chen and Ruan attempted a most daring love scene for a Mandarin idol drama (idol dramas star young fresh faces and are appealing to teenage viewers). The 10-minute bedroom scene was filmed when they had just met and is perhaps one of the boldest yet for Taiwanese primetime television. “We were quite nervous as we were practically strangers then. The director bought us some wine and got us drunk to help us along,” disclosed 29-year-old Chen. “And...
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