MVP Lovers (My MVP Valentine) -- (2002)

Sunday 23 March 2014


This Taiwanese drama is about the love stories among teenagers in their senior high school life with basketball and everything relates to it as the background. MVP (Most Valuable Player) is the highest reward for the best player for the whole national tournament. Two biggest opponents Chen Feng and Iceman, will meet in the National High School Basketball Championship Game. Unfortunately, right before the game starts, Chen Feng, on his way to the arena, accidentally hits and paralyzes Angel, Iceman's younger sister. Hearing the bad news her sister being hospitalised for bad injuries, Iceman leaves for seeing her. Chen Feng then wins the MVP Award.

The accident does not only cause paralysis for Angel's legs. It also snatches her dream to continue studying abroad to be a professional violinist. Chen Feng is overtaken by guilt and quietly quits school and basketball team, to take care of Angel, leaving his loving girlfriend Xiao Xi heartbroken. Xiao Xi is a manager for a basketball team in her school. A school where the headmaster (Xiao Xi's father) will allow the students to break the school rules as long as they never move into another school. For Xiao Xi, basketball is half of her life.

Beside fixing her broken relationship with Chen Feng without knowing the real reason, Xiao Xi also tries to build a brand new basketball team which requires her male students friends who look like having talents in basketball, or at least, can be trained in that field. In other side, Angel who refuses Chen Feng's offer to be her personal guardian in the first place, starts to melt due to the boy's all efforts. Day by day, Angel realizes she falls in love with him.


Xiao Xi finally knows why Chen Feng quits school and basketball team. She ensures him that she will be by his side and they will take care of Angel together. Chen Feng loves her so much. Because he doesn't want to make her be framed on something he should be responsible by his own, he refuses her offer and tells her if it will be better to end their relationship.

In the midst of her sadness for Chen Feng's expression and her confusion about the sustainability of her basketball club's existence, comes a charming rich prince William who actually is a student from the same school as Iceman. Interested in Xiao Xi, William starts his step by moving into Xiao Xi's school to know more about her. With half luring and half threatening, Xiao Xi and William are success to seduce a right number of students to fill the requirement to create an official basketball team. And now, they need a coach. Xiao Xi asks William to bring Dong Qi Shen to be their coach. Qi Shen is the ex-coach from William's and Iceman's school basketball team who had been fired for having failed to bring the team achieve the MVP Award.


One problem has been solved. Xiao Xi tries to build a good-friend relationship with Angel. Surely Angel hates her after knowing she is Chen Feng's girlfriend. Iceman knows basketball is Chen Feng's life and he starts to understand her sister loves Chen Feng. Iceman then gives Xiao Xi a choice: breakup with Chen Feng, then he will let him back to the basketball court. Xiao Xi agrees. Doesn't know the deal Xiao Xi has taken, Chen Feng back to school and basketball team. There's a triangle love among him, Xiao Xi and William. Then comes Barbie who calls herself William's fiance.


Angel finally knows her brother's deal with Xiao Xi. Angel with crying, asks her to keep her promise to breakup with Chen Feng. Angel starts her cunning ways to make Xiao Xi looks like a bad girl. She maligns Xiao Xi has pushed her wheelcair from the school's upstairs and makes a lie by telling Chen Feng that Xiao Xi has forced her to show that she has been able to stand. That's she has to stop annoying him and Xiao Xi. It further exacerbates their relationship.

Unlucky Angel, not long after the incident, Chen Feng caught her is able to stand. Chen Feng is angry. He asks her to apologize to Xiao Xi. But in her sadness, Xiao Xi accepts William's love confession. Chen Feng tries his best to get Xiao Xi's heart back since he does will to help Angel to pay his fault but it doesn't mean he loves her. 

Feeling sad because Chen Feng is angry with her, Angel commits suicide from the rooftop of their house, causing her amnesia and makes her as angelic as her name. Chen Feng ensures Xiao Xi how he has known the all of Angel's tricks but softly Xiao Xi tells him to keep by Angel's side because she needs him more than Xiao Xi.


The tournament has entered its season. Chen Feng joins Xiao Xi's school basketball team and one by one game can be passed successfully.Till the semifinal,William's mother comes from Swiss and gets anger to know her son spends his most time in playing basketball. She threatens to delete William's team from the list if he does not want to quit the team. William persuades her mother to let him for the last time in the final then he will follow her back to Swiss.

They reaches the final game. Chen Feng and Iceman meets again and dramatically Xiao Xi's school basketball team wins it, with Chen Feng as MVP Award recipient. He doesn't want to own the award by himself then he announces that there are two MVP Award recipients in that year: he and Iceman.

Some talent seeker who have seen Chen Feng's plays, offer him to join their club in U.S. Thinking Xiao Xi doesn's love him anymore and there has been William by her side, Chen Feng accepts the offer. But William knows Xiao Xi's love is only for Chen Feng. He tells her Chen Feng will fly to abroad for a long time and they drive to airport in rush. It's too late. Chen Feng's plane has taken off.

Ten years later, Iceman, Angel and the whole players in the last final game reunite in Xiao Xi's school's basketball court. Without Xiao Xi, William and Chen Feng. Because Chen Feng who just arrives from U.S, unintentionally meets the girl he loves because of a big poster of William who has been a GM. Love spreads in the air.

happy ending...

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