Winter Sonata 2002

10 years ago, Jun Xiang transferred to Spring Village High School to look for his natural father. You Zhen and Cai Lin were interested in him. However, he was very hostile to the monitor, Xiang He because he suspected that he was his half-brother. Both guys were in love with You Zhen. When You Zhen was lost during a trip, Jun Xiang taught her to find her way back by observing the Polaris. One day, Jun Xiang was knocked down by a truck on New Year’s Eve and was believed to be dead.

10 years later, You Zhen sees a man resembling Jun Xiang and misses her engagement ceremony with Xiang He because she goes frantically in search of him. Later, she is shattered to know that he is Cai Lin’s boyfriend, Min Heng. Min Heng is the new architect at Marcian that is working with You Zhen’s Polaris company named after Jun Xiang.

You Zhen always looks at Min Heng tenderly in the same way she looks at Jun Xiang. Cai Lin badmouths her to make Min Heng dislike her, saying that she likes to imitate her and that she seduced Cai Lin's previous boyfriend. Later Min Heng discovers the truth and breaks off with Cai Lin and falls for You Zhen. I like the way that he presents her with the Polaris necklace – so romantic to place it in a snowball.

Xiang He forces You Zhen to marry him. When she refuses, he tries to kill himself to make her return to him. At this time, Min Heng finds out that he has amnesia due to the accident. His selfish mother erased his memory. Xiang He forbids him to tell You Zhen so he decides to go to the US. Before leaving, he gives her a CD ‘The First Time’ – the same song that Jun Xiang recorded and played for her on tape.

You Zhen tries to make him remember the past but to no avail. He still leaves the next day but is injured when he pushes You Zhen away from an oncoming truck. This woman is the main cause for his blindness later – hate her if you can because she just runs across the road blindly!

Upon recovery, he goes to Spring Village with her and remembers the past. He also finds out that his mother, Mei Xi was formerly engaged to You Zhen’s father. She tried to kill herself but was saved by Xiang He’s father. Jun Xiang didn’t know that the two had a one night stand. Mei Xi doesn’t deny that You Zhen’s father was also his father. He is very depressed over it.

Despite this, he still carries on his wedding plans with her but is stopped by Xiang He. He brings her to the seaside to spend their last times together. When she knows of the truth, she is upset but gives him a model of a house designed by her before parting ways.

Jun Xiang finds out that his father is Xiang He’s father. But now he has a blood clot in his brain after the second accident. If he doesn’t remove it, he will die. Xiang He is still selfish to tell him not to let You Zhen know about the truth. He even asks Jun Xiang to tell You Zhen to study in France with him. But he tells the truth after knowing Jun Xiang’s serious condition. They are too late upon reaching the airport.

3 years later, You Zhen returns and Xiang He doesn’t accompany her to Paris. She finds the house she designs built on an island. She discovers a blind Jun Xiang there. He has built it for her before going blind. Both embrace in the evening sunset.