"Summer`s Desire" is a blessing in my life that i will never forget.I was 12 years old when i first watched it with my little-sister,and i have re-watched it once a year since then.
It`s a very powerful romantic drama,despite not having "that much" romance in it.It revolves around three people.One woman and two men who loves her.This drama is based on a novel and also has a manga adaption by Ming Xiao Xi who also have put out some quotes in the every start of every episodes of the drama.Its deepful meanings about love and relationships.It also shows that every episode resembles a greater meaning behind it.

Yin Xia Mo (played by Barbie Hsu) is the FL,a heroine who resembles like no other.She is not the supernaive and sacrificial character,nor is she a bratty snob.She has such patience for life that it shatters you,because life has given her none of that.Strength and bravery lies in her heart,and the deep need to survive in a hypocritical world where she trusts nobody.Her younger half-brother is a link that sways her away from madness,and the one soul she loves the most.For him she is ready to kill anyone who harms him ,and even accept punishment that serves her in jail.She is considered to be cold-hearted and manipulative by the people around her,but deep inside her heart she is just longing for happiness.We as viewers just have to applaud over her courage for that.

Luo Xi (played by Huang Xiaoming) is the charismatic devil-like orphan who also has manipulative and selfish characteristics like Xia Mo,especially for survival.He is cynical,sarcastic and two-faced from the start,just to not let anyone near him,and for him to not let himself care.That falls apart when he gets to know his foster-sister Xia Mo,and falls madly and unhappily in love with her.He is a tortured soul whose mother abandoned him in a amusement park,that grave betrayal has scarred him for life,until he loses his heart to Xia Mo.He can be considered as a tragic hero for many,but for me he is a tortured soul that (just like Xia Mo) earns for happiness,and he is brave enough to follow it.

The greatest reason i always re-watch this drama is because of Peter Ho`s portrayal of the eccentric,mighty alpha-male of a tycoon Ou Chen who has lived a lonely and cold life as long as he can remember.As a young teenager he befriends and falls in love with Xia Mo,but his possessive and controlling nature creates a strain in their relationship later in High-School.I love that Ou Chen never wavered in his love for Xia Mo,even when he suffered amnesia his heart still longed for Xia Mo.His love for her was his ruin...and his cure.He loved her so much that he couldn`t live without her.Nothing meant anything without her.I love him so much.He shines through every scenes,and has the brooding irresistible quality about him...and every time he looked at Xia Mo,my stomach just tickled like crazy.His love for Xia Mo was so powerful that it could easily destroy him.He is the Anti-hero you can`t help but love,and he lets nothing stand in his way in his pursuit of his beloved Xia Mo.Peter Ho should have got an Oscar for his performance,this man really fascinated me!!!