The story centers around an ordinary girl, Dong Shancai, who is accepted into the most prestigious university in the country, Ming De University. Shancai is a girl from a family that barely makes ends meet. Due to the nature of her personality, she immediately clashes with F4, an elite clique composed of the four most popular boys in the institution, especially its spoiled, rich and arrogant leader - Daoming Si. Gradually, Daoming Si falls deeply in love with Shancai, only to realize that she is in love with one of his best friends, Huaze Lei. Eventually, the four boys begin to acknowledge Shancai's unyielding personality that is like her namesake: a weed that can never be brought down. Shancai begins to see the good in the boys, paving the way for friendships and an eventual romance. However, Daoming Si's mother strongly disapproves of Shancai due to her social status and family background, thus the former doing all things in order to break Shancai and Daoming Si's relationship.
In April 2017, Angie Chai announced the remake of Meteor Garden, which she produced in 2001. Prior to the announcement, Barbie Hsu hinted at the news on her Weibo account. Chai planned on making the remake a "fuller —and flashier— adaptation of the books". The drama was budgeted at 720 million New Taiwan dollars with 15 million per episode, thirty times higher than the original. A casting call was announced on social media on June 21, 2017 with a video and the topic, "#FindingF4". On November 7, 2017, the actors playing F4 were revealed, namely Dylan Wang, Darren Chen, Caesar Wu and Connor Leong. Shen Yue's role as Dong Shancai was unveiled at a press conference in Shanghai on November 9. Dee Hsu auditioned for the role of Daoming Feng and was cast as Daoming Zhuang. The role of Daoming Feng was eventually portrayed by actress Wang Lin. In February 2018, it was announced that the director had been changed from Xu Fuxiang to Lin Helong.
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Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
International broadcast
Philippines: ABS-CBN holds local distribution rights to the programme in the country. It premiered on August 20, 2018 replacing The Blood Sisters. and ran until January 4, 2019, for 100 episodes. The network also holds exclusive local rights for streaming through its over-the-top service iWant, allowing viewers within the territory to catch up at their own convenience. It also re-aired on Asianovela Channel on December 2, 2019. It later returned on ABS-CBN from May 4 to 5, 2020 as part of the network's programming changes due to the 2020 Luzon enhanced community quarantine and was the last entertainment program to be aired prior to the network's closure due to the cease and desist order by the National Telecommunications Commission on account of its franchise expiration, in which it was interrupted midway in favor of a simulcast of DZMM TeleRadyo, followed by the special edition of the network's flagship news program, TV Patrol on ABS-CBN's cease-and-desist order before it went off-air. The program resumes on ABS-CBN's replacement, Kapamilya Channel on June 15, 2020.
Indonesia: SCTV holds the rights to air the program throughout the archipelago. It premiered on September 3, 2018. However, Asian OTT service Viu holds the separate streaming rights in Indonesia and started streaming on July 16.
