Miss Rose


Miss Rose is 2012 Taiwanese romantic comedy television series starring Megan Lai, Roy Chiu as the main leads, with Paul Hsu, Tia Lee, Chunya Chao and Puff Guo in supporting roles. The original title literally translates as "Miss Screws to get married" which is in reference to Megan Lai's character name which pronunciation sounds the same as "screw" in Mandarin and Roy Chiu's character "Gao Cheng Kuan" referring his workers as "screws", mentioned in episode 1. Filming began on June 9, 2012 and finished on December 6, 2012. First episode began airing on July 22, 2012 and finished on December 30, 2012 with 23 episodes total. The drama was filmed while it aired.

Synopsis

When a hardworking office lady is told by a fortune teller that she will never get married, she makes a bet with the fortune teller that she will prove her reading wrong or else she will give her $1 million. She meets a heartless, stern and cold CEO of a company who has no compassion for his employees who will eventually become her new boss. At first both can't stand each other but after working closely with each other they learn to trust each other and love blossoms between the two. But it won't be easy for their love to survive when he has a fiancée who won't let go and she has a former boyfriend who wants her back.

Plot summary

Luo Si Yi is the hardest working person in her company. On a whim, she goes to see a fortune teller who tells her she will never get married. Furious of the reading she has just received she makes a wager with the fortune teller by saying she will get married within a year and if she can't she will pay the fortune teller $1,000,000.00 dollars. Si Yi goes on lots of blind dates where she gets insulted by guys who are not up to standards that tell her she is old and past her age for marriage and to have children.
Gao Cheng Kuan is a corporate raider and heartless CEO who sees his employees as screws. Any screws that are rusted should be thrown out and any that are loose needs to be screwed on tightly. He himself is also in a difficult position since he has betrothed to his bosses spoiled daughter who he does not love and always having to prove his worth to his boss and his daughter.
When Si Yi is sent by her lazy boss to get a cake for the head of their company birthday party she meets Cheng Kuan when she accidentally splatters a cake and ruins his expensive suit. Not having the proper attire to a corporate takeover meeting he is helming it causes him to not show up to the meeting and lose his chance at taking over a company. This causes conflict between him and his future father-in-law which result in Cheng Kuan being sent to run the light company that Si Yi works for in order to prove himself again. Si Yi and Cheng Kuan have a further misunderstanding of each other when she goes to work on the weekend to catch up and he shows up in casual clothes to scope out the company. She mistakes him for a burglar, stalker, and pervert, but later finds out that he is her new boss.
Seeing how everyone at the lighting company is lacking and lazy, Cheng Kuan soon learns to trust only Si Yi, the hardest working person in the company. She becomes his assistant at the company and romance between the two starts to blossom when they go on a business trip together, but his fiancée is not happy with Cheng Kuan loving another woman even though she doesn't love him because she doesn't like her things being taken from her. Cheng Kuan soon has to make the decision of giving up as future CEO of a huge corporation, something he has worked hard for all his life to be with the woman he loves or staying in a loveless relationship to keep what he has worked hard for.

Cast

Main cast

No official soundtrack album was released for "Miss Rose". The opening theme song is "Sneezing 打噴嚏（發燒快版）" by Yen-j and the closing theme song is "One In A Thousand 好難得" by Della Ding.

Songs

Songs from the soundtrack are taken from the following artiste self albums:
"Miss Rose" was filmed entirely in various cities and counties throughout Taiwan.

Keelung

"Miss Rose" first original airing began on Taiwanese Sanlih channel TTV on July 22, 2012 every Sunday night at 10:00 PM, final episode was aired on December 30, 2012 with 23 episodes total. Each episode running time is 90 minutes with commercials included.
ChannelCountry/LocationAiring DateTimeslot
TTV
July 22, 2012
Sunday 10:00 PM
SET
July 28, 2012
Saturday 11:30 PM
10:00 PM
ETTV
August 5, 2012
Sunday 7:30 PM
LTV HD
January 22, 2013
Monday-Friday 9:00 PM
PPS
June 6, 2012
Sunday 10:00 PM
Youku
June 6, 2012
Sunday 10:00 PM
iQIYI.COM
June 6, 2012
Sunday 10:00 PM
TVB J2
March 10, 2013
Sunday 8:30 PM
Astro
March 28, 2013
Monday-Friday 10:30 PM
True Asian Series
September 15, 2013
Friday-Sunday 7:00 PM
Vietnamese Broadcasting Services
Unknown
9:00 pm

Episode ratings

"Miss Rose" ranked number one in its time slot throughout its original airing with a total average of 3.49. The viewers survey was conducted by AGB Nielsen with a survey range of over 4 years old TV audience.
Competing dramas on rival channels airing at the same time slot were: