Prince William (TV series)


Prince William is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television drama created and produced by TTV, starring KunDa Hsieh and Andrea Chen as the main leads with Gu Bao Ming, Paul Hsu and An Wei Ling in main supporting roles. The title is in reference to one of the main characters who is named William and acts as if he is above all, which results to others questioning if William "thinks he is a prince". The drama began filming on February 2014 and finished on June 2014, it was filmed while it aired. Original first broadcast began on April 26, 2014 during TTV's standard and HD channels 10:00–11:30 p.m. timeslot airing every Friday night and final episode airing on August 2, 2014 with 14 episodes total.

Synopsis

A poor and lowly educated fishmonger with a carefree happy attitude is forced to take on the identity of a cold ruthless real-estate developer when his home that has been in his family for three generations is at stake. However it won't be as simple as just having the same face when a subordinate with the help of a reporter tries to sabotage him, a sister that butt-heads with him, his mother questioning him about his new job and then having regrets of ever agreeing to taking on the life of the real-estate developer when his conscience gets the better of him.

Plot summary

Liu Wen Bin or Ah Bin as everyone in the fishing village of Mei calls him, is a carefree happy fishmonger who lives with his widowed mother. His simple peaceful life is turned upside down when the CEO of Yi Shan Constructions, Yi Wei Lian or William as he is called, arrives at Mei Village looking to tear it down and build a posh seaside resort called Bella Villa. Their path crosses while using the restroom at the same time, Ah Bin is mistaken as William by kidnappers who are working together with William's chauffeur. The chauffeur realizing his cohorts have the wrong person detours around Mei Village to have the correct William kidnapped.
Ah Bin escapes and reports the incident to the police where they contact William's personal assistant. At the police station Ah Bin meets William's mentor Wan Yong Chang and personal assistant Ma Ka Long. Wan and Maka are surprised and shocked by Ah Bin's uncanny resemblance to William, the only way to tell them apart is a mole on William's left cheek. Wan uses guilt and pity on Ah Bin to have him pretend to be William in order to help save William. What was supposed to be a one time role play job turns into long term when William is over traumatized after he has been rescued and unable to function. Ah Bin refuses to pretend to be William long term but Wan uses his family home as blackmail to coax him into agreeing. With his home at stake Ah Bin hesitantly agrees to pretend to be William while William recovers, in exchange Wan promises that Yi Shan Constructions will spare his home from the Bella Villa renewal project demolition at Mei Village.
To make sure Ah Bin and William do not have any relations to each other Wan and Maka secretly have Ah Bin's DNA tested. However it won't be easy on Ah Bin with just having the same face and learning William's mannerism when the General Manager of Yi Shan who constantly feels disrespected by William works together with a reporter to sabotage William and see that he fails as CEO. Then Ah Bin falls in love at first sight with William's younger sister Yi Xin, who constantly disagrees with the way William runs his company. With Ah Bin and Xin living together alone he sometimes forgets that he is supposed to be a brother to her and not have romantic thoughts about her. Things get further complicated when Ah Bin finds out that documents he has been signing in William's signature are to evict and demolish homes of elderly people who will become homeless. Having regrets and unable to control his conscience Ah Bin starts to rebel against Wan and do things his own way.
When the real William finds out that someone has been running Yi Shan Constructions in his place he goes ballistic and starts to turn against all those that care for him. Feeling betrayed and tricked he fires Wan, questions if his sister Xin really thinks of him as a blood relative and tries to overturn the contract that protects Ah Bin's home from demolition. William further goes into delusion when he feels under appreciated and thinking Ah Bin will replace him he accidentally hurts Ah Bin's mother, who was the only person that had actually given him a mothers security and love that he had longed for all his life. Realizing his wrongs William ask Ah Bin to help him regain Yi Shan Constructions board members trust by coming clean about having Ah Bin pretend to be him in the past and also naming Ah Bin as acting CEO of Yi Shan while he is away to further recover.

Cast

Main cast

Prince William Original TV Soundtrack was released on May 23, 2014 by various artists under Millions Entertainment Co., Ltd. label. It contains 16 tracks total, in which 6 songs are various instrumental and karaoke versions of the songs. The opening theme is track 1 "Prince's DNA 王子的DNA" performed by Antonio Huang, while the closing theme is track 2 "Invisible Man 影形人" also by Antonio Huang.

Track listing

Broadcast

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Competing dramas on rival channels airing at the same time slot were: