Liang Jing Qi‘s family happily looked forward to the re-opening of "Memory Bakery". Unexpectedly, the landlord suddenly informed them that the store had been sold. The Liang family planned to buy the bakery, but the new owner raised the price to make things difficult.
When Jing Qi fell into despair, Guan Heng Wei suddenly appeared, willing to help her with the rest of the funds. The only condition was that she pretends to be a man and become his fake boyfriend in order to avoid his grandma's forced marriage.
In order to buy back the bakery, Jing Qi signed this strange contract, but she did not expect that all of this was carefully arranged by Guan Heng Wei...
"Twisted Strings" follows a series of bizarre deaths happening in Taiping City. Against an eerie atmosphere, Wu Yue Nu witnesses the deaths of people around her. A funeral, a missing body, a dangerous game, a kidnapping; real and unreal, these incidents are woven in Yue Nu’s memories, converging in the mysterious Sailing Castle.
The name of the series is inspired by a popular Taiwanese nursery rhyme, which contains lyrics that tell the story of a monkey's life over seven days. Each episode is loosely based on a line from the song.
At the age of ten, Cheng You Kuan experienced an event that would alter the course of his life forever.
The sole survivor or a terrible accident, You Kuan was so traumatized by the event, that every night since, he has dreams of death. Haunted by his terrifying dreams, You Kuan’s life only gets worse once he realizes that the deaths he dreams of aren’t simply nightmares but are actually glimpses into the future. Knowing when, where, and how the people around him are going to die, You Kuan has spent the past nineteen years haunted by unspeakable horrors.
Convinced his life will never be anything but awful, You Kuan believes he’s destined to spend his entire life in utter misery as he sees people’s deaths but is unable to help them alter their fate. But everything changes the day he meets Be Ke Wei, a woman who unwittingly shows You Kuan that a person’s fate can actually be altered. Suddenly seeing rays of hope in a world that has been nothing but gloom and despair, You Kuan finds himself falling for the woman who changed everything. But their relationship gets a bit more complicated when they realize they were both victims of the tragic accident that happened so many years ago.
Connected by fate, can You Kuan and Ke Wei find a way to rid themselves of the ghosts which have haunted them all these years? Or will the ties that bind them, ultimately be what tears them apart?
