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Autumn's Concerto 《下一站，幸福》
• Taiwan • 2009
Format: Standard Series
Episodes: 21 (TV) / 34 (Online)
Duration: ~1 hr 30 min each
📺 Available on:
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Netflix (Sub)
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Viki (Free, Sub)
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SET Drama (Free)
✨ Synopsis
Ren Guang Xi, a cocky law student, seems to lead the perfect life. He's the sole successor to a huge and famous business and is a talented ice hockey player. But in reality, his lonely life lacks joy, laughter and motivation. That is until he meets Liang Mu Cheng, the new bento seller at his school canteen. A harmless bet brings the two together and Guang Xi slowly changes as Mu Cheng teaches him how to give and love. Tragedy strikes when Guang Xi suddenly has to go through a major brain surgery which causes him to lose his memory.👥 Cast
💫 Vanness Wu — Ren Guang Xi
“Cocky law student who gets emotionally wrecked and then wrecks everyone else.”
🔥 Ady An — Liang Mu Cheng
“Canteen angel with trauma, integrity, and a survival instinct sharper than kitchen knives.”
💎 Wen Hsuan Yeh — Xiao Le
“Peak child acting + devastating cuteness + Type I diabetes plotline that had me stressed.”
💎 Wu Kang Ren — Hua Tuo Ye
“Sweet boy. Best friend energy. Permanently stuck in the ‘you deserved better’ club.”
(Plus a wild ecosystem of mothers, CEOs, village aunties, and one too-serious doctor daughter.)
💬 Ratings
🎭 Story: 💖 — 10/10
“I was yelling at my screen like it owed me money.”
💫 Acting/Cast: 🌟 — 10/10
“Nobody acted. They lived in my soul.”
🎧 Music: 🎵 — 8.5/10
“Soft pain and emotional ruin. Approved.”
🔁 Rewatch Value: 💖 — 10/10
“Will absolutely rewatch at 2 a.m. knowing full well what it does to me.”
🏆 Overall: 💖 — 10/10
“Emotionally violent. Spiritually effective. Zero regrets.”
📝 Review
(WARNING: Potential Spoilers — I'm Not Saving You from any Emotional Damage)
First Impressions (and Immediate Emotional Destruction)
Listen. This drama was made in 2009, and it still wiped the floor with half of what came out in 2024. I’m usually not hooked in episode one—that’s rare for me—but by episode two or three? I was gone.
Productivity? Canceled.
Social life? Dead.
Water intake? Unclear.
Even the side characters didn’t annoy me, which is practically unheard of in Taiwanese family melodramas. Everyone had a purpose, and the story never tripped over itself trying to justify unnecessary screen time.
Early Arc: Campus, Bento Boxes, and Betrayals
The progression from Mu Cheng’s childhood trauma → university → romance buildup is chef’s kiss. Nothing abrupt. Nothing rushed.
Guang Xi starts off using her for a bet (classic). She kind of knows, kind of doesn’t care, and then life slaps both of them into emotional sincerity.
He’s traumatized, stubborn, and trying not to fall in love.
She’s wounded, principled, and impossible not to fall for.
Cue:
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soft moments
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small kindnesses
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accidental emotional intimacy
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trauma bonding that actually feels organic
Then—boom—brain tumor.
He tries to push her away because he thinks he’s dying (men).
She refuses (queen).
They get together.
Surgery, Lies, Stabbing, and Amnesia (The Megamix)
Mu Cheng agrees to leave him so he’ll get the life-saving procedure. Predictable? Yes. Still painful? Also yes.
Right before surgery, his mother—the CEO controlling the procedure—and one wildly incompetent anesthesiologist manage to ruin everything.
Guang Xi tries to stop her from leaving → gets stabbed by her predatory uncle → wakes up with full amnesia and a doctor’s daughter (Emily) hovering like a ghost of a “rich wife future” he never asked for.
Six Years Later: Flower Village of Feelings
Mu Cheng is surviving in a small village with her five-year-old son Xiao Le—diabetes, bravery, and heartbreak included.
Guang Xi is now a high-powered, morally dead lawyer engaged to Emily. Yawn.
A case sends him back to the village (because fate is messy and petty). He doesn’t recognize Mu Cheng, but she becomes his secretary, and Xiao Le immediately bonds with him.
Watching Guang Xi regain morality one small interaction at a time? Art.
CEO Schemes, Moral Whiplash, and Baby-Mama Drama
Guang Xi flips sides, fights for the villagers, grows closer to Mu Cheng, and unknowingly father-bonds with Xiao Le.
Then Emily shows up and drags him back to Taipei.
Xiao Le misses him so badly he literally runs away. Ends up sick. Ends up hospitalized. Ends up meeting grandma.
Tension everywhere.
Emily learns the truth.
The mother remains insufferable.
Mu Cheng remains exhausted.
Memory Restoration: CHAOS MODE ACTIVATED
Right before the wedding, Guang Xi finds the memory-card bracelet.
Images. Flashbacks. Emotional combustion.
He remembers everything.
He snaps. Breaks off the engagement. Yells at his mother. Pursues Mu Cheng with a mix of revenge, heartbreak, and longing he absolutely refuses to name.
Their marriage—forced by a custody threat—is peak Miscommunication Olympics. But the jealousy? The yearning? Whew.
Final Arc: Healing, Courtrooms, and Second Chances
Guang Xi defends Hua Tuo Ye in a murder case.
The mother softens.
Secrets unwind.
Everyone stops being stupid long enough to let love in.
And yes—Guang Xi and Mu Cheng finally get back together, because after all that emotional cardio, they earned it.
💭 Final Mood
“Emotionally shattered, spiritually uplifted, and now staring at my ceiling like it betrayed me — 10/10 would rewatch at 2 a.m.”
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