Islanders

Hanrong, inspired by Xianhong’s powerful speech back in high school, later becomes his personal assistant. Hanrong secretly harbors a long-term affection for Xianhong and is a quiet witness of Xianhong’s numerous romantic entanglements,…

Xianhong meets Lilian, a young woman who has just returned to Taipei after living in New York for several years. To impress Lilian, Xianhong even sets up a social media account he used to despise. Hanrong notices a change in Xianhong and…

Lilian reunites with college friends at a welcome party. As friends reminisce about the old days, Lilian thinks about Jay, her college crush who quit school to pursue a deep-sea fishing career. Back to the present, the friends are…

A heated debate between Xianhong and Ax at Lilian’s college reunion goes viral online. Meanwhile, backlash erupts over an edited interview of Xianhong, dragging him into a major PR crisis, which becomes a broader public discussion on the…

Xianhong is hit by a series of setbacks, both in his professional and personal life. Through it all, Lilian stands by him, even guiding him about steering public opinion through social media. Xianhong seizes the student movement as an…

As the generational debate fades, Xianhong is hailed as a youth advocate. He later makes a drastic decision and asks Lilian to start over with him in Shanghai. Struggling to accept it, Hanrong travels to China in search of answers but…

Xianhong’s actions ultimately shatter Hanrong’s long-held admiration for him, prompting Hanrong to walk away for good. Moved by Xiaowen’s final words in Shanghai, Lilian begins to reconsider her future with Xianhong. On a beach in…