Life Is Beautiful (初一的心愿) is a collaboration between MediaCorp and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), hopes to be able to raise awareness of kidney-related diseases and encourage the common folk to pay more attention to their kidney health. The story follows Shen Chuyi (Rui En), a bright young girl who is suddenly stricken with both kidney failure and the accidental death of her best friend, Cai Jiayi (Esther Yang). She eventually learns how to conquer her illness and find happiness again, with the help of the latter’s fiancé, Yu Yang (Pierre Png). Rui En plays the main character, Shen Chu Yi, a kidney patient with a sunny and positive personality who is nicknamed “Healthy Baby” because of her fixation with having a healthy lifestyle. Rui En, who plays a classic good girl, shared that her challenge would be to bring some humanity to a potentially too-perfect character. “The role is written very positive. It’s written very sunshine. It’s just a very likable role. She puts everyone else first. She nags all the people around her to eat healthy: Less sugar, less salt, less everything. But for me, I’m more interested in making the role real. I’m more interested in making it relatable rather than popular. And so that will be my challenge because she’s perfect,” the actress said. Pierre Png plays Yu Yang who lost his girlfriend, Cai Jiayi, through an accident. Although Pierre plays Rui En’s love interest, he said: “The love story is secondary.” The primary thing, he said, is to “tell the real story” of people who have to watch their loved ones suffer health issues. This is the 6th collaboration between Rui En & Pierre after Passion and Honour, A tale of two cities, The In-laws, CLIF 2 & 3. Allen Chen plays Ding Zhan Peng, Chuyi's boyfriend Jeffrey Xu plays Lin Zhong Ken, a fitness instructor who is good friend with Chuyi & Yuyang. He has a love line with Cai Jiajia (Yahui), Jiayi's younger sister. Link Chen Shu Cheng & Lin Mei Jiao play the parents of Jiajia & Jiayi. Ian Fang plays a young stroke patient, Zaizai. Fang 姐 (Cynthia Koh) is like Chuyi's counselor whom gives her advice whenever she ran into problem. She takes care of Zaizai's & Fei'zai (Cavin Soh)'s diet. Hong Hui Fang plays Yuyang's biological mom, Lin Shao Ping, a career women. Sora Ma plays Ann her secretary (?) 118 (要要发) is an original 190-episode half-hour socio-drama. Set against the backdrop of a coffeeshop in Tiong Bahru, the drama offers a light-hearted social commentary on current topics. Unlike previous local productions, the 190-episode sitcom will be taking a leaf from Taiwan and South Korea’s books by adopting the live-shoot system. Filming will take approximately one year to complete, and the main leads will have to arrange their schedules around shoots. The story follows Hong Da Ming (Chew Chor Meng), the bright and helpful boss of 118 Coffee Shop who raises four children – Wang Shun Feng (Dennis Chew), Hong Jin Zhi (Yahui), Hong Shun Shui (Xu Bin) and Hong Yu Ye (Somaline Ang) – with his wife, Liu Mei Mei (Pan Lingling). Chew Chor Meng as Hong Da Ming Helpful boss of 118 Coffee Shop Dennis Chew as Wang Shun Feng Kopi-kia (Coffee boy). A simple, kind-hearted guy that is always the first to rush forward to help. Xubin as Hong Shun Shui The only blood-related son of the family Fun fact: Chew Chor Meng is only 5 year older than Dennis Chew Link | Link | Link
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