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The film opens in the present day, where Lin Truly (Joe Chen) is an ordinary office worker who leads a stressful life. Her name, “Truly”, literally means “sincere of heart”, reflecting her hard-working nature which often gets her ridiculed by her younger subordinates. Dejected, she listens to a cassette recording of an old Andy Lau song. This brings her back to her high school days, when she was an ordinary high school girl, who idolized Lau and lived a simple, care-free life. She had a crush on Ouyang Fei-Fan, (Dino Lee), the school’s most popular male student, and had two good girl friends.

One day, seventeen-year-old Lin (Vivian Sung) receives a chain letter, warning her of impending doom if she does not pass the message on. Naively, she passes it on to Hsu Tai-yu (Darren Wang), the school’s notorious gangster boss, her math teacher and Tao Min-min (Dewi Chien), the school’s most popular girl. While Hsu Tai-yu is reading the letter, he gets hit by a car. After weeding out the letter’s sender, the angry Hsu Tai-yu makes Lin Truly his ‘friend’ and forces her to run errands for him in exchange for leaving Ouyang alone, thus making her his errand-girl.

By chance, Lin Truly accidentally overhears a conversation between Min-min and Ouyang and discovers that they are in a secret relationship. Dejected, she creates an alliance with Hsu Tai-yu, who likes Tao Min-min, to break the couple up. While looking through Ouyang’s past year book, Lin Truly discovers that both Ouyang and Tai-yu were once classmates. She then proceeds to ask Ouyang about it; he reveals that both he and Tai-yu were once good friends. However, after the tragic death of one of their friends, Tai-yu became withdrawn and transferred out of their school, eventually becoming the gangster boss in high school.

Later, Lin Truly challenges Tai-yu to a roller-skating race, whereby the winner can ask the loser to fulfill a request. She manages to win the race, before admitting to Tai-yu that she knows about his past from Ouyang. She then requests that Tai-yu goes back to the person he was before, and not the gangster boss he is now. Moved by Lin Truly’s words, Tai-yu starts improving his behaviour in school. He also starts studying with Lin Truly during and after school.

Throughout the year, Lin Truly and Hsu Tai-yu begin to understand each other better, and their friendship evolves as they began to learn a thing or two about true love. Eventually, Lin truly starts developing romantic feelings for Hsu Tai-yu.

Tai-yu manages to place 10th in the school’s mock exam, much to the surprise of his classmates. However, the school’s new Director is skeptical of his improvement and punishes him for allegedly cheating in the exam despite not having proof. Tai-yu is forced to run 50 rounds around the school’s running track, which causes him to collapse due to heat stroke.

Angered by the unfairness of the Director, Lin Truly starts a campaign within the school to raise awareness about the Director’s mistreatment of Tai-yu and the students in general. This comes to a head during the school’s festival event, where the students led by Lin Truly intentionally commit various school offenses in jest as protest against the Director, ultimately causing the school’s Principal to give in to their demands.

During a camping trip together with their friends, Lin Truly and Tai-yu both promise to never forget each other after they go their separate ways after high school.

The day before Lin Truly’s birthday, she receives a recording from Tai-yu as a present, which she is to listen only after the university entrance exam.

On her birthday, Lin Truly sees Tai-yu and eagerly drags him aside to let him sign her yearbook. However, Tao Min-min suddenly shows up by his side. Tai-yu explains that she confessed to him earlier that she likes him and that they are now together, before wishing Lin Truly the best with Ouyang. Lin Truly is devastated, and after congratulating Tai-yu, breaks down in tears alone.

Hsu Tai-yu later discovers that he has a blood clot in his brain, caused by the car accident and further exacerbated by his frequent brawling and falls. His parents decide to send him overseas, leaving Lin Truly with no way to contact him.

After the university entrance exams, Lin Truly decides to listen to the recording. In it, Tai-yu says that although they both fulfilled their initial promise to court both Ouyang and Tao Min-min, Tai-yu admits to his feelings for Lin Truly, and asks her to always remember him in her heart.

In the present day, Lin Truly leaves her job and relationship upon having rediscovered herself. She is still unable to book a ticket to an Andy Lau concert that is set to take place in Taipei. While buying a drink outside the concert venue, she happens to bump into Andy Lau himself. Seeing that Lin Truly is a huge fan of his, Andy Lau gives her the contact of a person who can get her into the concert. Before the concert begins, Lin Truly calls the number, who is revealed to be Hsu Tai-yu (Jerry Yan). Hsu Tai-yu tells that he can finally fulfill his promise made in high school of getting Andy Lau to sing for her, and they both reunite.

Last Updated: June 14, 2025 at 01:29