Kiseki: Dear to Me

Bai Zong Yi (Taro Lin) has his future mapped out: study hard, qualify, become a doctor. Then he finds Fan Ze Rui (Hsu Kai) injured, takes him home and nurses him back to health, which is how a young gangster comes to be living in a medical student's flat. The two grow close over dressings and revision timetables, but Ze Rui's obligations do not stay outside the door. His family ties to organised crime follow him in, and what is owed to an organisation begins pressing against what is owed to a person. A second pairing runs beside them, Chen Yi (Nat Chen) and Ai Di (Louis Chiang), who are pursuing their own search for the missing Zhang Teng (Wayne Song) and asking the same questions at a different stage of life.

Consequence is the concern that never goes away here. Caretaking carries most of the emotional weight, with injuries, treatment and study schedules recurring as the settings in which these characters show what they will not say, and the thirteen episodes are built in two halves separated by four years, so decisions taken quickly in the first have to be lived with in the second.

Lin Pei-yu took three jobs on this production. She wrote the source novel 奇蹟, adapted her own book for the screen, and shares the producer credit with Anita Sung; Sharp Point published the novel in 2021. Hope Wu directed for Brains Entertainment Production, and filming opened with a ceremony in Zhongli on 1 March 2023. The series aired on GTV and was built as a Taiwan and Japan co-production, with Rakuten Group, SPO Entertainment and Video Market joining at production stage. Thirteen episodes of about 26 minutes ran on Tuesdays from 22 August to 7 November 2023, with Yang Lieh, Hsieh Cheng-chun and Liang Che in the supporting cast and Song Wei-en of HIStory3: Make Our Days Count in support four years on.