Smile After Tears

Zhang Junjia (Zhang Jun-jia) arrives at Tianyuan High School as the new transfer student, a boy who meets everything with a grin and lets almost nobody see what the grin is covering, a difficult family situation and money worries he has decided are no one else's business. The school band gets him instead, and with it He Yankai (He Yan-kai), the group's lead singer, aloof and magnetic in equal measure, whose easy stage presence sits on top of a congenital heart condition he has lived with all his life. Rehearsals turn into something warmer, an attraction that stays unspoken, and the first stretch of Smile After Tears belongs to that slow, song-shaped courtship. The three Atom Boyz leads play characters who carry their own names.

Then a car accident cuts the story in half. What had been a campus romance becomes a study of grief: Jun-jia carries a loss he has no language for, still smiling on the outside. Slowly he registers that Zheng Diaoqin (Zheng Diao-qin), a quiet fixture of the school basketball team, has been standing nearby the whole time, watching over him and asking for nothing back. A second, gentler connection begins to take shape. Around the three of them, Xiao Yuchen (Chang Chi-fu), Du Chengwei (Chen Po-che), Gu Yitong (Lin Shu-yun), Jun Wei (Ah Ben) and A Mao (Lawrence Liu) keep the band, the classroom and the family pressure in motion, while a symbolic Ferryman (Prince Chiu) drifts through the story.

Smile After Tears (轉過頭，幫你擦眼淚) is TIPA Entertainment's first boys' love production, directed by Chiang Ping-chen with Ann Lu also credited. It runs twelve episodes of roughly twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes, launched two at a time on 20 May 2026 and then weekly on Wednesdays through the 29 July finale. It streams on Hami Video in Taiwan and internationally on iQIYI and GagaOOLala. The original songs carry much of the emotional weight, and the series takes grief, illness and the way affection outlasts a farewell as its subject.