Gloomy Salad Days

4 DVD
Casts : Serena Fang, Aaron Yan, Wang Zi, Teresa Mng, Zhang Jun Ming

This drama involves 12 different stories which happened to teenagers, taken from real life social cases.
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* Episode 1: Huang He 黃禾
* Episode 2: Xiao Qing 筱青

Huang He is every teacher's favourite student because he is a top scorer in the school. He is from a wealthy family, but the truth is, he is the head of all gangsters and bullies in his school. Having two identities, he is highly respected and feared by all the other students in the school. Huang He had a student-teacher love relationship with Jiang Ping, his Science teacher. When Jiang Ping accidentally got pregnant with Huang He's child, she divorced with her husband. To protect his bright future, he called for the help of Death Girl to take the child away from his life. When a pretty and intelligent girl, Xiao Qing defeated him in a debate competition, she caught his attention. To get closer to Xiao Qing, Huang He set a trap on Sha Dong, Xiao Qing's brother. When Xiao Qing's secret crush, Ah Pang get to know about Huang He's evil plan, he calls for the help of Death Girl to get rid of Huang He as he thought Huang He had violated Xiao Qing. Only after Huang He's death did Ah Pang realise that he has to pay the price which is to leave his beloved grandmother. However, Death Girl did not change him into a rock in the end and he leaves the black rock on the seat of Huang He.

* Episode 3: Xiao Lin Pt.1 小琳[上]
* Episode 4: Xiao Lin Pt.2 小琳[下]

It's the beginning of the second semester. Xiao Lin is a new student who was transferred to Shen Qi's class. She is very quiet as her parents are undergoing divorce and she hates the idea of thinking that her parents do not want her. From the seating arrangement, Xiao Lin took the place that previously belonged to Huang He and found a beautiful black rock on her seat. She took the stone and kept it. It is New Year. Xiao Lin went back to her uncle and aunt's home. Both of them are really busy with the grocery store so they didn't have time to take good care of Xiao Lin. One night, they forgot all about Xiao Lin's dinner. Xiao Lin was alone in her room trying to bare with the hunger. At midnight, she quietly went downstairs to the grocery store. Xiao Lin took a can of beer and a total amount of TWD1000 from the cashier counter and ran away. She went to a river nearby and met A Jie graffiting. Xiao Lin told A Jie that she had seen the Death Girl. The next day, Xiao Lin went back to the grocery store. Xiao Lin's actions yesterday were recorded by the CCTV. Xiao Lin's uncle was really mad and told her that nobody wants her anymore. Xiao Lin couldn't believe the truth because she really loves her parents. She didn't eat or drink, thinking that this would force her parents to pick her home from the dormitory. Xiao Lin subsequently called upon Death Girl to bring her parents to accompany her when she turns into a rock of Nai He Bridge. That night, Xiao Lin passed away due to starvation. Also, in this story, Death Girl realised Shen Qi is the only one that can see her with or without the black rock.

* Episode 5: Ni Ke 妮可
* Episode 6: Xiao Tang 小唐

After Xiao Lin gave all her belongings (notebook and black stone) to Ni Ke just like what she have promised, Ni Ke continued to post articles in their blog about death. After Ni Ke broke up with Ah Cai, she goes to the hotel everyday to get more business. She hope that one day she can earn enough money to bring her mother to Taipei. She doesn't want to live with her dad who loves gambling and gets himself drunk everyday when he come home. Xiao Tang is one of the best student in Ni Ke's class. He wants to help Ni Ke but he always gets rejected by her. Xiao Tang was curious and decided to secretly follow Ni Ke but was shocked to find out that Ni Ke works as a prostitute. Ni Ke calls for Death Girl's help for her dad to disappear from the family's life and he soon passed away. Ni Ke slowly develop feelings for Xiao Tang and promised to let Xiao Tang give her tuition and give up being a prostitute after she and her mom move to Taipei while Xiao Tang goes to university at Taipei. Ni Ke threw the black rock out of the window in the end and left for Taipei for a better life.

* Episode 7: Li You 李優
* Episode 8: A Guo 阿國

Li You is a transfer student viewing the school. As he walked pass a tree, he chanced upon the black rock on the ground, previously thrown out of the window by Ni Ke and kept it as his lucky rock. When Li You and Ah Guo, captain of the basketball team, were hanging out at the basketball court after they won a match, Li You told Ah Guo about his secret - he was the illegitimate child of the uprising politician. Both sworn each other to secrecy but unfortunately, Mei Li, a classmate of theirs, was eavesdropping on them. Mei Li forced Li You to allow her to view his private dorm and found out that Li You was actually a girl. On the other hand, Li You had confessed to Xiao Ju, Ah Guo's sister, about liking her and her real identity as girl, and they decided to be together without Ah Guo knowing it. Upon knowing it, Mei Li was furious and threaten Li You with his secrets to force him to break up with Xiao Ju and be with her. In the end, Mei Li decided to expose all of Li You's secrets in school in an attempt to get back at Li You. Ah Guo was very angry, as he thought that Li You was cheating on Xiao Ju. Li You and Ah Guo challenged each other to a fight at the sports hall. Shen Qi knew that something bad was going to happen so he followed Xiao Ju to the sports center. After the fight, Li You and Ah Guo managed to get over their conflict. Du did not bring anyone away this time. Before she left, she told Shen Qi that he can see her without the help of the rock because he has something in his brain. Before leaving the school at the end, Li You told Ah Guo that they will meet in the university and to always keep in touch. Li You left the black rock in Xiao Ju's possession.

* Episode 9: Xiao Ju 小菊
* Episode 10: Qiao Qiao 巧巧

A new semester has began. A Guo has graduated whereas Xiao Ju is still in high school. Xiao Ju spends most of her time with Qiao Qiao and her love towards Li You gets more bland by the day. Due to a bad encounter during Qiao Qiao's English speech, Qiao Qiao's mother requested for Xiao Dao and Pei Pei to be transferred out of Qiao Qiao's class so as not to affect her studies. Thus, Xiao Dao became very mad at Qiao Qiao as the teacher ordered him to transfer class again. At the same time, Shen Qi has been searching for the location of the black rock and while he went to look for Xiao Ju, he got hit by Xiao Dao while crossing the road and was sent to the hospital. After this incident, Xiao Dao realised that Qiao Qiao has been speaking up for him and made peace with her. After spending most of the time together, Qiao Qiao and Xiao Ju fell in love. Li You came all the way from Taipei with Ah Guo to visit Xiao Ju, only to become upset by the news that Xiao Ju had a change of heart. After Qiao Qiao argued with her mother, Xiao Ju and Qiao Qiao ran away to the south part of Taiwan and the news of them missing were reported everywhere. Their lesbian relationship were known to everyone right after the pictures of them kissing that were posted on Qiao Qiao's blog were revealed. Shen Qi wanted to find Xiao Ju to get back the black rock so he went to south part of Taiwan with the help of Xiao Dao. Right after Xiao Ju found out Li You committed suicide, she ran to the beach with Qiao Qiao and called for the Death Girl to bring them away. At the end, Xiao Ju and Qiao Qiao both committed suicide. When Shen Qi and Xiao Dao arrived, Shen Qi found the black rock but was too late to save them.

* Episode 11: Xiao Dao 小刀
* Episode 12: Li Qiang 李强

At the start of the episode, Xiao Dao garnered much attention after an incident with a reporter and went to work for Kou Sang. Li Qiang, Xiao Dao's bestfriend since childhood, silently loves Pei Pei and changed his scooter to a cool motorcycle as he wanted to ferry Pei Pei, who wanted to sit on a red motorcycle. Pei Pei and Li Qiang's relationship became better and they finally got together. Xiao Dao got chased out of the hospital room while visiting Shen Qi by Shen Qi's father's assistant, in which he placed the black rock into Xiao Dao's bag by accident. After leaving the hospital, Xiao Dao went straight to Pei Pei's house to pass her the birthday present he bought, only to discover that Pei Pei had lied to him in order to go out with Li Qiang instead. Xiao Dao became very mad and confronts Li Qiang. On the other hand, Li Qiang's father requested for Li Qiang to return the motorcycle as they cannot afford it. As a result, Li Qiang requested to break up with Pei Pei. Li Qiang's father attempted suicide after his pears were not accepted by the authority board. Xiao Dao was sent to disinfect a well by pouring a mysterious bottle in by Kou Sang, and Li Qiang realised the bottle might be detergent with a high pH value as the wells of the village he lives in are interlinked and recently tested poison positive. Xiao Dao decides to betray Kou Sang when he knew that what he poured was poison but was discovered. Kou Sang threatens to burn down his uncle's shop if he does not return by the next morning to apologise. To prevent Kou Sang from harming more people, Xiao Dao calls for Death Girl's help to kill Kou Sang. With that, Xiao Dao rammed his bike into Kou Sang's car and both died. At the end, Pei Pei managed to open a motorbike club at school and left the black rock in the room as display.

* Episode 13: Xiao Lun 小侖
* Episode 14: Da Dong 大東

Xiao Lun has feminine looks and loves nail panting. He's a good friend of girls, but due to his feminine personality, is often bullied by Da Dong. One day, after being bullied by Da Dong, he escaped into the Motorcycle Club room, and suddenly a voice broke out : "Do you, want to become a Stone?"

* Episode 15: Ya Zhen 亞貞
* Episode 16: Shen Quan 沈泉

Shen Qi's brother came to Shi Yu to become a teacher. He was a senior and had a remarkable love story in the previous campus of Shi Yu. While working in Shi Yu, all he thinked about was the girl, his previous girlfriend that died, suffered from depression of often plant flowers to relieve his depression, until one day, he found the black stone... Ya Zhen's parent has a high expectation of her in her studies and because of this, Ya Zhen feels pressurized. She longs for the colourful outside, and together with her boyfriend, she began cutting class, drinking alcohol and even had sex with him. Shen Quan came to her class to become an English teacher. She gradually fell in love with him, worked hard to be better in English just to impress him. Just when she left her previous boyfriend, she found out she was pregnant.

* Episode 17: 杜荷 Du He
* Episode 18: 高超 Gao Chao

Due to his guilt for wanting Du to disappear, Shen Qi decided to find out Du's past, and found the hand drawn manga in the library. He then visited the old campus' Manga Club room and found a full version of the comic titled Death Girl and was able to find out what happened to the Manga's artist Du He and her boyfriend, Gao Chao, a story which happened 5 years ago. In preparation for a Manga Competition, Gao Chao gradually developed a feeling for his competitor, Du He and even exchanged his better work with a worse one, so as to increase the chance of Du He's Manga "Death Girl" to be able to win the first prize. Du He was also moved by what Gao Chao has done for her. After Gao Chao found out that he also had a chance to go to Japan, wanted to go together with Du He and even asked her to marry him.

* Episode 19: 渡 Du
* Episode 20: 沈奇 Shen Qi

After knowing that Du is actually Du He, Shen Qi decided to find out where she is. On the other hand, Shen Qi's father, who found out that Shen Qi had a brain tumor, wanted Shen Qi to quickly undergo a surgery and had become stricter to Shen Qi due to his brother's sudden death. Shen Qi doesn't want a surgery as it will make him unable to see Du and ran away from the hospital at night to his uncle's house at the countryside. After series of events happened, he finally too, found out, that his mother's sickness had worsen. In the end, Shen Qi undergoed the operation and Du became a human.