Kugami Kajika agrees to enter a “Marriage Game” her father, Harry Burnsworth, arranges in which she has to choose one of the three candidates he selected. The trick is the candidates don’t know they have been chosen and Kajika doesn’t know who they are either. And of course, the candidate she chooses must fall for her as well. Once she succeeds, her father will then reveal her true destiny…
Episodes: 13
Genre: Romance
In episode 1-5:
Kajika was raised in an island on the Caribbean, Givoly Isle, since she was two years old. Her mom died protecting her from being kidnapped and that’s what led her father to send her to an island. Kajika often talks about Maria who took care of her at the island and Mustafa, white leopard, whom she deeply loved and cared for but had died. She is sweet, stubborn, and adventurous.
Li Ren is the leader of prominent overseas Chinese conglomerate in Asia “The Fang Group”. He is Kajika’s childhood friend and was ordered by her father to stay by Kajika’s side and console her on any question she may have while she chooses her life long partner. He is serious, workaholic, skillful, and handsome, but often acts sweet to Kajika.
After things went sour in Tokyo for Kajika, she moved to New York where her father lives and was told to enter the Marriage Game if she wanted to find out what her destiny was. Although they don’t specify on what her destiny is, I presume she and her future husband will take over her fathers company, Burnsworth Financial Group. Kajika meets her first candidate Eugene Aleixandre de Volcan, whom she thinks is the reincarnation of Mustafa.
She stalks him at his apartment and is convinced that Mustafa’s soul is in Eugene but then realizes that he is troubled by his own emotions and has a deep desire to end his own life. Meanwhile Li Ren receives news that every woman that has been affiliated with Eugene ends up committing suicide and decides to go see if things with Kajika and Eugene are ok. A woman, Reese, appears at Eugene’s apartment threatening to kill herself and him if he does not tell her “He Loves Her”. Kajika gets in the way protecting her “Mustafa” and as she points the gun to herself Kajika jumps at her making the gun fall. Li Ren arrives and the guards take the woman away to calm her down.
Eugene and Li Ren share a moment of hatred for one another, (making them look attractive) then Li Ren and Kajika decide to leave. To spite Li Ren, Eugene decides to sneak out Kajika from her house and they end up going to his family’s Mansion. Li Ren looks furious and knows he did it on purpose to get to him (Again, Li Ren looks attractive when he’s upset). Li Ren then calls the police on him charging him of kidnapping, but not just one or two cops show up at the mansion, over 10 police cars and helicopters are parked outside the mansion.( funny to see him over react on finding Kajika).
After receiving Li Ren’s blessing on following Eugene to London, Kajika learns about the origin of Eugene’s troubles and tries to help him. His mother killed herself at a young age and his real father is his uncle. His father now cannot produce children so he made his wife have his brother’s baby and left her feeling unhappy that led to her suicide. Eugene grabs a gun to commit suicide but kajika intercepts him and he shoots at the window where he was having a visual of his mother. She was able to calm him down and spoke to him about starting over. The next day Kajika tells Li Ren that she and Eugene had slept together like she used to do with Mustafa (Innocent sleep) and Li Ren looked shocked but seemed understanding, then Eugene passed by him and taps him like how Mustafa used to do which makes him believe that he does resemble Mustafa. (The reincarnation belief seems odd in the story but bearable).
In the fifth episode: Kajika meets her second candidate, Lumati Ihvan, at Li Ren’s uncles party, Qing-Chang. He is the prince of Kingdom of Laginay and is very cold and rude to others. He almost hits Kajika when one of his servants stops him. She calls him Orient Blue, (it resembles the color of his eyes), after he refused to tell her his name. In this episode we also learn that Li Ren has once slept with his uncles wife, Bridgett, when he was 13 years old. (its weird to see that side of him). Some quest stayed over Qing-Chang’s mansion including the prince Lumati, but he decides to sneak out of the mansion when suddenly Kajika sees him climbing down a rope by the window. She then accompanies him for a walk and they start to get to know each other. The episode ends with Kajika about to get hit by a truck if she does not move out of the way.
The story seems nice though I would hope by the end of the 13th episode that Kajika realizes her childhood friend Li Ren should be the one she chooses. Until now they have not really spoken or shown anything about it only that Li Ren might like her by the way he spoke about her when he said: he has to watch her marry another man. Her candidates so far seem to be of strong character that are wealthy and have some type of problem that she’s willing to help. Every episode I look forward for Li Ren to experience jealousy and for kajika to notice him as more than just a friend.
May 21st, 2009 - 7:04 pm
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