{"history":[],"article":{"id":"6a159314-19d5-48dd-8a2a-af7a7d89f58c","title":"My MVP Valentine","slug":"my-mvp-valentine","content":":::summary\n![My MVP Valentine](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/mymvpvalentine.jpg)\n**Native Name:** MVP情人 \n**Genre:** [Romantic comedy](https://bliptext.com/articles/romantic-comedy), [Sports](https://bliptext.com/articles/sports), [Teenager](https://bliptext.com/articles/teenager) \n**Starring:** [Johnny Yen](https://bliptext.com/articles/yen-hsing-su)
[Angela Chang](https://bliptext.com/articles/angela-chang)
[5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566)
Gao Tien-Chi
[David Chen](https://bliptext.com/articles/david-chen)
Michelle Lin
[Joe Chen](https://bliptext.com/articles/joe-chen)
[Lee Hsing-wen](https://bliptext.com/articles/lee-hsing-wen) \n**Screenplay:** Lo Tsai-Chuan
Yeh Feng-Ying
Yang Suhui \n**Director:** Liu Chun-Chieh
Chen Ming-Chang \n**Opentheme:** Wu Suo Wei (無所謂； Doesn't Matter) - [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) \n**Endtheme:** Wo Nan Guo (我難過； I'm Sad) - [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) \n**Composer:** Hsi Yu-Lung \n**Country:** Taiwan \n**Language:** Mandarin \n**Num Episodes:** 28 (30 in some countries) \n**Producer:** Chen Yu-Shan \n**Executive Producer:** Hou Teng-Jui
Chen Chi-Ting
Hsieh Jui-Yun \n**Location:** [Taiwan](https://bliptext.com/articles/taiwan) \n**Camera:** Hsiao Sheng-Ming \n**Runtime:** approximately 45 minutes \n**Network:** [SET Metro](https://bliptext.com/articles/set-metro), [CTS](https://bliptext.com/articles/cts-main-channel)
[RCTI](https://bliptext.com/articles/rcti) (Indonesia) \n**First Aired:** July 24, 2002 \n**Last Aired:** August 30, 2002 \n**Related:** [Lavender](https://bliptext.com/articles/lavender-tv-series) (2002) \n:::\n\n# \n**My MVP Valentine** is a 2002 [Taiwanese romantic sports teen drama](https://bliptext.com/articles/taiwanese-drama) based loosely on two [Japanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/japan) [manga series](https://bliptext.com/articles/manga-series): [Slam Dunk](https://bliptext.com/articles/slam-dunk-manga) and ''MVP wa Yuzurenai!\n(MVPは譲れない!；Can't Give up MVP!)''.\nStarring [Chinese Taipei](https://bliptext.com/articles/chinese-taipei) basketball star [Johnny Yen Hsing-su](https://bliptext.com/articles/yen-hsing-su) (who led the 2003 [FIBA Asia Championship](https://bliptext.com/articles/fiba-asia-cup) in assists), it enjoyed huge success throughout [Greater China](https://bliptext.com/articles/greater-china) and [Southeast Asia](https://bliptext.com/articles/southeast-asia).\nAs a result, it is noted for marking the acting debuts of Yen, [Angela Chang](https://bliptext.com/articles/angela-chang), [Joe Chen Chiao-En](https://bliptext.com/articles/chen-chiao-en) and [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) (all five members had roles in the series), skyrocketing them to fame.\nThis series is also the only project to star Gao Tien-chi, who was also a former basketball player like Johnny Yen, in his acting career.\n\n# Premise\nRiding his motorcycle to the National High School Basketball Championship game, Duan Chenfeng accidentally hits and paralyzes Angel, the sister of his main rival Iceman.\nAfter Iceman leaves the game for the hospital, Duan Chenfeng wins the championship and the MVP Award but is overtaken by guilt.\nHe quietly quits school and basketball to take care of Angel, leaving his loving girlfriend Xiao Xi heartbroken.\nSoon the calculating Angel develops feelings for Duan Chenfeng, as the charming Prince vows to win Xiao Xi's heart.\nMeanwhile, Xiao Xi organizes a basketball team for her school and is determined to transform it from a perennial laughingstock to a respectable power.\n\n# Cast\nTeam manager of the Chi Sui basketball Team.\nAt the beginning of the series, she was dating Duan Chenfeng.\nAfter finding out that Chi Sui's basketball team was a champion 30 years before, she set about to reform the broken team to once again capture the coveted title.\nAs the series progresses, she ends up breaking up with Duan Chenfeng and starts dating Prince.\nSmall forward.\nMVP of the previous season and league champion with Rui An.\nAfter an accident before the final game that crowned him champion causes the paralysis of Iceman's sister, he quits basketball in self-exile and leaves school to take up part time jobs to finance the medical expenses of Angel.\nEventually joining the Chi Sui team as he tries his hardest to win Xiao Xi back.\nNicknamed Prince due to his status as the son of the President of the Parent's Association.\nHe was a student at the prestigious Yun Shang but in order to woo Xiao Xi he transfers to Chi Sui and even joins the basketball team without any prior experience in the game.\nFull of confidence, his signature catchphrase is, \"What others can't do. I can\" that has been proven time and again.\nYun Shang's best player, Duan Chenfeng's Rival.\nThey were set to finally play against each other but an accident putting his sister Angel in critical condition forces him to abandon the game.\nWhen he finds out that Duan Chenfeng caused the accident, he resented him.\nEventually when his sister falls in love with Duan Chenfeng, he forces Xiao Xi to break up with Chenfeng in return, he will get Chenfeng back on the court.\nA promising cellist and Iceman's sister.\nAfter the accident, she loses the use of her legs.\nDuan Chenfeng begins looking after her in repentance and she eventually falls in love with him.\nFormerly known as the best basketball coach in the country while he was Yun Shang's head coach.\nBut after the loss to Rui An, he loses everything.\nWhile taking up odd jobs to make ends meet, he is constantly harassed by his former boss, Principal Zhang.\nEventually, he is hired by Chi Sui to be the team's new coach.\nPoint guard.\nThe school's bad boy.\nFormerly a MVP and top player in middle school but a career-ending injury forces him into early retirement, forcing him to resent the game he loves.\nBut after the Chi Sui team helps him during an altercation with his gang, he joins the team in return.\nPrince's childhood friend and self-proclaimed fiancée.\nLoves everything pink.\nWhen he displays his dribbling skills to the club during their recruitment drive, the team quickly wanted to recruit him.\nHe only wanted to join the team because he wanted to attract more attention from the girls of the school but eventually comes to love the game.\nThe comic relief, joined the team only after a deal with Prince was made after Prince witnessed his shooting skills on the basketball arcade machine, expecting the skills to translate over.\nIt is eventually revealed that his brother has been extorting money out of him and the situation only got better when his brother looked for him at school and was confronted by Duan Chenfeng.\nHe is best known to perform best under pressure.\nYu Shang's team captain and number 2.\nPrince's friend.\nChi Sui's Team Captain and Center.\nHe loves the game but his studies sets him back.\nHe eventually works hard enough to get back on the team.\nOne of Chi Sui's original members.\n\n# Alternative ending\nAfter the series aired, 5566 released a song titled \"Without Your Love\", whose [MV](https://bliptext.com/articles/music-video) (also starring Angela Chang) showed an alternative ending to the story.\n\n# Soundtrack\nThe My MVP Valentine [soundtrack](https://bliptext.com/articles/soundtrack) was released on two CDs produced by [Avex Trax](https://bliptext.com/articles/avex-trax)-Taiwan.\nThe first disc contains four songs from [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566), the lead cast, while the second disc is a compilation of various [J-pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/j-pop) and [K-pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/k-pop) songs.\nSome songs not included in the soundtrack album include:","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T09:22:31.810Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T09:22:31.810Z","search_vector":"'mvp':2 'valentin':3","search_content":" \n \n**Native Name:** MVP情人 \n**Genre:** [Romantic comedy](https://bliptext.com/articles/romantic-comedy), [Sports](https://bliptext.com/articles/sports), [Teenager](https://bliptext.com/articles/teenager) \n**Starring:** [Johnny Yen](https://bliptext.com/articles/yen-hsing-su) [Angela Chang](https://bliptext.com/articles/angela-chang) [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) Gao Tien-Chi [David Chen](https://bliptext.com/articles/david-chen) Michelle Lin [Joe Chen](https://bliptext.com/articles/joe-chen) [Lee Hsing-wen](https://bliptext.com/articles/lee-hsing-wen) \n**Screenplay:** Lo Tsai-Chuan Yeh Feng-Ying Yang Suhui \n**Director:** Liu Chun-Chieh Chen Ming-Chang \n**Opentheme:** Wu Suo Wei (無所謂； Doesn't Matter) - [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) \n**Endtheme:** Wo Nan Guo (我難過； I'm Sad) - [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) \n**Composer:** Hsi Yu-Lung \n**Country:** Taiwan \n**Language:** Mandarin \n**Num Episodes:** 28 (30 in some countries) \n**Producer:** Chen Yu-Shan \n**Executive Producer:** Hou Teng-Jui Chen Chi-Ting Hsieh Jui-Yun \n**Location:** [Taiwan](https://bliptext.com/articles/taiwan) \n**Camera:** Hsiao Sheng-Ming \n**Runtime:** approximately 45 minutes \n**Network:** [SET Metro](https://bliptext.com/articles/set-metro), [CTS](https://bliptext.com/articles/cts-main-channel) [RCTI](https://bliptext.com/articles/rcti) (Indonesia) \n**First Aired:** July 24, 2002 \n**Last Aired:** August 30, 2002 \n**Related:** [Lavender](https://bliptext.com/articles/lavender-tv-series) (2002) \n \n\n# \n**My MVP Valentine** is a 2002 [Taiwanese romantic sports teen drama](https://bliptext.com/articles/taiwanese-drama) based loosely on two [Japanese](https://bliptext.com/articles/japan) [manga series](https://bliptext.com/articles/manga-series): [Slam Dunk](https://bliptext.com/articles/slam-dunk-manga) and ''MVP wa Yuzurenai!\n(MVPは譲れない!；Can't Give up MVP!)''.\nStarring [Chinese Taipei](https://bliptext.com/articles/chinese-taipei) basketball star [Johnny Yen Hsing-su](https://bliptext.com/articles/yen-hsing-su) (who led the 2003 [FIBA Asia Championship](https://bliptext.com/articles/fiba-asia-cup) in assists), it enjoyed huge success throughout [Greater China](https://bliptext.com/articles/greater-china) and [Southeast Asia](https://bliptext.com/articles/southeast-asia).\nAs a result, it is noted for marking the acting debuts of Yen, [Angela Chang](https://bliptext.com/articles/angela-chang), [Joe Chen Chiao-En](https://bliptext.com/articles/chen-chiao-en) and [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566) (all five members had roles in the series), skyrocketing them to fame.\nThis series is also the only project to star Gao Tien-chi, who was also a former basketball player like Johnny Yen, in his acting career.\n\n# Premise\nRiding his motorcycle to the National High School Basketball Championship game, Duan Chenfeng accidentally hits and paralyzes Angel, the sister of his main rival Iceman.\nAfter Iceman leaves the game for the hospital, Duan Chenfeng wins the championship and the MVP Award but is overtaken by guilt.\nHe quietly quits school and basketball to take care of Angel, leaving his loving girlfriend Xiao Xi heartbroken.\nSoon the calculating Angel develops feelings for Duan Chenfeng, as the charming Prince vows to win Xiao Xi's heart.\nMeanwhile, Xiao Xi organizes a basketball team for her school and is determined to transform it from a perennial laughingstock to a respectable power.\n\n# Cast\nTeam manager of the Chi Sui basketball Team.\nAt the beginning of the series, she was dating Duan Chenfeng.\nAfter finding out that Chi Sui's basketball team was a champion 30 years before, she set about to reform the broken team to once again capture the coveted title.\nAs the series progresses, she ends up breaking up with Duan Chenfeng and starts dating Prince.\nSmall forward.\nMVP of the previous season and league champion with Rui An.\nAfter an accident before the final game that crowned him champion causes the paralysis of Iceman's sister, he quits basketball in self-exile and leaves school to take up part time jobs to finance the medical expenses of Angel.\nEventually joining the Chi Sui team as he tries his hardest to win Xiao Xi back.\nNicknamed Prince due to his status as the son of the President of the Parent's Association.\nHe was a student at the prestigious Yun Shang but in order to woo Xiao Xi he transfers to Chi Sui and even joins the basketball team without any prior experience in the game.\nFull of confidence, his signature catchphrase is, \"What others can't do. I can\" that has been proven time and again.\nYun Shang's best player, Duan Chenfeng's Rival.\nThey were set to finally play against each other but an accident putting his sister Angel in critical condition forces him to abandon the game.\nWhen he finds out that Duan Chenfeng caused the accident, he resented him.\nEventually when his sister falls in love with Duan Chenfeng, he forces Xiao Xi to break up with Chenfeng in return, he will get Chenfeng back on the court.\nA promising cellist and Iceman's sister.\nAfter the accident, she loses the use of her legs.\nDuan Chenfeng begins looking after her in repentance and she eventually falls in love with him.\nFormerly known as the best basketball coach in the country while he was Yun Shang's head coach.\nBut after the loss to Rui An, he loses everything.\nWhile taking up odd jobs to make ends meet, he is constantly harassed by his former boss, Principal Zhang.\nEventually, he is hired by Chi Sui to be the team's new coach.\nPoint guard.\nThe school's bad boy.\nFormerly a MVP and top player in middle school but a career-ending injury forces him into early retirement, forcing him to resent the game he loves.\nBut after the Chi Sui team helps him during an altercation with his gang, he joins the team in return.\nPrince's childhood friend and self-proclaimed fiancée.\nLoves everything pink.\nWhen he displays his dribbling skills to the club during their recruitment drive, the team quickly wanted to recruit him.\nHe only wanted to join the team because he wanted to attract more attention from the girls of the school but eventually comes to love the game.\nThe comic relief, joined the team only after a deal with Prince was made after Prince witnessed his shooting skills on the basketball arcade machine, expecting the skills to translate over.\nIt is eventually revealed that his brother has been extorting money out of him and the situation only got better when his brother looked for him at school and was confronted by Duan Chenfeng.\nHe is best known to perform best under pressure.\nYu Shang's team captain and number 2.\nPrince's friend.\nChi Sui's Team Captain and Center.\nHe loves the game but his studies sets him back.\nHe eventually works hard enough to get back on the team.\nOne of Chi Sui's original members.\n\n# Alternative ending\nAfter the series aired, 5566 released a song titled \"Without Your Love\", whose [MV](https://bliptext.com/articles/music-video) (also starring Angela Chang) showed an alternative ending to the story.\n\n# Soundtrack\nThe My MVP Valentine [soundtrack](https://bliptext.com/articles/soundtrack) was released on two CDs produced by [Avex Trax](https://bliptext.com/articles/avex-trax)-Taiwan.\nThe first disc contains four songs from [5566](https://bliptext.com/articles/5566), the lead cast, while the second disc is a compilation of various [J-pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/j-pop) and [K-pop](https://bliptext.com/articles/k-pop) songs.\nSome songs not included in the soundtrack album include:","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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