Reaching for the Stars (TV series)

Reaching For The Stars
Promotion poster for Reaching for the Stars
Also known as	真命天女 Zhen Ming Tian Nu
Genre	Romance
Opening theme	Xing Guang (星光) Star Light by S.H.E
Ending theme	Zai Yi Ci Yong You (再一次拥有) by Kaira Gong
Country of origin	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Original language(s)	Mandarin
No. of episodes	15
Production
Running time	90 minutes
Release
Original network	Chinese Television System
Original release	16 October 2005 (2005-10-16) – 15 January 2006 (2006-01-15)
Chronology
Preceded by	The Prince Who Turns into a Frog(王子變青蛙)

Reaching for the Stars (Chinese: 真命天女; pinyin: zhēn míng tiān nǚ) is a 2005 Taiwanese drama broadcast by CTS. This drama casts Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E, Anthony Guo, Chen Zhi Kai, and many others. The soundtrack was released in late 2005, the female leads S.H.E also contributed to the soundtrack. Reaching for the Stars aired its pilot episode during the final episode of The Prince Turned Into A Frog (王子變青蛙) series. The average rating of the pilot episode in Reaching for the Stars was about 1.17, while the final episode of The Prince Turned Into A Frog set a 2005 record for the highest average episode rating (6.93) and the highest episode rating (11.35). Reaching for the Stars only received mediocre television ratings. However, the lead actress Ella was nominated for Best Actress at the 41st Golden Bell Awards in 2006.

Ren Xiao Jie (Ren Jie), Zhou Xin Lei (Lei Lei) and Shen Xiao Rou are three different girls who were born on the same date (February 14, 1983). On a CF commercial, they were brought together by destiny...

Zhou Xin Lei is the daughter of the president of the Zhou Corporation. On the date of her birthday, her father suddenly suffered a heart attack and died. Because of her father's death, Lei Lei was so depressed and stopped filming for her CF commercials. But one day, when she suddenly passed by her billboard commercial, she accidentally met Ren Jie who came to cheer her up after her father's death.

Policewoman Shen Xiao Rou was an orphan who lived together with her grandmother for the past few years without seeing her mother and father. All that was left for her is the necklace that her mother gave when she was still young. One day she was upset because the pervert she had previous arrested was released from jail. She went to look for him and beat him to a pulp. This resulted in a confrontation by her superior. She got so angry that she quit the job.

Ren Xiao Jie(Ren Jie)is also an orphan who was left by her parents together with her brother who suddenly has a heart problem. She worked on different jobs just to help her young brother cure his sickness.

Suddenly, they accidentally met on one CF commercial starring Lei Lei and the two of them (Xiao Rou and Ren Jie) were hired by the crew to become extras in exchange for money. Because of Ren Jie's hard life, she begged Xiao Rou to be on the commercial to help her get the money. After the filming of the CF commercial, they accidentally knew that the three of them were all born on the same date and year.