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Kiseki: Dear to Me (奇迹 (2023年电视剧))

Kiseki: Dear to Me (奇蹟) is a 2023 Taiwanese boys' love (BL) television series about a high school student who aspires to become a doctor and the injured gangster he is forced to take into his home. It ran for 13 episodes of about 25 minutes each, from August 22 to November 7, 2023, and was a Taiwan-Japan co-production adapted from a web novel by its own screenwriter, Lin Pei-yu (林珮瑜).¹^•²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Native title	奇蹟 (also written 奇迹); English title Kiseki: Dear to Me, also known as The Miracle²^•⁴
Format	13 episodes × 25 minutes; BL, romance, crime¹
Broadcast	August 22 to November 7, 2023, on GTV and GagaOOLala²
Source	Web novel Dear to Me (奇蹟) by Lin Pei Yu³
Main cast	Kai Hsu (徐愷) as Fan Jhe Ruei, Taro Lin (林毓桐) as Bai Zong Yi, Nat Chen (陳柏文) as Chen Yi, Louis Chiang (姜典) as Eddy (Ai Di)²^•⁵
Production	Director Hope Wu (吳孟糖); producers Anita Sung and Lin Pei-yu; Brains Entertainment Production; Taiwan-Japan co-production¹^•⁵
Reception	9.5/10 from more than 20,000 users on Rakuten Viki; No. 1 on Rakuten TV's all-genre daily ranking in Japan the day after streaming began⁶^•⁷

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Plot

Bai Zong Yi is a 17-year-old high school student with a single goal, to become a doctor. His ordered life changes when he encounters Fan Jhe Ruei, a badly injured gangster who blackmails him into providing shelter and medical care by pressing Zong Yi's fingerprints onto a knife linked to a crime. The two live together while Jhe Ruei recovers, and hostility gives way to an unexpected closeness and then love.³^•⁸

A gang conflict ends the arrangement. Zong Yi takes the blame for Jhe Ruei and goes to prison, and the two are separated; their friends Eddy (Ai Di) and Chen Yi also part ways. Four years later, fate reunites the four in different circumstances, and they must face past mistakes and regret to recover their happiness.¹

A second love story runs alongside the main one. Ai Di, a young gangster in the same Yiyun Alliance as Jhe Ruei, has long harbored feelings for his childhood companion Chen Yi, while Chen Yi admires the gang's leader, Chen Dong Yang, his foster father. The series follows this unrequited dynamic through the same four-year gap.⁹^•²

Origin and production

The series adapts the web novel Dear to Me (奇蹟) by Lin Pei-yu, a screenwriter known for hit Taiwanese BL dramas including the HIStory series and We Best Love. Lin wrote the screenplay and served as a producer of the adaptation herself, and Anita Sung, whose credits include Be Loved in House 約・定~I Do and Plus & Minus, also produced.³^•⁹

The drama was a cross-border production between Taiwan and Japan, with Rakuten TV as a Japanese co-production partner; the English title uses the Japanese word kiseki (miracle) rather than simply "Miracle" for this reason.⁵ Production was by Brains Entertainment Production, with SPO Entertainment Taiwan handling sales.¹

Before the series, a five-minute short film adapted from the same novel was released on April 20, 2021, with actors Stan Huang and Benjamin Tsang.²

Cast

Kai Hsu plays Fan Jhe Ruei, a gangster in his twenties, an illegitimate child who rejoined his mafia-leader father in childhood; the character is intelligent, good at mathematics, and fond of strawberry chiffon cake. Taro Lin plays Bai Zong Yi, who lives alone near his school, sells his study notes to classmates, and cares for his ailing father. Nat Chen plays Chen Yi, a 21-year-old fighter of the Yiyun Alliance adopted after his parents died, and Louis Chiang plays Ai Di, an 18-year-old gang member and fellow adoptee who secretly loves Chen Yi. Wayne Song appears as Zhang Teng, leader of the rival Dragon Gang, and Huang Chun-chih as A Jun; both actors had played the leads of HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count.²^•⁸^•¹⁰

Release and reception

The series aired weekly on GTV from August 22, 2023, with streaming on GagaOOLala, and finished on November 7, 2023.² A one-episode spin-off titled Kiseki+ (奇蹟+) aired on October 6, 2023, which is why some platforms list the season as 14 episodes.²^•¹¹

In Japan, where Rakuten TV streamed the series, it stayed high on the platform's overall daily ranking after its first streaming day and reached No. 1 across all genres the day after release; an 11-minute digest video on Rakuten TV's official YouTube channel passed 400,000 views as of September 8, 2023.⁷ The source novel had earlier topped the ebook sales ranking of the Taiwanese online store books.com.tw for a month.¹² On Rakuten Viki the series holds a 9.5 rating from more than 20,000 user votes.⁶

Reviewers generally praised the acting and the second couple. The BL review site BL Watcher called it a "wild & intense" crime BL drama with strong chemistry in both couples, while criticizing the story's escalating melodrama.⁸ The blog Psychomilk's Love Without Gender highlighted Wayne Song's performance as an unhinged young gangster and wrote that the Ai Di and Chen Yi pairing "almost steals the show," while finding the lead couple's intimate scenes awkward.¹³

Producer Anita Sung has cited the series among the works through which she brought Japanese investment into Taiwanese BL production, in an industry context she links to Taiwan's legalization of same-sex marriage in May 2019 and high social tolerance.¹⁴

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026