"Three years ago when I was still working in variety shows, one day I looked at myself backstage and started to think, 'what am I doing?' I don't want to be a variety show host and I don't want to be a guest on game shows, what I like to do is act and sing.  Then what am I doing here?" After this cathartic moment, Vivian left television shows and started to concentrate on singing and acting. "The effect of television is huge. When people see you a lot on TV they think you are popular; when you don't appear on TV they naturally think you've lost popularity. I don't regret giving up on television shows, I am certain of what I should do in each stage of my life."

"In Japan, whenever people hear me speak Japanese they start to laugh, it's really quite strange.  Probably because of that, naturally I act funny in game shows.  However, the entertainers in Japan who act the most funny are the hardest to change their image. When they act, the more serious they act, they funnier people think they are. So I can't stay there anymore."

In order to change her image, Vivian gave up her chance to appear in TV shows and switched her focus to singing and drama. Even though she didn't have many opportunities to act in Japanese drama and usually was limited to typical stories involving Taiwanese and Japanese cross-cultural romance, she did quite a lot in terms of albums. At the same time she started to work in photoshoots for countless Japanese fashion magazines. "Because I don't have to say too much when I appear in their magazines, but I can act classy, rock, alternative, I can try out many different types of images, in order to get people to shift their perception of me."

SCARED OF OLD AGE?

Regarding generations replacing each other in entertainment, Taiwan is probably the slowest in that process compared to Hong Kong and Japan.  Beauty pageants occur in Hong Kong season after season, the Morning Musume group in Japan has younger and younger members, but in Taiwan, only when idol dramas started to be popular recently, are there younger idols who are usually at least university student age. Due to this, it will probably be difficult for you to believe how Vivian who acts like a little girl is already 28 years-old. To say it cruelly, she is almost 30.

"A 28-year-old has the cuteness of a 28-year-old too.  I am not worried about age at all. When people get older they naturally grow wrinkles, what age you are tells you what you look like, that's important. If cuteness depends on your exterior only, then it can only last 1 or 2 years. If there are still people who think I'm cute when I'm 40 or 50, then those are the people who truly think I'm cute."

I originally thought that age would be a threat to the careers of Vivian and probably most female entertainers, otherwise why do some female idol singers refuse to admit their age no matter what? But compared to them, Vivian acts much more at ease in this area.

"I will never have plastic surgery or a skin-lift. All of us must experience different stages. Teenage years and 20s are of course a lot of fun, but wouldn't it be boring if you always pass your life that way? I have high expectations for the arrival of the next stage in my life. I want to know what I will do? Whom I will meet?" Vivian's favorite idol is the French entertainer Jane Birkins. She sang until her 50s and lived happily with her husband after retirement.

"Do you know who's the most beautiful female entertainer in Taiwan?" Vivian asked mysteriously. But no one dared to answer. She took up a magazine next to her and pointed to the cover, "it's her." "Hsu Chi? Why?"

"Because she has a wild beauty.  A natural-born beauty from being different." Vivian said: "This cover is so pretty! I rarely buy Taiwanese magazines, but I still couldn't help myself but to buy it."

I'M NOT ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL WITH MEN

"The thought that Vivian can get whatever man she wants because she's cute is a lame thought.  I feel that the most important issue is how people interact, their tastes, and their living habits. All these have nothing to do with looking cute or not." said Vivian.

"I think the most amazing women are the ones who can act distant. Even though they really like someone, they can still act indifferent so that the man falls for them. I cannot do it. I get jealous very easily. If I like someone, I will keep on thinking about being with him." Probably because we always believe Vivian has universal attraction, when she reveals her own vulnerability it was quite a surprise.

Even though she wrote so many moving love songs, Vivian said that she's still not strong enough and cannot create like a professional. Every time she writes lyrics she depends on her own experiences and her own heart. If that's the case, then what does she start with whenever she writes a love song? Vivian thought for a long time. Just when I guessed she might say a fairy tale, a movie, or a song, Vivian suddenly said, "I once had a boyfriend, he loved me with his whole life."

"I went with him to Greece and lived in a regular bungalow. The moment I arrived I passed out from exhaustion due to the time difference. When I woke up, I found that my clothes were changed. When I walked outside of the house, I saw beautiful blue skies and white clouds. My dirty clothes from yesterday, he washed them clean for me and were hanging in the breeze.  I didn't know a strong man like him would be willing to wash clothes, at that moment I felt so... moved."

In Vivian's new drama, the main actress fell in love with the main actor who stopped a truck for her in order to protect her. Vivian said, "My needs are really very small, you don't have to stop trucks for me, you don't need to give me diamond rings, any rich man can do that. However, if a man can fix my television when it's broken, he will be my hero."

NEVER BE THE THIRD-PERSON

There were heated scandals involving Vivian and Jay Chow, almost branding Vivian as the "Third Person" just like her friend Gi Gi Leung. Even though Gi Gi is now accepted by the public, she went through a lot of grief. Obviously Vivian did not follow in her footsteps and the rumors have died down. "This time I wrote lyrics about the experience of my good friend." Vivian said, "I believe that's what a lot of young people go through as well, that after you introduce your boyfriend to a friend, they start to go out behind your back, while acting normal in front of you, until one day you find out and you realize how painful it is."

"I will never be a third-person, that's too hurtful for everybody. I won't go out with 2 people at the same time either. No matter how much I love someone I won't do that. No matter how good that man is, he belongs to someone else. Any relationship must wait until the other party is single."

When discussing clothes, the designer realized that the earrings prepared to go with the outfits could not be used because Vivian's ear holes have closed up, due to the fact that she has sensitive skin and hasn't worn earrings for a long time. But after shooting a few photos, all the workers including Vivian herself, discovered that the effect after wearing earrings was much better and not wearing earrings is a shame. Vivian said without hesitation, "then just pierce my ears!"

Saying this, she asked the make up artist for some mentholatum ointment, then rubbed her ears. Everyone turned his head away, not wanting to witness the "bloodshed."  I secretly looked at Vivian's expression in the mirror, she scrunched her face from the pain, but still forced the earrings through.

PINK, THAT'S TO RAISE SPIRITS

Vivian always gives people a sense of good spirits, dreaminess, pinkness, like an excited little girl.

"In the first 5 episodes of my new drama I did dress up like a Barbie doll. Sometimes even I couldn't stand my character anymore. After a while she became more normal and started to wear jeans and t-shirts, I felt much more comfortable."

So the Vivian who often stared through dreamy, big eyes, pouting her lips to make men admire her and women envy her, in fact is not that dreamy? "I don't dislike pink. Don't you think that when you wear pink, you feel full of energy and hope? I put the dreaminess I have in my creativity and performance, the pink is solely for my spirit."

Recently Vivian is acting in Taiwan and can see her mother and sister whenever she wants. Having been away from family for so long, having someone wait up for her in the past three months made her extremely happy. "I am someone who is very afraid of loneliness. That was also what I couldn't stand the most when I was in Japan. Now it feels great to be at home. Sometimes my mom nags me, but I feel happy about that too because I think of it as the voice of caring, just like a melody. I always say to my mom, 'you sound like you're singing!' "

NOT AFRAID OF THE TABLOIDS

Pretty women are never without scandals. This year for Vivian, the most hurtful rumors were probably when the tabloids took pictures of F4 memeber Vanness Wu leaving her house. I don't think any entertainer feels happy about having secret photos taken of him or her. In her new song "Mask," Vivian mentioned a tabloid by name. Even though she did not put that tabloid down, she obviously felt quite strongly about this experience.

"I won't be sad because of this. I mentioned them in my song not to put them down. I have been working in entertainment for over a decade, any guy who's friendly with me will have his picture taken and written about in the media. That's the rules of the game over here! I have to submit to this environment too, otherwise how can I continue playing the game?

Because of this, Vivian's rap in her new song was all about the truths and falsehoods in the entertainment circle, related to the battle with media. "That's how the industry is, you often have to wear different masks to face different people, if something is true you have to say it's false, if you are in love you must deny it. I wrote this song not just to talk about my feelings," Vivian laughed, "I want everyone to feel better about this."

CONCLUSION

After the end of the interview, walking out of the photoshoot, I just found out that it was raining hard outside and I forgot my umbrella. More importantly, my friends had told me to ask her an important question and I forgot to ask: "Your cuteness is all an act, isn't it!"

I thought while I walked, why did I forget to ask her that question? Probably because whenever she answered my questions, she always looked straight at me with honest eyes and thought carefully about every question, so that I feel ruffled. Probably because she bought our magazine and easily bought me over that way. Probably because during the interview, I was slowly taken in by her.

Indeed, this girl is a dangerous one.