On 1 January 2009, Gala Television had to indefinitely postpone the production due to several financial setbacks and script rewrites, causing Yan to drop out of the project.

High school graduate Gong Xi gives up her chances for university in order to support her childhood friend and romantic goal, Bu Po Shang, in his pop idol career.

Upon arriving in Taipei, Gong Xi starts working on multiple jobs in order to support Shang, whose popularity quickly rises, eventually becoming one of the top idols in Taiwan.

famous actor Dun He Lian, disgusted by Gong Xi's reasons for joining the show business, consistently finds ways to annoy and taunt her.

As Gong Xi's acting career starts to take off, she begins to discover a new sense of identity and purpose, separate from her initial plans of revenge.

On 1 April 2008, Ariel Lin, Jerry Yan and Joe Cheng were cast to portray Gong Xi, Dun Helian and Bu Po Shang respectively.

Following the press conference, the script had to undergo a rewrite, and the drama's Japanese developers suffered a financial breakdown due to the restructuring of their joint venture company.

On 1 January 2010, Niu wanted to replace Yan with Wu Chun but Gala Television postponed the production indefinitely due to persistent financial problems.

On 1 February 2011, Ivy Chen was cast to replace Lin, who withdrew from the project because she was already booked to film In Time with You when Skip Beat!

The main cast filmed promotional photoshoots for the drama on 28 July 2011 and attended a wrap-up banquet hosted by the production crew afterwards.

Because Siwon and Donghae filmed most of their scenes speaking in Korean instead of Chinese ex-Energy member Kunda and Darren from The Drifters are hired to dub their voices into Mandarin respectively.

was first promoted at the 17th Shanghai Television Festival, in which a three-minute sales presentation trailer was aired to attract potential Chinese distributors.

"Glamorous Solo Show") written by Tim McEwan, Lars Halvor Jensen, and Reed Vertelney, with lyrics penned by Zhou Weijie, who also helped write in Super Junior-M's EP Perfection.

It is also reported that A-Lin and Super Junior-M member Zhou Mi also recorded solo songs in the drama's official soundtrack, which will be distributed by Avex Taiwan.

In Hong Kong, TVB bought the rights to premiere the Cantonese dubbed occasional predominant dual audio version on 25 December 2011.

TVB-82 channel previously aired the Cantonese dubbed occasional predominant dual audio anime version of Skip Beat!