Yi Ze is a young woman whose life is going nowhere. As an assistant to a film director, she wants to become a director herself. The director makes promises, but it's always "next time", not today. We also learn that seven years ago she fell in love with Yu Fei when she helped him get an audition for a talent show, despite turning in his application late. Yu Fei won the talent competition and has since become a star, first as a singer and more recently as an actor.

One day Yu Fei reappears to film a commercial. The two recognize each other from their previous meeting, and this elevates Yi Ze to a more prominent role in the commercial, giving her a chance to show her talent as a director. At the post production party, the two exhibit a strong mutual attraction and end a most romantic evening in bed together.

Having sped through the normal plot of a romantic comedy at breakneck speed, the movie needs to take a step back and allow complications to develop. It does so when Yu Fei stops returning Yi Ze's calls. Yi Ze is heartbroken by the breakup and goes to see a matchmaker/fortune teller (played with admirable gusto and just the right touch of zaniness by Chuan-jun Wang). The advice she gets is basically to be more reserved and play hard to get, so that Yu Fei will stop taking her for granted and start chasing her. This approach works wonders, proving that you should always listen to the advice of noodle bar proprietors who moonlight as fortune tellers. After various subplots have run their course, most notably the one where Yu Fei is forced to go on a concert tour in spite of having lost his singing voice, our two young lovers are reunited and presumably live happily ever after.

Ex-Files 2 is as light as a feather, but has the redeeming qualities of being consistently amusing and occasionally laugh out loud funny. Thats not a bad combination for a romantic comedy.