A year and half ago, Chai left a steady job as the producer of the variety show Super Sunday to produce a new kind of "teen-idol" show, Meteor Garden. The media's reaction to her departure was less than favorable, with some even declaring disparagingly that she had crept away, her creativity sucked dry.
一年半以前，柴智屏毅然離開讓她奠定綜藝節目超級製作人地位的《超級星期天》，轉戰戲劇界，製作全新劇種──偶像劇《流星花園》，媒體並不看好，形容她是「創意枯竭，黯然離開」。