Office romance is one of the most popular genres of the Asian drama world that can never go out of trend no matter how much the industry has become advanced. If an absolutely professional relationship between a boss and his employee gradually transitioning into a loving and sweet one is not something you would want to watch by the end of a hectic day, what else do you need! No matter how different the reality is, a little dose of a romantic comedy set in a workplace is all you need to absorb all your workloads!
However, that doesn’t mean that office romance C-dramas don’t come in varieties! The Chinese entertainment industry has shown a marvelous evolution in the last couple of years and has presented to us several quality content. Let’s discover the top six best office romance C-dramas that you should definitely watch to experience an unrealistic but heart-fluttering romance.
6. Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard (2021)
Screenwriter: Yang Ni Kou, Liu Chang Starring: Allen Ren, Fair Xing, Chloe Zhao, Jun Sheng, Wayne Liu, Ge Shi Min Total Number of Episodes: 36 Where to Watch: We TV, Viki
A unique plotline indeed, ‘Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard’ revolves around a talented young architect named Gu Chuan whose life takes a sharp turn after being a victim of a major traffic accident. He ends up going through a heart transplant surgery which saves his life, but upon waking up, he finds that he has a mechanical heart transplant in his chest. Because of this, he is bound to live a life without any excitement or grief as he wouldn’t be able to handle either one of them.
Miss Crow and Mr. Lizard
His dark and somber life gets to see the light of a cheerful and optimistic woman named Jiang Xiao Ning, who joins his company as a new employee. As much as Gu Chuan knows that he cannot fall in love with anyone, Xiao Ning keeps on making a place in his mechanical heart, and thus the office romance begins!
5. Lucky’s First Love (2020)
Director: Chen Shi Yi Starring: Bai Lu, Xing Zhao Lin, Chen Hao Lan, Zhai Zi Lu, Liu Ruo Yan, Huang Ji Dong Total Number of Episodes: 24 Where to Watch: Viki
While most of the office romance C-dramas spend a lot of time in making the main characters come across each other, ‘Lucky’s First Love’ showcases Xing Yun as the secretary of Xia Ke from the very first episode, thereby giving more time for the development of their relationship. The story follows Xia Ke as the headstrong and determined owner of a self-found game designing company who falls in love with the independent and hard-working Xing Yun, who, despite brimming with potential, is yet to find the right direction. She has never experienced love in her life but is known to have the favor of luck! As the story progresses, the continuous bickering between the boss and employee ends up bringing them closer.
Lucky’s First Love
4. Love is Sweet (2020)
Director: Yu Zhong Zhong, Wu Jian Xin Screenwriter: Wang Wen Tong Starring: Luo Yun Xi, Bai Lu, Gao Han Yu, Xiao Yan, Riley Wang, Zhao Yuan Yuan Total Number of Episodes: 36 Where to Watch: iQiyi
A fan-favorite boss and employee C-drama, ‘Love is Sweet’ revolves around a talented woman named Jiang Jun with a double degree in psychology and economics who has a rare allergy to tears. She comes from a wealthy family who has always supported her, because of which her thoughts are unrestrained and idealistic. She quits her job at a philanthropy organization to work at a top investment company in order to fulfill her late father’s last wish. She encounters her childhood playmate, Yuan Shuai, the President of the company, but to her surprise, she finds out that he is no more the boy who used to protect her in high school. Instead, he becomes someone who wants her to leave the company once and for all.
Love is Sweet
While he tries to push her to the extremes, someone in the workplace has been plotting against Jiang Jun, thereby making her working experience in the company even more difficult. However, her high EQ, attention to details, sense of judgment, and kind nature help to get her through the obstacles.
3. My Girl (2020)
Director: Zhong Qing Screenwriter: Nan Zhen Starring: Li Jia Qi, Zhao Yi Qin, Fan Zhi Xin, Pu Tao, He Mei Xuan, Arthur Su Total Number of Episodes: 24 Where to Watch: Viki, YouTube
‘My Girl’ is one of the most entertaining office-office C-dramas, which is not only light and fluffy but also make you feel emotional. Meng Hui is a makeup artist who suffers from PTSD because of which she switches to a different personality at random whenever she comes across an intense situation. The disorder is a result of a big scar on her face from her childhood days, because of which she has gone through hell. She comes across the miserly CEO of a cosmetics company, Shen Yi, whose only dream is to make a liquid foundation good enough to cover scars.
My Girl
A series of incidents lead Meng Hui to switch to a badass makeup artist who can go to any extent to get what she desires. Her alternate character declares herself as Shen Yi’s girlfriend in public, and the latter decides to play along when he discovers that Meng Hui has developed a revolutionary liquid foundation that can hide scars so well that it doesn’t seem to be there at all! However, Shen Yi finds himself falling for her while pretending to be her boyfriend, not knowing that he is the one who had initially triggered her trauma as a kid.
2. My Girlfriend is an Alien (2019)
Director: Gao Cong Kai, Liu Han Yang Starring: Wan Peng, Bie Thassapak Hsu, Wang You Jun, Yang Yue, Christopher Lee, Shu Ya Xin Total Number of Episodes: 28 Where to Watch: We TV, Tencent Video
Rich and arrogant CEO falling in love with a cheerful and clumsy girl is quite common in C-dramas, but what makes the show more interesting is its fantasy elements! The female lead is an alien who lands on the earth unexpectedly after losing her signal and gets stuck here with her assistant tortoise because of the loss of her annunciator. She possesses superpowers of flight, pausing the time and super strength using which she manages to get a job and shelter under the name Chai Xiao Qi.
My Girlfriend is an Alien
However, for some reason, time doesn’t stop for the dominating CEO of a large cooperation, Fang Leng, who has been suffering from a rare condition of heterosexual amnesia. According to the condition, he forgets every female around him with whom he has encountered within a few years every time it rains. When Fang Leng and Xiao Qi meet each other for the very first time, while the latter seems to get on Fang Leng’s nerves, Xiao Qi cannot help but get attracted to the male hormone found on the earth. The two end up falling in love with each other after Xiao Qi gets an employee in Fang Leng’s company, but his amnesia doesn’t seem to favor their love!
1. Love o2o (2016)
Screenwriter: Gu Man, Shen Fei Xian, Scarlett OuYang Director: Lin Yu Fen, Guo Hu Cast: Yang Yang, Zheng Shuang, Zheng Ye Cheng, Cui Hang, Niu Jun Feng, Vin Zhang Total Number of Episodes: 30 Where to Watch: Netflix, We TV, Viki
Love o2o used to be the most-watched Chinese drama on YouTube before it was taken down last year because of a controversy involving the lead actress. Nonetheless, it is one of the most loved rom-com C-drama of all time! The story revolves around a beautiful and hard-working girl named Bei Wei Wei, majoring in Computer Science subject who is also one of the topmost players of an online role-playing multiplayer game. On the other hand, the most popular senior at her campus, Xiao Nai, is probably the most perfect man to ever exist, with exceptional skills in Computer Science, online gaming, academics, and sports. Moreover, he is also the president of his self-founded game company.
Love o2o
When Xiao Nai comes across Wei Wei for the first time at an internet café, he gets stunned by her impressive gaming skills and the mastery with which she was leading her guild! For winning the heart of department beauty, he approaches her in his unique style— asking her to marry him in the MMORPG game for completing couple quests! The show boasts of a healthy relationship, bromance, friendship, university life, and business.
Nico Robin, also known by her other name, ‘Devil child,’ joins Luffy’s pirate crew after the Alabasta arc of One Piece. Amongst anime lovers, Robin is one of the most popular female characters in One Piece. She has a tall and slender build, with long jet black hair. Her limbs are very long, adding to her fighting prowess as well as her appearance. She has a fair complexion in the manga. However, in the anime, her skin is drawn to be comparatively tan. Robin joins the Straw Hats crew in the Grand Line, which makes many fans assume that her origins may be from there. But she was born on the island of Ohara (West Blue), known for its scholars. She is the archaeologist of the crew and has the power to reproduce her body parts or her entire body on any surface at her will. For all Nico Robin fans, here we brought some of her best quotes.
Now, One Piece is one of the most loved anime out there, given that it is also the longest-running anime. Eichiro Oda first started publishing it in the weekly Shounen Jump magazine in 1997. It’s been a long while since then, and each of the characters has made an impression of their personalities on the fans. Nico Robin certainly has her charms. She is one of the only people left who can read Poneglyphs, which puts her on the World Government’s hit list. As a person who values her history so much, Nico Robin has some of the deepest quotes in One Piece. Here we list down 10 of her best ones!
1. “Fools Who Don’t Respect The Past Are Doomed To Repeat It.”
Nico Robin is a person who comes from an island of scholars and is an archaeologist herself. She has always hated people who do not respect their past. Her ideology is that only by knowing the past can we even begin to try to understand our future paths. One must know their history if they do not wish to repeat the same mistakes of the past over and over again. That’s why she says foolish people who disregard their history not only prevent themselves from gaining knowledge but also doom themselves to repeat their mistakes.
Nico Robin
2. “Sometimes The Only Thing You Have To Doubt Is Your Own Common Sense”
As mentioned before, Robin is one of the academics in the Straw Hats pirate crew. She has this habit of thinking too deeply about things, almost going to the point of overthinking. The above quote is kind of calling herself out on her habit. Sometimes, people’s minds and common sense can end up blocking their path to success. One must always be open to the idea or listen to other people’s opinions if they think they are right. One shouldn’t always believe what’s on their mind as the ultimate truth.
Nico Robin
3. “When All I Want Is To Learn Of A History, There Are Too Many Enemies Within My Dream”
Nico Robin
4. “When You Have A Hard Time, Just Laugh”
Difficult times come and go. Eichiro Oda’s One Piece has always given inspiration to its fans, giving them hope for a better future. Even though hard times can break people in the worst possible ways, there will always be better days to come next. Here, Robin wants to say that one can find happiness even in the darkest of times. One must not dwell too long on hardships and just take them with a smile. It doesn’t matter how difficult life is right now, just keep smiling and keep going on.
Nico Robin
5. “I Want To Live”
Robin is an enemy of the World Government as she wants to discover all the history of this world, especially the void century. After she gets captured by them, she almost gives up on herself. However, her crew, the Straw Hats Pirates, showed up and declared war on the World Government by setting their flag on fire. They did all that just to save Robin. Seeing this, she remembers that Jaguar D. Saul had once told her that someday she would find real friends. And she realizes that she has. That’s when Robin regains her senses and admits out loud that she wants to live!
Nico Robin
6. “The Things You Have Destroyed Back There Were Priceless Artifacts. Precious Treasure Whose Importance Cannot Be Measured… History May Always Be Repeating Itself, But Humans Cannot Go Back Into The Past…”
Nico Robin
7. “There Is No Such Thing As Being Born Into The World To Be Alone”
Nico Robin grew up in Ohara all by herself as her parents weren’t there most of the time. Her mother was usually traveling the world to research more about historical heritage sites. She spent most of her time reading books to get rid of her loneliness. Later on, her island gets destroyed, and Robin is the only survivor of the gruesome genocide. She lost not only her family but all of her people. Her loneliness only grew bigger. However, through her quote, she portrays that nothing, not even loneliness, is permanent. Now, she’s a part of Straw Hats, and she has gained some ‘Real’ friends.
Nico Robin
8. “My Dream Just Had Too Many Enemies”
Following one’s dream is something Eichiro Oda truly believes in. His ideology can be seen in the characters of One Piece as they all somehow have aspirations that they want to fulfill. But running after your dream is not an easy path to undertake as that road is filled with many challenges, hardships, and sometimes even despair. Just like in real life, sometimes following after dreams can lead to certain hardships one has never even thought of before. Here, Robin’s dream to learn the whole world’s history has garnered her enemies from all over the world, putting her on a hit list of the World Government. But it’s a dream worth striving for.
Nico Robin
9. “This Is The First Time I Ever Wanted To Be Stronger For Someone Else’s Sake.”
Nico Robin has suffered from loneliness all her life. But in her crew, Straw Hats, she has finally found true friendship. A crew who will endanger their own lives by declaring war on the World Government just for the sake of Robin. That’s why in the quote, Robin says she wants to become stronger so that she can help Luffy more. She wants to help her friends as much as she can. Her abilities are mostly intellectual, so she wants to gain more knowledge to become stronger. Robin, to an extent, embodies the idea of knowledge being the ultimate power one can gain.
Nico Robin
10. “I wonder if the sea will get dyed red if we all get crushed at once”
Nico Robin has a very morbid sense of humor which some fans fail to take notice of. She loves to point out certain gross things or give random answers just to shock Nami and Usopp. Like when she first joined the Straw Hats crew, and Usopp asked her what her specialty was, she just smiled and said, “Assassination”. So we can often see Robin worrying her crewmates with her macabre way of thinking.
Nico Robin
During a battle between Staw Hats pirates and New Fishman Pirates, she says that she wonders whether the sea will be colored red if they all get crushed there. It’s a gruesome thought, but that’s what makes it so ‘Robin’.
