The Best Taiwanese Drama

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A man at the peak of his career and fame suddenly walks away from it all. Lu Tian Xing/Xiao Lu (Aaron Yan) is a renowned prodigy in the advertising industry who makes a surprise announcement that he is taking three months off and goes off the grid. Going by the name Xiao Lu, he re-surfaces with his new persona at the ad agency of Tao Le Si (Tia Li), a young woman who is struggling to keep her deceased brother’s agency afloat and away from sharks trying to take it over like the former Tian Xing. What could Tian Xing have in mind and will he ever return to his former high-profile life? “Fall in Love With Me” is a 2014 Taiwanese drama series.

Fall in Love With Me

In Love With Me Team

Could anyone be more excited to reach her 26th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo (Megan Lai) had an inauspicious start to her life. When she was born 25 years ago, her parents and extended family – along with their fortuneteller – eagerly awaited her arrival in the delivery room so that they could bless the beginning of the Pi family’s heir. Upon hearing her first cry, the fortuneteller predicted on the spot that the baby boy would be a great success and a natural-born leader. But when the nurses announce that the baby is a girl, the stunned fortuneteller immediately announces that the girl would not survive her childhood unless she lives as a boy for the first 25 years of her life. Only then can Ya Nuo change her bad fate and bring prosperity to her family. On her 26th birthday, Ya Nuo can go back to her true gender without any repercussions. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Ya Nuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. One day, she accidentally helps out Du Zi Feng (Baron Chen), who happens to be a triad leader, and his sister, Du Zi Han (Mandy Tao). While Zi Han falls in love with Ya Nuo, Zi Feng becomes Ya Nuo’s “sworn brother” and best friend. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Ya Nuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped? “Bromance” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Bromance

The B-romantic Triad

High school friends Ke Ai (Amber An) and Zi Hao (Bruce He) are a mere 100 days away from taking their university entrance exams, and decide to make a bet: if the duo gain admission to the same university, she must carry his schoolbag around for him for a whole year.

A twist of fate intervenes to ruin their bet, however. Ke Ai’s family finds itself in a financial crisis. She is forced to give up her aspirations of going to university altogether and find work in order to keep the creditors at bay.

A decade later, destiny once again throws them together. Zi Hao has become a business hotshot and has a senior management role with an exclusive department store. Ke Ai, meanwhile, has become a market vendor and sells clothing at a stall with her mother. She decides to look for better pay by taking a job at Zi Hao’s department store, unaware that her former classmate manages the store.

But when their paths finally cross once, they recall the bet they made 10 years ago and feelings they once thought lost suddenly come bubbling to the surface again…

Could this chance reunion somehow help Ke Ai fulfill her long-forgotten academic dreams? And could the duo’s friendship evolve into something more lasting – and meaningful – this time around?

“Hello Again!” is a 2019 Taiwanese drama series directed by Yu Wei and Liu Guang Hui.

Hello Again!

Unexpected Encounter Team

EBC, CTV

A boy and a girl were destined to be together since birth.

A long time ago, two best friends each had a child. One named his son Li Zheng (Wang Zi), which means “attention,” and the other named his daughter Shao Xi (Joanne Tseng), which means “at ease” in military terminology. The two kids grew up to embody their names, with Li Zheng being diligent and paying extra attention to everything he wants to achieve in life and Shao Xi being more laid back and lazy in her approach to life and school.

When Li Zheng returns to Taiwan after growing up in Japan, he meets Shao Xi for the first time in high school. Despite their polar opposite personalities, the strong pull of their fates bring them together. Can they each adapt to be with each other or will the strong forces of life keep the two apart?

“Attention, Love!” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.

Attention, Love!

Attention, Love! Team

Qi Yi (Aaron Yan) is a fastidious young man who is afraid of germs and needs to have everything in his life in his own orderly fashion. After he gives up a successful opportunity in New York, he returns to Taiwan and decides to buy a small marketing design company called GAZE and a historic home that catches his eye. The problem is that the home has a peppy tenant, Cheng Liang Liang (Puff Guo), who refuses to move out. When he arrives at his new company, the new CEO discovers that Liang Liang also works for his company. The happy-go-lucky Liang Liang just wants everything to be stable in her life, but she realizes that may be harder to maintain when her new boss starts making big changes in her workplace, including a notice stating that office romances will be prohibited. “Just You” is a 2013 Taiwanese drama series that airs on SETTV.

Just You

Just Your Team

TTV/SETTV

When Chen Xin Yi tries to save her relationship with her no-good boyfriend, she mistakenly sleeps with a total stranger, Ji Cun Xi. Although they try to forget about the one-night stand, Xin Yi later discovers that she is pregnant. When the family of Cun Xi, who is the sole male heir to a successful family business, discovers that Xin Yi is having his baby, they force the two to marry. Will the pushover Xin Yi learn to stand up for herself or will fate have other plans for her?

Fated to Love You

Fated to Love You Team

What happens when true love meets Murphy’s Law? Murphy’s Law states “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Guan Xiao Tong (Ivelyn Lee) is known as the “love guru” of the Meet and Match Online Dating Company, able to solve anybody’s relationship issues. When Ji Jia Wei's (Danson Tang) proposal is rejected by his girlfriend (Jenna Wang), he decides to heal his wounds by setting up a divorce agency that provides divorced couples with "happy endings". He sets it up across the street from the matchmaking agency where Guan Xiao Tong works while healing from her own difficult breakup. When the two meet, sparks fly, but is it hate... or love? Can they have a happy ending together or will Xiao Tong find that she is destined to have bad luck in love? Meanwhile, Xiang Zi Yan (Jolin Chien), Xiao Tong's boss' son, gets to know Xiao Tong and begins to develop feelings for her. “Murphy’s Law of Love” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series.

Murphy's Law of Love

The Murphys

Can memories of true love be truly lost forever? Ren Guang Xi (Vanness Wu) has the world at his feet. The law student is the sole heir to a wealthy family business, is athletic, and blessed with great looks and charisma. His mother also has her sights set on a wife for him, the beautiful and kind He Yi Qian (Tiffany Hsu), a medical student. But instead, Guang Xi falls in love with Liang Mu Cheng (Ady An), a new employee in his school cafeteria with an infectious zest for life despite growing up as an orphan. But when a tragedy forces Guang Xi to suddenly undergo brain surgery, his mother tells Mu Cheng that he will not have any memories of his past after the surgery and forces Mu Cheng to leave him. Six years later in a rural village, Mu Cheng lives a quiet life with her son, Xiao Le (Xiao Xiao Bin). But then Guang Xi, now a high-powered attorney, arrives in the village to serve out a court-mandated community service and befriends the two with no memory of his past with Mu Cheng. Can a strangely moving piano concerto stir up the lost memories of his love for Mu Cheng and help him understand why he feels a special bond with her son?
 
“Autumn’s Concerto” is a Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Hui Ling that originally aired on TTV from October 2009 to February 2010. Nominated for the Best Marketing Programme at the 45th Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan, the series is credited for making child actor Xiao Xiao Bin into a superstar and is the second highest-rated Taiwanese idol drama after “Fated to Love You” (2008).

Autumn's Concerto

Can a modern-day Tarzan return to the human world? When Du Zhe Ming (Derek Chang) was a boy, he got lost while on vacation with his family. While he was wandering around in the deep woods, he accidentally saved a female wolf from harm. The Wolf King decides to take Zhe Ming into the wolf tribe. Living among the wolves, Zhe Ming learns to hunt and survive in the wild without forgetting his human traits. Mi Mi (Amber An) is an amateur photographer who decides to go to Wolf Mountain to take pictures of the breathtaking landscape. When Mi Mi falls into a valley, Zhe Ming saves her and takes her back to his cave. Fascinated by the first woman he has encountered, Zhe Ming is convinced that Mi Mi is his female wolf mate and is mesmerized by her. Zhe Ming decides to leave his wolf life behind to follow Mi Mi back into the human world, but can he acclimate back into the civilized world? “Prince of Wolf” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.

Prince of Wolf

The Wolf Pack

SET TV

There is something to be said for late bloomers! Ji Wen Kai (Aaron Yan) and Zhong Yu Tang (Joanne Tseng) have known each other since childhood and have always competed against each other. But it was no contest as Yu Tang always was at the top of her class while Wen Kai couldn’t do any better than mediocre grades. After graduation, Yu Tang lands a coveted job at MUSE Cosmetics and works her way up the secretarial pool. She is poised to take over as the Head Secretary to the new incoming CEO of the company. Wen Kai worked odd jobs after graduation and then went abroad to find work. Years later, MUSE Cosmetics is in crisis and the company brings in Wen Kai as the new CEO to help turn the company around. Imagine their surprise when Wen Kai realizes that his new secretary is none other than Yu Tang from his childhood! With the tables turned, will anything Yu Tang does or say be good enough for Wen Kai? “Refresh Man” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.

Refresh Man

The Marvelous Rivals

Zheng Xiao En (Vivian Sung) works as an editor of romance novels at a publishing company, and secretly dreams about falling in love with a CEO.

When she isn’t working, she spends her days daydreaming about He Tian Hang (Marcus Chang), the handsome chief executive of the company that occupies the building opposite her company’s offices.

One day, Zheng Xiao En magically finds herself transported into the pages of a romance novel – and comes face-to-face with her crush He Tian Hang.

However, she soon discovers that in this fictional universe, his name is Si Tu Ao Ran – and his personality is very different.

She hopes to use all the tips and tricks she has learned from the romance novels she has edited to help snare his heart. But she soon discovers that in this fictional world, she isn’t the heroic female lead – and instead is an evil side character!

Can she flip the story on its head – and end up with the man of her dreams?

“Lost Romance” is a 2020 Taiwanese drama series that was directed by Eri Hao.

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