CHINESE/TAIWANESE DRAMAS

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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

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A young swimmer tries to stage a comeback four&nbsp;years after a scandal.


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Tang Yi Bai (Dylan Xiong) is a former champion swimmer who was wrongfully accused of doping that derailed his competitive career four&nbsp;years ago. He returns after a four-year hiatus&nbsp;to compete for the South Physical Education College alongside his best friend, Qi Rui Feng (Huang Sheng Chi), against their biggest rival, Ou Yang Heng (Pang Han Chen), of North Physical Education College.


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At the competition, Yi Bai meets rookie sports reporter Yun Duo (Tan Song Yun), who is assigned to cover the competition but has a fear of water due to a near-drowning incident in her past. Yun Duo also happens to rent a room in Yi Bai’s family home, and the two become good friends.


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Can Yun Duo encourage&nbsp;Yi Bai to prove his innocence in his past scandal and regain his swimming glory?


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“My Mr. Mermaid” is a 2017 Chinese drama series. It is based on the novel Lang Hua Yi Duo Duo by Jiu Xiao Qi.

My Mr. Mermaid

Just Keep Swimming

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

Two women who live very different lives decide to exchange homes. Ai Lin (Yu Xin Tian) is poor while Wen Di (Xu Cen Zi) is wealthy. But when they are both dumped by their boyfriends on the same day, they accidentally meet each other. In order to change their luck in life and love, Ai Lin and Wen Di decide to exchange lifestyles for a week. Ai Lin moves into Wen Di’s luxury seaside villa while Wen Di moves into Ai Lin’s cramped, low-rent apartment. In the ensuing seven days, will the women find themselves and true love with Ai Qin (Yin Zhen) and Lin Hao (Wong Ki Ray)? “Give Seven Days” is a 2014 Chinese film directed by Tang Xu.

Give Seven Days

The Luckiest Week Team

TTV, SETTV

Twin sisters lead opposite lives.

Wu Ping An (Mini Tsai) is the tough-as-nails boss of the powerful Yi Qing Group, a mob organization. Her twin sister is the sweet Wu Ping Fan (also played by Mini Tsai), who lives a quiet, simple life overseas.

An unexpected accident puts Ping An in a coma, and their mother orders Ping Fan to return to Taiwan to secretly assume the life of Ping An for the sake of the organization.

Thrust into the dangerous crime world, Ping Fan grows to rely on the protection of Gu Le Jun (Weber Yang) and falls in love with him. But when Ping Fan learns Le Jun’s true identity, what will happen to her already crazy life?

“The Masked Lover” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.

The Masked Lover

The Dark Secret Team

Love has a way of drawing you toward a particular person.

“HIStory 1” is a 2017 Taiwanese web dramas series that explores the different manifestations of fated love. It comprises three separate stories in three episodes: “HIStory: My Hero,” “HIStory: Stay Away From Me” and “HIStory: Obsessed.” The series was followed by “HIStory 2” in 2018.

In “HIStory: My Hero,” a dead woman’s spirit takes over the body of a young man, and she has only one week to make her old boyfriend fall in love with her new male body!

In “HIStory: Stay Away From Me,” a meddling friend tries to make sparks fly between a superstar and his new stepbrother.

“HIStory: Obsessed,” a young man who dies in an accident and becomes reincarnated tries to keep himself from falling for the same man all over again!

HIStory 1

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Managing the sales division of one of the most sought after wedding planning companies in the country, Hsiao Li Cheng&nbsp;(Charles Tu) is a no-nonsense man who knows how to get a job done and get it done right. Straightforward and bold, Li Cheng can close a deal without even blinking an eye. But when it comes to love, Li Cheng is the first to admit that he could use a little help. Having harbored a crush on Liu Mei Fang (Cindy Chi) since childhood, Li Cheng decides that the only way to attract the attention of his life-long love, is to recruit the help of his co-worker, Teng Mu Ren (Anson Chen).

Knowing Mei Fang is a bit of a fujoshi, Li Cheng asks Mu Ren to be his “date”, hoping the attention of the handsome Mu Ren will spark Mei Fang’s interest in him. But what starts as an innocent act between friends soon begins to morph into something more. Meanwhile, the company’s creative director, Yeh Hsing Ssu&nbsp;(Michael An) finds himself caught in an equally unexpected relationship with his two-faced step-brother, Fu Yung Chieh&nbsp;(Wico Lin), a medical student with an inexplicable obsession with Hsing Ssu. As opposite from each other as night and day, the two brothers can’t seem to escape the tangled web they have inadvertently woven around each other.

As the four men struggle to understand their feelings, they begin to realize that when it comes to matters of the heart, anything is possible. But will they allow themselves to follow where their hearts lead?

The fourth installment in the popular “HIStory series”, “HIStory 4: Close to You” is a 2021 romantic drama directed by Chen Yi Yu.

HIStory 4: Close to You

HIStory of Love ❤️

At first glance, high schoolers Xiang Hao Ting (Song Wei En) and Yu Xi Gu (Huang Juan Zhi) appear to be polar opposites: While Xiang Hao Ting is an outgoing, hot-headed extravert and some-time bully, Yu Xi Gu prefers to keep a low profile and focus on his schoolwork.

They seem bound for totally different futures – the bookish Yu Xi Gu looks destined for academic success, while life is just a long popularity contest for Xiang Hao Ting. But a quirk of fate – and a crucial intervention by a female schoolmate – results in the two young men’s paths crossing.

But there is more to both young men than first meets the eye. Xiang Hao Ting was not always this way. He started out as a perfect student until he discovered the joys of going off the rails.

And Yu Xi Gu has a reason for being so aloof and studious: His parents died in a traffic accident while he was younger, and he is being fostered by his aunt. As such, he works hard to get good grades in an effort to win a scholarship and ease the financial burden on his relatives.

Yu Xi Gu also works part-time at a convenience store, where his manager Liu Zhi Gang (Zhang Han Yuan)&nbsp;has developed a crush on a man he has met at the gym.

Back at school, meanwhile, Yu Xi Gu and Xiang Hao Ting find themselves drawn together, and passions ignite. The former notices that he has the unique ability to bring Xiang Hao Ting out of his shell – and becomes intent on melting his cold-as-ice exterior.

What will happen when their two worlds collide? And can love be the catalyst that helps bring these two unlikely students together – as their high school days draw to a close? 
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“HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count” is a 2019 Taiwanese drama series directed by Tsai Mi Chieh. It is the latest in a continuing series of dramas – beginning with “HIStory,” which first aired in 2017.

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count

BL Lovers Team

A mysterious shooting leaves a police officer and the head of the Tianmeng crime syndicate dead. Four years later, police investigator Meng Shao Fei (Jake Hsu) is determined to hunt down Tang Yi (Chris Wu), the sole survivor of the fateful shooting – and now the head of the Tianmeng gang. Tang Yi is also hunting for answers but wants his own form of justice. He seems to want to exact his choice of punishment on the killer… although he appears to be hiding a dark secret. Is Tang Yi trying to protect someone?

Meng Shao Fei and Tang Yi become entangled in a deadly game of wits – a game that becomes all the more complicated after Tangy Yi baits a love trap for Meng Shao Fei.

“HIStory 3: Trapped” is a 2019 Taiwanese series written by Lin Pei Yu. It is the latest in a series of dramas, which began with “HIStory,” which first aired in 2017.

HIStory 3: Trapped

Can love distinguish between right and wrong?

“HIStory 2” is a 2018 Taiwanese web dramas series that explores the issues of right and wrong in love. It comprises two separate stories cover four episodes each: “HIStory: Right or Wrong” and “HIStory: Boundary Crossing.” The series was preceded by “HIStory 1” in 2017.

In “HIStory: Right or Wrong,” an college professor who is a single father falls for a younger male student.

In “HIStory: Crossing the Line,” two stepbrothers try to repress their socially unacceptable feelings for each other, while a former volleyball player is drawn to a temperamental young player.

HIStory 2

Buddy Buddy

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Qin Shen (Deng Chao Yuan) is a tall, handsome, young wannabe sculptor. He has decided to attend art school to polish his skills and throws himself into his craft. He strives for perfection and does not want anything – least of all romance – to get in his way.

He has never had a girlfriend, and he prefers to stay away from all matters of the heart. His destiny, it would seem, is to live and die alone.

But at art school, his path crosses with that of another perpetual loner – a budding painter named Yuan Qian (Song Yi Ren).

She is also focused, driven, and intelligent. And Yuan Qian is not as averse to the idea of love as Qin Shen. However, she is so picky that she finds fault in just about everyone she meets – to the extent that it seems no man will ever meet her sky-high standards.

Together with their classmates, this duo begins on a journey of self-discovery as they hone their skills and begin to round out their personalities.

But as time goes by, could Yuan Qian and Qin Shen finally find love – with each other?

“Professional Single” is a 2020 Chinese, university-themed drama series that was directed by Lin Yan.

Professional Single

Mr. & Ms. Single

Growing up as the daughter of a performer, Xiao Wan Zi (Li Geng Xi) spent her entire life on the streets. Always cheerful and incredibly clever, Wan Zi had a knack for grabbing the attention of those passing by, drawing them into watch her father’s impressive performance. Though she never learned to read or write, Wan Zi never wanted for anything, as she possessed all the skills she needed to survive. But none of her street-smarts could prepare her for the encounter that would unexpectedly change her life forever.

Suddenly declared to be a princess, Wan Zi finds herself completely unprepared for the life she is now expected to live. As if trying to adjust to this new life wasn’t enough, Wan Zi soon learns that she’s expected to marry Mei San Shao (Huang Jun Jie), a man who wants nothing to do with her. Vehemently opposed to the marriage, San Shao does everything he can to push Wan Zi away, but despite his best efforts, neither can escape the inevitable marriage. Meanwhile, the king has arranged a marriage for the ninth prince’s daughter, Lu Ying Yao (Sun An Ke), but things go terribly wrong when the bandit Xiao Bao Ye (Ding Jia Wen) mistakes her as his wife.

Trapped in the most unexpected and unlikely marriages, Wan Zi, San Shao, YIng Yao, and Bao Ye all find themselves wondering what to do next. Is love even possible when your marriage starts out as a mistake?

Adapted from the novel, “Wrong Carriage, Right Groom” by Xi Juan, “Truth or Dare” is a 2021 historical romantic comedy drama directed by Wai Hong Chui.

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