Here We Meet Again

office romcom with few missunderstanding and separations

Here We Meet Again -8,5/10 -cdrama

office romance drama

both leads know each other from school days and both liked each other but cause alot of misundersandings or hard situations didnt got together and always separated.

Now they meet again at work and maybe this time it will work.
Its not senseless but cant be called clever drama either... still its cdrama it means you get alot cute scenes. Not very funny but got few funny moments.

plot - Xiang Yuan, the eldest miss of Donghe group, is tasked with saving their Xi'an branch from bankruptcy. At this time, she meets her former crush Xu Yan Shi once again.

In their school days, Xiang Yuan pursued Xu Yan Shi with all her might to no avail. Reunited as adults, she is trying to save a company while he is deep in the mud due to problems in the workplace. Despite facing inequality, he is determined to pursue his dream to become a navigation engineer. In the process of dealing with the company crisis, Xiang Yuan gradually learns to take matters into her own hands. The two come to support each other as they realize their dreams.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

genre- romance, office, comedy

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The chemistry between Vin Zhang and Janice Wu absolutely carried this drama. If I didn't love them so much both individually and together, I might not have finished this. It's sweet how they fall for each other over and over again; it really feels like they only have eyes for each other.

Janice Wu's Xiang Yuan makes a bet with her grandfather and takes a job in a struggling branch of his company, where she unexpectedly finds herself working alongside her childhood crush, Vin Zhang's Xu Yan Shi. It's nice to see that although Xiang Yuan has grown up spoiled and getting her way, she's kind and hardworking and does take her job seriously. I liked how the events of the past between Xiang Yuan and Xu Yan Shi were gradually revealed through flashbacks. I was really glad that they cast actual teens as the younger versions of their characters--the teens did a fantastic job.

Xu Yan Shi has really faced a lot of hardship in his life; your heart will hurt for him. He's unaccustomed to sharing his burdens with others, and that's the biggest obstacle between Xu Yan Shi and Xiang Yuan: communication. They really needed to be better at talking things out, although on the plus side they did usually resolve their issues quickly. The last six episodes really disappointed me though, because they stopped communicating entirely. They should've worked to find a solution together! And, Feng Jun gets thrown back in the story and his actions and motives made so sense. What was the point?!

I enjoyed the storylines about the company's struggles; it's unsurprising for there to be office politics and rival factions, and there were some surprises I didn't expect. I loved the team that Xiang Yuan and Xu Yan Shi worked with and the friendship that they formed. Gao Leng was a bit over the top but still brought a lot of humor to the story. However his relationship with Chen Shu did become annoying later on and I wish it had developed differently. It felt like everyone just pressured Chen Shu just because Gao Leng was a caring person--but just because someone is caring towards you doesn't mean you have to be in a relationship with them! It would've been fun if there had been more of Xiang Yuan's brother instead of the Chen Shu/Gao Leng storyline. Also, I can't forget Lao Qing, who was probably my favorite character besides the leads! His humor was on point every single time.

I enjoyed the OST, especially Chen Xue Ran's opening song and 心里的流星 (Meteor In My Heart) by 周蕙 (Zhou Hui).

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80% great, last 20% awful

This Drama started well and held up well until around episode 26/32. Wu Qian's FL was genuinely independent and self-assured, and the character grew and matured well. Tha'ts why I stuck it out and ended up still giving it 7/10 when I came VERY close to dropping it.

The reason I nearly dropped it was not the ridiculously OTT flag-waving propaganda about Beidou. I'm used to zoning out and FFing through that kind of bakvass - did through beoth times I watched Go Go Squid. Nope, it was the controlling and childish ML, and the way the final few episodes hammered home the message that in the end, ONLY a man can save things and EVERY woman MUST have a man to fix things for her.

The ML says at one point "the most important thing in a long-distance relationship is trust. Let's not ever keep secrets" and then repeatedly tells the FL NOTHING about stuff going on his life, like when he loses someone dear to him or nearly gets seriously injured and yet AFTER that he's thumping his fist on a door demanding to know why she didn't tell him the company she's running is in trouble. VERY disappointing after a promising start. To eventually have the final 3 paint him as the saviour of both the FL and her company was ghastly

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Extraordinary blend of everything 'ordinary' ~ Office romance and cold medicine ad

A Predictable Yet Addictive Romance with a Frustratingly Offbeat Ending

This drama is the epitome of a guilty pleasure—nothing groundbreaking, no mind-bending twists, just a straightforward love story set in a modern workplace. Yet somehow, despite its overload of clichés and a series of unbelievable misfortunes, it manages to keep you second-guessing.

At its core, the plot revolves around our leads missing each other time and time again due to fate’s cruel sense of humor. Every time they get close, life throws a wrench in their plans—refusals, regrets, rejections—rinse and repeat. You know what’s coming, but you can’t help but stay hooked.

The Leads & Their Unbreakable Bond

Our ML, a coding prodigy with a tragic backstory, is the walking definition of resilience. He’s been dealt the worst possible hand in life—a runaway father drowning in debt, a newborn brother to take care of, and the cherry on top: a false accusation of illegal hacking that shatters both his golden career and his shot at love. Vin Zhang absolutely nailed this role, but I have to admit—the kid playing his younger self? Stole the show.

Then we have our FL, a carefree, happy-go-lucky heiress who suddenly finds herself burdened with the impossible task of reviving a dying company. Her childhood version was beyond adorable, but I have one pressing question: How did she shrink? Girl was taller as a kid than as an adult—make it make sense!

Romantic Chemistry? Off the Charts.

From the very beginning, these two had an undeniable spark, coupled with a rare, unwavering loyalty. They weren’t just lovers—they were best friends, partners-in-crime, and each other’s biggest supporters. Their playful dynamic had my heart doing cartwheels. And don’t even get me started on their romantic moments—his possessive kisses, that chewing gum-snatching scene (whew!), the way he silently guided her without ever dimming her light… Absolute perfection.

She, in turn, never played the privileged heiress card—except when it came to protecting his dignity. And when she did? Full throttle. No hesitation. No damsel in distress nonsense.

Also, the subtle humor sprinkled throughout? Chef’s kiss. Just enough to make you smile, without crossing into cringeworthy territory.

And Then… That Ending.

Sigh. The finale did me so dirty. I genuinely don’t know what possessed the writer to add that absolutely unnecessary sequence with their son selling the house because "it’s always vacant." EXCUSE ME?! After everything Xiang Yuan and Xu Yanshi went through, after both of them struggled with absent parents, the last thing I wanted was their kid feeling the same void.

Would it have killed them to include a scene where the two of them show up for their son’s school event, proving they’ve learned from their past? Instead, we get a gut-punch of an ending that completely contradicts their character growth.

Final thoughts? A beautifully engaging drama with all the right elements—romance, loyalty, sizzling chemistry—but that ending? A crime.

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best c drama 2023

best c drama i saw in 2023 the couple happened so naturally that i didn't even miss them kissing

I loved her grandfather so much, I laughed a lot with him he became my favorite by far

i will miss them aa

end 11/06

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A-

This is a very decent Chinese romance drama. Overall it's quite similar to You Are My Glory, but it has more comedy & the setting is different. (entertainment industry vs. corporate environment in this one) Janice Wu is always 10/10 in romcoms & this paring's been quite fantastic. Also I like "faceslaps" in Chinese fiction & this drama has plenty of that.
One big positive in this drama is that the high school flashbacks are quite well done. There are not overly many of them & have proper child actors, which is always nice to see.

So why is it only an 8?

Well, for starters the final 4-5 episodes were quite difficult to get through. The crises were not too serious or anything, but the whole "company's in dire straits" thing was really unfun to watch & then a rocket had been launched & we got fed an incredible amount of Chinese propaganda stuff before the ending credits.

There is also the matter of ML's younger brother. To me it feels like the writer thought the leads are ready to get married, so let's fix the ML's "big problem" before then, I'm quite disappointed with this, the kid was comedy gold, would have much rather watched him bicker with FL, over whatever corporate shenanigans that went down.

Also I really disliked most of the songs. Mainland Chinese rock that gets to be on TV almost always sounds really weird to me, but this drama has been perhaps the worst offender so far.

Oh I almost forgot, the drama is full of insane product placements.

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This was a good watch. I didn't expect too much because of the rating says 8.6. But after finished the whole episodes, i found this series is enjoyable to watch. There's no unnecessary triangle love conflict between the main role, so the audience will not feel stressful about the romance-conflict.

I love how the BTS crew cast the actor for this series. Wu Qian is the perfect match for the character she plays in this drama. She got that "Fancy & Luxury" vibes effortlessly which suits best with Xiangyuan's character. This is the first Wu Qian's drama i watch, so my opinion is not subjective. Then we got Zhang Bin Bin as the counterpart of Wu Qian's acting. They're the perfect match for this drama.

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Here we meet a bunch of immature possessive men and satellites

This is another one of those dramas with great potential brought down by praise China and low expectations, or is it something else for men... To the men out there reading this, I believe you can control you impulses, fists and lips! You can do it! Yes you can!

Seriously if I where a man I would be offended by how they portrya even the so called good guys/ male lead as immature, impulsive extremely insecure and immature along side being another male god. To be clear the actor did an amazing job with what he got and there are moments of fluff, fireworks and what not. Toxic, and I counted at least 3 times the guy pretty much forced aggressive (some would say passionate) kisses as a show of possessiveness/act of jealousy on our female lead..

which brings us to our female lead on the other hand is really cool, kind, smart awesome, and while she does actually seem to react to the male leads behaviour she also shows us how easy it is to get trapped by this. So had this been a thriller type drama with say 15 episodes this would have mede an easy 10.

Unfortunately it is supposed to be a romance, and while I did enjoy some moments between our couples, as well as the occasional flirting and buttoned down shirt.The never endin praise china, aggressiveness, lack of communication and endless self sacrifice ruined the romance and had me spinning pokestops to stay awake.

That said characters are fun, friendships sweet and the actors are good at their job, all keeping this from getting a lower score and helping me stick with it till the end.

P:S the professor was the only character on this show that I fully juist found annoying and did not ad a single thing to the plot.

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A very good work place centered, love over the long term romance

9/10 is my rating. This is a 2023 Chinese romantic comedy drama series with 32, 45-52 minute episodes.

First I provide a synopsis then review

Synopsis

Xiang Yuan (Wu Qian a.k.a Janice Wu) is living a carefree life as a top gamer/influencer when her grandfather’s threats of blind dates and marriage lead her to strike a deal for her continued freedom. If she can save the Xi'an branch of the Donghue group from bankruptcy her grandfather, and guardian since her parent’s early deaths, will drop the subject of marriage. Grandfather is confident he will win their deal and even gives her three feathers to be used for favors toward accomplishing her mission. She does not realize that the boy she was in love with in school, Xu Yanshi (Vin Zhang), who rejected her before transferring, is now a mature but still devastatingly handsome man, who works at the Xi’an branch of her company. Prior to being rejected, Xiang Yuan pursued Xu Yanshi throughout their school years. Seeing him again she initially takes up with trying to win his affection then remembers a romantic relationship leading to marriage is the very thing she was avoiding. As a brilliant navigation engineer, he is almost single handedly keeping the company afloat. So they must work closely together to save the ailing branch. The feelings that were always there spring back to life only now it is Xiang Yuan that realizes his feelings for Xiang Yuan and seeks to convince her he still is the one for her. Can the two save the company? Will their second chance at romance end happily?

Review

It is overall a feel good love story with a happy ending. The only person the female lead character is a push over for is Xu Yanshi. She is strong, confident and provides instant karma to those who need it. In their younger years she relentlessly pursues Yanshi and is rejected by him several times. When things finally flip and he is the one pursuing her she slowly finds out his feelings ran longer and deeper than the rejections would indicate. We also get to see her grow from a heir without a lot of confidence in her business acumen to a force to be reckoned with who is capable of running the family conglomerate. I liked it very much and would recommend it to others that like modern romantic comedy dramas. I loved several of the OST songs from this.

Spoilers

Toward the end both main characters make some decisions that were inconsistent with their central character traits to that point. For instance Yanshi is suddenly OK with her significant other being gone, long periods of time when she found that extremely hurtful as a child when her mother did the same. I know they tried to spin it that she changed it and now as an adult she finally understands why her mother was so focused on her research, but I don’t care being absent is being absent. They also tried to make it into the love of country and ability to bring your country to the next technological level is more important than personal family relationships, and it felt like it had a very heavy CCP influence on that aspect. Not to say that the United States doesn’t do the same thing with some of the patriotic aspects to movies , but in this, it just felt like they took one direction through the majority of the movie with putting more focus and care on personal relationships to only at the very end make it so that yeah but it’s OK if you’re furthering the interest of the country. That love of country over family was also contradictory to Yancey‘s personality, because that had been his dream early on but so many things in his life had come along that changed his perspective on that it seemed like a reversal. Rather than having his time tied up on a research track and being absentee he could have continued on the business track and still furthered the technology yet had more time with her and their son. They specifically emphasized he did not regret, taking a step back from his dreams to raise his brother and iIn fact, he felt like that was one of his greatest gifts. Therefor it made no sense that he would be an absentee with his child, and would spend less time with his own family to focus on his dream when he quickly altered his goal and dream to raise his brother. So the ending is happy, but would have been better if he had revealed that had been his dream early on but his love for her and being there for his family was his new dream.

I thought what Yanshi’s mentor said to Yuan about being selfish, and, holding Yanshi back from his dream, was not only uncalled for and unmerited, but extremely rude and unkind. Later they portrayed it as he was really embarrassed about it when he realize that wasn’t the case but I wanted the moment where lead guy set him straight and said yes, that was my dream when I was younger, but now that I have Yuan my goals have shifted. That would have been more satisfying. I also thought that it was his mentor being selfish and living vicariously through Yanshi that resulted in him pushing so hard for Yanshi to join the academy.

I could see her point that she did not want him to give up his dream to help save her family’s company. What thought he should point out was that if he pursued his dream and her company went bankrupt when he could have saved it - he would not have felt good about that either.

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I like this drama just because Zhang Bin Bin and Janice Wu. Both of them are amazing. They really did justice to their roles 😍. Overall I can say

What I like :
Mature, slow-burn romance
Strong leads with good chemistry
Minimal love triangles and misunderstandings
A realistic mix of career and emotional growth
What I dislike :

Story - I read the novel; and can only say that the screenwriter ruined many parts in this series. Yes, there are some erotic sections that need to be cut, but they completely ruined Li Qin and Yang Ping Shan's revealing of fraudulent parts and how Xiang Yuan takes a stand for Xu Yanshi in front of everyone, etc. But Xu Yanshi and his brother's relation was portrayed very beautifully.
Pace - The drama has been ended very abruptly
Background songs - As the drama starts, the sound track feels good. As they have used the same songs over and over, after sometime it feels annoying.

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somewhat got just ok

story semi complete, i think this is one of does series that has run into a problem in the middle of production cos the last 2 episode fill lke it was rush compare previous episode where it focus more on the daily interaction of the on the office.
i say i was rush because the ending is just ok becaue they just compact many plot on a single episode some character just pot and disappear like the main villain in the 2nd half and the childhood friend and some key scene is not present like the meeting of the ML and his mother lastly the villain didn't suffer of there action they even made an appearance in the hospital to taunt the lead and then we hear nothing of them untill the end.

on the side of the side character are just there of the comedic act .or just patch in the story i love the funny one but not his story he treated like a disposable by his partner and he still persue and came back to here just because she what his and ask him to beg her??? i saw like what i was ok on there situation where they are just colleague.

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