Qin Zi Qi (who is also sometimes called Jason for reasons I have yet to fathom) has just returned to Taiwan from America and he's about to have the longest day of his life.
He's taken directly from the airport to the Jingshi Department Store to see his father, who is the owner of the whole shebang. Zi Qi isn't totally stupid; he has a masters degree in business. He's just a tad spoiled and rash. Dad is worried his son doesn't have the right work ethics to succeed when Zi Qi takes over the store. So Dad is going to give him one year to get his head on straight.
Zi Qi must sign a simple contract. He can't tell anyone he's the son of the CEO. He can't spend any of Dad's money or use the family credit cards; Zi Qi must survive on his own salary. He can't live at home, although Dad was nice enough to find him a new apartment. Zi Qi must earn an "excellent" rating on his year-end review, and he can't tell anyone about this contract.
While he's hanging out in the atrium of the department store, Zi Qi spots an attractive woman at a nearby counter and he attempts to flirt long-distance with her. But his view is impeded by someone dressed up as a dinosaur handing out balloons to the kids. Zi Qi motions for "Dino girl" as he calls her to come over. He takes one of the balloons and writes his phone number on it, telling Dino girl to take this over to the attractive woman. Dino girl stubs up, asking why should she? Why should she do anything for him? She takes off the head of her costume and this is when Zi Qi first meets Shen Xing Ren.
Shen Xing Ren is one of the said office girls in the show title. She works in the sales department of Jingshi and is only doing this dino gig because the part time worker who is supposed to be doing it didn't show up for work that morning. Xing Ren is a very frugal woman who has been diligently saving up her money to buy her first house. As someone who is also in the process of paying off my first home, I totally respect that.
But back to the argument. Xing Ren refuses to take the balloon over to the woman. Zi Qi blathers on that once he becomes her boss he'll have her fired. Xing Ren shoots back that once she becomes his boss she'll make him wear the dinosaur costume. Meanwhile, the attractive woman moves on. We learn later she is Zheng Kai Er, another office girl of the department store.
Later this same day Zi Qi reports to human resources and they take him to his new job assignment as a lowly assistant in, you guessed it, the sales department. He and Xing Ren (now back into her regular clothes) immediately recognize each other. To make her day even worse, her manager puts her in charge of training Zi Qi. I'm sure the manager has a character name, I just didn't catch it. He does have a Godzilla action figure that he sometimes carries around with him.
The manager (maybe his name is Shi Te Long) further puts the load on Xing Ren when he needs a proposal for the staff meeting today and he expects Xing Ren to just pop one out. When she does, he claims he can't read all the small print and so drags her along to the meeting. (She is so not dressed for this meeting, but at least she has a Dell laptop just like everyone else. No problem seeing what company is sponsoring this drama.)
Sales are down so the senior vice president asks each department for suggestions on what to do. When it comes to the sales department, the manager forces Xing Ren to make the presentation. She remembers a magazine she bought this morning featuring Taiwanese fashion designer Yu Cheng Feng. He is legendarily finicky about not selling his designs in department stores. Out loud she says if they could get him to sell exclusively at Jingshi, that will bring the customers back. She was just using him as an example, but the others think the sales department must have some kind of plan since they mentioned Yu Cheng Feng and so they all agree to it. Xing Ren's butt is on the burner now.
Later in the evening Zi Qi is at a nightclub hanging with his boys and moaning over his fate. He runs into attractive woman Kai Er and this time gets to speak with her. She recognizes him as someone who works in the sales department, yet she's smart enough to see he's wearing designer clothes, an expensive watch, and having drinks with rich and powerful men. She asks Zi Qi if he's someone rich and powerful. Remembering his contract, Zi Qi claims everything he's got on is actually knockoffs. He's just a poor assistant at the store. Gotta go, bye!
He finds the address of the apartment Dad got him and perhaps in his playboy eyes it is a dump but to someone poor like me it doesn't look that bad. Oh, and guess what we viewers know but he doesn't yet know. This is the same apartment building where Xing Ren lives.
The next day Xing Ren drags Zi Qi (who is wearing the same outfit he wore the other "day") along with her as they try to get in contact with Cheng Feng. The designer is having a closed fashion show. No one is allowed in without an invitation and the guards at the door are very strict. Zi Qi notices a florist truck nearby. He talks Xing Ren into grabbing a couple of flower baskets and nonchalantly walking in through the back door like they're delivery people.
Once inside, Xing Ren is ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the (IMO ugly) dresses. Zi Qi is ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the beautiful models. What Zi Qi doesn't notice at first is that dear old Dad is one of the invited guests and he's watching the fashion show from the front row. After the show has ended Yu Cheng Feng is supposed to be holding a press conference. Yet an annoying female reporter jumps right in and asks where is Wei Mena? This is Cheng Feng's main model, his muse, and his girlfriend. Where is she? Did they have a big fight? Will this make Yu's work suffer? Man, this reporter is annoying and Yu ends the press conference before it even really began. The reporter still keeps shouting out questions about Wei Mena.
Xing Ren, a fangirl of Yu's (Zi Qi even offers her a handkerchief to mop up her drool - hee hee) jumps to her feet and jumps to the defense of the fashion designer. She lambasts the annoying reporter for asking such personal questions when they should all be paying attention to the fresh and exciting line that Yu just debuted. Cheng Feng is touched by her defense and, thinking she's another reporter, asks Xing Ren what media is she representing. Caught in the spotlight, Xing Ren has to admit she works for Jingshi Department Store and she's here to invite the designer to sell his clothes through them. In the background, Dad has been listening to all this and makes note of this young woman that he probably had no idea worked for him until today. Cheng Feng doesn't quite answer Xing Ren and he walks away. Zi Qi and Xing Ren start to leave in defeat, and defeat always leads to bickering. As they are doing such, Cheng Feng's assistant catches up to them to deliver a message. Yu Cheng Feng would like to have a cup of coffee with them.
Let's be honest: Roy Qiu (Qin Zi Qi) is not hard on the eyes. And he speaks passable English. Also, the sound people on this show seem to know what they're doing, unlike the awful sound from Drunken To Love You. But once again, Taiwanese TV, what is with the cartoon sound effects?!? That "boing" is straight out of The Flintstones. Why do they feel the need to add such childish noises? Also, the music in this rom-com was distracting as well. At one point I had to hit the mute button because I couldn't stand the background music.
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