Best Taiwanese Dramas

SETTV

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

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

Xia You Qian (Jasper Liu) is the total package. He’s good-looking, a highly successful head of a private equity company and well liked by everyone around him. Even competitors like Hu Yan Ze (Jet Chao) can’t help but respect him and wealthy socialites like Hu Yong Qing (Ivy Shao) are in love with him. But You Qian also has the keen ability to make accurate assessments about people at first sight using his strong observational skills. When You Qian and his grandfather are invited to Pu Lang village to judge a competition, he runs into An Xi (Mandy Wei), a woman who was responsible for You Qian nearly losing his life 10 years ago. An Xi is forced to enter the competition to try to earn the prize money to save her hostel, which she inherited from her father but is riddled with debt. After You Qian’s prejudice forces An Xi to lose the competition, will she be forced to marry her creditor to pay back her debts? “When I See You Again” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series.

When I See You Again

At Second Glance

SET TV, TTV

Can one life and two hearts be saved?


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Qiao Jia'en (Mandy Wei) and her boyfriend, Wang Xiukai (Nylon Chen), return to Taiwan from overseas to reunite with her estranged wealthy father. But when the couple gets into a car accident, Jia'en&nbsp;suffers a concussion and memory loss while Xiukai becomes brain dead.


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Jia'en’s friend, Zhao Aili (Mandy Tao), takes advantage of the situation and takes Jia'en’s place in meeting with Jia'en’s father and assumes her place in a privileged life. Meanwhile, when pastry chef Xing Shaotian (Andy Chen) collapses at a banquet, he needs an immediate heart transplant and ends up receiving Xiukai’s heart.


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When Shaotian fatefully meets Jia'en, he is drawn to her. So is Shaotian’s half-brother, Duan Ruofan (Jolin Chien). Can Shaotian help Jia'en regain her memory and her rightful place in life?


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“Memory Love” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.

Memory Love

Sweet Memory 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

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

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

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

Can anything be more important than comics and good food? 

Du Kai Qi (Puff Guo) is an independent, single woman who loves comic books and her job as a sous chef in the fine-dining French restaurant, Figaro Cuisine. When an unassuming man, Fu Zi Jie (Jasper Liu), moves in next door, they immediately begin to bicker over trivial matters. 

But when Zi Jie shows up as a new employee at her restaurant, Kai Qi, as well as other staff members, mistake him for a lowly intern, not knowing that Zi Jie is a classically trained chef who just returned from France and that Figaro Cuisine is actually his father’s restaurant. 

Can Zi Jie help save Kai Qi from the wrath of the mysterious “Chef Louis”? 

“Love Myself or You” is a 2014 Taiwanese drama series.

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