I cannot describe it ! It is so bad written that I don't know how I managed to get until the end! The female character is a a scarecrow most of the time, although it is very functional to create professional ( and love wise) problems . She spend a lot of time saying sorry showing how unprofessional she can be and how to be a horrible woman too, disrespectful to the supposed "love" interest. On the top of that, she´s got a friend even more annoying Lele who is all the time slagging Zi Qi off ( the male character) . There we go again into the old rubbish (supposed to be) romantic plot.
A MMA between Sheng Xin Ren and Zi Qi would be more like. The real problem lying with this " selfish martyr romance" plot type sourced in the romanticism era that DOES NOT FIT ANYMORE!
There is very little to do with love and more with selfishness and martyrdom.
I will use a description from Chingu Mode( member of DML) that had also reviewed Miss Rose ( avoid too if you can, is another waste of time because it portrays a woman in a very ridiculous position and as a non reliable human being towards love ), a lot of his description it suits my perception over Office Girls . I saw myself yelling at every episode( I don´t know why I have insisted... maybe because it was my first Taiwanese series).
Pretty much because portray a woman as an idiot and a man as even more questionable, as there is no reason to pursue someone unloving like Sheng Xin Ren , in one minute she look after him and in another she does things that is a absurd from someone that likes another! Is annoying that in one minute she is all about motherly nature and in another minute she treats him worse than an enemy. There is Chingu Mode view:
" The absolute worst of Taiwanese dramas featuring a female lead so passive, simpering and self-righteous that you'll be rooting for the second female lead to throw her under a bus. "
I agree with Chingu Mode also for Shen Xin Ren of the Office Girls .
I found Office Girls WORST than Miss Rose because Shen Xin Ren is even more disrespectful in all senses towards her love pair.
I finish this review questioning about these ridiculous plots from the genre that in any Country you may find, not only in Taiwan... Wasting talents and perpetuating so-wrong conceptions about love. I saw many Chinese movies using the love theme mixed with comedy and turned out to be nice, one example is Love on Delivery with Stephen Chow. You don't have to go insane to fulfil the genre
As Chingu points out : " I just think it's a relief they don't make these horrid and misogynistic odes to female martyrdom anymore."
Fingers crossed Chingu, fingers crossed!