My Worst Boss Is My Online Crush

Episode 1

Zhou Cancan is having the kind of morning where quitting sounds like a plan, not a fantasy. She's grinding through another day under a boss she can't stand — the one who dropped into the company and made every workday feel like a punishment. Then the transfer order lands: Vice President Li Jinshu has personally approved Zhou Cancan as the accompanying assistant for a project in Chengdu, stationed at Baiweiju. Everyone's been whispering about who Li Jing would pick for the trip. Turns out it's her. No escape, no polite refusal — just a train ticket and a boss she'd rather forget.

Episode 2

Before Chengdu, there's an unwelcome visitor: Wu Shiwei, Zhou Cancan's ex, showing up with an expensive cake and a rehearsed speech about reconciling. She doesn't bite. He leaves vowing he won't give up, but her mind is already elsewhere — on money, on career, on payback. She tells a friend her heart is only set on cash right now, and that she'd rather spend her energy figuring out how to make Li Jinshu eat her words than entertain an ex. The cake stays. The door closes. Zhou Cancan's priorities are crystal clear.

Episode 3

The train rolls toward Chengdu East Station, and the mood in the compartment is tense. Zhou Cancan needles Li Jing about the long ride — if he's so unhappy with her, he can just replace her. Instead, he drops a number: finish this project well and she gets a promotion and a raise, five times her salary. Her math brain lights up. If she can just hold on until forty, she jokes, she'll have three million saved and can retire early. Suddenly the boss isn't so unbearable. She even backtracks on her earlier attitude — as long as the money's real.

Episode 4

The bickering continues on the way to their lodging, with Zhou Cancan calling Li Jing out for being presumptuous and Li Jing firing back. She needles him about timing — if he'd mentioned the promotion and raise a minute earlier, she'd have booked him a discount ride without complaint. Mid-argument, she asks the driver to stop; she doesn't want to be dropped at the same place. The banter is sharp, almost comfortable, the kind of back-and-forth that feels less like hate and more like a habit neither of them will admit to. They're not done with each other yet.

Episode 5

The address turns out to be no hotel — it's Li Jing's home. Zhou Cancan is floored; the place is enormous, and she's expected to stay there too. She protests that living with her boss feels inappropriate, but Li Jing waves it off, claiming he has a girlfriend and is even more concerned about appearances than she is. A housekeeper greets him warmly and hauls the luggage inside. Zhou Cancan can't help noticing the staff, the scale of the house, the casual wealth — and the fact that her so-called unbearable boss seems to live like someone far above her pay grade.

Episode 6

Zhou Cancan is shown to her room, and it's bigger than her entire apartment. The housekeeper tells her to speak up if anything's missing, then leaves her to rest. Alone, Zhou Cancan takes in the space and starts connecting dots — her blind date is apparently in Chengdu too, and now this. Something about the environment feels oddly familiar, like she's seen it somewhere before. The coincidence nags at her. Between the luxury, the house, and the strange sense of déjà vu, she can't shake the feeling that she's walked into a puzzle someone forgot to explain.

Episode 7

While wandering, Zhou Cancan gets lost and stumbles into a moment she can't unsee: a red mole on Li Jing — the exact mark her online crush has. She stares a beat too long. Li Jing catches her looking and tells her to get ready; they're heading to Baiweiju in half an hour. She insists he change clothes first — they're going undercover, and his usual sharp look would blow their cover before they even order. He teases her about it, but agrees. For five times the salary, she'll call it strategy.

Episode 8

Inside Baiweiju, the problems are obvious: loose management, indifferent staff, service that would sink any restaurant. Zhou Cancan and Li Jing play ordinary customers and order the signature dishes. She tests Li Jing with a small question — does he eat cilantro? — fishing for clues about her online crush, who doesn't. He deflects, calling her questions strange. The staff's attitude is dismissive, the pacing slow, the whole operation sloppy. The two of them trade quiet looks: this place is worse than they expected, and fixing it won't be simple.

Episode 9

The food, surprisingly, tastes good — but Zhou Cancan points out that great flavor won't save a restaurant when the service drives customers away. She coaches Li Jing on how to reveal his identity later, half-joking about the dramatic reveals she's seen in short dramas. He plays along. Then she notices something in his expression and asks why he looks like that. The moment hangs, quieter than their usual sparring. Somewhere between the bad service and the good food, the two of them are starting to work like a team — and neither seems ready to name it.

Episode 10

A hot spill nearly burns Zhou Cancan, and Li Jing blocks it with his body. She thanks him; he says he won't let her get hurt — then immediately covers it as a workplace concern, since she's company staff and he'd have to answer for an injury. She deflates a little at the cold explanation. The restaurant's manager finally appears with apologies and an offer to comp everything, but it's five minutes too late. Zhou Cancan and Li Jing leave, dissecting the disaster. And a nagging thought takes hold: with that kind of presence, could Li Jing be the new boss sent by the group?

Keep watching to see whether Zhou Cancan figures out who her boss really is — and what happens when the man she hates and the man she loves turn out to be the same person.