Office Girls

She bet six-pack abs against a 6 rating. The finale landed at 7.33.

Ko Chia-yen told ETtoday in October 2011 that if Office Girls broke a 6, she would show six-pack abs. Body fat under 18 percent, 180 sit-ups a night, no oil for a week already. "After all, I said it, so I have to try," she said. TTV's Sunday 10pm slot opened at 2.78 on 21 August 2011 and never left first place for long. By mid-October the average sat at 5.17. The 15 January 2012 episode, the night Qin Zi Qi's cover as department-store heir blows, peaked at 8.11. The 12 February wedding finale averaged 7.33 and peaked at 8.99. She never had to do the photoshoot on air. latestnetflix.com's view is that the bet still reads like the whole series in miniature: a working-girl idol drama that treated ratings like a promotion review.

Roy Chiu was the other half of that promotion. He had cooled on the industry, then came back as the prince pretending to be a clerk. ETtoday caught him after a cheek-kiss scene and he laughed that they were too familiar, so it felt awkward. He claimed the only hood he had ever kissed was a car's, full of wax. Ko said she would not do intimate stuff before someone confessed and both agreed to date. "There has to be a confession, and the other person has to agree to be together, before there is any intimate move," she said. A month later they finally shot a mouth-to-mouth near Taipei 101, one take, and Chiu told the paper her lips felt warm because it was cold. Fans built a QiRen couple out of that. Off camera both said work first. After wrap he talked about a wedding banquet with a DJ and plane tickets in the invitation. She said she wanted to be braver about love. They did not date each other. He later married Hsu Wei-ning. She later married Kun Da. SET's own recap ten years on still frames them as the pair who got famous together and went home with other co-stars.

Sunday nights, then a Netflix afterlife.

SETTV and TTV built the series with Xu Fu Jun directing, the same shop that had just delivered The Fierce Wife. Filming started in July 2011. Wikipedia lists 40 episodes. Netflix later carried a 40-episode cut with Mandarin audio and English subs. The original Sunday run was 25 nights of roughly 90 minutes. Kadokawa put out a photobook and a novel before the drama even finished, spoilers included. Rock Records dropped the soundtrack with Genie Chuo's "Don't, Don't" and Yisa Yu's "Add A Little Happiness." Japan got it as Susume! Kirameki joshi. Latin America eventually parked it on ViX. Flixboss timestamps the Netflix add at 31 July 2016, which is how a lot of non-Taiwanese viewers met Shen Xing Ren saving her first NT$1 million for a Taipei apartment.

The afterlife is still gossip. In 2025, Golden Bell hosts rolled Ko's Xing Ren clip as a she-hasn't-changed gag while she sat as a best-actress nominee. In 2026, Vogue Taiwan covered her and Chiu reuniting for Liu Bang-yao's psychological thriller The Cave, eleven years after Marry Me, or Leave Me, playing a married couple in a haunted house instead of clerks in a department store. Chiu said seeing the script filled his head with houses. Ko said the trust was already there, and that their roles had moved with real life. Office Girls is the title Netflix keeps. The rumor mill still argues they should have ended up together. They did, on screen, in a wedding episode that beat every rival that Sunday. That was the job.