Refresh Man


Refresh Man is a 2016 Taiwanese television series created by Sanlih E-Television, starring Aaron Yan, Joanne Tseng, Lene Lai and Jack Lee as the main cast. Filming began on January 27, 2016 and is filmed as it airs. The drama premiered March 6, 2016 on channel TTV, Sunday nights at 10:00 pm.
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Synopsis

A "Refresh Man" is an employee who has no passion for their job. They don't care about their underachieving reputation, as long as they get paid for showing up to work they are fine. They report to work on time only to do personal stuff during working hours and count down to the end of the work day to leave on time.
In high school Zhong Yu Tang was the overachiever with a bright future ahead of her while Ji Wen Kai was the underachiever with the worst grades out of the entire class. Ten years later the tables have turned when Wen Kai becomes the new CEO of the cosmetic company Yu Tang works for. Yu Tang becomes Wen Kai's personal secretary but on her first full day working for him she realizes she is not up to par being an executive secretary when she fails miserably at every given task. Wen Kai has to call in his longtime assistant Miao Ai Sha to help him translate during a business meeting with a foreign account, and because Ai Sha is the only one that can communicate with the foreign account person and read the foreign documents, she gets hired at the cosmetic company.
Due to a misunderstanding and feeling left out by Wen Kai and Ai Sha, Yu Tang asks to resign. However she is forced to stay as an employee with the company for three years due to a contract she signed in order to study overseas the previous year. Seeing that Yu Tang has no passion for her position as his personal secretary, Wen Kai transfer her to the worst performing department in the company, which is sales team 3. The rumors of sales team 3 are so bad that it is said anyone that goes to that department never rises up again. Their work quarters are located in an un-maintained area of the building basement. Whenever they hear footsteps nearby, the entire team pretends to work hard but then goes back to their natural state of doing their own personal matters during working hours.
Yu Tang thinks this is Wen Kai's revenge for her treating him harshly during high school, but the reason Wen Kai transferred her to sales team 3 is because he wants her to make sales team 3 a productive department. Also because Yu Tang's life has always been smooth-sailing, he wants to make her stronger through different obstacles he gives her as he secretly likes her. When sales team 3 loses a longtime key account that keeps their department afloat, Wen Kai gives them a new account to handle and transfer Chen You Rui from another sales team to team 3. Yu Tang's work life just went from bad to worst because You Rui is a constant flirt who is known to flirt with anyone that is female and he has a history of flirting with Yu Tang. Yu Tang starts bonding with Sales team 3 and realizes that she has taken things for granted. Wen Kai is shown to have had feelings for Yutang ever since high school but has never admitted them. When Ziyu, the head secretary of Xinwei Biomedical technology, starts getting closer to Yutang he confesses his love for her and they start dating. Ziyu is heartbroken and tries to sabotage sales team 3 and Wen Kai to get Yutang by collaborating with Ai Sha and Sales teams 1 and 2.

Cast

Main cast

  • Aaron Yan 炎亞綸 as Ji Wen Kai 紀文凱 – Male age 30
  • Joanne Tseng 曾之喬 as Zhong Yu Tang 鍾雨棠 – Female age 29
  • Lene Lai 賴琳恩 as Miao Ai Sha 苗愛莎 – Female age 29
  • '''Jack Lee 李運慶 as Wang Zi Yu 王子譽- Male age 33'''

Sales team 3

  • Sara Xiu 琇琴 as Meng He 孟和 – Female age 50
  • Cherry Hsia 夏如芝 as Huang Jia Ying 黃佳茵 – Female age 30
  • Chang Roy as Zhu Liang Yu 朱亮瑜 – Male age 26
  • Jenny Huang 黃甄妮 as Jiang Hui Xin 江慧心 – Female age 21
  • '''JR 紀言愷 as Shen You Rui 沈佑睿 – Male age 32'''

Extended main cast

  • Wang Dao Nan 王道南 as Zhong Kui 鍾奎- Male age 55
  • Andy Ko 葛兆恩 as Zhong Yu Han 鍾雨翰- Male age 25
  • Yin Fu 茵芙 as Wang Hai Di 王海蒂 – Female age 29
  • Stanley Mei 梅賢治 as Cai Sheng Ren 蔡聖仁 – Male age 30
  • '''Hsieh Chiung Hsuan 謝瓊煖 as Ai Sha's mother – Female age 55'''

Extended cast

  • Ting Chiang 丁強 as Shen Yue Feng 沈岳峰
  • Lung Shao-hua as Wang Chao Long
  • ID Yu 游喧 as Wendy
  • Jeniffer Wang 袁天綺 as Amy
  • Wang Chi Chiang 王自強 as Uncle Wang
  • Cheng Zheng Jun 程政鈞 as Chief Zheng
  • Ray Fan 范瑞君 as Yu Tang and Yu Han's mother
  • Joseph Ma 馬國賢 as
  • Lin Xin Ying 林莘穎 as childhood Yu Tang
  • John Chen 陳志強 as Lian Shi Qiang 連士強（Johnny）
  • Guan Jin Zong 管謹宗 as Director Cai
  • Gina Lim as Director Cai's secretary
  • Xue Zi Fei 薛子騛 as Deputy Wu
  • Stephenie Lim 林美貞 as Hua Ru Ping 華如萍
  • Bi Zhi Gang 畢志綱 as Uncle Li
  • Yang Lie 楊烈 as Director Luo
  • Zhang Ji Quan 張紀詮 as Xu Yong Cheng 許永承
  • Vince Kao 高英軒 as Zhang Zhu Mi 張主秘
  • Soso Tseng 曾威豪 as children toys store owner
  • Ren Yuan Yuan 任媛媛 as Zhu Mi's companion
  • Xu Mou Jun 徐謀俊 as bad boy high school prom
  • Zhan Bo Xiang 詹博翔 as bad boy high school prom
  • Paul Hsu 許騰方 as Jia Zhong Xian 賈重賢
  • Tang Tsung Sheng 唐從聖 as Zhan Shang Yang 詹上陽
  • Su An Bang 蘇安邦 as business lesson staff
  • Lin Zhe Wei 林震緯 as business lesson staff
  • Jian Yi Zhe 簡義哲 as Chief Huang
  • Yang Yu Cheng 仰雨澄 as bag saleswoman
  • Calvin Lee 地球 as Ah Hui 阿輝
  • Tan Qing Pu 譚慶普 as Executive Director Hong

Soundtrack

  • Partner by Claire Kuo 郭靜
  • You're The First to Come to Mind by William Wei 韋禮安
  • What's Past is Past by Pets Tseng 曾沛慈
  • Invent a Game by Fang Wu 吳汶芳
  • We by Jing Wen Tseng 曾靜玟 and Fang Wu 吳汶芳
  • Old and New by Wang Li Ren 王笠人
  • I Want To Be A Kid by Pets Tseng 曾沛慈
  • This Is Not Love by William Wei 韋禮安

Episode ratings

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