Kevin C. Wong

Use for My Talent (2021) [/]

Use for My Talent is a Chinese romance drama. Shi Shuang Jiao (Shen Yue) is a recent and jobless college graduate who gets a job at Clean First, a cleaning company that is transitioning from manual to robotic cleaning. There she attracts the attention of mysophobic CEO Gu Ren Qi (Jasper Liu) who finds that his phobia mostly goes away whenever he's with Shuang Jiao...

This is either a remake of the Korean Clean with Passion for Now or an adaptation of the same web toon. I found this series not as good. For the most part the Chinese cast is more photogenic and there are two romance subplots which are quite nice.

But the plot elements are more muted. Lu Xian (Dai Yun Fan) is the psychotherapist next door vying for Shuang Jiao's affections but after one episode he quickly gives up. The Korean version has a major end plot element where the Gu family did the Shi family a big wrong but in the Chinese one it turns out to be a misunderstanding. Similarly Ren Qi and his grandfather have an animical relationship but it's only touched upon here. Mysophobia is not nearly as emphasized her.

I guess all the above mens the Chinese show does not hit the dramatic lows of the Korean show but it also doesn't hit the highs. So other than a pretty cast and cutesy storyline there's no reason to watch this after watching Clean with Passion for Now.