Our Interpreter (2024) [+]
Oct 29 2025
Our Interpreter is a Chinese romance drama running 36 45-minute episodes.
Lin Xi (Victoria Song, Find Yourself [2020] as female lead) is the head of the special customer department at a prestigious translator company (they do live walking translations — like walking around in a trade show or business function translating as needed, live booth translations — this is like translating at a UN meeting or speaker presentation, and static document translations and all three are shown in this series). The special customer department handles the high profile accounts so they're the best translators at the company.
Their new account is with a hot AI translation startup that happens to be run by Lin Xi's ex-boyfriend Xiao Yi Cheng (Cheng Xing Xu). She broke up with him in college, her secret reason so that he would go overseas to get his PhD. Now he's successful and wants her back.
Love rivals are Tong Xin (Yu Sha Sha), VP of Xiao's company and he makes the mistake of trying to make Lin Xi jealous by intimating they're married. There's Cheng Yao (Fei Qi Ming, Ski into Love [2025] supporting role) who is a young rebel translator. Both Xiao and Xin Li want to hire him but he goes with Xin Li because he's attracted to her and soon competes with Xiao Yi Cheng. That doesn't last long and Cheng Yao goes on to woo Tong Xin which is a nice subplot.
Lastly there's Wei Tian (Wang Sen), Lin Xi's second in her department and good friend since college to both her and Xiao Yi Cheng. He becomes the target of new hire Tan Sha Sha (Lin Zi Lu) who is Lin Xi's younger cousin and has a history with Wei Tian, though he doesn't remember. Their romance is a bit rougher because she has health issues which he doesn't notice and she does all the personal sacrifices and he takes her for granted. They end up breaking up and getting back together though it's late in the series by then and the getting back together is not done well.
Major subplot for Lin Xi is her relationship her grandfather who forced Lin Xi's mom to choose between a translator career or love. Mom chose the latter and was ostracized by grandfather. So although Lin Xi has fairly frequent contact with grandfather (a sort of legend in translation circles) she is rather cool and standoffish towards him. Reconciling with him and with her aunt (Tan Sha Sha's mom) is a series-long subplot.
This is a nice romantic series with clean sets and attractive cast. Victoria Song plays a character much like in Find Yourself — very serious and occasionally showing happy emotions. Fei Qi Ming also plays a similar sort of personality as in Ski into Love. Towards the end it does focus more on the two minor romance subplots rather than the mains which I find kind of means they didn't pace it right or the season was bit too long.
Overall though it's a fine romance series to watch.
Lin Xi (Victoria Song, Find Yourself [2020] as female lead) is the head of the special customer department at a prestigious translator company (they do live walking translations — like walking around in a trade show or business function translating as needed, live booth translations — this is like translating at a UN meeting or speaker presentation, and static document translations and all three are shown in this series). The special customer department handles the high profile accounts so they're the best translators at the company.
Their new account is with a hot AI translation startup that happens to be run by Lin Xi's ex-boyfriend Xiao Yi Cheng (Cheng Xing Xu). She broke up with him in college, her secret reason so that he would go overseas to get his PhD. Now he's successful and wants her back.
Love rivals are Tong Xin (Yu Sha Sha), VP of Xiao's company and he makes the mistake of trying to make Lin Xi jealous by intimating they're married. There's Cheng Yao (Fei Qi Ming, Ski into Love [2025] supporting role) who is a young rebel translator. Both Xiao and Xin Li want to hire him but he goes with Xin Li because he's attracted to her and soon competes with Xiao Yi Cheng. That doesn't last long and Cheng Yao goes on to woo Tong Xin which is a nice subplot.
Lastly there's Wei Tian (Wang Sen), Lin Xi's second in her department and good friend since college to both her and Xiao Yi Cheng. He becomes the target of new hire Tan Sha Sha (Lin Zi Lu) who is Lin Xi's younger cousin and has a history with Wei Tian, though he doesn't remember. Their romance is a bit rougher because she has health issues which he doesn't notice and she does all the personal sacrifices and he takes her for granted. They end up breaking up and getting back together though it's late in the series by then and the getting back together is not done well.
Major subplot for Lin Xi is her relationship her grandfather who forced Lin Xi's mom to choose between a translator career or love. Mom chose the latter and was ostracized by grandfather. So although Lin Xi has fairly frequent contact with grandfather (a sort of legend in translation circles) she is rather cool and standoffish towards him. Reconciling with him and with her aunt (Tan Sha Sha's mom) is a series-long subplot.
This is a nice romantic series with clean sets and attractive cast. Victoria Song plays a character much like in Find Yourself — very serious and occasionally showing happy emotions. Fei Qi Ming also plays a similar sort of personality as in Ski into Love. Towards the end it does focus more on the two minor romance subplots rather than the mains which I find kind of means they didn't pace it right or the season was bit too long.
Overall though it's a fine romance series to watch.