Skip a Beat (Season 1)

Skip a Beat (心跳, 2023) is a Chinese romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jiang Tianhan. Qian Jing is the only assistant who has lasted in the orbit of difficult CEO Gu Yi — and the longer she stays, the harder it gets to call it just a job. He Rui Xian and Luo Zheng play the lead pair.

The bigger complication is Gu Yi himself: a car accident left him switching without warning between warmth and cold cruelty, sometimes within the same scene. Qian Jing reads his moods while hiding the real reason she sought out this position in the first place. The show runs on the tension between two people who cannot fully trust each other and cannot quite bring themselves to walk away. Stream Skip a Beat (2023) online on iFILM.