Chinese Drama 2021
Use For My Talent (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)
Aka: My Dear Neat Freak, Use For Talent For Now
Use For My Talent poster
- Genre: Romance, Love Triangle, Modern, Comedy
- Release Date: 9 May 2021
- Origin: China; This is adapted from Kdrama, Clean With A Passion for Now
- Cdrama: 24 Episodes
Cast
- Jasper Liu as Gu Renqi
- Shen Yue as Shi Shuang Jaio
- Tan Quan as Wu Wan
- Dai Yun Fan as Lu Xian
- Yanan as Shi Jun Jie
- Su Meng Di as Zhu Yan
- Xiao Ran as Hu Yu
- Charles Lin as Li Dong Xian
- Huang Si Rui as Wang Qian Qian
- Qi Shang Han as Jiang Wenchi
Snippets
25 April 2020: At this point this drama and this pairing are still speculative. The final casting will be confirmed by May 2020 when filming will be expected to commence.
30 May 2020: The pairing of Shen Yue and Jasper Liu has been confirmed. They had their booting ceremony today and the drama is now called Use For My Talent.
6 May 2021: This drama will be release in China on 9 May 2021 and Worldwide via Netflix by 11 May 2021.
Episode 1
First and foremost, Shen Yue is so cute. Love her, I have to confess, I’ve forgotten how much I liked her but I really do.
Anyway, this drama is almost a copy of the Kdrama where the first episode was excruciating to watch.
I don’t really like a female lead to be so downtrodden especially when she doesn’t have to.
Shuangjiao has a father who is a cleaner but prone to drinking when he remembers his dead wife.
Because of his weak will, Shuangjiao more or less became the mother and father of the family.
It was her fault really, she spoiled them, them meaning her father and a younger brother who was still in school but grown-up.
Shuangjiao was just about to finish uni and was looking for a trainee/employment position.
She wanted to work for Clean First, whose CEO she admired when she heard him giving a speech.
They were fated from the moment they met though they have nothing in common.
Shuangjiao likes cleaning and being organised but not to the point that she becomes obsessed with it. Unlike CEO Gu Renqi who is a self-confessed mysophobia. He is very OCD about cleanliness.
His backstory was that his adored father treated him like dirt when he does not get a perfect score on tests when he was still in school when he was but a child.
CEO bumped into Shuangjiao three times in a day and each time, it ended up in misunderstanding.
The third time was when she was delivering a takeout in his apartment building. Shuangjiao can’t get to the apartment but when he came down looking for Top X, Shuangjiao mistook him as the one who ordered the takeout and tried to give it to him but he sort of knocked to the ground her toppling and spilling the food.
Instead of helping her up, he quickly left her a couple of hundred to get herself to the hospital.
What he did not know was that she picked up his Top X prototype RobotVacuum from near the bins by his apartment building and CEO Gu was looking for it.
Shuangjiao brought the vacuum home.
Meanwhile, CEO Gu put a reward of 50K for the robotVac.It so happened that her brother found the Robotvac. He googled it when he saw that it was a property of the CleanClever and found out about the reward money.
He called Gu Renqi to meet up and exchange money for the robotvac.
That time, their father was drunk once again and after coming home from work silly Shuangjiao said that she will take their father’s rota.
She was cleaning the street with her cleaning cart when someone threw a can but missed her cart and hit her on the head instead.
She was in the middle of complaining when she noticed that her uni crush was coming out of the drinking pub. She was so embarrassed to be seen as a street cleaner so she took her cart and ran away but they followed her, in the end, she crashed her cart on the car of Gu Renqi. She fell on top of him and a drip of her sweat went into his mouth. He pushed her away from him like she was dirt.
This incident was being filmed by onlookers. Her brother who was meeting Gu Renqi saw how he treated his sister and it might be late but he found some sibling love for his sister.
Afterwards, when Shuangjiao finally came home, her brother said that every time their father gets drunk he will take his shift.
Shuangjiao was too stressed to care.
The second male lead appeared in this episode as well . He is Li Xian who had moved in next to Shuangjiao’s family house.
Li Xian was a hit with her father, their house became his second home.
Episode 2
I love this second episode. It does not take long for the male lead to be curious about the female lead and I like that.
Anyway, CEO Gu found the cctv showing that Shuangjiao took Top X. He contacted her and asked the return of Top X.
She returned it immediately and found out that her brother tried to cut a deal with CEO Gu. She told Renqi that she did not steal it but found it outside.
Anyway, she was just leaving when she collapsed from a stomach ache she got from eating spicy food from a show she did not want to do but just to do a favour to her crush.
She learned later that her crush underpaid her because in his eyes she was just a street cleaner.
Her crush later told her that he will ask for a high pay for her when they next need her.
She told him not to bother because she found herself another job.
The job was a cleaner for Clean First.
CEO Gu took the collapsed Shengjiao to the hospital and really looked after her despite feeling nauseated with the amount of dirt and germs around him.
He then found out that she will be working in his company.
He heard a voice inside the ladies saying that she got a job purposely so that she can bring him down.
Then Shengjiao came out of the loo. He thought it was her who was talking.
And they seem to bump into each other all the time.
Renqi thought she was doing it on purpose so he became interested in her.
Shen Yue is adorable and had a lot of chemistry with the sexy Jasper.
Episode 3
I really love this drama. They don’t make you wait for the romance. By the end of this episode, the leads are already snogging by the escalator. It was an accident but it was so cute.
Renqi had already admitted to himself he was unwillingly attracted to slobbish Shuangjian. He can’t help but be worried about her and he gets jealous when she was near her male friends and acquaintance.
Including the nasty Mark Liu, who was forcing Shuangjiao to do another Livestream.
Renqi saved her by grabbing her arm to take her away.
Shuangjiao was very surprised that he was holding on to her. And then there was that scene in the escalator where she was going to fall but he got to her but she still ended up falling into him with their lips touching together.
So cute.
BTW, I am really confused as well. Why go to university if you wanted to work as a cleaner?!!!
Episode 4
Renqi and Shuangjiao were lips to lips almost from the top of the escalator to the bottom. And Renqi had to hold on to the railings for support.
So when they got down to the bottom, he promptly collapsed and ended up in the hospital with broken arm ligaments.
Shuangjiao felt so guilty especially when she found out how bad his mysophobia was. It was also the time when they had to ‘sell’ their robotic cleaning innovations to investors.
Renqi’s team were worried about it, for some reason Shuangjiao ended up going along for the presentation. She was about to have a meltdown when Renqi himself turned up to save the day.
It was a successful presentation and Shuangjiao was full of admiration towards Renqi when out of the darkened stairwell, someone threw dirty water towards Renqi but Shuangqiao covered him up with herself.
More and more Renqi was filling more drawn towards Shuangjiao but Lu Xian was not happy about it.
Episode 5
Renqi was crushing on Shuangjiao that he even went to secretly exchange a new mug for her own so he could use it himself.
But later on, he was still in denial when he was talking to Li Dong Xian about what he feels about Shuangjiao. What they did not know was that she was under Renqi’s desk cleaning.
When LI Dong Xian asked him if he was in love with Shuangjiao was the reason he was watching her all the time.
Renqi said how could that be possible?. How can he fall in love with her, he added that he was watching all the time because he was waiting for her to make a mistake and then he would fire her.
Episode 6
Li Dong Xian asked Renqi if that was how he really feel with Shuangjiao.
Renqi thought that whatever he might feel for her, it is too late.
Useless Jun Jie fell in love with her sister’s best friend Zhu Yan.
Towards the end of this episode, the gorgeous Li Dong Xian is getting on well with Wang Qian Qian while Renqi and Shuangjiao had made up over bottles of milk.
Episode 7
After their late night drinking milk, Renqi returned to his office and noted that his chair was not how he left it and his computer had his top-secret project on the screen. He was a little suspicious.
But he was right in suspecting something because his Top X project had been stolen by Jiang Wenchi’s company who won the bid for the BG project.
Shuangjiao brought home Renqi for the family dinner,
Lu Xian was also there.
Lu Xian and Renqi started to have a battle of words.
Episode 8
Renqi and Lu Xian started taking outside. Renqi knew that Lu Xian is his therapist (or did he always knew and I did not?!!!)
Anyway, Lu Xian asked Renqi whether he was attracted to Shuangjiao because he was immune to her or he likes her for herself?
He did not answer.
But when Renqi saw Shuangjiao doing a vlog to testify that Renqi was not bad at all as what the trending video of Renqi bullying Shuangjiao when she was a street cleaner (episode 1), Renqi could not help himself. He just had to kiss her.
When she asked why he would do that.
Renqi said because he did not hate her.
She then asked if Renqi did not hate Dong Xian.
Dong Xian at that moment just arrived and heard Shuangjiao asking if Renqi would do ‘that’ thing to Dong Xian.
It went all complicated because Dong Xian wanted to know that thing.
Renqi and Shuangjiao were both affected by the kiss. They were both having trouble focusing on their work.
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