My Girlfriend is an Alien (外星女生柴小七)

Premise

The story follows Chai Xiaoqi (played by Wan Peng), a girl from a planet called "Cape Town Planet" (开普敦星球) whose spacecraft malfunctions and drops her on Earth. She loses the signal device she needs to return home and is forced to stay, taking a job as a delivery girl at a restaurant while searching for the device.^{8 • 9}

She meets Fang Leng (Bie Thassapak Hsu), a wealthy, cold-faced chief executive of the F Group who suffers from a condition the series calls "rainy-day amnesia of the opposite sex": whenever it rains, he forgets every woman around him. Chai Xiaoqi is the exception, and Fang Leng, who holds her signal device, uses her as a pretend girlfriend while trying to cure himself, then falls in love in earnest.^{9 • 1}

Chai Xiaoqi's alien nature drives the comedy. She is allergic to the hormones given off by Earth men, and inhaling them throws her into a dazed, infatuated state that produces most of the show's farcical situations. She also uses her superpowers to get out of one accidental trouble after another while learning what love is.^{10 • 9}

Cast and characters

The supporting cast, as described in the production's casting notice and press coverage, includes:^{9 • 4}

• Fang Lie (Wang Youjun), Fang Leng's younger half-brother, a talented painter who falls for Chai Xiaoqi and forms a love triangle with his brother.
• Jiang Xue (Yang Yue), a domineering heiress who has loved Fang Leng since school and returns to win him back.
• Han Jinming, Fang Leng's loyal assistant, who knows his secret and quietly matchmaking.
• Fang Shida (Li Mingshun, special appearance), chairman of the F Group and Fang Leng's father, estranged from his son over the death of Fang Leng's mother.
• Sister Chai (Zhang Meng, special appearance), the sharp-tongued but kind restaurant owner who takes in Chai Xiaoqi.
• Dr. Zhang (Shu Yaxin), Fang Leng's psychologist and friend.
• Uncle Kang, Zhou Siqin's brother and an F Group executive, scheming against Fang Leng.

Season 2

A second season, 外星女生柴小七2, reunited the original cast and premiered in 2022. Its promotional campaign ran from the wrap posters of January 18, 2022 through a premiere announcement on September 16, 2022, and the season ran 30 episodes.^{11 • 2}