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My Little Happiness (我的小确幸)

My Little Happiness (我的小确幸), also known by the alternative title 你是我的小确幸, is a 2021 Chinese urban workplace romance web drama directed by Yang Long and starring Xing Fei and Tang Xiaotian. Adapted from the novel You Are My Little Happiness (你是我的小确幸) by the web novelist Dongbenxigu (东奔西顾), it follows a trainee lawyer and a surgeon, childhood friends who reunite as adults, and premiered on Tencent Video on January 13, 2021, running 28 episodes.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	我的小确幸; also released as 你是我的小确幸¹
Premiere	January 13, 2021, Tencent Video (mainland China); 28 episodes of about 42 minutes each¹
Source material	Novel 你是我的小确幸 by Dongbenxigu²
Lead cast	Xing Fei as Cong Rong, Tang Xiaotian as Wen Shaoqing; Huang Yilin, Li Chuan, Deng Yuli, and Fu Weilun in supporting roles³
Production	Tencent Penguin Pictures and Tandang Culture; screenwriters Liu Fei, Liu Chenguang, and Shi Shi; filmed in Shenzhen²
Ratings	Douban 6.5 from 37,759 raters; Viki 9.6 from over 138,000 users; IMDb 7.8¹^•⁴^•³
International release	Streamed with English subtitles on WeTV and Rakuten Viki; broadcast in Japan on Home Drama Channel from November 23³^•⁵

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Premise and plot

The story centers on Cong Rong (丛容), played by Xing Fei (born 1994), whose mother arranges for her to study economics abroad and settle overseas. Cong Rong wants to be a lawyer instead; she studies Chinese law on her own, passes the bar examination, and secretly returns from Melbourne to Shenzhen to intern at the top firm Daren Law without telling her mother.⁶^•⁷

Her first obstacle during the internship is Wen Shaoqing (温少卿), played by Tang Xiaotian (born 1991), a neurosurgeon nicknamed the "professional butcher" at his hospital and a childhood friend she does not initially recognize. Their cousin Zhong Zhen was supposed to pick Cong Rong up at the airport but sent his boss instead; the two end up helping a collapsed passenger together without confirming each other's identities.⁶^•⁷ Fate keeps tightening the connection: Wen Shaoqing is not only Cong Rong's landlord but also her next-door neighbor, and as "work partners" and "considerate neighbors" the evenly matched pair move from bickering rivals to companions, with Cong Rong realizing she has fallen in love.²

A secondary couple runs alongside the leads. Zhou Chengcheng (周程程), Cong Rong's bold, impulsive best friend played by Huang Yilin, pursues Wen Rang (温让), the male lead's bookish uncle played by Li Chuan, who has opened a bookstore while carrying a label as a traditional-medicine heir.² Fans dubbed the two pairings the "Qingcong CP" (青葱CP) and the "Chengrang CP" (承让CP).⁸ The 28th and final episode brings the leads' wedding.⁹

Production and broadcast

The drama was jointly produced by Tencent Penguin Pictures (企鹅影视) and Tandang Culture (坦当文化), with Li Eryun and Li Yifeng as chief producers, Huang Xing, Liu Zhimin, and Zhang Chi as producers, and Han Zhijie as supervisor. Yang Long directed from a screenplay by Liu Fei, Liu Chenguang, and Shi Shi, and filming took place in Shenzhen.²^•⁸ The opening theme is "Feng de Hua" (风的话) and the closing theme is "Qinmi Gan" (亲密感); the original soundtrack album was released on January 20, 2021.²

New episodes were released on Tencent Video on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 20:00, two episodes at a time, with VIP members able to watch six episodes ahead.⁵ The VIP run concluded on February 4, 2021, and TVmaze lists the final episode as airing February 11, 2021.⁸^•¹⁰ Internationally, the series streams on WeTV and Rakuten Viki with subtitles in English, Chinese, and more than 20 other languages, and the official Weibo account announced a broadcast on Japan's Home Drama Channel starting November 23.³^•⁴^•⁵

The title and its translation

The Chinese title uses the loanword xiao que xing (小确幸), "a small but certain happiness," a term that entered Chinese from Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's essay collection and was popularized through translator Lin Shaohua's literal rendering; it describes the modest, definite satisfaction of small things going exactly as hoped.¹¹

The English title changed several times before release. Early listings carried "My Small Indeed Fortunate" (which the Sohu article calls an outright error), "My little Luck," and "You Are Indeed My Little Fortune," before the producers settled on "My Little Happiness." The article explains the choice: "fortune" carries too grand a sense of destiny for the show's warm tone, while "luck" can be good or bad, so the unambiguous "happiness" was chosen.¹¹

Reception

On Douban the drama holds a 6.5 rating from 37,759 users, with 48.4% giving three stars, and it ranks better than 72% of romance dramas on the site.¹ Overseas ratings run higher: Rakuten Viki users give it 9.6 out of 10 from more than 138,000 ratings, and IMDb lists 7.8 from about 1,100 votes.⁴^•³ This gap between domestic and overseas scores is a pattern noted for Chinese sweet romance dramas generally.¹²

During its run the drama performed strongly commercially. On January 21, 2021, its play index reached 62.26% with 10.74 million views, and it repeatedly took the top spot on Maoyan charts, standing out among web dramas in the same window.²^•⁸ The Weibo topic #我的小确幸# surpassed 1.32 billion reads, and the drama topped Douyin's drama chart, with clips of the lead couple earning over a million likes.¹³

Critical and fan response split along familiar lines for the genre. Reviewers praised the pairing of career and romance storylines and the leads' portrayal of two independent professionals growing together rather than a dramatic, all-or-nothing love.² Director Yang Long, interviewed during the run, said the production aimed at "realistic romance plus social topics plus positive guidance," deliberately avoiding selling anxiety, and argued that well-drawn characters rather than professions are what make a sweet drama work.¹⁴ Among novel fans, however, the adaptation drew criticism for substantially changing the source's plot and characterizations, with some original-work readers rating the drama low on that basis; viewers who had not read the novel generally received it more warmly.¹⁵^•¹

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026