How to Survive My CEO BL series: episodes and where to watch

MAIN CAST & CHARACTERS

Joong Archen Aydin

Dunk Natachai Boonprasert

Tui Chayatorn Trairattanapradit

Before You Watch

Source work: The series is based on the novel Phatlom Ya Yae by kunredbeb.
Leads: Archen Aydin plays Phatlom and Natachai Boonprasert plays Pafon.
Premise: A drunken kiss with a stranger turns out to involve Pafon’s new boss, who then makes Pafon his personal photographer.
Direction: Natthanon Kheeddee directs.
Production: GMMTV produces with Studio WabiSabi.
Announcement: GMMTV introduced the series in its GMMTV 2026 line up on 25 November 2025.

Reviewed by Renkaze

The setup

How to Survive My CEO puts intimacy before hierarchy. The kiss comes first, on a night when Pafon has had too much to drink, and the job comes second, when he starts an internship and finds the stranger sitting at the top of the company. Phatlom's answer is to keep Pafon close by making him his personal photographer. The role gives the two characters a reason to be in the same room that has nothing to do with the kiss, which is a useful device for an office romantic comedy.

Cast and crew

Archen Aydin plays Phatlom and Natachai Boonprasert plays Pafon. Rapeepong Supatineekitdecha and Chayatorn Trairattanapradit appear as Pheem and Itt, Samantha Melanie Coates plays Blink and Chayakorn Jutamas also joins the cast. Natthanon Kheeddee directs for GMMTV, with Studio WabiSabi as co producer. The announcement video lists the supporting actors by their nicknames, among them Lego, Tui, Sammy and JJ.

A detail unique to this series

The photographer job is more than a plot excuse. A boss who appoints an intern as his photographer makes the camera the main link between the two leads, and it gives the series a visual subject that most office stories do not have.

Source and announcement

The series is based on the novel Phatlom Ya Yae by kunredbeb. GMMTV introduced it in the GMMTV 2026 line up on 25 November 2025 with a 3 minute 22 second announcement video on its official YouTube channel, which carries twelve subtitle tracks besides the Thai original. The two leads, Joong and Dunk, appear in that line up event alongside the rest of the announced cast. Because the series has not started, the novel, the announcement video and the cast list are what shape expectations: a romantic comedy about a boss, an intern, a kiss and a camera.

Themes

The series reverses the usual order of an office romance. The kiss comes first, before either character knows the other's position, and the workplace arrives afterwards with its hierarchy of boss and intern. That sequence puts the question of power into the story at the moment the characters recognise each other.

Phatlom's choice to make Pafon his personal photographer keeps them together without a formal reason, and it turns the camera into a point of contact between the two characters. The romantic comedy framing and the novel source place the story in the territory of timing and misunderstanding between two people who already share a memory.

Interesting facts

The announcement video carries twelve subtitle tracks besides the Thai original.
Pafon's role in the story, personal photographer to the boss, is the plot link between the opening kiss and the workplace.
Lego, Tui, Sammy and JJ are the nicknames used for supporting actors in the announcement video.

How it was made

GMMTV introduced the series in its GMMTV 2026 line up on 25 November 2025.
The announcement video was published on the GMMTV OFFICIAL YouTube channel and runs 3 minutes 22 seconds.
The cast was presented at the GMMTV 2026 event.

OFFICIAL TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnTE9LMoA8

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is How to Survive My CEO about?

Pafon drunkenly kisses a stranger, then discovers at a new internship that the stranger is his boss Phatlom, who appoints him as his personal photographer.

Who stars in it?

Archen Aydin plays Phatlom and Natachai Boonprasert plays Pafon, with Rapeepong Supatineekitdecha and Chayatorn Trairattanapradit in supporting roles.

Is it based on a novel?

Yes, on Phatlom Ya Yae by kunredbeb.

Who directs and produces it?

Natthanon Kheeddee directs. GMMTV produces with Studio WabiSabi.

When was How to Survive My CEO announced?

GMMTV introduced it in its GMMTV 2026 line up on 25 November 2025.

Is there an official video for How to Survive My CEO?

Yes, GMMTV published a 3 minute 22 second announcement video on its official YouTube channel.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 3 October 2026

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