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The Big Boss (Chinese: 班长大人) is a 2017 Chinese television series starring Li Kai Xin and Huang Jun Jie. It is based on the manhua of the same name (released as The Big Boss in English) by Chen Lan. The series was broadcast on Tencent Video 8 Spetember.

Synopsis
With the entrance to High School, Ye Mu Xi (Li Kai Xin) believes she can finally be in a class without her mortal nemesis and school genius, Liao Dan Yi (Huang Jun Jie). Her high school sorts each class by the performance on the entrance exam. Knowing that Liao Dan Yi would definitely score well, She purposely did as badly as possible on the exams so that she would be placed in the lowest class possible and be as far away as possible from genius Liao Dan Yi. To her dismay, Liao Dan Yi was sick on one of the test taking days, did not take one of the exams, and as a result was placed in the lowest class as well. Her future without her mortal nemesis' constant pestering was ruined, so as an act of defiance, she runs for class president, the role that Liao Dan Yi has claimed every year. Surprisingly, Ye Mu Xi wins and is now the President of Class Ten. This story illustrates a girl who has a very vivid imagination and the obstacles she must overcome as Class President. With Class Ten being full of outcasts, Ye Mu Xi encounters many different personalities and many different stories.

Critical Response
The series received much attention and is one of the most prominent web-based TV series in China. It was one of the heavily anticipated web-series' during the summer before it was broadcast.

Zhang Xi from China News Service wrote that despite the web-series being different from the original web-comic, it still brought over the original purpose of the comic and captured all the intentions of the original author. It is a funny and entertaining web-series!

Fan Mei Qi from Phoenix Television wrote on the entertainment section that this web-series is a series full of youth, fantasy, and hilarity. The characters and story-line will make you laugh and each character has good development. The many comic inserts and it's schoolyard based plot appeals to those born after the 1990's