Guan Yue

Tang Yang (Wang Yu Wen) and Jiang Shi Yan (Zhang Xin Cheng) have been friends since high school. Tang Yang was well-known as one of the most beautiful, sought-after girls in school, but Shi Yan never understood why – to him, she was just like any other friend... or so he told himself. They continued to keep in touch after graduation, and ten years later, Tang Yang works at a bank helping military families get loans to start businesses, while Shi Yan runs a food media company. Shi Yan, inspired by Tang Yang's clients' perseverance, makes a documentary about their stories, which gains widespread attention. This brings Shi Yan and Tang Yang even closer, reigniting feelings that have remained hidden for over a decade. Will this be the spark that finally brings them together, or will it end their friendship for good? This 2024 Chinese drama was directed by Zhang Tong, adapted from a web novel by Hua Zhan Mian.

You Are My Lover Friend

From Friends to Forever

Jiang Ya Nan

Political unrest brings disaster for a county magistrate, who is unjustly imprisoned due to a malicious plot. His daughter Xue Fang Fei (Wu Jin Yan), narrowly escapes with the help of Jiang Li (Yang Chao Yue), the Secretariat Director’s daughter. Fang Fei vows to free her father and fight injustice, so she poses as Jiang Li when she returns to the capital to execute her plan. With the support of the Duke Xiao Heng (Wang Xing Yue), she embarks on her mission against formidable odds. Will her courage and determination be enough to overcome the challenges ahead? And could love also find its way into her heart? This 2024 Chinese drama series was based on a novel by Qian Shan Cha Ke and directed by Bai Yun Mo, Lu Hao Ji Ji, and Ma Shi Ge.

The Double

🪷 Vigilante 🪷

Xiang Qiao

Lin Chu Chu (Jessie Li) has looked forward to her wedding with her boyfriend of ten years for so long that she's been in contact with a wedding planner, Zhang Yang (Chang Chen) without any input from the groom! However, Zhang Yang grows suspicious after countless plans fall through, and asks Chu Chu for a photo of her groom-to-be. To his surprise, he recognizes the man – because Zhang Yang is already planning his wedding to another woman. Devastated, Chu Chu decides to crash the wedding, but Zhang Yang intervenes, comforting her to avoid causing a scene. Chu Chu and Zhang Yang get to know each other and begin dating, but it's not without its own twists and troubles, like the appearance of handsome and wealthy Yu Ke Feng (Li Xian), who's also interested in Chu Chu. Are there wedding bells in the future for these two, or is this another romance not meant to be? This 2023 Chinese film was directed by Wing Shya.

I Believe

Xiu Xiu

After taking a position as a table tennis coach in Italy, Dai Min Jia (Deng Chao) thought all his ties with China’s men’s national table tennis team had been severed. Having retired from the team at the age of twenty-four, Min Jia has put that part of his life behind him. But when he’s approached with an offer to coach his former team, he finds it hard to say no.

Hesitant to take on the task of coaching a team on a heavy downward spiral, Min Jia isn’t sure coaching China’s team is worth the trouble. But with his wife Wang Ying (Sun Li) heavily pregnant, he decides it’s time to leave Italy and settle back down in his home country. Taking the job, Min Jia sets about the nearly impossible task of breaking the team’s losing streak and getting them back on their feet.&nbsp;

Over the next five years, Min Jia guides his team through numerous ups and downs. Training hard and competing even harder, will Min Jia be able to lead his underdog team to victory?

Inspired by actual events, “Ping Pong: The Triumph” is a 2023 Chinese sports film directed by Deng Chao and Yu Bai Mei.&nbsp;

Ping Pong: The Triumph

Tencent

With powerful aristocrats clamouring for power, the people of the Song Empire have succumbed to the ensuing chaos. Desperate to bring peace to his crumbling nation, the young prince, Liu Yi Kang (Qin Hao), is willing to do whatever it takes to save his people, but the road before him will not be easy. With most of the country’s powerful families plotting against him, Yi Kang’s list of allies is growing dangerously thin.

Knowing the only way to strengthen his position is to ally himself with a mighty family, Yi Kang agrees to an alliance through marriage with the powerful Shen family. A family with deep military roots, the Shen family can provide the strength Yi Kang needs to enact the reform necessary to oust the aristocrats bent on destroying the nation. With the family’s brilliant and beautiful, Shen Li Ge (Li Qin) by his side, the two begin the arduous task of reformation.

Facing off against one of the nation’s most powerful and corrupt clans, Yi Kang and Li Ge must use every ounce of their wits and strength to defeat their foes. But peace doesn’t come without a price and the cost of this battle is tremendous. In the midst of so much heartache and despair, can this noble couple find a way to heal the wounds of a broken nation and at the same time, mend the wounds of their own broken hearts?

A story of heartache and healing, “The Song of Glory” is a 2020 historical romance drama directed by Li Hui Zhu and Deng Wei En.

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