Ding Guan Sen

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

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Years ago, the workaholic botany professor Zhuang Yu (Vin Zhang), oblivious and lacking social graces, unintentionally broke the heart of an aspiring scientist Yu Mei Ren (Esther Yu) by flat-out rejecting her confession. Years later, Mei Ren has become a successful fashion blogger and is unexpectedly reunited with her former crush. Determined to get revenge, she plans to make the botanist suffer for the hurt he caused her. However, her old feelings for him begin to resurface, complicating her scheme. Will Mei Ren make Yu pay for the hurt he once caused her, or will she get a second chance at love? This 2022 Chinese drama series was directed by Cai Cong.

A Romance of the Little Forest

🌿The Botanists🌿

Four young women begin life at university. Although they are firm friends, they are very different in almost every regard. Xia Lang Lang (Shen Yue) is tomboyish, obstinate, and supremely logical. But as she begins her tertiary educational journey, she discovers that she also has a softer side – and that romance might also play a role in her life. Meanwhile, Huang Fu Shu Min (Zhang Ruo Nan) is always the heroine of her own story. Acting cute and dependent is her strong suit, and independence is not something she has ever been familiar with. But she soon understands that her university journey could well lead her on the path to independence.

Then there’s Fan Xiao Yu (Vivienne Tien) – an intelligent young woman and a renowned beauty from a wealthy family. But she has always toed the line, respecting her family’s wishes, despite the fact that deep down, she wants to break free. When she begins to explore the world of business with a fellow student, she realizes that she might yet attain freedom – and maybe romance, too. Rounding off the quartet is Yang Jia Qian (Zhang Xin Yi), who always gives off the impression of being mature beyond her years. But she has a range of hidden thoughts and feelings that are now ready to come to the fore now she is no longer under the watchful eye of her family.

“Be Yourself” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Li Zhi.

Be Yourself

🎓 Our Perfect Summer Team🌞

Lei Dong Qiang

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A talented esports gamer, Ji Xiang Kong (Wang Yibo) was as known for his good looks as he was for his impressive record. With hoards of fangirls crowding him wherever he went, Xiang Kong was a celebrity in his own right. But his dreams of winning the championship were crushed when a misunderstanding nearly ended his career. 

Qiu Ying (Wang Zi Xuan), on the other hand, was an ambitious live streamer who dreamt of someday becoming a professional commentator. Crossing paths with Xiang Kong at an international competition, Qiu Ying jumps at the chance to boost her popularity. Unfortunately, she has no idea that Xiang Kong’s reputation has been severely damaged and in following Xiang Kong, she does damage to her own reputation as well.&nbsp;

Now in a similar situation, Xiang Kong and Qiu Ying find themselves forced to explore new paths in an effort to make their dreams come true. Working together, will this unlikely pair find a way to turn their failures into success? 

Adapted from the novel “Accompany You to the Top of the World” by Nan Ye Lin Er, “Gank Your Heart” is a 2019 Chinese romance drama directed by Sha Wei Qi.&nbsp;

Gank Your Heart

💔 Romanticize You Team ❤

In Manchuria, Northern China, in the 1930s, the local population is suffering under the yoke of Imperial Japanese invasion.

The Japanese have attempted to replace Chinese culture with their own, and even want the locals to speak Japanese, rather than their own native tongue.

Violent gangs of pro-Japanese hoodlums roam the streets. And into this chaos steps Jing Hao (Ou Hao), a high schooler who – with his closest friends – forms a rival band of pro-Chinese street fighters, determined to even the odds, using violence and fear as their tools.

But Jing Hao’s gang focus is derailed when he meets a mild-mannered woman named Liu He (Jing Tian). He falls for her at first sight, but is shocked to learn that she is actually his new school teacher!

Her own version of protest involves the diligent study of Chinese language and culture – a fact that sets Jing Hao at odds with his violence-loving gang!

“Fist and Faith” is a 2017 Chinese film that was directed by Jiang Zhuo Yuan.

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