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Must-Watch Chinese Dramas

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Determined to land a front-page story, reporter Zheng Shu Yi (Bai Lu) does everything she can to score an interview with the country’s most talked about CEO, Shi Yan (Dylan Wang). With plans to invest in several promising startups, Shi Yan agrees to an interview with Shu Yi, but only if she writes about the local startups that have so far gone without notice. Meeting time and time again, the working relationship between Shu Yi and Shi Yan grows into something more. Could this spark between them be the first bloom of love? Directed by Guo Hu, this is a 2023 Chinese romantic drama series.

Only For Love

How to Tame a CEO Team👔 

Tencent

Zhou Tian (Hu Bing Qing) is a bubbly, budding athlete who loves two things more than anything else: sport and cats. One day, while she is training, she twists an ankle and suffers a relapse of an old leg injury. She is reluctantly forced to put her athletics dreams on hold. In the meantime, she decides to find a job. Without really knowing anything about the entertainment industry, she somehow manages to land a job as an assistant to the head of a powerful media firm.

This leads her to cross paths – and bump heads – with the firm’s CEO, Ji Chen (Xing Zhao Lin). To all observers, Ji Chen appears to have ice running through his veins. He is cold, calculating, and seemingly emotionless. After a series of mishaps, this duo really seems to have gotten off on the wrong foot. Their adversarial relationship keeps on deteriorating. Meanwhile, her fondness for a cat named Qiuqui leads her to start flirtatiously chatting with a fellow anonymous cat lover who has also met – and cared for – Qiuqui. But, unbeknown to almost everyone, Ji Chen is actually just as cat-crazy as Zhou Tian. And, it turns out, the cat-loving man she is flirting with online is none other than Ji Chen, her cold-hearted boss! Could their shared love of furry felines bring them together in real life?

“Accidentally Meow on You” is a 2022 Chinese drama series that was directed by Ming Yan.

Accidentally Meow On You

😻A Meowtastic Love😻

MGTV

High schooler Lin Yu Jing (Zhuang Da Fei) moves to a new city after her parents’ divorce and finds herself sharing a desk with the bad-tempered Shen Juan (Zhou Yi Ran). Spending time together helps spark a friendship, but is quickly disrupted by more family drama for Yu Jing. A year later, the duo unexpectedly reunites at university – where Yu Jing begins to learn some of her former desk-mate’s secrets. Can this duo navigate the hardships of life together – and start on the path to happiness? This 2023 Chinese drama was based on a novel by Qi Jian and directed by Deng Ke.

You Are Desire

💫Star-crossed Lovers💞

Career-driven entrepreneur An Ran (He Hong Shan) is determined to climb the corporate ladder and tries to impress a group of potential investors. When her plan fails, she drowns her sorrows in alcohol, leading to an unexpected encounter with her landlord, Yan Yue (WINWIN). However, he’s not just a landlord – Yan Yue is actually An Ran’s college junior who’s harbored a crush on her for nearly a decade and a successful voice actor who keeps his real identity a secret. An Ran and Yan Yue’s paths cross once again when they end up working together, bringing them even closer. Could this be a sign that they were always meant to end up together, or was it all just a drunken mistake? This 2023 Chinese drama series was produced by Fang Fang, Su Han, Zhang Zhi Wei, and Xia Wen Yang.

Sweet Games

Bring Your "A" Game

Tencent Video

Gu Chuan (Allen Ren) is a passion-filled, vibrant young man with his whole life ahead of him – until his life is turned upside down by a sudden traffic accident.

He suffers life-threatening injuries to his heart and surgeons are able to save him by giving him an emergency heart transplant.

But when he recovers, he discovers that he is no longer allowed to perform most forms of exercise. Worse still, the doctors warn him that experiencing strong emotions could also end his life prematurely. He tries to return to normal life, but the changes he must make to his lifestyle take all the fizz out of his existence.

He carefully avoids anything that could raise his heart rate – even if doing so turns him into a shadow of his former self.

Things take another turn, however, when a woman named Jiang Xiao Yu (Fei Xing) comes to work at the company he and his friend set up. Jiang Xiao Yu’s own back story is also tinged with sadness: She was orphaned at an early age. Regardless, she is a veritable font of positivity.

Little by little, that positivity starts to rub off on Gu Chuan – but could this bond ever turn romantic, in spite of his condition?

“Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Qiang Wu.

Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard

Passionate Mechanical Hearts

Yin Yi Ke (Angelababy) has devoted her life to helping everyone she holds near and dear, both at home and at work. However, despite her life seeming flawless on the outside, she’s starting to become jaded and burnt out. One day, she is reunited with Xu Guang Xi (Lai Kuanlin), who she used to know as a freeloading young boy, brought together by family remarriages, although the two share no blood ties. However, Guang Xi has changed a lot in their time apart when he was studying overseas. Now in his 20s, he has grown into a handsome and charming adult. Guang Xi starts to develop feelings for Yi Ke, despite the fact that she is seven years his senior. Adjusting to life on Yi Ke’s wavelength provides a challenge for Guang Xi, but he refuses to give up. Will he succeed in winning her heart? And could this be the start of the love of their lifetimes? This 2022 Chinese drama was directed by Yu Chung Chung.

Love the Way You Are

Blossom of True Love Team

Cong Rong (Xing Fei) dreams of becoming a lawyer. Defying her mother's wishes, she secretly rents a place near home to start a legal internship. Her first case reunites her with childhood friend Wen Shao Qing (Tang Xiao Tian), who is also her new neighbor and landlord. As they spend more time together, tensions rise, blending professional challenges with personal emotions. Will this unexpected reunion jeopardize her legal ambitions, or could it help fulfill them? And might their rekindled connection ignite a lasting romance? This 2021 Chinese drama series was based on a novel by Dong Ben Xi Gu and was directed by Yang Long.

My Little Happiness

👩‍❤️‍👨 Happily Ever After 🩺

Xiang Yuan (Wu Qian) is given the difficult task of saving the Xi’an branch of her family's company from financial ruin. But when she starts the job, she is unexpectedly reunited with her childhood crush Xu Yan Shi (Vin Zhang), a budding navigation engineer. Meeting him again as an adult is awkward, considering the nature of her former one-sided adoration. But the duo tentatively starts to form an unexpected friendship. Can they help each other in their respective missions – and will they find love in the process? This 2023 Chinese romance drama was based on a novel by Er Dong Tu Zi and directed by Tien Jen Huang.

Here We Meet Again

🪐 My Orbit is You Team 💛

Youku

Dong Ting Yao (Dawn Chen) is the sole survivor of a massacre that wiped out her entire family. Before his passing, her father instructs her to seek refuge with her arranged fiancé, Fang Yu Ze (Vincent Wei). Before she can flee, Ting Yao is horrified to see soldiers led by Yu Ze’s uncle Fang Tian Yi (Dai Gao Zheng) enter her family home, making her believe the Fang family is responsible for the massacre. When she eventually escapes from Tian Yi's captivity, she discovers that her half-sister has taken her place as Yu Ze's fiancée. Determined to seek revenge and reclaim her position, she stays at the Fang residence as a maidservant, but finds Tian Yi thwarting her every plan and even trying to seduce her. Will Ting Yao’s quest for vengeance succeed, or will Tian Yi emerge victorious? This 2022 Chinese drama series was directed by Lin Qing.

Maid's Revenge

<3 Sweet Revenge Team <3

Classmates Lin Xi (Lu Yu Xiao) and Ji Jun Xing (Wu Jun Ting) are incredibly different: Lin Xi is optimistic, stubborn, and stands up to bullies, while Jun Xing is an aloof yet warm-hearted programming genius. Despite their differences, their contrasting personalities draw them together as they face the pressure of preparing for college entrance exams. Their budding friendship teeters on the brink of romance, but they risk being separated if they don’t meet their academic goals. Will they succeed in reaching their dreams and stay by each other’s side, or will life push them apart? This 2022 Chinese drama series was directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Time and Him Are Just Right

The Fox and the Rabbit Team

Li Yu Bing (Steven Zhang) is a shy, quiet boy at elementary school. He dreams of becoming a professional hockey player and is blessed with enormous talent.

But he cannot stand his tablemate, the loud and abrasive Tang Xue (Wu Qian), who despite her shared love of the ice rink, enjoys bullying and belittling him.

When they grow up, they are unexpectedly reunited at university, where their fates have taken very different paths. Li Yu Bing is now the most celebrated ice hockey player at the university – while Tang Xue’s dreams of becoming a professional speed skater are beginning to crumble.

Li Yu Bing initially sees the reunion as an opportunity to take revenge on the girl who once made his elementary school days such a nightmare. He uses his position of influence within the university to enlist Tang Xue as his assistant – hoping to torment her.

But things do not go quite as planned. Little by little, Li Yu Bing notices that Tang Xue is not all bad, and understands that she can actually help serve as a great source of inspiration for his own sporting dreams.

In turn, he helps her fall in love again with the sport she was on the verge of giving up.

However, their newfound harmony on the ice is not going to be trouble-free – especially when the duo must contend with disapproving parents and love rivals…

This drama was based on a novel written by author Jiu Xiao Qi.

“Skate into Love” is a 2020 Chinese drama series directed by Chu Yui Bun.

Skate into Love

The Skating Love Team

As the daughter of a highly respected and powerful general, He Jiuling (Song Yi Ren) is mortified when her family announces her engagement to Rong Yu (Wang You Shuo), heir to the National Astrology Pavilion. A dedicated martial artist, Jiuling has no patience for weakness and wants nothing to do with her gentle, soft-spoken fiancé. Determined to sabotage the marriage, she devises several plans, but even the best-laid schemes can go awry. Despite her efforts, Jiuling and Rong Yu find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. What does destiny have in store for this unlikely duo? Li Xiao Jiang directed this 2023 Chinese series.

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