C Dramas w/ Dominant, Dark ML & Hot Romance

Director: Zhou Xiao 

Actors: Li Fei (Richard), Ming Jiajia

With the Emperor ailing and the Crown Prince still young, the rebel army marches towards the city gates. As her country and family are teetering on the brink of disaster, she writes to implore the Prince of Nanchuan for help, promising anything in return as long as he sends his army to intervene. He eventually arrives, saving not just her husband and child, but her own self. Despite her aloofness, he hesitates to hurt her. Yet, his aid comes at a cost. His desire is not for the throne, but for one person's love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrxE44lkws&list=PLIDwPG4QfQt-BKF2GviqvPbTdWoSQrx2J&index=126 (ENG subs; full version)

MINI DRAMA

Director: Lin He Long

Screenwriter: Yuan Shuai

Actors: Huang Xiaoming, Chen Chiau'En (Joe)

“Cruel Romance” tells the story of Rong Jin Xiu, a country girl who travels to Shanghai in order to discover why her entire family was killed. Along the way, she meets triad leader Zuo Zhen, and after a series of accidents and misunderstandings, the two fall in love. Also vying for Jin Xiu’s attention is Xiang Ying Dong, a businessman and close friend of Zuo Zhen. Ever protective of his woman, however, Zuo Zhen refuses to let other men even come close to Jin Xiu – which ultimately pays off when a villainous Japanese man tries to finish off Jin Xiu and her remaining family members.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvf4fZgfbz569vPaAgfrQV8C3Om8A4jKn&si=YPVL3-65GU_cu9fR (ENG subs)

FYI: SA Warning

Director: Lin Jian Long, Chen Guo Hua 

Actors: Chen Xingxu, Zhang Jingyi, Lin Yanjun (Evan)

In the year of 1926, Mu Wan Qing brings her mom's ashes back to China for burial. Using the pretense of surrendering to her father, Mu Wan Qing's actual motive is finding the true reason why her parents separated, and her brother died. Meanwhile, a coup d'état occurs among the Shanghai army, and the once oppressed Tan Xuan Lin rose up to become the new commander of troops. However, despite his new authority, he still finds himself walking on thin ice. Xu Guang Yao, the son of the Commander of Yue Cheng, is a man revered and admired by many. However, he dislikes the power struggles within the political field. A chance encounter lets Mu Wan Qing, Tan Xuan Lin, and Xu Guang Yao meet and befriend each other. In order to secure her foothold within the Mu family, Mu Wan Qing intentionally gets close to Xu Guang Yao securing his backing. Meanwhile, Tan Xuan Lin works alongside Mu Wan Qing to investigate an old case that is related to the Mu family. The three of them go through life-and-death struggles together and eventually realize the importance of protecting the country in these tumultuous times.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPiKkS-FpK8Pw_5ePaYUYO8wWkhwsgoo&si=YAkqMgP5VPhINPDh (ENG subs)

Actors: Han Donglin, Cui Yiliang

Ye Yi Fan, once an innocent youth, swears revenge after his family is slaughtered, transforming into the ruthless and enigmatic crime boss known as "Mr. Mo." In this guise, he encounters Xia Zhi Qiu, a dancer. Thus begins a love game between hunter and prey. Ye Yi Fan gradually falls in love with Xia Zhi Qiu due to her seduction, but he discovers that her true identity is Gu Qing Yan, the daughter of his enemy. Meanwhile, to avenge her father, Gu Qing Yan lays traps that Ye Yi Fan willingly falls into for the sake of love. 

As the two adversaries are entangled in a web of love and hate, genuine emotions surge beneath their masks. What fate awaits them, deeply in love yet torn apart by hostility?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLogLib6e6DfSUKQ0JKp9OBsG_XRVXReSe&si=NJvpfqAB5kikgyuK (ENG subs; individual episodes)

MINI DRAMA

Director: Chu De Jian 

Actors: Zhao Yiqin, Shen Yujie

Princess Feng Yuan of Yongzhao and Young Master He Lian Xi of Linchuan were a pair of "Lian Lizhi" who were destined to live in harmony with each other. However, they made a private decision for life, which caused great changes in the clan. Three years later, the two reunited again, starting a battle full of temptations and pulls. A love story with an oriental flavor and redemption.

IQIYI (Subscription)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0PsHrQxhYwT-nxmaWE3EnbQ65fkvgijX&si=REe9i2ZPL2oRvDD6 (ENG Subs)

~ 20 MIN EPISODES

Actors: Yan Yikuan, Song Yi

A story about a socialite in Shanghai whose family falls to ruin and starts on a journey to become a spy. Lu Han Zhi's fate is intertwined between two men from opposing sides of a war. Gao Chen who appears to be a traitor to his country is actually a Communist spy. Han Shou Min who appears to be a patriot and used to be a top spy of the Kuomindang is treading on a path of no return after being betrayed by his own comrades. Caught in a dangerous and increasingly complication situation, Lu Han Zhi grows from a mere socialite to an impassioned revolutionary.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUg6CGAXr7pmy78ApHCKklkB-isU63IVB&si=H5Z0zQAo08_IHkgv (ENG subs; FYI: Episodes are out of order).

Actors: Chen Fangtong, Dai Gaozheng, Wei Tianhao (Vincent), Dong Yan

In a single night, Dong Ting Yao's entire family were wiped out in a massacre. Right before her father died, he told her to seek refuge at her unseen fiance, Fang Yu Ze's home. At the same time, Fang Yu Ze's uncle, Fang Tian Yi, the governor and warlord of the territory, stormed through the doors of the house with his troops, leading Dong Ting Yao to believe that it was Fang Tian Yi who murdered her entire family. After a heated altercation, Fang Tian Yi took Dong Ting Yao back to his residence to hold her captive. Dong Ting Yao, however, escapes from her captivity and makes her way to Fang Yu Ze's home, only to discover that her position as fiancee has been supplanted by her half-sister, Dong Yan Er. Upon also realising that Fang Tian Yi is the head of Fang Yu Ze's household, she then passes herself off as a maidservant in the Fang household in order to try and take revenge on Fang Tian Yi, and at the same time, restore her rightful position as Fang Yu Ze's fiancee. Unfortunately, Fang Tian Yi has other ideas.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLogLib6e6DfRzv1GvGLaaa_0pgXhmiQ5-&si=2w7j78U73_UfNTz3 (ENG subs)

FYI: SA Warning (By episode: 25/26; full version episodes 16-30 at 1:20:00 to 1:25:04 time stamp)

MINI DRAMA

Director: Chu De Jian 

Actors: Li Mozhi, Fan Zhixin

Shen Man Ning, because of an unexpected kidnapping case, discovers Zhuang Xin Yan. After Zhuang Xin Yan dies, the powerful and mysterious Yan Xing Cheng forces Shen Man Ning to start her "second life" as his fiancé. As they overcome adversities and difficulties together, the two go from being completely hostile with one another to slowly joining hands, learning to love and rely on each other. Together they discover the truth of the unsolved case from 17 years ago.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZZLpfFwcBqsfOnvYOXjBLl_nNP2dG7q&si=AtSpxkX8nSl2fjjP (ENG subs)

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Actors: Cai Zhengjie, Jiang Yuan Ya Rong

Ling Xiao has laid low for many years in order to finally gain control and become the powerful new city lord. In order to take revenge, he forces the old city lord's daughter, Su Wan Er, to be his forbidden wife. Even though the two have grudges and feuds, they are deeply entangled in love and hate amidst the crises and protections. In the end, where will the future of the two go?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIPiKkS-FpK-mn2XPJv5w6_lHeNfRpL43&si=uIeGiLMyyz_RRvbW (ENG subs).

MINI DRAMA

Actors: He Xuanlin, Gao Mingchen, Mia Jiaying (Macy), Yang Chenghan

Duan Xun Chu, whose family was wiped out, misunderstood his elder sister-in-law, Lin Wen Yu, as the daughter of his enemy. After living with hatred for many years, he became a warlord general and returned for revenge. The two continued to have conflicts and misunderstandings under the entanglement of family grudges. In the process of pulling each other apart, they secretly fell in love and finally solved the misunderstanding, and the two joined hands to move towards the future.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLbHF3-UFDDSbtNgG36Qjl1dCExFlueH&si=Hd61-8zLpjKC5Fi- (ENG subs) 

MINI DRAMA

Actors: Qiu Dingjie, Cao Mingyue

Gu Man Qing has been dependent on her sister, who was a dancer since she was a child, but she never thought that on her big wedding day, she would be witnessing Lu Yi Chuan, her future husband, murdering her only family. After trying to take revenge on the spot and failing, Man Qing decide to run. But even after starting her new, happy life, Man Qing still can't forget the faithful night, and she's plotting a revenge plan. Her first step to do so is taking a new identity and becoming a stepmother to her past lover. But the woman discovers a seemingly simple plan, and her sister's death has more mysteries than she thought.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLbHF3-UFDDTyG110zDRXfNWde980vtL&si=LZ2R6VFkar8OlF1i (ENG subs) 

MINI DRAMA

Actors: Dai Gaozheng, Hu Yiyao, Guan Yue

Helian Zheng returns as a warlord to avenge his mother’s death by forcing marriage on his stepsister, He An Ran, whose father was responsible. Meanwhile, Mo Yu Tang, crippled because of Helian Zheng, reappears years later, hiding a chilling hatred behind her dazzling stage persona.

FYI: SA warning episode 1

MINI DRAMA

Director: Sam Ho

Screenwriter: Wu Yao, Jia Dong Yan

Actors: Sun Yi, Han Dongjun (Elvis), Jeremy Tsui, Ma Jinghan

An arrogant third master of a powerful family falls in love at first sight with a pretty young maiden and uses every means possible to force her hand in marriage, despite her harboring a crush on another man. In the beginning of a coerced marriage, she resents him and rejects all his advances and gestures of love, but their love story slowly develops after going through obstacles in times of war and chaos. However, things get complicated when her old flame returns and becomes her husband’s assistant.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPHFQiE-MdaKxvhouhZPS-csYqkNr2e0t&si=9Rmz1o4cfs7aRJzj (ENG subs)

Actors: Daisy Li, Zhou Junwei

The valiant young general Xiao Chu Yi and the orphan Lu Yun Xi grew up together as childhood sweethearts. After getting married, they were still deeply in love. However, Xiao Chu Yi was exiled to the borderlands for abducting the bride and nearly died in battle. Having survived numerous life-and-death ordeals, he comes back only to discover that Yun Xi remarried his cousin Zhou Yan Yu, and his mother passed away. Entangled in a love triangle, Xiao Chu Yi and Lu Yun Xi start a forbidden romance.

MINI DRAMA

Director: Tsang Lai Chun

Screenwriter: Zhou Yong

Actors: Huang Xiaoming, Li Xiaoran

Yin Jing Wan, a young woman from a wealthy merchant family, saved a young man on a train who was escaping from a rivaling warlord manhunt. When she returned home, her parents betrothed her to a childhood friend, but her fiancee was put into prison in Chengzhou for smuggling firearms and illegal Western drugs. Jing Wan decided to go to Chengzhou to rescue her fiancee. But she did not know this trip would completely change her life.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQqbdnAgoRma7k3Gg1sd6yzXi7jMLu3Sl&si=uFX1tvrSSt3Jmk41 (ENG subs; FYI last episode doesn't have ENG subs)