Modern life Chinese dramas
List of watched Chinese dramas about modern life. Mostly romance, business, some schools/university comedies. Happy endings (at least at this moment).
Confidence, healing, supportive relatives/friends, logical and consistent script, high-quality work of the editing director — that's what I prefer most of all.
Once I found myself struggle in search of chinese comedies and dramas in modern setting. Guess I'm not the only one, so use it and share your gems, please.
My comments and overall impressions for each series. Shows in this list watched and rated by myself. Mostly 8+ MDL rating.
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1. Hidden Love
Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes
Rating and comments say it all.
One of the best romcom ever.
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2. The First Frost
Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes
Rating and comments say it all.
One of the best romcom ever with some dark background. ML acts very uncertain sometimes so it's a very slow burn romance. Really very slow.
Hidden Love's spinoff, but actors and some events and their order are differ. As for me it's better to consider it a standalone story.
Zhang Miao Yi steals the show every time she appears.
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3. Love Me, Love My Voice
Chinese Drama - 2023, 33 episodes
Woah! It hits hard by simple words from the beginning. Overdose of romance and fluffness.
No intrigue or drama, yet very emotional. All characters are really alive, no exceptions.
All "secondary" couples so nice too. Highly recommended. You'll like it for fluff or drop it for zero action drama.
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4. Filter
Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes
Really funny comedy. At same time it's a deep story about finding yourself.
ML is such a nerd in a worst meaning at the beginning. He has a "reason" for that. By half way it turns better.
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5. Reset
Chinese Drama - 2022, 15 episodes
Timeloop action. Catchy. Slightly romantic.
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6. You Are My Lover Friend
Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes
Friends to lovers trope done well. Second couple is OMG so cute.
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7. Amidst a Snowstorm of Love
Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes
Slowburn romance and sports.
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8. When I Fly Towards You
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.
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9. You Are My Glory
Chinese Drama - 2021, 32 episodes
Smooth show. Supportive leads.
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10. Always Home
Chinese Drama - 2025, 30 episodes
Great story. Script, emotions, jokes, acting, chemistry — all around so good.
1-16 eps: school and neighbours. Warm and funny.
17-27 eps: university love, romance, new friends. Life choices.
28-30 eps: adult life struggle.
Love the way love polygons resolved.
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11. Fake It Till You Make It
Chinese Drama - 2023, 14 episodes
Interesting style. A little of melancholy, some romance, pretty tough business background. For the first half. Then tons of romance, flirt and cuteness. Don't forget the special.
Noticeable soundtrack, that sets the right mood of suspense, desperate jealousy or romance.
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12. She and Her Perfect Husband
Chinese Drama - 2022, 40 episodes
Confidence, confidence, more confidence. Rivals to sismance.
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13. Falling into You
Chinese Drama - 2022, 26 episodes
Noona romance at it's best.
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14. Under the Skin
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
Police investigations. No romance, just bromance.
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15. Falling into Your Smile
Chinese Drama - 2021, 31 episodes
I bet it's one of the most famous Chinese TV series. Nice romance.
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16. Meet Yourself
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
Warm countryside story. Some sadness, nice sismance, awesome elders. Most of characters have their own line revealed.
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17. A Romance of the Little Forest
Chinese Drama - 2022, 35 episodes
Confident and cute FL with hidden identity to her parents.
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18. Fireworks of My Heart
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
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19. Legally Romance
Chinese Drama - 2022, 33 episodes
Second chance with nice twists.
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20. You Are My Secret
Chinese Drama - 2024, 32 episodes
Nice romance. Warm and funny. Bitter alittle.
Don't miss special episode.
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21. Moonlight
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
Punchy and cute FL just like classic Yu Shu Xin does it. Sometimes slow-witted ML.
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22. The Day of Becoming You
Chinese Drama - 2021, 26 episodes
Body swap trope nicely done. Not awkward, but warm and funny.
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23. Best Choice Ever
Chinese Drama - 2024, 37 episodes
Mother-daughter relations. Very confident FL and very controlling mother.
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24. Only for Love
Chinese Drama - 2023, 36 episodes
Stoneface Dylan and sometimes messy director's of edit work. Easy to watch story.
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25. Exclusive Fairytale
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.
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26. You Are My Hero
Chinese Drama - 2021, 40 episodes
A convincing enough entourage of police service and medical work.
A good balance of romance, drama and comedy.
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27. Under the Skin Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2024, 28 episodes
Still good, but 1st season better.
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28. Here We Meet Again
Chinese Drama - 2023, 32 episodes
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29. Hi Venus
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Romantic bantering, no drama, easy to watch.
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30. As Beautiful as You
Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes
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31. A River Runs Through It
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
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32. To Fly with You
Chinese Drama - 2021, 35 episodes
Sport, overcoming, support. Not much fluff, but nice.
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33. Ski into Love
Chinese Drama - 2025, 23 episodes
Yu Shu Xin and Zeng Ni as best friends (they were rivals in My Journey to You).
Classic childish Yu Shu Xin. Nice and fluffy romcom.
Pros: all characters are alive, actors doing great, awesome locations and costumes.
Cons: breakup just for breakup, crappy shrink edit 32->23 eps spoil alot of pleasure, secondary couples lines just ripped away.
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34. The Best Thing
Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes
Really good and fluffy, but lacks something for me.
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35. Lighter & Princess
Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes
Iceberg cold unemotional ML (char, not actor). Oversupportive FL.
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36. Present, Is Present
Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
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37. Intense Love
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
Seemed goofy for the first few episodes, but overall exceeded expectations.
Don't forget the special. A "What if" reverse version with multiple references to the original source. Compilation made in an unusual and funny way.
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38. Why Women Love
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
No plot, easy to watch funny romcom. Sometimes cringy, but good over all.
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39. Go Go Squid!
Chinese Drama - 2019, 41 episodes
Not bad romance, funny yet confident FL, "grumpy cat face" ML (getting slightly better by ep. 16).
But I can't get seriously that CTF "game". It's supposed to be a hackers competition for attack and defence and need alot of coding, but they like playing boring FPS without onscreen action, using just ASWD keys. And it has a huge fanbase and alot of budgets. It can't make you believe and can't get into it. Then out of sudden it turns to CS-like game in ep. 19 and back again to console coding in ep. 30. Except this it's good. -
40. Boss & Me
Chinese Drama - 2014, 34 episodes
NaiveNot a trivial Cinderella story. Easy to watch.All the problems and complexes caused by Cinderella syndrome are well shown.
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41. Back to Seventeen
Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes
Short and cute time travel.
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42. Night of Love with You
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Not bad, but not good.
Short (less than 4 hours in total).
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43. Double Love
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
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44. Everyone Loves Me
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes
Easy to watch, but messy script or edit at the few last episodes. Strange CEO decisions.
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45. Destined to Meet You
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
Short. Nothing really special. Just beautiful actors.
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46. Unforgettable Love
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
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47. My Little Happiness
Chinese Drama - 2021, 28 episodes
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48. Lucky's First Love
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
Exactly same vibe of all around stupidity as korean "Boys over Flowers".
Shen Qing and her two exes are the worst.
First ML kiss with totally drunk FL, that's all about romance here. Even lunchs here are sexier than kiss scenes.
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49. The Love You Give Me
Chinese Drama - 2023, 28 episodes
Dropped
Misunderstanding gone really wrong mostly from ML.
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50. Love O2O
Chinese Drama - 2016, 30 episodes
Dropped
No chemistry. Like -100 out of 10. Dead fish kisses.
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51. Love the Way You Are
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
Dropped
Top cringe.
Not that stupidas "Lucky's First Love", but cringy caricature .Lost puppy face ML, merry-go-round dialogue: - Tell me, you're Yuan Yuan. - No, I'm not. *Repeat*.
Took my words back. By ep. 8 it is the most stupid series ever.
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52. Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
Dropped
Even sweet bunny Lu Si can't help messy script.
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53. Begin Again
Chinese Drama - 2020, 35 episodes
Dropped.
Lead characters are worth each other with their terrible behavior.