Modern life Chinese dramas
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.
List of watched Chinese dramas about modern life. Mostly romance, business, some school/university comedies. Happy endings (at least at this moment).
I appreciate dramas that offer confidence, healing, and supportive relationships between family and friends. A logical and consistent script along with high-quality editing are also important to me. These elements significantly influence my rating.
I don't like "ex comes back" trope. There is some exceptions like "Fireworks of my heart" but they're not true exes.
In this list, I've included my comments and overall impressions for each series. All shows are ones I've watched and rated myself. Most of them have a rating of 8 or above on kisskh.
Here's my rating system:
7: Not bad; I don't regret watching it.
8: Nice, but it lacks something for me.
9: Great; I'll probably rewatch it someday.
10: Top-notch, obviously.
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1. Hidden Love
Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes
Rating and comments say it all.
One of the best romcom ever. Young FL actress is pure gem.
Rewatched once.
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2. The First Frost
Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes
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 either love it for its fluff or dislike it for its lack of action-packed drama.
It's one of my "comfort dramas".
Rewatched once.
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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.
Rewatched once.
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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.
It's annoying to admit, but this is the only worthwhile Wang Yu Wen's c-drama.
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7. Amidst a Snowstorm of Love
Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes
Nice slowburn romance and some 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 romantic tension.
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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. Some sports.
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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
Nice romance. Easy to watch. Not cringe game background.
Rewatched once.
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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
Lovers reunite. A touching story of forgiveness and reconciliation. A very thoughtful script and dialogues.
I liked how the true feelings of the main characters gradually revealed.
Rewatched once.
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19. Legally Romance
Chinese Drama - 2022, 33 episodes
Second chance with nice twists. Not "ex comes back" that i personally don't like.
Fifth wall broken funny way.
Rewatched once.
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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. Time and Him Are Just Right
Chinese Drama - 2022, 25 episodes
Light, funny, fluffy. Great chemistry.
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25. Exclusive Fairytale
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.
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26. Our Secret
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
Easy to watch school - university youth story.
Love triangle / square in the middle after reunion.
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27. Begin Again
Chinese Drama - 2024, 18 episodes
Something like Fake It Till You Make It (some same actors, including ML).
More relaxed story compared to FITYMI. The characters' actions don't look far-fetched btw.
Mains here are really "mains", so it's hard to associate yourself just with someone.
Ah... that lighthouse kiss.
Nice feeling of a resort romance with a happy open ending.
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28. 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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29. 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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30. Hi Venus
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Romantic bantering, no drama, easy to watch.
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31. Under the Skin Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2024, 28 episodes
Still good, but 1st season better.
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32. As Beautiful as You
Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes
Problems, problems, startup problems, more problems. Overconfident FL. Some romance and ML support, nice FL's friends.
+ special
Rewatched once because of He Rui Xian and to make a comment here (forgot it fast for the first time).
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33. Make a Wish
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
Something like My Girlfriend Is an Alien. Similar plot's start and vibes, but more mature i guess.
Cute. For the first eps Chen Hao Lan (personally like her so much) looks like tired panda, later she shows her trademark spontaneity. Leads have good chemistry.
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34. Mr. Bad
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
It's getting funnier from episode to episode in the first half.
A fantasy story about getting rid of regrets and the courage to take responsibility for your fate.
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35. Here We Meet Again
Chinese Drama - 2023, 32 episodes
Nice enough office romance. Confident FL.
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36. Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
Cheerful FL. ML just right. Alive, no poker face, smart, empathetic — rare one in "modern live cdramas".
Second leads are for comedy and they doing it very well.
The crumpled ending spoils the impression a little.
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37. Amazing Girls
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Cheerful FL. Easy to watch comedy.
Not much depth in plot, but drama is underrated imo.
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38. A River Runs Through It
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
Coming out of ages with friendship through the years. One time watch.
But nothing memorable tbh. Tried to rewatch it for synopsis and gave up.
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39. To Fly with You
Chinese Drama - 2021, 35 episodes
Sport, overcoming, support. Not much fluff, but nice.
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40. 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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41. The Best Thing
Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes
Really good and fluffy, but lacks something for me to be "OMG so awesome cute" like alot of people say.
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42. My Unicorn Girl
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
Cute university sports. Silly sometimes, but fun.
Crossdressing trope, but c'mon she definitely has noticeable boobs, not flat chest like other actresses in same roles.
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43. Lighter & Princess
Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes
Iceberg cold unemotional ML (char, not actor). Oversupportive FL.
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44. Present, Is Present
Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
Sci-Fi time paradox struggle for avoid death and get back loved ones.
Sometimes there is an overabundance of longing and despair of ML.
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45. 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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46. 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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47. 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. -
48. Gank Your Heart
Chinese Drama - 2019, 35 episodes
Youth, e-sports, begin again, chasing dream.
If you liked Go Go Squid! and Falling into Your Smile it's quite similar and worth watching.
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49. 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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50. Back to Seventeen
Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes
Short and cute time travel.
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51. My Girlfriend Is an Alien
Chinese Drama - 2019, 28 episodes
Sci-Fi cute comedy.
The most shamelessly explicit с-series out of a 70 watched and does it have a "G - All Ages" rating? Naked bodies, hickey and hot hugs in the second episode. Very atypical for c-dramas.
Same time it looks like filmed in 2009, not 2019. Like sometimes naive and stupid and some actors are overacting purposely.
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52. Sweet Games
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
The mains literally run from each other in a third of the series.
Then strange facial expressions and awkward kisses.
Oh, in ep. 14 they're chasing each other like it's the 90s and there are no cell phones or phone chargers in plane. Watching the series is not easy.
After the breakup (how can there be drama without it?) lack of communication for a very strange reason.
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53. 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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54. Love Designer
Chinese Drama - 2020, 45 episodes
Business and design background made so formally. Just for some kind of unnecessary setting for relations.
I bet directors by ep. 23 or so forgot pairs status: are they together dating or apart again. Some plot twists are forced only for the sake of a minute-long drama and the most annoying thing is the artificially contrived problems and obstacles just out of the blue. Feels like one big filler.
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55. My Boss
Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes
Another tsundere ML in terminal stage. 20+ eps of threating/harrasing FL.
An unromantic abusive boss ML and an insecure FL. The worst combination.
Surprisingly not repulsive, quite watchable. Wonder how far their bullying will go.
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56. Love at Night
Chinese Drama - 2021, 30 episodes
Another iceberg ML, but with foot fetish this time.
Leads too often bump into each other like it's not a big city, but a village.
Too many kabedons and scenes in WC. Rushed first kiss scenes and confessions made formally.
+2 special eps.
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57. Double Love
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
As you can see from synopsis it's all about ingame action, no real life mentioned. It's because no one can even recall what's it about.
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58. 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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59. My Girlfriend Is an Alien Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 30 episodes
It's even more girly than 1st season.
The cartoon villains began to behave even more stupidly.
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60. Destined to Meet You
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
Short. Nothing really special. Just beautiful actors.
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61. Unforgettable Love
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
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62. My Little Happiness
Chinese Drama - 2021, 28 episodes
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63. Well Dominated Love
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
The sounds of constant sighs and slurping are annoying.
Terrible kisses. Wanna to shoutout: devour her already and let's end this show.The mystery quickly exhausted itself and the story turned into a farce. And again, kisses are awful. Dumbest reason for breakup ever.
I can't understand why the Chinese consider ML bullying FL to be romantic.
Getting slightly better by ep. 16
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64. 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 lunches here are sexier than kiss scenes.
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65. Once We Get Married
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
The Love You Give Me main actors here again. Fail again?
Honestly it must be in "dropped" section. The male lead spends much of the show mocking the female lead, even waving his hand dismissively as she cowers in fear. And yet, the female lead falls in love with this creep.
Eps. 16-24 just skipforwarded.
Yep, all the worst clichés come together here, clearly showing how foolish people, especially men, can be when blinded by love.
Does Wang Yu Wen has the only one good drama You Are My Lover Friend after all?
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66. Never Too Late
Chinese Drama - 2022, 22 episodes
Dropped
ML's avoidant type of attachment in it's most neglected form.
Characters get involved in interaction in silly and far-fetched ways.
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67. The Love You Give Me
Chinese Drama - 2023, 28 episodes
Dropped
Misunderstanding gone really wrong mostly from ML.
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68. Love O2O
Chinese Drama - 2016, 30 episodes
Dropped
No chemistry. Like -100 out of 10. Dead fish kisses.
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69. 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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70. 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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71. Begin Again
Chinese Drama - 2020, 35 episodes
Dropped
Lead characters are worth each other with their terrible behavior.
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72. Be with You
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes







































































