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.

Nekonome Apr 12, 2025
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  • Hidden Love

    1. Hidden Love

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes

    10

    Rating and comments say it all.

    One of the best romcom ever.

  • The First Frost

    2. The First Frost

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes

    10

    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.

  • Love Me, Love My Voice

    3. Love Me, Love My Voice

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 33 episodes

    10

    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.

  • Filter

    4. Filter

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes

    10

    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.

  • Reset

    5. Reset

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 15 episodes

    10

    Timeloop action. Catchy. Slightly romantic.

  • You Are My Lover Friend

    6. You Are My Lover Friend

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes

    10

    Friends to lovers trope done well. Second couple is OMG so cute.

  • Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

    7. Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes

    10

    Slowburn romance and sports.

  • When I Fly Towards You

    8. When I Fly Towards You

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    10

    Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.

  • You Are My Glory

    9. You Are My Glory

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 32 episodes

    9.5

    Smooth show. Supportive leads.

  • Always Home

    10. Always Home

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 30 episodes

    9.5

    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.

  • Fake It Till You Make It

    11. Fake It Till You Make It

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 14 episodes

    9.5

    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.

  • She and Her Perfect Husband

    12. She and Her Perfect Husband

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 40 episodes

    9.5

    Confidence, confidence, more confidence. Rivals to sismance.

  • Falling into You

    13. Falling into You

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 26 episodes

    9.5

    Noona romance at it's best.

  • Under the Skin

    14. Under the Skin

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes

    9.5

    Police investigations. No romance, just bromance.

  • Falling into Your Smile

    15. Falling into Your Smile

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 31 episodes

    9.5

    I bet it's one of the most famous Chinese TV series. Nice romance.

  • Meet Yourself

    16. Meet Yourself

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes

    9.0

    Warm countryside story. Some sadness, nice sismance, awesome elders. Most of characters have their own line revealed.

  • A Romance of the Little Forest

    17. A Romance of the Little Forest

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 35 episodes

    9.0

    Confident and cute FL with hidden identity to her parents.

  • Fireworks of My Heart

    18. Fireworks of My Heart

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes

    9.0
  • Legally Romance

    19. Legally Romance

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 33 episodes

    9.0

    Second chance with nice twists.

  • You Are My Secret

    20. You Are My Secret

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 32 episodes

    9.0

    Nice romance. Warm and funny. Bitter alittle.

    Don't miss special episode.

  • Moonlight

    21. Moonlight

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes

    9.0

    Punchy and cute FL just like classic Yu Shu Xin does it. Sometimes slow-witted ML.

  • The Day of Becoming You

    22. The Day of Becoming You

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 26 episodes

    9.0

    Body swap trope nicely done. Not awkward, but warm and funny.

  • Best Choice Ever

    23. Best Choice Ever

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 37 episodes

    9.0

    Mother-daughter relations. Very confident FL and very controlling mother.

  • Only for Love

    24. Only for Love

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 36 episodes

    8.5

    Stoneface Dylan and sometimes messy director's of edit work. Easy to watch story.

  • Exclusive Fairytale

    25. Exclusive Fairytale

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    8.5

    Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.

  • You Are My Hero

    26. You Are My Hero

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 40 episodes

    8.5

    A convincing enough entourage of police service and medical work.

    A good balance of romance, drama and comedy.

  • Under the Skin Season 2

    27. Under the Skin Season 2

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 28 episodes

    8.5

    Still good, but 1st season better.

  • Here We Meet Again

    28. Here We Meet Again

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 32 episodes

    8.5
  • Hi Venus

    29. Hi Venus

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    8.0

    Romantic bantering, no drama, easy to watch.

  • As Beautiful as You

    30. As Beautiful as You

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes

    8.0
  • A River Runs Through It

    31. A River Runs Through It

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes

    8.0
  • To Fly with You

    32. To Fly with You

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 35 episodes

    8.0

    Sport, overcoming, support. Not much fluff, but nice.

  • Ski into Love

    33. Ski into Love

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 23 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • The Best Thing

    34. The Best Thing

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes

    8.0

    Really good and fluffy, but lacks something for me.

  • Lighter & Princess

    35. Lighter & Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes

    8.0

    Iceberg cold unemotional ML (char, not actor). Oversupportive FL.

  • Present, Is Present

    36. Present, Is Present

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes

    8.0
  • Intense Love

    37. Intense Love

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Why Women Love

    38. Why Women Love

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    8.0

    No plot, easy to watch funny romcom. Sometimes cringy, but good over all.

  • Go Go Squid!

    39. Go Go Squid!

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 41 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Boss & Me

    40. Boss & Me

    Chinese Drama - 2014, 34 episodes

    8.0

    Naive Not a trivial Cinderella story. Easy to watch.

    All the problems and complexes caused by Cinderella syndrome are well shown.

  • Back to Seventeen

    41. Back to Seventeen

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes

    8.0

    Short and cute time travel.

  • Night of Love with You

    42. Night of Love with You

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    7.5

    Not bad, but not good.

    Short (less than 4 hours in total).

  • Double Love

    43. Double Love

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    7.0
  • Everyone Loves Me

    44. Everyone Loves Me

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    7.0

    Easy to watch, but messy script or edit at the few last episodes. Strange CEO decisions.

  • Destined to Meet You

    45. Destined to Meet You

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes

    7.0

    Short. Nothing really special. Just beautiful actors.

  • Unforgettable Love

    46. Unforgettable Love

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    7.0
  • My Little Happiness

    47. My Little Happiness

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 28 episodes

    7.0
  • Lucky's First Love

    48. Lucky's First Love

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes

    6.5

    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.

  • The Love You Give Me

    49. The Love You Give Me

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 28 episodes

    5.0

    Dropped

    Misunderstanding gone really wrong mostly from ML.

  • Love O2O

    50. Love O2O

    Chinese Drama - 2016, 30 episodes

    5.0

    Dropped

    No chemistry. Like -100 out of 10. Dead fish kisses.

  • Love the Way You Are

    51. Love the Way You Are

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes

    4.0

    Dropped

    Top cringe. Not that stupid as "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.

  • Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling

    52. Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    4.0

    Dropped

    Even sweet bunny Lu Si can't help messy script.

  • Begin Again

    53. Begin Again

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 35 episodes

    4.0

    Dropped.

    Lead characters are worth each other with their terrible behavior.