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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  • Hidden Love

    1. Hidden Love

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes

    10

    Rating and comments say it all.

    One of the best romcom ever. Young FL actress is pure gem.

    Rewatched once.

  • The First Frost

    2. The First Frost

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes

    10

    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 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.

  • 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.

    Rewatched once.

  • 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.

    It's annoying to admit, but this is the only worthwhile Wang Yu Wen's c-drama.

  • Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

    7. Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes

    10

    Nice slowburn romance and some 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 romantic tension.

  • 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. Some sports.

  • 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

    Nice romance. Easy to watch. Not cringe game background.

    Rewatched once.

  • 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

    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.

  • Legally Romance

    19. Legally Romance

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 33 episodes

    9.0

    Second chance with nice twists. Not "ex comes back" that i personally don't like.

    Fifth wall broken funny way.

    Rewatched once.

  • 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.

  • Time and Him Are Just Right

    24. Time and Him Are Just Right

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 25 episodes

    9.0

    Light, funny, fluffy. Great chemistry.

  • Exclusive Fairytale

    25. Exclusive Fairytale

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    8.5

    Classic Zhang Miao Yi. Warm and fluffy.

  • Our Secret

    26. Our Secret

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    8.5

    Easy to watch school - university youth story.

    Love triangle / square in the middle after reunion.

  • Begin Again

    27. Begin Again

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 18 episodes

    8.5

    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.

  • Only for Love

    28. Only for Love

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 36 episodes

    8.5

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

  • You Are My Hero

    29. 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.

  • Hi Venus

    30. Hi Venus

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    8.5

    Romantic bantering, no drama, easy to watch.

  • Under the Skin Season 2

    31. Under the Skin Season 2

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 28 episodes

    8.0

    Still good, but 1st season better.

  • As Beautiful as You

    32. As Beautiful as You

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes

    8.0

    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).

  • Make a Wish

    33. Make a Wish

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Mr. Bad

    34. Mr. Bad

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Here We Meet Again

    35. Here We Meet Again

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 32 episodes

    8.0

    Nice enough office romance.  Confident FL.

  • Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard

    36. Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Amazing Girls

    37. Amazing Girls

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    8.0

    Cheerful FL. Easy to watch comedy.

    Not much depth in plot, but drama is underrated imo.

  • A River Runs Through It

    38. A River Runs Through It

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • To Fly with You

    39. To Fly with You

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 35 episodes

    8.0

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

  • Ski into Love

    40. 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

    41. The Best Thing

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes

    8.0

    Really good and fluffy, but lacks something for me to be "OMG so awesome cute" like alot of people say.

  • My Unicorn Girl

    42. My Unicorn Girl

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Lighter & Princess

    43. Lighter & Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes

    8.0

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

  • Present, Is Present

    44. Present, Is Present

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes

    8.0

    Sci-Fi time paradox struggle for avoid death and get back loved ones.

    Sometimes there is an overabundance of longing and despair of ML.

  • Intense Love

    45. 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

    46. 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!

    47. 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.

  • Gank Your Heart

    48. Gank Your Heart

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 35 episodes

    8.0

    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.

  • Boss & Me

    49. 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

    50. Back to Seventeen

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes

    8.0

    Short and cute time travel.

  • My Girlfriend Is an Alien

    51. My Girlfriend Is an Alien

    Chinese Drama - 2019, 28 episodes

    7.5

    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.

  • Sweet Games

    52. Sweet Games

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    7.5

    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.

  • Night of Love with You

    53. Night of Love with You

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    7.5

    Not bad, but not good.

    Short (less than 4 hours in total).

  • Love Designer

    54. Love Designer

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 45 episodes

    7.0

    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.

  • My Boss

    55. My Boss

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes

    7.0

    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. 

  • Love at Night

    56. Love at Night

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 30 episodes

    7.0

    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.

  • Double Love

    57. Double Love

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    7.0

    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.

  • Everyone Loves Me

    58. 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.

  • My Girlfriend Is an Alien Season 2

    59. My Girlfriend Is an Alien Season 2

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 30 episodes

    7.0

    It's even more girly than 1st season.

    The cartoon villains began to behave even more stupidly.

  • Destined to Meet You

    60. Destined to Meet You

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes

    7.0

    Short. Nothing really special. Just beautiful actors.

  • Unforgettable Love

    61. Unforgettable Love

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    7.0
  • My Little Happiness

    62. My Little Happiness

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 28 episodes

    7.0
  • Well Dominated Love

    63. Well Dominated Love

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes

    6.5

    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

  • Lucky's First Love

    64. 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 lunches here are sexier than kiss scenes.

  • Once We Get Married

    65. Once We Get Married

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    6.0

    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?

  • Never Too Late

    66. Never Too Late

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 22 episodes

    6.0

    Dropped

    ML's avoidant type of attachment in it's most neglected form.

    Characters get involved in interaction in silly and far-fetched ways.

  • The Love You Give Me

    67. The Love You Give Me

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 28 episodes

    5.0

    Dropped

    Misunderstanding gone really wrong mostly from ML.

  • Love O2O

    68. 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

    69. 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

    70. 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

    71. Begin Again

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 35 episodes

    4.0

    Dropped

    Lead characters are worth each other with their terrible behavior.

  • Be with You

    72. Be with You

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes

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