Chinese Time Travel
Includes Time Travel Tv Shows/Films
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1. Shining for One Thing
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Lin Bei Xing returns to the age of eighteen. The third year of high school is a nightmare, but Lin Bei Xing decides to retake the college entrance examination and forget Zhan Yu. However, an accidental encounter with Zhang Wan Sen after the college entrance examination becomes the trigger of Lin Bei Xing's time and space journey.
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2. Reset
Chinese Drama - 2022, 15 episodes
An unexplainable phenomena finds college-going student, Li Shi Qing, trapped in a never-ending time loop where she is always stuck on a public service bus which is due to explode, bringing death and destruction to not only herself but to all on board. Desperate to find a way to escape not only the time loop but her tragic fate, Shi Qing inadvertently drags fellow bus passenger Xiao He Yun into the time loop as well. Together they try to find a way to alter their fate by ensuring the bus arrives safely at its destination, but attempting to do so proves anything but easy.
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3. Mobius
Chinese Drama - 2025, 16 episodes
In a specific time and space, detective Ding Qi accidentally discovered that he had the ability to reverse time and repeat the cycle five times on the same day from time to time. He used this superpower to solve many difficult cases.
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4. Retro Detective
Chinese Drama - 0000, 24 episodes
During an undercover mission, post-90s policeman Huang Wei Ping got into an accident and fell into a coma. Twenty years later when he woke up, he still retains his youthful appearance. However, when he returned to the police team, he felt out of place and often create a joke out of himself. Together with his "old" partner Li Ming Feng, he set out to investigate the mysterious case of the past.
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5. Summit of Our Youth
Chinese Drama - 2025, 23 episodes
In her past life, Gu Xue Jiao failed her college entrance exams due to her "love-obsessed" mindset. After years of struggling in the workplace, she remained a bottom-tier outsourcing employee. She even became the primary target of her "ruthless boss", Lin Zhi Hua, during a round of layoffs. When Gu Xue Jiao confronted Lin Zhi Hua, an unexpected twist sent her back in time to her third year of high school.
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6. Back to Seventeen
Chinese Drama - 2023, 25 episodes
27-year-old Zhong Xiao Xiao leads an ordinary life until, at a class reunion, she attempts to give a DV recording to her crush, Xu Yang. However, when the DV is turned on, she is sent back to the age of 17. Xu Yang, once a cold academic prodigy, remains distant. Zhong Xiao Xiao soon discovers that her time jumps erratically, only flowing normally when near Xu Yang. As she learns more about his hidden side, fate brings Xu Yang to live with her, leading to a series of ironic and unexpected events.
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7. Don't Disturb My Study
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
In 2020, at the age of 28, Nan Xiang Wan, the human resource director of a world-renowned company that on the surface looks like a powerful and self-confident person, is a patient full of anxiety that suffered from academic discrimination. High-tech psychotherapy brings Nan Xiang Wan's memories back to 10 years before, allowing her to review her senior year in high school and face Class 7 which she was incompatible with. In order to re-enter Guanghua University, Nan Xiang Wan has to solve one problem after another, such as the classmates who kept disturbing her study and the unbearable memories of high school. During this process, Nan Xiang Wan gradually becomes friends with sports student Lin Xiao Ran, and the two grow up during battles of wits and courage with each other.
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8. Legally Romance
Chinese Drama - 2022, 33 episodes
At twenty-eight, Qian Wei is stuck in a miserable job as a paralegal for her former classmate, Lu Xun, who has held a grudge against her since their student days. But after a tragic accident leaves her in a coma, Qian Wei wakes up in a dream world where she's a teenager again. In this world, she meets a very different Lu Xun, revealing a side of him she’s never seen before.
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9. Twelve Letters
Chinese Drama - 2025, 12 episodes
It follows the mysterious and emotional journey of Tang Yi Xun and his lover, Ye Hai Tang. When Hai Tang vanishes without warning, Yi Xun discovers a letter waiting in a mailbox. He writes back and realizes they are not only separated by distance but also by time. Across twelve letters spanning thirty-five years, their connection endures as they search for truth and hope, weaving together love, longing, and the challenges of fate.
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10. A Step into the Past
Chinese Drama - 2018, 40 episodes
A legendary story about a man who inadvertently travels back 2000 years in time to the Warring States Era and gets caught in the center of a power struggle between nations. During a space exploration, Xiang Shao Long encounters an incident and falls into a black hole that leads him to the Warring States Era in ancient China. It is a time three hundred years before the Qin Emperor is declared King and Xiang Shao Long finds himself all alone in the State of Zhao. In order to return to the future, he decides to do everything in his power to find Ying Zheng and help him onto the throne and his journey brings him unexpected encounters as he falls into a romance with Xing Yun.
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11. Tang Dynasty Tour
Chinese Drama - 2018, 36 episodes
A story filled with laughter and tears revolving around an archaeologist who time travels to the Tang Dynasty and gets caught in the political struggles in the palace. After getting caught in a sandstorm while on an archeological expedition, Yun Ye is shocked to find that he has ended up in the Tang Dynasty. He makes use of his knowledge from the modern day to carve out a decent life for himself and slowly climbs the ranks as a court official. He becomes friends with the Crown Prince and also encounters an old love.
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12. To Get Unstuck in Time
Hong Kong Drama - 2004, 22 episodes
The series is about police officer Ho Tin Kwong, who on a stormy day found his dad's old cell phone. Unbelievable even to him, after lightning struck, Tin Kwong discovers that the phone was able to contact his dad that lived 20 years ago before he died in an unsolved crime case back then. With the help of his father, they re-open cold cases and solve them together through the 20-year time span difference
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13. Three Kingdoms RPG
Hong Kong Drama - 2012, 25 episodes
Sun Sze Ma, a gamer from modern day and strategic chancellor Chu Kwok Leung from the past meets in the Three Kingdoms era due to a strong hurricane. Sun loves playing Three Kingdom video games and Chu had long been his idol. Depending on his enchanting and weird modern tactics, he goes for a battle of wits with his idol. During this period, he also coincidentally meets Lau Bei, Cheung Fei, Chow Yu and other classic Three Kingdoms characters. Sun is an unaccomplished young man, but after traveling back to the past, he reborns and personally experience each and every historical scene during the Three Kingdoms era. Just before he parts from history, he had an one-night stand with palace maid Yau Yau... So is it the noble and righteous gentleman or the HK slacker boy that will lead a road of victory? Three Kingdoms RPG is a serial full of surprises...
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14. The King of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Hong Kong Drama - 2003, 20 episodes
It tells the tale of how Emperor Yung Cheng and Lui Sei Leong are accidentally transported 200 years into the future into modern-day Hong Kong. Now, you can just imagine the reactions of these two Ching period characters when they wake up to find themselves in a totally unfamiliar environment. But that’s when we also get to see the differences between Yung Cheng and Lui Sei Leong. Being emperor, Yung Cheng chooses to observe his surroundings and is calm and composed, albeit a little apprehensive. Lui Sei Leong, on the other hand, having been brought up with only one thing in mind, is bent on assassinating the emperor and reviving the Ming. She doesn’t care where or what time period she’s in! This, of course, results in a series of hilarious incidents involving both of them. Yung Cheng assumes the identity of Lee Tai Ha and is taken in by his uncle and family, while Lui Sei Leong joins a martial arts performing troupe
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15. Captain of Destiny
Hong Kong Drama - 2015, 32 episodes
During a high-speed motorboat chase, local police officer Wong Tai Mui is whisked into a waterspout (water tornado) containing a time portal. Tai Mui is whisked back to 19th century Hong Kong, then under Qing rule. She encounters a Cantonese pirate, Cheng Yat, his wife, Shek Giu, and his adopted son, Cheung Po Tsai. Puzzled by her mysterious origins, the pirates remain wary and hesitant to trust Tai Mui. Armed with the knowledge of the future, she saves them from a deadly naval battle against the Qing naval fleet captained by Prince Man Ho, At Beijing's Imperial Palace, Consorts Yim and Shun manipulate Prince Man Ho to appoint them to positions of greater power. Jaded from politics and family feuding, Man Ho leaves the palace behind, along with his ambitions of claiming the crown. During the solar eclipse, yet another waterspout forms over the Canton Sea. Po Tsai helps Tai Mui access the time portal, allowing her to return to the 21st century. But in doing so, he himself falls in, joining Tai Mui on her journey back to the future
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16. A General, a Scholar and an Eunuch
Hong Kong Drama - 2017, 32 episodes
Three late-Ming Dynasty officials - Yuen Sung Woon, Joh Gwong Dau and Lee Jun Chung - accidentally travel forward four hundred years to modern-day Foshan. They meet Fong Wai Chi, who is searching for a hidden master chef. When they see a female celebrity on television who looks like the missing crown princess Kwok Sin, Fong Wai Chi deceives them by saying she can arrange for them to meet her in Hong Kong. Desperate to save the princess, the three officials sign employment contracts and become waiters and a chef at Fong Wai Chi's restaurant. It turns out that Fong Wai Chi wants to use Lee Jun Chung's superior cooking skills to save the restaurant's declining reputation. The three officials, using new names, join the restaurant and it quickly becomes famous as a "handsome men" restaurant. Other food corporations launch a money war. Luckily, Fong Wai Chi is able to survive it with the help of Yuen Sung Woon. The two eventually develop a indescribable relationship. Meanwhile, as Joh Gwong Dau continues to investigate the identity of Kwok Sin, he discovers her secret and also learns about everyone's fate from history books. When the time to return to the Ming Dynasty comes, it is hard to choose...
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17. Begin Again
Chinese Movie - 2020
Nine-year-old Zhang Yu is troubled by a difficult family situation. One day he meets a mysterious girl and the two set off for a journey... to the past, trying to prevent Zhang Yu's birth
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18. Crazy Little Things
Chinese Movie - 2018
Chen Shi Jie accidentally returns to the past. He crosses paths with his school crush Hei Xiao Zhen and becomes determined to change the past. Will he find love this time around?
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19. Over Again
Chinese Movie - 2019
The story follows two childhood friends as they go back in time to try and prevent the suicide of their other best friend.
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20. First Love Again
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
In the year 2019, eminent physicist Ye You Ning travels back to his hometown in China from abroad after many years to take care of his ailing grandfather. However, after a thunderstorm, he finds himself transported back to his school days as a student in the year 2006. He discovers that the secret of his time travel lies in the mobile phone of Xia Wen Xi, his optimistic and sunny deskmate. Ashe attempts to go back to his original timeline by communicating with Xia Wen Xi through the phone and manipulating events in the past, he gets to relive his life in various situations, goes through regrets, and gets to know the gravity of the choices he had made and the true worth of the people he met, including Xia Wen Xi and his old classmates whom he had failed to cherish.
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21. Feng Dou Ba Shizi Fei
Chinese Drama - 2022, 25 episodes
When Yang Qing woke up, she was surprised to find that she had entered the body of a peasant girl from the ancient times. The peasant girl Xiaoqing was about to force herself to marry into the prince's mansion by having a marriage contract with the young prince, Mu Jinfeng. Yang Qing, however, was reluctant to marry in a hurry and so she was about to ask Mu Jinfeng for the dissolutionof the marriage. But every time she tries to ask him, the residual subconscious from Xiaoqing repeatedly disrupts her and turns her actions into shows of love instead!
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22. Emperors and Me
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
An ordinary college student who discovers that she has the power to travel through time mistakenly brings back three emperors from their respective dynasties to the present day. In order to help her roommate Fei Yan cope with heartbreak, Luo Xi, who is in her senior year of university, runs into trouble. The debacle ends with Luo Xi and her friend Le Xue falling off a building. By a miracle, they survive and find themselves within the pages of the novel Qian Guo Ji. Qian Guo Ji is set in the continent of Xia Zhou and revolves around dynastic changes that span a thousand years. Luo Xi and Le Xue meet young emperor Qin Shang of Qi. Being pursued by Qin Shang's army, Luo Xi manages to return to the present at the most crucial moment. She brings Qin Shang back with her and realizes that Le Xue has been left inside the book
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23. Dream Back to Chang'an
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
Pang Linglong, the waiter of a hot pot restaurant, is a fan of Gongdou drama, dismissing all kinds of clichéd plots. Suddenly, one day, she time travels and entered the palace.
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24. Dance of the Phoenix
Chinese Drama - 2020, 30 episodes
In modern-day China, shy student Meng Yuan dreams of mastering Chinese traditional medicine. One day, she is transported into the body of Feng Wu, a woman in a magical, martial arts world. Feng Wu is reluctantly married to Prince Jun Lin Yuan, and they must navigate evil forces threatening their land. Meng Yuan uses her knowledge of medicine to help her new friends and survive, all while adapting to her new life and possibly learning to love her husband.
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25. Concubinage Record
Chinese Drama - 2015, 20 episodes
A 21st-century scientist goes back in time and solves crimes. He will get married and have four wives.
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26. Closer to You
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
A surgeon gets a chance to redo his senior year to make up for past regrets. Determined to help his classmate Han Fei and prevent a tragedy, he learns about her guilt over a past accident and supports her in moving forward.
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27. An Ancient Love Song
Chinese Drama - 2023, 14 episodes
Professor Shen Bu Yan accidentally travels to the ancient era of Acacia, where he becomes obsessed with finding the ancient secret of this era. With the help of the warm girl, Lu Yuan, will he be able to unravel the mystery?
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28. Ally Tian Cheng Wonderful Accident
Chinese Drama - 0000, 30 episodes
The selfish and vain fourth daughter of the Zhen family plots to fall into a body of water with the son of Duke Zhen Guo firmly in tow. But her plans go awry when a cute and dorky girl with a healthy appetite from the future falls into the water simultaneously, traveling back in time to replace her body and soul.
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29. Man Comes to Tang Dynasty
Chinese Drama - 2013, 40 episodes
A young man is accidentally transported back to the Tang Dynasty and finds himself surrounded by beautiful women of the era. Taking advantage of the situation, the young man begins to “invent” perfume, the game of soccer, and other futuristic contraptions that make him very popular in his new surroundings. Will he decide that living in the past is better than his present life? “Man Comes to Tang Dynasty” is the first Chinese historical Web drama series.
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30. Love Through a Millennium
Chinese Drama - 2015, 24 episodes
Based off the popular Korean drama Queen In Hyun's Man, this Chinese version tells the same story of a love that happens between two people from different eras. Imperial scholar-official, Gong Ming accidently time-travels two thousand years into the present where he meets actress Lin Xiang Xiang. Their story is one of love, fate, and commitment
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31. Love Potion
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Ye Yan, a female doctor of modern medicine, returned to ancient times and became Ye Yan, the daughter of the general's mansion. After waking up, Ye Yan meets the powerful fiancé - King Yu. Ye Yan found out that King Yu was poisoned; the two started the daily mode of you detoxify me and I will support you.
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32. Love Is an Accident
Chinese Drama - 2023, 32 episodes
Upon travelling to ancient times, Li Chu Yue has a scrape with death after being mistaken for an assassin by An Jing Zhao, the young master of Yunwei Villa. She manages to keep her life through sheer instinct, but it also means that she has no choice but to cooperate with An Jing Zhao in a ploy to mislead others into thinking they are husband and wife.
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33. Love & the Emperor
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
It tells the story of an employee of a gaming company who transported back in time via a video game, and becomes an ugly maid of a palace. There, she meets the Emperor and began a funny and comedic love story with him.
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34. Legend of Ace
Chinese Drama - 2016, 31 episodes
The story follows 21st-century man Lin Wan Rong who is touring around Mount Tai when he accidentally falls into a dark space, transferring him to a parallel world, existing at the same time as the Song dynasty. In this world, many historical facts are in contrary to what is written in historical books. For instance, Xiang Yu defeated Liu Ban at the Battle of Gaixia and never committed suicide, as a result. While he’s described as smart and generous, he also enjoys joking and playing around as much as the next person. Using his economics wits, modern knowledge, and a whole layer of thick skin, he’s able to rise to become a lord of his own. However, with money and power, he inadvertently gets entangled in a power struggle between the royal members and somehow finds himself leading a troop to war.
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35. Go Princess, Go!
Chinese Drama - 2015, 35 episodes
While enjoying an outdoor party, playboy Zhang Peng finds himself needing a quick escape from an approaching ex-girlfriend. He makes a mad dash for the swimming pool, only to have the lady in question accidentally plunge in herself. While attempting to resurface, Peng suffers one well-placed stiletto-heeled kick to the head. Upon awakening, with memories intact, he finds himself having gone back a thousand years in time. But this is the least of his worries, as he realizes he has transformed into the current dynasty’s crown princess, the lovely Zhang Peng Peng. Hilarity ensues as he tries to find a balance between opposing desires: To get back to his own time or to seduce all the women of the palace, now made seemingly achievable with the help of his new female persona.
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36. The Shoufu Can Read Mind
Chinese Drama - 2023, 20 episodes
The food blogger Shen Zhi Huan traversed into the body of Shen Zhi Huan, the nominal wife of Xu Yan Qing, the Senior Grand Secretary of Sui Dynasty. As she was aware that this notorious official would not end well, she tried to get divorce. Little did she know that he gained the ability to hear her minds so that he knew her every scheme and became interested in her.
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37. Waiting for You in the Future
Chinese Drama - 2019, 36 episodes
A middle-aged man time travels to the past to become a teacher to his 17-year-old classmates. Hao Hui Gui is a 36-year-old high school teacher who is still single. During a gathering, he gets into a huge disagreement with everyone present and even gets into a fistfight with his best friend. Upon returning home, he mindlessly flips through his personal diary from 20 years ago and starts to recall many memories fromthe past. He falls asleep eventually and meets with his younger self in his dreams.
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38. Wonderful Fate
Chinese Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
19-year-old Li Fu Zhu, who loves reading comic books and has a poor academic performance, accidentally enters the Yunlai Kingdom, a fictional place in the comic she is reading. In Yunlai, she is thought to be the heavenly fairy that falls from the sky by mistake. Therefore, she is regarded as the hope to save Yunlai and is treated on an equal basis with the young Emperor Yun Yi. With her little knowledge, Li Fu Zhu tries to help make the country rich and powerful but is involved in the power struggle between corrupt officials. Upon meeting the cold Emperor Yun Yi, a fantastic journey of shared laughs and love begins.
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39. Your Laugh Is Very Alluring
Chinese Drama - 2021, 30 episodes
A tired modern-day doctor sneezes and finds herself back in time to the ancient Kingdom of Xiyue. She is now living as the prime minister’s daughter Gu Ming Yan and wife of the cold-hearted Second Prince, Duan Cheng Xuan. She learns he agreed to the marriage because Gu Ming Yan's blood can cure Duan Cheng Xuan's childhood friend from her illness. While not starting off seeing eye to eye, they gradually become attracted to each other. Gu Ming Yan becomes hesitant to accept her feelings knowing one day she may return back to her time.
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40. My Heroic Husband
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
A modern businessman travels back to ancient times; he lands in the body of a man about to be married as a matrilocal husband into a family of cloth merchants. He then begins incorporating modern methods and ideals to help his friends and battle corrupt local businesses. Ultimately he becomes involved in the affairs of the country.
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41. Naughty Princess
Chinese Drama - 2015, 40 episodes
Yin Qin Rou is a 21st century woman who gets thrown into the past and lands on a prince (literally). Suspicious of her origins, the prince, Xie Yan Qi, keeps her captive. Slowly, her 21 century attitude and disregard for authority changes him and he begins to fall in love with her. Meanwhile, there is turmoil in the royal family. The second prince assassinated his older brother to be next in line for the throne. All that's left in his way is Yan Qi, the third prince. Can Qin Rou protect him? And what if Qin Rou isn't the only time traveler.
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42. Oh! My Emperor
Chinese Drama - 2018, 21 episodes
Luo Fei Fei, a 21st-century doctor, was unexpectedly transported to the mysterious ancient nation of Huang Dao, the kingdom of the Zodiac. By chance, it happened to be the monarch rotation system among the twelve constellations that occurs every thousand years within that nation to prevent disagreement among the other stars. The current emperor, Bei Tang Yi, the lord of the Capricorn constellation, is in line to ascend the throne. In the Beitang family, there is Bei Tang Tang, the lord of the Pisces constellation, and Bei Tang Mo Ran, the lord of the Aquarius constellation, who are both naturally in the spotlight, too.
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43. Open The Door
Chinese Drama - 0000, 12 episodes
Eldest brother Xiong Guan Xi and his younger siblings, Song Qiu Bo and Ai Feng Wu, have been together for seven years. One evening they black out after a rowdy bar brawl, only to wake up as their younger university selves.
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44. Operation Love
Chinese Drama - 2017, 32 episodes
Operation Love” tells the story of a man who travels back in time to change his fate with his first love who is in the present about to marry another man.
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45. Parallel Love
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
Lin Miao, a successful events manager from the year 2020, accidentally time travels back to 2010. She receives a mission revealing that if she wants to return to the future, she must help Jiao Yang, who is the Vice President of Hong Yu, become the president of the company within 3 months. If she fails, she will disappear forever. In the process, there accumulates a sweet, romantic love story of Jiao Yang and Lin Miao.












































