there are different genres in cdramas you can try historicals or nonidol modern setting dramas
oh and hmm for historicals I suggest a dream of splendor, story of minglan, love like the galaxy, the blood of youth (wuxia), mysterious lotus casebook (wuxia), the untamed (xianxia), word of honor (wuxia)
there are different genres in cdramas you can try historicals or nonidol modern setting dramas
also, do you need recs for historicals? I know of some that arent the sweet type and/or idol drama
(and I say for modern setting idol dramas its more of a 55% as there's still a lot of more serious ones esp ones that air on a cctv channel) (and within modern setting ones there's are genres for them too: like investigation, triller/action etc for example)
there are different genres in cdramas you can try historicals or nonidol modern setting dramas
and you ask around for specific recs for nonidol dramas there's reset, under the skin, nothing but thirty, meet yourself, fake it till you make it, road home for example
also keep in mind that if a drama is part of iqiyi's love on/sweet on collection or youku's equivalent of it its probably very likely its an idol drama and dramas that have younger actors for leads
I haven't watched it but reading the story here REALLY sounds like TSL. Are they similar?
only the switching of the brides (along with the switching means they ended up w/ the right person) is the same/or similar other than that it's different esp. that it is a regular historical and not a xianxia (it's more closer to the source material and the old version of this drama I suppose)
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a dream of splendor, story of minglan, love like the galaxy, the blood of youth (wuxia), mysterious lotus casebook (wuxia), the untamed (xianxia), word of honor (wuxia)
I know of some that arent the sweet type and/or idol drama
(and I say for modern setting idol dramas its more of a 55% as there's still a lot of more serious ones esp ones that air on a cctv channel)
(and within modern setting ones there's are genres for them too: like investigation, triller/action etc for example)
there's reset, under the skin, nothing but thirty, meet yourself, fake it till you make it, road home for example
also keep in mind that if a drama is part of iqiyi's love on/sweet on collection or youku's equivalent of it its probably very likely its an idol drama
and dramas that have younger actors for leads
other than that it's different esp. that it is a regular historical and not a xianxia (it's more closer to the source material and the old version of this drama I suppose)