9 Romantic Chinese TV Shows That Will Make You Swoon
Everybody likes a good romantic story, whether it’s classic rom-coms that we know and love or heartwarming love stories in foreign languages that have gotten so popular over the past few years.
After Korean romantic dramas, you need to give Chinese TV shows a chance. The recently released C-drama Hidden Love is making fans open their eyes to a whole new world of romance and exciting new stories. So we figured why not dive deep into some of the most beloved C-dramas of all time and list out the ones that are guaranteed to leave you swooning?
Without further ado, take a look at our list of some of the best romantic Chinese TV shows that you can add to your watchlist now…
Best Romantic Chinese TV Shows
Hidden Love
Hidden Love (2023)
This heartwarming drama follows Sang Zhi who falls in love with her older brother’s friend Duan Jia Xu when they were all children. Over the years, they all drift apart but Sang Zhi and Jia Xu reunite when she joins the same university as him. Soon they began to grow closer, but is that the beginning of their love story? Watch it to find out!
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A Love So Beautiful
A Love So Beautiful (2017)
This one is a quintessential ‘opposites attract’ love story that follows bright and cheerful Chen Xiaoxi and her friend Jiang Chen, who is cold and indifferent to most people, as they grow up and realise their feelings for each other. It’s adapted from a popular Chinese novel by Zhao Qianqian.
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Love 020
Love 020 (2016)
Based on the eponymous novel by Gu Man, this drama is about two students who meet and fall in love with each other’s video game identities. Aspiring game developer university student Bei Wei Wei and popular jock Xiao Nei meet online while playing a video game and slowly fall in love without realising each other’s true identities.
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Accidentally In Love
Accidentally In Love (2018)
This enemy-to-lover story is about heiress Chen Qing Wing who runs away from an unwanted marriage arranged by her grandfather. She uses a variety of disguises and names to hide herself from his men and runs into a popular singer while using one of the fake identities. What follows is a story of twists, hilarious mishaps and, ultimately, love.
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The Romance of Tiger and Rose
The Romance of Tiger and Rose (2020)
This C-drama became popular because of the unique storyline and the chemistry of the leads. It follows an exhausted screenwriter who falls asleep one day and wakes up as one of her characters in the drama she’s writing. The biggest hitch? She’s now the evil third princess who is supposed to die off early. Now it’s up to her to make the hero fall in love with her and save herself!
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Unexpected
Unexpected (2018)
Another drama where the writer of a story gets pulled into their own creation, this one follows a manga artist who wakes up in his own comic universe. Now he is forced to complete missions to save the evil second female lead and turn her into a better person in order to get back to his real life again.
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Nice To Meet You
Nice To Meet You (2019)
If you’re a fan of the genre, then the story is something you’ve seen a million times before but that doesn’t mean this one won’t be an instant favourite. It follows Gao, an aspiring jewellery designer, who meets Yu Zhi, heir to a giant jewellery company that’s on a decline. The two clash heads as Yu Zhi believes that Western ideas are the only way they can save the company while Gao is a firm supporter of traditional Chinese jewellery-making crafts.
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Our Glamorous Time
Our Glamorous Time (2018)
Former military officer Li Zhi Cheng returns to civilian life to save his family business from bankruptcy. Not everyone is happy with his return and many think that he doesn’t deserve the position, especially since he doesn’t have any business experience. He meets his assistant Lin Qian, a bright and optimistic worker with great business acumen, and together they work towards saving the business and proving his naysayers wrong.
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My Amazing Boyfriend
My Amazing Boyfriend (2016)
Tian Jing Zhi, a B-list actress trying to make it big, and Xue Ling Qiao, a 500-year-old superhuman, become a part of each other’s lives when the actress accidentally wakes him up from his deep, hundreds-year-old slumber.
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