💕 Our Favorites: Best of Zero to 100k Members💕Part 1
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From the early days in December 2024 to 100,000 members — we’ve watched, recommended, discussed, obsessed over and occasionally ranted about many dramas.
For this special My Favorite, we’re bringing together Mods, Members & OGs who have been part of the journey.
„Pick the dramas that became your favorites along the way“ - this was the ask. And we all tried - and we’re grateful that our algorithms and preferences are different plus it’s always, always too little time, too many dramas to watch. Not even all those recommended by people you exactly know that their taste is great 🤷🏻♀️
A special shoutout to u/emberzmars who started this Wednesday series. Thank you - you’re an OG and you left many traces on this sub!
TL;DR: 17 Dramas we recommend
1937, Do you copy
After the Breakup, Dr. Chen Cried
Bound to the God (2025)
Bright Moon of Spring Night
Cage In The Palm
Captive Love from the Mob Boss
Design Forged Time
Desires
Failure
Half-Mature Husband
Mei Jun
Moonlight Love
Pride and Preference
Secret Color Criticality/ Depth of Love
Sugar Mummy and her Kept Man
The Dark Side of The Sun
What A Good Girl
Young Marshal, Marry Me
Check the comments on their MdL listing for more information about where to watch.
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u/keziia
I’m about a year into my short drama journey. Those damn TikToks got me. Now I have almost 2TBs of dramas on my hard drive and not enough time in the day to ever finish them all. The definition of greed. Lately, I’ve been watching more modern than costume, but costume dramas will always be my #1.
1. Bewitching The Sovereign | 魅君 | Mei Jun
Starring: Zhou Ling Feng & Wang Haimin
Platform: YouTube — 【完結💖】前世被親妹妹挑撥，落得被勒死的下場。重生後她緊握帝王寵愛，更透過夢境讀懂帝王真心，終得雙向奔赴 *#短劇#最火短劇#甜都市#總裁#復仇#打臉#渣#*甜寵
Why?
The dynamics in this one are what really make it one of my faves. The chemistry is phenomenal. This is a drama that shows believable intimacy. They act like a couple who are in love and attracted to each other should behave. It also has a light BDSM undercurrent as their dynamics are essentially a dom and a sub.
Wang Haimin is perfect in the role of a favored noble consort. She is lovable, sexy, arrogant, and scheming. The problem is that she’s not very smart and trusts the wrong person. She has a winning hand in her first life and still manages to squander everything. I really enjoy stories where the characters aren’t super geniuses and have to work within the limits of average intelligence. In her second life, she slowly feels out the bounds of her relationship with the emperor and discovers truths she didn’t realize. She’s also very clear on harem dynamics, which clouded her eyes in her first life, but are used to her advantage in her second.
Meanwhile, ML is domineering and moves with the surety of someone who is used to having his orders followed immediately. He gives a command and expects it to be followed. He truly loves and indulges FL and she gets away with more than she realizes as a result. This is probably the most convincing younger emperor I’ve seen. He nails the bearing and confidence.
➡️ “And this maiden she lived with no other thought/Than to love and be loved by me”
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
+1 u/Melodic_Paper321 — This is my favorite drama on the list! Love the mutual obsession! They were crazy about each other both physically and emotionally. Agree with the BDSM piece.
2. What A Good Girl | 好一个乖乖女
Starring: Ke Chun & Yu Yin
Platform: iQIYI
Why?
The emotional journey in this one is gripping. This drama does such a good job of slowly leading you through different emotions and realizations. This was the first time I’d seen certain topics explored in a short drama in a way that wasn’t just used for shock value.
At first you think FL’s character carries this drama. Outwardly she’s the “perfect woman”. Demure, refined, and talented in the arts. Inwardly, she is cunning and ruthless and will stop at nothing to get her freedom from an abusive household. She schemes against everyone, including the ML. Her characterization is more realistic than many of these short dramas. Her thought processes and actions mirror her upbringing so well. She’s learned to read everyone around her and manipulate their feelings like a chessboard.
As the story progresses you realize ML has his own depths and gives dimension to FL. ML is a committed, passionate, and loyal man who heads the criminal branch of his family. The chemistry between them is electric. You believe and feel it. Only a devoted man like that could ever move someone as traumatized as FL. The confrontation when they both lay everything on the table? The tension! Honestly, one of the most striking scenes for me was when ML cried for her. There were, in fact, several times that I cried along with ML and I’m not a crier at all. You really feel all of the emotions with this one because they take their time building the story. You need every piece. It’s just really well thought out, well written, and well acted.
➡️ “Those who betray sincere hearts will swallow a thousand needles”
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 — No one can think I wouldn’t agree. I’m a fan. Ke Chun 💕
u/anAncientCrone
**: +**1 — this was my entry into verticals; this guy is at a wedding - in a Bathrobe??? I’m in
u/aniyomeiyou: +1 - Who wouldn’t want a rock that looks like Ke Chun as they wreak havoc on their tormentors? Yum.
3. Young Marshal, Marry Me | 少帥，嫁給我
Starring: Wang Huilong & Zhu Jingyao
Platform: YouTube — Reborn after betrayal, I chose the HATED Villain CEO. Unexpectedly, he’s loved me for YEARS!
Why?
I haven't watched many republican era dramas, but this one is fantastic! The story is really fresh and packs a punch. It takes so many twists and turns, there’s not a single boring moment. This one actually genuinely has good writing and storytelling. I thought it was going to be another cute lil changing the villain’s fate story, but things got wild. And let me tell you, 2nd FL was acting doooooooooooooown in the final act. The side characters are also all pretty robust and fleshed out. I felt like everyone acted quite naturally as well. I was fully immersed. Longer review here.
➡️ Even a cornered rabbit will bite
Spice 🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/ThatJaneDoe69: +1 — Just watched this one recently. It was so good and unexpected. I loved Wang Huilong. The FL tried to do everything right but still couldn’t fix everything. The ending was cute. It was so entertaining. Plus Republican era. Cannot go wrong with this one.
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u/anAncientCrone
I discovered this subreddit about 18 months ago, soon after I started watching verticals. I now have a 190-page Google doc filled with shows I have watched and shows I want to watch, with detailed notes. So yes, I’m addicted, but also picky. For me, a drama has to have excellent acting and a strong script: characters that behave consistently and understandably if not logically, heroines with a spine, no tears for tears’ sake, and a happy ending.
4. A Design Forged Time | 掌心窥爱
Starring: Liu Xiao Xu and Lan Lan
Platform: 🍎 Hongguo
Why?
This drama hits all of the sweet spots: Excellent acting, especially from the leads. A script that bothers to explore personality and show character growth, so you know the ‘why’ they fall in love, as well as the ‘how’. Believable secondary characters and conflicts. Even though there are a few tropes (childhood connections, misunderstood rescues, the cheaterpants ex-fiancé), they feel real. Cinematography that helps tell the story, settings and costumes that make sense and matter.
➡️ A quiet but deeply compelling love story, an example of how artistic the vertical format can be.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
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5. Moonlight Love | 月染爱人 | Yue Ran Ai Ren
Starring
Wang Yi Lei & Liu Nian
Why?
Moonlight Love has dark, dangerous Wang Yi Lei and a bold and determined heroine in lush settings (the hero’s house is Neuschwanstein Castle, lol) and costumes to die for (satins, velvets, shades of every era from Victorian to modern) in a reborn gothic-styled plot with Beauty and the Beast overtones. The ML is all-in for the FL, and once she realizes it - in her second life - she is all-in for him, too. This is one of those dramas where you just immerse yourself in its world and let it take you, and having a FL who knows what she wants and isn’t going to be shy about it is very refreshing.
➡️ Wang Yi Lei meets Beauty and the Beast; queue up the waltz!
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 One of the first dramas in 2025 in high quality, costumes and locations are to die for. The story is part reborn, part fairy tale and a tormented WYL in chains.
u/aniyomeiyou: +1 - That was one of the first reborn revenge verticals I have seen, and I fell in love with the execution.
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6. Pride and Preference | 傲慢与偏爱 | Ao Man Yu Pian Ai
Starring
Zhang Ji Jun and Meng Na
Why?
A gorgeous secret agent, dressed in a purple satin dress and white fur coat, runs through a train followed by pursuers with guns. She bursts into a private train car where a young man, pale and sickly, sits in a chair. She tells him she just needs a place to hide. She sits in his lap, puts a knife to his throat, but promises him he won’t die. But it hurts, he whispers. She kisses his throat, and he hears angels singing. In the first minute, we have the entire set-up with our dark and dangerous older spy and rich young man, dying of cancer, who is totally in her thrall.
Zhang Ji Jun does an amazing job as a young man weak with terminal cancer but ready to come back from near death and do battle for the sake of his love. Meng Na slowly reveals to him the vulnerabilities behind her powerful, sophisticated facade and they become a couple tightly bound to one another. It’s flaming hot (TT rec!, top MDL rating), slickly produced, well-scripted and acted.
➡️ Meng Na at her most gorgeous and dangerous in a Jie-Jie to end all Jie-Jies.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 Green Tea in perfect temperature, a bathtub scene for the ages and two actors in best form .
u/Alone-Requirement945 +1 Lovely drama, the chemistry between ZJJ and Meng Na is off the charts. He manages to be both unnervingly volatile and vulnerable at the same time. Awesome acting by the leads.
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u/ThatJaneDoe69
Polyamorous, plus-size gal who loves Republican-era and modern-era CShorts. I started in 2024 with reading Chinese novels online (in English because I’m American, lol) advertised through Instagram. Then that changed toward the end of 2025 to CShorts and I’ve been obsessed ever since. It helps that almost every one of the cast is incredibly attractive.
7. 1937, Do You Copy? / Please Answer, 1937 / Echoes of ‘37 | 请回答****1937 | Qing Hui Da 1937
Starring: Zuo Ming (ML) & Li Ruoqi (FL)
Platform: 🍎 Hongguo • iQIYI
Why?
A girl drops her cell phone while in a park and it falls through a hole in the space-time continuum into 1937 right before an attack in the area by the Japanese. She is trying to solve a mystery of what happened to her grandfather in that same time frame of 1937. It falls into the hands of a wealthy heir who plays with the cell phone and is able to communicate with the FL. It is EMOTIONAL. I was sobbing by the end. It did make me look into more of the history of what China was going through during this time period. This was also my introduction to Republican-era dramas and I fell in love.
➡️ A hole in the space-time continuum brings people together through a lost cell phone but is devastating.
Spice 🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😂😂/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
8. Bound to the God / Along with the Gods | 與神同行 | Yu Shen Tong Xing
Starring: Li Boyan (ML) & Sun Qianxun (FL)
Why?
A god is tricked by the grandma in a family to protect the FL. Things happen and he ends up bound to her while they figure out releasing him. He keeps having her back and protecting her reluctantly. Of course there’s the romantic aspect. But this is an unexpected lovers-through-time story with a sad, but then lovely and sweet ending. This drama introduced me to that trope. And now I’m hooked. And crave more.
➡️ Lovers across time told in a beautiful and heartbreaking way with incredibly beautiful leads.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
9. Half-Mature Husband / Semi-Familiar Husband | 半熟老公 | Ban Shu Lao Gong
I was only going to do two, but then I watched this and LORDY *fans self*.
Starring: Wang Kaimu (ML) & Xu Zhenzhen (FL)
Platform: 🍎 Hongguo
Why?
What starts as a standard aloof and cold CEO arranged marriage setup where he does everything robotically. He tells her that he refuses to fall in love due to trauma. And she refuses to fall in love because she won’t fall for someone who refuses to love her (relatable, queen). She rants to her friend about how he is boring in bed. And then complains to a coworker, pretending not to know him, how he is probably boring. BUT it takes a turn because he is NOT boring and turns so incredibly steamy. At one point (1 hour 40 minutes in), I literally put my hand over my mouth and gasped. 🫢 Incredible. I was messaging people about it and sending everyone to horny jail. Also lots of shirtless WKM. In the shower. And strategically placed candles.
➡️ Steamy in the best possible way and not awkward like spicy scenes can get.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*/5 (1 hour 40 minutes in when he gets on* his knees. Whew.)
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 — Oh yes. One of the absolute best dramas of all and of the outstanding year 2025.
u/Melodic_Paper: +1 — One of the best on this list! I love how their relationship blossomed both physically and emotionally as they got to know each other better.
u/legolas_frodo : +1 My favourite from last year. The spice was off the charts. Finally some believable romance from husband and wife.
u/anAncientCrone +1 What they said, with the cherry on top of actual adult behavior
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u/legolas frodo
I have been watching C-short dramas since early 2025. I randomly landed on the Reddit page and got into this wonderful world with so many helpful folks.
Love LXX’s smile, WHZ’s yearning eyes, ZDD’s yandere love and Liang Siwei’s green tea.
10. Captive Love from the Mob Boss | 闪婚后我成了大佬的掌中之物 | 2024
Starring: Ma Xiao Yu & Zhang Chu Xuan
Platform: YouTube
Why?
The whole and sole reason I got into C-Short dramas. I used to read mafia romance novels so maybe this was the next gateway.
ML is a mafia boss running away after being ambushed. He runs into FL who is a nurse who saves his life. It is love at first sight for ML.
As he is the richest man in the town, No is not a word he has heard, and he wrongly believes that she would be thrilled to be his wife. She is also the daughter of a policeman and sister to a fallen policeman. She has a fiancé. This does not stop our ML. He throws money, power and everything to make her fall in love but she resists. She finally gives in to save her father, and the next part is how she actually falls in love with the ML. The story is bananas, but what sells it is the chemistry. You are willing to overlook all the wrong things the ML does and root for him.
➡️ This is the OG C-Short drama that brought many of us to this subreddit. That should tell you enough about it. Watch it. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 — Ma Xiaoyu delivered the ultimate mob boss. Red flags, I miss them.
u/aniyomeiyou: +1 - I’m pretty sure this is the first vertical that popped up all over my sm accounts made me hunt it down; it was that alluring!
11. Desires | 欲念疯长 | 2025
Starring: Zhao Zhen Dong & Zhang Shan
Why?
Another yandere drama which I didn’t know I liked as a genre till I watched this drama. The ML and FL are in a relationship. One day, the FL drugs him and escapes. She lies to him that she killed their child. We later find out she ran away and raised her child alone. ML has been searching for her since then and is obsessed with getting her back.
What sold it to me was that the FL had a spine. She tried to fight back. ML also gradually changed over time and mellowed. Many misunderstandings are cleared as the story progresses. The spice in this drama is SOOO good. How they reconcile and work on their relationship makes up the rest of the story. Shoutout to the supporting characters like the driver and the child actor.
➡️ Watch it for ZZD and Zhang Shan.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/5
u/silver-bus5724: +1 — ZZD in his famous gun to the head pose. That’s all I can say. Premium 🚩& 🔥
u/aniyomeiyou: +1 - My goodness, I still get the urge to rewatch red flag ZZD every time the title’s mentioned. Such a masterpiece.
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u/Alone-Requirement945
Slightly unhinged hanzi-reading, crumpet-eating, heavy metal-loving, occasional edit-making, riff-writing fansubber with a heart of gold and mind of filth. I’ve been a member of this amazing community for around 9 months, where my antics are tolerated and often unwisely encouraged. I like an angsty male lead with issues/trauma. Stick a useless sexy mask on him and I’m there so damn fast. I’m also a fan of a good comedy; if there’s a decent amount of smut in it, all the better.
12. Cage in the Palm | 掌心牢笼 | Zhǎng Xīn Láo Lóng
Starring: Li Youlin & Li Xinyi
Platform: 🍎 Hongguo
Why?
A reborn wealthy young woman, Su Beizhi, (Li Xinyi) is assigned by her system to make the self-conscious, yet emotionally intense Fu Lu (Li Youlin) fall in love with and marry her, at which point she will be rewarded with a normal life span.
This task is complicated by the fact that Fu Lu was abducted as a child by human traffickers and held captive and abused until he was nineteen years old. As a result of his ordeal, he has been left with a crippled leg — due to it being broken as a punishment by his kidnapper — and a serious case of PTSD, the severity of which Beizhi does not comprehend until later on in their relationship. But her only option is to adapt and deal with it.
I have said before on here that this will probably always be my favourite drama, and the main reason for that is Li Youlin’s powerful and excellent performance as Fu Lu, one of the most heartwrenching I have ever seen in any medium. He brings angst, self-loathing, and genuine pathos to his very broken character. Holy moly, can that man cry.
Whenever there’s an opportunity for me to recommend this drama, you can pretty much guarantee I’m going to be all over that thread like a cheap suit singing Cage In The Palm and Li Youlin’s praises. QED.
➡️ A powerful and moving story about past trauma and healing, featuring characters with true depth and outstanding acting.
Spice 🔥🔥2/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹5/5
Fun 😆😆2/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿5/5
u/silver-bus5724 +1 a powerful performance!
13. Failure | 闪婚后夫人每天都在线打脸 | Shan Hun Hou Fu Ren Mei Tian Du Zai Xian Da Lian
Starring: Li Boyan & Sun Qianxun
Platform: Stardust TV • YouTube — 【FULL】💔 Healing Fairy Was Forced to Marry With A Dying Man—ENDING!
Why?
Lu Shenyan (the gorgeous Li Boyi) is a wealthy CEO who has not only been paralysed in a car accident, but is also suffering from a mysterious condition which means he will die in two years if he doesn’t get more of the “secret medicine” from the elusive Infinite Divine Physician. His grandmother is desperate for him to marry, so much so that she has resorted to uploading daily videos of herself rapping to Douyin in an effort to find him a wife.
Through a series of events, he meets Mu Xiaoning (Sun Qianxun), a healing fairy who just so happens to have come down the mountain. She agrees to marry Shenyan in her sister's place, and this is when the real fun starts.
I don’t think any drama has made me laugh as much as this. You have aphrodisiac-doping, bedroom-door eavesdropping elders, the hilariously blunt and tactless Xiaoning smashing Shenyan’s legs with a massive hammer just to check whether or not he can feel it, exaggerated sprinkler-style blood-spitting, a fantastically acted body-swap scene, an overly passionate jade-obsessed auctioneer, an oral sex fake-out scene involving a thermos flask and naughty camera angle and more. It’s perfect if you just want to switch off your brain and laugh for a few hours. And we all need that sometimes, right?
Both leads are amazing, and while Li Boyan is more than just a pretty face, Sun Qianxun is the star here. She’s such a beautiful and talented comedy actress.
➡️ If you enjoy your comedy with some nice eye-candy and a heavy dose of ridiculousness and smutty innuendo, I cannot recommend this highly enough.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥3/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹4/5
Fun 😆😆😆😆😆5/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿3/5
u/ThatJaneDoe69: +1 — This one was so entertaining and funny. I enjoyed it.
14. The Dark Side of the Sun | 太阳的背面 | Tai Yang De Bei Mian
Starring: Shen Haonan & Zhai Yiying
Platform: iQIYI
Why?
Xiao Muchen (Shen Haonan) is a patient in a psychiatric hospital and when we meet him, he is lying to the doctors assessing him, stating firmly that he cannot see nor hear the woman who is at his side whispering in his ear. Even she’s calling him a liar. The woman is Jin Chaoxi (Zhai Yiying), or more accurately, Muchen’s hallucination of her.
But Jin Chaoxi really did exist once. Four years ago, she was Muchen’s fiancée and the two were very much in love. But their future together was cruelly thwarted by the senseless brutal murder of Chaoxi. He actually encounters the murderers as they are leaving the scene and laughing, just before finding poor Chaoxi’s dead body.
Muchen has been hospitalised ever since that day, but now he wants out and manages to convince the doctors to discharge him. And what do unhinged, grief-stricken protagonists do when they’ve been unjustly robbed of the one they love the most? Why, they seek revenge, of course. And with the spectre of Chaoxi encouraging Muchen’s every move, that’s where the story really starts.
Both leads are excellent. Zhai Yiying is delightfully mischievous as the vengeful “ghost” of Chaoxi, but also very tender when she is comforting Muchen. Since she is a product of his mind, she obviously behaves how he wants her to at any given time. But Shen Haonan steals the show. He gives such a compelling performance as the tragic Muchen, breaking your heart one minute and sending chills down your spine the next.
➡️ A fantastic, unpredictable thriller with an extremely sympathetic — if disturbing and disturbed — main character.
Spice 🔥🔥2/5
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹4/5
Fun 😆😆😆3/5
Engaging 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿5/5
u/ThatJaneDoe69: +1 — This one was devastating for the background story and SHN played the role perfectly.
u/Joel0802: +1 — This is an amazing drama. Shen Hao Nan was so good in this complex character. It is such a heartbreaking plot though.
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u/Silver-Bus5724
My first steps on here were when the sub was in a four-digit members zone. Maybe six weeks old? January 2025? And I was totally new to verticals. They were raw and new (to me) — and proof that there were people out there who had the audacity to show a Chinese romance with more than a hug or a fish kiss (after 40 episodes at 45 minutes). Since then, I’ve learned searching and I’m able to identify the one or other actor. Perfect? I’m not. But I’m a fan.
15. Sugar Mommy and Her Kept Man | 金屋藏骄
Starring: Wu Tian Hao & Deng Ling Shu
Why?
A great jiejie romance — witty, smart and emotionally satisfying. She’s a successful CEO who approaches a gorgeous broke student and offers him a job as her sugar baby. He accepts with refreshing delight — and takes his new duties very seriously. 😂🔥
What makes this special isn’t just the comedy and chemistry, though. She’s one of my favorite FLs this year: intelligent, successful, generous and warm-hearted, but cautious and insecure when it comes to love. And he has the emotional stability and sky-high EQ to see straight through her defenses.
His openness, affection and devotion slowly make her feel safe enough to understand that what they have isn’t an arrangement anymore. It’s love.
➡️ Funny. Irreverent. Fantastic green tea didi teaches the cold CEO how to love. 🫠🫠🫠
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Entertainment / Funny 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
u/ThatJaneDoe69 - +1- I love this genre of sugar momma and obsessive in love puppy sugar baby. It was so much fun
u/anAncientCrone +1 I really loved how this drama turns gender tropes on their ear - she’s the cold CEO who does not need or understand romance and relationships and he’s the one who heals her with love and devotion.
u/keziia +.5 I don't remember much about this drama, but I remember that I liked it
16. After the Breakup, Dr. Cheng Cried Buckets Full of Tears | 分手后，程医生哭出鼻涕泡
Starring: Wang Hao Zhen & Lu Lulu
Why?
Wang Hao Zhen as a charming doctor who starts out cute, playful, sexy and very determined to get the nurse he had an ONS with — and then gradually reveals that underneath the white coat is basically a mob boss. 😂
This one surprised me. The first half is flirting, banter, steam and a couple who are credibly passionate. Then he screws up badly, she dumps him — and his charming mask starts slipping.
He’s strong-willed, manipulative, ruthless when necessary and absolutely incapable of accepting that she’s gone. But she is equally strong and refuses to simply forgive him because he wants her back.
That’s why it works: I completely understood why she left him, while the drama also managed to make me believe that eventually forgiving him could be a credible choice.
➡️ And WHZ? Puppy eyes, flowers, green-tea skills, fists, persuasion and morally grey determination. He’s fantastic.
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹
Entertainment 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
u/legolas_frodo : +1 .eyes I remember recommending this in my write up on green tea men. The flip in WHZ personality was so good to watch.Lu Lulu also had a spine. She did not give in easily. It is a mature and believable romance.
17. Secret Color Criticality | 秘色临界
Starring: Cao Tian Kai & Liu Xi Yu
Why?
She learns she has only one to three months to live — so naturally she decides that seducing her arrogant, ridiculously attractive CEO should be on the bucket list. Excellent decision. 😂
I loved that the FL is the one who confidently goes after what she wants. She’s smart, emotionally strong, naughty when she feels like it and absolutely not a meek secretary. And CTK gives us something equally welcome: a handsome CEO who is protective, caring, thoroughly love-brained — and refreshingly low on toxicity.
➡️The chemistry between Cao Tian Kai and Liu Xi Yu is excellent, the physical affection feels natural, and underneath all the steam there’s a genuinely sweet romance.
Also: best abs ever. I said what I said. Bring your 💄
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥* 🔥/5 take care, watch the uncensored v*ersion please
Sweet 🌹🌹🌹 /5
Entertaining 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
u/ThatJaneDoe69 - +1 - all i can say is 59. This one was so good and entertaining. I loved everything about it
u/anAncientCrone
+1 — another early watch for me that made me a huge fan of the genre! On this subreddit I think the meaning of life is not 42, but 59.
u/legolas_frodo - +1 -I was hooked from the 59 . I loved both their chemistry and how supportive the ML is. and CTK’s abs of course.
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