Tired of Korean Dramas? Switch to Chinese: Top 7 Cool Ones (They Even Have Their Own Sherlock)

The most popular stereotype about Korean TV series is that they can only film melodramas well. If you believe this too, but don’t know where to focus your attention, make it easy on yourself. We begin our journey to serial China.

In recent years, the Celestial Empire has presented the viewer with a whole series of projects, not much less than American serial shows. Just look at ‘Fox Hunt’ with clear vibes from the British ‘Sherlock’ or the funny historical detective story ‘The Ming Dynasty under a Microscope’.

Separately, I would like to dwell on two projects that topped the rankings of the best Chinese dramas.

“Warm night in the cold nine skies”

A drama with such a name simply must be fantasy, and the showrunners do not disappoint. A bizarre world awaits us, inhabited by two clans: Qiang and Qi. Representatives of the Qiang clan, in fact, do not differ from an ordinary person, although they call themselves “cold people”, but with Qi everything is much more interesting.

Strange anthropomorphic creatures that can transform into animals and even cast spells – that is what the Qi clan is, whose members are suddenly suspected of the merciless murder of Qi’s “sworn neighbors”. The investigation into the tragedy brings representatives of both factions face to face, who naturally fall in love with each other.

“Love in the Time of Starfall”

At the top of the list is an unusual version of the prince and the pauper story. The two sisters were separated at birth, and when one of them, Qing Kui, became the emperor’s effeminate daughter, life was much more difficult for the second. Fatherless, cruel, cunning – all this is Ye Tan, who is also threatened with a wedding with… the prince of demons.

During the celebration, the twins meet for the first time and of course switch places. Now Ye Tang will try on the role of a heavenly goddess, which she could not even dream of, but Qing Kui is waiting in the underworld.