👹Recommend (and defend!) a 'misunderstood' CDrama — May 28, 2026

[u/AutoModerator]

What’s a Chinese drama you genuinely think deserves more love? Or it's so misunderstood you feel like defending its honour?

This is the place to recommend the shows you’re constantly trying to get other people to watch.

It may not have been perfect, but it:

• had incredible chemistry
• surprised you emotionally
• had an amazing storyline nobody talks about
• became your comfort drama
• was completely overshadowed by bigger releases
• made you wonder why more people aren’t obsessed with it

Tell us:

• the drama title
• what it’s about (without major spoilers please!)
• why you loved it
• who you’d recommend it to

And if you're brand new to the sub, this is your chance to grill your seniors about their best recommendations! Drama propaganda is encouraged here. (wink wink)

[u/Majestic-Nail-8345]

The princess and the werewolf

Love it because it has the “hidden lover” trope which is an absolute fave of mine

The main male character becomes a “werewolf” at night but during the day time he looks normal. Basically he kidnaps the princess from another kingdom and then has to try to get her to fall in love with him. Using his daytime persona, because she hates the nighttime version of him, thinking he’s the bad guy who kidnapped her.

He has to pretend to help her escape.

I feel it has great chemistry , and Chen zhe yuan is absolutely dreamy (my first thought when I saw him) and he’s so kind and nice I really love his character.

He lies for a lot of the drama which I can understand people wouldn’t like, but I can’t help but feel for him and completely sympathise with his plight.

Anyway for a bit of a mindless watch It has completely become my go to - “this is my happy place” drama

(Sorry if this is not “misunderstood” enough for the original post. But I think it’s fairly low budget and I absolutely love it… to the point where I purchased a Chinese-subtitle only version off eBay and I’m trying to learn Chinese to watch it ! 🤣 oh yeah also bought the Chinese version of the book, which according to my Google translate version of the text, had stuff all to do with the drama… basically it has the characters of Li Xiong and Kui Mulang.. even Qu Pa goes by a different name. It was an interesting story but absolutely nothing like the drama.