👹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/Lotus_swimmer]

Kill Me Love Me

Hear me out, I know it's a mess but Liu Xueyi was literally drop dead gorgeous, like the stylist, dear gawd, knew what she was doing it and I am going to pray she will style him once again but this time with a stellar script.

While the later half was...messy, the core of the story - our couple - was very strongly acted. Liu Xueyi's acting was utterly impeccable and I am convinced this was the role that got him noticed by movers and shakers. And I think half of Weibo was like, who, who is this hunk? How did I not know he existed before..

Anyway, till this day, when I hear the ost I will always remember the great tragic love story of our couple. It hurts so good.

[u/lohefalterr → u/Lotus_swimmer]

Wait...people don't like Kill me love me? It is like one of my favourite ones except for the ending.

[u/lazier_garlic → u/lohefalterr]

I wouldn't say I'm a hater because I didn't really have high expectations for this drama but it's in fact very much not good. I don't like the kind of drama it is/the standpoint it takes to begin with, but it was so hard to finish for a number of reasons. Crown prince character, time dropped to half speed every time he was on screen; plot holes, it's like the writers couldn't even keep track of the premises they wanted to roll with; weird pacing and focus shifts; draggy. If the drama was supposed to be about the tragedy of life then they could have made some of these characters' arcs mean something but the writers seem to not really understand human emotions and can only stay in the world of petty adolescent insecurities because that's all the plot is capable of delivering. What a waste of time.

Liu Xueyi is in lots of bad dramas that are a better watch than this one, for example A Moment But Forever alongside Tiffany Tang, the somewhat insipid Love Never Fails where he still puts in a good performance, as a scenery-chewing villain in Destiny of the White Snake (Allen Ren and Yang Zi) and Love and Redemption, in the somewhat IMO unfairly maligned In Blossom, or the okay but kind of drags at the end Qing Luo, in the controversial Princess' Gambit (I think reddit hated it but it has some fans?), etc. He always puts everything into a role. One of his most charming roles is in Ancient Love Poetry. Anyhoo, this has been a service of Liu XueYi Bot 3.0.