2025's Ultimate Guide to Chinese Dramas: 8 Highest-Rated Series, Ranked by IMDb

Nowadays, dramas never disappear from the charts of streaming platforms, and new releases from Korea don't always take top spots – China is confidently conquering the industry.

We have recalled the best Chinese dramas released in 2025 – from romantic comedies and fantasy series to crime thrillers.

8. 'Playing Go', 2025

IMDb Score: 7.0/10

Cui Ye, an ordinary Go teacher, accidentally becomes an accomplice to a crime when bank robbers take him hostage and force him to help them escape.

Unexpectedly, his talent for Go proves incredibly useful in the criminal world. Ye gradually transforms from an average player into one of the most wanted criminals in China. However, his brother is a policeman who is still hoping to get him back on the right path.

7. 'Si Jin', 2025

IMDb Score: 7.5/10

The daughter of the prince, Jiang Si is killed by her lover, Yu Jin. However, she returns to life after traveling back in time. This time, she decides to challenge fate. She breaks off her engagement, opens her own store, and begins investigating a series of brutal murders of young women.

After some time, she encounters Yu Jin again. This time, they decide to overcome all the dangers and obstacles standing in the way of their loved ones' well-being.

6. 'Perfect Match', 2025

IMDb Score: 7.6/10

During the Song Dynasty, Lady Li faced a difficult dilemma. She has four unmarried daughters, but suitors are in no hurry to propose. Therefore, the woman took a desperate step – she moved the family to the capital, where her only married daughter lived.

However, things do not go according to plan. Her married daughter refuses to accept her sisters, and Lady Li and her daughters end up homeless. However, Lady Li refuses to give up – the woman opens her own business in the capital and looks for suitable husbands for her daughters.

5. 'Moonlight Mystique', 2025

IMDb Score: 7.8/10

One day, an evil spirit kidnaps General's youngest daughter Bai Shuo. Fan Yue, the Demon King, comes to her rescue. To repay Yue for saving her, the girl vows to become immortal and learn magic.

Ten years later, they meet again and embark on a perilous journey to activate the divine stone and thwart the forces of evil from enslaving humanity.

As they fight side by side, Shuo and Yue grow closer. Their affection grows, but soon their feelings will be tested.

4. 'Northward', 2025

IMDb Score: 7.9/10

It's the story of six teenagers who were born and raised on the same street. It spans a 20-year period, from the 90s to the present day.

In the summer of 2000, Ma Siyi and her family moved to Flower Street. The ten-year-old girl quickly made friends, but then disappeared without a trace after an accident. Having lost contact with Siyi, her friends split up after school – each went their own way. Eight years later, circumstances brought them back to Flower street.

3. 'The White Olive Tree', 2025

IMDb Score: 8.0/10

Journalist Song Ran is assigned to cover a country torn apart by war. During an interview, she accidentally steps on a landmine. Fortunately, Li Zan, an engineer, is nearby and defuses the device, helping Ran escape.

Over the course of several days, a bond forms between Zan and Ran, but a sudden bombing separates them.

Having lost contact with each other, they return to China and must cope with the physical and psychological trauma left by the war.

2. 'The Best Thing', 2025

IMDb Score: 8.3/10

Shen Xifan, the young hotel manager, is a workaholic. Her endless workdays provoke insomnia and prolonged migraines. Realizing that she cannot cope on her own, Xifan decides to see a specialist.

At the hospital, she meets He Suye, a young doctor known for his professionalism. Their acquaintance could have ended there, but it turns out that Suye is Xifan's neighbor.

A series of chance encounters forces the young people to get to know each other better, overcome the pain of past relationships, and allow themselves to love again.

1. 'The First Frost', 2025

IMDb Score: 8.4/10

Sang Yan had been in love with his classmate, Wen Yifan, for a long time, but he could never bring himself to confess his feelings. In their senior year of high school, they agreed to attend the same university. However, on the day of the entrance exam, Yifan never showed up.

Ten years later, fate brought the two together again, but they chose to ignore each other. However, a sudden twist of fate leads to Yan and Yifan becoming neighbors and crossing paths daily.