# The 13 Best Chinese Dramas of 2026

> Glossy period romances, workplace slow burns and a few oddball genre-benders from one packed year of Chinese TV. Which one earned your binge?

*By YPB Team · Published October 5, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-13-best-chinese-dramas-of-2026*

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1. **Pursuit of Jade** — score 1000/1000
   A 40-episode period romance from iQIYI and Tencent Video starring Zhang Ling He and Tian Xi Wei, about a butcher's daughter and a man she gets in return for her prayers.
2. **Echoes of Gang City** — score 728/1000
   A 28-episode Tencent Video mini-drama with Zhao Hua Wei and Hu Lian Xin, a contract marriage tangled up with past lives.
3. **Cang Feng** — score 647/1000
   A 23-episode Tencent Video contemporary team action-comedy starring Duan Yi Hong, Li Chun and Wan Peng.
4. **Mystic Nine** — score 560/1000
   A 30-episode Youku era action drama with William Chan and Zeng Shun Xi, adapted from Xu Lei's Nine Gates novels.
5. **Genius Girlfriend** — score 485/1000
   A 28-episode iQIYI campus romance starring Hu Yi Tian and Bai Tian Xi Wei, about an awkward genius who finds her people.
6. **Where Colours Dream** — score 485/1000
   A 3-episode Tencent Video suspense drama with Dai Lu Wa and Tang Shi Yi, about a con artist and a chief accountant who scam together.
7. **Affinity** — score 397/1000
   A 40-episode Youku mini-drama starring Cui Yu Xin and Fang Jin, about a sick man who is uncontrollably addicted to a girl.
8. **The Epoch of Miyu** — score 291/1000
   A 38-episode contemporary romance with Wallace Chung and Zhu Zhu about a rich housewife who walks out on a cheating husband and starts working in a hotel.
9. **Irreplaceable** — score 291/1000
   A 20-episode Youku office romance starring Wei Da Xun and Zhao Jin Mai, about a corporate newbie with a black-lotus streak.
10. **Love Story in the 1970s** — score 291/1000
   A 29-episode Tencent Video era romance starring Chen Fei Yu and Sun Qian, built on marriage first and love second among the Fang siblings.
11. **Early Spring, Bright and Clear** — score 0/1000
   A 24-episode Youku workplace romance with Jing Bo Ran and Sun Qian, in which a marketing newbie falls for her sharp-tongued boss.
12. **Seascape of the Heart** — score 0/1000
   An 8-episode iQIYI romance with Gao Zhi Ting and Zhang Xue Ying, in which a rock bridges a drama coordinator and a visionary director.
13. **The Road to Splendour** — score 0/1000
   A 36-episode Tencent Video period romance with Ding Yu Xi and Deng En Xi, where a noble lady fakes her death to marry a fake pirate.

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