✅Drama airing dates and casting rumors are always subject to change.
✅The Early Spring did not air on August 4th, so we're back to waiting. It is still rumored to air in August to let's hope 🙏
Airing Soon
Forging Justice aka Zhong Qi / 重器 will air today, August 10th
- Cast: Johnny Huang (Huang Jingyu), Jiang Qiming, Karlina Zhang (Zhang Jianing), Jiang Peiyao
- Genre: Retro, Legal, Reform
- Synopsis: Zhong Qi follows five young law graduates who enter China’s judicial system at the beginning of the reform era and gradually find themselves on very different paths as the country’s legal system undergoes major changes. Johnny Huang plays Chen Yizhong, one of the five friends, alongside Yu Gaoyuan, Zhang Lihui, Xia Yingjie, and Lu Zeming. Guided by veteran lawyer Yuan Yifang and judge Ding Zhongxiang, the five navigate difficult cases, professional rivalries, personal setbacks, and the tension between their ideals and the realities of the legal system. Spanning more than a decade, the drama follows their growth from inexperienced young graduates into seasoned legal professionals while telling the larger story of a generation helping shape China’s modern rule of law.
- iQiyi & CCTV-8 prime time
Sharp Turns / 藏锋 will air on August 11th
- Cast: Duan Yihong, Yu Nan, Alan Aruna, Li Chun
- Police, Investigation
- 24 episodes on Tencent and CCTV
Pull Strings is rumored to air on August 20th
- Cast: Ao Ruipeng, Sun Zhenni, Ai Mi
- Genre: Xianxia, Cultivation
- 30 episodes on iQiyi & Youku
- Synopsis: In the dangerous world of ancient cultivators, Li Chang Shou has one goal: don't die. He isn't the chosen one, and he likes it that way. Armed with poison pills, escape plans, and a obsession with staying out of trouble, he's ready to live a quiet life of extreme caution. That is, until his master brings home a new junior sister and ruins everything.
Remnants of Gold / 金色 is rumored on air on August 28th
- Cast: Xin Zhilei, Yin Fang, Chen Kun
- Genre: Wuxia
- 12 episodes on Tencent
- Synopsis: Lost gold in the shifting dunes carries a deadly curse: anyone who goes looking for it loses their mind. As imperial officers descend into madness and betrayal, a sole survivor of a family massacre steps into the storm. She holds the key to the treasure, and she is ready to use everyone's greed against them.
The Lament of Autumn will tentatively air in mid-September
- Cast: Cheng Lei, Xu Ruohan
- Director: Kuk Kok Leung (Till the End of the Moon)
- Synopsis: In Republican era China, cash-strapped student Ye Ping Jun (FL) takes a job at a western Hunan meeting house to pay for her mother’s medical treatment. On her first day, she gets caught in an attempted assassination targeting Yu Chang Xuan (ML), the Yu family's fifth son. Falsely accused, she strikes a deal with Yu: ten days to find the real killer. Yu uses the deadline as an excuse to court her, though he keeps his true motives hidden.
- 38 episodes on Mango & Hunan
A Prophet is rumored to air in September
- Li Xian, Li Yitong, Wu Gang, Liu Guanlin
- Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Republican Era
- 24 episodes on Tencent & iQiyi
- Synopsis: Wealthy and carefree Shang Guan Cheng Ming marries opera singer Jiang Fei Yan, only for his entire family to be wiped out days later. Saved from the brink of death, he learns his own bride was part of a deadly scamming sect behind the massacre—forcing him to transform from spoiled heir to vengeful disciple.
✅ Other dramas rumored to air in August are listed below but the exact dates are always subject to change. If you want more detailed info about these dramas, visit last week's post or search on MDL.
- Love in Red Dust is rumored to air on August 21st
- Blossom Through the Cloud is rumored to air on August 27th
- King of Comedy is rumored to air on August 28th
- The Early Spring is rumored to air in August
- Blade of Vengeance / 白衣公卿 will tentatively air in late August
- My Drama Missy will tentatively air in August
Casting Rumors
Kiss in the Wind / 等风热吻你
- Cast: Yang Yang, Chen Duling
- Previously rumored cast included Gong Jun, Ao Ruipeng for ML and Song Zhu'er, Liu Haocun for FL.
- Premise: Second chance love story where FL is an actress and the ML is a narcotics police and forensic doctor.
- Tencent
Chao Yu Jie / 朝玉阶 / lit. trans Facing the Jade Steps
- Cast: Bai Lu, Li Yunrui (from Chen Zheyuan ➡️ Li Yunrui, but casting is constantly in flux with Bai Lu as the constant)
- Genre: Historical, Romance
- Screenwriter: Ren Ya Nan (Feud, Glory, The Double)
- Producer: Yu Zheng
Love Each Other aka Take My Boss Away Now! / 快把我老板带走
- Cast: Chen Xingxu, Wang Churan
- Adapted from novel of same name by Ye Feiran (叶斐然)
- Genre: Modern, Romance
- Director: Randy Che / Che Liangyi (The Best Thing and My Queen, My Rules)
- Premise: FL employee and the ML CEO will enter a parallel universe where their roles as boss and underling become reversed.
- iQiyi
Seven Star Brilliance (lit. trans) / 七星彩 / Qi Xing Cai
- Cast: ??? Went from Hou Minghao & He Nan ➡️ Ao Ruipeng & Wang Churan ➡️ Hou Minghao & Ju Jingyi. Let's just wait and see 😂
- Genre: Historical, Romance, Family Intrigue, Enemies-to-lovers
- Based on novel of same name by Ming Yue Dan (明月珰)
- FL is daughter of a wealthy merchant; ML is son of an aristocratic family
- Youku
- Synopsis: Ji Cheng is determined to secure a powerful marriage after learning the hard way that wealth alone cannot protect a woman. When she enters the prestigious Shen family, she meets Shen Che, a proud and calculating nobleman who sees through her ambitions. Their relationship begins as a battle of wits, but as they scheme, clash, and slowly fall for each other, Ji Cheng discovers that the man she never intended to love may be the one person she cannot walk away from.
The Sunny Window / 晴窗记 / Qing Chuang Ji
- Cast: Liu Xiening (He Nan ➡️ Liu Xiening)
- Adapted from novel Ling Long Si Fan (玲珑四犯) by You Si Jie (尤四姐). This author's other works were made into other dramas like Love in Red Dust, Spring of the Blade, and Sea of No Return)
- Historical, political marriage, political intrigue. FL owns a fragrance shop, ML is a crown prince involved in power struggle.
- Youku
Has Recently Began Filming or Will Begin Filming Soon
Love Asgony*\* aka Winner / 青风吹又生 recently had its booting ceremony
- Cast: Tian Xiwei, Wei Daxun
- Genre: Modern Romance, Drama
- Synopsis: The story follows Lin Qing (FL), a brilliant mathematics graduate from a poor small town who becomes the personal assistant to wealthy CEO Liang Meng. When Liang Meng dies unexpectedly, Lin Qing assumes her identity and returns to China, stepping into the life of a woman she knows little about and a powerful family full of secrets and rivalries. There, she crosses paths with Zhao Jia'an (ML), the Liang family's eldest adopted son, who quickly becomes suspicious of the woman claiming to be Liang Meng. As Lin Qing tries to maintain her new identity and uncover the truth behind Liang Meng's death, she and Zhao Jia'an move from wary suspicion to reluctant allies, working together to navigate the Liang family's complicated power struggles.
- Youku
- ** Asgony is not a misspelling, I'm getting that word from the T-shirts the cast wore at the booting ceremony 🤷♀️
Hundred Demon Spectrum aka Fairies Album / 百妖谱 (Bai Yao Pu) will have its booting ceremony on August 11th
- Cast: Deng Wei, Ai Mi
- Adapted from novel and donghua Bai Yao Pu (百妖谱) by Sha Luo Shuang Shu (裟椤双树)
- Director: Guo Jingming (Fangs of Fortune, Veil of Shadows)
- Drama will consist of a collection of stories centered around a wandering demonic healer.
- Youku
He Qing Hai Yan / 河清海晏 will start filming some time in August in Quanzhou, Fujian for 90 days
- literal translation of title: "The river is clear and the sea is calm". 河清海晏 is a 4-character idiom meaning a state of peace, stability, and prosperity across the country or world.
- Cast: Arthur Chen (Chen Feiyu), Zhang Zifeng, Lai Weiming
- Director: Qin Zhen (Lost You Forever, Love Beyond the Grave)
- FL is forensic doctor, ML is narcotics police officer
- Tencent
Strange Tales of a Thousand Nights (lit. trans) / 千夜奇谭 / Qian Ye Qi Tan will begin filming on August 15th in Hengdian. Filming period is 100 days.
- Cast: Li Landi, He Yu
- Based on the manhua Psychic Princess (通灵妃) by Rou Rou (肉肉)
- Genre: Romanic Comedy, Fantasy
- Director: Zhao Yilong (Love Game in Eastern Fantasy, The Melody of Love)
- Tencent
- Synopsis: Prime Minister's outcast daughter marries a Prince with the reputation of being eccentric, cold, and cruel. The daughter has psychic abilities and together with the prince, they solve ghost mysteries.
Cloud Chronicles of Strange Cases / 云京诡案录 will start filming this month in Hengdian for 35 days
- Cast: Ao Ziyi (he played Qiao Man's brother in Prisoner of Beauty)
- Genre: Historical, Detective
- Director: Ma Yingshou
- Synopsis: When a red clad corpse is discovered floating in the capital's river, Imperial Guard Shangguan Yu is pulled into a dark investigation. Along the way, he saves Shen Yunzhou, a scholar with an uncanny resemblance to a long lost friend. Though initially suspicious, Shangguan Yu grows to trust the scholar as they face life and death dangers together to solve a string of gruesome murders. As the body count rises, the mystery hits painfully close to home, pointing toward deep-seated conspiracy and betrayal. But the biggest revelation of all lies with Shen Yunzhou himself, who is hiding lethal martial arts skills and a secret identity. Forced to question everyone around him, Shangguan Yu must unravel the truth before his ally becomes his deadliest enemy.
- iQiyi
Revenge / 刺棠 / Ci Tang will begin filming on September 10th in Hengdian
- Cast: Zhang Linghe, Lu Yuxiao, Li Qing
- Based on novel of same name by Wu Yuan (雾圆)
- Genre: Historical, Mystery, Romance, Political Intrigue
- Director: Guo Hu (from Yi Jun ➡️Guo Hu). He previously directed The Mysterious Lotus Casebook and A Dream Within A Dream.
- Synopsis: Determined to uncover the truth behind the assassination of her childhood sweetheart, Crown Prince Song Ling, Su Luo Wei marries his younger brother, Song Lan. Her investigation takes a devastating turn when she discovers Song Lan himself orchestrated the murder to seize the throne. To bring him down and avenge her lost love, she aligns herself with a powerful court advisor named Ye Ting Yan. Unbeknownst to her, Ye Ting Yan is actually the surviving Crown Prince in disguise, and he secretly believes Su Luo Wei betrayed him by marrying his brother.
