Geng Le is a Chinese actor who was born in Beijing, China on November 18, 1974. He is the grandson of the famous Chinese artist Zhang Ding and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His first major movie role was in “In the Heat of the Sun” in 1994. He has since appeared in scores of hit movie and drama series titles, including the more recent drama “Legend of Fei” (2020) and the 2020 movie “Ladies in Beijing.”

Geng Le

As the head of the household, Qiao Hai Yun (Song Chun Li) has made it a rule that no matter where they are, or what they’re doing in life, all of her family members must come home for New Year. With three grown daughters, Hai Yun has enforced this rule for years but when her granddaughter Li Yi Jin (Sandra Ma) decides to break from tradition, Hai Yun is forced to take a hard look at her family and the relationships that bind them together.

As the daughter of Meng Ming Wei (Xu Fan), Hai Yun’s eldest, Yi Jin carries more than just the burden that comes with being the eldest daughter. With a mother who was adopted into the family, Yi Jin was raised under tremendous pressure from her mom. With grand ambitions for her daughter, Ming Wei pushed Yi Jin hard, thus straining the relationship between them. Unlike her elder sister, Meng Wang Qing (Liang Jing) has always had a perfect relationship with her daughter Tao Shu Na (Sun Qian), but when the two discover secrets about each other, their perfect relationship is put to the test. Meanwhile, Meng Yi An (Li Xiao Ran), the youngest of Hai Yun’s daughters, has always fought against the strong similarities between them. But no matter how hard she tries to forge her own path, fate always seems to find a way to lead Yi An down a similar path.

Though different in their unique ways, the three generations of Meng women are bound by more than fate. Like a flock of birds, they journey through life together, supporting each other as they navigate the sometimes tumultuous currents of life. Will this bond between them be shaken by the acts of a rebellious young woman or will they find that their family ties are stronger than any of them ever realized?

Adapted from the “She and Her Islands” by Yi Nan, “The Islands” is a 2024 Chinese family drama directed by Lin Yan.

The Islands

Mango TV

Tang Ying (Elvira Cai) is a junior lawyer who works at a Beijing-based legal firm. While taking a flight on a business trip, she falls asleep. A wealthy young investor named Xu Zi Quan (Elvis Han) is also on the plane, where she overhears him talking about how he never travels in economy class, but is willing to do so on this occasion as he has no other choice. She thinks he is arrogant and pretentious. He asks a flight attendant to give Tang Ying a blanket and tries talking to her, but she is suspicious of his motives, taking him for a playboy. Their paths cross again shortly after, and Xu Zi Quan realizes that he is falling for her...

Meanwhile, things are not going smoothly for Tang Ying at work, where she is forced to take the wrap for mistakes she didn’t make. Soon after, she meets a wealthy older man named Ma Qi Yuan (Geng Le) who lives in Europe. He falls for Tang Ying, and wants to capture her heart. But Xu Zi Quan still wants to win Tang Ying’s heart – and will do whatever it takes to make her fall for him!

“Fake It Till You Make It” is a 2023 Chinese drama series that was directed by Li Mo.

Fake It Till You Make It

Pretentious Apocalypse💘

iQiyi

On the day her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Lin Zhao Xi’s (Zhang Zi Feng) heart is broken. Already suffering a fatal blow, her heart almost shatters completely once she learns that her long-time crush, Chu Pei Zhi (Steven Zhang) is going abroad to further his studies. Unable to follow Pei Zhi abroad, unsure of how to help her father, and miserable with the life she’s made for herself thus far, Zhao Xi finds herself sinking into a veritable pit of despair. But when she stumbles upon a mysterious mathematical formula, everything changes in an instant.

Transported to a parallel world, Zhao Xi finds she’s reverted to her twelve-year-old self. Realizing she has the ability to change her fate in this new world, Zhao Xi decides to follow her heart. With the help of her father, Zhao Xi allows herself to pursue her long-hidden love of mathematics. After participating in the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Camp, Zhao Xi returns to her current world but is soon-after transported back to another parallel universe. This time a high school senior, Zhao Xi finds herself relying on Pei Zhi to help her find the courage she needs to face life.

Learning more about herself with every trip she takes, Zhao Xi once again returns to her real world. With the lessons she’s learned, will she finally have the courage she needs to change her fate?

Adapted from the web novel “Genius Fundamentals” by Zhang Er, “The Heart of Genius” is a 2022 Chinese science-fiction romance directed by Shen Yan.

The Heart of Genius

🌏A genius' world 🌏

Tencent Video

&nbsp;The year is 626 C.E, and the realm, and its political center Chang’an, are shaken to its core by the Xuanwu Gate Incident, a successful palace coup to take charge of the Tang Dynasty.

A scheming prince leads the bloody coup, and kills the family of Li Chang Ge (Dilraba Dilmurat) during the raid, although she manages to escape.

Now the prince has placed himself on the Imperial throne, and rules as the Emperor Tai Zong.

Li Chang Ge has her mind firmly set on revenge – and musters a powerful army intent on overthrowing the new Emperor.

But her plans are thrown into disarray when she suffers an unexpected defeat against the armies of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate. The victorious General, Ashi Na Sun (Leo Wu), decides to keep her in his service, making her his military strategist as he looks to pursue his own military goals.

The duo forms a formidable military partnership. And over time, she finds herself falling for her captor – as he also starts developing feelings for her.

But what will become of Li Chang Ge’s quest for vengeance as she continues to serve at the General’s side?

This drama was based on a popular manhua by artist Xia Da.

“The Long Ballad” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Zhu Rui Bin.

The Long Ballad

The Ode to Love Team

Zhou Fei (Zhao Li Ying) is the granddaughter of a national hero who was forced to become a bandit to serve the greater good. For 20 years, her grandfather, then her mother, were charged with running a secret fort, staffed by bandits.

The fort’s role is to protect the world against strange, otherworldly warriors intent on bringing their unique brand of chaos to the mortal realm.

However, the fort has fallen in status in recent years, and Zhou Fei is sick of being confined to the place of her birth. She longs to escape, and makes repeated efforts to get away.

But her life changes forever when she almost drowns, and is only saved by a free-spirited young material arts expert named Xie Yun (Wang Yibo).

The duo forms an unlikely friendship and decides to hone their fighting skills together – a timely decision as malevolent forces are now plotting fresh trouble.

The pair begins on an adventure. But as time goes by, they begin to unearth secrets…including that of Xie Yun’s true identity.

This drama series was adapted from a novel named “Bandits” by author Priest.

“Legend of Fei” is a 2020 Chinese drama series that was directed by Ng Gam Yuen.

Legend of Fei

The Flying Legend Team

In a compilation of seven short films, seven directors explore the history of modern China and its people, going back to the 1940s and the aftermath of World War II, on the eve of the birth of the People’s Republic of China, through to the 1960s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and finally the 2010s, with stars like Song Jia and Ou Hao making appearances.

The first film focuses on an engineer struggling to organize a ceremony to mark the birth of the nation and the second tells the story of a love-sick nuclear scientist. In the third film, a young boy does what he can to help his neighborhood watch the gold medal match of the women’s volleyball competition in the 1984 Olympic Games.

The remaining films focus on more recent events, including two groups of people preparing for the handover of Hong Kong by the British colonial government in 1997. There is another Olympic story in a film about events surrounding the 2008 Olympics, which were held in Beijing, as a taxi driver decides to gift a ticket he had bought for his own son to another boy.

In the sixth film, two homeless boys watch a spectacular space mission in the 2010s. And in the final film, a female air force pilot attempts to ensure that a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War goes off without a hitch

“My People, My Country” is a 2019 Chinese movie that was directed by Chen Kai Ge,&nbsp;Zhang Yi Bai,&nbsp;Guan Hu,&nbsp;Xue Xiao Lu,&nbsp;Xu Zheng,&nbsp;Ning Hao, and Wen Mu Ye.

My People, My Country

The Patriots Team

ZJSTV

Is it possible to search for answers to a death that occurred almost 30 years ago?


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Zhuang Shu (Jin Dong) is a successful cardiothoracic surgeon who has been practicing in the United States. He returns to work at a general hospital in China to find answers to a malpractice case that happened 29 years ago that resulted in the death of a patient.


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Zhuang Shu’s mother, the nurse involved in the case, was forced to resign. Then she saw her 4-year-old daughter kidnapped and then died in a car accident herself.


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Fellow cardiothoracic surgeon Lu Chen Xi (Bai Bai He) happens to be the daughter of the patient who died in the malpractice case. After she stands up to the hospital director, Yang Fan (Liu Yi Jun), she is demoted to the emergency department.


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Can Chen Xi help Zhuang Su find out the truth to what happened nearly 30 years ago that changed both their families’ fortunes forever?


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“Surgeons” is a 2017 Chinese drama series directed by Li Xue.

Surgeons

The On-Call Team

HunanTV

Family or love? Jiang Yun Fan (Elvis Han) is the adopted son of a stockade chief. One day, he realizes that he has superhuman powers whenever he is confronted by demon animals. The source of his mystical powers comes to light when Yun Fan discovers that he is the biological son of Jiang Shi Li (Geng Le), the king of the demons who was locked up 20 years ago in the Blood Jade of Nvwa by the people of Mount Shu and the Four Families. Yun Fan’s fate intersects both tribes when he is mentored by Long You (Joe Cheng), a disciple of Mount Shu, and then saves the life of Tang Yu Rou (Gülnezer Bextiyar), a benevolent healer of the Four Families with whom he falls in love. But when Yun Fan is faced with the decision to either save his father from the Blood Jade or save the life of Yu Rou, which will he choose? “Chinese Paladin 5: Clouds of the World” is a 2016 Chinese drama series. It is based on the RPG game “Chinese Paladin 5: The Legend of Sword and Fairy 5.”

Chinese Paladin 5: Clouds of the World

Clouds of the World

Being an adult can be daunting. A group of friends – Song Nuan (Zhao Li Ying), Zhou Ge Ge, (Cai Wen Jing), Ruo Han (Wang Zhi Xuan) and Ning Ba La (Fu Jing) – are classmates and roommates who are venturing out into the real world through internships prior to their graduation. Zhao Xiao Chuan (by Zheng Jia Bin), who works in IT, is in love with Ge Ge, but she’s more interested in his best friend, Zhang Sheng (Zheng Kai), the son of a wealthy family who is under tremendous pressure from his mother to acquire real-world work experience. But Zhang Sheng gets great joy out of pestering Song Nuan, who is not easily bullied. Through work and family challenges, can the friends help each other survive the pressures of the real world? “Get Going” is a 2015 Chinese drama series.

Best Get Going

The Go 4 The Best! Team

Wanda Pictures

A struggling designer, Chen Feng (Chen Si Cheng) never thought love would come his way. But when he meets Shen Yan (Tong Li Ya), everything changes. Soon after Chen Feng realizes Shen Yan is the one for him, he proposes, but her well-to-do family wants nothing to do with a man who can barely support himself, let alone a wife and child. Driven away, Chen Feng is heartbroken, but he’s not the only one struggling with matters of the heart.

Chen’s boss, Wu Zheng (Wang Xue Bing), has made cheating on his wife a nasty habit and she’s had enough. Hoping to give her husband a taste of his own medicine, Zhang Lei (Yu Nan) has an affair of her own with her boss, Liu Hui (Tony Leung). Unfortunately for Zhang Lei, things don’t work out the way she had planned, as he jets off to Greece soon after, to meet up with his long-time mistress, Jia Ling (Carina Lau).&nbsp;

Meanwhile, a young high school student (Liu Hao Ran) falls for his classmate, Liu Hui’s daughter, (Na Na Ouyang), a cello prodigy who is leaving to study abroad. While the young man tries to console his now-broken heart, his grandfather (Wang Qing Xiang) is suffering a different sort of heartache as he’s forced into a number of&nbsp; disastrous blind dates by his meddling cousin (Siqin Gao Wa).&nbsp;

With so many hearts and lives interconnected, will any of them find what makes them truly happy?

The story of five couples, living independently of each other, yet somehow connected by fate,&nbsp; “Beijing Love Story” is a 2014 romance film directed by Chen Si Cheng.

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