The best dramas to binge to escape the summer heat

Dog Days of Summer

HunanTV

A young swimmer tries to stage a comeback four&nbsp;years after a scandal.


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Tang Yi Bai (Dylan Xiong) is a former champion swimmer who was wrongfully accused of doping that derailed his competitive career four&nbsp;years ago. He returns after a four-year hiatus&nbsp;to compete for the South Physical Education College alongside his best friend, Qi Rui Feng (Huang Sheng Chi), against their biggest rival, Ou Yang Heng (Pang Han Chen), of North Physical Education College.


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At the competition, Yi Bai meets rookie sports reporter Yun Duo (Tan Song Yun), who is assigned to cover the competition but has a fear of water due to a near-drowning incident in her past. Yun Duo also happens to rent a room in Yi Bai’s family home, and the two become good friends.


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Can Yun Duo encourage&nbsp;Yi Bai to prove his innocence in his past scandal and regain his swimming glory?


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“My Mr. Mermaid” is a 2017 Chinese drama series. It is based on the novel Lang Hua Yi Duo Duo by Jiu Xiao Qi.

My Mr. Mermaid

Just Keep Swimming

Lee Young Joon (Park Seo Joon) might be the vice-president of his family’s massively successful company, but that doesn’t mean he has what it takes to do a good job. Accompanied by his incredibly talented secretary, Kim Mi So (Park Min Young) for nine years, she has made him look like the shining star that Young Joon believes he is.
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But after Mi So suddenly decides to quit, her arrogant boss comes to realize that he can’t live without her. Having unknowingly shared a traumatic childhood experience, the pair come to understand that maybe they do belong together after all.
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With jealousy forming over Young Joon’s older brother, Lee Sung Yeon (Lee Tae Hwan), and his growing relationship with Kim Mi So, the boastful executive decides he has to win back his secretary no matter what.

What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

The Perfect Secretaries Team

The Undateables is about a man, Hoon Nam, who refuses to love and a woman, Jeong Eum, who dreams of being passionately in love but gives up on the idea due to the reality of things. These two offer to help those who are single to fall in love, but in the midst of all this, they fall in love with each other. Hoon Nam officially becomes the second son of DMJ Foods when his biological mother, who gave birth to him out of wedlock, passes away. Due to this, he has never believed in love and has the ability to distance himself just enough so that he won't be affected emotionally by others. On the other hand, Jeong Eum is the type who gives her all whether it be in her everyday life or in love. She believes that whoever loves the other the most is the happiest, and this is why her first love only left her with scars. Tune in to watch how these two seemingly helpless and foolish people fall in love!

The Undateables

The Undateables Team

Tencent

It will be an assignment that will change her life. Guan Pi Pi (Victoria Song) is an eager, young newspaper intern who gets an assignment go find and interview an elusive antique dealer, He Lan Jing Ting (Johnny Huang). But Pi Pi soon learns that Jing Ting is no ordinary man.

As Pi Pi tries to research everything she can about Jing Ting, she finds out that he only eats flowers, bathes in the moonlight, is blind during the day but has superior vision at night. Known as the Jade Master, Jing Ting is actually the right priest of the Fox Clan who is trying to keep humans safe from his arch nemesis, Zhao Song (Jiang Qi Lin), the left priest of the Fox Clan.

As Pi Pi is chasing down the story of her life, she is devastated to find out that her best friend, Tian Xin (Xu Fang Yi), and her childhood sweetheart, Tao Jia Lin (Xu Kai Cheng), have betrayed her. Is Jing Ting the only person who can make Pi Pi’s life whole again?

“The Love Knot: His Excellency's First Love” is a 2018 Chinese drama series.

The Love Knot: His Excellency's First Love

The Love Knot Team

Marketer Oh Ha Na and flight attendant Choi Won are old friends who have built a strong 17-year-long relationship together. They've always depended on each other and have remained close through the years. Could the fact that they've so comfortable with each other be the reason they are unable to realize when feelings other than friendship begin to develop? Choi Won, a vice manager flight attendant, gains a female friend in a new coworker, and Ha Na doesn't realize how much she is bothered by it. However, Ha Na, reuniting with her former love, pianist Cha Seo Hoo, ignores Won's feelings.

The Time We Were Not in Love

The Timeless Lovers

Tencent TV

Can the pure love of 17-year-olds endure through all the challenges of adulthood?

Chen Xiao Xi (Shen Yue) and Jiang Chen (Hu Yi Tian) are high school friends and neighbors who grew up together. Xiao Xi is happy-go-lucky and doesn’t like to study much but she has a talent for drawing. Jiang Chen is popular for his good looks and high grades. Their friends include swimmer Wu Bo Song (Gao Zhi Ting), who will do anything for Xiao Xi, and Xiao Xi’s best friend, Lin Jing Xiao (Wang Zi Wei), the most beautiful girl in school.

How will the realities of life shape the friendships and love of these young adults?

“A Love So Beautiful” is a 2017 Chinese web drama series directed by Yang Long. It is based on the novel To Our Pure Little Beauty by Zhao Gang An.

A Love So Beautiful

Pure Love Team

KBS02

The world we are to inherit is damaged. Youths who live disregarding politics and society have met. And fallen in love. And then the truths buried in the past begin to come to light. While fighting against the reality they\u2019ll inherit from their parents, their cheeky, passionate romance gratifyingly heals both themselves and the world.

Healer

The Time Healers

ZJTV

Only she can restore peace to the land. Meng Fuyao (Yang Mi) is a young woman who was born out of a divine lotus petal. She masters an invincible fighting technique at the age of 16 and then embarks on a journey to collect the secret talismen from five kingdoms that will gain her entry into a sacred land called the Firmament. On her journey, Fuyao falls in love with the Crown Prince Zhangsun Wuji (Ethan Juan), who helps her to to fight the powerful political forces along the way.

Can Fuyao, with the help of her friends, unravel the dangerous conspiracy originating from the heavens and restore peace to the land?

“Legend of Fuyao” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Yang Wen Jun. It is based on the novel Empress Fuyao by Tianxia Guiyuan.

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