Mandarin Drama Challenge

1. YEAR

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese drama from 2000s

Watch a Taiwanese drama from 2000s

Watch a Chinese drama from 2010s

Watch a Taiwanese drama from 2010s

Watch a Chinese drama from 2020s

Amidst a Snowstorm of Love

2024

Status: CW

Watch a Taiwanese drama from 2020s

2. LENGTH

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese drama with 10 episodes or less

Watch a Taiwanese drama with 10 episodes or less

Watch a Chinese drama with 11-20 episodes

Watch a Taiwanese drama with 11-20 episodes

Watch a Chinese drama with 21-30 episodes

Provoke

25 eps

Status: Completed

Watch a Taiwanese drama with 21-30 episodes

Watch a Chinese drama with over 30 episodes

Watch a Taiwanese drama with over 30 episodes

3. TOP

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a top rated Chinese drama

Nirvana in Fire

#1

Status: PTW

Watch a top rated Taiwanese drama

#2

Status: PTW

Watch the most popular Chinese drama

The Untamed

#1

Status: Completed

Watch the most popular Taiwanese drama

Someday or One Day

#8

Status: PTW

4. DATES

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese drama airing in the year you started watching dramas

2007

Watch a Taiwanese drama airing in the year you started watching dramas

2007

Watch a Chinese drama airing in the year you joined MDL

2012

Watch a Taiwanese drama airing in the year you joined MDL

2012

Watch a drama with a Chinese actor born in the same year as you

Watch a drama with a Taiwanese actor born in the same year as you

Watch a drama with a Chinese actress born in the same year as you

Watch a drama with a Taiwanese actress born in the same year as you

Watch a drama with a Chinese actor born on the same day as you

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

Ding Yu Xi

Status: PTW

Watch a drama with a Taiwanese actor born on the same day as you

You Are So Sweet

Zong Ying

Status: PTW

Watch a drama with a Chinese actress born on the same day as you

Never Say Never

Sun Yi

Status: PTW

Watch a drama with a Taiwanese actress born on the same day as you

Love, Timeless

Summer Meng

Status: PTW

5. REMAKE

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese remake of another drama

You Are My Destiny

remake of Fated to Love You

Status: PTW

Watch a Taiwanese remake of another drama

Watch a Chinese original drama that was remade

Scarlet Heart

remade by South Korea

Status: PTW

Watch a Taiwanese original drama that was remade

6. FAVOURITE

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a drama with your favourite Chinese actor

Watch a drama with your favourite Taiwanese actor

The Forbidden Flower

Jerry Yan

Status: PTW

Watch a drama with your favourite Chinese actress

Watch a drama with your favourite Taiwanese actress

Watch a Chinese drama from your favourite genre

Watch a Taiwanese drama from your favourite genre

Watch a Chinese drama with your favourite tag

Watch a Taiwanese drama with your favourite tag

7. MUSIC

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese drama with a song by your favourite male singer

Watch a Taiwanese drama with a song by your favourite male singer

Bii

Watch a Chinese drama with a song by your favourite female singer

Jane Zhang

Watch a Taiwanese drama with a song by your favourite female singer

Shi Shi

Watch a Chinese drama where one of the cast sings OST

Watch a Taiwanese drama where one of the cast sings OST

Watch a Chinese drama where one of the characters sings a song

Watch a Taiwanese drama where one of the characters sings a song

8. CHINESE FLAVOUR

Components

Titles

Notes

Completed

Watch a Chinese esports drama

Watch a wuxia drama

Sound of the Desert

Status: Completed

Watch a xianxia drama

MANDARIN DRAMA CHALLENGE

Progress: 18 / 28

• from 2000 - 2009

• released in 2018
• Picked this title intially coz of Huang Junjie, but stayed for Austin Lin instead ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• Drama started out good but it dragged in the middle
• A note to writers. Please treat your characters well coz otherwise, they'll come and bite you in the ass ꉂ (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱ

• Completed on 25/01/2024

• released in 2024
• Drama starts off strong and went downhill at a rapid speed once the halfway mark sets in
• The people behind this drama wants viewers to take pity on this "tragic" character. They're literally trying to shove it down our throats that this Su Rongqing isn't as bad as he looks
• The ML is reduced to a one dimensional character 

• Completed on 16/07/2024

• 6 episodes
• This web drama has cool, dark aesthetics and camerawork, it's such a shame that it's too short

• Completed on 12/01/2024

• 18 episodes
• A low budget drama with high quality storytelling that rivals even some S/S+ dramas
• The sensual scenes are indeed spicy *coughs*

• Completed on 17/01/2024

• 24 episodes
• I'm irrevocably in love with this drama; crap ending and plot holes be damned
• January 2024 had been a stale month that I rewatched MJTY without skips or fastforwarding

• Finished rewatching on 5/02/2024

• 36 episodes
• This drama is a clustereff of various shenanigans, that I have moments when I'll go what the heck?!
• The plot twists are amazingly entertaining ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ

• Completed on 24/02/2024

• Cheng Yi (´ ▽｀)

• CW

• Ni Ni (my Queen)

• PTW

• Fantasy
• Gotta say, this drama blew me away coz it's that good! It might cater to niche watchers, but do give this a try~

• Completed on 19/04/2024

• Vampire Fiction
• I waited for almost 3 years for this drama to air. It underwent too much censorship that anything and everything related to vampires like blood drinking, biting and fangs have all been taken out (ᵕ⌓ᵕ̤)

• Completed on 12/08/2024

• Zeng Shunxi sings 谁把相思命中嵌 (Who Embedded Lovesickness Into Fate?)  

• Completed on 24/10/2024

• Xiangliu, acted by Tan Jianci, sings 桃花血 (Peach Blossom Blood) in one scene

• Completed on 26/07/2024

• PTW

• This drama suffers major cuts due to production going bankrupt, investors withdrawing their capital, etc... (˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ ) Hence some of the major fight scenes with cgi has been taken out from post production
• Despite the challenges and shortcomings, I really, really love this drama. Kudos to the styling team for Zhang Linghe coz they've leveled up as this is the BEST he's looked so far

• Completed on 19/08/2024

• Drama starts out really good, and then took a nosedive somewhere in the middle. Ending is mediocre
• Watched this solely for Tan Jianci and honestly speaking, he's the only best thing about this drama >.< 

• Completed on 4/03/2024

• Completed on 15/05/2024

• Found the romance a lil bit dry...
• Zhang Linghe's acting isn't that bad considering this is his debut drama :)

• Completed on 12/02/2024

• Got curious for this drama coz there are many praises for it being good, but I think it caters more to the fans as I find it so-so
• Liked the horror aspect of it, even though it's mild
• And hello again Junjie, welcome back to the acting world~

• Completed on 26/04/2024

• Currently on-hold

• Being a fan of the DMBJ series, I have to say this drama takes the cake for explaining alot of the many questions that were left unanswered in the other dramas 
• I've never shed tears watching this series but I have to admit that some parts got me crying T__T    

• Completed on 24/09/2024

• This drama got me hooked right from the very start. While I understand many don't like the ending, I find it reasonable. The only thing that got me going wth is that dramatic scene on the boat. That got me laughing XD
• Jing Boran lives as his character, Fei Ke. Nobody can do Fei Ke like Jing Boran 

• Completed on 23/05/2024

• I have such a soft spot for high school dramas and this got me emotional as heck (ㅠ﹏ㅠ)
• Okay, probably it's because I can't see Linghe's character being sad and pitiful ooof my heart

• Completed on 12/01/2024

- Color codes: #6f6a46 / #49462d