Revenge theme by a twin sister who is not who she claims to be ; sizzling chemistry with a ML who saves her repeatedly ; fight for control of a company ; hidden evidence record. Plot holes bridged over by the chemistry. Repetitive but nice music.

Both belong to the Youku "White Night Theater" series, and deal with drugs cartels, although Escape from the Trilateral Slopes doesn't focus on the drugs trade before the last episodes. The First Shot is about the rise of new (then) drugs, such as ecstasy and methamphetamine, starting flood into China all the way to the distant north, the Dongbei area. There, a new task force to combat the threat is being formed with a core of young, skilled police officers specializing in different sides of investigations. Being close to many ordinary citizens in their age group and family circles, they find themselves not just handed a task, but painfully and personally implicated, when a sister and friends get force-fed drugs, and a young thug wavers between loyalty to the drugs lords who raised him, and friendship with the captain of the task force whom he dares to call "elder brother". Produced by Zhang Yimou, the drama features excellent actors.

This is a slice-of-life drama about an ordinary police station in the far suburbs of Beijing ; the policemen tackle all sorts of diverse cases such as settling a neighborhood dispute between former farmers, tackling a KTV front for a prostitution house, but also solving a cold-case murder mystery that reaches into the frozen northern provinces, and an internet finances scam that causes suicides and reaches all the way into far southern provinces. It is led by Zhang Ruoyun who played Guo Qilin's brother as Fan Xian in Joy of Life, and features many gifted actors and Bai Lu as actress in a police woman role. It is 38 episodes long on iQiyi.

This is a time loop drama with a mystery and bearing on ordinary life within the PRC.
It is also directed by Lao Suan, and the pair that leads it is very gifted (Bai Jinting and Zhao Jin Mai). It is only 15 episodes long, but an excellent thriller too !

Another drama with an embattled couple who face intrigues, injuries, and memory loss. The FL mistakes her savior for her husband, while in Dawn is Breaking the FL mistakes the crown prince for her savior and husband to be. Both are costume dramas with an independent minded FL and a very handsome ML.

Madness, power-drunk characters, intrigues, a dangerous palace. The ML embodies both despicable and crazy behavior like the crown prince in Dawn is Breaking, and faithful care for the FL, like Na Mianci in the new drama.
Both minidramas are riveting and feature Richard Li at his best as actor, paired with a talented young actress (Ming Jiajia) in A Tale of Love and Loyalty, who showed her mettle as support in The Double, while He Xuanlin showed hers in The Starry Love as SFL.

Childhood sweethearts who had been separated for many years. They get together again and experience dangerous, life threatening and difficult situations in the face of treacherous foes who wish to use them to gain power. Both are short costume minidramas and feature a handsome couple with independent minded FL.

In The Outsider, a returnee takes over a large business from his half brother, and he falls in love with a young principled businesswoman who has been struggling to start in life. The CEO has to fight enemies outside and inside the company, and the young woman also deals with people who try to use her as a pawn in their power game.
The protagonists are well suited to the story, not looking fresh out of college (although Vengo Gao as CEO Wang has a lighter role than the darker vampire one he plays in recent Snowfall, and Zhang Yuqi as Su Mo is more buxom than cute smiling baby faced) They play strong characters, engagingly.
The cast also features Kira Shi (Zeng Di in ABAY), here in a role that is less antagonistic, even friendly for a change ; and Tian Miao (funny Lu Linjia's mom in ABAY) is Su Mo's mother living in a home town away from Shanghai, where the drama is set.

Also a reunion between parted friends
And many many hot kissing scenes.
Besides which it was also Seven Tan/ Tan Songyun who was playing alongside Jing Boran

Strong ML and and the FL also fakes her death, repeatedly, to return.
Complicated political struggle, and wuxia, many good battles.
Use of poisons to "control" a character.
Romance.

This romance is set in part in Xinjiang around Kanas Lake and Hemu village, close to Altai and features glimpses of the various people who live there. Some parts are shot in other spectacular desert areas of the province.
The romance is about found-again love after a long separation ; both have their own very different jobs but despite the hurdles and separations due to work and responsibilities, they find the way to each other's heart. ML is Jing Boran and FL is Seven Tan Songyun.

Both are about the path of a young man who first pays allegiance to GMD, and next decides to shift to the Communist side, and it is mostly set in Shanghai. But instead of slums, it pictures palaces and instead of a Bank, it centers around the Military Command of the city and its cotton imports and industry.