Crime and Mystery C-Dramas

Pursuit of Jade

Fan Chang-yu is the daughter of a butcher, strong-willed and used to taking care of herself and her sister.

Nirvana in Fire

When General Lin Xie was framed for treason, his army was wiped out and only his young son Lin Shu survived.

The Untamed

Wei Wu Xian and Lan Wang Ji are gifted disciples from powerful cultivation clans who meet during their training years.

Reset

Game designer Xiao Heyun and university student Li Shiqing are strangers on the same city bus when it explodes, and…

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Li Lianhua is a quiet, weathered healer who lives in a crooked old tower and solves puzzles for a living.

Love in the Clouds

At the Qingyun Conference, the greatest contest of the Six Realms, a rising fighter named Ji Bo-zai stuns everyone by…

Twelve Letters

When his girlfriend Ye Hai-tang vanishes without warning, Tang Yi-xun finds a letter waiting in a mailbox and writes…

Blossom

After a life of betrayal and injustice, noblewoman Dou Zhao unexpectedly wakes up years in the past, carrying her…

Love Between Lines

Xiao Zhi-yu and Hu Xiu meet during a murder mystery game set in Republican-era China, each playing a made-up character…

Fated Hearts

When her kingdom is close to defeat, the fearless archer Fu Yi-xiao turns a battle by shooting the enemy's crown…

Under the Skin

Painter Shen Yi has a rare gift: he can draw a person's face from a description alone.

Guardians of the Dafeng

A modern office worker named Yang Ling is transported into the Dafeng Dynasty, where he becomes Xu Qi-an, a low-ranking…

Coroner's Diary

Shen Wan's whole family is wiped out after being drawn into a royal scandal, and she escapes by taking on a false…

The Spirealm

Ling Jiu Shi is pulled without warning into a virtual game where he must make it through twelve doors to escape.

The Double

Xue Fang Fei loses everything when her father, a wealthy official, is thrown into prison.

Fangs of Fortune

After the goddess who kept the human and demon worlds in balance dies, monsters run wild across the land.

Ultimate Note

Wu Xie and his loud, loyal friend follow a trail that leads to a mysterious island and the story behind his uncle's…

Justice in the Dark

In a future city where rising crime is linked to people born without empathy, a murder case leads a young police…

Archives: The Nanyang Mystery

In the early Republic era, a strange killing at sea called the Water Ghost Longing for Home sends two Southern Archives…

The Bad Kids

Three children from a coastal town accidentally film a murder while on a day trip.

The Vendetta of An

At the fall of the old dynasty the dark guards who secretly ruled Chang'an vanish along with the deposed emperor.

My Journey to You

Yun Wei Shan is a spy who longs for freedom and is sent to infiltrate a mysterious clan compound.

The Long Night

A murder case looks closed: many witnesses, a confession and a suspect who was seen hiding a body.

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty

In the fifteenth century, a senior official and a guardsman look into what seems like a landlord's suicide.

Time Raiders

Wu Xie owns a small antique shop and comes across a mysterious silk manuscript.

Shining for One Thing

Lin Bei Xing is about to turn thirty when her fiancé, the boy she loved since high school, ends things to be with her…

Legend of Zang Hai

Zang Hai was the son of the Imperial Astronomer until his whole family was murdered before his eyes.

Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty

A strange herb called Black Tea sweeps through Chang'an, and reports of missing brides and eerie deaths start to fill…

The Imperial Coroner

Chu Chu comes from a family of coroners and has a rare skill in reading the dead.

A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower

A beautiful coffee-shop owner is found dead in her flat at Horizon Tower with doll-like makeup on her face, and the…

Live Surgery Room

Zheng Ren is a talented surgeon who joins a big city hospital in fulfilment of his father's dying wish.

Under the Power

Lu Yi is a ruthless, top-ranking officer in the Ming dynasty's secret police.

Medical Examiner Dr. Qin

Qin Ming is a brilliant forensic examiner with a temper that scares away every assistant.

Fall in Love

In 1926 Mu Wan Qing returns to China with her mother's ashes and a quiet plan to find out why her parents were…

Be Reborn

A criminal investigation chief hunting a stolen ancient painting crosses paths with a brilliant university student who…

A League of Nobleman

Zhang Ping is a poor orphan who comes to the capital to sit an official exam and ends up selling noodles on the street.

Love Me If You Dare

Bo Jin Yan is a brilliant criminal psychologist who can step into the minds of the most violent offenders.

Reborn

In 2007, sixteen-year-old Qing Yu and her family are tormented by rumours about her sister's death and are forced to…

Mystic Nine

When turmoil returns to Changsha, an entire army unit mysteriously vanishes.

Mobius

Detective Ding Qi discovers that at times he can rewind the same day and repeat it five times, a power he uses to solve…

Cases between Us

In the Republican era, a young man with a love of traditional culture and a talented police officer come from very…

The First Shot

In 1997, before the establishment of the Narcotics Control Bureau, a sudden drug crisis hits Halan in Northeast China.

Tomb of the Sea

Li Cu is an ordinary high school student who is attacked by a crazed man and marked with a strange tattoo.

Maiden Holmes

In the sixth century, the Qi Kingdom is at war, and a young prince is sent to repel invaders and is ambushed.

Three-Body

A nanomaterials expert starts seeing a mysterious countdown in his vision and finds himself under military…

Ordinary Greatness

Four rookie officers at a neighbourhood police station, a rebel, an upright one, a sensitive one and a determined one…

Young Blood

In the days when the Northern Song and Western Xia were at war, six young people are trained to become spies to protect…

Sunsets Secrets Regrets

On the banks of the Tong River in Haizhou, new clues emerge in a case from five years ago in which two SWAT officers…

Moonlit Reunion

Wu Zhen is known across Chang'an as a notorious dandy, the daughter of a duke and sister of the empress, with a bold…

Ancient Detective

Jian Buzhi is a detective who has lost his memory and sets out to find his father's killer.

The Sword and the Brocade

In the Ming dynasty, Yi Niang is the daughter of a concubine, chosen to marry a general in order to save her declining…

An Ancient Love Song

A modern professor accidentally travels to an ancient era and becomes obsessed with uncovering its secrets.

Parallel World

A beautiful melon seller and a shadow-puppet performer join forces to travel deep into the desert.

Detective L

In 1930s Shanghai, an intriguing crime case emerges amidst the bustling city.

The Disguiser

Set during the Sino-Japanese war, a man from a wealthy family is trained as a spy and pulled into the Communist Party's…

The Heart of Genius

On the same day her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Zhao Xi learns her longtime crush is leaving to study abroad…

The Mystic Nine

Nine powerful families known as the Old Nine Gates secretly guard the city of Changsha during the Republican era.

Memory Lost

A brilliant, amnesiac police officer searches tirelessly for a fiancée everyone insists never existed.

Legend of Fei

Fei is the granddaughter of a national hero turned outlaw, raised in a secret fort meant to guard the world from…

The Long Season

In a small northern town, a taxi driver crosses paths with someone tied to a tragedy from years ago involving his own…

Tientsin Mystic

In Republican-era Tianjin, a river plagued by strange, unexplained deaths has a guardian: a policeman who inherited his…

In Blossom

In a city known for its sins, a well-liked young man marries a widely despised woman, only for her to be murdered on…

Rattan

Decades ago, a plant spirit was hunted down and killed in Shanghai by a supernatural hunter, her remains buried at the…

When a Snail Falls in Love

Detective Ji Bai is assigned to train a new recruit, a gifted criminal profiler who reads people brilliantly but…

Chef Fang

Yi Shao is a talented young chef and an orphan who is unexpectedly forced into marrying a notorious young master as a…

Insect Detective

When a death is traced back to a rare, dangerous insect, an entomology graduate becomes the prime suspect and has to…

Riverside Code at Qingming Festival

In a bustling corner of the Song-dynasty capital, a modest, low-ranking clerk and his ambitious wife are drawn into a…

Guardian

Zhao Yunlan runs a special investigations unit tasked with handling supernatural cases that fall outside normal police…

Luoyang

In the ancient capital of Luoyang, an undercover spy investigating a string of mysterious deaths crosses paths with a…

Miss S

Set in 1930s Shanghai, dressmaker Su Wen-li has an eye for detail sharp enough to solve crimes that leave the police…

Prosecution Elite

A rotating cast of judges and prosecutors handle a string of socially charged court cases, from workplace disputes to…

Mystery Forest

Dream

Reporter Shen Yue Shui once spent months filming the workers of an old brewery, recording the everyday lives of people…

Light the Dark

In a small oil-industry town in southwest China in the late 1990s, a family’s life is shaken by a sudden accident at…

The Lament of Autumn

Set in Republican-era China while warlords carve up the country, the story follows Ye Pingjun, a student who takes a…

Death is Coming

Young lawyer Fu Ting is given one month to write psychological analyses of thirteen capital cases so he can learn from…

Hell Barrister

After dying too young, lawyer Yau Yam Yam is judged in the underworld and then hired by a deceased billionaire to look…

Shadow Punisher

Li Si, who also goes by Master Qingyang, joins the imperial Divine Constable Bureau on purpose, hoping to uncover how…

Love Legend

Yun Shao, a young woman from a powerful clan, is marked for a blood ritual by her own family and barely survives it.

Yu Hong Jiu Shi

It's the 1990s in an industrial city in northeast China that is slowly fading.

Thunder Chaser

Narcotics squad captain Bai Hua takes a group of young officers, including Zhuang Yan and Li Xiao, into an escalating…

A Prophet

A secretive sect makes its fortune preying on the desperate, reading fake fates for real money.

Burnout in Limbo

On a remote island at the turn of the century, on the night before a dangerous typhoon, a series of seemingly chance…

Unvoiced

Prosecutor Fang Wei and a small team (Xu Yishan, Chang Kaixin and Zhou Yan) take on a high-profile murder case that…

Abyss

A quiet, conservative town is shaken when a web novel appears whose made-up story matches every detail of a long-cold…

Phoenix Sleuth

In the early years of the Republic of China, a strange death inside the police force and the murder of a wealthy…

Cicada

A criminal defence lawyer, whose birth father is a kidnapper and whose stepfather is a police detective, crosses paths…

Ash

Undercover officer Mok Fei Foon crosses paths with Hui Leuk To, CEO of the Tinping Group — both men hiding behind…

Love For You

In the late 1990s, Miao Jing and Chen Yi become step-siblings after their parents begin a relationship.

The Unclouded Soul

For centuries, both the human race and the demon race have been locked in endless conflict over the Jade Wine Divine…

Word of Honor

Zhou Zishu, a weary former leader of an elite organization that protected the throne, walks away from his old life and…