2025 Chinese Drama List

Chinese Dramas like A Lonely Hero's Journey

CPOP HOME collects the best Chinese dramas which the genres and plots are similar to A Lonely Hero's Journey.

  • Shooting Stars

    #1

    War, Suspense, Drama
    Li Xian, Ren Min
    During the war, Shao Yi, who came from a family of senior Kuomintang officials, was about to join the navy and realise his dream of becoming a ship's captain. But an unexpected trip to Shanghai changed Shao Yi's life forever. He changes his name to Xia Jicheng and becomes a junior police officer in a rundown police station. It is here that Xia Jicheng meets two of the most important...
  • Deep Lurk

    #2

    War, Suspense, Thriller
    Cheng Yi, Ying Er
    During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army, aiming to secure control over Changsha, activated "Black Butler," a strategic agent who had been covertly stationed in China for 15 years, to execute a long-planned deception strategy. Yun Muzhi, a member of the Chinese Communist underground, was killed while investigating "Black Butler." Yun Hongshen, unaware of his father's true identity,...
  • Lost Identity

    #3

    War, Suspense
    Huang Jingyu, Xin Zhilei
    In 1945, as the end of the War of Resistance approaches, the Japanese army secretly transports a large number of gas bombs to China. Military intelligence ace agent Ou Xiao'an is injured while escaping from the gas research institute "810" and is unexpectedly saved by fellow agent Qin Moqing. Upon waking, he discovers that he has lost nearly four years of his memory. In the process...
  • Autumn Cicada

    #4

    War, Military, Suspense
    Ren Jialun, Li Man
    In the winter of 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese and the Chinese Communist Party's underground organisation in Hong Kong was severely damaged. A member of the Communist Party, Ye Chong, codenamed "Autumn Cicada", is sent on a "top-secret mission" to the Japanese military headquarters in Hong Kong. The cunning Japanese army has cut off all means of communication of the organization,...
  • The Disguiser

    #5

    War, Action, Suspense
    Hu Ge, Jin Dong, Liu Mintao
    During the anti-Japanese war, Mingtai, a young man from a wealthy family, was on his way to study at the University of Hong Kong. He was kidnapped by Wang Tianfeng, a senior officer of the National Military Council Research and Statistics, and taken to the training course, where he underwent a tough training program and became a good agent of the National Military Council Research...
  • Butterfly Shadow

    #6

    War, Drama, Suspense
    Feng Yue, Wei Daxun, He Ziming
    During the resistance against Japan, military intelligence agent Lin Qiuyan was tasked with destroying the Japanese "Scorpion Beauty Plan" in Shanghai. In the list of puppet government officials she was to assassinate, she discovered the name of her former lover Zhang Zimo. Her feelings towards her superior Zhou Tianhao also changed during each mission. One was an old love in enemy...
  • In the Name of the Brother

    #7

    Suspense, Political, Historical
    Qin Hao, Yang Mi
    In the spring and summer of 1945, Communist intelligence operative Song Zhuowen successfully infiltrated the Harbin Special Service Division of the puppet Manchukuo regime. Utilizing his exceptional deductive skills and meticulous approach, Song gained the admiration of his superiors while also drawing jealousy and covert hostility from his colleagues. In order to uncover the location...
  • Young Blood 2

    #8

    Historical, Youth, Suspense
    Zhang Xincheng, Zhou Yutong, Wang Youshuo
    During the Qingli period, the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to avoid war and maintain peace and stability among various ethnic groups, trained young spies under the name of the "Secret Court ". After a rigorous selection and vetting process, six youths - the intelligent Yuan Zhongxin, the beautiful and clever Zhao Jian, the never-killing Xiaojing, the never-lying Wang Kuan, the unsociable...
  • Dark Night and Dawn

    #9

    Suspense, Drama, Crime
    Chen Zheyuan, Nie Yuan
    In 1943, a shocking explosion case in Shanghai brought together Lu Zhengyang, an underground Communist Party member, and Lin Shaobai, a former police officer. Both men demonstrated their unique skills during this initial encounter. Six years later, after the liberation of Shanghai, Lu Zhengyang became a key figure in the city’s public security bureau’s anti-espionage unit. Faced...
  • Storm Eye

    #10

    Urban, Crime, Suspense
    Yang Mi, Vin Zhang
    Ma Shang (Zhang Binbin), a national security investigator, is on a special investigation mission and is ordered to follow Chen Can, a foreign spy, to Shuangqing City. In the process of surveillance and investigation, Ma Shang discovers that Chen Can is just nobody at the bottom of a multinational spy organization, which has been mobilized to steal the “DS material synthesis technology”...
  • My Roommate Is a Detective

    #11

    Suspense, Comedy, Thriller
    Hu Yitian, Zhang Yunlong, Xiao Yan
    After 14 years of the Republic of China, Lu Yao, a playboy who has returned from studying in England, was invited to be a detective consultant by Qiao Chusheng, a detective with extraordinary skills, due to his superb intelligence and reasoning ability. Afterward, they form a detective squad with a female reporter, Bai Youning, working together to solve seemingly treacherous murder...
  • Under the Power

    #12

    Historical, Suspense, Romance
    Ren Jialun, Tan Songyun
    Yuan Jinxia, a gifted female constable of Liushan Yamen, was in a feud with each other with the ruthless Imperial Guard, Lu Yi because of a case. Jinxia thought she would never meet him again in her life, but things went athwart. The court money to repair the river disappeared, Jinxia was ordered to go to Yangzhou to assist Lu Yi to investigate the case and retrieve the lost official...
  • Story of Kunning Palace

    #13

    Historical, Romance, Fantasy
    Bai Lu, Zhang Linghe
    Jiang Xuening once struggled hard to become a queen, only to be driven to suicide in a palace mutiny. Now, Jiang Xuening's dream is to get away from power and take charge of her own life. But by chance she enters the palace as a companion, becoming a student of the imperial teacher Xie Wei, and meets Xue Shu, the niece of Empress Dowager Xue, who enters the palace at the same time....
  • Guardian

    #14

    Suspense, Fantasy, Thriller
    Bai Yu, Zhu Yilong
    Ten thousand years ago, in order to seize the survival resources of the planet “Hai Xing”, the extremists among the “Di Xing Ren” attacked the whole planet, triggering a prehistoric war between the “Di Xing Ren” and the “Hai Xing Ren”. In order to fight against the “Di Xing Ren” who have supernatural powers, the “Hai Xing Ren” built four sacred weapons. Under...
  • Joy of Life

    #15

    Historical, Suspense, Fantasy
    Zhang Ruoyun, Li Qin, Chen Daoming
    Zhang Qing, a student of literary history at a university, was well versed in classical masterpieces, but his thesis proposition of analyzing ancient literary history with modern concepts was not approved by Professor Ye. In order to make Professor Ye his graduate advisor, Zhang Qing decided to further elaborate on the point he wanted to make by writing a novel. In his novel, Fan Xian,...
  • Love Me If You Dare

    #16

    Urban, Suspense, Romance
    Wallace Huo, Ma Sichun
    A mysterious criminal psychologist, Bo Jinyan, recruited a senior student, Jian Yao, as a translator and life assistant. On the one hand, he taught Jian Yao with his high intelligence and professional knowledge and trained her to be a detective assistant. They worked together to solve difficult murder cases such as the serial disappearance of teenagers. On the other hand, Bo Jinyan...
  • Reset

    #17

    Suspense, Thriller, Sci-fi
    Bai Jingting, Zhao Jinmai
    Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing, two ordinary people who lack the aura of protagonists, experience life and death challenges again and again to achieve self-growth. The passengers on the bus, with different identities and experiences, have their own dilemmas and hopes for their future lives. Through their experiences, one can see the thickness of life, the gesture of survival, and feel the...
  • Spy Hunter

    #18

    War, Suspense, Thriller
    Qin Junjie, Xu Lu
    In the spring of 1931, the Central Committee set up red transport stations in Shanghai, Dapu in Guangdong, and Harbin, which were directly subordinated to the Central Transport Bureau. A group of Red agents, "Yan Gang" and "Qing Ci", attempted to establish a new underground route and set up a secret warehouse to escort important supplies of the CPC Central Committee and important underground...
  • Love In Han Yuan

    #19

    War, Romance, Action
    Kevin Yan, Song Yi
    When her father is killed by a traitor, Lu Hanzhi's family falls into a hard time and she goes to fight against the war. As fate would have it, the two men whose fates are closely linked to Lu Hanzhi's belong to two opposing camps. Gao Chen, who ostensibly works for the traitors, is actually an intelligence agent for the Chinese Communist Party underground. Han Shoumin, who ostensibly...
  • Mr. & Mrs. Chen

    #20

    Suspense, Romance, Crime
    Guan Xiaotong, Elvis Han
    In 1940 Shanghai, Chen Jiaping, an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party codenamed "Mei Hua Si", is on a mission when he runs into his former fiancée Zuo Shuangtao at a critical moment when he is almost exposed. At this time, Zuo Shuangtao is already a spy of the Kuomintang military system and is looking for a way out of her predicament after a failed assassination mission....
  • Sparrow

    #21

    Suspense, Political, Romance
    Li Yifeng, Zhou Dongyu
    In March 1940, Wang Jingwei Reorganized National Government was established. The Japanese army invaded China, tracking down and arresting in Shanghai for anti-Japanese fighters. The Wang Jingwei Reorganized National Government set up a “Special Operations Division” headed by Bi Zhongliang, a former Kuomintang officer, to support the enemy. Chen Shen, a member of the Chinese Communist...
  • The Long Ballad

    #22

    Historical, Youth, Romance
    Dilraba Dilmurat, Leo Wu, Zhao Lusi
    In the ninth year of the Tang Dynasty, there is a sudden change in the inner palace, and Li Changge (Dilraba Dilmurat ), the daughter of the former prince, escapes and goes to Youzhou for help. On the way, Changge meets Ashina Sun (Leo Wu), a secret agent of a grassland tribe who uses the name Qin Zhun, and they become close to each other. Changge smashes a conspiracy in Youzhou,...
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