2025 Chinese Drama List

Chinese Dramas like Chasing the Undercurrent

CPOP HOME collects the best Chinese dramas which the genres and plots are similar to Chasing the Undercurrent.

  • The Thunder

    #1

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Huang Jingyu, Wu Gang, Wang Jingsong
    A multinational drug trafficking syndicate from abroad colludes with local lawless elements in Dongshan to carry out large-scale underground methamphetamine production, with the aim of selling large quantities of methamphetamine to China's inland provinces and overseas for high profits. In this complex and dangerous environment, the anti-narcotics police officers, represented by Li...
  • Dark Night and Dawn

    #2

    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...
  • Drifting Away

    #3

    Crime, Suspense
    Guo Jingfei, Wang Qianyuan, Zhao Jinmai
    In the winter of 2002, Peng Zhaolin, the captain of the Snow City criminal police, received a report about a murder case in a residential building. After searching the crime scene, the police gathered information on four suspects, led by Deng Ligang, who had already fled to another province. The police tracked them across multiple provinces, but the criminal gang suddenly disappeared...
  • Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Mind Reader

    #4

    Suspense, Crime, Medical
    Zhang Yao, Tang Min, Peng Chuyue
    Qin Ming, a new graduate student, comes to his mother’s hometown, Longfan, to investigate the mystery of his mother’s murder. In the process of solving the case, Qin Ming, who is not good at socializing with others, encounters a group of forensic doctors and police officers, including An Ran, Lin Tao, and Huan Huan. Qin Ming, a forensic scientist, has grown from youth to maturity...
  • Inference Notes

    #5

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Zhang Zifeng, Neo Hou, Wang Duo
    A heart transplant operation gives a young girl, Xia Zao'an, a dual personality, and her second personality, named Edison, has the ability of Reasoning. Edison draws Xia Zao'an into a series of serial murder plots. To help her friend Xia Zao'an find out the secret behind Edison's personality, deductive genius Mi Kaka forms a school genius crime-solving team with her. The kidnapping...
  • Day Breaker

    #6

    Suspense, Crime, Thriller
    Li Yifeng, Song Yi, Stephen Fung
    Luo Xiang, once a narcotics cop, faked his death during an undercover operation. Five years later, he changes his name and impersonates his former self to enter the drug traffickers organization once again, and maneuvers among his former lover, brother, and enemy, finally completing his mission successfully and finding out who is behind the crime.
  • Chase The Truth

    #7

    Suspense, Crime, Thriller
    Wang Ziqi, Tian Yu, Su Xiaotong
    In order to track down his mother Lin Ke, Chu Yihan goes undercover to infiltrate the "Northwest Wolves" crime syndicate, and by coincidence, has a series of encounters with Gu Linna.
  • The Dance of the Storm

    #8

    Urban, Suspense, Thriller
    William Chan, Gulnazar
    In his childhood, Li Junjie had a happy family, with both parents being top scientists. When he was 12 years old, his parents died in an accident in Bincheng. He was sent back to his hometown Chonghai. At the orphanage, Li Junjie met Shi Yunhao, and Li Junjie’s active protection made them best friends. Afterward, Li and Shi befriended Chen Gang, who just liked their brother and father....
  • Stealth Walker

    #9

    Action, Crime, Suspense
    Lin Peng, Zheng Yecheng, Li Zifeng
    After Cheng Ji, an anti-drug captain in Lingnan City, is killed in the course of his duty, Lin Qiang, a police cadet, is mistakenly taken by a drug dealer as a trader, and the police force arranges for Lin to hide her identity and start an undercover mission to collect evidence of the drug dealer’s crime. While infiltrating Qiu Hu’s group, Lin Qiang befriends Zhang Xianhe, the adopted...
  • Memory Lost

    #10

    Romance, Suspense, Crime
    Yang Rong, Bai Yu
    Season 1 During a mission, the female police officer Bai Jinxi and the mysterious man Han Chen met by mistake. Later, when investigating a rape case, they met again, and Han Chen’s identity turns out to be a veteran criminal police officer. They worked together to solve cases, and Han Chen’s application of traditional criminal investigation methods also impressed Bai Jinxi. In...
  • Always on the Move

    #11

    Crime, Suspense, Drama
    Bai Jingting, Gina Jin, Ding Yongdai
    In the late 1970s, on a steam train from Ningyang to Hacheng, a young railway police officer, Wang Xin, was shuttling through the bustling passengers on duty. He mistook Ma Kui, an old railroad policeman, for a fugitive, and then their story began. From mutual dislike of each other to appreciating each other, Wang Xin and Ma Kui fought side by side in the front line of railroad public...
  • The Knockout

    #12

    Crime, Action, Drama
    Zhang Yi, Zhang Songwen, Li Yitong
    An Xin, a front-line criminal police officer in Jinghai City, was constantly attacked by "protective umbrellas" in his struggle against gang crimes and was never able to bring the criminals to justice. After the national crackdown on gang crimes is launched, Linjiang Province sent a steering team to Jinghai and joined hands with the various departments of the public prosecutor, the...
  • Best Enemy

    #13

    Action, Suspense, Thriller
    Gao Zhiting, Wang Sen, Chen Yao
    In 1939, to combat the collaborationist Wang puppet government's secret organization known as "No.76," the Military Statistics Bureau (Military Intelligence) established the Xin An Training Class. Childhood friends Chen Kehai and Fang Li joined forces with the hope of resisting the Japanese and saving their country. The harsh experiences in the training class revealed the true nature...
  • The First Shot

    #14

    Crime, Suspense
    Huang Jingyu, Zhang Yu, Wang Ziqi
    In 1997, before the Drug Enforcement Administration was established, the sudden outbreak of a drug crisis prompted the northeastern city of Halan to assemble an elite team. Each member had their own strengths, but they knew nothing about the new types of drugs. These young detectives not only had to face the ruthless drug cartels and their cunning smuggling methods but also had to endure...
  • Spy Game

    #15

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Han Geng, Wei Daxun, Li Yitong
    In 2021, in Jinhai, China, a game called "Spy Game" was becoming popular among young people. Little did anyone know that this game was actually created by the foreign intelligence organization known as "Night Mist". "Night Mist" used the game to secretly engage players in espionage activities under unknown circumstances and to recruit potential spies from among the players. The sinister...
  • Truth

    #16

    Crime, Suspense, Thriller
    Chen Xingxu, Gai Yuexi
    The drama focuses on the story of the prosecutorial technicians, represented by Lin Lan and Lin Yuanhao, who use advanced professional technology to help prosecutors break through bottlenecks in difficult cases and overcome “zero confession” cases.
  • Route

    #17

    Suspense, Crime, Comedy
    Ming Dow, Jiang Kaitong
    The star Gong Li, who was plagued by negative news, and Zhou Yinyuan, a psychology graduate who pretended to be an astrologer, were both involved in a murder case. In the hunting and persecution of the conglomerate and kidnappers, the two became scapegoats in the eyes of all parties, and every step they took led them into another even more devastating and bizarre conspiracy. However,...
  • The Long Season

    #18

    Family, Suspense, Thriller
    Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao
    In the small town of Hualin, taxi driver Wang Xiang never dreamt that he would have the chance to meet the person he both most wanted to see and feared the most in his lifetime. Was it an enemy or a friend from the past? Whatever it was, he knew he needed to face it and give an explanation to himself and his son. In the past, when Wang Xiang was a train driver, he felt invincible, but...
  • Target Person

    #19

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Bai Jingting, Vision Wei, Zhang Yujian
    Hao Ran, Zhang Sirui, Wei Ziyou, Ke Tan, Qin Sen, Ou Ke travel to an abandoned base in Mang Cheng to play a secret room escape game and carry out brain-bending deductions to uncover the conspiracies behind the criminal website.
  • Imperfect Victim

    #20

    Suspense, Crime, Thriller
    Zhou Xun, Liu Yijun, Lin Yun
    A third party anonymously reported a case of workplace sexual assault in which the female victim, Zhao Xuan, denied being harmed in the first instance, only to report the alleged rape to the police five days later. The defendant's defense lawyer, Lin Kan, intervened early in the investigation and overturned the evidence presented by the victim's allegations with irrefutable statutory...
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