2023 Chinese Drama List

Chinese Dramas like Butterfly Shadow

CPOP HOME collects the best Chinese dramas which the genres and plots are similar to Butterfly Shadow.

  • The Disguiser

    #1

    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...
  • Autumn Cicada

    #2

    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,...
  • Checkmate

    #3

    Suspense, Drama, Thriller
    Hu Yitian, Zhang Yunlong, Zhang Xinyu
    A young lawyer in Beiping, Situ Yan, was dismissed from his job for sticking to the law and came to Harbin to become a detective. In a series of cases, he befriended his straightforward friend Luo Shaochuan and got to know Zhou Mowan, who dares to love and hate. Together they revealed the conspiracy.
  • Infernal Affairs

    #4

    Suspense, Thriller, Drama
    Jin Dong, Wang Likun, Wang Zhiwen
    During the period of the puppet government under the rule of Wang Jingwei in the Anti-Japanese War, Lu Feng, who grew up in an orphanage, was ordered to undercover in number 76 but almost blew his cover due to the suspicious Shen Xiao. Eventually, Lu Feng successfully infiltrated number 76 with his superior intelligence and became the highest-ranking special agent. However, he did not...
  • Best Enemy

    #5

    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...
  • Spy Hunter

    #6

    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...
  • Wonderful Hand

    #7

    Romance, Drama, Suspense
    Bosco Wong, Zhang Yishang
    In the 1930s, Lin Hao, the chief instructor of the mysterious organization "Hei Feng", escapes from the control of the organization by faking his death during a mission. He hides as a doctor in the Clinic of Wu family on the city suburbs and prepares to start a new life, but his encounters drag him into the centre of the "whirlpool" again. During his medical practice, Lin Hao meets...
  • Love In Han Yuan

    #8

    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

    #9

    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

    #10

    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...
  • 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...
  • A Love Never Lost

    #12

    Action, Drama, War
    Li Xian, Jessie Li, Wei Daxun
    After the Gengzi misfortune, the land of China was full of devastation, and young people with aspirations rose to save their country. Liangxiang, Yang Kaizhi, Li Renjun became the first group of progressive youths to study in the Japanese cadet school, and met the revolutionary exiles Yu Tianbai and Qiu Hong on the cruise ship, from then on the five people’s fates were closely linked....
  • The Indomitable Mission

    #13

    Military, War, Thriller
    Qin Junjie, Adi Kan
    Zhao Yunfei, an officer of the Kuomintang's Military Intelligence Bureau responsible for reviewing the red propaganda of the Communist Party, was inspired by the truth and the determined character of our Party's covert front fighters during his daily work, and decided that the Communist Party was the party that would save China and the people, thus establishing his belief in communism....
  • The Nest

    #14

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Han Dong, Song Yi
    In January 1933, the Japanese army captured Shanhaiguan and occupied Chengde in March, the anti-Japanese situation in North China was precarious. In Shanghai, the multinational forces are clashing and the dark current is surging. Gu Pan, an agent of Qing Shan Military Academy, works with Tian Qiaojie and Tan Zhongwen to complete the mission of her mentor Pu Cong, and is secretly arranged...
  • The Message

    #15

    Suspense, Thriller, Military
    Xu Lu, Janice Man, Zhou Yiwei
    In 1941, Gu Xiaomeng, a KMT agent, succeeds in infiltrating in Wang Jingwei's government. But because of the assassination of a senior officer of the Japanese Intelligence Department, she is captured by the Japanese secret service chief, Long Chuan Fei Yuan, and the head of the secret service of Wang Jingwei's government, Wang Tianxiang, together with his colleagues, Li Ningyu, Jin...
  • Thin Ice

    #16

    Suspense, Thriller, Drama
    Peng Guanying, Yukee Chen
    In 1944 Shanghai, a top agent of the Military Intelligence Bureau with the code name "Lu Bu", Chen Qian, disguised himself as a Japanese secret envoy named "Qian Jing Guang Fu" to infiltrate the enemy's Meimei Agency in order to disrupt a shocking conspiracy by the Japanese. He went deep into the enemy camp and successfully thwarted Japan's attempt to seize uranium ore resources. During...
  • Defying The Storm

    #17

    War, Romance, Drama
    Hu Yitian, Zhang Ruonan
    In 1937, Beiping and Tianjin were occupied by the enemy. In order to preserve the “fire seed” of culture, several universities in the north decided to move south to Changsha. Soon after, Changsha was also at war. Meng Haitang, who was a lecturer at the medical school of National Peking University, escorted the young students to Chongqing. During the escort, Meng Haitang Kang Lanshan...
  • Please Give Me a Pair of Wings

    #18

    Suspense, Thriller, Romance
    Ju Jingyi, Aaron Yan, Han Dong
    In the 1920s, police chief Lin Aodong is shot dead and his adopted daughter, Lin Jiuge, is imprisoned after being falsely identified as the murderer. Jiuge struggles to survive in prison, navigating the various forces in the prison and fighting against the " behind the scenes " forces from outside the prison. Since Jiuge's imprisonment, police officer Long Tianyu has been investigating...
  • City of Streamer

    #19

    Romance, Suspense, Thriller
    Jing Tian, Timmy Xu, Jing Chao
    In the early twentieth century, Shanghai was under the rule of warlords and revolutionary thinking was on the rise. The Rong family was rich but unkind, committing many heinous crimes. In order to do justice, Feng Shizhen embarks on the road of revenge. She successfully goes undercover to the Rong family and becomes the tutor of Rong Jiashang. Then, a game that stirs up the fate of...
  • Psych-Hunter

    #20

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Neo Hou, Zhu Xudan, Liu Dongqin
    Housing agent Jiang Shuo is the only survivor of the case of seven people who disappeared in Changshanzhou a year ago. The only clue about the case is hidden in Jiang Shu's lost memories. In order to find the truth about the case, Jiang Shuo, psychiatrist Qin Yiheng, and "weird cop" Yuan Muqing are drawn into a nightmare game to find the murderer "Six Fingers", in which Jiang Shuo's...
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