2023 Chinese Drama List

Chinese Dramas like The Nest

CPOP HOME collects the best Chinese dramas which the genres and plots are similar to The Nest.

  • Mr. & Mrs. Chen

    #1

    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....
  • My Roommate Is a Detective

    #2

    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...
  • The Truth of Scent

    #3

    Suspense, Crime, Thriller
    Yao Chi, Kevin Xiao, Gong Wanyi
    Wen Xiang is a young girl who just suffered a tragic family murder case. She has special powers. She meets a degenerate detective, Wang Ya. They help a magician, Mo Xe, who is involved in a murder case, to clear his name, and together they start the Wen Xiang Detective Agency. The three of them unravel the "fog" and solve a number of strange cases, but they also gradually "smell" the...
  • The Disguiser

    #4

    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...
  • Detective L

    #5

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Bai Yu, You Jingru
    In 1930s Shanghai, when people were asleep, bizarre cases were quietly unfolding in a corner of the city. A beautiful girl, Qin Xiaoman, who has just graduated from the police academy, arrives in the British Concession with the ambition of becoming an outstanding police detective. She lives in Shaliwen flat and becomes neighbors and colleagues with Luo Fei, a police detective who has...
  • Killer And Healer

    #6

    Suspense, Thriller, Crime
    Mao Zijun, Ian Yi
    In troubled times, things are changing. Jiang Yuelou, the head of the Police Station, is both good and evil, making smugglers scared of criminals. While pursuing an opium case in Hong Kong, he meets Churan and Chen Yuzhi, and the three become close friends. Chen Yu Zhi discovers Jiang Yue Lou’s bipolar disorder, and Jiang Yue Lou goes from initially refusing treatment to befriending...
  • Please Give Me a Pair of Wings

    #7

    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...
  • THE REBEL

    #8

    Political, War, Crime
    Zhu Yilong, Tong Yao, Wang Zhiwen
    In 1936, a young Renaissance Society cadre training class participant, Lin Nansheng, was taken to Shanghai by Chen Moqun, the Shanghai district chief of the Renaissance Society. Chen Moqun got a contact site of the Shanghai underground from a traitor and analyzed that Zhu Yizhen, a student of HJU, was the liaison of the Shanghai Committee of the Communist Party. Chen Moqun asks Lin...
  • Provoke

    #9

    Suspense, Thriller, Romance
    Zhao Yiqin, Daisy Li
    In the early 20th century Tang City, the top singer of Xin Xian Lin, Jiang Ying, carefully planned to marry wealthy merchant Du Jingchuang to complete her revenge plan. Du Jingchuang's son, Du Xunyu, suspected that Jiang Ying had ulterior motives, but almost revealed his own identity as a fake son. The stepmother and stepson who lived under the same roof were at odds with each other,...
  • Tientsin Mystic

    #10

    Historical, Suspense, Horror
    Li Xian, Zhang Ming'en, Wang Zixuan
    During the Republic of China period, the floods in Tianjin were frequent, and the river was full of strange and disorderly things. Guo Deyou, the captain of the five river corpse retrieval team of the police bureau, has been deeply taught by the master’s “Old River God”, and his skill of lighting a cigarette to identify injustice has comforted countless unjust souls. When the...
  • Psych-Hunter

    #11

    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...
  • Arsenal Military Academy

    #12

    Action, Military, Romance
    Bai Lu, Xu Kai, Toby Lee
    Xie Xiang, a kind-hearted and upright girl, entered the army in place of her brother, pretending to be a man. She studied at the army academy, where she became classmates with the cynical and wealthy Gu Yanzhen and the calm Shen Junshan. Under the strict and cruel training regime of the military academy, Xie Xiang not only had to try to conceal her secret of pretending to be a man...
  • Autumn Cicada

    #13

    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,...
  • Love In Han Yuan

    #14

    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...
  • Best Enemy

    #15

    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...
  • Love in Flames of War

    #16

    Romance, Drama
    Shawn Dou, Chen Duling
    During the warlord era, Lin Hangjing, a talented young girl, sought refuge with her father’s best friend, Marshal Xiao, because her father was framed and sent to jail. In spite of being under the roof, she was neither humble nor pert. Xiao Beichen, the domineering third son of the Xiao family, was attracted to her strength and independence from his initial bullying of her. Marshal...
  • Granting You a Dreamlike Life

    #17

    Youth, Romance
    Zhu Yilong
    Lin Jing Yun, an internationally acclaimed young food critic, comes to Dongjiang to seek the cuisine and take the opportunity to start a journey to find her roots. At this time, the Lin family’s old house where her grandmother lived has long been transformed into a restaurant specializing in traditional Dongjiang cuisine, and Lin comes to taste it. In accordance with the restaurant’s...
  • Rookie Agent Rouge

    #18

    War, Romance, Political
    Zhao Liying, Lu Yi, Tao Xinran
    In 1937, the Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion of China, sparking strong patriotic sentiments among the Chinese people. Shanghai progressive young woman, Lan Yanzhi, and her university classmates took to the streets together, calling for a boycott of Japanese goods to support the frontline soldiers. However, due to a lecture activity, Yanzhi coincidentally became involved...
  • Battle of Changsha

    #19

    Military, War, Romance
    Wallace Huo, Yang Zi
    In October 1938, after the Japanese army had captured Wuhan, the city of Changsha was in danger. Faced with the sudden war, people in the city were on tenterhooks and many people fled with their families. Xue Junshan, the grandson-in-law of the Hu family in Chayuan Lane, with the cooperation of his family, tried every possible means to arrange a way out for Xiangxiang and Xiaoman,...
  • Butterfly Shadow

    #20

    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...
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