13 Dramas Like Go Go Squid!

The world is becoming obsessed with Chinese dramas, and if you’re suffering from this obsession, too, then you have landed on the right land.

Go Go Squid! Revolves around Han Shang Yank and Tong Nian, who find their paths aligned with each other. Han Shang is a cool former legend in the CTF cyber-security esports world. After retirement, the legend decided to set up his own esports club known as K&K. In this club, young teenage boys are trained to become professional esports athletes.

One day, while Tong Nian, a computer science genius and part-time online singer, is helping her cousin at his internet café, she sees Han Shang walk in. She falls for him at first sight and finds herself wanting to get close to him.

After a few futile attempts and a series of coincidences later, when they spend time together, Han Shang starts to soften toward her and enjoy her company. Meanwhile, Tong Nian begins getting involved in K&K’s activities and professional esports. With their paths already aligned, love is on its way for these two, too!

If you have also watched Go Go Squid! and don’t know what to watch next or want to know which show to watch that will give you exactly the same feelings you once felt, then worry not. Here are some of the top romance/ rom-com dramas that you can watch right now!

A Love So Beautiful

In the show A Love So Beautiful, Chen Xiao Xi and Jiang Chen are high school classmates at Chenxi Secondary School as well as neighbors. While Xiao Xi is a cheerful girl who doesn’t study much, Jiang Chen is popularly known for his high grades and exceptionally good looks. Xiao Xi has an innocent crush on Jiang Chen and tries her best to get his attention, but her attempts are fruitless.

Lu Yang is the funny one, Jing Xiao is the athletic and loyal friend, and Wu Bo Song is the cool swimming team member in their group. Together, all of them begin a journey from high school that goes up to their adult life. From love to friendship to family, the show touches on some really important feelings any human can feel.

• Release Date: 9 November 2017 – 7 December 2017
• Episodes: 23
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: WeTV, Viki, Netflix

About Is Love

As a high-ranking corporate executive, Wei Qing looks like he has it all: money, power, and respect. But underneath that lies a boy deeply wounded who is scarred by his past and struggles with OCD. Due to that, he has never been able to interact with women comfortably.

On one not-so-fine night, he meets Zhou Shi, an art student who surprisingly doesn’t trigger his OCD. Seeing that he feels at ease with her, they strike up an agreement to help him in an odd way. However, these two are clueless as to what the future holds for them.

• Release Date: 3 December 2018 – 26 December 2018
• Episodes: 30
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: TencentVideo, WeTV, Viki

Accidentally In Love

Chen Qing Qing is the heiress of a rich family who wants answers, real answers, about her parent’s death. She desperately wants to escape an arranged marriage to find love on her own terms. So she flees town on her wedding day and heads straight to the college where her parents studied. To start afresh and hide her real identity, she changes her appearance to blend in perfectly.

In college, she meets Si Tu Feng, her school deskmate who also happens to be a famous singer. They start off on the wrong foot and butt heads constantly, making each other’s life hell. But what begins as hate usually turns into love. So will that happen for these two, too, or are they not meant to be? While looking for her answers, maybe the heiress just might stumble on love for herself, too!

• Release Date: 8 August 2018 – 29 August 2018
• Episodes: 30
• Duration: 30min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: Netflix

Cute Programmer

Lu Li enrolled in school to study computer programming after she fell in love with Jiang Yi Cheng, a genius programmer. After getting into the school he once studied at, she works hard, setting the man as her idol, and even gets good grades. However, when Lu Li graduates and decides to work at Jiang Yi’s company, she discovers that the company only hires men.

Disappointed at the news, Lu Li decides to change tactics. She disguises herself as a man and joins the company, but there, she is met with great difficulties.

Time passes, and she works hard until an opportunity throws itself at her feet. She makes an agreement with Jiang Yi Cheng to stay together as a contact couple for a year. But just like distance makes the heart grow fonder, proximity also makes these feelings of love grow stronger.

• Release Date: 10 September 2021 – 1 October 2021
• Episodes: 30
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: TencentVideo, Viki, WeTV, Prime Video

Intense Love

Actress Su Jin Bei might have all the beauty and popularity a celebrity can ever dream of; however, that comes with its own downsides. As an actress, Su Jin is also a magnet that attracts unfounded controversies. She is good at flirting but can’t seem to get any further than that with a man.

Zhou Shi Yun, a doctor with looks and money, is a perfectionist who likes to be in control. He is also indifferent when it comes to things that don’t matter to him. Both of them refuse to have their marriage arranged by their parents, but even if love is destined, can these two wait for their own destined lovers?

• Release Date: 2 May 2020 – 25 May 2020
• Episodes: 24
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Mango TV
• Where To Watch: Viki, WeTV, MGTV

Love Designer

Zhou Fang is a fashion designer who meets Song Lin, a man in the e-commerce industry, due to a lawsuit. Zhou Fang dedicates her time to creating a sophisticated brand that people can love, whereas Song Lin has been working hard for a breakthrough in his career.

They are as opposite as two people can be but are still forced to cooperate with each other because of their intertwined work lives. When these two hard-headed people are put together in a room, conflicts and competition are bound to happen. But in the midst of their personal fights, can their feelings for each other evolve, too?

• Release Date: 19 May 2020 – 21 June 2020
• Episodes: 45
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Hunan TV
• Where To Watch: Viki, WeTV, iQIYI

My Girl

Meng Hui is a makeup artist who started her own small line of homemade cosmetics. After an accident, she developed a dissociative identity disorder, causing her to switch between two different personalities at any time. During one such episode, she meets Shen Yi, CEO of a big cosmetics company.

When she declares herself as his girlfriend, Shen Yi has no choice but to play along. He would have ended this play had he not learned about a liquid foundation developed by Meng Hui that could change the cosmetics industry. Interested in this formula, Shen Yi plays along, but as time slowly passes, will their feelings turn real? 

• Release Date: 17 June 2020 – 9 July 2020
• Episodes: 24
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Youku
• Where To Watch: Viki

My Little Happiness

All Cong Rong has ever wanted was to become a lawyer, but all her mom wants is to send her abroad to study finance and see her settle down successfully there. Cong Rong has tried everything to convince her mom, but after several defeats, she decides to do as told by her mom.

However, Cong Rong secretly returns home after lying to her mom and begins working as a legal intern. Her first case brings her childhood friend, Wen Shao Qing, into her life. Shao Qing is all grown up, working as a surgeon, and surprisingly, is also her landlord and next-door neighbor. As they draw closer to each other, will they love to find a way to bloom for these two?

• Release Date: 13 January 2021 – 27 January 2021
• Episodes: 28
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: WeTV, Viki

Put Your Head On My Shoulder

Put Your Head On My Shoulder follows Situ Mo, who is a graduating student but doesn’t have the courage to make a final decision for her future. She has always had her life planned out for her, but suddenly, she doesn’t know what to do. When the school districts merge, bringing Gu Weiyi, a physics major, into her life, her whole daily routine shakes up.

The duo clash and accidentally end up living together, but can they manage to sort out their feelings about each other as well as their separate futures?

• Release Date: 10 April 2019 – 8 May 2019
• Episodes: 24
• Duration: 42min
• Original Network: Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: WeTV, Netflix, Viki, TencentVideo

Tears In Heaven

Du Xiao Su is an entertainment reporter who risks her life just to get a picture of a person. When an upcoming star gets into a car accident, Du Xiao disguises as a nurse and sneaks into the hospital to click a picture of the star. That’s when she meets Shao Zhen Rong, the doctor on duty, and so it begins their relationship.

However, when they involve their families to discuss their marriage, Du Xiao learns that she knows Shao Zhen’s brother, Lei Yu Zheng. He is the same man she had spent a night with years ago. As life complicates the trio’s relationship, will they find a way to let go and learn to let new things in? Or will they let their pain control their lives?

• Release Date: 23 June 2021 – 24 July 2021
• Episodes: 41
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: iQIYI LeTV Mango TV Tencent Video Youku
• Where To Watch: Viki, TencentVideo

The Brightest Star In The Sky

Yang Zhen Zhen is a passionate aspiring musician who joins Starry Sky Entertainment, the leading Chinese entertainment agency. She begins working as an assistant to Zheng Bo Xu, a popular and unruly idol.

With her guidance, Bo Xu became a talented singer, and Zhen Zhen herself gained experience to become an efficient idol manager. On the other hand, Du Wan Qing is managing Yu Zi Rui, who will turn into Bo Xu’s rival. Who will become the brightest star in the sky between the two of them?

• Release Date: 25 March 2019 – 6 May 2019
• Episodes: 44
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: iQIYI Mango TV Tencent Video Youku
• Where To Watch: Viki, WeTV

The Oath Of Love

Lin Zhi Xiao is a determined girl as well as a budding cellist and a junior in the music department at her university. She wants to achieve her dreams and works hard to make them come true. However, when her father is hospitalized, her whole life comes crashing down on her.

Meanwhile, Gu Wei is the doctor in charge of her father’s treatment, who is going through a difficult time. As the two get to know each other, they grow closer, forming a bond of sorts. In this time when these two need to feel love more than anything, will love find its way to them?

• Release Date: 15 March 2022 – 31 March 2022
• Episodes: 32
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Hunan TV Tencent Video
• Where To Watch: TencentVideo, WeTV, Prime Video

Why Women Love

Zhao Jiang Yue is the head of a tech firm known for her no-nonsense attitude. One day, the firm releases a dating app that changes the course of her life, bringing chaos into her sorted life.

Gu Jia Xin is the heir to the business group that owns the company and has his own plans for his life. As a successful pro racing driver, he would rather compete on the race track than sit at a desk and work in a boardroom.

But when he’s forced to work as Zhao Jiang Yue’s temporary assistant, things change for him. Two opposites collide, and feelings find a crack to enter their hearts, but will they be brave enough to follow their hearts?

• Release Date: 8 February 2022 – 1 March 2022
• Episodes: 24
• Duration: 45min
• Original Network: Youku
• Where To Watch: YOUKU, Viki

Now that you have read what’s in our recommendation list, it’s time to grab some snacks and drinks and press that cute little play button. From fun banter to those sweet, fleeting, fluttery moments, these shows will definitely warm your romantic heart. So, just go ahead and pick a show you can watch tonight by yourself or with your loved ones.