Top 10 best Chinese-language films adapted from romance novels

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Hear to Heart

Hear to Heart

• Director: Li Muquai
  Duration: 45 minutes/ 1 episode
  Episodes: 48 episodes
  Status: Complete
  Production year: 2018
  Country: China
  Genre: Romance, Romance
  Starring: Zhang Han, Zhang Junning, Jing Siao, Zhang Jiayi
  Ten years like flowing water, seemingly passing peacefully, healing all wounds of the heart, leaving the mistakes of the past like clouds flying the wind. Only insiders know, each step of time is one more deep cut into her heart, making her heart forever inconsolable. Wen Yun and Nan Xuan's affection really touched the viewer but was equally tormenting.

Fifteen perfect years of a Wen Yun that everyone met ended, finally ended so gently. Fifteen full years of spades, finally because of a mistake that life had so callously blocked her retreat. Wen Yun found out the truth 7 years ago, the death flight took the lives of both her father, his father and himself who indirectly caused the death. She decides to leave everything behind in China, flies to England for therapy as well as to escape Nanhui's feelings.

Gone seven years, wasted seven years! Thanks to the psychiatrist to salvage some of the faint breath in her withered soul, half a year before she could communicate again, a new year to be able to be human. She just lived like that, without thoughts, without remorse, without dreams, living like a dead person.

Happiness is a glass ball, which falls to the ground and breaks into pieces, which anyone can pick up. Happiness is like that, using our own hands to try, to seek, to change.

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It took ten years, an inch of life and death, for him to realize how deeply she loved him. And, it took ten years, like ephemeral water, for her to believe that, he, "Forever is my Legend."

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Memory Lost

Memory Lost

• Director: Vu Chinh
  Duration: 42 minutes/ 1 episode
  Episodes: 36 episodes
  Status: Complete
  Production year: 2016
  Country: China
  Genre: Mystery, Criminal Psychology, Romance
  Starring: Bach Yu, Duong Dung

The film Memory Lost is a cult adaptation "molded" by Yu Zheng, adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Ding Mo, the content of the film revolves around two characters Bai Jinxi and Han Tram. Policewoman Su Mien and her boyfriend Han Tram work together to catch a dangerous criminal organization of serial killers. The incident caused Su Mian and Han Chen to lose their memories. Han Chen became a provincial detective. Su Mian, under the name Bai Jinxi, worked at the Guanhu police station. Surrounding her is not only love, there is also a terrifying plot prepared for 5 years. Fate causes them to meet in a twisted circumstance and uncover secrets that have been hidden in the vortex of time.

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"The simplest existence of the universe,

Alternating interference.

The most complex form of life,

Morning and darkness.

Every person's life is not the same, but what is the difference?

When you lift your head to the sky, when you look at the ground, do you ever see me?"

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Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost

Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost

• Director: Zhou Yibin
  Duration: 45 minutes/ 1 episode
  Episodes: 63 episodes
  Status: Complete
  Production year: 2017
  Country: China
  Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Historical
  Starring: Yangtze, Deng Luan, Luo Yunxi, Chen Yuqi.

Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost is adapted from the novel of the same name by Dien Tuyen, one of the most resonant and influential works in a long time. The film revolves around the three-lifetime, three-lifetime, thousand-year-old grudge between the Little Flower Realm Jin Mu and the arrogant Heavenly Chi Huo Feng of the Heavenly Palace. 

Jin Mu was the only daughter of Hua Shen Zifei, after giving birth she took her last breath, before closing her eyes, she gave Jin Mo a drink of "still knitting" the lovely passage that made her live in loneliness and sadness for 4000 years. Growing up, meeting people in your heart is also naïve and does not know what it means to love. It was only when he met Huo Feng, misunderstood that he killed her father, and teamed up with Da Pure Yue to give him a sword through his heart, vomit out the "still knitting" piece of love, that he understood what love was. The stab in Huo Feng's heart seemed to push him further away from her, Huo Feng went further into the demon path, became a demon, love turned into hatred. D

Shen Yue spared no effort to take advantage of Jin Mu, usurping the throne of the Heavenly Emperor to avenge his mother, but also fell in love from time to time. Unfortunately, Jin Mu and Huo Feng's eyes could not contain the second person, no matter what Yuan Yue did, it could not shake her feelings for Huo Feng. Jin Mu and Huo Feng's love affair experienced many pains and misunderstandings, but in the end, their love had a satisfying ending to the audience.

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"Flowers bloom, I'll draw flowers

Flowers fade, we will paint ourselves

You come, I of course draw you

Go, I'll paint a picture of my memory..."

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Skate Into Love

Skate Into Love

• Director: Zhou Yibin

  Duration: 43 minutes/ 1 episode
  Episodes: 45 episodes
  Status: Complete
  Production year: 2019
  Country: China
  Genre: Psychological drama, romance, school garden youth, drama
  Starring: Wu Thien, Zhang Xincheng, Zhou Lijie
  Skate Into Love is adapted from the love story of the same name by author Jiu Xiaoxiao. The content of the film tells about the love affair between Tang Tuyet - a speed skating hotgirl and Le Bingyu - the god of ice hockey.

In elementary school, the shy boy Le Lingbing was often bullied by the head demon of Tang Tuyet's desk. After his elementary school years, Le Lingbing found ways not to attend the same high school as Tang Tuyet. 6 years later, when she met again in college, Le Lingbing became the male god of the Lin Dai School ice team, and Tang Tuyet was just an ordinary girl. Le Lingbing made plans to arrange for Tang Xue to become his assistant, slowly seeking revenge, but it was at that moment that the feelings of the two arose. Because he didn't want Tang Xue to remember his secret love, Yu Bing did everything to get married. The film not only revolves around the love affair of the main character but also shows the dream, perfection, persistent effort, not giving up to get the worthy results of people who are in their enthusiastic youth.

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"There are people who can't use likes or dislikes to generalize. He represents memory, time, a unique period of my youth."

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South Wind Knows Mood

South Wind Knows Mood

• Director: Li Ang
  Duration: 45 minutes/ 1 episode
  Episodes: 42 episodes
  Status: Complete
  Production year: 2021
  Country: China
  Genre: Modern language, romance, reverse
  Starring: Zhang Yuxi, Cheng Yi
  The South Wind Understands My Heart is adapted from the novel of the same name by author Wu Tongsiyu, revolving around the love story of a narrow alley between botanist Fu Yunchen and doctor Zhou Cuu. The two initially set out together, overcoming difficulties, going to remote underdeveloped areas in search of a precious herb, but then many misunderstandings arose that led to separation. Half a year later, after Yun Shen and Zhou Former cleared up the misunderstanding, the two returned to each other. After going through many emotions together, happiness yes, suffering yes, even misunderstanding each other has made them understand each other better. But not stopping there, Zhou Former also found out that Fu Yunchen was involved in his mother's death. Since then, the long string of tragedies has officially begun.

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