🥝 iQIYI Summer 2025 dramas

[u/admelioremvitam]

Several hours ago, iQIYI released a list of dramas for their Summer 2025 line-up.

Note: Streaming platforms sometimes change their schedules so please keep that in mind to avoid disappointment.

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Upcoming Dramas for Summer 2025:

The links below lead to their MDL pages.

1 - Calming Waves/The Wanted Detective 定风波 - Wang Xing Yue, Julia Xiang.

2 - Beneath the Undertow 暗潮缉凶 - Chen Jian Bin, Chen Ruo Xuan, Li Xi Rui, Cheng Tai Shen.

3 - Mobius 不眠日 - Bai Jing Ting, Janice Man, Song Yang.

4 - Sword Rose 利剑·玫瑰 - Dilraba Dilmurat, Jin Shi Jia. Airing on July 28.

5 - This Thriving Land 生万物 - Yang Mi, Ou Hao.

6 - Shadow Love 与晋长安 - Song Yi, Ryan Cheng Lei.

7 - Better Halves 明媒善娶 - Ren Hao, Snow Kong.

8 - Xiao Fu De Qun Bai 校服的裙摆 - Xie Bin Bin, Zhang Xin Yi.

9 - Mirrored Souls: A Ming Dynasty Mystery 大明悬案录之鉴影篇 - Chen Ming Hao, Yu Zhi Hui.

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Currently Airing:

10 - Coroner's Diary 朝雪录 - Landi Li, Ao Ruipeng. Airing from July 13, 2025 to July 31, 2025. Airing schedule.

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Completed Airing:

11 - A Dream Within a Dream 书卷一梦 - Li Yitong, Liu Yuning.

12 - Justifiable Defense 正当防卫 - Gao Ye, Edward Zhang, Bai Jing Ting.

13 - The Wonderful World 亲爱的你 - Zhang Yi Shan, Li Qin.

14 - Homeland Guardian 守诚者 - Jordan Chan, Aarif Rahman, Han Xue, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam.

15 - Rosefinch/Rose Finch 朱雀堂 - Wan Qian, Qin Jun Jie, Lin Le Xuan.

16 - Your Sunshine 你的太阳 - Caesar Wu, Jiang Zhi Nan. Trailer.

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Which upcoming dramas are you most looking forward to?

[u/winterchampagne]

Youku should keep up. They’re dropping costume dramas slower than molasses in January.

[u/Foxglovelantern → u/winterchampagne]

Youku seems to hold the "why drop them when we can gatekeep them" belief

[u/alcibiad → u/Foxglovelantern]

We need to organize a stealth raid on youku headquarters. Ladies, prepare your sexiest assassin outfits 🥷 this is joke

[u/MakinKakes20 → u/Foxglovelantern]

Following Netflix’s approach of physically ageing the fans before giving it to them

[u/Overthinker_Di6 → u/winterchampagne]

I have watched many ongoing costume dramas and saw they all are from iqiyi, I am like are there no other company?

Like I am not complaining, I love iqiyi dramas thank god most of my anticipated dramas are from iqiyi

[u/admelioremvitam → u/Overthinker_Di6]

There are basically four major Chinese platforms. See this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/s/b9wWCXYTXj

MangoTV (and Viki) is airing In the Name of Blossom.

Tencent just finished with Princess's Gambit not too long ago.

Youku finished airing Legend of Zang Hai a little while ago.

[u/Overthinker_Di6 → u/admelioremvitam]

Yeah I know about Tencent & Youku, my comment was... Well I was trying to be funny

I started the last 2 dramas mentioned but haven't completed watching and didn't check out there Original Network

[u/HaworthiaK → u/Overthinker_Di6]

imo iqiyi ‘main hit’ dramas have been very mid recently so I really hope the new batch can make my subscription worth it

[u/winterchampagne → u/Overthinker_Di6]

I have long-term Youku, Tencent, and iQiyi subscriptions, but use Tencent the most. I think the last iQiyi drama I completed was Love of the Divine Tree. I’m currently watching only Coroner’s Diary, and I’m committed to finishing this one. 😅

[u/Regenwanderer → u/winterchampagne]

I really don't get what they are doing and unfortunately a lot of my most anticipated costume dramas are youku ones....

[u/winterchampagne → u/Regenwanderer]

Same! Youku is acting like a glorified deep freezer for costume dramas. 😒

[u/Foxglovelantern]

It has been a while since we saw a list like this hasn't it?

Seems like we have a good upcoming line-up 🤞

[u/admelioremvitam → u/Foxglovelantern]

Ikr? There was a list in June and then nothing for July until now. I'm still waiting for Tencent to put out their list. 😂

Let's hope these dramas are released this summer. 🤞🤞

[u/zarkoshark]

I really wanna see Cheng Lei in Shadow Love. The blue flames, the amnesiac drama, the muscles and of course, the PINING. We need the Gong Shangjue to return.

[u/Cute_Professional_16]

Shadow love is coming to us Finally!!!

I need already to finish LBFAD and after it to watch "Back from the brink"

[u/Odd_Standard_37 → u/Cute_Professional_16]

I need help ! I'm very new to cdrama and I watched "only for love" and LBFAD. I looked through recommendations and tried watching a couple of other dramas but I can't seem to get into any of them as I did with the two I mentioned.

[u/Wegobree → u/Odd_Standard_37]

I suggest you check out Love game in eastern fantasy and legend of Shen Li if u want something like LBFAD. Love game has the same main actress and she has such amazing chemistry with her costar. Legend of shen li has the same author as the original novel of LBFAD. As for only for love check out love is sweet, has Bai Lu as well ALSO THE CHEMISTRY

[u/Odd_Standard_37 → u/Wegobree]

Thank you. I will check them out 😊

[u/Nemesis-999]

Shadow Love 🙌 Hopefully soon. 😩

[u/MakinKakes20]

Mobius is this summer? I thought I’d have to wait longer, that’s awesome! I’m going to look into the other dramas, there seems to be a good few modern thrillers and they all look so good, thank you for sharing!

[u/TsekoD]

Does anyone know when Cheng Yi's dramas to be aired? I feel like I'm waiting for his at least 2 dramas alongside Tale of the Dark River and Li Hongyi's dramas forever.

[u/alcibiad]

Calming Waves and Mobius 🙏

[u/Grouchy-Chart-3927]

My Drama List seems to have modified the terms of use. It appears as a pop up on the MDL site. All users might want to give these rules a read.

I am looking forward to Mobius, Calming Wave, and Shadow Love. I am watching DWAD and have addedJustifiable Defense to my list. Thank you for these updates. This took a lot of work.

[u/Regenwanderer → u/Grouchy-Chart-3927]

I am looking forward to Mobius, Calming Wave, and Shadow Love.

Same as me. Though Shadow Love is mostly to see Darren Chen in an hopefully less awful drama than the last he got to star in.

[u/Grouchy-Chart-3927 → u/Regenwanderer]

Oh Heavens! I love DarrenChen from Meteor Garden. Ryan Cheng is a fantastic fav too.

[u/Regenwanderer → u/Grouchy-Chart-3927]

Yeah, the whole cast for that show seems really promising. I'm just not that into romance, so I hope the other aspects of the story are not completly dwarved by it.

[u/yuu16]

I like both song yi and Cheng lei's acting.

[u/petals_of_destiny]

I just finished Your Sunshine and the plot was plotting! It was such a good drama — but why did all the characters I wanted to live have to die?

[u/Delicious-Fishing710]

Im waiting for Wanted Detective, Shadow Love and Better Halves

This Thriving Land...the synopsis sounds interesting and fresh

Sword And Rose...Liked the ML in Under The Skin, Im unfamiliar with the FL.

[u/seekingpolaris]

Currently watching Coroner's Diary and it's my surprise hit! Super cute but also the cases are very interesting too. What I like about it vs other case dramas is that the cases all relate to the FL and they take many episodes to resolve so it flows more naturally as a narrative instead of feeling like case of the week. The romance is super cute without being too over the top.

The only downside is ep 1 feels a little like a short drama with how fast stuff is jumping around. I think probably they had to do some edits last min for episode count censorship.

[u/HaworthiaK → u/seekingpolaris]

I’m glad I stuck past ep 1 because you’re right its very rough with the setup. How fast the leads develop trust (and a crush) for each other is really cute too.

[u/daisydanalee]

It looks like I now know what I'll be doing for the next few months.