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fave cdrama of the year competition
voting starts Nov 30
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R2M4

The First Frost v. Flourished Peony

Which will you choose: the seven thousand torments of Wen Yifan and the high school desk mate who loved her, or the Tang Dynasty divorcee girl boss and her friendly neighbourhood official?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《The First Frost》featuring Bai Jingting, in black, smiling, giving a piggy back to Zhang Ruonan, who has long lose hair and is wearing a white tee shirt and smiling. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Flourished Peony》featuring Yang Zi in Tang dynasty costume with a potted Peony plant, standing next to Li Xian, smiling, wearing an embroidered official's robes with a black futuo head wrap.
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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poll is now closed.
Congratulations to A Dream Within a Dream, going on to the third round.

(total votes: nice.)
screenshot of final results for R2M3 showing A Dream Within a Dream with 40 votes or 58%, and Revenged Love with 29 votes or 42%.
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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R2M3

A Dream Within a Dream v. Revenged Love

Which will you choose: the actress who fell into a script and falls for the dude trying to kill her, or the genius who falls for the dude he's trying to honeytrap to get back at him for stealing his girlfriend?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《A Dream Within a Dream》featuring Li Yitong, smiling, in red robes, holding some sort of magic artifact which is making a golden whirlpool around her and Liu Yuning in princely dark blue and gold robes, standing next to her, looking handsome, and maybe a little confused. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Revenged Love》featuring Tian Xuning (left) and Zi Yu about to kiss.
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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poll closed.

I don't understand why the poll results are not showing as closed, but the time limit has passed, and admin is declaring Justice in the Dark as the winner for this round.

Commiserations to Prisoner of Beauty, a hard fought match.
Screenshot of vote tally as at end of poll for R2M2. Justice in the Dark 54 votes or 50.9%, Prisoner of Beauty 52 votes or 49.1%.
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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R2M2

Justice in the Dark v. The Prisoner of Beauty

Which will you choose: a BL on the DL, scifi-esque setting crime drama or political machinations with rom-com vibes and grump to simp transformation?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Justice in the Dark》featuring Zhang Xincheng in drapey black, with glasses and just-short-of chin length hair, and Fu Xinbo in a black leather jacket over a crumpled blue shirt, surrounded by creepy red and white bits and pieces. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Prisoner of Beauty》featuring a close up of the faces of Song Zu'er (left) and Liu Yuning, both looking calculatingly at the camera.
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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poll now closed.

Congratulations to Legend of the Female General, moving into the third round, and commiserations to Blood River, retiring from the competition here.
screenshot of final results of R2M1, showing Legend of the Female General with 30 votes or 62.5% and Blood River with 18 votes or 37.5%.
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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full results for round one, and match ups for round two:

(full names of dramas in the ALT, if you're looking for them.)
voting bracket showing that the match ups for round two are: R2M1 Dec 16 Legend of the Female General v. Blood River R2M2 Dec 17 Justice in the Dark v. Prisoner of Beauty R2M3 Dec 18 Dream Within a Dream v. Revenged Love R2M4 Dec 19 First Frost v. Flourished Peony R2M5 Dec 20 Coroner's Diary v. Shadow Love R2M6 Dec 21 Filter v. Legend of Zang Hai R2M7 Dec 22 Twelve Letters v. Love in the Clouds R2M8 Dec 23 When Destiny Brings the Demon v. Whispers of Fate
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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R2M1

SECOND ROUND OF VOTING BEGINS

Legend of the Female General v. Blood River

Which will you choose: the daughter forced to impersonate her brother or the Jianghu Assassins yearning to be free?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《The Legend of the Female General》featuring Cheng Lei in black armour, holding a sword, looking battle worn and fierce, and in front of him Zhou Ye in white fur, holding a sword, looking battle worn and even fiercer. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Blood River》featuring Gong Jun in the centre position, in white, holding a sword, surrounded by four other characters.
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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POLL HAS CLOSED

WHISPERS OF FATE VICTORIOUS

thank you to everyone who voted, and especially to those last couple of votes that saved admin from a hernia.

Commiserations to the nobly defeated Desire the Series
screenshot of final voting position for R1M16 showing Whispers of Fate with 33 votes or 51.6%, and Desire the Series with 31 votes, or 48.4%.
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M16

-final vote of the opening round-

Whispers of Fate v. Desire the Series

Will you choose the jianghu journey of a thousand tribulations,
or the omegaverse tale of manipulation and obsession?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Whispers of Fate》featuring Luo Yunxi with magnificently flowing robes and a red bandage around his hand. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Desire the Series》featuring Qiu Dingjie in a black suit jacket with no shirt, lying down, eyes closed, his head resting on the shoulder of Huang XIng, who is also lying down, reversed, head on Dingjie's shoulder, his face turned towards the other man.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Poll now closed.

Congratulations to Love in the Clouds which continues through to round 2.
screenshot of final vote for R1M15, showing Love in the Clouds with 28 votes, 63.6%, and Moonlit Reunion with 16 votes or 36.4%
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M15

Love in the Clouds v. Moonlit Reunion

Will you choose the enemies to lovers xianxia tale of a one time prisoner and the warrior goddess he defeats,
or the historical romance between a pampered noble lady with a hidden identity and a daoist prodigy?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Love in the Clouds》featuring Lu Yuxiao (left) in an embrace with Hou Minghao. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Moonlit Reunion》featuring Xu Kai (left) with a purple robe and a high pony tale, standing with Tian Xiwei, in a red robe, cats ears and a tail, and seven smaller figures in the foreground, in "historical" dress, and a cat.
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Poll is now closed.

Congratulations to When Destiny Brings the Demon, moving on to the second round!
screenshot of final results for R1M14, showing When Destiny Brings the Demon with 27 votes or 71.1%, and Guardians of the Dafeng with 11 votes, or 28.9%.
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M14

When Destiny Brings the Demon v. Guardians of the Dafeng

Will you choose the falling into a xianxia world romance,
or the falling into a wuxia world adventure?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《When Destiny Brings the Demon》featuring Wang Yinglu (left) in aqua robes, and Arthur Chen Feiyu in red robes with their foreheads pressed together. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Guardians of the Dafeng》featuring Dylan Wang Hedi in armour over blue robes holding a crossbow, pointed straight at you, the viewer, and behind the main figure a spiral with smaller images of Wang Hedi placed within it.
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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voting has now ended.

Congratulations to Twelve Letters, progressing to round two!
screenshot of final results for voting in R1M13, showing Twelve Letters with 23 votes, or 74.2%, and Love's Ambition with 8 votes, or 25.8%
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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R1M13

Twelve Letters v. Love's Ambition

Will you choose the magical postbox, dual timeline, romance mystery,
or the modern tale of a couple who seemed to have it all breaking and then finding their way back to each other?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Twelve Letters》featuring an illustration of letters falling through space, a cat and a mailbox, and at the bottom left Wang Yinglu and Zhou Yiran sitting together on top of one of the letters, and at the top right another couple (the same couple?) smaller, sitting in a similar way. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Love's Ambition》featuring a close up of a moment before a kiss between WIlliam Chan Weiting and Zhao Lusi.
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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poll closed! Commiserations to all those devoted to Dominion and Devotion, Legend of Zanghai will go forwards into round two.
screenshot of final results of poll R1M12, showing Legend of Zanghai with 34 votes, or 77.3%, and Dominion and Devotion with 10 votes or 22.7%.
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M12

Legend of Zanghai v. Dominion and Devotion

Will you choose the revenge tale of the Imperial Astronomer's son,
or the story of the Eunuch and his Empress who refused to remain a puppet?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Legend of Zanghai》featuring Zhang Jingyi (left) reclining in a blue robe with a drink in her hand, Xiao Zhan (largest, at the front) in profile wearing a red minister's robe and a black head covering with wings, Zhou Qi in elaborate green robes, holding a partially unsheathes sword, and Huang Jue in red ducal robes, glowering. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Dominion and Devotion》featuring Li Geyang in red clasping hands with Huang Haoyue.
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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poll is closed! lots of voting today! Shadow Love has conquered, and will be going through to round two!
screenshot of final results for R1M11, showing Shadow Love with 31 votes or 68.9%, and Kill to Love with 14 votes, or 31.1%.
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M11

Shadow Love v. Kill to Love

Will you choose the amnesiac prince / enemy female general romance,
or the assassin / prince-turned-emperor, love in a time of war BL?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Shadow Love》featuring Song Yi in black armour and a flowing red cape, and Cheng Lei in blue and black robes standing behind her, reaching out to put a hair pin in her hair. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Kill to Love》featuring Zhang Zhexu in dark robes standing behind Mi Jin in pale robes with long hair and a folded fan (I think) in hand. There is a painted backdrop with trees, rocks, swallows and pagodas, and a third character in the top left.
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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poll is closed!!!

despite a late surge for Mobius, Filter is victorious, and will be going through to round two.
screenshot of final results from R1M10, showing Filter with 20 votes, or 66.7% and Mobius with 10 votes, or 33.3%
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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R1M10

Filter v. Mobius

Will you choose LLAMA, i.e. the quirky hidden identity magic object romance,
or SQUID, i.e. the time loop DNA manipulation murder mystery?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
ALT1: a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Filter》featuring Tan Jianci in a suit and glasses holding a poster showing a jigsaw puzzle image of Li Landi . ALT2: a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Mobius》featuring Janice Man/Wen Yongshan (left) in a dark suit with her arms crossed, standing separated by a glass wall from Bai Jingling, also in a dark suit, with his arm lifted as if to look at his watch.
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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poll has closed! Coroner's Diary is through to round two.
screenshot of final result for R1M9, showing Coroner's Diary with 26 votes, or 83.9%, and Time Raiders with 5 votes, or 16.1%.
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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half way through round one, our first eight eliminations have occurred, some interesting round two clashes shaping up...
#CdramaCup2025 match up bracket showing four impending round two matches: R2M1 Legend of the Female General v. Blood River; R2M2 Justice in the Dark v. Prisoner of Beauty; R2M3 Dream within a Dream v. Revenged Love; R2M4 The First Frost v. Flourished Peony.
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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R1M9

Coroner's Diary v. Time Raiders

Will you choose the daughter of a wrongly eliminated court official who takes on autopsies and a false identity to pursue justice,
or the supernatural treasure hunting adventure tale which is part of the DMBJ universe?

(vote link in post below)

#CdramaCup2025
a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Coroner's Diary》featuring a background level with ten characters in a throne room, and a foreground with the four main character pictured somewhat larger, including the central couple played by Landi Li (left) and Ao Ruipeng, all in period costume. Landi Li (the titular coroner) is holding a scroll and Ao Ruipeng is holding a folding fan. a crop from a poster image for #cdrama 《Time Raiders》featuring Cheng Xiang (left) looking brooding and Xu Zhenxuan wearing glasses, listening to a mobile phone.
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM