I'm watching Sadistic Love, my first mini, and having SUCH a great time! What other minis do you recommend for enjoyers of the torrid and unhinged?
Welcome to the wonderful world of minis!!! Here are some recs!
THESE ARE ACTUALLY QUALITY
These may be minis, but between the cinematography and themes, they are as good or better than a "proper" drama:
Ancient Love Song - a haunting time travel romance with no destined easy out, this is about a modern scholar who travels back in time and interacts with an empress loathed by history. But their timelines flow in reverse...
Butterflied Lover - a period constable, his vampire wife, and one of the most gorgeous dramas out there.
A Familiar Stranger - Cheng Lei before he hit is big in "proper" dramas, the director of Blossom and fourth sister (aka best sister) in Perfect Match. The OTT premise is a face swap, but after that it's an awesome period romance between a general and a woman who he rescued a long time ago. It's torrid torrid torrid btw.
Fortune Writer - even the picky Douban viewers rated this one 7+. This is a story of villains in love but even more interestingly, a knowing fight against the narrative.
Hard to Find - fantasy and tragedy and doomed love; the story is like a darker old school cdrama but it's the gorgeous cinematography that places it in this portion of the list.
Love in a Dream - it’s a mini that has the most gorgeous cinematography I’ve seen in 2024 except for Fangs of Fortune and Eternal Brotherhood. I loved the vibes and the story and its feeling of tragic love and lost time.
TRASHY FUNNNNNN
Always My General - lady general, revenge, a very bi ML and just great fun!
Beauty Strategy - a mini of what a few years ago would have been a proper angsty drama of palace scheming enemies while lovers, powerless emperor etc etc. Honestly, I loved it.
Bound By Sin - subbiest Republican era ML ever.
Broken the Heart - super duper bonkers, with an evil royal tormenting the pure wife but for REASONS.
Circle of Love - this drama is a nonsense trash heap on fire. After a typhoon hit it. Republican era revenge romance and a ML who's insane.
Enslaved by Love - the ML is toxic enough to be banned by the Geneva convention but FL does get some of her own back and also if you ever wanted to see blindness-curing sex, boy do I have a drama for you!
Is Xianzun Whitewashed Today - this is 100% BL and a SVSSS rip off. Thanks for snoring, censors.
The Killer Is Also Romantic - mild mannered citizens by day, assassins/agents by night. This is a period Mr and Mrs Smith
Lovesickness - a good time about a woman traveling back in time and falling for a powerful but doomed duke.
Maid's Revenge - the ML of Sadistic Love and even more unhinged and slutty than in that one.
My Villain Husband - my first mini! FL wakes up in a novel! As the villain's despised wife. What shall she dooooooooo
Palace Shadows: Between Two Princes - ML pretends to be his own twin, bdsm and sluttiness ensues. I cannot even explain how wild this drama is but the acting is on point and way way fun!
The Prisoner of Love - more like the prisoner of bdsm.
Provoke - in love with one's stepmother? Indeed. But there is also a surprisingly solid plot under the bonkers.
Rise from the Ashes - a wacky as hell mini where reborn FL wreaks revenge with help of her fake uncle as they carry on as some sort of Borgia/Phillip II of Spain fame hybrid. If you don’t need to use your brain, you could have a worse time.
Rising Feather - a woman leading on son in law general (lover) and father in law minister (husband) for revenge and delicious trashiness.
Secrets of the Shadow Sect - head of sect lady and her very very subby bodyguard. What’s not to love?
Stolen Love - general, his first love, a LOT of make outs.
Your Trap/Imprisoned Love - the plot of this mini made no sense but the softcore vibes of sanitized 1990s cinemax were on point!
