Light on Series
The Light On Series is a crime/thriller set of individual, unrelated dramas produced by Iqiyi.
Nearly all of them are based off of novels.
Most of them are no longer than 12 episodes. Each year around 5 dramas are released
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1. Burning Ice
Chinese Drama - 2017, 12 episodes
Summary:
To protect the woman he loves, a white-collar worker unintentionally becomes involved in a murder case and is from then on a suspect. In the blink of an eye, his quiet and boring life gets completely shaken up as he suddenly is both being chased by the police as well as gangsters.
Note: not per say a Light on Series drama but it was THE drama that started the Light on Series
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2017, completed -
2. Kidnapping Game
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
Summary:
Ten days, a kidnapping game, 4 million in ransom and a mystery at its heart. With the 'victim' turning up dead, have the stakes become far too real?
Yu Hai is the owner of a gaming studio in Luteng City, China who cannot accept how coldly his investor Shen Hui tossed him aside to withdraw the funding for his company.
Yu Hai accidentally meets Lu Jie, the daughter of Shen Hui. They concoct a plan to fake her kidnapping in exchange for ransom and start to have a relationship. Days later, Lu Jie is found dead.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2020, completed -
3. The Bad Kids
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
Summary:
A story that follows three children from a coastal town who unintentionally film a murder scene. As the kids become involved with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far more complicated than it looks and entraps several families into an unpredictable outcome.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2020, completed -
4. Crimson River
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
Summary:
An unsolved murder case of a young girl repeats itself twenty years later and awakens the memories of a peaceful town. Shan Feng, who was once a witness to the murder case, now returns to the town as a policeman, unable to forget the painful memories. He seeks out the truth and discovers all the people related to the case have undergone drastic changes.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2020, completed -
5. Sisyphus
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
Summary:
Zhang Hai Feng quits his job as a police officer after the death of his daughter, Duo Duo. However, one day, a serial killer case reveals new-found evidence about the accident that led to Duo Duo's death. In order to find out the truth, Zhang Hai Feng starts to pursue the serial killer and in the process, dies together with him. When he wakes up, he finds himself back in the past; one day before his death occurred. He decides to make use of the wormhole and save Duo Duo from her death. Eventually, he starts to unravel deep hidden secrets of the people around him, and the web of conspiracy that was planted 20 years ago.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2020, completed -
6. The Long Night
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
Summary:
It was an open shut case with hundred of witnesses seeing the murder suspect trying to dispose of a body and a signed confession from the suspect himself. And yet when the case was ready for court, the prosecutor discovered that the case was not as it appeared. The murder was but a cover for another more shocking injustice. He spent ten years trying to uncover the truth, toiling away his youth, his career, his reputation, his family, and even his life.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2020, completed -
7. The Pavilion
Chinese Drama - 2021, 12 episodes
Summary:
19 years ago, the angelic sister of the Xuan family was murdered bizarrely. The murder case was stagnated for many years, and the murderer remains at large. As a result, the Xuan family spread out from north to the south, living on their own. 19 years later, a bizarre case occurred in a small town ropes in the Xuan family again, causing the divided family to reunite in their hometown. As the truth of the old case gradually surfaced, years of conflict between the tormented brothers and sisters finally broke out. Where will the family of four go? Can they untie the knot they have and get out of this thick mysterious fog?
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2021, completed -
8. See You Again
Chinese Drama - 2021, 6 episodes
Summary:
Hu Guang Lai murdered the people that harassed his sister. Because of that event, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Life was bleak in prison, and he felt abandoned by his community. After securing early release on good behaviour, how will his new life unfold?Episode count: 6
Status: aired 2021, completed
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9. Wisher
Chinese Drama - 2021, 12 episodes
Summary:
The start and end of everything stems from an app called Wisher. Wisher appeared on the mobile phones of a group of college students out of the blue, and as long as they made a wish to it and completed a simple randomly assigned task, the wish would be realized. These young people can't stand the temptation, and just like signing a contract with the devil, they become dominoes under the control of desire. Middle-aged reporter Naduo, as well as young people such as Lu Li and Qiu Wendong, began to confront the forces behind Wisher.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2021, completed -
10. Who Is the Murderer
Chinese Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
Summary:
In 2000, a murder occurred in an apartment of a printing factory in Haizhou City. Rookie policeman Leng Xiao Bing and his senior rushed to the scene after receiving a report, but because they split up, ended up in a face-to-face struggle with the serial murderer in Haizhou City. Leng Xiao Bing was timid and afraid to shoot. The murderer fled from the scene after killing Leng Xiao Bing's senior, Li Lan. Another witness at the scene is a victim, orphan Xia Mu, hiding in the attic adjacent to the apartment.
Seventeen years later, Xia Mu came to join the major crime unit, in order to solve his teacher's murder along with all of the others.
Episode count: 16
Status: aired in 2021, completed -
11. Gold Panning
Chinese Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
Summary:
In 1986, 20-year-old Chen Bao Jin came to the Altai region to find his brother who was missing in the gold rush. He was tangled between life and death in the complicated environment and was also trapped between many forces. At the same time, strange things happened one after another.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2022, completed -
12. Under the Skin
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
Summary:
The young painter Shen Yi resigned from the Academy of Fine Arts and entered Haicheng Public Security Bureau mysteriously. Interpol Captain Du Cheng was furious and said that he would never accept those who caused his comrade to be killed in the police force.However now both work together to solve cases.
Episode count: 20
Status: aired in 2022, completed -
13. Day Breaker
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Summary:
Anti-narcotics policeman Luo Xiang died in an undercover operation five years ago. After five years, he changed his name and surname, pretending to be himself into a drug cartel, dealing with his former lover, brother, and enemy, and finally successfully completed the task to find out. Behind the scenes. High reversal and multi-campaign games run through.
Episode count: 24
Status: aired in 2022, completed -
14. Homesick
Chinese Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
Summary:
In the autumn of 1997, Chen You Xi escaped from the orphanage, to find her missing best friend Xiu and came to Tanling County alone, because of that. Before her disappearance, Xiu worked as a nanny for the Li family, and after her disappearance, the Li family accused her of running away after stealing from them. You Xi is very sure that Xiu didn't do it, and the family is highly suspicious. Soon, You Xi finds out that the Li family's daughter Li Wen Wen, also went missing many years ago, and she was in similar to her age. So, You Xi decides to pretend that she is Li Wen Wen and enter the Li 's family house, to find the truth, about both girls disappearance.
Episode count: 12Status: aired in 2022, completed
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15. Why Try to Change Me Now
Chinese Drama - 2023, 6 episodes
Summary:
Set in China’s hardscrabble, industrial northeast, it tells the story of a young police officer investigating the murder of a taxi driver, only to find a childhood friend may be involved. To solve the case, he explores layer by layer, revealing a past buried 12 years ago.
Episode count: 6
Status: aired in 2023, completed -
16. Echo
Chinese Drama - 2023, 13 episodes
Summary:
In the process of solving a murder case, female police officer Ran Dongdong accidentally discovers her husband has been renting a place in secret. The pressure is mounting as she tries to deal with the complex case and the possible betrayal from her husband, putting a strain on her mental health.
Episode count: 13
Status: completed, aired in 2023 -
17. Thirteen Years of Dust
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Summary:
It tells the story of a series of serial homicides in Nandu, thirteen years ago. Wei Zheng Rong, an old policeman who is at the bottom of his life, led Lu Xing Zhi, a newcomer police officer who had just joined the job, to investigate the truth of the case. After repeated visits and investigations, due to the limitations of criminal investigation technology at the time, the failure to lock the suspect's case became an unsolved case. However, the physical evidence testing in a murder case 13 years later brought the serial murder case 13 years ago to the surface again. The two criminal police officers who investigated the case that year once again joined forces for an inspection. After the hard work of a number of veteran criminal police officers, the real murderer was finally found and brought to justice, so that justice was done.
Episode count: 24
Status: completed, aired in 2023 -
18. The Bionic Life
Chinese Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
Summary:
In the not-too-distant future, humans relying on bionics for emotional support triggers a series of cascading crises.
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2023, completed -
19. The Lonely Warrior
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Summary:
It tells the story of an interrogation accident that sent detective Cheng Bing of the Third Brigade to prison to serve his sentence. His teammates were implicated, dismissed from the police, and demoted. The former elite Third Brigade of the police fell apart. After ten years in prison, Cheng Bing regained his freedom. He lost everything, but Wang Da Yong, the suspect in the case, is still at large... Wearing a police uniform for a day brings justice for a lifetime. The Third Brigade needed to explain, but unwillingness turned into persistence.
Episode Count: 24
Status: Completed, aired in 2023 -
20. Tell No One
Chinese Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
Summary:
Zheng Ying, an old police officer who is about to retire, goes undercover as an overseas businessman to trade with Liu Qing's gang. However, he mysteriously disappeared after he successfully caught the gang red handed. Zheng Dongyu, is Zheng Ying’s daughter. The once arrogant and free spirited girl, grew up over night when her father went missing. In order to find him she became a police woman.
Gao Yang, a young police officer that went undercover with Zheng Ying, is also looking for him. He stayed in his undercover role, investigating the disappearance of Zheng Ying.
Six years later, Lei Naiwu, the key figure of Liu Qing's gang and the last person to meet Zheng Ying, was released from prison. At the same time a mysterious killer is on the lose, that is trying to kill Lei Naiwu. At the time, Gao Yang ventured to save Lei Naiwu. Lei Naiwu told him that this killer was the real murderer of Zheng Ying. What has truly happened to Zheng Ying?
Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2024, completed -
21. Interlaced Scenes
Chinese Drama - 2024, 15 episodes
Summary:
Detectives Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo investigate a case, when they discover that the crime scene bears a remarkable resemblance to the crime scene from a novel written by Gu Yu Ming. Fiction and reality get intertwined.
Is it truly a coincident? The novel provides them with a new lead but at the same time it opens up a new mystery…..who is the murderer hidden behind the scenes?
Episode count: 16Status: aired in 2024, completed
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22. Lost in the Shadows
Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
Summary:
In the 1990s, during a stormy night, three teenagers disappeared. While one was found dead, the other two went missing. Three years later one of the missing teens reappears. He suffers from amnesia and has no memory of what happened to him. He is being returned to his family but something is suspicious about them. An old police man secretly investigates the case and discovers many hidden secrets related to murder cases and human trafficking. What is the family hiding? And what happened to the other missing teenager?
Episode count: 16Status: completed, aired in 2024
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23. For the Young Ones
Chinese Drama - 2024, 18 episodes
Summary:
It tells the story of prosecutors that investigate the Anti-Mobbing fight of teens. In the dark reality, how can people let the injured learn the lessons they deserve through their own efforts?
Episode count: 12
Status: aired 2024, completed -
24. The Limbo
Chinese Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
Summary:
As the New Year approaches, a sudden landslide causes 13 people to be trapped in Luobai Department Store, an old shopping mall in Haizhou City. Now, the 13 people have to fight for survival.Episode count: 12
Status: aired in 2024, completed -
25. Breaking the Shadows
Chinese Drama - 2024, 18 episodes
Summary:
Han Qing is a female police officer and part of the Criminal Investigation Team. She is a hard-working woman who only cares about her work. She has had a good working relationship with her partner, Zhong Wei, for many years. However, two months ago, Zhong Wei disappeared after following a suspect. Han Qing has ever since been looking for any clues as to what has happened to him. During the investigation of a new case, Han Qing stumbles upon a connection to Zhong Wei's disappearance and gets pulled into a network of organized crime.
Episode count: 18
Status: Not yet aired, planned 2024 -
26. Justifiable Defense
Chinese Drama - 0000, 16 episodes
Summary:
Senior prosecutor Duan Hong Shan from the city prosecutor's office is handling a case involving a "woman who killed her husband due to domestic violence." Young prosecutor Fang Ling Yuan from the provincial prosecutor's office is assigned to assist in the investigation. During the process of handling the case, they discovered a connection between it and the "excessive self-defense on campus" incident experienced by Li Mu Feng, Mei Zheng, and Jiang Ting, which Duan Hong Shan handled fourteen years ago. Grounded in facts and guided by the law, the two prosecutors, considering "natural justice, human sentiment, and national law," ultimately provide a definitive resolution to the case.Episode count: 16
Status: Not yet aired -
27. A Life for a Life
Chinese Drama - 0000, 14 episodes
Summary:
In the 1980s, the top student of the police academy, Du Xiang Dong, was assigned against his wishes to a detention center. Two suspects escaped from the jail; one died, and the other got away. Du Xiang Dong blamed himself and impulsively resigned. For the next twenty years, he found himself in a battle of wits with the escaped suspect, Xu Wen Geng. Both followed their own ways of life, engaging in a strategic duel amidst the tides of the times.
Episode count: 12
Status: Not yet aired -
28. To Be or Not to Be
Chinese Drama - 0000, 24 episodes
Status: Not yet aired
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29. Let Wind Goes By
Chinese Drama - 0000, 24 episodes
Status: Not yet aired
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30. The Perfect Suspect
Chinese Drama - 0000, 16 episodes
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31. Beloved
Chinese Drama - 0000
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32. Di Zhi Shang Fan Zui
Chinese Drama - 0000, 24 episodes
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33. Those Flowers
Chinese Drama - 0000, 12 episodes
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34. IQiyi Light On
Chinese Drama - 2020, 326 episodes