The Best TV Shows on Youku

Every Youku Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 2006 to 2025, Youku offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Icons of Youku, GG Bond and Love Stories in the Countryside made their debut in 2006 and 2006, setting industry standards. Check out the most acclaimed shows on Youku, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for August 2025.

  • 饼干警长
    饼干警长 (2011)10.0

  • When Destiny Brings The Demon
    When Destiny Brings The Demon (2025)10.0

    Modern-day office drone Zou Yan accidentally stumbles into the world of cultivation and wakes up as Liao Tingyan, a disciple of the Qinggutian Sect. She's soon selected to serve the reclusive Grandmaster Sima Jiao, a powerful cultivator who's been secretly sealed inside a mountain for 500 years. Twisted by isolation and rage, he's cold, hot-tempered, and bent on revenge. Liao Tingyan doesn't know that "her" original identity is a demonic assassin. But to his surprise, she shows no ill will, no ambition, and no desire at all. Her nature fascinates him. Thus begins an unlikely romance between a villainous immortal and a healing-type "slacker," a connection that defies fate and spans lifetimes.

  • Summit of Our Youth
    Summit of Our Youth (2025)9.7

    After failing her college entrance exam and struggling in her career, Gu Xuejiao is unexpectedly sent back to her high school years. Determined to change her fate, she shifts her focus from love to success, prioritizing academics and career ambitions. Along the way, she finds herself in a transformative romance where both partners inspire each other to grow.

  • The Demon Hunter
    The Demon Hunter (2023)9.4

    Meng Chuan witnessed his mother killed before his eyes, so he trained very hard hoping to one day avenge her death. But his peaceful days were broken as his wedding engagement being called off, an invasion by foreign forces, the sanctuary fallen into enemy hands… In order to protect the people of Ning City, he picked up his sword and vowed to be the strongest. This is a heavy responsibility and a long journey…

  • GG Bond
    GG Bond (2006)9.1

  • My Senior Brother is Too Steady
    My Senior Brother is Too Steady (2023)9.0

    After being reborn in the ancient times before the Great God-Conferment War, Li Changshou becomes a minor cultivator. His only dream is to live a long life as a cultivator. In order to survive in the cruel Primordial Times, Li Changshou tries hard not to accumulate any karma—killing inevitably leads to feuds. Thus, he always plans thoroughly before doing anything and never allows himself to walk into dangerous situations. He hides his trump cards well, trains himself in escape techniques, refines poisonous pills, and masters his mystical abilities. Li Changshou originally plans to remain hidden and safe in the mountain. There, he is supposed to cultivate until he ascends to immortality. However, everything changed one year when his master seems to think that their lives are too peaceful. He takes in a junior sister…

  • Scissor Seven
    Scissor Seven (2018)8.6

    Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.

  • I Am Nobody
    I Am Nobody (2023)8.6

    When a student unearths the truth behind his grandfather’s life, he must unveil his secret superpowers to an underworld eager for his emergence.

  • Hidden Love
    Hidden Love (2023)8.5

    Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.

  • The First Frost
    The First Frost (2025)8.4

    Wen Yifan, by chance, ends up living with her high school classmate Sang Yan, whom she once rejected. They keep their distance until Wen Yifan learns from Sang Yan that she sleepwalks, intertwining their lives once more.

  • Like a Flowing River
    Like a Flowing River (2018)8.3

    The story of Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao, and Yang Xun as they take part in China’s economic reform from the 1980s to the 1990s.

  • The Double
    The Double (2024)8.2

    Xue Fangfei, the daughter of a well-off county magistrate lost everything after a major upheaval. Saved by Jiang Li, the daughter of the Secretariat Director, she took on the identity of Jiang Li and returned to the capital. With the help of Duke Xiao Heng and others, she overcame numerous hardships, tirelessly fought against injustice, rescued her father who had been wrongly imprisoned, assisted Xiao Heng in upholding justice, protecting the common people, and ultimately regained a beautiful life.

  • Falling Into Your Smile
    Falling Into Your Smile (2021)8.1

    After joining an all-male e-sports team, an amateur gamer tests her skills and leads her team to the world championships.

  • The Story of Pearl Girl
    The Story of Pearl Girl (2024)8.1

    After narrowly escaping an abusive pearl farm, a young woman with unmatched talent carves out her own fate as treachery meets the world of jewelry.

  • The Princess Royal
    The Princess Royal (2024)7.9

    Because of political reasons, princess Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan got married at the age of 18. In the end they drifted further and further afar from each other. After 20 years of a loveless marriage, they were manipulated into turning against each other, leading to their deaths. However, they wake up back at 18, before their marriage, facing the hardest time of their lives. The two of them are given second change together, to save those around them.

  • Happy Toon
    Happy Toon (2010)7.8

  • The Immortal Ascension
    The Immortal Ascension (2025)6.9

    Han Li, an ordinary, poor boy from a mountain village, joins a small martial arts sect by chance. Despite his mediocre talent, he eventually cultivates himself into an immortal through hard work and careful planning.

  • Super Wings
    Super Wings (2014)6.6

    An action-packed preschool series about an adorable jet plane named Jett who travels the world delivering packages to children. On every delivery, Jett encounters a new problem that the he and his friends the Super Wings must work together to solve!

  • Tomb of Fallen Gods
    Tomb of Fallen Gods (2022)5.7

    The book takes the protagonist Chennan's search for his lover Yuxin 10,000 years ago and the pursuit of the secrets of the destruction of gods and demons as clues, leading to the vast six paths, heaven and earth chess game, and deducing a legend full of blood, heroic and poignant, telling the legends of countless heroes and beauties, and discussing human nature, society, life and other elements.

  • Love Stories in the Countryside
    Love Stories in the Countryside (2006)5.4