Looking for the best gender bender CDramas? Or you’re interested in cross-dressing Chinese dramas. We’ve compiled a list of must-watch C-dramas featuring captivating characters, intricate plots, and unforgettable moments of disguise and mistaken identity. These are the best gender bender and cross-dressing Cdramas.
Nancheng Banquet

A top-secret assassination mission intertwined the originally unrelated lives of the righteous heroine Ming Xiao and the sinister leader Yan Changyun. With one careless move, Ming Xiao failed the mission and turned into an amnesiac white rabbit, and was forced to be involved in his revenge…
Warm Meet You

Zhao Nuan Nuan is a comic artist with outstanding drawing skills, who has always dreamed of becoming China’s top original comic artist but has repeatedly failed. Hopeless, she is forced to go on a blind date but mistaken Gu Yi Chen, who is just passing by, as her blind date. Zhao Nuan Nuan’s only shortcoming is that she has extremely poor luck, but in a twist of fate, she accidentally discovers that as long as she gets close to Gu Yi Chen, her luck changes for the better.
Lost You Forever

Whilst travelling through the wilderness, Hao Ling princess Xiao Yao experienced all kinds of hardships – losing both her identity and true appearance, she eventually settled in Qing Shui Town, disguised as a man called Wen Xiaoliu and became a doctor. In Qingshui Town, Xiao Yao / Wen Xiaoliu accidentally rescues Tushan Jing, the future leader of the Tu Shan Clan; encounters Xiang Liu, a nine-headed demon and reunites with her cousin, Xi Yan prince Cang Xuan who had been searching everywhere for her.
Cute Programmer

After falling in love with genius programmer Jiang Yi Cheng, Lu Li enrolls into the school he once studied at, and also took up the same major – calculus. Setting Jiang Yi Cheng as her role model in her heart, she achieves good grades in school. However after graduation, she did not expect that Jiang Yi Cheng’s company does not recruit female employees.
Lu Li decides to disguise as a man and enter the company. However, she met difficulty both in dealing with Jiang Yi Cheng’s demands, as well as hiding her identity. Finally with her perseverance, she grabbed hold of an opportunity and managed to come to an agreement with Jiang Yi Cheng. The two would become a “contract couple” and stay together for one year. Slowly, Jiang YiCcheng finds himself falling for Lu Li.
The Long Ballad

The year is 626 C.E, and the realm and its political center Chang’an, are shaken to its core by the Xuanwu Gate Incident, a successful palace coup to take charge of the Tang Dynasty. A scheming prince leads the bloody coup and kills the family of Li Chang Ge during the raid, although she manages to escape. Now the prince has placed himself on the Imperial throne, and rules as Emperor Tai Zong.
Li Chang Ge has her mind firmly set on revenge – and musters a powerful army intent on overthrowing the new Emperor. Her plans are thrown into disarray when she suffers an unexpected defeat against the armies of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate. The victorious General, Ashi Na Sun, decides to keep her in his service, making her his military strategist as he looks to pursue his own military goals. The duo forms a formidable military partnership. And over time, she finds herself falling for her captor – as he also starts developing feelings for her.
The Chang’an Youth

To repay her good friend Shen Dieyi, Shen Yiyi heads to Chang’an on behalf of her to fulfill a marriage contract. There, she meets Yang Zian, Tang Jiuhua, Li Xinyuan, Dugu Meixue. Each of them hides a secret about their actual identity and motive. Together, they begin their studies at the Shang Yi Guan.
Arsenal Military Academy

In order to fulfill her dead brother’s wish of enrolling into Arsenal Military Academy, Xie Xiang disguises as a guy and sneaks into the Academy to attend lessons. There, she meets two vastly different guys in Gu Yanzhen and Shen Junshan, as well as other like-minded friends. The youths work together to fend off their enemies, and in the process learn valuable life lessons.
Maiden Holmes

It is the sixth century CE and the Qi Kingdom, in what is now Eastern China, is a land at war. The young teenage prince Xiao Yan Zhi, a prodigal young military talent, is sent to ward off a force of invaders. Although he makes a valiant effort, his army is ultimately ambushed and defeated in a decisive battle.
An opportunist foe at the imperial court takes advantage of the situation, forcing Pei Yan Zhi to step down as head of the army – and manages to get a young subservient candidate to take the throne.
Pei Yan Zhi feels he was betrayed. He vows to get to the bottom of the intrigue and goes undercover to investigate, pretending to be a commoner to help him work undetected. On his quest for the truth, he meets a remarkably smart and resourceful young female detective named Su Ci. Together, they form a close bond. They team up with two other quick-witted young sleuths and make a joint bid to discover the scale of the scheming that has undermined the Imperial Palace.