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BL Dramas Currently Airing in 2026 — Your Complete Guide

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BL Dramas Currently Airing in 2026 — Your Complete Guide

If you’re a BL fan right now, you already know: the schedule is absolutely unhinged. A crazy number of BL dramas are currently airing at the moment — covering every genre from tender youth romance to dark revenge thriller to sweeping historical palace epic. Whether you’re new to BL dramas or a veteran whose watchlist is actively spiraling, this is your one-stop guide. Bookmark this one.

Table of Contents

  1. Taiwan BL Dramas
  2. Chinese BL Dramas
  3. Thai BL Dramas
  4. Japanese BL Dramas

Taiwan BL Dramas

Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars (向流星許願的我們)

Synopsis: Finished airing recently; from YYS Media — the team behind Be Loved in House and Unknown — this drama follows Xiang Yong who is recently laid off, returns to his hometown carrying the kind of quiet failure he doesn’t know how to talk about. At his lowest point, he makes a desperate wish: to disappear. He wakes up the next morning to find it has come true — nobody recognizes him, not even his own father, who kicks him out. Stranded in a life that no longer belongs to him, he stumbles into the local B&B where the staff includes Hao Wei — the same boy he had a crush on back in high school, now grown up and standing right in front of him. As the summer meteor shower approaches, the two slowly reconnect, and Xiang Yong has to face the desires and unresolved feelings he’s been outrunning for years.

Dual Stars (頂峰)

Synopsis: Completed airing recently, Dual Stars follows a fallen acting genius whose career has quietly collapsed and a volatile top idol who rules the charts but can’t escape the pressure of fame forced to co-star together in a BL film project. What begins as open hostility and professional rivalry gradually shifts into something neither man anticipated — becoming each other’s only real anchor as industry demands, public scandals, and personal crises pile up around them.

Smile After Tears (轉過頭，幫你擦眼淚)

Synopsis: Zhang Jun Jia is a transfer student who moves through life on the strength of his smile — cheerful on the outside, quietly carrying the weight of family loss and financial pressure on the inside. Everything shifts the day he stumbles across a school band performance and locks eyes on He Yan Kai, the aloof, guarded lead singer of the Hot Music Club. As the two grow closer through music and late-night conversations, feelings that neither of them intended begin to take root. Then a sudden car accident brings everything to a halt. Left alone with grief and unresolved emotions, Jun Jia finds someone new stepping into his life — classmate Zheng Diao Qin, who may have a longer history .

Chinese BL Dramas

Journey with You (与君同)

Synopsis: Yin Qi, the Fifth Prince of the Xing Dynasty, has spent three years guarding the frontier. When a secret letter calls him back to the capital, he walks straight into a deadly coup orchestrated by his own elder brother, Yin Zhou, who has been conspiring with foreign enemies all along. Caught in the trap alongside him is Pei Yanzhi — a hostage prince and also his confidant but who Yin Qi now believes to be a traitor. Both of them fall. At the brink of death, Yin Qi finally understands his feelings. Next, when he opens his eyes, he is three years in the past. Reborn with all the knowledge of what’s coming, he sets out to rewrite their fate: protect Yanzhi, outmaneuver Yin Zhou, and untangle the web of betrayal before it closes around them again. As he discovers the truth, he realizes that the tragedy of their past life runs deeper than he ever imagined and yanzhi is closely tied to it.

Double Helix (双程)

Synopsis: Adapted from Lan Lin’s novel series A Round Trip to Love (双程系列). In university, wealthy heir Lu Feng and diligent top student Cheng Yichen fall into each other across every line that should have kept them apart. When a secretly taken photo exposes their relationship, they are torn apart without warning. Lu Feng is trapped abroad by his family, Yichen is forced to transfer schools and rebuild a life shaped entirely by absence. Years pass. Then Yichen’s new boss turns out to be the same man who left a wound that never healed. Like two strands of a double helix, some connections refuse to unknot. They find their way back to each other, only to be separated yet again.

Lost to You (沦陷)

Synopsis: At seventeen, Zhan Wang returns from Beijing to his small hometown carrying a terminal brain cancer diagnosis he has decided to keep to himself. His homecoming is not a retreat to comfort, it’s a countdown he’s chosen to carry alone. At the noodle shop at the heart of the story, he meets Xu Yuan: also seventeen, top of his class, and quietly crushed under a label the town stuck on him long ago — the “disaster star,” a child marked by misfortune. Two people written off by fate, one under a death sentence and the other under a curse, crash into each other with devastating force. Whether what follows ends in tragedy or something else entirely is the question.

The Gaze (当我看向你)

  • Country: China
  • Cast: Zhu Jingxu, Luo Dianxia, Ji Chuan, Zuo You, and Zhang Zi Jin
  • Genre: Romance, Drama, Sports
  • Episodes: 10
  • Where to Watch: GagaOOLala
  • MyDramaList: https://mydramalist.com/809670-the-gaze

Synopsis: Finished airing recently, The Gaze follows Zhai Qiu Yu—an arrogant tennis prodigy who dominates every court he walks onto and keeps everyone at arm’s length with equal precision. Li You En is a resilient team doctor drowning in medical debt and too proud to show it. When a transactional “special service” contract forces the two of them together, what begins as a cold arrangement defined by power imbalance slowly turns into something far more difficult to categorize. The control Zhai Qiu Yu thought he had over the situation, and over himself starts to slip. P.S. the second lead couple will have your heart.

Thai BL Dramas

When Oranges Fall (ต้นส้มบ้านเขา)

Synopsis: Ko Neung has loved oranges his whole life, but only the ones from the tree next door, which taste unlike anything else in the world. There is just one problem: the tree has an owner, and Ko Neung cannot stand him. That boy happens to share the same nickname, earning them the labels “Ko One” and “Ko Two” around school. Their names are the only thing they have in common. Their temperaments clash, their rhythms don’t match, and every encounter between them seems designed to test someone’s patience. The story that follows is about how proximity does what logic won’t — slowly, stubbornly dismantling the distance between two people who started out on opposite sides of a fence.

Ticket to Heaven (เด็กชายไม่ไปสวรรค์)

  • Country: Thailand
  • Cast: Fourth (Nattawat Jirochtikul), Gemini (Norawit Titicharoenrak), Peerakan Teawsuwan, Chaiyaporn Oliver Poupart
  • Genre: Youth, Coming-of-Age, Romance, Drama
  • Episodes: 6
  • Where to Watch: Youtube
  • MyDramaList: https://mydramalist.com/780126-ticket-to-heaven

Synopsis: Set in 1996. Tanrak is a young orphan who has grown up inside the walls of St. Gabriel’s Seminary, shaped by faith and the rhythms of a life dedicated to the Church. When rebellious transfer student Barth arrives and disrupts everything that felt settled, Tanrak is asked to guide him. What he isn’t prepared for is the way Barth’s presence begins to test something far deeper than patience, stirring feelings that sit in direct conflict with everything Tanrak has been taught to believe. A story about faith, guilt, desire, and the specific agony of loving someone you don’t have a “clean” way to love. Directed by Aof, the director of Bad Buddy and Last Twilight.

Payback (เพย์แบค เดอะซีรีส์)

  • Country: Thailand
  • Cast: Minlee Thanakorn Wichanukhor (Min), Toptap Jarukit Kaewmoonrueang (Toptap), Shogun Paramee, Fuaiz Thanawat
  • Genre: Romance, Drama, Thriller, Revenge, Entertainment Industry
  • Episodes: 10
  • Where to Watch: iQIYI
  • MyDramaList: https://mydramalist.com/804814-payback

Synopsis: Adapted from the Korean webtoon Payback by samk and illustrator Fujoking. Sun is a former gangster whose past recklessness triggers a devastating family tragedy he has spent years trying to make right. When he finally uncovers the betrayal at the root of everything he lost, he enters the cutthroat world of the entertainment industry with one objective: revenge. There he meets Jay, a mysterious figure who seems to be pulling strings behind every scheme Sun runs into. What starts as a dangerous power game between two men on opposite sides of the same board grows increasingly complicated. With Jay stepping in as Sun’s sponsor, the two are forced to rely on each other and become involved in a complex relationship.

Love Upon a Time (ภพเธอ)

  • Country: Thailand
  • Cast: Siraphop Manithikhun (Net), Radchapon Phornpinit (JJ), Chatchawit Techarukpong (Victor), Sadanont Durongkavarojana (Nont)
  • Genre: Romance, Historical Drama, Fantasy
  • Episodes: 12
  • Where to Watch: iQIYI
  • MyDramaList: https://mydramalist.com/745177-love-upon-a-time

Synopsis: Nakhun is an unsuperstitious twenty-year-old student who puts zero stock in fate, legends, or any of it, until the day fate flings him nearly 400 years back in time to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. Everyone around him calls him “Klao,” the name of someone who vanished without explanation, and Nakhun has no choice but to inhabit that missing identity while searching for a way back home. Klao’s watchful friend Phop doesn’t believe for a second that this is the same Klao he knew, and he keeps one eye trained on Nakhun at all times. As Nakhun tries to solve the mystery of Klao’s disappearance, Phop’s attention becomes harder and harder to ignore.

Love of Silom (รักแห่งสีลม)

Synopsis: Krit comes from a traditional Thai-Chinese family where his path was mapped out before he could choose it — a career in the police force, a life lived by expectations, and a previous relationship that ended before anyone outside knew it had started. Wayu works nights at a nightclub in Silom, responsible for supporting both himself and his nephew, living inside a world Krit would never normally enter. Their lives intersect at the nightclub, keep intersecting, and gradually what began as collision turns into something neither of them has a name for. Both men know how to perform what others need from them. The harder question is whether the version of themselves they only show each other is something they can afford to protect.

Japanese BL Dramas

Fake Fact Lips (フェイクファクトリップス)

Synopsis: Yotsuya Ryo and Shito Zen have been at each other’s throats since high school — over grades, sports, Valentine’s chocolate counts, and anything else that could be turned into a competition. Now they work at the same company: Ryo as the top performer of Sales Division 1, Zen as the resident genius of Sales Division 2. Their rivalry reignites immediately. One night, after too many drinks and one impulsive act that neither of them planned, the two end up making the most absurd bet of their professional lives: whoever falls in love with the other first loses. What follows is a strategic fake-romance between two highly competitive men who are, it turns out, equally terrible at pretending not to feel things.

Found an error or a drama we missed? Any favorite picks out of the ones listed that you have been enjoying or really looking forward to watching? Drop it in the comments

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