Peach Blossoms Look Like a Memory (人面桃花长相忆)
Peach Blossoms Look Like a Memory (人面桃花长相忆; pinyin Rén Miàn Táo Huā Zhǎng Xiàng Yì) is a 2025 Chinese vertical-screen short drama of 81 Mandarin-language episodes, directed by Yang Yuan (杨源) and starring Meng Jiaxin (孟嘉鑫) as Ruan Wuli and Ai Hongchen (艾弘辰) as Wen Yanci1. Each episode runs about 2 minutes, and the series is classified as drama, romance, and short-form vertical drama2. It became one of the highest-performing micro-dramas of 2025 in China's DataEye heat rankings3.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | 81-episode Chinese vertical (short) drama, Mandarin, released 20251 • 2 |
| Episode length | About 2 minutes per episode2 |
| Director and leads | Directed by Yang Yuan; Meng Jiaxin as Ruan Wuli, Ai Hongchen as Wen Yanci1 |
| Genre | Female-oriented romance (女频恋爱), modern setting4 |
| June 2025 performance | Topped both DataEye heat and native-play lists on June 15, 2025, with a single-day play increment near 90 million5 |
| 2025 annual rank | Second on DataEye's annual heat-value top 100 with 67.683 million heat points, credited to Hippo (河马) and Xi'an Xiazi (西安匣子)3 |
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Plot
The story follows Ruan Wuli (阮雾梨), who is neglected from childhood by her father and stepmother. As an adult she chooses Wen Yanci (闻砚辞) as her personal bodyguard, gradually falls in love with him, and pursues him intensely, but he remains unmoved. She then discovers by accident that Wen Yanci came for her stepsister, and that his real identity is the young master (太子爷) of the Wen family. In anger she marries Xie Yunchuan (谢昀川), who is in a vegetative state; when Wen Yanci realizes he has mistaken the person, it is already too late1.
The premise places the drama in the female-oriented romance (女频) track of the short-drama market, built on the familiar beats of mistaken identity, a marriage to a comatose husband, and a male lead who regrets too late4. Promotional clips circulated under the alternate title "Mr. Wen, You Mistook Your Wife" (闻先生，你认错太太了)6.
Production and distribution
The series was filmed in China in 2025 and distributed as a web series on short-drama platforms, including iQiyi, where all 81 episodes were made available1 • 2. DataEye's mid-June 2025 report credits the heat-list edition to Hippo (河马) and the native-play edition to distributors Yangguang Jubа (阳光剧吧) and Yisen Film & Television (奕森影视), showing that the same title circulated through multiple platform channels at once5.
Performance in the 2025 short-drama market
The drama's commercial run tracked the DataEye heat-value system, which measures micro-drama popularity across platforms. In the June 15, 2025 weekly report it held first place on both the heat list and the native-play list, with a single-day play increment of nearly 90 million (9000万)5. For the first half of 2025 it ranked third overall with a heat value of 53.35 million (5335万)7. In DataEye's year-end top 100 for 2025 it placed second among all micro-dramas, with a heat value of 67.683 million (6768.3万), behind only Maiya's Little Ball God Is Not to Be Messed With (90.744 million)3.
Works with similar titles
The title's phrase, drawn from Cui Hu's Tang poem "At a Gate in the South of the Capital" (题都城南庄), has been reused across media, and several unrelated 2025-era works share parts of it:
- 人面桃花 (2025), a 72-episode Tang-poetry-themed fantasy romance short drama on the Red Fruit (红果) platform, directed by Feng Ranbai and starring Yan Zixian and Zuo Yi, about the mountain god Mo Yuan and the mortal Song Yunshuang across a thousand-year reincarnation8. It is a different series from Peach Blossoms Look Like a Memory.
- 人面桃花, Ge Fei's novel (2004), first volume of his Jiangsu trilogy and a Mao Dun Literature Prize winner through the trilogy9.
- 人面桃花, the Peking opera created and performed by Ouyang Yuqian in 1920, based on the Cui Hu story from Meng Qi's Benshi Shi, later adapted into the Gui opera that the Guangxi troupe has staged through 202610 • 11.
References
- 人面桃花长相忆 – iQiyi series page
- Peach Blossoms Look Like a Memory (2025) – ChineseMov
- 2025年度百强短剧：麦芽、河马、掌玩、山海、番茄领跑！ – DataEye短剧观察 via The Paper
- 《人面桃花长相忆》剧情介绍 – 晴天追剧网
- DataEye微短剧热力榜（2025-06-15） – The Paper
- 聞先生，你認錯太太了 人面桃花长相忆 – YouTube
- DataEye 2025年H1微短剧行业数据报告 (PDF)
- 微短剧《人面桃花》在红果短剧平台上线播出 – 电影界
- 宗仁发：桃花依旧笑春风——评格非《人面桃花》 – 中国作家网
- 人面桃花（1920年欧阳予倩创作的京剧剧目） – 百度百科
- 旧题如何出新？——由桂剧《人面桃花》的演出想到 – 文艺报
Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026
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