Against the Tide (Chinese: 逆潮) is a psychological thriller drama produced by MediaCorp Channel 8.
While Di Shen is doing a television interview, a girl escapes her captivity in which she was tortured and abused.
As police officers Zhou Jianfeng and Guo Jingcheng fail to obtain information from the girl, they ask for help from the psychiatrist Qiu Xueqing who, through hypnosis reveals that the assailant had a copy of Di Shen's novel.
Xueqing asks the novelist to help solve the case believing that the culprit is an imitator of his novels, but for Jianfeng, Di shen is the main suspect.
Against The Tide had an average of 937,000 views, becoming the 7th most watched drama series of 2014, following behind Three Wishes, C.L.I.F.