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Reborn as a Palace Concubine

16 episodes · Xin Daying enters the imperial harem expecting a struggle for favor. Instead, she finds women supporting one another and collectively trying to avoid the emperor's attention. The costume comedy builds its conflicts around that shared resistance to palace expectations, turning the usual contest between concubines into an unlikely alliance.

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The Warlord's Daughter Unholsters Again

60 episodes · Gu Zhao, once known as Gu Three Shots, suppresses her formidable reputation to honor her mother's wishes and marries scholar Song Jingming. Humiliation at the wedding and mistreatment of her maid expose the cost of that restraint. She recalls the twelve guards her mother left her and takes back control of the household finances as a hidden scheme gathers around a birthday banquet.

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Back to 1981: A Bride to Protect

89 episodes · A modern soldier awakens in 1981 as village bully Lin Feng, whose intended bride has fled with the betrothal money. At her family home, he finds her seriously ill younger sister Su Qiuxin abandoned on a hillside. He spends his savings on her treatment and turns to hunting and gathering medicinal plants. Her decision to marry him brings renewed hostility from the Su family.

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After Exile, an Empire as Betrothal

79 episodes · Song Yun spends her fortune securing a pardon for her exiled husband, only for him to plan to demote her to a concubine. She leaves, reclaims her identity as a wealthy merchant, and falls in love with Emperor Pei Jiuqing during his incognito travels. Her former husband's retaliation eventually intersects with a rebellion that puts both her resources and judgment to the test.

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Reborn in the Seventies: No More Sacrifice

77 episodes · In 1977, Zhang Feng dies after his adoptive brother takes both his kidneys. He wakes months earlier, before the betrayal, and discovers that a ring left by his birth parents opens a space with healing spring water. With his injured leg restored, he trades game, prepares for the entrance exams with Lin Wan'er, and begins breaking free of his adoptive family's control.

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Armed into Song, Season 10

100 episodes · The Qin Rong incident gives Lin Zhao an opening to attack the western military command. He commits three armies while Ma Zhenbang supplies equipment and Chen Su organizes medical support. The emperor permits only half a month, leaving battlefield advances entangled with negotiations and decisions in the capital.

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SNOW WHITE: DESIRE CURSE

20 episodes · A poisoned apple leaves Snow White alive but bound to a curse that changes her body and sense of self. As she searches for relief, the jealous Queen follows her through a magic mirror, while seven cursed dwarfs hide dangerous transformations. This ongoing adult dark fantasy currently lists 9 released episodes and coming-soon slots through episode 20.

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Clamed By The Lycan King

35 episodes · Princess Lyra gives blood for eight years while waiting for Alpha Orion to honor their bond. Sold instead to Lycan King Ruen, she discovers a dormant white wolf awakening within her, even as Ruen refuses to recognize what his beast already knows.

In the Eighties, I Refuse to Be a Cannon-Fodder Girl short-drama poster

In the Eighties, I Refuse to Be a Cannon-Fodder Girl

127 episodes · Lu Jiaojiao wakes as an amnesiac supporting character in an eighties story. The man meant to care for her sends his cousin to impersonate him while he travels with her adopted sister. Lu's attraction to the substitute and unexpected academic success unsettle the arrangement.

Martial Arts Begins with a Wish-Granting Basin short-drama poster

Martial Arts Begins with a Wish-Granting Basin

81 episodes · Orphaned fisherman Li Mo has been raised by his sister in Wangyun County. A magical basin that upgrades ordinary objects changes the limits of his life. Better food, improved martial manuals and transformed medicines become tools for a journey beyond subsistence.

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Sent Down in the Seventies with a Discount Mall

145 episodes · Overworked Qin Ming dies and wakes in 1970 in the body of a man ruined by devotion to Wang Xue. A discount-mall system allows him to buy and sell goods. After starting a trading livelihood in the city, he volunteers to move to the countryside.

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Little Yu, the Shen Family's Lucky Star

72 episodes · In the early 1980s, widow Shen Lan adopts an infant despite local prejudice. Little Yu's extraordinary luck accompanies the family's efforts to farm, organize a fishing cooperative and weather natural disasters. Four brothers are determined to protect their new sister.

The White Deer Repays a Kindness in Famine short-drama poster

The White Deer Repays a Kindness in Famine

80 episodes · Thrown off a cliff during a famine, Zhao Changsheng is saved by a white deer he once helped. A miraculous fruit heals his leg and lets him understand animals. Returning home, he must protect his wife and daughter while helping hungry villages secure food.

Song Li in the Eighties: Her Friend Stole the Promise short-drama poster

Song Li in the Eighties: Her Friend Stole the Promise

233 episodes · After being abandoned by her sweetheart, Song Li is rescued from a river by a stranger who leaves a token and a promise. Her friend Li Yuling destroys the address and takes her place at the meeting. Song's pregnancy and search for the truth unfold under that stolen identity.

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The Mischievous Prince Chooses a Stepmother

656 episodes · Reborn after a marriage that destroyed her family, heiress Li Zhiwei refuses to repeat it. Young prince Xu Qingshi chooses her as a stepmother, drawing her into his father's household. A donation of her dowry brings imperial attention and a new marriage decree.

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My Sister Is the Crown Princess: Season 4

263 episodes · Su Hao risks an unusual medicine to save the critically ill Empress Zhangsun. Its effects attract military and aristocratic interest, while an investigation into palace accounts exposes corruption. Commerce and proposed marriage alliances pull him deeper into Tang court politics.

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Raising a Pampered Husband — Season 2

116 episodes · Wasteland survivor Mai Sui finds herself living as a bullied rural young woman. Her survival skills become tools for hunting, trading and improving daily life, while her relationship with educated youth Shen Xingchen develops through the second season's rural struggles.

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Return to the Seventies with a Storehouse

140 episodes · Fu Nanting returns to 1970 after the death of his father Fu Zhengci, carrying a storage space filled with modern supplies. As his mother Su Mei directs the survivor benefits toward Xu Yongrong, he tries to protect his siblings and keep their home from slipping away.

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Crossing Liao: Armour of the Land — Season 1

103 episodes · Modern special-forces soldier Chen Du arrives near the end of the Five Dynasties era. Without supernatural help, he uses military training and defensive planning to help displaced people establish a refuge in a valley threatened by the violence around it.

The Invisible Palace Guard short-drama poster

The Invisible Palace Guard

69 episodes · Lu Chengfeng becomes a guard in the cold palace after crossing into another life. An ability to turn invisible changes his position in a court ruled by intrigue, giving the fallen prince a way to contest the power he has lost.