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The Demon Princess Descends the Mountain, Too Invincible

90 episodes · Orphan Ling Xi unintentionally becomes a feared figure known as the Demon Princess. When her billionaire parents come to reclaim her, she is busy dealing with villains. She pretends to be obedient and goes home, only to find her parents are actually poor because her sister squandered the fortune. But no matter—with her around, she will reclaim everything that was taken.

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Reborn, No More Enduring: Countryside Rise in the 70s

69 episodes · Jiang Jinghui was reborn to the day when he was set up by his parents and brother Jiang Jingyao to sleep with Mu Xue. In his previous life, he was drained of his value and died miserably. In this life, he awakens a system, beats up his family, seizes the dowry, and sets a trap to get Jiang Jingyao imprisoned for adultery, and his mother Yang Shufen arrested. Then he takes Mu Xue to Hei province to go down to the countryside, establishes himself at the educated youth point, and makes friends. Jiang Jingyao escapes from prison and becomes a murderer, seeking revenge from afar. Eventually, Jiang Jinghui joins forces with others to subdue him. After many twists, Jiang Jinghui and Mu Xue end up together and live a happy and stable life in the countryside.

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Code Name: God of Death

66 episodes · Jiang Hao, the God of Death, returns to fulfill a marriage contract. On the plane, he easily deals with hijackers. Back home, he navigates entanglements with several women while investigating his father's murder, eventually exposing the conspiracy of Wan family and the underground king Lei Ye, completing his revenge. Adapted from 'The King of Assassins Returns and Bloodbaths the City' by Yuye Buting.

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Peerless Martial Arts at the Start, Don't Panic, Junior Sister

61 episodes · Li Chang'an transmigrates to become the only male handyman of the Qinghua Sect. He triggers a heaven-defying cultivation system and treats a female disciple with cold poison, gaining peerless martial arts and inner force. He thwarts villains, obtains the Dragon Yuan and Xuanlong Sword, and rises from handyman to martial arts legend.

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After Rebirth, My Mother and I Turn the Tables

73 episodes · Yun Shang is reborn on the day her father marries his mistress Wen Shaoli. She resolves to take revenge. She publicly exposes Wen's secrets, forces her to enter as a concubine, thwarts Wen and Yun Yan's schemes, neutralizes the prince's plots, breaks off her engagement, exposes Yun Yan's affair, shifts household power to Aunt Wen, and eventually reveals the conspiracy between the Yun family and the prince. The Yun family is punished, and she avenges her mother.

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Seven Brothers Killed, I Revive the Clan

64 episodes · Lin Chen transmigrates into a despised playboy heir of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion in the Dayan Dynasty. With his father and seven brothers dead on the battlefield, he is the only male left. To protect his family and shoulder the burden of eight branches, he reforms completely. He calms the clan, restores the family fortune, investigates the truth behind his father and brothers' deaths, and uses his cunning and strength to eliminate traitors and take revenge. He saves the family from collapse and becomes a legendary powerful minister. Adapted from "Oh My! Grandmother Wants Me to Shoulder Eight Branches Alone" by Xiyu Mianmian.

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Your Majesty, Don't Love Too Much! I Rely on Fertility to Dominate the Harem

80 episodes · Modern divine doctor Ning Yuhan transmigrates into an abused concubine's daughter and is forced to enter the imperial selection in place of her sister. Facing the emperor's infertility and the rule that childless consorts must be buried alive, she uses her clinical experience in infertility to precisely plan a pregnancy. She step by step uncovers the queen's sterilization tea and counterattacks a fake pregnancy, eventually conceiving twins. Facing a plot to keep the child and kill the mother, Ning Yuhan uses the emperor's power to eliminate the noble clans, rising from a lowly maid to a beloved empress who dominates the harem.

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The King Who Slept in the Dragon's Bed

69 episodes · Transmigrated as the Western Liang King, Qin Jue is poisoned by a corrupt emperor and his fiancée. Awakening the 'Beauty Atlas' system, he recovers instantly and leads a 300,000-strong cavalry to storm the capital. He confronts his former love Su Mingying and crushes her dreams of becoming empress, overthrowing the dynasty.

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You Want Me to Be Emperor with Seven Days to Invasion?

62 episodes · Lin Mo transmigrates into an abandoned prince as invaders approach in seven days. Forced onto the throne, he binds a clan system that rewards expansion. He reforms the court, raises an army, and battles a female emperor's forces, ultimately turning the tables and building a powerful clan.

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The Exiled Prince and His Wise Wife

76 episodes · Zhao Zhao travels through time to become the Ninth Prince, framed by the Crown Prince. In prison, he marries Su Qingyuan, a criminal's daughter. He saves himself by recreating the late empress's noodle soup, then volunteers for exile to the northern border. With his wife's help, he fights noble families, recruits generals, pacifies the border, exposes the Crown Prince's plot, avenges his mother, and becomes emperor.

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Kissed by Claw and Fang

73 episodes · Ivy, a human teenage girl, suddenly finds herself homeless after her family goes bankrupt. She's forced to live in her car—a shameful secret she needs to hide from the bullies at her elite private high school. One day, she discovers she is the mate of both Sebastian, a werewolf heir, and Zane, a vampire prince. These two supernatural hunks are polar opposites: one fiery, one icy. Who is her true love? Ivy later learns that her true identity holds even more secrets that could destroy everything.

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Two Rebels of Daliang

91 episodes · Two Rebels of Daliang is a Chinese short drama listed in public actor filmography sources for Li Zhao. Li Zhao is credited as Chu Xiaoxuan.

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Sent to a Marriage Alliance, Crowned in the Enemy State

65 episodes · A prince of Daqian, Zhang Xuan, is framed by his brothers and forced into exile to Northern Liang for a political marriage. Ambushed on the way, he is saved by Qin Yunshu, a Northern Liang princess rumored to be simple-minded. The two strike a pact: he will help her seize the throne, and she will help him seek revenge back in his homeland. Against the repeated attempts on their lives by the Prince of Jing of Northern Liang, Zhang Xuan breaks through with medicine and strategy, and he and Qin Yunshu turn their sham alliance into a real marriage. He reforms abuses and wins over the people; she lays plans in secret and consolidates power. When the Prince of Jing kills the ruler and usurps the throne, the two counterattack together. Zhang Xuan turns the conflict between the two states to their advantage and ultimately helps Qin Yunshu take the throne as emperor, then leads an army south to retake Daqian. Two rulers stand side by side, the two states become one, and together they build an era of peace.

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Pear Blossoms Do Not Mean to Accompany Spring Cold

63 episodes · Pear Blossoms Do Not Mean to Accompany Spring Cold is a Chinese short drama listed in public actor filmography sources for Li Zhao. Li Zhao is credited as Yinglan.

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In Great Qian: I Bring Three Marriage Contracts to Marry the Princess

65 episodes · In Great Qian, Lu Qing has spent twenty years building the Lu family into the realm's wealthiest and most powerful clan. After a struggle over the crown prince and a battle in the imperial city, he is betrayed and his parents and clansmen are slaughtered. Lu Qing hides his true abilities behind a wastrel's mask and investigates, while an approaching marriage contract forces him into a comedic entanglement with Princess Yunshang over breaking the engagement, gradually bringing the truth of that year to light.

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Peerless Heir

99 episodes · Wei Yuan is transported into the body of the wastrel heir of a duke’s household in Great Wei. Outwardly a carefree idler, he in truth cares for the common people and hates evil. Facing coldness, mockery and even mortal danger, he repeatedly turns the tide, becoming entangled emotionally with Liang Hongchan, daughter of the Duke of Liang, and Grand Princess Nanzhi, until his talents make him the brightest star of all.

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The Carefree Fourth Young Master

106 episodes · Ning Chen unexpectedly transmigrates and becomes the illegitimate son of the Minister of Rites in the Daxuan dynasty. Raised in hardship within the Ning household after his mother's early death, he is repeatedly bullied by his brothers. Facing one frame-up after another, he uses his exceptional intelligence to defuse each crisis. Along the way he comes to know Princess Huaijin and the female general Chen Jie, and begins a journey of turning his fortunes around.

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My Sister Is the Warlord Queen

68 episodes · In My Sister is The Warlord Queen movie, abandoned by their parents, the Blackwood sisters, Catherine and Grace, grew up with only each other to rely on. As adults, both built successful lives. But at Grace’s engagement party, Catherine shows up straight from an undercover mission, still dressed as a janitor, and becomes the target of ridicule from Grace's in-laws and former classmates. When her sister is betrayed and humiliated by her fiancé, Catherine reveals her true identity as the Warlord Queen, and makes everyone regret underestimating them.

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Scheming Heiress

82 episodes · Reborn with knowledge of the future, Zhu Chaoyun deliberately rescues the injured and amnesiac Li Yuanzhao before another woman can. She wants wealth rather than romance, but her new life draws the attention of the newly enthroned emperor searching for his wife.

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Stepbrother Dotes on Me, Brother Regrets

75 episodes · In her first life, Wen Xingluo devoted herself to advancing her father's and brothers' prospects, only to see the sister who returned home take both their affection and her betrothal to the crown prince. Waking again in the year her parents divorced, she abandons her father and brothers and follows her remarried mother into the prince's household. There the stepbrothers who once disdained her sister dote on her as a treasure, while her father and brothers—who once loathed her—watch her call others family and scheme for them, and beg her to come home. Adapted from the Tomato peak-list novel Jin Guan Cang Jiao by Ba Jiu Xu.