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From Delivery Guy to Fisherman: Repaying Sisters' Debts - Episode 1 short-drama poster

From Delivery Guy to Fisherman: Repaying Sisters' Debts - Episode 1

60 episodes · Modern office worker Chen Yang transmigrates into an ancient crippled fisherman and activates a 'doting wife' system. By marrying and cherishing wives, he earns emotional points to exchange for power, skills, and treasures. He rescues the sisters Song Qian and starts a comeback, using the system to destroy evil forces and join the army, rising from a lowly fisherman to a fierce general. He exposes the traitor Xu Jinzhi's plot, slays enemies from the Golden Wolf Kingdom, but incurs the suspicion of the Great Xia court. Eventually, with support from Zeng Hu and others, he declares himself king and embarks on a war for domination.

Back to the 70s: Leading the Village to Prosperity short-drama poster

Back to the 70s: Leading the Village to Prosperity

60 episodes · Transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, she makes a stunning comeback.

Princess, Stop Pretending short-drama poster

Princess, Stop Pretending

73 episodes · Shu Man, a gifted 21st-century magician, transmigrates into a novel set in Jing Kingdom as Shen Yaoyao, daughter of a minister. She accidentally witnesses Xiao Yu killing the crown prince and feigns blindness to survive. By chance, she marries him and becomes his princess, leading a precarious life. In this feudal dynasty, she uses wisdom to turn danger into safety and reforms the male lead, changing his fate of destroying the world.

Fish Letter Cat Cat - Ep 1 short-drama poster

Fish Letter Cat Cat - Ep 1

26 episodes · Cat demon Jiang Miaomiao loses her way down the mountain and ends up in the palace as the imperial cat, cultivating with the emperor's violet energy. She cures Emperor Gu Li's insomnia and gains his deep favor. Song Wan'er returns to compete for the queen's position, falsely claiming Miaomiao is her stand-in, causing turmoil. The former prince allies with Lin Feng and others to rebel. Gu Li is wounded protecting Miaomiao, and in desperation, she transforms into human form to save him. The rebellion is quelled.

The Foolish Consort of Great Qian short-drama poster

The Foolish Consort of Great Qian

84 episodes · The most silly prince consort in history.

Beauty Reborn - Episode 1 short-drama poster

Beauty Reborn - Episode 1

36 episodes · Shen Qingci and her half-sister Shen Zhiwei are both disfigured. Their father gives them two human skin masks to choose from. In the previous life, Zhiwei snatched the beautiful mask, entered the palace, and died from jealousy. Qingci wore the ugly mask, married into a prince's residence, and was poisoned. After rebirth, both awaken. Zhiwei madly grabs the ugly mask to become the princess consort, while Qingci takes the beautiful mask. She uses disguise and poison in the palace, destroys her enemies, exposes the prince and empress's conspiracy, and finally abandons power to return to the martial world, regaining freedom with her true face.

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Episode 1

20 episodes · In 1927 Shanghai, the stormy city. A young master returning from overseas is assassinated right after arrival. Family strife, Japanese conspiracy, and gang fights pile up dangers. With a gun and courage, he struggles among concessions and warlords, surviving near-death experiences. A scheme within schemes, a series of assassinations—what seems like brotherly inheritance dispute hides a Japanese spy plot.

Wan's Scheme - Episode 1 short-drama poster

Wan's Scheme - Episode 1

49 episodes · Hou Qingwan is the legitimate daughter of the Hou family, backed by her grandfather who controls the military and the current empress. However, she is framed to death by the illegitimate daughter Hou Yuyao, her childhood sweetheart the crown prince, and her own father. On the brink of death, Hou Qingwan learns that Hou Yuyao is a time-traveler. But then Hou Qingwan opens her eyes and is reborn. She will make those who harmed her pay with blood.

He Zhao Record Episode 1 short-drama poster

He Zhao Record Episode 1

51 episodes · Jiang Jinhe, daughter of the prime minister, was poisoned by her half-sister in her previous life. Reborn on her coming-of-age ceremony day, she cleverly avoids harm and exposes her half-sister's schemes. She carefully plans, uses Prince Chen Gu Jiu Zhao's power to change fate, predicts natural disasters to save people. The prince falls for her, they stabilize the situation, and she gains true love and controls her own life.

Episode 1: 749 Secret Files: The Sinister Rain of Qinling short-drama poster

Episode 1: 749 Secret Files: The Sinister Rain of Qinling

24 episodes · In the early Republic era, the village of Yugumiao near Qinling suffers a severe drought. Villagers go to the Dragon King Temple at night to pray for rain. Unexpectedly, they summon a sinister rain, a strange dragon king, black water that makes people disappear, and a giant creature coiled beneath the village. Wu Di, director of Organization 749, leads his team to rescue, uncovering the village's shocking secret...

My Husband, Don't Flee, I'm the Shark Princess short-drama poster

My Husband, Don't Flee, I'm the Shark Princess

38 episodes · A useless shark princess awakens and devours the three realms.

Nine-Layered Palace Episode 1 short-drama poster

Nine-Layered Palace Episode 1

50 episodes · Li Yun was born with a sinister aura, seen as a monster, only her older sister Zhaoning was her light. Zhaoning enters the palace for a year but returns home dead, covered in whip scars and broken legs. For revenge, Li Yun hides her edge, enters the palace as a 'star of doom'. She maneuvers before tyrant Rong Ji, fights consorts, breaks into dungeons, drinks poison to prove herself, seeks power on the edge of a knife, vowing to send the tyrant to hell and rise high.

What to Do, the Skinny Consort Is Too Seductive Episode 1 short-drama poster

What to Do, the Skinny Consort Is Too Seductive Episode 1

50 episodes · A modern dietary maniac transmigrates to a dynasty that values plumpness as beauty. With her 'skinny' figure considered a jinx and top cooking skills, she conquers the anorexic emperor, elevates the palace's aesthetics, and counterattacks to become empress.

Monarch's Heart Like a Disease - Ep 1 short-drama poster

Monarch's Heart Like a Disease - Ep 1

83 episodes · Adapted from Zhihu Yanyan story 'I'm a Medicine Nut, Not a Flower Nut' by author Beigua. Medicine fanatic Mo Xiaoxian, in order to compile a medical book, targets Crown Prince Qi Jue, who is poisoned with a rare toxin called 'Worshiping Guanyin'. She storms the Eastern Palace to treat him and helps Qi Jue uncover the truth behind the poisoning by the Empress Dowager. Qi Jue decides to seize the throne and bargains with Mo Xiaoxian: she detoxifies him in exchange for his support in her medical endeavors. Amidst the whirlpool of power struggles, they support each other and expose conspiracies.

Zhi He, Master of the Granary short-drama poster

Zhi He, Master of the Granary

31 episodes · In turbulent times, she commands the granary and uses grain to turn the tide.

Luring the General into the Tent short-drama poster

Luring the General into the Tent

2 episodes · Princess Chang Nangong Yao wants the throne, but the loyal general Chu Yuan, who serves the crown prince, stands in her way. After witnessing his loyalty, she becomes interested and decides to win him over through manipulation and seduction. The throne is hers, and so is he!

The Legitimate Daughter Shatters Golden Scales short-drama poster

The Legitimate Daughter Shatters Golden Scales

51 episodes · The Eastern Sea Princess is seizing power.

Who is the Crown Princess? short-drama poster

Who is the Crown Princess?

29 episodes · Reborn, she refuses to be a scapegoat.

Cloud Boat Crossing Joy - Episode 1 short-drama poster

Cloud Boat Crossing Joy - Episode 1

56 episodes · Shen Qinghuan follows mother's order to take medicine, acts ugly for three years, marries Regent Xiao Hanyuan. She expects true love but is only a shield for his first love. Accused at a banquet, abandoned in crisis, loses child, falls into cold pool. Surviving, she becomes beautiful heiress Yue Qing. When Xiao realizes she is his savior, he kneels to apologize, but she has already found true love.

I Refuse to Be the Crown Princess short-drama poster

I Refuse to Be the Crown Princess

18 episodes · In her past life, An Ning served Crown Prince Xiao Jue for a decade, even sacrificing her reputation, only to be poisoned. Reborn on the eve of the consort selection, she discovers Xiao Jue also has memories. She decides to avoid him and throws herself into the arms of Regent Xiao Jin, a war god who can hear her thoughts. Together, they expose Xiao Jue's fraud, take revenge, and become emperor and empress.