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Rising Dragon of Harbor City

110 episodes · Framed by Dongyang Sheng and imprisoned for six years, Chen Jinnan returns to a shattered family and a sister facing extortion. His intervention brings him into conflict with a local gang leader. After rescuing chamber-of-commerce president Shen Yuhan, he gains an ally with the resources to challenge the organization that destroyed his family.

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Returning After Twenty-Five Years

63 episodes · Scientist Chen Guodong spends twenty-five years on a classified research assignment while posing as a prisoner, separated from his wife Zhou Guifen and son Chen Zhiyuan. He returns for his son's engagement, intending to offer the bride a position in his company. Her family's contempt for his apparent criminal past forces Zhiyuan to choose between the marriage and defending his father.

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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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The Poor Mechanic Is a Tycoon

59 episodes · Small-town mechanic Gu Yanzhou has quietly raised twins since the Shen family drove him away eighteen years ago. His children travel to the capital to find their mother, only to face humiliation and manipulation. Their treatment pushes Gu to reveal the technology business empire hidden behind his modest life and intervene on their behalf.

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At Midlife, His Eyes See Everything

80 episodes · Forty-five-year-old Chen Dayong leaves his divorce with nothing. An accidental head injury gives him the ability to see an object's true value. Finds in a scrapyard and the attention of executive Qin Shuwei open an unfamiliar route out of poverty.

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The Hidden Dragon Returns to His Family

101 episodes · After seven years away on a secret mission, Lin Chen returns to find his wife Su Lian'er and their daughter struggling under local bullies. Protecting his family draws him into another conflict when corruption emerges inside the organization he once led.

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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.

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The City's Invincible Master

78 episodes · Injured martial expert Yang Fei marries Qin Yanyang under his master's instructions: he needs treatment, while she needs an escape from an arranged match. Both conceal their identities as the marriage develops. His rare medical skills and her support become crucial when Zhang Yunqing brings danger into their lives.

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The Intern Godfather

58 episodes · Retired billionaire Chen Shuo hides his identity and takes a poorly paid internship at a failing company. His young coworkers dismiss him as an out-of-place old man. Their boss Song Xiangyi faces a crushing performance agreement, unaware that the intern she hired is quietly changing the company's prospects.

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The Empress's Humble Brother

66 episodes · Doctor Zhang Yanling enters an ancient dynasty and uses his medical knowledge to save his sister Zhang Yu. Local epidemics and accusations from the powerful put his abilities to further tests. Accompanying Zhang Yu to the capital draws both siblings into disputes that eventually reach the imperial household.

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A Poor Village Rises Through Technology

80 episodes · Zhao Hengyi arrives in an ancient village and uses modern knowledge to improve tools, salt-making and weaving. His success draws him into fights with bandits and corrupt officials. When cavalry surrounds Yonggu City, the weapons Zhao Hengyi developed become part of its defense.

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A Fake Lottery, a Real Divorce

84 episodes · Driver Chen Mo returns to the hour before a plot against his life. Instead of an impulsive attack, he plants a fake winning lottery ticket to exploit his wife's family's greed. Their eagerness to claim the money becomes his opening to secure a divorce and begin again.

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TITAN BORN: The Bastard Demigod

52 episodes · Zeus takes away his demigod son's name and memories, leaving him to fight as the Beast. After a hundred deathmatches, Kael joins rebel godborn Lyra, gains Titan power, kills Ares, and enters the Underworld for his mother's soul. He reclaims the name Kael Talos, shatters Hades's soul chain, and marches on Olympus.

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Wild Path, Season 1

83 episodes · After gang leader Long San is murdered by his wife and adopted son, his soul enters the body of injured rickshaw puller Li Changgui. Rebuilding from the exploited laborers at the bottom, he organizes resistance, forms the Talang Society, and moves to reclaim his former organization when a kill order and the truth of the betrayal converge.

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King of Feng Shui

109 episodes · Born under an unusual fate, Wu Jie is raised by feng-shui master Li Xuantong and trained in geomancy. After leaving his teacher, he resolves dangerous occult cases with his allies, traces a hidden faction manipulating fortune, and must hold to his principles as the truth about his birth and lineage emerges.

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Miss Shen Is Done

60 episodes · Translator Shen Nian has worked at her company for six years when a new executive cancels her language allowance and calls her professional labor voluntary overtime. She walks away before a major negotiation, forcing management to confront what happens when the person carrying the work refuses to absorb its costs.

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My Grandmother's Gold Necklace Sent Me Straight to the Top

60 episodes · After losing her grandmother at eleven, Chen Wang must protect an eighteen-gram gold necklace and resist parents who want her to leave school for her younger brother. With help from supportive adults, she pursues mathematics, reaches university, exposes her relatives' schemes, and turns her grandmother's legacy into support for girls facing similar hardship.

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Rise of a Kingpin: From Wage Worker to Underworld Boss

84 episodes · After his girlfriend abandons him for being poor, rural worker Qin Jianjun resolves to change his fate. Starting at the bottom, he builds influence and resources through a succession of conflicts and hard choices, rising from wage laborer to wealthy power broker while redefining dignity and love.

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Fiancée's Betrayal, Dante's Inferno

68 episodes · In Fiancée's Betrayal Dante's Inferno movie, Dante Bosch returns home after 3 years in the Marine Raiders on a top secret mission, only to discover not only is his fiancée Lilith pregnant with his brother Virgil's baby, but Virgil has also spent all his money. To add insult to injury, his parents take Virgil's side. After suffering betrayals and humiliations, Dante exposes Virgil's lies with a video at his wedding.

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King of War Tech

60 episodes · In the King of War Tech movie, Wesley Creed, the King of War Tech, hides his identity in order to keep his dead squadmates' research alive, only to be treated like dirt. 3 years later, he's ready to reclaim his identity.