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Who Says You Cannot Cultivate Without a Spiritual Root? Season 21 short-drama poster

Who Says You Cannot Cultivate Without a Spiritual Root? Season 21

110 episodes · In a realm where spiritual roots define status, rootless Han Fan is treated as disposable labor at Liuli Sword Sect. Hunger and abuse seem to fix his fate until the rusted sword Fuxian appears during a bamboo-cutting errand, giving him a dangerous chance to challenge the cultivation order from its lowest rung.

You Asked Me to Open a Breakfast Shop, Season 4 short-drama poster

You Asked Me to Open a Breakfast Shop, Season 4

77 episodes · Fan Li is forced to run a breakfast shop but refuses to open before afternoon. Honest cooking turns the store into a neighborhood gathering place and exposes competitors built on packaging, traffic, and prepared food—while success tests whether he can keep his own rhythm.

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The Afternoon Breakfast Shop, Season 5

97 episodes · Master chef Fan Li protects his craft and calm pace from capital's demands. A mysterious new dish, a larger shop, a neighborhood commercial shift, and a fifteen-day closure turn his beloved afternoon breakfast business into a citywide test of trust.

The Mad Mother Turns Her Life Around, Season 8 short-drama poster

The Mad Mother Turns Her Life Around, Season 8

189 episodes · A modern woman awakens as the village's despised 'mad mother' and finds her children covered in injuries. She gathers wild vegetables, digs bamboo fungus, repairs their ruined home, and uses practical knowledge to feed them, while refusing abusive relatives and slowly turning a stigmatized household into a secure family.

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Suona Cultivation, Season 9

119 episodes · Yun Qiqi enters a cultivation world determined to live at her own pace and chooses music cultivation because it sounds peaceful. Her bonded instrument turns out to be a suona, transforming the refined Tianyin Sect with loud performances, mishaps, and a warmer way of finding her path.

The Dao Seal Enters the Body, Season 8 short-drama poster

The Dao Seal Enters the Body, Season 8

124 episodes · Orphan Chen Haoyu descends from the mountain after his master's death and awakens a Daoist inheritance through an ancestral pearl. He opens a clinic, solves supernatural illnesses and wealthy-family crises, and grows closer to doctor Su Yuyao through a cohabitation wager.

The Unlucky Siblings Bound the Wrong Systems, Season 3 short-drama poster

The Unlucky Siblings Bound the Wrong Systems, Season 3

175 episodes · Siblings Gu Mingli and Gu Mingyue enter ancient times as a chancellor's children and receive mismatched systems. She must spend the family fortune while he must keep the clan secure, but every road, relief project, and public work somehow makes their wealthy father richer.

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Suona Cultivation, Season 7

121 episodes · Yun Qiqi chooses music cultivation because it seems compatible with a relaxed life, only for a suona to become her bonded instrument. Its unmistakable sound disrupts Tianyin Sect's refined routine while her optimism creates a warmer path through cultivation.

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Show Off and Grow Stronger? Season 4

116 episodes · System-powered prodigy Lu Ming hides as a low-level security guard while serving as an undercover holy son inside the villainous Abyss Cult. When the cult and high-level beasts create a death zone around Zhonghai, his infinite-revival tactic breaks the core and saves millions before a new forbidden zone opens in the East Sea.

Global Hide-and-Seek: Who Is the Real Anomaly?, Season 4 short-drama poster

Global Hide-and-Seek: Who Is the Real Anomaly?, Season 4

94 episodes · After nuclear war, nations are forced into lethal hide-and-seek instances whose failures cost real territory. Lin Suian, confined in a psychiatric hospital for fifteen years because she can see ghosts, is selected as a player; her supposed abnormality becomes an advantage as she earns S-grade rewards and discovers that the hunters are remade from dead contestants.

The Divine Maiden Saves All Beings, Season 6 short-drama poster

The Divine Maiden Saves All Beings, Season 6

150 episodes · Yun Shu crosses the sea on a giant kun and rescues Wuling civilians from pirates and rebel soldiers. She distributes grain, organizes relief through work, defeats a night raid, and creates a painted world where one year passes in a single mortal day so a shattered city can rebuild more than bare survival.

Who Says You Cannot Cultivate Without a Spiritual Root? Season 27 short-drama poster

Who Says You Cannot Cultivate Without a Spiritual Root? Season 27

100 episodes · In a world where spiritual roots determine status, rootless servant Han Fan remains at the bottom of Liuli Sword Sect. A rusted broken sword called Fuxian offers him a path outside the hierarchy that condemns people like him to lifelong powerlessness.

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Stockpiling Through the Frozen Winter, Season 2

130 episodes · A minus-seventy-degree apocalypse brings poison fog and billions of zombies. Jiang Qingyue, powerhouse Long Jiuxing, and their unusual companions build a zombie farm, help officials develop an antidote, exploit system rewards, and stockpile for the shadow-demon threat ahead.

After the Breakup, Male- and Female-Channel Worlds Collide, Season 2 short-drama poster

After the Breakup, Male- and Female-Channel Worlds Collide, Season 2

88 episodes · Jiang Shining enters a book as a girl separated from her father. Determined to protect her mother and repair what the original story left broken, she searches for relatives and meets the reserved but dependable Qin Wang. Their growing trust is tested when paternal history and Qin Wang's own origin surface, forcing both families to decide whether inherited conflict should control the next generation.

Starting as Qingyun Sect Master, I Summon an Emperor-Realm Ancestor, Season 6 short-drama poster

Starting as Qingyun Sect Master, I Summon an Emperor-Realm Ancestor, Season 6

137 episodes · After becoming Qingyun Sect's master, Feng Qingyang activates the Divine Sects System and summons an emperor-realm ancestor. He then trains three extraordinary disciples: Shi Hao with the Supreme Sacred Body, swordsman Lin Bai with the Azure Lotus Sword Body, and Hua Qingyu with the Phoenix Sacred Body.

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The Rent-Collecting Old Man, Season 4

136 episodes · Sixty-two-year-old landlord Wu Nai has only fourteen days to live when a system offers him two extra months if he can surprise three tenants. The miser starts manufacturing increasingly elaborate surprises, and the absurd survival mission gradually changes how he relates to the people in his building.

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Awaken the Ten Yamas: Red-Umbrella Ghost Immortal, Season 6

177 episodes · Jiang Yan challenges the gods who treat mortals as pieces, devouring divine plants, commanding spirits, and bluffing stronger powers with seventh-tier cultivation. When Bai Luoxue is forced into a celestial marriage, he enters the selection as the White Emperor and attacks the institutions behind it.

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Immortal Qin, Season 3

190 episodes · Modern university student Qin Tian is transported two thousand years into the Qin dynasty with the Energy Guidance Art in his mind. The cultivation ladder he introduces promises immense strength, flight, and radically extended life, turning an emperor's search for immortality into an imperial project.

Rise Through Slaughter: Lord of Eternal Night, Season 5 short-drama poster

Rise Through Slaughter: Lord of Eternal Night, Season 5

66 episodes · In an apocalyptic world of war bells, scavenging vultures, and suspended judgment, Fang Xin awakens an SSS-class slaughter talent. Following a message from his long-missing grandfather, he stares into a mirror at midnight and meets his enthroned double: the Zero Judge, first of the Seven Kings and King of Slaughter.

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The Mad Mother Turns Her Life Around, Season 9

157 episodes · A modern woman wakes as a despised rural mother and finds her children injured and hungry. She uses practical knowledge to forage, repair their home, and build a livelihood, while refusing abusive relatives and becoming the dependable parent the family never had.