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Urban Romance & Life

Modern city romances, everyday relationships, and urban slice-of-life stories.

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The Wife with Ulterior Motives

52 episodes · Before her wedding, Nandi discovers that her older sister Meng Qiu has seduced her fiancé and has driven their mother into a vegetative state. Nandi decides to take revenge on her sister: if Meng Qiu wants to marry into the household of the richest man, Nandi will marry the richest man, Huo Qingfeng, himself—and become her sister's mother-in-law. The two women, both married into the Huo family, begin a battle of wits, but Nandi unexpectedly finds herself falling for Huo Qingfeng along the way.

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Secretary Qiu's Wedding

78 episodes · At 25, the clever, humorous and resilient Qiu Yu is the capable secretary of CEO Ji Xiangdong. Old romantic entanglements and family interference bring repeated tests, while Ji Xiangdong’s feelings gradually surface beneath his cold exterior. Caught between the pressures of workplace and love, Secretary Qiu bravely chooses her own happiness.

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Husband, Please Date Me

86 episodes · Eighteen-year-old Ruan Tang wakes up eight years in the future: she is married to her old rival Leng Jing, they have a child, and she has become a scheming villainess. She launches a clean-up campaign at once—dealing with a scummy man and a two-faced woman, doting on her affection-starved child, while friends and family marvel that the hot-blooded Ruan Tang has returned. As for Leng Jing, no matter how bad her reputation, he always trusts her unconditionally. He is no rival at all, but the childhood friend who has secretly loved her for years. She takes his hand and their child's, and together they head toward a happy future.

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Wild Lotus Grows Wild

86 episodes · In the summer she turned eighteen, Ye He met Shen Que during a struggling campus youth. One was a poor student scraping by like wild grass; the other was a favored son standing in the light. They fell in love, but were forced apart by the gap in their family backgrounds and a painful accident. Seven years later, Ye He has become a middle-school teacher and Shen Que has returned home to start a business. Fate brings them together again, and Shen Que begins a long pursuit to win her back. This time he is no longer merely a brief moonlight in her youth, but someone determined to walk toward her and spend the rest of his life with her. From school uniforms to a wedding dress, from missing each other to reunion, this love that spans time finally arrives at its best answer.

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Unfamiliar in Public, Addicted in Private

69 episodes · Song Xinya once weighed 180 jin and lost 80 jin over a year, transforming herself. A mix-up at a blind-date table leads her to a flash marriage with Qin Yuhe, a reserved heir from Beijing’s elite. Qin Yuhe puts work first, and the couple treat each other with polite distance, yet after marriage he repeatedly breaks his own rules and finds ways to come home to his wife. Displeased that she is too distant, Qin Yuhe lays down three house rules: hug him at least twenty times a day, kiss him forty times, and call him husband eighty times. Why does this aloof CEO insist on daily hugs, kisses and being called husband? As Song Xinya sleeps beside him, she discovers that a one-yuan coin she left behind a year ago is now in Qin Yuhe's hand. Despite their physical rapport, they remain politely distant in everyday life.

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Transmigrated into a Wealthy Family: My Bestie and I Join Forces

100 episodes · Lin Nanqiao and Xia Linshi unexpectedly transmigrate into a wealthy-family novel, becoming the wives of the Ji family twin brothers Ji Chi and Ji Yu—sisters-in-law originally fated to a miserable end. To change their fate, the two join forces to save money and run away, but along the way the relationships among the four gradually shift and mutual feelings grow. When the novel's original heroine Xu Zhiyi appears, the four's fate is tested once more.

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The Card Shark

75 episodes · Chu Liu earns Mei Jie's recognition with his card-cheating skills, until the Ghost Hand of Dancheng arrives to challenge the house and throws it into crisis. As the games swing wildly and gamblers' conflicts erupt—some losing everything for money—Chu Liu faces a succession of masters of the gambling underworld. Through perilous showdowns and contests among rival forces, he holds to his principles and strives toward his ultimate ideal: a world without gambling. He hopes his experiences will warn others away from gambling.

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Please Tell Me If You're Interested

85 episodes · Lin Qian is known as the capital's foremost socialite, yet she is arranged into marriage with Fu Yuchuan. She keeps to the duties of a wife, but he does not take to her; in his eyes she is dull, wooden and lifeless, like a woman from an older era. Later she hands him divorce papers, and the woman he thought dull suddenly seems vivid and lively.

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Transmigrated into Rich In-Laws: My Bestie and I Join Forces 3

96 episodes · Lin Nanqiao and Xia Linshi uncover traps inside their marriage alliance and leave the Ji family together. The Ji brothers launch regretful pursuit while an outside soul occupies Xu Zhiyi's body, turning the story into a battle between system rules and genuine feeling.

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That Year's Winter Solstice

81 episodes · On the winter solstice, Nan Zhaoning enters a flash marriage with Jing Shuo, the Jing family’s disabled second young master. On their wedding night, he tells her he plans to die a year later. She decides to enjoy what time they have, have fun, and maybe have a beautiful child. After the wedding, Nan Zhaoning becomes a light in Jing Shuo's bleak world and his salvation. In warm, sweet everyday life, the two fall for each other and move toward each other. Love works miracles, and once their feelings are confirmed, they walk together toward a happy future.

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Invisible Bodyguard

80 episodes · A struggling security guard, Zhang Yi, meets Fengdu Group CEO Xu Jiayun over a bowl of malatang. Burdened by his younger sister's tuition and furious at being targeted with pay deductions, he gets into a brawl and is accidentally electrocuted, awakening a cultivation inheritance from his grandfather Lin Shuang. From there he rises, asking what the Lin family and the Xu family really amount to: Zhang Yi judges only by strength, not background, and settles disputes with his fists. A spin-off of the "This Bodyguard Is Too Invincible" series, adapted from the novel "Invisible Bodyguard" by Taozi Mai Meile.

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Gardenias Repeated

72 episodes · Jiang Wanzhi and Ximen Lichen loved each other for three years, but under pressure from both her father and the Ximen family, she had no choice but to leave him. Three years later, Ximen Lichen returns to China as a Wall Street elite and pursues reconciliation with passionate determination. Jiang Wanzhi decides to be brave once more and return to his side. Adapted from the Fanqie novel Jing Zhi Yu Ye by Tan Qingzhu.

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We Grow Wildly

116 episodes · Film star Jiang Nan retreats into the desert to research a new role, hoping to escape a false romance and a career slump. There she crosses paths with engineer Lu Bei, who is secretly tracking a wanted criminal. To protect her, Lu Bei poses as local security and places her under "detention." Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, Jiang Nan is drawn into a life-and-death puzzle after seeing the criminal's face, and is forced into a "fake marriage" with Lu Bei to assist his mission. What begins as pretense turns into real feeling as the line between them blurs. Amid the wind and sand, two broken but romantic souls save each other through lies and danger, and light a prairie fire for one another at the end of the long night—wounded idealists who never bow their heads.

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In August Summer

100 episodes · Eight years after they last met, oral and maxillofacial surgeon Jiang Nanshan sees He Beizheng at her clinic when he brings another woman in for a consultation. She assumes their lives crossed only briefly and have long since returned to their separate tracks—that this is where the story ends. Then, on a summer night in August, He Beizheng rings her doorbell. He asks whether she has thought of him over the years, whether she still cares, and urges her to say she does. Jiang Nanshan, almost without meaning to, answers that she has thought of him and that she does care.

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Yunmiao 2: I've Been Cultivating for Years, What's Wrong with Being a Bit Stronger?

86 episodes · The Lin family of Jiangcheng once received Yunmiao's guidance in medicine and rose to fame as a renowned family of miracle doctors. Before her death, Old Madam Lin wrote a final wish asking that Yunmiao one day be welcomed as a guest of the Lin family. Yet the Lin descendants show Yunmiao no respect, repeatedly making things difficult and treating her with scant courtesy—even bringing out the current Lin patriarch and his title of Jiangcheng's foremost miracle doctor to put her down. What they do not realize is that the old master's medical skill was passed down from Yunmiao herself. Adapted from the Tomato peak-list novel Yunmiao by Baicai.

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Yun Miao 3: The Demon Suppression Clan

77 episodes · A thousand years ago, Yun Miao sealed a world-threatening demon and entrusted its suppression to her servant Nangong Nuo, giving rise to a millennium-old demon-suppressing clan. In the present, the seal is faltering, and Nangong descendant Nangong Qianqian comes to beg for help. Seeking her lost memories, Yun Miao returns to the Nangong household, where the family treats her as a descendant of their ancestral master—politely received, yet seemingly unwelcome. Adapted from the Tomato top-ranked novel Yun Miao by Baicai.

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Jiao Ying

90 episodes · Xia Jin, an illegitimate daughter of the Xia family, is humiliated at home by her stepmother and younger sister. Seeking revenge, she climbs into the bed of Si Yan, the man Xia An'an has her heart set on. Si Yan, the seemingly aloof heir of the Si family, finds himself unable to restrain his feelings for her, and the two become entangled in a knot of desire, love and resentment.

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Summer Rose

82 episodes · Free-spirited photographer Bai Qingmei is pushed into an engagement with Hengtai CEO Zhou Shengan and resists with a three-rule pact, privately finding him dull. His attentive care—carrying her shoes, cooking brown-sugar water—gradually warms her, and feelings grow. But haunted by family shadows and a fear of "open relationships," Bai Qingmei mistakes his forbearance for indifference and breaks off the engagement. When Zhang Jiuwan behaves indecently toward her, Zhou Shengan steps in to protect her and follows her to Jingbei to propose. After further trials, Bai Qingmei steps out of her shadows and embraces his devotion as their midsummer love finally blooms. Adapted from the Tomato Novel Shenqing Youyin by Niao Songmi.

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The 18-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Arrives: Rebuilding Family Glory Part 4

94 episodes · In this fourth chapter, Rong Yu's husband—the Ji family's great-grandfather Ji Sinian—has been reborn as Sheng Qingyan, the eldest young master of the Sheng family in the capital. Because he is missing one soul and one spirit, his behavior since childhood has been likened to autism, yet a hidden connection keeps drawing him toward Rong Yu. Old Master Ji and the Ji family's young masters, unaware of who he really is, take Sheng Qingyan's approaches for harassment and begin obstructing him in every way. Their interference leads to many funny and moving incidents, and also uncovers the past of how Ji Sinian sacrificed himself for the country.

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The Nanny Who Became the Family's White Moonlight

96 episodes · Nineteen-year-old Luo Yao takes a maternity-nanny job paying 80,000 a month in a wealthy household, only to meet suspicion and pressure: the second young master calls her a scheming gold-digger, the third young master keeps pushing closer, and the man at the top of the family questions her motives. Luo Yao ignores them and focuses on her work, proving herself skilled in medical massage, medicinal-diet care, early-childhood education and postpartum emotional support, until the whole family is stunned.

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