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Extraordinary Road Survival, Season 8

212 episodes · Captain Chen Ye survives a battle with a powerful supernatural enemy but loses much of his strength and becomes separated from his team. Taking the name Shi Qiang, he joins the Brightness Convoy. Concealing his identity becomes part of surviving a society weakened by human infighting.

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The Apocalypse Convoy and Extraordinary Sequences, Season 3

304 episodes · Su Yue enters an apocalyptic novel and gains multiple powers, sacrificing an arm during battle for a dangerous royal artifact. Leading the Fairness Convoy brings supplies, allies and further threats. Reborn child Yaoyao joins a growing struggle against alien forces and the cost of stronger abilities.

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My Apocalypse Storage Is Full of Containers

131 episodes · Han Ying returns seven months before disaster with an ancestral jade pendant and a storage space where time stops. She sells property to stock supplies and saves her dog Tangyuan. Meeting Lu Yuan, who holds the other half of the pendant, creates an unexpected shared refuge.

Apocalypse Choices: Becoming a God by Decoding Divinity, Season 2 short-drama poster

Apocalypse Choices: Becoming a God by Decoding Divinity, Season 2

112 episodes · A black fog devastates the city, and survivors face deadly two-choice trials. Lin Yu awakens a system that reveals the odds behind each option. After using it to survive, he faces a forced new stage and enemies waiting in the dark.

The choice of the end of the world, starting from analyzing the gods and becoming a god short-drama poster

The choice of the end of the world, starting from analyzing the gods and becoming a god

111 episodes · The apocalypse is coming, weirdness is rampant, and light curtains of life and death are constantly popping up in the sky. If you make the wrong choice, you may die. Survivor Lin Yu unexpectedly gained analytical ability and could see the hidden crisis behind the options. He followed the survivor team on the run, relying on his abilities to get through dangerous dungeons and fight against monsters and brutal predators. But the eyes of the gods quietly fell on him, and countless unknown conspiracies quietly surged. It seemed that there was a smooth road ahead, but the crisis had just begun.

The All-Powerful Family Dotes on the Little One, Season 3 short-drama poster

The All-Powerful Family Dotes on the Little One, Season 3

143 episodes · Five-year-old Pei Niannian is separated from her family when mutation spreads, but her new power tames a tiger, panther, and dangerous plants into guardians. Her superpowered parents and siblings cross the apocalypse helping others as they fight to reunite with her.

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When the Apocalypse Comes, I Stockpile and Farm

344 episodes · Wu Zhenzhen returns before the apocalypse, secures a storage space, and prepares for disease, storms, and deep cold. Discovering that her family also remembers the first timeline turns survival into a coordinated household project, with Xie Muchen gradually joining their defense.

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Disaster Apocalypse: Fully Stocked and Unstoppable

536 episodes · Betrayed before the disaster, Han Qingxia returns to the days before collapse with a super-lord system. She sells her home, fills an abandoned bunker, grows beside her battle dog Xia Tian, rescues survivors, and builds the Shengxia Alliance so that this time no relative or rival can take her home away.

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

158 episodes · After nuclear war, a brutal nationwide hide-and-seek game rules the world: each country randomly draws players who must survive hunts in supernatural instances, and failure costs the nation real territory. Lin Suian, a girl confined in a psychiatric hospital for fifteen years, is selected; her ability to see ghosts lets her thrive in the instances. After earning S-grade rewards repeatedly, she forms an alliance with players from countries including Nansai and Maoxiong, carries large amounts of real-world supplies out of the game, and uncovers its secret: the hunters are remade from the souls of dead contestants.

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Arbiter! This Zombie Really Is Your Son

80 episodes · When a virus transforms Pei Yaoyao and her five-year-old son Pei Xiaoche into lucid zombies carrying a hidden zombie-king bloodline that can command the infected, the child's father Fu Shuo has become a safe-zone arbiter who cuts down every zombie he sees. To survive and to keep the boy's parentage secret, Pei Yaoyao flees with Xiaoche and a newly met, talkative zombie cat called Dawang, dodging the father's region-wide hunt and stumbling into a series of mishaps along the way.

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

Rise Through Slaughter: Lord of Eternal Night, Season 5

66 episodes · Fang Xin, a trainee of the Ninth Bureau, is assigned to escort a scientist's daughter, Ren Ling, who can hear people's thoughts. At a service area, Ren Ling is swapped out through a portal. Using perceptual backtracking, Fang Xin exposes the impostor, then uses a time loop to root out moles including Ji Xuance and Ma Hu, repeatedly foiling ambushes by the Eternal Night Army and the Mud Furnace Hall. The Mud Furnace Hall's master, nursing a grudge from being rejected years earlier by Fang Xin's grandfather Fang Qingdi, casts a curse across the distance to take his life. In his sea of consciousness, Fang Xin awakens the Zero Judge and, in the bearing of a king, shatters a divine manifestation, rising to the peak of level seven. Major organizations then join forces to hunt the King of Slaughter, but the man in the portrait is not him. Where will this stand-in mystery lead him?

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I Have Spatial Powers: Apocalypse Trash Heap, My ATM

85 episodes · Shen Chuan frequently dreams of an apocalypse overrun with zombies, and is ruthlessly dumped by his girlfriend. No one knows he can travel between parallel apocalyptic worlds. After awakening spatial powers, he madly scavenges gold and valuables from the apocalypse to bring back to reality for cash, stockpiling massive survival supplies. While quietly getting rich in the city, he fights and survives in the apocalypse, freely moving between the two worlds. His ex-girlfriend, who abandoned him, is full of regret. Shen Chuan holds endless wealth and begins a satisfying story of picking up gold in the apocalypse and achieving a two-way counterattack.

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They Fight for Survival, I Serve It on a Plate

60 episodes · Three years after a virus apocalypse, cities lie in ruins, and humans and zombies hunt each other for survival. While others struggle to stay alive, Zack Larson opens a restaurant in the end times. With unlimited clean water, endless food, and zombie “employees,” his place thrives. Even the zombie leader must come politely—just to get a meal. In this broken world, Zack runs the safest, strangest restaurant in existence.

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The Warden: Hunting Every Sin for Vengeance

81 episodes · When containment fails at Aethel Prison, eternal darkness descends, and anomalies born from humanity’s negative emotions begin ravaging the world. After witnessing his parents’ brutal deaths, Hugo Cooper is chosen to become its host, gaining the power to capture monsters and steal their abilities. Driven by vengeance against the mysterious killer known as 004, he joins the Eclipse Vanguard and begins a ruthless hunt to devour every anomaly in his path.

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Bloodclad Netherlord: Rewriting the End of the World

70 episodes · Reborn three days before the Netherkin rampage across the world, Morris Levinsky regains memories of his past life. His girlfriend, Quinn Silverman, and Fred Chase betray him. Fred even steals the S-rank Aether Mark from his sister, Yona Levinsky, leading to her death. In response, Morris performs a ritual and becomes the Bloodclad Netherlord to protect Yona and take revenge. Bit by bit, he reshapes the world’s order.

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Gunverse: Rulebreak Protocol

63 episodes · Esports player Cade is pulled into a real game world. With a lottery system, he defeats the ultimate boss—only to realize it's not a game, but the prelude to a multiverse collapse. He traverses fantasy, pixel, horror, FPS, and other game dimensions, risking death to gather core code fragments. If the system cannot be repaired, all will be annihilated. He may be the only one capable of stopping this catastrophe.

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Game Breaker: Welcome to My Domain

87 episodes · After barely surviving every stage of a deadly horror game during its beta test, Max Larson returns to reality—only for the game world to spill into the real world. Dragged back into the game once more, he retains full knowledge of every dungeon and monster. Using his overwhelming advantage, he clears impossible stages, protects his loved ones, and uncovers a horrifying truth. To save humanity, he must conquer the final stage and shut the game down forever.

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Night Shift Guardian: Please Verify You're a Human

55 episodes · In a world overrun by specters, Troy Yeager works the lonely night shift as a security guard whose job is to identify inhuman intruders before they slip into the residential complex. But the deeper he works into the night, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Wealthy residents bribe him to ignore suspicious visitors, grieving tenants beg to reunite with the dead, and even demons hint that the real monsters may already be living inside.

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End of the World, Start of My Empire

67 episodes · In the End of the World, Start of My Empire movie, after World War III, Arthur Morgan is reduced to scraping by in the chaos, surviving on scavenged goods while being bullied and robbed by former high school classmates—until a chance discovery of alien technology changes everything. He rescues three women who become his wives and sets his sights on using this power to rise as the King of the Wasteland.

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Feasting on Hotpot During Exile

80 episodes · Sheng Wanning, a doomsday hoarder, dies and transmigrates into a general's love-crazed daughter. She wakes up as her family faces execution. With a system space, she defies fate: hotpot, AK-47, cola for morning sickness, super rice to fight famine. She turns exile into a culinary and military triumph, eventually challenging the emperor.