古装短剧 Short Dramas
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Wrong Consort, Right Body
44 episodes · Lin Zhiyu, dormant for ten years, is awakened by Xu Niantao and attaches to her. Using her wisdom, she helps Xu Niantao overcome stepmother and stepsister troubles, growing through challenges. Along the way, she meets a mysterious nobleman and a princess, starts a cosmetics business, and transforms her life.
View detailsI Gave Birth to Two Dragons Episode 1
42 episodes · Lin Wan unexpectedly gives birth to twin dragon babies; her son with true dragon blood controls thunder and rain. She hides their identity. Her family is framed and she is confined. Her son summons thunder to protect her from a concubine's harassment. Emperor Xiao Jue exonerates her family and makes her empress. Fearing exposure, she tries to flee but reveals the dragon secret. The emperor is also a true dragon, and they join forces to solve the conspiracy, protect the nation, and stay together.
View detailsCicadas Startle the End of Summer: Episode 1
65 episodes · Maid Qiuchan has served the marquis's illegitimate son Pei Hengzhi since childhood, ten years of devotion only rewarded with harmful contraceptive potions. For freedom, she accompanies the exiled second young master Pei Xiao to the barbaric lands of Lingnan. On the road, Qiuchan repeatedly risks her life to save the dying Pei Xiao; they find love in adversity, but this provokes Pei Hengzhi's obsessive pursuit and obstruction. Eventually, Pei Xiao fakes his death, Qiuchan kills Pei Hengzhi, and they shed their identities to live together in Ganzhou.
View detailsTwo Sisters of Embroidered Shoes Episode 1
44 episodes · The Shen sisters, though of humble origin, change their fate with their embroidery skills. Older sister Shen Qingwan enters the palace for selection with stunning embroidered shoes; younger sister Shen Lingxi uses her shoe artistry to break into the palace, overcome difficulties, and foil conspiracies. She stays true to her heart and rises from a street cobbler to a female official in charge of the weaving bureau, achieving a glorious life of female independence.
View detailsThe Return of the Legitimate Daughter: Settling the Palace - Episode 1
50 episodes · Su Jingshu, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yongchuan, witnesses her father Chu Yuan murdering her mother as a child. To avenge her mother, she fakes her death by becoming a nun and enters the palace under the name Su Wan with the help of former eunuch Kang Fushou. Using her intelligence, she gains the emperor's favor, unravels schemes, and sows discord between Chu Yuan and his mistress Liu Shuang. Finally, with her brother, she exposes the truth of her mother's death. Chu Yuan is punished, and Su Jingshu clears her mother's name, protects her brother, and secures a stable future for herself and the prince.
View detailsThe Charming Corpse Husband - Episode 1
28 episodes · The female physician Su Mumu drags a handsome zombie, Ye Wuchen, back to her clinic and fusses over him. Ye Wuchen is actually awake but pretends to be immobile, secretly protecting her by driving away local thugs. Su Mumu suspects a haunting and calls a Taoist priest, but Ye Wuchen plays pranks. She uses Ye Wuchen's appearance to attract customers and revive her clinic, drives away Pei Yun who covets him, and gets drunk and vents her sorrows. Finally, Ye Wuchen stops pretending and embraces her.
View detailsFrom 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.
View detailsBroken Pearl, Palace Fall Episode 1
23 episodes · A HePu pearl diver avenges the loss of 71 village lives due to the imperial pearl collection. She grinds pearls into powder, endures pain for fair skin, and impersonates Shen Yuzhu to enter palace selection. Carrying seawater with lost souls and a pearl carved from her father's remains, she stirs up the harem, uses the imperial consort to topple the queen and crown prince, eliminates the emperor's trusted men, and finally leaves the royal family isolated, the emperor crippled and mute. After revenge, she only requests the abolition of HePu pearl tribute and returns to her homeland alone.
View detailsFish 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.
View detailsBeauty 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.
View detailsWan'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.
View detailsHe 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.
View detailsNine-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.
View detailsDon't Panic, Mom, I'll Call the Gods for Backup - Episode 1
61 episodes · Yun Zhaozhao, a heavenly goddess, reincarnates as the daughter of mortal Lin Wanqiu. To change her mother's fate of being abandoned by her father Pei Zhaolin, Yun uses help from minor gods to slap her scumbag father's family, rescue a prince, and match him with her mother. Ultimately, they secure a happy life, and together with the new dad, start a warm and sweet counterattack life.
View detailsWhat 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.
View detailsAll My Disciples Want to Suppress Me - Episode 1
68 episodes · The protagonist transmigrates into a fantasy world as the peak master of the Forget Emotions Peak, a big villain. At the start, he loses all his cultivation and is betrayed by his rebellious disciple Luo Liuli. In crisis, he awakens a harem ten-thousand-fold reward system: by coaxing disciples and giving gifts, he gets ultra-high critical hits in return. Using his knowledge of the plot, he turns seven disciples with empress potential from enemies to loyal dogs, intercepts the opportunities of the original protagonist Mo Fan, recovers his cultivation, and ascends with multiple beauties, becoming a romantic immortal emperor.
View detailsPhoenix Seal Episode 1: The Empress Humiliated
70 episodes · Empress Su Jin returns home for a visit but meets a deadly trap, murdered by her palace sisters. However, she borrows a corpse to reincarnate as the dancer Fang Youyi and decides to return to the palace for revenge. She gains the emperor's attention by dancing at court, becomes a favored consort, and enters the palace. Using her power in the harem, she sows discord among the other consorts and defeats them one by one. But she underestimates Yan Yunli's cruelty.
View detailsMonarch'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.
View detailsLuring 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!
View detailsNational Hero Yue Fei
21 episodes · At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei joined the army inspired by his mother's tattoo 'Serve the Country with Loyalty'. He rose from a soldier to commander of the Yue Family Army, defeated the Jin army at Yancheng, and aimed to reach the enemy capital. However, the emperor ordered him back with twelve golden plaques, ruining a decade of efforts. Yue Fei was later executed on false charges by Qin Hui at age 39, leaving only the four characters 'Utmost Loyalty, Serve the Country' in history.
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