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The Great Hua's Foremost Free Prince

510 episodes · Transmigrated prince Li An governs through a drought in southern Qing Shui, punishing abusive gentry and building waterworks while introducing soap, glassware, banknotes, and cross-border trade. Rival princes and ministers repeatedly frame him, but public works, military readiness, and commercial leverage give him room to survive both court and market warfare.

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The Regent's Consort: Dual Master of Medicine and Poison

80 episodes · The Regent's Consort: Dual Master of Medicine and Poison is an 80-episode Chinese short drama shaped by time travel, costume romance, revenge and comeuppance, and slow-burn romance.

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Who Says a Playboy Cannot Become Top Scholar?

788 episodes · Jiang Xiaobai buys the title of top scholar and expects to keep playing the useless heir, only for the emperor to summon him to court. His elder brother's suspicious death reveals that the marquis household is trapped in a larger plot, and poetry contests, ministers, and royal factions become pieces in a game everyone assumes he is too foolish to understand.

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The Trouble-Seeking System Makes Me Cause Chaos

999 episodes · Gu Changsheng wakes as the capital's most despised playboy and receives a system that demands he propose to a royal woman before lightning strikes. By choosing formidable princess Li Cangyue, he avoids one succession trap only to enter the heart of imperial politics.

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The Tang Dynasty's Foolish Son-in-Law: My Sister Is Crown Princess

115 episodes · Modern engineering PhD Su Hao awakens in the Tang dynasty as the crown princess's supposedly foolish cousin. He treats the crown prince, refines salt and sugar, improves furnaces, and uses oversized hammers against assassins, applying technical knowledge to keep the sister who raised him alive in court.

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National Guardian Consort 3D, Season 6

251 episodes · Duke Ji Ping fights for a strategic mineral vein at Soulblood Mountain, survives an ambush on the road home, and returns to a court crowded with competing factions. After resolving the palace crisis and recruiting new allies, he is named a peer prince and turns west toward Xiling and a larger plan for unification.

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The Nation-Guarding Prince Consort 3D, Season 4

250 episodes · Ji Ping'an defeats Southern Li strategist Gong Shusheng, captures Liuzhou, and recruits commanders while strengthening the northern frontier. By exploiting rival obsessions, surviving assassinations, enforcing law, and winning civilian support, he accumulates the military, political, and geographic advantages needed to reshape a divided realm.

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I Broke Our Vow, Became King, and She Regretted It

83 episodes · Yang Fan, heir to Prince Yan, has spent years posing as a wastrel while helping Lin Qingyue rise to become a celebrated commander. When she returns and demands a marriage shared between two men, he ends their engagement, inherits his title, and turns toward statecraft and the frontier alongside Princess Xia Ruolin.

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Great Xia's Foolish Prince

70 episodes · A modern actor wakes as Sixth Prince Lu Chen and uses a storage space plus professional performance skills to feign foolishness. Beneath public chaos he confiscates corrupt wealth, recruits elite troops, and escapes the succession struggle with his own border fief.

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The Emperor's Awakening

70 episodes · A modern office worker is unexpectedly reborn as Li Yan, the emperor of the Great Xia dynasty, only to discover that his predecessor was a simp for the empress Wei Yun, leaving the dynasty on the verge of collapse. He awakens, ruthlessly deals with the arrogant maids, confronts Wei Yun, and purges her faction. He appoints loyal minister Han Shizhong, recruits talents, invents weapons like repeating crossbows and cannons, defeats Wei's million-strong army, captures the Wei emperor, and exposes the queen dowager's forged edict, solidifying his rule. Thus, the former simp emperor transforms into an iron-fisted ruler on a path to unify the land.

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The Two-Faced Beauty

30 episodes · Su Wan'er's mother was killed by Lin Yutang. Twelve years later, she becomes Lin Yutang's body double and uses her talents to secure the position of crown prince's fiancée. Lin Yutang, jealous, abuses her, but the prince loves Su Wan'er. At the wedding, Su Wan'er refuses to switch identities. During a confrontation, Lin's mother, fearing exposure of Lin Yutang's lost chastity, shoots her own daughter. Su Wan'er then becomes the prime minister's daughter and marries the crown prince.

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A Hundred Thousand Cavalry Escort Me to the Throne

68 episodes · Disguised as a healer, Princess Qi Huang helps Crown Prince Pei Ziyan secure his position. They marry with a promise of no concubines, but he breaks it to marry a general's daughter. Demoted to concubine, she seeks divorce but faces royal opposition.

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Accidentally Married to the Prince

80 episodes · Retired female general Bai Luning is tricked into marrying a sickly man, while her stepsister is to marry the prince. But due to a mix-up, Bai Luning ends up married to the prince.

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From a Lowly Servant to Vice Emperor

110 episodes · Transmigrator Niu Ma unexpectedly marries General Zhao Dongqing and Nether Saint Leng Lingxiao. To protect his sister, he rises. Entering the city, he gets involved in the struggle of the Daqing dynasty, fighting against rebel forces Su Haoxuan, Su Fengshan, etc. He allies with Empress Su Rui and the two wives to quell the rebellion. Finally, he is made Vice Emperor and jointly rules with Su Rui, Zhao Dongqing, and Leng Lingxiao, achieving peace.

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Seven Brothers Killed, I Revive the Clan

64 episodes · Lin Chen transmigrates into a despised playboy heir of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion in the Dayan Dynasty. With his father and seven brothers dead on the battlefield, he is the only male left. To protect his family and shoulder the burden of eight branches, he reforms completely. He calms the clan, restores the family fortune, investigates the truth behind his father and brothers' deaths, and uses his cunning and strength to eliminate traitors and take revenge. He saves the family from collapse and becomes a legendary powerful minister. Adapted from "Oh My! Grandmother Wants Me to Shoulder Eight Branches Alone" by Xiyu Mianmian.

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Splendid Phoenix Song

60 episodes · In her past life, Shen Fengyi gave her heart to Mu Ningyuan, accompanying him from a prince's mansion to the imperial throne. But she was naive about power struggles and lost in the treacherous palace fights. Mu Ningyuan abandoned her, and she died bitter in prison. Fate gave her a second chance. Reborn, Shen Fengyi resolves not to repeat her mistakes. She plans ten years ahead, practicing dance and seduction, secretly running a tavern, and weaving a network of influence. This time, she will cut off her love-brain, disturb Mu Ningyuan's heart, and step by step ascend to the phoenix throne as empress.

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The Empress Is Not to Be Trifled With

32 episodes · The empress miscarries after catching the emperor in infidelity. She pretends to still be pregnant, and when Consort Liu swaps her child, she raises the consort's son as crown prince in ignorance. At the coronation, the consort reveals the truth, but the empress produces the late emperor's decree, deposes and kills the emperor, and ascends the throne as empress regnant.

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Phoenix Reigns Over the Heavens

99 episodes · Princess Yun Zishu was betrayed and killed by her father and husband in her past life. After rebirth, she no longer endures abuses. She divorces her scumbag husband, humiliates the General's mansion, rejects his pleas, deposes the crown prince who obstructs her, and confronts her father's malice. With ambition to rule as a woman, she ascends to the throne as empress, with Si Cang by her side.

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After Being Suspected by the Emperor, I Choose to Rule the World

93 episodes · Modern rich second-generation Li Yi accidentally transmigrates into the Crown Prince of Da Qi and awakens the 'Crazy Drama System'. With his unrestrained style, he rises to prominence. Learning that his birth mother was killed by the Emperor and Empress, he vows revenge. Using talents rewarded by the system, he eliminates political enemies, suppresses the Kong family, and finally kills the Empress. In the ultimate showdown with his father, he exposes the Emperor's conspiracy, rallies troops to strike back, completes his revenge, then ascends the throne to begin his own imperial rule.

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The Legitimate Daughter Becomes Phoenix, the Entire Prime Minister's Mansion Kneels

80 episodes · At six years old, Jiang Qingran is falsely accused of pushing her fourth sister into a lake. Despite her pleas, she is not believed. Her parents see her as a jinx and expel her from the mansion. Ten years later, she returns with her maid Qinghe. When her father demands she marry the physically disabled Seventh Prince Jing Moxuan in place of her fourth sister, Jiang Qingran fights back.