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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 Lowest-Ranked Prince Becomes an Emperor for the Ages

528 episodes · Office worker Li Chengze wakes as the Han dynasty's least-favored seventh prince with a system promising modern wealth if he dies plausibly. His reckless attempts to finish the mission instead expose conspiracies, defeat powerful clans, and turn a disposable prince into a force feared by the court.

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The Late Emperor Betrothed Me to a General

47 episodes · A descendant of loyal martyrs arrives under the late emperor's marriage decree, only for the general to demote her publicly to concubine. She removes her ceremonial crown and veil, enters the palace to seek dissolution, and uncovers a false order, embezzled relief funds, and the imprisonment of her brother for ten years—evidence capable of overturning the court.

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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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I Told You to Buy Top Scholar—How Did You Become a Sage? Season 3

171 episodes · Jiang Xiaobai turns a mocked bottle of perfume into a contest among eight merchant houses, wins leadership of the capital's merchants, and then uses thirty thousand troops and eighteen cannons to humble foreign envoys. When Xiao Qingxiu joins a palace coup, he answers by bringing artillery into the struggle for the capital.

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Six Daughters of the General's House

94 episodes · After their falsely accused general father and grieving mother die, six Shen sisters are ordered to marry into different households within three days. Fourth sister Shen Zhiyuan sees the attempt to divide them, allies with deposed prince Xiao Yunhuai, and uses hairpins as secret signals while the sisters investigate the old case across court, camp, and manor.

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Who Says a Dandy Cannot Top the Exam? Season 2

316 episodes · Jiang Xiaobai receives foreign envoys while uncovering a conspiracy that frames his father for treason. From prison he turns a forged letter and hidden troops against the plotters, then enters a new contest spanning court, martial skill, and the capital's merchants.

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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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The Xie Family's Young Cook, Season 4 Finale

116 episodes · Modern soul Ye Zhaozhao builds a food stall in Bianjing after marrying Xie Chengjing and starting a family. Abduction, a succession struggle, and renewed attacks on the Xie household force the couple to balance court danger with the restaurant and home they have built, bringing their turbulent story to its final season.

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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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Heart of the Side Palace

24 episodes · Heart of the Side Palace is a BL (boys' love) imperial harem drama where a modern soul transmigrates into the body of a male consort who pretends to be mentally disabled to survive in a dangerous palace. The only person who sees through his act is the Emperor—a workaholic, sharp-tongued ruler who can read minds. As the Emperor navigates court intrigue and the consort maintains his facade while secretly scheming for wealth and safety, an unexpected attraction develops between them. Set in a fantastical ancient Chinese palace, the series blends comedy, romance, and palace politics with mature themes including power dynamics and imperial 'bed service' (侍寝).

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Reborn as the Fake Daughter

58 episodes · Annabelle Harper wakes inside a novel as the fake daughter who is destined to die. She tries to survive by winning over the household's four sisters and introducing comforts such as milk tea and fried chicken. Her position becomes dangerous again when the reborn true daughter returns for revenge and palace schemes close in, leaving Annabelle to rely on her own improvisation and a future emperor whose gentleness hides a calculating mind.

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His Hated Wife: Rebirth of the Divine Healer

83 episodes · A modern doctor wakes in an alternative-history court inside the body of a wife despised by her husband, Prince Adrian. Rather than accept the original woman's position, she applies medical knowledge to protect herself, treat people the court overlooks, and counter enemies who depend on feudal authority. Every successful cure builds allies and changes how the household sees her, while the prince must confront the difference between the wife he hated and the healer now rewriting her fate.

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The Enemy Prince in His Bed

30 episodes · After the Southern Kingdom falls, Prince Julian becomes a chained captive in the bedchamber of Northern ruler Alaric. Hatred and resistance gradually become a complicated attachment while court plots, poison attacks, and rebel sieges close around them. Julian investigates who truly destroyed his kingdom, and Alaric's vulnerability emerges during the crises. Once the rebels fall, Alaric names Julian co-ruler and consort before both men abandon their titles for an equal life together.

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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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A Guide to Surviving by Flirting with the Evil King

80 episodes · Feng Weiyue, an ancient martial arts medical descendant, time-travels to become a noble daughter. She accidentally falls into the hot spring of the scheming Prince Mo Yuxi. Using her space bracelet, she detoxifies him, battles scheming women, and unravels conspiracies. They go from bickering to love, quell court conflicts, and end up together.

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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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My Darling Is the Crown Prince

81 episodes · After three years of mourning, Song Mingzhu learns her fiancé has a mistress. She kidnaps a handsome man as her own 'mistress', who is actually Crown Prince Xiao Xu in disguise. He helps her reclaim her property, and she later realizes her 'mistress' is the crown prince.