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(Dubbed) Done with Just Friends. Ready for All InCheng Xia and Chen Shechuan grew up together and have been living around each other for seven years, close enough that everyone assumes and neither says. She has been in love with him the whole time. Then they get drunk and kiss, and afterward he tells her they are good friends and nothing else. The reason he gives is not the real one. His parents' marriage came apart and he has stayed clear of anything that could turn into the same thing. To make sure she stops waiting, he produces a girlfriend, Jiang Yining, and introduces her when the Cheng family comes by, and he arranges a blind date for Cheng Xia with an arrogant man, framing it as something he is doing for her benefit. She takes all of it and decides she is done with seven years of never being told anything straight. Around then Xu Jingdeng, someone she knew as a child, comes back into her life and courts her openly and gently, and she starts letting him in. Chen Shechuan turns up again wanting her back, and she is standing between the two of them with her own work and her own life to sort out as well.
Midnight TemptationLin Mian means to call a hotline that buys eggs and reaches Shi Lin, a gynecologist, by mistake. Her father is paralyzed and there is no money for his treatment. Shi Lin tries to talk her out of the sale, sees the state she is in, and offers her a different arrangement, in which he keeps her.
She looks for a way out of it. She takes an internship at Qin Li's company and moves into a new place, which turns out to be next door to Shi Lin's. He puts himself into her life whether she asks or not, and he stands between her and her own family when they turn on her, and the two of them begin to feel differently about each other. Then Qin Li tells her that Shi Lin has a fiancée, and Lin Mian breaks it off. She does not know that Qin Li, mild and courteous with her, heads a ring that traffics in organs.
All Within My PalmThe first family of Zhao Nation stood above the other houses in the country, and what became of it came down to whoever was leading it. That was the eldest uncle, and after him his son, and between the two of them the family was run into the ground. The daughter of the second branch, born to a concubine, watched it happen from inside the house. She then woke up in her own past, in the years when her grandmother and her father were both still alive, with what she had learned in the first life still in her head. She used it to hold the family's name where it was and to work her way toward the running of the household, which she took over. Somewhere in the same years she and the Third Prince fell in love.
My Ebayed Pet BoyZheng Enhui is thirty-four and everything in her life is grey. She married young because of an unplanned pregnancy, and that marriage has produced her husband's affair, a separation, and nothing else she can point to. At work she is pushed around. Her daughter is studying overseas and the fees have to come from somewhere, so Enhui swallows her pride and asks the husband who cheated on her for money, lowering her head to him each time. She drinks through the nights after. On one of those nights, drunk and scrolling a secondhand trading app, she taps the order button on something she does not really look at. The next morning she wakes with a hangover and finds a man standing in her living room, striking-looking and difficult to place, who tells her the item she ordered has been delivered and that from today he is the secret partner who will take care of her daily life. No returns, no refunds. He turns out to be more than household help. He puts backbone into her, and he starts arranging the kind of payback her boss and her husband have had coming.
I Loved You Then, I Love You StillYu Ming is working off the debts her family left behind, and what she earns does not cover them. Five years ago she was the heiress of that family and Yang Jingzhi was a student with no money, and the two of them were together at school. When the family went under she ended it with him, quickly and without much explanation.
Yang Jingzhi has spent the five years since building a technology company and is near the top of the industry now. Everyone who knows the history expects him to make her pay for the way she left. He has never stopped wanting her back, which the people around them are unaware of. The gap in money and standing between them has turned around, and the two of them start finding their way back to each other.
The Fake Noble's AscensionLu Zheying paints better than anyone around her and has nothing else. Her stepmother and her half-brother have run the household against her for years, and in one month she is to be handed to an old landlord as his ninth concubine. She decides to break out of it. She builds a persona as a sickly noblewoman and uses it to draw the interest of Lin Mo, the young master of the Lin family, planning to borrow his standing to get into the capital art academy she has wanted since childhood. The plan puts her in front of Lin Mo's elder brother Nangong Yi, the ranking young nobleman in the capital, who reads her immediately as a schemer climbing on his family, and treats her accordingly. A princess, who is everything Lu Zheying is pretending to be, makes a point of harassing her as well. Lu Zheying keeps layering her approach to Lin Mo. Then a run of accidents leaves her and Nangong Yi bound together by the Seven Emotions and Six Desires curse, so every effort and every ache of hers passes straight into a man who despises her, and their paths start running together.
We Start with LiesTo avenge her brother, Sang Huaixi assumes the alias "Gan Lu" and infiltrates a wealthy family. Her target is Qin Zhaomu, a man trapped by a family marriage arrangement. He feels nothing for his fiancée, Gu Manqing, but amid power struggles, he keenly senses Sang Huaixi's burning desire for revenge. As the two cautiously navigate a web of deception and manipulation, a dangerous and unspoken affection begins to grow. Gu Manqing quietly takes notice and teams up with Sang Huaixi's old acquaintance to set a deadly trap. Qin Zhaomu acts first, exposing his fiancée's true nature at the wedding altar. Love and lies collide, and sincerity becomes entangled with schemes. In this high-stakes game of fate, who will walk away in the end, and who will truly win it all?
The Cold Prince's BelovedHuang Ying, a noblewoman, is framed by her fiancé, leading to her family's ruin and her fall into the entertainment quarters. Later, she is taken in by Prince Li Jingtian as a concubine. To save her parents, she uses her charm and wits to win his trust, first by helping him remove the concubines arranged by his stepmother, then by softening his heart with affection. In the process of uncovering her mother's whereabouts and clearing her father's name, the prince falls deeply in love with her. However, burdened by her past in the entertainment quarters, she dares not hope for an official status despite her love for the prince. When the emperor arranges a marriage with a noblewoman, Prince Li hides it to avoid upsetting her, only for it to lead to misunderstanding. Seeing him embrace another woman, she is heartbroken and leaves. The prince, filled with regret, risks imprisonment by defying the imperial decree to win her back. Ultimately, his determination breaks societal barriers, and they transcend status differences to unite as one.
Your Beautiful VoiceHanna is heavy, close to two hundred pounds, and she has been told her whole life that her face is against her. Her voice is another matter. She sings in a bar without letting anyone see who she is, and that is how she pays for things. Meng Wensheng, who runs an entertainment company, happens into the bar on a night when Hanna is in trouble with someone there, and he gets her out of it. Then he hears her sing and hands her his company card. She goes home with the news for her fiance, Lin Shangjun, who had been telling her he was submitting her demo to people in the industry. The demo went out under a different name. It is already a hit for Xu Yamei, who is famous. Hanna, who trusted him for the entire time he was doing it, decides she is going to lose the weight and change everything about the position she is in, and she starts.
His Daily Request for ReconciliationQin Ziyu has the divorce certificate in her hand, and then she and Wei Yichen both wake up inside a novel, cast as the couple the book is built to hurt. A system gives them the rule. Neither of them goes home until every painful stretch of the plot has been played through to the end.
The marriage was five years of her supplying all the warmth while he stayed cold, which is what wore her down to filing.
She takes the male lead's script for herself and hands Wei Yichen the female lead's, which is the one carrying the stand-in arc, the betrayal, the misunderstandings and the punishment written for body and mind. Watching him go through what she went through is satisfying for a while.
Then it stops adding up. Wei Yichen takes all of it without complaint, and he turns up every day with the wreck of his heart in his hands, asking her to remarry him.
Revenge of the General's DaughterAfter Marquis Su Guxuan murders her parents, general's daughter Su Chanyi is imprisoned in his household and abused by the aunt and cousin who resent her resemblance to her mother. Protected by her grandmother, she masks her purpose while studying guqin under Music Sage Song Jing and forming an alliance with guard commander Helian Jing. Chanyi uses her father's salt-mine secret to trap her enemies and uncovers proof of her uncle's treason in Long County, completing her revenge before marrying Helian Jing as the Ninth Princess Consort.
The Demon's VowTen years ago, the demon immortal Qing Qing revived her husband, Qi Heng, using half of her demon core. In return, ten years later, she is met with the overwhelming power of Marquis Wu’an and his intimate, infatuated entanglement with Princess Zhaohua. Qing Qing vows to reclaim her demon core, divorce her husband, and leave. Deprived of the demon core, Qi Heng turns white-haired overnight, rapidly aging and withering away, only to fall into demonic obsession because of his fixation—house arrest, blood-feeding, forced kisses, each step more oppressive than the last. Meanwhile, the gentle nobleman Marquis Mingyue is approaching a deadly fate. Faced with all this, what choice will Qing Qing make?
A Prescription for RevengeThe woman who arrives at the marquis's house on the wedding day is not the Lin Wanrou who was raised there. That one died badly, and her ghost asked for help. The Lin Wanrou who answered is a doctor from another world with the same name, and she comes across through the Book of Fate to take the life over and change where it goes. Nobody in the house knows the difference.
Everyone in that house wants something out of the marriage. Xiao Yuan and Su Meier set her up in front of other people, her stepmother works on her from inside the family, and the rest of the household join in when it suits them. She gets herself out of each of these.
She treats Xiao Yu's leg and draws the poison out of him. She opens a clinic that charges nothing. She takes over Baicaotang, which has been going under, and puts the marquis family's businesses back on their feet.
Twin Blossoms in the PalaceDuring the Daqing era, the Jiang family of the Imperial Medical Bureau suffered a massacre. Consort Yi, seeking the heart’s blood of someone born in a “yin year and yin day” to refine an elixir, killed Madam Jiang as she tried to protect her daughters. With her dying breath, Madam Jiang instructed Jiang Wei and Jiang Yan to conceal their birth dates and protect each other for life. Ten years later, the sisters entered the palace disguised as medical attendants to avenge their family. Jiang Yan planned to win the emperor’s attention with the Red Plum Dance, while Jiang Wei secured her position by solving the emperor’s dilemma through the “Seven-Star Radiance Formation.” The harem was rife with danger. Consort Yi forced Jiang Wei to destroy Jiang Yan’s appearance, but Jiang Wei disfigured herself instead to protect her. The empress forged letters to frame the sisters for conspiring with Prince Yan in rebellion. To survive, the sisters staged a falling-out: Jiang Yan won favor and was granted the title of consort to restrain their enemies, while Jiang Wei worked in the shadows, collaborating with Prince Yan, who held military power, to uncover the truth: their father had been falsely accused of treason, and it had actually been the emperor who used the Prince of Zhennan to eliminate loyal officials. At Jiang Yan’s coronation ceremony, Jiang Wei appeared with evidence that exposed the emperor’s crimes. Prince Yan led his troops to seize control of the imperial guards, and the emperor abdicated. Five years later, Jiang Yan governed as regent to the young emperor, while Jiang Wei married Prince Yan. The sisters finally cleared their family’s name, and each found their own happiness.
Fate of the PhoenixGu Qiaoyi holds the rank of princess consort in the Royal Manor, married to Prince Jun Mubai. Emperor Jun Yichen takes notice of her and has her brought into the palace as his concubine by force. Jun Mubai is executed by order of the throne. At the ceremony naming Gu Qiaoyi empress, she takes her own life.
She is reborn. In this second life she works to keep Jun Mubai from execution and fails. She dies again and is reborn a third time.
In the third life she cuts off contact with Jun Mubai, refuses him, and gives him no explanation. He has also been reborn, without her knowledge, and has begun laying plans to take the throne himself.
The two cross paths repeatedly through this life without recognizing what the other one is doing. Misunderstandings build between them, neither aware that the other carries memory of the two prior lives, until each learns the truth about the other's rebirth.
Gu Xiyan and Jun Yichen move against them, forcing a confrontation at court. Jun Mubai and Gu Qiaoyi are drawn into the conflict this creates over the throne.
My Almighty PrincessModern-day woman Su Moli is transported back in time and becomes the legitimate daughter of the magistrate of Liuzhou County. She is forced to marry Prince Jin, a powerful figure in the court, as part of a ritual to ward off misfortune. She soon discovers that Prince Jin is only feigning his coma and the two fall in love amidst the struggles of political intrigue. After enduring family betrayal and palace conspiracies, Su Moli helps Prince Jin take revenge. Ultimately, they choose to give up imperial power and head to Jiangnan together to start a new life in business.
Someone Secretly Loves YouHer mother is abused by her father when she is still in her mother's womb, and she almost dies after childbirth due to excessive blood loss. Later, her mother becomes mentally ill and lives in a nursing home all year round. Her father divorced her mother and marries a second wife, giving birth to a younger brother. She is regarded as redundant since childhood, but to stay alive, she always stays alert, does more chores, and shoulders all the burden in the family. The scars on her body are injuries from accidents while doing housework and abuse by her father and stepmother. In school, she always works hard to get ahead and desperately maintains her position as the top scorer in exams, never even dreaming of keeping her scholarship grant for herself... She does not know how to say “no,” choosing to be a "people-pleaser" at her own sacrifice. It wasn't until she got cancer that she gradually discovered that no one around her was sincere to her and that they were all taking advantage of her, leading her to die in despair.
Daughter Against All OddsBorn into a family that favored sons over daughters, Qi Zhaodi is married off early for a dowry. Her husband is a good man but dies in a mining accident, leaving her alone with her frail mother-in-law, Xiuying. Determined to care for her mother-in-law, Zhaodi chooses to stay with her. However, her parents learn about the compensation money from the mining accident and plots to seize it for their son, Qi Yaozu, to use as a dowry. Despite their schemes, she refuses to give in. Meanwhile, she faces relentless harassment from the village bully, Liu Mang, who even conspires with her family to ruin her reputation. Ultimately, Zhaodi has Liu Mang imprisoned. With Yaozu's wedding imminent, the family turns their attention to forcing Zhaodi's younger sister, Qi Tingmei, into a marriage exchange with the mentally challenged brother of Yaozu's bride. Thus begins Zhaodi's desperate plan to rescue her sister.
The Hidden FlameFive years ago, Jiang Wenning’s father was framed and killed in a staged car accident while trying to protect company secrets. Her mother followed him in death, and Jiang Wenning was wrongfully imprisoned. After serving her sentence, she returns to discover that the so-called “accident” was actually the result of fabricated evidence created by her second uncle, Jiang Zhe, in his bid for power. As she digs deeper, Jiang Wenning realizes that every clue points to a mysterious guardian known as “Mr. Shadow.” A deadly encounter at the Tan Residence shocks her into discovering that this guardian is none other than her nominal uncle, Shao Jingshi. The man at the helm of a trillion-yuan empire, Shao Jingshi, had fallen in love long ago after Jiang Wenning’s father saved his life twenty years earlier, but could only lie low at her side under a double identity. It is not until gunshots ring out that Jiang Wenning finally understands: all the silent protection hidden in the depths of the night was Shao Jingshi’s profound devotion, written in endurance and obsession. In the end, they join forces to expose Jiang Zhe’s crimes to the public and usher the Jiang Group into a new beginning.
Divorced, Beyond His ReachIn her past life, Hua Qianqian married Xiao Yan, heir of the Marquis’s household, hoping her sincerity would win his heart. Instead, her husband refused to consummate the marriage, her dowry was seized by her in-laws, and her vicious sister plotted her downfall until she died tragically, disgraced and reviled. When she opened her eyes again, it was the very night she shared a bridal chamber with that scoundrel. Since her husband had no love for her, she would cut ties at once, make every betrayer pay the price, and rise to become the wealthiest merchant woman in the land! But just as she was busy building her empire, her usually cold and ascetic elder cousin suddenly wouldn’t leave her side. Whatever happened to that aloof persona?
The Returning Rich HeirHuo Rongxuan and Xia Chu were separated as children but left keepsakes for each other. As adults, they became husband and wife without realizing each other's identities. Influenced by others, Huo Rongxuan mistreated Xia Chu. Just as Xia Chu was falling into despair, she discovered her true identity as a wealthy heiress and began to fight back. Huo Rongxuan eventually realized that Xia Chu was his long-lost first love and worked hard to win her back. In the end, his sincerity touched Xia Chu, and they reunited.
My Stealthy SweetheartJiang Tian and Shen Jinshi accidentally and impulsively get married. After, Jiang Tian ends up working as a cleaner at the Shen family, and the two decide to keep their marriage a secret. Despite discrimination from colleagues and jealousy from He Chuyue, Jiang Tian wins respect with her talent. After that, He Chuyue repeatedly frames Jiang Tian, but fortunately, Shen Jinshi constantly protects Jiang Tian. Ultimately, He Chuyue's conspiracy is exposed, and Shen Jinshi publicly courts Jiang Tian.
Love's Calculated CrimeIn the entertainment business a marriage can be an arrangement between two companies, and shares can move with it. Yan Xi had won Best Actress and then left the industry for the man she was going to marry. On the night before the wedding she saw her fiancé with another woman, and she found out he had taken control of her company's shares. She decided to get her career back to where it had been and to settle with the pair of them. Jiang Mochen, who runs Dahua Entertainment, was under pressure at the time to marry someone. The two of them came to terms quickly and registered the marriage almost at once. After that Yan Xi's work went well and so did the marriage, and she found herself drawn to the husband she had married in a hurry. She took it for luck and for a real marriage, and it had been set up long before the two of them met.