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32 short dramas in Harem Scheming — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Shocking The Imperial CourtShe had one night with the emperor and wanted nothing after it except a quiet corner of the palace and to be left in it. The child she gives birth to does not look like a human infant. Her first thought is that it cannot be his, that she will be charged with treason, and that her family will go to the block with her.
The emperor comes and cries over the cradle, and the empress dowager does the same. The court crowds in around the baby and treats it as a god who has come down into the world, and nobody explains any of it to the mother, who spends the following days not knowing what she is being congratulated for. The child belongs to a people that has almost died out, and its birth matters to what is left of them.
Love Intertwined with HateDaniel's Residence had two daughters, Emma born to a maid and Ava born to the wife. On the day Emma's mother died, the household put Emma out over her birth. Prime Minister Lucas came past, paid for the burial and took Emma in with him. She became one of his maids and fell in love with him.
Lucas was engaged to Ava. He went off a cliff in an accident and lost the use of both legs, and Ava refused the marriage and left. Emma stayed on in the house as a maid and looked after him. What she wanted was to be some warmth in the place. Lucas went on thinking about Ava. When Ava came back he hurt Emma badly enough that she decided to shave her head and take vows.
Reborn and Teaming Up With My Nemesis!Olive Marsh and Raina Pace spend their whole lives at court working against each other over which of them will hold rank as empress dowager, and on the day the emperor formally takes power he settles it by taking the rank off both. He names an elderly palace maid as his birth mother and has the two women give their positions up to her. Olive raised him herself and only now finds out he is an impostor, and that he wants her dead as well as out. Raina treats the announcement as a joke and is handed a cup of poisoned wine.
The two of them wake up in the period before the accession with all of it still in memory. They put aside what they held against each other and set about turning the Great Heaven Dynasty over, starting with the wording of the decree that would put the impostor on the throne.
I Made Up Your Fall, Empress!After escaping a massacre, make-up prodigy Maria Ziegler enters the palace to revenge on Empress Raina Manne. She allies with princess Rachel Manne and Raina's male consort Shawn Clark, both of whom secretly share the same goal with her. As they plan to seize power, two lustful officials set traps. Can they truly bring down that ruthless ruler?
Crown Princess? No. Game Changer!At the Polo Cup, Cecilia enters without giving her name and plays the match unrecognised. She wins it, and then she says who she is, and the court that had been watching is left staring.
Before that she had been told she had three months to live. She stopped drinking the bitter medicine, dropped the conduct expected of a crown princess, and went at the people who had spent years directing her, her brother among them, and the women of the court, and the Empress. Word of it went through the palace and past its walls.
Adrian, the crown prince, had never paid her much notice. He was there when she came off the field smiling in the sun, and after that he was the one pursuing her. She had meant the whole thing only as a way of spending the months she had left.
Reborn: I Shatter My Written FateIn her previous life, Meng Yao trusted the Prince of Jin, Mo Jingzhao, and watched her family be destroyed before she died in bitterness. Reborn ten days before her wedding, she allies with Emperor Mo Juncheng to escape the engagement, but when Lin Miaomiao frames her and Jingzhao accuses the Meng family of treason, Yao and the emperor turn each scheme against its makers. The surviving General Meng exposes the accusation, Jingzhao's coup is foiled, and Noble Consort Lin's assassination plots fail; Jingzhao is executed, Noble Consort Lin is deposed, and Meng Yao becomes empress while protecting her family and ruling beside Mo Juncheng in a prosperous era.
My Death Brought Me Back HomeA brutal death jolts Jenna Gould awake. She returns to Goodwin Estate, determined to clear the fog and expose the greed beneath it. From a trap in the courtyard to bloodline proof at the clinic, she follows the clues into a web of old secrets and mounting danger. Alone in the game, is she the next prey—or the one who controls the board?
My Husband the King Gave My Crown to His Mistress, So I Destroyed His KingdomPrincess Isabella marries King Edward, supporting his reign with her dowry, ten thousand knights, and lucrative ports. But Edward gives her sacred crown to his mistress, Vivian, and allows her to seize property, sell titles, and betray the kingdom's interests. Feigning submission, Isabella secretly gathers evidence and exposes them at the nobles' assembly.
My Prince is a Fox!A near-sighted vet mistakes a nine-tailed fox prince for a stray dog and accidentally steals his power. Now he can't leave her side, she can't see his face, and together they must uncover a royal conspiracy. She came for a dog. She found a prince.
My Two Lives: Maid to Imperial MentorA skilled caregiver dies in an accident and transmigrates into an ancient palace. She also travels between modern and ancient worlds to change her fate!
The Fox Cuts Her Tails for VengeanceA nine-tailed spirit fox returns from seclusion to find her clan wiped out and her sister brutally murdered by royal hunters. Bound by heavenly rules, she severs her tails, takes human form and enters the palace. She craves no favor, only vengeance. Will she avenge her fallen kin before the celestial chains pull her down?
Crown Princess? No. Game Changer!Given only three months to live, Crown Princess Cecilia stops bowing to fate. She rejects obedience, shatters the virtue code, and fights her way through the palace with unapologetic fire. At the Polo Cup, she reveals the brilliance she once buried, stunning the empire and catching Adrian’s heart for the first time. Can she outrun death… or will love come too late?
He Faked Death, She Granted ItPrincess Thalia devoted herself to caring for Prince Francis’s family after his death, only to discover that he had faked his death and eloped with his lover. After being reborn, she resolved to burn him alive. Could she avenge herself in the end?
Who Killed My Princess?!War-forged emperor Leon Hale returns in triumph after three brutal years on the frontier, only to be struck by a thunderbolt, his beloved daughter is already dead. Refusing to believe it, he demands the tomb be opened... but his own kin stand in the way. Funny how grief starts smelling like a cover-up...
His Heir. Her Revenge.Du Ruoxi is carrying a child. The house she grew up in is not her own family's, and the man who raised her has done as he likes with her. The night the child was conceived she had gone to the help of a man who had been drugged, and the man was the emperor Xiao Yan, out of the palace and dressed as somebody else.
The child speaks to her from inside her. What it tells her is how the two of them ended the last time round, in the palace, and she starts working against that. She is put into a royal residence away from the main palace, which looks like being set aside. Xiao Yan remembers the last time as well. He is the one who put her there, and he clears people out of her path without letting her know he is doing it.
In the residence there is the head nurse to bring over to her side, and her sister Du Ruhua turning up to provoke her. Further out there is the Empress Dowager, who means to reach the child with a mother and child gu. Somewhere in this Du Ruoxi learns whose daughter she actually is, which is the general who guards the country.
Return of the Beggar EmpressSelene wants a doctor for her mother and cannot get one. Six years earlier her father was chancellor. Then a false accusation brought the family down, and the sentence was beggary, for life, with no way back to rank. Before that happened, on one night, she and the emperor had saved each other's lives by chance. She now has a son, and she takes him with her on the search.
The people who knew the family in its good years are the ones who get in her way. They bully her in the street. In the middle of that she learns that the man from that night, her son's father, is the emperor himself, and that he has spent the six years since looking for her.
Careful, this Princess Bites!On the night she was born, Princess Pearl was exiled as an Omen of Jinx. 18 years later, she returned for revenge. She exposed the scheming Consort and Crown Prince, but in the end, a shocking truth was revealed: Pearl was the daughter of the murdered true heir. After the Emperor was overthrown, she chose a peaceful life beyond the palace walls with her love.
Once His Bride, Now His LessonBetrayed by the man she loved, Princess Serena watched her kingdom fall and her true protector, Derek, die in her arms. Reborn before it all began, she swears to guard him this time—even if it means defying fate itself. But when Liam’s desire turns deadly again… who will she save, and who will she lose?
The Counterattack of the Vulgar QueenA scholar finds a woman who has lost her memory in an accident and tells her he is her husband. He takes her savings and her jade pendant, uses the money to sit the imperial examinations, places first, and marries a princess. The woman is Selena, who sold tofu in a market town. Seven years earlier she had married a man passing through as a commoner. He was the emperor, and he was called back to the palace the day after the wedding when trouble broke out at court. The accident came after that.
When Selena's memory returns she travels to the capital with her son to find the scholar and take back what he took. He says he has never seen her. He and the princess set about harassing her, and the harassment turns into an attempt on her life. Selena comes out of it with her face ruined, and gets the boy away.
The emperor pulls a woman and a child out of danger and has the matter looked into. A ceremony to install an empress is set to take place in the capital.
Catch Her, Your Majesty!Lillian Caldwell wants a place among the palace's physicians. She was born into a medical family and goes to the selection held at the palace. What stands in her way is the household her father set up after her mother died, when he brought home the woman he had been keeping outside, along with that woman's daughter. At the selection the stepmother and the stepsister slip her a drug, and under it she ends up in bed with a man she takes to be a palace guard. The family beats her with rods for the disgrace and throws her out, and she comes close to dying.
Six years later she is a disciple of the Sage Doctor and is raising a son on her own. She is called to the palace to treat the Empress Dowager. The Emperor sees the boy and works out whose he is, because he was the man she had taken for a guard that night. The stepsister keeps making trouble for her at court, and when the boy is in danger it is the Emperor who steps in and saves him. After that, what happened six years earlier comes into the open.
My Corporate Enemy Is Now My ConcubineCorporate enemies Jiang Yuanqing and Su Nongyu die in the same accident and awaken in an ancient dynasty at opposite ranks of the harem. Jiang is empress; Su is a minor consort and once again her rival. Jiang uses palace discipline, imperial favor, and fabricated scandal to destroy Su's position, carrying their former-world feud all the way to the throne of empress dowager.
He Dethroned Me, I Brought the True Heir BackBetrayed on her coronation day, Flora Shea is forced by Prince Dean Cedric Shaw and Gwen Perry to marry a beggar, who is Xander Shaw, the supposedly dead former Crown Prince. An Imperial Mausoleum ambush throws her into Imperial Prison and onto a pyre. Xander marches on the palace, but will Flora be saved or sacrificed again?
The Imposter Consort Stole My FateFaye Bay stole Luna Bay’s jade pledge, entered the palace in her name, and tried to burn her and her mother alive. Now Noble Consort Ning, Faye poisons rivals with deadly incense to hold Your Majesty’s favor. Luna returns as Luna Lowe, a palace medic, and with Consort Wade exposes her. But Empress Dowager wants her elevated—can Luna stop it?
THE PRINCE'S CONTRACT WET NURSEClara, a commoner widow, flees after a night with Prince Gabriel, unaware of his identity. Threatened by a tyrant, she leaves her newborn and the royal signet ring on the castle steps. Gabriel returns to find an infant with sapphire eyes, the royal mark. Clara becomes the prince's wet nurse, unaware he is her own son. Isabella and Lilyan scheme against her; Gabriel intervenes, defying the King. The ring, eyes, and bond reveal she was his lover. Gabriel kneels and takes her as his queen.
I Became a Maid in My Own NovelA writer named Jiang Meng woke inside a palace novel she had written herself, in the body of Mu Wanqiu, a maid at the bottom of the household. Her foster mother, Nanny Zhang, was in danger there. Mu Wanqiu had read the book and knew what each person would do next. She went up against Consort Yue and then the Empress, and stepped clear of the traps set for her.
Consort Yue moved with her father Liu Sheng and with Murong Yuan, who ruled the grasslands, and they took the palace by force. Mu Wanqiu forged a will. Murong Yuan read it and took her for the daughter he had lost, and the rising stopped there. The people who had run it were tried afterward. Mu Wanqiu gave up her position in the back palace and asked to leave, and the Emperor Chu Tian cleared the way for her without saying so in front of the court.
I Bought the Future EmperorForced to marry from the Convict Camp, Wendy Sullivan buys the dying, amnesiac Crown Prince Leon Shaw. Exposed by Winnie Lynn, she faces punishment from My Lord—until the Brocade Guard arrives for the Prince. With his memory returned, will Leon save her, or sacrifice her for the throne?
The Imposter Princess Stole My LifeBorn as a princess but betrayed by the woman she trusted most, a young girl loses everything when her identity is stolen and her mother is killed. Rescued and trained by a mysterious master, she returns ten years later as a legendary warrior. When she defeats foreign invaders in a grand duel, her true identity is revealed, setting her on a path of revenge.
Feeding the Forgotten PrinceNoble Consort Lewis cuts off Jace Shay’s rations to break him. Vivian Lynn fights back with extraordinary dishes, reviving Suncrest Palace and warming the prickly prince, while nudging Your Majesty to face their long-buried rift. Cornered, Noble Consort Lewis plots her comeback as the palace food war begins.
A Beauty Filter to Rule the PalaceA wake-up nearly gets Maisie beaten in the Great Zhou palace until Vivian Shea’s PS system saves her and exposes a long plot against Consort Jessa. When Henry Chang vanishes, Vivian becomes a court translator and rises fast, drawing Ewan Shaw close. As a coup closes in on Your Majesty, they must strike first or be erased.
Ruthless Princess ReturnsA brilliant princess hides her true power behind a reckless and infamous reputation after her parents are murdered. Years later, she returns as a seemingly ruthless troublemaker, but she is secretly the leader of the world’s most feared assassin guild. When enemies threaten her throne and kingdom, she finally reveals who she truly is.
Once His Pawn, Now Their QueenFor over a decade, Keira had lived a life of duty, her every breath and action in the royal court a testament to service for others. But when betrayal left her shattered and her world in ruins, a devastating truth surfaces. Granted a second life, she decides to live for herself… but what consequences await? Only time will tell.
Pregnant with the Regent's Twins!Violet, the Prime Minister’s concubine’s daughter, is caught in a scheme that leaves her alone with Regent Julian for one night that changes her life forever. He first thinks she’s part of the plot but soon learns the truth. In a world full of danger, can they find their happiness?