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37 short dramas in History — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Reborn as a Nobody: My Warlord BrotherExecuted at White Gate Tower after defeat in the third year of Jian'an, warrior Lü Bu dies cursing the opportunists dividing his spoils. His rage carries him eighteen centuries forward into a modern film set where rank, weapons, and reputation mean nothing. Forced to begin as an unknown, the ancient general turns a bewildering new era into another campaign for ascent.
The Midnight Forbidden Book RestorerBurdened by debt, restorer Evelyn takes a night job guarding a forbidden ancient library, where paper demons rise from old books. With a gift for mending broken seals, she grows stronger with every book. Teaming up with agent Daniel, she uncovers a century-old conspiracy. When a paper demon breaks loose, Evelyn must face the truth.
Mess With My Boss's Wife? You're DoneTrained since childhood by a mysterious master, Li Zhe arrives in 1920s Shanghai and gets caught in a power struggle between Qinglong Gang's boss's wife, An Lan, and young lord Xiao Changqing. As he protects her, Sakura forces close in. After witnessing their cruelty, the old steward's death, General Zhang's assassination, and An Lan's capture, Li Zhe storms the Hongkou Dojo alone, smashes the "Sick Man of Asia" sign, and ignites national pride.
The Emperors Saw Their RankingsLu Li awakens the “Beyond the Heavens” System, sending his historical rankings across time. Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu, Emperor Taizong, and other legendary rulers witness how future generations judge their reigns, sparking shock and reflection. A modern look at China’s greatest emperors, filled with wit, epic moments, and history.
Rise of the Roman WarlordBruce wakes up in ancient Rome in the body of a man who owns a small estate and has no standing with anyone. Slaves are worked to death, the nobility take what they want, and a landholder of his size has no protection. What he has that nobody else does is knowing what happens next: Julius Caesar, whose name will run through everything, is at this point a child. Bruce works from there. He uses what he knows from his own time to make his land produce, buys and frees men to build a fighting force out of them, and starts refusing the demands the great houses make on someone his size. The nobles move against him. He handles them one at a time, taking their clients and their land, and the estate turns into something with an army behind it. He means to have Rome, and to be the one name in it.
GladiatorFire & BloodThe Roman God of War, framed by the emperor and a wizard, lost his family and fell from a cliff. He awoke as a slave. In a deadly gladiator match, his divine power returned. He tore the hellhound, destroyed the fake God of War, killed traitors, overthrew the tyrant, and married the noblewoman who saved him, reclaiming his glory.
Ancient Heroes! Fight for My NationAlexander, a modern teen, is transported to Aurelia, a parallel world where history has been erased and civilization faces extinction. When the global Fate Arena begins, nations summon Ancient Heroes to fight, with defeated nations losing their destiny. As Aurelia teeters on the brink, Alexander uses his forgotten historical knowledge to summon Zephyr, Byron, and legendary heroes, defeat rival powers, expose Silverhawk Dominion's control over the Celestial Order, and become the God of History.
Mirror, Send Me Back to the Ancient EraEverett, a college student, is chosen by the Solaria Empress Isabella through an ancient mirror and gains a mysterious system. When Solaria faces a coup, famine, and the Varkhan invasion, Everett arrives in powered armor with advanced weapons, saves the empress, exposes traitors, and arms the empire with modern technology. Discovering his past life as Isabella’s protector, he leads Solaria’s army to victory and saves two worlds.
Why Rebel? Your Grandpa's the EmperorJulian, a modern man, unexpectedly wakes up in Great Zhu as Jasper, the amnesiac imperial grandson. With no memory of his true identity, he believes he is only an ordinary merchant’s son. Knowing that the current Emperor will soon shed blood over the succession, Julian focuses on one thing only: making money, saving silver, and planning his escape. Using his modern knowledge, he creates refined salt to fill the state treasury, stockpiles grain to save flood victims, and stuns the court with brilliant poetry. Yet he has no idea that the "grandfather" by his side is actually the emperor himself, traveling in disguise. As Julian makes money, outsmarts his enemies, and slowly uncovers his real identity, he rises from a reckless wastrel to the rightful imperial successor the people truly support. This is a lighthearted, hilarious, and satisfying costume drama.
Your Majesty, Please Execute MeSoren is transported to the Great Xia Dynasty as a county magistrate of Bluefield County. After three years of reform, the land thrives—but his System demands one condition to return: be executed by imperial decree. Desperate, he provokes the throne with crimes, insults, and defiance. Yet the Empress overanalyzes, the Emperor admires his talent, and loyal subordinates misinterpret his intent. Every “death wish” backfires, elevating him to supreme power while the Wildlanders fall and the empire ascends.
Rulers Witness an Empire's GloryChrist's Temporal Dialogue System lets him cross centuries and put history's rulers on the witness stand. Confrontations with Augustus, Jefferson, and Milford connect fallen empires to Chandler's lonely Olympic struggle, forcing powerful figures to face what the future reveals about their legacies.
I'm Just a Shopkeeper, But I Saved the DynastyA man transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty and opens a small shop in the capital while waiting for his system to activate. When famine strikes, the emperor visits his shop in disguise — and the shopkeeper casually gives him a pesticide formula and a way to eat locusts. Soon after, he enters the court, solves a livestock crisis, develops gunpowder weapons to defeat half a million invaders, and uses vaccines to stop a deadly plague. The emperor makes him a top official. Thirty years later, he watches the golden age he built, completes his final mission, and quietly vanishes.
This Time, I Fight for My PeopleMartial arts prodigy Jane seeks the “World’s Best” title, causing her father’s death, and renounces her skills in exile. Influenced by Sven, she protects civilians and defeats the River Gang, uncovering warlord Cameron’s conspiracy with the Outland Raiders. After Cole’s sacrifice, she awakens to patriotism, leads troops, and joins Sven to resist the invasion.
Teaching My Way to Change HistoryTop PhD Quaid falls off a cliff during rural teaching and awakens at Great Ming Bell Peak, bound to a “Super Mentor System.” Blinded, he gains absolute perception, restoring sight only as he reforms society.
He mistakes disguised Emperor Zeth for a village chief and dismantles outdated Confucian ideology with modern science, forecasting, and high-yield crops, earning reverence as a sage.
Acting as a teacher, he reforms governance, overhauls taxation, sparks industrialization with Zane and Zack, and introduces modern medicine, reshaping Great Ming’s fate.
When his mission ends, he plans to leave—but becomes the empire’s unseen guiding master.
I Brought Industry Into Ancient TimesThe modern time traveler Liu Ying travels through the soul of an eight-year-old child in the Great China Dynasty. After waking up from the coffin of the imperial mausoleum, he lost his memory and was rescued and adopted as an adopted son by the Liu Mansion in Suzhou. In the past ten years, he used modern knowledge to open the Red Star School, cultivate talents, and secretly help the development of the Liu family, but was despised by Liu Chen, the eldest son of the Liu family. Liu Chen was tricked into signing a sky-high-priced silk and satin contract by the Gao family in Yangzhou. Liu Ying discovered that this was a plot by Lu Sheng, the son of Taichang Temple Minister, to forcefully marry Liu Xueying. Lu Sheng even revealed the background that his nephew was about to be canonized as the emperor's grandson, and the Liu family was in crisis.
You Got a System? Mine's BetterA modern youth reincarnates as Leonard, a tyrannical emperor doomed by time-traveling schemers. Feigning tyranny, he outwits system-wielding women—taking Lindsay, Sophie, and others under his command. Together, they relieve famines, boost farming, train troops, quell crises, and expand frontiers—steering Tang from collapse to golden prosperity, ever advancing toward broader horizons.
I Saved the Doomed Richest ManA broke history student, Ethan, time-travels to Great Liang and saves the doomed richest man, Samuel, with glassmaking secrets. Taken in as Samuel’s son-in-law, he uses modern knowledge to navigate deadly court wars between the Prime Minister and the Emperor. From starving nobody to empire-shaping power player.
Ancient Emperors Shop at My FarmCollege student Ji Han returns to his hometown to start a business and grow melons, and unexpectedly activates the omnipotent system. His farmhouse actually opens up a time and space channel, attracting emperors such as Qin Shihuang and Chongzhen. He took advantage of the situation and transformed into an expert from outside the world, providing high-quality grains and seeds, teaching strategies for governing the country, and helping the emperors to rectify the affairs of the country and revitalize the country's destiny. Relying on a special opportunity, the value of the watermelons he grew doubled, successfully resolving the village's debt problem. As the number of contacts increased, everyone mistakenly thought that he was an immortal and strange person. While Ji Han was living a leisurely life, he also unknowingly reversed the historical trajectory of the past.
I Hacked the Emperor's MemoryLane finds himself in the body of a rebel leader about to be skinned alive by Emperor Julian. At the moment of death, he activates the Memory Rewrite System, implanting a false memory of his parents saving Julian with half a sweet potato during a deadly snow famine. That single memory flips everything. Julian starts protecting him, believing Lane is tied to his past salvation. From condemned rebel to the Emperor’s “trusted insider,” Lane rises overnight. Using imperial power as his weapon, he crushes corrupt officials and turns survival into a ruthless rise to the top of the Dawn Empire.
I Solved Crimes With Modern SkillsAfter his sudden death, world-class detective Li You is reborn as Li Pei, a county sheriff in Tang Dynasty Luojing. Thrust into a web of mysteries—an official’s suicide, stolen tributes, and noble conspiracies—he faces disdain from Commander Cui Zhiming. Using modern forensic thinking, Li Pei unravels lies and uncovers a shocking plot hidden beneath the splendor of the Tang dynasty.
I'm a Terrible King—Please RebelGrayson enters another world as an emperor whose Squanderer System promises immortality if he destroys his nation's prosperity. He dismisses loyal officials, appoints his inept father-in-law, and spends military funds on useless metal, but every supposed blunder succeeds: hidden geniuses thrive and the scrap becomes revolutionary technology. The empire's fortune soars, permanently closing Grayson's route to heaven while history celebrates the ruler who tried desperately to ruin it.
The Playboy Rewrote History with a SwordTransported into Great Qin as a notorious playboy prince, Quentin hides a shocking secret: he is the empire’s strongest Sword God and the world’s only true player. When a mysterious ranking appears, he rises from laughingstock to conqueror, crushing enemies and rewriting a doomed dynasty’s fate. But after uniting the world and returning to modern times, he discovers the impossible—history has been rewritten because of him.
Sorry Dad, I'm Here to Piss You OffAfter time-traveling to the Great Qian Empire and becoming the Crown Prince, Kingsley obtains the Super Papa-screwing System, which allows him to exchange rage points for super factories. With the empire beset by crises, he becomes the ultimate royal scoundrel — all in a bid to enrage his imperial father to death.
I Tried to Destroy My EmpireTraveling through the turbulent dynasty, Emperor Zhao Yu of Great China unexpectedly unlocked the "subjugate the country in exchange for millions of Wei soldiers" system. He only wanted to subjugate the country in exchange for military strength, so he deliberately took extraordinary actions, confronted the Queen Mother, acted forcefully in the court, and acted like a monster in the hope of being deposed. Unexpectedly, in the step-by-step game, he unexpectedly gathered the power of the court and saw clearly the dilemma of Dahua's internal and external troubles. In the end, he decided to shoulder the important responsibilities of the emperor, eliminate party disputes with iron-blooded tactics, resist foreign enemies with all his strength, reverse the dynasty's endangered situation, and create a prosperous era with his own hands.
All Talk, No LiesAn overworked IT specialist dies and wakes in the 1960s as a violent gambler responsible for five sisters-in-law. A Boast-to-Reality System makes his wild claims materialize: potatoes appear in an empty cellar and clay becomes flour. He turns audacious lies into food, protection from thugs, and a way to carry the sisters through famine toward prosperity.
She Shook the BattlefieldSet in the Republican era, martial prodigy Josephine once sought the empty glory of "Greatest Under Heaven," only to cause her father’s death. Grief-stricken, she sealed her powers and hid as a worker at Sebastian's grain shop. When the Grain Gang attacked, Sebastian’s belief that "a true warrior protects the people" stirred her to gradually reclaim her strength.
The conflict drew in Charles, son of Marshal Cyrus—a traitor secretly allied with Waelorian commander Yamashita. Charles exposed his father’s plot and died shielding Josephine from Cyrus’s bullet, entrusting her with his troops. Awakened to the true meaning of martial virtue—to serve the nation and its people—Josephine united Azure City, crushed the conspiracy, and with Sebastian, marched north to resist the invaders.
I'm the Emperor From the FutureIn the Great Han, the throne is a seat somebody else usually controls. The Empress Dowager rules through whoever sits on it, the vassal kings hold their own territory and armies, and the great clans arrange the rest.
Leonard wakes up in the body of the emperor. He has the knowledge of a much later century and no patience, and he uses both. He puts down revolts inside the borders, takes apart the plots run by the Xiao family and Prince Quentin, and turns back the Xiongnu on the frontier. Steam engines and modern military tactics come out of his head and into the field. Power collects around him a piece at a time, and he ends by purging the court of everyone who worked against him.
How Not to Get RichShattock wakes up in the Republican era as the eldest Su son, armed with a Richest Man System: the more he loses, the more rewards he earns. Determined to fail, he throws money into schools, factories, heavy industry, and infrastructure—only to see his losses turn into national success. Every scheme to lose ends up boosting the economy and winning public praise. Years later, with a thriving nation and prosperous people, everyone hails Shattock as a hero… except Shattock himself, who quietly sheds tears.
A History Professor Became EmperorA modern history professor transmigrates into Zachary, the timid puppet emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty. Facing internal control by Empress Dowager Wilhelmina and the invasion of the Great Jin, he utilizes modern knowledge and technology to rescue renowned general Felix, promote innovations like mechanized looms, steam engines, trains, and tanks, gradually seizing control of the economy and military. Through strategies of "holding the world hostage"—dumping low-priced goods, manipulating finance, and demonstrating military might—he subdues seven states, crushes the Empress Dowager’s plots, defeats the Great Jin and its allies, unifies the land, and achieves an enduring imperial legacy.
Warrior Grandmother: Nation at StakeValentina defies opposition to lead her Zhuang soldiers east in defense of the nation, while granddaughter Claudia joins guardsman William against invading marauders. Their victories expose repeated plots by traitorous Eunuch Zane, forcing the two generations to restore the army's morale by confronting the spy within their own ranks.
3,000-Year-Old Goddess Strikes BackMaria, the primordial goddess, wandered the earth for millennia and founded an opera house. In the old era, she backed the Boxers. Betrayed by Four Imperial Clans, their souls were trapped in Ghost City and tormented by its Great Emperor. While Maria was secluded in mountain cultivation, a century passed—her legacy faded and her opera house declined. Now returned, she seeks to restore her M Mansion, punish the Servile Clans, and overthrow the Imperial Clans and the Great Emperor.
The System Made Me EmperorLawrence, a modern man, transmigrates into the magistrate of famine-stricken River County. He uses pig feed to demonstrate resolve, congee with pickles to win over soldiers, and sees through Evan's schemes. With instant noodles and sausages, he boosts morale, turns the tide, and kills rebel leader Simon. After becoming Governor of GL Commandery, he adopts Roman's plan to confiscate gentry grain and uses heating patches to ruin the Zion family economically. Upon obtaining the "Satisfaction" system, he distributes supplies to the people, who eventually proclaim him Emperor.
Exposed: The Lost Crown PrinceIn the 15th year of Hongwu's reign, eight-year-old Crown Prince Sheldon died and was buried. However, his body mysteriously disappeared afterward. Enraged, Emperor Hongwu ordered the execution of over a thousand officials deemed responsible for the failure. By the 24th year of Hongwu, Hayes who had lived in Aetheria for nine years, discussed past events with an elderly man in a courtyard by the Hollow River. He claimed that at the age of eight, he had crawled out of his own coffin and been surrounded by the Imperial Guard. Upon hearing this, the old man's eyes welled up, his hands trembled with emotion, and he excitedly called Hayes his grandson. The old man then asked if he wanted to become emperor, revealing himself as Emperor Hongwu and declaring Hayes as his rightful heir. However, Hayes dismissed this, believing the old man was merely drunk.
The 5,000-Year ImmortalImmortal Nerissa has lived for 5,000 years. She once discussed philosophy with the founder of Taoism, advised Jayden, adopted the young Emperor Quentin, and mentored the heroes of the Three Kingdoms. Emperors throughout history bowed before her, earning her the title of the strongest woman on Earth. Having witnessed the passing of too many loved ones, she now seeks to unravel the mystery of immortality, hoping to reunite with those she has lost and fulfill her youthful dream of "buying osmanthus blossoms, sharing wine, and reliving the joy of wandering together."
The 7-Year-Old Prime MinisterCameron wants his mother to have a better life. He is seven years old, the two of them are poor, and she works herself to exhaustion every day and still often goes hungry. He settles on the imperial examination as the way to change that.
Cameron is also a scholar with a doctorate in ancient culture who lived in the modern day and woke up, after crossing back in time, inside this child's body in the capital of Celestia. He knows how the examinations of this period are run, and he carries in his head poems and essays written long after it.
He sits the examination. What he writes there astonishes everyone who reads it and he takes first place, and the court starts talking about the boy as a prodigy. After that he puts forward one policy proposal after another, and his promotions come steadily.
Scam Breaker from the FutureA rigged gambling debt threatens Zephyrine's father in the Republican-era life she awakens into after an assassination. Her modern expertise in exposing cheats lets her dismantle the trap, but each countermove reveals older family grudges and secrets within the underworld.
He Built Rockets with His Bare HandsBetrayed at his peak and forced to start over as an apprentice, Fredrick stuns everyone when his true identity as a master fitter is revealed in a moment of crisis!