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20 short dramas in Political Intrigue — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Rule the Court With Modern WeaponsModern man Freddie travels back in time as a prince's heir. With modern gear and wits, he wins the spring hunt, calls off his engagement, defeats rivals from Serenova, the Eastern Isles, and Vastwald, eradicates bandits, and topples a corrupt Prime Minister. Armed with advanced weapons, he crushes all enemies, wins the empress's favor, and rises to power in Great Zhou.
The Sword God Who Runs an InnFinnegan, top of the Celestial Ranking, sheathed his sword and ran Peace Inn, banning all fights. Emperor Cecilia, hunted during her secret trip, hid there. He helped Laura kill a Grandmaster and turned a princess into an expert overnight. Betrayed by Charles allied with barbarians, Finnegan stepped out again to crush them all.
One Watch, I Trade Two WorldsLin Dong is a low-level office worker who has just been fired and has nothing coming in. He comes into possession of a wristwatch that moves him between the present day and an ancient dynasty, and he starts carrying goods across. A load of ordinary modern glass covers a war indemnity that had been crushing the treasury. Nine years of compulsory schooling is enough to leave the court's senior scholars with nothing to say, and objects he brings from home, which everyone there takes for divine implements, settle fights against men reputed unbeatable in war. His standing climbs. He is made consort to the princess, which puts him inside court politics against the chief minister, and the empress takes an interest in him as well. In the present day his circumstances change too, since the money and the leverage travel both directions. He keeps both lives running at once, using what he knows about how things are made.
Wait—Your Wife Is PregnantSamantha's stepsister swapped the marriage arrangements and Samantha spent half a lifetime badly off, then died. She woke again before the marriage. She married Raphael, heir to the Duke's household, who was said to be short-lived, intending to have a child by him before he died and then live quietly on that.
She asked him to consummate the marriage. He refused, saying it should wait until the feeling was mutual. She used her dowry to open a clothing shop. Raphael backed the shop without telling her and kept watch over her.
The stepsister came back into the world as well, and so did Ronan, Samantha's husband from the life before. They kept at her. Raphael stepped in front of his wife openly and told her what he had felt all along. She had married him for an heir and fell in love with him. They built up the business and went at the people who had wronged them, and the prediction that Raphael would die young did not hold.
The Real Heiress Strikes BackModern agent Juliana dies and possesses the lost true heiress of a noble house. Back home, she faces hostility—a fake heiress's schemes, her brother's cruelty, her mother's blind favoritism, and her father's coldness. She fights back, outshines elite heirs, saves the heir, exposes the conspiracy. When the family remains blind, she becomes Princess Samuel's adopted daughter, living a triumphant life.
My Dad Is the Prime MinisterPercival, transmigrated as Marquis Serenity, uses his wit and courage to solve cases like Charles's scandal and the fake top scholar plot, repeatedly thwarting the Empress Dowager's schemes and royal family conspiracies. Through his intelligence, he upholds justice, helps the emperor consolidate power, and gains both love and promotion.
My Father-in-Law Reads My MindModern-day William lands in the Great Qian Dynasty as an unimportant live-in son-in-law, only to discover that his formidable father-in-law can hear his thoughts. His private complaints expose the chancellor's frame-up and help repel an enemy army, ruining William's plan for an idle life and turning him into an unwilling strategist. When ideas from his mind produce equipment for an unbeatable cavalry, father and son-in-law begin a campaign for power together.
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.
Married to My EnemyI cherished you as a priceless treasure, yet you regarded all living beings as mere ants. Our love is separated by mountains of corpses and seas of blood—how can it possibly go on?
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.
They Know My Thoughts, I Know the PlotBryanna's mother Jasmine cannot hide anything from her, because Jasmine can hear everything Bryanna thinks. Bryanna had read the book both of them are now living inside, so she knows what is coming, and she uses her thoughts to feed her mother the answers.
Jasmine is not the only one in danger. There are people who want the throne, and they treat Jasmine as an obstacle. Bryanna works with small tricks and what she remembers of the plot to keep her mother ahead of them.
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.
Taming My Rogue PrinceStephanie, the daughter of the prime minister, was born with unusual physical strength. The emperor ordered her to pass herself off as a commoner and marry Vincent, a prince living in exile outside the palace, and to get him back on a straight path and in a position to inherit the throne. After the wedding she used her martial arts on her husband whenever he misbehaved. The two of them fought. Over time the fighting turned into attachment, the pair went from opponents to allies, and they challenged the court together over the succession.
No Army, No Crown? She Took BothYasmine returns from war having disguised herself as a man, defeated the Southern Nation, and captured its crown prince. The emperor repays her victory by breaking his promise of military command and inheritance, ordering her into marriage with the imperial crown prince so she can be confined to domestic life. Once inside the palace, Yasmine turns a bid to sideline her into a path through the succession struggle, seizes the regency, and ultimately places her own daughter on the throne as the nation's first female emperor.
Caged PhoenixBennett, a judge and innovator, dedicates his life to feeding the common folk and correcting two centuries of injustice through revolutionary technologies like the steam engine. Despite his contributions, he faces betrayal from his fiancée and persecution by the powerful Shen and Ye families during a time of political turmoil. Ultimately, Bennett uses his scientific methods to restore peace to the empire, exposing the truth and ensuring his enemies face retribution.
From Security Guard to Royal BloodlineThe empress of Great Xia takes an interest in Myles at the point when the rest of the court has decided he is a fraud. He has turned up as the son of the Wandering King. He was a security guard in the present day until a jade pendant handed down through his family carried him back.
The pendant makes objects real. He uses it, and what he knows from his own century, to get out of a trap laid for him on arrival and to get through the trials the court sets him. The empress is impressed enough to take his side. One faction wants him put to death, another proposes a political marriage instead. He takes back land the empire had lost. An enemy fleet is approaching by sea while the court is still arguing about him.
The Modern Noble's LeapIn the empire of Qian, the prime minister's son is known for spending his days on nothing but pleasure. Qin Feng, a researcher in the present day, has been pushed around at work by his superior Cui Niu. The two of them get into a fight and both end up in the past, Qin Feng in the body of the prime minister's son. Cui Niu puts his modern knowledge to work building advanced weapons and uses them to threaten the empress. That puts Qin Feng's family in danger. Qin Feng then finds out he can travel back to the modern world and returns whenever he needs to.
They Called Me the Useless PrinceLeonard is engaged, and the woman who says she is his fiancée is not happy about it. She accuses him of an affair with her cousin and asks to break the engagement, and he agrees. Leonard is a modern man who has landed in the past in the body of a highly placed heir, and people take him for someone called the Persimmon Prince and misread what he is doing there. When they meet again he is taunted and mocked as a clown. He picks a horse that cannot run, which brings on more mockery, and they tell him the animal could not keep up with a pig and that he will lose his manhood in the spring race, and advise him not to enter. He wins it using modern technology, and after that people stop treating him as a useless heir. He goes on to help the country through several crises, which changes the empress's view of him. Then the court splits over the Fusang navy. Some argue for making peace with Fusang for the country's sake, others push for Leonard's execution as a traitor. The Fusang fleet keeps coming closer while they argue.
Iron Throne: The Return of the EmpressDuke's daughter Stella hides berserk strength, suppressed by her stepmother's poison for ten years. When her family tries to kill her, she awakens, crushes the Church's charge, and holds the capital against a hundred thousand barbarians. She kills the Pope and is crowned Guardian Knight.
The Cast-Off Wife Rules AllBetrayed by the man she gave up her empire for, Suselia rises from ruin to become Summeria's fiercest Warden—ready to crush the kingdom that broke her!