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55 short dramas in Rural Life — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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The CEO They Beat Is Now Their Boss!Xiao Group president Xiao Cheng returns anonymously to Duanya Village intending to repay the community that raised him, but finds project chief Gao Zhen stealing development funds and extorting impoverished residents. His investigation leads to imprisonment and a beating, while the elderly village chief falls from a cliff protecting him. With his identity still concealed, Xiao sends villager Huzi through the blockade to reach his assistant and bring help.
Stole My Pay? I FED the Village.A year's work at sea, and at the settling up his uncle handed him a sum that came nowhere near what the household already owed, then put him out. The debts stayed where they were.
What he had was a boat in bad condition and a notebook his grandfather had kept, with the old man's marks for water the village boats would not go into. He went out into it on his own. Storms came through and he stayed out there, and he worked each of them out from what was in the notebook and what was in front of him, and he came back with what he had found.
After that he stopped fishing on his own account. He put the village boats together into a cooperative, and the households that had been carrying debts cleared them.
Agricultural KingAgricultural scientist Adrian earns a village chief a fortune from strawberries and receives only a pittance and contempt in return. He leaves for an abandoned rocky mountain, applies advanced farming methods to grow a priceless black strawberry, and builds an produce empire as the chief's chemical shortcuts destroy his own fields.
Water War: Village Bully's DownfallHe goes through the rubble for anything that will trade for food and water. A third world war finished the world some time ago and scrap is what there is to sell. His classmates take what he has gathered whenever they want it.
In the ruins he turns up a piece of alien technology. He gets three women out of trouble, and the three of them marry him. Between the machine and the three of them, what he intends to do is make himself king of the wasteland.
A Tycoon in a Village Boy's BodyEddie Wood has set it up so that Blackwater Village believes Joe Hunter harassed Yara Shaw. Every household is talking about it, and the whole place has turned on Joe. Joe wakes up in the middle of it.
The man who wakes is a businessman from a later time whose soul has ended up in Joe's body in the 1980s. He has no idea what he is supposed to have done until Joe's memories come back to him, and with them the setup: Eddie Wood, a neighbour, arranged the whole thing to ruin Joe's name. Joe had always put up with this kind of thing before. Now he stands in front of the villagers, goes through what happened, and lays out Eddie's part in it, and the talk dies down, and the villagers begin to look at him differently.
The Birch Bow HunterChen Yuanshan's cousin runs the hunting team in Beiling, and at every share-out he hands Chen Yuanshan a few scraps of meat as his share. Chen Yuanshan leaves the team, takes the birchwood bow his family passed down, and goes into the mountains on his own to make a living. His wife stays with him through the poverty.
His shooting brings in pelts, and the Supply and Marketing Cooperative gives him a standing contract to supply them. Hunting partners he can rely on gather around him, and he begins planning a school for the village. The cousin works against him in secret at each step, and Chen Yuanshan undoes what the cousin sets up. Later he is chosen to be the protection officer for the forest district.
My Perfect Report Ruined My FamilyLin Zhou is a third-year law student, home in the village for the summer. He sees his neighbor Uncle Wang burning crop stubble in the field, which is illegal, and he calls it in. The fine comes to two thousand yuan. He goes to bed thinking he has held the law up where it belonged. The next morning every tractor in the village finds a reason to work someone else's plot. His grandmother, who is seventy, ends up kneeling in the sun cutting two mu of greens by herself, with rain forecast and the harvest still down. Nobody stops to help her. Lin Zhou starts adding up what Uncle Wang has done over the years without being asked, the roof he patched, the night he drove someone to the emergency room, the luggage he carried. The state collected two thousand yuan from him. Nobody has any way to settle the other account, the one made of favors that accumulated across two generations, and Lin Zhou spends the rest of the summer living inside the difference between the two.
The Village I Saved Turned Against MeAfter spending over a decade serving his village, a beloved leader is framed for corruption by a relative hungry for power. Heartbroken, he walks away and lets her take over. But when disaster strikes, the villagers finally realize they drove away the one person who truly cared about them.
His Rural Bus RevolutionA driver earns $40,000 for his uncle, and receives only $1,500. Refusing to be a doormat, he starts his own rural bus service. His uncle's sabotage fails, and he eventually builds a fleet, becoming the region's top transport operator. Hard work and integrity win.
My Live Stream Saved an Entire VillageA livestream host promises huge compensation after a shipping mistake and goes viral overnight, facing massive order losses. He launches creative rural self-pickup activities and traditional feasts to attract urban crowds. Tourists and corporate teams flood the village, clearing stagnant crops and boosting local tourism. Can his casual mistake spark a brand-new rural revival?
Bullied Into Wasteland, Built a FortuneCheated in the village land split, Yuan Li is stuck with the North Slope Tract while Dehou Zhang and Biao Zhang humiliate him. Backed by Xiaoyu Zhou, he bets everything—even her dowry—to build a Cold-Chain Center, and companies soon come knocking. When the policy finally lands, will the bullies let him cash in?
The Ultimate Farming RevengeLin Chen lends his friend Su Qiang an eight-million-yuan harvester without charge and receives betrayal in return. Reclaiming it leaves Su's crop in danger, prompting sabotage and an attempted kidnapping that land the former friend in prison. Lin then consolidates the farmland into a modern agricultural company and gives the cooperative a future beyond the feud.
(Dubbed) Mocked at Home, Rich at SeaMocked for his rare ear condition, a young fisherman hides a secret talent—superhuman underwater hearing. Betrayed by family, he sets out alone, turning his gift into fortune, leading his village to prosperity, and finally discovering who he’s meant to be.
Kick Me Out? Your Business Is Done!Lin Chen's uncle and aunt were in debt and close to losing their country guesthouse. He put his own money in, brought in his own contacts, opened tour routes into the area and set up the customer side and the supply side for them. The arrangement was that he took half the profits.
The place became one of the better earners in the tourist district. Once the money was coming in the couple went back on the arrangement, returned his capital and pushed him out.
He left and the customers and the suppliers went with him. To hold the margin up the couple moved to cheap frozen stock and heavy seasoning and told the guests nothing about it, and complaints about the food started coming. They were spending on a villa while that was going on.
The Golden Crop He Left To RotHe brought a way for the village to earn real money, but they called his kindness greed. So he stepped back. He told them to sell the golden crop themselves and watched as the truckload of fortune began to rot. When the harvest turns to waste and the promises turn to dust, whose name will they beg for when ruin finally knocks on their door?
Extra? I'm the Real Leading Part!Zhao Tiezhu comes off a mountain road into a film city, and the crew takes him for one of the extras. He is hungry and he cannot read, so the script is no use to him. He had left home because there was nothing to eat there. He plays the scene out of what he has already been through, and it holds better than the work of the trained actors next to him.
He stays on. He keeps to the rules of the set and picks up characters off the pages he is handed, and the work in the story turns into work he does when the cameras are off. He opens ground, plants it, and feeds his family from it.
Eco Tycoon's RevengeA famous environmental leader returns to his hometown for rituals. Villagers accuse his local factory of severe pollution. He hides his identity to investigate and finds something's wrong. Partnered with an inspector, he sets a trap for the corrupt group. Can he clear the pollution and bring justice to the suffering town?
Surviving The Shadow BeastHe leads his team to a mysterious coastal village guarded by phantom fire. Surrounded by steep cliffs, it's the ultimate fortress! On their first night, he grips a glowing green lantern, standing off against a terrifying shadow beast in the dark. By dawn, the beast vanishes, leaving a massive pile of dead monsters at the cliff base. Are they truly safe?
The Pig Trough That Made a MillionaireA framed designer comes home and gets publicly rejected by his snobbish fiancée. Villagers laugh at him for spending all his money on a beat-up old pig trough. Yet he seems not to care at all. Can he finally gain respect, strike it rich, and lift the whole village to prosperity?
Bitter Cherries, Sweet RevengeThe cherries are sitting in a convoy of black trucks with the cooling switched off, and the crew running them has put a price on turning it back on. The village that grew the fruit cannot cover it and the load is going over by the hour.
Before any of that the crop had been going out with a driver from the same village, a man who owns a refrigerated truck and works long distance. Someone with local standing put it about that he was charging his neighbours too much, and the village took it as fact and went at him. His wife was pushed over and hurt while it was going on, his daughter's sweets ended up in the dirt, and he took the truck and left.
The growers come and find him with the load spoiling and go down on their knees in front of him. He shows them the credentials he has been carrying the whole time, which make him an inspector, and he starts on the trucking crew and the man behind the rumours through official channels.
A Legend Mine HeroA geology prodigy, Clark, enters the Inovis mine on a secret rescue mission. Unrecognized and facing arrogance, he survives a sabotage cave-in and false accusations. Using his skill, he saves the miners, revives the mine’s vein, lifts his hometown from poverty, and secures justice as the wicked meet their fate.
A Father's One-Sided Love!A father favors his elder son and makes the younger drop out to herd sheep. Years later, the neglected son builds a big dairy business, while his arrogant brother ruins himself with embezzlement. Suffering from his own prejudice, the father finally sees who truly supports the family.
Garlic Gold And A Broken VillageWhen garlic prices crashed, he honored his contract and bought at a fixed price to save his village. He alone built a lasting business and fought the rivals. When the betrayers stood broken, he offered them work, not revenge. Can a man who values conscience over profit ever truly win?
Rich From Cattle, A Cousin's RegretHe gave three years of his life to his cousin's farm, only to be thrown out with cash and humiliation. Starting from nothing on a wasteland, he builds his own empire with a skilled livestock technician. But his cousin returns with sabotage and lies. When the forgotten man rises, can the family that betrayed him survive the weight of their shame?
Beast Power: My Epic Comeback!Betrayed and abandoned by his ex-girlfriend, Eric Grant returned home to search for his missing parents. On the way, he saved a widow named Rebecca Ford, and stumbled upon the Beastmaster's Codex… What would happen next? And what power would he awaken?
Small Fruit, Big FortuneBai Xiaochuan comes home from the army and puts his own money into selling the village's kiwis for the growers. The profit is thin and every cost comes out of his pocket. Li Mei, an official in the village, starts telling people he is making dirty money off them and squeezing the growers. The villagers take her side. They turn on him all at once and curse him to his face, and his own family will not believe him either. Bai Xiaochuan tries to explain and nobody listens.
Kicked Out by My Son, Crowned by the SeaHector Zeller, once the top fisherman, gave up his career and sold his house to move to the city to raise his son. Yet he’s scorned by his daughter-in-law and ignored by his own son. On his fiftieth birthday, he’s cruelly kicked out. Will the former Fisher King stage a comeback?
Little Girl, Big FortuneThe Zhao family picked up a five-year-old chubby girl. After her arrival, miracles happened one after another in their family.
They Stole My Store, I Took the MarketSean Sullivan saves Lillian Chan from her abusive husband, Jason Jones. They open a grocery, but Jason manipulates Lillian to seize it. Sean leaves with the suppliers, ruining the cheating couple. Sean builds a trading enterprise; a repentant Lillian becomes a warehouse delivery supervisor.Three Months to Be a Herding DogA Wage Slave wakes up as Stubby the corgi, bound to the Ultimate Sheepdog Training System: earn a Certified Sheepdog post in 3 months or grow too weak to survive. Mocked as a runt, he uses workplace strategy to pass trials and turns rival Rusty into a partner. But with the deadline closing in, can he pass the final exam in time?
The Last Beast WhispererDave Shaw steals the profits and humiliates Robin Shaw with only $1,000. Robin returns to the wilds, commands beasts with the Bone Whistle, and strikes it rich with rare herbs as Tanner Drake backs Dave to tear up the mountains for Leyline Essence. With Lynn Sheen, can Robin stop them in time?
You Kicked Me Out, Now You’re BrokeCold-chain expert Su Ming is branded a price-gouger and driven out of Taoyuan. He builds a fresh-produce base in Qingliu and boosts incomes. Taoyuan sells tainted fruit, causing mass poisoning and huge damages. Now they beg Su Ming for help. Will they accept his standards in time?
They Stole My Hero DogA retired military dog trainer returns home with his highly decorated service dog, only to find the heroic canine stolen by a corrupt village gang and destined for a deadly fate. To save his loyal partner, he uncovers a hidden criminal network and joins forces with a powerful businesswoman to expose the truth and bring justice.
Cold Snap, Dead Stock, No MercyThey reject my $40/lb offer for their Crocodile. I leave, knowing the hidden costs of Live Perishables (Cold Chain, Dry Ice) will ruin them. After a cold snap kills their stock, they beg for $20. I counter with $5 for "defectives." My price or ruin.
My Village Startup Under SiegeThey want Chase Lynn’s new Drying Room shut down, by rumors, unscrupulous dealers, and sabotage. He fights back with science, strict management, and the law, turning Bluestone Village’s produce into a trusted brand while stopping profiteers who gamble with food safety. But when the next attack hits, will the village stand with him—or sell him out?
The Veteran’s Promise ⅡHaving grown into a supportive home for disabled veterans, Ridgeline Farm faces brutal retaliation from the vengeful Malone family. Targeting Sam and Sofia’s grandfather with cruel harassment, the Malones frame allies, overpower Jack, and strike down the protecting colonel, dragging the whole community into a devastating war.
Broke Forager, Million-Dollar FindCheated while trying to save his wife, Zane Lee awakens a godlike sense of smell. As a Mountain Foraging Star, his livestreamed find of a Century-Old Blood Reishi makes him rich. He exposes the bully, builds a Specialty Cultivation Base, and uses a lost formula to crush a corrupt pharma giant, leading his village to prosperity.
Turning Mud Into MillionsShunned by everyone, Ian Lynn gets the Abandoned Mud Pit in a Family Partition Agreement. As a Top Aquaculture Expert, he uncovers a rare ecosystem and grows a stunning Purple-Gold Mirror Pearl. But with money running out and sabotage closing in, can he protect his breakthrough before it’s stolen?
AI vs the Tea MonopolyA cold snap ruins Mistvale Village’s spring tea; a monopoly buyer offers $10 per jin. Chase Lynn bets his 50,000 savings on AI microclimate control and Drone frost defense, forging Pre-Qingming Snow Buds. When the buyer locks cold-chain transport, Chase Lynn and New Farmer fly tea over mountains—and risk all on a live-stream blind tasting.
He Stole My Formula, I Took His Empire!Ray Zhao wants his due from the shrimp farm he made profitable. His breeding method brings his cousin Felix 2 million a year, and Felix hands him a bonus of 30 thousand and puts him out. Felix steals the recipe for the Special Formula Feed and takes it that this is all he needed.
Ray has 5,000 yuan that had been put aside as wedding money, and one apprentice who stays with him. With that he rents Deadwater Cove, a stretch of stagnant water that stinks and that nobody else will take. A spring runs underneath it. He builds a food chain around that water and raises a shrimp of the highest grade in it.
Felix, meanwhile, raises the feed dose and his ponds collapse. He is looking at 8 million in compensation. Ray shows up with his shrimp at that point, makes 4 million on the batch, and Felix's business goes up for auction.
Crushing The Village BullyA deadly drought cracks the fields of Lijia Village, yet Wang Daqiang blocks its only water source to raise crabs. As desperate residents plead and village elders fail to stop him, Li Jiannong returns home. He confronts the bully to restore the water and establish new rules for a community pushed to the brink.
The Fishery's SecretAfter being framed and exiled by his jealous sworn brothers, fishing king Zhao Feng discovers his late father's secret fishery, rebuilds with honesty and skill, uncovers the murder truth, and returns to take back his empire while transforming his village into a modern fishing powerhouse.
Three Nights to Save the FilmBetrayed and mocked over $30, Chase Lynn is abandoned by Kian Shaw and even his fiancée. He retreats to the projection booth and restores a rare film by hand, stunning the crowd and moving old veterans to tears. But when Kian Shaw is jailed for illegal screenings, will Chase Lynn’s People's Cinema rise, or be shut down next?
They Thought I’d Go BrokeThey try to squeeze Mason Chandler at harvest time, tripling the buyback price and even charging “grass fees” for free-range chickens. He rips up every contract on the spot. The village expects him to go broke, unaware his massive automated base in Neighboring County is already shipping. But his real trump card is already in motion.
The Lobster TrapA veteran runs a night stall. His chef serves rotten food and tries to blackmail him. After being fired, the chef steals a "secret recipe" to livestream, it's military-grade chili extract. He eats it on camera, ends up hospitalized, then arrested. The veteran never needed a recipe. He needed a trap.
I Bet My Wedding Fund on a Pig FarmThey laughed when he spent his future on a high-tech pig farm. But when disaster strikes and every other farm fails, his “crazy” idea becomes the miracle that saves them all. Now, the man they mocked is about to change the fate of an entire village.
Framed by My Brother’s FamilyTyler Wood and his wife tear out the Wild Senna that Tyler's older brother Zach planted around North Ridge Village, and they stir up the villagers against him, telling them Zach is acting out of jealousy. Zach farms mushrooms in the village. He had worked out from experience that a python was going to come through, and the Wild Senna was his barrier against it, put in to protect the villagers and Tyler, who had just come back home to start a business. With the barrier gone and the village against him, Zach is left on his own. Then the python comes, and Tyler's family, who ignored the warning, take heavy losses. They put the blame for it on Zach and set about framing him. Zach had put evidence aside in advance against his brother and sister-in-law.
Mother's Last GiftLi Jianguo wants his family to go on living the plain and decent way it always has. His mother, Zhao Guihua, has Alzheimer's and her memory is going a piece at a time. Then the 20,000 yuan she saved over her whole life, the money she called her coffin money, goes missing. The family was poor before this. Now nobody in the family compound trusts anyone else. Relatives start dropping in to ask after her health and all of them are really asking about the money. As the eldest son, Jianguo is the one everyone presses to explain, and he answers with one line, "This family lives decently." He calms the others down and turns the old house over corner by corner.
In a rusted tin he finds letters his mother wrote to his father when they were young, a yellowed land contract, and a set of handwritten notes on growing sugar-heart apples, a plan she had put together for the family before the illness. He gets the whole village to plant apples by the notes. The crop comes in and the sugar-heart apples sell for a high price. His mother meanwhile gets worse, and one day she is gone from the house. The family goes out looking for her.
My Son Left Me, The Mountains StayedBetrayed by his own son, who pays for his mother-in-law's luxury care but not his own dying mother's, Dawson Lynn is pushed to the edge. He rejects all charity, vowing to save his wife himself. To do so, he must return to the treacherous mountains of his past. But will his desperate gamble cost him his life?
Betraying The Village ChiefXiao Yuanshan was chief of Huanglong Village and built its flood dam. The work cost him a leg and his son, and the villagers gave him nothing back for it. A storm moves in and the dam is close to giving way. The Dragon God, who owes a debt to the Xiao family from generations back, appears, pushes the water back, and heals the crippled leg.
The villagers respond by stealing the sow the Xiao household lives on and killing it as an offering to the god. They take the house and everything in it. Xiao Yuanshan gathers up his grandson and goes up the mountain. Three days after they leave, the flood comes down on the village and the dam gives way while the two of them are still up there.
The Ungrateful VillageHe spent his life savings building a dam to protect his hometown. Instead of thanking him, his greedy relatives use a fake AI app as an excuse to refuse paying maintenance fees. They even violently smash the dam controls despite his warnings! When a massive flash flood finally strikes, the ungrateful villagers will pay the ultimate price.
My Captor, My Kind HusbandA young girl sold by her father is forced into an arranged mountain village marriage. She repeatedly flees and resists captivity, yet gradually softens toward her honest, kind husband who protects her at all costs. Their tense reconciliation, alongside neighboring youths’ romances, unfolds a touching story of fate, freedom and love.
He Is Village Tyrant's NightmareA billionaire returns to his village and discovers his donations have been stolen by a local tyrant. He investigates in secret, faces mockery, and reveals his identity to dismantle corruption. A battle for the village's future begins. He didn't come to donate. He came to dethrone.
OMG, What's In That Truck?Ben and Yumi are a long-haul trucking couple. They live and work out of their truck.
But Yumi finds Ben acting strange. He won't let her near the back, making her suspicious. She checks but finds nothing, and Ben still sneaks to the trunk even at home, wearing out her patience.
So what's in that trunk? Will their marriage still survive?
They Call Me Useless, Watch This!In the 1990s, the male lead is born very smart, but he pretends to be slow. He gives up his chance to go to school so his brother and sister can study. He stays home to help his parents run the pig farm. One day, he decides to go to the city to visit his brother and sister. But when he finds them, they look down on him with disgust...