Underdog Rise Short Dramas
2,346 short dramas in Underdog Rise — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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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.
They Tried to Steal My Solar TechAfter making them rich overnight, Finn Lynn is surrounded by knife-wielding villagers, who demand his tech and drive him out. When the Cooperative’s Chairman tries to steal the solar plant, Finn wordlessly locks the core system, pulls the control chip, and walks away. With the core locked and the chip gone, can Finn make it out alive?
Spend on Her, Get Richer 1Humiliated in public, broke student Chase Shaw is bound to a bizarre system: a $100-trillion fortune he can spend only on system-bound girls. Forced to spend big, he rockets into a viral heartthrob and earns massive cashback. But as celebrities and tycoons swarm in, the system’s hidden final mission begins.
The Inferno Warlord's Secret Healer BrideYears ago, a healer saved a cursed war commander and secretly gave birth to his twins, only to be cast out and forced to raise them alone. When fate reunites them, he falls for her again. As dark magic, family betrayal, and hidden truths emerge, can their broken family finally reunite?
The Wild Revenge of the True HeiressLyra, true Blackwell heiress, was framed by adopted Celestine and abandoned in jungle. Five years later, she returns with power to communicate with animals. She exposes all plots, takes back group control, and gains a fulfilling life with sincere tycoon Silas.
Fake Angel's Final FallBillionaire founder Sarah hides her wealth for a quiet wedding, only to be brutally humiliated, shot and drowned by her son’s greedy fiancée Hailey. Surviving miraculously, she infiltrates the engagement gala as a waitress, exposing Hailey’s fake pregnancy, embezzlement and attempted murder to the elite, claiming her triumphant comeback.
Betrayed Mechanic, Became a LegendBetrayed by his cousin and left with almost nothing, a skilled mechanic starts over from scratch. With unmatched skills and honest service, he slowly builds a thriving repair shop. But as his success grows, hidden rivals and industry traps threaten everything he has worked for.
Heart Glow | Mindread Girl Fights Mine GreedAfter the holy war, nobles hoard blast-ore and crush miners. Ella exposes the truth: the ore and deadly mist stem from Valenna's immortality experiments, feeding on mining disasters. Elders embrace darkness—Lex falls to corruption. Despite slander and despair, Ella leads miners to overthrow tyranny, rewrite the law, and save themselves. Unity conquers. No more sacrifice. Only light they fought for.
Stellar Phoenix: My Fledgling Burns the Galaxyn 2789, F-ranked bastard heiress Elara is humiliated at her family's binding ceremony but hatches Pyra, a supposedly extinct phoenix, from an abandoned pod and activates a combat-driven Stellar Resonance System. Entering the lowest-ranked Seventh Starfleet Academy, she rises through tournaments while Pyra evolves from a timid fledgling into a starfire phoenix. Her sister Seraphina keeps sabotaging her, and Dark Star commander Dorian seeks to seize the phoenix.
Dumped for Being Poor, I Built a Crayfish EmpireDumped by his fiancée for being broke, he is forced to take a worthless wasteland to repay his debts. Everyone thinks he has lost everything, but the abandoned land hides a fortune waiting to be uncovered. With a young expert’s help, he turns it into a thriving business and makes everyone who looked down on him regret it.
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.
From a Broken Boat to a Sea KingGus Shaw has gambling debts, and the arrangement he makes to clear them is to sell his daughter. His son Hanson wakes up in 1983 on the day it is being settled, with the memory of a life he has already been through once.
Hanson cuts his father off and takes his mother and sister out of the house. What is left to them is the grandfather's old fishing boat, so he takes it out. He is good at the work and brings in sharks and bluefin tuna, and the money comes in fast.
Toni Jensen is back in the fishing village from studying abroad. She and Hanson start seeing each other, and her family, which has money, will not have it. Gus keeps coming at his son through all of this, and at one point he puts a hole in the boat.
Kicked Out Farmer, Secret Spirit SpringCast out by his son, Wade Lee discovers a magical spring whose water revitalizes health and crops. He founds a Co-op with Finn Young, but his success attracts sabotage from rivals and greed from his own family. With his secret exposed, who will try to steal the spring?
Laid Off by AI, I Took Back the MineAfter risking his life to save others in a collapse, Chase Gould is fired and humiliated as his boss replaces him with AI. He borrows money to buy a beat-up Digger and fights back with pure skill, taking on AI Mech and ruthless tycoons to become mine king. But can his skill beat AI Mech and the bosses behind it?
Tearing Down Your Elite ThroneGentle Alice, pregnant and betrayed by fiancé Julian, is reduced to a servant at his wedding to heiress Chloe. Humiliated but enduring for her baby, she hides her true identity, the lost heir to a global luxury empire. When her grandmother arrives to destroy Julian's family, Alice breaks her silence, walks away, and claims her rightful throne!
My Royal Guard Is Secretly a Dragon Knight!Kael the Dragon Knight trained at Dragon’s Cliff from childhood. Seeking the truth of his origins, he travelled to Ironwood Hold bearing a dragon‑pattern token. There he saved Evelyn, the duke’s daughter, from assassins and was hired as her personal bodyguard. Drawing upon his dragon power, he defeated the power‑hungry Blackwood father and son, and subdued the barbarian tribes to secure the domain. The foreign realm of Ross pressed for a forced marriage under the guise of an alliance and issued a trial‑by‑combat. Kael drew forth his Dragon‑Flame Holy Sword to meet the challenge. In truth, Kael was the prince who had vanished twenty years ago. Factions maneuvered in the shadows, and a storm destined to sweep across the kingdom was quietly brewing.
Binding DeceptionMark keeps his wife in a marriage with no affection in it and a fair amount of violence. Her family's debts mean Evelyn cannot divorce him, and the terms she is given for her freedom are that she produce an heir first. Ruth is around too, making things worse. One bad night at a bar, Evelyn takes Matthew for a paid escort and signs an expensive contract with him to be her lover. He is the heir to a very wealthy family. He looks after her and stands with her against Mark and Ruth, and the two of them fall in love. His real identity, an engagement arranged for him by his family, and the debts keep separating them. There are schemes against her and trouble with the pregnancy, and she gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
A Stepmother in the Cinderella LegendBella is a stage actress. She wakes up in the body of Selena, Cinderella's stepmother, and knows the story ends with Selena beheaded. To avoid that she makes a deal with the Fairy Godmother, which requires her to treat her stepdaughter well. She raises her own two daughters alongside Cinderella, moving them from a country cottage to the earl's manor, and the girls go from being bullied to standing on their own. Selena breaks the rules the tale set for her and lets all four of them go after what they want. Her own new life is at the Rose Theatre.
Prey RulesMara is betrayed, sold into a vampire ritual, and used as a blood source... until she awakens the power of the legendary Crimson Queen. With four ancient vampires by her side, she challenges Alaric's control, uncovers her bloodline, and must choose between becoming a feared ruler or breaking the system forever.
Her & Her: The Revenge BridesTwo women were betrayed by the same man, and they start out as rivals with a grudge against each other. That changes when they find out a wealthy family is behind a money-laundering ring. They join forces to expose it and to get their revenge. Each clue they turn up brings a threat or a trap, and old wounds are torn open along the way. In the middle of the danger, a love grows between the two of them that neither had planned on. The person behind the ring eventually comes after them directly.
THE GODFATHER'S SECRET QUEENFallen mafia heiress Aria enters a contract marriage to avenge her ruined family and father’s death. Hiding her identity as elite dark-web financial architect Ghost, she endures tests, recovers her fortune, and purges traitors. With Luca’s protection, she defeats the cruel Kronos organization, restoring her legacy and turning her fake marriage into true love and power.
My Kid Traded Us Out of FamineA famine year in the old countryside. Susie is five, and her family is running out of food. She comes across a Mystic Measure that lets her cross into the modern world and back.
In the modern world she finds that plants treated as weeds where she lives, among them notoginseng and water celery, sell as medicine and food. She digs them, carries them across, and sells them at market, bringing back rice, flour and oil. At the market she meets Mr. Cole, who runs a herb shop and deals with her fairly.
Once the family is fed she takes her relatives and then the rest of the village up the mountain to dig herbs, which they trade for grain. She also brings back high-yield seed and farming methods from the modern side and puts them to use on the village's dry land.
He Snipped for My Fake SisterScarlett has been married to Lucas for eight years, and for most of that time he has neglected her. She spends months preparing to have a baby with him, and on their eighth anniversary she is finally ready. That same evening Madison calls to say her child is sick. Lucas shoves Scarlett aside, storms out of the house and calls her cold and heartless on the way. Scarlett is left alone with the roses broken on the floor, and she makes a final decision.
After My Husband Cheated, I Keep a Billionaire BoyfriendThe man Celeste lives with for three years has no money and treats her gently. He is also Sinclair, the most powerful man in the city, and she does not know it. Celeste is a model, and she met him after walking in on her husband with her best friend. She asked her husband for a divorce and he laughed at her, so she took a penniless man home instead and stayed with him.
Three years on, the husband's fortune has gone, and he comes back asking her to help him save what is left of his empire. She leaves Sinclair, goes back to her husband, and plays the faithful wife while she works out how to ruin him. At a gala Sinclair hosts, with the whole city watching, he asks her whether their breakup still stands. Her husband refuses to let her go. The woman he cheated with has not given up on him either. Sinclair keeps taking Celeste's side, but he also has plans of his own that he has kept from her.
My Best Friend’s Mom Kissed Me in the Fitting RoomAt a top fashion academy's graduation show, Sienna is framed by a fake video, threatening her career and copyrights. Fashion mogul Vivienne steps in, shelters her in a private couture workshop, and helps expose the industry's exploitation of young creators. As they fight corporate conspiracies, they grow closer...
The Alpha's Contract BrideThe wolf clan lives behind a protective barrier that has been thinning for years, and the barrier only wakes for a human bride. That is why Kaine, the clan Alpha, takes a wife by contract for one year.
Ivy's father owes a great deal of money. The marriage clears the debt, and she moves into the castle in the forest not knowing what her presence is for. She finds out after she arrives. The wolf nobles will not have her at their table and say so where she can hear it. Kaine is cold with her in public and keeps her out of trouble in private, and she stops watching him for a knife.
During a lunar eclipse, Lucas raises a revolt. Ivy uses her own bloodline to finish the barrier ritual and names the people behind the plot. The year ends soon after that, and Kaine tears up the contract.
Widow at the Night MarketBullied at the Night Market, Wendy Lynn must keep her sick Mother-in-law and young daughter alive. When ruthless vendor Clara Chang tries to drive her out, Wendy Lynn fights back and turns a tiny stall into a hit shop. Shaw stays by her side even after she rejects him, but just as she’s about to turn things around, Clara Chang makes her next move.
My 20-Year Marriage Was Fake?A routine records check reveals that Yara Stone's twenty-year marriage never legally existed. Winston Perry is actually married to Susie Lee, and even Yara's grown son Zane helped preserve the lie. Yara accepts Louis's overseas assignment, rises to lead Lumin Capital abroad, and returns as the executive acquiring Susie's company—ready to expose the family's fraud at their own banquet.
After I Left, I Glowed Up!On surgery day, Summer Lynn catches Chance Lowe with Sherry Lynn and collapses. Sherry falsifies the records, claims the life-saving donor credit, takes her husband and children, and drains her fortune. Summer returns as a top jewelry designer, exposes Lily Lowe’s copied designs in Master Class, and corners them. Payback or a clean break?
I Chose the Traitor in Cell SevenMurdered by her uncle, Elena wakes again on her twenty-third birthday with advance knowledge of the betrayal. To expose the truth about her parents' deaths and recover control of her family, she chooses an ally no one else would trust: Rafael, the imprisoned traitor in Cell Seven. Their dangerous partnership gives her a second chance at revenge.
I Paid for Their Wedding... Then I Canceled It!On Howard Lynn’s wedding day, Ian Shaw rushes to mourn Ian Shaw's Grandpa, but Sherry Lynn’s family blocks him and destroys the keepsakes. Will the Lynns pay up?
My Dog Found the Stolen Wages!A rescued golden retriever leads Lin Ye toward treasures and away from danger after his boss steals the construction crew's pay. Fubao's abilities even expose his girlfriend's betrayal, but Lin Ye spends his new resources saving the dog's life in return. With Shen Ya, he pursues the ledger needed to reclaim the workers' wages.
One Night with My Ex's GodfatherAva works as a forensic accountant. The night she finds out that her fiancé Ryan and his friends are tangled up in a betrayal, she goes to bed with a stranger, an older man. The next day she finds out who he is. Lucian is Ryan's adoptive father and the head of Black Crown, a crime organization.
Ryan humiliates Ava in front of everyone. Lucian takes her side and freezes his son's rights to the family inheritance. Ava then goes into partnership with Lucian to look into her own father's disappearance, which she has come to suspect was a murder, and into 300 million dollars of dirty money. Lucian and Ryan are meanwhile fighting each other for control, and Ava's feelings for Lucian grow while she works beside him. The search turns on three financial keys. Ava and Lucian use them to push the traitors into leaving evidence against themselves.
One Gem, Three Days to LiveWhat the geology student wanted, the first time through, was for his roommate to throw away the green stone he had picked up. The roommate called it an emerald. It was uranium mica, and it was giving off enough radiation to kill. The student said so, and the others put him out of the tent, and he froze to death in the open.
He wakes up again shortly before graduation, with the stone about to be found. This time he wants nothing to do with it, and he says nothing and watches. The roommate and the friends around him will not give the stone up, and over the days that follow their hair falls out, they cough up blood, and their skin breaks into sores. They accuse the student of conspiring with the professor and the nuclear and chemical defense unit to take the stone from them. He has been recording everything from the start. A laboratory report confirms the dose is lethal and gives them three days. On graduation day the roommate seizes him and holds him as a hostage, meaning to die and take the student with him.
The Beggar Queen ls the Ancient GodAn abandoned orphan awakens an abyssal bloodline and fights from a slave pit through warlords, knights, and frost marshals. Allied with mortals, she assaults heaven itself and learns that its gods stole the power of creation. She is the true Genesis God, returning to reclaim what the impostors used to rule.
Fishing for the PantheonSilas commands a war god, and he uses it to collect taxes by force, raid other islands and strip them. He is one of eight billion people trapped in a sea of fallen gods, where each person gets an island of about twelve square metres and a fishing rod, and he has worked out that the fastest way up is to take what other people have pulled from the water.
Ronan is a former combat engineer. He wakes a talent that lets him copy one object a day, and the first thing he fishes out is Thor, which gives him power and the beginnings of infrastructure. After that come Aphrodite, Heracles, Athena and Odin, and around them he builds farming, trade, medicine and a defence force. Silas attacks Ronan's pantheon repeatedly, and every assault ends with resources changing hands in Ronan's favour. Using tactics, illusions and the gods themselves, Ronan pushes toward the core islands and the remains of the titans.
HIS SPORES BENEATH HER SKINMara sells morel flowers and is in the shower when Lucian's blue and gold spores spread over her, and moonlight mushrooms open on her skin. Lucian is the mushroom king who rules underground from the Root Palace, and the mark is the royal one. The whole city can smell it and knows what it means. Her older sister Celeste spent seven years training to become queen, and she wants the spores off Mara.
Strangers pile on Mara online. She scrubs at the mushrooms and cuts the threads of them away, and every injury she gives herself lands on Lucian down in the Root Palace. The royal matriarch tries to break the link between them with silver veils that shut out light and with salt rain that kills the roots. Mara finds a warm gold light of her own, makes peace with Celeste, and the two of them go to bring down the Clean Root Tower. Then she goes to the Root Palace to be loved as an equal.
The Pit Wall BastardIn Formula Apex, a team's founder loses the right to their own name on the entry if someone else pays for the car. Soren was the fastest teenage driver in the series and a strategist, and his brother Cassian took all of it. In a rain race Soren called Cassian's forced pit stop and handed him the win, and he was paid 20,000 for it and pushed out.
He used that money to buy the car Cassian had crashed and started the Black Wall team under a bridge. He signed Mika, a top driver the elite teams had dropped, and Rhea, a safety leader who had been banned. They go up against the Platinum team, its money and its AI system, through smear campaigns and sabotage. At the next race in the rain, Soren puts Mika on the outside line to take Cassian.
Six Thousand Years To Save His FamilyHe vanished six months and lived six thousand years. He returns from a war among immortals to find his wife and daughter broken by relatives. His arrival stops a beating mid-blow. His wife rebuilds her dream and walks an international runway with ancient silk revived. Can the family he left behind ever heal?
The Expired Fruit KingAt 63, Martin is deemed "expired" by AI and dumped in a compost zone. Armed with an obsolete price gun, he repairs discarded goods and restores their lifespan. With Pip, a hidden royal heir, he builds a market for outcasts, exposes the council's life-stealing scheme, and leads a rebellion to end the "expired" system.
UpgradeAt fifty-eight, betrayed janitor Jackson inherits a scanner that restores the value of anything dismissed as worthless. Working with a secretive heiress, he applies that gift to corporate corruption and a citywide energy plot, becoming a defender of the people everyone overlooks.
Sewing My Way BackIn 1985, a talented seamstress loses everything after being falsely accused and leaving her marriage behind. Returning home with only her sewing machine, she starts over in an abandoned workshop and meets a wounded veteran. As they heal each other’s scars, she turns her craft into a thriving business and rebuilds the life she thought she lost.
Thorned Contract: The Heiress Strikes BackEvelyn, an oil heiress, is betrayed by her fiancé and stepsister and left for dead in the snow. Billionaire Astrid offers her a marriage contract tied to a $30 billion trust. Together, they uncover family secrets, battle a pharma empire, and reclaim Evelyn's inheritance. As their fake marriage turns real, they find love and redemption.
My Boss Is a Luck Black HoleNew Aurora Tech employee Kevin discovers that CEO Aurelia's royal watch drains luck from people and converts their disasters into company profit. Pursuing the device's history puts him against a ruthless executive and draws him closer to Aurelia. Together they choose to expose the business's hidden cost, destroy the watch, and begin a life outside its curse.
KO,The MVP Heriess Is BackThree years after being betrayed by her adopted sister Violet, Claire gets a second chance. This time, she cuts ties with her family, rises to fame as esports star Silver Fox, and enters a top university. As Violet's schemes unravel, Claire breaks free from her brothers and finds a new life with campus doctor Adrian.
The Evil God Is My LackeyAfter transmigrating into a novel as a doomed villain, Noah buys the awakened evil god Oz as his servant to escape his fate. Though he pretends to be cruel, Oz sees through him and falls in love. Together, they defy fate, defeat their enemies, and find salvation in each other.
Sea’s Blessing Makes Me a BillionaireA hardworking fisherman is cruelly treated by his biased family, who seize all inheritance and leave him nothing. He discovers a hidden sea map and gains ocean treasures, building a booming fishery business. Plagued by jealous relatives’ schemes and sabotage, he ultimately succeeds, wins great honor, and lives a remarkable life.
She Finally Chose HerselfAfter losing herself while saving her son, a devoted mother spends decades sacrificing everything for her family. When fate gives her a second chance, she is reborn with a loving family and the opportunity to chase the dream she once buried. Turning her pain into passion, she rises as a celebrated designer and finally lives the life she always deserved.
The Plus-Size Wife They HumiliatedCurvy wife Marty surprises her husband at a hotel—only to be publicly humiliated by his mistress, stripped of dignity, and abandoned. She hits rock bottom until a mysterious diet sparks her transformation. As stunning Madeline, she returns to make the man who scorned her fall for the woman he destroyed. But Felix, who loved her before the change, sees through her disguise and quietly protects her. Revenge—with a heart watching over her.
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 Beauty System Made My Ex BegAfter being publicly humiliated, Lena gains a system that trades attention for beauty. Returning as Eva, she seeks revenge—only to discover every transformation erases her memories. Now she must choose between permanent perfection and her true self.
Date Me, Make Me RichStruggling designer Finnian discovers that every material demand made by his dates can become his legal asset. But when every easy “yes” begins costing him money, trust, and even his life, he must give up the system and earn love and success for real.
Relic Evolution: Starts With an SSS BeautyHe transmigrates into a torn black silk and must cling to a cold top-tier girl to survive. He absorbs beast essence to evolve and unlock bizarre forms, boosting his host's power. As dark cults and world-ending monsters emerge, the humble relic rises to mythic rank and leads an army to stand against ruin.
I'm the Pearl King!Zhou Sheng is lying in the mud of Waste Bay, where the water is toxic, and the people who see him there call him a cripple and give him three days. He had been at a celebration dinner. His girlfriend of three years walked in on the arm of the friend he had known for twenty years, and she threw the pearl he had proposed with into a sewer drain. The two of them took the dividend, in the tens of millions, that he had earned by putting his life on the line, and then had him kicked out to the bay like a dog.
He wears a black glove. The hand under it can hear the pulse of the mutant clams that live at the bottom of the bay, and those clams carry pearls. He starts working the bottom of the bay for them, poison and all.
Last Dragon AwakensFor ten years, Wuming hides inside the Li family martial academy with the True Dragon power his parents sealed in him before Li Xuanji killed them. Its first awakening saves the academy from attack but shatters Wuming's meridians, while Li Wan'er is carried away. To heal, rescue her, and avenge his parents, he enters the Dragonfall Land in search of dragon bones and a transformation pill before facing Li Xuanji at full strength.
From Orphan To King Of AsgardA markless miner, abandoned by the gods and destined to die, discovers the divine ring Draupnir, which multiplies artifacts. While others master one element, he cultivates all nine, challenging the gods' oppressive rule. He storms Asgard to confront Odin and claim his rightful place as the true Lord of the Rings.
Code BloodMocked as a lowly janitor, a hidden engineering genius is the only one who can stop a catastrophic turbine failure in 72 hours. To save his hospitalized wife, he signs away his future but as the truth about his identity emerges, those who humiliated him realize they've underestimated a legend.