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Homecoming GratitudeTen years ago Harvey helped a beggar he came across. Some time later a few of Harvey's men broke the law. Harvey was their boss, and for the sake of his brothers he took the whole charge on himself and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Over those years the beggar rose to become head of the Dragon Group. Harvey serves out his sentence and comes home to collect the money owed to him, meaning to leave the gang life behind. The men he protected refuse him, strip him of everything he had, and humiliate him. Word reaches him that his daughter has been mistreated while he was away. He also finds out that the prison term had been a trap set by the brothers from the start. When they move to get rid of him for good, the former beggar arrives to settle what he owes Harvey.
He Is More Than a DriverColin loves his wife Myra. Yet Myra only cares about her career, so much so that she grows close to her ex for the sake of investment. After all, Colin is just a broke driver. He’s no help to her. But who knows Colin is actually a financial mastermind. He only gave up his empire for love, and not until their divorce does Myra learn this...
My Cultivator Great-Grandma Goes LiveA hundred-year-old cultivator fails her heavenly trial and crashes into her great-grandson's livestream. Her ancient powers become instant meme material, but the unlikely online fame also exposes an old conspiracy, forcing cultivation magic and modern technology into the same fight.
Elderly Cultivation UniversityTen neglected seniors enroll in a university where graduation work includes forging divine swords. Dismissed by their children and doubted by outsiders, they study elixirs, magical artifacts and sword flight. The supposedly absurd course begins producing abilities the world cannot ignore.
Marry Me, Maybe?I attended my aunt's wedding and accidentally entered the wedding venue of the female CEO, Li Yuzhen. I mistook her for my aunt. Seeing the groom running away from the wedding, the scene became chaotic and the guests started fighting with each other. Xu's blood boiled after drinking alcohol and he intended to defend his aunt, but unexpectedly, he ended up marrying his boss.
My ReversalHe was originally an ordinary social worker who was squeezed by working long hours, but fortunately had green plums to accompany him. On his birthday night, he stumbled upon his ex girlfriend having an affair with the CEO of the company, feeling disheartened but receiving a billion dollar text message. It turns out that he is the world's hidden richest man. His sister appeared and revealed the truth, leaving him a black gold card to act low-key.
Turning the TablesAt The Jubilee Club, Cody enters a fierce contest among various factions, battling in the King of Gamblers tournament. At the final round, Cody finds out his opponent was his Master who set up to kill his father. As revenge and disputes escalate, Cody uses his wits to resolve the gambling showdown and lingering feuds.
The Puppet Was the PuppeteerIn a city ruled by hidden alliances, James Harper plays the long game. The world sees a quiet man. The truth? He commands Dragon Court. When the Evans family oversteps, the man in the shadows finally moves—and no one is ready for whats coming...
[Dubbed]Rich Girl's ChallengeCole Bennett's heart beats solely for Lauren, bound by a vow to erase her debts through tireless toil. But when his mom learns of their plight, she takes a tragic step to lighten their burden. Yet Lauren harbors a secret fortune. When the truth is unveiled, Cole's world shatters - for some wounds no gold can heal, and some losses no time can mend.
Back to 1992: This Time I'll Build My EmpireTwenty years of violence and regret reduce Sullivan to an aging criminal barely surviving the city he once chased. Reborn in 1992 with the same defiant spirit, he rejects the path that led to prison and blood. Knowledge of the coming economic boom gives him a chance to build an empire through business instead.
His Lawyer Turned ProsecutorJoanna arrives in court to prosecute the man she was hired to defend. Before his murder and rape trial, violence against her parents and an assault on Joanna caused her to lose her pregnancy. The defense lawyer now seeks prison for her former client and his accomplices.
Sorry Babe, Your 'Luxury' Is Our Everyday LifeAfter three years of online love, Sebastian meets island girl Zephyrine—only to sweep her off on a tour that shatters her pride and opens her eyes to a world far bigger than she imagined!
Love Stories of the PastLin Yaozu never thought that the female boss he cursed and complained about every day would become his father's fiancée, who sold pancakes at a stall. As he wondered how his father managed to get close to this wealthy woman and become a gigolo, his father Lin Dongyang's true identity was revealed layer by layer. And then Lin Yaozu finally realized...he was actually China's richest second generation!
Live on Air: Her Family's RICHER?!Cordelia's supervisor moved to dismiss her on the spot, in the middle of a live sales stream, on grounds of damage to the company's image. A call from her mother had come through on air, and her mother told everyone watching that Cordelia was pregnant out of wedlock. Before the stream was over Leontius, chief executive of the Lu Group and the owner of the company, came on and announced that Cordelia was his wife. Cordelia had taken a job at the real estate group as an intern. She and Leontius had had a short affair some time before, and the child is his. Leontius does not know that her family is the richest in the country, which they keep quiet, and her parents put the two of them through a series of tests of their feelings for each other.
Her Scalpel Killed Her SonZander runs his car into Maximus and leaves him bleeding internally. At the hospital the doctor phones Maximus's mother, Lysandra, again and again to get her signature for surgery.
Lysandra is a surgeon. Maximus is her own son, but years ago she misjudged his father and took it out on the boy, and the son she dotes on is Zander, the child left behind by the man she loved before, whom she adopted. On the phone she says Maximus has not been in any accident and calls him a habitual liar. Maximus hears it and loses the will to live.
Zander goes to the hospital to check whether Maximus is dead and finds a form Maximus signed donating a kidney. He changes it so that all the organs are donated. Lysandra at this point is trying to find a heart for Zander. She is told that a crash victim has donated everything and that the heart matches, and she does the operation herself. The body looks so much like Maximus that she hesitates, but Zander tells her Maximus is off running around with hooligans, and she takes the organs out and the transplant goes ahead. To put her mind at rest she asks a colleague to run a paternity test between her and the donor. When the funeral home calls about collecting Maximus's ashes she still takes it for a trick of his and curses him for it. The DNA report is what finally makes her believe he is dead, and it also shows that Zander had known all along.
She stops supporting Zander. He produces his father Jayden, whom everyone believed dead, to win back her sympathy. Lysandra starts looking into the two of them and finds that the accident and everything after it was a scheme, and that Jayden had taken the heart she removed and sold it. She decides to confront them both at Zander's engagement party.
He Risked Everything to Build Their RoadA small village in the mountains needs its road out rebuilt, and putting a road through without official approval is against the law. Lawrence, a subcontractor for a construction firm in the provincial city, comes home to visit his mother's grave and the villagers ask him to build it. He agrees to pay for the work out of his own pocket.
The work goes badly. Some of the villagers slack off or sabotage it, and others report him to the authorities, saying he is in it for his own gain. He is arrested. A friend brings the official approval papers and the head of Taoyuan Village speaks up for him, and he is cleared.
Once out he thinks about giving up. His friend and the village head talk him into carrying on, and he goes back to building the road to Taoyuan Village. The ground there is difficult and he works through it as a professional, which brings the villagers round. He also finds that a rival contractor has been laying road with substandard materials and makes it public.
Sell Immortality to the RichOnce an ordinary office worker, Lawrence steals time from the living to sell to the rich—until he rises as a god among immortals!
Accidentally Yours, BossSu Yunzhou built a multinational foundation and made his money on Wall Street, where people know him as Su Chen and nobody connects the name to a face. His grandfather dies and he comes home to carry out the old man's wish and marry Qin Wenxue. The bride does not turn up at the wedding, and he becomes the joke of the reception. His brother Su Shaojie needles him about it and his father treats the whole thing as a disgrace.
He decides to make his identity public in three days and to bring the foundation into Jiangcheng. Before that happens he ends up, through a mix-up, sitting an interview at Qin Wenxue's company. She goes on what he shows her in the room and takes him on as director of the project department, past the usual rules.
The Billionaire’s RetreatFor twenty years, billionaire Zhou Xingguo protects his son by hiding in the countryside while secretly directing a global business empire. The quiet life he builds with his clever granddaughter becomes his true reward; once his old enemies are eliminated, he reveals everything to Zhou Fan, hands over the empire, and finally retires.
Midlife Loser Turned CEOHelena wants to move up in her career, and to do it she attaches herself to Howard and drops Theodore, her husband of thirty years. Theodore has been selling grilled skewers on the street. Then his uncle dies, and the will hands him the chairmanship of SH Group, with the businesswoman Lily assigned to help him run it.
Every company that hears SH Group has changed hands scrambles to get close to the new chairman, without knowing who he is. Helena mentions to Theodore that she wants an introduction to SH Group. He thinks about the thirty years in which he never did anything to help her, and gives her two invitations with his own signature on them. She does not take them seriously. At the board meeting she and Howard find out who the new chairman is.
Lily tells Theodore she loves him and he accepts her. When he goes to buy a house for Joyce, the sales staff treat him with contempt, so he buys the entire property group, fires Henry, and sees that Joyce's home surroundings are protected.
The Divorced Heiress Hunts Them AllLilith presents herself as the daughter of the Todo family, and the actual daughter is Lysandra, who for three years has been married to an office worker named Thomas without telling him who she is. Her parents died in an accident, and Thomas was at the scene. She believed he had saved her life, so she married him, stayed away from the Todo family and lived as a full-time housewife, backing him without saying much about it. On their third wedding anniversary Thomas turned on her and joined up with Lilith. Lysandra lost everything and was put out of the house. Frederick, a friend of hers who is the richest man in Japan, came and got her. "I won't let it end like this." She sets about getting back the Todo family's name, its money and the love Lilith took along with them.
They Gave My Score to My TwinWith his exam scores swapped, Lawrence breaks free from his toxic family—and fights his way back to the top!
This Time, I Choose My Real DaughterYvonne, chairwoman of the Lu Group, raised her adopted daughter Larissa and doted on her. Her own daughter Melantha had gone missing as a small child, and she and her husband Logan put all of their affection into Larissa instead. Yvonne watched over her until she turned 18. Even after Melantha was found, Yvonne kept favoring Larissa, and went as far as giving her the right to inherit the Lu Group.
Larissa began to fear that things might change later and set out to kill her. As she lay dying Yvonne saw what Larissa was. She swore that if she had another life she would make up for what she had denied Melantha and show everyone what Larissa was really like.
She opens her eyes three years in the past. This time she decides first that Melantha will inherit the Lu Group, and at her own birthday party she announces it and lays out what Larissa has done, the bullying and the deceit. Logan and his mother take Larissa's side. Larissa is in fact Logan's own daughter, born to a mistress. Yvonne files for divorce from Logan and cuts herself off from the Lu family.
Guess What, Sis? I'm the Go GeniusFrederick, a Go prodigy who appears mentally impaired after a childhood illness, possesses extraordinary talent that awakens when he plays. To save his sister from persecution by their cousin who usurped family power, Frederick's hidden genius is activated during a high-stakes match, allowing him to turn the tide with a single move and resolve the family crisis.
Reset: My Scammer Husband's DownfallTang Zheng puts an investment in front of her husband that does not exist. She lets Chen Muli hear that she is dropping a project worth an enormous amount, tells him she would take it up herself if she had the money, and waits. He sells off the family property to raise the sum and hands it to her.
She has been married to him once before. In that life she worked to keep his family, waited on her mother-in-law and looked after her sister-in-law, and he cheated on her with Liang Wei and used a system that moved every yuan she earned into his own accounts. After he put her out of the house he took the last coin she had begged for. She wakes on the day he first brings Liang Wei home.
Chen Muli's mother has doubts about the project, but he takes it for granted that his wife is as attached to him as she was the first time round. Once the money is in Tang Zheng's hands she gives all of it to a foundation. He knows nothing about that. He is counting on pulling the funds into his own account through the system, and on that basis he has his mother hold a banquet before the payout, where he tells the room that Liang Wei is his wife. Tang Zheng walks into the banquet while the guests are laughing at her and tells him what she did with his money. He checks the account, finds it empty, and starts using the system against her.
Head over Heels for you, MisterAfter the boss went abroad, the new intern suddenly claimed that she was pregnant with the bosss child and called herself the bosss wife. She made harsh rules: employees were not allowed to eat, they had to obey unconditionally, the air conditioner had to be turned off, etc. She threatened to fire them if they disobeyed. The employee couldnt stand it anymore and called the boss, but found out that the boss didnt know this person at all...
Full Marks Forever: The Genius Who Mocked the GaokaoGenius Sebastian activates a system that guarantees a perfect Gaokao score, repeatedly stuns the nation by retaking the exam!
The Antique Genius: Reborn for RevengeThe Qin family wants Septimus married off to the Yin family's wastrel son, and Yin Xiaojiang is willing to cheat to win the family appraisal competition. Septimus is 23 and a prodigy at appraising antiques when he wakes up fifteen years earlier, at a time when his mother is still alive and not yet ill. He enters the Qin family competition, uses appraisal methods he keeps to himself, and wins it, exposing Yin Xiaojiang's cheating and saving his mother. He then meets Lu Huaijin, the head of the appraisers' association, and goes on to compete at the international level, where his winning makes him a national figure. After that he sets about rebuilding the Qin family's standing.
Love Rewound at FiftyYears after being separated in an earthquake and believing each other dead, Diana and Richard reunite through their daughter Nancy!
The Grandmaster's Final RescueAfter his daughter's disappearance and granddaughter's peril, the legendary Ten-Crown King Xander returns from seclusion to save his family!
[Dubbed] Return of the Racing LegendDid the racing god mysteriously disappear? A dark horse appeared on the Bayinbuluke track! Taxi driver Zhang Chi changed his fate with one step on the accelerator! The gambling agreement was signed, and the final battle was in Bayinbuluke! Don't challenge my professionalism with amateurism!
Rebirth of the SculptorRenaton is the real son of the Zanders family and grows up as though he were nobody in it. His parents, Zanders and Harriet, give him insults and neglect and put everything they have into Michael, the boy they adopted. Michael ends up with what should have been Renaton's, including his fiancée.
Renaton is recommended for a place at the Tsinghua Academy of Arts. Michael, jealous, tries to poison him, and Zanders and Harriet swallow the poison by mistake. Zanders learns that Michael did it and decides to put the blame on Renaton anyway. Renaton serves eight years in prison.
He comes out finished with the family and goes back to sculpture, which he was always good at. Rose, a sculptor of international standing, sees the work and gets in touch with him, and he goes to Italy with her. A year later he returns under a new name, known in the sculpture world, and comes back to the house he grew up in. He tells the family what Michael is: the son of Zanders and his mistress, which Harriet never knew, so that the family spent its years on another woman's child while ignoring its own.
Chef Dad Strikes BackDenise's bid for a cooking championship pits her against Yannick, the legendary chef who adopted and trained her. Ten years earlier, his devotion to winning cost him his wife and daughter. Now that daughter returns in search of her family and witnesses the confrontation with the apprentice he raised in their absence.
Exposed Him Live—Oops, He Saved MeSix years ago Wade Quinn borrowed heavily to pay for treatment for his wife, Eve Jane. His mother and his brother used her illness against him, pushing him to sell property and jewellery and then to take on loans at high interest. The debt ruined his health and his eyes and left his mind unsteady. He divorced Eve rather than let her see what he had become, and disappeared from her life entirely.
Eve took it as abandonment. While she was ill, everything the two of them owned together was taken from her.
Six years later she is the richest woman around and comes back in force. On a live broadcast she names Wade Quinn as the man who walked out on her and announces that she is looking for the person who saved her life six years ago. Working back through her own memories, she finds that the man she has hated for six years is the one she has been searching for.
The Father No One ExpectedWang Shuning does not want her father at her engagement. She is about to be engaged to Yuan Dongsen, and Wang Changxuan makes his living collecting scrap, and she is afraid of how that will look. He comes anyway. Nobody at the party knows that the man who collects scrap holds the future of one of the families present in his hands.
When the Yuan family see him there they go out of their way to make things difficult for him. In the middle of this Yuan Lin lets slip that Yuan Dongsen has a mistress, Tian Ruoxi. Tian Ruoxi grew up in a rich household and looks down on both Wang Changxuan and his daughter.
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!
Who Made Her the CEO?!Returning just in time to save SH Group from collapse after Valeria's reckless takeover, Drake leads the company to a successful IPO!
Don't Panic! Your Boss Just Married Dad!A financial tycoon meets true love, and the fake play becomes real, and the sweetness is off the charts! See how the cold and aloof CEO breaks his secluded life with love
Not My Baby, Not My ProblemReborn with full knowledge that Liora and her lover destroyed his family, Brandon designs revenge around the child she carries and abandons her after the birth with crushing debt and no allies. Once Liora's life collapses, he leaves the false relationship behind. Faustina, who remained loyal and loved him throughout, becomes the partner in his new life.
The Poor Mom's Get-Rich PlanSecretly the legendary Ganoderma Queen, Zosephine is humiliated at her grandson's banquet—until she reveals who she really is!
Don't Mess with the Leading LadyPhoebe and Edward are about to be married. Phoebe's parents put up a house valued at 50 million as the wedding present. Edward's family then asks her to sign the house over to him, and follows that with a list of other conditions. Edward defers to his mother and takes his family's side on every one of them. Phoebe breaks off the engagement.
When she comes back she finds the house has been occupied and her name dragged through the mud. Her father tries to speak up for her and is humiliated for it. Edward's sister goes on a livestream to spread lies about her. Another man steps in and lays out what actually happened, and it comes out that Edward's family had set the marriage up to get at her money.
The Wife's RevengeSerena seeks vengeance and justice after discovering her husband's infidelity and his plan to murder her for her fortune, ultimately exposing and defeating him!
Your Choice Killed Your SonEleanor's stepson is caught in an explosion and is in critical condition. The only surgeon who can operate is the boy's father, Eleanor's husband. He believes the injured boy is Eleanor's own son by a previous marriage, refuses to operate, and spends the time with his mistress instead. The woman who caused the explosion is the mistress's mother, and when he reaches the hospital he operates on her. He then presses Eleanor to sign a letter of forgiveness clearing the woman of blame. Only after the signature is on the paper do the two of them learn whose child was on the table. He and his mistress fall out, and Eleanor begins arranging the funeral.
Fired, But Her Skills Hired Her BackVeteran worker Angelina rises from scavenger to industry hero—her forgotten skills now command global respect and a powerful comeback!
A Daughter's Revenge, A Mother's SilenceAfter years of distance, Melissa's discovery of her mother Beatrice's hidden diary uncovers the truth—and sparks a heartfelt journey to healing and reconciliation!
The Runaway GroomHawthorne, heir of the Chen Group, gave up everything for love—until betrayal forces him to reclaim his legacy and leave the liar behind!
Late BloomerAfter enduring years of humiliation from the adoptive family, Theodore surprisingly discovers he is the long-lost heir to the HT Group fortune!
Reset: Game of AbductionReborn after being killed protecting her sister from a trafficker, Savannah uses her knowledge to build a billion-dollar empire!
My Bodyguard Husband Is a BillionaireNathaniel works as a security guard. His wife Liliana is an actress with a following across the country, and her fans are unhappy that she is married to a guard. A television programme about divorce has been adding to the pressure on the couple. Liliana keeps defending her husband. Nathaniel is in fact the richest man in the world, and he took the guard job under a hidden identity so that the two of them could live simply. Malvina, who was in his class at school, still holds a grudge against him from those days and goes out of her way to make his life difficult, and Liliana gets dragged into it.
Nation First, Family NowThere is a confidentiality agreement covering the assignment Abraham was sent on, and it does not let him account for the five years he was gone. He went out of contact with Tang Yubing when the assignment started. She was carrying his daughter at the time and had the child on her own.
Abraham comes back as a top academic and finds the pair of them. He can explain none of it, and he and Tang Yubing are at odds over that. At the ceremony where he takes up his post, mother and daughter are insulted, and after that he sets about protecting them.
A Deal for a Mysterious FuneralThe head of the Chen family, the richest house in the Great Xia, has an incurable illness and could die any day. To keep the family steady after he is gone, he puts out a bounty: find Charon, whatever it costs. Charon is an undertaker. Every family whose dead he has personally seen off has come into great fortune in the generations after. He has drifted in and out of history for a long time, and after five thousand years he has just woken again and reopened the Undertaking Shop he has kept for all of that time. The Chens have heard that he is awake.
The first person through the door is a young woman whose father died because of the corruption of the Chen heir. She tried to get justice, and compensation, and got nowhere. She walks in and asks to draw a lot.
Bodyguard's Contract BrideFormer Dragon Association fighter Augustine now works security while searching for the woman who shared a night with him when he was poisoned. After he rescues eight-year-old Kana, her executive mother offers him a contract marriage and a job protecting the girl. Defending mother and daughter from her brother draws Augustine into the secrets of his old organization—and closer to the woman he has sought all along.
My Dad is a God of CookeryMaster chef Lin Yang hides in Jiangcheng while investigating his sister's death and becomes entangled with Zhao Lingxue as she flees an arranged marriage. Five years after they have daughter Yaoyao, Zhou Kun and Zhao Xingyu threaten the family Lin kept secret. Protecting them forces him to defeat the sixth-ranked culinary master, reveal the killer he has hunted, and reclaim a future with his wife and child.
Second Life, Lost EverythingThe housekeeper Shane's father loved died in an accident, and he decided it was Shane's doing. Shane had driven the woman out of the house not long before, over his objections. He killed his daughter for it with his own hands.
Both of them wake up on the day Shane was going to send the housekeeper away. This time Shane leaves the woman alone. She cuts the father and daughter tie and stays out of his affairs, which leaves the housekeeper free to work on him and take his property piece by piece. He comes to regret it.
Immortal SupremeAetherius opens the heavenly path and becomes invincible. Then a disaster hits him, and he seals his own memories away and spends his days drinking. In that state he happens to save Qin Yan, a daughter of the Qin family, and the two of them marry.
They stay married five years. The Qin family wants to climb, so they promise Qin Yan to another man and press her to go through with it. Aetherius gets his memories back while this is going on, and he means to spend the rest of her life protecting her.
Love Tangled in BetrayalMona, the company's backbone, longs for a child, but her husband, Harrison, hates kids. Just as she thinks he's changed, she learns he got his mistress pregnant! Enraged, she fights back!
I'll Make My Abusive Husband PayBrutal Xander beats his wife Lysandra to spleen bleeding, but god gives Lysandra a second chance to make the scumbag bear the due guilt!
Shadows of a Stolen FutureInjured by foster brother, Ryan Han lost his place at the university. Now he seeks justice and redemption with the help of honest allies!
Web of DeceitSandra lost her parents as a child and was taken in by a woman from the village who kept her alive. She treated the woman as an adoptive mother, and once she was grown she married the woman's eldest son to pay the debt back. She was fond of him.
The older woman fell badly ill. Sandra wanted her taken to the hospital in the city. Her father-in-law refused and held that the only treatment needed was water made from incense ash. The sick woman drank it and got worse on it. Sandra got her into the hospital in the end, and she was pulled through with little time to spare.
The operation had to be paid for, and Sandra had money saved for it. Her husband took the money and handed it to his father, who spent it on rebuilding the ancestral hall in the village, which gave him a claim to stand for chairman of the clan association. Nothing was left for the surgery.
Sandra went to the new hall and called the men of that family what they were, careful about appearances and with no morals under it. Later she broke up a wedding they had set up on a lie and got the bride out of it. They wept over all of it in front of the neighbours, and another move against her was already underway.
Oops, Turns out I am an immortal!The man selling snacks from a cart is James, the Food God of the celestial realm, sent down to the mortal world to serve out a term there. He does not know this about himself. A fox spirit comes to the cart and works it out from the food. What he throws together as scraps for dogs is Nine Cycle Golden Elixir, and the plain soup he ladles out for anyone who asks is made from celestial phoenix.
She says aloud what he is. James still cannot account for himself, and her interest in him keeps pulling him toward the middle of the immortals and their quarrels over power.