Asian Drama

A normal girl Xia Guo is faced with a difficult dilemma where the two choices will lead her toward two utterly different lives. Would she choose to live a home-sweet-home life with her boyfriend in her hometown or seize the opportunity to forge a successful career in a metropolitan? Which way would make her life "a little less normal"?

(Source: WeTV Singapore)

Episodes: 20

Duration: 45 min.

Guan We, Jing Zhi Qiu and Chen Xuan Xuan - three women with very different personalities encounter problems and contradictions in their respective 30+ lives.

Adapted from the billbili web comic "Ben San Na Nian" (奔三那年) .

Adapted from the story "Mural" (画壁) from the collection “Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio” (聊斋志异) by Pu Song Ling (蒲松龄).

During the period of the Republic of China, the cardamom talented girl Lin Hangjing was imprisoned because of her father’s murder. She went to her father’s friend Xiao Dashuai. Although she was under the fence, she was not humble or overbearing. Xiao Beichen, the overbearing three young master of the Xiao family, had bullied her from the very beginning to gradually attracted by her strong independence. . Dashuai Xiao sent his son to study at the military academy to train his son, and Qi Yiniang promised to match him with Hang Jing when he graduated. After five years of hard work, under the strict training of instructors, Xiao Beichen, who experienced the life and death of the war, grew from a mixed world demon to an iron-blooded soldier. After returning from school, he helped his father clean up the army, and wanted to propose to Lin Hangjing, but unexpectedly learned that she had fallen in love with the passionate young Mu Zizheng. Because of Lin's father's sudden distress, Xiao Beichen and Lin Hangjing agreed to marry to save Lin's father. After marriage, the two experienced all kinds of hardships, from alienation to gradually becoming emotional, but due to misunderstanding, Hang Jing disappeared in a fire. After seven years of life and death, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. Lin Hangjing, who had joined the patriotic organization, returned to Beixincheng and persuaded Xiao Beichen to unite in the resistance against Japan. Muzi became a Japanese eagle dog because of her mother's illness. He repeatedly harmed Xiao Beichen, and Hang Jing followed Xiao Beichen to death. In the end, the two of them resolved their misunderstandings, beacon of truth, and joined hands to protect their homeland.

Ye Ling Shuang and Qi Hai Rui are close friends who grew up together in the grasslands of Ye Bei. Although Ye Ling Shuang was regarded as an outsider of the grasslands and hated by her fellow tribe mates, the seventh princess of Ye Bei, Qi Hai Rui never looked down on her and treated her as her close friend. Ye Ling Shuang decides to pledge her loyalty to the princess for life.

In order to attack and conquer Ye Bei, Emperor Gao of Chao Kingdom designed a plot where he requested for Qi Hai Rui's hand in marriage. He was sure that Qi Hai Rui would reject the marriage proposal, and he would thus use this as an excuse to incite war. In order to save her kingdom and people, Qi Hai Rui decides to commit suicide by jumping down a cliff. Seeing her close friend die and the Ye Bei Kingdom fall apart, Ye Ling Shuang vows to seek revenge and takes on a new identity as Bai Lu to sneak into the palace in an attempt to assassinate Emperor Gao.

Because of a marriage selection, girls from all over the world gather in Xin Chuan. Yin Zheng, one of the six young masters of Xin Chuan, who keeps a low profile, and Li Wei, who just wants to work hard and not get selected, live comfortably in this hometown. They unexpectedly form a relationship, and together, start a new life where they encounter numerous situations and complement each other in overcoming them. As Yin Zheng sets up a government office and goes to court, the two gradually develop similar tastes as their hearts become in sync. They share three meals and four seasons together, and grow up with other brothers and sisters with different personalities and fates, living a warm, daily life as a Xin Chuan family together.

Adapted from the web novel "Qing Chuan Ri Chang" (清穿日常) by Duo Mu Mu Duo (多木木多).

As the only true immortal who possesses pure essence energy, Shang Gu has spent countless lifetimes acting as the head of the four true immortals of the ancient world. The four most powerful beings in existence, these true immortals have become gods in the eyes of the mortals who constantly beseech them for help.

When commoners encounter difficulties, they will pray to the Gods, but what if Gods meet obstacles? It tells the deep love and hardship between two of the four true Gods, Bai Jue and Shang Gu.

Adapted from the novel "Ancient God" (上古) by Xing Ling (星零).

In the turbulent interregnum following the collapse of the Tang dynasty, a young daughter of an herbalist is tricked and sold to a brothel. After a harrowing escape from death, she finds herself in a city of female assassins. Assuming the name Wan Mei, she begins to learn the ropes of being an assassin from Chang An, a young man who acts as her guide and warden.

Over time, Wan Mei and Chang An begin to develop genuine affection for each other. But Cha Luo, the leader of the assassins takes a dislike to Wan Mei and plots against the couple with her cohorts. Wan Mei's personality and gifts cause Gong Zi, the hidden owner of Gui Hua City to take an interest in her. Burdened by his hidden identity, Chang An begins to distance himself from Wan Mei. The protagonists find themselves embroiled in escalating conspiracies involving deadly betrayals and struggles for power.

Li Wei Wei is a 30-year-old successful fashion designer. But a near-drowning makes her lose the memory of the past seven years of her life. In her current life, Wei Wei is surprised to learn that she had broken up with her boyfriend, Chen Yi Du, and is now engaged to a man she does not remember, Qi Cheng. Unable to believe her life choices, Wei Wei tries to find out what caused her to break up with Yi Du while Qi Cheng tries to win back his fiancée’s heart. Which man is Wei Wei’s one true love?

There are two versions available: 38 episodes (TV) // 39 episodes (DVD).

A Detective Housewife is a republican drama with a dash of humor and a heroine as the focus. Li Xiao Lu plays a housewife undergoing a huge change after her husband is mysteriously murdered. Determined to expose the murderer (s), she becomes a cop/detective under the wings of Jia Nai Liang.

Zhang Ying Xue is a single mother with custody of her child and is working as a nurse in a hospital. She meets Liu Jia Cheng, the Dean at the wedding of her sister, Xiao Jun, and Jia Cheng’s younger brother, Jia You. Ying Xue’s former mother-in-law had to return to her grandson and make a big wedding. As a result, Jia Cheng’s mother, Zhu Zhu, was dissatisfied with Ying Xue’s family. How the lives of these four people are affected by their family opposition, financial difficulties and re-appearance of Ying Xue's ex-husband form the crux of the story.

Zhang Ying Xue is a single mother with custody of her child and is working as a nurse in a hospital. She meets Liu Jia Cheng, the Dean at the wedding of her sister, Xiao Jun, and Jia Cheng’s younger brother, Jia You. Ying Xue’s former mother-in-law had to return to her grandson and make a big wedding. As a result, Jia Cheng’s mother, Zhu Zhu, was dissatisfied with Ying Xue’s family. How the lives of these four people are affected by their family opposition, financial difficulties and re-appearance of Ying Xue's ex-husband form the crux of the story.

Sui Tang Yanyi begins in the 580s with the conquest of the Chen dynasty (557-589) by the Sui dynasty under Emperor Wen, and concludes with the return of the Tang dynasty's Emperor Xuanzong to the capital Chang'an in 758 near the end of the An Lushan Rebellion (755-763).

The plot is made up of three main story lines.

The first, with Emperor Yang of Sui and his concubine Zhu Gui'er (朱貴兒) as the central characters, covers the events in the political arena and inner palace in the final years of the Sui dynasty.

The second story line narrates a turbulent period known as the transition from Sui to Tang, when heroes such as Qin Shubao,Shan Xiongxin (單雄信), Cheng Yaojin (程咬金) and Xu Maogong rise up to overthrow the Sui dynasty, followed by stories of how Li Shimin (the future Emperor Taizong of Tang) defeated his rivals and eventually solidified the Tang dynasty's sovereignty over China.

The last story line tells of the romance between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Consort Yang, and the events of the An Lushan Rebellion.