Chinese Short Drama Titles And Cast - SceneTrace

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Branches Broken at the Capital Gate short-drama poster

Branches Broken at the Capital Gate

Workaholic Jiang Mingtang falls into a historical romance novel as the long-lost true daughter of a marquis. Framed by the false heiress and publicly abandoned by her fiancé, she activates a reward system that promises a return to modern life. Her pursuit of financial freedom instead draws a guarded heir, a mysterious brother, a chess prodigy, and a calculating crown prince into her orbit.

Breaking the Cocoon short-drama poster

Breaking the Cocoon

After six years in prison to save his mother, Jiang Che leaves confinement only to lose his brother and sister-in-law in a crash. Raising their young daughter with university student Li Chu gives two people trapped by their families a fragile home and a chance to rebuild together.

Brother Mo's Extraordinary Road, Season 7 short-drama poster

Brother Mo's Extraordinary Road, Season 7

After humans recapture Xi City, thirteen guard teams hold the formation points protecting the settlement. Political ambition sparks an internal revolt, the defenses collapse, and the supernatural apocalypse reenters the city, forcing survivors back onto the road.

Chronicle of the Myriad Demons Atlas, Season 12 short-drama poster

Chronicle of the Myriad Demons Atlas, Season 12

Jiang Yuechu, a girl transported into a decaying supernatural Chang'an, hunts demons and paints each defeated creature into the Myriad Demons Atlas to absorb its power. Season twelve expands the ruined Tang capital, forcing her to decide which monsters threaten the city and which reveal the corruption holding it together.

Crackdown: Border Blade short-drama poster

Crackdown: Border Blade

Six years after a mine massacre kills his parents, Chen Zhensheng infiltrates the Haosheng crime group. Working with a childhood friend and police, he navigates rival bosses and internal suspicion to dismantle the organization controlling the border community.

Crimson Dust over the Night Harbor short-drama poster

Crimson Dust over the Night Harbor

Chen Mo returns to Harbor City after years of pretending to be blind in order to recover her mother's inheritance. She approaches heir Zhou Jingxu as part of her revenge, but his willing protection turns their mutual calculation into attachment.

Crossing the Mortal Dust short-drama poster

Crossing the Mortal Dust

Two hundred years after her lover stole her core and sealed her away, demon king Xiaoman escapes seeking revenge. She finds only the fraudulent mystic Yan Qingchen, who looks exactly like the man she hates; their reluctant journey with a mantis spirit uncovers the truth hidden in his bonded sword.

Desire's Dance, Fate's Chance short-drama poster

Desire's Dance, Fate's Chance

Jiang Xu, who lives with bipolar disorder, enters a transactional relationship with Lu Zhi, a debt-burdened campus heartthrob. Years later, after the Jiang family collapses and Jiang Xu is trapped in northern Myanmar, Lu Zhi is the person who claims her at an auction. When Jiang Xu is reborn and tries to end their arrangement before that future can repeat, she discovers that Lu Zhi does not want to let the bond go.

Disaster Apocalypse: Fully Stocked and Unstoppable short-drama poster

Disaster Apocalypse: Fully Stocked and Unstoppable

Betrayed before the disaster, Han Qingxia returns to the days before collapse with a super-lord system. She sells her home, fills an abandoned bunker, grows beside her battle dog Xia Tian, rescues survivors, and builds the Shengxia Alliance so that this time no relative or rival can take her home away.

Displaced War God short-drama poster

Displaced War God

Humanity retreats into the mobile fortress Ark after alien insects invade. Retired hero Kevin once piloted Silver Scar to victory, but returns with a measured compatibility of zero and is framed for treason by Marshal Sam. At the execution platform, the condemned mech activates by itself and restores its bond with him.

Dongguan Storm: From Wild Grass to Business Queen short-drama poster

Dongguan Storm: From Wild Grass to Business Queen

Poor student Jiang He is humiliated at school and refuses to accept the place assigned to her. She leaves campus, heads south, and turns survival work into commercial experience, building herself from an overlooked outsider into a business leader while Liu Yi becomes a decisive ally and rival.

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 20 short-drama poster

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 20

Xiao Chen captures Youzhou, absorbs surrendered troops, and shifts from conquest to rule. He rebuilds the army, investigates corrupt officials, distributes food and seed, and develops local industry while waiting for the fractured realm's next opening.

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 21 short-drama poster

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 21

After becoming commander-in-chief, Xiao Chen faces a fifteen-hundred-thousand-strong coalition moving across the grasslands. He leads heavy cavalry behind enemy lines, attacks its supporting tribes, and turns an apparently isolated defense of Shangjing into a wider counteroffensive.

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 22 short-drama poster

Embers Across the Nine Provinces, Season 22

When a grassland coalition attacks, the Longxiao and Baoxuan armies counter after a rival tribe collapses. Xiao Chen then surrounds the rebel Qiulin force, uncovers its foreign alliance, punishes the leaders, and integrates those who surrender to stabilize the frontier.

Falsely Diagnosed Pregnant, Reborn to Reverse the Past short-drama poster

Falsely Diagnosed Pregnant, Reborn to Reverse the Past

Shen Qingyao returns to the day healer Jiang Ci falsely diagnoses her as pregnant, a scheme that once ruined her and forced a marriage to Xiao Jingyuan. She redirects the diagnostic thread, exposes their affair, and arranges consequences that turn the conspirators against one another.

Fireflies in the Wilderness short-drama poster

Fireflies in the Wilderness

Wan Yu has loved childhood friend Liang Yan for thirteen years and enters a family-arranged marriage while hiding behind another identity. Schemes and separation follow them into a frontier medical-aid mission, where the firefly promise they made as children becomes a final test of class, truth, and devotion.

Fishing Toward Dusk short-drama poster

Fishing Toward Dusk

Retiree Lin Jianguo spends months saving for one modest fishing rod, only to have his wife break it and his son shame him in public. He finally files for divorce, protects the property he earned, and learns that choosing dignity late in life is still choosing it in time.

Forbidden Love: Uncle's Temptation short-drama poster

Forbidden Love: Uncle's Temptation

Sophie Ellis discovers that the fiancé she expected to marry has been seeing other women. After a drunken misunderstanding brings her into Howard Baker's orbit, she breaks the engagement and becomes tied to him instead. Their relationship faces opposition from the family, the consequences of the original betrayal, and the practical pressures of protecting Sophie's career and independence.

From Servant to Talisman Immortal, Season 8 short-drama poster

From Servant to Talisman Immortal, Season 8

Cowherd Xu Changshou learns a six-word breathing art from a destitute Daoist, joins Green Immortal Sect, and is exiled to talisman chores after testing with ten mixed roots. A bloodline jade talisman lets his drawings carry ten times the expected power.

Game Invasion: My SSS Talent Can Slay Gods short-drama poster

Game Invasion: My SSS Talent Can Slay Gods

When a game merges with reality, Zhang Yi is betrayed and killed by the people he trusted. Returned to the eve of the invasion with eight years of knowledge and an SSS talent, he stockpiles gear, takes revenge, and begins building a defensible territory.