Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
Pring is a stunningly beautiful woman with a heart as cold as stone. Deprived of a normal family life growing up, she longs for perfect love and a complete family—ideals she chases relentlessly. Driven by ambition and desperation, she's willing to do whatever it takes to turn her fantasy into reality. Along the way, she marries six times, with each relationship ending in tragedy.
After being pulled into the world of his own teahouse business game, modern-day developer Lin Yuhao awakens as Wei Xiaotang, the only daughter of a powerful merchant family. Thrust into an arranged marriage with Li Zixuan, heir to a rival teahouse, the two start off as reluctant partners. But as they face challenges together in a world of commerce and tradition, their bond deepens.
Lu Zhaozhao transmigrates into a book as a cannon fodder supporting character. During a critical choice between two fiancés, she abandons the male lead and selects the big villain Jiang Yanqing, unaware that he has already been reborn. The two collaborate to break free from their parasitic families. After building their ideal life, they discover Jiang Yanqing is actually a lost prince from the royal family.
A seemingly ordinary but collapsing town becomes a chessboard for various powers, where the humble youth Chen Ping’an uses his pure heart and ultimate sword mastery to defy destiny and carve a path to survival amid the falling heavens.
Lord Qingyang's son, Li Si, devised a plan to infiltrate the Imperial Detective Division to uncover the truth behind the death of the Fourth Prince. There, he met and joined forces with Bai Zhenzhu, the finest female forensic expert in the land; and Meng Rui, a ghost-catcher renowned for his martial prowess but burdened with a deep-seated vendetta. Together, they formed the Divine Detectives. With seamless teamwork and unwavering determination, this trio ventured through perilous challenges, solving eight enigmatic and bizarre cases.
A mysterious outlaw known as the “Fire Demon” steals from the rich to aid the poor, while a noble heir investigates a string of dangerous crimes. One is a government agent, the other a fugitive, but both hide identities linked by a shocking past. As their paths collide, truth, justice, and fate intertwine.
Jiang Chuanyu, a rich family's daughter, runs away from home in a fit of rage. Determined to impress her father and mother, Jiang secretly hires Shi Tianqing, the world's number one swordsman, to protect her. The two meet Jiang Chuanyu's fiance, Lin Yuqian. The three of them work together to earn money. However, a crisis also follows.
A talented young chef enters a game to fix its broken code, only to discover that the charming city lord is the source of the glitch. To stabilize the game, she must come up with clever ways to poison him a hundred times. However, as their playful battles evolve, real feelings start to blossom, leaving her torn between her mission and her heart. What choice will she ultimately make?
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong (1851 - 1895), the first official wife of King Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon dynasty. She was killed on October 8, 1895 by Japanese assassins.
Wang Cuihua, an ordinary office worker, is thrust into a novel as a doomed villainess. To change her fate, she teams up with a tyrant, who is also a fellow transmigrator. Together, they fight to survive against the story’s original heroine and scheming male lead.
Justice Bao (新包青天), a 1995–1996 series produced by ATV and starring Jin Chao-chun as Bao Zheng, with 25 cases totaling 160 episodes.
Yi Tianxing swore to rescue his master, Sun Wukong, who had been imprisoned beneath a mountain for five centuries. After enduring countless hardships, he finally cultivated into an immortal himself and journeyed to the Six Divine Shrines to petition for a royal pardon decree. Yet, he only then discovered that his master's imprisonment had been part of a grand, ancient conspiracy orchestrated by Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism from the very beginning. Determined, Yi Tianxing resolved to overturn fate itself and to dismantle the unjust "Celestial Order."
Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four German officers. The fictional island of St. Gregory serves as a stand-in for the real-life islands Jersey and Guernsey, and the story is compiled from the events on both islands. Produced by Granada Television in Manchester, Island at War had an estimated budget of £9,000,000 and was filmed on location in the Isle of Man from August 2003 to October 2003. When the series was shown in the UK, it appeared in six 70-minute episodes.
In a war-torn era, undertaker’s heir Su Lili hides her royal blood while caught between a vanished lover, an ambitious prince, and a dangerous struggle for love, power, and peace.
Teng Yuyi was killed by a treacherous person, but when she woke up, she found herself transported back to the year before her death. Her cousin was still alive, her grandfather was in good health, and she unexpectedly acquired the "Xiaoya Sword," a divine blade capable of slaying demons and monsters. With this magical sword by her side, Teng Yuyi set out on a journey to uncover the truth behind her previous death. During her quest, a chance encounter led to a clash with the heir of Prince Cheng. Though their first meeting was fraught with conflict, they gradually developed an unlikely bond, launching into a chaotic yet collaborative journey to hunt demons side by side.
The female lead, Shen Yuling, transmigrates into an ancient romance novel where the original host dies a tragic death after another time-traveler steals her luck. To avoid the fate of dying along with her unborn child and witnessing her family's destruction, she takes the initiative to court Quan Minghe, a cold-blooded emperor who is also her husband's uncle. While navigating relationships with figures like County Prince Feng Moheng, she manipulates key power players, ultimately achieving revenge and protecting her family.