Deliberate Provocation

No Promise to Meet Again

When Lin Xia disappeared with a farewell letter, childhood sweetheart Gu Chen found all contact methods blocked. Five years later, the now-famous designer Gu Chen unexpectedly reunites with Lin Xia, who has changed her name, at a project launch. As the truth unfolds, Lin Xia's terminal diagnosis turns out to be a mistake, revealing shocking family feuds behind their separation. Standing at life's crossroads, will they reconcile or truly part forever this time?

Sweet Memory

Small-town pastry chef Lin Xiaozhi accidentally inherits a secret recipe that can evoke people's deepest memories through desserts. When she uses this magic to heal depressed pianist Lu Yuan, romance blossoms. But as a corporate group covets the recipe, the magic begins fading with each use. Caught between sweet temptation and looming danger, they must choose: preserve tradition or embrace love?

Dad, Forgive Me One More Time

Rebellious youth Li Ming betrayed his father due to gambling addiction, shattering the family. A decade later, bankrupt and drowning in debt, he begs his ailing father for financial help. Kneeling at the deathbed, he sobs: 'Dad, forgive me one more time.' But the father bitterly rejects him. As emotional tensions mount, an anonymous threat reveals a shocking secret—Li Ming’s kidnapping years ago was orchestrated by the father for revenge. Desperate, Li Ming infiltrates the father’s company, unearthing a deeper business conspiracy. With suspenseful twists and a race against time, love clashes with betrayal, testing who deserves final redemption. (Approx. 200 words)

Full Score Mecha Project

On the eve of the college entrance exam, genius high school student Lin Mo accidentally obtains a mysterious perfect-score test paper that secretly contains blueprints for an advanced mecha. To prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, he must balance pretending to be an ordinary student while secretly building the super mecha under the pressure of the countdown to the exam. But a larger conspiracy looms—the origin of the test paper is tied to a technology war that could determine the fate of the nation.

Starting with a Basket of Wild Duck Eggs

Lin Xiaoman, a 996 office worker, quits her job to inherit her grandmother's failing duck farm after the elderly woman is hospitalized. On her first day, she finds a basket of wild duck eggs by the river, seeing them as her "start-up capital" to save the farm. But Gu Heng, the new village forest ranger in camouflage, blocks her door—claiming the eggs belong to the nationally protected spot-billed ducks and demanding their return. Xiaoman bursts into tears: her grandma's surgery fee depends on these eggs! Gu Heng softens and offers a deal: he'll help her revive the duck farm if she helps incubate the eggs and return them to the duck mother. From constant bickering to repairing the duck shed together, chasing away weasels that steal ducks, and even raising money for grandma's surgery, their relationship warms. But just as the wild eggs are about to hatch, the duck farm is suddenly targeted by developers for demolition…

Starry Night, Snowy Skies: Flower Wine for the New Year

On New Year's Eve, Su Wan of the alleyway tavern "Sui Shi" is polishing the third celadon cup—it's the "exclusive ritual" of old customer Uncle Chen: for ten years, every time the stars come out and snow falls, he'd drink three cups of perfectly warmed osmanthus wine and tell a story about "this day last year." But tonight, snowflakes are hitting the window ledge loudly, and Uncle Chen's old cotton shoes haven't crushed the snow prints at the alley entrance. Instead, a young man named Cheng Mo bursts in, wrapped in a dark blue coat, holding a bunch of wintersweet with snow, gasping, "My grandfather asked me to keep the appointment of three cups of wine." Just as he takes a sip of the third cup, Cheng Mo takes out a dog-eared diary: it turns out Uncle Chen passed away last autumn. Afraid Su Wan would be sad, he specifically asked his grandson to come instead—there's a yellowed note in the last page of the diary, written by Su Wan ten years ago: "When the snow stops, let's plant wintersweet at the tavern entrance." Just as the snow from the eave falls into the wine cup, Cheng Mo inserts the wintersweet into a rough ceramic vase and points outside with a smile: "Grandpa said, this year's snow is the reply letter from the wintersweet to you." Su Wan touches the fingerprint on the diary and suddenly sees that on the wintersweet petals, the snow water is reflecting the warm yellow light—turns out, saying farewell to the old isn't losing, but the old customer hiding unsaid words in old wine and new flowers.

Feed You a Bite of Sweetness

Su Xiaotang, a food blogger who lost her sense of taste, lingers outside an unnamed dessert shop in the old alley to regain her perception of sweetness—only to meet Lu Shiyan, the shop owner who holds the key to her taste memory. Rumored to make desserts like art but never sell them, Lu has closed his heart since an accident three years ago, avoiding “sweetness” at all costs. When the sun-like girl who can’t live without sweetness pesters him for “a bite of sweet,” the ice-cold guy hiding a sweet wound finally softens. Can the warmth of a strawberry mousse melt the frost in both their hearts?

Treasure Appraisal: My Global Antiques Hustle

Lin Xiaoman, a young antique appraiser at a domestic museum, receives a half-jade fragment from her dying grandmother, who asks her to retrieve the family’s lost heirloom—the Jade Screen. To fulfill this wish, she quits her stable job and becomes a "global antique hustler." But in a Paris flea market, she clashes with Chen Mo, a Chinese-American富二代 disguised as a street vendor, over a Qing Dynasty snuff bottle. To their shock, the bottle bears her grandmother’s name. Forced to team up—Lin needs Chen’s connections to find the Jade Screen, while Chen needs her expertise to recover his family’s stolen Song Dynasty porcelain—they travel across London’s old bookstores, Tokyo’s black markets, and Cairo’s spice bazaars. Along the way, they outwit forgers and smugglers, and uncover her grandmother’s secret: she once loved a British collector, and the Jade Screen holds their unspoken love and a promise to return cultural relics to their homeland. When they finally locate the Jade Screen in Chen’s family vault, they learn Chen’s grandfather was the collector’s apprentice. Now, the once-hostile partners face a conflict over the Jade Screen’s ownership. But her grandmother’s diary reveals the truth—she never wanted to "take it back," but to "bring it home." Chen, once a playboy, has become a true guardian of relics. Can they overcome family grievances and fulfill the promise of two generations?

2026: Fake Marriage, Real Baby

Su Wan, a furniture designer on the verge of bankruptcy, signs a six-month fake marriage contract with Gu Yanchuan, a surgeon who just lost his love and needs a "wife" to please his mother—all to inherit her grandmother’s furniture factory, which requires her to be married. A rainy night accident leaves her pregnant for real. When Su shows Gu the pregnancy test, his first love suddenly returns, and the hidden condition of the inheritance—"genuine love between the couple"—comes to light. With the fake marriage expiring, unclear feelings, and the ex in the picture, can this "fake act" turn into real love?

Transmigrated to the 90s: The Fierce Northeast Wife Feeds Her Family with Meat

Lin Xiaoman, a modern corporate slave, stayed up late reading a rural novel—only to wake up on a heated kang in patched pants, having transmigrated into Li Zhaodi, the “fierce wife” of a 90s Northeast Chinese village! The original character was despised by her in-laws and mocked by neighbors for her fiery temper, but Lin decides to turn the tables: using her modern food sense, she sells braised dishes and sets up a stall, swapping corn pancakes for glistening braised pork, letting her公婆 gnaw on hot bone-in meat, and making her brother-in-law yell “Sister-in-law is the best!” while sucking marrow. Her cold husband, watching her hold a sauce-braised elbow and smile at him, even blushes at the tips of his ears? The once-poor courtyard, now filled with the smell of meat, is blooming with a sweet life the original novel never wrote about…