Family Short Dramas

Ten Stolen Years: Escaping My Toxic Family
After being framed for a fatal bridge collapse by his ex-wife Celestine and her fiancé Lucien, Adrian Vale served ten years in prison. He hid in a small town to start over, yet Celestine found him and destroyed his peaceful life. Left to die in a river, he was rescued by his childhood friend Yvonne. As the truth emerged, Adrian chose to bury his past and embrace a quiet new life with Yvonne.

Their Regret, Her Redemption
When Vivian's family sends her away to become the "perfect daughter," she returns as something unrecognizable—a girl trained to obey without question, to smile on command, to be a living doll. But perfection has a price. As her family slowly uncovers the horrifying truth behind the academy's walls, they must confront their own guilt before they lose her forever. A gripping drama about what it truly means to be human—and what it costs to come back from being broken.

The Drumstick: A Family Divided
Elite Margaret has long been her family’s ATM. Framed by her sister-in-law and betrayed by her family, she’s ruined by a vicious online smear. Her career ruined, daughter threatened, she stopped staying silent. Armed with law and proof, she launches a ruthless counterattack. But can she break family chains and reclaim her life?

Family Reign
When grassroots official Lu Chenyuan wakes up as the doomed eldest son of a wealthy family in a novel, he knows the script: his family will be destroyed, and his real sister will be cast aside. He decides to rewrite it. His first act is to stop his adopted sister’s scheme against his biological sister, Lu Ruoxi, using evidence instead of bias. He moves her from a storage room to a palace, publicly affirming her place in the family. But the real threat is deeper—an eighteen-year revenge plot involving a swapped child, a secret affair, and a corporate spy slowly bleeding the family dry. To protect Ruoxi and secure the family, Lu Chenyuan plays a double game. He showers Ruoxi with the luxury and recognition she deserves, making her the face of the family’s pride. Simultaneously, he builds his own power, founding a tech company and forming a crucial alliance with a powerful business leader, Mo Qingli. One by one, he cleans house: exposing a decades-long affair, resolving a brother’s crisis, and outmaneuvering greedy relatives. He turns the villains’ financial traps against them. When the mastermind, desperate, kidnaps his mother and sister, Lu Chenyuan faces him alone. In the final moment, the adopted sister who started it all finds redemption in sacrifice. With the conspirators arrested and the family safe, Lu Chenyuan completes his rewrite. He takes control of the corporation, finds love with his ally, and secures a brilliant future for his sister. The family that was meant to fall now stands stronger than ever, under the reign of the one who refused to follow the script.
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[Dubbed] The Family We Chose
Calamity’s life was unfortunate as her name. After her father’s death, her grandma sold her and her mother to Aaron, who’s rumored to be cruel and violent. But Aaron wasn’t the monster. He gave her warmth, taught her strength, and even gave her a new name, Aurora. But just as she found a real home, her supposedly dead biological father came back...

The Man I Saved Burned My Family
After saving a nobleman’s life, Eleanor’s family is slaughtered—her sister tortured and thrown into a corpse pit. Disguised as a midwife, she infiltrates the killer’s estate. She swaps babies, poisons the duke, and drives the duchess to suicide. One by one, she destroys everything they cherish. But her ultimate revenge? Making the duke raise another man’s son as his heir.

Oops, My Inner Voice Saved the Family
On the day she finally retires, Amy wakes up inside a classic novel as the villainess. Her mission is simple yet cruel. Make everyone despise her. Then a system glitch changes everything. Her entire family can hear every single thought in her head, loud and unfiltered. The original plot quickly falls apart. The more she schemes and stirs up trouble, the more her three older brothers adore her. The Lambert family's tragic fate of bankruptcy and death is completely reversed. Even her cold hearted fiancé Ethan, who was supposed to hate her, suddenly becomes impossibly clingy. Watching her mission progress bar flatline at zero, Amy lets out a deep sigh. How is she ever going to get anyone to hate her now?

For Family, I Fight
Comatose for two years, Frank Walsh stands at death's door, only to receive the legacy of the jade pendant! The moment his eyes snap open, he witnesses Ellen Logan, being bullied by a local tyrant. A torrential rage incinerates the stillness of death within him. Clenching the newfound power of his legacy, he drives his fist into the tyrant's face. From that day forth, he walks an extraordinary path—defying fate with healing arts, shielding his kin with iron fists.

Replaced by an AI: My Family's Ultimate Regret。
Replaced by a perfect AI daughter, Nora is sent to a harsh brainwashing institute by her own parents. Three years later, she returns as "Unit 1314"—an emotionless puppet of absolute obedience. When her annoyed brother carelessly commands her to "go die," she steps off a balcony without hesitation. Staring at the hollow shell she has become, her biased family finally breaks down in agonizing regret. But it's too late.

Reborn: My Sister Made Me Take the Billionaire Family
After being reborn, Audrey is forced into the billionaire Sinclair family by her sister. Drawing on her past-life business wisdom, she grows rapidly, saves the rebellious Jasper from a fatal accident, and finally wins the family's true love, embracing a brand-new life.

My Family Built a Magma Apocalypse Cage to Kill Me — Then the End Really Came
Reborn three days before a volcanic heat apocalypse, Nova rushes to warn the biological parents she just found, only to discover they want her gone forever. To protect their beloved adopted daughter, Sable, they follow an online trick and lock Nova inside an underground bunker built as her prison. But Nova plays along, forcing them to reinforce the shelter with heatproof alloys and stock it with three years of supplies. They think they buried the real daughter alive. They never imagined the world would burn, and the cage they built to destroy her would become sanctuary to outlive them all.

My Family Built a Magma Apocalypse Cage to Kill Me — Then the End Really Came
Reborn three days before a volcanic heat apocalypse, Nova rushes to warn the biological parents she just found, only to discover they want her gone forever. To protect their beloved adopted daughter, Sable, they follow an online trick and lock Nova inside an underground bunker built as her prison. But Nova plays along, forcing them to reinforce the shelter with heatproof alloys and stock it with three years of supplies. They think they buried the real daughter alive. They never imagined the world would burn, and the cage they built to destroy her would become sanctuary to outlive them all.
