Gentle Captivity

The Mantis Marriage

Thirty-something Lin Wan is arranged to marry rising business talent Gu Jingchen by her parents. She initially sees it as a perfect balanced match, but soon learns the Gu family plans to annex her family's struggling handmade workshop through the marriage. Worse, her parents have long treated her as a bargaining chip to save their business. Even her long-time secret crush has teamed up with outsiders to seize assets from both families. On the wedding eve, Lin Wan realizes everyone here is a praying mantis eyeing a quick win. She decides to stop being a pawn and take control of her own fate.

1 month ago

My Online 'Post-00s' Boyfriend Is Actually a Millennium-Old Cultivation Master

Lin Xiaoman is disillusioned when she meets Gu Chuan, her online boyfriend who claims to be a "Post-00s", on their first date—until Gu rides a heavy motorcycle to knock away the debt collectors surrounding her and carries 500 million cash from the bank to save her bankrupt company. It turns out Gu is a cultivation master born in 1900, who has kept his teenage look with a face-preserving spell, but is being hunted for the "Immortality Manual" he possesses. When enemies press a knife to Lin's throat and demand the manual, Gu crushes his golden core without hesitation,废掉 his thousand-year cultivation: "The manual can raise the dead, but what’s the point if I lose you?"

2 months ago

The Wei Du Tale: Swallow's Homecoming

Lin Wan, a rural girl from Wei Du, was abandoned by her rich boyfriend Chen Mo for being "poor" and later framed by a colleague, losing her job. Desperate, she returns home and finds her late grandmother's old teahouse on the brink of closure. She grits her teeth to take it over, only to face rising rent, sabotage from competitors, staff resignations, and even Chen Mo showing up with his new girlfriend to sneer, "A toad trying to eat swan meat." But Lin Wan refuses to give in—she integrates Wei Du's intangible cultural heritage, transforming the teahouse into a "traditional + modern" cultural and creative space, with the unexpected help of a low-key architect Gu Yan. When the teahouse becomes an internet-famous spot, Chen Mo, who has gone bankrupt due to his new girlfriend's infidelity, comes back crying for reconciliation. Lin Wan smiles and pulls out the old breakup letter: "This swallow is no longer the village girl you could bully!" In the end, she revives the old teahouse, becomes her own light, and gains a mutual love with Gu Yan.

2 months ago

Cute Kid’s Live Stream to Find Dad: Super Daddy Reports for Duty

In an ancient setting, Su Wanning, the neglected Consort of Prince Jing, was sent to the countryside by Prince Xiao Jingyan shortly after giving birth to their son Xiaotuanzi, accused of “bringing bad luck to her husband”. Unexpectedly, Xiaotuanzi was born with a modern live-stream system. Determined to help his mother “win back Dad”, he sneaked into the capital and started a “Dad-finding live stream” in the busy streets—tugging at the Prince’s sleeve yelling “Daddy buy me candy”, hiding the Prince’s memorials in his small schoolbag, or even live-streaming the Prince’s “cold-faced famous scenes”, making the entire capital roar with laughter. From initially wondering “where did this kid come from”, Xiao Jingyan gradually softened to Xiaotuanzi’s playfulness, uncovering the misunderstanding about Su Wanning and the court conspiracy behind the “bad luck” label. With Xiaotuanzi’s “Dad-finding assault” and the Prince’s “cold facade collapsing”, plus the system’s help, this “ancient live stream to find Dad” is packed with laughs and hidden warmth.

4 months ago

The Little Detective You Can't Mess With

Intern detective Lin Xiaotang is bound to a sarcastic "Detective System" and forced into a "case-solving KPI" journey—fail to find the missing corgi in 24 hours, and she gains ten pounds; expose an antique fraud, and she has to reunite the victim with their daughter lost for a decade. Just as she’s about to give up, she runs into the snarky CEO Gu Jingchen: "You investigate cases worse than my cat chases mice." But when she’s cornered by suspects, Gu storms in with a baton: "No one gets to bully my person." The more the system messes with her, the sweeter their "case-solving couple" gets—from neighborhood spats to cross-border art heists, Lin uses system skills to unmask plots, while Gu uses his business smarts to deliver the final blow. Turns out the "untouchable" thing isn’t the detective—it’s the heartbeat and fondness hidden in every case.

4 months ago

The Bullet Screen Empress Is Red-Hot Again!

Su Tang, an 18th-tier actress, is actually the "Bullet Screen Protector Empress" who has hidden for a thousand years—she once guarded the order of small worlds with her roasting-style divine power, but was reborn in modern times after exhausting her strength. Bound to the "Bullet Screen Energy System," she must rely on real-time audience bullet screens to gain divine power to survive. However, the ancient puppet drama script she just took is so bad that she couldn't help but roast on set: "The male lead's IQ is drier than my thousand-year-old ginseng!" This behind-the-scenes clip accidentally leaked, and instead of being canceled, she became a hit—audience went crazy for her "honest sharp tongue," and bullet screens crashed the server! Just as she was rising to fame with her "anti-cliché roasting," a rival actress bought water armies to spread rumors that she was "arrogant," even the cold director Lu Shiyan doubted her professionalism. Su Tang can only fight back with more explosive "bullet screen famous scenes"—when the empress's roasting meets the audience's love, who will be the final winner in this "red-hot game sustained by bullet screens"?

4 months ago

After Being Dumped, I Awakened the Body Cultivation System to Shock the World

Lin Hao was once the recognized top genius in Yuncheng, but his cousin plotted to destroy his meridians, turning him into a “waste” spat on by everyone. His fiancée Su Yuxuan, to curry favor with the powerful, publicly tore up their marriage contract and insulted him: “You don’t even deserve to carry my shoes.” Just as he fell into despair, an ancient Body Cultivation System awakened—every punch he threw could draw heavenly spiritual energy, repairing his meridians and boosting his strength by leaps and bounds. Three days later, at the Yuncheng Genius Competition, Lin Hao punched away all who had humiliated him, even attracting the empire’s female war god to seek his friendship. When Su Yuxuan saw him back at the peak, she cried and begged for reconciliation, only to be pushed away by Lin Hao with a sneer: “You thought I was dirty before. Now it’s my turn to think you are.”

6 months ago

Fishing on the Heart of a Mad Dog

Lin Wan, a nobody in an advertising company who's robbed of clients by colleagues and suppressed by her boss, breaks into the private reception of Shen Jinchuan—the notorious "mad dog president" feared for his ruthless ways—while standing up for her best friend. But when she accidentally splashes wine (meant for a scumbag) on him, she spots a butterfly birthmark on his neck—identical to her late mother's. To uncover the truth, Lin Wan tests his limits with a "fishing" game, only to be clung to by this "mad dog": he helps her fight back against workplace bullies, and one night, holds her old doll and says, "You're the first one who didn't fear me." When the "fisher" becomes the "fished," can they tear off their masks and catch the true hearts hidden beneath their ruthlessness?

6 months ago

My Family Hears My Mind: The Fake Heiress's Panic

Reborn as the true heiress in an urban setting, she unexpectedly awakens the ability for her innermost thoughts to be heard by her entire family. The fake heiress plots to sow discord, but her schemes are exposed in real-time through the protagonist's uncensored mental monologues. From being scorned as a 'curse bearer,' she rockets to becoming the family's beloved darling, escalating into a clash of hypocrisy, romantic tensions, and power struggles. With suspense building—will the genuine love prevail?—she shatters the veil of deceit to reclaim her destined life in a tale of twists and heartfelt revenge.

9 months ago

The Wings of Time

A short play about time and memory, where the protagonist searches for forgotten precious moments under the wings of time.

1 year ago