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La giovane e bellissima Song Liang lascia la casa e l'università per diventare la quarta moglie del signor Chen. Il suo sogno è diventarne la favorita, ma scopre ben presto l'ostilità, l'invidia e la perfidia delle altre mogli.

Nel Giappone feudale, O-Haru, una ragazza di corte, si innamora di un giovane di rango inferiore. Scoperta, viene cacciata insieme a tutta la sua famiglia. Il padre, in particolare, le rimprovera la loro nuova condizione e la sprona a guadagnare, così O-Haru ottiene gli effimeri favori di un signorotto e poi discende i diversi stadi della prostituzione, da una casa di piacere fino ai vicoli di un porto, per farsi infine monaca e vivere di elemosina...

L'ambizioso re di Quin è ossessionato dall'idea di unificare la Cina divisa in sette regni e diventare il Primo Imperatore. Lady Zhao, sua amante fin dall'infanzia, si offre di aiutarlo e organizza un falso complotto contro il Re. Questo permette al re di Quin di invadere il regno di Yan, che rappresenta il maggior ostacolo alla unificazione del paese. Ma una scoperta dolorosa sulla sua nascita spinge il re a sferrare un attacco sanguinoso.

L'imperatore cinese Xuan Zong, ancora sconvolto per la morte della moglie, riceve la visita di Yang Kwei Fei, una giovane sguattera con lontani legami di parentela con la dinastia Tang: egli riscontra subito una certa somiglianza con la moglie e se ne innamora. La famiglia Yang che in effetti si era adoperata per esercitare la sua influenza a corte, riesce a prendere il potere con la forza dando luogo ad un regime tirannico. Il generale An Lushan, artefice dell'ascesa di Yang Kwei Fei, non è però nominato tra i ministri del nuovo regime e finisce per capeggiare la rivolta popolare che ha per bersaglio l'intera famiglia Yang. Benché il coinvolgimento della donna nella vita politica fosse allora condannato con la morte, nella rivolta contro il nuovo regime Yang sacrificherà la propria vita per l'imperatore.

Cina, 1930. Madame Wu, moglie di un autoritario signore feudale, ha deciso di allargare i suoi orizzonti culturali, ora che i figli sono grandi, e si mette d'accordo con una concubina affinché distragga il marito mentre lei si dedica allo studio.

Un'avventura erotica popolata di bellezze e tratta dal classico della letteratura cinese 'Jin Ping Mei'.

The road to becoming an empress is paved with treachery. Ruyi is a consort who quickly learns to navigate the treacherous politics of the the royal court and move up the ranks. After becoming Empress, Ruyi still must survive the many conspiracies against her. Her relationship with Emperor Qianlong becomes eroded even when Ruyi is able to overcome the challenges. Can Ruyi maintain her role as Empress under such difficult circumstances?

Towards the end of the Warring States Era, the States of Qin and Zhao are engaged in a lengthy battle. Li Hao Lan, daughter of the Censor-in-chief of Zhao, is forced out of her own home after being set up by her stepmother. Having nothing to her name, she is sold as a slave and purchased by Lu Buwei, who is cleverly able to marry Hao Lan to Ying Yiren, a Qin royal who resides in Zhao as a hostage. However, Hao Lan and Buwei's presence in the Zhao palace ignites a dangerous battle, as they rely on their wits to evade Princess Ya’s devious schemes.

Ma Fuya is a princess of the Chu state in 10th-century imperial China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In this time of warring kingdoms and political upheaval, Fuya's uncle usurps the throne and brutally kills her father. Ma Fuya is left an orphan, and she escapes with the help of a eunuch. She also falls in love with Meng Qiyou, the Prince of Later Shu. He instead uses her as a political tool, and he brings her back into his kingdom. Many of his brothers are attracted to her, such as Meng Qixing and Meng Qiyun. Due to her resemblance as Meng Qiyun's mother, the Emperor also falls in love with her. Ma Fuya is forced to marry the Emperor, but the procession is interrupted by Liu Liancheng.

The smart and witty Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a seamstress to find the truth behind her older sister’s death. Believing the imperial guard Fucha Fuheng to be her sister's killer, Yingluo purposely attracts the attention of his sister the Empress Fucha, and is successfully transferred to Changchun Palace as a maid. Over time, she learns that the Fucha siblings are honest and kind-hearted people, and also develops romantic affections for Fuheng.

When the Emperor mysteriously disappears from battle, his new wife Consort Quan Fei, is accused of murder by his mother, the Empress Dowager, who sees Quan Fei as an ominous woman. However, Quan Fei is protected by the Emperor's younger brother, the new Emperor Daoguang, who has loved Quan Fei since he was young. So when Daoguang announces that Quan Fei is to be his new consort, the Empress Dowager partners with Daoguang's wife, the new Empress Shencheng to eradicate Quan Fei from the royal court.

Fifteen years after Qing Emperor Jiaqing was crowned the country appears to be in harmony. However, fights between the imperial concubines escalate. All the imperial concubines including the emperor's beloved Yu-Yue understand this and becomes nervous when the triennial imperial concubine election approaches. Yu-Yue's position is threatened by an imperial descendant, Yuk-ying, a powerful eunuch's adopted daughter, Yi-Sun, and an experienced imperial servant maid On-Seen. They are friends and enemies in the war for the emperor's love. The four beautiful women are either friends or lovers of an imperial physician Sun Bak Yeung and a trooper Kong-Wu. Plots and lies undermine their love and friendships in the palace.

Kasia and Tomek are together for nearly seven years, but have not yet decided on marriage. Each episode shows the common life of this pair of young, educated and crazy about each other people. They've formed a relationship, which seems to be guided by the idea that opposites attract each other. Their relationship often seem like "storm in a teacup", but in their case it seems to be the recipe for a successful relationship. Radically different temperaments, different views and demonstration proclamation of their own ideals, is this what they really are serving each other every day. Despite that, or perhaps thanks to that, they are crazy about each other, one can not exist without the other, that is (paradoxically) we are dealing with a harmonious and successful relationship!. [TVN]

Liu Qing, daughter of a powerful official, is forced to assume the identity of the princess as she is married off to Yuwen Yong, the King of Zhou, who in reality is a puppet figurehead who holds no power.