Stick to the Script!
C dramas in which authors (and sometimes actors) are accosted by their own creations.
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1. Xi Jing Nu Zhu Tao Hua Duo
Chinese Drama - 2022, 26 episodes
Actors: Xu Xiaonuo, Hou Li
A young star finds herself acting in her own play, becoming its heroine Su Xiang Wan. With her warm and sunny personality, she strives to change the plot to give it the ending she always thought it should have. Throughout this process, she meets Zhao Rong Xian, the King of Yu. He is originally a villain of the play, whose dark and cold world transforms thanks to this bright and lovely heroine.
MINI DRAMA
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2. Different Princess
Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes
Director: Shen Jin Fei
Actors: Ireine Song, Ding Zeran
Writer Hua Qing Ge transforms into a character within the world of her own novels. She thought she was in control of the script, but falling in love with Ji Chu was not part of the plan.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBcESCAiV7E4rpl-9IV2_u7zdFqSiULC&si=wIyzYSqoeIxQL0JK(ENG Subs)
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3. I Want to Live to the Finale
Chinese Drama - 2021, 26 episodes
Actors: Ming Jiajia, Shao Yan
Shen Jia Jia transmigrates into a book and into the spy character sent to infiltrate the villain's household, as his wife. The original character fails her task and is executed, so now she must ensure her character survives to the end of the book. Only then will the book be complete and she can go back to the real world. Gu Jiu Cheng, the villain, and her husband, is a cautious and domineering man who finds himself enamored of his new wife.
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4. Love at Second Sight
Chinese Drama - 2023, 20 episodes
Actors: Gao Weiman, Jin Xiao, Chu Qian, Zheng Yujia
Si Ning, in an unknown way, finds herself in a script she wrote for a writing contest. The last thing she remembers, is that she wanted to make final touches to it, including cutting out the romantic plot, because she didn't know how to lead it, because she had never been in love herself. Now, trapped in her own work, the girl not only has to find herself in the realities of the Republican Era, but also she meets characters who are a reflection of those from her real life.
https://youtu.be/9eUOWjLU29g?si=GGH1d68D4MFQMWcF (Eng Subs stop just after 46:30)
MINI DRAMA
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5. Chen Xue Ling
Chinese Drama - 2023, 18 episodes
Screenwriter: Ha Quan Gui
Actors: Huang Youtian, Zou Jiajia, Liu Zeyu, Tang Wenqi
To save the hero in her play, the intelligent and pretty screenwriter travels to the script by accident and meets a shy prince, a vicious rival in love, a scheming contender for the throne, a mischievous emperor who loves to mess up with lovers, a kind empress, a cousin whom she grew up with and an open and modern mother...
https://youtu.be/LWUV4P1UIPU?si=lnYcGDixBu_8nxOX (ENG Subs)
MINI DRAMA
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6. Wo Ping Ben Shi Jin Leng Gong
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Director: Li Hong Yu
Actors: Zhang Miaoyi, Jin Xianzheng, Zhao Yiyang, Jiang Linjing
Internet writer Yan Yi Yi entered her novel and became a vicious female supporter. She fought wits and courage with the emperor to avoid the tragic ending of entering the cold palace but was prompted by the book official that if she did not enter the cold palace according to the plot, she would be obliterated. So Yan Yi Yi survived by maintaining the plot and avoiding a bad ending, and secretly falling in love with the emperor.
MINI DRAMA
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7. Please Don't Spoil Me Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 21 episodes
Director: Li Hong Yu
Actors: Zhang Miaoyi, Jin Xianzheng, Zhao Yiyang, Jiang Linjing
In this continuation, Qin Yu's plan to implement the New Deal to improve people's livelihood and enhance national strength is facing setbacks and in an effort to return to the real world, Yan Yiyi is still single-mindedly trying to enter the cold palace. Beidi country has nefarious plans to cause widespread harm, and for the sake of the common people, will Yan and Qin join hands to face it together?
MINI DRAMA
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8. Please Don't Spoil Me Season 3
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Director: Li Hong Yu
Actors: Zhang Miaoyi, Jin Xianzheng, Han Jiahui, Jiang Linjing
It tells the story of Yan Yi Yi, the heroine, who accidentally enters into the novel she wrote and tries her best to become a "nail house" in the cold palace in order to return to reality, but makes the emperor Qin Yu, who is sexually continent, very interested.
MINI DRAMA
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9. Please Don't Spoil Me Season 4
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Actors: Zhang Miaoyi, Jin Xianzheng, Pu Pu, Wang Zifei
MINI DRAMA
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10. Please Don't Spoil Me Season 5
Chinese Drama - 2023, 27 episodes
Actors: Zhang Miaoyi, Jin Xianzheng, Pu Pu, Wang Zifei
MINI DRAMA
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11. Sweet Supporting Actress
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Actors: Cao Xiyue, Lu Chengjue, Rebecca Jin, Zu Ka'er
In order to fulfil her writer's friend's last wish, Xiao Xia helps her continue writing the novel but unexpectedly enters the world of the book and becomes the vicious supporting female villain character. The final ending in the book is for her to be killed by the male protagonist, who turns into an antagonist. In order to change her destiny, she not only has to clear her name but also helps the antagonist correct his evil ways. The two went through thistles and thorns along the way, started a business together, and achieved self-fulfilment. Shen Xing Ruo, who had been turned into an antagonist, also regained his kindness and became an upright, affectionate, and righteous protagonist.
MINI DRAMA
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12. The Romance of Tiger and Rose
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
Director: Cha Chuen Yee
Screenwriter: Nan Zhen
Actors: Zhao Lusi, Ding Yuxi, Zhou Zixin, Sheng Yinghao
Having finally sold her TV series script, aspiring screenwriter Chen Xiao Qian soon falls under the scrutiny of the male lead, who refuses to act out the role. Vowing to make her script successful, she starts re-writing. While napping, she is transported into her own story, becoming the Third Princess Chen Qian Qian, a side character. Armed with the knowledge of her own script in which her character is soon to be killed in the third episode by Prince Han Shuo, the male lead, Xiao Qian is determined to stay alive and find her way back home.
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13. Phoenix Lands in the World
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes