Set Off

Set in Shanghai in 1948. A traitor tells information about a high-level CCP undercover and Nationalist secret service tries to find him out.

Chen Huaihai leads his fellows to explore new lives in northeast China by running a tavern. They experience different situations and make a whole new life.

When a foreign spy organization sabotages China-U.S. peace talks through assassination and tech theft, National Security officer Yang Guang launches a covert investigation. As he closes in on the culprits, a mysterious woman frames him, forcing Yang to fight for both justice and his innocence in a deadly game of espionage.

Based on real people and stories during the fight against the new coronavirus epidemic in mainland China.

The Red Army and Nationalist forces battle over the Chishui River in 1935.

32-year-old Yang Tao is a beautiful single lady who works as a hotel manager. Yang Tao's mother is anxious for her to settle down to start a family and constantly sets her up on outrageous blind dates much to her despair. Guo Ran is a 35-year-old bachelor who settles divorce cases at the national registry of marriage. Due to the ugly scenarios that he consistently witnesses at work, he adopts a cynical view of marriage. One day, Guo Ran's buddy, Xi Feng, decides to set him up on a blind date with his cousin-in-law who happens to be Yang Tao. The pair start off on bad terms but grow closer as they learn to come to terms with their past failed romances.

The stories of four couples reflect Chinese views on love and marriage.

After a scandal ends her relationship, Nan Fei starts over in Shanghai with her best friend Qi Jiayi and enters a fake romance with her neighbor Jiao Yue to escape family pressure—only to be pulled into a web of misunderstandings that challenge her views on love, commitment, and independence.