Breaking the Shadows

Tang Daxing, paroled after seven years in jail for brawling over his high school sweetheart Xiaohui, hopes to find legitimate work so they can finally marry -- but the reappearance of an old classmate who has struck it rich poses a temptation: can they withstand the lure of easy money in a fast-changing China?

Reporter Du Xiao Su falls in love with Shao Zhen Rong who is a respectable doctor. One day, he meets an accident where he was killed in a mudslide leaving Xiao Su in grief. She works herself to the point of exhaustion and eventually hospitalized. All her suffering was witnessed by Lei Yu Zheng who silently helps her. This sparks envy and hatred from the second female lead. Several schemes cause the downfall of Yu Zheng's company. Xiao Su helps Yu zheng to make a comeback

A Beijing bus driver is in love with a ticket-taker, but she becomes pregnant by a Singapore student.

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

In the 1980s, Ma Jin grew up in Beijing with three friends who were like brothers. After an accident before high school graduation, they drifted apart, and Ma Jin left for abroad, disappearing for years. Now a vice president of a company, Ma Jin is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Facing death alone, he longs to mend old feuds and rebuild friendships. The four middle-aged friends reunite to start a business, rekindling both old bonds and Ma Jin’s hope for life.

Seventeen years ago, Xuan Zhen was mysteriously murdered. Seventeen years later, another homicide related to the Xuan family occurs. Xuan Zhen's older brother, Xuan Liang became the suspect. As the truth behind the old murder case gradually surfaces, years of conflict between the Xuan siblings break out again.

A charming but unfaithful man who leads a double life, enjoying meals prepared by his first love, a high-end housekeeper, during the day, while savoring late-night snacks made by his wife, a surgeon, at night. Unbeknownst to him, his wife’s culinary instructor is actually his first love. As tensions rise at the dinner table, the narrative explores themes of manipulation and betrayal, culminating in the revelation that his first love carries a dark secret—a twenty-year-old murder case—forcing him to confront the complexities of love and loyalty.