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Donkey Fire
In 1948, Ma Shouye, the last chef of the imperial kitchen, lived among the people with half a can of old soup in his arms, and settled down by cooking donkey meat, starting a firework inheritance that spanned eighty years. From palace secret recipes to market stalls, from public-private partnerships to the era of traffic, three generations of ancestors and grandchildren have been guarding an old soup, rising and falling in the tide of the times. The first generation stayed true to the business a
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Smoke Over Daughter's Village
In 1938, the Japanese Army’s Cherry Blossom Task Force infiltrates the Wuling Mountains, coveting a secret map of the southwest’s defenses. The isolated Daughter’s Stockade is plunged overnight into a deadly world of espionage. The thousand-year-old stockade, guarded entirely by women, is suddenly breached by a young man carrying the secret map. Military Intelligence agents lie in wait, while a traitor within the stockade secretly colludes with the enemy. Poisonous fog, assassination, sowing dis
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Low-IQ Crime: The Sanjiangkou Mystery Returns
Six months after the turmoil at Sanjiangkou subsided, bumbling thieves Fang Chao and Liu Zhi are up to no good again, blundering into one major case after another. The laid-back detective Zhang Yi'ang returns in a time of crisis and joins forces with the police team, navigating a world of wily businessmen and corrupt officials. Four factions maneuver in the shadows as one absurd crime after another erupts, exposing layer upon layer of organized crime and corruption through the comical bustle of
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Taozhuang Tofu Lang
In Taozhuang in the 1980s, Duan Jinliang, a tofu man, had a prosperous business and great success with a strange scale. But the twin brothers at the entrance of the village set up a gambling game and broke the scale beam in public. The mercury dripping out shocked the whole village. How can he repay his debt and redeem his reputation? In the small tofu shop, there are hidden ups and downs related to conscience.
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