💻 Technology May 15, 2026 · Caiwei Chen

How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

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In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest.



“Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or I will eat you.”



The scene is from Carrying the Dragon King’s Baby, one of the many hundreds of short dramas that appear on apps like DramaWave and ReelShort. There’s just something about

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