Madam Qin Is Looking for You to Divorce
Madam Qin Is Looking for You to Divorce (秦总夫人在找你离婚) is a 2024 Chinese vertical-screen short drama about a flash marriage (marrying quickly, usually before love, as a deal) between a woman raising money for her grandmother's surgery and a corporate heir, who agree to divorce after one year and then meet again without recognizing each other.1 It was produced by the short-drama studio JuDian (剧点短剧), directed by Yang Tao (杨涛), and released on 23 August 2024 in 79 episodes with a total runtime of 2 hours 15 minutes.1
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | Chinese vertical short drama, 79 episodes, total runtime 2 hours 15 minutes1 |
| Release | 23 August 2024; complete run available on iQIYI1 • 2 |
| Production | JuDian Short Drama (剧点短剧); director Yang Tao; screenwriter Mu Mian (木棉)1 • 3 |
| Cast | Zhang Tianjing as Qin Muchuan, Ma Qianqian as Jiang Xiaoyu, Lü You as Xu Jie, Pan Yihong as Grandma Jiang1 |
| Genre tags | Urban romance, CEO, workplace, flash marriage, wealthy-family conflict, face-slapping, strong female lead1 |
| Audience reach | 13.88 million heat score on Hongguo Short Drama4 |
| 2025 performance | Ranked 2nd in DataEye's H1 2025 playback-increment chart (12.59) and 3rd in its 2025 full-year report (14.0)5 • 6 |
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Plot
Jiang Xiaoyu's grandmother falls seriously ill and is hospitalized. To raise surgery fees quickly, Jiang follows the arrangement of a matchmaker known as Aunt Wang and agrees to a marriage of convenience, but she is connected with the wrong man and flash-marries Qin Muchuan, the heir of the Qin Group.4 By coincidence, Qin had himself been looking for a sham marriage partner; the two register their marriage at the civil affairs office by mistake, agree to divorce after one year, and leave each other a phone number.2
A year later Jiang Xiaoyu interviews at Qin Muchuan's company, and the two meet again. In the iQIYI synopsis they become entangled through misunderstandings;2 the fuller synopsis on Hongguo and the Duanju Encyclopedia has them meet without recognizing each other, fall in love through a series of trials, and then discover that the other person is the spouse from their registered marriage a year earlier. After the mix-up is resolved, their relationship deepens and they stay together.4 • 1
Cast and characters
- Zhang Tianjing (张添景) as Qin Muchuan (秦沐川), heir of the Qin Group.1
- Ma Qianqian (马倩倩) as Jiang Xiaoyu (江小瑜), the female lead.1
- Lü You (吕游) as Xu Jie (徐杰).1
- Pan Yihong (潘艺虹) as Grandma Jiang (江奶奶), whose illness sets the plot in motion.1
Ma Qianqian is a prolific short-drama performer; viewer comments on the Hongguo page identify the role as an early work of hers, and one commenter asked her to take fewer scripts built on deliberately manufactured misunderstandings.4
Production and release
The drama was released on 23 August 2024, and a listing compiled on 22 August 2024 already counted it among 34 short dramas updated that week, indicating the release window of late August 2024.1 • 7 The complete 79-episode run is hosted on iQIYI, where the album is marked "79 episodes, complete."2 The screenwriter is credited as Mu Mian, with Zhang Ying and Ding Weikang of JuDian Short Drama as executive producers.3
Episode counts differ across aggregators: iQIYI, the Duanju Encyclopedia, and the Bmp4 listing all show 79 episodes, while the Hayu aggregator lists 100.2 • 1 • 8 • 3
Reception and performance
On Hongguo Short Drama the title carries a heat score of 13.88 million, with genre tags for urban romance, flash marriage, and love at first sight.4 The Duanju Encyclopedia records 13.8 million heat and about 50,000 plays, with a 7.9 rating.1 Douban-based scores reported by aggregators vary: 8.1 on Bmp4, 7.9 on the Duanju Encyclopedia, and 7.8 (from about 2,000 raters) on Hayu.8 • 1 • 3
The drama's commercial afterlife was substantial. In DataEye's H1 2025 micro-drama industry report it ranked 2nd by playback increment with a value of 12.59, behind only one other title;5 DataEye's 2025 full-year report placed it 3rd with 14.0, and noted that five of the top 20 titles by playback increment on platform-native charts were 2024 releases, showing a marked long-tail effect for older dramas.6 An Endata (艺恩) quarterly market report for early 2025 listed it 7th among micro-dramas with a value of 4.0, tagged as sweet romance, female-oriented, urban, and emotional content.9
Place in the short-drama market
The title belongs to the flash-marriage and CEO-romance strand of Chinese vertical dramas, and its naming follows the industry's formulaic "X 总" (President X) pattern. A 2024 Yangtze Evening Post survey of micro-drama titles found 189 dramas using "总裁" (CEO), 109 using "夫人" (madam), and 80 using "离婚" (divorce) in their titles, the same vocabulary this drama combines.10 Its 2025 chart performance illustrates the long-tail economics of the format: a drama released in August 2024 was still among the highest playback-increment titles more than half a year later.5 • 6
References
- 秦總夫人在找你離婚, Duanju Encyclopedia
- 秦总夫人在找你离婚, iQIYI
- 秦总夫人在找你离婚, Hayu Short Drama
- 秦总夫人在找你离婚, Hongguo Short Drama
- DataEye 2025 H1 Micro-Drama Industry Data Report
- DataEye 2025 Micro-Drama Industry Data Report
- 短剧更新34部 (22 August 2024), 电影云集影视网
- 短剧《秦总，夫人在找你离婚》已完结在线播放, Bmp4
- 艺恩文娱行业季度市场观察 (2025 Q1)
- 扬子晚报 micro-drama title survey (6 June 2024)
Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026
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