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City of the City

2024 · 1 season

A grounded, slow-burning look at ambition and compromise inside the high-pressure world of finance, where every choice carries a quiet cost.

Created by
Teng Huatao
Genres
Drama
Starring
Bai Yufan, Yu Hewei, Xia Meng
Overview
Tao Wujie, a small-town graduate, begins his career as a teller at a Shanghai bank and gradually rises under the mentorship of veteran financiers Zhao Hui and Miao Che. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Tian Xiaohui enters the cutthroat world of trust capital, where survival demands ambition and sacrifice. As both are tested by temptation, competition, and shifting values, two generations of financial workers confront career choices that will reshape their futures—and their understanding of success in a city driven by money.

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Created by
Teng Huatao
Genres
Drama
Starring
Bai Yufan, Yu Hewei, Xia Meng
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • class
  • corruption
  • betrayal
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Teng Huatao
Written by
Tian Yu
Starring
Bai Yufan, Yu Hewei, Xia Meng, Long Ni, Wang Xiao, Feng Jiayi, Wang Jinsong, Yang Zishan
Length
1 seasons, 40 episodes
Network
iQiyi
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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