The WORST episodes of Blossoms Shanghai
Every episode of Blossoms Shanghai ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Blossoms Shanghai!
In 1990s Shanghai, fortunes are waiting to be made—but not everyone can be a winner. A sprawling cast of stockbrokers, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, bureaucrats, schemers, and dreamers ride the wave of market reform in the wake of the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s historic reopening. At the center is the daring self-made trader Ah Bao, whose increasingly risky maneuvers intertwine his fate with those of three women, each with her own ambitions. Luxuriating in Shanghai’s food, fashion, and language, the story unfolds as an exuberant love letter to the city—an intoxicating epic tinged with romanticism.
#1 - Episode 13
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/2024
Miss Wang’s fall has repercussions at Tokyo Nights, where Ling Zi’s role in what happened breeds discord in the place that Mr. Bao thinks of as his refuge. The funny, friendly world of Tokyo Nights explodes in anger and recriminations that Mr. Bao can’t fix.
#2 - Episode 20
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/4/2024
Amid a flurry of corporate intrigue, Mr. Bao starts ramping up his plans to stop the unethical Qiang from becoming the big dog in town. Qiang has a personal score to settle: he was once in love with Ling Zi before she left Tokyo to work with Mr. Bao.
#3 - Episode 24
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 1/6/2024
Across town, Miss Wang begins competing with Mr. Bao to win a huge order for jeans with Walmart. While Uncle Ye and Miss Wang jockey to get the Walmart order, Mr. Bao and Qiang begin a stock-market battle that leads to a crash.
#4 - Episode 28
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 1/8/2024
Uncle Ye and Mr. Bao come to an understanding. The latter steels himself for another skirmish with Qiang, who is working ruthlessly to cut off Mr. Bao’s capital sources.
#5 - Episode 7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/29/2023
The restaurant owners of Huanghe Road designed a conspiracy against Zhizhenyuan. Abao was planning to control the knockoffs before they caused any effects.
#6 - Episode 19
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/4/2024
As Ling Zi renovates Tokyo Nights, she remembers how she and Mr. Bao built the restaurant together. Miss Wang and Mr. Wei prepare for their company’s opening banquet. Mr. Bao makes mistakes, personal and financial.
#7 - Episode 29
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 1/9/2024
The final showdown: While Mr. Bao desperately seeks a way to escape intact from the stock market, his estranged friends Tao Tao and Ling Zi make peace without him. Qiang keeps pushing, and Mr. Bao throws a Hail Mary pass that is answered—in a way.
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#9 - Episode 11
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/2023
As Mr. Bao’s relationship with Li Li deepens, his friend Tao Tao finds himself knee-deep in romantic calamity.
#12 - Episode 27
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 1/8/2024
Miss Wang scores her first big success, outwitting everyone to win the Walmart contract. Learning of his first love’s death, Mr. Bao looks for company. With Ling Zi and Miss Wang out of his life, he and Li Li share a New Year’s Eve dinner where they exchange memories.
#15 - Episode 22
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/5/2024
Ling Zi reopens Tokyo Nights as a Shanghainese omakase and wins immediate success. Over on Huanghe Road, the Grand Lisbon falls into chaos when Li Li is held for questioning by the police. Again, Mr. Bao helps save the day.
#17 - Episode 18
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/3/2024
The distancing continues. Planning to overhaul Tokyo Nights, Ling Zi goes to the Grand Lisbon for research. Miss Wang decides to open her own business...with no help from Mr. Bao. She throws a disastrous launch party that lands her an unexpected partner, the goofy Mr. Wei. Like a gunslinging outlaw, Mr. Qiang arrives in Shanghai from Shenzhen, with sights set on the local stock market...and Mr. Bao.
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#20 - Episode 14
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/2024
Mr. Bao’s romantic past and present collide. While Miss Wang gets bullied at the factory where she’s been reassigned and Ling Zi remains missing, Mr. Bao flashes back to his passion for Xuezhi, a beautiful ticket-taker on a local bus, whose rejection of him turned him into the man he is today.
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#21 - Episode 17
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/2024
The two reliable women in Mr. Bao’s life begin distancing themselves from him. Ling Zi returns to Shanghai full of resolve and dissolves her business partnership with him. Mr. Bao oversteps by providing Miss Wang with unwanted help upon her return to Huanghe Road.
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#22 - Episode 9
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/30/2023
With Miss Wang's help, Abao and Little Ningbo eventually cut a big deal that laid the foundation for their future success at 27 The Bund. Li Li came to ask a favor from Abao. The latter decided to lend her a hand.
#23 - Episode 21
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/5/2024
When Qiang attempts a hostile takeover of a Shanghainese company, Mr. Bao forms a pact with Li Li...money for information. Mr. Bao and Li Li’s employees profit off of Qiang’s bid, but collateral damage forces the police to descend on Qiang and the Grand Lisbon.
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#24 - Episode 10
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2023
With the help of Uncle Ye, Mr. Bao thwarts the attack on the Grand Lisbon so successfully that the restaurant sets Huanghe Road abuzz with talk of its famous new dishes. Mr. Bao is now at his triumphant peak. What could possibly go wrong?
#25 - Episode 30
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 1/9/2024
The world we’ve been watching has been totally changed since Episode 1. The suddenly successful Miss Wang returns to Shanghai to find that Mr. Bao has moved out of his fancy hotel suite, Li Li has settled her debts and left town, and Ling Zi is moving to Hong Kong to open a second restaurant. The three women most important to Mr. Bao are moving on. As for him, the early gold-rush days are over, and a new era is beginning.