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Ultrashort dramas are wooing older viewers — and setting younger Chinese on edge. This summer, China’s most-talked-about show didn’t center around well-to-do urbanites or a crime-ridden rust belt town, but a 45-year-old cleaning lady and her one-night stand with a much younger man. Naturally, the younger man — a CEO and scion of a wealthy family — is instantly smitten. When he wakes up the next morning, he hands her a credit card with 20 million yuan ($2.8 million) on it. Then he takes her to meet his parents. So far, so cheesy. But the twists keep coming in “Cleaning Mom, The Return of the Infinite.” It turns out the cleaning lady and the CEO’s dad knew each other — at one point, he had sought her hand in marriage. Soon, father and son are competing for her affections, while members of their high-society circle belittle and attack her. Finally, the cleaning lady reveals her true identity: she is a martial arts master and the richest person on the planet. A promotiona
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