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The Best Episodes of Blossoms Shanghai Season 1

Every episode of Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Blossoms Shanghai Season 1!

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Set against the backdrop of massive economic growth in the 1990s, the story follows A Bao, a self-made millionaire and his journey from being a young opportunist with a troubled past to accumulating dazzling wealth

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 25 - Episode 25
    8.3/10(33 votes)

    S1:E25

    Things get deadlier. After stock-market losses, Mei Lin’s debt-ridden husband dies in a fall. Li Li mortgages the Grand Lisbon to fund Mr. Bao. Miss Wang begins looking for garment factories for the Walmart deal, while Uncle Ye works to block her. As Li Li strikes deals to keep Mr. Bao afloat, a powerful businesswoman from Taiwan gets involved.

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  2. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 27 - Episode 27
    8.3/10(32 votes)

    S1:E27

    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.

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  3. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 13 - Episode 13
    8.2/10(48 votes)

    S1:E13

    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.

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  4. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 21 - Episode 21
    8.2/10(33 votes)

    S1:E21

    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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  5. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 14 - Episode 14
    8.1/10(46 votes)

    S1:E14

    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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  6. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 16 - Episode 16
    8.1/10(45 votes)

    S1:E16

    Ling Zi remains absent, prompting Mr. Bao to reminisce about when he first met her in Tokyo four years earlier. In Ling Zi’s absence, her friends haplessly try to keep Tokyo Nights going. The past still heavy upon him, Mr. Bao goes to do business in Hong Kong. There he meets Xuezhi, the woman who broke his heart, and is surprised by what he discovers.

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  7. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 17 - Episode 17
    8.1/10(46 votes)

    S1:E17

    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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  8. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 29 - Episode 29
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    S1:E29

    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. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 19 - Episode 19
    8.0/10(41 votes)

    S1:E19

    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.

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  10. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 20 - Episode 20
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    S1:E20

    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.

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  11. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 28 - Episode 28
    8.0/10(31 votes)

    S1:E28

    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.

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  12. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 30 - Episode 30
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    S1:E30

    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.

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  13. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    7.9/10(56 votes)

    S1:E8

    In a bold move, Mr. Bao drives into the industrial boondocks to cut a deal with the knockoff-selling gangsters. Fearing for his safety, Miss Wang follows him there, risking her life to make sure he’s not in danger. Her bravery gets Mr. Bao remembering how they first met at the Foreign Trade Office.

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  14. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 12 - Episode 12
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    S1:E12

    Over at the Foreign Trade Office, Miss Wang’s success has spawned envy and led a shifty colleague to smear her, twisting a well-intentioned gift from Mr. Bao into evidence of accused bribery.

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  15. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    S1:E9

    Li Li remains under attack by a group of restaurant madames led by the hotheaded Mei Lin, who sponsors a coup in the Grand Lisbon’s kitchen. Li Li goes to Tokyo Nights for help from Mr. Bao, a move that earns her Ling Zi’s jealousy.

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  16. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    S1:E10

    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?

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  17. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 22 - Episode 22
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    S1:E22

    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.

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  18. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 23 - Episode 23
    7.8/10(33 votes)

    S1:E23

    Qiang and Bao have dinner at the Grand Lisbon and wind up bigger enemies than before. Each backs a rival company that’s fighting for the only government-approved slot to launch an IPO.

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  19. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 24 - Episode 24
    7.8/10(33 votes)

    S1:E24

    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.

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  20. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 15 - Episode 15
    7.7/10(47 votes)

    S1:E15

    When the leadership changes at the department store he’s been supplying with product, Mr. Bao must seek out new allies—and sources of profit.

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  21. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 26 - Episode 26
    7.7/10(34 votes)

    S1:E26

    Miss Wang heads south to find a factory that will make jeans cheaply enough to win the order. Against his own interests, Mr. Bao secretly helps her.

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  22. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.6/10(60 votes)

    S1:E4

    A goofy, mink-clad interloper named Mr. Wei tries to steal Mr. Fan’s business, but Mr. Bao is helped by Miss Wang, his adoring contact at the Foreign Trade Office whom many people think is his girlfriend.

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  23. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.5/10(70 votes)

    S1:E3

    A provincial factory manager, Mr. Fan, wants to do business with Mr. Bao, but—dazzled by Li Li and the riches he sees at the Grand Lisbon—he tries to sweeten the deal. Mr. Bao plays hardball.

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  24. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 18 - Episode 18
    7.5/10(43 votes)

    S1:E18

    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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  25. Blossoms Shanghai Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.4/10(123 votes)

    S1:E1

    Mentored by the aging financial maestro Uncle Ye, the ambitious Ah Bao transforms himself into Mr. Bao, a rich, influential stock trader. Even after he’s the victim of a hit-and-run attack that nearly kills him, life goes on: on the glamorous Huanghe Road, a new luxury restaurant called the Grand Lisbon opens, run by a beautiful and mysterious owner named Li Li.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Episode 25" is the best rated episode of "Blossoms Shanghai" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/2024. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 27".