Short carbon fiber-reinforced composites (SCFRCs) have attracted increasing attention owing to their comprehensive performance and easy processing route. However, the imperfect interfacial adhesion and serious stress concentration at the fiber/matrix interface have hampered their engineering application. In this article, we first report the preparation of SCFRC modified by a low-viscosity liquid hyperbranched epoxy resin (Hyper E102). We then investigated the effect of Hyper E102 content on thermal and mechanical properties. The results show that the overall performance of the SCFRC first increases and then decreases with the increasing content of Hyper E102. With the incorporation of 12 phr Hyper E102, the tensile strength, fracture toughness, notched, and unnotched impact strength of SCFRC were increased by 16.7, 74.9, 95.3, and 194.5%, respectively. The toughening and reinforcing mechanisms were attributed to the following three aspects. First, the Hyper E102 improves the impregna-