The Holy Joy King
Vertical short drama 2023 107 episodes · ~1–2 min each Completed ★ 7.3 on DramaBox Urban
An evil scheme brought tragedy upon all eighteen members of the Hoffman family ten years ago. Noah Hoffman had fallen off a cliff then, before being rescued by a grandmaster who taught him all that he knew. He yields the… — official synopsis, DramaBox
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Origin & tropes
Remixes the Chinese tropes 战神归来 (War God Returns) + 总裁文 (CEO Romance).
Chinese tropes it remixes
- 战神归来 zhànshén guīlái — War God ReturnsA retired supreme soldier or crime lord hides in ordinary life (often as a despised son-in-law) until his family is threatened. Male-lead counterpart to the Cinderella romance; dominates the Chinese domestic charts and arrives overseas mostly dubbed.
- 总裁文 zǒngcái wén — CEO Romance'President fiction': the cold, obscenely rich CEO and the ordinary woman who thaws him. The ur-genre of Chinese romance webnovels since the 2000s and the default setting of English verticals.
Platform tags
Data: DramaBox public catalog.