The Captain’s Mermaid Bride

Name: The Captain’s Mermaid Bride
Genre: Sweet Love
Released: 2026

Vertical short drama 2026 70 episodes · ~1–2 min each Completed ★ 9 on DramaBox Sweet Love

At twenty-two, Elena is forced by her family into a contract marriage with Cole, a stern fishing boat captain. She discovers warmth in his family and her dormant mermaid lineage. Cole funds her education, and she becomes… — official synopsis, DramaBox

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SubtitlesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese +2 more

Added2026-11-10

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Origin & tropes

Remixes the Chinese tropes 真假千金 (Real vs Fake Heiress) + 闪婚 (Flash Marriage) + 总裁文 (CEO Romance) + 契约婚姻 (Contract Marriage).

Chinese tropes it remixes

真假千金 zhēnjiǎ qiānjīn — Real vs Fake HeiressA girl raised poor discovers she is the real daughter of a rich family — and the impostor who took her place fights to keep it. Family melodrama with revenge beats.
闪婚 shǎnhūn — Flash MarriageTwo strangers marry within a day — to dodge a blind date, a will, or a scandal — and fall in love afterwards. Chinese web fiction's favourite way to skip the courtship.
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.
契约婚姻 qìyuē hūnyīn — Contract MarriageA marriage on paper with rules against falling in love — which both parties break. Usually a CEO and a woman saving her family's company.