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I Dumped My Fiancée and Built an Empire
Vertical short drama 2026 49 episodes · ~1–2 min each Short Drama
Carpenter Jason Lynn is reborn at his 1985 engagement party and dumps his gold-digging fiancée, Shannon Byers. Using ancestral joinery and future insight, he strikes it rich and teams with mill worker Nina Sutton to buil… — official synopsis, NetShort
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Origin & tropes
Remixes the Chinese tropes 重生 (Rebirth) + 总裁文 (CEO Romance).
Chinese tropes it remixes
- 重生 chóngshēng — RebirthDie betrayed, wake up years earlier with every memory intact, fix everything. The engine behind half of Chinese web fiction; the period-nostalgia version ('Back to 1985') is a genre of its own.
- 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
Rags to RichesCoporate Warfare
Data: NetShort public catalog.
