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Two Million Dollars to Dump the CEO
Vertical short drama 2026 37 episodes · ~1–2 min each Short Drama
For 6 years, Lydia played the submissive girlfriend to billionaire Theodore, solely to save for a $2M retirement fund. Once hit, she dumps him with a brutal emotional labor invoice. Realizing he was just a cash machine,… — official synopsis, NetShort
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Origin & tropes
Remixes the Chinese tropes 隐藏大佬 (Hidden Big Shot) + 追妻火葬场 (Regret & Chase) + 总裁文 (CEO Romance).
Chinese tropes it remixes
- 隐藏大佬 yǐncáng dàlǎo — Hidden Big ShotSomeone treated as a nobody — a bodyguard, a delivery driver, a poor son-in-law — is secretly the richest or most powerful person in the room. The reveal is the payoff. The single most-produced premise on Douyin since 2021.
- 追妻火葬场 zhuīqī huǒzàngchǎng — Regret & ChaseLiterally 'chase the wife into the crematorium': a cold husband realises what he had only after losing her, then grovels. Peak angst; comment sections rate how much he suffers.
- 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
Wolf in DisguiseLove After DivorceKarma
Data: NetShort public catalog.
