The Substitute Bride
替嫁新娘 ti jia xin niang
Vertical short drama 2025 72 episodes · ~1–2 min each RomanceBillionaireDrama
Forced to marry in her runaway sister's place, she discovers her cold new husband has been in love with her all along.
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SubtitlesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Japanese +2 more
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Origin & tropes
替嫁 (substitute bride) trope.
Chinese tropes it remixes
- 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.
- 替嫁 tìjià — Substitute BrideForced to marry in a sister's place, the 'spare' bride turns out to be the one the groom wanted — or the one he comes to want. Period-drama staple, now modernised.
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