Substitute Short Dramas
Browse short dramas tagged “Substitute”.
When the Twin Returns, Love Is Gone
77 episodes · Jiang Shiyi replaces her runaway sister as Fu Yanchi's wife under a three-year contract. While he remains attached to Pei Shiying, she only wants to finish the agreement and gain her freedom. She quietly leaves when the term ends. Fu learns the truth and searches for her, but Jiang Shiyi is already building a future with Cheng Yuli.
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Love as Therapy: His Obsession, Her Surrender
60 episodes · Julian Wright suffers from a psychological disorder and fears losing control of his company to his ambitious uncle. Following his doctor's advice to try exposure therapy, he meets a nurse called Camila Connell and begins aggressively pursuing her. As their lives become increasingly intertwined, the pair stumble through a series of hilarious situations and unexpected romance.
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The Bride's Substitute
95 episodes · Rick Carter has been a vegetable ever since an accident two years ago. In place of Mary Holt, Rose Abney marries him and takes good care of him, earning her the favor of his mother, Ann White.
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CEO's Substitute Wife
60 episodes · Following the tragic death of her twin sister Alice, Ariel takes her place in order to enact revenge on Alice's cheating fiancé and manipulative adoptive family. However, Ariel's mission becomes more complicated when she meets and marries billionaire Victor, and must hide her true identity from him.
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Emily in Her Glow-up Era after Ex's Out
63 episodes · On their fifth anniversary, Emily discovers that she has merely been a “stand-in” for her boyfriend’s first love, Evelyn. Emily immediately breaks up with Ethan and returns to her old life as an up-and-coming researcher. Having long concealed her status as a brilliant scientist, she earns the support of Daniel, the youngest professor at a prestigious university, and ranks first in gaining admission to the PhD program under her dream advisor. Through hard work and resilience, Emily proves her worth to others and simultaneously exposes the carefully constructed persona that Evelyn built for herself. Only then does David realize exactly what Emily is truly capable of, as well as the love she poured into their relationship, leaving him filled with nothing but deep regret as he watches her flourish in her newly reclaimed life.
View detailsThe Two-Faced Beauty
30 episodes · Twelve years after her mother's death, Su Wan'er becomes the double of the chancellor's daughter Lin Yutang. Lin relies on her talent to pursue a marriage to Crown Prince Jun Yimo while continuing to mistreat her. His concern for Su Wan'er unsettles their arrangement. A borrowed identity, an old grievance and a growing attachment shape her struggle to gain control over her life.
View detailsWaiting for Her to Turn Back
80 episodes · After realizing she is insignificant in the eyes of Li Beichen and his father, Xia Wanning fakes amnesia from a car accident, files for divorce, and focuses on her career. Li Beichen becomes suspicious of her identity, evolving from contempt to unease. Realizing his deep love, he repeatedly pressures her to return home. The father and son's pursuit of reconciliation puts Xia in a dilemma.
View detailsHer New Lover
84 episodes · Li Su flash-married her fiancé's younger brother. In the third month of searching for her missing fiancé, she finally got news that he was coming home, only to find that he had lost his memory and had become someone else's husband! Heartbroken, Li Su went to a bar to drown her sorrows that night, but met Huo Xuan Ye, the brother of her "ex-husband"—"Sis, don't you just like his face? I'm his brother. Marry me, I'll be his substitute!"
View detailsJinqiao
48 episodes · Song Jinqiao, a concubine's daughter of the Earl of Yongning, is treated as a stand-in for the emperor Lu Huaichuan's consort and subjected to contempt. Her family forces her to become a prince's concubine, yet he hesitates. She hides her sharpness, feigns obedience, and secretly manipulates both the emperor and the prince into pawns. A carefully crafted scheme of self-inflicted suffering makes him regret and grant her the title of consort; a step-by-step plotted rebellion sets brothers against each other. When enemies are eliminated and siblings turn against each other, she strokes the young emperor's cheek and rules from behind the curtain—from stand-in to empress dowager, the chess game ends, and the player holds the world. Adapted from Wen Shi's novel "Jinqiao."
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The Double Undercover Boss
70 episodes · Amelia works as a janitor at a luxurious hotel, determined to work her way up from the bottom until she becomes a truly qualified heiress. As she’s working here, she gradually falls in love with a security guard. However, this guard seems to have a hidden identity. At the same time, a woman is impersonating her. How will she face all of this? And will she be able to end up with her lover?
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