Trapped in a Short Drama, but I Refuse to Play the Victim

Language: English
10 episodes
Added Oct 13, 2026

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Audio: English
Added: Oct 13, 2026
Last checked: Oct 13, 2026

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In short: 10 episodes, in English, original audio — episodes 1–10 play right here.

One night, Lily Lin stays up late binge-watching dramas and suddenly gets sucked into the screen. She wakes up inside a cliché setup—the classic “one-night stand.” But instead of following the script, she slaps awake the cold CEO Charles Foster, calls the cops, and has the victimized male lead taken away. She soon realizes she’s trapped in a short-drama world, where she is the long-lost real daughter of the Lin family. But her family favors the fake daughter, Roxanne Liu, and even her fiancé Ethan Foster—Charles’s nephew—cheats with Roxanne. Facing accusations and moral blackmail, Lily fights back with wit, over-the-top acting, and even reports Roxanne’s schemes to the police before leaving home on her own terms. Just when she’s broke, Charles reappears. He sees her as a stand-in for his first love, Jessica Rivers, and suggests a marriage contract. For the sake of survival and her grandmother, Lily agrees, but uses her legal knowledge to rewrite the prenuptial agreement properly.

Entering the Foster household, she keeps breaking tropes—rejecting forced romance, exposing Charles’s secret workplace marriage plot, and even publicly revealing herself as the CEO’s wife in the office, stunning everyone. Ethan and Roxanne keep stirring up drama. At the Foster patriarch’s birthday banquet, Lily cleverly live-streams to expose lies, winning his approval. Jessica stirs more chaos, claiming to be Charles’s savior and bringing “99 treasures,” which Lily exposes as toys. Jessica later fakes medical records and a child’s paternity test, but Charles’s investigation uncovers the truth. When Roxanne kidnaps Lily, Charles gets injured rescuing her. Lily fights back, captures evidence, and has Roxanne jailed. The Lin family tries to force her to withdraw charges by threatening her grandmother, but Charles protects them both. At the hospital, they pressure Lily to donate a kidney to save Roxanne—she turns it around by suggesting the whole family donate instead.

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Trapped in a Short Drama, but I Refuse to Play the Victim — how many episodes in total?: Trapped in a Short Drama, but I Refuse to Play the Victim has 10 episodes in total. Short-drama episodes usually run one to three minutes, so the whole series takes under an hour from start to finish. Episodes 1–10 can be previewed on this site.
Which language is Trapped in a Short Drama, but I Refuse to Play the Victim available in?: Trapped in a Short Drama, but I Refuse to Play the Victim is available in English and is filed under our English reading list. We also keep Hindi and Filipino reading lists, but this title is listed in English only.
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