136 EPfinish for$14.99
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Trope · 13 series
Contract Lovers Short Dramas
Twelve series that begin with an arrangement and end somewhere else. Median 49 episodes, and a narrow 30-to-67 band — the premise has a built-in expiry date, which caps how long it can be stretched.
- Series
- 13
- Median to finish
- $29.97
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Filter them allWhere to start
Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by cost to finish, then by whether the series is complete. Every figure comes from the same database that powers the cost calculator.
250 EPfinish for$29.97
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The Queen's Submission Contract
365 EPfinish for$39.96
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Double Disguise: Lovers’ Deadly Game
430 EPfinish for$14.99
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I Married My Scumbag Ex's Uncle
550 EPfinish for$29.97
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After the Political Alliance: The Profligate Royal Heir Bends the Knee to Her
- 01The Vampire Heir’s Bridecheapest complete run here at $14.99
- 02The Queen's Submission Contractstill releasing — 50 episodes so far, $29.97 to catch up
- 03Double Disguise: Lovers’ Deadly Gamestill releasing — 65 episodes so far, $39.96 to catch up
- 04I Married My Scumbag Ex's Unclecheapest complete run here at $14.99
- 05After the Political Alliance: The Profligate Royal Heir Bends the Knee to Herstill releasing — 50 episodes so far, $29.97 to catch up
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The extremes
| Series | Platform | Episodes | Runtime | To finish | |
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| Cheapest to finish | I Married My Scumbag Ex's Uncle | NetShort | 30 | — | $14.99 |
| Most expensive | Bound by a Djinn‘s Pact | NetShort | 67 | — | $39.96 |
| Shortest | I Married My Scumbag Ex's Uncle | NetShort | 30 | — | $14.99 |
| Longest | Bound by a Djinn‘s Pact | NetShort | 67 | — | $39.96 |
| Most free episodes | The Vampire Heir’s Bride | NetShort | 36 | — | $14.99 |
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Adjust the assumptionsWhat it costs to watch all of it
$319.71to finish all 13
—total viewing
44average episodes
Median series here costs $29.97 and runs —. We do not hold a completed-or-ongoing status for these, so treat the totals as what is published today.Estimates assume no free coins and the cheapest coin-pack combination on each platform.
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Where to find them
13 of the 13 are on NetShort.
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Open in the finderAll 13
50 EPfinish for$29.97
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After the Political Alliance: The Profligate Royal Heir Bends the Knee to Her
50 EPfinish for$29.97
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Billionaire's Contract Girlfriend
67 EPfinish for$39.96
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Bound by a Djinn‘s Pact
65 EPfinish for$39.96
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Double Disguise: Lovers’ Deadly Game
52 EPfinish for$29.97
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Ex-Boyfriend is My Stepmother
47 EPfinish for$29.97
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Forced to Marry, Saved by a Killer
30 EPfinish for$14.99
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I Married My Scumbag Ex's Uncle
30 EPfinish for$14.99
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My Broke Husband Owns Everything
30 EPfinish for$14.99
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My Ex's Dangerous Uncle
34 EPfinish for$14.99
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The day of my wedding, I ended up marrying the bridegroom’s dad
30 EPfinish for$14.99
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The Frenzied Dragon Is Mine
50 EPfinish for$29.97
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The Queen's Submission Contract
36 EPfinish for$14.99
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The Vampire Heir’s Bride
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How this page was built
The 13 series on this page carry Contract Lovers as a trope label in the catalogue of the platform that publishes them. We do not tag series ourselves, which means this page is exactly as complete, and as inconsistent, as the platforms' own labelling. Episode counts and runtimes are read from each platform's listing for that specific series; coin prices come from the in-app purchase tiers Apple publishes for each app. We hold complete pricing for all 13. Nothing on this page is a paid placement, and we do not rank by anything we were given for free.