Best Billionaire and CEO Short Dramas: August 2026
112 series of billionaire & ceo landed in August 2026, up 44% on July. ReelShort published the most of them (38, 34% of the month), ahead of KalosTV (15) and StardustTV (14); the rest came from 7 other apps.
Within the theme, the month leaned on billionaire & ceo, marriage & contract marriage and divorce & betrayal, and 65% of what arrived carries our R story rating for violence, threat or dark themes. The newest arrivals lead the list: The Crown He Lost, His Daughter Chose Me and King of Gold first, then everything else in the order it landed, each with the synopsis, both ratings and a direct link. Every title starts with free episodes.
Part of Best Billionaire and CEO Short Dramas, which carries every title on the theme regardless of month.
The 5 to start with

The Crown He Lost
Top actor Connor Grant announces his relationship with Lily Chase at a concert, ending his eight‑year bond with Serena Hayes. He never expects Serena is secretly married to tycoon Julian Hart and has twins. After Serena quits showbiz and Julian's identity is revealed, Connor realizes his loss and Lily's schemes. Serena and Julian reconcile and build a happy family.
On HoneyReels · added 2026-08-19 · free episodes to start

His Daughter Chose Me
At sixteen, Sofia’s adoptive mother sold her eggs on the black market, stealing her chance to ever become a mother. Years later, Sofia is just a school custodian—until she saves a little girl from a kidnapping and catches the attention of her mysterious billionaire father. Desperate to protect his daughter from a vicious custody battle, he offers Sofia an unexpected deal: marry him. What starts as a fake marriage soon turns into a love neither of them can resist. But his ruthless ex-wife, buried secrets, and deadly betrayals threaten to tear their new family apart. Sofia has already lost her chance at motherhood. Will she lose the family she finally found?
On ReelShort · added 2026-08-19 · free episodes to start

King of Gold
In 1849, the American West, poor dockworker William is betrayed by his lover and his boss, losing everything and becoming a slave laborer in a gold mine. On the brink of death, he awakens a mysterious "Golden Eye" that allows him to see through anything and uncover hidden treasures. From a powerless nobody to a legendary mining tycoon, William uses his extraordinary vision and intelligence to defeat the elites who once crushed him!
On ReelShort · added 2026-08-19 · free episodes to start
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[ENG DUB] Payback in a Poor Man's Clothes
Kidnapped as a child, CEO Ryan Luke finally finds his birth parents twenty three years later, and instead of walking in as the head of a company, he comes home posing as a broke nobody. He wants to know if what's waiting for him is real. His sister-in-law sneers at his shabby clothes, relatives whisper behind his back and make no effort to hide their scorn, but his parents pull out a sweater they've kept folded away for years, saved for the son they never stopped waiting for. Moved by their quiet, unconditional welcome, Ryan stays in disguise and quietly starts rebuilding his younger brother's confidence and prospects, while working behind the scenes to expose the relatives circling the family for what they can get. When the truth finally comes out at a public demolition meeting, he reveals exactly who he is, moves his parents and brother into a home worthy of them, and the two brothers celebrate a joint wedding as the family, finally whole, comes together.
On GoodShort · added 2026-08-19 · free episodes to start

The Pharaoh Princess Raised Her Own Father
After taking an assassin's blade meant for her father, Egyptian princess Amenet awakens in modern New York — reborn as a billionaire dynasty's true heir.Armed with ancient divine power, she rebuilds her father's empire, shreds every enemy's scheme, and seizes the throne.
On GoodShort · added 2026-08-19 · free episodes to start
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Where billionaire & ceo sits in the wider catalogue
We track 16,670 series in total, and 4,458 of them carry this theme, roughly 27% of what we list. That share matters when you are choosing an app: a theme spread thinly across ten apps means whichever you install, most of it will be somewhere else.
If you want the whole shelf rather than a slice of it, the Best Billionaire and CEO Short Dramas hub carries every title we have, sorted newest first, with the same ratings and the same free-episode information on each.
How this list is built
These are the series whose publication date falls in August 2026, taken from the live catalogue rather than any app's promoted shelf, so it includes titles the apps are not pushing, which are frequently the ones worth finding.
65% of this list carries our R story rating, for violence, threat or dark themes. Most of these ratings are provisional: derived from the synopsis rather than from us watching the series, and deliberately rounded up, because under-rating a dark plot costs a viewer more than over-rating a gentle one costs us. Romance heat is a separate scale and only appears where we have watched something. How our ratings work.
Where we have watched a series you will see our verdict and both ratings; where we have not, you get the platform’s own synopsis and nothing we have not earned. Our method is on how we review. Every app here is free to install and every series starts with free episodes, so trying two costs nothing; the ranked app comparison covers which ones respect your money.