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🎬 The Fae King Is My Shadow Daddy (2026)

📌 Basic Information

• Genre: Fantasy / Supernatural / Romance

• Tags: fantasy · enemy to lover · fae & human · immortal · heiress · BG romance

• Main Characters: Caspian, Eliana

• Language: English

• Format: Short Drama / Mini Series

• Platform: DramaBox

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📖 Synopsis

To prevent an all-out war between fae and humans, a young human heiress, Eliana, is forced into a political marriage with Caspian, the ruthless and immortal High King of the Fae.

Cold, lethal, and feared across realms, Caspian rules a brutal fae court where mercy is a weakness and survival is never guaranteed—especially for a fragile human bride. Trapped in a world of deadly magic, ancient rivalries, and treacherous nobles, Eliana must navigate court politics while fulfilling the impossible demand: produce an heir to secure peace between two species.

What begins as a marriage of obligation slowly turns into a dangerous game of trust, protection, and forbidden desire. As enemies close in and secrets unravel, the question remains—will the Fae King become her executioner… or her fiercest protector?

🎭 Cast

• Arthur Logai as Caspian

  @logai.arthur
  Arthur Logai is known for 7 Bazhan (2026), Puppies (2025), and The Eggsplosive Easter (2024). His portrayal of the icy, dominant Fae King brings both menace and unexpected vulnerability to the role.

• Kateryna Belinska as Eliana

  @n.nstrnko
  Kateryna Belinska is known for Hiding in His Shower (2025), Queen of Hearts (2025), and I’m Her Most Dangerous Obsession (2025). She delivers a compelling performance as a human heiress forced to grow strong in a merciless magical world.

• Anton Artyomov as Fae’s Guard
  @anton_artyomov
  One of the elite warriors sworn to protect the High King. His imposing presence and physical performance help define the danger and discipline of the fae court.

• Daria Hrachova as Maid
  @grachovadasha
  A quiet observer within the palace, her character offers subtle insight into daily life inside the fae court and the isolation faced by the human bride.

• Dasha Tragubova as Hag
  @dasha.tregubova
  A dark, supernatural figure tied to ancient magic. Her eerie performance adds tension and a sense of looming danger to the story’s mystical elements.

• Kateryna Belinska as Eliana Rosa
  @katyshabelinskaya
  A human heiress forced into marriage with the Fae King to prevent war. Kateryna portrays Eliana’s transformation from vulnerability to quiet strength with emotional depth and resilience.

• Nazar Grabar as Duke Matthias
  @nazargrabar
  A powerful noble within the fae court whose ambitions and political maneuvers challenge the fragile peace between realms.

• Oleksandr Rudko as Liam
  @o_rudko
  A supportive yet conflicted figure connected to Eliana’s human past, representing the emotional cost of leaving the mortal world behind.

• Oleksandra Pankova as Lady Zoya
  @oleksa.pankova
  An elegant but dangerous court lady whose words are as sharp as her intentions. Her character embodies the hidden rivalries of the fae aristocracy.

• Pavlo Kochubei as Fae Priest
  @pavlo.kochubei
  The spiritual authority presiding over ancient rituals and royal traditions, reinforcing the weight of destiny and prophecy within the fae realm.

• Sergiy Denga as Regent Nickolas Rosa
  @sergeydenga
  The calculating head of the Rosa family, whose political decisions set the marriage alliance—and much of the conflict—into motion.

• Yaroslav Shynder as Servant
  @yaroslavshynder
  A background character who subtly reflects the rigid hierarchy and quiet tensions within the royal palace.

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🎥 Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes

• On-set filming footage

• Funny selfies taken by the cast during shooting

• Script read-through before production

• Cast dinner gatherings

• Adorable photos of the leads with their pets 🐾

🎬 Crew

• Director: Alina Bukhtiyarova
  Known for her visual storytelling and atmospheric pacing, she brings a dark fairy-tale tone to the series.

• Showrunner: Anastasia Filonenko
  @aflnnk
  Oversees the series’ narrative direction, balancing fantasy spectacle with emotional romance.

• Production Company: AMO Pictures
  @amopictures.official
  A production studio recognized for high-quality short dramas with cinematic visuals and strong genre identity.

⭐ Reviews

“Classic enemy-to-lover fantasy, but with great chemistry and a surprisingly tender male lead.”

“The fae court setting is dark and stylish. Caspian is terrifying… and hot.”

“Short episodes, fast pacing, and very addictive. Perfect if you love immortal kings and political romance.”

“Eliana isn’t just a damsel—her growth arc makes the story much more satisfying.”

① “A Marriage Meant to End a War” — When a Human Bride Walks into a Fae Court That Eats the Weak

No one ever tells Eliana that marrying the Fae King won’t just cost her freedom.
It will cost her fear.

From the moment she steps into the fae realm, everything is wrong in a way that feels intentional. The air hums like it’s alive. The shadows move when no one should be touching them. The nobles smile with mouths full of teeth that are just a little too sharp. And at the center of it all sits Caspian—the immortal High King, rumored to have ended rebellions with nothing but his gaze.

This marriage is not romance. It is a ceasefire.

Eliana knows the rules before she even crosses the threshold of the palace: produce an heir, survive the court, keep the peace between fae and humans. Fail at any one of them, and war will follow. The humans will burn first.

What she doesn’t know—what no one warned her about—is that the fae court is not designed to test love. It is designed to test endurance.

Every dinner is a battlefield of whispered threats. Every ceremonial bow hides a blade. Every noble is waiting for her to break, because humans always do. They bleed too easily. They love too loudly. They die too fast.

And Caspian?
Caspian watches.

He is distant, brutal in reputation, restrained in presence. He never touches her unless required by ritual. He never defends her publicly. When she is humiliated, he lets it happen. When she is poisoned—lightly, experimentally—he allows the court to see whether she survives on her own.

This is what makes the tension unbearable.
Because when no one is watching, Caspian does intervene.

The shadows curl closer around her when she’s afraid. The poison stops spreading before it reaches her heart. The assassin who crept into her chambers is found the next morning, kneeling in the courtyard, begging for death. Caspian never explains. He never apologizes. He simply says, “You are under my protection.”

Protection, in the fae world, is not gentle. It is absolute.

As Eliana learns to navigate the court—learning when to bow, when to remain silent, when to speak with calculated cruelty—she realizes something terrifying: Caspian is not testing whether she can survive the fae. He is testing whether she can rule them.

And slowly, impossibly, she changes.

She stops flinching at threats. She learns to lie without shame. She learns that mercy, in this world, is a currency best spent rarely. The court begins to whisper not about when she will die—but about what kind of queen she might become.

The romance between them does not arrive softly. It is forged in shared danger, in moments where Caspian finally lets the mask slip—revealing exhaustion beneath immortality, loneliness beneath power, and a rage that has been held in check for centuries.

By the time Eliana realizes she is no longer afraid of him, it is already too late.

Because the court is no longer debating whether the human bride will survive.

They are debating whether the Fae King would destroy the realm for her.

② Enemy to Lover, but Make It Immortal and Political

American fantasy audiences love a powerful male lead—but The Fae King Is My Shadow Daddy understands something crucial: power only works when it has consequences.

Caspian is not a misunderstood sweetheart. He is not secretly gentle. He is not waiting for love to redeem him.

He is effective.

For centuries, he has ruled through fear because fear works. The fae respect strength, and Caspian has never pretended otherwise. When rebellion rises, he crushes it. When treaties fail, he ends them. When humans speak of him, they do so in the same tone reserved for natural disasters—unavoidable, destructive, indifferent.

Which is why forcing him into marriage with a human is such a perfect narrative choice.

Eliana represents everything the fae despise: mortality, emotional honesty, moral hesitation. She is political leverage wrapped in a fragile body. The court expects Caspian to discard her once the heir is secured.

But Caspian does something far more dangerous.

He invests.

Not emotionally at first—strategically. He begins to teach her the rules of power. Not kindly. Not gently. He allows her to fail publicly, because survival matters more than pride. He corrects her privately, because weakness must never be visible.

When she asks why he does not simply kill those who threaten her, his answer is chilling:
“Because fear fades. Memory lasts.”

This is where the enemy-to-lover dynamic shines. Eliana does not soften Caspian. She adapts to him. She learns his language—of leverage, silence, and calculated violence. And in doing so, she becomes something the fae court never anticipated: a human who understands power as well as they do.

Their relationship grows in the margins. In the moments after failed negotiations. In the quiet aftermath of executions. In the rare nights where Caspian admits that immortality is not endless life—it is endless responsibility.

And then comes the turning point American audiences crave: the moment where Caspian must choose between political stability and personal allegiance.

When the court moves to eliminate Eliana—not openly, but elegantly—Caspian responds not as a husband, but as a king.

He dismantles families. He rewrites alliances. He makes an example so brutal that the court never questions her position again.

From that moment on, Eliana is no longer “the human bride.”

She is the queen the fae fear.

The romance becomes inevitable, not because it is tender, but because it is earned. Two beings forged by necessity, choosing each other not for comfort, but for survival.

This is not a love story about healing.

It is a love story about dominance, loyalty, and choosing the same side when the world demands blood.