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Miss You After Goodbye

Miss You After Goodbye is a 2025 American vertical short drama (micro-drama) of 75 episodes, each roughly one to two minutes long, released on the ReelShort app and listed on IMDb as a TV mini series under identifier tt37984131.¹^•² It is a contract-marriage romance: to repay a debt of kindness, Neil signs a secret contract with Keira's father agreeing to marry her for five years and help her recover from a painful breakup with her first love, Simon.³

Key fact	Detail
Format	75 episodes of about 1–2 minutes each, one season, vertical short drama²
Platforms	ReelShort (app and web) and DramaBox; no official "full movie" cut exists⁴
Release	ReelShort lists August 15, 2025; IMDbPro lists the first episode as released August 21, 2025 in the United States²^•⁵
Director and writer	Ruixi Royce Gao; producer Hanting Wei⁵
Main cast	Ben Taylor as Neil Wade, Haley Lohrli as Keira Thorne, Josh Welles as Simon Franklin⁵
IMDb rating	6.4/10 from 325 ratings (unweighted mean 7.1)¹^•⁶
Cost to finish	Episodes 1–11 free; 60 coins per locked episode, about $38.32 in coins for the remaining 64, or a $14.99 one-week pass²

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Premise and story

The series follows Neil Wade, a stay-at-home husband who gave up his career to care for his wife, Keira Thorne. According to the official synopsis, he signs a secret contract with Keira's father, David Thorne, undertaking to marry her for five years and help her recover from her breakup with Simon Franklin. During the marriage Neil is attentive and caring, but Keira treats him as no more than Simon's substitute. When the contract ends, Neil discovers her continuing infatuation with Simon and decides to divorce her; Keira, learning of his departure, regrets her behavior and searches for him, but he has already moved on.³^•⁷

Early episodes. Episode 1 opens on the couple's anniversary, when Neil's gift to Keira is divorce papers; she has been planning a trip with Simon.⁸ Episode 2 has Keira calling Neil a useless stay-at-home husband and asking him to be more like Simon, while the audience learns that Neil would have been the lead astrophysicist at NASX had he not agreed to care for her five years earlier.⁸ In episode 3, Keira signs the divorce papers without reading them, and Neil, learning that Simon took credit for naming an asteroid after Keira's dead mother, decides to rejoin NASX.⁸ The trailer summarizes the arc: Neil leaves for Mars and spends a year with no contact, leaving Keira to regret her actions.⁹

Ending. According to ReelShort Fandom, a blog run by the company, Neil will not reconcile with Keira and at the story's close is together with Daisy Nash, who carries his baby; Beth is turned over to the authorities for having stolen from the Thornes, and Simon loses his job as his family goes bankrupt.²

Cast and production

Ruixi Royce Gao directed and wrote the series, and Hanting Wei produced it, with Bofan Zhang as executive producer and Asianna Kim as line producer.⁵^•¹⁰ Ben Taylor plays Neil Wade, Haley Lohrli plays Keira Thorne, and Josh Welles plays Simon Franklin; the supporting cast includes Michael Nicklin as David Thorne, Maura Lefevre as Beth Thorne, Hannah Chandler as Daisy Nash, and Roy Abramsohn as James Westfield.⁵^•¹⁰

ReelShort states that the series was originally filmed in English and is not dubbed, that it is a live-action production with a real cast and crew, and that it is not AI-generated.³

Release and viewership

ReelShort lists the series as released on August 15, 2025,² while IMDbPro records the first episode's United States release date as August 21, 2025.⁵ The series is complete, with all 75 episodes available.³ BiliBili also lists a Chinese Mainland version of the title, 离婚后想念你, starting September 24, 2025.¹¹

By the numbers. The tracking site GASP recorded 260.8 million views on ReelShort and 2.7 million saves, ranking it 35th most-watched among the 1,187 ReelShort dramas it tracks and 3rd among 152 divorce dramas; at 75 episodes it is longer than 87% of tracked ReelShort dramas, whose typical length is 55 episodes.² A Real Reel review published September 17, 2025 reported the series at number one on both ReelShort and DramaBox and in the top three of GuangDaDa's monthly ranking.¹²

Reception

The IMDb rating stands at 6.4/10 from 325 ratings, with an unweighted mean of 7.1; the countries contributing the most ratings are the United States, the Philippines, Turkey, India, and the United Kingdom.¹^•⁶

Critical and viewer responses split along the format's usual lines. The Real Reel review gave the series two and a half stars out of five, describing it as rage-bait engineered as marketing clips, with a hero who absorbs punishment rather than growing, and calling its platform dominance "a warning flare" for vertical storytelling.¹² Fan commentary summarized on the series' guide site praises the pacing and Neil's arc from patience to principled boundary-setting, while criticizing uneven acting, choppy edits, and underused side characters; the ending divides viewers between those who wanted a reunion and those who preferred the story's choice of consequence over a fairy-tale reset.¹³

Availability and title confusion

The official release is the 75-episode series on ReelShort and DramaBox; there is no official full-movie cut, and videos labeled "full movie" on other sites are unofficial, often out of order or missing scenes.⁴ On ReelShort, episodes 1–11 are free and the paywall begins at episode 12; unlocking the remaining 64 episodes costs about $38.32 in coins at 60 coins per episode ($4.99 per 500 coins), while a weekly VIP pass costs $14.99 on the web ($11.99 the first week), making the pass the cheaper way to finish.² ReelShort has posted official clips and a behind-the-scenes video on YouTube, but copies of full episodes elsewhere are not official.²

The title is shared by unrelated productions. A different DramaBox series called Miss You After Goodbye runs 61 episodes and concerns two sisters-in-law married to brothers who still love the same woman.¹⁴ A separate vertical drama, My Love, Miss You After Goodbye, runs 45 episodes on DramaWave.¹⁵ The ReelShort series discussed here is the one tied to IMDb tt37984131.⁴ As of October 2026, no second season or part had been listed by ReelShort.²

Context in vertical drama

The series is an example of the micro-drama format that emerged in China and spread globally: vertically shot episodes of one to three minutes, with the first episodes free and later ones paid per unlock or by subscription. The Associated Press reported in 2026 that global micro-drama revenues were estimated by Omdia to reach $14 billion by the end of 2026, and that ReelShort, the platform behind this series, had drawn investment from Kim Kardashian as part of Hollywood's entry into the format.¹⁶ ReelShort's monetization model, in which a typical drama leaves about nine episodes free before the paywall, is visible in this title's eleven free episodes, slightly above the platform norm.²

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026