Their Brother, the Dragon Sacrifice

The setup

Alistair is the eighteen-year-old foster son of the Quinn family and has spent years being beaten and mistreated. When the realm needs a human sacrifice, he volunteers. His family has no idea what he is doing: they believe the lies of his brother Dorian and keep mistreating him. Alistair walks into the dragon valley expecting to die, and the dragons kneel before him. Their leader, Sule, recognises the lost dragon prince and helps him claim his place as the Dragon King. ReelShort's character notes describe Dorian as the manipulative brother who frames Alistair again and again until his true colours show, Lord Quinn as the head of House Quinn who cast Alistair aside, and Lady Quinn as the foster mother who strips him of his place as her son. It ends on whether the Quinns win his forgiveness or face the dragon king's wrath.

• Fantasy & magic
• Family & ethics
• Revenge & payback
• vindicating
• grim

Content warning: domestic abuse.

Premise rewritten here from ReelShort's description, read Oct 28, 2026.

Price of the run

• $19.97ReelShort: 40 locked episodes at 60 coins apiece come to 2,400 coins (60 per episode is the figure in ReelShort's coin guide, read Oct 18, 2026). Smallest spend that covers it: 1,820 + 2 × 300 coins for $19.97, our sum from the pack prices in ReelShort's store on Oct 28, 2026.

• Locked episodes: 40. At 60 coins each (coin guide, read 2026-10-18) that is 2,400 coins, about $24.95 in packs, calculated by us because the title page prints no price.Source, checked Oct 28, 2026
• Ten free of 50 (20%) sits one above the 9-episode median across the ReelShort listings we track (counted 2026-10-28); finishing costs about $25. It is an abuse-then-vindication story, so if that is not your genre, ten episodes will say so.Source: data/dramas/partner/reelshort-rsboost.json, checked Oct 28, 2026

ReelShort passes on the App Store: $19.99 (checked Oct 18, 2026).