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Things I Wanted to SayA quiet outsider learns a secret belonging to Whit Lancaster, the untouchable figure at her elite prep school. His response is a coercive bargain: submit to his private control or face public ruin. Family power shields him as attraction and intimidation complicate her position.
The Unconventional Fate“After dying for me through 99 lifetimes, in the 100th, it’s my turn to save you!”The ancient shaman Xu Yanqiu is reborn as a Republican-era heiress and is unexpectedly rescued by Bai Jinxiao, the young deputy leader of the Xuanwu Alliance, thus breaking the cycle of fated death. As foreign forces from the East close in and hidden tensions surge within her family, the two lovers bound by a century-long destiny fight side by side. This time, can they break free from the shackles of reincarnation and finally be together?
UndercurrentShen Yuwei was a star architecture student and she and Lu Xiaohan were the couple everyone at university envied. Then Lu Xiaohan's half brother assaulted her and used his position to force her into marrying him. Lu Xiaohan, believing she had turned on him for being born outside the marriage, left the country carrying that. Shen Yuwei found out soon after that she was pregnant with his child, and raised the boy quietly. Years pass. The elder brother is killed in a car crash and Lu Xiaohan comes back at the head of the company, cold and harder to read than the man she knew. In front of everyone he treats the widow of his brother with indifference and lets her take what the family gives her, while behind it he keeps her covered. She is worn out and wants nothing more than to build something of her own without being pulled back into him. The child keeps putting them in the same rooms.
SteelHeart SoftensAfter dying from 20 years of factory work, Willa is reborn and encounters Yann Jones, the tough school bully and son of her previous life's factory boss. After a fierce fight, he pulls her into an alley and surprisingly pleads for forgiveness with a stubborn coo.
Love Me, but Hurt Me?A fire in childhood killed Sophie Sutton's mother and the youngest daughter of the Morton family. The two households never recovered from it, and Sophie and Henry Morton, who had been close before the fire, grew up hating each other across that loss. Sophie spent years abroad. On the night she came home her father Philip got her drunk and had her put into Henry's bed, and neither of them understood until later that it had been arranged. Her brother had gone missing by then, and when Sophie pressed her father for help finding him, the condition he set was that she marry Henry. She agreed without arguing about it. The marriage put two people who blamed each other for a death into the same house, and they quarrelled in the open while wanting each other in private. Around them the families were fighting over property, and the terms Philip kept adding suggested he had a reason for wanting this particular match that had nothing to do with the missing son. Sophie began pulling at the fire, the inheritance, and her father's arrangements at the same time, aware that whatever she found would decide whether what she felt for Henry was allowed to be anything.
Feed the DemonClara Ríos is a grass spirit. She was sent down to the mortal world to help Leonardo Salazar, an immortal lord, through his Love Tribulation, and she understood her orders to mean she was to devour her master. What she actually needs from him is his kisses, which restore her own energy.
The Crown Prince and the immortal lady Carmen Montes both scheme against them, and Clara and Leonardo fight the two of them side by side. Over the course of it Clara stops wanting to devour him. She wants to stay with him.
The Marshal's Reborn BridePrincess Yun Jing is married at the end of the Qing dynasty, and her husband Shen Yifu leaves on the wedding night without explanation. She dies six months later. Her soul wakes ten years on, in the Republic era, in the body of a girl named Lin Yunzhi. This time she intends to decide her own life, so she goes to Shanghai to study, and finds Shen Yifu there as a university supervisor. He notices her gestures and mannerisms, which are those of his dead wife, and starts testing her. Meanwhile the Lin family is in trouble. Her eldest brother's oil research has attracted people who want it, and her elder sister's death does not hold up to examination. Handling those crises puts the two of them together, and feeling grows between them, and a habit of hers that nobody else could have known confirms for him who she is. The danger closes in, and to protect her and clear out the men behind it he returns to the army, taking up his old post as a young marshal. The reason he ran from the wedding comes out: he had been ordered away on revolutionary work and had no choice, which settles ten years of misunderstanding between them.
Playing Innocent, Winning His HeartSophie Stone got into bed with Victor Hayes to settle a score with the woman she was competing with, who is his niece. Victor is the money behind a large business house, and everyone around Sophie assumed that a girl her own family treated as a burden would be skinned alive for provoking him.
That is not how he handled it. He kept her, paid for her, and said in front of people who had known him for years that his support went to Sophie regardless of who was in the right.
The trouble came out of her own household. Her half-sister set her up, which put Sophie in the middle of the quarrel between the Stone family and the Hayes family, over business and over who was ending up with whom. There was a prize Sophie had won that she was accused of not having earned, and the accusation stood until the facts about it came out, along with the facts about where Sophie actually came from.
Hearts Through the HazeWen Ning was eighteen when she started seeing Mu Tangsheng, a man under her father's command and eight years older than her. They kept it going in secret for ten years. Then her older brother was killed in battle and her father fell seriously ill, and she asked Mu Tangsheng to marry her, to settle her father's mind and her brother's spirit. It was the tenth time she had asked. He turned her down again and took up with Ye Wanxin, a childhood friend his own age.
She made no scene about it this time. She knelt in front of the Buddha and drew a lot, and the lot gave her Zhou Ye, a mercenary captain with a bad name. She set the wedding for the soonest date she could get.
The Late Wife Returns Darkened"I died a long time ago, killed by my own husband.
Reborn, it’s time for me to turn dark and settle all scores.
But why is there a handsome stranger in my bed?"
In the Palm of His HandMatteo Franconi decides he is going to marry Shelby Yates within a day of her saving his life. She is in her last year of college and had stepped in without knowing who he was. He is a billionaire who ran a mafia family before he ran a company, and the people who deal with him are still careful about it. He tells her he wants her as his wife, and then he keeps telling her. He is possessive with it, and the asking turns into pressure she cannot get out from under. His money came out of a business run on violence, and the reputation that goes with it says he is cruel. Up close he behaves as though his job is to keep her safe. Shelby has to work out which of those is the man she is dealing with, and he wants an answer about the wedding.
My Matchmaker from HellA clerical error in the underworld gets the wrong soul pulled in. Su Ruanruan is an ordinary office worker whose whole ambition was to be left alone, and now she is standing in front of the King of Hell over a paperwork mistake. She beats him up. What she gets out of the encounter is a rebirth package with a system attached, and a placement in an imperial harem, which is not what she asked for. The King of Hell's arrangement requires her to get into the emperor's bed and hold his attention. The system carries her through the parts she has no training for. She takes apart the women scheming around her, goes up against the cruel consorts, gets corrupt officials punished, and ends up defending the country. She starts at the bottom of the palace staff, the lowest rank of maid, and climbs, speaking for every overworked underling in the palace and out of it against rules stacked to keep them down. By the end her standing is that of a saintess, level with the emperor himself, and the thing she wanted all along, a life with nothing demanded of her, is finally within reach.
Veil of Revenge, Kiss of DesireThree sons of wealthy families drove a girl to take her own life. Her mother was beaten into a coma.
The girl was Beth Durham's younger sister. Beth dropped out of university and took work at Cloud Lounge, which is where Harvey Clark spends his evenings. Harvey holds more power than anyone else in the city, and getting near him was the whole reason Beth went there.
At the lounge she plays a woman who is fragile and easy to manage, and she works out each step before she takes it. Harvey attaches himself to her, possessive about it and giving her all of his attention. Beth had not allowed for that in her planning, and she ends up in love with him.
Race to Romance (English Ver.)To fight in the World Racing Championship, Shen Yi joins the Changgu Racing Team in place of her comatose brother and encounters Gu Yichen. From fiery clashes to sparks of romance, their relationship evolves through rivalry and passion. Battling relentless obstacles, they fall in love and get success.
Deny Me, Dragon KingLyra is human. She crosses paths with Kael, the Dragon King, and they spend a night together. Afterwards Kael is told a prophecy that is false, and he banishes her. He does not know she is carrying his child. Lyra gives birth to a daughter, Amber, who is half dragon. Years later Amber falls ill and Lyra goes back to find a healer who can treat her. Seeing each other again brings the old feeling back. Rivals who are jealous of Lyra work against her, and secrets about bloodlines come out while the two of them try to hold the family together.
Ties Beyond BloodAt first, he was full of hostility toward this unrelated younger sister.
But during a thunderstorm, she hid in his bed, terrified.
They had a secret love, then a painful breakup.
Until five years later, on another stormy night, she stepped into his room once again.
Married by Contract，Loved by FateA blood type mistake reveals that her entire identity is a lie, and she is pushed into marriage with a powerful heir. Their contract life begins cold, distant, and loveless. But every quiet act of protection slowly turns a forced marriage into a love neither of them can deny.
I Proposed To My Fiancé’s BrotherOn the eve of her engagement, a wealthy heiress discovers a mysterious novel on her future brother-in-law’s computer, with her and him as the secret leads. Believing he has loved her all along, she boldly proposes after her fiancé’s scandal breaks. Their contract marriage begins with hilarious misunderstandings and unexpected romance, until the truth behind the novel is finally revealed.
Reborn to Fall Back Into His ArmsMia Mason dies and opens her eyes three years earlier, keeping everything she knows and with none of it done yet. In the life she lost she was married to a man called Yin Ting, who gave her the silent treatment for the whole three years of the marriage, and she learned why only as she was dying. He had married her to get back at Ninth Master, the man who had raised her, and the person he actually wanted was his childhood friend Yu Tiantian.
Ninth Master is her guardian, the man who brought her up, cold and off on his own. In the first life she was frightened of him and ran, and she hurt him on her husband's account. Three years back, she goes to him instead and holds on to him, and what she wants now is to spoil him and look after him. She had liked him for a long time herself. He had buried what he felt and settled into the idea of being alone for good, so her going at him this hard is not something he was ready for.
Accidentally in LoveIn Jiangcheng there is a game people play where two strangers act out a couple for a while, and everyone involved agrees it is only a game. Ling Jue, the heir of one of the city's big families, meets Qin Shuyi that way. She works as a mortician and she is cold with people.
They keep it going on those terms. People look down on what she does for a living, and the two of them misunderstand each other repeatedly, and they separate. Ling Jue, who is proud and slow to admit anything, works out only after she has walked away that he had been in love with her for some time. He drops the pride and goes after her, and in front of everyone he says what he feels.
The Male Lead Who Refuses LoveI came into this world just to fall in love with you.
You will always be my one and only leading lady.
Love isn’t possession — it’s letting you shine.
Trash Man Stolen? Secret CEO Mine!Caroline and Lucy have been friends for years, and their lives went in opposite directions. Caroline married a man who became president of a corporate group and lived well. Lucy lost her husband and her money, and the envy ate at her until she attacked Caroline on her wedding day and then killed herself. Both of them wake on the day of the blind date that started it. Lucy goes after the man she knows Caroline is meant to marry, wanting the wealth that came with him. Caroline lets her have him and picks a plain working man instead. The working man is the heir to a fortune, a young company president keeping it quiet. Lucy believes she is the one running things.
My First Love, My Second ChanceAt an anniversary gala, Claire Blake comes face-to-face with Victor Hale, the secret first love she never truly forgot. Years of misunderstandings keep their feelings trapped in a hot-and-cold relationship, but whenever Claire is brought down by trouble at work or in life, Victor quietly steps in to help. As the old confusion finally clears, the two lovers find their way back to the happy ending they lost long ago.
Dominate Me Please, GeneralSu Miao was the legitimate daughter of the Duke's household, and she trusted her half-sister Su Mingyan and the Crown Prince Rong Yu. They destroyed her family, and she died in the cold palace. General Qin Yan died on the battlefield trying to protect her body. She opens her eyes on the night she was sent to Qin Yan's room. This time she makes him an offer: she will help him take power if he protects her family. What she does not know is that he remembers the last life too. He passes in public for a man with nothing to do and in fact commands the thirteen ghost guard armies, and he is possessive about her past all reason, clearing anyone out of her way. The bargain between them turns into something neither of them arranged. The Crown Prince's treason comes out, and so does what her half-sister really is. On the night of their wedding she goes up to the attic and finds the walls covered in portraits of herself.
Vanished Gem, Snatched HeartThe sapphire came with conditions. Cassandra agreed to all of them and married Ye Chen under a contract to get near it. She had been an agent for years. The stone was a Ye family heirloom and she had gone after it once before, and that was when she turned invisible for the first time.
On the night of the marriage vows she went invisible and moved on the sapphire. The power gave out partway. She was close to standing in front of the guests with nothing on when Ye Chen reached her first, and that came near to giving away her work. Later she opened the door of the ice chamber to get Ye Chen out, and the only thing that would open it was the key an agent carries. Using it exposed her as an agent and made clear who she answered to.
Embracing the Clear SkyAnna Harper and Sean Potter marry because their families introduce them and both sets of parents want it settled. They barely know each other on the wedding day. Afterward Anna takes a job at SkyAir, the airline where Sean already works, so the two of them are now sharing a home and a workplace at the same time. The daily overlap does most of the work. They learn each other's habits, find out what the other one is like under pressure at the airline, and the trust builds up in ordinary increments. Problems come at them from the job and from their families, and they start handling those together rather than separately, which is roughly the point at which the arranged part of the marriage stops mattering. The affection turns out to be real, and the life they build on top of the arrangement is a settled one.
From Probation to Proposal: Triplets with the CEOHuo Zhining spends the night with a woman he cannot afterwards identify, because someone had slipped a drug into his glass at a company function and he remembers almost none of it. The woman is Lin Xi, an intern in his own building. She grew up in a village, got into the finance program at one of the country's best universities, and took the job to pay for her mother, whose Alzheimer's has reached the point where she sometimes does not recognise her daughter. Lin Xi has no connections at the company, which is why her probation kept getting extended while colleagues with family in the industry were confirmed.
Two days later the notice comes through that she has been made permanent. She assumes the two things are connected and that she has traded her body for the position, so she says nothing about that night and arranges her days around not being in the same room as him. It does not work. She is put on his projects, sent up to his floor, kept in his sightline.
Then she finds out she is two months pregnant, with triplets, and that whatever passed between them has left the two of them physically linked in a way neither can explain: he wakes up nauseous in the mornings she does. Huo Zhining works out who she is, moves her into his house, and starts behaving like a man with a wife to look after, while Lin Xi is still carrying the belief that her job was bought and not earned.
The Phoenix ThroneEvelina Blackwood ends up spending a night with the crown prince because of a plot that was meant to disgrace her, and from then on the two of them are close. The plot was her fiancé's and her stepmother's, and it involved drugging her.
Before any of that, Evelina had died in a famine. She starved, and the only power she had ever been given was a test of parentage, which was of no use to her. She opened her eyes again inside a bridal sedan in an ancient age. There the parentage test turned out to have a use. With it she showed that her fiancé and her stepmother were lovers and that they had a son between them whom they had kept hidden. The fiancé's name was ruined by it, and he and the stepmother went after her with the drugging, which is how she came to the crown prince. She goes on to expose that her stepmother had her father bring up a child that was another man's, and makes her father behave like a father. Then, with the crown prince, she sets about punishing the fiancé and those with him.
Falling for Each Other"A restrained, ascetic doctor × a seductive international supermodel — a tense, push-and-pull game.
On the surface, she’s the one luring him, but in truth, he’s been plotting all along.
The most sophisticated prey often appears as the hunter."
Captive Love of the ExAn heir falls for a young woman at first sight, then mistakes her for a gold digger and deliberately humiliates her. Five years later, she is dating his cousin and tries to avoid any renewed connection. Jealousy turns his old attraction into an obsession, and he uses his power to force his way back into her life.
This Princess Is No Sweet SaintXia Nanwei was predicted by her master to be in danger of life and death. As a result, her armpit hair was knotted and she was hit to death by hailstones as big as lumps. She traveled through time in the novel and became a pitiful little person who could not survive ten episodes. But fortunately, she is good at divination and has a golden finger system. Shouldn't this start a life of lying down and winning? Xia Nanwei is awesome, who has to do good deeds after traveling through time! She wants to be the villain who survives until the last episode! ! !
My Boss Is a Villain? Watch Me Fix Her!Zoey Devro is the hanger-on of Elaine Luke, a rich girl in a novel called The CEO's Little Wife: Buy One Get One Free, which runs on old plots and has crooked values. Zoey has read it and knows how it goes. Elaine offends the male and female leads, her family is broken up over it, and the hanger-on who kept giving her bad ideas ends up no better off.
The system that put Zoey inside the book sets her the job of correcting the way Elaine throws herself at a man who is using her. Zoey stays close to her employer and blocks the worse ideas before they get anywhere. She helps Elaine turn on the man and show people what he actually is.
While that work is going on, Zoey keeps her grip on the rich girl's protection and builds up money and a career of her own.
Mr. Moore, My Heart Won't Be TamedThe escort Natalie Adams thought she had paid for was Felix Morgan, the ninth young master of a house most of the city answers to. She did not find that out on the night. She left a five star review in the morning and assumed she would never see him again.
Her marriage had got as far as the wedding day. The husband she had cried and pleaded to get spent that day and the night after it with another woman, and the city talked about her as the bride who had been dumped. "A woman thrives better without a man," she said, and once the marriage was over she went out to spend money and enjoy being single.
Everything after the hotel was Felix's arrangement. Natalie read the encounters as coincidence while he moved one step at a time, drawing her into a game of cat and mouse, and by the time she ended up in his arms she understood that the night she had booked had been set up too.
Serendipity & SuitsAn-bi's family factory is failing and she trades her marriage for the money to save it. Bong-jung has the capital, and on their first day as a married couple he sets the terms out loud: she can have his money, she cannot have him, and the arrangement is a business deal and nothing else.
She takes him at his word. She keeps to her side of the house and treats him exactly the way he asked to be treated, which turns out to be the one thing he had not planned for. A month into the marriage he is sitting in front of her in a bathrobe, open at the front, showing off his stomach and waiting.
An-bi looks at him and asks, politely, whether Mr. Bong is cold. She is not being cruel. She is holding to the rule he wrote himself, and he is discovering how much he dislikes it now that someone is actually following it.
Trouble in DisguiseStella Clark hires Marcus York to wreck her mother's remarriage. She takes him for a college student with no money and an eight-pack, which is what he looks like and not what he is. He has money on a scale her billionaire mother never touched, and Stella goes years without finding that out.
The plan does not end where she wanted it. Her mother dies and the family fortune goes with her. Marcus comes out of it as Stella's guardian and the heir to what is left, which she reads as a man who used a woman to climb, and she says so to his face.
Nine years before, he had told her he would look after her until she was grown and married. She takes that as a duty he is working off. "Since it isn't you, it doesn't matter who I marry," she tells him. He goes on pulling her out of one bad situation after another and keeps what he feels for her behind the same flat manner.
Heartbeat Above AllLawyer Emily, after a terrible blind date, impulsively marries her high school classmate Michael to please their families. She's thrilled to discover he's a meticulous forensic pathologist, a profession she deeply admires. Their marriage of convenience, governed by strict rules, slowly blossoms into real love.
Chasing LoveNan Si, Emperor Wu's beloved consort, had a premature labor during the chaos. To save her life, Cang Hanyu, the Emperor, made a deal with the high priest to travel to new realities and break Nan Si's short-lived curse at the sacrifice of thier daughter, Phoenix. In one incarnation, they're the young master of an influential family and his deserted wife; in another life, they become a commoner and a deeply favored princess, who are still a couple. Whether they can remember each other, in face of the intrigues and plots in the influential family or the intricate situation of the court, Cang Hanyu and Nan Si still put each other first, support each other and protect each other in their way...
Night Harbor，Burning DesireTo reclaim her mother’s inheritance, a woman spends years pretending to be blind and harmless before returning to Hong Kong. Her first move is to climb into the bed of a powerful heir, using him as a weapon against the family that wronged her. He knows he is part of her revenge, yet still becomes her shield, and in a game where love means losing, he willingly bows first.
Reborn Princess: The Shadow She CommandsShen Ting had a private army no one knew about, and after Xiao Jinning helped him to his marriage he turned it on the Xiao clan and killed all of them. She had loved him. Shen Xiao had been in it with him from the start.
She comes back to life at a point before any of that. Shen Ting's power is still unmapped as far as she knows, so she keeps her hatred to herself and waits. She takes Shen Xiao in and brings him up as her own, intending to make a weapon out of him. She works on Jiang Jihuai to bring him over, and she looks for Meng Jue, and the revenge gets laid out piece by piece.
The Shen Xiao in her household is Ling Yuan under a borrowed name, sent in to find whoever commands the Gu poison. What he turns up is that Xiao Jinning is the person who saved his life years before. He is pulled between hating her and wanting her, and when she is in danger he stops resisting it and goes ahead of her to clear what is in her path, asking for nothing except that she think well of him.
You're My Reason the Sky Is BlueAmelia Baker is carrying triplets and does not tell the father. The father is Daniel Wood, who runs the Wood Group and who slept with her once. Keeping it from him does not hold, because the Wood men can feel it when a child of theirs is coming, and Daniel knows before she says anything.
Before that night she had come to the city from a village and was on probation at the company, where the director made her days difficult and her birth family kept turning up to take what she had. She was kept on as permanent staff after the night with Daniel.
Once he knows about the pregnancy, Daniel changes how he behaves towards her. He deals with the people setting traps for her at work, and he goes at her family over what they have been taking from her.
Love, Signed & SealedRaina Mills sells fish and gets into a marriage with Wade Lewis that is set out in a contract, which leaves her none of the standing of a wife and no claim on him past what is written down. She works on that. She flatters him constantly, spreads talk that works in her favour, and over time she has his trust and his preference over everyone else around him.
They tell each other how they feel, and then she takes a blow to the head. The memories she had lost before the marriage come back with it, including who she is, and Wade goes out of it completely. She does not know him.
He starts again from nothing. He pretends he has gone blind so she will stay near him, plays helpless where that works on her, and uses whatever else comes to hand to get her back.
Grab Your Love (English Ver.)It tells the story of Min Jiangxi, who aspires to become "the Number One Female tutor in Shencheng", and Qin Zhan, known as "the Villain in Shencheng". The two start off being wary of each other, but gradually develop deep affection and mutual understanding. In the end, they join forces as powerful partners to eliminate the great villains in the business world. While growing together and healing each other, they stage a passionate love affair in the upper-class world.
Cinderella's Glass Slipper: The One I’ve Always LovedShe works as assistant to the man who runs the company. He does not know she has liked him since they were children, when she was fat and stayed out of his way, and nothing about her face now points back to that girl.
They spend a night together. She keeps quiet about who she was, because she expects him to want nothing more to do with her once he knows. Then she is pregnant, and what everyone makes of the pregnancy is wrong in several directions before she tells him herself.
She had also been tricked into an arranged marriage as an adult. Someone else has since taken over her name and her place, and that woman wants her dead. There is pressure on him to give up his wife, and he refuses to. A date is set for the divorce.
Consort Who Breaks FreeA modern woman wakes in a feudal dynasty as Ye Song, a general's daughter trapped in marriage to jealous Prince Su Chen. She refuses the role chosen for her, claims her freedom, makes her loyal maid a sworn sister, and survives both household plots and court intrigue. Her growing bond with the gentle Su Ruoqing provokes Su Chen into brutally injuring her, drawing the emperor into a struggle that will determine whether Ye Song can build a life on her own terms.
Kiss on Your Gun BarrelYou’re ready to bleed for me, but are you willing to let tears fall for me?
The Killer Heiress ReturnsFiora Levine ran the Falcon Guild, an assassin organization ranked first in the world. During a job she found out she was the daughter the Levine family had lost eighteen years earlier. The Levines controlled a financial conglomerate. She went back to them presenting herself as a weak girl raised in the slums and did not tell them what she did for a living. The family took her in and protected her.
Seth, a relative on the Levine side, began working with a mafia group to expose who she was and pull down the Levine house. Survivors of a gang called Black Dragon were waiting for a chance at revenge over the same period. The Levines' adopted daughter treated Fiora as an enemy at first and later worked alongside her. Fiora also met Wilfred Powell, who presented himself as a womanizer and was in fact the head of a syndicate called Night Owl.
Addicted to Our Secret Marriage 2For three years, they live in a secret marriage as polite strangers, she hiding distance behind dignity, he hiding protection behind silence. A no-lying game breaks the ice and exposes the clumsy love she kept buried. Through family storms and public pressure, they finally learn that love is not a perfect match, but choosing not to let go when the world turns against them.
The Prince Is My Second ChanceIn the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi the Northern Di invade. General Xie Boqing takes command of the army in the crisis. The emperor is a foolish and suspicious man, and he turns on the general, who is captured and executed. The general's daughter, Xie Yu, goes to Huaiyang City to collect her father's body, and beneath the city wall the imperial soldiers who came after her shoot her through with thousands of arrows.
Zhao Huaiyu, the fourth prince, is disabled and has loved Xie Yu in secret all his life. After her death he goes after power for the sake of revenge and in the end takes the throne. He has the Mermaid Lamp, which can turn time back at a price, and the price is the soul of someone who loves. He pays it and returns to the days before Xie Yu died. Under a false name he makes a bargain with her: she will be reborn and the two of them will change what is coming.
Back in the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi, Xie Yu tries to keep her father from marching and cannot, so she stays in the capital and works the court from the inside to keep him alive. When the emperor issues a decree arranging her marriage, she gives up the crown prince, who betrayed her in her first life, and chooses the fourth prince, Zhao Huaiyu, whom the rest of the court takes for a man of no account.
Forbidden AffairThe night before her engagement, Nancy Yeager sleeps with a younger man who is exactly her type—reckless, irresistible, and meant to be nothing more than a fleeting indulgence, since the marriage is only an alliance. At the family banquet, she stands politely as the future bride… until a familiar voice cuts through: “You look familiar.” She looks up—and freezes. The feared man at the main seat is, in fact, the same stranger she spent the night with.
We Start with LiesTo avenge her brother, Sang Huaixi assumes the alias "Gan Lu" and infiltrates a wealthy family. Her target is Qin Zhaomu, a man trapped by a family marriage arrangement. He feels nothing for his fiancée, Gu Manqing, but amid power struggles, he keenly senses Sang Huaixi's burning desire for revenge. As the two cautiously navigate a web of deception and manipulation, a dangerous and unspoken affection begins to grow. Gu Manqing quietly takes notice and teams up with Sang Huaixi's old acquaintance to set a deadly trap. Qin Zhaomu acts first, exposing his fiancée's true nature at the wedding altar. Love and lies collide, and sincerity becomes entangled with schemes. In this high-stakes game of fate, who will walk away in the end, and who will truly win it all?
The Mischievous Little BrideYu Tang goes to a bar to show her family what she thinks of the marriage they arranged for her, picks a good looking stranger out of the room and kisses him. He is Pei Yanli, the man she is engaged to and has been trying to get out of marrying, just back from abroad and now at the pharmacy school at Huaqing University where she studies. People there call him a living King of Hell.
She had crossed him once before that, by accident, while she was helping a friend take apart a man who had been playing with her. After the bar she keeps up the rebellious act, going out and looking at handsome men, and he catches her at it every time. The engagement was made when the two of them were children and it is meant to save her family's business, so she cannot simply drop it. Her younger brother Yu Xiao has a sharp mouth and says nothing at all about being in love with her friend Jiang Muxia, while Pei Yanli's sister Pei Qingzhi and Zhou Xin'an, who she used to be with, cannot leave each other alone.
My Pet Is the Young MarshalThe female heir lusted after his handsome face and strong body, so she paid him to sleep together every day. It wasn’t until the wealthy family party that she discovered her kept man’s true identity—he’s the Young Marshal.
Two Poor CEOsJiang Li conceals her CEO identity on a blind date, hoping to find an obedient man. Likewise, Lin Jun, the current person in charge of Chenglin Group, pretends to be poor on a blind date to avoid gold diggers. The two instantly hit it off and get married in a flash. However, they are not prepared for the many cooperations between their respective groups, and they constantly come close to being exposed...
Tempting the Mafia BossAn Jing is an orphan from a family that lost its money, and her aunt intends to sell her to a wealthy merchant. To get out of it she goes after one of her aunt's lovers, Qin Buxiao, the second-in-command of the strongest gang in the port city, planning to take enough money from him to study abroad and leave. Buxiao works out what she is doing and keeps her at his side.
With the plan gone and the situation dangerous, she plays the obedient girl. Then she sees what he actually is. During a fight between gangs he puts his own body between her and the guns, and he arranges her overseas study application himself. He never hands it to her. His own gang turns on him, he is ambushed, and he goes into the sea.
An Jing goes abroad to study. There she runs into Qin Buxiao again, and he has lost his memory.
The Cold CEO's Clingy Sweet WifeSu Lingyu developed separation anxiety disorder after being abducted as a child. Her clinginess led to her boyfriend Shen Jiao growing tired of her and leaving her behind. On a rainy night, her flight was delayed, and she accidentally spent time with Jiang Yuli, Shen Jiao’s uncle. She discovered that this cold, powerful tycoon was surprisingly tolerant of her clinginess. It turned out Jiang Yuli had loved Su Lingyu in secret since childhood, and he had returned to China this time just for her. The two fell for each other wholeheartedly, healing each other’s childhood traumas through their time together. They joined hands to fight against the obstacles from the Shen family and the entangled regrets of Shen Jiao, ultimately breaking through all barriers and finding a sweet love.
The New Guy Is MomOrphaned Olivia Greene got pregnant unexpectedly five years ago. To raise her child alone, she took multiple jobs and even disguised herself as a man to apply for a highly paid male nanny position, only to find out that her employer is the father of her child. The two develop feelings for each other as they spend time together. After going through various twists and tests, they finally recognize their true feelings and bravely reach out to each other.
All Coincidences Are SecretsMing Shutong's sister ran out on her own wedding four years ago, and Ming Shutong was married off in her place to Lu Ye, head of one of the wealthiest families in Beijing. Each of them took the marriage for an arrangement of interests and believed the other was in love with someone else.
She had concluded he kept women outside the house, and she asked for a divorce. Her first love, who she had been told was dead, came back around the same time, and she found she was pregnant. She tried every way she could think of to get away from Lu Ye and he came after her each time.
The meetings that had looked like chance and the times he had stepped in to protect her were things he had arranged. He had wanted her from the start.
The Veiled VindicatorMia Smith wanted to finish school. Madeline Trott and the others around her made that impossible, and the bullying went on until Mia dropped out. Years later she tested into university with high marks and came back as a model student. Madeline was involved with Shawn Shane, and Mia worked into that relationship, playing the two of them against each other and setting traps one at a time while nobody traced the scandals back to her. She kept at it until the Trott family business went under and Madeline was convicted.
The Maid Who Thinks Out LoudJane Quelch wants to get back to her own time. A bracelet has carried her a thousand years into the past, into Oriland Palace, and the way home is to find the man who has been waiting for her since long before she arrived. She lands there as a palace maid at the bottom of the household. She works upward by cunning and by ruthlessness until she is a first-rank maid attending the Empress Dowager. Nine years go by and she has still not found him. Then one night the Emperor comes upon her in the middle of a murder.
Crushing in SilenceHe Lingfei kept Lu Yichen. She came from one of the wealthy families in the city, he was a college student she met by chance, and she liked the youth on him enough to put him on an allowance without thinking twice. He held out for a while, then went along with it and took it for love.
The He family went bankrupt in a single night and He Lingfei lost the money and the standing together. She did not want him dragged down with her, and there was her pride left over as well, so she cut him off and disappeared without leaving word.
Lu Yichen was still in pieces over it when his own family came for him. He was the Lu heir, the one who had been put out of the house. He went back to that life, dropped the openness he had had as a student, worked in business and turned into a cold sort of boss. At a party some time later he saw He Lingfei across the room and knew her at once.
The Man I LoveMichelle Shaw had a hearing impairment, which made her the scorn of every wealthy family. Married for three years, her husband Ryan Lawson has never once acknowledged her as his wife. Everyone mocked and humiliated her. Until the day that Ryan's first love returned to the country, stealing Ryan away from her. Ryan, on the contrary, was not willing to let her go. He said with reddened eyes, "You want to leave? Over my dead body!"
The Retum of Lost HeiressTo save her brother, the heir of a powerful conglomerate, the youngest daughter is cruelly abandoned by her own family and drained of blood.
Eighteen years later, she grows up poor but warm-hearted as the daughter of a cleaner.
Now, she stands against the family that cast her aside, endures oppression and pain, uncovers the truth, and seeks revenge.
Revenge PuckAfter her hockey star boyfriend cheats and dumps her, Lucy refuses to be the girl left crying in the stands. She strikes a deal with Blake, his biggest rival on the ice, to fake a relationship until the playoffs end. What begins as revenge against Adam soon turns into dangerous chemistry with the enemy he hates most.
Crowned in BloodAria Vale, born into hardship, endured the harsh streets and the chaos of a fractured world. Rising from the brothels to the battlefield, she defied her fate and forged her own path, eventually forming a deep bond with Ryan Sterling. Amidst the intricate power struggles between Vespera, Aurelia, and Draven, Aria navigates political intrigue, battlefield carnage, and webs of betrayal and sacrifice.
Through intelligence, courage, and unyielding resolve, Aria Vale ascends to become the Empress of Aurelia, uniting the nation and championing reforms to elevate the status of women. Her rise not only reshapes the empire but also exemplifies the emergence of a strong woman in a world rife with conflict and ambition.
The Debt of DesireOne drunken mistake ties Emma Carter to a man she thinks is ordinary—until she learns he’s William Sterling, Millbrook’s richest tycoon. What begins as repayment turns complicated. When a pregnancy test changes everything, he plans a future she never expected.
Lost And FoundSi Qingye, the president of Si Group, and Ning Wuhui had a misunderstanding due to a villain’s scheme and parted on bad terms. Later, Ning Wuhui, who was pregnant, unexpectedly lost her memory. She gave birth to a child and became a single mother. Seven years later, they reunited, gradually got to know and love each other again, resolved their misunderstanding, and began a happy life as a family of four.
My Hired Boyfriend Is A Secret CEOYasmine Jones tells people at work that her boyfriend is the head of the company. It is not true, and it does keep the harassment off her. Then she has to produce him, so she pays a man to turn up and play the part. The man she hires runs the company.
She had left home under the name Yara Shields to get out of a marriage her parents arranged for her when she was small. She went to another city and took a junior job where nobody knew her family.
He does not tell her who he is. He was sick often as a boy and other children went after him for it, and she was the one person who stayed near him until his family moved away. He has come back from abroad to look for her. She does not recognize him, takes him for help she paid for, and he keeps playing whatever she needs him to be.
She Is the Special Devil"I return from hell with hands stained in blood,
only to meet you…
and then make you cry."Willing to Perish With YouAfter being Si Beihan's underground lover for five years, Bai Lu is eventually abandoned because Beihan wants to marry the well-matched daughter of the Su family. After her daughter is born, her daughter develops leukemia and needs the umbilical cord blood of her second child to survive. As such, she begs Beihan to have another child with her, pushing herself into the abyss again.
The Cutie PieZoey Lawson, the poverty-stricken reincarnation of the Underworld Prince, discovered she had to spend vast amounts of money to live. After depleting her Taoist temple's resources, she was forced down the mountain only to be unexpectedly adored by her top celebrity brother. As continuous spending unlocked her hidden divine abilities, the cash-powered prodigy not only helped her unlucky brother reclaim his fate but also recovered long-lost family bonds, ultimately finding true happiness.
The Human BaitLi Huang wanted Lu Niansheng, whom she had been separated from as a child by a kidnapping and by what each was told about the other afterwards. Years passed in the disorder of the Republican era and she rose to power. She found him again at an auction house, where he was one of the lots. She bought him and kept him beside her like a canary in a gilded cage.
What she did not know was that the auction and the purchase were arranged by Lu Niansheng. The two of them hurt each other for a long time before the misunderstandings came apart layer by layer. Then they worked together against the person who had set everything in motion.
Forbidden Love with a GuardianUncle, I give you the right to possess me in every way, including love and kisses.
Love at Second SightNew media manager, Su Nan, and her first love, Gu Yibei, an IT rising star, met again coincidentally. Five years ago, Su Nan left Gu Yibei when he was at the low point of his career, and he's resentful about it but he can't forget about her. After they met again, Gu Yibei starts to create opportunities to meet Su Nan frequently, and the sad truth of Su Nan leaving him is slowly coming to light.
Rewind 2008: Choose YouNikki Lyle dies full of regret after watching the boy who once saves her drift into a life of heartbreak and missed dreams. Just as a shooting star streaks across the night sky, she wakes up back in 2008, her senior year of high school. Given a second chance, Nikki stops caring about what everyone else thinks and chooses to stand by Bruce Jay. This time, she is determined to protect the boy she loves and make sure he never wastes his future again.
When the school interviews Riverford High's most talked-about senior, Nikki Lyle, and asks her to name the classmate, family member, and closest friend she is most grateful for, her answer is always the same: "Bruce. Bruce. And Bruce."
Loyal To The Crown Addicted To HerThe throne of the Southern Kingdom goes to Nangong Sheng because he is the legitimate son. He is not capable of much else and does not need to be, since the border general Chu Yuan stands behind him. Chu Yuan took command of a hundred thousand men at sixteen, swore loyalty to the throne and the country, and swore he would never marry.
Nangong Yao is the Princess Royal, and she watched her mother die when she was small. She grew up inside the palace holding that nobody can be trusted, and she goes after the throne with hard methods.
On a hunt she surrounds Nangong Sheng and moves to kill him. Chu Yuan lets himself be taken prisoner and humiliated to keep it from turning into a war between the two states. That is the first time he and Nangong Yao meet, and something comes of it that neither of them planned.
She treats his loyalty as a piece to be played, using aphrodisiacs and the offer of power to get him to turn on his master. He does not turn, and his reason for it, that he is there to protect ordinary people, is what reaches her.
Nangong Sheng is meanwhile dealing with agents out of Qi, and he frames Chu Yuan more than once and moves against him.
The Cannon Fodder Wives' Billionaire LifeRuan Tang and Su Xiaoman transmigrated into a wealthy abuse novel as doomed cannon fodder. Forced to marry the "obsessive tyrant" Li Muchen and "yandere madman" Li Fengzhi, they plotted an escape, fearing plot-driven abuse. But Li Muchen loved Ruan Tang at first sight (the marriage was his plan), and Li Fengzhi had a long crush on Su Xiaoman (the marriage was his wish). Their escape became a funny chase—husbands’ sweet gestures were all seen as tricks! After misunderstandings fade, they all find mutual love.
Ex Is Boss, Kiss Every DayFour years after breaking up with my ex, we reunited by chance—only to find he’d become my immediate boss! Not to mention, he’s in even better shape, and his tongue’s sharper than ever.
Pampered by My Silver Fox UncleJane Young, eldest princess of the Vermilion Kingdom, was fifteen on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony. Her soul left her body during it and woke in the body of an eight-year-old girl in the present day.
That girl had been swapped with another infant at birth and was the household's real daughter. Her family kept her at a distance and gave the other girl the attention, and she died of hunger.
Jane laughed once she understood the situation. A father is supposed to be kind and a child dutiful, she said, and since this one was not kind she would go and get another. She picked out a man the whole neighborhood wrote off as useless. She had been a princess of an imperial house, and she took the view that a grown layabout would not be much trouble to bring into line.
A One-Night Stand? CEOAfter witnessing her boyfriend sleeping with someone else, the woman immediately picked a handsome guy to sleep with.
Where Love Takes OverXu Ni makes films. Her boyfriend was seeing someone else, so she went after his cousin out of temper, the plan being to marry in and stand over the ex as the wife of his elder cousin.
She approached the wrong man. The one she chased is Fu Guidu, a doctor known in medicine for being cold and remote. Xu Ni loses her nerve the moment she understands who he is. He holds her by the waist and asks whether she provoked him only to run. Fu Guidu is her ex-boyfriend's uncle.
Farewell, My Last BoyfriendThe office Lin Changwan works in runs on people like her, the ones who take on the extra work and carry the blame for it. Her parents have never had much use for her, and her fiancé is seeing someone else. Then she learns she has three months to live.
She stops going along with it. She takes her colleagues apart in the open and brings out what the office has been covering up. She breaks with her parents and ends the engagement. Jiang Yuzhou has been pursuing her for a while, and she lets him, and she means to spend the time that is left on herself.
Yet, He WaitsEight years after they broke up, Tan Zexu runs the Nan Group and Lin Wusheng has no money. Work brings them into the same room again.
They had met at university, where Lin Wusheng fell for him on sight and they started seeing each other. Her father killed himself. She ended the relationship and let Tan Zexu think she was leaving him because he was poor.
Tan Zexu goes after her again and does not give it up, and the two of them marry.
Forever Love (English Ver.)On the day set for Lin Xintong's engagement to Chi Shan, a man she has never met corners her and kisses her before she can push him away. She is still shaking from that when word comes that her father, the businessman Lin Guofu, has died in an accident. Lin Xintong is the only child and stands to inherit everything he built.
The man from the engagement day is Qin Moyao, and police name him as a suspect in Lin Guofu's death. He comes looking for Lin Xintong to clear his name, but before he can lay out what he knows, he gets pulled into a scheme already running inside the Lin family, one aimed at the company and the inheritance. He and Lin Xintong end up working the same threads from opposite sides, and it keeps throwing them together.
Chi Shan, meanwhile, is carrying on with a woman named Xia Yuwei. Lin Xintong finds this out piece by piece, at the same time as she is drawing the wrong conclusions about Qin Moyao's part in her father's death. She starts keeping a list of who owes her what and sets out to collect on all of it, Chi Shan included. It is only after she goes after Qin Moyao directly and hurts him that she learns he had been covering for her, and shielding her from parts of the conspiracy, the whole time.
Reborn as a Princess… to KillSerena killed for Adrian York, only to die by his betrayal. Now reborn as the frail Lady Selene of Northvale, she must disguise strength as weakness. To strike back, she traps the Regent in her web. But as sparks turn to fire, can love survive a court built on lies…
Stuck in a Love LoopLauren relives the second before she kicks down her cheating boyfriend's door, taking revenge on him in reset after reset. The same peculiar man keeps appearing in every loop, and a bowl of luosifen turns them into unlikely allies against the cheater. Lauren does not realize her partner is trapped in time too—or that he knows a secret capable of overturning the entire cycle.
The Nanny They All AdoredNineteen-year-old Nora accepts a lucrative live-in nanny position with the Parker family to create a safe home for her traumatized sister. Inside the mansion, one heir suspects her motives, another pursues her, and even the man who rules the family studies her with distrust. Nora answers them through her work, combining medicine, therapeutic massage and cooking, early education, and counseling until the household can no longer dismiss the young caregiver in its midst.
For Matrimony, I'm the AnswerAfter Mindy Stabler was betrayed by her childhood sweetheart, she meets Zeke Lockwood, who has secretly loved her for years, on a rainy night. They get married swiftly to get back at their exes and eventually find love after marriage. As Zeke looks after Mindy with quiet devotion, she heals from her emotional scars, unaware that he had schemed meticulously for their marriage to happen. Their hearts draw closer until secrets surface and test whether real love can last.
Sweet Destiny with YouNicole Smith's mother arranged a marriage for her and would not hear otherwise. Nicole got out of it by sleeping with a stranger and leaving home pregnant. Five years later she is raising her son Danny on her own and money is short. Marcus Jansen comes into her life around then and sets about winning her over. Neither of them realizes that he is Danny's father. His childhood sweetheart, Zoey Reeves, resents Nicole and makes trouble for her whenever she can.
My Sweet Husband Is a Secret TycoonEliana's father and her half-sister, a daughter he had outside his marriage, are working to stop her from inheriting the company that belonged to her mother. Eliana, of the Elliott family, went from a rich family's daughter to a woman with nothing almost overnight. Her answer is a plan to have a child and raise it without the father, which she believes will let her take the company back. At a club she picks out Keaton Massey for the job, judging him on his face and his build. She does not know that he is the richest man in the city, or that a car accident has just taken his memory.
The two of them end up living together without knowing each other's names, and Keaton follows her around all day acting sweet and clingy. He had been in love with her since her school days. When his memory returns he keeps his identity from her, buys up shares in the company on her behalf, and goes on acting obedient and cute, asking her whether being so well behaved has earned him a reward. The schemes her father and sister aim at her keep coming apart for reasons she cannot see. Eliana becomes pregnant with triplets, which throws Keaton's whole family into an uproar.
Misty LoveShen Liwu meets Zhou Jin, captain of the anti-narcotics team, while she is caught up in a kidnapping case. She had come to Shencheng after her graduation, when a graduation present and several anonymous phone calls out of that city reached her. She wants to know who was calling, so she goes to the police station and applies there. Her superiors take note of her work and she is kept on. Case 611 gets worked through piece by piece, and the question of Shen Liwu's parentage and where she came from is answered along with it.
Glimpse of BeautyTo get ahead, Jayde sets her sights on Toby, a cold, ruthless man who's impossible to win over. But Toby falls for her at first sight. Now he can no longer fight his feelings, and he will do anything for her.
Her Cure Was LoveSong Tinghuan graduated with an arts degree and could not find work, so she took a live-in housekeeping job at the home of Shen Yuqing, who runs a company and uses a wheelchair. The pay was the reason she took it. Shen Yuqing makes the work difficult on purpose, and his former fiancée turns up to needle her about what she is doing there. Tina keeps to the job and stays cheerful about it, and over months of ordinary days in the house the two of them start joking around with each other and something else grows out of that.
There is a scheme running inside the company, and a betrayal that goes with it. The two of them work out what is happening and expose it together. Shen Yuqing recovers the use of his legs.
A Contract of EternityNuwa clansman Song Huaichuan was framed and entered into a contract with Xu Sui'an, who suffers from a terminal illness. He intended to use the marriage as a cover to stabilize his company and uncover the truth behind his mother's death, while Xu Sui'an could cure her illness with the help of the Nuwa clan's bloodline. Both got what they needed, but during the investigation, Song Huaichuan discovered that Xu Sui'an seemed to have intricate connections with his mother, and she was not just a simple human girl but shrouded in mysteries. From allies of mutual benefit to lovers who depend on each other, they found their true love while uncovering the truth, spending their lives together hand in hand.
His Rose, Only for Him"No sooner had her adoptive brother called her a dog than she married the most powerful man in the city.
She became his rose, and he loved her back to life all over again."
Silent Heart, Stolen LoveSabrina was eight when a car accident took her voice. She grew up with people who loved her, Julian most of all, the boy she had known since childhood, who told her he would be there for the rest of her life. They married. Adrian, who had never said anything about what he felt, went abroad and settled for keeping her safe from a distance. Three years into the marriage Julian's feelings went elsewhere and he betrayed her. Adrian came back into the country as soon as he heard. He found her shut in on herself and set about getting past that, a step at a time.
My Love, My Ruin"""You love money that much?""
""I don’t love money. Should I love you, who slept with me but is going to marry my sister instead?"""
Vengeful Mafia BrideBetrayed by her father and fiancé, Evelyn severs her past. Victor King forges her into a fierce mafia boss's wife—until she watches him "die" on their wedding day. Hungry for revenge, she schemes in a ruthless underworld. Can she seize power? A sizzling saga of love, betrayal, and one woman's ruthless rise.
We Met Long Before the WeddingThe woman Gu Xiuyuan marries under protest is the girl he has spent sixteen years looking for, and he does not know it. When he was eight and living at a sanatorium with his legs ruined in a car accident, he met Xiao Cao, a child cut off from her family since she was small, who could heal living things and talk to animals and plants. She healed his legs. The two were taken away separately before they could say goodbye and lost all contact.
Sixteen years later Gu Xiuyuan runs the Gu Corporation. He is fussy, obsessive about cleanliness, and has stayed celibate all this time waiting for Xiao Cao, but every search for her has come up empty. A marriage arranged between the families forces him to take the Su family's second daughter, Su Tinghe, who is sent in as a substitute bride. Tinghe has the same brightness Xiao Cao had, and he thaws toward her more than he means to. His grandmother pushes the two of them together and they end up in bed. Then a lead on Xiao Cao finally turns up, and it points to Tinghe's elder sister Su Yutong, the Su heir who is said to have awakened a special ability. Gu Xiuyuan takes it as a choice between wronging Xiao Cao and letting Tinghe down.
His Longest SecretOn Emma's birthday, with the wedding close, Spencer took a call from his first love and left Emma alone out in the middle of nowhere. Two drunk men found her there and nearly assaulted her before Joshua got her away from them. She had stayed with Spencer through his worst years and was still with him when he came out of them. She called off the wedding and married Joshua almost immediately. Joshua had come back to Riverton not long before as the heir to a fortune there, and he had been in love with her for eight years, which she did not know when she agreed to it. He spent on her freely after that.
Taming A TyrantWinona time-traveled to Norwend, an ancient country, with a mission to kill Cheyenn, the current emperor, who intended to kill her family in three days. However, Cheyenn could read her mind! Could she keep her family safe and avert the crisis?
I Married Him to Destroy ThemRuan Hongxiu's parents were tortured to death by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she was forced to join the Prime Minister's Mansion and became the most humble slave under a contract of prostitution. An ant crawls out of the mud, and the only way to survive is to borrow a knife to kill people, and Anping Marquis Shen Zhiyan is the knife she chooses - he has power, hatred, and ambition. Ruan Hongxiu sent herself to the Hou Mansion, exchanged calculations for trust, and used her body for chips, leading Shen Zhiyan step by step to point the tip of the knife at the Prime Minister's Mansion. On the day of the wedding, an imperial edict made the person next to her a prisoner. She cut off the marriage in public, wanting to step on him to survive, but she didn't know that he had already prepared an escape route for her. Ruan Hongxiu has only regarded herself as a chess player in her entire life, and has never thought that anyone would be willing to play chess for her.
Meet My Mr. RightJiang Yunyi, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, was sent out to the countryside as a small child. At five she found Ye Mohan badly hurt and treated him. The two of them agreed they would marry when they were grown.
Two years after that, the second uncle of the Ye family moved against Ye Mohan. Ye Mohan gave up his name and was brought up as Fu Jingshen.
Twenty years on from the countryside, Jiang Yunyi went back to the Jiang household and agreed to take her stepsister's place in a marriage into the Fu family in Nancheng. She was looking for a medical text and for Ye Mohan. The old Madam Fu had arranged the match for Fu Jingshen, who had his own childhood to think about and was cold with the bride he was given. Neither of them connected the person in front of them with the one they remembered, and the marriage ran on arguments.
The medical text had been auctioned off by the Ye family's second uncle. He had gone after the family it came from to get hold of it, and he had crippled his own brothers. He had also betrayed the country. Jiang Yunyi came to his attention over the text, and she and Fu Jingshen started working against him together.
Shaman Girl and her Mr. CEOPark Seon-ah, a shaman, was losing her powers as her yang energy ran low, and she went to the city. There she met Lee Jae-woo, the heir to a conglomerate, who used a wheelchair. Jae-woo carried a large amount of yang energy, and because it sat blocked in him it caused him severe pain.
The two signed a contract. It covered his claim on the family company and her supply of yang energy. Seon-ah could cast again once she had access to it, and she used the spells to get them through one dangerous situation after another. Over the same period Jae-woo's legs began to work. Jae-woo's uncle moved against them, and so did Mi-gyeong, Seon-ah's aunt, a doctor.
Foster Brother, My ExHer lover who vanished for 3 years returns—only to bring another woman for an abortion, and she’s the attending doctor!
Flash Marriage with a BillionaireMu Qianxue's family has a marriage lined up for her, arranged the way they would arrange any other piece of business. Her answer is to go out, find a beggar on the street and register a marriage with him the same day.
The beggar is Feng Jiucheng, president of the Feng Group. His own brother set him up, and he came close to dying in a plane crash. He got out of it with injuries that took his memory, and he had been living on the street since, until Mu Qianxue gave him somewhere to stay.
She looks after him and his memory starts coming back in pieces, and with it what was actually behind the crash.
Bromance Never Gets OldCharles Kingsley has been quietly looking out for Jesse Collins's younger sister, Daisy Collins, for fifteen years without ever telling her. He has a reputation as a playboy, and now he turns out to be the faithful type. Jesse, his closest friend, has troubles of his own. He is a well-known lawyer, and his wife has just divorced him in public. The third of the group, Julian Grant, is a tycoon with a reputation for coldness, and a Gen Z intern has him wrapped around her finger. All three are middle-aged and at the lowest point of their lives.
The three have been friends for the better part of two decades, and that is what they fall back on. Each of them works out his own answer, most of it over hot pot, with a good deal of laughing and crying along the way.
Buying my night?On a stormy night, Yun Juyeon saves CEO Lee Jaehyun from a panic attack triggered by childhood trauma, and they spend the night together. But when he regains consciousness, he drives her away, assuming she has ulterior motives. Ten months later, he finds her pregnant and learns the truth. Shakily, he asks, "Is the child mine?" Determined to protect Juyeon, he confronts his scheming family. Living together amid conflict, their wounds slowly heal as love begins to grow.
When Forever Drifted ApartHuo Sihan, the richest man in Yuncheng, was in a car accident and did not come out of the coma. Chi Wan looked after him for three years under an assumed name, and nobody around him knew she was the doctor people call C.
He wakes up and goes back to thinking about his first love. Chi Wan is holding two marriage certificates by then. She takes the hurt of it and turns away from him, to Huo Nan. She marries again. What she had kept quiet about herself comes out, and she deals with the people who had worked against her. Huo Sihan, who understands by then what he did, starts the long work of trying to get his wife back.
Daring Seduction: Mr. Fordham SuccumbsBefore I turned 26, I was a top-tier "scammer", having deceived countless men. Each time, I emerged unscathed and moved on without a trace of regret. However, after 26, a man casually overturned all my previous victories. Despite using every trick in the book, I failed to win his heart. It was not until the moment I decided to withdraw, he revealed his true self.
Bow or Burn: No Mercy, No EscapeThere is a village of martial arts masters that guards a border, and there is a world where the head of a criminal organisation can wake up in another woman's body. Rhea Calder ran the second kind of life until her soul ended up in a girl who had been pushed into hell by the people closest to her and sent to prison in place of the family's adopted daughter. Rhea came out smiling and paid it back in the same coin, turning over tables, smashing glasses, raising a drink the way you would at a funeral. Every step of it was precise.
The man beside her passed as a bodyguard called Dominic. He was Dominic Reed, who held the economy of a whole region in his hands, a financier known for having no mercy in him, and he bent only for her. He took a knife meant for her, learned to braid her hair, made her desserts, and knelt down to rub her aching knees. The hypocritical Calder family, Yasmine Calder and Thomas, all of them who had planned against her, were drawn one by one into the web she was weaving.
Answer to My HeartCecelia Collins wants to keep the child she is carrying. She has spent years under an arrangement that requires her to act as though she cannot speak, and when she is taken by kidnappers she comes to think Ivan Justice does not want the baby. She gets hold of a phone and calls him as one of the people holding her, which keeps him on the line without him knowing who he is talking to.
The calls go on and they are tense. Over the course of them the things the two of them had wrong about each other come apart. Ivan encourages her to give up the pretence, and she starts speaking as herself again.
Hearts Out of SyncMaya Powell is the eldest daughter of the Powell family, and she gets her life over again from the start of it. The first time through she was married to Owen Gray for several years. He looked away while the people around them insulted and mistreated her, and that was most of the marriage. This time she means to leave him and take back her standing as a Powell daughter.
A Crowned Love, A Forbidden FateImprisoned in the palace with her mother after her dynasty falls, Isolde Winslow finds unexpected kindness from Crown Prince Edmund Sinclair, heir to the family that destroyed hers. As their forbidden bond deepens, she flees the palace and is captured by rebels. Edmund risks his life to rescue her, forcing Isolde to decide whether his sacrifice can overcome the hatred between their bloodlines.
Captured by My Fiancé’s BrotherGo Su-hyeon comes up to the capital as the promised bride of Han In-ho, the second son of the commander-in-chief. The engagement is cover. Her mother was killed and the man who did it is in the capital, and that is the reason she made the trip.
She meets Han Ju-won, the eldest son of the same house, on the train. He works out that she is engaged to his younger brother and comes after her anyway. "Don't run. You're mine," he tells her. Su-hyeon holds him off and starts using the medical skill she has kept hidden for years, treating people in the household to earn their trust and working from inside the house toward whoever killed her mother. Ju-won does not let go of her, and somewhere in it she stops being sure that the revenge is what she wants most.
Mr Fu Your Wife Has Identities WorldwideShe came across a man who had been badly wounded and saved him, and she was gone before he woke. Once he was conscious he went looking for whoever had done it and could not find her.
His family had arranged a contract marriage for him around the same time. The wife who came into the house was the woman he was looking for, and he did not know it. The marriage was kept quiet and set to run a hundred days. The two of them felt each other out over that stretch and got attached anyway.
People around them talked down to her and made things difficult. She answered it in the open, without much fuss. What she could actually do came out in pieces after that, first as a doctor other doctors sent their cases to, then as a specialist called in on matters outside medicine. He kept revising what he thought of the wife he had taken for granted.
The Schoolgirl Is a Mafia Boss"A timid girl is possessed by a female gang boss.
From then on, no one dares to bully her anymore.
It feels so good to have a powerful backer."
You're My DestinyJiang Man was coerced by her biological father to approach and seduce Hong Kong capital tycoon Xie Yuzhou, but she gradually fell under the temptation. After escaping from marriage, she was chased back by Xie Yuzhou, only to realize that she was actually Bai Yueguang. The fate that started in childhood is no longer easy to escape. This short play is adapted from the Tomato novel: "The One Who Wants to Take the Hook", author: Meilv Bibi.
My man's smartphoneShe looked at her boyfriend’s phone — the one she should never have opened — and all his secrets were revealed... Would it have been better not to know?
My Dead Ex Came Back RichFive years ago she had money behind her and he had none, and her family made her sign the divorce papers to keep themselves safe. Word about his plane came the same day.
He comes back five years later. The crash was staged, he heads a conglomerate now, and she is the one with nothing left. He puts her to work in his house as a servant, the first of the things he does to her for the divorce. He does not know that the boy she has been raising by herself since the crash is his son.
The further he takes it, the more of those five years he turns up. He finds out that she sold everything she owned looking for him and borrowed money to pay for a grave, and that she took the humiliation without saying anything so the boy would be looked after. The boy is put in danger at one point, and after that he stops the revenge and starts trying to win her back.
When Stars BlushXu Xingran and He Hansheng have been dating for years, but she never expected that He Hansheng had always harbored a white moonlight in his heart. Filled with grievance and heartbreak, Xu Xingran sends He Hansheng a breakup text and resolves to leave. After Xu Xingran's departure, He Hansheng suddenly awakens and embarks on a long journey to win back his wife. He even becomes completely darkened and swears to bring her back to his side.
Can't Quit, Can't Die, Might as Well Marry the BossXu Qingshuang transmigrates into a short-lived agent and is forced to become Lu Jinchuan's bodyguard. She deliberately slacks off to quit, but repeatedly showcases her skills. After uncovering the schemes of her stepmother, Lin Wanqiu, she switches sides and teams up with Lu Jinchuan to expose the crimes, also helping Lu Nanfeng and Sang Xia resolve their conflicts. The two develop feelings for each other, reveal their transmigration identities, and eventually become a couple.
Chosen by the Regent–Season 3After her death, modern-day elite assassin Morgan Calud awakens in the body of a woman who shares her exact name. In this new life, her father died in battle long ago, and to secure their place within the powerful Calud family, her mother raised her as a boy from birth.As Morgan grows older, she is torn between her longing to reclaim her true identity and the constant fear that discovery would bring death upon both her and her mother. Determined to escape this dangerous double life, she plans to flee with her mother before the truth can be exposed.But her plans are derailed when she catches the attention of Shane Burke, the ruthless and immensely powerful prince of a different royal line in the Aetheria Empire. Taken into his residence against her will, Morgan is forced into a perilous game of wits and survival, where one wrong move could cost her everything.
Here's to One Night and a LifetimeLin Yuan gets drunk one night and walks into the wrong room. It belongs to Fu Mingxiu, one of the powerful men in Beijing's entertainment circles, and she spends the night with him. The next day she goes to the hospital for a physical and finds him there as well. He passes himself off as a doctor so he can examine her, and while she is sitting in front of him he arranges to see her again.
Lin Yuan assumes that squares things between them and that she is done with him. Fu Mingxiu keeps coming back. Her problems get handled before she has to deal with them, and when people bully her he settles it on her behalf. She has been telling him all along that she has a boyfriend. Once he works out there is no boyfriend, he stops holding back and goes after her openly.
She Is the Phoenix (Thai Ver.)Jiang Leyao, a girl from a humble background, marries into a powerful family, only to be betrayed and brutally tormented by her closest friend and a group of the wealthy and powerful. Her life ends in tragedy until she wakes up back in time. Yet her so-called best friend has also been reborn… And this time, she's stolen Jiang Leyao's place as the bride of high society. But Leyao isn't the only one with secrets. Behind her friend stands a shadowy figure of great power who's been pulling the strings…
My Heartbeat Is Proposing to YouHave you ever kissed? If not, are you ready to be kissed by me? Right now.
Puppy Eyes for You AloneDivorce is fine, but please put me on your property list.
The Beauty DoubleMu Zixue is sent to the military governor's bed in place of her stepsister. The two look nearly identical, and the stepsister cannot go through with the wedding night for the time being, so the family puts Mu Zixue there instead. She goes along with it and lets the household take her for a timid girl with no say in her own life. She is calculating, and she has a plan to avenge her mother. The stepmother and stepsister are the ones it is aimed at.
Standing in for a night is the first step. She intends to become the governor's wife in name and in fact, to have his affection for herself, and to take from her stepmother and stepsister everything they have. The governor's household is full of people fighting each other for position, and she holds her own in it with quick decisions and a clear head. In the middle of all that, a real affection grows between her and the governor.
Done With Being Your Unrequited CrushShelley Radcliffe loses the use of her hand for playing piano and cello while helping kidnapped Heron Fenwick retrieve his amulet—but he mistakes her half-sister Elysia Radcliffe for the woman who helped him. Shelley had fled home after being framed by her stepmother; five years later, Heron returns and wholeheartedly pursues Elysia.
The Billionaire's Spoiled Sister-in-LawWidow He Yujia learns her late husband belonged to the city’s richest family and moves into the Song household at her mother-in-law’s request. Hostility with her brother-in-law slowly becomes forbidden affection that neither acknowledges until a crisis breaks their cautious distance.
My late Hubby: Start Over With YouShe never knew how deep his hidden love was until her dying breath. Fortunately, they got a second chance at life—and a chance to love.
The Feisty Princess' Royal FavorSu Jiaoyang, a doctor people call the ghost doctor, is put in another woman's place at a wedding and married to Pei Shenzhi, a prince who is ugly and crippled. On the wedding night she lifts the red veil and finds a man she has met before. There is an old score between the two of them from that earlier meeting. They argue every day after the wedding, and over the course of the arguing they end up attached to each other. Pei Shenzhi calls her wild, greedy for money and lecherous, says a woman like that is his alone to push around, and kills anyone else who troubles her.
Sassy Wife & Mischievous GuardThe Ford family had settled on a bride from the Yeager household. The daughter promised to them was the younger stepsister, and the household sent Sienna Yeager in her place. Sienna had arrived in the body of a girl that household had been knocking about for years, having come from a thousand years earlier with no part in arranging any of it. She went through with the wedding because refusing would have cost her more.
Theodore Ford, the heir she married, died in a car accident on her first day in the house.
She stayed on anyway. She got the old madam onto her side, brought the younger brother and sister into line, and before long the household ran the way she wanted it to. The plan after that was an easy life on Ford money. Then she began to notice that the bodyguard the old madam had assigned to her was looking at her with more nerve each time, and that he was always somewhere close by.
Love Off the RailsYu Huan had wanted Gao Yan since high school and never told him. She was with someone else by then anyway, until she caught that boyfriend cheating and ended it on the spot. She went out drinking, ran into Gao Yan, and slept with him. She left in a hurry the next morning. Days later the company announced its new head, and it was him.
In public they behave like strangers. In private they set terms: he is her superior during the day, they sleep together at night, and nobody's feelings are to be involved. Working in the same building makes that harder than it sounded. They are nearly caught more than once. Neither will admit to wanting more than the arrangement allows, and they spend a long stretch testing each other before either says so out loud.
My Climb to the ThroneIn her previous life, Song Yuzhao, the only daughter of a military family, married Prince Jin, Shen Yunlan, as his official wife and devoted herself to supporting him. During a palace coup, while fleeing, Shen Yunlan, egged on by his concubine A-Nian, tried to kick their child off the carriage to lighten the load and even pushed A-Nian off, causing her tragic death. Later, with help from Song Yuzhao and the Song family, Shen Yunlan ascended the throne, only to repay kindness with cruelty, mercilessly killing both Song Yuzhao and their child. Reborn at the very moment Shen Yunlan tries to cast their child from the carriage, Song Yuzhao vows in this life to protect her child and the kingdom of Daliang herself, and to destroy Shen Yunlan’s path to the throne once and for all.
You Are My Heart's DesireYears after a forced breakup, my ex-boyfriend's mother took the money and begged me to get back together with him!
“The affection of poorness is worthless.” My family company went bankrupt, my father committed suicide, my mother was critically ill, and I had no choice but to take my boyfriend's mother's money and leave him! Unexpectedly, many years later, his mother once again came to me with a huge amount of money, and begged me to return to his side! Little did I know, he had become a dominant CEO and all he wanted was to get back together with me! Should I say yes this time?
Uncle, Kiss MeMy fiancé and my best friend betrayed me, and I immediately went and kissed his powerful uncle
My Husband’s Secret Double LifeHyun-woo used to be the heir to a fortune. He walked away from it and now runs three jobs, driving a taxi, working a butcher counter, and making deliveries. Five years after a single night with Seo-yeon, she turns up again with a small daughter, Min-a, and tells him they are getting married. So they become a family, in that order. Seo-yeon has a company and a family of her own, and both start coming apart under a crisis she cannot fight off alone. Hyun-woo moves to protect them, using resources she does not know he has, while she carries on treating him as the poor man who works three shifts. He does not correct her. The question of how long that can hold sits over the marriage the whole time.
I Tamed the City's Deadliest ManThe Regent is the man the capital steps aside for. People who cross him are used as the example, and it has been a long time since anyone tried.
Jiang Li reads the novel this place comes out of and complains about it the whole way through, and then she is inside it, in the body of the girl the book puts through everything. She has more physical strength than she knows what to do with and no ability to sit still. She decides early that if she is not going to be comfortable, nobody else is either. She hits the people written to hurt her, talks back at court, takes on her own family, and spends a night with the Regent. The ones who were supposed to ruin her come apart instead, far enough that they start doubting what they thought they knew. The Regent has never met anyone who is not afraid of him, and he keeps finding reasons to be wherever she is.
Fallen for the BeastLin Chuxia wants the Lin Group, which her own family holds and will not let her near. The business is in trouble, and the price of saving it is a marriage she does not choose, to Lu Li, a man whose face is disfigured. She marries him and then works with him to take the company back. Her relatives come after her for it, over and over. Lu Li protects her and puts his own weight behind her, and she gets a footing inside the company.
While that is going on, a man she does not recognize keeps turning up around them, and she begins to doubt that her husband is who he says he is. They get through the crises together and grow closer, and she is still trying to work out who Lu Li actually is.
How dare you!?Ordinary office worker Wang Cuihua unexpectedly finds herself transported into a cliché "brain-dead transmigration novel," becoming the cannon fodder villainess Yu Wanyin. Now a duo of villainous outsiders stranded in a fictional world, they form a strategic alliance to survive against all odds.
He Lost Her for Good After the Fake Turned RealOlivia Bell was in a car accident and was admitted to hospital. When she woke up she pretended that she could not remember anything. It was a joke she had decided to play on Liam Hayes, who had been her boyfriend for seven years.
Liam came to the hospital with Chloe Davies, Olivia's best friend, in his arms. He then pushed Olivia toward Ethan Miller, his closest friend. Through the joke Olivia found out what Liam was actually like. Liam's own feelings toward her became sincere at a later stage, after the seven-year relationship had already broken.
Trapped in His World, Lost in His LoveSu Nian's stepfather dies and the debt he left is held by the Fu family, who move to take the house. Rather than lose everything, Su Nian arranges to live in the Fu household herself, which keeps her family under a roof while she works off what is owed. Fu Chenyan does not want her there and makes that clear in small ways every day, giving her work she cannot finish and picking apart what she does. She takes a night job at a club to make money of her own and keeps it from the household. One night the job goes wrong and she is cornered by a customer. Fu Chenyan turns up and gets her out, and neither of them knows what to do with that afterward. He keeps up the same behavior toward her but starts noticing where she is and who she is with. Su Nian, who came into the house treating him as the man holding her family's property, finds that harder to maintain. They go on living in the same house while both of them work out what has changed.
Legally SavageBlanche Langlais practices divorce law in a city where her name carries weight. Women bring her their cases; the men she cross-examines learn to avoid her. Her ex-husband, Yves Oudot, wants her caught in something, and hires a bodyguard named Maxime Chenet to get close to her and set the trap. Maxime takes the job, watches how she works, and stops carrying it out. He starts calling her boss and stays on as her protection.
The first case they take down is a bigamy suit against Jourdan, who runs the Jourdance Group. The second is Louise Gaubert, who is pregnant and being pushed toward an abortion by Lacour, the Lacoumax magnate who also invests in Blanche's firm, and by Suzanne Valcourt. Blanche has to find witnesses willing to speak and evidence that will hold in court. She is the lawyer and Maxime is the muscle, and they work through the cases one after another, mostly for women with no other way to be heard.
Falling Into a Dangerous LovePregnant Yun Jae-i ends her relationship with Lee Taebin through a cruel lie so she can face her father's gambling debts and ruined family alone. Eight years later, the gifted designer is raising their sick son Suho when Taebin returns as Jinsung Group's vindictive CEO; his plan to punish her falters as their old love and the boy's paternity expose what her departure concealed.
Don't Save Me, StepbrotherSloane leans on her stepbrother Oliver for everything. Her stepfather puts his hands on her and her mother flatters him and says nothing about it, so when the ground gives way under her, Oliver is what she catches hold of. He is not as strong as she needs him to be. She knows it, and she keeps taking his kindness and his sense of right anyway, and she survives on it.
To her he is the one who saved her life and walked her back toward morning, and she is the disaster he pays for by being a decent person. Believing that, she leaves the coastal city to give him his freedom back. She does not turn around, so she does not see him watching her go.
The Hidden Half of LoveEmily Davis mistook Julian Evans for the man who had saved her life. She signed a three-year marriage contract with him. During the marriage Julian treated her with cold silence and manipulated her, and there were provocations from the people around her. When the contract expired she saw Julian being affectionate with another woman and terminated the contract.
Felix Evans, the man who had actually saved her, then stepped in. He protected her from Julian's schemes and helped her start her own business. Julian set a trap that would expose the truth. Felix cleared away each obstacle put in her path.
To Love a Mortal, To Defy ForeverGu Qiyan has to stay within three meters of Shen Yuzhen or he burns. The pendant that held him broke when he pulled her out of an attempt on her life, and since then his life runs on hers. He calls himself a god, and an old contract has kept him inside the Shen house for fifty years.
Shen Yuzhen is the second daughter of the Shen family, and the people who wanted her dead were her own relatives. She goes on with the business fights she was already in, with Gu Qiyan a few steps behind her at all hours and sharp with her whenever he feels like it. The old lady of the family dies in circumstances nobody can account for, and her will requires Shen Yuzhen to marry before she can inherit. Gu Qiyan proposes without much ceremony. In the middle of all this the two of them find they were husband and wife two thousand years ago, when he was a general who failed her. Fu Hanxing, left an orphan of the Feng family, is behind the moves against them, and he has the pair of them seized.
Smoky Bonds of MarriageXu Yan and Qin Lie are married because the two families want the alliance. She is a reporter, he is the son of a wealthy house. After the wedding they argue constantly. Xu Yan takes him for a man who does not love her. Qin Lie takes her for a woman whose heart is set on someone else. He does love her, and the misunderstanding makes him cold one day and warm the next. Worn out, Xu Yan asks for a divorce.
The divorce does not end it. Qin Lie keeps turning up where she works, at interviews and at family gatherings, and the meetings run between open quarrels and things neither of them says. Mu Qing gets between them, undermining Xu Yan at work and trying to break the two of them apart.
Then there is the matter of Xu Yan's birth. She is not Xu Jing's daughter. Qin Lie learns this and begins quietly gathering evidence of the Xu family's crimes, and Xu Jing is brought before the law. Xu Yan handles her own troubles at work on her professional record, with Qin Lie backing her at the points that matter. When an engagement between Xu Yan and Xing Zhen is arranged, Qin Lie sets out to stop it, and at the ceremony Mu Qing comes at Xu Yan with a knife.
Lady Boss's Perfect RevengeAfter seven years of sacrifice, Ye-won is betrayed by her boyfriend and publicly humiliated when he chooses to marry his wealthy benefactor. On the same day, she enters a contract marriage with Tae-jun, the CEO of Kanghan Group. Returning as the group's powerful mistress, Yewon turns the tables, revealing her true identity as the real owner of the Sera Group, and beginning her revenge.
My Maid, My SalvationCynthia is only a maid, and her master is the ruthless villain everyone fears. But behind closed doors, she knows a different man—one who pushes her to grow, cares for her in the smallest details, and steps in when her fiancé abandons her. Little by little, he changes her life in ways she never imagined. Just when everything begins to feel like a dream, an imperial death order shatters it all.
The Villainess Turned DarlingSelena Logan wanted to get through her first day in the novel without being noticed. She had been reading a CEO romance, got hit on the head, and woke up inside it as a spoiled heiress from the capital's elite circle, the kind everyone in the book knows as love-obsessed and naive. She lives with a scheming cousin, Yasmin, and three brothers who are ruthless and hard to read.
Day one went wrong immediately. She threw up on the male lead's hand and then washed the hand off with hot water. She drank the love potion that had been prepared for Yasmin. In a lift she ran into a man she did not know, greeted him, and spent the night with him.
They met again at a birthday banquet. He was Louis Johnson, heir of the Johnson family, the cold one everyone in that room is afraid of.
Between Two KingsEmpress Shen Yuning, recently married to Emperor Yan Junmo, is widowed when he dies in battle. To protect their unborn child, she divorces her deceased husband and marries his brother, Yan Junxing, becoming empress for a second time. Seven years later, Yan Junmo returns from the dead, leading an army and demanding his empress back, forcing Shen Yuning to choose between the love of two emperors.
From Red Carpet to Dirt RoadThe engagement had to be ended, and her fiance arranged the grounds for it himself. He had her caught in bed with another man, and it worked.
The woman this happened to was a village woman of the 1980s called Xu Yan. She was also Xu Yan the star, who had ended up in that life without meaning to and had to learn the rules of it as she went. To protect herself she said on the spot that she would marry the man she had been caught with. He seemed to have nothing going for him, though he turned out to be Li Qifeng, who ran the No. 1 steel mill and had kept that quiet because of a job he had been given. He explained it to her while kneeling on a washboard. From there the two of them worked their way through the hard years together, Xu Yan handling what came at her on nerve and her own judgment.
Fated Bride: Uncle Became the LoverOn the day of her engagement to Gavin, Anne found him with Grace. The family had picked her out as Gavin's bride when she was a child, on the strength of her birth chart, and the engagement was that arrangement coming due.
She went off and drank, and spent the night with a man who gave his name as Robert. He used the night to hold over her, and she agreed to three years as his secret lover.
Robert was Gavin's uncle Arman, the youngest son of the family, and he kept that from her until he stated it in public. Anne had spent years grateful to Gavin for pulling her out of danger when she was younger, and that had been Arman as well.
She Tried to Seduce Him and Got TrappedForced by her father to marry a scumbag in place of her half-sister, she decides to save herself by seducing the family’s powerful heir. She thinks she is using him to escape control and strike back at her father. But every step she takes has already led her deeper into the net he set for her.
Flash Marriage, Hidden BillionairePeng Mai and Shang Zhan sign the marriage papers without having met. She is getting out from under a family that runs her life, and the match comes through Shang Yuanhong, a friend of hers from a much older generation who knows him.
Shang Zhan does not tell her he runs a company. He comes home as an office worker, needles her, and keeps setting small tests to see what she does with them. Peng Mai reads him as a man with no training and no interest in work who is out for a good time, and the two of them misread each other steadily from there.
Her closest friend needs someone to try a drug on. Peng Mai starts treating Shang Zhan for a condition he does not have. They go on arguing at every turn, and the feeling between them shifts while they do it.Lust and LiesRuan Feifei wants revenge. She is a girl off the street, and a mix-up is what gets her into the Huo household. She goes in by way of a place that had been meant for a well-known courtesan, and once inside she is taken for Huo Qingwan, the family's heiress, and lets that stand. Under that name she moves among the factions ranged against one another around the family and uses them.
Her plan runs into Huo Xiu. He is a young marshal and the head of the Huo house, cold with people and used to being obeyed, and under the identity she has taken he is her brother. She becomes involved with him anyway, and what is between them swings between wanting and hating. The Huo family's feuds go on around the two of them.
Scent of RevengeEvelyn witnessed her mother killed and was sent away for a decade… Back home, she seduces General Lucian as her pawn to strike at her father. But revenge is messy, hearts get tangled… Will she succeed—or lose everything she holds dear?
Swapped Souls with the Male HeirAn accident swaps the soul of a habitually bullied girl into the body of a powerful male heir. With his status now at her disposal, she reverses the balance of power and makes her former tormentors plead for mercy.
The Antidote to LoveDuring the turbulent years of Dawei, the realm remains divided. Prince Ning, Zhao He, leads his army to war and finds himself on the brink of death. Under imperial orders, the Office of Divination offers a rare medicinal slave to cure his poisoning. That slave, Yi Jiu, secretly the Saintess of the Moon Clan, uses herself as bait and becomes deeply entangled in a web of deception. In the end, Zhao He and Yun Yao work together to uncover the truth behind the Moon Clan's massacre. Together, they overcome life-and-death trials, stay true to their original purpose, and protect peace across the land.
Time to be Humbled, MisterChu Luohan was in love with Long Xiao from her school years and never told him. He ran MBK in Huacheng. She trained as a doctor and ended up at Central Hospital, where the talk was about the young cardiologist nobody had the nerve to approach.
One night the two of them slept together, and in the morning he asked her what she wanted. She said she wanted to marry him. He agreed, on the condition that nobody was to know about it.
Three years went by with none of her colleagues aware she had a husband. At home Long Xiao treated her as an enemy. He kept her at arm's length, misunderstandings between them went uncorrected, and she watched him spend his time with a friend of hers.
Women's ChoiceSu Yuning seemed to have a perfect life in the eyes of others, a thriving career, a kind husband, and a well-behaved daughter. However, this perfect life crumbled overnight. It started with her husband's infidelity, followed by her daughter's injury and unconsciousness. It was then that Su Yuning realized she was in a meticulously plotted scheme. While the person behind this scheme was someone she could have never imagined. In order to protect her daughter, Su Yuning had no choice but to step forward and declare war against "her".
Kiss, Love, StingA story of power and love, where the mighty bows to love's call. Sheng Jinye, a well-known kept woman, never thought she would love again, until she discovers that the man she had a one-night stand with is none other than Yu Chao, her ex-boyfriend from three years ago. She realizes that one can indeed foolishly fall for the same person again and again. But now, the once submissive and sweet Yu has transformed into the wild and reckless young master of a powerful family. Sheng wants to escape, but Yu is relentless in his pursuit, showering her with wealth and attention. Maybe, just maybe, she should give in.
Hubby Gardening 101Chu Ciyou hid in Huo Tingchen's hospital room. He had money, he was in a vegetative state and could not speak, and she found she could hear what he was thinking. One thing followed another and she married him.
She had woken that day inside a novel, in the body of its heroine, a part written to be killed off near the start, and the ward was where she went to stay out of reach. The marriage came before any feeling did. They dealt with the people working against her and needled each other through most of it.
Vengeance RebornSheng Qiyue was engaged to a man she trusted. On the day of the engagement her stepsister Sheng Tingting had her killed. She woke six months before that day, in a stretch of time she had already lived through once, and began arranging those months differently. Sheng Tingting then moved on things that had not happened yet. Sheng Qiyue worked out that her stepsister had come back to the same six months as well, and had already taken over the life that was to have been hers.
Eclipsed by DestinyThe Ninth Prince, Xiao Yu, is the strongest of the nine princes fighting over the throne. He was born with a pure Yang constitution, and that condition will kill him young. The one way to prolong his life, and with it his claim to the throne, is to sleep with a woman born with a pure Yin constitution. He has spent ten years searching for one and found nobody.
Jiang Lian is a bride, being married off to another man, on the day Xiao Yu runs into her. He is being hunted at the time. He recognises that she has the constitution he has been looking for and carries her off by force.
Love Entangled in Hate"He promised to marry her upon his return from the eastern campaign.
Yet what he brought back was only an imperial edict to exterminate her clan, and the lifeless bodies of her entire family."
Super System Makes Girls Fall for MeOh Seung-yoon is a college student with no money, working three part-time jobs in a single day. He becomes bound to a system, and his circumstances turn over inside a night. He takes a job as caretaker of a women's dormitory and moves in, sharing the building with three students the campus calls its goddesses. All three begin pursuing him, and they compete with each other over him.
Love Beyond SightClaire sets out to trap a rich man into marriage, and the man she picks is Ethan Lancaster, who has been in love with her since university without ever saying so. She does not recognize him. Back then he helped her again and again, but she was badly short-sighted and had no money for glasses, so she never saw his face clearly. He has since made a success in business.
Claire grew up in a family that only counted its sons. Her parents ignored her and used her when it suited them, and the one person who was warm to her was her grandmother. The grandmother is now ill, and the marriage scheme is Claire's way of paying for her care. Ethan knows exactly who Claire is. He plays along as the man being fooled and turns her plan back on her, so that she is the one who ends up caught, and once she is, he keeps her at his side.
Snow Queen's ChoiceYun Moran meets Feng Jin. He is quiet about himself and she is calm around him. He tells her how to deal with the difficulties in front of her and how to look at the pain she carries, and she starts to find her footing again and to accept that happiness could hold for her.
While she and Feng Jin are getting closer, Yu Xiao comes into her life. Yu Xiao is confident and takes an immediate interest in her. Yun Moran holds that she should stay with the choice she made. She cannot put Yu Xiao aside.
Fake Socialite’s Guide to High SocietyZhou Yanzhi saw through Bai Yao's act almost at once and got in her way whenever he could. As the two of them kept crossing paths he found out what she was actually like and fell in love with her.
Her mother had disliked her from childhood and her stepfather molested her, and getting clear of that house was the thing she wanted most. At eighteen she took the name Bai Yao, passed herself off as the daughter of a good family and got into wealthy circles. The man she went after was Xu Shaoqian, mild-mannered and born into money. Zhou Yanzhi was his friend from another old family. Xu Shaoqian was drawn to her as well. Xu Shaoqian's sister Xu Wanjiao knew where Bai Yao had come from and moved to expose her, and Bai Yao went on working all three of them to keep the identity standing.
You Are My Glorious SunShi Yanzhou was the one everybody at school looked at, and no girlfriend of his lasted past a month. Zhou Yiran was the sort nobody notices and had liked him for a long time by then. She worked her way into the same university he had gone to, and it was after she got in that she heard about the month rule and the rest of his record.
They met again on campus. The campus beauty confessed to him with Zhou Yiran standing there. She was still taking that in when he turned the confession down and walked over to her.
Clash of Hearts: She Who Builds Her ThroneMing Yuntang practices as a Dao physician, and she is made to marry Rong Jingyu, the heir of his house, who has a reputation for madness and for violence. Rong Jingyu takes her in for a practical reason. A wife keeps his stepmother occupied, and with the stepmother occupied he can put his attention on the crown prince.
Ming Yuntang means to keep her head down. People with something to gain keep turning up in front of her, near enough every day, so she deals with them, and she changes the method each time so the job does not go stale. She settles the inner household on her own, then goes further and cripples the crown prince, which was not what Rong Jingyu had asked for.
The trouble grows past what he had planned around. He spends his days climbing, he arrives at a position of real power as a corrupt official with the court in his hands, and his true identity turns out to hold a secret of another sort.
Loved You Before You KnewIn their circle a marriage between two families is taken to be about money, and nobody looked past that with He Zhizhou and Wen Ning. He was cold to her for years and never explained himself, so she believed it as well.
Her father was arrested and the case went against him. Wen Ning was pushed into work accompanying guests at drinking parties. He Zhizhou said nothing to her about it and went after the case on his own, and the verdict was overturned.
She found out she was pregnant and ran. He went after her, took a knife wound in the course of it, and would not let go of her.
At their wedding he told her he had loved her since high school and had been looking out for her the whole ten years.
His Grace's Favorite Gentleman: Season 2Yun Mo, a modern gold medal killer, passed through the body of a woman with the same name after his death. Yun Mo's father died in the war when she was young. In order for mother and daughter to gain a foothold in the Yun family, her mother disguised Yun Mo as a man from the time she was born. Yun Mo grew up day by day, longing to regain her identity as a daughter, but also afraid of dying without a burial place with her mother if her identity was discovered. In order to get rid of the danger of her identity being exposed as soon as possible, she planned to run away with her mother. However, she was spotted by Jin Cang, the most powerful and vicious prince of the Yuan Dynasty, and was brought back to the palace. From then on, she started a life of fighting wits and courage with Jin Cang in order to survive.
The Doctor’s Heart, Unlocked by LoveIn a family where the elders arrange the marriages, Charles Bennett was matched with Hazel Monroe and the two were married in secret, without any feeling between them. Charles is a cardiac surgeon, cold with people. Hazel is a resident still in training, and she is mischievous and loud, and the daily business of living with her puts color into his days.
A rival for Hazel appears. Charles works out what he feels, and drunk, he says out loud that he is jealous. Hazel had already come to love him over the time they spent together. She learns that what he wants is pediatrics, and that the weight of what his family expects of him has kept him from it, and she tells him to go after it. They grow up alongside each other and the marriage becomes a real one.
A Loveless Marriage，A Dangerous LoverPressed by family, she signs a loveless contract marriage with a powerful billionaire, promising freedom when the term ends. Then she meets a charming stranger disguised as a model and falls into the love she always wanted. But in a triangle built on secrets, every choice is bound to hurt.
Skin ThirstThe drama tells the story of Nina Sullivan, who suffers from aquagenic pruritus, and Ethan Hartley, as they move from acquaintanceship and misunderstandings to falling in love. With Ethan's help, Nina overcomes her condition, and together they navigate challenges, ultimately finding true love.
Heart's Deception: The Fox's GameSu Jinyu is framed by her husband Xu Mingli and his lover Jiang Ying and sent into the Fox Cave as a sacrificial offering to a thousand-year-old mountain fox. At the moment of crisis, a seemingly frail scholar helps her escape. When the terrifying fox demon appears and forces Su Jinyu to kill the scholar, she turns the blade on the fox demon. Only then does she realize that the “frail scholar” is actually Lord Xuanye, the mountain fox himself. Xuanye discovers that her utterly pure soul can heal the injuries he sustained from heavenly lightning punishment. Seizing the chance, Su Jinyu proposes a bargain: she will offer her soul in exchange for Xuanye’s help in taking revenge. What Xuanye does not know is that this arrangement is itself part of her carefully laid plan for vengeance. As their revenge unfolds, Xuanye discovers that Su Jinyu’s birthmark is identical to that of Bai Li, the lover he has searched for over a hundred years. The seemingly calm and beautiful peace is shattered by the meddling of the demon monk Wuxin. As layers of truth are revealed, where will the tangled love and hatred between the two ultimately lead?
Unveiled Desires: A Twisted RomanceJoyce Reed married Jeremy Robinson days after she found out her boyfriend had been sleeping with her closest friend for most of the time they were together. She married him without knowing who he really was.
Before that she was a college student caught in a setup arranged by her cousin, which put her in a room with Jeremy for a night. She spent the weeks afterward sick with the idea that she had cheated, until the truth about her boyfriend and her friend came out. Jeremy was known around Harbor City as a man with money and reach; how much of either, she learned later.
After the wedding came his jealousy, his protectiveness, and spending on a scale she had no reference for. He made no secret of how he felt about her and gave no sign of dropping the matter.
My One-Night Lover Is My Contract HusbandEmily Green returns home only to be greeted by an unexpected gift from her mother—a marriage certificate. Rumor has it her husband is a total jerk. Determined to get a divorce, she accidentally spends the night with a charming escort, only to discover he's actually her mysterious husband!
Photogenic ScandalHabin, 27, an amateur photographer, secretly poses as famous photographer Miro for shoots with sexy models. "Would you rather kiss me or pay the penalty?"
The Wedding Mix-UpThe Su and Fu families had a marriage contract to sign, and on the day of the ceremony both Fu sons were stuck on a delayed flight. The Su sisters, Su Qing and Su Wan, stepped in and completed the ritual without them.
That night it rained hard and the house numbers could not be read. Su Wan went into the villa of Fu Chengzhou, the head of the family, and Su Qing went into the house of Fu Yang, a film star. The brothers got back late and each spent the night with the wrong bride. Once this was understood, Su Qing proposed swapping the contracts: Su Wan would take Fu Chengzhou and she would take Fu Yang. Married life afterwards is mostly noise and comedy. Fu Chengzhou is rigid, demanding and afraid of germs, and Su Wan breaks his rules one after another.
He Loved Her Sister FirstSadie wants Ethan, and Ethan is the man her older sister has been fighting with for years. Sadie is the well-behaved daughter at home, so the two of them meet where nobody will see them, and to keep him interested she goes along with places and situations that embarrass her. On a camping trip they spend the night together. Not long after, Sadie learns that her sister was Ethan's first love, and that he had taken up with Sadie to get back at the sister. Sadie is hurt by it and decides to walk away.
My Revenge? Marriage with the Richest!Zack Gomez and the woman he kept took the Yale family money and then killed Nancy Yale for what was left. She opens her eyes again some time before the wedding that set all of it in motion.
This time she wrecks the ceremony in front of the guests and registers a marriage with Liam Swift, the richest man in Riverton, on terms the two of them agree beforehand. Her father's company comes with a performance agreement she has six months to meet or lose it. She works those six months with Liam behind her. There is a fight over scandium, more lies out of the man she was going to marry, and business rivals coming at the company from the side. Somewhere in it she gets at what actually happened to her parents.
90-Day SparkWen Xu is a lawyer who walks out of her firm over a matter of principle and goes to stay on Hong Kong island with no fixed plan. She takes a room at a guesthouse with a sea view and decides she wants Zhou Lie, who owns it. Her approach is part open and part sideways, and it goes on for a while without landing. Then a typhoon comes through, and on that night Zhou Lie is the one who makes the move. What they agree to is three months, a short arrangement with an end date attached, which suits them both at the time. They live in the same house, and the three months stop feeling like an arrangement. Before it runs out something happens to a friend of hers and she has to go back to Beicheng in a hurry, and the thing is left where it was. Later a package arrives from Zhou Lie with a wedding dress in it that he has repaired, and after that he crosses the distance to Beicheng himself.
Reborn in the 90s: Am I Really the Factory Director from the Start?Song Nanzhi finishes school and cannot get hired anywhere. She then finds herself in the 1990s, in the position of a young executive at Chenxi Group who has risen quickly and is criticised for it. The company sends her to take charge of an electronics factory that has been losing money for years. Shi Rui, the deputy director, tries to have her killed soon after she arrives.
The factory is split into factions. The gatekeeper gives her trouble, the workers walk out, and there is no money coming in. The chief engineer, Lu Xiangdong, is the one person she could rely on, and he has the idea that she is his father's girlfriend, so he keeps his guard up around her.
She gets through the problems one at a time, and Lu Xiangdong moves from suspicion to trust, and the two of them fall in love. Around the time the factory steadies, she comes across signs of a larger scheme behind it. She starts pulling at the truth and finds that she is in danger herself.
Night's TendernessAva Anderson handled everything in Ryan Mitchell's life. She had been at his side since he was a child, first as his nanny and then as the person who managed his affairs, until the day he shouted at her and threw her out.
When they meet again she is working as Lucas Hamilton's secretary. Ryan wants her back. By then Ava has fallen for Lucas, for his gentleness and the way he draws her in, and she becomes the wife of the Hamilton house.
Broken Bonds, Shared FireSu Jinyan was left as an orphan by her birth mother, Liu Qingyi. Ling Yao grew up in the same woman's house as her stepson, watched and managed by her. Su Jinyan approached Ling Yao on purpose. The two became involved, and the relationship broke both of their lives apart. Su Jinyan set a trap that pulled Ling Yao down from the top of everything he had, and after it closed she left without a trace.
Years later Ling Yao filed a report against her that ended her medical training. He brought her back to the rented room they had used before and kept her there. They lived under the label of brother and sister, hurting each other and taking warmth from each other in the same rooms.
The man who killed her father turned out to be someone else. Ling Yao's fall had been staged and Su Jinyan's revenge had been cover for something else. The two of them work together against the person behind it all.Love in A SecretLu Zhu's stepmother is taking away her reputation, standing, money and ties to the family, one item at a time, and her world is close to falling apart. Ye Man, her stepbrother, has been closing in on her from the other side, step by step, according to a plan of his own. The plan breaks down when he falls in love with Lu Zhu, who was meant to be a piece he moved around the board. It is a love he cannot admit to, and he keeps it in the dark.
The Commander's Revenge WifeGu Fengsheng was ten years old when he was married to Lu Qingye, who was the same age. His father held high office in the new republic and the match was arranged for them. Lu Qingye took charge of his upbringing and kept him to a strict routine, and somewhere in those years he fell for her and said nothing about it.
They were separated afterwards and did not meet again for a long time. By then he commanded the Jiangbei army and she had become head of the Blue Dragon Society, which his army counted as its main enemy. He worked out who she was. His first move was to present himself to her as a former husband down on his luck, ask to be taken into her house as a live-in son-in-law, and tell her she owed him for it.
Where Hearts BelongForced to save her family, heiress Milena Skerett breaks up with Tristen Gould and marries the abusive Zack Hallet. After her father's suicide and a self-defense act lands her in jail, she's released five years later. Upon her release, she again crosses paths with Tristen, now a famous actor. Their story of family, heartbreak, and love shows Milena's resilience amid life's trials.
After Divorce: Sweet SufferingLina puts the death of Seth's grandfather on Nora, and Seth takes her word for it. Nora had spent years loving him. He brought Lina, his first love, into the house, and then held his grandfather against his wife.
Nora gives up a kidney for Lina at Seth's asking. The pregnancy ends, her father is arrested, and her mother does not survive what happens to the family. Seth holds to Lina's account for as long as it stands, and Nora gets the worst of him for it.
Then Nora finds out where she came from. She is the daughter the Clark family lost years ago, and with the Clarks behind her and a friend she has known since childhood, she starts on the people who did this to her.Mysterious and Absurd Cases of the Tang DynastyChang'an in the Kaiyuan years of the Tang Dynasty is at the height of its prosperity, and underneath that prosperity a string of cases turns up that nobody can explain. Shentu Baiqi is an investigator without an official post. He works the cases together with Yao Yuan, who is Deputy Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, and with Mu Guiyi.
Each case leads back to a living person and to what that person wanted, whether position or someone they could not give up, and the truth the three of them dig up is on behalf of the dead, with whatever justice follows done quietly. There is a rite performed over a ghost infant, a coffin held down with wards, a town its people say is haunted, wooden puppets that kill, and a contract under which a man pawns his wife.
Shattered Lock, Broken VowsThe imperial house was afraid of the Mo clan's mechanical craft, so they took the clan's daughter as a child and raised her inside the palace where they could watch her. Marrying her to the crown prince was the way to bind the clan, and the betrothal was all but settled. One condition remained. In the throne hall, before the court, he had to open the wild goose lock she brought, and then the marriage could be granted. In her first life she quietly told him how the lock worked. He opened it, they married, and after he took the throne he charged the Mo clan with treason and had every one of them buried alive. She opens her eyes on the day the marriage is to be granted, back at the beginning. This time the crown prince claims illness and does not appear, having gone instead to the entertainers' bureau to make private promises to Lin Chaochao, a woman held there as a convict. So she marries his worst enemy, with a bridal procession ten li long, and takes her place as empress. The crown prince finds he cannot bear watching it.
Wrong Wedding Room, Right Groom!Two families settled their alliance with a double wedding. Eliza Devin, who runs her own company and is used to being the hardest person in any room, was matched with the head of the Nott family, a man known for cold decisions and short answers. Her younger sister Katie was matched with his younger brother, a movie star whose face is on half the billboards in the city. The four of them went through the ceremony on the same day, in the same house, with the two bridal suites down the same corridor. That night the sisters walked into the wrong rooms. Nobody caught the error in time, and by morning Katie had spent the night with the elder brother and Eliza with the younger. The families gathered to work out what could be undone and concluded that very little could. So the paperwork was redone instead of the marriages. The sisters traded contracts and stayed where the mistake had put them. Katie, who had prepared herself for a husband who lived in front of cameras, found herself married to a man who barely speaks at dinner. Eliza, who had braced for a cold house, got the brother everyone recognises on the street.
Friends with Benefits Play the Swap GameRomance novice Emily Davis enters an adults-only reality experiment for a $210,000 prize, posing as longtime friend Alex Carter's casual lover. She expects to act for cameras and instead faces rules requiring daily intimacy, changing bed partners, and encounters with other male contestants. Keeping her inexperience secret becomes as difficult as deciding whether Alex is still merely part of the performance.
Here Is My Exclusive Indulge S2Yun Xiangxiang is posing as Fu Sihan's fiancée, and the arrangement was his idea. Fu Sihan is a well-known entrepreneur. Yun Xiangxiang had drawn a girls' comic with him as its lead, and when he read it he did not like it and held the comics company responsible. She went to him in person to ask forgiveness so the company would not have to answer for it. He agreed, on the condition that she pretend to be engaged to him.
She had drawn the comic for money. Her mother is in poor health, and Yun Xiangxiang is the one paying the medical bills.
Hide and Seek LoveIn order to prevent her biological father from marrying into a wealthy family for the fourth time, Ye Wu set her sights on Gu Yubei. In order to catch up with Gu Yubei, she created a chance encounter during the day and walked to the wrong door at night! After Gu Yubei willingly stepped into the trap she had made, she patted her butt and left a message, "I'm tired of playing with you!" and then disappeared. Gu Yubei has been looking for her like crazy for four years. It wasn't until she got off the plane after returning to China that she was blocked by Gu Yubei at the airport. He asked her with red eyes, "Is it fun to play hide-and-seek?"
If I Die Again, Hold Me ForeverTrapped inside a novel, Tara Shore deliberately provokes its tyrant emperor because dying by his hand would send her home with one hundred million dollars. The emperor thwarts every reckless attempt and becomes fiercely determined to keep her alive. Tara eventually learns that he remembers three previous lives in which she died and has returned each time to alter that ending—even offering his own life as the price of her rebirth.