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Sacrificed to the Dragon KingCelia is forced by his vicious stepbrother Anderson to be a human sacrifice to the dragon Heinrich, who claims Celia is his destined mate. Locked in the dragon’s castle, Celia suspects he only sees him as a substitute for Anderson, haunted by a cursed emerald ring the dragon fiercely guards. Desperate to save his sick younger sister Lily, Celia sneaks away repeatedly, risking deadly forest beasts. Each time, Heinrich races to shield him, bearing wounds transferred via their dragon bond. A scheming Anderson manipulates Celia with Lily’s life, luring him into traps and spreading lies to drive the pair apart. As Celia learns of the fatal Moonlight Spring that can burn dragons, he’s torn between his sister’s safety and the unexpected softness the cold beast shows him. Old childhood secrets and deadly curses loom, trapping the two in a tangled web of sacrifice, misunderstanding and quiet, forbidden affection.
The Vermilion StratagemAfter being reborn, Jenna Janes joined forces with Howard True to take down those who wronged them. Determined to protect Howard, she uncovered the dark secrets between the Janes family and the Crown Prince. As they fought for justice, their bond deepened. With countless twists and turns, Howard's hidden identity came to light, and together they claimed their revenge. In the end, Howard rose to power, and Jenna stood beside him, ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity.
Fake Eunuch, Three BridesDylan Mercer is a eunuch in the palace of Daphonn, married off all at once to three women as a joke at his expense. Lord Cameron, a prince of a different surname, has killed the emperor and taken the throne, and the marriage is the last insult he can think of for the women: Julia Fisher, the orphaned royal heir, General Stanton, the woman who commands the Imperial Guards, and the consort Lauren Carlisle. Dylan came into this body from another time and brought with him a system that counts favorability points. He gets the three of them out of the Royal Chambers by force and takes them to Dreadfang, where he buys horses and recruits soldiers. From there he works his way back up against Cameron's men, and the three women come to want him.
Coffin Bride, Mad TyrantThe bride arrives in a coffin, hoping her tyrant husband will kill her. Transported into the life of a prime minister's daughter, she can return to modern times only by provoking Gu Mingzhe into executing her. But every insult earns his indulgence: he can hear her thoughts and knows exactly why she wants to die.
Return of His MajestyBefore he left the village, Lee Hwon promised his fiancée Park Hwa-jin that when he became king he would come back and make her queen. Years later he founded a dynasty and took the throne. He returned in disguise to keep the promise. At the city gate the guards extorted a toll out of him. He learned that Park Hwa-jin was about to marry the magistrate's son and had been going along with the magistrate in squeezing the district. He spoke against it and was beaten for it. A royal emissary got him out.
He found that the person who had actually looked after him years earlier was Park Cheong-yeon, an illegitimate daughter nobody paid attention to. Still keeping his identity to himself, he found how far the corruption went and held a large homecoming banquet as a way of getting the officials in one place.
Thor：Thunder ReturnsWhen the Abyss invades, Mjolnir grants humanity thunder runes—but the mark intended for newborn Iven is stolen by his uncle and implanted in Iven's cousin. Twenty years later, the scarred young man is mocked as incomplete and condemned by the false heir wielding his stolen authority. The Abyss's return restores Iven's memories and awakens Thor's true name, revealing that the world's thunder and protection always came from him as he reclaims Mjolnir and the throne.
Spartacus God of the ArenaRome fears only one name: the War Shadow. To save his poisoned wife, Elara, Spartacus buried his godlike power and disappeared into the arena as a nameless slave. But when Elara’s sister is thrown into a blood-soaked gladiator battle, the legend must rise. Alchemy-born monsters. A traitor wearing his name. An empire ready to burn. To save his family, Spartacus will break his chains—and unleash the god Rome tried to bury.
Bloodbound: Marked by the Blood MoonVampire princess Selene Voss and werewolf heir Kael Blackthorn chose each other once and were murdered for it. A blood-bound mark returns them three years into the past, where they must claim rival thrones and uncover the Ashen Church conspiracy sustaining a thousand-year war before the same betrayal kills them again—and before their bond fulfills a prophecy that could overturn both races.
The Ashen CovenantFor four centuries, the Seven Holy Cities have relied on the Covenant for healing, power, and protection—while unknowingly surrendering their freedom to the Church. Searching for her missing mother, Elara joins forces with the knight Rowan and uncovers a terrifying truth: her mother, Marlene, is the key to the entire Covenant system, while Rowan is the "stable vessel" meant to awaken the ancient dragon Valgrenn. When the three Dragon Embers unite and the dragon rises, Elara must sever the Root Covenant as Rowan fights to destroy the Embers within himself. In the end, the people lose their miracles and divine protection—but gain true freedom for the first time.
My Thoughts Save The WorldArchaeologist Elian is transported to another world and awakens as a human prince with the power to foresee the future. But there is one shocking catch: the people connected to his destiny can hear his thoughts.
Forced into an engagement with Lorelyn, a fierce elven warrior who despises him, Elian discovers a terrifying truth—her beloved Kaelos has betrayed the elves and secretly serves the Undead Demon King.
As the Tree of Life is corrupted and an orc army threatens the elven kingdom, Elian’s visions become the key to exposing conspiracies and preventing disaster. Slowly, Lorelyn and the elven queen Marceline begin to trust him.
When the Undead Demon King unleashes his army, humans and elves face annihilation.
The prince who only wanted to survive must unite humans and elves—and become the hero who saves the world.
Joseon King's Return（DUBBED）Lee Hwon rises from humble beginnings to become king. Disguised as a commoner, he returns to find his former fiancée, Park Hwa-jin, and make her his queen. Instead, he gets beaten by corrupt officials for speaking out. Hwa-jin humiliates and abandons him. Lee Hwon soon learns that the person who truly cared for him years ago was Park Cheong-yeon, the overlooked illegitimate daughter. As he uncovers widespread corruption, he secretly sets a trap by holding a grand banquet.
He Who Shaped the EmpireCedric Zeller made a promise at the old emperor's deathbed and has kept it since, running the state day and night, careful as a man crossing thin ice, until his hair went white while he was still young. The new ruler, Xaviera Spencer, comes to the throne and takes to Lucas Quinton, a court official who flatters well and governs badly, and she means to install him in Cedric's place. Part of Cedric's promise was a count: he would forgive Xaviera a hundred times before he was free of it. Most of the hundred are already spent. Three remain. He keeps working, keeps absorbing the slights and reversals, and keeps subtracting, and when the last of the three is used up he has his resignation written and intends to walk out of the court and not turn around.
Last Year of the EmpireNeal Hanson transmigrates into a spoiled noble heir who can see fate-predicting "stream comments". While scheming to escape death, his unfiltered thoughts spill out, unintentionally aiding the Empress and her allies in dismantling a lethal plot and rewriting their doomed fate.
He Who Rose Against AllJareth Zane unexpectedly time-travels and becomes the live-in son-in-law of the Lacy family. After being humiliated and set up by Draven Wycliffe, he uses the knowledge from the future to develop a purple dye that saves the Lacy family from a crisis. With his great talent, he invents gunpowder and designs various types of firearms and cannons, successfully defusing many conflicts between Xevoria and Bryndor.
Betrayed by My Wife, Nowhere to BelongSimeon married into the General's mansion in place of his younger brother, but his wife Yasmine took the Purple Rhinoceros Pill for her true love, turning him into a laughingstock. Simeon endured in silence, only to be cruelly poisoned by Yasmine—and his child was killed. In the end, the Empress revealed his true identity, punished Yasmine severely, and Simeon's fate was completely reversed.
Swapped My Spirit Beast, Now She RegretsSerena dies at her coronation after her sister Ruby conspires with Felix, the spirit who should have served her. Reborn at the earlier spirit-selection rite, she finds that both traitors remember their past life and intend to saddle her with Ruby's supposedly weak familiar. Serena accepts Lance, nurtures his hidden potential until he takes human form, and fights her way back toward the throne stolen from her.
The Modern Noble's LeapIn the empire of Qian, the prime minister's son is known for spending his days on nothing but pleasure. Qin Feng, a researcher in the present day, has been pushed around at work by his superior Cui Niu. The two of them get into a fight and both end up in the past, Qin Feng in the body of the prime minister's son. Cui Niu puts his modern knowledge to work building advanced weapons and uses them to threaten the empress. That puts Qin Feng's family in danger. Qin Feng then finds out he can travel back to the modern world and returns whenever he needs to.
Vengeance of the Tech-Powered Crown PrinceThe third prince and Selene took the credit for the work Alexander had done at court and then had him killed for it. Alexander had come from the modern world into Great Zhou and woken up in the body of its crown prince, and he had been using what he knew of later centuries to pull the country out of the state it was in.
He woke again on the night before the coup. The piece of jade he carried turned out to be able to call up modern technology, which he had not known about the first time round. He took the direct route after that, going at his enemies with force and leaving them no room. A crisis on the barbarian frontier came up in the middle of it and he dealt with that without much difficulty. Then something went wrong back at the palace and he returned for it.
Throne of ResolveThree women of the imperial house are widowed by a single battle at the frontier, and a young woman in the same household loses her father and her elder brother in it. With the court in crisis, the sixth prince, Alex Larson, who is written off as useless and has no standing of his own, stands up and says he will take responsibility.
He goes to war against the faction behind the defeat. He turns out to be clever, and he uses that rather than force, dismantling the plots against him one at a time. The three widows end up travelling with him.
A Dance of Steel and BloodAfter a devastating assault on the Koch family, young Blake Koch inherits the ancient Octa Dragon Arts from his dying father, Grandmaster Jason Koch, with a final command: never fight until the arts are perfected. Taken in by the compassionate Lucinda Hudson, head of the Hudson family, Blake trains in isolation and masters the arts by the age of 18.
His Ascension From the AbyssDespite being from the imperial bloodline, everyone thinks Noah Quigley is a loser because he awakened his martial spirit later than others. After his downfall, his ex-best friend Cody Quigley backstabbed him, while his childhood sweetheart Laila Nolan broke off their engagement. As he struggled against these difficulties, Noah carved out a new destiny for himself. He breaks free from his shackles to become the most powerful warrior that has ever existed.
The Chosen Blade: Path of the LegendSelena Finley's father forces her into marriage for cultivation materials, but Lucian Reeve sacrifices his 7th-grade energy core to help her become a top disciple at Crastic School. Trapped in the Holy Spring and enduring relentless flames, Lucian, on the brink of death, uses a mysterious sword from his late father and astonishingly reaches Level 999,999.
The Invincible Time-Traveling PrinceIn this tale of time travel, Zion Yates inhabits the body of the unremarkable Third Prince of Dvalor, leveraging modern-era knowledge to outmaneuver his scheming brothers. Rising above the other princes, he ascends to the position of Crown Prince. Despite his newfound prestige and power, all he desires is a life of carefree peace.
Let me go, My Queen!An accident carries modern artist Jack into an ancient Roman world where women hold political power. A phone brought from his own time helps him become the queen's personal painter, while his medical knowledge saves her sister. When that sister conspires with others to kill the queen and seize both the throne and the object behind his journey, Jack uncovers the plot and searches for a way home.
The Return of the MarquisAfter his sudden death, Hector Shaw, the War Marquis of Dasia, inexplicably wakes up in a world over two thousand years in the future. There, he learns of the tragic fate that befell both Dasia and his own family, the Shaws. When he opens his eyes once more, now a century later in his own time, he finds his homeland and his house on the brink of collapse. He is determined to change his nation's destined fate, uncover the truth behind his death, drive out the foreign invaders, purge the traitors from within, restore his family's glory, and secure the future of Dasia.
My Empire Never DiesDerek Barton is transported to ancient times. The good news is that he is the descendant of the emperor of the fallen Tarkand Empire. The bad news is that Tarkand has long since collapsed. Fortunately, he accidentally awakens a Kingdom Fortune System. Starting as a lowly foot soldier, Derek rises through the ranks with his wit and martial prowess, outmaneuvers rival factions in a chaotic age, finds true love, and ultimately becomes the supreme warlord of his era before attaining immortality.
Reborn Healer Ditches PrinceDr. Colin Tate, a modern physician, collapses from overwork and awakens as Claire Archer—a love-obsessed lady married to Prince Edward Whitmore. In her previous life, Claire was humiliated and framed repeatedly by her half-sister Emma Archer. Now armed with modern medicine and an independent mind, Claire sheds her old weakness. She saves a crown princess with a cesarean, performs surgery on a lord, cures the Dowager Queen of chronic back pain, and outwits every trap thrown her way.
Prince Edward, who once despised her, finds himself drawn to this transformed woman. Set against the intrigues of the Whitmore Residence and the Highcourt court, the story follows Claire as she breaks free from a marriage of convenience, while Edward gradually discovers that true power lies not in rank, but in the heart.
Reborn Heiress: Sign-in SystemLeah Reed, after falling into water, is reborn and awakens the strongest survival check‑in system. She completely changes her former foolish and timid self. In her previous life, she was cruelly tormented by her stepmother Irene Carter and her half‑sister Katie Reed, and was framed, leading to the tragic death of her entire family. In this life, she schemes step by step, publicly tears off their hypocritical masks, and boldly breaks off her absurd engagement with Prince Nathan Ashford (the Third Prince). She completes system tasks successively, gaining a poison‑immune constitution and various extraordinary opportunities. While investigating the old truth of her biological mother’s murder, she joins forces with Prince Owen Ashford (the Ninth Prince, known as Xiao Jue), who was poisoned and who had collected her body in her previous life.
Pestilence and ProvidenceAlex Neal possesses a divine artifact that can extract and release diseases. At the earnest plea of the Harris family, he enters the mortal world to save lives. In Cloudville, he encounters Oscar Innes, who oppresses him and attempts to seize his magical treasure. Alex retaliates in kind against those who repay kindness with enmity. Meanwhile, a plague breaks out across Cloudville. Through transcending his mortal tribulations and ascending to immortality, Alex eradicates the plague and saves humanity.
My King, My CurseModern‑day couple Amy and Geoffrey are transported to a medieval realm after a domestic fight. Trapped in an unwanted royal marriage, Amy wants an annulment. The powerful King‑Priest Claire, Geoffrey’s elder brother, suffers a fatal dark curse. By accident, Amy touches the cursed altar, binding their fates together for life. She is caught in court intrigue, framed by the jealous princess Margaret and her cruel husband Geoffrey. While enduring endless plots and dangers, Amy grows close to Claire. They uncover long‑buried royal conspiracies, defeat scheming foes, break the deadly curse, dispose of the old unfair church rules, and finally gain true freedom and sincere love.
Reborn for My Real DaughterBetrayed by her adopted children Chloe and Owen on her deathbed, Celeste Lynn is reborn four years earlier to protect her neglected biological daughter Ivy. As she exposes Chloe’s lies and restores Ivy’s rightful status, Celeste discovers Chloe and Owen are her late husband’s illegitimate children with housekeeper May Barnes, and her biological son was swapped years ago. She secretly searches for her son while the pair reap the consequences of their arrogance.Ivy gains the Sinclair family’s respect through academic success. Celeste grows close to Nathan Sinclair, who confesses his long-held love for her. Chloe and Owen later scheme to seize Lynn Corporation shares, unaware Celeste is ready to foil their plan.
From Lame to LordA modern youth, James Cooper, accidentally travels through time and becomes a lame boy in a chaotic, famine‑stricken era, and is cruelly harmed by villains. At a critical moment, he awakens the two‑world shuttle System, which not only heals his leg injury but also allows him to travel between ancient and modern times. James, together with his beloved Alice Bennett, sets out. He befriends the upright official Edward Blake, and takes in the clever orphan Ella Foster to manage household affairs. Using modern materials, advanced weapons and technology, he punishes local bullies and corrupt constables, wipes out the Darkwind Outpost bandits hiding in the mountains, solves the severe drought problem, and settles displaced refugees. Facing the invading Xiongnu army, James creates new‑style armaments and defeats the powerful enemy with fewer forces. On the way, he also rescues the Empress Madeline Windsor, who was traveling incognito. With extraordinary abilities and numerous achievements, this former destitute cripple gradually rises in the chaotic world, and is eventually ennobled as a prince of a different surname, achieving a legendary life.
King's Hunt：The UnbrokenCedric, a poor tenant farmer in the Kingdom of Dal, suffers exploitation and humiliation from cruel local lord Tyler, who also desires his childhood sweetheart Sylvia.
His quiet life shatters when he obtains a Pawn-class arcane chess piece that awakens faint electrical powers. The relic marks him for death: nobles hunt Pawn-wielding commoners in a brutal royal blood sport, trading severed heads for status and power.
Forced to flee with Sylvia, Cedric grows from a desperate survivor into a rebellion leader. Each noble he kills amplifies his electric abilities, from weak sparks to devastating lightning orbs. He marches on the capital to topple the tyranny and build a free new era with his beloved
A Sister's Last StandIn her quest for justice for her late father, Caroline is heartbroken to discover her betrayal by her long-lost brother!
Poisoned TruthWinnie was framed by her sister Jean and forced to drink poisoned wine. Returning home, she faced only cold stares and cruel misunderstandings from her own family. But she didn't fall, she fought back.
With her medical skills, she earned the Empress Dowager's trust and rose to prominence through the palace's official selection. During the Autumn Festival, she exposed Jean's treacherous scheme to deceive the royal court with fake wine.
To uncover the truth, Winnie faked her death and revealed the princess's crimes. In the end, as her once-proud family crumbled, she walked away from the chaos with Xavier by her side and found the peace and love she had always deserved.