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The Second Wife's TrialWhen getting back home, Wenny found her husband Andy's pregnant ex-wife Joan came. Wenny and Andy had to move out. But later they knew Joan beat their daughter Yulisa. After scamming money from Andy, Joan went to steal his money and was caught and punished. In the end, Wenny carried Andy's baby.
I Took It All BackSamantha Blake and Daniel Foster have been married seven years. She comes home from the hospital after giving birth and finds Allison Turner, an intern who looks like the woman Daniel loved first, sitting in her seat in the dress that had been made for Samantha. Samantha tells her to get up. Daniel apologizes and then hands Allison a pearl necklace. Over the month Samantha spends recovering, Allison takes over her office and breaks her trophies and the wine set aside for the banquet. Samantha and Daniel argue about it again and again, and he takes Allison's side every time.
At the one-month banquet for the baby, Samantha asks for a divorce in front of the guests and tells the room the child is not Daniel's. She pulls out every investment she has made in the company at the same time, which leaves Foster Group unable to cover itself. Allison's diploma turns out to be forged and she has been selling company information, and security walks her out of the hall. Daniel learns then that the money holding his family up had been Samantha's for years, and that he is the one who cannot have children. He kneels and asks her to come back.
Lost Love, Broken VowsAllison sets aside her position as CEO of Clark Group to build a life with Tony and supports him for years without revealing her power. His affair with former girlfriend Dayna ends that sacrifice. As Allison steps back into her true identity, the betrayal costs Tony everything and opens the way for Erik to offer the loyalty and protection her husband withheld.
SerendipityDeanna got pregnant by Kory before they were married. Once he found out, Kory dumped her. However, after becoming infertile, Kory wanted the child back. It was only then that Deanna's husband, Wilbur, discovered the child wasn't his. How will they handle this decision?
My Ex Is a LegendRay sacrificed his legal career for love, only to have betrayal tear his world apart. When he re-emerges as the famed attorney Silas, his ex-wife realizes the truth too late. As past choices collide, love, regret, and redemption take center stage.
Burning The LineWith her wedding only two months away, Sunwoo finds herself in a confusing time, unsure whether going through with the marriage is the right choice or if she truly loves Jaeseong. While sitting listlessly at her regular bar, she meets Eunho, a new bartender. The moment their eyes meet, they can’t seem to look away from each other, as if struck by electricity. Not long after, during a university lecture where Sunwoo is teaching, she notices Eunho—who belongs to another department—sitting in the front row and staring straight at her. For some reason, his gaze makes her heart tremble. After class, they begin talking and gradually feel themselves drawn to one another. As they start exchanging personal messages, their connection deepens, eventually leading them to share drinks together…
Trapped in Mountain RiverThe actress Chelsea Shane's work in the mountains turned nightmare when she discovered a captive tongueless woman. After a failed escape, Chelsea was captured and forced to marry a villager. At the wedding's peak, the crowd demanded her tongue be cut out. At that very moment, Chelsea's brother smashed through the doors, triggering a standoff...
My Ex-Wife Saved MeZoey turns to her biological mother, Harriett, when her father's pregnant new wife begins abusing her and her grandmother. Regina's kindness exists only when Zachary is watching, and even his anger at her cruelty gives way to concern for the unborn child. Harriett's intervention exposes an affair and a scheme aimed at his fortune.
Fired, Framed, and FierceJessica is the star quantitative trader at TB Securities, but she is unjustly fired by the new male-dominated CEO, Jackson. Meanwhile, her achievements and identity are falsely claimed by her scheming colleague, Jessie. Jessie takes advantage of Jackson's misjudgment and steals Jessica's trading model, using it to frame Jessica. At the same time, William, the CEO of Charles Securities, steps in to support Jessica and hires her for his company.
Love At DivorceThree years ago, Ryan, America's most promising astronaut trainee, gave up a historic promotion to live in anonymity as a devoted husband to Vanessa. Unbeknownst to him, Vanessa, blinded by materialism, secretly pined for her wealthy childhood friend, Jackson. Heartbroken, Ryan reclaimed his identity to join a perilous national space mission. Knowing he might not return, he anonymously donated a kidney to save Vanessa. Only after his disappearance did she realize her loss.Their final encounter was at a nationally televised awards ceremony... where Ryan stood honored, with an elegant and beautiful woman by his side……
Hot Gardener's SeductionCarol takes up with the gardener. Arthur is young, and from the day he turns up on the grounds he looks at her in a way nobody has for years. Her husband William has spent those years neglecting her and humiliating her with his rejections, and her spirit has withered under it. Arthur's pursuit pulls her between the marriage and him. She gives in, and a passion she thought was gone comes back. Then she finds out that William put Arthur there himself.
My Glorious Life Started After BreakupDaniel ends a five-year relationship by arriving with another lover and assumes a large settlement will eventually send Natalie crawling back. She takes the money, restores the career she sacrificed, and finds a new companion. Daniel understands what he lost only after Natalie has built a life with no place left for him.
My Ex is a Secret BillionaireLucy Turner's new boss is the boyfriend she once pretended to cheat on to spare him debt. Years after her expulsion from the Turner family, he is a billionaire engaged to her half-sister. Their renewed proximity brings unresolved feelings up against the scandal she staged.
They Replaced My Daughter, I Took the ThroneThe girl living in the general's residence as Quinn is the daughter of Zinnia's stepsister Zara. Xander, Zinnia's husband, and Zara arranged the swap between them, and they keep it up by dressing the girl in the brocade gown Zinnia sewed for Quinn with her own hands, and in the hairpins and earrings Quinn used to wear.
The real Quinn has had her face disfigured and one hand cut off, and she has been sent to the imperial estate to labour among the horses. Xander and Zara also want the military honours Zinnia earned pacifying the northern border, and the property that goes with the general's residence.
Zinnia comes home from the north with the campaign won and her daughter on her mind. The girl who greets her at the gate is wearing the gown and the jewellery, and still something about her feels wrong. Zinnia goes inside without saying anything about it. She is standing outside the study window when she hears Xander and Zara going over the whole arrangement. She begins, without letting on, to work out how to get Quinn back.
Fake Husband, Real PowerPoisoned by traitors, Hampton—the Central Sect Saint—goes into hiding for three years.
By chance, he enters a contract marriage with Leandra and uses public events to expose Dexter and the conspirators.
When his true identity is finally revealed, he shocks all nations and rises again to protect his country.
My Husband Gave Her My Wedding DressSeraphina has been married to Grayson for seven years and still expects him to protect her. On their seventh anniversary she finds Bianca, an intern secretary from his company, wearing her wedding dress. Bianca has moved into the master bedroom and has destroyed the keepsakes from the marriage.
Grayson takes Bianca's side. He then hands her a core project at the Shen Group, and it loses a large amount of money. After that Seraphina gives up on him, files for divorce, and starts working out how to take back everything she gave him during the marriage.
It's A Wonderful HireQuinn hires Wesley, a waiter at a hotel in Aspen, to stand in as her boyfriend over the holidays. He is the hidden heir to the O'Hara hotel chain, which she has no idea of when she makes the offer.
She needs him because of her wedding day, a few days before Christmas, when she found her fiancé with her stepsister. The two of them were also arranging to take the Hart diner off her, the one thing her mother left her. The wedding did not happen and everyone in town watched it not happen. The arrangement with Wesley is meant to get her through that and to hold on to the diner, and it goes on from there under a set of things neither of them has said out loud.
Too Late to Miss MeKatie wants the job of team manager, and the job belongs to Anna. She sets about getting it by pinning mistakes on Anna and telling the Kane brothers things about her that are not true.
Anna had come to the Kanes after her parents died. Mrs. Kane, her mother's closest friend, took her in, and she grew up with Gordy and Jonathan Kane, who played for the school hockey club. Anna ran the team, cleaned up after the two of them and kept everything moving. That went on for years, on the ice and off it.
Katie's version takes hold. Gordy and Jonathan turn on Anna, and she pulls back from both of them, then gives up the position and transfers to another school. There she meets Ethan, who plays hockey, and becomes his manager. The brothers work out what Katie did after Anna has gone.
It's Too Late to ApologizeFor nine years, Zoey endures Carter's claim that she trapped him into marriage and their daughter Nora's wish that her teacher Ashley were her mother. One final betrayal sends Zoey away with signed divorce papers, leaving father and daughter to confront the loss only after she has decided never to return.
Mute for LoveOn their anniversary, Bella's husband Peter and his mistress Farren throw her from a rooftop. A mysterious gang leader saves her, but the trauma leaves Bella unable to speak. Her unexpected return—and the sudden recovery of her voice when she faces the couple again—wrecks their plans and begins a revenge campaign that uncovers secrets beyond the attempted murder.
They Wanted My DowrySamantha discovers on her wedding day that relatives have trapped her husband in a scheme to steal her dowry—and that her own parents are involved. As heir to the Gambling God, she reverses their wager and protects her marriage. The appearance of her master's killer raises the stakes to a final gamble that she and her husband must win together before giving away their fortune and leaving that world behind.
Divorced at 31, Billionaire by 40Zinnia, a 31-year-old barbecue stall owner, had struggled for a decade to support her family. Yet, she was betrayed by her husband Lucian and Scarlett, the daughter of the wealthy Sun family, who conspired to force her into signing a divorce agreement that stripped her of all assets. Driven out into the cold, rainy night with nothing, she suddenly remembered the words of a mysterious man named Yannick: she had inherited a hundred billion fortune from her uncle Zane, the world's richest man.
Seven Years Stolen from a GeniusAbducted genius Lysandra returned home only to be framed by adoptive sister Valeria and abused by her family and fiancé Vincent. After seven years in prison, she emerged a brilliant scientist but remained betrayed. Heartbroken by their cruelty and Valeria wasting her only cure, the dying Lysandra donated her body to research, finally leaving a world that never loved her.
Divorce Is My Best Christmas GiftHannah was the strongest student in her law school year and left the program to marry Ethan, who was building a career in Congress. For five years she was the wife the role demanded, and his warmth toward her was maintained for the cameras. On Christmas Eve, at the wedding she had wanted since she was a girl, Ethan lifts his first love into his arms in front of the guests and leaves with her. Hannah returns to the campus she walked away from and resumes her studies under Professor Daniel, who takes her on and pushes her hard. She rebuilds a life that has nothing to do with Ethan's schedule or his image. Ethan, meanwhile, works out which of the two women he actually loves at a point when Hannah has already stopped waiting to hear it.
The Return of My Superhero MomDecorated General Caroline West returns home to find her life stolen. Replaced by her husband's new family, her daughter, Sheryl, is tormented at home and at school. Mocked as a "female general," Caroline stays quiet until Sheryl is beaten and falsely accused. With the general's strength and a mother's fury uniting, she fights back—defending justice, exposing lies, and reclaiming dignity for both herself and her child.
Married Far Away, She Returned to RiseSamantha Shen married Zachary Zhou and moved to the Zhou village, thousands of kilometers from her own family, using a name that was not hers. Zachary humiliated her from the start. So did his mother Wendy and his sister Lina, who ran the house and decided what Samantha was allowed to do in it. The treatment continued through her pregnancy, and she lost the baby.
Samantha's three brothers came for her. The eldest runs a company, the second is a scientist, the third is a performer. With them behind her she filed for divorce and stopped hiding that she is the heir to the Shen Group. The Zhous had built their position on what they had taken from her, and it went. Samantha began again under her own name.
Code of the HeartFramed and fired, cybersecurity expert Cynthia Knight is the last line of defense for Celestial Group and its embattled CEO, Xander Morris. Amidst a storm of system failures and corporate betrayal, one breakthrough technology could decide their future and change everything.
She Left Him and Took Life BackShe finally gave up hope after being falsely accused and forced to kneel on a stormy night. Rosalie gave up her incense-making business for Landon. Yet she was favored less than his step-sister Riley, and even her daughter and mother favored the step-sister.
The Red at MidnightCara, the last corpse carrier of the Adams family, refuses to carry a corpse in red—only to be betrayed by her own kin. She uncovers a plot: her mother and brother murdered her father for the inheritance. Setting a trap, she exposes the truth, bringing the guilty to justice. In the end, she sees the true meaning of her profession... and human nature.
The Last Goodbye: I Leave with My HeartAfter saving the fallen heiress Nina Stone, street vendor Blake Fallon stays by her side and helps her reclaim her success—only to discover she's cheating on him with Hubert Judd. Not only is she carrying her ex-fiancé's child, but she also leaves Blake infertile and causes his father's death by forcing his surgeon to abandon a critical operation. Betrayed and humiliated, Blake teams up with Nina's rival, Lucy Clark, and fakes his own death to escape.
Shards of Our LoveDisaster responder Dante Locke survives the childhood attack that killed his parents, then watches wife Victoria Hale grow distant while bonding with their adopted child and his father. Their marriage fractures, but when Dante returns to the Locke family and his uncle tries to kill him, Victoria takes the blow. Her confession forces Dante to reconsider the indifference that drove him away.
I Quit After He Denied MeSusan, who has been infatuated with Luther for seven years, loses her memory after being severely injured for him and his dream gril Yuna. Deceived into believing that Yuna is his fiancée, she endures repeated schemes and humiliation. When Luther dismisses all her contributions, Susan resolutely resigns, determined to start anew. Meanwhile, the mysterious business tycoon Frederick and a pre-arranged marriage are about to open a brand-new chapter in her life.Loving You to the End of MeFive years after leaving her bankrupt and injured fiancé, Reed Carson, Quinn Wilder returns with their daughter, Naomi, only to face his wrath over her abandonment. But the truth gradually emerges: she had no choice back then—leaving him was the only way to get Anna Lowe's help. Now, diagnosed with cancer, Quinn sees Reed as her only hope for Naomi's future... and her last chance at redemption.
Bow to the Princess You BetrayedCleo Jagger, princess of Ysaria, conceals her identity and poses as a humble orphan to test her fiancé Lennox Hewitt's love. Over three years, she supports him in his rise to fame as a top scholar—only to discover his affair with Nadine Steele just before their wedding. With both fortune and her life at stake, Cleo shows no mercy, exposing their betrayal and ultimately finding true love with the man who truly deserves her heart.
A Sly Wife's Undercover RevengeAaliyah Sullivan was ten when her stepfather moved in with his daughter Layla Hall. He drank, and after each drinking night he beat Aaliyah and her mother. Layla, put up to it by her father, bullied Aaliyah as well. Aaliyah's mother could not take the beatings and killed herself. The stepfather and Layla took Sullivan Corp and everything with it.
Aaliyah swore then that she would pay them back, but by then the family had money and influence. Oliver Hamilton helped her fake her own death and get out of the country.
Fifteen years later she comes back under another name and hires on as a pole dance instructor inside the stepfather's house. She allies with Jeremiah Stewart, the family's quiet son-in-law, a disinherited heir with his own account to settle. The two of them cut into the supply chain of the stepfather's company, take back a subsidiary called FIRE and rename it S & J, and prepare to expose everything on the day of Layla's wedding.Slay Queen's Second LifeShe reincarnates before her wedding and exacts fierce revenge on her scheming bestie and heartless freeloading husband, saving her family from ruin.
My Husband's MistressHeiress Yvonne marries Wesley, who joins her family. To fulfill his wish for a child, she undergoes painful fertility treatments. At Maternity Center, she confronts his lover, Miranda. Facing public slander and violence during a livestream, Yvonne remains composed. Using legal power and her family's influence, she exposes the truth and reclaims her dignity in a powerful counterattack.
Her Life, My Mother's DeathSeraphina’s mother falls gravely ill. Shattock manages to obtain a rare, exorbitantly-priced miracle drug to save his mother-in-law’s life. To help her assistant Jareth’s mother, Seraphina takes the drug for her own purposes, unintentionally causing her own mother’s death. In the end, Seraphina realizes she is responsible for her mother’s death, while also facing her company’s bankruptcy and Jareth’s betrayal, plunging her into deep regret and despair.Her Life, My Mother's DeathSeraphina’s mother falls gravely ill. Shattock manages to obtain a rare, exorbitantly-priced miracle drug to save his mother-in-law’s life. To help her assistant Jareth’s mother, Seraphina takes the drug for her own purposes, unintentionally causing her own mother’s death. In the end, Seraphina realizes she is responsible for her mother’s death, while also facing her company’s bankruptcy and Jareth’s betrayal, plunging her into deep regret and despair.
In Love With My Ex's UncleElla Newton discovers she's terminally ill, gets kicked out of the family company and betrayed by her fiancé Trevor and best friend Sophie all on the same day. She is later killed by Trevor and finds that Trevor’s charasmatic uncle Alexander has been secretly in love with her. Vowed to rewrite her fate, she was reborn into ten years earlier and starts exposeing Trevor and Sophie's deceit, eventually allying with Alexander. As Ella and Alexander grow closer, they confront treacherous schemes from Ella’s stepmother Mary and stepbrother Logan, who seek to strip her of her family business. With Alexander's unwavering support, Ella reclaims her position as CEO, dissolves the corrupt board, and solidifies her power. Along the way, their romance deepens, blending passion with mutual respect.
From Cell to Crown, Lady Kingsley is BackHarper served three years in a women's prison for her boyfriend, Damien, on a charge she was innocent of. On release she learned that she was the lost heiress of the Kingsley family. She had expected Damien to marry her when she came out. Damien was by then engaged to her best friend. Her adoptive father was being pressed by loan sharks over his debts. James, a man whose life Harper had once saved, was the only person who stayed at her side. Harper took back the Kingsley name and began gaining allies against her enemies.
King of ShotsThe King of Shots, Louis Chase, is betrayed and hunted down by his apprentice Ricky. At the critical moment, he is rescued by Blair, the owner of Glam Bar. Since then, Louis has lived in hiding at Glam Bar for many years. After years of searching, Ricky sends his men to Glam Bar to challenge Blair to a drinking contest, forcing Louis to reveal himself.
The Billionaire’s Lost WifeBeing hunted down by men in black, Randell, Gloria City’s richest man, was saved by village woman Selena. When he stayed in her house, the two fell in love and decided to get married. When Selena went to borrow money from her son Hector in order to treat her mother-in-law’s illness, Hector and his wife humiliated her. After Randell revealed his identity, Selena’s in-laws even tried to take her life. After marrying into the Jiang family, Recy and Miriam gave her a hard time. Later on, Randell found out Selena was actually Recy’s birth mother and the one that saved him in the past. Randell’s brother colluded with Hector to take over the Jiang Group. Randell was kicked out of the Board of Directors. At last, the three major shareholders found out the truth and Randell’s brother was dismissed. Selena was able to give birth to their child safely despite the previous perilous state.
The Heiress Prevented from Returning HomeEleanor abandons a billion-dollar inheritance to marry impoverished Jacob, planning three years later to bring him home for Thanksgiving and reveal the truth while carrying their child. Instead, Jacob chooses the mistress he believes can advance his career; his family strands Eleanor on a highway, locks her in a trunk, and causes her miscarriage. Rescued by her brothers, Eleanor files for divorce and returns to the powerful life she surrendered for him.
RebirthIn this world a woman who dies can wake up a year earlier, in her own body, on an ordinary day, knowing everything that is coming.
Sonia is taken to the hospital with a difficult labor. Her mother in law and her husband refuse to pay for the surgery and make a scene outside the operating room. Sonia dies there.
She opens her eyes one year back, on the day her mother in law fed her daughter expired instant noodles and the child was poisoned. She swears to make the two of them pay for everything they did.
The Billionaire's Farewell: A Love in RuinsFor three years, Graham hides that he is the world's richest man while living as Selena's unassuming husband. Then her first love Colton returns, gets her pregnant, and Selena demands that Graham claim the baby because she is certain his devotion has no limit. The demand finally breaks that devotion: Graham chooses divorce and walks out of her life.Save Me, Obey Me, Love MeFenella Latham, cursed with a hereditary condition that will claim her life when she turns 28, meets her Mr. Right—Xavier Pierce, a top lawyer. What she doesn't know is that he is fiercely possessive in matters of the heart. With no other choice, Fenella gives in, and over time, love begins to blossom between them.
The Heiress Who Cut Off Her FamilySeraphina was told she had an illness with no treatment the day before she was due to leave Serenity Academy and go home, three years after her family sent her there.
Her birth parents and her older brother had collected her from an orphanage at seventeen and brought her to the marshal's residence. The daughter the family had adopted in the meantime, Selena, was the one the household doted on. Selena set her up, and the charge was that Seraphina had been carrying on with the young master of a prominent house. The Shen family sent her to Serenity Academy to be taught women's virtues. On paper the place was a school for girls. Seraphina was held inside it for three years and was beaten and worn down there.
After the diagnosis she stopped expecting anything from her parents and her brother, and decided to break with the Shen family for good.
I Buried Mercy with YouDave Alford vowed to finally propose to Elaine Kelsall on their tenth anniversary. But when the day arrives, Elaine discovers his long affair with Rosalie O'Brien—while she spends her final moments in a hospital bed. Reborn, she rises from despair, defeats cancer, and takes back everything he stole—until Alford Corp lies in ruins at her feet.
The Missing ChampionBetrayed and broken, Everett vanished—until he emerged as a janitor to overturn a 9-0 deficit with his Golden Right Foot!
No One Saved Me, Until HimStephanie is reborn, and she decides she will no longer let anyone use her as a tool. Her fiancé Xander and her own family go on hurting her anyway. They force her to give blood, and later push her down a staircase, and her photography prize is stolen from her. She is at the end of what she can take and leaves for Antarctica to pursue her own dream.
The truth comes out after she has gone, and the hypocrisy of Sandra, another member of the family, is laid bare. Her family and Xander regret what they did, and by then it is too late. In Antarctica Stephanie meets Lawrence again. He protects her, and it is the first time anyone has done so sincerely.
Sandra, jealous, starts a fire and arranges a kidnapping, and Stephanie is put in danger more than once. She survives both, after coming close to death.No One Saved Me, Until HimStephanie is reborn, and she decides she will no longer let anyone use her as a tool. Her fiancé Xander and her own family go on hurting her anyway. They force her to give blood, and later push her down a staircase, and her photography prize is stolen from her. She is at the end of what she can take and leaves for Antarctica to pursue her own dream.
The truth comes out after she has gone, and the hypocrisy of Sandra, another member of the family, is laid bare. Her family and Xander regret what they did, and by then it is too late. In Antarctica Stephanie meets Lawrence again. He protects her, and it is the first time anyone has done so sincerely.
Sandra, jealous, starts a fire and arranges a kidnapping, and Stephanie is put in danger more than once. She survives both, after coming close to death.
Her Perfect RevengeLiliana needed money for her daughter's surgery. Norra had been hurt badly enough to be left in a coma, and nobody in the household would pay for the operation.
Liliana had been her family's heiress before the marriage. She married Hawk when he had nothing, put her dowry and her inheritance into his career until he was running a company, then stopped working to keep house and raise Norra. Hawk had been seeing Bianca, his older brother's widow, and he sided with Bianca and her son against his own daughter, which is how Norra came to be hurt. His mother Fay used Liliana as unpaid help and looked down on her for having had a girl.
For the surgery money Liliana worked on the greed of Fay and Bianca until the funds came loose. Then she designed a diamond necklace for Bianca and let Hawk take company money to buy it, and twenty million came back to her that way. She suspected by then that Bianca was the woman her husband had been with, and she started looking into how Kleb, Hawk's older brother, had died. She talked Hawk into a stock position that trapped him, and when he sold company shares to get out from under it she took hold of the management control those shares carried.Her Perfect RevengeLiliana needed money for her daughter's surgery. Norra had been hurt badly enough to be left in a coma, and nobody in the household would pay for the operation.
Liliana had been her family's heiress before the marriage. She married Hawk when he had nothing, put her dowry and her inheritance into his career until he was running a company, then stopped working to keep house and raise Norra. Hawk had been seeing Bianca, his older brother's widow, and he sided with Bianca and her son against his own daughter, which is how Norra came to be hurt. His mother Fay used Liliana as unpaid help and looked down on her for having had a girl.
For the surgery money Liliana worked on the greed of Fay and Bianca until the funds came loose. Then she designed a diamond necklace for Bianca and let Hawk take company money to buy it, and twenty million came back to her that way. She suspected by then that Bianca was the woman her husband had been with, and she started looking into how Kleb, Hawk's older brother, had died. She talked Hawk into a stock position that trapped him, and when he sold company shares to get out from under it she took hold of the management control those shares carried.
Rewind: Letters to the PastLambert is in prison and has stopped expecting anything to change. His girlfriend betrayed him and framed him, and that is how he ended up there. Then a time mailbox comes into his hands. A letter posted in it is delivered to someone in the past.
He tries it on himself first. He writes to the Lambert of the day before with the winning lottery numbers and wakes up the next morning having won a prize worth a million. After that he writes to Cao Xueqin, and to Einstein, and to others like them, and from these letters he comes away with the complete original text of Dream of the Red Chamber and solutions to some of the hardest problems in mathematics. He uses what he has to get through one crisis after another.
The letters also change things he did not set out to change. Human history shifts as a result, and his country comes out stronger and its people more sure of themselves. Then one day a letter comes to him from the future, carrying a warning.
Kidney for My BrotherThe head of the Lu Group set more store by grandsons than granddaughters. His grandchildren were twins, Mateo and Cynthia, and he decided that both of Cynthia's kidneys would be transplanted into her brother. Selena, their mother, got a doctor to take the girl and run.
They were followed. The doctor could not stay ahead of the men sent after them, and he left Cynthia, hurt and unconscious by then, hidden in a rubbish dump. Simon and his wife found her there and took her in, and she grew up under the name Judith.
Too Late to Be My DadOn Sebastian's seventh birthday his father Cameron leaves him waiting and goes to Roman's party instead. Roman is the child of Lilith, the woman Cameron loved first. Sebastian is the son of Cameron and Sylvia, conceived on a night Cameron had been drinking, and Cameron has been cold to him from the start. When Sebastian was four he watched his father comfort Roman gently and then turn and scold him. After the birthday, Sylvia takes Sebastian and leaves.
The two of them meet Maximus, who teaches Sebastian the cello. Maximus gives the boy the kind of fatherly attention he never had at home, and the three settle into a simple life together.
Cameron, meanwhile, finds out that Lilith only came to him for his money and that she has been passing company secrets outside. He regrets what he did and goes looking for Sebastian, with an apology and an offer of money.
The Night She RoseSold to a nightclub by her ex-husband Noah Pike to pay off debts, Maya Bell is forced to part from her daughter Emma. She only gains enough power to fight for custody seven years later, but Noah and his new wife get in her way and even try killing her. With help from Sean Vale and Jack Lane, Maya eventually reveals her high status and power, saving Emma and sending Noah and his wife to prison.
Jailed Heiress, Revenge BeginsSylvia was adopted into the Bai family while the family's own eldest daughter was missing. When that daughter, Winnie, was found and brought home from the orphanage where she had grown up, Sylvia set about keeping her place. She put on an act for the parents and worked on them until they turned against Winnie and doted on Sylvia. Winnie went short of ordinary things in her own house.
The man Winnie quietly liked, Mason, was in love with Sylvia. When Mason fell ill Winnie gave him a kidney, and Sylvia let him believe the kidney was hers. Later Sylvia drove into Mason's younger sister Selena and left her in a coma. Mason covered for Sylvia and named Winnie as the driver. Winnie was convicted and served five years. Inside she was beaten, had a leg broken, and was mistreated for years by people Sylvia had paid. Xander, who had known Winnie since they were children, spent those years collecting evidence, and in the same period built a company with help Winnie had given him. Once she was out, she and Xander went after the truth of the accident.
The Master Returns After Sixty YearsThe young man who walks into the Chen house in a burial shroud says he is Maximus, the master who taught the Chen family's forebears, and most of the family does not believe him, though the eldest daughter, Chandra, does. Maximus had sealed himself away to train, and two grave robbers dug him out of the tomb sixty years later. He came up with a young body, still in the clothes he was buried in. In the years he was underground his student Wesley turned on the Mu family, Maximus's own line, and destroyed it. One descendant is left, and that one is close to death.
News of the return reaches Wesley, and he begins his revenge. His son goes to a birthday feast where Maximus is, and Maximus kills him with a single word. Wesley then shuts himself away, and when he comes out he is at the level of an Earth Immortal and goes after the Chen family.