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He Resides Behind the SunFour men raped and killed Serena Jenkins four years ago, on the day Alan Shaw had planned to propose to her. He got there a step too late and saw the four of them walking away, laughing.
He has been in a psychiatric hospital far from the city since, the most dangerous patient there, and he has just passed his 144th evaluation and been discharged. Nothing about his condition has improved. He still sees Serena, angel one moment and demon the next, whispering at his ear that he should make his enemies bleed.
Henry Holt, the old Shaw family butler, has everything ready for him. Alan goes through the files on the four men and decides to start at a wedding, where one of them is standing up as a groomsman.
Ms. CEO's Baby Daddy Is the Merchant of DeathConnor Reed is the largest arms dealer in the world and lives under a false identity. He was undercover on a job when he saved Charlotte Hayes, who runs a company of her own, and the two of them spent that night together.
Four years pass with Connor in hiding and under pursuit. Charlotte finds him again in that time, and she has a daughter with her who is his. He has to keep the pair of them alive with the people hunting him getting closer, and do it without his real name coming out.
The Lost Quarterback ReturnsThere was a fire, and Asher Bradshaw went missing in it. His father, Trent Bradshaw, had played quarterback in the NFL and was voted into the Hall of Fame. His mother, Krista, had been a beauty queen. Donny Lewis, who followed Trent's career, used the fire to put his own son, Wyatt, in Asher's place. The Bradshaws raised Wyatt as theirs.
Twelve years later the two boys turned up at the same football tryouts. Asher outplayed Wyatt there. The Bradshaws did not know who Asher was. Wyatt encouraged them against him, and they went after him over a long stretch, physically and mentally.
The family then found out that Asher was the son they had lost in the fire. They went to him and asked to be forgiven. Wyatt and Donny began working on plans of their own.
Move Aside! I'm the Final BossKingsley, the secret leader of the King's Corps and the world's wealthiest man, returns from the battlefield only to be cruelly dumped by his childhood sweetheart, who dismisses him as a clown. Now, the man who commands global power must decide how to make his former lover regret her betrayal. His return marks the beginning of a transformation where he asserts his true status and forces those who underestimated him to face the consequences.
How to Tame a Silver FoxHarper Reeves is in her senior year at Yale and wants to get through it without ending up friendless. Her party is broken up by Chris Collins, her father's best friend and his business partner, who arrives in place of the police she had expected. Chris takes an overprotective line with her and Harper decides she wants him out of the house. She and her best friend Maria put together Operation Seduction: Harper will make Chris fall in love with her, and her father will then throw him out himself. Chris keeps pulling Harper out of trouble while the plan runs, and Harper starts to think she has feelings for him.
Money, Guns, and a Merry ChristmasDamian, the CEO of the world's most powerful military-industrial group, is mistaken for a poor salesman earning only $3,000 a month. Damian continually turns the tables on the antagonists, proving his power and status, and ultimately finds true love with Iris.
Fatal Attraction: A Dark Mafia RomanceDaisy's mother was harmed, and Daisy went after the man responsible. She took work as a dancer under a false identity in order to get near Hogan, who runs a mafia organization. Hogan suspected what she was there for and kept her close anyway, drawn to her.
Taming My BulliesEmma Parker transferred into Maple Elite Academy. On her first day she fought with the Big Four, the four heirs who run the school, and from then on they treated her as enemy number one.
Rowan Calloway behaved toward her as a tyrant. Help came to Emma repeatedly from August Langford, and the two of them appear to have met before she arrived at the academy.
Between Calloway and Langford, Emma has not settled which one she takes.
True Heiress vs. Fake Queen BeeHailey Kaplan wants to be known for something other than her family's money, to have friends who like her without knowing about it, and to get through an ordinary year of high school. She transfers to Western High, a public school, and tells nobody who she is.
Candice Mathis turns up at the same school. Candice's mother is the maid in the Kaplan house. Candice tells everyone she is the Kaplan heiress, and she rises quickly to the top of the school's social ladder. Hailey ends up at the bottom, where the other students bully her and make fun of her.
After Divorce, My Ex-Wife Became a BillionaireClaire is the heir to a large fortune and keeps this from Milo. She marries him for love and the two live in Los Angeles, where she keeps up a modest front. She quietly uses her family's money and connections to clear away the obstacles in the way of the startup he is building. Milo gets close to success. At that point Claire finds out he has been unfaithful. When she confronts him he says he no longer loves her, speaks harshly to her, dismisses everything she did for him, and pushes her to agree to a divorce. She pulls out every bit of the support she had been putting behind Milo, which leaves him to face the consequences of what he did, and takes back her place as the heir to the family fortune.
The Alpha Queen ReturnsJessica, the Wolf Queen, grew tired of war and bloodshed, so she disguised herself as a plain healer in the woods. To ensure a normal, happy life for her daughter, she sent her to the Russo pack. Little did she know, she had sent her daughter into a living nightmare. Her daughter was treated like a slave—humiliated, abused, beaten, and nearly raped, simply because she had no fame or power. Realizing her mistake, Jessica resolved to save her daughter and make those who mistreated her pay. Meanwhile, she discovered that the Russo pack had betrayed their country and collaborated with Lord Kilian Darkmoom. Finally, Jessica defeated them and restored peace to the wolf world once more.
My Sister Is the Warlord QueenCatherine and Grace Blackwood were abandoned by their parents and grew up with only each other. Both built successful lives as adults. Grace got engaged, and at the engagement party Catherine arrives straight from an undercover job, still in the janitor's uniform she had been wearing for it. Grace's in-laws and their old classmates make fun of her for it. Then Grace's fiancé betrays and humiliates her in front of everyone, and Catherine tells them who she actually is, the Warlord Queen, and makes the people who looked down on the sisters regret it.
You Fired A Tech GeniusErik goes to work with Evelyn, who runs the company that competes with the firm he just left. He is considered the best technical mind in Silicon Valley, and she takes him on for that.
He was free because William, the son of his chief executive, had fired him. The two of them go after the old firm and it goes bankrupt. William works out which employee he let go once there is nothing left to save.
My Wife Ran Away AgainThe Young Marshal introduces his wife everywhere as a country girl who knows nothing about fashion, medicine, or guns. "My wife is perfectly obedient, my word is law," he tells people, and he says it while kneeling on a washboard at home. His wife treats patients with medical skill he insists she does not have, shoots the men who come after her, and puts the society women of the city so far in the shade that they ask who is bullying whom. The adjutants at the warlord's mansion listen to him defend her from bullying she does not need and ask him to keep hold of some dignity. She has a background she has not told him about.
Beyond UsHelena is an engineer at a company working on technology for extending life. She found out her fiance had been unfaithful, confronted him, took five per cent of the company's shares out of it, and resigned.
A PWL unit was scheduled for disposal. Helena took it away instead, put it back into working order and called it Holden. It did not run the way the model was meant to. It refused instructions, argued with her, and crossed the line she had set more than once during the hours she spent in the bathroom.
Then it told her something about the man she had loved before the engagement, who died eight years ago. The secret was his, and hearing it out of Holden shook her. What she had carried home from the disposal queue had spent those eight years waiting on her.
Undercover Prison KingTroy Poe inherits a private prison. He is a former soldier, and the place he now owns is run as a criminal operation from the inside, so he has himself booked in as an inmate to find out who is responsible. The head of the guards, a man Troy trusted, turns out to be running the ring. That leaves Troy with two ways out: convince the officials he is the owner and not a convict, or break out. While he works on it he tries to keep other people alive, among them an old prisoner whose sentence has been extended on false paperwork, and a doctor who has ended up in the middle of it.
The Return of the Lost HeiressIn The Return of the Lost Heiress movie, Lana experienced her father's death. This made her never speak again. She became a mute. A few days later, she was lost while escaping being sold by her guard. Lana was found and adopted by Ron who showered her with fatherly love. Years passed and her birth family kept searching for her. Unaware of Lana's identity, they mistreated her.
Heiress Crash Lands on Her HusbandLily's boyfriend cheated on her, and she goes after him and the woman he cheated with. Their mothers come into it too. Then there is the royal suitor she acquires, the women circling the man she actually loves, and a mother-in-law who runs everything. Lily works through them one at a time, trading on one identity after another.
Tell Me Not to Love YouBrie wants Teddy, who she has known since childhood and cannot have, because her mother is a servant in his family's house and Brie grew up in that house on those terms. Teddy wants her back. When they are both of age he courts her openly and without much restraint. She refuses him, on the grounds that she is the maid's daughter and would never belong there. He keeps trying to talk her into it. She keeps putting distance between them, then closing it again, and after enough of this she tells him what she actually feels.
A Love Good for NothingDo Dohye is thirty-nine and unmarried, and the fact that a man has been chasing her for six years has been quietly holding up her pride the whole time. She finally decides she may as well take him seriously, do the poor fool a kindness and actually date him. Then the wedding invitation arrives with his name on it and a bride he has known for three months. Love, she concludes, is good for nothing. She drinks on that conclusion and ends up spending the night with a man she runs into, who turns out to be the neighbor across the hall, the one she had written off as a loser because he cannot even sort his recycling properly. The next problem is at work. The company has a new editor-in-chief starting, and it is him.
All in on the School BossSon Yeon-su clicks into an illegal online gambling site by accident and finds it belongs to Woo-jin, her son's friend from high school. She goes to him over money, and what starts as a transaction between them turns into a working arrangement, then a partnership in the same crime.
She is thirty-six, married, and has spent years absorbing beatings from her husband, staying for her son's sake and telling herself there was no other way out. The son has been the one thing she counted as hers. Now she has a second life running alongside the marriage, and she keeps it from her husband while she keeps being his wife.
She plays the submissive wife at home and the criminal accomplice with Woo-jin, and somewhere in the running of the site and the moving of money, a feeling neither of them can name starts up between her and a man young enough to be her son's classmate. She has never bet on anything of her own before this.
How to Dump a Hockey StarRenee has a miscarriage. Soon after, she finds that her husband may have chosen another woman.
She had been the daughter of a billionaire. She walked away from the name and the money to nurse her husband through a vegetative state and then through the recovery he needed to get back on the ice and into the NHL.
She is no longer the woman who went along with all of it. She decides to make him pay for what he did. Through the whole marriage she has been a billionaire in her own right, and she has never told anyone.
Love Wasn't the PlanXia Yan and Fang Yun are best friends who end up inside a novel. Xia Yan lands as the devoted wife of Gu Bochuan, the scheming second male lead, and Fang Yun as the replacement lover of Gu Wang, the antagonist. To everyone around them the two look like women wasting themselves on men who will not have them, while in fact they are working through the family money as fast as they can spend it.
Three years in, the novel's heroine Shen Mianmian comes back and the arrangement stops holding. The original plot ends badly for the characters they have been given, so the two of them fake their deaths and get out of Jiangcheng. Gu Bochuan and Gu Wang both take it hard, one going into remorse and something like madness, the other close to collapse. Xia Yan and Fang Yun settle in Jincheng and live off the money there. Three years after that a chance meeting in a nightclub puts them back in the middle of it.
His Only CureThe Poison King tested the poisons he refined on a girl he kept for it. For ten years that girl was Cheng Ning'an, and the conditions she was held in were not fit for a person. Her stepmother tracked her down afterward and sent her into a marriage in place of someone else. The husband was Huo Siwei, the general who defends the country, and Cheng Ning'an turned out to be the only antidote for what was in him. She lives in the Huo household from then on and is looked after by everyone in it, and she and Huo Siwei hold together as husband and wife while her standing in the house rises.
Becoming the Wife of a Dark Cult OverlordThe sect keeps a woman it calls the saint, and its leadership passes down through one bloodline. Heejin is the one taken for the role. The man she has been seeing, Yohan, holds an ordinary office job as far as she knows, and inside the sect he is the heir it has been waiting on. "I will become a god if that is what it takes, just to have you," he tells her, and the orders he gives the men around him come without hesitation.
The two of them plan a way out. Before it happens Heejin meets a man called Isaac, who tells her things about Yohan she had not heard, and after that she is unsure how much of him she can take on trust. They are both still inside the sect.
Where Lies BloomXu Weixin picks Lu Yi to be the piece she moves. She was the Xu family heir until she was framed and lost her name, and to take back what was hers she plans each step and puts him in the middle of it. He goes along because his younger sister, the only family he had, is dead.
The plan turns as it runs. The person behind her downfall is not who she thought, and his sister's death is tied to the same power struggle inside the Xu family. They make it an alliance. She calculates coldly and pushes him forward, he agrees to be the blade in her hand, and through the daily work of it feeling and loyalty grow anyway. The one holding the whip and the piece on the board were not supposed to be sincere with each other. Then the real enemy presses in, misunderstandings pile up, and their interests stop lining up.
Yielding to Her CharmNina Yeats has ALS, the disease that slowly takes away the ability to move, and before her mother died she left Nina one last request to carry out. Fulfilling it puts her in contact with Jack Xavier, a man in her family everyone refers to as her uncle and calls the Ice King behind his back.
Jack learns what Nina cannot afford to lose and uses it to keep her within reach, cutting off the routes she might use to walk away from him. Nina refuses the terms anyway. She misses the curfews he sets, argues with the conditions he puts on her, and keeps pushing
One-Night Stand With the Right ManJulian Ramsey comes home to break off an engagement he never wanted. The woman on the other side of it is Shelly Greene, whom he has already met without ever learning her name.
That was abroad. She got him out of trouble there, an aphrodisiac got into it by accident, and the two of them spent the night together.
Shelly needs the engagement to go ahead, because getting her family's company back depends on Julian agreeing to it. So she has to talk the man who came home to cancel it into keeping it. Neither of them knows who the other is, and they go on missing each other and falling out over it until the truth comes out and clears the misunderstandings.
Virgin Love HellAfter joining a dating survival show, "Hot Dating Zone," at Su-a's request, Solji is assigned overwhelming physical-affection missions and gets entangled in relationships with three different guys, which turns out to be set up by Su-a to humiliate her. Now, Solji has to find a way to escape from this chaos full of betrayal and excitement.
I Married His LookalikeJin Seorin was left at an orphanage as a child. She gave up going to university and spent the years after that supporting Choi Doseop, and the two of them kept a household together.
Doseop qualified as a prosecutor. Seorin was carrying his child by then. Doseop took up with Min Nayoung, the only daughter of a chaebol family, and left Seorin. Seorin lost the pregnancy after that and made an attempt on her own life.
Sung Guhyeon, heir to Sungil Group, found her and stopped it. Guhyeon has a rare condition that is taking his sight and his hearing by degrees. Seorin married him, and the marriage put her into the household where Doseop and Nayoung now live, as the woman running it.
Dear XYu-Mi makes a deepfake. It shows her closest friend in the theater and film department having sex with Professor Park, a well-known director who teaches at the university. She circulates it. At the same time she is sleeping with that friend's boyfriend, Geon-Woo.
The friend is Ji-Yeon, the star of the department, who had just been cast in a famous director's production and had a career ahead of her. Once the video goes round, her life comes apart. Some time later she learns that the video was faked. She returns to the university, and the department's teaching assistant, Su-Ho, tells her that Yu-Mi was behind it. The two of them begin working together against Yu-Mi.
Taming the Hellion PrinceIn the imperial capital marriages were arrangements between houses, and a wedding could go ahead with the groom swapped out at the hall. Shen Ruojin's betrothed ran off on the wedding day with her younger sister, the daughter of their father's concubine. Shen Ruojin married the man that sister had been promised to, Qin Lang.
Qin Lang was the young Prince Qin, known through the capital for drink and women and doing as he liked. On the wedding night he left Shen Ruojin in the bridal room and went to the Fanghua Pavilion. People said he had married her for the sport of it and she laughed along with them. She had grown up in a general's household, could handle a sword, and what she wanted was out in the empire.
She took her husband in hand. He went after the people who had wronged her, rose through the court, and put the power he gathered into her hands.
MY LITTLE CHEFThe papers Noma signs move her grandfather's shares in the Perse Group over to her aunt. The aunt has been running the group since Noma's father died, and Noma signs them because the aunt is family. The rights she held in the company go with the signature.
Noma is the founder's granddaughter and was named his heir. She is a public figure, known for her face and for cooking she was never trained to do.
Her grandfather's will is opened after this. It gives management of the group to whoever wins a cooking contest.
Falling for the Thorned RoseThe Lowell and Lloyd families sit on two sides of a balance that neither has managed to tip. Lillian Lowell was thrown out by her own people, and on the night it happened she set fire to her grandmother's yard herself.
Shane Lloyd, the Lloyd heir, came through the flames with blood on him and took her home with him. He had a use in mind for the thorny rose he had picked up, which was to break the standoff between the two houses through her. She kept turning his arrangements back on him, and at some point he fell for her. After that he supplied the openings and she took them, and the two of them went after the people who had put them where they were. They covered for each other while they did it.
SpecterHigh school teacher Jeong-hwa is haunted by hallucinations after rejecting her fate as a shaman. Spiritual guardian suggests switching fates, and she reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile, Jangmi, a shaman’s daughter, curses top student Seo-rae. As she collapses, Jeong-hwa realizes she is her abandoned daughter, now bound to her fate. Can she face the destiny she tried to escape—or will it destroy her?
The Lost Son Returns as the DukeArthur was taken from his parents and his sister as a child and did not see them again for years. He is Duke of Mercia now, and he goes back to the village he was taken from to find them.
They are still there and they have nothing. Relatives and neighbors have spent years humiliating them, and the rest of the town treats them the same way. Arthur keeps the title to himself and lets the village take him for whatever it takes him for. He starts on the people who have handled his family that way, one at a time.
Fated Mate of the Nine-Tailed FoxRin was born the only heir of the White Nine-Tailed Fox clan and was taken as a child by the Black Nine-Tailed Fox, who raised her among them. She grew up not knowing her own clan.
Her fox powers are due to wake on her twentieth birthday, and she means to run as soon as they do. Instead she learns her fated mate is Hyun Dong-joo, the leader of the Black Nine-Tailed Fox. The two of them dislike each other and refuse the bond. Baek Do-yoon, who leads the White Fox clan, then comes forward and claims Rin as his own fated partner, and Hyun Dong-joo announces that he will be the one to marry her.
American Sniper: The Last RoundCarl Oliver held the world record for the longest confirmed shot and was known as the King of Guns, and then he dropped out of sight entirely. He now fixes equipment at a shooting range, under a name nobody looks at twice. Albert, who captains the shooting club, treats him as the help and needles him in front of the members, having no idea who he is talking to. Carl takes it and says nothing. Then the range itself comes under a hostile takeover attempt. Jane owns the place and her daughter Rebecca is there with her, and the pressure lands on both of them. Carl picks up a rifle for the first time in years and shoots the way only one man alive shoots. The people watching start asking who the maintenance man really is.
Never Divorce a Secret Billionaire HeiressJoyce submits to serving as a blood source for sister Selena because she believes forcing Tristan to marry her created the debt. Losing her baby without care or comfort from Tristan ends that belief. The secret heiress chooses divorce and a life no longer purchased through her suffering.
Crypto Jackpot After Life FailureA discarded employee loses his marriage along with his career, then discovers forgotten cryptocurrency has made him rich. He uses the windfall to enter corporate power struggles with a precise objective: purchase the company that once threw him away.
Killer Wife, Spoiled LifeClaire Barlow marries into the Carter family under an arranged match, taking the place of a half-sister and entering the house as the Barlows' illegitimate daughter. She agreed to the marriage because her adoptive father had been killed and the Carters are where the answers are.
She was sold overseas as a child and raised by an organization there, trained in fighting and in the other work the organization did, and she took over running it from her adoptive father before his death. It left her quiet and hard to read.
Ethan Carter, the heir, grew up with nothing asked of him and had settled into being a playboy. He did not want the marriage. He falls for her anyway. The Carter family has its own arrangements and its own secrets, and Claire is inside the house now.
Fake Queen Bee, I'm the true Heiress!On the first day of term at Hwimyeong International High School, a new student tells everyone she is the heir to MK Group. Her name is Seo Si Eun and her mother works as a maid in the Seo house.
The real heir is in the same building. Seo Hae In is the only child of Chairman Seo of MK Group, and she transferred in with her background hidden, wanting to be measured by what she can do and to have the sort of school life other girls have. She now has no way of saying who she is that anyone will believe. Si Eun goes to the top of the school's social order. The school treats Hae In as a liar, and she is bullied and talked about.
Si Eun keeps adding to the story to make the impersonation hold. Hae In starts working to get her name and her place back.
The Bedmate Game: Sharehouse 3Romance columnist Han Jae-i loses her job overnight and watches her life fall apart. Desperate for a comeback, she signs up for an adult dating reality show with a massive cash prize — Sharehouse of No Return 3. The catch: every contestant is someone's ex. And the first ex to walk through the door is Kang Tae-jun — the man who broke her heart in the most brutal way possible. For nine days, contestants must become "bed mates" with a different partner each night, earning points by raising their partner's heart rate through physical contact. The game is simple: spike their pulse, hide your own feelings. Jae-i starts playing her calculated charm and sharp tongue to devastating effect — but just when she's determined to keep emotions out of it entirely, unexpected variables begin to appear.
30 Days to Make You a Prince"I like prince-type guys…" Rejected and down, ordinary college student Makoto Motomiya meets popular makeup-loving Yuki Morimoto, who says, "I’ll make you a prince." Aiming to win a Mr. Contest and prove himself to Anzu, Makoto starts makeup. As they train, the two grow closer. Makoto wins—but what becomes of their feelings?
Our Boss Loves MenIn the peaceful sales team of Nice Group, the manager Kim Taeyoon known as the reaper of the main branch is issued. Sales team 1 and 2 face their judgment day, one group expected to disappear. When a rumor of the manager's sexuality spreads, the two teams start to compete for their lives to lure him, both with different approaches.
From Heartbreak to Fated LoverMason Collins had a first love before Ava, and when that woman came back he told Ava what the last four years had been worth to him. She had been a pastime. He meant to marry the other woman and keep Ava out of sight on the side.
Ava had believed him for the whole four years. She left, and signed a contract marriage with Anderson Lauren, a man with money, on the understanding that it was an arrangement with terms and nothing else.
Anderson had been looking for her for years before the contract was ever drawn up, and the arrangement was his way of getting to her. Ava did not remember him at all. He put himself between her and whatever came at her while old business worked its way to the surface: people who wanted something from her, and an account of her childhood in which she was not simply an orphan with nobody behind her.
The Art of Loving YouPauline's parents let it be known that they had gone bankrupt and then remarried each other, and they kept the household small and short of money on that basis. Her mother heads a criminal organization and her father is a known name among collectors, and neither fact reaches Pauline. She wakes ten years further on than where she was, back with the family, and she takes the bankruptcy for fact at first. There is an older brother who is cold with her and a younger one who behaves like a child, and a good part of her days goes into matching wits with them. Things stop adding up, and she works out what her parents are. She keeps that to herself and lets the arrangement stand, and she takes her place in the plan they have been running on her, which involves growing out of being the spoiled child of the house. The damage left from her own childhood gets worked on along the way.
Dear My Cruel BrothersThe two Miller brothers doted on her, and she grew up assuming she would marry one of them. She had come into the house after her parents died, taken in by Sandra, her mother's closest friend and the brothers' mother. There were stretches when the brothers felt like more than family to her.
Lola, the daughter of the household's maid, moved in later. Her tears worked on the brothers, and they turned hard on the girl they had grown up with. She left the house without telling anyone where she was going and went abroad. After she was gone the brothers started looking for her.
Love in the ShadowJiang Xian was using Lin Yuanzhou as a stand-in for someone else. She went after him in the open, and the whole city laughed at how obvious she made it. People assumed she would marry him or marry nobody at all.
She loved no one, including him, and she wanted to run away. Lin Yuanzhou had never understood what love was supposed to be, and somewhere in it he started loving her for real. He kept her at his side and asked her to love him back.
I Seduced the Wrong ManRachel Yale is cornered with nothing left to lose, so she gambles on getting close to Louis Brown, who holds more power in Newfork than anyone else. People say he has no heart, that ghosts keep their distance from him, and that he is afraid of neither gods nor devils. He works out early that Rachel has a reason for approaching him and lets her come closer anyway. On his side it is contempt at first, and a game worth playing for a while. The game turns into attraction and then into something he cannot put down. The man everyone had placed above them steps down off the pedestal, and after that he is the one who protects her.
My Secret Lover Is My BrotherQuincy Gabriel is the eldest daughter of the Gabriel family. Her fiancé and her stepsister were involved with each other behind her back. The succession to the family was still open.
She decided to have a child and to arrange the father herself. She asked her closest friend to find a man who was dependable and would do as he was told, and the friend found one. Norman Clark is her brother in name only, and he had been in love with her for years without saying so. He heard about the arrangement while he was abroad, came back, and took the place of the man the friend had lined up. He met her as the stranger she was expecting.
She Writes Her Own CrownLou Xinyue was cast out by the marquis household and died as a discarded wife. She comes back to the beginning of it with everything she learned, and the meekness is gone. She is in fact the trueborn daughter of the Prince of Jiyang's household, a fact the family that raised Lou Ruoxi in her place has kept buried. She has medicine and she has a head for court maneuvering, and she uses both on Shen Huanian, the man who ruined her, and on Lou Ruoxi, the false daughter wearing her name. She tears up the marriage contract herself and drags the scheming behind it into the open. Xie Ziwei, the cold commandery lord, is carrying a rare gu poison in his body, and the two of them work as equals, each with something the other cannot manage alone. Every person who betrayed her pays for it, and she helps Xie Ziwei settle the court and take hold of real power.
Careful, You're DangerousSylvia comes back from overseas and finds the Shepherd family caught in a scheme their rivals set for them. She goes to Theo, a commander in Swallow City, and offers to become his secret lover in return for him pulling the family out of it.
Her parents abandoned her when she was small. Yale Shepherd took her home and raised her like a princess, and she read her dependence on him as love. The Shepherds found out about it and sent her abroad.
Theo has wanted her for years without saying so, and he has his own plans for winning her properly. She is kidnapped at one point, and what he does to get her back costs him. By degrees the way he handles her gets through, and she starts going back over what she felt for Yale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.