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Two Blind Strangers Who Once LovedA blinded prince is saved by a priestess who takes his poison into herself. They fall in love in the dark, then lose their memories to the same curse. Reunited as strangers, a jealous rival plots their ruin. When two souls who once healed each other can no longer see or remember, can love ever find its way back?
My Blind Crown Princess Can See FateGwen was born blind and cast aside by her own family. Forced into marriage with the dying Crown Prince Aaron for a fortune, she hides a shocking secret—her eyes can see fate itself. In the Crown Palace, she turns from an unwanted bride into Aaron's greatest blessing. As she restores his stolen destiny, the doomed prince defies death, and together they rewrite their fate with unstoppable glory.
The Baker's Revenge Tastes Like BloodA shipwreck cover-up buried her family's honor thirty years ago. Now she hides behind a pastry stall, gathering evidence. A powerful minister senses the threat, but his own son chooses her side. Together, they survive the court's deadly games. When the sea route finally reopens, can a woman who lived in the shadows ever step into the sun?
In Crisis, I Found the Dragon Soul!Ah Yimu kills a two-headed remnant soul in the ancient realm and takes the thousand-year glacial essence from it, and the Black Stone tribe makes her their chief on the strength of it. Tie Mutai, who held the position before her, does not accept the vote and goes to the Blazing Sun tribe to get his power back, bringing their fighters and their trained hellhounds in against his own people. What Ah Yimu has that they do not know about is Xiao Hei, the remnant soul of an ancient dragon lord, whose mind is joined to hers and whose strength she can draw on as her own. She spends the time she has improving the tribe's farming and feeding people properly while she hunts for two relics, the forbidden scale and the water of life, and puts her own informants inside the enemy camp. There is also a blood curse a thousand years old running through the bloodlines, which is bound up with the dragon soul, and undoing it is the only way any lasting peace between the hundred tribes will hold.
Reborn To Destroy The Royal FamilyShen Zhaoning is empress dowager of Da Liang, standing at a point in her life she has already been through once. She takes it slowly. She lets the schemes at court run far enough to be seen, and she keeps Lin Mu in view, who is working toward power and is patient about it.
Xiao Yan had been the man she loved. He went in with Consort Su and Prince Ping, thirty-four of the Shen family were killed, and she did not survive it either.
Xiao Yan is on his knees now over what he did. General Ji Xuan stays close and does not say what he wants. Old cases are opened again and the names in them are read out.
Too Late, Grand SecretaryAfter divorce, the grand secretary is consumed by regret. The wife he once discarded walks away without a glance. He chases her daily, seeking atonement. But she's no longer naive—she has a second life. With a new suitor, she refuses to be his victim again. Every day is his painful lesson; every step is her freedom.
A Thousand Years to Love YouAfter dying, Evelyn Carter travels to the modern world, then returns to ancient times to find her lover being poisoned. Armed with modern knowledge, she fights to reclaim what's hers.
Bury Me? Now Bow to Your MasterBranded a "curse child" since birth, Yvaine, the daughter of a noble family, was abandoned by her cruel stepmother Sylvie, who tried to bury her alive in a snowman. Saved by an elder of the Void Sect, she vanished for thirteen years. Now she returns as the Void Sect's leader, wielding forbidden Mystic Sect arts. Seeking revenge, clearing her name, and hunting the traitor who murdered her master, Yvaine is ready to settle every blood debt.
The Sea Princess in Disguise!A sea princess in disguise enters a royal manor as a bride for hire just to escape trouble back home. The prince she's meant to save is poisoned and running out of time. Someone inside the manor knows what she really is and wants her exposed... But does the prince already know her secret too?
[Dubbed] I Earn a Fortune in Hills by Chatting With Wild AnimalsJade Parker faces a conspiracy by her grandparents and childhood sweetheart to ruin her life and force her into a loveless marriage. After her father's death, she fights to protect her mother and siblings while discovering a miraculous crow that helps her uncover hidden mountain resources. Through her wit and newfound connection to nature, she builds a new life and defies those who sought to destroy her.
From Cast-Off to Empress ConsortCrown Prince Edward breaks his betrothal to Hazel Camden for an orphan girl. Hazel is granted to Prince Anthony. Edward's greed ruins his relief mission, sparking rebellion. Hazel gives everything to help Anthony save the people. Edward dies in disgrace. Anthony becomes Emperor. Hazel rises from scorned bride to the highest lady in the land.
(Dubbed) Oops! I Married My Yandere Ex!She faked her death to free his future. He became the empire's top scholar to find her. Now he's the stranger who caught her bridal bouquet, and he's moving into her house to hunt the enemies who forced them apart. She thought their love was a sacrifice. He's proving it's the only thing worth fighting for.
Undercover in the Palace and Now She's Pregnant?To save her wrongly imprisoned father, a nobleman's daughter sneaks into the palace disguised as a maid. The Emperor hasn't touched a woman in ten years — but the first one to carry his heir becomes Empress. Six months later, she's pregnant... And someone at court just found out. Can she survive what comes next?
She Erased Their Love to Avenge Her Family!Her entire family was massacred in a royal power struggle. To infiltrate the court and uncover the truth, she sacrificed her own memories of the prince she loved — and disguised herself as his student. Now feelings are growing again... and her cover is slipping.
Can she expose the conspiracy before it's too late?
My Wife Is a Divine Rabbit!Su Ruan is the last of the moonshadow rabbits, a divine line, and she goes into the far north to carry the line on. Feng Wuhan is the heir of the snow wolves there. They have six children together.
A misunderstanding about the children's bodies drives her out, and she leaves with three of them, the three who are weaker. Three years pass. One of the children she left behind falls ill and she comes back north for that.
Feng Wuhan is where she left him. The elder of the snow wolves will not have her in the clan on account of what she was born from, and the family cannot be put back together while he holds to that. Su Ruan carries the blood of a war beast from long ago, and under the elder's pressure it begins to wake in her.From Scraps To The Marquis's HeartGeneral Lyons is a disabled war god who starves himself and maims those in his service. Timid Clara expects death when forced to serve him. Instead, she eats his entire imperial feast! Her audacity melts the icy heart of the General. As a Side Consort, she uncovers a lethal secret. Is the disability of the General merely a trap?Bound in ScarletMy stepmother swapped our fortune slips on my wedding day. My half-sister stole my crown, my prince, and my name, then framed me to a foreign land. But the barbarian waiting at the border isn't who anyone expected.The Dumped Housewife Is a PrincessMaureen, the Empire's greatest female marshal, gave up her name and her glory to marry Sawyer. She anonymously guided him to victory after victory on the battlefield until he earned his rank as a general. When she finally decided to reveal her true identity to him, Sawyer returned... with another woman. And he said to Maureen, "I want a divorce."
Cheater, Bow to the MarchionessMingyi spent six years at the front. When she comes home to the general's manor she finds Chen Shihong has married Jiang Yumian, that there are two children, and that his mother and sister have moved in and settled. The reasoning is easy enough to follow: Mingyi has no living relatives and no one to speak for her, so the household can simply be absorbed, her property along with it. She does not argue the point in the hall. She divorces him publicly, clears the manor of his family, and stops spending her name on his advancement. The military record is hers, so she petitions on her own behalf, and the title comes back as marchioness, the first woman ever to hold it. Chen Shihong's family watch the ceremony from the crowd. Prince Xiao Jingyuan has been standing quietly at her side through all of it, waiting without asking.
Vengeance of the REAL PRINCESSShe transmigrates as the abandoned legitimate daughter and fights her way home to protect her mother. She crushes a rival clan, exposes a treasonous prince, and refuses a president's reward. Her only ambition is to stand at the head of her family. When a woman trades a nation for a single home, can any cage ever hold her?
The Emperor's Secret HeirsEmperor Xiao Ling has kept the anniversary of Jiang Ruoli's death for seven years. She had been a palace maid, and he had loved her, and he was told she died. On the anniversary he travels to Qingzhou in plain clothes and sees a blind woman in the street with two six year old twins. She is Jiang Ruoli. A keepsake the two of them once exchanged settles it for both of them. What she tells him is that the Empress Dowager gave her a choice that was not a choice: fake her own death and go, or stay and find out what happens to her. She left the palace pregnant and lost her sight afterward. He brings her and the children back to court and announces he will make her empress. The Empress Dowager's part in it is not yet public, and the court has people who would rather the whole matter stayed buried. At the investiture ceremony one of them swaps out an object with the intention of killing the Empress Dowager during the rites. The plot is caught, and what comes out of the investigation is the story of what was done to Jiang Ruoli seven years ago, which the court now has to hear in full.
Koi Princess Had a Dragon BabyYunxi wanted to be accepted as the eldest princess of the koi clan and could not be, because her blood was white carp and the clan counted that as low. Her consort Xiao Yu made it public. He had her scales torn off, and her mother the empress was shut away.
She woke again on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, the day her marriage was to be settled. She saw what Xiao Yu was planning, refused the match in front of everyone, and went instead to a boy she found in the mud, Chen Yuan, whose body was half transparent. She saved him and married him.
The child she carried was a true dragon. Xiao Yu and her half-sister Ruowei kept at her while she was pregnant. On the day of the Dragon Gate she gave birth, and she exposed what those two had done with forbidden drugs to produce a monstrous child of their own. Chen Yuan turned out to be the crown prince of the dragons of the Eastern Sea, and the blood of the ancestral dragon woke in Yunxi. She went after the people who had killed her, freed her mother, and set about pulling down the ranking of bloodlines that had allowed all of it.
Mock My Weight? You'll Regret ItLin Man'er was a military doctor in the twenty-first century with a pocket dimension she carried with her. She wakes in the countryside of another era in the body of a butcher's daughter who weighs two hundred jin. Her strength came with her and so did the dimension, which is the only good news available.
While she is working out how to feed herself, the Marquis of Yongning's household turns up to say she is their long-lost real daughter. It sounds like an ending to her problems. It is not. Nobody in the manor wants her there. She is too fat, too coarse, too much like something dragged in from a field, and they say so.
She did not come to be insulted. The sweet-faced ones who smile while they cut get their masks pulled off. Her brother takes her side against strangers and against her, and she stops letting him. She works her way up from the kitchens to the main hall, and by the night of the banquet the household has to look at her properly for the first time.
Twin Sisters: Blood Against the ThroneFiona and her sister Lacy’s family is destroyed after being framed for poisoning the imperial heir. Three years later, they enter the palace to uncover the truth: their parents were innocent scapegoats, and the real culprit is the emperor himself. Facing deadly secrets and royal conspiracies, the sisters fight to survive, overthrow a tyrant, protect the next emperor, and finally reclaim justice.
He Stole My Kingdom, I Stole His Throne!Ning Wuyu was the eldest princess of Da Shu, and she married Xie Wei, a hostage prince held from Nanliang, because she wanted to and because she thought she knew him. She knelt seven days to get the marriage allowed. She also passed him the city defense plans of her own kingdom. Before the wedding she found out what he had been arranging with another woman all along. He used the plans, brought the kingdom down, killed her father, and had her put in a dark cell where he could come and humiliate her at his convenience. She let him believe she was broken and made a show of handing her rank and privileges over to her rival. Then she got out. A jade phoenix pendant was the token that called up three thousand secret guards who had been waiting on it, and she took them and set the city burning. She made an alliance with Gu Changyan, a prince of the South who had understood what she was long before any of this, and turned the army she now had back toward the man she had married.
Playboy? He Came to End YouChance hides his investigation into the case against his father behind the reputation of a frivolous playboy. Princess Lyndon rejects their engagement without realizing her despised fiancé is also the masked warrior who protects her, until his performance in the martial arena draws them together against a conspiracy at court.
Did He Kill My Father?A former imperial guard commander is framed for killing a loyal minister and becomes the empire's public enemy after being witnessed in the act. He hides under a new identity and grows close to the minister’s daughter, but when his identity is exposed, love and loyalty collapse as a coup erupts in the capital.
Wrong Groom, Doomed ClanSu Jinning has lived this year once already. In the life she remembers, the marriage arranged for her ended with the Su household condemned and executed together. She wakes on a day before the betrothal is fixed, with all of that still in her head.
What she changes is the man. She refuses the match she had the first time and pushes for a different one, on the reasoning that the marriage is what ruined the house. Her half-sister turns the switch to her own use, a minister with weight at court leans on the family from the other side, and Su Jinning ends up married to someone she did not pick. The same charge builds against the Su family, and it carries a death sentence for everyone in it. She works from inside the marriage to sort out which man she should have chosen and which of the moves against her house came from her half-sister and which from the minister.
Crown Prince, Meet Your Bandit QueenCarol Roemer runs Cloudbreak Keep, and Cody Jordan is the crown prince who was supposed to be marrying someone else. He refused the match his father arranged and took troops out after bandits instead, meaning to come back with a reputation. Carol's people caught him. She looked him over, decided she wanted him, and had him carried back to the keep as her husband.
They are an official and an outlaw, and neither of them stops arguing about it. The fighting turns into something else while they are still testing each other. When Cody's rank finally comes out, they learn that the emperor and Carol's father had planned the whole arrangement between them from the start.
I Fell for a Disguised Crown PrinceThe beggar who gets her face back for her is the crown prince, and he lets her go on thinking he is a beggar. She is a concubine's daughter with scarring across her face, handed to a disabled man in a marriage meant for her half-sister. She puts her name down for the crown princess selection to get out of it. The beggar treats the poison in her, the scars clear, and she comes first in the trials. When she learns who he is she calls the match off. He does not accept that and keeps after her. The Grand Preceptor turns out to be her real father, and the case that ruined her family goes back decades.
Undercover Queen: Slapping My Evil FamilyEmpress-to-be Serena goes home and finds her mother wronged and bullied. She bides her time until a hasty imperial edict sparks chaos. She reveals her royal identity, humiliates her greedy kin, punishes her heartless father, and reigns joyfully with Emperor Marcus—a hilarious, face-slap-packed revenge drama.
My Husband Was Never a ManIn her past life, she only discovered at death that her husband was actually a woman, marrying her out of jealousy over her fiancé. Reborn, she vows to make everyone who ruined her life pay the price, no matter who they are. This time, there will be no mercy.
He Faked His Death, I Made It Real!Lu Zhenting fakes his own death to get at his wife's money. He wants the Shen family's property signed over while she is grieving, for himself and for Lin Rou'er, the maid he has been with the whole time.
Shen Ruolan has been through this once already. The first time she signed, and then she was shut in a fire and did not get out of it. She wakes up back at the point where her husband is still pretending to be dead, with the rest of it ahead of her.
This time she does not sign. She lets the scheme run far enough to be seen and then takes it apart in front of the people it depended on, which deals with her husband's family, her stepson and Lin Rou'er. She works back through the papers and finds that her parents' deaths were not what she had been told either. Pei Heng, now chancellor, is a man she helped when they were both young, and he turns up again while she is putting the family's wine business back on its feet.
Consort? But I'm a Princess!A countryside herbal healer stumbles upon a gravely wounded noble heir who demands she become his consort, yet she fights back and turns him down outright. She rescues multiple powerful men only to fend off their condescending schemes. After saving the princess and gaining royal favor, she avenges her mother, crushes her foes, and helps the princess claim the throne—can her unyielding spirit rewrite women’s fate forever?
The King’s Healer Is… Five?A person can die in one century and open their eyes in another, in a body that already belongs to someone else. That is what happens to a professor of Chinese medicine, who comes to as a five-year-old girl in an old dynasty with everything she ever learned about the body still in her head.
The girl has an older sister who had worked to pay for her husband's studies. He passed his examinations, took a post, and divorced her for the imperial physician's daughter. The two sisters were taken in by an uncle and aunt who let them know daily what they cost. The professor decides she will make the man pay for what he did and make the uncle and aunt look at her sister differently.
Then the emperor, out of the palace and travelling as a private man, collapses in front of her. She treats him with what she knows from her own century. He comes round and he knows who it was that treated him. In the uncle's house they start speaking to her differently.
Butcher Girl, Fate's RulerVivienne, true daughter of the Marquis household, returns after growing up with a butcher. Mocked as a crude slaughter girl, she becomes target of schemes by fake heiress Vanessa and the household. But Vivienne is revealed as the Divine Protector of the nation and strongest cultivator. Even her slave, Faye’s mysterious man, is a feared sovereign. Together they rise while enemies fall into dust.
Don't Touch My Sister!A female general crashes her sister's engagement party in a cleaning uniform, and humiliates the groom's arrogant family. Then she finds her sister a better match and confronts the parents who abandoned them. They threw away two daughters. Now those daughters own the room.
The Princess Who Came to KillPrincess Serena of fallen Sereland, disguised, infiltrates Prince Victor's manor for revenge, believing he destroyed her kingdom. She finds clues, and Victor, knowing her, protects her. The true villain is Emperor Damian, who practices forbidden arts and framed Victor. At the coronation, Serena exposes Damian and fights him with Victor, killing the demon. After war, they rule separately; Victor settles his realm and joins Serena forever.
Forgive My Family’s Butcher? No Way!Xiao Wuji, the regent, became fixated on Ye Tingwan after she saved his life, and he shut her up beside him. On their wedding day he acted for the empress dowager and had the Ye household killed, one hundred and thirty-six people. He kept Ye Tingwan as a prisoner and she was tortured. She faked her death and got out with her small son.
Five years later he takes her and the boy back to the capital by force, meaning to have her again. She acts as if she has given in and uses the time to collect evidence. At a banquet she puts a knife into his chest herself. The empress dowager has the witnesses silenced and surrounds them, and Xiao Wuji fights, asking to be forgiven for what he did. "Never," Ye Tingwan tells him. She breaks the blood jade and rides out with her son.
Don't Fall For The Enemy, You Fool!A deaf, seemingly useless spy is mocked by her master and sent to watch his enemy. Disguised as a street vendor, she sets up outside his home. Two months later, her master storms in fury to drag her back—only to discover she has not only failed the mission, but fallen for the enemy.
Oops I Kidnapped a PrincessBy exposing corrupt officials, refining salt, and introducing high-yield crops, he unexpectedly saves Great Zhou from collapse. Shattock activates a Savior System and is transported to Great Zhou, where he builds a thriving mountain stronghold with modern knowledge. Believing the empire is doomed, Shattock proposes rebuilding it together.
I Returned with His Secret SonCeline and Kian spend one night together and neither of them arranged it. She is the Chancellor's daughter by his wife, motherless since she was small and treated poorly in her own house. He is the warrior people call the God of War, and he is wounded when the night happens. Her half sister Leanne and Leanne's mother set the trap that put the two of them in the same room. The pregnancy shows later and the family turns Celine out.
Five years pass. Celine returns to the capital with her son Enzo and does not announce herself. Medicine is what she trained in, and she takes the post of resident physician at Kian Manor. Kian has been looking for the woman from that night the whole time. Leanne comes after Celine and the boy repeatedly and every attempt is turned over and shown for what it was. The matter of Celine's dead mother comes up after that. She was a queen of Southland, which makes Celine a princess of it.
Your Trap Made Me Own EverythingForced to marry into the Marquis's family as a substitute bride, Juliana spends five years securing her place. When the real heiress returns to expose her as an imposter and reclaim everything, everyone expects Juliana to lose it all. But while they celebrate her downfall, they have no idea she's already laid the perfect trap—and her prey is walking right into it.
My Baby Boy Brings Me to the ThroneOn the night of the Seven Stars' Alignment, Celeste is born with a blessed fate, but Lucien, born under a cursed star, steals it. Betrayed by the Zhao family's second branch, she is cast into an abandoned infant tower and later adopted by Victoria of the main branch. Celeste rewrites destiny—bringing fortune, crushing those who seize their wealth, stopping Victoria's forced marriage to an elderly widower, and securing her marriage to a General. From ruin to power, Victoria rises to Empress.(Dubbed) Your Majesty, Fire Me Already!She won the lottery and died of sheer joy, only to wake up in another world as a worthless empress. The only way back to her fortune is to be officially deposed, so she causes chaos and begs the emperor to banish her. But the worse she behaves, the more he adores her. When she gradually gains every reason to stay, can she ever truly go home?
I Can't Eat LoveAfter the prince's betrayal left her family bankrupt and her starving to death, Duke's daughter Vivian is reborn five years earlier with full memories. This time she rejects the engagement and love, choosing to save her duchy by rebuilding it into an economic empire through reforms and trade deals.
Reborn to Cut Ties: Too Late for TearsThe girl brought into the house in Lorelei's place was one Lorelei had treated as a younger sister, and her three older brothers had always taken that girl's side. In her first life the four of them had her killed while she was head of the Septem Sect.
She came back with her memories and the Star Token still hers. She cut the family off in front of all of them, then took apart the harmless act the other girl kept up, and pulled down the three brothers, whose positions rested on chances that had been hers. The work carried her toward the court, where she met Prince Hector and started in with him on the schemes running through the palace. She was after the truth of her father's death, and what she found was that the girl she had once looked after had killed both her parents.
My Babies! Protect Mommy Now!A young princess and her mother are exiled to a royal temple after palace intrigue. There, she befriends the general's son, and together they face assassins, uncover treachery, and navigate deadly schemes. Can two children survive the palace's dark plots... and protect their family?
Veil of LoyaltyThe general's daughter Jane Hale is kidnapped. Her guard Paul vanishes. She suffers, only to learn Paul planned it all to avenge his half sister Rose. Paul is not an orphan. He is the crown prince. Betrayed, Jane agrees to a distant marriage. Too late, Paul sees Rose's true face. But Jane is already leaving...
My CEO Is Now a Royal ConcubineModern-day rivals Jillian and Brian are unexpectedly transported to Zoa Empire. The sharp-witted office worker becomes a female general wielding military power, while a corporate tycoon turns into a candidate male consort for the Empress. Forced into a dual “court and harem” chaos mode, they join forces to outsmart corrupt officials, survive palace intrigues, and crush their enemies. After restoring order to the realm, Jillian rises to become a powerful regent, and the two finally clear their misunderstandings and reunite.
[Dubbed]The Phoenix RisingShe knelt on 3,000 steps to beg for medicine for him, but he brought a woman home to be equal to her? She was disappointed enough to throw away the divorce letter, took all the dowry and left the house to start her own business. Later, she was married with great fanfare and became the most noble woman in the world, watching coldly as the bastard man lost everything.
The Maid and the Disgraced HeirSu Jin sells herself into service at the Fu estate for the promise of regular meals, a kindness offered by brilliant scholar Fu Chengying. When the household falls overnight, she flees with his little sister and struggles to keep the child alive. Su Jin does not know that Fu Chengying survived too, trapped as the disgraced and dangerous favorite inside Grand Princess Zhao Fuhua's gilded prison.
Rule the Court With Modern WeaponsModern man Freddie travels back in time as a prince's heir. With modern gear and wits, he wins the spring hunt, calls off his engagement, defeats rivals from Serenova, the Eastern Isles, and Vastwald, eradicates bandits, and topples a corrupt Prime Minister. Armed with advanced weapons, he crushes all enemies, wins the empress's favor, and rises to power in Great Zhou.
Worked to Death, I Rule Behind HerRest is the route to youth and power for Leonard, who worked himself to death at twenty-seven and was mistakenly reincarnated as a seventy-two-year-old magistrate. A compensatory system rewards him for taking it easy, helping him make his remote county prosper. The empress arrives intending to execute him and finds a very different place from what she expects.
The Sword God Who Runs an InnFinnegan, top of the Celestial Ranking, sheathed his sword and ran Peace Inn, banning all fights. Emperor Cecilia, hunted during her secret trip, hid there. He helped Laura kill a Grandmaster and turned a princess into an expert overnight. Betrayed by Charles allied with barbarians, Finnegan stepped out again to crush them all.
The Princess Chose Only MeLeo and Grace meet on the night she has been drugged. Leo has come through time into the Great Qian, and Grace is the Grand Princess, and the encounter ties the two of them together. The Emperor is seriously ill at the time, and Grace's uncle Rex is pushing the court into a marriage alliance with the Northland. Grace takes Leo as her prince consort, which shields her and the court both, and sends him to the Six Gates Bureau as a trainee constable.
On the wedding night Leo activates the Empress Support System and his strength starts to climb. He catches a Northland spy, which makes his name in the capital, and he meets Mandy, the Princess of Changning, who commands the Imperial Guards in North City. He then digs up Prime Minister Ryan's dealings with the enemy, sets up a public wager, and uses it to lay Ryan's corruption open. Ryan falls, his ill-gotten property is seized, and Leo is given the title of Marquis Protector.
After that he breaks up the Northland's marriage scheme, leads the Vanguard to put down Rex's rebellion, and is named Supreme Commander of the armies. His cultivation breaks through into the Semi-divine Realm, and he takes a sword technique called Sword Storm out against the Northland army.
Took My Flute? Watch Your Empire FallFifteen years ago, White-Robed Swordsman Kingsley sealed the Demon Sect in a Jade Flute. Now a Great Qian general, he is stripped of his title by Empress Ophelia, misled by false rumors and believing the flute is the key to treasure. She threatens his former comrades’ lives to force it from him, while the court brands him traitor. Unknown to all, releasing the flute revives the Demon Sect. Worse, the Empress and the Demon Sect leader are twin sisters. When the flute falls, betrayal erupts, imperial guard turns on him, and the empire collapses—too late for regret.
My Health Technique Made Me ImmortalQuinn wants her family avenged. She was there on the night, in heavy rain, when her uncle's scheme brought her parents down and they died with the charge against them unanswered. She could not stop it and she could not answer it.
Men came after her. She went over the edge of a cliff while running and was picked up by Master Blake at the bottom. She knelt and asked him to teach her a cultivation art she could use against the people who had killed her parents. What he gave her was a Health Technique, a set of breathing exercises for keeping well, and nothing in it produced any power she could use.
The Health Technique is a supreme immortal art. Quinn's body is a cultivation constitution of a kind that appears about once in ten thousand years. Neither of these things is apparent to the people who watch her practise it.
He Lived on My Blood, Now He BleedsMarian Sinclair was the Highland Priestess, and she left her people for a man. To bring Charles Langley back from the edge she gave up years of her own life, then fed him her blood essence every day for three years. It hollowed her out. Her face aged past her years while he recovered and rose, and once he had rank and the General's Manor to his name he brought another woman into the house, put Marian aside and had her thrown out. She survived that. She went back to the Highlands, where they knew what she was, and took up her position again. Charles and the Langley family came to the door after her, kneeling and asking for help, having found something they could not fix without her. She is not the wife who swallowed it the first time. Everything she handed over she now intends to take back, and she means the people who did it to her to pay properly for it.
One Watch, I Trade Two WorldsLin Dong is a low-level office worker who has just been fired and has nothing coming in. He comes into possession of a wristwatch that moves him between the present day and an ancient dynasty, and he starts carrying goods across. A load of ordinary modern glass covers a war indemnity that had been crushing the treasury. Nine years of compulsory schooling is enough to leave the court's senior scholars with nothing to say, and objects he brings from home, which everyone there takes for divine implements, settle fights against men reputed unbeatable in war. His standing climbs. He is made consort to the princess, which puts him inside court politics against the chief minister, and the empress takes an interest in him as well. In the present day his circumstances change too, since the money and the leverage travel both directions. He keeps both lives running at once, using what he knows about how things are made.