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Dumb Monk ConquerBernard Ford saves a girl and finds out she is his granddaughter. He goes with her to Skyward Sect, which his daughter Valerie runs, and Valerie does not recognize him. He has been away since she was ten. Her mother died young, the family on that side had him down as the useless son-in-law, and he went off to learn martial arts and has only now come back. His master let him go with a warning against misusing what he had learned.
Valerie is under siege. Her uncle, her mother's brother, wants the sect for himself, the disciples are weak, and the sect's name sits at the bottom of the rankings. Bernard sets about defending it and moving it up the list.
(Dubbed)Rebirth in Blood and MoonlightBetrayed in her past life, Emma Shawn chooses to be a widow rather than a bride, defying her ruthless family and burning her own wedding gown. But when the whip falls, the ‘dead’ General Oliver Sterling returns with a royal decree. Who is this woman truly mourning? And why does the Emperor himself watch their every move?
A God in a Fool’s FleshThe soul of Titan Gustin, the legendary Martial God, awakens within the body of Aaron Stone, a lazy, weak and ridiculed noble. Aaron then begins to tap into godly power as he dominates the Martial Alliance trials. But when another "Martial God" emerges, threatening his destiny, Aaron must uncover the truth and reclaim what is rightfully his—or he will remain trampled on as a "spoiled heir".
Carom on CallFelix Lawrence has a wife, a quiet life and no standing anyone can see, until two men turn up with a billiards challenge and an audience for it. His master had turned on him three years before, and the memory of everything up to that point went with it, so he does not know what he is walking into. The memory comes back during the match, and with it the fact that he was the masked champion of the game.
He beats them. The setup behind the challenge comes apart in public once he starts naming the parts of it. The Sovereign holds a banquet for his return and puts him across the table from the Aravian side's billiards champion, and he takes that one as well. Aravian forces have been assembling quietly through all of it, and what he picks up at the banquet goes to the people who need to know about it.
Bye, Toxic In-Laws!Donna Blake arrives at her wedding expecting a home and finds the doors barred while her in-laws withhold promised payments, invent new demands, and pressure her into a prenup that strips away her rights. She abandons the ceremony, takes her child, and reclaims the identity she hid as the city's richest heiress. The grasping family loses the fortune it thought it was extorting when Donna decides she no longer needs their name.
Karma Strikes My Wicked Ex-HusbandZoey Shaw keeps his wife under a love curse. Under it Muriel Jones hands her parents' inheritance over to his family to spend, and she waits on them, and on his mistress, like a servant. The mistress is Yvonne Fraser, Muriel's best friend, and she and Zoey are working out how to take the whole Jones estate for themselves. The plan comes close to killing Muriel.
A lawyer, Barry Simpson, helps her break the curse. He has been through all of this once before. In that earlier life he watched Muriel, whom he had loved in secret for a long time, die badly in front of him, and this time he intends to save her. Muriel goes on acting as though she still loves Zoey while she puts a plan of her own together with Barry and his aunt. The plan is built so that Zoey and Yvonne are caught by their own doings.
God in Baby: Tears First, Blood LaterThe Martial Gold God has been sent down to the mortal world for a trial, and he comes to in the body of Barry Sullivan, a boy from a family that somebody set up. The father has dropped out of the picture, and Barry's older sister has been carrying the Sullivan martial arts school by herself. Barry goes back to the school to get her through it.
There he finds that the Sorcerer Tribe has already worked its way into the ordinary world and is getting ready to bring the Demon Lord back to life. If that happens the world goes up in hellfire. Barry sets the powers he brought down with him against the tribe. Its chief sorcerer is strong and does not let go of the plan.
She Fights, She RisesSelene Wren wants her standing in the Wren family back, and her mother's with it. Her mother has been demoted to a servant in the household. Selene had been the best martial artist in the family, born with the Pure Sun Body, a constitution that turns up once in a hundred years, until an accident made her absorb fifteen hundred years of cultivated energy from her master. Her body took it in and she became fat. Her relatives mock her, and her fiancé broke off the engagement in front of a crowd. Only her mother and her sister still treat her with any warmth.
Selene decides to enter the entrance tournament of the Heavenly Sect and win it. Her opponent there turns out to be the man she once spent a night with, and he sees through what she is doing. She places low in the rankings, but her master notices that she is carrying far more power than she shows. A hostile family then attacks her, and while she is close to death the stored energy breaks loose. Her meridians open, the extra weight comes off her, and her strength rises far past what it was, without her yet knowing how to control it.
Kindness Never FailsRomston Group belongs to Gary, and the people closest to him inside it are the son and daughter he adopted and a man named Sam. The three of them turn on him and the group goes bankrupt. His mother is seriously ill at the same time, and the staff, who have gone unpaid, come to him for their wages.
Years earlier Gary had helped a boy named Jared. Jared is now at the Levine Group and brings Gary in there to repay the debt. Another group holds a competition in chip technology, with a partnership going to the winner, and Gary takes the Levine staff into it against the other teams.
A Bite of Peach CrispEmily Cross's son marries the county magistrate's daughter and moves into that household. After the wedding he stops treating Emily as his mother. The magistrate's family bullies her and lets her be humiliated in front of others, and he does nothing about it.
Emily keeps a small tea shop in the county seat. She raised the boy there by herself.
The Crown Prince passes through the county in disguise on an inspection tour and meets her by chance. She gives him a peach crisp. The pastry brings up a connection between Emily and the Emperor from years before, one that had been kept hidden until then.
The Crown Was Hers All AlongHeiress Renee Golden spends seven years hiding her identity and living as a housewife beside self-made William Riles. Discovering his affair while she is recovering from childbirth ends the sacrifice. Renee files for divorce, returns to her family company, and—with an ally's help—must rescue the business from crisis while reclaiming both her authority and personal happiness.
Love’s Venom, Vengeance’s VowI'm the Mother of Maraland, having a heart of love. When I met Nathan Zane, who was terminally ill, I decided to share my life with him to prolong his life. Just like the clichéd story of a princess and a prince, we gradually fell in love. I am a Mother, but also an ignorant girl. On the way from a girl to a Mother, I made many mistakes...
Beneath the CrownThe Emperor raises a prince who isn't his own blood, yet crowns him heir without question. Whispers of betrayal swirl, but His Majesty smiles. A consort's secret. A brother’s ambition. A crown at stake. Ministers take sides. Loyalties blur. When the truth erupts at the abdication ceremony, the real game finally begins.
No Good Deed Left UnpunishedTim Quinn returns to his village and funds a charity kitchen, but villagers falsely accuse him of embezzlement and storm his home. He leaves in disappointment, and only afterward do they learn that the successful businessman they drove away was the anonymous benefactor who had secretly supported them for years.
Don't Mess With the NewbieFormer boxing champ Lillian Grant, sidelined by mental health issues, finds herself interning at her father's company for a fresh start. But her comeback is challenged by a tyrannical boss who thrives on bullying newcomers. As the harassment escalates, Lillian's resolve hardens. Will her fighter's spirit lead to a knockout in the corporate ring? Watch her next move.
Heavenly Sword, Mortal FateRen Wushuang wrote the sword manuals other swordsmen train from, and he founded the Heavenly Sword Ranking that places them. Pursuing a higher sword path cost him three reincarnations. The third puts him in the body of Ethan Ouyang, the second son of the Ouyang Sword Sect, the foremost sword school of the Eastern Province. Ethan has no talent for the sword, so his father set him aside and the other students beat and mocked him. His mother has begged for medicine to keep him alive and taken humiliation for it. With the Sword Saint's memory now in him, Ethan trains again from the bottom, and what he does with the sword is aimed first at getting his mother out of that house.
Eva’s DefianceThe Cooper family forbids children of lesser birth from learning martial arts, forcing Eva to hide the lost Silver Dragon Spear technique taught by her master. When the Smiths join foreign enemies to invade and overturn the martial world, the recognized heirs fall before them. Eva finally reveals her forbidden skill, leads the defense, and challenges the bloodline rule that denied her a place among the family's warriors.
Doctor MiracleTwenty-five years ago a doctor known as the Ghost Blade took a secret assignment to treat the head of state. Protecting the country meant giving up his own name, so Logan White walked out on his wife and daughter and disappeared into the work. The monarch recovers and Logan is honored as the national physician, admired throughout medicine. Everything at home has moved on without him. His wife died in the years he was gone, and his daughter Robin has spent most of her life hating the father who left, while idolizing the famous Ghost Blade she has only heard about. Logan tells her the two men are the same person. She does not believe him. John Rand, director of Mercy Hospital, has wanted Robin's Watsin Hospital for years, and he brings in the region's richest man to set up a wager around a head transplantation, an operation no one in the country but the Ghost Blade can perform. Logan volunteers for it to make up some of what he owes her. Robin has no faith in his hands, Rand interferes from the inside, and the patient's life comes down to the wire with Robin's reputation and her hospital riding on it.
Gold Digging Bride's Fatal MistakeBeth got close to Edward on purpose. He is the Brown heir, and marrying him is how she intends to live. She worked at it until he proposed, and the wedding is booked.
Shortly before the date, a friend of hers sees Edward with his arms around an older woman. The woman is Mrs. Brown, his mother, who runs the Brown Group. Beth takes her for the mistress and decides to remove her from the picture. She goes to see Mrs. Brown and starts in on her, with insults first and then a run of small humiliations.
Once Is Enough to Break MeRene Xander and Skyler Hunt have been in love for seven years. Yet on the day of their engagement party, Skyler leaves Rene alone at the venue all because of a single phone call from his first love.
Sophie's GambitOn Sophie Stewart's wedding day, her parents and brother suddenly raise the bride price to finance the son's marriage, turning their daughter into merchandise. Sophie refuses to betray Jason Chase to satisfy them. Jason then reveals that the ordinary groom they hoped to exploit is a hidden billionaire capable of protecting the woman who chose him over her family.
Fall for ItIn her past life, Anna Stacy was wrongfully blamed for her sister Karen's miscarriage and murdered by Karen's husband, Brian Wood. Reborn on the day of the tragedy, Anna's determined to change her fate and outsmart those who betrayed her. Will she survive this second chance?
Little Kung Fu QueenKung Fu Queen Leslie Lewis awakens in the body of Lindsey Yeats, daughter of her deceased disciple. She uses the master's techniques hidden inside the seemingly fragile young woman to stop relatives trying to seize the family dojo. Then Landon Henry and other challengers invade for the treasured Stormlash, giving Leslie another battle for her disciple's legacy.
A Nobody? No, I'm Rich Baby!Rowan is the heir to his family's fortune, and the family wanted him to marry Clara, the head of the city's biggest company. He refused, because he was in love with Clara, and they threw him out. Without the family money he worked days and delivered food at night, and paid for the apartment, the bride price and the wedding out of that. Clara never learned where he came from. At the ceremony she keeps raising what she wants from him, egged on by her friends, and threatens to call the wedding off each time he hesitates. Rowan reaches the end of it and decides that if she does not want to marry, they will not marry. Meanwhile Clara, who grew up with Rowan and was once saved by him as a child, has never stopped looking for him. She finds out where the wedding is being held and goes to the hotel to take him back.
God of BathingThe bathing houses run on a tradition with masters, disciples and a hall that can be challenged for, and AI bathing has started to eat into it. Zhou Lin was the best of his generation in the trade until his cousin Yang Jun moved against him and took his place. Xu Wan of Mu Shen Palace found him and brought him in.
Mu Shen Palace was in trouble at the time. Xu Dingtian, injured, went ahead with a challenge match against Zhao Qingshan and was outmatched. Zhou Lin stepped in and turned it around, and the hall was kept.
While Zhou Lin was treating the injury to Xu Dingtian's hand, people from the Shang Ke Academy came to Mu Shen Palace to buy it out. Hu Lai, the senior disciple, blocked them and held out until Xu Dingtian returned. Behind the academy was Yang Jun. He challenged Zhou Lin directly, to put an end to traditional bathing.
My Wife Cheated, So I Became a GodJiang An's wife is sleeping with Qiao Shaokun, a rich man's son, and the two of them betray him together. Jiang An is a security guard at a high-end residential complex in the city, honest and slow, teased by the other guards and looked down on by the residents. He does the job and does not complain about any of it.
After the betrayal the Celestial Court appoints him god of the land and gives him the Divine Investigating Eye and control over earth and soil. He uses it to take apart Qiao Shaokun's schemes and to get the Chen sisters out. What he uncovers behind Qiao Shaokun is the Qiao family itself, and their plan to use the Stone of Heavenly Fate against the city of Yuncheng.
He rises as a god against them, wins the backing of the Black Wolf Society, and takes the Stone of Heavenly Fate back.
All’s Wed That Ends WellJuniper Monson steals the noble groom she envied in her sister's first life, leaving Juliette Monsoon to marry a despised stranger. Both have returned to the eve of their weddings after Juniper murdered Juliette. The swap hands Juniper an abusive husband and Juliette an emperor in disguise, renewing the jealousy that already proved deadly.
Rebirth in Blood and MoonlightBetrayed in her past life, Emma Shawn chooses to be a widow rather than a bride, defying her ruthless family and burning her own wedding gown. But when the whip falls, the ‘dead’ General Oliver Sterling returns with a royal decree. Who is this woman truly mourning? And why does the Emperor himself watch their every move?
Rise Beyond BetrayalSeth Quain, a foreign trade expert fluent in 16 languages, gave up his career for family—only to be scorned by his wife and daughter. When betrayal pushes him to the edge, he walks away and rises to new heights with the formidable business mogul Hope Stephens. But as he returns in triumph, old ties, new enemies, and dangerous rumors threaten to pull him back. Will he reclaim his life, or lose it all?
The Crown Beyond the GraveOnce a top model, betrayed and left for dead—now she returns, stunning and unstoppable, ready for the ultimate revenge.
Truth After RebirthReborn at the moment her husband Logan Zeal, friend Nancy Ross, and pregnant Lydia Lark framed her for murder, Mary Zeal vows to change her fate. In her previous life, she was accused of causing two deaths after refusing Lydia a ride and was killed; this time, even swapping cars with the mysterious Judith Lane fails to free her from the conspiracy. As witnesses and investigators expose forged evidence, Mary uncovers Logan's affair and illegitimate child and brings the plotters to justice.
Catch Her, Your Majesty!Lillian Caldwell wants a place among the palace's physicians. She was born into a medical family and goes to the selection held at the palace. What stands in her way is the household her father set up after her mother died, when he brought home the woman he had been keeping outside, along with that woman's daughter. At the selection the stepmother and the stepsister slip her a drug, and under it she ends up in bed with a man she takes to be a palace guard. The family beats her with rods for the disgrace and throws her out, and she comes close to dying.
Six years later she is a disciple of the Sage Doctor and is raising a son on her own. She is called to the palace to treat the Empress Dowager. The Emperor sees the boy and works out whose he is, because he was the man she had taken for a guard that night. The stepsister keeps making trouble for her at court, and when the boy is in danger it is the Emperor who steps in and saves him. After that, what happened six years earlier comes into the open.
The MastermindA man with a good line of talk started working on Sophie. Her fiancé, Daniel Prescott, had put five years into a laboratory in Zaryndor and come out of it with a quantum computer ahead of anything built abroad. The marshal called him the country's unrivaled national hero. Daniel turned down the honours and the payments that came with the title. What he wanted out of it was that Sophie should have a good life.
His name worked on its own anyway. People with standing across Zaryndor began treating her family's company well because of who she was attached to. The talking went on, and Sophie came round to it. At the signing ceremony for a contract, in front of the room, the two of them turned on Daniel and said what they thought of him.
The heiress to a financial group was there and put together what had been done. She sided with Daniel, and the two of them began working against the people behind it.
The Hidden SageFelix Cooper took Prince Hecto with him when he withdrew from the court, and the two of them settled somewhere quiet where Felix meant to work as an ordinary schoolteacher.
Under the previous dynasty scholars were killed in large numbers. Felix, who was held to be the sage of the age, helped the Emperor of Chana take the throne and end that dynasty, and then he left. The local strongmen would not leave him alone. The lord of the city took their side openly and ignored the law, and a martial arts clan pressed him as well. Felix kept teaching and kept arguing his case with anyone who came at him. Then a great scholar appeared and set out to slander him and ruin his name for good.
"If reason will not get through, then I will teach with force."
Till Truth Do Us PartStruggling barista Emily impulsively marries Edward, unaware he’s a billionaire CEO and her childhood crush. Their fake marriage turns real, but when his scheming ex exposes the truth, Emily is framed as a gold digger. As betrayals, deadly traps, and shocking family secrets unravel, love is put to the test. Will their chaotic union survive, or will lies tear them apart?
Blessed by the PrinceZanisha Russell, a humble vegetable vendor in the capital, accidentally saves Prince Isaac Russell from an assassination attempt. After that, they become each other’s only source of support. Meanwhile, Zanisha’s son, Mateo Perry, marries into the powerful James family, subjecting her to relentless humiliation and life-threatening danger. When Isaac returns to the palace, Zanisha is crowned Empress Dowager. But the ambitious Princess Jane, hungry for power, begins to weave a deadly conspiracy...
Sakura Beneath the ShrineMarleen Hooper's parents took the tuition money she had saved to get away from them, and it was gone in a day. She was a first-year student with nothing left. She took a job that night and met Shuuichi, the heir of one of the wealthiest families in the country and a young monk at their temple. They spent the night together.
She found out she was pregnant with triplets. The family brought her into their residence and she became his bride. He looks cold and turns out to be protective past the point of sense, and neither of them has done any of this before, so they work out the marriage by trial and error.
Relatives who want something out of her keep interfering, a student named Nana goes after her at the university, and there are secrets around Marleen's own birth that the two of them have to deal with together.
Tai Chi MasterLucas Ramos, órfão de clã, herdou técnicas marciais e a Insígnia de Ordem do pai. Após amnésia, foi criado no Dojo Pereiras. Anos depois, desafiado por Fábio Barbosa (Enlândia), que humilhou as artes xalandesas, quebrou seu contrato de morte ao salvar Cristina, derrotar Fábio e Henrique Gomes, expondo Eduardo Mendes. Revelado como herdeiro dos Ramos e crimes de Benício Lima, tornou-se Líder Supremo das Artes Marciais.
Awaken as the Immortal. Now KNEEL.A man beats an old man badly enough to put him in a coma. The old man is the great-grandfather of the woman he was engaged to, and he has just been caught cheating, and she has just called the engagement off.
The old man is a cultivator who reached immortality. His memory was sealed, and with it his power, and he has been living in Cloud City with his great-granddaughter Winter, scraping by. The beating breaks the seal. His memory comes back and his cultivation with it, and he takes Winter to the engagement banquet the man is holding. There he says who he is. His old disciples come into the hall and go down on their knees to him.
Genius Quit, Ex-Wife Regrets?Ethan Smith was the heir to the most prominent family in Chester, a former elite pilot with a gift for mathematics, and he gave all of it up to marry into Bonnie Stuart's household. He stayed seven years. For five of them he raised their son and daughter and put his own resources behind Bonnie's career until she was one of the wealthiest people in the city. None of that work was ever acknowledged as his.
On their son's birthday the boy wished for a new daddy. Bonnie said it was just a child talking. Ethan took the wish at its word. He divorced her, left the son with her, and took their daughter with him. The general opinion was that a kept man would be back inside a month.
A month later Ethan was rebuilding his own business and his daughter had made a project of finding him a new wife. Bonnie came to him with their son and asked him to come back. By then another woman was already asking Ethan when he intended to give her his name.
Shero Writes FateBorn gifted but despised for her lowly origins, Isabella Carter was framed for her mother's death by jealous relatives. Honoring her mother's final wish, Isabella hid her talents, enduring scorn and accusations. Only during the final imperial exam did she discover the shocking truth—and at that instant, her true brilliance emerged, unstoppable and dazzling.
Slient Tears, Twisted FateSherry Jones lost her voice as a child and was separated from her mother, Marilyn Quincy, in an accident. Fifteen years later Marilyn was running a company worth billions. Sherry was living on very little and working to keep a boyfriend who took what she earned. The boyfriend attached himself to a wealthy woman and staged a scene in which Sherry appeared to be caught with another man, then told people she had been unfaithful. Sherry could not speak to answer it, and the wealthy woman humiliated her in front of a crowd.
Marilyn came in at that point with her adopted son, Zach. Sherry had helped her once before. Marilyn stepped in and got her out of it. Afterwards Marilyn noticed something Sherry had in common with the daughter she had lost and followed her, and came on Sherry's father handing her over as a wife to a man who could not look after himself, in return for money.
Legacy of the WarbornIn the year 129 of Zephoria, General Ethan Vale of the Skywing Legion led his troops to victory against Estren invaders. However, betrayed by traitors, he was stripped of his title and lost his family—except for his young daughter, Annie. Years later, as she stirs trouble with her righteous spirit, Ethan, disguised, decides to train and educate her. Let's see how he will help her before she regains her sight.
Father's a PushoverReborn with a mission, Olivia Summers is determined to change her father’s fate, shaped by repeated betrayal for his kindness. She exposes Joanna’s scheme, clearing his name. But Joanna fights back with new lies. With intelligence and evidence, can Summers uncover the truth? Will her father realize that kindness must have limits? Will the wicked finally face justice?
The Stray ProdigyIn a remote mountain, herbalist Amelia Frost unexpectedly rescues the disguised, injured Emperor Edmund Hawke. A month in a hidden cave kindles forbidden love. Later, forced into a dangerous marriage, Amelia hides her secret child whose extraordinary art sparks the Emperor’s quest. Will fate finally reunite this fractured family?
If Love Could Start OverMary Kane and Karen Jones were cousins who grew up together. They sat for arranged introductions on the same day and married in the same season. Mary's husband went into business and became a company director. Karen's husband died while she was still young, and she got by on very little after that. At a housewarming banquet in Mary's new home, Karen killed her and then took her own life.
Both of them woke up twenty years earlier, on the day of the introductions, in front of the men they had married the first time. This time each of them took the other's match. The man Mary ended up with also became a company director, and his attachment was to her. Karen made several attempts on Mary over the years that followed and none of them came off. She then set about getting back to the day of the introductions a second time.
Echoes of the BloodlineSeraphina Renwick, once Darythia's revered guardian, returns victorious to find her daughter, Celeste, gravely harmed by invaders. In a desperate rescue, she unknowingly saves Lilith, an imposter who took Celeste's place. Believing Lilith to be her own daughter, Seraphina abandons her past to raise Lilith, only to suffer relentless betrayal. Meanwhile, Celeste, now Halynd's wealthiest woman, searches for her lost mother, setting the stage for a shocking revelation.
Everfrost SwordNoxen Moon is a disciple of the Everfrost Sect who gets close to its grandmaster, takes the core of her power, and throws her off a cliff. The grandmaster is Lumia Jade, ninety-ninth head of the sect, known across the Fourteen States of Eastward. She is quiet and keeps her feelings to herself, and after a long time alone at the top of the sect she had let his attention reach her.
The Everfrost Sword keeps her alive at the bottom of the cliff, but she remembers nothing. An old woman finds her and raises her as a daughter under a new name for three years. One day she has to protect her adoptive mother, and in doing so she wakes the power of the sword. With help from a disciple her memory comes back, and she sets out to take her revenge on Noxen Moon.
The Crimson OathChase Carter devotes herself to Taoist training after Jefferson Zane kills her father on her wedding day. The Tai Chi Sect had denied her succession because she was a woman, even blocking her attempt to prove her skills with its secret manual. Returning with mastery of its arts, she exposes the conspiracy and fights to restore the sect as its first female leader.
The Gilded BetrayalLynn Crawford is the daughter of a conglomerate family, but she takes a waitressing job and keeps her background to herself, partly to buy Ryan Shaw a present with money she earned. Ryan's family believes she is poor and works to break the two of them apart. Before he leaves to study abroad, Ryan promises he will marry her once he finishes. Over the four years he is gone, Lynn builds a biopharmaceutical company of her own and intends to hand it to him. At the banquet held to welcome him back, Ryan is engaged to another woman, and the bride is not Lynn. She stops giving ground and begins to hit back.
Evil Bride vs. The CEO's Secret MomBeth is a streamer with a top-ranked channel, engaged to the heir of the wealthiest family in the country. On the night before the wedding she meets the woman who is about to become her mother-in-law and identifies her as a mistress. She confronts the woman that same night and takes her revenge on the spot. She does not know at that point what the revenge is going to set off. The wedding is scheduled for the following day.
We Are Meant to BeRosalie Garrett descends from her sect to find James Franklin, whose union with her may avert a deadly curse. After her predictions overcome his distrust, an adopted daughter's attack leaves Rosalie near death and James sacrifices both legs to save her; their forced separation ends when renewed family schemes draw them together at further cost to Rosalie's health.
Divorced, but a TycoonFalsely accused of stealing a jade pendant and humiliated in his divorce, Curtis's life took a dramatic turn when wealthy Sullivan searched for his long-lost son, with the pendant as the key clue. Meanwhile, Willene, drawn to Curtis's mysterious ties to a powerful family, pursued him. At a bar, Curtis's singing captivated the audience, but his ex-wife, Xamira, sabotaged his performance and was later exposed for her infidelity. When Curtis's true identity was revealed, Xamira attempted to win him back, but he chose to marry Willene. During their wedding, Xamira sacrificed herself to save Willene, dying in Curtis's arms.
The Price of Neighborly BondsOn New Year's Eve, back in the village she grew up in, Lily Parker is accused by her cousin Clara Langley of being the other woman in someone's marriage. Lily has come home meaning to help the village get on its feet. She explains herself over and over. Her own family does not believe her, and the villagers have their fixed ideas about her already, and the accusation sticks. She takes a good deal of abuse over it, and she decides to prove what actually happened and to push back.
She had left the village years before to find work in the city, and after a long stretch of hard going she ended up running a large company, the sort of position people back home envied. Once she is home, the talk turns spiteful, and there is corruption inside the factory to deal with on top of it.
My Journey to ImmortalityLouis Kean was middle-aged when he announced that he was taking up cultivation. He left the family and went to the mountain. The people who knew him said he had lost his mind.
At forty-five he finished it. The ascension ceremony was under way when his son rang him. Louis Kean took the call, then worked out a reading on his fingers, and the reading was the end of his line. He announced that the ascension was suspended. He went back down the mountain into the ordinary world.
Silent Goodbye, Unseen ReturnSelene Moore's mother has not looked at her in years. After the divorce the mother remarried and had a second daughter with her new husband, and that girl got all of her attention. Selene was left with her grandmother and grew up in her house. Then Selene is kidnapped and dies. She opens her eyes in the body of Caroline Lewis, the daughter of the family that owns the Lewis Group. She intends to use Caroline's name and position to take her revenge. Her mother does not know that Selene is dead.
ONE MORE LIFE IN 1984In a farming village in 1984, Amy Carter's husband and his family have knocked her about for years, and his mistress lords it over her in her own house. Amy has been laid in a coffin.
The woman who pushes the lid open is Blair Carter, a boxing champion from the twenty-first century. She was in the middle of a bout when she found herself in Amy's body. Her first night in 1984 is spent in the pigsty, with the mistress bullying her. Blair pieces together how Amy had been treated by the husband and his family, and decides she will live Amy's life over as a second version of her.
She knocks her husband down with one punch, gives the mistress a tongue-lashing that sends her off, and makes life hard enough for the husband's family that the divorce goes through. On the day the divorce is granted she finds a handsome company boss collapsed by the roadside, takes him home, and puts him to work as her farmhand. Other women in the village, which is closed off and a long way behind the times, watch what she does, and some of them start to push back at home too.
A Son's VowHenry Jones, once the heir to Anderson Group, was lost as a child and raised by foster parents. Driven by gratitude, he builds the company from the ground up, even passing the chairman position to his foster father, William Jones. But when his biological family finds him, they abandon him for their true son, Oscar Jones. As betrayal tears through the family, Henry's loyalty is tested—will revenge become his only path?
The New Year FeudBillionaire Barron Ford returns with his wife Liz Lane to her hometown for Lunar New Year, hoping to repair strained family ties. Because Gavin Lane and the other relatives remember Barron as poor, they dismiss his costly gifts, question his fortune, and treat his proposed resort development as another cause for conflict. Barron uses business judgment and restraint to resolve each dispute, earn the family's respect, and bring the divided household toward reconciliation.
Forged in FlamesThe disciple scorned at Hundred Blades Valley is the master craftsman its members idolize. Leonard Forrest has hidden his identity to fulfill his late mentor's wish that his sword-forging secrets reach his successors. A crisis at the valley threatens to force the supposedly lowly newcomer to show his real skill.