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The System Made Me EmperorLawrence, a modern man, transmigrates into the magistrate of famine-stricken River County. He uses pig feed to demonstrate resolve, congee with pickles to win over soldiers, and sees through Evan's schemes. With instant noodles and sausages, he boosts morale, turns the tide, and kills rebel leader Simon. After becoming Governor of GL Commandery, he adopts Roman's plan to confiscate gentry grain and uses heating patches to ruin the Zion family economically. Upon obtaining the "Satisfaction" system, he distributes supplies to the people, who eventually proclaim him Emperor.
Exposed: The Lost Crown PrinceIn the 15th year of Hongwu's reign, eight-year-old Crown Prince Sheldon died and was buried. However, his body mysteriously disappeared afterward. Enraged, Emperor Hongwu ordered the execution of over a thousand officials deemed responsible for the failure. By the 24th year of Hongwu, Hayes who had lived in Aetheria for nine years, discussed past events with an elderly man in a courtyard by the Hollow River. He claimed that at the age of eight, he had crawled out of his own coffin and been surrounded by the Imperial Guard. Upon hearing this, the old man's eyes welled up, his hands trembled with emotion, and he excitedly called Hayes his grandson. The old man then asked if he wanted to become emperor, revealing himself as Emperor Hongwu and declaring Hayes as his rightful heir. However, Hayes dismissed this, believing the old man was merely drunk.
Nobody in the Sect, Invincible in the WorldBelieving himself just an insignificant Nascent Soul, Christian descends the mountain in search of Divine Transformation—unaware that he is already unrivaled in the world.
Blood OathHaving ascended to Sovereign only to find his parents dead, a grief-stricken Augustine now lives as a vendor. With his nation in peril, he must choose whether to seek vengeance.
Fool's CrownCameron is the head of the Chen family and the Lord of the Imperium. A car accident took his memory and his wits, and for eight years everyone around him has treated him as a fool. Felicia looked after him for the whole eight years and never left him.
When his memory comes back, he wants to repay her, and he puts together the Nine Heavens Great Gifts as a betrothal present. The gesture draws laughter and questions from everyone who hears of it, and the people who knew him before, friends and enemies both, are uneasy that he is back.
The Billionaire's Farewell: A Love in RuinsFor three years, Graham hides that he is the world's richest man while living as Selena's unassuming husband. Then her first love Colton returns, gets her pregnant, and Selena demands that Graham claim the baby because she is certain his devotion has no limit. The demand finally breaks that devotion: Graham chooses divorce and walks out of her life.
The Heir's WarCameron cannot remember Caroline. He went to Cloud City to propose to her, was shot before he could, and came out of it without his memory. He is the heir of the first of the noble houses of Great Zhou.
Logan tries to coerce Caroline while Cameron is in that state. Cameron's memory comes back, and he answers it by putting on a wedding at the largest scale the house can manage. The second son of the Chu family has been dealing with enemies outside Great Zhou to take the inheritance for himself, and he wants the office of Chancellor of Great Zhou. He means to have Cameron and their parents killed.
The Martial Prodigy: Fists That Shatter WorldsXavier is a cultivator who wants only to become an immortal. He kills without hesitation and pays no attention to his family, and while his mind is elsewhere his parents are murdered by his enemy Jasper. In remorse he seals his own immortal veins with black iron and swears he will never become an immortal. When he wakes he is a five-year-old boy called Theodore, the child of the third branch of the Chen family, a martial arts household in Q City in the 1910s. His sister Renee looks after him.
With his veins sealed, Theodore wants nothing to do with martial arts and barely speaks. Then he finds by accident that some of his old skill is still in him. When he tests it he shatters the Chen family's trial stone, and people take it for the work of a grandmaster. The first and second branches have been eyeing the third branch's property, and they come around to find out who did it. At the family meeting they set up a duel as a trap. To protect Renee and their home, Theodore has to show what he can do. He brushes off the servants sent to provoke him, then beats one Chen fighter after another on the platform, including the head of the family, and the third branch keeps its house.
The head of the Zhang family, the Chens' sworn rival, arrives with his own fighters to challenge the school and take over the Chen business. Theodore beats both of the fighters Zhang puts forward. Zhang then brings in the warlord Hawk, who marches troops into the city and, calling it a tournament, orders every martial arts family in Q City to hand over its property. Theodore defeats Hawk's adjutant, then beats Hawk himself using a tree branch as a sword. Behind Hawk there is a Japanese faction. A swordsman from Japan comes with men who have been strengthened by a cultivator. Theodore works out where their strength comes from, beats them one by one and snaps the swordsman's blade. The cultivator behind them then shows himself. It is Jasper, and he has come to draw on the worship of Q City's people to rebuild his power. The Chens fight him and are driven back.
The Missing ChampionBetrayed and broken, Everett vanished—until he emerged as a janitor to overturn a 9-0 deficit with his Golden Right Foot!
Don't Worry, I'm More Than a DriverA fake marriage is supposed to let Yannick and Selena escape their families' matchmaking. Instead, her relatives' refusal to accept a ride-hailing driver forces him to disclose the powerful inheritance he has been hiding. Even that confession is dismissed until his influential relatives begin standing behind him.
Spoiled to DeathIndulged by his grandmother since childhood, Lawrence spiraled from delinquency to murder, culminating in his execution and her ultimate remorse.
The 7-Year-Old Prime MinisterCameron wants his mother to have a better life. He is seven years old, the two of them are poor, and she works herself to exhaustion every day and still often goes hungry. He settles on the imperial examination as the way to change that.
Cameron is also a scholar with a doctorate in ancient culture who lived in the modern day and woke up, after crossing back in time, inside this child's body in the capital of Celestia. He knows how the examinations of this period are run, and he carries in his head poems and essays written long after it.
He sits the examination. What he writes there astonishes everyone who reads it and he takes first place, and the court starts talking about the boy as a prodigy. After that he puts forward one policy proposal after another, and his promotions come steadily.
Rewind: Letters to the PastLambert is in prison and has stopped expecting anything to change. His girlfriend betrayed him and framed him, and that is how he ended up there. Then a time mailbox comes into his hands. A letter posted in it is delivered to someone in the past.
He tries it on himself first. He writes to the Lambert of the day before with the winning lottery numbers and wakes up the next morning having won a prize worth a million. After that he writes to Cao Xueqin, and to Einstein, and to others like them, and from these letters he comes away with the complete original text of Dream of the Red Chamber and solutions to some of the hardest problems in mathematics. He uses what he has to get through one crisis after another.
The letters also change things he did not set out to change. Human history shifts as a result, and his country comes out stronger and its people more sure of themselves. Then one day a letter comes to him from the future, carrying a warning.
Stolen Son's RevengeAfter being missing for forty years, Wesley embarks on a journey to find his biological family, only to unexpectedly travel back in time to a demolition site twenty years earlier. There, his ancestral home is about to be forcibly demolished, and his parents are on the verge of being humiliated. This time, he returns with wealth and status, determined to settle all grievances spanning two decades and bring the human trafficker from his past to justice.
Bullied My Way HomeLawrence, a 22-year-old man, was born into a life of privilege as the son of Sarah, chairwoman of the Su Group—Cloud City's wealthiest conglomerate—and her kind-hearted husband, Liam. Yet, his good fortune was shadowed by a profound misfortune: Lawrence suffered from bipolar disorder.
A decade ago, after a violent episode where he intentionally hurt someone, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital. During his long confinement, the father he had always admired, Liam, passed away.
Now, finally released after ten years, Lawrence was on a bus home, his heart set on paying respects at his father's grave. His journey was interrupted, however, by Lilith and her family. When her son, Talon, demanded to play with Lawrence's laptop and was refused, Lilith snatched the computer, smashed it on the floor, and crushed it under her heel.
Humiliated and provoked, Lawrence felt his anger ignite. But the director's voice echoed in his mind, urging restraint, and he chose to endure the injustice. Lilith, however, was not content. She called her husband, Thorne, who physically attacked Lawrence. Pushed beyond his limits, Lawrence fought back, fiercely beating them both.
After disembarking, a furious Thorne summoned his subordinates from the Su Group's security team to ambush Lawrence. But Lawrence, a former Sanda champion, made quick work of the thugs. Undeterred, Lilith played her ultimate card: announcing she was the cousin of Sarah herself. To cross her, she sneered, was to cross all of Cloud City and the entire Su Group!
What she didn't know was that Lawrence was Sarah's son. In a final act of cruelty, she ripped up his most treasured possession—his only family photo. This shattered him. Unmoored, Lawrence slumped into despair, offering no resistance as the bullying continued.
But then—Sarah arrived. Lilith and her family were about to face the devastating consequences of their actions.
The System: I Rent, Therefore I OwnLie about 10 apartments triggers a lease-to-own system, turning a poor man into a tycoon.
True Heir's Hard LifeAn heir framed and disowned by his family finds redemption and love with the woman he was forced to marry, who helps him uncover the truth.
The Master Returns After Sixty YearsThe young man who walks into the Chen house in a burial shroud says he is Maximus, the master who taught the Chen family's forebears, and most of the family does not believe him, though the eldest daughter, Chandra, does. Maximus had sealed himself away to train, and two grave robbers dug him out of the tomb sixty years later. He came up with a young body, still in the clothes he was buried in. In the years he was underground his student Wesley turned on the Mu family, Maximus's own line, and destroyed it. One descendant is left, and that one is close to death.
News of the return reaches Wesley, and he begins his revenge. His son goes to a birthday feast where Maximus is, and Maximus kills him with a single word. Wesley then shuts himself away, and when he comes out he is at the level of an Earth Immortal and goes after the Chen family.
Blind Father, Ungrateful SonZander had influence once. He was betrayed, and it cost him his sight and his memory. Years after that he was raising a son and a daughter on his own with almost nothing coming in.
His son wanted a place at university. Zander put everything he had into paying for it. Once the son was there he would not admit in front of anyone that Zander was his father, because the family's poverty embarrassed him. His wife's family pushed him further than that, and he used violence against Zander and against his sister.
Return of the DragonA village boss killed Cyrus and Sterling's parents ten years ago, and when the family held the funeral his people came and broke it up. Cyrus was the older brother. He put every bit of money he had saved into sending Sterling abroad to study, on the idea that if Sterling rose high enough nobody would be able to do that to them again.
Sterling finishes his studies and comes home ten years after the killings. He is chief executive of the Honor Group now, and he begins settling the matter with the man who killed their parents.
My Cultivator Great-Grandma Goes LiveA hundred-year-old cultivator fails her heavenly trial and crashes into her great-grandson's livestream. Her ancient powers become instant meme material, but the unlikely online fame also exposes an old conspiracy, forcing cultivation magic and modern technology into the same fight.
Villain's System: Crush the HeroesTransmigrated Graham defies the Chosen One, winning love and power fast.
Elderly Cultivation UniversityTen neglected seniors enroll in a university where graduation work includes forging divine swords. Dismissed by their children and doubted by outsiders, they study elixirs, magical artifacts and sword flight. The supposedly absurd course begins producing abilities the world cannot ignore.
Street Prank: She Picked the Wrong GuyThere is a prank show that runs on one trick. The production team hires good-looking women and sends them out to come on to men in the street, and the moment a man takes the bait they photograph him and put the pictures up to wreck his reputation. It has worked on a long run of men.
The next man it picks is Jeremy, the heir to the Jiang Group, who has walked out on the family and its money to live like an ordinary person. The show sends a campus beauty queen after him. She tries everything she has. He takes her for a paid escort, says so, and leaves her standing there humiliated. The team, stung, sends better women after him. The show's funding comes from the Jiang Group, and the team does not know it. Jeremy tells them who he is, and the whole team is left in disgrace.
Reborn: The Ultimate OutcastXavier travelled here from another time and woke up in the body of a young heir, and nobody around him knows it. The heir belonged to a powerful family in the capital, had been sent away to Magic City in disgrace, and his own cousin had arranged to have him killed. Xavier inherits all of that along with the body.
The family will take him back on two conditions, both within one year. He has to earn 200 million yuan with no help from them, and he has to marry his fiancée Tiffany, who is cold to him. He knows the future, so the money should not be hard, but he has no starting capital, and he decides to get 50 million of it from Tiffany as a loan.
I'm the Go God, Deal with ItAt the height of his glory, a Go legend awakens in the body of a disgraced heir, where every move—on and off the board—could cost him his parents’ legacy.
The Fallen Banker Strikes BackFramed by his own protégé, financier Lu Yuan falls from Jufeng Group to delivery work while struggling to protect his wife and daughter. Public humiliation brings senior disciple Ye Qixuan back to his side, helping him counter a financial assault and a kidnapping. With his enemies imprisoned and his name restored, Lu eventually leaves the industry for the quiet life taken from him eight years earlier.
Baby Cultivator Fixing My Broken ClanYolanda is living in the Chu household as a small child. Everyone there takes her for the illegitimate daughter of one of the Chu men and treats her with contempt. She is the family's ancestor. Her ascension tribulation went wrong partway through and left her in a child's body, and her master told her afterwards that a descendant of the family had used up its hidden virtue. She is to find that descendant and punish him, and the fortune that was taken from the family will come back with the punishment. She expected this to go smoothly, and the mistake about her parentage was the first thing that went wrong. After it she is caught up in a conspiracy whose people stay in the dark while she stands in the open, and her ascension is still unfinished.
He Cheated My Dad, I Bet It AllAlbert's cousin is the one who tricked Albert's father and gambled away everything the family had. Albert, who is known as the God of Gamblers, finds this out when he comes home from Macau.
At first he wants to settle it quietly inside the family. He goes to the cousin and talks to him in good faith, and he lets the insults that come back pass. The cousin keeps at it. After enough humiliations Albert decides to play against his cousin with everything he has on the table, and to see the game through to the end.
Scam Breaker from the FutureA rigged gambling debt threatens Zephyrine's father in the Republican-era life she awakens into after an assassination. Her modern expertise in exposing cheats lets her dismantle the trap, but each countermove reveals older family grudges and secrets within the underworld.
Awaken the Dragon, Save the GirlWith his daughter critically ill, Marcus was heartlessly abandoned by his ex-wife. In utter despair, he risked his life in a staged accident to entrap a wealthy heiress - only to discover the dragon within him had awakened!
The Anti-Gambler's Last BetHaunted by their father’s mutilation for cheating, anti-gambling streamer Cameron risks everything to stop his sister Cecilia from losing her hand—and their last chance at redemption.
Back to 1992: This Time I'll Build My EmpireTwenty years of violence and regret reduce Sullivan to an aging criminal barely surviving the city he once chased. Reborn in 1992 with the same defiant spirit, he rejects the path that led to prison and blood. Knowledge of the coming economic boom gives him a chance to build an empire through business instead.
Cursed Bone, Blooming HeartHe is a merchant's son, the same as his elder brother, and what he cannot get is an answer to why his brother eats well and has warm clothes while he is put to sleep in a dog kennel and fed moldy bread.
The reason goes back to the day he was born. Thunder rolled across the whole sky, and people took it for the heavens objecting to a child born with cursed bones. The Master pronounced him an ill-fated lone star, someone who brings disaster on the people around him. His own parents call him a monster.
That is how he lives up to the day he meets a little girl.
Magic Brush Kid: The Painting WarriorSebastian wants his mother back. He is the Painting Immortal's disciple, and he comes down from the mountain to look for her after years apart. When he finds Seraphina she takes him for a small beggar and gives him a place in her home without knowing who he is. That annoys him enough that he says nothing about it.
Then Seraphina's second uncle moves to take the Shen family's ancestral house. Sebastian steps in. He can bring paintings to life, and he uses the painting the family keeps to guard the house in a contest of painting and wits against the uncle. In the course of it mother and son come to recognize each other, and Sebastian's identity comes out.
He Risked Everything to Build Their RoadA small village in the mountains needs its road out rebuilt, and putting a road through without official approval is against the law. Lawrence, a subcontractor for a construction firm in the provincial city, comes home to visit his mother's grave and the villagers ask him to build it. He agrees to pay for the work out of his own pocket.
The work goes badly. Some of the villagers slack off or sabotage it, and others report him to the authorities, saying he is in it for his own gain. He is arrested. A friend brings the official approval papers and the head of Taoyuan Village speaks up for him, and he is cleared.
Once out he thinks about giving up. His friend and the village head talk him into carrying on, and he goes back to building the road to Taoyuan Village. The ground there is difficult and he works through it as a professional, which brings the villagers round. He also finds that a rival contractor has been laying road with substandard materials and makes it public.
Sell Immortality to the RichOnce an ordinary office worker, Lawrence steals time from the living to sell to the rich—until he rises as a god among immortals!
Midlife Loser Turned CEOHelena wants to move up in her career, and to do it she attaches herself to Howard and drops Theodore, her husband of thirty years. Theodore has been selling grilled skewers on the street. Then his uncle dies, and the will hands him the chairmanship of SH Group, with the businesswoman Lily assigned to help him run it.
Every company that hears SH Group has changed hands scrambles to get close to the new chairman, without knowing who he is. Helena mentions to Theodore that she wants an introduction to SH Group. He thinks about the thirty years in which he never did anything to help her, and gives her two invitations with his own signature on them. She does not take them seriously. At the board meeting she and Howard find out who the new chairman is.
Lily tells Theodore she loves him and he accepts her. When he goes to buy a house for Joyce, the sales staff treat him with contempt, so he buys the entire property group, fires Henry, and sees that Joyce's home surroundings are protected.
Turns Out I'm OPThe chief executive of a company, a woman used to giving orders, has her father laid in a coffin one morning. His illness has no cure and she is getting ready to bury him. A young man comes down out of the air and tells her he can save the old man's life.
Later the same day she forces her way into a gathering of the social elite and slaps the son of a rich family. Then the young man lets loose the golden dragon that guards him. The room goes quiet. She looks at him wide-eyed and then kneels in front of him with her head lowered.
They Gave My Score to My TwinWith his exam scores swapped, Lawrence breaks free from his toxic family—and fights his way back to the top!
Guess What, Sis? I'm the Go GeniusFrederick, a Go prodigy who appears mentally impaired after a childhood illness, possesses extraordinary talent that awakens when he plays. To save his sister from persecution by their cousin who usurped family power, Frederick's hidden genius is activated during a high-stakes match, allowing him to turn the tide with a single move and resolve the family crisis.
Full Marks Forever: The Genius Who Mocked the GaokaoGenius Sebastian activates a system that guarantees a perfect Gaokao score, repeatedly stuns the nation by retaking the exam!
My Son, My WealthMagnus loses his job, and his wife despises him for it and files for divorce straight away. Around the same time his son comes back to life, and Magnus finds he can hear the boy's thoughts. What he hears are business openings. He starts buying and reselling goods, makes money quickly, and buys a cannery. At a wine and confectionery trade fair his new product sells well, and he works his way up from there into serious wealth. His wife's family, meanwhile, manages its money badly and goes under. Magnor pays off her debts and finds someone new.
The Grandmaster's Final RescueAfter his daughter's disappearance and granddaughter's peril, the legendary Ten-Crown King Xander returns from seclusion to save his family!
Rebirth of the SculptorRenaton is the real son of the Zanders family and grows up as though he were nobody in it. His parents, Zanders and Harriet, give him insults and neglect and put everything they have into Michael, the boy they adopted. Michael ends up with what should have been Renaton's, including his fiancée.
Renaton is recommended for a place at the Tsinghua Academy of Arts. Michael, jealous, tries to poison him, and Zanders and Harriet swallow the poison by mistake. Zanders learns that Michael did it and decides to put the blame on Renaton anyway. Renaton serves eight years in prison.
He comes out finished with the family and goes back to sculpture, which he was always good at. Rose, a sculptor of international standing, sees the work and gets in touch with him, and he goes to Italy with her. A year later he returns under a new name, known in the sculpture world, and comes back to the house he grew up in. He tells the family what Michael is: the son of Zanders and his mistress, which Harriet never knew, so that the family spent its years on another woman's child while ignoring its own.
He Built Rockets with His Bare HandsBetrayed at his peak and forced to start over as an apprentice, Fredrick stuns everyone when his true identity as a master fitter is revealed in a moment of crisis!
The Fallen ProdigyOnce a mystical prodigy, Lysander swore to stay hidden—until new romance makes it impossible!
Who Made Her the CEO?!Returning just in time to save SH Group from collapse after Valeria's reckless takeover, Drake leads the company to a successful IPO!
Not My Baby, Not My ProblemReborn with full knowledge that Liora and her lover destroyed his family, Brandon designs revenge around the child she carries and abandons her after the birth with crushing debt and no allies. Once Liora's life collapses, he leaves the false relationship behind. Faustina, who remained loyal and loved him throughout, becomes the partner in his new life.
The 7-Year-Old CEO's RevengeAfter being framed and killed in his past life, Lucian is reborn at age seven, uses his past memories to dismantle every plot against him, permanently strips Jay of inheritance rights, outmaneuvers Roy, and ultimately becomes chairman of the Lu Group.
The Jade Master's RevengeIn Myanmar in the 1990s, Quentin was the finest stone cutter working in jade, and the trade called him the Jade King. His own apprentice, the one he trusted, betrayed him and staged a car crash that left him for dead in a snowstorm one night. Claire, who owned a jade shop, found him and saved his life.
Quentin kept his name to himself and took a job in her shop as an ordinary hand, to repay her. He used his cutting and appraising to raise the shop's takings, which made the rival jade dealers jealous, and they came at the shop again and again. He met all of it calmly. When a rich playboy tried to take the shop off Claire through a stone gambling wager, Quentin beat him on skill alone and humiliated him, and Claire's regard for him turned into something more.
Behind the playboy stood the apprentice who had betrayed him and who now carried the title of Jade King. Quentin takes his revenge on the man who ruined him.
The Runaway GroomHawthorne, heir of the Chen Group, gave up everything for love—until betrayal forces him to reclaim his legacy and leave the liar behind!
Once a General, Now Her ShieldAugustine has been drifting for ten years and barely reacts to anything. A girl named Yolanda, about his daughter's age, crosses his path. Jareth, who deals in organs in the underworld, has picked her out to have hers taken. Augustine steps in. Doing that means crossing several powerful families, and the fight puts him in front of people like Lucifer and James.
He was the Guardian General of Great Xia once and drove back the seven-nation alliance. Stefan accused him of treason and threatened everyone close to him, so he gave in and vanished. Among the people now paying attention to him, his identity has started to come out.
Late BloomerAfter enduring years of humiliation from the adoptive family, Theodore surprisingly discovers he is the long-lost heir to the HT Group fortune!
My Bodyguard Husband Is a BillionaireNathaniel works as a security guard. His wife Liliana is an actress with a following across the country, and her fans are unhappy that she is married to a guard. A television programme about divorce has been adding to the pressure on the couple. Liliana keeps defending her husband. Nathaniel is in fact the richest man in the world, and he took the guard job under a hidden identity so that the two of them could live simply. Malvina, who was in his class at school, still holds a grudge against him from those days and goes out of her way to make his life difficult, and Liliana gets dragged into it.
Nation First, Family NowThere is a confidentiality agreement covering the assignment Abraham was sent on, and it does not let him account for the five years he was gone. He went out of contact with Tang Yubing when the assignment started. She was carrying his daughter at the time and had the child on her own.
Abraham comes back as a top academic and finds the pair of them. He can explain none of it, and he and Tang Yubing are at odds over that. At the ceremony where he takes up his post, mother and daughter are insulted, and after that he sets about protecting them.
A Deal for a Mysterious FuneralThe head of the Chen family, the richest house in the Great Xia, has an incurable illness and could die any day. To keep the family steady after he is gone, he puts out a bounty: find Charon, whatever it costs. Charon is an undertaker. Every family whose dead he has personally seen off has come into great fortune in the generations after. He has drifted in and out of history for a long time, and after five thousand years he has just woken again and reopened the Undertaking Shop he has kept for all of that time. The Chens have heard that he is awake.
The first person through the door is a young woman whose father died because of the corruption of the Chen heir. She tried to get justice, and compensation, and got nowhere. She walks in and asks to draw a lot.
Bodyguard's Contract BrideFormer Dragon Association fighter Augustine now works security while searching for the woman who shared a night with him when he was poisoned. After he rescues eight-year-old Kana, her executive mother offers him a contract marriage and a job protecting the girl. Defending mother and daughter from her brother draws Augustine into the secrets of his old organization—and closer to the woman he has sought all along.
My Dad is a God of CookeryMaster chef Lin Yang hides in Jiangcheng while investigating his sister's death and becomes entangled with Zhao Lingxue as she flees an arranged marriage. Five years after they have daughter Yaoyao, Zhou Kun and Zhao Xingyu threaten the family Lin kept secret. Protecting them forces him to defeat the sixth-ranked culinary master, reveal the killer he has hunted, and reclaim a future with his wife and child.
Rewind to LoveTheodore spent his whole married life believing the wrong thing about who in that house cared for him. It was his wife's younger sister, and he was kept from knowing it. His wife and his mother-in-law put him out of the house at the end of a working life, and only when he was dying did he learn the truth, along with the fact that the sister had died because of him.
Then he opened his eyes in the early 1980s, on the morning of his first wedding. He was on his way to collect the woman he had married, and none of what he remembered had happened yet.