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A New Heart on the 6th TryZhao You'en is running a plan on a man who does not know he is being played. A system sets the target and the terms, and she gets close to him by design. This round the target is Cheng Xingye, who thinks she came into his life on her own.
Before him there were five attempts on Zhou Jingxu and all five failed. Each failure ended with You'en killing herself to restart the game. Xingye is Jingxu's close friend, which is why she picked him for the sixth run. As they spend time together she finds out that Xingye has been in love with her for years and never said it. She keeps working the plan against that, and gradually she falls in love with him.
Fiancé Cheated, So I Married a Dying ManLin Zhixia was driving while her boyfriend's mother pressed her about when she would have a child. She took her eyes off the road and hit Shen Yi, who was in a wheelchair. A porcelain jar he had with him, an official kiln piece from the Qianlong reign, broke.
She went through the dashcam footage afterwards and found that her boyfriend, Xu Jiaming, had been with another woman. She also learned that Xu Jiaming and his mother were after her money. She offered to have the jar repaired. Shen Yi told her the jar had belonged to his mother and that he had three months left. Her own mother had given her three days to get married. She proposed a contract marriage to Shen Yi and said she would stay with him to the end. He agreed, and the two of them registered the marriage.
Mr. Officer Steals Her HeartJiang Lu's mother died in what was recorded as an accident, and there was more to it than that. Jiang Lu teaches English at a middle school and wants a settled sort of life. Her elders arrange an introduction to Song Kui, who runs a criminal investigation team, and she nearly pulls out of it, because his work is dangerous and keeps him out in the field, and the two families are far apart in money. Song Kui was taken with her from the first meeting. He keeps at it, patiently, over a long stretch, and they end up together. Once things are serious he finds out what was covered up about her mother's death, and he starts working the case on his own, with very little to go on.
Falling for the DevilMina works in the house of a man the city calls the Black Reaper, as tutor to his son. She took the post to get a foothold in a city where she had none. Every tutor before her had walked out on the boy. She gets the better of him with quick wits and nerve, and he comes round to her. With the father she argues over everything, and after a while the arguing turns into something else.
Two women from moneyed families are jealous of her and set about making her life difficult. The father comes down on her side each time. A senior from her school days, the one she used to have a crush on, comes to tell her he loves her. She turns him down, and admits to herself that the man she wants is the one she works for. He has kept, it turns out, keepsakes connected to her. There are misunderstandings and past hurts on both sides to be gone through before the two of them go public.
Found You, Heart ThiefEmma purposely uglifies herself to repel her date, Luke. But Luke, allergic to women, discovers that Emma's the only woman he's not allergic to. He proposes immediately, but Emma, aware he's her boss, rejects him and flees. Unexpectedly, she bumps into him at work the next day. To her surprise, Luke doesn't recognize her in her usual attire. He even mistakenly thinks Emma's infatuated with him. So he warns her off, claiming his heart belongs to his true love—— that date girl. Unbeknownst to him, that girl is none other than Emma, standing right before him!
Exes in One Bed!Five years earlier, Bai Xiyue and Ji Liancheng divorced because of a misunderstanding. Upon returning from overseas five years later, Bai Xiyue joined Fushen Hospital, where she unexpectedly reunited with her ex-husband. Through a series of coincidences, the two even ended up sharing the same bed. From that moment on, Ji Liancheng forcefully reentered her life, relentlessly pursuing her at every turn. Though divorced, the two found themselves continuing to share a bed, blurring the line between former spouses and lovers.
Married To The Blind BillionaireA marriage contract in Lin Xiangxiang's family names her cousin Lin Yuan as the bride, and Lin Xiangxiang is sent in her place. The groom is Xie Wang, head of a large family in the capital. People say he has chronic headaches, that his eyes have gone bad, that he is cold and settles things without argument. Lin Xiangxiang comes from the countryside and goes to him afraid. He treats her gently, which nobody had told her to expect.
A year later his sight is close to coming back. Lin Yuan works out a scheme that drives Lin Xiangxiang out of the house, and the two of them are apart with no reason to meet again. A pregnancy test result brings them back into the same room, and Xie Wang finds the wife he had lost and keeps her with him.
I Married the Real HeirNancy is forced by her stepmother to marry, only to discover that the man her stepsister is about to marry is a fake heir to the Ford family. The real heir, Samuel Ford, is still working at a construction site. Nancy quickly tracks him down and marries him. When Samuel is finally recognized by his family, Nancy also gains entry into the Ford family. Together, they fight their enemies, reclaim Samuel's position as heir, and help Nancy take back her company. As they grow closer, love blossoms, and the two finally tie the knot.
My Secret Child With The CEOSu Tian was dying and asked Min Hui to take her name and go to Xin Qi in her place. Min Hui did it and fell in love with him under the borrowed name. When Xin Qi found out who she actually was, he ended it.
Five years later he runs the Bluebird Group, and Bluebird is a large client of Bai'an Tech, where Min Hui heads research and development. They meet again across that account. Xin Qi sees Cheng Qirang harassing her, then learns that her son, Min Quanquan, is his, and he moves into her home. Bai'an's AI, Mister, comes under attack around the same time, and Cheng Qirang moves to buy the company. Min Hui fights the takeover and Xin Qi puts money behind her.
Trapped by the Man I SavedAh-young was a reporter with a name people knew, and the boy she pulled out of the mud could not speak. She took him in. On a night of heavy rain she tore up his future and drove him out into it, and by then her own career had collapsed and she was working alone. He came back years later under a different name, a rising star in the legal world that everyone was careful around, and he began closing off her routes one at a time until there was nowhere for her to go. She used her pen against him and worked back through the fog around that night, the wound both of them still carry.
His Mother... My Father's SinAt eight years old, Lin Qingmiao turned her father in to the police after he accidentally killed Zhou Jin's mother in a hit-and-run. Instead of receiving sympathy, she was labeled a traitor and forced to endure years of stigma and bullying. She was left with no choice but to assume the name Sun Tao and flee to Gangcheng. There, she met Zhou Yusheng, a disillusioned driver, and the two unexpectedly fell in love. Yet as their affection grew, Qingmiao found that Zhou Yusheng was none other than Zhou Jin. Their love story is only beginning to face its greatest trial.
His Scheme Turned Into ObsessionXia Yuning provokes Li Chengzhou to get herself out of a secret underground syndicate, and he takes notice of her at once. The days she disappears afterward leave a mark between her and her fiancé, something neither of them can talk through cleanly. Li Chengzhou is practiced at reading people and bending them to what he wants, and he uses that unresolved gap to pull her toward him a step at a time. He treats it at first as a game, a conquest to be finished and set aside once he tires of it. He holds back the truth of where she was during those missing days and uses it as leverage whenever she tries to pull back toward her fiancé. Somewhere in the middle of managing her, the calculation stops being calculation. What he built to trap her turns into something that cuts into him instead, and the plan he set in motion keeps running even after he no longer wants it to.
We Turned Alliance into LoveShen Moran wants standing of her own, the kind nobody can take back, and she starts from nothing. She is an orphan. The household that adopted her used her for what she could bring in, and she worked out young that letting anyone see what she actually felt was expensive, so she stopped doing it.
She gets herself out from under her adoptive mother and goes into acting. Lin Qian, who used to bully her, turns out to be useful, and she makes a friend of Su Nian, the true daughter of a prominent family. Every move is worked out in advance. Her boyfriend Gu Yechen is one of the few people who reads the tenderness under the hard front, and he watches out for her without making anything of it. She is close to taking Best Actress when Gu Yechen is ambushed pulling her out of a setup.
Where the Wind Comes HomeYan Rui is a doctor. After an incident in surgery she stops wanting to be alive, and she travels up Qingyun Mountain intending to end it there. On the mountain she runs into Duan Bo'an, who leads the patrol team and has been searching the same slopes for his older sister, missing for some time. He does not lecture her. He keeps turning up where she is, quietly, and puts himself between her and the drop more than once, and his stubbornness about staying alive gets into her. She listens to him about his sister and he listens to her about the operation, and both of them come out of it lighter than they went in. Once Yan Rui has decided to live, the people behind the events that ruined her take her. Duan Bo'an goes after her alone into obvious danger, and she is badly injured shielding him. Three years pass with him gone, working out what actually happened, and when he has the truth he comes back to the place on the mountain where they first met.
One Night to ForeverYu Xi's father owes money he cannot repay, so she is married to Zhou Bingsen to settle it. He agreed to the marriage because his family pushed him into it, feels nothing for the woman on the certificate, and in two years the two of them have never actually seen each other's faces. Yu Xi works as an interior designer. Zhou Bingsen hires a firm to fit out a new house and the designer assigned to him is his own wife, which neither of them realizes. He spends weeks going over plans with her and falls for her. Yu Xi finds she likes him too and pulls back, because as far as she knows he is another woman's husband. The woman he thinks he married is Feng Lili, who took Yu Xi's identity and has been living as Mrs. Zhou on it. Yu Xi and Zhou Bingsen only get to the truth when Feng Lili's arrangement comes apart in front of them.
Written By StarsThe wedding was a day off when Wendy found out that Michael had never gotten over Xena, the first girl he loved. She had spent ten years chasing him.
She walked out of the house and went wandering the streets, and while she was out there she was robbed. Steven turned up. She had not seen him in years, and he stayed with her through it. She still meant to give Michael one more chance, and when she went to find him she saw him with Xena and saw that nothing between them had changed. She was drunk that night and she married Steven.
In the morning she wished she had not. Steven went on treating her as though the marriage were something he had wanted, with no conditions attached to it, and over time that wore her regret down. Later she saw the scars on his back. They came from a fire at her school years before, the one she had been carried out of, and she worked out that the man who carried her was Steven and that she had spent the years since then loving the wrong person.
Hooked Her Ex’s Forbidden BrotherSerena breaks up with her boyfriend. That night she goes to a bar and approaches a man she has never met. They spend the night together. She then learns that the man is Lucas, the younger cousin of the boyfriend she has just left. Lucas ranks first among the sons of the elite families of Kingsley and is the one person her ex has always been afraid of. Serena did not know any of this when she picked him out at the bar. Among those families Lucas is known for being cold and controlled.
I Proposed To My Fiancé’s BrotherOn the eve of her engagement, a wealthy heiress discovers a mysterious novel on her future brother-in-law’s computer, with her and him as the secret leads. Believing he has loved her all along, she boldly proposes after her fiancé’s scandal breaks. Their contract marriage begins with hilarious misunderstandings and unexpected romance, until the truth behind the novel is finally revealed.
My Hired Boyfriend Is A Secret CEOYasmine Jones tells people at work that her boyfriend is the head of the company. It is not true, and it does keep the harassment off her. Then she has to produce him, so she pays a man to turn up and play the part. The man she hires runs the company.
She had left home under the name Yara Shields to get out of a marriage her parents arranged for her when she was small. She went to another city and took a junior job where nobody knew her family.
He does not tell her who he is. He was sick often as a boy and other children went after him for it, and she was the one person who stayed near him until his family moved away. He has come back from abroad to look for her. She does not recognize him, takes him for help she paid for, and he keeps playing whatever she needs him to be.
Love Beyond SightClaire sets out to trap a rich man into marriage, and the man she picks is Ethan Lancaster, who has been in love with her since university without ever saying so. She does not recognize him. Back then he helped her again and again, but she was badly short-sighted and had no money for glasses, so she never saw his face clearly. He has since made a success in business.
Claire grew up in a family that only counted its sons. Her parents ignored her and used her when it suited them, and the one person who was warm to her was her grandmother. The grandmother is now ill, and the marriage scheme is Claire's way of paying for her care. Ethan knows exactly who Claire is. He plays along as the man being fooled and turns her plan back on her, so that she is the one who ends up caught, and once she is, he keeps her at his side.
Love, Lies, And LeverageElite lawyer Kylin Taylor walks into a cafe and finds her fiance Zane Walker attending tenderly to his mistress. She doesn't make a scene. That night, she slides a condom into a legal contract and hands it to Zane's closest friend, David Evans, Eryland's most talked-about playboy. "Hotel tonight? It's on me." What begins as cold, surgical revenge becomes something stranger: she uses David to deliver Zane a humiliation; David plays along with every sign of enjoying himself.But as the game deepens, he drops the act entirely and and starts betting everything he has on her instead of the thrill. Kylin realizes, with a jolt, that she never had control of this board to begin with. Someone laid these pieces into position ten years ago, and it wasn't her.
Wasteland SovereignMutant beasts took the world, and humanity has one War God, Kane, who does not tell anyone that it is him. He has been awarded the highest military decoration seventeen times and has put his girlfriend Sena's name on it each time instead of his own.
The seventeen honors carry Sena up through the ranks. On the day of her promotion she ends it with him, and what she calls him is a worthless nobody soldier.
Eve is the lord of a city. The government has arranged a marriage for her that she has no way to refuse outright, so she needs a husband on paper and asks Kane, knowing nothing about him. The elite around her humiliate him the way Sena did, and they are working against Eve at the same time. Kane has still not told anyone about the medals.
My Fake Wife Is A Genius DoctorHer adoptive mother's last wish was that she go back to the Gu family, so she goes, and she leaves her talents out of the introduction. As far as the household knows she is an unremarkable young woman with no particular use.
The adopted daughter starts on her immediately and keeps at it, and the family agrees out loud that she could not be trusted with anything important. She does not argue. She handles what comes at her quietly enough that nobody notices it being handled.
Then she saves the Huo family's grandfather, and Huo Yuan, who runs that family and has a reputation for not being sentimental about anyone, starts paying attention. What was supposed to be a broken engagement becomes a fake one. They circle each other, then work together. He puts shares in her name; she puts herself between him and things that could kill him. The arrangement holds until her real identity comes out, at which point both of them find out what they have actually been to each other.
I Swallowed My Ex's Mafia Daddy WholeArthur is the father of the man Lucas is dating, and he runs a mafia organization. Lucas is nineteen and studies medicine at Harvard.
His boyfriend drugs him and betrays him, and Lucas spends that night with a man he has never met. In the morning he learns who the man was. Arthur has no interest in treating it as a one-time thing. He fixes on Lucas and will not let him leave. When thugs corner Lucas, Arthur kills them and takes him back. Arthur has no plan to return him to his son.
My Last Wish: Find My Lost HusbandFour years ago the cellist married her bodyguard in a hurried ceremony, and they have been apart since. He is now a powerful businessman. She comes back to her home country with a small child and an illness that cannot be cured, and before she dies she has to find someone to raise the child. The husband from that ceremony is the one she goes looking for. Between them there are secrets, old pain and four years of distance to get through, and her time is running down as they do.
My Ex's Father Is My Fiancé!Lin Yishen's father was killed and he means to answer for it, so he works his way into the most powerful underworld family in the city. Things stop following his plan almost at once. Lu Zhuo, the head of the family, takes a personal interest in him and names him his own fiance. Lin Yishen decides this is usable and plays along, moving through the household with the standing that engagement gives him. Then the revenge closes around something he had not accounted for. Lu Shiyuan is back, and Lu Shiyuan is Lu Zhuo's son and the man Lin Yishen used to be with. The ex-boyfriend pursues him openly and hard and will not be discouraged, all while Lin Yishen is formally promised to his father and is inside the house to destroy it. Everything he came to do runs through people he is now tangled with, and the choice in front of him decides the rest of his life.
Broke Hubby?! He's Secret Rich!Tonia Hays agreed to a blind date so she would stop being a weight on her sister Lena, with whom she had lived since their parents died. The match was Yandel Zane, grandson of the Lady Zane whom Tonia had pulled out of trouble earlier without knowing who she was. At the meeting Yandel decided Tonia was after money, so he said nothing about being the richest man in the city and the head of the Zane Group, dressed and spoke as a poor man, and they registered the marriage the same day.
They lived together and it went better than either expected. He took her side loudly at a banquet and dealt with the relatives who had been using her. Then a misunderstanding sent them to a one-year marriage contract instead. During that year a rival for her and a rich man's daughter both got involved, and his real name nearly came out.
Top Star Fell for Her GuardTop actress Chloe hires a bodyguard with a sharp edge and a wilder past. What she doesn't know is that he's the missing heir of Harbor City's most powerful family, gone for five years. He thinks he's the hunter. She's been dreaming of him all along. But when the truth comes out, can either of them walk away?
Betray Me? I Came Back With My Ex!Betrayed by her fiancé at the engagement party, Jiang Nan enters into a marriage of convenience with her ex-boyfriend Fu Jinchuan to jointly fight for the family fortune against the schemes of her cousin Jiang Bei and the Huo family. Through battles over company shares, the murder of her father, and kidnapping crises, she recognizes Jinchuan's deep affection amid their intense push and pull. Ultimately, they expose the mastermind behind the scenes, inherit the Jiang Group, and find true love in each other.
Mission Romance: Six Cupids on a Sugar RushShe is raising six children on her own, sextuplets, six years old, and she has just been hired as assistant to the CEO of a large group. The job came through her eldest boy. He is the clever one, and he went looking for his father so that his mother would have less to carry, found him running the group, and talked him into bringing her in. The CEO knows about this one son. He offers her money to give up her rights as the boy's mother. She refuses, and fights to keep him from finding out about the other five.
Her family had gone bankrupt, the man she was marrying had left her at the wedding, and a hospital had told her she had cancer. She decided to enjoy what time she had and booked a male model for a night. Two months later she was told the diagnosis was wrong and that she was carrying sextuplets. The cleaner who is around her and the children every day is the CEO's grandmother in disguise, and she could tell him who the children are at any time.
The Playboy I Married Runs EverythingClarissa is in a novel and knows it. The part she has been given is the side character who exists to move the romance between the two leads along, and who is used up doing it. Her parents have arranged a match for her with a wealthy family. She agrees at once, then passes over the male lead, whose future in the book is secure, and picks Leonard, the family's known playboy, instead.
Her reason is that the marriage will change how her parents see her and get the family fortune back into her hands. Leonard turns out to be someone other than the wastrel everyone takes him for, and she ends up looked after by the man who actually holds the power in that house.
Lies in Love, Truths in HatredZhou Wanqing is married to Gu Qingzhou, who grew up alongside her and proposed at the point when she had nothing left. The marriage was put together to get Su Yunyan out of prison. Su Yunyan had been her closest friend up until the morning of the wedding, when she hit Zhou Wanqing's mother with a car and killed her, and the man Zhou Wanqing was to marry that day turned around and walked out on her. She took Gu Qingzhou's offer for shelter. She sets about establishing what the wedding day had really been and making Su Yunyan answer for her mother.
Moan for Me! My Ex 's Alpha DadKelly is an Omega carrying debts she cannot pay, and her wolf is dying. The condition can be held off by contact with a mate. Her mate is unfaithful, and she leaves him. She then meets Max, the strongest Alpha in the North, and finds that contact with him restores her the same way. She tries to seduce him. The attempt goes badly and ends with her hired as a tutor to his son. She teaches the boy and gets on with him, and Max, who kept his distance at first, comes round to her. Max's daughter then accuses Kelly of poisoning the boy. Max turns on her, and she has to answer the accusation herself.
Loving Me, Killing MeSebastian Cross told Selena Hazel he had an illness that would kill him and that the treatment was beyond anything he could pay for. The illness was invented. He was running a group company at the time, and the point of the story was to find out what Selena would do for a man with nothing.
Selena left school and took work. She was pregnant by then and kept that from him. Part of the money came from a place that paid for blood, where a used needle went into her arm and left her with HIV.
Another woman who wanted Sebastian got hold of the medical record and put it around that Selena had been sleeping with anyone. Sebastian believed it and cut her off. He learned afterwards that she had been selling blood for his sake and that the child was his. Her uncle arranged a marriage for her that she had no say in, and Sebastian pulled her out of it. When students at her school turned on her, he bought a controlling share in the school.
When Revenge Meets RomanceJulian Quinn never meant to fall for heiress Annie Sutton—getting close was just part of the plan. But when real feelings get tangled in the lies, everything falls apart. After the truth comes out, they fake an engagement: she puts on a cold front, he watches over her in secret. At their lavish party, enemies make their move. Now it’s all or nothing—can they trust a love that started with a lie?
Bride of Justice, Heart of SteelSu Wan works as a bodyguard for women in abusive households. She marries the lawyer Gu Yanchen after a short acquaintance and does not tell him what she does.
In his house she finds his mother covered in bruises and his young daughter frightened and silent. Gu Yanchen has been beating both of them. Su Wan acts weak in front of him and stays in the house collecting evidence.
She brings the case to court. His mother testifies. Gu Yanchen loses his license to practice, and the mother and the girl leave the household. He works out afterward who Su Wan is and what she did.
Out of Love, Into YouCheng Qingye has stopped sleeping. Her wedding to Lyu Xudong, who comes from a powerful family, is close, and she has found out that he is seeing someone else. Her mother is seriously ill, and she has been with Lyu for five years, so she keeps what she knows to herself and lies awake at night instead. She goes to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic for the insomnia and is treated by Yu Song. She is drawn to him and proposes that they spend one night together. Yu Song already knows who she is, though she has no idea of it. He uses the treatment as a reason to stay close, and gives her somewhere to put the anger she has been holding in.
Under his guidance she starts to push back. On the wedding day she stands up in front of the guests, lays out what Lyu Xudong has been doing, and calls the marriage off. Afterwards she and Yu Song grow closer, and it comes out that he is the heir to a wealthy family and that his mother and hers were old acquaintances.
The Seventh Winter Without YouMeng Sheng's father lived off his own children, squeezing what he could out of Meng Sheng and his sister. Xia Qin lost her father in her last year of high school, and her mother went cold on her. Meng Sheng was delivering packages then. The two of them got together and agreed they would move to the same city.
Rumors and both families came down on them. To get his father off Meng Sheng and his sister, Xia Qin sold her house and paid out 300,000, then went to the airport and let Meng Sheng believe she was leaving him for the money.
Seven years later they meet again on a snowy night. Meng Sheng has come up in business. Xia Qin works at a convenience store and is raising her son Tongtong on her own. He starts out wanting to pay her back for the airport and ends up trying to find out what actually happened. Zhou Yanran goes after Xia Qin, Tongtong loses his sight, and Meng Sheng puts himself at risk to keep them safe.
He Came From the SilenceNadia Wolfe spends ten secret years with her father’s subordinate Jack Mayer, but he refuses marriage when her family collapses and again chooses childhood friend Bree. Nadia answers without pleading, selecting mercenary Lucian Wyler and demanding the earliest wedding possible.
The Fired Flipped the ScriptJiang Lai lands a project worth several million for her company. Her boss favors his girlfriend, who works there too, and Jiang Lai is fired unfairly and then blacklisted across the industry. Wen Jingran, who runs the Wen Group, notices her and offers her a job. Once there she becomes the client that her old company has to answer to, which is an embarrassment for them.
Her old boss spreads stories about her, and some of the employees who have been at Wen a long time plot against her as well. She answers with documented evidence, clears the mess, and moves up on the strength of her work. Along the way she and Wen Jingran come to rely on each other and build a close working trust. Around the time she reaches the top of her career, things from her past start coming back up, and she faces a choice in her love life.
Who Falls FirstEvelyn and Nathan enter an arranged marriage, bound by a contract rather than love.
Cold and distant at first, they navigate family pressure, misunderstandings, and daily life side by side. Little by little, walls fall and hearts draw closer...
Seducing My Western DaddyBlake has been in love with Jaxson for a long time and cannot say so. He is forty-five, he owns the ranch, and he became her guardian at her father's death because he had promised his friend he would look after her. She is twenty. As her guardian he treats her as a child, which is the thing she is trying to change.
By day she teases him around the place, sweet about it, staying inside what a ward is allowed to do. At night she works as a dancer to pay off her brother's debts, and part of why she does it is that the dancing makes her look grown, which is how she wants him to see her.
A gang comes after the debt. Jaxson finds out about the night work while he is dealing with them. He uses what he has to clear the danger away from her, and the guardian line he had been holding does not survive the discovery. After that neither of them keeps to the arrangement they were put in.
She Didn't Know Our Daughter Was AliveCaleb, the older brother, died in the basement of Drake Group's CEO while working as a 'life secretary,' officially ruled a suicide. Theo doesn’t believe it. He fakes his identity to pass an interview and becomes the cold-blooded CEO Easton’s new contract secretary—serving coffee and handing files by day, taken to the basement for SM training by night. '31' is his safe word; saying that number stops everything. But the closer Theo gets to this dangerous man, the harder it is to tell fear from attraction: Easton knows he’s investigating secretly but has never exposed him, and even when Theo says the safe word, he always stops without hesitation. When Theo finally sneaks into the study and finds the 9.8 million cash mystery his brother left behind, the real culprit appears from the most unexpected place—Easton’s elegant childhood friend Julian, who is obsessively infatuated with Easton and systematically eliminates every secretary who’s ever gotten close. The dark room walls are plastered with hidden photos, glass jars filled with victims’ belongings. The roles of hunter and prey completely reverse, and that safe word becomes their final thread of trust.
Marry the Enemy, Hunt the MonsterKim Seol-ri is studying abroad when her parents die one after another in a run of incidents that are not accidents. The name that keeps coming up is Dracula, and nobody knows who that is. Her father's will leaves instructions that she marry Shen Houming, the childhood friend she grew up next to, a man who shows nothing on his face. She agrees to it. The marriage is how she announces that she intends to find the person responsible and put him in front of a court, and the wedding is where she says so. She digs, and the deeper she goes the less the arrangement looks like a contract to her.
I Woke Up in a Short Drama?The Hart family is poor, and Sophie's inner voice, which the whole household can suddenly hear, gives them a reason: Charlie was born with a rich fate and Jacob with a poor one, and the family has been treating the two the wrong way round. Overnight they reverse it. Charlie gets favors, gifts, and deference. Jacob gets beaten and insulted.
Sophie married into the Hart family as the scheming daughter-in-law, and before her thoughts became audible she could not get anyone to listen to her. Now the family hangs on them.
The money follows. Their mother becomes president of the chamber of commerce, their father a lottery tycoon, and the eldest son Ben rises in business. The Harts start treating Sophie as the family's lucky charm and dote on her.
Mistress? Please, I'm the BossLinda Zouch is married to Mark Latham. After the wedding she hands him full control of their company and almost never goes in herself. One day she goes to the office to see him, and Maria Gilford, his secretary, takes her for a mistress. Maria gets the rest of the staff to join in, and they bully and humiliate Linda, who takes it without answering back. When it comes out that Linda is pregnant, the treatment gets worse.
OMG! Triplets with the Cold Tycoon?From childhood she was kept as a supply of blood for her older brother and drawn on whenever he needed it. Her brother later sold her to a lender named Wang. The family owed the man money and she was handed over against it.
With nowhere left to go, she spent a night with a man who runs a company and has an allergy to women. He had kept away from women for years before that night. She was pregnant afterwards, with triplets, which almost never happens.
Am I Only His Hidden Wife?Lin Weiwei is the daughter of the Lin family and a working actress at the top of her profession, and she is married to Yan Jia, who controls more money than anyone else in Hong Kong City. Nobody knows about the marriage. Weiwei keeps to his side, protected, provided for, and rarely out of reach of his household, and for a long stretch she is content with that arrangement. What ends it is Jiang Xi coming back into the country. Jiang Xi was Yan Jia's first love, and she goes out of her way to be seen near him and to say things in Weiwei's hearing that are calculated to land. Yan Jia does not explain himself. He starts losing his composure at moments that have no other cause, going quiet, leaving rooms, and Weiwei fits those moments together with Jiang Xi's return and arrives at the obvious conclusion. She stops hoping the marriage can be repaired and gets as far as preparing the divorce. Then she finds out she is pregnant, and the decision she had already made has to be made again.
Ex-Wife? She's the Godfather.Evelyn Song has been a quiet wife for seven years when her husband's mistress turns up pregnant and tells her to make room. Evelyn puts the woman in her place on the spot. Her husband is angry about it and takes the mistress's side. Evelyn makes one phone call to the military headquarters, and the elite unit he has been so proud of is disbanded.
She ran the underworld of the city before the marriage and set that aside to help her husband rise. The organisation that backed him through those seven years was hers the whole time, and he did not know it. After the divorce she takes the Commander post he had been angling for, and the people he spent years courting take their orders from her. She also has a new lover by then.
Fake Fiancée, Real TroubleRyan Landon, a cold billionaire, fires his secretary Sofia after she confesses her love. But when a ruthless power struggle erupts inside his own family, he finds himself drawn to the very woman he rejected... Will he risk his empire for her?
Don't Use Me to Destroy My ManUnder the Li family's arrangement, a daughter's shares pass through her and can be taken by whoever brings her home. Lyra grew up in an orphanage and was collected at eighteen by her father, Li Zhengye, who put her in the house with her stepmother and her half-sister Livia. She wanted a family. He wanted the shares her dead mother had left her, and he wanted a blade to use against Rong Ce, the man who loved her.
In her first life she worked out what was happening only after Rong Ce had been ruined and stripped of everything, and she died. She wakes at the moment she was brought home. This time she means to protect Rong Ce and take back from her father's household what belongs to her. There is one more thing about her mother's death that she has not found out yet.
Driven Out, I Rule the Herbal EmpireTrapped in the freezing team shower, Elliot is pinned against the wall by the hockey team’s golden boy—his stepbrother, Gage. Just inches from their laughing teammates, the star player drops his mask, brutally claiming his stepbrother in the shadows.
Elliot thinks it is a momentary loss of control, until they move into an off-campus apartment and a terrifying truth surfaces. The locker room incident was no accident. Years of bitter hatred and bullying were nothing but a madman's perfect trap to cage him forever.
Mr. SurpriseWillow mistook drugged CEO Ethan for a "Mr. Surprise" gift, leading to a steamy night. Three years later, she finds Ethan is her fiancé’s brother. While Willow fights her burning desire to stay loyal, her fiancé’s altar betrayal changes everything. Broken and hollow, she finally surrenders to a forbidden obsession with Ethan.
Ugh! My Clingy Psycho Needs Cuddles AgainThe engagement between Julia and the eldest son of a rich family was arranged for business, and in the novel it ends with Julia used, thrown out, and dead on the street. Julia knows this because she has read the novel. She is a psychologist who woke up inside the book as the family's real daughter, the one they cast off and stripped of her property. She breaks the engagement in public to get off that road.
That is how she meets Christ, the second son, the man the novel writes as its villain. He was treated coldly from childhood and grew up starved of affection, and he has skin hunger, a craving for physical touch. He is dark and obsessive and has sworn to take everything his brother has. Julia has studied minds like his and is drawn to him. When Christ hears about the arranged marriage he comes back to the city and takes Julia from his brother. His purpose at the start is to hurt his brother. Her kindness starts to get through to him over the time they spend together.
The Heir's Forbidden ToyTrapped in a loveless marriage, Arthur gets revenge by surrendering to his dangerous stepson, Ryan. But when a blackmailer traps them, Ryan tries to force Arthur into murder to bind them forever in blood. Breaking free from the madness, Arthur steals the millions and flees, leaving his obsessed stepson drowning in desire.
Divorced? The Billionaire Family Wants Me!At a prenatal checkup Stella Morgan learns that the twins she is carrying are not Gene Shaw's. She has been married to him for three years, and he has been cold to her the whole time. She feels guilty enough to want to tell him, but before she can she catches him with another woman and learns he has a son who is already three years old. His family insults her on top of it. She files for divorce and decides to raise the children by herself. Soren Lee, a CEO with a cold front, has been protecting her without her knowing, and his mother, Marianne Jiang, dotes on her and wants her as a daughter-in-law. Gene's family sits back expecting to watch her go under.
That's My CEO Husband!She sacrificed her future for her ex, then he dumped her at the courthouse. She jokingly proposed to a delivery man. He turned out to be a billionaire CEO. She rises, he supports her, and when the truth comes out, the man who threw her away is left with nothing but regret.
Rich Guys? I Want That Delivery Guy!The bankruptcy is staged. A businessman hires an actor to stand in as his ruined self, tells his daughter the family is finished, and sends her to ask each of her three suitors for help while he watches the cameras.
One is the son of a rich family. He humiliates her in front of everyone standing there. An investor she knows counts out cash and hands it to her without any interest in what has happened. The last of the three delivers food for a living, and he leaves the run he is on and goes to her.
She went through all of it believing the money was gone, and none of it was. Her father has the footage of what each man did.
Baby From A Man Who Was Almost DeadSu Wan is an orphan with no money and school fees to pay, so she applies for a caregiving job. What the Gu family actually wants is a bride to break a run of bad luck for their heir, Gu Yanchen, who has been in a coma. She is married to him and put in his bed.
Gu Yanchen wakes that night. Su Wan leaves. A month later she finds out she is pregnant, and when he learns of it he proposes a marriage contract, secret, for one year, for the child's sake. He is cold with her at the start and does not trust her. Living in the same house, that changes, and he becomes protective of her.
The Cheng family has a daughter they believe is theirs. She is not. The scheming behind that is brought into the open, and Su Wan turns out to be the daughter the Chengs spent years looking for. In front of a crowd, Gu Yanchen tears up the secret marriage contract and asks Su Wan to marry him again.
Oops, My System Steals Everything!Vivian Lawson has lived for twenty years as the daughter of the richest family in the city. The daughter actually born to that family is Julia Miller, swapped out as a newborn. The swap costs Julia her name, her inheritance and, in the end, her life. Vivian and Julia's own boyfriend kill her together, and she learns the truth about her birth only as she is dying.
She comes back to life with something called the Stealing System bound to her. Its first act is to move every coin in Vivian's accounts into Julia's. Further powers open up after that, the theft of luck and of people, and Julia uses each as it arrives. Vivian tries to get at her at an auction house, and Julia takes more from her there. The next attempt is at a hotel.