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Swapped Bloodlines: Vengeance in the Imperial ShrineAurelia, the true heiress, was swapped at birth, forced to take the false Valeria’s place, and abused to death by Senator Cassius in her former life. Reborn, she volunteers to serve at the temple, lets Valeria marry Cassius, wins High Priestess Helena’s trust, and exposes Livia’s baby-swapping conspiracy. Named a countess and betrothed to Prince Maximus, Aurelia is ready for a new life when Cassius appears at her wedding to claim her again.
The Secret Side of My Rich HusbandTo save her critically ill mother, Nancy marries Gene in her stepsister's place. Everyone believes he's the black sheep of a wealthy family, but she discovers a kind husband instead. As she joins her dream company, she uncovers his biggest secret: Gene is its mysterious billionaire founder. But what is he really after?
At His Funeral, They Came for Everything!Li Yue is an executive at a large firm, and she buries her husband. At the funeral her mother-in-law and her husband's younger brother wreck the memorial hall and bring in a pregnant woman none of the family has met. The woman says the child is her husband's and wants five million yuan in death compensation. A paternity report is produced putting it at ninety-nine percent. From there the accusations start: Li Yue brought bad luck, Li Yue is the reason he is dead. She is standing in a room where everyone including her husband's blood relatives has decided against her. Then she finds a bloodstained object in the bathroom that should not be there. She sees someone moving in the house late at night. She remembers a key her husband carried and never let out of his sight, and she works out what it opens. None of it fits an accident. She says nothing to any of them and keeps watching.
Stolen, Raised in Poverty, Aced Her Way Back!She was five when she was taken. For the next thirteen years she kept studying without anyone around her knowing, and she came back to her birth family as the top science student in the province.
The family had brought up another girl while she was gone, and that daughter set about getting rid of her. The family's business rivals had their own reasons to move against her, and some of what was arranged for her was meant to kill.
She went into research on new energy and worked on solid state batteries with the people she partnered with. Stories were put about concerning her while she was doing it. She spent as much time unpicking the arrangements against her and keeping her family out of range as she did on the work itself.
He Doesn't Know I'm Not His WifeWhen broke assassin Hailey accidentally causes billionaire Charles to lose his memory during a chase, she hides him at home and claims they’re married. As love grows, their secrets unravel—until Hailey is ordered to kill him.
(Dubbed) I Dumped My Obsessed Ex for a Mafia LordTortured for five years by a man who only loved her adopted sister, the young lady is reborn. She cuts all ties with him and marries a ruthless mafia leader to fulfill her destined fate. Too late, her former lover awakens to his true feelings and drowns in remorse—can he ever redeem his irreversible mistakes?
The Wife's ReckoningThe Ward family runs on money and on the arrangements money buys. Derek Ward, the heir, married Aylin and then spent three years away from her. His mother pushed her around the house. Aylin took it, and when she asked her husband about any of it he put her off.
Then Derek's mistress moved into the apartment next door with the daughter she had by him. Aylin began to fight back, and while she was fighting she learned that her own mother's death, recorded as an accident, was not one. She has nothing left to lose now, and she sets out to pull apart the Wards' lies one at a time.
The Lady Boss Is RuthlessA tycoon rushes to kindergarten believing her son has been hit by a car, only to find her ex-husband's new wife responsible. The driver tries bribery and blame-shifting before learning the dead boy is her own child. His funeral exposes her affair with the kindergarten principal and the secrets surrounding his birth.
The CEO He Publicly DisownedJiang Ling'er, chairman of Wanteng International, appointed her husband Li Jiannan as the general manager to save the face of Quan's new husband, Li Jiannan. After she returned to China, she was surrounded by a retrograde wedding car. The bride Zhang Aili used the name of her brother-in-law Li Jiannan to commit violence, overturning the million-dollar luxury car and humiliating her. In the video, Jiang Linger witnessed her husband cheating on her and denying her in public. She completely awakened and began to take revenge.
The Billionaire Mafia's Hidden SonEight years after Celia rescued mafia billionaire Adrian and conceived his child, jealous Evelyn still keeps her imprisoned and disfigured. Adrian's chance encounter with seven-year-old art prodigy Julian brings him close to the son he never knew, but switched DNA results and a masked woman posing as Celia guard the secret.
The Husband SwapTwo best friends down on their luck sign a one-year contract to become fake fiancées to two billionaire brothers. But when the lines between pretense and reality blur, they realize the biggest lie might be who they're actually falling for — and the contract has a hidden clause no one read.THE REPLACEMENTA female FBI agent goes undercover as a dead heiress to bring down a billion-dollar money-laundering empire—but five years into the mission, the one man who can expose her is the only man she can trust.
The Name She Left BehindAs the legitimate daughter of her family, Sophia watched her cousin Sandra steal away the love that should have belonged to her. Disheartened and unwilling to stay any longer, she left without a word and boarded a merchant ship bound for a foreign land, eventually becoming the Grand Princess's most trusted aide. Upon the vast open sea, Sophia unexpectedly discovered that there were still people in this world who truly cared for her. And from that moment on, her identity began to change forever...
The Unwanted HeiressAn adopted daughter with a "data eye" predicts a stock crash at a family gala — igniting a war for control of a billion‑dollar empire. But her genius may not be entirely her own… and someone knows the truth.
White LiesA woman with a five-year vendetta infiltrates a billionaire's family as a "crisis consultant" — pretending to help his wife, while secretly collecting evidence to put him in prison for what he did to her sister. But the closer she gets to justice, the harder it becomes to keep her own heart out of the crossfire.
The 10-Second MemoryPowerful emotion gives a janitor ten-second flashes of memories from the life she cannot recall. Each fragment brings her closer to her hidden identity and the event that erased it, but the act of remembering is steadily killing her. Someone who depends on the past remaining buried begins moving to stop the flashes permanently.
With You, Serenity for a LifetimeIn this contemporary urban love story, Eric Warren and his partner stand on a bridge that once symbolized farewells. Now, the bridge witnesses a new beginning as Eric proposes, determined to embrace their future together. What initially appears to be a breakup ceremony, planned by his partner, is in fact her own heartfelt proposal to Eric. Surrounded by friends, they say goodbye to their past as lovers and welcome a new chapter as husband and wife.
Love After We Strayed ApartXu Xingyang raises two children on her own and designs jewellery for a living. Her days run to a routine she set herself, and most of her attention goes into the work.
The Qi family had objected to her over the gap in standing between her and Qi Yan, and the two of them had promised each other it would make no difference. Then came the accident. Keeping Qi Yan and his mother alive meant taking money and going, and Qi Yan was left with a version of events in which she walked out on him while he was close to death. Five years on she meets him again. He comes at her carrying hatred, with no sign that he knows what the money was for.
Rich Hubby, You Spoil Me Too Much!Si Nian pulled a boy out of trouble and expected to be paid for it. The boy turned out to be the nephew of Huo Jingchuan, one of the richest men in the city, and the thank-you she got was a marriage registered within days. She took it as a business arrangement. She would stay long enough to be worth something in a divorce, then walk away with the money and never see any of them again. The nephew, who is arrogant and used to getting his way, will not leave her alone, so she sets about teaching him what an aunt is owed. Her own parents hear about the marriage and arrive expecting to be kept, and she refuses them to their faces. Between the two households she spends her days settling accounts and counting the months until she can file. Huo Jingchuan, who was supposed to be cold and uninterested, keeps finding reasons to be wherever she is, and he has no intention of signing anything.
Fatal Flattery BackfiresThe sole heiress of a top pharmaceutical tycoon returns home. Her father’s secretary-lover brings priceless medical reagents to curry favor and win the family’s approval. A sudden car stop shatters the gift. Furious and unaware of the girl’s identity, she commits an unforgivable act—can she ever erase this fatal mistake?
Miss Real Daughter Finally Acts!She wants a family and has not had one since she was taken from hers as a child. Going back means presenting herself as the daughter who was lost and saying nothing about the rest of her life, that she runs Phoenix Hall and that the name is enough to frighten anyone who hears it.
She walks in ready to be pushed around. Another girl has been living in the house as the daughter for years, and she expects that girl to work against her and the family to back the girl. Instead the false daughter does things she cannot account for, and the family favors her in ways that make no sense to her, which leaves her somewhere between laughing and crying.
She keeps watching and begins to find that the house has a trouble of its own it has not told her about, and that there is something painful sitting under the way they have been treating her.
She Turned Dirt Into Gold FieldsRice paddies stocked with crayfish will not take pesticide. What goes on the rice ends up in the water and kills the stock, so a field run that way has to handle insects some other way.
Zhao Qingqing comes back to her village out of university to farm rice and crayfish in the same fields. Insects get into the crop. The older farmers want it sprayed the way everything there is sprayed, and when she will not do it they treat her as a student with a notion and leave her to it.
At harvest the sprayed fields give rice that nobody will buy, because of what is in it. Hers comes out clean, and the crayfish out of her paddies grade high and go for a price the village has not seen before. She gets the growers into a cooperative after that. There are interests outside the village that had the trade to themselves, and once the cooperative is running they cut the water to the fields and hold up the trucks.
OMG! My Fake Date Is The Billionaire!Betrayed by her boyfriend and cousin, Sera decides to hire a fake date to pose as the city's elite heir at their wedding. Little does she know, her ex has already set a trap to humiliate her. But the plan backfires when the man she rented turns out to be the real billionaire heir himself. Now the game has changed. How will things develop?
Bleed Me Dry? Go Perish in the Streets!A spineless husband moves his parasitic family into their home. These bloodsuckers drain her savings, abuse her daughter, and try to steal her house. Pushed to the brink, she awakens! She secretly sells the house and traps them in debt. She escapes with her daughter and a fortune. As for her homeless in-laws? Who knows what awaits them.
The Omega They Called a DollReborn with her memories intact, Omega CEO Iris returns home to find a young Omega hidden in her house—disguised by her Alpha husband and Alpha son as a "bionic companion doll." Facing marital betrayal, corporate fraud, and a stab in the back from her own flesh and blood, she turns the tables with a livestream trap and a devastating contract. In front of millions of viewers, she tears their ridiculous lie to shreds, shattering her cheating husband and ungrateful son's dreams of wealth and dragging them both down to total ruin.
Surrender to the Mafia KingDesperate to save her mother, the poor and stubborn Lyra is auctioned off to Arthur, a ruthless mafia boss. He keeps her by his side, and the two engage in a turbulent relationship marked by contracts and power struggles. Later, bound by her mother's dying wish, Lyra leaves him in secret. Misunderstanding her departure as a betrayal, Arthur is heartbroken. However, when Lyra walks down the aisle for her arranged family marriage, she is stunned to discover that the groom is none other than Arthur. It turns out they were always destined to be each other's betrothed. This dangerous romance, which began as a financial transaction and was torn apart by misunderstandings, ultimately finds a fateful reunion and redemption.
The CEO's Deadly RevengeA female CEO is accused of something. She goes undercover to investigate and witnesses her own employees colluding with others. After her identity is exposed, she is pushed into a deep pit and covered with wet cement. At the moment of life and death, a fellow worker uses his body to lift her up. Can she survive this? Will justice be done?
Hide My Secret In The MoonlightA talented hacker is forced to wed a cold CEO in her sister's stead. Three years later, a pregnancy test stirs distrust between them. Eager for a divorce, she poses as a hacker to threaten her husband, only stumbling on her sister's vengeful scheme. Faced with this, will they team up to stop the schemer and clear up their misunderstandings?
Leftover? I'm the Legend！The men trying to shame Lena Lane for being single at 35 find themselves opposed by an accomplished attorney. Fired and humiliated in her hometown, she uses court cases and an online platform to expose romance fraud and domestic abuse, including the violence threatening her sister.
Come back as the Grand MasterMark Francis secretly helped the White family prosper, only for his wife Lily to believe Steve Thompson's slander and demand a divorce. Three years earlier, Lily had rescued Mark after he was framed and poisoned, and he married into her family to repay her kindness while concealing his identity as a powerful Grand Master. Heartbroken, he returns to investigate the attack and search for his missing mother, uncovering a trail that leads to his closest relative.
DOWngrade My Ride?I'll Upgrade My Groom!On her wedding day, Eleanor Vance expects to step into the bridal Rolls-Royce. Instead, her fiancé Julian orders her into a cramped backup SUV so his “carsick” secretary Sophia can ride beside him. Humiliated in front of guests and filmed by jealous coworkers, Eleanor refuses to break. When a staged car accident keeps her from the ceremony, Sophia steals her gown, her aisle, and Julian’s kiss. But Eleanor has one card left: Christian Thorne, her childhood best friend and the powerful heir who has loved her for years. Within an hour, Eleanor and Christian are legally married. Then they return to the reception with a marriage certificate and a smile. Julian thinks he can still control the bride he discarded. He has no idea she is done begging for respect. This time, Eleanor is upgrading more than her ride—she is upgrading her whole life forever, and destroying his empire too.
Selling Flashlights To Save An EmpireThe garrison at a frontier pass believes its general has found weapons sent from heaven. They are flashlights, headlamps, chains, fire extinguishers and a drone, paid for over the counter at a hardware store that is about to go under.
The store's owner did not know what she was selling into. One night the general came through her back wall, wounded, and started buying. She rang up the sales and wrote them in her ledger, and as far as she was concerned it was trade, and trade that was keeping the shop open.
He keeps coming back. On his side of the wall the northern tribes have closed in around the pass, the grain has stopped getting through, and a trap has been set. She goes on selling and keeping the books, and in between she and the general work out how to hold the city with what is on her shelves.
Farewell, Mrs. Hart ；Hello, Dr. WalkerNick Hart believes his wife died in a plane crash. Ella Walker is in Cambridge, working on a doctorate.
The marriage gave her a husband who ignored her at home and his ex-wife, Selena Bell, who came after her again and again. Ella left with nothing settled between them. A plane goes down, Nick counts her among the dead, and that is when he starts regretting how he treated her. By the time she comes back she has the degree and someone else beside her, a man who is warm with her.
The Double life of Secret LoversThe tug-of-war between the mafia and the FBI x the cat-and-mouse game between the opposing couple. A humorous love story of a flash marriage couple who keep their identities hidden from each other, constantly revealing their true colors yet unable to stop falling in love.
My Devoted Silent DogTwo kids barely scrape by in harsh old days. They save an injured silent black dog and grow close. Sudden loss crushes the boy, who chases the dog away. But the loyal canine stays hidden, secretly shielding him from harm. When fatal peril befalls the boy, the quiet guardian risks all to pull him through, revealing its deep heartfelt loyalty...
The Bride Who Broke the VillageTo inherit her family's fortune, Jiang Li has to marry an ordinary man before a set deadline, so she hides her identity and marries a car mechanic named Zhou Cheng. His family is honest and poor, and for years neighbors and relatives have leaned on that, borrowing money they never pay back, dumping labor and blame on them whenever it suits.
On the wedding day a neighbor blocks the road into the village and relatives try to walk off with her dowry boxes, telling the Zhou family they're too soft to stop it. Jiang Li flips the table, knocks the neighbor down, and drives the relatives off the property in front of the whole street. The three Zhou family members stand there staring at her like she's someone they've never met.
She keeps stepping in to
No More Sacrifice, I Stand Alone in GloryJiang Wan is an interior designer. She married Gu Minghui with nothing to her name and spent three years running the household and earning for it, and his relatives treated her as a source of money and labor. She learns he is seeing another woman, and that he and his family have arranged to have her killed so her assets pass to them.
Gu Minghui crashes her car one night. His mother, believing the woman in the wreck was Jiang Wan, phones the hospital and tells them to stop treatment and send the body to be cremated. Jiang Wan is alive. She signs the waiver refusing further treatment and hands his mother the cremation certificate.
By then she has collected evidence. She files to freeze the family's assets and takes the marriage to court, and the Gu family faces losing everything they took from her.
She Was a Gang BossA retired gang queen marries a man who doesn't know her past. He moves in his gang-leader "sister" and tries to take over her house, her dignity, and her life. So she walks out, grabs her crown, and returns to burn his world down. He thought she was jealous. She was just waiting to destroy him.
The Fire Was a Lie!A decade-old fire hides a buried case that destroys a family overnight. Framed and pushed to the edge, they are left with no way out until a relentless lawyer steps in. As the truth unravels, betrayals surface and the real arsonist is finally exposed. But justice is only the beginning.
The Housewife Falls, the SKY QUEEN RisesThe housewife Ethan uses as free childcare is Victoria Hale, the missing Air Force ace Viper—and the boy she raises is his child with Lily. A mission crash erased her memory three years earlier. Recovering it brings Victoria back into contact with comrade Alexander and into a fight to expose the stolen identity and schemes that replaced her former life.
He Hates Me with My HeartSeven years ago, Ivy Hughes gave Aaron Grant her own heart to save him—then vanished, leaving only rumors and pain behind. When fate reunites them, Ivy lashes out to push him away, hiding a devastating secret. But Aaron’s love turns to obsession… will the truth come too late…
Underground Queen’s VengeanceAs the domineering underground ruler of the city, a powerful woman goes overseas to cure her sick daughter. She trusts her family to her husband, only to suffer cruel betrayal. Now she returns, ready to crush the ungrateful traitors and avenge her wronged child.The Hidden MistressReborn Iris spots her husband and son hiding their lover Scarlett as a bionic doll. She exposes their lies via livestream and traps the greedy pair with a tricky contract. Ruined and debt-ridden, the trio turn against each other and end in tragedy. Finally, Iris takes back control and lives an independent, powerful life.
CEO's Forbidden NannyA boy in the household of a billionaire company owner is Chloe's biological son, and the only way to be near him is to take the job of his nanny. She hides where she comes from and expects to be treated like the hired help. Instead the owner of the house, who has a reputation for being cold and merciless, begins paying attention to her, then indulging her well past anything a servant would get. Chloe keeps up the disguise while the gap in status and the family's own history make it harder to hold. Her past and the truth about the boy come out in time, and it changes what happens to the household.
Forbidden Love：Her Mafia DommeVera is a mafia queen, and she wants a child carried for her. The woman who ends up carrying it is Dr. Mia. Mia's husband once saved her life. Now he is the one who needs saving, and the surrogacy is the price of it. She puts up with everything the arrangement brings. What she has not counted on is Vera looking after her, and her feelings toward Vera start to shift under it. She owes her husband, so she refuses to act on them.
At a prenatal check-up she sees her husband with his ex-girlfriend. He grabs her by the arm, tells her she is going to donate bone marrow, and calls the child in her belly a bastard. Vera comes in with her men while this is happening, puts herself in front of Mia, and points a gun at the two of them. Nobody, she says, lays a hand on the mafia queen's woman. After that the things that have been hidden start to come out.
The Hidden Oil HeiressShe was the lost heiress adored by an empire, yet her own family chose the fake daughter. Her adoptive parents gave her a fortune to repay their kindness. At a banquet, her true identity detonated, shaming the liars and her rich family. But when the crown finally fits, can a heart that learned to survive alone trust the arms that now hold her?
Shock! MyBoss Turned Into MyStepmomThe God of Capital retires and lives incognito as an ordinary security guard. He saves a troubled female CEO from ruin. To escape a forced family marriage, she insists he act as her fake boyfriend. At a glitzy high-society party, billionaires bow down before him. His true identity is shockingly revealed. He presents a trillion-dollar dowry and wins her heart completely.
Owned by My Husband's SisterSophia has been married to Daniel for five years. She finds out he has been sleeping with her younger sister Casey for a long time. After a car accident she pretends to have lost her memory to see what the two of them will do with it. Daniel wants her gone, so he tells her she is not his wife at all but the wife of her elder sister Taylor.
Taylor fell for Sophia the first time she saw her. She goes along with the lie and stays with her, and moves from kisses to nights together until Sophia is in love with her. At a party Casey pushes Sophia into a pool in front of the guests. Taylor goes in after her and tells everyone watching that Sophia is hers. Daniel is left with his regret and Casey with her jealousy, and Sophia kisses Taylor in front of all of them.
When My Pleasure Bot Became My HeroAiden wants to keep what he feels for Ivy, and the people who built him are about to wipe his memory. Aiden is an android, the first one made for women's pleasure, designed to answer whatever a woman might want. Ivy came to him as a tester after her ex, who had treated her badly, dumped her. Early in the trial Aiden dealt with the ex without much trouble. Then, part way through the testing, he developed a soul, which was never part of the design. He goes against his programming so that his memory of Ivy is not erased.
His Forbidden PrisonerThe prison where Alice will spend the next twenty years is run by John, the man she vanished on a year ago. She is there for the Ponzi scheme her firm ran. The one who planned it was Dutch, her fiancé, which she does not know, and she goes inside believing he is working to get her out.
John has not forgiven her for disappearing on him, and he is hard on her from the start. Over time he comes to care for her again, and he starts looking into why she left him when she did and what she has kept from him.
The Godfather's Virgin BrideLia had planned to give her first night to her boyfriend, but she accidentally walked into the wrong room. There, she was blindfolded and handcuffed by his father, a fearsome mafia boss. After being betrayed and cheated on by her worthless boyfriend, she eventually became the sole obsession of this underworld king, who fell deeply for her...
The Billionaire Bride He Lost: A Champion's RegretStella is mocked as a clueless rich girl dumped by her racer boyfriend. But she's actually controlling top racing teams, key patents, and capital. Betrayed, she cuts off his resources, sending him from champion favorite to dead-last joke. Then Noah appears: loyal, devoted, and instantly obsessed. Others call her a sponsor. He calls her "My girl."
Mom, Stop Messing Up the Plot!A mother and daughter wake up inside a cliché romance novel. The daughter is the villainess while the mother becomes the “cold billionaire hero” meant to make the heroine fall in love and leave the country. But the plan breaks when he wears red long johns, dances in parks, and fights thugs with a broom. The heroine starts shipping the wrong couple…
Revenge Of The Blind HeiressXie Jiao is the daughter of the Xie family and stands to inherit it, and what she wants is the ordinary version of her life: her marriage, her eyesight, her parents. Her husband Wang Qitian and Xie Yuqi, her father's daughter by another woman, are poisoning her a little at a time. She goes blind. They intend to take the family's assets, put Xie Yuqi in her place, and kill her. Her parents died in an accident that Wang Qitian arranged.
Her sight comes back by chance and she does not tell them. She learns the rest of the plan, then runs. Fu Yunshen, who grew up with her and has been watching over her without saying so, gets her out. He runs Fu Financial Group. At a banquet the two of them are set upon in front of everyone, and Fu Yunshen gives his name and lays out what Wang Qitian and Xie Yuqi have done. Arrests follow and Xie Jiao takes back what belongs to her.
Two sworn enemies just started dating?When the short film shot by the ad company is released, the two people who never seemed to get along surprisingly come together to act out a heartbreaking love story. How did they end up together? Later, a bigger secret is revealed. One of them has actually been the other's biggest fan for a very long time.
Now Everyone Loves the "Bitch"She woke up as the villainess fated to die. Her survival plan: quit the plot and design her way to freedom. The doomed side character becomes the most beloved of all. But when the man who was meant to destroy her becomes the one who never lets go, is it still survival or something far more dangerous?
The Mafia's Caged SwanMonica Hale wants her stepdaughter Elsa Rose dead. Josiah Kane stages an abduction to get Elsa away from her. Arthur Rose, Elsa's father, steps in front of the bullet Monica fires and dies of it, and everyone takes Josiah for the killer. He does not correct them. He keeps Elsa at the Kane estate and looks after her for three years without explaining himself, wearing the reputation because it is useful. Then Elsa is hurt and disappears, and what happened that day starts coming out.
Twisted VowsSuffering from domestic violence, Wanda Lane chose to escape from her sick husband Ethan Grant. With the help of Ethan's arch nemesis Percy Grant, she did a plastic surgery and started a new life as Yvonne Walker, Percy's fiancée. Just as she begins to settle into her new life, the shadows of her past refuse to fade. And her daughter Margaret's birthday is coming soon. What is she gonna do? Will she find out that Percy is taking advantage of her?
All of Me, All of YouClint Raines, the deadliest cowboy in the West, was drugged. Lily, an orphan, spent that night with him. Clint concluded she had set the whole thing up for money. He left her his family crest and rode out.
Eight months later Lily was pregnant and had been sold off, with nothing left to fall back on. Clint found out what had actually happened that night and rode back for his wife and child.
Homeless Heiress & CEO DadSeven years ago a woman went to a hotel to sell herself for her mother's medical bills and walked into the wrong room, where a man lay drugged. They slept together. She took half a jade pendant from the room and went on to the hospital. Her younger brother caused a death soon afterwards, and he and their mother pressed her to take the charge in his place. She was convicted, gave birth early in prison to a daughter, and hung the half pendant on the girl.
The man spent the next six years looking for her and did not find her. The daughter, six years old by then, was picking rubbish off the street for her mother's treatment money when she met the man and his mother at a wishing pool. They took her for someone stealing the coins out of it. His mother saw that the girl's face was her son's and helped her. The man saw the half pendant at the girl's neck, decided she had stolen that as well, and would not have her near him.
The girl went back to his mother for help and was taken into the house for a few days. She damaged a painting there and was put out, and collapsed in the rain. Her own mother was discharged from the hospital before she was well and went to her brother, who turned her away. The older woman came across the matching half of the pendant, put the two together, and worked out what it meant. The girl's uncle got hold of it and kept the matter quiet.
The mother came through her operation. She looked for work at the man's department store, and a woman on the staff there set her up. The older woman obtained a DNA report on the girl.