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Beyond the MaskAfter saving Kayce with her magic, Leanne is betrayed by her own sister, Kallie. Left amnesiac and incapacitated, Leanne is deceived into a marriage with Jared and wrongfully imprisoned in a mental institution. However, Kayce returns to find her, vowing to protect Leanne and help her reclaim everything she lost.
Goodbye, My Heartless WifeTo fulfill an old promise, a powerful cultivator hides his identity and becomes the Jenkins family's live-in son-in-law. For three years, he protects them from the shadows while they mock him as useless. When his duty ends, he walks away. Only then do they realize the nobody they scorned was their only shield.
Strangers in LoveThe God of Wall Street, Gu Yi, married in secret to repay his favor and was willing to be a "cook" for three years. However, his wife Ye Zhiwei tested him in the name of love and forced him to accept a "threesome". After he desperately signed the divorce agreement, his net worth in the trillions was revealed. Only then did Ye Zhiwei realize that when she was testing Gu Yi, Gu Yi was also testing her. She failed the test and her trillions of assets were destroyed in an instant.
My CEO Mom Married a Security GuardFive years ago someone set Samantha up. She was the young heiress of the Shen family, and the trap left her spending one night with Landon, a man who had just left the army, where he had been called the Ultimate Soldier. She had his daughter, Sabrina, and raised the girl on her own.
The Jiang family now means to marry Samantha to its heir. To get out of it she takes Sabrina and goes looking for the child's father, finds Landon, and the two of them marry in a hurry. He takes a job as a security guard at Shen Group and tells nobody there that he is the Dragon Lord. The company is short of money, the Jiang family is working against it, and behind the Jiangs stands the Blackstone Society. The Qin family, for its part, is mixed up in what happened to his sister. When Shen Group is in trouble the new guard steps in, and more of what he can do comes out each time, including a flying knife he is known for.
How Not to Get RichShattock wakes up in the Republican era as the eldest Su son, armed with a Richest Man System: the more he loses, the more rewards he earns. Determined to fail, he throws money into schools, factories, heavy industry, and infrastructure—only to see his losses turn into national success. Every scheme to lose ends up boosting the economy and winning public praise. Years later, with a thriving nation and prosperous people, everyone hails Shattock as a hero… except Shattock himself, who quietly sheds tears.
A History Professor Became EmperorA modern history professor transmigrates into Zachary, the timid puppet emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty. Facing internal control by Empress Dowager Wilhelmina and the invasion of the Great Jin, he utilizes modern knowledge and technology to rescue renowned general Felix, promote innovations like mechanized looms, steam engines, trains, and tanks, gradually seizing control of the economy and military. Through strategies of "holding the world hostage"—dumping low-priced goods, manipulating finance, and demonstrating military might—he subdues seven states, crushes the Empress Dowager’s plots, defeats the Great Jin and its allies, unifies the land, and achieves an enduring imperial legacy.
Help! A Fake Master Made ImmortalsAfter Lysandra transmigrated, she made a living as a fraud by making up random cultivation techniques. The "Ninefold Solar Art" she casually fabricated triggered a celestial vision, catapulting an ancient martial genius to a breakthrough on the spot! Her disciples revered her as a deity; the realm’s undefeated Celestial Emperor hailed her as an elder; even her chicken was worshipped as a phoenix.Lysandra: I’m just scamming people!Crowd: No, Your Holiness is enlightening all beings!
Just a Mechanic — Way Too PowerfulFormer racing legend Luther, now a low-key tech supervisor, is framed and ousted by his protégé Charlie. He accidentally joins Seraphina's company and helps her win a crucial race against his old firm, revealing her pregnancy afterwards. As rivals Wilma and Charlie continue their schemes, Luther stands by her, overcoming crises and finally winning her heart.
Low-Key on Earth, Strong Beyond AllJonathan masters the ninth level of the Dragon Elephant Art in mountain seclusion and reaches the Terrestrial Immortal Realm, yet a protective array leaves him convinced he is a martial arts failure. When Penelope arrives to cancel her sister's engagement, Jonathan accidentally kills the Lesser Grandmaster with the force of a fart—and revives her with a slap. Penelope realizes that the oblivious recluse possesses power beyond anything she can measure.
Sealed Heir Who Rose to Kill a KingEverard, the heir of the North Lord, was born with the features of an emperor, his birth marked by a cosmic anomaly. To avoid the royal family’s suspicion, his maternal grandfather Vince secretly poisoned him and sealed him with a golden needle, only to recover at noon eighteen years later. Eighteen years on, the North Lord Victor dies, and the South Lord, under imperial orders but driven by personal revenge, comes to strip the Ye family of their military power and humiliate them. At the crucial moment, Everard reclaims his power recovers at noon. He annihilates his enemies, and, refusing to be used and discarded by the emperor, raises an army, storms the palace, and ultimately ascends the throne.
She Hired an Immortal HusbandLeonard, a cultivator who hides in the mortal world to experience ordinary life, settles in Sea City and quietly runs the barely visited Dragon Martial Arts School. An exaggerated advertisement unexpectedly brings CEO Stephanie to his door, and he becomes her contract husband and personal bodyguard. Relying on his extraordinary abilities, Leonard thwarts corporate schemes, martial threats, and even undertakes a trip to the moon, gradually earning the genuine trust of Stephanie and her daughter Laura. As the Wang Family, the Zhang Family, and other forces close in, Leonard keeps a low profile while crushing every enemy that steps forward. In the end, he protects his family, reveals his true identity, and completes his cultivation path.
You Insulted the Wrong FatherDominic torments the rural man he assumes is an easy obstacle to stealing the Shen fortune. His target is actually Richard, top scientist and father of Dominic's billionaire fiancée Juliette; Richard quietly builds a case, then exposes the secretary's crimes at a family banquet and helps his daughter end the engagement before returning to the company as chief medical officer.
I Time-Traveled and Took Over Villains' ValleyAdelaide, a legendary doctor feared across both lawless and lawful circles, transmigrates to the past and marries Xavier, disguised as a common farmer and known as the Prince of Pacifier. She becomes the stepmother to three mischievous children and must navigate their rebellious antics while disciplining troublesome servants. To survive, Adelaide also befriends several notorious villains in Villains’ Valley. Xavier never expected that the seemingly delicate, helpless young woman before him would, in reality, be a mischievous mastermind more cunning and ruthless than any villain around.
My Boss Forced Me to Marry HerJonathan, the lord of the War Temple, is living under another name and waiting tables in a restaurant. His sister has been killed and he is looking into it. He has also built an AI of his own. The AI, on its own initiative, starts an online romance with Stephanie, the chief executive of a company. Stephanie finds out that Jonathan is the person behind it and makes him sign a marriage contract.
After the wedding he moves in and looks after Stephanie and her daughter as the stay-at-home parent. Over that period he shows what he can do as a hacker and in a fight. He pulls Stephanie's company out of a business crisis. The L9-level AI he builds draws attention worldwide. At the War Temple's bidding conference he breaks up a scheme by the Dark Alliance, an organisation based outside the country.
Later it comes out that the daughter is his own child, and that his sister's death is connected to the Dark Alliance. From then on he and Stephanie go after the Alliance together.
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.
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!
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.
The System: I Rent, Therefore I OwnLie about 10 apartments triggers a lease-to-own system, turning a poor man into a tycoon.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The Father No One ExpectedWang Shuning does not want her father at her engagement. She is about to be engaged to Yuan Dongsen, and Wang Changxuan makes his living collecting scrap, and she is afraid of how that will look. He comes anyway. Nobody at the party knows that the man who collects scrap holds the future of one of the families present in his hands.
When the Yuan family see him there they go out of their way to make things difficult for him. In the middle of this Yuan Lin lets slip that Yuan Dongsen has a mistress, Tian Ruoxi. Tian Ruoxi grew up in a rich household and looks down on both Wang Changxuan and his daughter.
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!
The Poor Mom's Get-Rich PlanSecretly the legendary Ganoderma Queen, Zosephine is humiliated at her grandson's banquet—until she reveals who she really is!
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.
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.
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.
Caged PhoenixBennett, a judge and innovator, dedicates his life to feeding the common folk and correcting two centuries of injustice through revolutionary technologies like the steam engine. Despite his contributions, he faces betrayal from his fiancée and persecution by the powerful Shen and Ye families during a time of political turmoil. Ultimately, Bennett uses his scientific methods to restore peace to the empire, exposing the truth and ensuring his enemies face retribution.
Life's Little WondersRenee, a culinary genius with unpolished presentation, joins Chef Shawn's five-star hotel as a dishwasher—soon stunning the CEO with her skills!
The Modern Noble's LeapIn the empire of Qian, the prime minister's son is known for spending his days on nothing but pleasure. Qin Feng, a researcher in the present day, has been pushed around at work by his superior Cui Niu. The two of them get into a fight and both end up in the past, Qin Feng in the body of the prime minister's son. Cui Niu puts his modern knowledge to work building advanced weapons and uses them to threaten the empress. That puts Qin Feng's family in danger. Qin Feng then finds out he can travel back to the modern world and returns whenever he needs to.
Eternal NightWhen an amnesiac Demon Lord falls for his mortal savior, their love is torn apart by a ruthless rival—until his powers return, and vengeance erupts in flames!
Oops, Turns out I am an immortal!The man selling snacks from a cart is James, the Food God of the celestial realm, sent down to the mortal world to serve out a term there. He does not know this about himself. A fox spirit comes to the cart and works it out from the food. What he throws together as scraps for dogs is Nine Cycle Golden Elixir, and the plain soup he ladles out for anyone who asks is made from celestial phoenix.
She says aloud what he is. James still cannot account for himself, and her interest in him keeps pulling him toward the middle of the immortals and their quarrels over power.
They Called Me the Useless PrinceLeonard is engaged, and the woman who says she is his fiancée is not happy about it. She accuses him of an affair with her cousin and asks to break the engagement, and he agrees. Leonard is a modern man who has landed in the past in the body of a highly placed heir, and people take him for someone called the Persimmon Prince and misread what he is doing there. When they meet again he is taunted and mocked as a clown. He picks a horse that cannot run, which brings on more mockery, and they tell him the animal could not keep up with a pig and that he will lose his manhood in the spring race, and advise him not to enter. He wins it using modern technology, and after that people stop treating him as a useless heir. He goes on to help the country through several crises, which changes the empress's view of him. Then the court splits over the Fusang navy. Some argue for making peace with Fusang for the country's sake, others push for Leonard's execution as a traitor. The Fusang fleet keeps coming closer while they argue.
Sky Court Chat GroupThe Sky Court King sealed away his own memory and his own power. His grandfather, the Patriarch of the Three Pure Ones, has run the Sky Court for him since then.
He forgot to turn off the tap in the back garden. The back garden is the Sky Court. He did not know that, and the water made trouble for his grandfather up there. He ran away from home afterwards. He followed the marriage contract he had been left with to the household named in it and asked for the girl he was promised to. The phone in his pocket was his grandfather's rather than his own. There is a Sky Court group chat on it.
Peerless in the MundaneA mild-mannered office worker awakens to his true power, as he's forced into a marriage with a deadly goddess to save the world, only to uncover that his "ordinary" life was the greatest lie of all!
Invincible Beyond MortalsThe Jiang family is one of the four great houses of the capital. Their daughter turns up at Lynnfell's door pregnant, asking him to marry her and take the child as his own.
Lynnfell watched a battle between immortals and demons when he was small and came away certain he had crossed into a world of cultivators. His grandfather threw him two cultivation manuals without making much of it. The aptitude was there, the training took, and it carried him past the level of the masters of the immortal path. He also has a marriage arrangement already in place, with Yuwen Siyue of the Yuwen family.
Switched a Nobody Stunned EveryoneLu Yan reaches eighteen believing his father, Lu Yushan, is the poorest man in their village. In reality, the billionaire has maintained the deception since his son's birth to give him a hard upbringing. When a reality program selects Lu Yan for a life swap with a wealthy city family, the show's apparent charity case is headed toward a revelation no one expects.
Genius or Fool? My Pretty Mentor KnowsMaximus, misled into thinking he’s talentless, must find a Pure Yin Sacred Body for dual cultivation, only to discover his master, Charlotte, is the one destined to save him.
Double Life CEO Chasing LoveAbandoned at the altar, Yvette selects handsome stranger Christopher from the crowd and marries him immediately. Her impulsive husband is secretly a billionaire CEO, but every attempt to tell her is derailed by an absurd accident that forces him deeper into his ordinary-man disguise. Pursuing Yvette through both identities turns the secret into a comic obstacle to a very real marriage.
Blind EscapeAfter seeing her father murdered by her uncle, she pretends to be blind, in a thrilling game where her intellect is her only weapon to survive.
My Invincible MasterFelix awakens the Invincible Domain System after his master's passing, and he has to improve his invisible domain to find his senior!
After Kicking Me Out, They Regret ItXandra, titled the Invincible God, led the Dragon Guards to the border, put down a rebellion there and started home. On the road back he was caught in an accident and lost his memory. From then on the family treated him as a simpleton.
Three years later his three older brothers were killed in battle. On the day of their funeral the three sisters-in-law moved to take the family property, and the grandfather died of anger over it. The sisters-in-law then put Xandra out of the house. His fiancée Yasmine went with him, took the insults that came with that, and looked after him for the years that followed. His memory came back. He then went after the people who had looked down on him during those years.
Celestial Village: The Chosen's ReturnQin Feng takes leave from his ordinary job to return home for Celestial Village's annual cultivation tournament, a claim his skeptical CEO Su Yuqing finds so absurd that she follows him to expose it. Her fiancé Hua Tiandu mistakes Qin for a romantic decoy and threatens the village from the confidence of his ancient martial clan. As mounting dangers force Qin to reveal the power of a once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigy, Su Yuqing must accept that the immortal world is real.
SupremeThen she divorces him. A humble farmer lives in peace with his wife, never knowing he's the most powerful being alive. A self-proclaimed warrior queen challenges him to a fight.
I'm the Legendary MasterA wealthy CEO offers two billion dollars to anyone who can save her dying father, then prepares his funeral when every expert fails. A young man arrives at the burial claiming the man can still be cured. The golden dragon he releases reveals that the supposed nobody commands both medicine and power beyond anything the assembled elite understand.
Flash Marriage with the CEO: I Stunned the WorldRebecca marries a security guard on a whim?! Not only does she get him a job, but she also gives him a $10K allowance every month?! Wait… is the CEO being kept?!
She Built Him, Then Took His EmpireTo fulfill a family marriage pact, Sylvaine secretly enters her fiancé Xavier's failing company. While appearing idle, she uses her family's influence to secure its IPO. Xavier, however, trusts his scheming assistant, Felice. Sylvaine publicly summons a bank president to deliver 3 million and gains support from a tech VP. Her departure crashes Song Group's stock, and she later exposes Felice's bribery scandal. Discovering the truth, Xavier disrupts Sylvaine's wedding but is exposed as hypocritical. Sylvaine ultimately acquires his company, purges it, and ascends as the true victor in business and love.
The Real Heiress Returns From the AsylumNova left the asylum perfectly obedient, only to find her "sister" was a better actress. Her brothers adored the fake and loathed her. Nova didn't mind. She played the recovered, rule-following girl perfectly. But inside, she had fully become the real lunatic.
No.1 on the Divine List*DUBBED* Betrayed and underestimated, a forgotten Shaolin disciple rises to unlock the Divine List's secrets and defend the world from those who seek its power!He Walked Into My Trap — WillinglyJosephine targets CEO Bradley through charm and a carefully planned trap. Once confined by the Song family and dismissed as mad, she returns seeking revenge against a man connected to her mother's death.
Stop Digging—I Really Am a Rich Kid!Cameron joins a dating show pretending to be rich, gets exposed as a fraud — only for the truth to flip when his real wealthy background is revealed.