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Reset: Game of AbductionReborn after being killed protecting her sister from a trafficker, Savannah uses her knowledge to build a billion-dollar empire!
Reborn to Find I Am the Mogul's Lost LoveSerena Miller had just handed her company over to Ethan Moore — and the moment he got it, he tried to run her down with a car so he could marry Carol. Ethan was the son of the Miller family's servant. Serena loved him, pitied his poor background, and treated him like family. He enjoyed everything she gave him — but for his own desires, he killed her mother, drained her of everything, and then ran her over with a car… Only on her deathbed did she learn that William Dupont, the man she had rejected as an arranged marriage match, had loved her all along. Reborn, Serena decides to cherish William and make Ethan pay for every drop of blood. She plays along with Ethan's act, letting him walk step by step toward his own destruction — without ever realizing it…
Secret Love with My Billionaire Revenge PartnerEvelyn, who had been severely hurt by her scumbag biological father and vicious stepmother, was saved by Francis, who had secretly loved her for years. Evelyn had plastic surgery and changed her identity. She carried out her revenge plan as Francis' sister. Even though Evelyn was focused on revenge, she couldn't help falling in love with Francis. After going through many hardships, Evelyn and Francis finally got married.
Love Me Not: A Second Chance at JusticeOn Tim’s birthday, Tim orchestrates a fatal car accident, leaving Frank’s body abandoned. Adopted by the Lear family, Frank Dunn grows up in a loving home, marries his college sweetheart, and starts a family. Yet everything changes when his adoptive parents reunite with their biological son, Tim Lear.
When the Stars Faded, She Found HerselfWinona wants her marriage to work. She married for love, has given it eight years, had her husband's children and used her own connections to get him established in business. Then she walks in on him with another woman. Her son, too, has begun to treat her coldly. She files for divorce. A man who stands by her through it helps her find her footing again. Her ex-husband only learns afterward who she really is, and he sets about trying to win her back.
The Chess Goddess Won't Back DownGo champion Michelle is assassinated during a match against an eighteen-nation alliance and awakens in the body of young chess servant Christine. With her new family scheming for her property and her injured brother unable to withstand their pressure, she enters the national selection herself, fighting her way back toward the world championship and a rematch for her country's honor.
A Boyfriend on Loan, A Real Love on WayTo appease his family's pressure to marry, Felix Lloyd plans to rent a girlfriend for the festive season. However, a mix-up at the airport lands the wrong woman—Kendal Scott—in his car. Surprisingly, they get along well, and Kendal agrees to go along with the act. At first, she suspects nothing when greeted by Felix’s family, who appear to be simple farmers. But when his grandmother gifts her an expensive bangle, his mother presents her with a lavish gift, and the dining table overflows with luxurious dishes, Kendal begins to question whether the Lloyds are truly just an ordinary farming family.
Marrying My Ex's BossOrphaned Sylvia gives up her dream of jewelry design to pay for her sick sister’s surgery. Framed for cheating with CEO Leo by her boyfriend Alan and his enemies, Leo is forced into a fake marriage with her to protect his company’s reputation. Yet as they grow close, he discovers her talent and kind heart. When the truth is exposed, Sylvia leaves—but Leo gives up his throne to win her back. Together they defeat the conspirators, and when the contract ends, Leo proposes with true love.
Betrayed by My Wife, Nowhere to BelongSimeon married into the General's mansion in place of his younger brother, but his wife Yasmine took the Purple Rhinoceros Pill for her true love, turning him into a laughingstock. Simeon endured in silence, only to be cruelly poisoned by Yasmine—and his child was killed. In the end, the Empress revealed his true identity, punished Yasmine severely, and Simeon's fate was completely reversed.
My Vampire BodyguardVampire King Kyle was betrayed by his fiancée and his own brother, and ended up stranded in the human world — where he was saved by Alaina, a fallen heiress. To hide his identity, Kyle became Alaina's bodyguard. On the surface, he protected her safety; behind the scenes, he helped her rise step by step and reclaim her family's fortune. Kyle was deeply drawn to Alaina's blood. By her side, he constantly had to suppress his craving for it — and he began to suspect that Alaina might be his fated mate…
I Am Bro, Escort, or Boyfriend?Ryan needs money for his sister's cancer treatment and has none. He takes work as a paid companion to wealthy women. One job is with Catherine's family. The other is Raina, a CEO with insomnia who cannot sleep unless he is there. Both women order him about and walk over him without a thought for what he does for them. He keeps at the work anyway.
Over time he grows closer to both of them, and what began as a way to pay a hospital bill carries him upward in their business world. He tracks down David, a hit-and-run driver, and sees him charged. David kidnaps Catherine and Raina in return. The two women are found and brought out.
Swapped My Spirit Beast, Now She RegretsSerena dies at her coronation after her sister Ruby conspires with Felix, the spirit who should have served her. Reborn at the earlier spirit-selection rite, she finds that both traitors remember their past life and intend to saddle her with Ruby's supposedly weak familiar. Serena accepts Lance, nurtures his hidden potential until he takes human form, and fights her way back toward the throne stolen from her.
When the Son-in-Law Strikes BackFinn is taking his father to the city for treatment when he pulls an old man out of the water. He does not know the man is the richest person in Harborhaven. The old man has the whole city searched for whoever saved him, and when the two meet again he is so taken with Finn's character that he decides he wants Finn as his heir. Finn knows nothing about this.
Finn needs money for his father's treatment, so he agrees to marry into the Spencer family as a live-in son-in-law. The Spencers set the marriage up so that he would take responsibility for something he had no part in, and once he is in the house they treat him with contempt. They also mistreat his sick father in secret, and the father dies. At the funeral the Spencers insult Finn in front of the mourners. The old man he saved cannot stand watching it and steps in to help Finn deal with the family.
The Spencers hold this against Finn and turn on his family's ancestral home, and after that comes one scheme after another. Finn sees what the family is and starts to push back, and as he does he shows the old man what he is capable of.
Back in Time: Pampered by My Seven SistersBrilliant scientist Hayden Nash is betrayed and murdered by his best friend, only to be reincarnated as Chandler Nash, the "fool" of the Nash family in the Empire of Celestia. When political intrigue leads to the execution of his family, Chandler, armed with a powerful secret—space manipulation—must protect his seven sisters-in-law while plotting a daring revenge. With a hidden strength and unyielding determination, he sets the stage for a thrilling journey of power, betrayal, and justice.
Married the Emperor, Seduced the PrinceSamantha's mother is seriously ill and Samantha has no way of getting her treated. She was born in the Chancellor's household to a concubine, which counts for very little inside it. To save her mother she is sent into the palace as a wife of the aging Wanli Emperor.
The emperor is at the end of his life and the inner palace is a cold place. Samantha works out what becomes of the women around a dying emperor once he is gone, and she decides not to sit and wait for it. She keeps her own sharpness out of sight and moves one step at a time, getting close to the Crown Prince and earning his regard with her wits and her nerve. Other women in the harem are after the same thing, and she spends her days working around them.
Oh! The Heiress Proposed to MeThe man, from an ultra-wealthy family, falls for an ordinary woman and saves her in an accident, leaving him injured. His mother cures him but convinces him to fake paralysis to test the woman’s loyalty. Before the wedding, he discovers her betrayal with his friend and plans to expose them at the ceremony.
Kid from the FutureAugustine's relatives want the old family house and the company that goes with it, and the Su family is set on getting even. Stephanie walks into his arranged wedding carrying an ancestral tablet and stops the ceremony. Then a small boy nobody recognises turns up and calls the two of them his parents. He has come back from a later time.
To keep the house and the company out of the relatives' hands, Stephanie and Augustine agree to a marriage on paper and hold to it in public. Business traps are laid for them and someone inside the family sells them out. The boy clears up the misunderstandings between them and helps them work out who is behind what. At a banquet held for an elder's birthday, ten million in gift money goes missing, and the search for it brings up a part of the past that had been kept shut.
My Shining Life at 40There are mountain villages where a wife can be bought, brought in from the city by traffickers.
Liang Jingqiu was one of them. She grew up in a city and was eighteen when she was trafficked into the mountains and married to Song Wenwu. He kept her under his control for more than twenty years. He hit her and insulted her, and their son, Song Yuanhang, grew up without understanding what his mother was living through. Then Song Wenwu put her out of the house.
Outside it she met a director named Jiang Qiqi, who asked her to act, and cast her as a mother in a drama. When it aired Liang Jingqiu became known across the country almost overnight, and people started calling her the nation's mother. She got back a sense that her life was worth something. Song Wenwu by then had a mistress. Liang Jingqiu stood up to the two of them and decided on a divorce.
Song Yuanhang, once his mother was gone from the house, began to work out how she had lived all those years. He felt guilty about his part in it and started standing up for her. Through the acting work Liang Jingqiu also found her birth father.
Rewind to LoveTheodore spent his whole married life believing the wrong thing about who in that house cared for him. It was his wife's younger sister, and he was kept from knowing it. His wife and his mother-in-law put him out of the house at the end of a working life, and only when he was dying did he learn the truth, along with the fact that the sister had died because of him.
Then he opened his eyes in the early 1980s, on the morning of his first wedding. He was on his way to collect the woman he had married, and none of what he remembered had happened yet.
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.
I'll Make My Abusive Husband PayBrutal Xander beats his wife Lysandra to spleen bleeding, but god gives Lysandra a second chance to make the scumbag bear the due guilt!
Olympic Soccer the Reborn ChampionWinston played for the Yellow Horse Club and he was their star. He asked about a move to the Xiadom national side, and for that the club had him killed.
He wakes up alive again. This time he turns the Yellow Horse Club's invitation down and shows up at the Xiadom trials for the Olympic squad instead. The national team put obstacles in front of him and work against him behind his back, and he makes the squad anyway on ability nobody there can match. He goes to the Olympics for Xiadom and beats the sides put in front of him.
I Became an Olympic Swimming ChampionZephyra wanted to swim at the Olympics from the time she was small, and her family had no money for it. Her grandmother stood behind her, so she kept going. Her persistence got the attention of Xander, the national team coach, who brought her into the Summerian squad.
Inside the team she was pushed to the edges and passed over, and no race came to her. She held on. At the final selection meet she got her swim, with her grandmother and her coach and her country behind it, and what she did in the water showed what Summerian women's swimming was. Winning the title set other things off, and she has to go back to her home village, where a trial is waiting for her.
The Silent TranscriptEleanor watches her sister steal her university admission letter and quietly reports the fraud to the education authorities. She has returned to the day her future was taken: in her first life, her parents sold her into an abusive marriage to fund the sister who used her place at university.
Shadows of a Stolen FutureInjured by foster brother, Ryan Han lost his place at the university. Now he seeks justice and redemption with the help of honest allies!
The Road BackBelieving his hometown funded his education, Carlos returns to give back but faces scorn! When he learns the truth, he takes back everything!
From Security Guard to Royal BloodlineThe empress of Great Xia takes an interest in Myles at the point when the rest of the court has decided he is a fraud. He has turned up as the son of the Wandering King. He was a security guard in the present day until a jade pendant handed down through his family carried him back.
The pendant makes objects real. He uses it, and what he knows from his own century, to get out of a trap laid for him on arrival and to get through the trials the court sets him. The empress is impressed enough to take his side. One faction wants him put to death, another proposes a political marriage instead. He takes back land the empire had lost. An enemy fleet is approaching by sea while the court is still arguing about him.
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!
Divine ReckoningA simpleton saved by a rich heiress, married to her for five quiet years. When her family falls, she's forced to wed another man for power. He tries to stop her—gets beaten nearly to death. His broken pendant unlocks a lost memory: he is the Saintly Lord. Days later, he storms her wedding.
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.
Sword of SolitudeUpon his triumphant return, Ye Xuan, the heir of the Ye family, is stripped of his position by Ye Lang and the family elders! Fury, he makes to dominate his era!
Destined PathsSarah had a newborn daughter, and on the night before the lunar New Year she picked the baby up and ran to her parents' house to get away from a husband who beat her. Her husband's family came after her there. They beat her until she could not get up, and they took the baby away with them.
Inside, the house filled up for the new year while Sarah was left outside in the snow. What she said to herself before the bells was that if there was another life she would not go quietly to the slaughter a second time. The bells rang and she lost consciousness. She opened her eyes five years in the past.
Start a New Life from a Negative PastHousewife by day, powerhouse investor by trade. Aria's husband betrays her without a hint of regret—too bad he has no idea who he's messing with! Now, it's her turn to make him pay!
Cash, Chaos, and a Temporary GodA New Year QR-code prize makes deliveryman Jace Allen the God of Wealth for one day. He hands his girlfriend's skeptical relatives scratch cards that fulfill their wishes, and the joke becomes impossible to dismiss when even the children win ten thousand dollars.
Goodbye, My 7-Year LoveHudson gave up his dream of being an astronaut for his wife Sophia, but now he discovers Sophia's affairs...
I'll Steal You BackDaniel is sick and Emily cannot pay for his treatment, so she marries James, who has money, and takes it. She tells Daniel she left him because she wanted a better life, and she lets him go on believing that.
Three years later Daniel comes back with a fortune of his own. He gets close to Emily on purpose and works on James until James assigns her to him as his personal assistant. From there he pushes it into an affair, and Emily, still married, goes along with it against everything she has told herself she stands for.
Scorched Heir AscendantXiao Yuan came back to the Xiao family as the son who had made good. Xiao Li, the second son, went to call on the other great houses and was frozen out. Xiao Yuan then used Xiao Li's mother as leverage to make him marry into the Li family as a live-in husband, and crippled him.
Li Qiao'er found him out in heavy rain and took him in. She taught him a line of medicine that had been kept forbidden and the alchemy that went with it, and his body came back. The families set the wedding to Li Qiao'er as one more humiliation for him. At the ceremony he used what he had learned, and the betrayals the noble houses had kept quiet for years were laid out in front of the guests.
Divine SupremacyQin was the ruling lord of the God King Temple. His subordinate Chu Wuji turned on him and left him badly wounded. Xia Zhiqing, the second daughter of the Xia family, found him and brought him back to the family house. Her elder sister Xia Zhimeng told the household that she was the one who had brought him in, and married him. He lived in the Xia house as her husband.
A year later he had still not recovered. Four killers working for Chu Wuji located him. During the fighting a missile was fired at Jiangdong. Qin stopped it, and he was badly wounded a second time.
Vengeance of the Tech-Powered Crown PrinceThe third prince and Selene took the credit for the work Alexander had done at court and then had him killed for it. Alexander had come from the modern world into Great Zhou and woken up in the body of its crown prince, and he had been using what he knew of later centuries to pull the country out of the state it was in.
He woke again on the night before the coup. The piece of jade he carried turned out to be able to call up modern technology, which he had not known about the first time round. He took the direct route after that, going at his enemies with force and leaving them no room. A crisis on the barbarian frontier came up in the middle of it and he dealt with that without much difficulty. Then something went wrong back at the palace and he returned for it.
Back to the 80s: My Supermarket SpaceModern college student Clara Jenkins is working overtime at her supermarket job when she is suddenly transported into the period drama she has been binge watching. She now inhabits the body of the short lived and simple minded wife of a high ranking officer. To her surprise, she gains a special power that allows her to access her supermarket from the past. She also becomes the caretaker of two adorable and kind children.
Faced with sarcastic toxic relatives and a cunning rival woman who has designs on her husband, Clara does not hold back. She confronts them head on. Her boldness unexpectedly catches the attention of her handsome husband, Marcus Lawson.
As time goes by, Clara actively pursues Marcus. When her rival tries to win him over with homecooked meals, Clara uses her spatial ability to bring out even more delicious food, publicly embarrassing the other woman and impressing Marcus further. However, the rival spitefully accuses Clara of obtaining the goods from a former lover.
Although Clara is left to deal with the false accusations meant for the original owner, Marcus surprisingly stands up for her despite the circumstances. She finds herself deeply moved by his support.
To build a better life, Clara secretly sells ready made crayfish from her supermarket space, using a crayfish infestation as her cover story. She earns a fortune in this era. Her jealous relatives and rival report her, but at the critical moment Clara stores all evidence in her space, humiliating them
Taming a Fussy Billionaire: My Chef BrideAbandoned by her family, the heroine grew up mastering cuisine under a legendary chef. When she descended the mountain, she met the hero—an anorexic man searching for her master, who turned out to be her arranged husband. After finally tasting her cooking, he was cured. Despite interference from his first love, she returned to save his culinary career. Together, they found their way to love.
My Ex-Con Bodyguard Is My WifeDischarged from prison, Charlotte, a woman with unusual strength, applies for a job as a bodyguard in her one night lover CEO's company and uncovers unjustice!
The Housewife's CounterattackA housewife after marriage, she diligently served her husband’s family. However, when her mother fell ill and needed money, her husband’s family refused to contribute, and she discovered her husband’s infidelity, being the last to know in the family, who treated her like a free maid. When her husband brought his mistress home, she decided to divorce and reclaim what was hers. She intended to leave with her daughter and start a new life.
Reborn to Revenge My Evil Foster DaughterMorgana raised an adopted daughter and favored her over her biological daughter, whom she drove out of the house. The adopted daughter later took Morgana's fortune of a hundred billion, leaving her with nothing. Morgana was left to starve.
She is then reborn into her earlier life. She sets out to make the adopted daughter answer for what she took, and to make up for what she did to her own daughter.
The Homeless Sponsor Is Actually a CEOYang Ming was living on the road as an ascetic, in mourning for his mother, when he took in two students who had no family and no money, Chen Xue and Lin Yu, and paid for their schooling. Before his mother's death he had been chairman of a conglomerate worth billions, and he had chosen to spend the ten years of mourning as a beggar. The students knew nothing about the company.
Chen Xue graduated. She wanted a way in with rich and well-connected people, and at the graduation banquet, in front of the guests, she insulted the beggar who had raised her. Lin Yu, the other student, was the only one there who spoke up for him.
Yang Ming went back to the company after that and took the chairman's seat again. He no longer hid who he was, and he turned his attention to Chen Xue.
My Mother-in-Law Got Pregnant and Framed Me for ItMother-in-law asks me to conceal her secret pregnancy from an affair, but then I am accused by husband falsely of unfaithfulness?! I'm cutting off this toxic family!
Cold Rich Girl Stuck on the Ex-SoldierThe ex-soldier, now a designated driver, only wants a peaceful life, but his life is destined to be extraordinary...
Lawyers vs. Cheaters: Escaping the NovelTop lawyer Lysandra awakens inside a melodramatic novel and treats its contrived traps as cases to be argued. She uses the law against the characters and plot trying to contain her, searching for a legal path back to the real world.
Surprise Proposal at Divorce DinnerLi Xiaojun, from a wealthy family, falls in love with childhood friend Su Xue. After saving her from an accident, he is left paralyzed. His mother hires doctors to heal him and secretly has him pretend to remain paralyzed to test Su Xue's love. On the eve of their wedding, Li Xiaojun plans to reveal he’s healed but discovers Su Xue’s affair with his best friend, Zeng Jian. Hurt, he agrees to go through with the wedding, secretly turning it into a divorce ceremony. Later, he helps Shen, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, and they decide to marry. On the wedding day, Li Xiaojun announces his divorce from Su Xue, revealing his new bride, leading Su Xue to be humiliated and prompting Zeng Jian to propose to her.
Rebirth in the ApocalypseNadia didn't expect that it was not the acid rain that killed her in the apocalypse, but her beloved boyfriend and cousin! Now, she's given a second chance and equipped with magic touch of space!
Why Work Hard When Heaven Sends You a Miracle Son?Tian, an ordinary small-town guy, had a fleeting romance with a saintess from the legendary Heavenly Mountain . Fast forward eight years, and Qiangqiang, their now eight-year-old son, descends from the mountaintop to find his long-lost dad. Armed with jaw-dropping superpowers and big plans to turn their lives around, Qiangqiang discovers Tian working himself to the bone hauling bricks at a construction site. Determined to use his magic to make them rich and successful.
Time-Traveling Cultivator Aids My VengeanceThe Patriarch in the Cultivation World accidentally transmigrates into the body of a woman who is abused to death by her husband and his mistress?! She's here to avenge her tormentors!Back To 2000 and Live AgainAfter years of hard work, he becomes the most respected CEO. However, he is betrayed by his lover and best friend. When he wakes up again, he finds himself reborn back to the year 2000, carrying all his memories from the future. Determined to make those who betrayed him pay, he begins the plan of revenge. He also falls in love with a woman, the beautiful female president of their city.
My Ex Never Expected Me to Be a Fighting LegendJiang Hui puts up with whatever humiliation it takes to get his wife Zhao Xue to the top of the fight circuit. He used to compete himself, under the name Jiang Lingtian, and won the national martial arts title ten times in a row before Zhou Shan, who owns the Kunlun club from behind the scenes, framed him. His results were wiped from the record and he was banned from competition for five years. He changed his name after that.
The ban runs out. Zhao Xue reaches the top and divorces him. Luo Yao, the daughter of a martial arts family, offers to back him, and he decides to return to the ring and take back what he lost. The Zhou family have in the meantime joined with Japanese fighters in a plan to take over the Chinese fight world, and his return puts him in their way.
Betrayed by Family, I'm a Rich Woman NowIsabelle caught the guest Shannon stealing valuables, which has brought Isabelle the fatal disaster. Being granted a second chance, Isabelle leaves the family that hurts her deeply but then her family chases after her!
From Pawn to QueenAnastasia sacrificed everything for Montgomery, including her legs. Yet she discovers that it was all a lie on the day of her death. Now, with a second chance at life, she sees Montgomery misusing her credit card, living in her house, and managing her company, so she turns to Benedict, who adored her in her past life!
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.Ex Regrets After I Struck It RichAs an intern doctor, when he went out to save someone, unexpectedly saw his fiancée and a CEO's son having an affair in public. After being kicked out of the hotel, he met his biological father. In order to take revenge, he chose to inherit the family and severely made his fiancée regret.
Hidden Fortunes Exposed on LiveHe went on a live dating show to find a wife. He is a farmer from the country, widowed early when his wife fell ill, and he brought up three children on his own and got all of them through school.
On air the other guests hear where he lives and what he does, and they make what they think of it plain. He stays on. His three children, who he had always taken for ordinary employees, turn out to be the ones running their companies. The show's team keeps digging at the family while the broadcast is still running, and the rest comes out a piece at a time, his own standing included.