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Playing the Enemy, Loving the BossFrom fiancée to sworn enemy—after witnessing his father's murder by her family, Vast Gang boss Sebastian turns Seraphina into his assassin to make her atone! But what if his heart never let her go?
Crippled To Supreme MasterForeign money was moving into the medicine trade in Jiangcheng during the Republic years, and Lin Zhenbang wanted the family hall on that side of it. He let his son by another woman poison his first wife. When Lin Yuan pressed for an accounting of his mother's death, the tendons in his wrists were cut and he was left in a burial ground outside the city. Mu Qinghan of Tianyi Valley found him there and treated him.
Lin Yuan came back four years later with medicine and martial arts both, and with Tianyi Valley behind him. A marshal, Li Xiaotian, was near death and the Lin hall had taken the case in hand. Lin Yuan treated him and set out in public what the Lin physicians actually were. The Lin house then went in with the foreigners on spreading an outbreak through the city, and Lin Yuan and Mu Qinghan worked against that.
The Ghost Queen's Blood CureSixty years after the fall of the old dynasty, the princess Lu Lingyun, who died saving her son, wakes in the body of the Nan family's adopted daughter. Her descendants now hold Huai City. Her eldest son Lu Qian runs it. Her younger son Lu Guangbai is seriously ill.
She still has the medicine she trained in, and she uses it on her grandson Lu Wangchuan, who has been poisoned. She brings Lu Chiye to heel. Working back from the poisoning she exposes the Wen family and Wang Cangshan, and then a second scheme, in which a woman called Zhang Xiaoyan is passing as a princess and a false heir is set to take the succession. She puts Huiyang, the real one, where he belongs.
What she cannot settle as easily is what it means to the living that she is back among them.
Mess With My Boss's Wife? You're DoneTrained since childhood by a mysterious master, Li Zhe arrives in 1920s Shanghai and gets caught in a power struggle between Qinglong Gang's boss's wife, An Lan, and young lord Xiao Changqing. As he protects her, Sakura forces close in. After witnessing their cruelty, the old steward's death, General Zhang's assassination, and An Lan's capture, Li Zhe storms the Hongkou Dojo alone, smashes the "Sick Man of Asia" sign, and ignites national pride.
The Fool Awakens as the Demon KingSeven-year-old Qin Feng watches an invading martial society slaughter his family for guarding the Measuring Ruler technique. He buys the power to avenge them by surrendering ten years of reason and half his lifespan to a demonic seed, then survives as a fool under senior disciple Mu Qingcheng's care. When the killers return a decade later and nearly destroy her school, the sight of their crest restores his memories and awakens the Demon Lord within him.
Guns and RosesSu Hua, daughter of a powerful warlord, helps her husband seize the governor's seat—only to be betrayed. As he's forcing her into a deadly duel, her unborn child, the reincarnation of a 21st-century sharpshooter, awakens and helps her reclaim the army. Rising from sheltered heiress to iron-fisted commander, Su Hua crushes traitors, rebuilds her forces, and becomes a legendary heroine who protects her homeland.
No Mistress, Only a Commander's WifeBai Shuyin was the top performer at Bailemen, selling her art and nothing else. She spent everything she earned putting her fiancé Lu Mingxuan through the military academy. He graduated at the top of his class, then married her half-sister Bai Xuening with the Bai family's backing and offered to keep Shuyin as a concubine. She tore up the engagement contract and cut ties with the Bai family. On a night of heavy snow she saved the grandmother of Huo Tingchen, the governor, and refused the money offered in return. The old woman liked her nerve and arranged a marriage between her and Huo Tingchen, agreed to as a contract. On the wedding day the Bai family and Lu Mingxuan came to humiliate her in front of the guests and broke her bracelet, and Lu Mingxuan raised his hand to strike her. Huo Tingchen arrived with his soldiers, drew his gun, and told everyone present that she was his wife.
My Guardian Angel Is a Red Panda!Quinn Shaw is forced to drink an abortion potion and is left in the snow. She is pregnant. The people who do it to her are her in-laws, her best friend and her ex-husband. A panda named Goo-Goo Gaga, the Sage's panda, has come down from heaven to repay a kindness, and it reaches her in time to save the unborn child with an elixir. Quinn tears up the divorce papers.
She opens Mercy Hall and treats poor patients there at low prices. The Lu family plots against her and she breaks up their schemes, with Shen Qianlang, a man of influence, keeping her protected. Plague then breaks out in River City. The Zhou family cuts off the supply of medicine, resorts to poison and burns down the Medicine Warehouse. Quinn goes into the infected area to treat the sick regardless, and Goo-Goo Gaga keeps producing heavenly treasures to get her out of trouble there.
Her Blade Rules the WarA former top assassin hides her identity to live in peace, only to be betrayed and sent into a bandit stronghold. After saving a ruthless warlord in an ambush, their fates become bound. As war erupts and enemies close in, she must draw her blade once more and defy destiny itself.
This Time, I Fight for My PeopleMartial arts prodigy Jane seeks the “World’s Best” title, causing her father’s death, and renounces her skills in exile. Influenced by Sven, she protects civilians and defeats the River Gang, uncovering warlord Cameron’s conspiracy with the Outland Raiders. After Cole’s sacrifice, she awakens to patriotism, leads troops, and joins Sven to resist the invasion.
My Brother Dragged Me Back to HellThe gangs run the city, and the police cannot touch the men at the top of them. A dancer has spent eight years hiding her name to stay out of the one her family belongs to. Her brother tracks her down and brings her back to the family house anyway, where her adopted sister has traps waiting for her, one attempt after another on her life. To stay alive she picks up her old identity again and starts planning instead of running. Working through it she finds that the sister and the gang's old master have been dealing with foreign powers and selling out the country. The old case of her mother's killing comes apart at the same time. Her mother had belonged to a patriotic organisation, and the man who killed her is the old master, who has been sitting in front of her the whole time looking kind.
Shattered LilyWarlord Dylan Evans' only daughter Lily returns home early. She finds her father married to Lucy Gray, a lookalike of her late mother. Mistaking Lily for a seductress, Lucy, her maid Sarah, and brother Edwin torture her brutally. Near death, Lily escapes. Can she rise to expose Lucy's mask of virtue and hidden crimes?
Shattered LilyWarlord Dylan Evans' only daughter Lily returns home early. She finds her father married to Lucy Gray, a lookalike of her late mother. Mistaking Lily for a seductress, Lucy, her maid Sarah, and brother Edwin torture her brutally. Near death, Lily escapes. Can she rise to expose Lucy's mask of virtue and hidden crimes?
Mess with the Queenpin? Die!Grace Hale's father let his mistress drive her mother to her death, and then decided to hand the Hale Gang to his son by that woman. Grace is a society daughter in the foreign concession of the city by day and the one who actually runs the gang in the alleys at night. She keeps up the appearance of being fragile and weak while she works in secret with a young commander whose own family has been stripped and disgraced, and the two of them go from suspecting each other to building a power base together. At a birthday banquet she lays out what her father did in front of the guests and sends him to the execution ground herself. She drops his surname for her mother's and takes the gang.
OMG! Rickshaw Boy Is a Spy?Dylan Hanks pulls a rickshaw in a port city where the gangs run the docks and the police work for whoever pays. One day an intelligence system wakes up in his head, feeding him things he has no way of knowing. He uses it to spot an ambush and pull Jerico Lee, who heads the Cherico Gang, out of it alive. Jerico takes him on. Working from the inside, Dylan digs up how Tina Foster's daughter really died, and the fallout hands him the Great Fortune Casino. Tina keeps digging on her own and learns Jerico had a hand in the death. She comes to Dylan and tells him to kill Jerico, and makes clear what happens if he refuses. Jerico, meanwhile, has quietly moved Dylan's parents to San Feria, which is both a favour and a leash. Dylan is caught between the two of them with his mother and father in a city he cannot reach. The longer he moves between the gang boss and the crime queen, the more he sees of what the money in the port is built on, and the more the fortune he has accumulated looks like something he is holding for other people.
Lady Healer’s Sacred ArtProdigy healer Dina Lynn disguises herself as her crippled brother to protect her family's medical legacy. When betrayal destroys her family and she is condemned for defying tradition, she risks everything to save a dying warlord's granddaughter. But can her miracle expose the truth or seal her fate?
She Shook the BattlefieldSet in the Republican era, martial prodigy Josephine once sought the empty glory of "Greatest Under Heaven," only to cause her father’s death. Grief-stricken, she sealed her powers and hid as a worker at Sebastian's grain shop. When the Grain Gang attacked, Sebastian’s belief that "a true warrior protects the people" stirred her to gradually reclaim her strength.
The conflict drew in Charles, son of Marshal Cyrus—a traitor secretly allied with Waelorian commander Yamashita. Charles exposed his father’s plot and died shielding Josephine from Cyrus’s bullet, entrusting her with his troops. Awakened to the true meaning of martial virtue—to serve the nation and its people—Josephine united Azure City, crushed the conspiracy, and with Sebastian, marched north to resist the invaders.
They Want My Wife. I Answer with a KnifeRamen-shop owner Jason and his wife Keira each conceal formidable identities beneath their quiet life in Seabourne. Keira's rare Sacred Yin–Yang Body draws rival families, an occult society, and military forces, while Jason is secretly the former martial leader of East Asia. When the Black Tiger Army abducts her, he trades his ladle for a sword and follows them abroad, where the rescue exposes a conspiracy involving human experimentation.
No Way! My Foster Dad Is a WarlockThe overlord of Downriver, Leonard Collins, raised his adopted son Bowen in anonymity to be a decent man. Years later, Bowen rejected his birth father, Warren Chase. Yet, when Bowen came back from abroad, he was corrupted by money and power, and humiliated Leonard with Warren. When Bowen's about to turn against Leonard, the Collins arrived....
A Precious Rose to Die ForEvelyn Carter once saved Marcus Fowler's life. He gave up his place at the head of the Green Mafia and left the Shanghai waterfront so that she would be safe, and set himself up as a butcher. They saw each other every day, and in time they became a couple.
Lynn Lee, the older sister from the house next door, got Evelyn a spot singing at a nightclub. A man who came there set his sights on her, and Lynn Lee sold her out to him. The scheme caught Evelyn's father as well, and he was hurt. To get her out, Marcus dropped the butcher's cover and showed who he was, and he punished the man and Lynn Lee.
After that the Shaw family of Beiping wanted a way in with the Green Mafia. They sent a woman to work on Marcus and had Evelyn kidnapped. Marcus got her back, wiped out the man's family, and drove the Shaws off.
Through the Mist of YearsSinger Yuliana leaves her lover, Yadiel, to spare him the burden of her presence while he recovers from illness, but a tragic accident leads Yadiel to believe she has died. Six years later, Yadiel discovers Yuliana is alive and raising their daughter, prompting him to protect them from the schemes of a villain named Shen Yuyao. As Yuliana recovers her memories and exposes the truth behind the past, the family is finally reunited.
Stolen Heiress Becomes Puppetry Prodigy!The shadow puppetry master takes Pearl in when she is about five, because he is old and wants someone to pass the craft to. He was told he was buying a boy. A prostitute had shaved the child's head and put her in boy's clothes before the sale, and once the master finds out she is a girl he puts her out of the house. The two of them have nobody but each other after that, and in time he sets the old rule about male heirs aside and teaches her the whole of the shadow puppetry.
Pearl was born late in General Swift's life and doted on by both parents. She was taken not long after her birth, and five years passed between the kidnapping and the sale. Master and pupil are invited to perform at a birthday banquet, where the host's wife, Yvonne Lynn, sets out to make it difficult for them, and Pearl's parentage comes out in the middle of it.
Insult the General? Pay the Price!Retired war hero Wayne tries to disappear into an ordinary Sunvale life until the Wood family maims his grandson and nearly assaults his granddaughter. They answer his demand for justice by beating him close to death. News of the attack summons the captains who once served him, racing to reach their commander before his enemies finish the job.
You Don't Deserve to Be My Stepmother!Irene, back from overseas, met Grace at a club to size up her future stepmother. Not knowing who Irene was, Grace incessantly provoked her. Charles arrived in time to save Irene and cut ties with Grace after seeing her true colors. Through hardships, Irene gained newfound clarity. She later faced down her past tormentors with authority at a banquet, fully transformed into the formidable marshal's heiress.
Cleaning Lady? She's a Martial Queen!Once the Queen of South Fist, martial legend Ava West died saving a stranger at the height of her glory. In 2025, she wakes up in the body of an old janitor inside the fallen West Hall. Her legacy was stolen, her students betrayed her. She is back now. But is Southport ready to face the legend it forgot?
My Nemesis? Wait, That’s My Sister!War separates a mother, her son, two daughters, and a single locket. Years later, fate brings them together as strangers. A song, a pawned locket, a cruel mistake. When the lanterns glow again, will they finally recognize each other or be lost forever?
Culinary CrossroadsMichelin chef Hugh is thrown into Republican-era China as a gambler named Leo "The Hound." To protect Iris from loan shark Tyr "The Tiger", he must use his culinary skills to clear a double debt in three days. But his success pulls him into a conspiracy far deeper than he imagined, making him question if he can truly escape the web of fate.
Shoeshine Princess: Daddy's a General!There is a church where, for seven years, the Commander has gone to remember the wife he believes died along with their child. Outside the same church a small girl shines shoes for money. The girl is his daughter. Her mother is alive too. Her mind has not been right since then, and the child looks after her and pays for her treatment out of the shoeshine work. The suffering of the two of them goes back to one woman. Father and daughter cross paths more than once and neither knows who the other is. The Commander's father, the old General, throws away a pocket watch that belongs to the Commander, and it ends up with the girl. A misunderstanding over that watch is what finally brings the Commander together with the girl and her mother.
You Dump a War God?Twelve years of war on the northern border are over, and at home the money set aside for the families of the soldiers who died in it has been drained by a noble house. The general who commanded that army, Ryan, comes home into this. He is received with honours by the head of state. At his father's birthday celebration his fiancée, who has just been made commander of the royal guard, breaks off the engagement in front of the guests. He accepts it without argument.
Warriors from the kingdom to the east arrive for a tournament and mock the men of the empire. Ryan takes them on and beats them. His fiancée, who was there to see it, apologises to him afterwards and the two get back together. They come across two orphans whose father was a soldier and learn that the compensation owed to families like theirs has been embezzled. The noble house responsible then moves to demolish the shrine to the fallen soldiers. Ryan confronts the family's son at the graves, is arrested on a false charge, and is freed through the intervention of another woman.
The family kidnaps Ryan's younger sister. His fiancée goes after her, and Ryan brings both of them back. Behind the theft of the funds the two of them find an uprising being planned against the empire, and they set out for the capital to defend it.
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.
I'm Your Mute GirlThe grandmother of the Hayes family has decided that a lucky bride will save her grandson. Samuel Hayes, heir to the family's business, is dying, and in the Republican era a wedding arranged to turn his luck is treated as a cure. The bride the family finds is Charlotte Reed. She is mute, her father is in debt, and the family's money will cover what he owes, so she agrees.
Samuel wakes up after the ceremony and is furious at the arrangement. The only woman he cares about is the girl who saved him when he was a child, the one he gave his pendant to. Charlotte is that girl. She lost her voice pulling him out of the water that day, and he has no idea. The misunderstandings pile up, and his cousin does her part to keep the two apart.
Trapped in a Novel, Married to a WarlordTricked into marrying a ruthless warlord, Bianca uses future knowledge to survive—unaware he recognizes her by the song she hums!
I Married My Sister's KillerIn the life Marcy Green remembers, an army officer named Helix Scott caused the death of her cousin. Marcy woke on the day of her cousin's wedding, which was also her own wedding day. She switched weddings and married Helix Scott. The two of them went to the island where his unit is posted.
Nancia, who grew up alongside Helix, made an accusation against Marcy soon after they arrived. Marcy happened to save Nancia from harm not long after that. Helix found out that Nancia's story was a lie and said so. Nancia made further attempts to damage Marcy's name, and each one landed on Nancia instead. Marcy and Helix grew closer. Helix has not been told about the switch.
My Partner Sees GhostsDetective Nancy Guthrie doesn’t believe in the supernatural until impossible cases force her to team up with Shawn Yale. As greed corrupts an ancient source into a spreading evil, they race from Riverford to Shanghai, exposing the powerful. Can they reclaim the source before it consumes them both?
My Guardian Angel Is a Red Panda!Pregnant Quinn Shaw is betrayed by her in-laws, best friend, and ex-husband, forced to drink an abortion potion, and left in the snow until the Sage’s panda, Goo-Goo Gaga, saves her baby. She opens Mercy Hall, but in River City the Zhou family cuts off medicine and burns the Medicine Warehouse. Can she survive the plague?
My Husband Stole My EmpireLuanne Shaw’s pampered husband Tristan Grant returns with a scheming mistress, smashes her late mother’s keepsake, and seizes Shaw Estate. As a Major, he surrounds the estate and puts a gun to Ewan Shaw, unaware who he’s threatening. His “untouchable” backer is already kneeling at their gate. When they strike back, who will beg for mercy?
1996: A Taste of RevengeA chef's boyfriend and closest friend steal her recipes to launch a competing restaurant. She rebuilds around loyal allies, culinary tradition, and her grandmother's standardized methods while they answer with sabotage. Her discipline creates a durable brand as the thieves destroy the relationships supporting their venture.
The Wife Who Drained a Family's FortuneBetrayed after saving her husband, Shen Zhiyi is humiliated in the Huo Clan and loses her unborn child. She vanishes for three years, then crashes the divorce banquet and reveals herself as “The Worldseer,” draining the Huo Clan’s fortune. With Disciple Ji Bai, she heads to Imperial Capital to hunt the Grand Magus behind it all—yet her child’s broken soul still hides a truth no one dares face.
They Hear Everything I ThinkIn a city run by a warlord family, in a country at war, every person in that household can hear what one man is thinking. He is not from that time. He wakes there as the fiancé of the daughter of the house, and his thoughts carry to all of them out loud.
He also knows how this period went. When the warlord's adopted son turns on the family and sets a trap for him, they listen to what their future son-in-law is thinking and get ahead of it. Then an invading army moves into the region, and the family goes on using the same source, working out what to let the invaders find and believe.
The Oath and the LieNestor, husband of Silver, went to war alongside his twin brother, Neville. During the conflict, Neville was killed while saving Nestor. To honor Neville's dying wish of caring for his sister-in-law, Nestor assumed Neville's identity. He planned to have his sister-in-law bear him a child before revealing the truth. However, he completely disregarded Silver's own devotion, pushing her to the brink—she endured being sold into a brothel and brutally hung for seven days and nights, yet she still refused to submit. After eventually rescuing her, Nestor brought Silver home, believing his deception was flawless. Unbeknownst to him, however, fate intervened, and Silver stumbled upon the shocking truth.