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The Crimson OathChase Carter devotes herself to Taoist training after Jefferson Zane kills her father on her wedding day. The Tai Chi Sect had denied her succession because she was a woman, even blocking her attempt to prove her skills with its secret manual. Returning with mastery of its arts, she exposes the conspiracy and fights to restore the sect as its first female leader.
Boxing Champion's RedemptionRyan Lyn retired from the ring because of bipolar disorder. He and his wife, who was pregnant, boarded a train home. On board they were seated near a family of three with a child who shoved and provoked them, and when Ryan objected the parents swore at them instead.
Ryan came close to losing control several times. His wife talked him down each time. The family pushed her again and she went down on the floor. A fist came at her and he held himself back. He got them off at the nearest station and took her to a hospital.
The doctor there was a relative of that family. He obstructed her treatment and questioned who the two of them were. The director of the hospital, who looked at money and position and nothing else, moved to put her out of the building while she was in critical condition.
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.
Life's Road, Filial FirstLucas King wanted to stay a Wells. He had been switched with another baby at birth and brought up in their house on their money, and twenty years on the son who belonged there came home and Lucas's own parents, who had nothing, came to the door looking for him. He sent them away and stayed where the comfort was, and he spent the years after that keeping himself in the Wells family's good books.
At forty he needed treatment and asked them for the money. They turned him down, and what they did to him after that killed him, and he went in his birth parents' arms. Then he was twenty years back, in the house, with none of it done yet. He set about getting his mother and father a better life than the one he had left them with, and about making the people who turned on him pay for it.
The Price of Neighborly BondsOn New Year's Eve, back in the village she grew up in, Lily Parker is accused by her cousin Clara Langley of being the other woman in someone's marriage. Lily has come home meaning to help the village get on its feet. She explains herself over and over. Her own family does not believe her, and the villagers have their fixed ideas about her already, and the accusation sticks. She takes a good deal of abuse over it, and she decides to prove what actually happened and to push back.
She had left the village years before to find work in the city, and after a long stretch of hard going she ended up running a large company, the sort of position people back home envied. Once she is home, the talk turns spiteful, and there is corruption inside the factory to deal with on top of it.
My Journey to ImmortalityLouis Kean was middle-aged when he announced that he was taking up cultivation. He left the family and went to the mountain. The people who knew him said he had lost his mind.
At forty-five he finished it. The ascension ceremony was under way when his son rang him. Louis Kean took the call, then worked out a reading on his fingers, and the reading was the end of his line. He announced that the ascension was suspended. He went back down the mountain into the ordinary world.
The Silent MotherYolanda Wood, once the Duchess of the North, reunites with her daughter, Stella Xander. Struggling to control her sudden outbursts, Yolanda tries to protect her daughter from harassment by a security guard and bad guys. Embarking on desperate missions to rescue Stella, she faces unforeseen obstacles and life-threatening dangers. Will she manage to save her loved one, or will she fall into an even darker trap?
Silent Goodbye, Unseen ReturnSelene Moore's mother has not looked at her in years. After the divorce the mother remarried and had a second daughter with her new husband, and that girl got all of her attention. Selene was left with her grandmother and grew up in her house. Then Selene is kidnapped and dies. She opens her eyes in the body of Caroline Lewis, the daughter of the family that owns the Lewis Group. She intends to use Caroline's name and position to take her revenge. Her mother does not know that Selene is dead.
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.
ONE MORE LIFE IN 1984In a farming village in 1984, Amy Carter's husband and his family have knocked her about for years, and his mistress lords it over her in her own house. Amy has been laid in a coffin.
The woman who pushes the lid open is Blair Carter, a boxing champion from the twenty-first century. She was in the middle of a bout when she found herself in Amy's body. Her first night in 1984 is spent in the pigsty, with the mistress bullying her. Blair pieces together how Amy had been treated by the husband and his family, and decides she will live Amy's life over as a second version of her.
She knocks her husband down with one punch, gives the mistress a tongue-lashing that sends her off, and makes life hard enough for the husband's family that the divorce goes through. On the day the divorce is granted she finds a handsome company boss collapsed by the roadside, takes him home, and puts him to work as her farmhand. Other women in the village, which is closed off and a long way behind the times, watch what she does, and some of them start to push back at home too.
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 Breach: Against the TideA farmer foresees death timings desperately warns villagers of a flood! However, he faces violence when trying to save lives and thus uncovers an even greater impending catastrophe!
Just in Time for LovePerry Moore has a daughter he knows nothing about. Her mother, Nora Carson, has kept the child from him for six years.
The girl was conceived on a single night the two of them spent together. Perry was a man with money and power, and Nora did not want him thinking she had come after him for either, so she left and did not look back. She found out she was pregnant only after she had gone.
Six years on she has raised the child without him, and her aunt is pushing her into a marriage she does not want, to an older man. She has no way out of it herself, so she sends her daughter to find Perry Moore and ask him for help, and the girl goes. From that point Nora and Perry are back in each other's lives, with the child between them. The feelings from six years earlier come back up, and so do the things she never told him, with family in the middle of it.
Loser MasterZachary Greenwood delivers food for a living and does not know he is the reincarnation of the Star Deity, or that a curse binds his power. The Townsley family takes him away by force to marry their daughter Georgina, who has been comatose, in the hope the wedding will drive out her illness. On the wedding night he dreams that the marriage has broken the seal and his power is loose again, and he wakes thinking it was only a dream. That morning Georgina opens her eyes. Her family treats him as the man who saved her and sends him to work alongside her.
Sean Smith, heir to the richest family in the city, had been promised Georgina by his own father and is furious that she married someone else. He is confident in his own cultivation and challenges Zachary, who he assumes is an ordinary man. Zachary, nervous the whole time, throws out a technique at random, overwhelms him and snaps the Smith family's protective artifact. He knows nothing about artifacts or martial arts and has no idea how strong he is, so each time the Smiths provoke him he fights while afraid and cuts through them anyway. Sean's father orders him to wipe out the Townsleys and bring Georgina back. At a martial arts tournament Zachary flattens the Smiths. Shannon Lister leads him to the demonic sect behind it all, and he brings the sect down, which saves the Listers and puts the Townsleys at the top.
The New Year FeudBillionaire Barron Ford returns with his wife Liz Lane to her hometown for Lunar New Year, hoping to repair strained family ties. Because Gavin Lane and the other relatives remember Barron as poor, they dismiss his costly gifts, question his fortune, and treat his proposed resort development as another cause for conflict. Barron uses business judgment and restraint to resolve each dispute, earn the family's respect, and bring the divided household toward reconciliation.
Martial Gallop LifeHe won the martial arts championship nine times. The man behind the competition gave him instructions and he did not carry them out. A hired killer then killed his wife. He raised their daughter after that and swore he would not use force again before her eighteenth birthday. He knows who ordered his wife's death. He has done nothing about it so far and is waiting for the daughter to turn eighteen.
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.
Rich Father, Poor FatherLuke Nielsen, who was once amnesiac and taken in by Allan Schmidt, owned a noodle stall. His fiancee, the CEO of Horizon Group, suddenly came to him and wanted to cancel the engagement with him. Luke was confused and frustrated, but meanwhile, two other women showed up. One claimed to be the secretary of Luke’s blood father and the other even started proposing and said that she was the girl Luke saved when he was the Lord of North Ridge. All the abrupt information made Luke even more confused...
Through the Odds, I'm the Last One StandingSun Lily wanted the promotion, so she pinned a medical accident on Foria Shawn, who had trained at the same medical school and worked at the same hospital along with three men from their year. Foria explained herself and none of them believed her, and she killed herself to prove she had done nothing wrong. Fu Sinian reached her too late, having stepped in as her fiance through her family without her knowing.
Furia wakes ten years earlier, back among Sun Lily and the three seniors. She decides to stop trying to please them and to look after herself. She publishes the same thesis in a well known journal, and Sun Lily cannot show the work is hers and is dressed down by the director in front of the three. Foria leaves that team and later joins the one Fu Sinian runs.
After all this timeFor five years Grace and Andrew keep an arrangement that neither of them names in front of anyone else. He is in it for the sex, and she has spent the whole of it waiting for him to want more than that and say so out loud.
Then she is pregnant, and the arrangement will not hold. Andrew marries her. Something that began as an accident becomes a tie neither of them can get out of, and once they are actually living beside each other, their university years start coming back up. The two of them were tangled together well before the five years began, and Grace has not known the whole of it.
Gone Ex and New CrushAnna saw her husband off at the dock when he left for the city to find work. That same night word came back that he had fallen into the water and drowned. Her parents-in-law told her she should marry again. She had promised him she would look after them, and she stayed. For eight years she nursed the old couple and raised his younger brother, working from before dawn until after dark.
Then her father-in-law fell seriously ill. Anna put both parents on her broken-down three-wheeler and rode through the night to the city to find a doctor. She found a surgeon who could save him, and someone else took the operating slot out from under her. She went looking for a bed and ended up at a wedding the hospital's owners, the White family, were holding that day. The groom was her husband. Olivia White had pulled him out of the water eight years earlier, and he had told the Whites he was an orphan. He had spent the eight years since fawning on the family, and now he was marrying into it. Anna went up and asked him to explain himself, and he insulted her in front of the guests. Then her mother-in-law pushed her father-in-law's wheelchair into the hall, with his operation still not done.
A Way to Die, A Way to Back In TimeBen Hart, a billionaire, is accidentally whisked back to ancient times. Discovering that being killed will return him to the present, he tries to incite his own death, for instance, by submitting outrageous petitions.
Rather than being punished, he's celebrated as a hero and sent abroad as a diplomat. His actions there cause chaos, yet his homeland's power keeps him safe. Eventually, he even conquers a foreign kingdom. Ironically, his quest to “die” makes him highly successful and legendary…
First-Class EmbroidererSophia Scott, once the youngest First-Class Embroiderer, hides her identity to mourn her grandmother, the former First-Class Embroiderer. Fulfilling a marriage agreement, she weds Ethan Jackson, who leaves for Eldoria on their wedding day, leaving her to manage the Jackson Family’s Golden Thread Embroidery. Sophia builds it into the capital’s top embroidery house, waiting for Ethan’s return, only to receive news of his plans to remarry.
Love and LuckSomebody in heaven keeps the account of each person's fortune, and part of that work is handed to trainees. Natalie Smith was on her first day of it when she made an error on Ethan Howard's account and took his fortune down to zero.
His company went under and he ended up selling from a stall in the street. Natalie came down to the mortal world to put the fortune back, with a deadline set for her from above and only part of the power the job asked for, so her first attempts made things worse. A businessman and a woman who wanted the patents moved on what was left of the company while she worked. There was a patent document other people were after, an office she got into at night, a selling contest against a rival firm run over a livestream. Her feelings for Ethan grew while this went on.
A Mother's Second Chance at HappinessLisa White was reborn into her second son Matthew Harris's home years ago. Her daughter-in-law Betty remained manipulative, her in-law toxic, and her son unfilial. Last life, Lisa endured everything for family harmony but died from abuse. This life, she left home, made money using future knowledge, and lived with her old friend.
Thunder Tribulation SurvivorsHarlee Louth lost her duaghter Susen during the Thunder Tribulation. After stabilizing her power, she embarked on a long journey to find her daughter. Luckily Susen didn't die at that time. She was adopted by the Sherwins and renamed Xanthia. Her new family forced herto marry a rich guy. At the wedding banquet, Harlee recognized her daughter and punished the Sherwins. But right after Harlee found Susen back, Susen suddenly passed out because she was also hurt in that Thunder Tribulation...
Rise from the AshesLeah Stein has cut every tie to her old sect and is training in Apathia, the path that severs feeling, with her junior master helping her. She had given everything she had to that master and her three seniors and been overlooked for it, then expelled on a false accusation made by a junior disciple, and she died for it.
The three seniors find out afterwards what she had actually done for them and how she had been treated. They come to her again and again asking her to return. She will not forgive them. She gets Apathia under her control, and with her junior master and disciples from her new sect she settles accounts with the old one.
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.
Sovereign's DominanceCillian held the rank of High Lord and spent a long stretch inside the Nine Realms keeping them stable. He worked out a method that would hold them steady for good, and then he entered the cycle of reincarnation, which left an opening for Aion to get in. The reincarnation took his memory for a period.
During that period a man and a woman came at him at his own door. His strength had not come back yet and the man wounded him. His sister put herself in the way, and his father fought to keep the two of them off.
Cillian recovered a million years of memory after that, and his power came back higher than it had ever been. The man was about to kill his sister when Cillian stepped in, in front of everyone standing there.
In the world of the Human Emperors he laid out a plan that drew Aion into an alliance with powerful enemies from outside, and he started up the Heavenly Stair.
No Mercy for the CrownAlden Sterling wants the throne of Eldoria, and the rule is that whoever wins the Dominion Bow Tournament inherits it. Her mother has no standing at court. Lilith Sterling's mother is the Empress, and Lilith uses Serenfall Palace against Alden and her mother whenever she likes.
Alden put up with it for years. Then Lilith went after the person Alden loved and tried to force a marriage. Alden entered the tournament, meaning to take first place, the inheritance, and Lilith with it.
God of the KitchenImprisoned for killing a thug while saving a stranger from assault, a gifted cook earns top certification and early release over thirteen years. Outside, he finds Chinese cuisine pushed aside and joins the failing Baiweizhai restaurant. Defeating the Western chef hired by a rival wins the restaurant a vital partnership and gives his hard-won skill a new purpose.
The Little Pool GodCameron Bell was ranked first in the world at billiards. He died in a car accident. He then woke in the body of a boy, Sadie Morris, who was near death and who had no ability at the game. Sadie and his sister had been passed over by their family. After the transfer Sadie had every one of Cameron's skills. He took up the game and set out to make the people who had written him off look at him again, with his sister behind him.
Another New Year's EveNew Year’s Eve baby Ivy survives—but the cost is her parents’ divorce. Raised by her father, she loses him to cancer after the Carvers, her mother’s wealthy family, lock her away and make her miss his last moments.
Vowing revenge, Ivy enters the Carver home as a caregiver. There, she learns she has the same hereditary cancer, even as her own mother, Ruth, treats her with suspicion while mourning the daughter she thinks she lost.
When Ruth’s young son needs a heart transplant, Ivy faces a final choice: cling to hatred, or give the ultimate gift to the brother she never knew—and let her mother keep living with the truth she can never tell.
Iron Fist, Blossoming HeartColleen Willow is treated in her own household as a woman who cannot fight and has to be protected. House Willow is known throughout the martial world, and its rule is that the family's techniques pass to men only, so Colleen learned the family's Iron Fist in secret and spent years not daring to show what she could do.
A powerful enemy comes after the family. The Willow masters are beaten, and the family's property and standing are at risk. Colleen watches her relatives losing and stops hiding. She fights, and the family learns that she is the most gifted of them and the only person carrying the family's techniques forward.
Muggle's RedemptionIn this world of magic, muggles were like slaves and not allowed to bear babies. Agatha Matilda, as a muggle, was drugged by her parents cuz they wanted to sell her to a rich guy. She ran away, accidentally slept with Donovan, Master of the Thunderson family, and actually got pregnant. In order to save Agatha, Donovan stole the Celestial Snow Lotus, which could forcibly change Agatha’s muggle fate. However, what Agatha and Donovan had done enraged the authority, the Muggle Affairs Division...
The Little Master Chef: A Taste of DestinyStella McAllister, the Little Master Chef from the mountains, is forced to marry Victor Stone—a businessman hoping to save his company by winning a cooking contest and investment. During her stay in the city, she clashes with Anna, who secretly admires Victor for years. Now, the contest begins…
The Last LegendDamian York is living quietly on Evil Island, where he has spent five years and trained the ten men who came to be called the Ten Villains. His niece sends him north to the Tang clan, which is close to being dissolved, and he takes over as its head against his own wishes. That puts him back in the fighting between the northern and southern regions.
In his younger years his skill in a fight made him enemies across the Southern Domain, and the enemies reached his wife and children. He avenged them and went to the island afterwards.
Rise from the Dim LightTen years ago human traffickers found a girl who was badly injured and could not remember who she was, and they sold her to the Chan family. The girl was Summer, heiress to her family, and she had been hurt getting her three young fiancés away from men who were hunting them.
The Chans worked her for the ten years that followed and lived off what she earned. She fell ill from overwork, and on top of that she was carrying debts she had been made to take on for her brother. Now that there is nothing more to get out of her, they plan to throw her out.
Her three fiancés have grown into powerful men, each at the top of his own field. Word reaches them that Summer has been found, and they come from wherever they are to a banquet and make an entrance. Two women are put in front of them. One is Summer, and the other is a girl who went to high school with her and has been living under her name. The three men cannot tell which is which, and Summer, whom nobody has looked at, stays in the background. There is also an uncle of hers who wants her dead.
Break the Oath, Meet Your DoomIn The Pawnshop No. 9, Thorin Seal, the owner, makes a fateful deal to secure his wife's family a rise to power. In exchange, he sacrifices three years without sanity. But when the time comes, betrayal strikes. Families who once honored the deal now break their word, plotting to escape the karma. As divine retribution sweeps from the small town of Cloudville to the capital, Thorin must face treachery, broken oaths, and an unrelenting pursuit of justice—where no one is safe.
Billionaire Back in SlumTed Shaw returns to Cliff Village after becoming a billionaire and funding roads and factories there, expecting to find his hometown thriving. Instead, villagers are still struggling because greedy managers and local bullies have seized the donations meant for them. He must uncover where his money went and help the people it was supposed to protect.
Frost and FlameEveryone in this world is born with a power. Those born without one are called Muggles and are executed or handed over to laboratories for experiments on the human body. A few houses hold the world between them, and the White family, whose power is over water, is one of them. Frost was born the eldest daughter of the White family and has no power. Her father did not have her killed, because of her birth rank, but he would not let her be seen in public either. Her mother died giving birth to her, and after that Frost lived below the servants in her own house. Later her family traded her into a marriage with Flame for their own gain, and she began working toward revenge.
Whispers of LoveNineteen years ago, village beauty Rachel Porter and orphan Leo Greene fell in love. When she became pregnant, Leo left to find his birth parents. Upon his return as a recognized heir, he found Rachel married to another man. Believing she had betrayed him, he found an abandoned baby girl—their own daughter. Nineteen years later, Rachel, still searching for her child, becomes a maid in a wealthy household. She is stunned to discover the young lady of the house is her long-lost daughter, leaving her torn between revealing the truth and letting her daughter keep her privileged life.
Drunken Fist KingFramed for stealing the sacred Octō Fist Manual, Evan Lawson, once the proud disciple of the Martial Saint, is cast out, his meridians cut off. Rebuilding his strength through the Drunken Fist, Evan rescues the beautiful Gloria Clark, only to have his heroism stolen. Winning her heart in a martial contest, tragedy strikes when her father dies under mysterious circumstances. Can Evan clear his name, reclaim his honor, and protect the woman he loves—armed only with his mastery of the Drunken Fist?
THE CEO JANITOROnce a legendary business mogul, Leo Stone vanishes from the spotlight, secretly working as a janitor to test and guide his son, Rob Stone. But when a single slip at the company gala exposes cracks in his disguise, it ignites fierce rivalries, shocking betrayals, and a high-stakes battle for power. As hidden enemies resurface and deadly secrets unfold, Leo Stone must outplay them all—to protect his son, reclaim his legacy, and even embrace an unexpected new love.
From Underdog to OverlordThe Xia family is a family affiliated with the Mingshan sect, a major martial arts sect. The head of the family, Xia Gaitian, regards the family's success as his life creed. The Xia family's adopted son-in-law, Sui Jing, was also mediocre in strength and was looked down upon. Xia Gaitian once wanted to reconcile with his daughter Xia Yan and find another husband, but unfortunately Xia Yan refused. During the Mingshan sect competition, the Xia family, which originally wanted to make a name for itself, encountered a huge crisis. The eldest son and second son, who were usually outspoken, were easily defeated and begged for mercy. However, the dull and useless third son-in-law unexpectedly burst out with amazing strength and became the savior of the Xia family.
Kong Fu LeoLeo was adopted by an old monk since he was young and acquired Peerless martial arts skills there. However, he will die if he could not find his biological mother and a solution. In order to save Leo’s life, the old monk asks Leo to find his mother. Leo not only found his mother quickly, but also made a lot of funny anecdotes after that. But he is so happy that he forgets about his illness. Let's see how the story develops.
Beauty in BattleSerry was taken from her family as a small child. The kidnapping was arranged by a subordinate of her father, who was rich, and she was handed over to a poor family and raised as their daughter. She grew up not knowing that her real family were the Russos, whose children are born with a mark used to identify them if they are ever separated.
She had three older brothers. The eldest is a billionaire chief executive, the second is a decorated war hero, and the third, Niccolo, is a governor with wide influence. When their sister went missing at five years old, the brothers put billions into finding her. They located the man behind the kidnapping and made him talk, but by then the trail had gone cold. He tells them she is in the Eastern City.
Ten years pass. In that time Serry marries a man who cheats on her, and the family she was raised by treats her badly. Then word finally reaches her brothers: she is living in a small village. Niccolo gives the order to find her and swears that whoever mistreated her will pay for it.
Hell of a CoupleShannon Lew cleans at an MMA club, with her daughter around the place. A challenge match there gets out of hand and she steps in, and a video of it goes around. The Taang family sees it and works out that the cleaner is Sharon Loo, the champion who brought down the MMA League ten years ago by showing in public that it had been fixing results for the families who ran it. Those families have wanted her since. She took the name Shannon and married an ordinary man.
The Taang family sends people to kill her. She goes through several of them and gets her daughter out, then drops from exhaustion. Her husband Chris Shaw arrives and takes the rest of them off her. He was trained in an old fighting tradition and had kept that to himself, and another group has been hunting him under a name Shannon did not know he had. The Taang family brings in the other families behind the league, and Chris goes back to the world he left so that his wife and daughter stay alive.
Brave Fighting MotherSerena Smith was framed for doping. She was the daughter of the Smith family and had been on her way to becoming the boxing champion, and the accusation ended that. She left with her daughter Daisy and stayed away for years.
Daisy grew up wanting one thing, which was proof that would clear her mother's name. Ryker Smith, the son of the man the Smiths had adopted, used that against her. He tricked her into the octagon cage, where she was humiliated and beaten badly enough to put her in a hospital bed.
Serena came to the hospital and saw the state Daisy was in. She decided that this time she would not give way. The doping case from all those years before started to come back into the open.
The Return of the MasterThe Anderson family lost a son years ago. They run the biggest company in the region, and the head of the family has put a great deal of effort into looking for him. The boy is Zephyr Miller, raised by a foster father, and he has been away at Dragon Palace with his three masters. When he hears the foster father is critically ill he takes leave of the masters and comes home. The foster father's wish is that Zephyr's younger brother should be settled with a family of his own, so Zephyr goes to the home of the woman his brother loves and asks for her hand on the brother's behalf. Her family look down on him. Around the same time word of Zephyr reaches the head of the Andersons, and father and son find each other. With the Andersons behind him, Zephyr gets the brother married to the woman he wanted. At an auction afterwards Zephyr and the family put several people in their place, and those people fall in line. Then a company from Japan makes a hostile bid for the Anderson business, and Zephyr helps his father fight it.
A Duet of Storm and CloudIn Vastland, a title earned on a secret campaign is kept from everyone outside the court, the general's own family included.
Killian comes home under that rule. He has spent twelve years in the field and subdued five countries, and the court has just named him Imperial General for it. He has no interest in rank and says nothing about it when he walks in the door. His fiancée Miranda, who has just been named Royal Warrior herself, does not know any of this and calls off the engagement.
Miranda holds that only a man who reaches Imperial General can be called a hero, while Killian gives the name to anyone who defends the country.
A martial contest held to pick a husband draws foreign fighters, who use it to insult the crowd, and Killian steps in and beats them. Miranda apologizes, and with the elders of both houses pushing, the two are reconciled.
A beggar they come across turns out to be the son of a soldier who died in the wars. His family has been left with nothing, and the reason leads back to a family that has been preying on the households of dead soldiers and is trying to tear down the shrine built for them.
Time Reversal: Emergency RescueNolan Young, a scientist, boarded a flight home with his wife Caroline Green. Their daughter was in hospital and the trip was for a bone marrow donation to her. The plane exploded in the air. Nolan came to on the same flight, before the explosion. He started looking for whoever had put the bomb aboard. He told the passengers and the cabin crew what was going to happen, and none of them believed him. The search put him in clashes with passengers and with the crew. The plane exploded again and he came to on it again. By the third time he woke on the flight, it had exploded on every pass before he found the bomber, and his daughter was still in the hospital. This time he turned up new clues and found the bomb. A countdown began on it and the plane exploded once more.
Curves of DestinyThere are years Isabella Yale cannot get back to. A car accident on a work trip abroad took her memory, and the hormones in the drugs she was given in surgery put a lot of weight on her. She goes home and opens a shop selling stuffed buns.
The man she is with is in it for her money. He is sleeping with her closest friend, and when she catches him he denies it and beats her. The beating brings the memory back, all of it. Isabella founded the Poseidon Group. She starts taking the weight off and moves to get back into the company and to deal with him.
The Endgame FortressChris wakes up three days before the virus outbreak. He is a delivery driver, and the last time he lived through these days most of the world was infected and he and his daughter were left fighting to stay alive among the zombies. He trusted the woman he had married, and that is what got the two of them killed and eaten by the infected. This time he knows what is ahead. He means to make the people who got them killed pay, the woman among them, but the first thing he does is start on a fortified shelter and stockpile supplies so that his daughter will live through the end of the world.
Rise of the OutcastRyan Carter's family keeps him at the bottom. He has real skill in martial arts and no standing to use it, so the household ignores him. Then he meets a girl who looks like his mother, who is supposed to be dead. The girl is engaged to the man Ryan is up against, so Ryan enters the contest for head of the family to get her out of it. During the election he is set up. His meridians are cut and he is left crippled. A recluse called Taosaint finds him and takes him in, and Ryan trains under him before going back for the people who did it.
My Time Traveler WifeElizabeth wakes up in a village bed in 1988 with a man beside her she has never seen. The husband she has in that life arranged the scene and is bringing people to witness it, which is how he means to come out of the divorce ahead. Elizabeth refuses to take the blame and marries the man in the bed, Evan Fields, a factory hand who has been set up along with her.
Before that she was in the twenty-first century, where the man she was going to marry had been cheating on her. She was driving after finding out when she crashed.
Evan turns out to be the director of the factory and has money behind him. Elizabeth finds she can move between the two centuries as she likes, and she uses it, carrying modern goods back to 1988 and selling them. She takes over the running of the household. She has begun weighing whether to stay in 1988 for good, for the sake of the husband she has there.
The Legend of A Bastard SonEzra keeps his head down and assumes he has no ability. Three masters living in seclusion have trained him for years without once praising him, and he is the son of the House Shaw patriarch Zanthos and the maid Lotus, which the family has never let him forget. At a sect evaluation he shows strength that surprises everyone present. That draws the attention of enemies, who look into his parentage and go after the people close to him. He awakens a physical constitution particular to him and takes on the people threatening his family.
From Village Boy to ChairmanJoey and Helen, childhood sweethearts, lost touch for eight years due to Joey’s mission. Helen, injured and pregnant, had to marry a rich man when their child fell ill. Joey returned on her wedding day.
She Who DefiesWinna Yates trains in a martial arts family that has no use for its daughters. She is the more gifted of the children, and her father looks past her anyway, putting everything into her younger brother, who is meant to master the family's martial arts and take over as head of the clan. To get that, he is prepared to sacrifice the women of the York family. Winna will not accept it. A grandmaster takes her as a disciple, which she reaches only because her mother helped her get away, and her mother is punished inside the family for that. Winna trains for years. When she comes down from the mountain it is to get her mother out and to deal with the people responsible.
Beauty and the BestPeter Evans wanted his three senior sisters out of the Etherealism clan alive. Norman Allen had just taken over the Demon Cult and came for the clan's treasure, the Ethereal Bead, and by the time he was finished three hundred and sixty one people of the clan were gone.
Peter was the youngest of the four. He drew the killers after himself so the sisters could get clear, and the four of them scattered with one bead each. Years later the sisters have each reached the top of a different field and are looking for him. He had been picked up by a man in black, ended up as Lord of Heaven Temple, and lost his memory in one of the fights. He sells fried rice from a stall now and remembers none of it. His girlfriend, who cares what he can pay for, turns on him at a signing ceremony and runs him down in front of the room, and his three sisters and the fighters of Heaven Temple are among the people watching.