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Simmering LoveShe was born into the Yan family and grew up in the Wen family as their adopted daughter, which left her with no proper place in either house. A marriage contract sent her to Shang Chen, a business tycoon.
Her birth parents kept their affection for the girl they had adopted in her place, and her adoptive mother sided with that girl and made things hard for her more than once. Her younger brother treated her as an enemy. Then Shang Chen put her behind him in front of all of them and said, "She is my wife, and no one shall wrong her."
A Love as Hot as SummerBai Qingmei read Zhou Sheng'an's patience with her as proof that he did not love her, and she broke off the engagement over it.
The engagement had been forced on her in the first place. She works as an independent photographer and did not want the restriction, so she laid down three rules for the arrangement and wrote him off as a dull older man, president of Hengtai Group or not. He worked at it quietly. He knelt to put her shoes on, made her brown sugar water, and learned to cook for her. The two of them held back and tested each other for a while, and the feeling came anyway.
What she could not get past was her mother's history and her own fear of an open arrangement, which turned his tolerance into indifference in her reading of it. After the separation Zhang Jiuwan came at her with the sort of attention that made her own feelings plain to her, and Zhou Sheng'an lost his temper and went after him with his fists. He followed her to Jingbei and asked her to marry him, and she put off giving him an answer.
A Duet of Happily Ever AftersZoey Seatter has one night with Adrian Morris and finds out a month later that she is pregnant. She met him while she was getting her sister Liza Seatter away from a man who beat her, and Adrian was there with his brother Franklin Morris, working as mercenaries.
She is about to end the pregnancy when Adrian turns up and asks her to marry him, and he takes both sisters back to his house. Living under one roof, Zoey works her way into Adrian's heart, and Franklin falls for Liza. A robbery at a jewellery store, prenatal classes, and Liza's ex being dealt with all follow.
UnbridledSuzie Johnston dies and wakes up back in the world she left, and works out that the world is a script. It is a cruel one, and her part in it is the character everything bad is done to. The misfortunes are not accidents; a screenwriter put them there. Suzie decides to go find the screenwriter and take the pen. She also goes looking for Felix Yates, the boy she loved before she died, who happens to be the male lead of the drama she is trapped in. Felix is gentle with her, attentive in a way nobody in the script was meant to be, and what starts between them is closer to a fairy tale than to anything the story had planned. He helps her get out from under the arrangements made for her, and she starts wanting to be alive again. The obstacles keep coming, since the script keeps writing them, and the two of them get through them side by side. Piece by piece Suzie pulls her own fate loose from the writer's hands.
You Are My AntidoteRoger Quinn came to Blair Nash carrying several psychological disorders, and over ten months of sessions he fell in love with her. The closeness cost her badly. She ended the relationship in a way calculated to be cruel, hoping it would keep him away, and then spent the next stretch of her life waiting for him to come back and make her pay for it. Two years passed with no word from him at all. She let herself believe it was over, met Jay Buck, and married him. Roger turned up on the wedding day. He took Jay, held him, and told Blair the condition for his release was a divorce. She agreed, because Jay's safety depended on it, and the arrangement put her back inside the thing she had spent two years escaping. Everything she did after that was aimed at getting out for good. She used to joke that she would take a seat on a rocket if it meant living somewhere Roger was not. When she finally worked out a method that would end it permanently and stood at the point of using it, she understood that the dependency ran both directions, and that she had built one of her own on him.
Te perdí, te encontréNi Wu spent three years in a relationship with Pei Huaiyu that had to be kept secret, because of pressure and lies coming from his niece. She left him while she was pregnant with twins. Of the twins, only the daughter is with her now.
Seven years after she left, she takes the girl to the hospital for treatment and runs into Pei Huaiyu there. At first he has nothing more than a feeling that he knows this woman from somewhere, and then he recognises her. From that point he sets out to win her back.
3-Month Fling? I Want Forever!Wen Xu and Zhou Lie agree on three months and an end date before anything starts. She is a lawyer from North City who came out to the island to clear her head after her career stalled, and he owns the guesthouse she is staying in. Somewhere in those three months they stop treating it as an arrangement and start trusting each other for real.
A friend of hers is wronged back home, so Wen Xu leaves the island earlier than she meant to. Zhou Lie follows her north and settles there, keeping an eye on her without saying that is what he is doing. The distance, the rivalries at her firm, pressure from family, and one test after another land on both of them.
The Villain Next DoorLim Suhyeon was born with everything and has never failed at anything. He runs the fashion brand Ridical and is hard on his secretary, Se-yeong, until the day he tells her she is the first woman he has ever felt anything for. She turns him down without hesitating.
He cannot accept being ignored by his own secretary, who is not interested in him and seems to actively dislike him. So he gives up the perfect image and moves into the apartment next door to hers. The line between work and private life is gone. The more she tries to avoid him, the more of her day he occupies.
Royal Romance, Secret ChildVictoria Taylor spent a night with Henry Stuart five years ago at a house in the pleasure quarter, without knowing he was the Emperor. She was the heir to a merchant family and she wanted a child of her own to hold her position with. By the next morning Charlotte Williams had claimed that night and taken the place in it that had been Victoria's.
The child was born. Five years on Victoria had a beauty formula of her own, and Charlotte wanted it to keep the Emperor's attention, so she had Victoria summoned back to the palace and lodged in one of the side pavilions. Victoria had to keep herself alive there. A man stopped her in a corridor and gave her a borrowed name, and he was the Emperor. In the Palace of Longevity the Empress Dowager took up the matter of the imperial line. There were threats against the boy. What had been said about that night came apart a piece at a time, and the question of who the boy's father was came out with it.
I Played the Game, He Claimed My HeartXia Jin grew up in the Xia house as the illegitimate daughter, and her stepmother and her sister Xia An'an put her down at every turn. She set out to hurt the family through the one thing her sister wanted, which was Si Yan, heir of the Si family and hard to deal with in business. She played fragile in front of him and got into his bed.
Si Yan saw the revenge plan for what it was and let her run it. He kept her at his side, broke her pride and then saw to the repairs himself, and for a man who held everyone else off he could not do it with her. Wanting, loving and hating ran together in both of them.
Xia Jin later found out that the game had been going on for ten years before she made her first move.
My CEO, My Miracle(Dubbed)The company Julie Lane's mother built is in other hands, and the way back to it runs through a marriage already agreed on. The man is Colin Jenkins, known around town as its number one playboy.
Julie has been working as an assassin and nobody who meets her knows it. She puts that down and puts on a different version of herself for Colin, delicate and cold and breakable. They marry within days, as arranged, and she sets about bringing him to heel.
Colin wants the fragile one from the first meeting. What comes through as they live together is the other one, and that is the one he cannot get away from.
The Warrior’s Blind WagerShen Mingzhu wanted love, and her circumstances gave her no way of going out to find it. Her mother died when she was young. Her father and her older brother were both killed in battle, and the shock of the news cost her her sight.
That left her with her father's clan, who were cruel to her and worked up a scheme to frame her and push her into a marriage on their terms. Around the same time she crossed paths with Yuwen Xiao, the Prince of Zhennan, a man known for being ruthless who was carrying a good deal of damage of his own.
She decided to take the risk. She would marry him and see whether love came out of it.
So Be It, the VillainessJiang Yanxue enters a novel as a villainess marked for execution and discovers that reforming herself still cannot save her from the prince. Reborn inside the story again, she accepts the role everyone assigned her and joins the mysterious Xiao Xianyun to take the prince down; their staged romance becomes real along the way. After returning to the modern world, Yanxue expects their story to be over until he appears at her job interview.
Love Turns Cold After SilenceTwo people were murdered and the Zhou family is connected to it. Their daughter Lin Yuxi was six then, and she grew up in a welfare home. Once she knows what the connection is she marries into the family, to the second son, Zhou Yanjing.
The marriage goes badly for reasons neither of them will say. Each of them has decided that the other is still holding on to a first love who was out of reach, so they keep apart and the secrets stay where they are. The misunderstandings come undone slowly.
Zhou Yanjing sets about winning his wife back after that. He has fireworks made that spell out her name, sets up a fake interview so that he can make his confession on it, and puts sensors on both their watches that register the distance between them.
Rules Were Never Her ThingLu Mingye wanted out of the Lu family and had no means of getting there. Ten years had gone into that house, none of the damage physical, and the family kept its hold. Duan Xiuming came along in the middle of it.
For a while Duan Xiuming was a means to an end. Lu Mingye ran the relationship toward the one thing it was for, which was separation from the family, and said whatever the situation called for. The part that did not fit the plan was the response. Duan Xiuming gave way on everything and believed Lu Mingye without ever asking for proof.
The two had come together out of straightforward attraction. Somewhere in the course of using it Lu Mingye stopped keeping count and fell for Duan Xiuming, and what held them after that was talent and spirit on both sides. Each of them came out of it in better repair than they went in.
My Favorite Model Is An Undercover BillionaireSong Xingye is a model with a good build who turns up at the right moment, and he is in fact a magnate. Li Zhinan does not know this. She is a fashion designer staging her own show to get close to Cesar, the richest man in Italy, and through him onto the international runways. The main garment is damaged shortly before the show opens. Li Zhinan takes the scissors to it herself, recuts it, and picks Song Xingye on the spot to close the show.
The show goes over well and the two of them begin to see each other. Li Zhinan takes the relationship for an exchange of money for company. It is a trap the man had set for her alone, and he played the harmless puppy to set it.
The Scent of My Fated LunaThe high school is divided between magic and fangs, witches on one side and werewolves on the other. One girl there is both, half witch and half werewolf, and she hides that in order to survive. The boy who is fated to be her mate is the future Alpha. He does not remember the bond the two of them had as children, and she does what she can to resist him. Another girl wants him for herself and is ready to destroy her to get him.
Against the Current, Toward YouSun Lu teaches at an elementary school and follows the rules, though she wants out from under them. A home visit she did not plan on takes her into the life of Chen Xudong, who runs an aquarium fish shop. She sees a man with a problem and a child. He looks at the obedient face she shows people and sees the same stubbornness and loneliness he has.
The prejudice wears off and they get closer, quietly, among the tanks. Then Sun Lu finds out that Chen Xudong has a past he cannot talk about. Their families come from different places, and the buried secret sits between them.
I Keep Dying, My Fox Keeps Chasing(Dubbed)Jiang Nuan is betrayed by her uncle's family and falls off a cliff, only to be saved by the millennia-old nine-tailed fox Yun Qi at the brink of death. Little does she know he is actually there to finish her off. After being killed and reborn three times, the exasperated Nuan kisses Qi, accidentally swallowing his inner core and altering her fate. Seeing his peerless beauty and immense power, she clings to this life-saving ally, flirting shamelessly to survive while using his power to reclaim her billion-dollar inheritance from her wicked uncle. When she discovers that his three murder attempts are actually acts of salvation, their love blossoms, turning the loop of death into a triumphant tale.
My Obsessive Younger LoverChi Heng is the younger of the two men in the Fu household's orbit, and his attachment to Sheng Shuran is not the kind that lets go. When she pulls away from him he arranges a car accident with himself in it, calculating that she will come back to his side if he is hurt badly enough. She does. Around that, the Fu family is carrying old grievances and running a business fight at the same time, and Chi Heng is on the losing end of both at the start. He works his way up from there, prying loose things the family kept quiet and using them, partly to settle scores and partly to clear the ground between himself and Sheng Shuran. The obstacles between them are family ones and commercial ones and they come down slowly, one at a time, as he gets stronger inside the fight.
Breaking Up with the Male LeadKang Hwan-hee is due to marry Lee Ho-won today, and the woman inside Hwan-hee's body wants no part of it. She is Ye-eun, the author of a romance novel called Cinderella's Love Method, which never sold well. She was uploading the final chapter when she found herself inside the story as Kang Hwan-hee, the villainess she had written. In the book Hwan-hee does a series of cruel things and comes to a bad end, and the marriage to Ho-won, the male lead, is the point where her misfortune begins.
Ye-eun knows all of this, so on the wedding day she shouts, "I want to break off this engagement!" Then the prenuptial contract comes up. Lee Ho-won's family runs the Kangho Group, and the contract with them sets the penalty for a broken engagement at 50 billion won.
Luv ClassHaru is thirty three and has never dated anyone. School left her badly bullied and she never got past it, so the only male in her home is her cat. She cleans out an old family house and finds a rolled up scroll, and unrolling it breaks a seal that has held for five hundred years. Out of it steps Ryu Gyeom, who in the Joseon era was the most sought after male gisaeng alive, and who cannot go free until the seal is undone properly. Haru wants something too. Sena, the girl who tormented her at school, is engaged to Cha Jihun, and Haru wants to take him. They make the trade: Ryu Gyeom becomes her instructor in seduction, drilling her in how to walk, speak and hold a man's attention, and she becomes the key to his release. Lessons run in her apartment, in bars, anywhere Jihun can be arranged to appear. Haru is a terrible student. Ryu Gyeom is patient in a way that has nothing to do with kindness, since his own freedom depends on her succeeding. Sena notices that the woman she used to push around is standing differently now.
Kissed the Ruthless LordThe condition Yu Xin is handed is that she kiss Chunyu Han or die on the spot. Chunyu Han is the eunuch the whole court steps around, and he is not a eunuch at all, though that is not general knowledge. She walks up to him in front of a crowd and kisses him, because the system that attached itself to her does not take questions.
She is inside a book. The body she woke up in belongs to a minor character written to lose her head over a man and to have her family wiped out along the way. Her first minutes there were the Crown Prince breaking off the engagement in public and hitting her across the face.
Chunyu Han is cold with people and takes to her anyway. Every point she adds to how content he is buys her more time alive, so she keeps at it, and she works on saving his family.
One-Night Stand With the Right ManJulian Ramsey comes home to break off an engagement he never wanted. The woman on the other side of it is Shelly Greene, whom he has already met without ever learning her name.
That was abroad. She got him out of trouble there, an aphrodisiac got into it by accident, and the two of them spent the night together.
Shelly needs the engagement to go ahead, because getting her family's company back depends on Julian agreeing to it. So she has to talk the man who came home to cancel it into keeping it. Neither of them knows who the other is, and they go on missing each other and falling out over it until the truth comes out and clears the misunderstandings.
A Rose Across the YearsIn Jingzhou, marriages between the ruling families are still arranged by the older generation to lock in political alliances. Fang Yun, a lawyer known in the courts for her sharp cross-examinations, is told by her family to marry Zhao Tingwen, a minister who controls much of the city's political machinery and is twelve years older than her, old enough that she
He Never Knew I Was the One All AlongQiao Yin married the man her family arranged for her, a doctor named Fu Tinglan she had hardly spoken to. She had agreed to the match after seeing Lu Jin'an sign a paper giving her up for the woman he had loved before her. Seven years deaf and unable to speak, she had kept her life arranged around Lu Jin'an until then.
The husband she had taken for a stranger was the man who had gone into a fire for her seven years earlier. Lu Jin'an found out afterwards that the money that had carried him through those years had come from Qiao Yin, and that she had been the only one who understood him through the deaf and mute years. She had stopped ordering her life around him by then.
Tempted by the Poisoned RoseLu Lin comes to Bai Yimo like a rescue. She is locked up in the Lu house as a stand-in, kept there because her face resembles the woman his elder brother Lu Jin once loved, and Lu Lin is the second son who approaches her on purpose. What he is actually doing is training her into a poisoned rose thorn for his own revenge against his brother.
The plan turns on him. He is the one playing the game, and he sinks into it, and she becomes both the disaster of his life and the thing that could redeem him. The three of them end up in the same arena of love and calculation, each using themselves as a playing piece.
Passionate LoveEmily Parker reunites with James Murphy, the heir she secretly loved. A game brings them closer, but his love games and ex entangle them. When he defends her, will their youthful love prevail?
Crypto Jackpot After Life FailureA discarded employee loses his marriage along with his career, then discovers forgotten cryptocurrency has made him rich. He uses the windfall to enter corporate power struggles with a precise objective: purchase the company that once threw him away.
Resists Servant？Craves Her Touch！The four great houses were supposed to be guarding the Four-Sided Cauldron, the vessel that held the country's fortune steady. A hundred years ago men inside those houses were working with the Japanese, and by the time it was in the open the war was everywhere. Ji Xue, daughter of the Yellow Emperor and the drought goddess Hanba, went into a long sleep in the old Qi mansion to keep the cauldron out of their hands. She is under a curse that will not let her die, and she keeps herself going on blood.
A century later Qi Wang, a son of the Qi family, is being hunted and hides in that same mansion. His blood wakes her. She tells him he is her servant now and her supply. He objects out loud and does not keep away from her.
The cauldron is taken again and the two of them go after it. On the way they turn up things the Qi family had kept quiet.
My Plot, My Husband, My WayJiang Yuman transmigrates into 'Marriage Spoiled in the 70s' as Fu Jingchen's vicious ex-wife. The original protagonist had an abortion and divorced when the Fu family went to the countryside. Jiang Yuman arrives at this exact moment and, considering the original plot, boldly changes her strategy to keep the handsome male lead and start a different married life. This short drama is adapted from the Tomato Novel 'Becoming a Vicious Ex-Wife and Pampered by the Whole Family,' authored by Beef Brisket Claypot Rice.
He Always Finds Me(Dubbed)Seventeen is where it starts over for Cecilia Walker. She is that age again with a whole life already behind her, and she remembers how that one went.
She had decided against repeating any of it. Noah Mitchell was one of the things she meant to leave alone, so she kept away from him and wanted no connection with a person like that. Noah closed the distance on his own, a step at a time, and would not let her out of it.
My Tycoon Needs PamperingBrenda Dixon and Micah Ford met while people were chasing them, and each of them got the other out of it. That is what put them in the same house.
Brenda is the daughter of a rich family and the heir to it. She looks like something that would break, and she does not. Micah is a tycoon's son who is cold to everyone. With Brenda he is soft and will not leave her alone, and she lets him be that way with her. Feelings grow out of the arrangement. The families around them are moving against each other for power, and the two of them keep the other covered through it.
Addicted to YouShen Qingli was in love with Gu Heng for eight years without telling him. They slept together once, and afterwards she asked him to pay her for the night, which is the part she came to regret most. He came back for more of it. The nights went on, and in daylight he passed her like a stranger.
Then an engagement was arranged for him, and Shen Qingli cut it off between them. She thought that was the end of it and that they could part quietly. Instead he took her back to the Gu house in Beijing. Old grudges in that family surfaced while she was there and the household came apart in a single night. Gu Heng, hurt, sent her away from it. After that he kept turning up wherever she had got into trouble, pulling her out of one thing after another, while she went on assuming she was a plaything he could put down whenever he wanted.
The Boss in My BodyFelix Hill is a devoted husband who showers Rosa Snow with endless love. He buys her a billion-dollar villa, a luxury car worth tens of millions, grants her a VIP bank card, dines with her at Micolin’s finest restaurants, and even supports her family—along with her first love, Jay Hunt. Yet, despite indulging in Felix’s wealth and generosity, Rosa keeps an ambiguous relationship with Jay, ultimately betraying Felix by giving him both his company and even his kidney.
The True Bride's Silent RevengeThe woman the household calls the warlord's wife is Su Lan. A year earlier she killed Su Ying's family and went to the wedding under Su Ying's name. Su Ying lived through it. She came back with a face nobody knew, took the name Shen Wanyin, and let everyone believe she could not speak.
Su Lan needed someone to carry a child for her and had the mute girl brought into the mansion. That is how Su Ying got inside, sworn to make the people who killed her parents pay for it.
What had taken hold of the warlord in the first place was Su Ying's voice and the mind behind it, and Su Lan had no way of producing either. He tells anyone who asks that he has one wife and loves only her. Su Ying, silent and close at hand, draws him in, and his body knows her before his eyes do. Su Lan sets about framing her and running her down inside the house.
From Heartbreak to Fated LoverMason Collins had a first love before Ava, and when that woman came back he told Ava what the last four years had been worth to him. She had been a pastime. He meant to marry the other woman and keep Ava out of sight on the side.
Ava had believed him for the whole four years. She left, and signed a contract marriage with Anderson Lauren, a man with money, on the understanding that it was an arrangement with terms and nothing else.
Anderson had been looking for her for years before the contract was ever drawn up, and the arrangement was his way of getting to her. Ava did not remember him at all. He put himself between her and whatever came at her while old business worked its way to the surface: people who wanted something from her, and an account of her childhood in which she was not simply an orphan with nobody behind her.
Shadows of Betrayal, Light of LoveNing Ziyu and Shen Jingyi poisoned Shen Nanqiao. Ning Ziyu was her husband, Shen Jingyi her half-sister. While she was dying, Ning Su reached her with fresh wounds on him. He was the eunuch who held power over the court, he had gone out for medicine that would save her, and he had been ambushed on the way. She learned then how long he had been in love with her.
She woke again on the day of her wedding to Ning Ziyu. In front of the guests she called off the match and said she would marry Ning Su instead. Ning Su agreed to it and took the scandal onto himself.
After the wedding he kept her out of harm's way and she went after anyone who spoke against him. They were looking into a case at a brothel when they came across an arrangement between the Empress, the Ninth Prince and Ning Ziyu to fix a charge on Ning Su and the Crown Prince. In the middle of that, Shen Nanqiao found out that Ning Su had never been a eunuch. He was a prince who had been living among ordinary people.
Mistaken Target, True Love FoundThe stunning director Xu Ni, after being cheated on by her scumbag boyfriend, sets out to “revenge date” her ex's cousin to humiliate him. But by accident, she ends up getting the scumbag’s legendary younger uncle, Fu Guidu, the “aloof Buddha” of the medical world… Xu Ni instantly panics, yet the younger uncle grabs her slender waist tightly: “Where do you think you're running after provoking me?"
The Secretary's Choice(Dubbed)Qiu Yu is Ji Xiangdong's secretary and the person he relies on to keep the company running. He puts everything into the work and has little to do with his own family. Qiu Yu has parents who dote on her, and she takes things as they come. The part of her life that has gone badly is love. She has been carrying feelings that were never returned, and what she wants is somebody who understands her. An ex-boyfriend keeps at her, her family gets involved in the matter, and the feelings Ji Xiangdong has kept under a cold manner begin to show. Qiu Yu makes her own choice about her happiness.
Pampering My RoseAdapted from the novel of the same name "How Can a Scheming Guy Not Have a Wife! Sweet Wife" by author Su Yutiao, hosted on Fanqie Novels. After witnessing her scumbag fiancé cheating on her with her stepsister, Wen Qiansu is also kicked out of the house by her scumbag father. On a rainy night, she faints in front of Mr. Huo's car. When she wakes up, she is shocked to see the infamous and handsome Mr. Huo gently serving her with a bowl of medicine. How can such a considerate guy be crazy? From then on, Mr. Huo becomes obsessed with her...
Sisters in VengeanceTwo babies were swapped at the hospital where they were born. Jiang Yiyi, the Jiang family's own daughter, was raised somewhere else, and Jiang Shuyi grew up in the Jiang house as the heiress.
Eighteen years later Jiang Yiyi came back. The household expected a fight over the parents' affection and over the inheritance, with Shuyi as the one who would have to be pushed out. Instead Yiyi attached herself to Shuyi from the day she arrived and stayed there.
Shuyi took a while to believe any of it. As the two of them lived alongside each other she came to accept that Yiyi meant it, and they started working together against the people who had been going after them.
Fated with the Alpha CEONoel Snow turns four and starts showing symptoms nobody around him can account for. They take him for a monster and shut him away. His mother, Sylvia Snow, had him after a night five years earlier under a full moon, when she was drunk, went into the wrong room and slept with a man she had never met. That man, Eric Payne, turns up while Noel is locked up and gets him out. Eric is a werewolf, and what has been happening to Noel comes from that.
Playing Innocent, Winning His HeartSophie Stone got into bed with Victor Hayes to settle a score with the woman she was competing with, who is his niece. Victor is the money behind a large business house, and everyone around Sophie assumed that a girl her own family treated as a burden would be skinned alive for provoking him.
That is not how he handled it. He kept her, paid for her, and said in front of people who had known him for years that his support went to Sophie regardless of who was in the right.
The trouble came out of her own household. Her half-sister set her up, which put Sophie in the middle of the quarrel between the Stone family and the Hayes family, over business and over who was ending up with whom. There was a prize Sophie had won that she was accused of not having earned, and the accusation stood until the facts about it came out, along with the facts about where Sophie actually came from.
Hearts Through the HazeWen Ning was eighteen when she started seeing Mu Tangsheng, a man under her father's command and eight years older than her. They kept it going in secret for ten years. Then her older brother was killed in battle and her father fell seriously ill, and she asked Mu Tangsheng to marry her, to settle her father's mind and her brother's spirit. It was the tenth time she had asked. He turned her down again and took up with Ye Wanxin, a childhood friend his own age.
She made no scene about it this time. She knelt in front of the Buddha and drew a lot, and the lot gave her Zhou Ye, a mercenary captain with a bad name. She set the wedding for the soonest date she could get.
From Probation to Proposal: Triplets with the CEOHuo Zhining spends the night with a woman he cannot afterwards identify, because someone had slipped a drug into his glass at a company function and he remembers almost none of it. The woman is Lin Xi, an intern in his own building. She grew up in a village, got into the finance program at one of the country's best universities, and took the job to pay for her mother, whose Alzheimer's has reached the point where she sometimes does not recognise her daughter. Lin Xi has no connections at the company, which is why her probation kept getting extended while colleagues with family in the industry were confirmed.
Two days later the notice comes through that she has been made permanent. She assumes the two things are connected and that she has traded her body for the position, so she says nothing about that night and arranges her days around not being in the same room as him. It does not work. She is put on his projects, sent up to his floor, kept in his sightline.
Then she finds out she is two months pregnant, with triplets, and that whatever passed between them has left the two of them physically linked in a way neither can explain: he wakes up nauseous in the mornings she does. Huo Zhining works out who she is, moves her into his house, and starts behaving like a man with a wife to look after, while Lin Xi is still carrying the belief that her job was bought and not earned.
Trouble in DisguiseStella Clark hires Marcus York to wreck her mother's remarriage. She takes him for a college student with no money and an eight-pack, which is what he looks like and not what he is. He has money on a scale her billionaire mother never touched, and Stella goes years without finding that out.
The plan does not end where she wanted it. Her mother dies and the family fortune goes with her. Marcus comes out of it as Stella's guardian and the heir to what is left, which she reads as a man who used a woman to climb, and she says so to his face.
Nine years before, he had told her he would look after her until she was grown and married. She takes that as a duty he is working off. "Since it isn't you, it doesn't matter who I marry," she tells him. He goes on pulling her out of one bad situation after another and keeps what he feels for her behind the same flat manner.
You're My Reason the Sky Is BlueAmelia Baker is carrying triplets and does not tell the father. The father is Daniel Wood, who runs the Wood Group and who slept with her once. Keeping it from him does not hold, because the Wood men can feel it when a child of theirs is coming, and Daniel knows before she says anything.
Before that night she had come to the city from a village and was on probation at the company, where the director made her days difficult and her birth family kept turning up to take what she had. She was kept on as permanent staff after the night with Daniel.
Once he knows about the pregnancy, Daniel changes how he behaves towards her. He deals with the people setting traps for her at work, and he goes at her family over what they have been taking from her.
Love, Signed & SealedRaina Mills sells fish and gets into a marriage with Wade Lewis that is set out in a contract, which leaves her none of the standing of a wife and no claim on him past what is written down. She works on that. She flatters him constantly, spreads talk that works in her favour, and over time she has his trust and his preference over everyone else around him.
They tell each other how they feel, and then she takes a blow to the head. The memories she had lost before the marriage come back with it, including who she is, and Wade goes out of it completely. She does not know him.
He starts again from nothing. He pretends he has gone blind so she will stay near him, plays helpless where that works on her, and uses whatever else comes to hand to get her back.
Pampered by My Silver Fox UncleJane Young, eldest princess of the Vermilion Kingdom, was fifteen on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony. Her soul left her body during it and woke in the body of an eight-year-old girl in the present day.
That girl had been swapped with another infant at birth and was the household's real daughter. Her family kept her at a distance and gave the other girl the attention, and she died of hunger.
Jane laughed once she understood the situation. A father is supposed to be kind and a child dutiful, she said, and since this one was not kind she would go and get another. She picked out a man the whole neighborhood wrote off as useless. She had been a princess of an imperial house, and she took the view that a grown layabout would not be much trouble to bring into line.
When Forever Drifted ApartHuo Sihan, the richest man in Yuncheng, was in a car accident and did not come out of the coma. Chi Wan looked after him for three years under an assumed name, and nobody around him knew she was the doctor people call C.
He wakes up and goes back to thinking about his first love. Chi Wan is holding two marriage certificates by then. She takes the hurt of it and turns away from him, to Huo Nan. She marries again. What she had kept quiet about herself comes out, and she deals with the people who had worked against her. Huo Sihan, who understands by then what he did, starts the long work of trying to get his wife back.
Here's to One Night and a LifetimeLin Yuan gets drunk one night and walks into the wrong room. It belongs to Fu Mingxiu, one of the powerful men in Beijing's entertainment circles, and she spends the night with him. The next day she goes to the hospital for a physical and finds him there as well. He passes himself off as a doctor so he can examine her, and while she is sitting in front of him he arranges to see her again.
Lin Yuan assumes that squares things between them and that she is done with him. Fu Mingxiu keeps coming back. Her problems get handled before she has to deal with them, and when people bully her he settles it on her behalf. She has been telling him all along that she has a boyfriend. Once he works out there is no boyfriend, he stops holding back and goes after her openly.
The Villainess Turned DarlingSelena Logan wanted to get through her first day in the novel without being noticed. She had been reading a CEO romance, got hit on the head, and woke up inside it as a spoiled heiress from the capital's elite circle, the kind everyone in the book knows as love-obsessed and naive. She lives with a scheming cousin, Yasmin, and three brothers who are ruthless and hard to read.
Day one went wrong immediately. She threw up on the male lead's hand and then washed the hand off with hot water. She drank the love potion that had been prepared for Yasmin. In a lift she ran into a man she did not know, greeted him, and spent the night with him.
They met again at a birthday banquet. He was Louis Johnson, heir of the Johnson family, the cold one everyone in that room is afraid of.
My One-Night Lover Is My Contract HusbandEmily Green returns home only to be greeted by an unexpected gift from her mother—a marriage certificate. Rumor has it her husband is a total jerk. Determined to get a divorce, she accidentally spends the night with a charming escort, only to discover he's actually her mysterious husband!
Wrong Wedding Room, Right Groom!Two families settled their alliance with a double wedding. Eliza Devin, who runs her own company and is used to being the hardest person in any room, was matched with the head of the Nott family, a man known for cold decisions and short answers. Her younger sister Katie was matched with his younger brother, a movie star whose face is on half the billboards in the city. The four of them went through the ceremony on the same day, in the same house, with the two bridal suites down the same corridor. That night the sisters walked into the wrong rooms. Nobody caught the error in time, and by morning Katie had spent the night with the elder brother and Eliza with the younger. The families gathered to work out what could be undone and concluded that very little could. So the paperwork was redone instead of the marriages. The sisters traded contracts and stayed where the mistake had put them. Katie, who had prepared herself for a husband who lived in front of cameras, found herself married to a man who barely speaks at dinner. Eliza, who had braced for a cold house, got the brother everyone recognises on the street.
I Came Back for YouLucian Foster was adopted into the Foster family as a child so that his blood would be on hand for Adrian. The two of them grew up inside that arrangement, and what came out of it ran between beatings and protection in both directions. Lucian holds the Foster Group now. Adrian is the heir on the paperwork, a sculptor who keeps a mild face on in front of his brother.
Adrian's biological father, Vincent Chase, faked his death years ago and is still alive. He keeps Lucian on a poison, and that is who is actually running the company through him.
Skyler Sullivan puts venture money into companies, and she noticed the Foster Group's stock moving in ways it should not. When she came to look into it, Adrian let her see the broken version of himself, on the calculation that a woman who takes things apart would want to take him on as well. The two of them began shorting the company's stock together. Then a car crash took Adrian's memory, and in the gap the childhood between him and Lucian came back.
Kill Cinderella’s ScriptSong Zhenxing worked out that she was a supporting character in someone else's story, one of the ones written to die early, and she stopped behaving like it. A man her family matched her with tried to make her the other woman in his life and she stabbed him. Her relatives moved on the family company and she took the shares back off them, with her brother alongside her. Her mother kept arranging more matches, so she hired a man of her own instead, a twenty-year-old named Lu Zheng, who did as he was told and asked for nothing.
He stayed pliant for as long as it suited him. She woke one day somewhere she did not recognize, with Lu Zheng standing over her, smiling, and nothing gentle left in his face. He was the fiancé her family had settled on for her before any of it, and he had spent the whole arrangement letting her think she was the one who had hired him.
Doctor's Orders, Your HighnessA woman from the 21st century, heir to a family of traditional physicians, wakes up in an unfamiliar dynasty and is taken for someone she is not. Facing nobles who use rank to push people around, she decides the safest course is to attach herself to the most powerful patron she can find, and practice medicine under his protection.
The patron is a prince who holds enormous power and whose name is known across the empire. His legs are diseased and he cannot walk. He keeps women away from him and treats them as a contagion.
At their first meeting she tells him to take off his clothes. "How dare you," he snaps. She holds up her silver needles and asks how she is supposed to treat him otherwise. His face stays cold, and his ears turn red. After that he begins quietly wanting to take the shameless woman home with him.
The Childhood Friend I Couldn't ResistThe reason Ian Warren gave for marrying Alice Clare on a few days' notice was invented. He had been looking for her for eighteen years, he had just found her, and he was afraid she would go missing a second time, so he produced a pretext that would hold and had the wedding done.
He had been a sick child once, sent out of Granton to the countryside to recover, and a girl he met there kept at him until he agreed to the operation. It worked. They set a day to meet again, and on that day Alice was gone and nobody could say where.
After the wedding Ian, by then the richest man in Granton, kept her comfortable and gave her whatever she wanted, on the understanding that he was the one arranging everything. He worked out later that Alice had walked into the trap knowing it was one. She had been planning her way toward the same marriage since the countryside.
The Charming Killer with a Soft HeartQu Xiaoan was almost killed in a car accident orchestrated by her husband Lu Qinian's half-brother. Through immense effort and sacrifice, Lu Qinian finally rescued her. Although Qu Xiaoan survived, her memories of the past trigger neural responses that lead to coma. Everyone urged Lu Qinian to give up, but he remained steadfastly by her side, caring for the amnesiac Qu Xiaoan.