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Love Across Three LifetimesThe snake spirit sisters Tracy and Sharon share one body. A century ago, Tracy loved the cultivator Robert, but their wedding was attacked. In the present, Tracy awakens to find Sharon dying. To save her, she must seduce Robert's current incarnation—a disciple of asceticism. Their forbidden love rekindles, but they become pawns in a sinister plot by Robert's master, William, whose obsession with Sharon threatens them all.
Heart on Fire, Eyes on HimA student went down on the floor on purpose, lost the pregnancy, and said Wendy Sander had pushed her. Wendy was the heiress of the richest family in Lyndale. Her grandfather had adopted four boys and told her to take one of them as a husband, and after he died the four attached themselves to the student and signed over to her what belonged to Wendy. On the student's word they had Wendy's womb taken out. Wendy's first life ended on the operating table.
She wakes before any of it has happened and agrees to the marriage her family had in mind, to Logan Fowler, an officer from a military family. Both sides treat it as an arrangement. Wendy takes the property back. The four brothers back the student's claim that Wendy stole her work and put it about, and the claim comes apart with everyone watching. On the day of the wedding all four of them turn up to marry the student, and Logan handles them.
Falling for You, Star-CrossedFive centuries ago, Ji Shichuan sacrificed his life's spirit pearl to save his beloved, Yun Xi, but the pearl has since fused with her heart, leaving his own life fading. As the Blood Moon approaches, Ji Shichuan plans to exchange lives with her to survive, a process that would require her willing sacrifice. As their destinies intertwine and they fall in love once more, they face an impossible choice between his survival and her life.
Sleeping Beauty's RevengeStella comes back to the Lawsons as their daughter, and Luna, who was adopted and grew up with three brothers who doted on her, becomes the stand-in. She is blamed for things she has not done and the house takes Stella's side each time. The eldest brother is running a study on long sleep and Luna signs on as a volunteer for it. Before she goes under she donates her corneas to the brother who is blind. The sleep is set at thirty years. Once she is gone the Lawsons learn that Luna was the daughter they had lost and that Stella had been passed off as her, and the three brothers are left with what they did to her. She wakes at the end of the thirty years with nothing of her life before it.
My Magic LunaThe packs are led by alphas, and the Moon Goddess decides which of them are bonded to each other. Rylee is descended from an alpha herself, but in the Half Moon Pack she lives as a servant. Ash, the alpha there, has been given her as his bond and refuses it, and he bullies her instead.
On her eighteenth birthday Wyatt, the alpha of the Blue Lake Pack, pulls her out of another such incident. After that Ash is no longer willing to let her go. The Moon Goddess and Rylee's own wolf spirit lead her to a power she did not know she had, and the discovery brings danger with it.
One Night to Forever LoveSu Nian wants the marriage behind her. Her husband betrayed her, and once the divorce is done she goes to a bar to drink and to mark the start of being single. The man she meets there is Qin Zhengnan, and the two of them spend the night together. He is the uncle of the man she has just divorced, and he is the most secretive tycoon in the city. What she believes about him is that he is a rich family's idle son.
Misplaced LoveAnnie takes on a surrogacy contract to clear her debts. The implantation is done wrong and the wrong man's sperm is used, and when this comes out the couple who hired her refuse to pay the final installment. She goes looking for the biological father to ask him for the money. That man is Jason, a billionaire who had no idea a surrogate was carrying his child. Their early meetings go badly and neither of them gets the full story from the other. Catherine works on the misunderstandings from one side, and Annie's ex-boyfriend keeps turning up on the other, until Annie and Jason stop believing anything the other says. With her family's finances collapsing, Annie books a termination. Jason learns by then that she is the surrogate carrying his child and regrets how he has treated her. Annie walks out of the operating room before the procedure and the truth about the implantation comes out.
Bluffing to the TopChen An, a street scavenger, gains a "bluff-comes-true" system. After selling bottles for 50 million but being robbed by Wang Qiang, a boast that he's Xiao LingLong's husband comes true. Xiao LingLong, saved by Chen An, falls for him. They get engaged, anger local elites, and overcome all obstacles.
Forbidden Touch: Taming My StepfatherIvy was twenty-one and studying art. She wanted Sebastian, who ran a technology company and had come into her family as her stepfather. A marriage contract got her into his house, and once she was living there she set about drawing him in. He had an IPO in front of him at the time. Between the company and what she was asking of him, he had to pick one.
Then it came out. Ivy left the house and dropped out of sight. Sebastian gave up his standing to look for her, and the search ran on from country to country.
Pregnant with My Nemesis’ Brother’s BabyBurleigh Yarnell was carrying a cold toxin. It had made him infertile, and the doctors had told him he would not live past forty.
Nollan married him anyway. Before that, her boyfriend had taken up with a wealthy heiress and pushed Nollan off a roof. She came back to life and went straight for the heiress's brother, who was Burleigh, and she told him the infertility and the short life were not problems.
A month into the marriage she was nauseous, and the doctor told Burleigh his wife was expecting.
Reborn to Love My Baby DaddySophia Lewis learns she's pregnant the day her firefighter husband dies. His diary reveals he has loved her since 2007, before their marriage. Her tears fall on the pages, and she's reborn to the day they met, still pregnant.
Left to Zombies, Now Their King Claims MeAfter being betrayed and left to a zombie horde, an amnesiac named Miles finds refuge in Shelter Eleven, only to be imprisoned by Gabriel, a terrifying mutant who claims him as his own. Gabriel, who remembers Miles's past, becomes his fierce protector while forcing him to choose between staying in the shelter or facing the hellish world outside. Though Miles remembers nothing, he finds himself bound to the monster who calls himself a god.
Wrath of the Zeus's SonHe is a lowborn bastard of mixed blood who is entering the sacred Trials, which is the one route by which someone in his position can change what happens to him. The academy and the imperial nobility mock him for it. His father is a noble, and his half-brother was born legitimate.
His hidden power starts to show during the Trials. Rather than let that be seen, his half-brother and his father move to have him executed in public and put the matter to rest. He is at the point of death when the pendant that seals his divine power cracks under the pressure. Zeus's Divine Envoy comes down to pass judgment on the empire, and the nobles go to their knees asking to be spared.
He's Done Being NiceJason Hayes wakes into a second run at his own life. In the first one he was timid, took every insult without answering, and gave up whatever anyone demanded. This time he decides he will be the villain. He is a waiter in a restaurant when he starts, and he moves up through the criminal side of the city from there, beating the people who used to push him around and matching wits with his father-in-law, who runs the underworld and is treated as its emperor. Jason keeps one rule and repeats it: anyone who touches his people will have no place left in the city. Each step up raises what he stands to lose, and the choices in front of him stop having a way back. Going from a coward to a man nobody dares approach turns out to be a road paved with blood and other people's schemes, and Jason learns that when he stops stepping aside, everyone else does.
Oops, I'm the Heroine NOW!Wanda Nord wakes up inside the CEO romance she wrote herself, cast as the supporting woman the story blames for things she did not do. Her parents and her brother are there with her, as the rich family of the book. The four of them had been eating hotpot in the cramped old apartment they shared when the gas went up.
Wanda knows the plot. In it her family offends the heroine, Stacy Langdon, and comes to a bad end for it. To stay alive and keep the money now sitting in front of them, the family decides to keep Stacy happy. Stacy appears to accept the flattery and works with her brother against them anyway. Wanda has the script in her head and defuses each crisis before it reaches her. She tries to call off her engagement to Yale Lake to get further out of the way, and the attempt comes out as a public announcement of the marriage instead. She goes along with it, keeps holding off Stacy and her brother, and gets on better terms with Yale as the marriage runs.
Wildfire Between UsWildfires are burning across Los Angeles, and Liam is one of the firefighters working them. His marriage to Natalie, a novelist, was signed as a contract, and while the fires spread it starts to come apart. There are misunderstandings between them, then a betrayal, then moments when their lives are on the line.
As the flames move closer, Liam works out what he actually feels for Natalie. She goes back over what the marriage has been to her while she is still hurting. Someone has been plotting against them as well, and they end up dealing with that together in the middle of the disaster.
No More Chances, No More MeVictor Bennett's fiancée asked him on her deathbed to look after Amelia Porter. Victor then protected Amelia for seven years without telling her. He cleared the way for each step of her career and paid whatever it cost. Amelia credited each of these breaks to Kenneth Doyle. She took Victor for a stalker who would not leave her alone, and over those years she hurt him and humiliated him repeatedly. Victor staged his own death and disappeared. After he was gone, Amelia found the evidence of what he had done during the seven years.
Daddy's Little Healer(Dubbed)Cherry grew up in the mountains and learned to work with needles there. A man of the Gordon family climbed up looking for the living immortal who was supposed to be able to lift the curse that had run in his family for a hundred years. He collapsed on the way and Cherry brought him round. He heard how she was living and took her back down to the Gordon house.
On her first day in the city she pulled a Gordon man out of the path of a car. The family took to her after that. When the old head of the house was dying she treated him with needles, and one of the Gordon women accused her of working a fraud on him. The old man woke up, and Cherry's name went around fast.
A woman who had been put out by all this listened to that same Gordon woman and hired the head of the beggars' guild to get rid of her. He and his men watched her bring a patient back from the point of death, gave it up, and started calling her their boss. At a seminar on traditional medicine an elder of the field talked down to her until he saw her put the needles in, and he bowed in front of everyone and asked to study under her. She carried a crescent mark, which was the sign the living immortal was said to have. The Gordon she had pulled away from the car had taken her as his daughter, and he spent his time keeping the rest of them, the beggars' guild and the old physician included, away from her.
One Night Stand... To ForeverDue to her unique profession as a forensic doctor, Vivian was looked down upon by her boyfriend. After breaking up with the scumbag boyfriend, she went to a bar to drown her sorrows, only to accidentally sleep with the scumbag's uncle!
Vivian said, "I was a forensic doctor, and others said I smelled like corpses."
Wayne replied, "Exactly, I was a businessman, and people said I smelled like money. We matched in our 'odors,' and neither of us needed to disdain the other. How about we just get a marriage certificate?"
The Runaway CEO Wife Has Two BabiesReuniting with his ex-wife forces a man to admit the love he denied after their divorce. He has stayed away from other women, and now recognizes that his emotional and physical attachment is to her, not the first love he thought mattered most.
Genius Heiress Born to Win(Dubbed)Moon Suyeon, a poor top student, discovers she's actually the heiress of a Seoul conglomerate—but her family favors the fake heiress and treats her coldly. Unbothered, she pursues Seoul's elite education, studies relentlessly, becomes the national top scorer, and enters a SKY League university.
Done Loving the Wrong GirlYe Tian spends eight years loving Qin Yiqing while her inseparable bond with Zhang Hanzhi repeatedly pushes him aside. His final hope collapses when she abandons the day of his planned proposal the moment Zhang calls. At last, Ye Tian ends the relationship he once fought so hard to begin.
Kiss Of Power, Endless DesireSkylar Ellis is a commercial lawyer with awards to her name, and she is digging into an arson case because that is how she can save her sister, who is seriously ill. On the way she meets Zion Baldwin. He was born outside his father's marriage, he is fighting for a share of the family property, and he wants his mother's name cleared.
Each of them starts out using the other. The arrangement holds as long as their interests run together. Feelings get into it, and the case they are both working turns into a fight between them.
Deadly Divas: Seduce my Billionaire EnemyHanna and Brooke, betrayed by their loved ones and locked in a psychiatric hospital, escape the nightmare together. Bonded by their shared pain, they devise a daring plan for vengeance—seduce their enemies and destroy those who wronged them. United by their strength and a thirst for justice, Hanna and Brooke refuse to let betrayal define their futures.
The Face-Blind Billionaire's Mermaid MaidFugitive mermaid princess Layla hides in human society as a household maid. Her employer is Damian, the face-blind billionaire with whom she once shared an unforgettable night, leaving him unable to recognize the woman now beside him. Their growing attachment must survive her concealed nature and the marriage his family has arranged.
The Godless Strongman Hercules Rules the WorldZeus abandons powerless infant Heracles as a disgrace at the foot of Olympus. Odin finds the child while searching for a successor and raises him as the chosen heir to Asgard. Twenty years later, Heracles returns to his birthplace carrying the sole token of his origin just as Loki drives the Asgardians toward a war Olympus may not survive.
Puck Perfect: My Sex Education TutorArt student Olivia discovers that Liam, the campus playboy, secretly creates adult content. They pose as lovers to protect his identity, testing each other while standing together against bullying. Their performance becomes sincere just as a lethal blackmailer gains the power to destroy Liam.
The Eight-Year-Old CaptainEthan Cole spent his first life in aviation and died at the end of it with a name known across the country. He came back in the body of an eight-year-old, on Flight 8236, the flight he had once taken with his father. He knew what the flight did: it went down and no one on board walked away.
At 9,000 metres the fire started along the wings. The fuselage split and the freezing air came in. The passengers around him began to panic. Ethan was the only person on the plane who knew what was coming next. He had a child's body and had to stop the crash and get his father out.
From Nobody to the Heir of a FortuneBillionaire Ethan Reed returns home after learning he has only a month to live, determined to make amends with his estranged daughter and grandson, Ethan Reed. He wants his grandson to inherit his empire, but family wounds run deep. As Ethan rises in the business world with Sofia Hayes by his side, he joins his grandfather to uncover the truth behind his father's death. In the end, justice is served, the family reconciles, and Ethan inherits the empire.
Slam Dunked By My Rival StepbrotherOliver Hayes is the guard his team relies on, and he keeps himself under control on the court and away from it. Jace has just become his stepbrother. Jace is arrogant and quick with his hands, and Oliver hates him more than anyone.
Jace holds him down by force, over and over, and needles him on purpose. The body Oliver has hidden so carefully starts working against his own reason under the pressure, and he sinks into wanting Jace with no way back out of it.
Claimed by His Vampire StepbrotherLiam moves into the mansion of his new family, hoping for somewhere safe to live. The house also holds Silas, a stepbrother who treats him like prey. Silas likes games that hurt, and Liam pushes back every time.
One night, late, armed killers break into the house. Silas bares a set of fangs and changes into a monster in front of Liam to get him out alive. The stepbrother who has been tormenting him is a vampire, and the thing he is addicted to is Liam's blood.
From Mudblood to Atlantis' OwnerAtlantis allows only mermaids of god blood to live. Anyone born mudblood is crushed at birth. Rosalie is a princess and she is mudblood, alive because her mother used dark magic to cover it up.
The cover held until the day Rosalie gave birth, when her husband Xavier found out what she was and killed her by his own hand. She is reborn. She refuses Xavier and marries a slave who cannot speak, and the court takes this as evidence that she has lost her mind. The slave carries pure god blood, which is the rarest and strongest line in Atlantis.
Secret Marriage Swap, The War God’s Late RemorseSomeone pulled Perseus out of danger when he was a child, and he grew up sure it had been Leah. The gratitude turned into something else as he got older. By then he was engaged to Cassandra, a Titaness, and Leah was Cassandra's stepsister. Five years into the engagement he was in love with Leah and willing to let Cassandra die if that was what kept Leah safe.
Cassandra finds this out by accident. She agrees without argument to a swap of the marriages and takes Leah's place as the bride of Abel, the cursed son of Hades.
On the wedding day Perseus works out that the bride has been changed, and none of it makes him glad. What he had taken for love was gratitude, and he had aimed it at the wrong person, because Cassandra was the one who saved him. Over the five years he had fallen for Cassandra without noticing. She is already Abel's wife when he understands it.
She's Married, I'm JealousAs a powerful figure in Beijing's elite circles, Gu Yizheng falls in love with a married woman. Although it's a contract marriage, Jiang Lixia's marital status brings many complications. Despite his intense feelings, her words, "Don't act recklessly," force Gu Yizheng to restrain himself. From then on, the young master's daily life is either on the path of jealousy or sprinting down it.
Seduced by My Boyfriend’s UncleLiam lets Ciel Frost believe he is the man who saved him years ago. Liam is Marco Kingsley's nephew, and the one Ciel is thinking of is Marco.
Ciel is a musician who went blind. What got him through it was Marco, a director whose love for him left him almost no room. A plot against them separates the two, and by the time Ciel has his sight back, Liam is standing where Marco was.
Three years later Marco returns with money and a hold over the people around Ciel. He comes in as the main investor behind Ciel's work and as an elder of the family, and he does not say who he is. Ciel hears him breathing close by and feels his hand, and the memory returns at once. What Liam told him about the past stops holding.
The Soccer King: My AI-Powered EyeArthur Wilde was called the King of Soccer. He would not throw matches for the Sterling family, who ran that side of the sport, and they killed him for it. He was dying when he gave his eight-year-old son Jace his AI contact lenses and told him to stay off a football pitch for the rest of his life.
Jace spent the next twelve years under a name that was not his. He got as far as ball boy at Velocity Club, the bottom job there, and the club was sliding. When the Sterlings moved in to take it over, Jace put the lenses in and played.
With the lenses working, everything in front of him moves along a line he can read before it happens. He measures the shift in an opponent's weight as it starts and walks the ball into the box. His talent gets noticed, which he had not arranged for.
Sienna Sterling made a deal with him behind her brother Alister's back. Jace would take Velocity to the championship, and what Alister had done would come out with it. He played through a torn Achilles tendon and a cracked fibula, referees who had been paid off, and people who came for him between matches.
Farewell My Mafia Boss LoverThe protagonist, Nolan Miller, appears to be a "plaything" chosen by mob boss Marshall Graves, but he harbors a shocking secret—five years ago, his name was Vincent Morley, a boy Marshall took from an orphanage and doted on. Discovering Marshall's changing lovers, Vincent escaped but was involved in a serious car accident, disfiguring his face. After plastic surgery, he returned as Nolan, vowing revenge.
Nolan successfully gets close to Marshall, gradually gaining his trust and infatuation through his similar temperament and habits to Vincent. Meanwhile, he teams up with Leo, a football player framed by Marshall, to steal the "black box" containing evidence of Marshall's crimes.
After enduring imprisonment, torture, kidnapping, and gunfights, Nolan finally exposes Marshall's criminal network, leading to his disgrace and disappearance. Nolan also lets go of his past obsessions and begins a peaceful and happy new life with Leo.
His Boyfriend Kissed Him Goodnight and Lied by MorningEvidence links Damian to the massacre from which he rescued his lover Sebastian three years earlier. The bodyguard leaked information under threat to his captive sister, a truth brought by Sebastian's newly revealed half-brother Caleb. After years on the run together, the lovers must confront that betrayal while joining forces against the rival family.
Bride of Vengeance: Blood Debts of the CrownHuo Zhaohua comes into the Xia palace playing a girl who has seen nothing of the world, timid and easy to talk over. Underneath, she is careful and hard. Her older sister Huo Junhua taught her medicine and poisons, and she knows how to get at what people want.
Consort Rong is the emperor's favourite and does not care to share him. She had a quarrel with Huo Junhua before any of this, and she takes one look at the face on the new arrival and starts looking for a way to put her down in public. She hands Zhaohua a painting of ink jade peonies she has never managed to finish and tells her to finish it.
Zhaohua takes the work. She mixes her own blood into the pigment and paints with that. Everyone watching is shocked by it, and so is the emperor Zhou Yan, who has been in the room without being seen.
When the Immortal AwakensOnce a True Immortal, Lu Ming is punished for his misdeeds and reborn as the head of the Lu family. The family's survival depends on his wife Lin Qingxue, who was born with the chosen dual-cultivation body. Once weak and ridiculed, Lu Ming now vows to restore the family's honor, no matter the cost.
Boss to BrideHe Tianming had been with Li Qianni through university, and when they graduated she left him for a post at Tianyun Group. He had been raised on very little by his parents, who never told him how much money they actually had. He took work at Tianyun himself. Li Qianni was already inside the company, and she and Chen Feng set about making the job hard for him.
On his first day he helped an elderly woman, Grandma Ouyang. Within days he was married to her granddaughter Ouyang Mingfei, who ran the company. He was a new hire married to the head of the firm and he raised divorce over it more than once. Li Qianni and Chen Feng kept working on him at the office. In time he stopped bringing up the divorce and stayed in both the marriage and the job.
The Dragon's Contract BrideAnastasia married Dmitri and used her magic to put him on the dragon throne. He and her own sister turned on her, and she was left in prison, where she cast a forbidden spell as she was dying.
Humans and dragons live alongside each other. Dragons can take human shape but turn violent, and they need the magic of human women to hold the frenzy down, so the candidates for Dragon Lord make marriage contracts with the daughters of the strong magic families. Anastasia was born into one of those families with a great deal of magic, which is why Dmitri came to her.
The spell puts her back on the night before Dmitri proposes. She has the whole of the first life in her memory, and she intends to break the contract instead of signing it and to go after the people who destroyed her.
Sapphire in the WastelandThe tyrant Malak wants an endless supply of water, and he sends General Kael to capture the siren princess Sira so she can lead him to its source. Kael takes her and they travel together. Along the way the hostility between them turns into something else. Sira tells him what Malak did: he killed her people and sealed off the water source because he was after immortality. Kael stops believing in the man he serves and joins the rebellion at Sira's side. The rebellion is beaten. Afterwards Sira gathers the Salt Crystal Warriors, the Phantom Flame Warhorses and the Yinglong dragon and takes that army against Malak, breaks open the water source, and becomes Queen of the sirens.
Don’t Mess with the Billionaire MotherWhen Emily Howard—heiress to the most powerful dynasty in the land—storms into her daughter Lily’s preschool, ready to crush the bullies tormenting her girl, she slams headfirst into a secret that blows her world apart: her husband David has been leading a double life, with another woman, Sarah, and their son Ethan—a child who shares her daughter’s last name. But the outrage doesn’t stop there.
Love-Blinded, She Erases Her PastLi Chunmei and her daughter Wang Wanwan run the Wang household after the death of Yu Zhixia's mother. Wang Wanwan is pleasant in company and works against Yu Zhixia in private, and the half-brother Wang Hanyong wants her out of the family altogether. Yu Zhixia, once the Wang family's princess, spends those years fixed on Lu Chengxiu, who is good-looking and vain and treats her carelessly. She forgives him each time, thinking she can take the place of the woman he had before.
A car accident takes her memory. She comes out of it calm and hard to move, wants a divorce, and sets about getting the family property back and rebuilding her career. She works her way up to running the Zhixing Group. Lu Chengxiu, confused by what she has become, starts pursuing her, and the more she refuses him the further in he goes. He works out that his own neglect did the damage.
He's Done Letting Her GoLiu Xu has unusual physical strength. She was engaged to a man she had grown up with, and on the day of the engagement he handed her over to someone else. Rong Yanyun stepped in at once. He runs his company and had been waiting fifteen years for her.
They registered the marriage. He said love words out loud wherever they went and showed her off without holding back, to the point that people around them got goosebumps and the marriage became something everyone knew about. The former fiancé came back afterwards in tears and asked her to return to him. She produced the marriage certificate and said, "Sorry, I'm already married."
The Exiled Heir ReturnsThe five women Xavier Nolan's master gave him as a reward were there to kill him. The Dread Queen handed them over before he had finished his training, and their orders were to strike once he was far enough into his pleasures. Xavier had drilled that kind of feeling out of himself long before. One of them threw herself at him and said "Come on," and he knocked her out with a slap, then went at the other four until all five were down. His master took it as proof and made him the valley's number one assassin.
He came down the mountain afterwards and ran into Dark Dragon ninjas chasing Tessa Romano, who had already been poisoned. She caught hold of him and asked him for help. He gave her a cold look, pushed her off and kept walking.
The Girl Who Tamed Her DadAfter escaping the live burial by her birth parents Lu Wenqiang and Gu Jiao, Lu Qiaoqiao exposes their plot and chooses her playboy uncle Lu Yiting as her new father. She reforms him through force and wit, defeats her enemies, reveals her hidden identities, and builds a true bond with him.
The Warlord's Lucky StarSally is a heaven-sent lucky star, born with a divine eye that distinguishes truth from falsehood. She runs an antique shop with her mother, Yvonne Martin, in Eastport to make a living. Suddenly, her father Kenny Howard, who had been dead for five years, returns with a woman and child, and Sally realizes there are hidden truths about her origins. In the end, she joins forces with her family to shatter Kenny’s conspiracy and safeguard the peace of Eastport.
The Pawn BrideSong Xiazhi was raised as an indulged only child. On her eighteenth birthday a car accident killed both her parents. The Shen family took her in, then took the family property, leaving only the money her mother had set aside for her, sealed in an overseas bank as her dowry. Qian Mei talked Song Xiazhi out of the key to the bank safe deposit box.
For the benefit of the Shen family, Shen Du sent Song Xiazhi into a marriage with the Tan family. Everyone assumed Tan Huaifeng was taking a second wife. He was arranging the match for Tan Siqian.
He Only Missed Me After I LeftA woman spent years giving everything to her marriage. Her husband criticized her and looked down on her. She handled every domestic matter by herself with no one behind her, and she was eventually diagnosed with late-stage cancer. She divorced him. From that point she lived for herself and did not much care which way the illness went.
She went through treatment and beat the disease. During the treatment she met a doctor, a cold man who was attentive to her in small ways. Over their meetings she was cared for as she had not been before. She got past her own hesitation and went to him, and they began a life together. Her former husband, after losing her, went through the small ordinary things she had left behind, including her diary, and began working out what she had been and what the marriage had done to her.
No Second Chance for UsDonna Vaughn is married to Shaun White. She had wanted him for years and gave up everything she had to become his wife. For Shaun the marriage is a cover. He has loved his childhood sweetheart the whole time, and having a wife keeps the talk about the two of them from reaching her and lets him go on looking after her out of sight.
Donna finds out that his heart has been with the other woman from the beginning, and she leaves him. It is only after she has gone that Shaun works out he had come to love her somewhere along the way. Donna, for her part, has no plan to come back.
You Stole My Home, Not My NameThere is a birthday party at the Sullivan house in Grandia, and the woman being celebrated as Mrs. Sullivan used to be the family's housekeeper. Evelyn Sullivan's mother is in the same house with the name of a mistress on her, and she has been beaten for it. Evelyn's father and her three older brothers stand with the housekeeper and with the housekeeper's daughter. The Sullivan name and the Sullivan estate came down through Evelyn's mother. The father married in.
Evelyn is the one legitimate heir the family has. She puts herself beside her mother in front of the guests, lays out what the housekeeper and her daughter actually are, and has the pair of them put out of the estate. Everyone who had taken a place in that house that was never theirs is punished for it.
My Script to Sweetness: Healing the Villain's HeartOliver Dawson is the villain of a novel, and the illness he carries brings on attacks that nothing settles. Cheryl Becker was partway through reading that novel when overwork killed her. She wakes up inside the book as the minor female character who has her name, and by accident she crosses paths with Oliver. His pain eases while she is near him, so he takes her back to his house and keeps her there to be looked after.
When Cheryl comes round she tries to get out and finds the novel's hero hunting her instead. In the book she was reading, that hero kills her by chapter fifty. She turns back to Oliver, who is the one person able to keep her alive. She knows the whole plot and what every character will do next, and she uses it on the hero, taking one opening after another that the story had set aside for him.
One Night with My Husband's EnemyHer husband's secretary turns up pregnant and names the father. Qin Suyue teaches traditional Chinese painting and had not known about any of it, and inside a short stretch she has lost the life she was living.
She meets Cheng Junwen at the bottom of that. He is younger than she is and he is her husband's rival. She takes what happens between them for something brief with no name on it, and then he keeps at it until it turns into something else. He protects her without asking anything back, and through the worst of it he is the only comfort she has.
Her family's schemes start surfacing one at a time. With Cheng Junwen behind her, Qin Suyue ends the marriage and puts the family's arrangements out in the open. Old ties between the two of them come out at that point, and she learns the whole thing had been set up long before she walked into it.
Married to My Ruthless Tycoon(Dubbed)To save her dying mother, heiress Selah Keith is forced into an arranged marriage while enduring brutal mistreatment from her own family. She accidentally crosses paths with the powerful and dangerous Elliot Hudson from a prestigious family, leading to their impulsive flash marriage. What starts as mutual convenience becomes a game of seduction as they each get what they need from the arrangement. While Selah secretly plots revenge against her toxic relatives, Elliot dominates the elite circles while fiercely protecting his wife. Together they uncover hidden family secrets,destroy their enemies, and save her mother, transforming their transactional relationship into true love in this addictive blend of revenge and romance.
Flip of Fate: From Crumbs to CrownLucy Walker and Cindy Walker grew up in the same orphanage. At Lucy's birthday party Cindy put a knife in her. Both of them died, and both of them woke up on the day the adoptions were decided, with the gold coin and the piece of bread laid out in front of them again.
Cindy moved first and took the coin, which meant the Shaw family and their money. She pushed the bread across to Lucy and left it there, satisfied that she had settled where Lucy would spend her life. Lucy took the bread. What she had wanted was a family, and she got one.
Years later, going by Cindy Shaw, she invited Lucy to a charity gala and put her to work carrying dishes in front of people who mattered. Jacob Shaw, her adoptive brother, made a pass at Lucy and was turned down flat. Cindy and a friend of hers mocked her and ruined the vegetables she was carrying. Then a gift arrived for Lucy, expensive enough that the room went quiet.
In the pulling and shoving that followed, the jade pendant Lucy wore came into view, and somebody said it was the same as the one belonging to the richest family in the country. Nobody in the room would accept that a girl serving dishes could own such a thing. They made her drink, the pendant was broken, and she was about to be handed over to Jacob when her real family walked in.
The Luck That Saved MeMianbao wants her father, whom she has never seen. Her mother is dead, and the village has decided the girl is a disaster and drives her out. She takes the family token and travels thousands of miles to the city where her father is the Governor, a warlord who has just taken another wife and still has no heir. She walks up to him and says, "Dad, it's me. Your real daughter."
She knows metaphysics and fortune-telling, and luck sticks to her the way it is said to stick to a koi carp. Silver coins start rolling up to the front door, and there is ginseng to be dug on the hill behind the house. The Governor's Mansion had been on course to be wiped out, the whole family with it, and with her reading the signs it gets through one crisis after another. The household takes to calling her its little blessing, and her father keeps her at his side.
The Lies You Tried to MuteAfter losing his hearing saving Nora Jensen, Ethan Quinn falls deeply in love and builds a family with her, their child completing their home. When Ethan regains his hearing through treatment, he rushes to tell Nora—only to discover her affair. Disillusioned, he reveals his true identity as the world's wealthiest man. As expected of someone selfish, Nora regrets her betrayal, but there's no way back to the man who once loved her above all else.
The Billionaire's Secret WifeBarrett York is the most powerful man in the city and heads his family. Rachel Sheldon is drugged one night and wakes up in his bed. She finds out she is pregnant and drops out of sight for a year, and he finds her on the day the baby is born.
She hands the boy over to Barrett so the child will have a whole family behind him, meaning to go once she counts her debt paid. Barrett does not let it end there. He sends flowers and puts people around her to keep her safe, and he does not stop. What comes out while he is at it is that Rachel has been living under other names, one of them the hacker called Shadow and another a doctor who works under an alias. Barrett keeps at the pursuit as each one surfaces, and Rachel lets him closer than she meant to.