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Contracted to a Sleeping CEOClaire Carter's father is bedridden and the family firm is weeks from collapse, so she agrees to marry Victor Foster, the head of a wealthy house who has lain in a coma since an accident. She had a plan of her own before that: her boyfriend had promised to run away with her on the morning of the ceremony. He never comes. She finds him alone with her stepsister instead, and then walks the aisle by herself at a wedding with no groom, into a house she has never lived in. That night she sits with the husband she has only now seen, motionless in the bed. Her boyfriend slips into the room, says he regrets everything, and works around to what he actually came for, which is her help stripping the Foster fortune. While he is still talking, Victor opens his eyes. He has been listening. Claire is left married to a man everyone in the household believes cannot hear them, in a house where the people around her are counting on exactly that.
Jilted to Jewel: The Rejected Bride's RiseOn the morning of her wedding, Lainey walks in on her fiancé Larry with her sister Janice. The same day she learns she was adopted, and Dennis and Teresa put her out of the house. What none of them know is that Lainey is the only heir of the Myers family, among the ten wealthiest families in the world. Her birth mother Helen, who runs the Myers Group, takes her in and dotes on her, and Lainey formally changes her surname. An engagement is arranged with Austin, who is wealthy and good-looking. She would rather cut the old family off entirely and start again, but Dennis, Teresa and Janice keep coming back to provoke and belittle her, treating her rise as something they are owed a share of. Lainey stops absorbing it and starts making the people who mistreated her answer for it, one at a time.
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
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.
He Resides Behind the SunFour men raped and killed Serena Jenkins four years ago, on the day Alan Shaw had planned to propose to her. He got there a step too late and saw the four of them walking away, laughing.
He has been in a psychiatric hospital far from the city since, the most dangerous patient there, and he has just passed his 144th evaluation and been discharged. Nothing about his condition has improved. He still sees Serena, angel one moment and demon the next, whispering at his ear that he should make his enemies bleed.
Henry Holt, the old Shaw family butler, has everything ready for him. Alan goes through the files on the four men and decides to start at a wedding, where one of them is standing up as a groomsman.
Lust and LogicJiang Nan is twenty-nine and a lawyer who does not lose. People call her the Iron Lady and she has arranged her life so that there is nothing in it except case files, deadlines and the office. Shi Jie is nineteen, the heir to the Wanchang Corporation, raised inside money and expectation, wanted by everyone and free to decide almost nothing for himself. There are ten years between them, and there is the harder gap of two households that have nothing in common. They meet in the course of work, and it goes off immediately, loud and badly timed for both of them. What starts there does not fit anywhere in either of their schedules. She has a reputation built on never letting anything touch her judgment, and he has a family that has already decided what his marriage is for. Getting out of your own world and standing in somebody else's turns out to be much harder than either of them expected, and both of them have a life waiting to take them back if they let go.
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.
The Eunuch I MarriedQin Wanzhi is the legitimate daughter of the Shenfeng Marquis house. She arranged to take another bride's place and married Xiao Xun, the eunuch who holds the regency and is spoken of in the capital as disfigured and cruel. Xiao Xun keeps a sealed imperial decree with the power to unseat the throne, and his widow would inherit it.
She played the attentive wife and carried medicine to him every evening. In the medicine she put poison, a small amount each night. Xiao Xun worked out what was in the bowl early and emptied it when she was not looking, and he said nothing to her about it. He then put on a bodyguard's clothes, gave the name Xiao Liu, and stayed close to her. From that position he watched her count and calculate behind the soft face she kept for the household, and he began to take an interest in her.
The court and the families around it were fighting over position through all of this, and the two of them worked the same side of it more and more often. She helped him hold up the story that he was a eunuch so he could get out from under the palace's hold on him, and he taught her how to move through the palace and reach the people who took her family apart.
Go Where You areJim Moore was in love with Reta Scott through college and never told her. Years later her family was pushing her towards a marriage and humiliating her over it, and he came to her with a contract: a marriage registered on the spot, good for one year.
As the year ran down, Jim took a senior post at Reta's company without telling her who he was, and put himself between her and the people working against her there. They were closer by then than the contract asked for. Reta believed the man who had carried her out of a fire years earlier was her first love from college, and Jim heard her say so and let it stand. Then a childhood friend of his went to work on her, until Reta was convinced her husband had married her as a stand-in for someone else. She asked for a divorce.
The Emperor's AntidoteFaye Monroe and the crown prince, Julian, come to an exchange: she works on the poison in him, and he takes her medicines and tells her what they do. Before that he had her tested hard, on the assumption that the Empress Dowager had planted her, and she came through it. She had entered the palace as a maid to get near him.
She had come down from her island to finish a book on a hundred herbs and was collecting cases for it. The poison in Julian is reckoned the worst there is, and it has left him weak and cold with the people around him. The Empress Dowager had been giving it to him. She wants the Seventh Prince on the throne, and the head maid of Julian's household reports to her. Faye and Julian also turn up something about his parentage, and he begins moving on the succession.
Where Lies BloomXu Weixin picks Lu Yi to be the piece she moves. She was the Xu family heir until she was framed and lost her name, and to take back what was hers she plans each step and puts him in the middle of it. He goes along because his younger sister, the only family he had, is dead.
The plan turns as it runs. The person behind her downfall is not who she thought, and his sister's death is tied to the same power struggle inside the Xu family. They make it an alliance. She calculates coldly and pushes him forward, he agrees to be the blade in her hand, and through the daily work of it feeling and loyalty grow anyway. The one holding the whip and the piece on the board were not supposed to be sincere with each other. Then the real enemy presses in, misunderstandings pile up, and their interests stop lining up.
Beyond UsHelena is an engineer at a company working on technology for extending life. She found out her fiance had been unfaithful, confronted him, took five per cent of the company's shares out of it, and resigned.
A PWL unit was scheduled for disposal. Helena took it away instead, put it back into working order and called it Holden. It did not run the way the model was meant to. It refused instructions, argued with her, and crossed the line she had set more than once during the hours she spent in the bathroom.
Then it told her something about the man she had loved before the engagement, who died eight years ago. The secret was his, and hearing it out of Holden shook her. What she had carried home from the disposal queue had spent those eight years waiting on her.
The Hands that Raised Me Killed My DadQi Simin came into the port city alone looking for her missing brother, with no contacts and no money for the kind of information that gets sold there. On a wet night she found a man bleeding out in the street and kept him alive. He was Fu Yaoyang, who runs the Fu family. To buy what she needed she lifted his watch and traded it, and that put her name into a house where the succession is being settled with weapons. Yaoyang had her installed beside him as his secretary, which kept her under his eye and also kept her out of reach of the second master of the family, who is working against them both. Fighting the same man pulled the two of them from hostility into something else. Then Simin found out what Yaoyang is. His father was a police officer who died in the line of duty, and the man who took in the orphan was Fu Jialiang, his father's enemy, who raised him carefully for twenty years as an instrument of revenge and an heir for a criminal empire. The debt of being raised sits on him like a chain. When Jialiang drops the charitable face and takes Simin, Yaoyang comes apart and then turns.
Back to the 80sThe arrangement was that Julie Stein would marry a divorced man with two children of his own, standing in for the daughter the family had actually borne. She had been raised as their child by mistake, the real one had come back, and Julie had been put out of the house. The wedding was the last thing they wanted out of her.
Julie had woken up in that body, in the 1980s, with no warning about any of it. She went through the terms and found two children already born and no labour to get through, which struck her as a fair trade, and she agreed to the marriage without arguing.
The old man turned out to be Alex Monte, tall and nothing like what she had been told, and inclined to hand her money the moment they disagreed. The relatives talked about where she came from. The family's real daughter needled her over it, and the couple who raised her were free with insults. Julie gave it back every time. "Sorry, my pedigree is unknown," she told them, "but the harder you come at me, the harder I come back."
The Night of PossibilitiesA month before her wedding, Cheng Qingye found out that her fiancé Lyu Xudong had been unfaithful. She said nothing to him. Her mother was seriously ill at the time, and the relationship had run five years. She stopped sleeping, and after weeks of it she walked into the Polygala clinic, a traditional Chinese medicine practice, and was seen by Yu Song. At the end of the visit she asked him to spend the night with her. She did not know that Yu Song had known who she was for years and had been watching her from a distance. Instead of answering the question directly, he booked her in for a course of treatment and kept her coming back, talking her through the insomnia and the anger she had been holding down.
Over those sessions she began saying out loud what she had kept to herself. The wedding went ahead as scheduled. In front of the assembled guests she laid out what Lyu Xudong had done and called off the marriage. Afterwards she and Yu Song kept seeing each other, and his background came out: he was the heir to a wealthy family, and his mother and her mother had known each other years earlier.
The Prosecutor's Secret TherapyHan Seo-yeon needs money for her grandmother's operation, and Lee Ji-hyeok needs a treatment only she can give him. They sign a private contract for it, written with one of them as master and the other as servant, and start living in the same house.
Ji-hyeok is a prosecutor. Something that happened to him as a child left him unable to respond physically to women, and Seo-yeon is the one exception, which is why he came to her in the first place. She works in emergency medicine. The nights are part of the treatment, and over the months under the same roof the feelings between them change.
Ji-hyeok also turns up evidence about the car crash that killed his father years earlier. His stepfather Kang Man-cheol, a vice president in the family's company group, was behind it, and there are bigger interests standing behind Kang Man-cheol. Seo-yeon stays with him and they go after the family together.
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.
Fool in LoveSummer Yale designs jewelry and had been married to Henry Gosling for some years when he was hurt in an accident and did not wake up. His younger brother Louie was caught in the same accident and came round soon after.
Louie moves the way Henry moved, keeps Henry's habits, handles money with the same judgment, and knows private things that only Summer and her husband knew. Summer puts him through one test after another and comes to believe that her husband's soul woke up inside Louie's body. Their mother finds out what the two of them are doing and both are condemned for it. By then Summer is carrying Louie's child.
The mother's illness turns out to be terminal, and Louie tells her the truth, which is that no soul moved anywhere. He had been in love with Summer since before the accident and could not stand watching her grieve, so he let her believe her husband had come back. He knows she is still in love with his brother and has been willing to stand in for him.
Forbidden AllureAlexis needs a large sum of money to keep someone alive. She had been at the top of the profession as a lawyer and lost the position and her money with it, so the sum is beyond anything she can now earn.
Evan offers to pay it. He was pushed out of a wealthy family and wants a way back up through the fight going on inside it, and his payment comes with conditions. Alexis is to be placed in the middle of that fight on his side, working as his spy in the family business and his lover out of sight. He sets her four tasks: get inside, poison, seduce, and end things with his third brother.
She takes the deal. Neither of them was supposed to fall for the other, and they meet at the wrong time and it happens anyway, with the four tasks still running and both of them accumulating things they cannot undo.
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.
His Dangerous ObsessionLu Huaifeng is the Lu family's illegitimate son. A fight over interests inside the family business ends with men sent after him, and he is in a bad way when Song Xia comes across him on her way back from work and pulls him out of it. He wants her from that day.
Song Xia's adoptive parents were killed by Lu Xuan, the eldest Lu son, who hit them with his car and drove on, and the family covered it. Lu Huaifeng knows and keeps it from her, holding her close to him instead. She learns it anyway. She pretends to have lost her memory, stays where she is, and works at getting hold of the evidence of what Lu Xuan has done. What she gets sets the Lu family fighting among themselves.
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.
Love Me, Guard MeYing Chan keeps dreaming about the same man and has no way of reaching him while she is awake. The son of the Jin family walked out five years ago and has not been seen since. The family's reach runs through politics and business, and nobody knows where he went.
She takes on a personal bodyguard, Jin Si, who is hard with her and says whatever he likes. He has his own reason for being close to her, and he is satisfied that he is the one doing the hunting. Neither of them puts their business into words.
"Jin Si, I've had many dreams, and you were in all of them."
"Ying Chan, let me have this a little longer, before you find out who I am."
Her memory comes back, and his identity comes out.
Baby Bargain with the DevilSix years ago Cade had lost everything, and Alina was made to walk out on him. His mother arranged it. Alina kept quiet about the pregnancy and raised the girl, Maisie, on her own, while Cade spent the six years certain she had traded him for money.
Maisie is five when she is diagnosed with leukemia. What she needs is cord blood from a second child. So Alina goes back to Cade, who is running a large company now, gets into his bed and kneels to ask him for a child. He does not know what she is after. She takes the sneering, the insults, being stripped in front of other people, and keeps coming.
The woman his family would rather he married pushes for that match. His mother goes at Alina and the girl more than once. A paternity test comes back saying Maisie is his.
His Sweetest ExceptionEvan Hale has the family name, the money and the face, and a reputation at Bayton University for being wild and impossible to rein in. Everyone has decided nobody will ever manage him. Then a transfer student, Elsie Blair, walks up in front of the whole campus and takes the cigarette out of his mouth. The consensus is that she is finished. Evan is not angry. He turns the cigarette around and holds the other end to her lips. "You want to learn to smoke. I'll teach you." After that he indulges her past all reason, gives her his exclusive attention and protection, and is prepared to sign over everything he has to keep her. What she does not know is that he has been quietly obsessed with her for the last five years. Three months on, he has her against a wall with both hands around her waist, telling her again that she wants to learn. Her eyes go red at the corners and she tells him to move.
Married To The Blind BillionaireA marriage contract in Lin Xiangxiang's family names her cousin Lin Yuan as the bride, and Lin Xiangxiang is sent in her place. The groom is Xie Wang, head of a large family in the capital. People say he has chronic headaches, that his eyes have gone bad, that he is cold and settles things without argument. Lin Xiangxiang comes from the countryside and goes to him afraid. He treats her gently, which nobody had told her to expect.
A year later his sight is close to coming back. Lin Yuan works out a scheme that drives Lin Xiangxiang out of the house, and the two of them are apart with no reason to meet again. A pregnancy test result brings them back into the same room, and Xie Wang finds the wife he had lost and keeps her with him.
Please Love Me in This LifeSu Jiani was in love with Chi Yu for seven years and told nobody. They married. He kept his distance for the length of the marriage and it stayed unhappy. Then she woke up in her own body in high school, years before any of that had happened.
She kept away from Chi Yu and put her hours into schoolwork. Chi Yu had the same memories she did. He had been indifferent to her the first time around, and now he sought her out, stood in the way of people who gave her trouble, and made his interest obvious. She went on avoiding him and they were thrown together anyway. Over those months the misunderstandings that had sat under the first marriage came out in pieces, along with what each of them had regretted. He made his case through what he did. She settled on medicine and started working toward it.
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.
Drunk Night Made Me Billionaire's Fake WifeThe Jiang and Shen families arranged a marriage to hold their business together, and the bride, Shen Zhiyi, is in prison for drunk driving, so the wedding cannot go ahead as agreed.
Song Yanzhi had walked in on her boyfriend with a rich woman not long before that, drunk herself into the ground over it, and ended up in bed with Jiang Yancheng by mistake. He runs his family's company, keeps a cold face on it, and he is the groom the Shen match was for. What he puts to her is that she take Shen Zhiyi's name and stand in at the wedding so the two families keep their deal. She takes it, and whatever is between the two of them comes after the marriage.
From His Tutor to His DarlingAyden Clark grew up rich and refused to study, and his mother eventually hired Ivy Harper to live with the family and tutor him. She got him up at dawn, made him run, and drilled him through dictation and exercises until the work stuck. He learned discipline from her and started to want things for himself. Before she left to go back to her own town, he made himself a promise that he would marry her when he was grown. Eighteen years later he runs the largest fortune in the country and every stock exchange watches what he does. On the day the empire is finally his, he walks out of the board meeting and drives back to the village to find her. Ivy is no longer the tutor he remembers. She designs under a professional name at a rival firm and is also a doctor good enough to restart a stopped heart. His grandfather starts pushing an arranged marriage that is meant to bring good fortune to the family. Ivy's relative Jade works against her, and Beatrice Ferdinand runs her own maneuvers on the business side. Ayden and Ivy end up handling all of it together, closing deals and putting down the people trying to split them, while the promise he made as a boy turns out to have held.
Love, Betrayal, and the Truth BetweenThe orphanage where Shen Wu grew up is scheduled for demolition, and she is up against the property men over the site. He Yanxiu comes back into her life in the middle of that. He is the richest man in Cloud City now, and five years ago he was the man she walked out on.
He was dying at the time. The head of his family would pay for the treatment on one condition, that she break it off and do it in the manner of a woman leaving a sick man for a rich one, so she played the scene out in front of him and let the story stand. Her name and her dancing went down with it, and she has carried the reputation since.
He Yanxiu does not know any of that. He uses the orphanage against her to get her signature on a contract putting her at his disposal twenty-four hours a day, and he spends the arrangement settling accounts, one humiliation after another. She takes it for the sake of the building and the children in it. What he watches over those weeks is a woman who holds up under all of it, and he ends up drawn back to her against his own anger. Then what actually happened five years ago comes out. He goes against his family over it, and by that point Shen Wu is finding her way back to dancing.
I Went for Money, Found LoveThe Fox Spirit Emporium keeps fox spirits at every level of cultivation, and every one of them trades in romance and seduction for its clients. Jin Xian is the only male fox there and the only one who went crooked in his training. He deals strictly in sudden wealth and turns down anything to do with love or desire. Jiang Ci comes to him not long after a relationship ended badly. Her view by then is settled: affection is a consumable, it runs out, and the only thing that will not betray her is money she is holding herself. So she wants what he sells, and he is willing to sell it. What follows runs through the city, through the business of getting rich fast and what people are prepared to hand over for it, and through the two words the shop's whole trade rests on, money and want.
Love in a City of KnivesA doctor in 1990s Hong Kong sets out to get close to the heir of a crime family. She has her own reasons for picking him and does not say what they are, and he does not take her at face value either, so the first stretch of it is the two of them testing how much the other knows. In that city the police and the gangs are not separate things.
Her work is in cardiology and the manner she presents with reads as harmless, both of which she uses. Outside the family he is ruthless, and inside it he is loyal past any sense, with something in his past he will not discuss. What comes out over time is that both of them want revenge on people who hurt them earlier. They stop working against each other and go after those people together, which is also the point at which what is between them stops being an act on either side.
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.
Her Secrets, His SurrenderJia He ran the Jia Group. Years before that he had walked out on Li Weixi's older sister. Li Weixi worked as a "hunter" in elite circles, and for this job she made herself into a secretary with nothing behind her, harmless and easy to overlook, and got hired. What she wanted was proof of what he had done to her sister, and his standing taken away from him.
He worked out who she was soon after she arrived and said nothing about it. Having her close suited him. He let the small maneuvers pass, sat through the performances, and covered for her when one of her lies needed covering. The two of them spent a long stretch testing each other.
She was close to having what she came for when things started going wrong in quick succession and she could not keep up with them. Jia He put himself in the way to protect her, more than once. She noticed her own appetite for revenge going soft, and then a misunderstanding sent her out of his life. After she disappeared, Jia He came apart and let the family holdings go.
Found Her, Fall for HerLily Bennett is taking whatever work she can get to cover the hospital bills for her son, who was born early and is still in care.
Eight months before that she found Ethan Hunt, who runs Hunt Enterprises, in a bad state, and she slept with him to get him through it. That was how she got pregnant. Someone broke her leg afterwards and left her, and the birth came before its time.
Ethan has been looking for her since. He knows she is the woman who saved him and not much else about what happened to her.
Pampered by My Ex-husband's Billionaire FriendThe man who answered Ruan Yong's offer to father her child turned out to be Mu Jingchen, her ex-husband's close friend. What she thought she had picked was a male model with the right face and build who had applied like anyone else. Mu Jingchen runs his own company, has a name for being ruthless, and is known for keeping away from women.
Ruan Yong came out of her divorce from Ling, who heads Ling Corporation, with a large amount of money. She wanted a child and put a heavy reward on the search, meaning to be done with the man once she had one. Ling has since changed his mind about the divorce and is on his knees asking her to take him back.
A Thousand Times for You (Thai Ver.)Chen Zi proposes marriage to He Chuan the second time they meet. He repairs cars for a living, she is the eldest daughter of a family that owns a group, and the total time they have spent in each other's company is a few minutes.
The first meeting was at a bar. She had gone there by herself on the day of her wedding, after her fiancé turned on her in front of everyone at the ceremony, and she got into a fight with some men there without much regard for what they might do to her. He Chuan turned up and kicked one of them in the leg. She was taken with him from that moment.
She is direct about what she wants and she has money behind her, and she has almost no sense of security about any of it. He Chuan carries another identity behind the garage work, and she knows nothing about it when she proposes.
His Wife, His Art, His MadnessCoco is an orphan raised in the Crown Prince's household, sickly and without standing of her own. On the day she enters the palace she stumbles and falls into the arms of Gaspard Giraud, the Grand Secretary, in front of witnesses. Her reputation is ruined, and he marries her at once. For three years he keeps his distance. She decides he is ashamed of where she came from, and to work off the resentment she writes an anonymous serial called The Grand Secretary's Wife, which sells everywhere in the capital. Gaspard begins hunting for the author. Coco breaks into his study to burn the evidence, collapses there from her old illness, and he nurses her himself with a care she has never seen from him. On a southern tour she drinks too much and says more than she meant to, and in the aftermath she learns he has been dosed with a drug by someone in his own circle. Then she becomes convinced he arranged the death of her friend, and she runs to his private house in the south. The walls of one room are covered with hundreds of painted portraits of her, each one signed by his hand, "to my wife." Rebels catch her on the road. Gaspard trades away his most valuable ally to get her back and cuts down the rest himself. The shock brings back what she had forgotten: she was born to a southern noble house, she saved him when they were children, and her family was wiped out for sheltering his. The carriage accident and the marriage proposal were both arranged by him.
Rewind to Love, Fast-Forward to ForeverLu Zhaoyan married Kuang Yue when he had nothing, and the wealth that later made other women envy her was work she did herself, though few people said so out loud. Her sister Lu Qinning married the military officer Ling Yue, and he was killed in an accident within weeks of the wedding. Qinning never recovered. She came for Zhaoyan and killed her, and Zhaoyan took her sister down with her. Both of them woke up three years earlier, before either wedding, with everything still ahead of them. Qinning decided the mistake had been the husband. She set out to take Kuang Yue for herself this time, certain that the money would follow him and that her sister could be left with the soldier and the funeral. She did not know Zhaoyan had come back as well. Zhaoyan went to work on the accident that killed Ling Yue, arranging things so it would not happen, and she had no intention of handing over the years of work that had built the fortune the first time around. The two sisters move through the same three years again, each one holding a version of the future the other cannot see.
Nothing Else ComparesEthan held Scarlett's father responsible for the death of his own father, and he was wrong about that. He had Scarlett committed to a psychiatric hospital. She was there for two years and it was not a quiet two years.
His stepmother Evelyn was running a scheme of her own against him, and getting in front of it required a wife. He took Scarlett out and married her on a three-month term. "Don't get any ideas," he told her. "This is one more way for you to pay for what your family did." He kept at her inside the marriage, and the harder he worked at breaking her the less he could keep himself away from her.
Around the time the marriage was registered, Ethan worked out the identity of the woman he had slept with, someone called Sophia.
From Stoic to SmittenSong Jin has been pursuing Xu Yanqing, and he brings her to a party with his friends. Yu Zhi is one of the men there. A year before, Xu Yanqing had sold her first night at a high price to a stranger to pay for her sister's treatment, and the stranger was him. He recognizes her and pushes her up against the wall. She panics and gets away, back to the private room, but Song Jin walks her over to Yu Zhi and tells her that the medicine that can save her sister is held by Yu Zhi alone. She sets her pride down and asks him for it. Yu Zhi makes her work for every step of it, because what he wants is to pull her back into that night.
Under Fire, Under Your SpellElla Foster was out on a job with Cameron Grant when she found Matthew Everett cornered by the men hunting him, and got him out. He had a reputation for keeping women at a distance, and he was drawn to her anyway.
Killing was her work, assigned by the organization that had trained her. Matthew was an heir who had broken with his own family. Neither of them had been in love before and neither knew how it was supposed to go, so they worked it out between them. The Everett family came after him and the organization came after her. They stayed together through both, without much fear of dying.
Oops! Mr. Lawson Got the Wrong GirlA resume is left behind in Li Tingyan's room, and the name on it is Lin Xiaoxiao's. The woman who left it there is Jiang Sheng, an intern at Li Group who had been drinking and ended up in bed with the head of the company. She dressed and went in the morning meaning to say nothing about it ever again. Lin Xiaoxiao, her best friend, takes the night as her own on the strength of that paper, moves into the Lan Garden residence and is known from then on as the boss's woman.
Jiang Sheng plans to finish the internship quietly. Her plain way of dressing gets read a certain way and she is promoted to secretary, which puts her beside Li Tingyan every working day with that night to keep quiet about. He notices small things about how she lives and starts to suspect she was the woman in his room.
Lin Xiaoxiao wants the position to hold. She is two faced about it and plays weak in front of people, working on Li Tingyan while keeping up the friendship, and she moves against Jiang Sheng and the child Jiang Sheng is said to be carrying. Jiang Sheng gets through one setup after another on quick thinking and luck, and where the setups have been coming from comes out.
Only For YouSong Qingwu's mother was under medical treatment, and Song Qingwu's father held the treatment over her and told her to marry into the Li family. She married Li Yan. Li Yan kept his mistress and had little to do with his wife.
An accident put Song Qingwu together with Li Hanjiao, Li Yan's uncle and the man who actually holds the Li family, and they slept together. She went to him again afterward, this time on purpose, planning to get pregnant by him and use the child to hold her place in the household. The meetings continued and real feeling grew on both sides while the arrangement was still a calculation for her. Li Yan turned on them, the old lady of the Li family fixed on the matter, and the family's rules stood against the two of them.
UndercurrentShen Yuwei was a star architecture student and she and Lu Xiaohan were the couple everyone at university envied. Then Lu Xiaohan's half brother assaulted her and used his position to force her into marrying him. Lu Xiaohan, believing she had turned on him for being born outside the marriage, left the country carrying that. Shen Yuwei found out soon after that she was pregnant with his child, and raised the boy quietly. Years pass. The elder brother is killed in a car crash and Lu Xiaohan comes back at the head of the company, cold and harder to read than the man she knew. In front of everyone he treats the widow of his brother with indifference and lets her take what the family gives her, while behind it he keeps her covered. She is worn out and wants nothing more than to build something of her own without being pulled back into him. The child keeps putting them in the same rooms.
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.
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.
Cinderella's Glass Slipper: The One I’ve Always LovedShe works as assistant to the man who runs the company. He does not know she has liked him since they were children, when she was fat and stayed out of his way, and nothing about her face now points back to that girl.
They spend a night together. She keeps quiet about who she was, because she expects him to want nothing more to do with her once he knows. Then she is pregnant, and what everyone makes of the pregnancy is wrong in several directions before she tells him herself.
She had also been tricked into an arranged marriage as an adult. Someone else has since taken over her name and her place, and that woman wants her dead. There is pressure on him to give up his wife, and he refuses to. A date is set for the divorce.
Tempting the Mafia BossAn Jing is an orphan from a family that lost its money, and her aunt intends to sell her to a wealthy merchant. To get out of it she goes after one of her aunt's lovers, Qin Buxiao, the second-in-command of the strongest gang in the port city, planning to take enough money from him to study abroad and leave. Buxiao works out what she is doing and keeps her at his side.
With the plan gone and the situation dangerous, she plays the obedient girl. Then she sees what he actually is. During a fight between gangs he puts his own body between her and the guns, and he arranges her overseas study application himself. He never hands it to her. His own gang turns on him, he is ambushed, and he goes into the sea.
An Jing goes abroad to study. There she runs into Qin Buxiao again, and he has lost his memory.
Crushing in SilenceHe Lingfei kept Lu Yichen. She came from one of the wealthy families in the city, he was a college student she met by chance, and she liked the youth on him enough to put him on an allowance without thinking twice. He held out for a while, then went along with it and took it for love.
The He family went bankrupt in a single night and He Lingfei lost the money and the standing together. She did not want him dragged down with her, and there was her pride left over as well, so she cut him off and disappeared without leaving word.
Lu Yichen was still in pieces over it when his own family came for him. He was the Lu heir, the one who had been put out of the house. He went back to that life, dropped the openness he had had as a student, worked in business and turned into a cold sort of boss. At a party some time later he saw He Lingfei across the room and knew her at once.
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.
My Sweet Husband Is a Secret TycoonEliana's father and her half-sister, a daughter he had outside his marriage, are working to stop her from inheriting the company that belonged to her mother. Eliana, of the Elliott family, went from a rich family's daughter to a woman with nothing almost overnight. Her answer is a plan to have a child and raise it without the father, which she believes will let her take the company back. At a club she picks out Keaton Massey for the job, judging him on his face and his build. She does not know that he is the richest man in the city, or that a car accident has just taken his memory.
The two of them end up living together without knowing each other's names, and Keaton follows her around all day acting sweet and clingy. He had been in love with her since her school days. When his memory returns he keeps his identity from her, buys up shares in the company on her behalf, and goes on acting obedient and cute, asking her whether being so well behaved has earned him a reward. The schemes her father and sister aim at her keep coming apart for reasons she cannot see. Eliana becomes pregnant with triplets, which throws Keaton's whole family into an uproar.
Sassy Wife & Mischievous GuardThe Ford family had settled on a bride from the Yeager household. The daughter promised to them was the younger stepsister, and the household sent Sienna Yeager in her place. Sienna had arrived in the body of a girl that household had been knocking about for years, having come from a thousand years earlier with no part in arranging any of it. She went through with the wedding because refusing would have cost her more.
Theodore Ford, the heir she married, died in a car accident on her first day in the house.
She stayed on anyway. She got the old madam onto her side, brought the younger brother and sister into line, and before long the household ran the way she wanted it to. The plan after that was an easy life on Ford money. Then she began to notice that the bodyguard the old madam had assigned to her was looking at her with more nerve each time, and that he was always somewhere close by.
Trapped in His World, Lost in His LoveSu Nian's stepfather dies and the debt he left is held by the Fu family, who move to take the house. Rather than lose everything, Su Nian arranges to live in the Fu household herself, which keeps her family under a roof while she works off what is owed. Fu Chenyan does not want her there and makes that clear in small ways every day, giving her work she cannot finish and picking apart what she does. She takes a night job at a club to make money of her own and keeps it from the household. One night the job goes wrong and she is cornered by a customer. Fu Chenyan turns up and gets her out, and neither of them knows what to do with that afterward. He keeps up the same behavior toward her but starts noticing where she is and who she is with. Su Nian, who came into the house treating him as the man holding her family's property, finds that harder to maintain. They go on living in the same house while both of them work out what has changed.
Legally SavageBlanche Langlais practices divorce law in a city where her name carries weight. Women bring her their cases; the men she cross-examines learn to avoid her. Her ex-husband, Yves Oudot, wants her caught in something, and hires a bodyguard named Maxime Chenet to get close to her and set the trap. Maxime takes the job, watches how she works, and stops carrying it out. He starts calling her boss and stays on as her protection.
The first case they take down is a bigamy suit against Jourdan, who runs the Jourdance Group. The second is Louise Gaubert, who is pregnant and being pushed toward an abortion by Lacour, the Lacoumax magnate who also invests in Blanche's firm, and by Suzanne Valcourt. Blanche has to find witnesses willing to speak and evidence that will hold in court. She is the lawyer and Maxime is the muscle, and they work through the cases one after another, mostly for women with no other way to be heard.
Don't Save Me, StepbrotherSloane leans on her stepbrother Oliver for everything. Her stepfather puts his hands on her and her mother flatters him and says nothing about it, so when the ground gives way under her, Oliver is what she catches hold of. He is not as strong as she needs him to be. She knows it, and she keeps taking his kindness and his sense of right anyway, and she survives on it.
To her he is the one who saved her life and walked her back toward morning, and she is the disaster he pays for by being a decent person. Believing that, she leaves the coastal city to give him his freedom back. She does not turn around, so she does not see him watching her go.
To Love a Mortal, To Defy ForeverGu Qiyan has to stay within three meters of Shen Yuzhen or he burns. The pendant that held him broke when he pulled her out of an attempt on her life, and since then his life runs on hers. He calls himself a god, and an old contract has kept him inside the Shen house for fifty years.
Shen Yuzhen is the second daughter of the Shen family, and the people who wanted her dead were her own relatives. She goes on with the business fights she was already in, with Gu Qiyan a few steps behind her at all hours and sharp with her whenever he feels like it. The old lady of the family dies in circumstances nobody can account for, and her will requires Shen Yuzhen to marry before she can inherit. Gu Qiyan proposes without much ceremony. In the middle of all this the two of them find they were husband and wife two thousand years ago, when he was a general who failed her. Fu Hanxing, left an orphan of the Feng family, is behind the moves against them, and he has the pair of them seized.
Time to be Humbled, MisterChu Luohan was in love with Long Xiao from her school years and never told him. He ran MBK in Huacheng. She trained as a doctor and ended up at Central Hospital, where the talk was about the young cardiologist nobody had the nerve to approach.
One night the two of them slept together, and in the morning he asked her what she wanted. She said she wanted to marry him. He agreed, on the condition that nobody was to know about it.
Three years went by with none of her colleagues aware she had a husband. At home Long Xiao treated her as an enemy. He kept her at arm's length, misunderstandings between them went uncorrected, and she watched him spend his time with a friend of hers.