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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.
GodslayerHannah wants the Demon God to pay for Gale Village. The village was her family's, and he slaughtered it to force the Divinia into the open. Hannah's mother died in it. The Divinia could not bring herself to kill him, because she loves him. Hannah holds her mother's body and understands that to immortals and demons a mortal is an ant.
Hannah refuses to accept it and means to prove that a mortal can kill an immortal. She offers herself as bait, agrees to serve as the vessel through which the Divinia is to be resurrected, and takes her place at the Demon God's side under that cover.
My One and OnlyTessa Reeve was orphaned. Her cousin drugged her. Her boyfriend was sleeping with her best friend. On the night she was drugged she slept with Gavin Marsh, a shipping magnate and her boyfriend's father, and became pregnant with twins.
The Reeve family inheritance was being fought over at the same time, and Tessa learned of her boyfriend's affair. She accepted Gavin's offer of a contract marriage. After the wedding Gavin helped her recover her shares and moved against her uncle's family. Once her pregnancy became known, a conspiracy roughly twenty years old surfaced. Tessa took Gavin's side and the two of them went after her ex and his associate. What began as a marriage on paper turned into something both of them meant.
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.
The Lady from the Northeast Season 2Leah Foster, a forthright Northeastern woman, and Kyle Preston, the son of Malaysia's richest man, are getting married after a fake relationship turned real. With her boldness and wit, she brought warmth back to the estranged Preston family. While planning their wedding, she even found Kyle’s long-lost brother. In her own way, Leah reunites the family and earns her place within it.
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.
My Pink PrinceSophia Holt transmigrates into a novel as a beggar and is captured by Prince Arthur because she resembles his enemy, Princess Eleanor. Forced to act as her double under harsh treatment yet high pay, Sophia gradually uncovers the prince’s own traumatic past.
Through their contentious daily life, the two wounded souls unexpectedly heal each other. When Sophia's true identity is revealed amid conspiracies, Prince Arthur must choose: Does he hate the face he sought to punish, or has he fallen for the woman who bears it?
Her Heart's Possession, His Favorite ObsessionIsabel Lawson married Allen Howell, and the marriage went on for two years. One night she had a dream. In it, the next day her husband met the woman fate had picked for him, and the two of them spent a night together, after which he could no longer leave her alone. From then on Allen took the woman's side in everything. At an auction he bid enormous sums on jewelry for her. The custom-made dresses and the designer bags that had been Isabel's went to the other woman. Isabel tried every method she could think of to drive the woman off and hold the marriage together. None of it worked, her husband came to despise her, and she died in a psychiatric hospital.
When she woke, she got up and slapped Allen three times without saying anything. After that she started making plans.
Wrapped the Playboy Around My Finger Season 4Claire Mercer, the boss of the top gang in Shanghai’s underworld, marries the city’s most notorious playboy Noah Hall in a forced wedding to reclaim her mother’s opera theater. He won’t listen? Fine. She then transforms his dignified, home-keeping grandmother into a reckless woman, leaving him with no one to rely on. He holds a deep grudge against her, yet he unwittingly develops feelings for her.
Wild as Hell: The Prince’s SagaShuangxu's own family gave her up when she was a child, and the Shen household raised her. Growing up inside that house, she took her dependence on Shen Yu for love. The Shen family sent her abroad to keep their name clean.
Five years later a close friend falls seriously ill and Shuangxu comes home, meaning to leave what she felt for Shen Yu behind her. Work puts her in the same room as Tingzhou, and she ends up in a secret affair with him. For her it is a temptation she is not supposed to give in to. For Tingzhou it is a move he planned a long time ago.
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.
When Fate Forgets to LieIvy takes her daughter to the hospital and the doctor who comes in to treat her is Harrison, who she was with seven years ago. She has a different name now and looks different enough that he does not place her, and he has no idea the child on the table is his.
Seeing him puts her back in everything she left behind. She would rather not be there at all, but her daughter needs a doctor and he is the doctor, so she manages it. Circumstances keep pulling the two of them into the same rooms after that, more often than either of them arranges.
Harrison cannot work out why this woman feels familiar. Something in him recognizes her before he has anything to reason from, and it keeps recognizing her while he keeps failing to understand why.
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.
Love Me Like You Own MeThe young model Jiang Ye had been in a relationship with Zhou Jingshu, the leader of the Zhou family, for four years. After being ridiculed as a "plaything", they broke up on the spot. Then, Jiang Ye suddenly threw herself into the arms of Zhou Jingsi, the younger brother of Zhou Jingshu. Zhou Jingsi initiated the flirtation, and Jiang Ye, in a fit of anger, kissed him back. After regaining consciousness, Jiang Ye wanted to end the relationship, but she discovered that Zhou Jingsi was serious! After their breakup, Zhou Jingshu launched a "fire cremation campaign" for her husband. Zhou Jingsi smiled. Who said love is about restraint? What about the woman of the elder brother? He insisted on competing and seizing!
Foul Play in LoveKate Lowe wanted the marriage she and Zeke Moore made in college to be a marriage. It was kept secret, and Zeke spent his nights at business dinners with a private life she could not stand, so she asked for a divorce. Zeke took it for a fit of temper and waited for her to come back.
The night the divorce went through, Kate got drunk in a bar and ended up with Yuri Mills. She agreed to the arranged marriage he proposed. At the start she wanted only a child, his genes being good, and company shares behind that. Living with him day after day changed things. Yuri showed her what being cherished actually feels like. The old love faded and a new one came up in its place, and Kate worked out that some people pass through and some people are where you live.
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.
Wrapped the Playboy Around My Finger Season 2Julie Lane wanted back the company that had belonged to her mother. To get at it she married Colin Jenkins, the worst playboy in the capital, within days of meeting him. There was nothing romantic in it.
Less than a year into the marriage Colin's grandfather collapsed and the Jenkins family was in trouble. Julie stepped in. She used force and cunning both, pulled the company back from the edge, put Colin's circle of playboy friends in their place, and won over his grandparents. She was hard on Colin himself and set about making him grow up. He did, in a run of days that had laughing and crying in them. Julie's quarrel with her younger brother worked itself out. She and Colin became surer of what they felt, and held on to the family and the business together.
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.
Tonight, I Seduce the FatherAnother betrayal awakens Sue Bell to the truth that she is disposable supporting cast in a novel. Refusing the doomed role written for her, she sets out to capture original hero Nathan York and claim the heroine’s place herself. Her plan creates a forbidden triangle: Nathan is the adoptive father of Sue’s current boyfriend, Jude.
Lost Heiress, Unexpected LoveEthan Lewis puts a marriage to Rose Lee on the table within days of her losing the family she was raised in, and he wants it done at once.
Rose had grown up as the Wilson daughter and had known Zach Foster since they were children. Then it came out that she was not a Wilson by blood, and the family put her out of the house. Zach was engaged to the real daughter soon after. The story went around online and strangers went after her for it. Ethan had been in love with her for years without saying so, and he came back from abroad to be with her while it was happening.
My Premeditated LoveBlake Price spent nine years in love with Linda Reid without telling her, and when she got engaged to Harold Ross he set about taking her back by getting close to Harold instead. He presented himself as a friend, a good brother, and while he was there he arranged an opportunity for Harold to be unfaithful. The night before the wedding Blake handed over the video of it himself, and the engagement was finished.
Harold, with nothing left, drugged Linda. That was the last piece of what Blake had laid out. He arrived at the point where he would look like the rescuer, and while Linda was still not clear-headed he talked her into signing a marriage agreement. None of it was chance.
Snatching a Playboy HusbandIt is Pam Ramirez's wedding day, and she has lived through this day once already. In her first life she went ahead with the marriage, and the family she married into used her up over the years that followed. Now she is back at the morning of the ceremony with all of that in her memory.
Justin Mitchell turns up at the wedding. He is the man who, in her first life, had made a prank of the ceremony and tried to carry the bride off. Pam looks at him, thinks of what her former husband's family did, and changes grooms on the spot. She marries Justin.
Everyone in the capital knows Justin. He is the heir to a noble house, and his days go to chasing cats, walking dogs, fighting crickets, drinking, betting on cockfights and visiting the pleasure houses. On the wedding night, with Pam in the room, he starts praising one of the courtesans. Pam picks up a spear. She tells him he can learn to be a husband or learn to fly out of the window, and she starts training him that night.
Manage the UnmanageableFlora Brooks is trained in medicine and in martial arts. Neo Locke, a rich family's son in the Republican era and the worst troublemaker in his town, has held a grudge against her since childhood, when his head was shaved and he was spanked. He pays 4,000 silver dollars to marry her, meaning to make her life hard once she is his wife.
He falls into the pit he dug for her, and the town's troublemaker ends up devoted to his wife. He gets pricked with her silver needles during the day. At night there are punishments for breaking her rules.
My Dragon GirlfriendOphelia Grace is a dragon who was sealed away for a thousand years. Her Soul Orb fell by accident into the body of a mortal named Leon Collins, and without it she is stuck in the Mortal Realm. She goes after Leon again and again to get it back, and fails every time. Leon thinks very highly of himself. He reads all this attention as a woman in hopeless pursuit of him and behaves accordingly. The misunderstanding runs on through one absurd situation after another. He starts to come apart under the sheer force of how fiercely she protects him. She came into this carrying a thousand years of hatred, and she finds it hard to stay hard against someone who trusts her that completely and keeps telling her she can do it. What she needs is inside him, so every attempt to retrieve the orb turns on what she is willing to do to a person who has begun to matter to her.
The Butcher’s New GroomSadie Mercer worked as a butcher. Her husband, who had married into her household, betrayed her, and she divorced him. She then took in Wesley Ashwell, a man who had lost his memory. He gave her what he had and treated her well, and she had a household of her own for the first time. Wesley Ashwell was the heir of Prince Martin. When his memory came back he did not leave her. He took her to the Capital and gave her rank and money there. Relatives of the Ashwell household made trouble over her background and she dealt with them. Her former husband, who worked by shortcuts, failed the examinations and lost his standing. Sadie Mercer's household went on doing well.
Love Survives the DarkEmily Rivers is a widow. Her mother-in-law was gravely ill, and to pay for her Emily hired herself out as a woman to bear an heir. She spent a night in a prison cell and met Evan Cameron there. Rather than touch her, he drove something through his own palm.
After that Evan came to her wonton stall every day. He was clumsy about pleasing her and he kept watch over her. Trouble came and kept coming. She worked out in the end what he actually meant by it, and it took a moment when his life was on the line for him to see how far her own feeling went. The two of them came up out of the mud holding each other. She taught him to love himself, and he gave her a home.
Love Me, but Hurt Me?A fire in childhood killed Sophie Sutton's mother and the youngest daughter of the Morton family. The two households never recovered from it, and Sophie and Henry Morton, who had been close before the fire, grew up hating each other across that loss. Sophie spent years abroad. On the night she came home her father Philip got her drunk and had her put into Henry's bed, and neither of them understood until later that it had been arranged. Her brother had gone missing by then, and when Sophie pressed her father for help finding him, the condition he set was that she marry Henry. She agreed without arguing about it. The marriage put two people who blamed each other for a death into the same house, and they quarrelled in the open while wanting each other in private. Around them the families were fighting over property, and the terms Philip kept adding suggested he had a reason for wanting this particular match that had nothing to do with the missing son. Sophie began pulling at the fire, the inheritance, and her father's arrangements at the same time, aware that whatever she found would decide whether what she felt for Henry was allowed to be anything.
The Phoenix ThroneEvelina Blackwood ends up spending a night with the crown prince because of a plot that was meant to disgrace her, and from then on the two of them are close. The plot was her fiancé's and her stepmother's, and it involved drugging her.
Before any of that, Evelina had died in a famine. She starved, and the only power she had ever been given was a test of parentage, which was of no use to her. She opened her eyes again inside a bridal sedan in an ancient age. There the parentage test turned out to have a use. With it she showed that her fiancé and her stepmother were lovers and that they had a son between them whom they had kept hidden. The fiancé's name was ruined by it, and he and the stepmother went after her with the drugging, which is how she came to the crown prince. She goes on to expose that her stepmother had her father bring up a child that was another man's, and makes her father behave like a father. Then, with the crown prince, she sets about punishing the fiancé and those with him.
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.
The New Guy Is MomOrphaned Olivia Greene got pregnant unexpectedly five years ago. To raise her child alone, she took multiple jobs and even disguised herself as a man to apply for a highly paid male nanny position, only to find out that her employer is the father of her child. The two develop feelings for each other as they spend time together. After going through various twists and tests, they finally recognize their true feelings and bravely reach out to each other.
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.
The Nanny They All AdoredNineteen-year-old Nora accepts a lucrative live-in nanny position with the Parker family to create a safe home for her traumatized sister. Inside the mansion, one heir suspects her motives, another pursues her, and even the man who rules the family studies her with distrust. Nora answers them through her work, combining medicine, therapeutic massage and cooking, early education, and counseling until the household can no longer dismiss the young caregiver in its midst.
Bromance Never Gets OldCharles Kingsley has been quietly looking out for Jesse Collins's younger sister, Daisy Collins, for fifteen years without ever telling her. He has a reputation as a playboy, and now he turns out to be the faithful type. Jesse, his closest friend, has troubles of his own. He is a well-known lawyer, and his wife has just divorced him in public. The third of the group, Julian Grant, is a tycoon with a reputation for coldness, and a Gen Z intern has him wrapped around her finger. All three are middle-aged and at the lowest point of their lives.
The three have been friends for the better part of two decades, and that is what they fall back on. Each of them works out his own answer, most of it over hot pot, with a good deal of laughing and crying along the way.
A Crowned Love, A Forbidden FateImprisoned in the palace with her mother after her dynasty falls, Isolde Winslow finds unexpected kindness from Crown Prince Edmund Sinclair, heir to the family that destroyed hers. As their forbidden bond deepens, she flees the palace and is captured by rebels. Edmund risks his life to rescue her, forcing Isolde to decide whether his sacrifice can overcome the hatred between their bloodlines.
The Billionaire's Spoiled Sister-in-LawWidow He Yujia learns her late husband belonged to the city’s richest family and moves into the Song household at her mother-in-law’s request. Hostility with her brother-in-law slowly becomes forbidden affection that neither acknowledges until a crisis breaks their cautious distance.
He Lost Her for Good After the Fake Turned RealOlivia Bell was in a car accident and was admitted to hospital. When she woke up she pretended that she could not remember anything. It was a joke she had decided to play on Liam Hayes, who had been her boyfriend for seven years.
Liam came to the hospital with Chloe Davies, Olivia's best friend, in his arms. He then pushed Olivia toward Ethan Miller, his closest friend. Through the joke Olivia found out what Liam was actually like. Liam's own feelings toward her became sincere at a later stage, after the seven-year relationship had already broken.
The Hidden Half of LoveEmily Davis mistook Julian Evans for the man who had saved her life. She signed a three-year marriage contract with him. During the marriage Julian treated her with cold silence and manipulated her, and there were provocations from the people around her. When the contract expired she saw Julian being affectionate with another woman and terminated the contract.
Felix Evans, the man who had actually saved her, then stepped in. He protected her from Julian's schemes and helped her start her own business. Julian set a trap that would expose the truth. Felix cleared away each obstacle put in her path.
From Red Carpet to Dirt RoadThe engagement had to be ended, and her fiance arranged the grounds for it himself. He had her caught in bed with another man, and it worked.
The woman this happened to was a village woman of the 1980s called Xu Yan. She was also Xu Yan the star, who had ended up in that life without meaning to and had to learn the rules of it as she went. To protect herself she said on the spot that she would marry the man she had been caught with. He seemed to have nothing going for him, though he turned out to be Li Qifeng, who ran the No. 1 steel mill and had kept that quiet because of a job he had been given. He explained it to her while kneeling on a washboard. From there the two of them worked their way through the hard years together, Xu Yan handling what came at her on nerve and her own judgment.
The Doctor’s Heart, Unlocked by LoveIn a family where the elders arrange the marriages, Charles Bennett was matched with Hazel Monroe and the two were married in secret, without any feeling between them. Charles is a cardiac surgeon, cold with people. Hazel is a resident still in training, and she is mischievous and loud, and the daily business of living with her puts color into his days.
A rival for Hazel appears. Charles works out what he feels, and drunk, he says out loud that he is jealous. Hazel had already come to love him over the time they spent together. She learns that what he wants is pediatrics, and that the weight of what his family expects of him has kept him from it, and she tells him to go after it. They grow up alongside each other and the marriage becomes a real one.
Night's TendernessAva Anderson handled everything in Ryan Mitchell's life. She had been at his side since he was a child, first as his nanny and then as the person who managed his affairs, until the day he shouted at her and threw her out.
When they meet again she is working as Lucas Hamilton's secretary. Ryan wants her back. By then Ava has fallen for Lucas, for his gentleness and the way he draws her in, and she becomes the wife of the Hamilton house.
The Commander's Revenge WifeGu Fengsheng was ten years old when he was married to Lu Qingye, who was the same age. His father held high office in the new republic and the match was arranged for them. Lu Qingye took charge of his upbringing and kept him to a strict routine, and somewhere in those years he fell for her and said nothing about it.
They were separated afterwards and did not meet again for a long time. By then he commanded the Jiangbei army and she had become head of the Blue Dragon Society, which his army counted as its main enemy. He worked out who she was. His first move was to present himself to her as a former husband down on his luck, ask to be taken into her house as a live-in son-in-law, and tell her she owed him for it.
My Heart Has Always KnownNina Judd married Sean Zane in her sister's place. The sister vanished before the ceremony and her father put Nina in the marriage instead, which was also how she got her mother away from him after years of him hurting her.
Sean is the heir to the Zanes, one of the richest families in the capital, and he left on a business trip on the first day of the marriage. He worked constantly and had little to say to her. Nina decided the arrangement suited her. She was careful in the role of Mrs. Zane, treated her husband as a business partner, and kept to her side of the distance between them.
One night he closed that distance himself. He told her he was not happy with how polite she was with him, or with how well she kept her manners in place.
Cold CEO Reads My Silent MindEmma Bennett's mother needed medical treatment and the bills fell to Emma. She left school and took a job serving food in a factory cafeteria. She has been mute since childhood. People at the factory mocked her, spread lies about her, and set her up to take the blame for things she had not done. Mason Grant was the chief executive of a company, a cold man who kept his distance from everyone, and there was no reason for the two of them to meet. One night they ended up together anyway. Later Emma found she was pregnant and tried to hide it. From that night on, Mason could hear Emma's thoughts. He heard what she kept to herself, including the times she needed help and could not ask for it. He took her under his protection and looked after her, and the harassment at the factory stopped.
Her New FlameJulie Reese impulsively married her ex-fiancé’s younger brother, Colin Hunt. Three months later, while still searching for her missing fiancé, Cody Hunt, she finally received word that he had returned, only to discover he’d lost his memory and married another woman. Heartbroken, Julie drowned her sorrows in a bar, where she ran into Colin again.
“Isn’t it his face you love?” he teased. “I’m his brother. Marry me. Let me be his stand-in.”
Returning the “Poor” ParentsVince Fisher was raised by the Fisher family as their son. Three years before the story opens, their biological son Logan Fisher came back, and the adoptive parents told Vince the family had gone bankrupt. Vince took a job and paid the household expenses while continuing school. The parents then required him to donate a kidney to Logan. He did. After the surgery he received an admission offer from Clarendon University and turned it down on the grounds that the family could not pay for it. Working as a delivery rider, he found that the bankruptcy had not happened. He cut off contact with the Fishers and left the house.
His biological parents, who run a top consortium, came for him along with his sister Donna Ford. Vince enrolled at Clarendon and was named freshman representative. At the opening ceremony Logan insulted him in front of the assembled students, and Vince's parents and sister answered in public.
My Delicate WifeAnna Cole is married to the Crown Prince, and nobody in the capital knows it. He looks mild and is sharp-tongued and devious underneath. They work well together: she settles things by force, he finishes them with words.
Anna leads the martial arts alliance. She returns to the capital to find her birth family, and her parents trap her into taking her sister's place in a marriage to a man with an intellectual disability. Everyone treats her as a country girl who can be pushed around, unaware that she is a fighter no one there can handle.
The two of them play at being harmless. They take money off the wealthy families of the capital and lead their opponents around.
Tamed by Her LoveIan Clark's first love has come back into his life, and Clara Baker, who is engaged to him, watches the plan she has been working on start to come apart. Clara is an orphan from Harbor. Her mother was murdered, and marrying into the Clark family was the way Clara chose to get her revenge for it. Getting close to Ian was worked out step by step with that in mind.
With the other woman back, Clara turns to David Davis, Ian's closest friend and the man he served alongside. She lets David get close to her where Ian can see it, and the two men, both from Harbor's elite, end up competing for her attention, which is what she wanted. David's devotion to her turns out to be real, and he is steady with her in a way nobody else has been. In the middle of the scheme she begins to have trouble telling what she actually wants. Meanwhile the preparations for her wedding to Ian carry on.
The Million-Dollar ReplacementDarren Bradford pays Sara Elyse a million dollars a month to stand in for the woman he actually loves. The arrangement has run two years, and everyone in Woodlands knows what it is. "You're only a substitute. I can't give you much love, but I can give you a lot of money," he tells her, and Sara says she is willing to put up with it for his sake. Once her back is turned she holds up the black card and laughs. Nobody's heart breaks over being a stand-in when the money comes in that fast.
The good run ends when Darren's first love comes back to the country to get married. Sara hands in her resignation, takes what she has saved and prepares to retire on it. Darren expects her to fall apart without him. Instead she is doing well, and there is another man beside her, an actor named Mario who meets her by chance and falls for her. Darren wakes in the middle of the night calling her a fraud who swore she couldn't live without him, and sets out to win her back. His first love has no intention of stepping aside. Sara, meanwhile, starts taking film work of her own.
The Nanny They All Adored Season 2Nora Brooks, a live-in nanny for a wealthy family, successfully transforms the headstrong young lady and the troublesome young boy. Her next challenge is the seemingly "born bad" young master, Theo Parker. Determined to cure her sister's illness, Nora risks everything, delving into the Parker family's complex secrets and uncovering truths that gradually heal old wounds and earn her their trust and affection.
From Obscurity to MajestyXu Yuetao was a concubine's daughter and wanted out from under her family, so she went into the imperial selection meaning to fail it. Her fiance Zhu Chengjin gave her information about how the selection worked, and the information was wrong, and she was chosen. Inside the palace her legitimate half sister Xu Yuerong and the Noble Consort took turns at her, at one point forcing her to take her meals with the eunuchs. The eunuch Jing Hongzhui was the one who helped her when there was no one else. Her face resembled a woman the Emperor had loved and lost, and with that and her own reading of the room she moved up until she held the rank of noble consort herself. Along the way she learned Chengjin had betrayed her long before, her mother was murdered, and the child she bore died young. What was left of her softness went with them. She and Hongzhui worked together to bring the Noble Consort down and have the Empress deposed, and she went after everyone who had put a hand on her. She reached the position of Empress Dowager with no family and no love left, and Hongzhui still standing beside her.
Beyond Status: A Heart's True JourneyGabriella has been in love with Mateo for years and has never told him. Her mother keeps house for his family. Mateo's mother makes it plain that she thinks little of a maid's daughter, and between that and the gap in position Gabriella comes to feel she is not worth much.
She decides that to be worthy of Mateo she has to change. She gives up drawing comics, which she loves, and reshapes herself to his standards, and bit by bit loses track of who she was. Her parents and her friend Calvin stay close to her through it. With them beside her she comes to see that the attachment is only wearing her down, and she lets it go. She goes back to comics and finds a direction for her life in the work. Along the way she notices that Calvin has cared for her quietly the whole time.
Unexpected Knot: My Husband Is a TycoonMadeline learns her boyfriend has been sleeping with someone else and only wanted her money, so she ends it. Her manager at the shoe store is pushing her to marry, and she ends up in a rushed marriage to Caden Wilson Cashmore, a divorced father raising two small children and working as a volunteer male nurse. She assumes they are both poor people getting by on hard work, and expects a plain and quiet life. Caden is in fact the head of a large group, and he took the nursing work to carry out his dead brother's last wish, searching for the person who received his brother's heart. The twins, a boy and a girl of about five, have their own project. They worry about their handsome single father and set out to secure a mother, and they pick Madeline before either adult has decided anything. Madeline keeps noticing money and influence around her husband that a nurse should not have, and she tells Caden to say what else he is hiding from her. He is holding both children when he answers that the twins are hers as well, the children she was told she lost at birth five years earlier.
Crimson BonesXue Jian hides her gender to become the physician of the Empress Dowager who killed her father, secretly poisoning her with a gu curse. Emperor Ming Yuheng also opposes the Dowager, but mistakes Xue Jian for an enemy and repeatedly targets her for assassination. His growing attraction to the supposedly male physician complicates their battle of wits.
Adorable QuinnAlbert Miller's grandmother wants him married and keeps placing women in the job of his personal secretary. Albert's answer is to hire a man as his assistant instead.
Quinn Astor is under pressure from her family and needs money. The assistant post at Albert's company, which is in the global top five hundred, pays well, so she dresses as a man and takes the job.
Albert works with her for some time before he finds out that his assistant is a woman. The two of them get together after that.
Breaking the Engagement, My Stepfather Wants Me BackAmong the big families here a marriage is a deal between two houses, and a girl taken in as a dependent is something one house can offer another. Lily Hayes comes into the Sinclair household after her mother dies. Victor Sinclair is her stepfather on paper.
She is lonely in that house and what she feels for him turns into love. The Cross family is a danger to her, and Victor's way of keeping her out of their reach is to put her into an arranged marriage with the Reids. He lets her believe the simplest explanation, that she was a plaything to him and a card to be traded. She is humiliated, handled and pulled into what the houses are doing to each other, and she settles on getting away.
Danger keeps finding her anyway, and Victor keeps coming for her. He tears up the marriage contract himself and brings out the things that had been kept from her.
More Than a FaceQuinn Harrington is the daughter of a wealthy family. To keep out of trouble she went to school under a disguise, dressed as an ugly girl, and nobody there knew who she was. She took up with Logan Easton and believed he cared for her.
Logan was using her as cover for another woman. He put her in the way of harm more than once, and her dignity was trampled. Quinn took the disguise off, went back to her own name and face, and started again on love and on a life.
Glowing With You: Lit by Your LoveRyan Bennett saved Daisy Stevens when the two of them were students. Daisy said nothing to him about it afterwards and carried the feeling for years. They met again as adults and spent a night together. Daisy became pregnant, and the two of them married. The relationship between them developed after the wedding. Ryan kept her under his protection inside his position and his house. Daisy, who had been the one other people protected, took on more of her own affairs over those years and changed.
Divine ReckoningDahlia Solis, an ascended immortal, is partway through her heavenly tribulation when she is moved into the body of Ophelia Solis. Ophelia is her descendant six generations down and was killed at eighteen. In that body Dahlia goes back to the Solis household. The family has been going downhill and its descendants are incompetent. The child she once raised herself, whom she called the Little One, is now Old Master Solis, aged, poisoned, and unable to run the family's affairs. Dahlia stays in the mortal realm to rebuild the house and purge her own bloodline, and takes the running of the family's affairs into her own hands.