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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.
Dr. Lucifer"If she can't reclaim love within a week… what will become of her?”
In a world obsessed with appearances, a fantasy romance thriller unfolds—one that shakes love to its core.
After seven years together, she is abandoned by her boyfriend for one cruel reason: she isn’t pretty enough. Consumed by betrayal and rage, she reaches the depths of despair—only to find herself standing in a plastic surgery clinic.
That’s when Lucifer appears before her, whispering a tempting offer.
“Would you like to be reborn with a new face?”
But there’s a catch. If she fails to win back love within seven days, she will be condemned to live forever with a grotesque face.
Bound by a devil’s contract, Jung-yun is granted breathtaking beauty. Yet what begins as a simple desire for revenge soon forces her to confront the deepest parts of herself.
Between what is seen and unseen, love begins to bloom.
What is love?
Who am I, really?
A chain of endless questions leads into a complex and delicate psychological thriller—where love and revenge collide, both inside and out.
Kissed the Ruthless LordThe condition Yu Xin is handed is that she kiss Chunyu Han or die on the spot. Chunyu Han is the eunuch the whole court steps around, and he is not a eunuch at all, though that is not general knowledge. She walks up to him in front of a crowd and kisses him, because the system that attached itself to her does not take questions.
She is inside a book. The body she woke up in belongs to a minor character written to lose her head over a man and to have her family wiped out along the way. Her first minutes there were the Crown Prince breaking off the engagement in public and hitting her across the face.
Chunyu Han is cold with people and takes to her anyway. Every point she adds to how content he is buys her more time alive, so she keeps at it, and she works on saving his family.
Luv ClassHaru is thirty three and has never dated anyone. School left her badly bullied and she never got past it, so the only male in her home is her cat. She cleans out an old family house and finds a rolled up scroll, and unrolling it breaks a seal that has held for five hundred years. Out of it steps Ryu Gyeom, who in the Joseon era was the most sought after male gisaeng alive, and who cannot go free until the seal is undone properly. Haru wants something too. Sena, the girl who tormented her at school, is engaged to Cha Jihun, and Haru wants to take him. They make the trade: Ryu Gyeom becomes her instructor in seduction, drilling her in how to walk, speak and hold a man's attention, and she becomes the key to his release. Lessons run in her apartment, in bars, anywhere Jihun can be arranged to appear. Haru is a terrible student. Ryu Gyeom is patient in a way that has nothing to do with kindness, since his own freedom depends on her succeeding. Sena notices that the woman she used to push around is standing differently now.
Done Being the Mistress of My Billionaire CrushLife has pressed Irene hard enough that she sells her first night, and the man who buys it turns out to be Chris, whom she has been in love with in secret for eight years. Afterwards he wants more of her, and keeps her as a mistress nobody is to know about. He does not expect it to turn into anything more, and she does not expect that either. The arrangement has a fixed term.
When the term runs out Irene leaves, and does not look back. Chris takes it that she is gone for good. It is only then that he understands he already loves her.
My Time-Traveling PrinceSix hundred years ago in Joseon, Prince Gyeom is falsely accused of treason and pushed to the brink of death. After throwing himself into a lake, he wakes up in a bathroom in South Korea in 2025. Suhyeon, the homeowner and a fiercely capable TV drama producer, is shocked to find a mysterious man in her home. But when her rent suddenly doubles, she makes a deal with reality—and decides to earn money together with Gyeom, the prince from the past. Their unexpected cohabitation begins.
The Predator's PreyJiang Ye had wanted Ning Yue for a long time and had no way to reach her. She is stubborn and holds to her own idea of what is right, and being twenty-seven and running a company would not have counted with her.
Her father owed him money. Jiang Ye worked on the father, part pressure and part inducement, until the father sent his daughter to the creditor's bed against the debt. In front of Ning Yue he played the party who had been put upon and had no hand in it. She read the whole thing as her father's scheme and looked no further. From there he moved a step at a time toward getting her to marry him.
Falling for the Thorned RoseThe Lowell and Lloyd families sit on two sides of a balance that neither has managed to tip. Lillian Lowell was thrown out by her own people, and on the night it happened she set fire to her grandmother's yard herself.
Shane Lloyd, the Lloyd heir, came through the flames with blood on him and took her home with him. He had a use in mind for the thorny rose he had picked up, which was to break the standoff between the two houses through her. She kept turning his arrangements back on him, and at some point he fell for her. After that he supplied the openings and she took them, and the two of them went after the people who had put them where they were. They covered for each other while they did it.
My Hockey AlphaNina catches her boyfriend Justin with someone else. At a party afterwards she meets Enzo Rivers, the hockey captain, who is known for sleeping with a girl once and never going back. She takes the one night on those terms.
They keep circling each other and both start to feel something. Nina finds out where the rule about once comes from. If Enzo sleeps with the same person a second time, that person dies. A fated mate is the exception, and if Nina is his mate she is safe.
An ex of his has never let go and sets about making Nina's life unbearable. Nina's own nature surfaces after her first time. She is a hybrid, and that puts her in front of her sister Selena. Selena takes Nina in order to trade places with her and get out of the Lycan world.
Don't Mind Me, Just Being the VillainessJess Willis gets sucked into a novel set in the 1980s where she's the villainous ex-wife of a disabled big shot who dies early. She's stuck with a "villain system" that says she has to stir up drama and be awful to everyone before she can go home. Jess's like, "Play the villain? Hell no!" But then she's like, "Actually, you know what? Villains have way more fun!"She rolls up her sleeves and starts living her best chaotic life—except she doesn't know her whole family can hear her thoughts. The family grows closer than ever, and even her disabled husband recovers and becomes completely devoted to her!
Gang Girl Goes to Boy's SchoolYeon-Woo needs to get at the heir of Makgangpa, and there is no reaching him as herself, because the boy is inside a school that takes only boys. She is the heir of Sipgangpa, the biggest crime organization in the country, and the order to kill him came from her father.
She dresses as a boy and enrolls. From the first day three good-looking students single her out, and a life that had been fists and blood up to then starts carrying something else. One of the three is the heir she was sent for, and the order she came in with still stands.
Taming the Hellion PrinceIn the imperial capital marriages were arrangements between houses, and a wedding could go ahead with the groom swapped out at the hall. Shen Ruojin's betrothed ran off on the wedding day with her younger sister, the daughter of their father's concubine. Shen Ruojin married the man that sister had been promised to, Qin Lang.
Qin Lang was the young Prince Qin, known through the capital for drink and women and doing as he liked. On the wedding night he left Shen Ruojin in the bridal room and went to the Fanghua Pavilion. People said he had married her for the sport of it and she laughed along with them. She had grown up in a general's household, could handle a sword, and what she wanted was out in the empire.
She took her husband in hand. He went after the people who had wronged her, rose through the court, and put the power he gathered into her hands.
Her Heart, His MasterplanSonia Weston was the eldest daughter of a family that had come down in the world, and circumstances put her into an engagement with Aeron Fleming, an heir who spent his money on pleasure. She wanted out of it. She had nothing of her own to bargain with, so she turned to the person who actually ran the Fleming family, Aeron's uncle Skyler.
Her plan was to make Skyler want her, and she thought she could watch it working. Skyler had known who she was from the first time they met. She was the woman who had pulled him out of something years earlier, the one he had been looking for ever since. The meetings that looked like coincidence and the openings to flirt were all his arrangement. He was teaching her what it is to love someone and be loved back, and putting himself where she would lean on him.
Pregnant by My New BossThe night before the engagement Clara walked out. Her fiance had been sleeping with someone else and her family had been trading on her for years, treating a daughter as a thing that could be sold to the right buyer, so she took what she could carry and went. Not long after, she found out she was pregnant, and the father was Cary Sampson, the richest man in the country. Clara went back to work at the hotel and intended to build something of her own there. Then Cary bought the hotel. He had been looking for her and he was not going to be talked out of it. Clara kept her head down and did the work, taking the shifts nobody wanted and turning him down each time he made an approach, because being provided for by a man was the exact arrangement she had run away from. He kept coming, patiently, and put challenges in front of her that she had to solve herself. Her standing at the hotel came from her own record, and somewhere in that stretch of resisting him she stopped resisting.
Love Found Her After the DivorceElena Swift was with Ethan four years before they married, and they have been married three. She took him for a man with no money who could not walk, so she carried the household and did delivery runs for the extra income.
One of those runs puts her in front of him. He is the heir to one of the capital's biggest fortunes and is worth billions, and the woman standing with him grew up with him and has just come back into the country. Elena watches him hand her jewellery worth tens of millions as a birthday present. His account of it is that his friend comes from a rich family and the gift matched her position, and that he had expected Elena to be broader minded about it. The rest of the explanation comes later. The poverty was staged to find out whether she had married him for money.
He waits at home for her to come round and apologise. What reaches him is a set of divorce papers.
Clarence Fowler is the richest man in the country and cannot bear being touched. Elena's touch does not hurt him, and he asks her to marry him.
Of His Day and NightDorothy went into the marriage to pay for her mother's care, which made her the wife of Jerome, the wealthiest man in the capital. She is an andrologist. On the wedding night she met Samuel, presented to her as Jerome's brother, gentle with her and hard to put off, while Jerome himself stayed cold. She spent the months after that moving between the two of them and pulling at the question of who Samuel is. Samuel is a personality Jerome built after his younger brother was taken 17 years ago. The kidnapping goes back to Jerome's uncle, and once Dorothy has that, she and Jerome start working against him together.
Quiet The Office!Na-yul's team is doing work that was tight for three people, and she spends the rest of her hours cleaning up after a junior who breaks something weekly. Above all of it sits Kwon Si-jin, who knows exactly how to strip a person's dignity with a sentence and does it often. On a Friday she has been staring at a frozen screen for ten minutes and it is eleven at night. A light is still on down the hall. She walks toward it on pure anger, pushes open the door of the CEO's office and starts to say that this is not acceptable, and stops. Si-jin is in the middle of something private. Neither of them moves. What follows is a secret arrangement between an employee and her boss that both agree is only physical and that neither can keep to those terms. Si-jin begins using what his position gives him to deal with an ex-boyfriend who will not leave Na-yul alone, and Na-yul starts working out how to leave the company and build something of her own so that whatever they are is between equals.
A Duet of Happily Ever AftersZoey Seatter has one night with Adrian Morris and finds out a month later that she is pregnant. She met him while she was getting her sister Liza Seatter away from a man who beat her, and Adrian was there with his brother Franklin Morris, working as mercenaries.
She is about to end the pregnancy when Adrian turns up and asks her to marry him, and he takes both sisters back to his house. Living under one roof, Zoey works her way into Adrian's heart, and Franklin falls for Liza. A robbery at a jewellery store, prenatal classes, and Liza's ex being dealt with all follow.
The One that Got AwayJiang Li was raised in the countryside by an adoptive mother, who arranged a marriage for her. Her boyfriend went behind her back with someone else around the same time. Within days she registered a marriage with Bo Sinian, the richest man in Yuncheng, whose grandmother had been pressing him to marry.
Bo Sinian had not walked since a car accident, and the paralysis had a psychological cause. Jiang Li stayed in the house with him after the wedding and he stood and walked again. She took up jewelry design and got work in it. Yang Wanqing, a jewelry master, had a daughter who went missing years earlier, and that daughter was Jiang Li. Her former boyfriend and the woman he took up with kept moving against the couple, and Jiang Li and Bo Sinian moved on them in return.
Blue ComplexLan gave up diving after a trauma. Before that there were medals, and a career at the Olympics. Lan joins a swimming club instead, and what comes of it is a love affair and a stretch of growing up.
One More Chance, My Nurse Girlfriend!Xie Junlin has to marry and have a child, and he cannot stand being touched by a woman. He watched his father cheat on his mother and it left him that way. A doctor tells him to find a strong-willed girlfriend as a way of forcing the treatment along.
He meets a nurse, Tao Tao, and finds he does not recoil when she touches him. He pulls her out of trouble several times and the two of them end up somewhere ambiguous. She agrees to marry him, and they sign a master and servant agreement in which she is his master, the arrangement being part of the treatment. It works, and Tao Tao becomes pregnant.
They are happy for a while after the marriage. Then Xie Junlin's childhood friend Lan Yin and his aunt get involved, a misunderstanding comes out of it, and Tao Tao decides to divorce him and leave.
Her Beloved Childhood SweetheartKate Moy came from an ordinary family. She got into the entertainment industry on her looks and her wits and worked up to being one of its best-known actresses. The head of her agency then told her to sit and drink with the company's wealthy backers. She refused, and she made plans to get out of the industry altogether. Threats followed, then blackmail, and the career she had built was put at risk.
In that period she ran into Greg Finn, the boy she had wanted in high school, by then a well-known lawyer. He acted for her, and she started working her way back out.
Rebirth: The Superpowered WifeYe An commanded the eastern front through the apocalypse. She was reborn as the daughter of a wealthy family in Dragon City, a girl the household had written off as weak and incompetent.
She met Fu Yunshen for the first time while she was covered in blood. She drove for him, he took the drag racing championship, and she left.
The second meeting was at a banquet of the wealthy families. Her younger sister tried to embarrass her in front of the room. Ye An kicked her into the pool, and said that anyone who wanted to conquer her could show first what he had. The Dragon City elites were at the tables for all of it.
The Scheming MaidEmma Harrison wants back the family she had twenty years ago. She was the daughter of a rich house then, and her life was one other people envied. Therese Parish was hired as her private tutor. Emma's father began an affair with Therese, her younger brother died in an accident, and her mother lost her mind after the shock. Emma swore that Therese would one day feel what it is to lose everything. Twenty years later she takes the name Janette Owens and gets hired as a maid in Therese's household, and from inside the house she starts on her plan.
I Kissed A CEO And He Liked ItGabrielle Taylor, a bold young model, is publicly humiliated and fired after discovering her ex is marrying her best friend. Hired as his assistant, Gabrielle must navigate ambition, romance, and betrayal in a glamorous, high-stakes world.
Strategies to Gain the Upper HandHeather has her sight back and has not told Darren. The plan is to go on acting blind until she proposes to him, so that he gets both at once. On the day she goes to find him he is kissing her closest friend in front of her, making no effort to hide it.
There was a bet with his friends behind it. Darren had arranged for Alonzo to stand in for him and keep her occupied, which left Darren free to do as he liked. Heather works out what the arrangement is. 'So you're picking a husband for me,' she says, and she puts herself in Alonzo's arms and asks him to kiss her while Darren watches. Alonzo has been in love with her for a long time and has said nothing about it.
One-Night Stand With the Right ManJulian Ramsey comes home to break off an engagement he never wanted. The woman on the other side of it is Shelly Greene, whom he has already met without ever learning her name.
That was abroad. She got him out of trouble there, an aphrodisiac got into it by accident, and the two of them spent the night together.
Shelly needs the engagement to go ahead, because getting her family's company back depends on Julian agreeing to it. So she has to talk the man who came home to cancel it into keeping it. Neither of them knows who the other is, and they go on missing each other and falling out over it until the truth comes out and clears the misunderstandings.
Trapped in My Enemy's EmbraceMu Qiqi's younger sister can put on a performance for their parents, and the parents believe it every time. Mu Qiqi cannot do it. Whatever goes wrong in the house gets put on her, and she has worn the blame for so many things that the word people use for her is scapegoat.
She wants out of the family. The way out she picks is marrying the man her parents treat as their enemy, and she gets it. She finds she likes being the enemy's wife a good deal more than she ever liked being a daughter. He backs her when she goes after the people who set her up, and after that things run well for her.
Traded to Love YouThe investment money sits with Shang Yuzhou, who is cold and hard to get near. His nephew wants it. What he offers is his girlfriend of seven years, Sang Chuzhi, sent to his uncle's bed.
Shang Yuzhou does not put her out. He registers a marriage with her almost at once. Sang Chuzhi learns afterwards that the night had been arranged from his side, and that he had wanted her long before her boyfriend thought of trading her for a deal.
Dear XYu-Mi makes a deepfake. It shows her closest friend in the theater and film department having sex with Professor Park, a well-known director who teaches at the university. She circulates it. At the same time she is sleeping with that friend's boyfriend, Geon-Woo.
The friend is Ji-Yeon, the star of the department, who had just been cast in a famous director's production and had a career ahead of her. Once the video goes round, her life comes apart. Some time later she learns that the video was faked. She returns to the university, and the department's teaching assistant, Su-Ho, tells her that Yu-Mi was behind it. The two of them begin working together against Yu-Mi.
Under One Roof, Close to Your HeartYves kept what he felt for Willow to himself, and she put him out of the house before he had said any of it.
His mother and his stepfather were killed in a car accident on his sixteenth birthday. Willow was the stepfather's daughter, twenty-two at the time, and she took him in and became his guardian. They lived in the same house for two years, and by eighteen he had worked out what the feeling was. She sent him away not long after that. Four years later he was an idol with a career on the way up and she was running a café, and the two of them came across each other again.
Dating the Zombie KingRosie Dixon's academic advisor tells her what the cure for the zombie virus requires: the genetic material of the Zombie King. A child by him. That is the price of ending the outbreak.
The apocalypse has already arrived, and Rosie was close to being killed by a horde when a figure cut through it and pulled her out. The Zombie King's red eyes went to her alone. "Come with me." It took her a moment to place him as Henry Miller, who had been quietly in love with her for years. At the Miller villa his parents, both undead and very well mannered, served raw meat and called her their daughter-in-law.
Henry follows her around and clings to her during the day, and at night he kills the dead to keep her safe. Rosie gets out her manual and settles on an order of operations: win over the Zombie King first, save the world after.
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.
Seduce My Sister's Man to RevengeIn the Cole house the second wife and her daughter had years alone with Yasmin's father, and by the end of them he took their word over his own daughter's. The frame-up cost Yasmin everything she held, and her father put her out of the house himself.
She spent the next several years abroad with no fixed place to live. She came back for two things, which were making the pair of them pay for it and getting back what had been hers. On her return she found her stepsister on the arm of Shaun Wyatt, who had been engaged to Yasmin before any of it, and she treated that as the place to begin.
From Maid to MaidenHuang Li, a 21-year-old hypnotist, applied for a job at the Zong family in order to make money for his sister's medical treatment and was successfully hired. But she soon discovered that the price of this high salary was far more than just hypnotic sleep. The fourth son of the clan, who has been suffering from insomnia for nineteen years, is cold and suspicious and refuses her treatment; Miss Six, who was cheated on by her fiancé, loses herself in the whirlpool of love and hate and targets her crazily; Master Seven, who is driven to collapse by his controlling mother, treats self-mutilation as a daily routine and yells at her to hurt her; and the Crown Prince of the Demon City, who is extremely controlling, presses harder and harder. Oriole uses sound as medicine and sincerity as a blade to cure every person who has insomnia at night step by step.
The Princess of His HeartChris Lynch's worry is that his father Hank will end up on his own with nobody to look after him, so he puts Hank forward for a televised matchmaking show. Hank agrees to go on it.
The show runs like any other one until the people who know Hank start turning up. The chairwoman of a company, a woman who runs an underground operation and an actress the audience recognises are all old confidantes of his. Firms at the top of their industries cannot keep their systems running without his investment. None of this was in what his son knew about him.
Exes in One Bed!Five years earlier, Bai Xiyue and Ji Liancheng divorced because of a misunderstanding. Upon returning from overseas five years later, Bai Xiyue joined Fushen Hospital, where she unexpectedly reunited with her ex-husband. Through a series of coincidences, the two even ended up sharing the same bed. From that moment on, Ji Liancheng forcefully reentered her life, relentlessly pursuing her at every turn. Though divorced, the two found themselves continuing to share a bed, blurring the line between former spouses and lovers.
I Loved You Then, I Love You StillYu Ming is working off the debts her family left behind, and what she earns does not cover them. Five years ago she was the heiress of that family and Yang Jingzhi was a student with no money, and the two of them were together at school. When the family went under she ended it with him, quickly and without much explanation.
Yang Jingzhi has spent the five years since building a technology company and is near the top of the industry now. Everyone who knows the history expects him to make her pay for the way she left. He has never stopped wanting her back, which the people around them are unaware of. The gap in money and standing between them has turned around, and the two of them start finding their way back to each other.
I Married the Real HeirNancy is forced by her stepmother to marry, only to discover that the man her stepsister is about to marry is a fake heir to the Ford family. The real heir, Samuel Ford, is still working at a construction site. Nancy quickly tracks him down and marries him. When Samuel is finally recognized by his family, Nancy also gains entry into the Ford family. Together, they fight their enemies, reclaim Samuel's position as heir, and help Nancy take back her company. As they grow closer, love blossoms, and the two finally tie the knot.
Undercover LoverJasper holds Alfred, the head of the Blood Eagles, responsible for the death of the boy he loved as a child, so he gets himself inside the gang to reach him.
A cop called Klaus keeps turning up in his way, arrogant with it, and the two of them spend as much time circling each other as fighting, one on each side of the line between the police and the gang. Jasper finds out that Klaus is taking money from the Blood Eagles. He has no idea that this is the boy he has spent years believing was dead.
They become lovers with the hatred still in it, and neither of them leaves the side he is on.
My Plot, My Husband, My WayJiang Yuman transmigrates into 'Marriage Spoiled in the 70s' as Fu Jingchen's vicious ex-wife. The original protagonist had an abortion and divorced when the Fu family went to the countryside. Jiang Yuman arrives at this exact moment and, considering the original plot, boldly changes her strategy to keep the handsome male lead and start a different married life. This short drama is adapted from the Tomato Novel 'Becoming a Vicious Ex-Wife and Pampered by the Whole Family,' authored by Beef Brisket Claypot Rice.
Accidentally FatedThe script has already decided what happens to Natalie Jane. She is written in as a side character, labeled stupid and malicious, the kind whose only job is to fail and be forgotten. Then she wakes up inside that script and realizes it.
Her adoptive grandfather, Beck Shaw, is set to pay for the plot she's been handed. To stop it, she goes against the will controlling the book, tears up the story as written, and returns to the point where she was eighteen.
From there she leads the other characters against the rules of the world they're trapped in. She gets pulled into three separate, tangled relationships with the Shaw family's young men: Greg, the illegitimate son who keeps his scheming under a calm surface, Lance, the eldest grandson who once looked down on her, and Justin, the one she fights with constantly and can't shake.
She manages to change her grandfather's fate. Each of the three men ends up carrying her as the one he never got over. When she's finally given the power to decide how the world plays out, she chooses to stay in the present one.
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.
Married First, Loved ForeverQi Sinian has wanted Zhong Xiran for eleven years and has never told her. The marriage she agrees to on a snowy night in North City, hours after her first love Huo Xin leaves her, is one Qi Sinian arranged, and she goes into it as a match settled between families.
Four years follow in which neither of them warms to the other. Huo Xin comes back to North City. Her family presses her over the marriage and talk about her circulates. Somewhere in that stretch she starts to learn what the arrangement was actually for, and that Qi Sinian had it in place well before the night Huo Xin left.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Willingly at Your MercyMiss Ye Qingwan, who was born into a Manchu family, is the most well-behaved lady in Shanghai. However, under the calm appearance of dignity and beauty, she is a fierce and crazy person who was raised by the oppression of the feudal family. On the day she was used as a substitute for her sister and sent to the ruthless inspector who tortured and killed young girls, she took matters into her own hands and seduced Du Fengqi, a powerful young marshal from Northern Province, and tricked him into becoming his subordinate. Using his power, she used his power to completely crush the feudal and filthy Ye family step by step! She thought that this romantic affair in the mist of the Republic of China was just a love game full of ambition and manipulation. Little did she know that if she fished for bait, he would take the bait.
Torn Pages of Our Love StoryEsme Olsen and Nate Blair grew up together in the Blair house and became a couple as adults. The family's biological son appeared and Nate was put out of the home. They agreed that Esme would come and find him.
The next day Esme was diagnosed with leukemia. She did not want Nate carrying it, so she asked her father to look after him instead. Her father cared about money, sent men to beat Nate, and told him Esme had changed her mind. Nate saw Esme leaving with the real Blair heir and left.
Esme recovered and looked for him without success. Five years later Nate came back, by then one of the wealthiest men in the country, and went after her.
I Seduced the Wrong ManRachel Yale is cornered with nothing left to lose, so she gambles on getting close to Louis Brown, who holds more power in Newfork than anyone else. People say he has no heart, that ghosts keep their distance from him, and that he is afraid of neither gods nor devils. He works out early that Rachel has a reason for approaching him and lets her come closer anyway. On his side it is contempt at first, and a game worth playing for a while. The game turns into attraction and then into something he cannot put down. The man everyone had placed above them steps down off the pedestal, and after that he is the one who protects her.
My Secret Lover Is My BrotherQuincy Gabriel is the eldest daughter of the Gabriel family. Her fiancé and her stepsister were involved with each other behind her back. The succession to the family was still open.
She decided to have a child and to arrange the father herself. She asked her closest friend to find a man who was dependable and would do as he was told, and the friend found one. Norman Clark is her brother in name only, and he had been in love with her for years without saying so. He heard about the arrangement while he was abroad, came back, and took the place of the man the friend had lined up. He met her as the stranger she was expecting.
The 100-Day Bride I Married Is A LegendSeven years ago Julia Green stabbed her own father and was sent to prison for it. Two years into that, Kevin Palmer stood outside the prison gate holding an umbrella and was told she had been released long before. Sometime after she got out she found him badly hurt and kept him alive, and he never saw who had done it. He has been looking for her since.
They meet again seven years after the stabbing. Kevin is a lawyer, and she is sitting in the audience while he is being interviewed. Someone beside him asks whether he knows her. "I don't know her," he says, and that is the whole of it.
Her grandfather arranges the rest. She marries into the Palmer family on the terms he sets, a hundred days and then out of it. Kevin holds himself back from her while he goes on looking for the woman who saved him, and pieces of who Julia is come out over those days. She writes a resignation letter and gets ready to leave. He puts her against the wall and asks if she is leaving him again.
Sisters in VengeanceTwo babies were swapped at the hospital where they were born. Jiang Yiyi, the Jiang family's own daughter, was raised somewhere else, and Jiang Shuyi grew up in the Jiang house as the heiress.
Eighteen years later Jiang Yiyi came back. The household expected a fight over the parents' affection and over the inheritance, with Shuyi as the one who would have to be pushed out. Instead Yiyi attached herself to Shuyi from the day she arrived and stayed there.
Shuyi took a while to believe any of it. As the two of them lived alongside each other she came to accept that Yiyi meant it, and they started working together against the people who had been going after them.
A Disguised LoveThe Yun family had no room for a widow with a daughter and no son in it. Yun Mo's father was killed in battle while she was small, and from the day she was born her mother had her passed off as a boy and raised that way. Yun Mo grew up wanting to live as a woman and afraid of what discovery would do to her mother and to her. She died of it.
A contract killer of the present day, also called Yun Mo, died and woke up in that body. The plan was to get the mother out of the household and be gone before anyone worked it out. Before they could leave, Jin Cang noticed her. He is the one prince of the Great Yuan Dynasty who does not carry the imperial surname, his power answers to nobody, and his temper turns without warning. He had her taken to his residence and kept there.
I Married a Secret BillionaireSix months before any of it, Sydney and Evan met once, in prison.
Sydney later found out her boyfriend was sleeping with his boss. She went drinking. Outside the bar she walked into Evan, who is the richest man in Riverton, which she did not know. She asked him to marry her straight away and he agreed.
After the wedding her circumstances improved quickly, and her ex heard about it and took it badly. Sydney worked out gradually that the man she had married had more reach than she had assumed.
Fated FlamesThe dealer at the tables in Sean Quain's casino goes by Quill Yale. She is Shirley, who had her face changed by surgery so that nobody in the building would place her.
Six years earlier her adoptive sister Sandra poisoned their parents, and Shirley lost the two of them in a night. Sandra had her drugged as well, and the stranger she was left with was Sean, who ran the gambling house. Sandra cannot have children. Ten months later she took the daughter Shirley had given birth to, brought the baby up as hers, married into the Quain family on the strength of it, and then shot at Shirley to finish the business. A gold pendant of Sean's took the bullet.
Quill Yale deals cards in Sean's casino to get near him and to take back what Sandra is holding. Sean works out early that she is running something at him and lets her run it. The longer they are around each other, the more of the past comes up. She is the woman from six years ago, and she is also the person he has spent years looking for, the one who saved his life. The two of them move against Sandra together.
The Tyrant's Bride-to-beHana doesn't like the predictable happy ending while reading a web novel, and yells at the air in anger. All of a sudden, the author's message appears on the screen, saying "Make your own ending if you don't like mine.", and Hana finds herself turned into a female lead in the novel. She chooses to be a lover of the villain instead of the male lead to survive, and struggles to reach a happy ending.
Fated with the Alpha CEONoel Snow turns four and starts showing symptoms nobody around him can account for. They take him for a monster and shut him away. His mother, Sylvia Snow, had him after a night five years earlier under a full moon, when she was drunk, went into the wrong room and slept with a man she had never met. That man, Eric Payne, turns up while Noel is locked up and gets him out. Eric is a werewolf, and what has been happening to Noel comes from that.
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.