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Oops, My General Hubby Can Hear My ThoughtsThe engagement is arranged: Sierra Lowe is promised to Commander Ethan Nacht, and the wedding goes ahead. Her plan for the marriage is to keep her head down, act simple, make money quietly, and hand over the position once the ninth wife turns up and takes it.
Sierra is not from this century. She was a researcher at a future institute, she died during her work, and she woke a hundred years earlier in the body of the commander's fiancée, knowing how the story is supposed to go.
On the wedding night Ethan can hear what she is thinking. What he hears is, so this is Ethan Nacht, the one who slept with his own father's ninth wife. Ethan cannot make sense of it. His father only ever had eight wives.
Goodbye, My YesterdayGigi Smith was the woman Isaac Lowe had wanted before Vivian Walker got in the way, and Gigi was the one at Vivian's bedside at the end. What she told her was that Isaac had never cared for her and that he had a child by Gigi. Vivian went out on that, with the resentment intact.
The marriage had been Vivian's doing. Isaac was her uncle, and she forced it through, and to get it she gave up her place at university and filed to withdraw from the entrance exam. The rest of her life after that was spent on her own.
Then she opened her eyes and it was forty years earlier, at the moment before she signed. This time she tore the withdrawal form up and kept her seat for the exam.
Love Love ChangeLuna is in love with Woojoo and cannot do anything about it, because she is living inside her best friend Hanbyeol's body. A beggar handed the two of them a piece of candy, and when they ate it their souls changed places. The two friends have opposite temperaments, and now each has to pass as the other.
Hanbyeol has fallen for Woojoo too, at the same time. The three of them had been close, and the closeness starts to come apart as feelings that had been kept down for a long time surface between them. Nobody can say whether Woojoo is drawn to a body or to the person inside it, and Luna and Hanbyeol keep living as each other in the meantime.
Snatched a Feisty HeiressMarriages between the old families in the city are settled by contract, sometimes by a grandparent on the bride's behalf. One of those agreements put Rosie Turner into the Gibson family.
The wedding was kept quiet. Sean Gibson left her by herself on the wedding night, and she spent it acquiring a landmark commercial building in the middle of the city. People around the family said Sean had married a woman who was there for decoration and nothing else, and he ignored her for a long while after that.
The Gibson Group then ran into a crisis while the Webb family was moving against it. Rosie went into the board meeting and turned the room around with one move. She raced as well, and won, in front of people who had no idea she could drive. Around the same time the file on the killing of an entire family sixteen years earlier came back into circulation, and it had to do with her. Sean read about his wife in the financial pages.
Not His Blood, But His HeartSu Nian was convicted over a car crash her boyfriend caused and sentenced to three years. While she was inside, the head of one of the wealthiest families in the city, Old Master Feng, came to her with an offer: blood donations for his grandson Feng Yechen, who was ill, in exchange for an early release. She took it and got out ahead of her term.
On the day she came home she found her boyfriend in bed with the woman he reported to at work. Within days of that, Su Nian married Feng Yechen. After the wedding he treated her as the first concern of the household, and the two of them went after the boyfriend and the woman together.
A Love Long OverdueLin Anran was a third-tier actress when her grandfather died, and his last wish was that she marry Xiao Yunchen, who runs the Xiao Group. She went through with it. Then she got pregnant, which neither of them had planned on, and she filed for divorce and raised the girl, Lin Nuannuan, by herself. Six years pass. The Xiao family stumbles onto the fact that Nuannuan is Xiao Yunchen's daughter, and they start looking for mother and child across the city. Lin Anran, meanwhile, is being pushed around on a film set by people who know she has no standing there. Nuannuan gets shut inside a prop box. Xiao Yunchen turns up and gets them both out, and does not work out that the child is his. The matter settles at a banquet, where Madam Xiao states publicly who Nuannuan's father is, and in the same breath it comes out that Lin Anran was Xiao Yunchen's wife. He says in front of the room that he loves her.
With X-Ray Eyes, Desire IgnitesKingsbourg has three men the rest of the city works around. Dylan Linnet bullies his way through the campus and has not been beaten at a card table. Calvin Gorton is the Gorton heir, and the university treats him accordingly. Shawn Gold's name gets said quietly.
Olivia Joyner is at the same university with no money behind her. Calvin knocks her down with his car, and afterward she can see through solid things. She uses it on what is buried and on what is inside a deal before anyone signs it, and the money comes in fast. Within a short time the student who could barely cover her costs is one of the wealthiest women around.
All three men end up saying the same thing about her, that this woman is really interesting. Calvin follows her about trying to be forgiven for the car. Dylan, who does not lose, is taken with the way she works. Shawn Gold, the man the city is afraid of, is at ease around her.
Married on Paper, Claimed for LifeJiang Qingli, the world's number one crisis management expert, returns to her home country after retirement. She meets Huo Tingshen, the president of the Huo Group, who has had a crush on her for ten years. After being accidentally photographed by a reporter, Tingshen fakes a marriage with her on the grounds that the company is about to go public. Unexpectedly, they become a real couple over time. It also turns out that Tingshen has been planning this for a long time. With mutual understanding and affection, Tingshen's ten-year crush reaches fruition, and the lovers have a happy ending.
The Second-Chance HeiressAmanda Johnson is at the point of choosing a husband and she picks David Wilson, who has a reputation for keeping his word. In the life she remembers, she married William Thompson instead, and William moved the Johnson Group's money to his first love, Natalie Davis, until the billions were gone. Natalie then went after the Johnson family itself and William let it run.
David courts her steadily after the wedding. She has identities she has not disclosed, and they come out one at a time. William Thompson learns she did not marry him this time and takes it badly.
Reborn to Ruin Everyone Who Hurt Her!Xue Jiayan's husband, Qi Shaoting, talked her into the emperor's bed. The Qi family would rise by it and his own career would move along, and that was the use he made of his wife.
Outsiders humiliated her over it. Inside the house she was something the Qi family put up with, and her husband came to hate her. Her daughter died. Xue Jiayan took Qi Shaoting down with her at the end of that life.
She opens her eyes on the night she was handed to the emperor Jiang Xuan. This time she intends to live as she likes and to collect from everyone who hurt her and her daughter, and the emperor is the largest piece she has to play. She dries her face and works on him, and Jiang Xuan, thrown by it at first, keeps coming back night after night. Qi Shaoting watches that happen, the promotion he was counting on does not arrive, and the Qi family begins coming apart a piece at a time.
The Substitute Bride and Her Blind CEORenee is newly married to Leander, an heir who is taken to be blind. The marriage was a strategic one, and she was put into it by the family that adopted her, in place of their own daughter Isabelle. Years of abuse in that house left her with a disability. Leander's blindness is an act he keeps up in order to look into how his parents died, and it let him watch, unnoticed, how Renee was treated there.
They keep up their fronts through the intrigues of high society while starting a venture in AI technology together. Renee is in fact the AI master known as Nutien, and Leander turns out to be the mentor who has been teaching her for years. The venture brings out the secrets of a master who disappeared. The two of them test each other for a while before they come to trust each other, and once they do they work together to bring the villains to justice.
Pampered by My Ex-husbandSimmons wants Lauren Hastings back. Before she turned up again he had a name as the model husband and father, and people said so out loud. Lauren comes back with children and the name goes to pieces.
He goes after her and she does not give way. "The children are mine, and you are what I chose to leave behind," she tells him. He keeps at it anyway, up to the point where he is looking at two boys who are copies of him, and then he stops arguing about where they came from. There are other people ahead of him for her attention and he has to wait his turn.
Reborn to Destroy My ExYvonne Patton loved a man named Liam so completely that she stopped questioning anything he did. He took her family's wealth out from under her, and in the end her death came out of that. Then she opens her eyes at an earlier point in her own life, before any of it has happened, with all of it still in her memory. Liam is in front of her again, still charming, still working the same approach that took everything the first time. She smiles at him and says he should watch how she makes him pay in this life. She lets him keep courting her long enough to get at the arrangements underneath the courtship, the transfers and the people who signed off on them, and she takes the family holdings back before he can move on them. Around her the same relatives who once believed him have to watch her handle it. Once that is settled she is free in a way she never was before, and there is a man who has stayed close to her through the whole thing, steady, asking nothing. His name is Yasir. What she does not know while she is leaning on him is that he belongs to the Brooks family, one of the most powerful houses in the capital, and that he is the one in line to inherit it.
In This Life, I Don't Give a HootAfter business woman Ye Qiao and her parents died unexpectedly, she finally saw the true face of her family members. So, after the whole family was reborn together, Ye Qiao decided to completely mess it up and only focus on hooking up with the enemy who was heartbroken by her death in his previous life. From then on, when the company had a business crisis, she sat idly by; her adopted sister wanted to compete with her for her fiancé, but she gave in; her grandparents wanted to give the family business to her cousin, and she supported it with both hands. But after she refused to fight or grab, the whole family was completely panicked, crying and begging her to come back and restore the family's glory.
Now I'm Your BossAdrian Cole's mother has cancer, and on the same night his company comes after him for compensation. Olivia Bennett has been with him for seven years. That night she leaves him, for the sake of her own future.
She does not know that the business simulation game Adrian has been playing, and has cleared to the last stage, has begun to cross over into the real world. The company he built inside it, and everything it owns, is about to pass to him as a real inheritance.
Eighties Hustle: Love and LegacyQian Lingling wakes up in the 1980s with a head injury, married to a military officer named Xie Yan who barely speaks. The last thing she remembers is dying at her desk during overtime. The woman whose body she is now in had been pushing Xie Yan for a divorce ever since he hurt his leg in a flood rescue, and she hit her head during the latest fight over it. Xie Yan has not got over the leg, and the people around him treat him as a man with no future.
Qian Lingling knows that Xie Yan will one day be the richest man in the world. She also finds out that the little girl in the house, Mianmian, the orphaned child of a comrade he took in, will grow up to be the richest woman. She drops the divorce and stays in the 1980s. She sets about getting into the good graces of both of them, and she and Xie Yan begin working toward a fortune together.
Rise for VengeanceMu Yao is reborn after Pei Yuan and her adopted sister destroy both her and the Mu family. She allies with supposedly paralyzed Prince Pei Yue to overturn their enemy, only to see him rise from his wheelchair when her life is threatened.
I Married the Story's VillainThe marriage was arranged for another woman. Tian Zhizhi is pushed into it in that woman's place by the woman's family, before she has worked out that she is now inside a book and that the man she is being handed to is its villain. Li Yan is unpredictable and hard on everyone near him. He lost the use of his legs, his temper has been worse since, and people keep their distance. Tian Zhizhi wants none of it and has no way to refuse.
On the wedding night she tries to run and does not get away. In the confusion the two of them end up kissing, and after that Li Yan can hear what she is thinking and feel the pain in her body as if it were his own. She is strange enough that he is often unsure whether to laugh at her or lose his temper, and the care he shows her now and then is not lost on her.
Oath of LoveThe former Empress Shen Yueming was poisoned and reincarnated as Su Qingyue, the illegitimate daughter of the prime minister, and becomes the consort of her adopted son, Emperor Xie Jin. Xie Jin, deeply obsessed with his 'mother', spent three years summoning her soul with blood rituals, finally bringing her back, unaware she now resides in Su Qingyue's body. Su Qingyue seeks to escape but finds herself falling for Xie Jin amidst their entanglement. Due to childhood trauma, Xie Jin only feels warmth towards his 'mother' and, to keep her by his side, forms a blood oath, binding their fates together. Su Qingyue, to save her brother Shen Yunkai, repeatedly schemes against Xie Jin, even helping her half-sister Su Qingxue pretend to be 'possessed by the Empress'. Eventually, her true identity is uncovered by Xie Jin. The palace is fraught with danger, and the truth behind her previous death reveals a conspiracy by the prime minister. Shen Yunkai leads a rebellion, clashing swords with Xie Jin. Su Qingyue chooses to stand by Xie Jin, preventing bloodshed and exposing the truth of the poisoning. To grant her freedom, Xie Jin abdicates the throne, declaring himself the retired emperor. The two leave the palace behind, living out their days together in peace among the people.
Kissed a Stranger, Married a BillionaireThe family arranges a match for Moon Shawn with a man who has been divorced three times. To get out of it, she kisses Salem Lachlan, who belongs to the most powerful family in Landon. He takes her away that same day, to an engagement party and then straight into a marriage.
They live together and their feelings grow. Jealousy sets off a run of misunderstandings, though each one gets cleared up quickly. Then Salem finds out that Cyndi, the genius he has been searching for all this time, is his own wife. She is keeping other things from him too.
Love in Silence, Vengeance in EchoThe Morgan money is her father's, and Nancy Morgan gave up her claim to it the day she walked out of the house. She left after her boyfriend Hank was made deaf and mute by an accident. Zack Morgan told her not to go and she went anyway, and she pretended to be mute herself so that she could stay with Hank. For three years she worked odd jobs and put what she earned toward his treatment.
Hank got his hearing and his speech back. He was ashamed of the years behind him and of Nancy playing the poor mute girl, and he started going after Yana, who wanted him for the charm he had come into. He pushed Nancy off with cruel words and long silences. Nancy went back to her family, moved abroad and put a life together there, and that is where she met Noah Vince.
The Love That Healed UsNolan Carter has an allergy to women. Avery Bennett ends up in bed with him anyway, by accident, at a point when she has nothing left to lose.
Her mother had been drawing blood from her since birth to keep her brother supplied. The brother then sold her to a man called Mr. White, and it was in the middle of that that she met Nolan.
She is carrying triplets afterward. The two of them start pulling each other out of what they came from.
Darling, Please Love Me Again?Joyce wants to stay married to Scott and to keep the child she is carrying. At the party for their fifth wedding anniversary, Tina, her half-sister on their father's side, walks in and tells her to give Scott back. Tina shoves her, and Joyce loses the pregnancy. Scott picks Tina up and leaves with her while Joyce is still on the ground.
Joyce asks for a divorce. Scott signs the papers without argument. She burns the things they kept from the marriage and walks down to the sea on her own.
Ten days go by before Scott takes in that she is not coming back. He decides she has staged the whole thing with everyone else and works out a way to use Tina to draw her out. Going back over the fights he had blamed her for, he finds misunderstandings in them, and he learns what Tina arranged at the anniversary party.
The CEO's Most WantedDorothy Page came from an ordinary family and married into money on her looks. Reece Carter kept her in comfort for more than ten years, and she spent those years running the house and raising their daughter, picking up skills as she went because they were needed. Then Reece cheated. She filed for divorce immediately and did not argue about terms. A year on she is supporting herself with exactly those household skills, which she has turned into a following of over ten million people online and a personal fortune in the hundreds of millions. Men across the country propose to her in her comments. Reece works out at this point what he threw away and starts trying to get back in, and by then Gregory Holland, the biggest tycoon in the city, has been spoiling her daily for some time and is impatient to marry her.
Poor Husband, Hidden TycoonYvette runs the Sullivan Group and has just married a man she collected from outside the marriage registry office. Ethan told her he owned nothing. He takes one look at her and says she has been poisoned, and then he starts feeding her rare herbs as though they cost nothing and cooking medicinal meals.
She needed a husband quickly. Her grandfather's will left 10 percent of the company to whoever she married, and without those shares her stepmother would take control. She had a set of candidates lined up for a marriage of convenience, found a plant among them, and turned down the whole lot. Ethan was at the registry office door, the poorest man there and the one she liked the look of.
The people around him call him young master when they think she is not listening.
Cinderella's Vengeance ClockThe terms are six years in the Huber house. Anya Sharp lives in, keeps the place, and looks after Blake Huber and his young son, and when the six years are up she is free to go. An old man she has never met sets the arrangement, and she takes it to clear what she owes Trevon, who was hurt badly saving her life and has not woken since.
Blake gives her nothing in those years. His ex-wife Keira works against her the whole time. Anya keeps her head down and waits the arrangement out.
Then Keira comes back. Blake sides with her, and so does the boy Anya has raised. When the six years are up she packs and leaves the same day. Blake understands what she was to him only once she is out of the house. Trevon is awake by then, and she goes to him.
Love's Redemption: Winning Her Heart BackAurora Southcott married Thomas Franklin without telling him what family she came from. Her people are worth billions and she had grown up with everything, and she went into his house as a wife with none of that known. His mother had no time for her. Thomas took her for a woman who had married him for money, and when the woman he was keeping outside the marriage needed blood, he arranged for Aurora to supply it whenever it was wanted.
The marriage ended after three years and Aurora went home to take over the family money. She comes through the airport quietly and the reporters get to her anyway. One asks why the three years with Mr. Franklin ended, and she says, "Because I need to return home to inherit my billions and become a billionaire." Another asks whether it is true that she has dated several young men inside a month. Before she can answer, a voice at the back of the crowd says it is false. Thomas Franklin, who has been going after her since the divorce, comes out of the reporters and points out that his own family has billions too, then asks whether Ms. Southcott would care to inherit those.
My Revenge, My PhoenixQueenie Cole wanted to pass her heavenly trial and ascend. The trial went against her, and she woke up instead in the body of the chancellor's legitimate daughter, a girl her own household had spent years humiliating.
She starts with the people in that house. She pays back the ones who wronged the girl and strips the mask off a woman who has been passing herself off as something she is not. Her own buried identities come out one at a time as she does it.
A merchant with a large fortune keeps appearing wherever she goes and stays at her side without asking anything of her. He is the lord of the Phoenix clan, the man she made use of five years earlier and dropped once she had what she needed from him. She tells him she will not wrong him again in this life. She goes on building her power while working to get him back.
Married for Money, Swayed by LoveLarry Nell wants a wife in name to put between himself and his family. Coral Baker takes the work because she needs the money. She has no family anyone in his circle has heard of, and the job is to be Mrs. Nell, available at any hour for whatever his mood turns out to require. They marry during his older brother's engagement banquet, in front of the city's wealthy families. The marriage is public knowledge by the next morning, along with a story going round that she pulled him into a kiss in the middle of a public street. The two of them play a couple in front of other people and share a house away from them. The contract is amended more than once while this is going on, and the terms written to keep them at a distance stop describing how they actually live.
Whirlwind Husband: Her BrotherSong Xi is a photographer. Her best friend pushes her to go on a blind date, and she ends up spending the night with the friend's older brother, Jing Zhuo, by mistake. The two of them marry on the spot.
By day Jing Zhuo is a strict, rigid CEO. At night he is gentle with her and calls her baby. To keep the marriage going he has to hide who he is and work around the best friend, who keeps insisting her older brother is cruel. Misunderstandings, laughing and crying follow from there.
Revenge Carved in a Second LifeThe sister who had been gone comes home just as the Qiao family reaches the top, and the father and the three older brothers hand her all their affection. Qiao Xinyan is the one who got them there. She spent that whole life on their careers, one post at a time, and when it was done she had nothing of it.
Then she opens her eyes on the day her parents have just divorced, years back from all that. This time she leaves the father and the brothers where they are and goes with her mother, who remarries into the Shen family.
I Was His Guard,Now He's My PrisonerDavid controls the mafia in M City and has spent four years building a trap out of money and affection. It closes on Henry Smith, once the heir to M City's wealthiest family and by then a porter in a bar. David had been Henry's bodyguard and was abused in the job; he came up through the mafia over the same four years. Henry is disgraced in public and left with nothing, which is what David set out to do, and once it is finished David finds the result empty, since somewhere in the game he had fallen in love with the man he was ruining.
He goes on following Henry anyway, and the older part of the story starts coming out. Charles had been fixated on Henry for years, and it was Charles who arranged the death of David's mother and the collapse of the Smith family fortune. Henry had quietly sent money to save her, and Ethan took it before it arrived, on Charles's instructions.
Out of Love, Into YouCheng Qingye has stopped sleeping. Her wedding to Lyu Xudong, who comes from a powerful family, is close, and she has found out that he is seeing someone else. Her mother is seriously ill, and she has been with Lyu for five years, so she keeps what she knows to herself and lies awake at night instead. She goes to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic for the insomnia and is treated by Yu Song. She is drawn to him and proposes that they spend one night together. Yu Song already knows who she is, though she has no idea of it. He uses the treatment as a reason to stay close, and gives her somewhere to put the anger she has been holding in.
Under his guidance she starts to push back. On the wedding day she stands up in front of the guests, lays out what Lyu Xudong has been doing, and calls the marriage off. Afterwards she and Yu Song grow closer, and it comes out that he is the heir to a wealthy family and that his mother and hers were old acquaintances.
He Took A Mistress I Took the SkyJiyoung dreamed of becoming a pilot, but an unexpected pregnancy led her to give up her captain’s seat to her husband, Min-gyu, and become a housewife. On their seventh anniversary, she catches him cheating and dies in a plane crash. However, fate has other plans. She wakes up before the tragedy—and this time, she’s ready to take back the sky.
He Came From the SilenceNadia Wolfe spends ten secret years with her father’s subordinate Jack Mayer, but he refuses marriage when her family collapses and again chooses childhood friend Bree. Nadia answers without pleading, selecting mercenary Lucian Wyler and demanding the earliest wedding possible.
Vengeance & Grace: Millionaire's Cherished WifeIn the life before this one, Xamira was betrayed by the man she was with and by the woman who wanted him. Two years of what they did to her cost her eight pregnancies, one after another, and she bled to death at the end of it.
She wakes at an earlier point in her own life with a plan for the pair of them. The first step is marrying Jotham Shadforth, the richest man in Solthar, who runs the place the way he likes. The marriage turns into something other than a step in a plan. Jotham puts himself between her and whatever comes at her, his family takes to her, and she carries a child this time without the trouble she had before.
She and Jotham go after the man and the woman together, and they make the two of them pay for what the first life cost her.
Small Town Girl Finds Her Mr. Big TimeNatalia's best friend Juana has been using Natalia's identity to get close to a business tycoon. Natalia finds this out just as something is starting between her and the same man. She is a small-town girl who has only just arrived in the United States. On her first day there she met him and, by chance, lost her virginity to him that same night.
Uncle's Endless LoveKarissa was the Beltrans' real daughter, lost as a child and returned to the family years later. Ivy, the daughter they had adopted while Karissa was missing, took her and locked her in a warehouse. Ivy wanted a demonstration of who the family actually valued, so she set the warehouse on fire with both of them inside. The parents and the brothers came, and they carried Ivy out. Karissa was left where she was. With the fire closing in, the person who came for her was Luis, a man she had once shared a house with. Then she opened her eyes and it was three years earlier, before any of it had happened, with everything she had learned about her family still in her head. She sets about using it.
Love Caught Fangs and ClawsYuri is in high school and gets nothing at home. His adoptive parents keep what they have for their own son. At school he is the one people pick on. He is friendly about all of it, quick to put other people first, and none of what it costs him shows.
Then a vampire lands in his swimming pool. Brian is the heir of a clan that has lost its position, and for centuries he has held to his father's rule that a vampire does not drink human blood. His enemy has just taken out half his heart with one strike, and he should not have survived the fall. Yuri's blood is what keeps him alive.
Brian wants more of the blood. He follows Yuri around without being seen. Lucius, a werewolf, stays close to Yuri and takes whatever comes at him, and Brian starts minding that a good deal more than the blood explains.
Yuri does not know that his blood brings the dead back, or that he was not born human. Other people find out, come after him for it, and put him in a position where he has to choose between Brian and Lucius.
Your Majesty, Please Divorce Me!Sophia Carter worked in an office and won a lottery jackpot. The excitement killed her before she could collect the money. She opened her eyes in another world, in the body of the empress of the Cloud Kingdom, a woman the court had written off as weak and useless.
A system spoke to her and began handing out tasks. She refused all of them. It told her that the way back to her own world was a decree from the emperor stripping her of the title. From then on she did as she liked, caused trouble around the palace, and asked her attendants every day when the decree was coming. It did not come. Her position at court got firmer instead, and the people around her, the emperor included, came round to her.
Her Calculated Love, His Irresistible ObsessionKang Renran needed money for Guo Bingnian's treatment and a way to get her brother out of prison, so she married Lu Shi'an, who was at that point in a quarrel with Shu Ran, the woman he had never got over. Guo Bingnian was her first love. A year into the marriage Lu Shi'an treats her as something useful and otherwise beneath his notice.
Shu Ran comes back from abroad to take the public relations director's job at Songcheng Group. Kang Renran decides on a divorce. She needs the rent for a second-hand luxury goods shop, so she puts up the Hermès Himalaya bag Lu Shi'an gave her. Shu Ran bids it up on purpose and takes it, then wears it to a banquet along with a bracelet of Kang Renran's to get a reaction out of her. Kang Renran uses the attention to announce that she is opening the shop, and the provocation turns into publicity for it.
After that she handles Lu Shi'an while getting the shop ready. Guo Bingnian's illness gets worse and she helps him through it, which Lu Shi'an reads the wrong way. Shu Ran keeps setting things up against her.
I Woke Up in a Short Drama?The Hart family is poor, and Sophie's inner voice, which the whole household can suddenly hear, gives them a reason: Charlie was born with a rich fate and Jacob with a poor one, and the family has been treating the two the wrong way round. Overnight they reverse it. Charlie gets favors, gifts, and deference. Jacob gets beaten and insulted.
Sophie married into the Hart family as the scheming daughter-in-law, and before her thoughts became audible she could not get anyone to listen to her. Now the family hangs on them.
The money follows. Their mother becomes president of the chamber of commerce, their father a lottery tycoon, and the eldest son Ben rises in business. The Harts start treating Sophie as the family's lucky charm and dote on her.
Wait, the Villain Is a Nanny's Daughter?In the Cafaro Empire, Hailey served the noble lady Natalie from childhood, and the two of them came through years of difficulty together. Natalie became empress. Hailey was raised to a high-ranking concubine and ran the harem alongside her, and she was still working at the palace at sixty.
Then she wakes in another era as the daughter of the Smith family's housekeeper. The Smiths have just brought home their real daughter, also called Natalie, fetched back from the countryside, and her face is the same face Hailey served for a lifetime. This Natalie is bullied by Mila, the girl the Smiths adopted and raised in her place, and she is too frightened to answer back. The parents take Mila's side. Hailey decides to stand with Natalie, deal with Mila, and take on the parents who favour her.
His Daily ProposalsFreya Walker wakes up in her own past with everything she learned the hard way still in her head. She knows what her husband will do, she knows the family that took her in will be picked apart, and she knows how her own death arrives. So she works down the list. She files for divorce and refuses to be the rung her husband climbs on his way up the ministry. Her mother-in-law spreads talk about her conduct, and Freya makes sure it lands back on the woman who started it. Her husband's mistress wants the wife's seat, and Freya lets her reach for it and then take the fall. Along the way she pulls a badly wounded stranger out of trouble without asking who he is, which turns out to be the future emperor. He does not go away afterwards. In daylight he is a minister nobody wants to be summoned by, cold and thorough. At night he comes over her courtyard wall and asks her the same question again, whether she has thought about it, when she is going to make him her official husband.
The Fallen God & His Mute MuseIn the Celestial Realm spirit stones are lent at interest, and an immortal who cannot cover the debt is sent down to be reborn among mortals. Lu Ming, a Golden Immortal, borrowed on those terms, could not pay, and went down.
His soul lands in the body of a compulsive gambler who had been killed over the same kind of debt. The gambler left a wife who cannot speak. She had been loyal to him and looked after him, and she was still treated cruelly for it.
Lu Ming decides to begin his time as a human inside this marriage. The first thing he does is earn money, and then he works on refining pills that would give her back her voice.
The Mogul Behind the CounterThe Hanyo family runs their household on rank and money, and they made it clear that Kazuma Mikage was beneath their daughter Yuki from the start. His fiancée, her mother, and her sister took turns on him. Kazuma asked his father Koiti to stay away from the wedding, since Koiti worked a cashier's shift at a convenience store and had raised him on that job.
What Kazuma did not know is that Koiti is the richest man in the world and has been hiding it for years. Koiti came to the wedding anyway. Kazuma was insulted through the ceremony and Koiti kept standing up for him. When the guests laughed at the cashier, Koiti answered by handing over a bride price and gifts far past anything the Hanyo family expected. The relatives kept pushing. They pressed drink on him and said things about Kazuma's dead mother, and Koiti stopped holding back. While that was going on, a woman he had once taken in as his goddaughter pushed the doors open, announced that she intended to marry into the Mikage family, and the room went quiet.
The Family Plan: Love Strikes TwiceGianna Mason lacked nothing except a say in her own life. Javion Herman paid for all of it and set the limits, and people around them called her his golden canary. She was close to giving birth when someone set Javion up, and he disappeared.
Five years later she came back into the country with her daughter. Javion was living rough by then, with nothing left of what he had been. Gianna and the girl took him home and helped him back onto his feet, and the old feeling between them returned. The three of them went after the people who had arranged his fall, and what each of them had wrongly believed about the other during the years apart was cleared up one piece at a time.
My Bandit Lover is the EmperorJyara lost the war, so its princess Anya is sent off to be married into the kingdom that beat it. On the road her party is taken by a pack-horse caravan of bandits, and their chief Wyatt Igan very nearly takes her by force. Anya schemes her way out of the camp and into the imperial palace of Eoghan, which was the destination anyway, and there she finds the emperor confined to bed and unable to govern. His face is the face of Wyatt Igan, feature for feature. Wyatt follows her in, dressed as a eunuch, and takes a position close to her. Actual power in the palace belongs to the Prince Regent, and he wants Anya himself. She is now inside a court where every alliance is a trap and where the men around her all want something from her body or her name. She uses that. She sets herself out as bait and lets him keep the bandit identity as cover, and between the two of them they work the bedchamber and the audience hall at the same time.
Making Your Husband MineWooyeon was the daughter of the chairman of Tewon Electronics. She started work as an intern in the marketing division of her father's company.
She met Jaehwan in the elevator. He was the marketing director, sharp with her from the first exchange and inclined to protect her at work regardless.
Jaehwan was married to Jisoo, a team leader at the same company. Jisoo had bullied Wooyeon at school and went on needling her once Wooyeon was in the building.
Wooyeon set out to take Jaehwan for herself, with Jisoo still running a team two floors from her desk.
One-Night BonanzaA wealthy matriarch goes out into the street looking for a wife for her son, offering a trial marriage with a seven-day no-questions return. Her son Xie Siyan cannot touch a woman without her breaking out in an allergic reaction, so the offer has few takers.
Luo Jiutian is an orphan of the Luo family, taken in and raised by the Fu household since she was small. At a gathering she and Fu Tingxiao are both drugged. To keep his name out of it she leaves the room and pays a stranger a hundred thousand to spend the night with her. The stranger is Xie Siyan, first heir of the Xie fortune, and she has no allergic reaction at all.
Ten generations of good deeds by the Xie and Luo families put a lucky star in Luo Jiutian's belly. The whole household can hear what the unborn child is thinking, and the secrets and schemes around them start coming apart one at a time. Luo Jiutian goes from a controlled and discarded orphan to the daughter-in-law the family closes ranks around.
After I Became the Emperor's BullyRory, a student, was preparing for her final exams when she was moved into the world of a novel she had already read. She woke in the body of the novel's wastrel heir, the only legitimate child of a duke who also served as chancellor. The duke kept many concubines and had ten children by them. The heir's mother had dressed the child as a boy from early childhood and passed her off as a son. By the time Rory arrived, the heir had a reputation as arrogant and idle, with a habit of harassing good-looking men, and the man she harassed most was Yisroel, the novel's male lead.
In the version Rory had read, Yisroel later took the throne, and the heir was one of the minor villains removed after his coronation.
Rory met Yisroel soon after arriving. Something went wrong at that first meeting, and Yisroel and the people around him came away believing the heir was attracted to men. Rory kept up the wastrel persona and went on humiliating Yisroel in front of others, while working separately, where nobody could see, at improving his opinion of her. Yisroel's attitude toward the heir changed during that period, and he began to develop feelings for her.
The Melody of Our ReunionEve Torres teaches music. She takes the job in the Murillo house, private lessons for a girl the family has only recently found, and the man who hires her is Nathan Murillo. Five years earlier Eve was a student at Johaven Music School. She got pregnant after one night with him, and while she was working as a backup singer, covering vocals for a star, her water broke backstage and she gave birth early to a daughter, Daisy. Nathan left a jade pendant and a promise to come back for her, then disappeared. Eve stopped performing and raised Daisy alone.
Before the job, Mrs. Murillo crossed paths with Daisy by chance and thought the girl looked like family. A DNA test confirmed Daisy was Nathan's, and the Murillos began searching for the mother and child. Daisy spends money on a bank card her grandmother gave her, and Nathan tries to trace the transaction without finding her. When Eve brings Daisy to return the card, she proposes a children's singing contest. During the contest Linh Nhac, out of jealousy, cuts the lights. Daisy is afraid of the dark and goes into shock. Nathan reaches her in time, and up close he sees her face.
Blind Behind Lies, Love Upon RevengeThe Ruskin family's adopted daughter is treated as slow-witted, and the family uses her as a piece to trade. They send her to a marriage that was arranged for someone else. The groom is a business tycoon the whole city believes is blind in both eyes.
The marriage runs on a contract. She plays the fool because it keeps trouble away from her, and he keeps up the blindness because it keeps him out of sight. On the wedding night they share a bed and spend it feeling out what the other one is hiding.
She is in fact the figure nobody has identified who holds the commercial lifeblood of the city. He has spent five years preparing, moving one step at a time, for revenge. There is a reason the Ruskins could place her in that house: her face closely resembles the woman he loved and lost, and he sees that woman when he looks at her.
Behind it is a traffic accident whose real cause was never told, identities that were swapped, and the schemes of a wealthy family. As the masks come off, the truth turns out to be both a way out and a way down.
Ex-Wife? She's the Godfather.Evelyn Song has been a quiet wife for seven years when her husband's mistress turns up pregnant and tells her to make room. Evelyn puts the woman in her place on the spot. Her husband is angry about it and takes the mistress's side. Evelyn makes one phone call to the military headquarters, and the elite unit he has been so proud of is disbanded.
She ran the underworld of the city before the marriage and set that aside to help her husband rise. The organisation that backed him through those seven years was hers the whole time, and he did not know it. After the divorce she takes the Commander post he had been angling for, and the people he spent years courting take their orders from her. She also has a new lover by then.
Bad Boy Begs for Her Love AgainAfter being cheated on by her fiance, Molly Stewart gets into a car accident but gains a blessing in disguise. She is rescued and mentored by Betsy Greenwood, matriarch of the Hudson family, becoming Vice President of Hudson Group. Xavier Hudson, the family's notorious playboy, falls for Molly at first sight when he sees her at the company. Betsy adores Molly and deliberately schemes to bring them together. After marriage, the two begin their chaotic, bickering daily life.
Not Here for Love, Too Busy Making MoneyLiana Ingleby worked out early that money is not everything and that without it a person can do nothing at all. She used what she had, her own ability and what she had learned, and took every opening that moved her up a step. At school and later in the market she was the one who saw the single opening worth taking and got to it first.
Then the campus took in students on sponsorship, and the settled life she had built there stopped being settled.
The people she had filed as allies of convenience, useful to her while she was useful to them, turned out to be running something among themselves. It took her a while to work out what it was. They were playing a raising game, the sort where a player takes charge of a character and brings her up, and the character being brought up was Liana herself.
Love, UnexpectedClaude's grandmother is in a coma, and the thing she has been waiting for is a great-grandchild he does not have. At the hospital he takes hold of a pregnant woman he has never spoken to, walks her to the bedside and tells his grandmother that the baby is his. His grandmother comes out of danger that day. That night Claude dreams about the woman.
Chloe is going through the pregnancy on her own. The man at the hospital is the biological father of her child, and she takes running into him there for a coincidence that will not repeat. Claude runs a company and has a reputation for showing nothing. After that day he is there again in the hospital corridor, then outside her door. They sign a marriage in a hurry, and he keeps her with him while his grandmother goes on believing what was said at the bedside.
Love at First ShotLin Xi moves into Huo Yanxiu's house in Jiangcheng. He is the richest man in the city and the grandson of the old woman who took Lin Xi in as a child, which is why her grandfather sent her there after her school went bankrupt.
Lin Xi grew up in the countryside, and in the Huo house that makes her a target for Song Weiwei, who comes from money and goes at her over and over. Lin Xi turns each one around, and Huo Yanxiu begins to notice her. By the time the two of them are close, she has worked out that he is the person who pulled her out of a fire fifteen years earlier. What she finds while putting that together leads back into her own family.
Sweet Revenge: From Betrayal to BelovedWhat Celeste Moore wanted was the life she had been promised when she came to the city, an engagement and a place at university. Her fiancé and her stepsister saw to it that she got neither. The engagement was called off, a gang member took her innocence, and her entrance exam results were stolen along with everything that depended on them. She died of a medical error, and the fiancé and the stepsister died in the same accident.
She opens her eyes at the beginning again, before she has reached the city and before she has met Shane Leigh. Shane is fourteen years older than she is, and he is the father of the man she was going to marry. This time she marries Shane, and her former fiancé is put out of the Leigh family. She means to make him and her stepsister pay for the first life.
Mistborne EchoesXue Mengyao wants to undo the massacre of the Xue family, and it happened ninety years ago. Her great-grandfather Xue Dingyi was a young marshal in the Republic era. On the day his engagement to Governor Zhang's daughter was settled, Governor Zhang and his adjutant Cui Xiaojia killed him, and the rest of the household was wiped out with him. The one survivor was her grandfather Xue Xiaoliang, a small boy at the time, who was disabled for the rest of his life. The family went into decline after that.
Then, by accident, Xue Mengyao is sent back ninety years, with her present-day memories intact and the jade pendant the family has handed down, and finds Xue Dingyi young and alive. The first thing she does is go to him and warn him about Governor Zhang's plan. She says it too forcefully, nobody there knows who she is, and she is taken for a madwoman.