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Born Lucky, Loved by AllDuke Andrew's household is cursed with misfortune. His five sons are all afflicted. He's dying, but instead of planning a funeral, he brings home a daughter named Natalia. Declared the legitimate heiress, her arrival reverses her family's fortunes: the Duke recovers, and his sons are miraculously healed. When Natalia uncovers a major exam fraud scandal, everyone is stunned. Now,everyone wants to get close to her, but the overprotective Duke warns, "Touch her, and you'll be dead!"
When Cultivation Became RealityThe cultivation game has come into the real world, and people carry over whatever level they reached inside it. Some are at Foundation Building and can split a mountain with a fist. Some reached Core Formation and ride swords through the air. A few are Nascent Soul elders who can move a mountain or cut a river with one finger.
Timmy Evans spent ten years at it, staying up night after night, clearing every dungeon and finishing the final challenge, which made him the number one player on the server. What he inherits is the Celestial Sovereign stage, the highest of them all.
Just a Driver, Until You Cross the LineMason Sharp grew up with no money, and the other children in his class made sure he knew it. For years he took it. When people talked about him or laughed at him he backed off, kept quiet and let it go.
Later he happened to save a man's life and was given a sum of money for it. He put the money into a clothing factory, Pinnacle Garments, and ran it with his uncle. The factory grew until it was the biggest garment manufacturer in the county, which made Mason the best off of anyone he had been at school with.
Thea Ivins had been the girl he looked at and never approached since they were young. She began taking an interest in him once the factory was doing well.
Bridal Betrayal: Poison and TrapRyan Scott ran the shipping trade around Harbor City for decades. Past fifty, he decided to retire and arranged to marry Yvonne Stafford, a nurse. He put on a large wedding and signed a company valued at eighty million over to her as a wedding present.
Yvonne had been with Simon Baller since childhood and kept the relationship going in secret through two years of behaving in front of Ryan as though there were nothing in it. She took poison from a friend of hers and gave it to Ryan in doses on several occasions. The arrangement between her and Simon was to take the property after the wedding, kill him, and leave together.
Ryan worked out what was going on early and said nothing. On the wedding day he replaced the lubricant the two of them used with a strong adhesive, and they were stuck together in front of the guests. He then set up a run of deals that left Yvonne carrying very large debts, and her family and her friends turned on her over the money. Yvonne, her brother and Simon began working against each other.
I'd Rather Die Than Ever Want Your Love AgainAfter years of sacrifice for her family and betrayal by the man she loved, a woman presumed dead is rescued by a powerful mafia godfather—only to be forced to choose between a ruthless new future and the first love who realized his regret too late.
Soft on the Surface, Ruthless BeneathHe Wei, who had been trafficked since childhood, relied on her intelligence to outwit the traffickers and successfully fought back in the rainy night to regain her freedom. After returning to a wealthy family, He Wei faced the provocation of the fake daughter and the favoritism of her family. She put away her sharp claws and pretended to be a pitiful victim, taking retreat as a step forward. She tore off her adopted daughter's mask of hypocrisy, took back her own favor and resources, and revealed the real daughter's strength and identity to the world in a noble school with a perfect score that shocked the whole school. Money, status, future, everything she lost must be taken back with her own hands. A counterattack battle about identity, resourcefulness and growth has officially begun.
Great Sage Ascends: Chains Break, Legends RiseSix-Eared Macaque has been sitting in Wukong's place for five hundred years. Tathagata sent the true Great Sage Monkey King into the Inferno by mistake, and Six-Ear took his place as the Victorious Fighting Buddha.
Five hundred years on, Subodhi helps Wukong build a new golden body. He comes back under the name Null. Flower-Fruit Mountain has gone to ruin while he was gone, and the monkeys there are enslaved by Tiger Force and his two brothers, the three demons of Chechi Kingdom. Wukong fights the three of them and takes back the Golden Cudgel. He then goes to the grand celestial gathering and shows everyone there who Six-Ear really is. After that he joins up with Pigsy and Sandy, brings in Yang Jian and Ne Zha, and storms Spirit Mountain to face Tathagata and the Myriad Buddhas Formation.
The Prince Is My Kid's Dad?!Jamie Loxley is the legitimate daughter of a marquis household. Marriage looks like more trouble than it is worth, so she keeps the child and leaves the father out of it, raising the boy in the countryside before returning to the capital. There she deals with her stepmother and her half sister and settles into a good life. The father of her child will not let the matter drop and keeps turning up. Separately, the Seventh Prince, a man she has never met, insists on marrying her and offers to acknowledge her son as his heir. She turns him down repeatedly. The father has meanwhile become the Seventh Prince, he knows exactly who she is, and he is wearing a different face and arranging one chance meeting after another so he can court her from the start again. When she works out that the two men are the same person, she looks at this shameless, grinning creature she cannot shake off, sighs, and asks His Highness whether he has any dignity he would still like to keep.
After He Placed an Unlimited Bid for His MistressSharon Smith, Judiburg's most powerful CEO, catches her "perfect" husband, James Godwin, having an affair at an auction—with Rosie Saul, the very student she has financially supported for years. The betrayal cuts deeper:James has been spending Sharon's money to spoil his mistress, and secretly poisoning Sharon to seize her fortune. Sharon stays quiet, sets a trap, and tightens the net step by step—until the truth detonates in public and the lovers lose everything.
The Betrayed and Abandoned Son of AshfordOnce heir to the Ashford empire, Ethan is kidnapped and erased as a child. When he resurfaces at eighteen, freedom proves crueler than captivity—framed, imprisoned, and sacrificed by the family that reclaimed him. Surviving betrayal and near death, Ethan vanishes again, this time by choice—leaving forgiveness behind.
Bad Son-in-Law, Go to JailLydia Quirk pours her heart into preparing a new home for her son and daughter-in-law. Beaming with pride, she brings her best friend, Fiona Lane, to see it. But at the door, a strange woman suddenly blocks their way and accuses Lydia of being a thief. The two women freeze in shock. What hidden past lies behind this accusation? Outside the new home, a storm begins to brew.
Poison in the HoneyNina Grant is the granddaughter of Chancellor Zion Smith and grew up as her father Warren's favorite. Warren is warm with her and hard on her half sister, and Nina takes the difference for simple preference. It is not. He is training the other girl for a future and shaping Nina for a use of his own. Everyone believes Nina's mother married a man who loved her. Warren took every favor the Smith family gave him, and once he reached the top he wiped out the whole household.
Nina comes back to life at an earlier point, knowing all of it. This time she intends not to be anyone's easy target, and not to let the people she loves die again.
Nerdy Girl's Hot Chemistry with Biker Bad BoyStraight-A student Phoebe accidentally hands an intimate story she wrote to Beau, the school's feared biker and the rival of her actual crush. Beau uses the embarrassing secret to draw her into a makeover bargain, turning two antagonists into covert allies. Their taunting partnership becomes real attraction, leaving Phoebe caught between the ideal boy she planned to want and the troublemaker who now knows her best.
Power Beyond Mortals, Fear Beyond HeavenTen thousand years ago, Elias Rowan failed his ascension and became confined to Mount Voidfall. Awakening millennia later, he finds the world changed and the Aetherion Sect in ruins. Disguised as an ordinary disciple, he returns to save the sect. Ironically, no one recognizes him. To make matters worse, they all think he's a lazy disciple who doesn't train. At the sect competition, Elias turns the tide and finally goes beyond what his past self was capable of.
My Scar, His Debt to PayRachel and Ethan were trapped together in a war zone, and they fell in love and married there. Rachel came out of it with a scar on her face that disfigured her, which she got while saving Ethan. When an evacuation came there was one place on it, and Rachel gave it to Ethan, who was injured. He told her he would come back for her. After he had gone she found out she was pregnant.
Six years later Rachel returns to the country to save her daughter Sophie. Ethan, a doctor, married the daughter of his hospital's director after he got home and has a family with her. To keep his reputation and his standing he spreads lies about Rachel and Sophie.
At this point Rachel's father, who had been missing from her life for years, finds her. He tells her she is the daughter of the chairman of the Harrington Medical Group.
[ENG DUB] War God's Redemption: A Father's PromiseXavi cleans rooms at a hotel and reads fortunes for coins on a bridge. He is the son the wealthiest man in Atheron lost track of years ago, and he is also the War God, which is the part nobody guesses. Five years back he spent one night with Wilma, an actress at the top of her profession. She has been raising a daughter alone since then. The girl, Xamira, has a heart condition and cannot speak, and she is quiet and obedient in a way that makes people uncomfortable. Wilma finds Xavi and tells him Xamira is his. He accepts it and starts doing what a father does. Wilma's own family has been angling for a foothold with a wealthier house, and their route to it is marrying her off to the family's patriarch, an old man whose kidneys are failing and who does not have long. They intend to send Xamira to an orphanage once the marriage is settled. On the wedding day Wilma is put through the ceremony beside the sick old man while Xamira is knocked around by the household. Xavi finds out what is happening and comes for both of them.
Badge of Duty, Heart of TroubleDaniel works as a security guard at the company where his son Cody is employed. Before this he was retired, living quietly and well away from the financial markets. Cody talked him into the job on the idea that a father with nothing to do would be better off with a low-key post, and Daniel went along with it because it was his son asking. On his rounds he catches the eye of Jessica, the company's president and Cody's boss.
Daniel then turns up at the most exclusive gala in the city. The heads of the industry there bow to him. Cody watches this happen and begins to learn about his father's past in the markets.
Holy Crap?! My Sperm Donor is a BillionaireWeston Hewitt's marriage certificate is a fake, and the person holding it is Emily Winter. The registration he actually filed was with Tanya, the housekeeper's daughter, and he filed it to keep her happy. Emily learns all of this by accident. A dog chews up her certificate, she takes it to the registry office for a replacement, and the office tells her the document was never real. She turns around and goes straight to the country's top university, picks out a male student she judges suitable, and sets about having the Winter family's heir by him. The student is Jason Lewis. What Emily does not know about him is that he is the heir to the Lewis Group, which puts him among the most powerful men in the country.
Never Promise ForeverA vow made a thousand years earlier binds the goddess Selena to a man she has been looking for ever since. When she finds him again he is reincarnated as Seth, and what he gives her is cruelty. Selena makes a puppet to stand in her place and take it, and it takes it for a long time. She gives up a child and her standing. When the puppet finally breaks, Seth understands what was done and starts looking for a way to make it right.
By then Selena has found Christian, who knows her mind. The three of them are tangled together. Selena comes through trials that could have killed her and stops holding on to the past, and after that she learns what Christian has been keeping from her, a love carried across her rebirths.
Prison by His Hands, Escape by His MindTop engineer and designer Edwin Stanford learns his son Mason has been framed by wealthy businessman Robert Jasper and imprisoned in “Bridgewell Prison”—a facility Edwin himself designed. To save his son, he endures humiliation and enters the prison as an inmate. Inside, he uses his intelligence to gain the trust of crime boss Dave while secretly leveraging his intimate knowledge of the prison’s structure to execute his plan. He must not only break his son out of this steel cage but also exploit Robert’s greed and paranoia to set the ultimate trap—turning this symbol of absolute control into the judge’s own tomb. This is a father’s revenge executed through knowledge and patience, the ultimate counterattack against evil and betrayal.
Love in a FlashNoelle expects an ordinary married life with the charming man she met on a blind date. Instead, Sebastian turns out to be a billionaire with a past she knows little about. Her escape from pressure to marry becomes a discovery of the secrets behind the husband she chose.
From Last Pick to First ChoiceErin Sanders finds herself entangled in a risky romance with her billionaire arch-rival, Nolan Duffy, who covertly becomes her house boy. But when his deceptions are exposed, threatening her heart and her company, Erin must choose between safeguarding her family legacy or embracing their unconventional love..
Free My Heart, Mr. CEOAfter years of secretly dating her billionaire boss, Mable is shocked by his engagement news, realizing she's been a stand-in for his lost first love. Fleeing his pursuit, Mable stumbles into a whirl of fate, love and scandal.
My Ex is a Secret BillionaireLucy Turner's new boss is the boyfriend she once pretended to cheat on to spare him debt. Years after her expulsion from the Turner family, he is a billionaire engaged to her half-sister. Their renewed proximity brings unresolved feelings up against the scandal she staged.
Spoil Me PleaseAfter being jilted, Violet proposes to the first man she sees—who just so happens to be Sean, a former high school classmate who has always loved her. When he says yes, their marriage sets them on an unexpected path to revenge…and true love.
One Million Reasons to Love a PrinceAfter losing her father and being thrown out by her stepmother, Lyla feels utterly desperate. Then, an unexpected opportunity takes her to an exotic country. To her surprise, she discovers intrigue, mystery, and meets her true love—a royal prince!
Love at First BiteAdopted by werewolf hunters, 18-year-old Staysha's mission to kill her first werewolf changes when she unknowingly spends a night with the charming Alpha King, igniting a forbidden romance.
He's Too Late for Her Mafia MajestyMia Falcone, the Don’s daughter, gave up everything for Leo Romano after he took three bullets to save her. For seven years, she lived in secrecy as his wife, raising their son without a name. After Leo’s brother died, his widow, Jasmine Moretti, returned, and Leo chose her and ambition over blood. When the humiliation threatens her son, Ethan, Mia walks away and returns to her true identity. As Leo desperately tries to win back the woman he lost, Mia teaches him a fatal lesson: he didn’t just break a heart—he declared war on the wrong bloodline.
Knocked Up by My Ex's Billionaire UncleAt her engagement party, Reina is devastated to catch her fiancé chrating with her sister. Drugged and heartbroken, she seeks solace in the arms of a striking stranger she meets in a car. Their passionate encounter was meant to be a fleeting revenge, but fate has other plans. This mysterious man turns out to be her fiancé's wealthy uncle, a billionaire who finds himself unable to forget her.
My Moonlit Alpha PrinceNora was raised by humans. Her parents worked toward peace between humans and wolves. A wolf pack called them traitors and killed them.
After that Nora learned she was a werewolf. She enrolled at the Lycan academy and was trained there to control her powers. At the academy she met Isaac, the crown prince, due to become Alpha at eighteen, and Aaron, the swim team captain, who helped her settle in. She and Isaac became involved.
My Alpha King Call BoyForced into a loveless marriage to settle her father's debts, Luna Fiona's life spirals when she finds out about her fiancé's betrayal and the cancellation of their wedding. Amidst the chaos, a mysterious call boy with a royal secret enters her life, igniting a thrilling and perilous romance that could either save her pack or plunge her into even greater danger.
Titan Robots: Rise of LegendsMecha master Dylan destroys himself to keep the Ark Core from traitorous disciple Loki, then awakens as a child named Howard. With the Core and two dormant machines bound to his soul, he enters a demon-ravaged world determined to protect his new family and avenge his first life.
Card System RevolutionAfter catastrophe fills the world with monsters, humanity survives through magic cards whose rarity determines their wielders' strength. Caiden Zachary awakens a divine draw system with impossible luck: while other card masters ruin themselves chasing a legendary card with a 0.001 percent drop rate, he pulls epics and legends in abundance. That advantage sends him racing up the ranks toward becoming humanity's strongest defender.
Bugged Love: Spoiling His WivesThe system pays Ian Cowan ten dollars back for every one he spends on his wife. It reaches him at the point where he has nothing left. He is a live-in son-in-law in a rich household, a man who woke up in this life out of another one, and the marriage has already failed. His wife is seeing someone else and her family treats him as a dependent.
The fault in the rule shows up quickly. The system says wife, and it accepts any married woman. Ian starts spending on women who are not married to him. His mother-in-law is first. After her come the wife of the rival who has been humiliating him, businesswomen, and women at the head of criminal organizations. Every payment returns tenfold and the total runs into the millions. He uses the money against his wife and against the people who stood with her, and puts together a business and a set of connections of his own in the city.
A Recipe for RevengeEvelyn Summers and Aaron Quinn were married ten years and built the company together over the same ten years, starting from a food stall and ending with a listed corporation. She was proud of the marriage; she thought that was the part that could not be taken from her. Then she found out about the car crash. Aaron had arranged it. She was eight months pregnant, she lost the child, and she cannot have another. He had also been sleeping with her younger sister Natalie for a long time by then. Everything she had understood about her own life had been built around her by the two of them. Evelyn moved on the company first. She stripped Aaron of the chairmanship and put him out with nothing in his name. As the rest of it came out he came apart and ended up committed to a psychiatric hospital. Natalie, who had planned the crash, went to prison for it. Evelyn kept the company and went on running it.
Don't Mess With the HeiressEva Stone, the wealthiest tycoon's daughter, hides who her father is and dates Wills Zuck as a woman with no money behind her. Wills, who has little money himself, is looking for a way into influential circles. Lina Clark presents herself as Eva Stone, the heiress, and Wills begins an affair with her while still with Eva.
Eva's father holds a family party. His girlfriend takes Eva for his mistress and humiliates her in front of the guests. Once Eva has recovered from that, she looks into her father's company and takes a job inside it under another name. The staff fawn over the girlfriend as the boss's future wife. Eva, meanwhile, gathers evidence of the woman's corruption in the company.
Wills goes on seeing Lina, who keeps up her act as the heiress.
My Future Feisty Wife Lifts Me UpA cold female agent from the future wakes up in the 1980s as Hailey, a young woman dismissed as crazy. On her wedding day, she discovers that her supposedly foolish husband Ethan is suffering from an injury and memory loss—and possesses extraordinary talents. Together, they take on the corrupt village chief who has been exploiting their entire community.
My Mecha Is the Interstellar Empress!Megacraft Group fired Chris Yellen and put him on a blacklist that shut him out of the industry. He was a mech designer. He went through scrap for parts and entered the mech tournament with what he could put together.
An alien force moved into human star territory and hit the Blue Planet. Irene Spark, the Interstellar Empress, took heavy injuries in one of those attacks and came down on the planet. Her body shut into a dormant state while it healed. Chris found her like that and took her for a machine, and he began repairing her. He then bound himself to her under a piloting contract with no idea who she was. The mistake was what kept her alive. The two of them went through the tournament field and then against the alien force.
Flames of Rebirth: Queen of Her DestinyAn imperial decree betroths Su Mengwan, eldest daughter by the principal wife of the Marquis of Weiyuan, to the third prince, Shen Huailin. On the day the decree arrives, Su Mengwan's cousin Su Jinfeng falls into the water and Shen Huailin pulls her out. The old matriarch of the marquis household presses the matter, and Shen Huailin takes both Su women as wives at the same time.
Su Mengwan has been through this once already. In that life Shen Huailin reached the throne, named her empress, and a day later poisoned her and the child she was carrying, then had the whole marquis household put to death. Su Jinfeng had arrived in that body from another time, and the plan had been hers and Shen Huailin's from the start.
She opens her eyes on the day of the decree again. This time she turns Shen Huailin down and asks for Prince Yu instead, who is talked about in the capital as the biggest wastrel in it. The talk is something he keeps up on purpose.
Nameless in Your HeartKyle Cooke believes he and Sara Wood are a loving married couple—five years of marriage as proof of their happiness.However, when he goes to the city hall to replace their coffee-stained marriage certificate, he’s shocked to discover the system shows him as “unmarried,” while Sara’s spouse is registered as another man—Noe Gibson. This discovery unveils a brutal truth: Kyle once caught Sara in an intimate moment with Noe, but she begged forgiveness claiming she was “looking for a stand-in,” even threatening suicide. After learning of her determination to “never let him find out,” Kyle’s heart dies completely. He decides to cancel his domestic identity, change his name, and disappear forever.
The Bride They Never ExpectedRachel White runs a group worth billions and is about to marry Cody Gill. Cody's career matters to him and he does not want to be known as the man who married up, so Rachel keeps quiet about what she does. When his mother Lola George flies in, Rachel drives to the airport herself, dressed plainly, to collect her. Lola judges people by what they are wearing. Waiting at arrivals is Lydia Harris, done up expensively, who is Cody's mistress and has come to make an impression. Lola takes Lydia for the CEO her son is marrying and greets her accordingly. Rachel, standing there in ordinary clothes, gets read as the mistress, and Lola says so out loud and keeps saying it. Lydia is happy to let the mistake stand and plays the part all the way to the car. Rachel does not correct anyone. She carries the luggage, takes the insults, and watches how Cody behaves once his mother is in the room.
Daddy On Duty: Baby’s Big RescueHelena Solis's stepmother and stepbrother work against the drug she has spent years developing, and they press her to sleep with the young master of the Larson family.
The drug is for Helena's daughter Eve. Eve has a heart condition that comes from a genetic mutation, and her legs do not work. Eve's father is Frank Chavez. Helena met him five years ago on the night he saved her, they slept together, and then he was gone.
Helena finds Frank in the city, where he drives for hire and sells fruit from a stall. His father is the richest man around and Frank runs the Dragon Temple, and none of that shows on him. Once he learns Eve is his, he sets about making it up to the two of them, and he steps in each time the stepmother and stepbrother move against Helena. Behind the Larsons is the Dark Alliance. Frank sends for Master Giles and the ten medical laboratories to work on Eve.
Four Years Later, She Ruled It AllYvette Queen is going out with Wendell Lewis, whose family has been sliding for years, and she has been quietly propping the Lewises up with money. She has never told them she is the eldest daughter of the Queen family. Wendell's parents look down on her and want a marriage tie with the wealthy Lane family instead, so they send Wendell abroad to study with Sue Lane. Before he goes he promises Yvette he will marry her when he gets back.
Four years later, at his welcome-home party, Wendell announces he is engaged to Sue. Yvette tells her family, and the Queen Group cuts off both the Lanes and the Lewises across the industry. Wendell's mother hears about the boycott and is taken to hospital. Wendell comes back to Yvette asking to patch things up, partly to get the hospital director to treat his mother and partly because he wants her company. Then he finds out who she is.
Tycoon in Disguise: The Deliveryman Above Them AllIn a city where the men who run the largest fortunes are not necessarily known by sight, Andrew Finch delivers food. He is a billionaire and he keeps that to himself, which is why his son Jim thinks his father is idle and refuses to work properly. On one delivery Andrew walks in on Nadine Royce while she is bathing, and security drags him out. Jim sees it happen.
The next day Andrew has another delivery to Nadine. Her company is in a financial crisis. He says a few things about it and the problem is solved. Nadine revises her opinion of him. He is older than her, but she decides he is plain and dependable, and she asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her closest friends do not believe in the relationship and say so.
Husband and Kids Chose Her Over MePolice raid a hotel in a sweep against prostitution and pick up Liam Howell. The call goes to his wife, Sophia Sidney, who is at home with the two children. She goes down to deal with it. What Liam has to say is that she took too long getting there, and that Candice Gosse, the woman he loved before the marriage, was left standing in the sun long enough to burn.
Sophia asks for a divorce. The two children she raised herself side with Candice through it. Sophia arranges to leave the country and cuts contact with the family.
Once she is gone, Candice's manner changes and the children start asking after their mother. Sophia is abroad by then, with no plan to come back.
The Fallen Monarch's RiseThe Queen Dowager and the Queen's faction set Xavier Taylor up. They steer him into leading a campaign against Northland in person, and Northland takes him alive. He is kept there as a hostage under the label of an exchange student, humiliated without end, and marched to the gates of the enemy capital for a ceremony of submission before its ruler.
A servant girl, Erin, is about to be assaulted when a man from the present day wakes up inside Xavier's body. He takes in the memories of the man who was there before him and the position he is now in. At the same moment a system awakens in him. It hands out tasks, and every task he completes pays out a reward of some kind.
With the rewards he breaks out of his cage and kills the men who held him. He takes Erin and one other woman out with him, and afterwards goes after the Northland army.
My Crush Thinks I'm A BoyTrevor James is six years old as far as anyone can see. He was the crown prince of the James Dynasty a thousand years before, and a drink too many ended with him waking up in a child's body in the present day with all of it still in his head.
He says nothing about that to anyone. The old James family is held together by arrangements that have gone bad, and Trevor uses judgement and nerve no child his age would have to tear through them and put a new James family in place of the old one. He is close to being made head of it when the next crisis comes up. What is building against the new family also runs at the secret he has kept about who he is.
Cousins by Name Lovers in SecretPlagued by an embarrassing condition, Bille seeks an intimate checkup from her cousin Vincent, the college physician—only to awaken a forbidden desire. Soon discovering they share no blood ties, she tries to close the distance between them. As much as Vincent resists, his hidden longing strains control, pushing their charged connection toward rupture and reckoning.
Dragon in Playboy's ClothingSteve Lawson is the world’s most powerful individual, but tired of being courted and fawned over by global elites, he disguises himself as a carefree,irresponsible playboy, living a seemingly frivolous lifestyle. However, when a rejuvenation formula he casually created puts his family in grave danger, his parents—unaware of his true capabilities—fear for his safety. They hire Melanie Graham, known as the “living demon”, to serve as Steve’s female bodyguard and protect him. Unbeknownst to Melanie, the seemingly helpless young master she’s been assigned to protect is far more formidable than anyone realizes, setting the stage for an unlikely partnership filled with hidden identities and misunderstandings.
CEO Wake: Her Fake Family’s DoomVera Larson wakes from a coma that lasted three years and finds that her husband Trevor Irwin and her secretary Giselle Bell have taken over Larson Group. Her parents have been moved out to an old house in the suburbs, and Giselle has been installed as chairwoman in her place. Her daughter Yuna has been humiliated by the girl who was put forward in her stead, and a birthday present Vera had set aside for Yuna years earlier ended up with Giselle's daughter instead.
The car accident that put Vera in the coma was arranged. She comes back with evidence and works through it piece by piece, and at a Larson family banquet she lays out what the three of them did: the seizure of the assets, and the crash. She sets up a foundation for children in need.
Zero to Hero: My Sword PathGrant Jenkins comes down from the mountain on his master's orders to honour a marriage contract with the Nelson family. The Nelsons take him for a useless man who never learned to fight and want the contract gone. Rather than give up their favoured second daughter Joyce, they push the gravely ill eldest daughter Rose out to marry him instead.
Grant is an Eighth-Stage Warrior. At the wedding banquet the Nelsons insult him in front of the guests and move to tear the contract up. He stops holding back, and the pressure of an Eighth-Stage cultivator goes through the whole hall, his palm strikes putting down the strongest people in the room. The guests work out that the useless man in front of them has been hiding what he is. Grant stays with Rose after that and turns her situation around.
The Walls Between UsWinter trusts her former lover's claim that husband Simon married for her fortune, turning away from Simon and even abandoning their daughter in danger. She does not know Simon has secretly sustained her business while the man she believes is loyal steals both her assets and Simon's research. When the scheme is exposed, remorse cannot restore the family: Simon chooses the woman who long loved him, their daughter accepts a new mother, and Winter is left alone with the consequences.
Oops, You Fired the Wrong WomanLinda Bell, heiress to her family's group, kept her name off the record for six months and worked inside Scott Group as an ordinary employee. She was there to honor a childhood betrothal and to get her fiancé Carey Scott's company listed on the exchange. She brought the IPO back from the edge using her family's money and influence without ever saying whose it was. Carey and his assistant Elsie Walter treated her as no one, ignored her warnings, and refused every hand she offered.
She stopped hiding it. She told the Scotts who she was in front of the room, cut the financing, and left. Scott Group's stock fell. At the bidding for the project everyone in the industry wanted, she laid out how Elsie had climbed. Carey tried to stop her wedding to Elias and did not manage it. Linda bought Scott Group, cleared out the people who had been there under Carey, and put the crown on her own head.
The Heiress's Immortal BodyguardAlfred Maxwell took the job of guarding Serena Sutton because his mother asked him to. He walked in on Serena in the bath during his first days in the house, and the two of them started off badly.
He had spent a thousand years on immortal cultivation and had come back to the planet Azure by accident, arriving with a meteor on its way in. He was drunk when he broke the meteor up, and he took a tycoon's spacecraft apart along with it, so he kept his name and his history to himself to stay out of the courts. Something larger than the meteor was still on its way.
Deacon Lowe moved on the Sutton Group with a hostile takeover. At Serena's school Leo Ferrell went after her, and she was also set up for things she had not done and caught up in a robbery. Alfred handled each of these with what he had brought back from the thousand years, including a race he ran in a wheelchair against sports cars. At the school he also met the student council president and a girl he had known as a child who had since become famous.
When Memory Refuses to Let Her GoCarrie takes her daughter to the hospital and comes face to face with Doctor Rynn Fletcher, the ex-boyfriend who once dismissed their love as a game before leaving the country seven years ago. Rynn does not recognize Carrie or know she secretly gave birth to their daughter, while the child's allergies, habits and blood type keep pointing toward the truth Carrie is determined to deny.
Mama's Second ChanceSharon Estes gambled until her husband Zach Lewis and their son Larry were dead because of it. Before any of that, Zach had come out from the city to do research work in the village, and Sharon wanted him from the first time she saw him. She tricked him into sleeping with her, and he married her. Once the marriage was hers she did nothing to keep it.
Then she gets the years back. Zach and Larry are alive, and she sets out to earn back the trust she threw away. She also remembers what the 1980s are about to do to the economy, and she uses that to pick a business and build it into money. Another woman is working against her the whole time.
She Ruled the WildernessThe world has already ended. Major Sevyn wakes in the body of another woman with the same name, a woman everyone around her remembers for taking up with a scoundrel and for how she treated her own children. That reputation has already cost her; she has been banished, food and supplies are scarce, and the husband and children she is now attached to want nothing to do with her. What she has that they do not know about is a hidden space stocked with supplies, more than the settlement outside can find in a season. She starts using it carefully, feeding people and trading, while the family watches a woman they hate behave in ways the old Sevyn never would, and draws its own conclusions about why.
Family Is His Only WeaknessAdam Lancelot's family was wiped out, and he comes back into the city to find out who did it. Before that he had put down the Divine Prison, where the worst criminals in the world are held, and the name that stuck to him there was Hades.
Seven women who trained with him and rank above him as elder sisters stand at his back. Sylvia Quilter, the eldest, runs a corporation and keeps everyone at arm's length. Cher Lusk works inside the martial alliance as a strategist and tells nobody what she is doing. Frost Shelton flies international routes and knows people in airports everywhere. Rebecca Joyce is a doctor and heads her own private hospital. Yasmin Lewin livestreams and has a large audience for it. Fiona Sherman came out of an assassin network and does not discuss her past. Willow Lester acts in film and television and has won awards for both.
Adam works through the underworld outfits in the city, using what he can do himself and the reach the seven give him, and he puts the men who go after them in their place. What he turns up along the way includes things about his own origins that he had not known.
Unanswered Calls, Lingering RegretGrace chooses mahjong over her granddaughter, leaving Coco in the kitchen. Coco manages a brief call to her mother Rita before her smartwatch dies, during which Rita senses something is wrong. Desperate, Rita repeatedly calls her mother-in-law, but the noise of the mahjong table drowns out her calls. She then contacts her husband Leo, only to be dismissed while he is with his first love. By the time Rita finds Coco, the child has succumbed to gas poisoning. Leo refuses to accept the tragedy born of neglect and misplaced loyalty until he sees Coco's portrait at the funeral home.
Class Change: Slime Crushes DragonsI awakened a beast that the whole academy rated the weakest SSS-rank in its records, a slime, soft and squishy and bouncing back into shape whenever it is pushed. People treated the creature as good for nothing, and even tamers at my own rank looked down on me over it. The system in my head had said nothing for a long time. It came on with a warning about a catastrophe on the scale of the world ending. The ones who wrote the slime off end up regretting it.