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Forbidden AllureAlexis needs a large sum of money to keep someone alive. She had been at the top of the profession as a lawyer and lost the position and her money with it, so the sum is beyond anything she can now earn.
Evan offers to pay it. He was pushed out of a wealthy family and wants a way back up through the fight going on inside it, and his payment comes with conditions. Alexis is to be placed in the middle of that fight on his side, working as his spy in the family business and his lover out of sight. He sets her four tasks: get inside, poison, seduce, and end things with his third brother.
She takes the deal. Neither of them was supposed to fall for the other, and they meet at the wrong time and it happens anyway, with the four tasks still running and both of them accumulating things they cannot undo.
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.
Love Turns Cold After SilenceTwo people were murdered and the Zhou family is connected to it. Their daughter Lin Yuxi was six then, and she grew up in a welfare home. Once she knows what the connection is she marries into the family, to the second son, Zhou Yanjing.
The marriage goes badly for reasons neither of them will say. Each of them has decided that the other is still holding on to a first love who was out of reach, so they keep apart and the secrets stay where they are. The misunderstandings come undone slowly.
Zhou Yanjing sets about winning his wife back after that. He has fireworks made that spell out her name, sets up a fake interview so that he can make his confession on it, and puts sensors on both their watches that register the distance between them.
His Only CureThe Poison King tested the poisons he refined on a girl he kept for it. For ten years that girl was Cheng Ning'an, and the conditions she was held in were not fit for a person. Her stepmother tracked her down afterward and sent her into a marriage in place of someone else. The husband was Huo Siwei, the general who defends the country, and Cheng Ning'an turned out to be the only antidote for what was in him. She lives in the Huo household from then on and is looked after by everyone in it, and she and Huo Siwei hold together as husband and wife while her standing in the house rises.
Dangerous SituationshipThe company Lin Zhanhong works at is run through faction fights on the executive floor, and she is the one people there call the queen of the office. Wen Yushi is brought in over everybody's head as the new director.
The two of them sign an arrangement to be weekend lovers with one rule attached, that they cooperate and keep feelings out of it. They spend the following stretch fighting the same internal battles side by side, and the feelings they had ruled out show up anyway. Wen has been holding back that he is the company's heir. That gets out at around the same time as a serious rival for Lin appears, and the trust between them goes. They deal with it by dropping the rule they signed to and saying what they feel.
Desire's Dance, Fate's ChanceJuliana has bipolar disorder, and the way she keeps the symptoms down is an arrangement with Lysander, the campus heartthrob, who is in debt and agrees to it by the session.
Years later her family loses its money and she ends up in the red-light district of northern Myanmar. Lysander is the one who takes her out of there. Their nights go to each other after that, the two of them holding on as though nothing else is keeping either of them upright. When she is reborn she goes to end the arrangement, and Lysander turns out to be content with it as it stands.
Love and Hate with YouDuan Lingxiao, heir to the Duan Corporation, wears prayer beads and keeps his distance from everyone. An Junyue lost her father in an accident, and the cold figure she remembers from it is his. She makes an arrangement with Duan Fengzhou, the illegitimate son of the Duan family, and enters Duan Lingxiao's life posing as his lover so she can look for evidence. Standing in for someone else turns into something more dangerous than either of them planned, and love and hatred run together.
Waking to Love's EmbraceWen Li wants to tell Fu Zheng something and has no way to do it. A car accident has left her unable to move or speak, and Fu Zheng, an uncle of hers with no blood relation, sits with her and looks after her for three years. She is aware of what goes on around her. Somewhere in those three years she works out how he feels about her and promises herself she will answer it. She does not come out of it.
She opens her eyes at eighteen, in her last year of high school, bottom of her year. The same three years of lying there told her what her stepmother Du Ying and her stepsister Wen Nuan say about her when they think she cannot hear. She decides to move against them before they move on her, and to give Fu Zheng the answer she owes him.
Silent Summer of LoveXia Shisheng is waiting at the gate when Xiao Heng gets out, and he walks past her on purpose. Four years inside have left him thinking he is beneath her now, so he keeps trying to get away from her. She stays where she is. She has worked out that whatever put him in there had to do with her, and she wants it confirmed whether the flowers that kept arriving in those days came from him.
Midnight TemptationLin Mian means to call a hotline that buys eggs and reaches Shi Lin, a gynecologist, by mistake. Her father is paralyzed and there is no money for his treatment. Shi Lin tries to talk her out of the sale, sees the state she is in, and offers her a different arrangement, in which he keeps her.
She looks for a way out of it. She takes an internship at Qin Li's company and moves into a new place, which turns out to be next door to Shi Lin's. He puts himself into her life whether she asks or not, and he stands between her and her own family when they turn on her, and the two of them begin to feel differently about each other. Then Qin Li tells her that Shi Lin has a fiancée, and Lin Mian breaks it off. She does not know that Qin Li, mild and courteous with her, heads a ring that traffics in organs.
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.
Love in the Time of ShadowsAt the anniversary celebration of Zhongtai Law Firm, law student Wen Yue accidentally ends up helping Jiang Hansheng, a lawyer experiencing a sudden episode due to trauma. Since witnessing his mother’s death as a child, Jiang Hansheng has been deeply tormented. Later, he catches Wen Yue’s boyfriend, Liang Xiao, cheating on her, stirring up ripples in his already unsettled heart. Determined to expose the truth of the affair, Jiang Hansheng offers to help Wen Yue while pretending to be her new boyfriend, thus beginning their unexpected bond. As their connection deepens, Wen Yue gradually uncovers the secrets behind Jiang Hansheng’s family background. Together, they begin to heal, finding redemption and comfort in each other’s arms.
Borrowed Heart, Stolen LoveAn imperial decree ordered Zhong Chusi to marry Li Rongyu. He was a general in poor health. She had been sent away as a hostage and had only just come back.
Zhong Chusi objected to the marriage and went on objecting after it took place, while Li Rongyu kept her guard up at every step. Inside the general's residence the two of them tested each other and neither gave much ground.
Schemes at court began to surface. Accusations came from their own blood relatives, one set after another. They were pushed into working together and got themselves out of one dangerous situation after another, with swords drawn more than once.
A hidden past began to come out. Zhong Chusi had kept something to himself, Li Rongyu had been carrying an obsession of her own, and the two turned out to bear on each other. The marriage was arranged as a calculation, and there was a tie between the two of them underneath it from the start.
Beyond UsHelena is an engineer at a company working on technology for extending life. She found out her fiance had been unfaithful, confronted him, took five per cent of the company's shares out of it, and resigned.
A PWL unit was scheduled for disposal. Helena took it away instead, put it back into working order and called it Holden. It did not run the way the model was meant to. It refused instructions, argued with her, and crossed the line she had set more than once during the hours she spent in the bathroom.
Then it told her something about the man she had loved before the engagement, who died eight years ago. The secret was his, and hearing it out of Holden shook her. What she had carried home from the disposal queue had spent those eight years waiting on her.
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.
All Within My PalmThe first family of Zhao Nation stood above the other houses in the country, and what became of it came down to whoever was leading it. That was the eldest uncle, and after him his son, and between the two of them the family was run into the ground. The daughter of the second branch, born to a concubine, watched it happen from inside the house. She then woke up in her own past, in the years when her grandmother and her father were both still alive, with what she had learned in the first life still in her head. She used it to hold the family's name where it was and to work her way toward the running of the household, which she took over. Somewhere in the same years she and the Third Prince fell in love.
Are You Divorced YetGu Ze leaves Li Qingqing on their wedding night, walking out on the marriage before it starts. She gets drunk and goes to a nightclub, where she mistakes Fu Yanzhou, an heir freshly back in Beijing, for a male model working the room. They end up together at a hotel. Fu Yanzhou has it all recorded, several gigabytes of video, and uses the footage to hold her to him. From then on Li Qingqing comes whenever he calls, running his errands, and every day he asks her the same thing: are you divorced yet.
Li Qingqing comes from Beijing's top family by standing, the kind of name that gets invited everywhere. Fu Yanzhou is the son of the city's most powerful household, just returned from abroad. He tells her plainly that he is selfish and controls what he wants, and that she is to cut off contact with other men or he will chain her to his bed.
Out of the Asylum, Into Their HellLu Jingtang is committed to a mental hospital by her own family, who want the Xu fortune and need her out of the way. She is the legitimate heir to it. Her mother, Xu Wangshu, died first, and after that her father Lu Yunchuan, her stepmother Zhou Yunrou and their illegitimate daughter Lu Linyan worked together to have her taken in. She is in there three years. The place is violent and she fights her way through it, and she comes out able to handle herself and with a manner people call crazy. The only thing she wants after that is revenge.
Fiancé Cheated, So I Married a Dying ManLin Zhixia was driving while her boyfriend's mother pressed her about when she would have a child. She took her eyes off the road and hit Shen Yi, who was in a wheelchair. A porcelain jar he had with him, an official kiln piece from the Qianlong reign, broke.
She went through the dashcam footage afterwards and found that her boyfriend, Xu Jiaming, had been with another woman. She also learned that Xu Jiaming and his mother were after her money. She offered to have the jar repaired. Shen Yi told her the jar had belonged to his mother and that he had three months left. Her own mother had given her three days to get married. She proposed a contract marriage to Shen Yi and said she would stay with him to the end. He agreed, and the two of them registered the marriage.
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.
Married to the Aloof ProfessorShi Sheng designs for a living and has been trying to get out from under her mother's control. She is put on a matchmaking date with Yu Wenzhou, who runs a business, and the two marry soon after, as a matter of what each of them stood to get out of it.
They keep their working lives going alongside the marriage. He backs her when she wants to take her own work further. The stiffness he came in with wears off over the same period. Her older sister and one of his colleagues start seeing each other around then as well.
Shi Sheng and her mother eventually come to terms with each other.
The Contract of Love and DeceptionMeng Rao's best friend A Zhao is seriously ill. To pay for it, Meng Rao signs a contract with Shen Silin, a cold CEO, agreeing to play his lover so that the society marriage his family arranged falls apart. The plan is to collect the money and leave.
Shen Silin spoils her past anything she agreed to. She tells herself the affection is fake, an illusion, and that she is only there for the money. Then she finds out A Zhao has been using her as a tool. She turns ruthless and hits back, and the counterattack turns her cold boss into a man in love who wants to force the relationship on her. Meng Rao is left confused by the ice mountain becoming a volcano and by the question of whether he means it.
Where Lies BloomXu Weixin picks Lu Yi to be the piece she moves. She was the Xu family heir until she was framed and lost her name, and to take back what was hers she plans each step and puts him in the middle of it. He goes along because his younger sister, the only family he had, is dead.
The plan turns as it runs. The person behind her downfall is not who she thought, and his sister's death is tied to the same power struggle inside the Xu family. They make it an alliance. She calculates coldly and pushes him forward, he agrees to be the blade in her hand, and through the daily work of it feeling and loyalty grow anyway. The one holding the whip and the piece on the board were not supposed to be sincere with each other. Then the real enemy presses in, misunderstandings pile up, and their interests stop lining up.
A Rose Across the YearsIn Jingzhou, marriages between the ruling families are still arranged by the older generation to lock in political alliances. Fang Yun, a lawyer known in the courts for her sharp cross-examinations, is told by her family to marry Zhao Tingwen, a minister who controls much of the city's political machinery and is twelve years older than her, old enough that she
The Alchemist of LoveJiang Chuwan can see how much time each person has left, counted down above their head. She is not really Jiang Chuwan. A master of metaphysics went through a tribulation and came down into this ordinary woman's body, and the sight came with her.
In her free time she works as a traditional Chinese doctor. The patients who reach her are the ones fated to, and what they bring her are illnesses no one else can name. Fu Yan'an is one of them. Three years ago she happened on him when he was close to death and saved him without thinking much of it. Afterward she found what was wrong with him: a love curse, and not one that comes off easily. He has been in love with her since that day.
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.
I Keep Dying, My Fox Keeps Chasing(Dubbed)Jiang Nuan is betrayed by her uncle's family and falls off a cliff, only to be saved by the millennia-old nine-tailed fox Yun Qi at the brink of death. Little does she know he is actually there to finish her off. After being killed and reborn three times, the exasperated Nuan kisses Qi, accidentally swallowing his inner core and altering her fate. Seeing his peerless beauty and immense power, she clings to this life-saving ally, flirting shamelessly to survive while using his power to reclaim her billion-dollar inheritance from her wicked uncle. When she discovers that his three murder attempts are actually acts of salvation, their love blossoms, turning the loop of death into a triumphant tale.
Back to the 80sThe arrangement was that Julie Stein would marry a divorced man with two children of his own, standing in for the daughter the family had actually borne. She had been raised as their child by mistake, the real one had come back, and Julie had been put out of the house. The wedding was the last thing they wanted out of her.
Julie had woken up in that body, in the 1980s, with no warning about any of it. She went through the terms and found two children already born and no labour to get through, which struck her as a fair trade, and she agreed to the marriage without arguing.
The old man turned out to be Alex Monte, tall and nothing like what she had been told, and inclined to hand her money the moment they disagreed. The relatives talked about where she came from. The family's real daughter needled her over it, and the couple who raised her were free with insults. Julie gave it back every time. "Sorry, my pedigree is unknown," she told them, "but the harder you come at me, the harder I come back."
Love Unexpected: He Likes Me TooShen Zhuying was sixteen when she fell for a boy at school. She liked him in a white shirt, liked watching him at the drum kit, liked his smile, and she thought of him as a sun she would never reach. They meet again at twenty-four. She has worked up the courage to put an end to the crush she has carried for eight years, and before she can, he tells her they should get married.
You Are My AntidoteRoger Quinn came to Blair Nash carrying several psychological disorders, and over ten months of sessions he fell in love with her. The closeness cost her badly. She ended the relationship in a way calculated to be cruel, hoping it would keep him away, and then spent the next stretch of her life waiting for him to come back and make her pay for it. Two years passed with no word from him at all. She let herself believe it was over, met Jay Buck, and married him. Roger turned up on the wedding day. He took Jay, held him, and told Blair the condition for his release was a divorce. She agreed, because Jay's safety depended on it, and the arrangement put her back inside the thing she had spent two years escaping. Everything she did after that was aimed at getting out for good. She used to joke that she would take a seat on a rocket if it meant living somewhere Roger was not. When she finally worked out a method that would end it permanently and stood at the point of using it, she understood that the dependency ran both directions, and that she had built one of her own on him.
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!
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.
My Merman HusbandsThe merfolk kingdom is at war with itself. The Empress, trying to keep her daughter out of the fighting, seals the spiritual power of the crown princess Chu Yunling and sends her up to the human world, where she surfaces with a human life and a human name, Xia Shiyue, and no memory of what she was. Chu Yunling has four merfolk husbands. They know only that she has vanished and that the account they were given of her disappearance does not hold together. They follow her out of the water and take on identities that let them move through the human world without being noticed for what they are. One becomes a doctor. One becomes a celebrity. One becomes the head of a corporation. One takes over a criminal organisation. From those four positions they search for her and for whoever arranged her removal. When they find Xia Shiyue she does not know any of them, and each of them has to approach her as a stranger, through the life she has built. Old grievances between the four of them surface as they circle her, and the palace matter that drove her out is still unresolved back home.
Into The Novel To Save The Emperor!Liu Wanyan reads a novel about Emperor Yuanzhe and cries over how badly it ends for him. Then she is electrocuted and wakes in the body of Jiang Wangshu, the consort who in that book brought about his death. Yuanzhe has also come back, carrying the memory of the betrayal that killed him, and he is nothing like the man in the pages she pitied. He is watchful, quick to suspect, and he tries more than once to have her executed. She survives by staying close to him and reading his moods, and none of it earns his trust. When assassins come at him, she runs toward him to shield him and he seizes her and holds her in front of the blade. After that she starts working out how to get out of the palace. He learns later what she had actually been running toward that night and understands that he has read her wrong from the beginning. He begins watching her properly. What he finds is a woman who behaves nothing like the Jiang Wangshu of his last life, and she knows things about his childhood no one should know. That is what makes him curious. The two of them go on testing each other while working the same side of the palace's dangers.
Love Wasn't the PlanXia Yan and Fang Yun are best friends who end up inside a novel. Xia Yan lands as the devoted wife of Gu Bochuan, the scheming second male lead, and Fang Yun as the replacement lover of Gu Wang, the antagonist. To everyone around them the two look like women wasting themselves on men who will not have them, while in fact they are working through the family money as fast as they can spend it.
Three years in, the novel's heroine Shen Mianmian comes back and the arrangement stops holding. The original plot ends badly for the characters they have been given, so the two of them fake their deaths and get out of Jiangcheng. Gu Bochuan and Gu Wang both take it hard, one going into remorse and something like madness, the other close to collapse. Xia Yan and Fang Yun settle in Jincheng and live off the money there. Three years after that a chance meeting in a nightclub puts them back in the middle of it.
(Dubbed) Done with Just Friends. Ready for All InCheng Xia and Chen Shechuan grew up together and have been living around each other for seven years, close enough that everyone assumes and neither says. She has been in love with him the whole time. Then they get drunk and kiss, and afterward he tells her they are good friends and nothing else. The reason he gives is not the real one. His parents' marriage came apart and he has stayed clear of anything that could turn into the same thing. To make sure she stops waiting, he produces a girlfriend, Jiang Yining, and introduces her when the Cheng family comes by, and he arranges a blind date for Cheng Xia with an arrogant man, framing it as something he is doing for her benefit. She takes all of it and decides she is done with seven years of never being told anything straight. Around then Xu Jingdeng, someone she knew as a child, comes back into her life and courts her openly and gently, and she starts letting him in. Chen Shechuan turns up again wanting her back, and she is standing between the two of them with her own work and her own life to sort out as well.
Against the Current, Toward YouSun Lu teaches at an elementary school and follows the rules, though she wants out from under them. A home visit she did not plan on takes her into the life of Chen Xudong, who runs an aquarium fish shop. She sees a man with a problem and a child. He looks at the obedient face she shows people and sees the same stubbornness and loneliness he has.
The prejudice wears off and they get closer, quietly, among the tanks. Then Sun Lu finds out that Chen Xudong has a past he cannot talk about. Their families come from different places, and the buried secret sits between them.
Your Love In This Life26-year-old Gu Weiwei only realized how deeply He Xiao had loved her right before her death. Reborn back to her 18-year-old self, Gu Weiwei begins to take notice of this strange classmate and vows that this time around, she will live up to the love He Xiao had given her in their past life. Returning to Qingyun Business Academy, she finds He Xiao still a brilliant young man shrouded in the shadows of poverty. His mother is mentally broken from her sister-in-law’s abuse, and he is constantly tormented by life’s hardships. With gentle yet unwavering determination, Gu Weiwei steps into his world, proving through her actions that he was never the one at fault.
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.
A Love as Hot as SummerBai Qingmei read Zhou Sheng'an's patience with her as proof that he did not love her, and she broke off the engagement over it.
The engagement had been forced on her in the first place. She works as an independent photographer and did not want the restriction, so she laid down three rules for the arrangement and wrote him off as a dull older man, president of Hengtai Group or not. He worked at it quietly. He knelt to put her shoes on, made her brown sugar water, and learned to cook for her. The two of them held back and tested each other for a while, and the feeling came anyway.
What she could not get past was her mother's history and her own fear of an open arrangement, which turned his tolerance into indifference in her reading of it. After the separation Zhang Jiuwan came at her with the sort of attention that made her own feelings plain to her, and Zhou Sheng'an lost his temper and went after him with his fists. He followed her to Jingbei and asked her to marry him, and she put off giving him an answer.
I Wish You KnewYun Xiang, a gentle 14-year-old girl longing for a warm family, is adopted into the Cheng family after a family tragedy and becomes a “sister” to Cheng Che, who is as old as her. Cheng Che is cold and distant, having grown up under the shadow of his parents’ divorce, and he views Yun Xiang’s sudden entrance into his life with hostility. The story begins with Yun Xiang moving into the Cheng household. Despite facing Cheng Che’s cold stares and rejection, she works hard to adapt to her new environment, hoping to become part of this family. Cheng Che, sensitive about family matters and aware of his mother’s possessive attention toward him, feels threatened by Yun Xiang’s presence, fearing she might take away the only love he receives from his mother. As a result, he treats Yun Xiang with deliberate coldness and keeps his distance, even avoiding her at school.
Starlight RedemptionIn a life already lived through once, Chu Guanxing's fixation on Lin Qingzhu drove her to kill herself. He comes back to a point long before that with a new identity, as Chu Nanhe, uncle to the Chu family's young heir and the man who controls the family's money.
Lin Qingzhu is studying architecture when her mother's illness turns critical. Chu Guanxing controls the hospital bills and makes her feel it. Chu Nanhe puts a different offer in front of her: he pays for the treatment, and in return she has dinner with him every day. He uses a wheelchair and keeps his manner cool. He covers the medical costs and pushes her on with her studies. When she is accused of something or talked about, he steps in front of it.
He also clears obstacles out of her way without telling her, and holds down what he feels. Lin Qingzhu begins to feel the warmth of it without knowing where it comes from. Later the family's scheming is exposed and Lin Qingzhu learns who Chu Nanhe used to be.
Their Legend, Written in LoveNing Buyu holds the Empire's northern frontier and is called its war god. He is hard-faced, gives nothing away, and is in private a tender and deeply loyal man. Yun Lian is the empress of Dayuan, direct in what she loves and equally direct in what she hates, and stubborn past the point most people would let go. Both of them have died once already and come back to lives they have lived before. Knowing how things went the first time does not make the second time simple. The court and the world outside read them wrong, misunderstandings get planted deliberately by people who benefit from the two of them being apart, and the frontier keeps making its own demands on him. What holds is that neither doubts the other, and the obstacles get taken on jointly rather than separately, which is how a romance between an empress and a general on the border becomes a matter the whole court has opinions about.
3-Month Fling? I Want Forever!Wen Xu and Zhou Lie agree on three months and an end date before anything starts. She is a lawyer from North City who came out to the island to clear her head after her career stalled, and he owns the guesthouse she is staying in. Somewhere in those three months they stop treating it as an arrangement and start trusting each other for real.
A friend of hers is wronged back home, so Wen Xu leaves the island earlier than she meant to. Zhou Lie follows her north and settles there, keeping an eye on her without saying that is what he is doing. The distance, the rivalries at her firm, pressure from family, and one test after another land on both of them.
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.
A New Heart on the 6th TryZhao You'en is running a plan on a man who does not know he is being played. A system sets the target and the terms, and she gets close to him by design. This round the target is Cheng Xingye, who thinks she came into his life on her own.
Before him there were five attempts on Zhou Jingxu and all five failed. Each failure ended with You'en killing herself to restart the game. Xingye is Jingxu's close friend, which is why she picked him for the sixth run. As they spend time together she finds out that Xingye has been in love with her for years and never said it. She keeps working the plan against that, and gradually she falls in love with him.
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.
Te perdí, te encontréNi Wu spent three years in a relationship with Pei Huaiyu that had to be kept secret, because of pressure and lies coming from his niece. She left him while she was pregnant with twins. Of the twins, only the daughter is with her now.
Seven years after she left, she takes the girl to the hospital for treatment and runs into Pei Huaiyu there. At first he has nothing more than a feeling that he knows this woman from somewhere, and then he recognises her. From that point he sets out to win her back.
Becoming the Wife of a Dark Cult OverlordThe sect keeps a woman it calls the saint, and its leadership passes down through one bloodline. Heejin is the one taken for the role. The man she has been seeing, Yohan, holds an ordinary office job as far as she knows, and inside the sect he is the heir it has been waiting on. "I will become a god if that is what it takes, just to have you," he tells her, and the orders he gives the men around him come without hesitation.
The two of them plan a way out. Before it happens Heejin meets a man called Isaac, who tells her things about Yohan she had not heard, and after that she is unsure how much of him she can take on trust. They are both still inside the sect.
Darling, Is It All CoincidenceHayun has liked Jun-hyeok since their school days and has never told him. Lee Jun-hyeok is an heir in one of the chaebol families and has a name among Seoul's rich for how he goes through women. They cross paths while she is working a part-time job, in the middle of customers giving her trouble, and he does not know any of the history.
Her family's money is gone and her younger sister is seriously ill, with treatment nobody in the household can pay for. Hayun offers Jun-hyeok her first night for the price of the hospital bills, and he takes it. He reads her as a woman trading on her face for cash.
After that night he wants the arrangement to continue and keeps offering money to hold her in place. She tells him it was one night and stays with that. He goes on wanting her without getting her, and once he finds out who she is and how long she has been carrying it, he stops being willing to let her walk off.
All in on the School BossSon Yeon-su clicks into an illegal online gambling site by accident and finds it belongs to Woo-jin, her son's friend from high school. She goes to him over money, and what starts as a transaction between them turns into a working arrangement, then a partnership in the same crime.
She is thirty-six, married, and has spent years absorbing beatings from her husband, staying for her son's sake and telling herself there was no other way out. The son has been the one thing she counted as hers. Now she has a second life running alongside the marriage, and she keeps it from her husband while she keeps being his wife.
She plays the submissive wife at home and the criminal accomplice with Woo-jin, and somewhere in the running of the site and the moving of money, a feeling neither of them can name starts up between her and a man young enough to be her son's classmate. She has never bet on anything of her own before this.
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.
Forbidden, Yet Forever MineYin Ximo and Bian Chen liked each other in high school, and neither of them did much about it. Then her parent and his parent married. The two families were folded into one household, and the two of them were told they were now brother and sister and would be living under the same roof. Everything they had been feeling had to be filed under family. What is left is a running fight, affection and resentment tangled up together, conducted at breakfast and in hallways in front of people who think they are watching siblings squabble. Her crush does not go anywhere; it just stops having a place to go, and it keeps showing through the arrangement. Bian Chen deals with it by racing motorcycles, taking the kind of risks that keep him unreachable and wound up, and every time he comes back from that the thing between them is hotter than it was before. The pretense of being brother and sister holds up in public and gets thinner in the house.
Rules Were Never Her ThingLu Mingye wanted out of the Lu family and had no means of getting there. Ten years had gone into that house, none of the damage physical, and the family kept its hold. Duan Xiuming came along in the middle of it.
For a while Duan Xiuming was a means to an end. Lu Mingye ran the relationship toward the one thing it was for, which was separation from the family, and said whatever the situation called for. The part that did not fit the plan was the response. Duan Xiuming gave way on everything and believed Lu Mingye without ever asking for proof.
The two had come together out of straightforward attraction. Somewhere in the course of using it Lu Mingye stopped keeping count and fell for Duan Xiuming, and what held them after that was talent and spirit on both sides. Each of them came out of it in better repair than they went in.
Lust and LogicJiang Nan is twenty-nine and a lawyer who does not lose. People call her the Iron Lady and she has arranged her life so that there is nothing in it except case files, deadlines and the office. Shi Jie is nineteen, the heir to the Wanchang Corporation, raised inside money and expectation, wanted by everyone and free to decide almost nothing for himself. There are ten years between them, and there is the harder gap of two households that have nothing in common. They meet in the course of work, and it goes off immediately, loud and badly timed for both of them. What starts there does not fit anywhere in either of their schedules. She has a reputation built on never letting anything touch her judgment, and he has a family that has already decided what his marriage is for. Getting out of your own world and standing in somebody else's turns out to be much harder than either of them expected, and both of them have a life waiting to take them back if they let go.
Depth of LoveLearning she has terminal cancer jolts the normally disciplined Secretary Song into kissing CEO Jiang Tingzhou, the man she has wanted for years. He becomes obsessed, but she resigns the next day and dismisses their encounter as unsatisfying. As the supposed fling deepens into love, her teasing verdict becomes the question Jiang keeps asking her.
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.
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.
Pernikahan Palsu, Cinta NyataA car accident puts Jasper in hospital. To protect him, Aria and James marry on paper, and neither of them says what they actually feel about the other. In front of other people they keep their distance.
The two of them end up on the same film production. Things get misread between them, each of them covers for the other, and what happened to them earlier comes out in pieces. There is pressure from their families as well as from the work.
UnbridledSuzie Johnston dies and wakes up back in the world she left, and works out that the world is a script. It is a cruel one, and her part in it is the character everything bad is done to. The misfortunes are not accidents; a screenwriter put them there. Suzie decides to go find the screenwriter and take the pen. She also goes looking for Felix Yates, the boy she loved before she died, who happens to be the male lead of the drama she is trapped in. Felix is gentle with her, attentive in a way nobody in the script was meant to be, and what starts between them is closer to a fairy tale than to anything the story had planned. He helps her get out from under the arrangements made for her, and she starts wanting to be alive again. The obstacles keep coming, since the script keeps writing them, and the two of them get through them side by side. Piece by piece Suzie pulls her own fate loose from the writer's hands.