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Cultivating Love Against All OddsThe world Lu Yunluo wakes into runs on game rules. There is a system, there are quests, there is a difficulty setting, and hers is set to hard. She opens her eyes in a mourning hall with two eunuchs standing by and a maid sobbing next to her, and works out that she is now the empress nobody wants, shut away in the Cold Palace.
Cut off from everyone, she farms quietly through the system, writes a book about harem customs, and puts money aside so she can leave the palace eventually. Watching from a rooftop one day she takes a servant and a maid meeting in secret for the Emperor's wedding night. She sells her harem book to Ji Wujue, another man watching from the same roof, and gossips to him about the Emperor. What he hears startles him enough that he begins searching the palace for her.
Her modern habits of mind serve her well in the harem, and she and Ji Wujue argue their way into something closer. As they get closer, the Empress Dowager and Bai Wuyao begin plotting against them. Ji Wujue helps her uncover who she really is. She works against the plots, and helps the palace through a plague and a famine, which wins her the goodwill of ordinary people. The Empress Dowager and Bai Wuyao come at her again, and Ji Wujue sets himself against the court to protect her.
Read the Devil's HeartYe Zao makes her living as a tea artist. Her father falls seriously ill, and the price of keeping him alive is a marriage she has no say in, to Yan Zhao, the man the capital calls the living King of Hell. Everyone around them expects her to be thrown out within weeks. What none of them know is that she can hear what he is thinking. Behind the face that frightens people she hears tenderness, and she catches every stubborn denial and every possessive thought he will not say aloud. When a local bully goes after her, Yan Zhao knocks him flat with one punch, and when the old family house sides against her he wrecks it. They were married before either of them wanted it, and the fake arrangement turns into something neither will let go of.
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.
He Came for Our BabyQiao Yi found the boy abandoned as a newborn and named him Qiao Xingxing. She had come to a small county town after a divorce she did not choose, and she raised him there as her own for a year and a half.
A line of expensive cars stops outside her courtyard. The man at the front is Gu Ce. He has a bank card and a paternity report, and he has come to take the child back. Mother and son will not be separated. Gu Ce settles it where he stands: "Fine, we'll take the big one too."
Catfished a Rich HeirCivil engineer Yvonne wakes inside a novel burdened by the original heroine's enormous debt and eight online boyfriends, all deceived with her beautiful roommate's photograph. She studies, works part-time, and tries to dissolve every fraudulent romance quietly. Then she meets Leo, one of the men she catfished, whose curiosity about his online lover's sudden change turns into care for the real woman behind the account.
Fool in LoveSummer Yale designs jewelry and had been married to Henry Gosling for some years when he was hurt in an accident and did not wake up. His younger brother Louie was caught in the same accident and came round soon after.
Louie moves the way Henry moved, keeps Henry's habits, handles money with the same judgment, and knows private things that only Summer and her husband knew. Summer puts him through one test after another and comes to believe that her husband's soul woke up inside Louie's body. Their mother finds out what the two of them are doing and both are condemned for it. By then Summer is carrying Louie's child.
The mother's illness turns out to be terminal, and Louie tells her the truth, which is that no soul moved anywhere. He had been in love with Summer since before the accident and could not stand watching her grieve, so he let her believe her husband had come back. He knows she is still in love with his brother and has been willing to stand in for him.
Under the Guise of LoveSima Nan, a wealthy female CEO, tempts Bai Zihao, a bartender, with a high salary to obtain his kidney in order to save her ailing brother. The two accidentally spend a night together, and Sima Nan proposes to keep him as her pet. However, Bai Zihao's childhood friend An Ran pretends to be sick to prevent him from getting close to Sima Nan. Meanwhile, Bai Zihao is forced to make a deal with Sima Nan over his sister's medical expenses. As the two have more contact, Sima Nan develops complex feelings for Bai Zihao. However, her secret plan may be exposed at any moment. What will become of their relationship?
Secret Sugar On MeCatherine Wilson's husband sleeps with other women and her marriage has been empty for years. She takes a lover, Abel, much younger than she is, and she understands the arrangement as a simple one where she pays and he is available. It crosses lines of age and class and it stays hidden. The affair goes on until she decides to end it, and ending it is what brings the truth out. Abel is not a kept boy she can dismiss. He is Mr. Harris, the wealthiest and most powerful man in the city, and everything her family owns sits within reach of him. The secret she thought she was managing turns out to be the thing that can level her household, and she has to decide what to do with a man who let her believe she was the one in control.
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.
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.
The Love We DeniedChao Ning and Yi Linxun met on a blind date and made a marriage bet in the second half of the year. Whoever filed for divorce first would admit defeat. Originally they just wanted to live a perfunctory life, but as they stayed together day and night, the two gradually fell in love. Chao Ning got drunk because of her heartbeat, but learned that Yi Linxun had already had a crush on her. The two took off their guard and fell in love frankly. Just as their relationship was heating up, Chao Ning's ex-boyfriend, whom she loved deeply, suddenly returned to China. Facing these two men, Chao Ning found that she could see her own heart more clearly.
The Rebel and the ScholarMaya Hayes is eighteen and first in her class at Oakridge High, and her plan is simple: keep the grades, get into college, get out of her father's house. He hits her. One evening she runs from a beating and ends up inside a tattoo parlor, where she meets Jude Sinclair, the boy the school treats as its resident thug. Jude was born rich. His family is its own kind of poison, and he has been in open revolt against it long enough that nobody at school remembers he came from money. The two of them are assigned to the same desk not long after. It goes badly at first, insults and misreadings on both sides. Then the late nights start, and they trade the things neither has told anyone. Each recognizes what the other is carrying. They stop bracing against each other and start covering for each other, and they agree on the same goal: get out of that town, fight back at what has been holding them down, and take nothing of it with them.
Yielding to Her CharmNina Yeats has ALS, the disease that slowly takes away the ability to move, and before her mother died she left Nina one last request to carry out. Fulfilling it puts her in contact with Jack Xavier, a man in her family everyone refers to as her uncle and calls the Ice King behind his back.
Jack learns what Nina cannot afford to lose and uses it to keep her within reach, cutting off the routes she might use to walk away from him. Nina refuses the terms anyway. She misses the curfews he sets, argues with the conditions he puts on her, and keeps pushing
Jilted to Jewel: The Rejected Bride's RiseOn the morning of her wedding, Lainey walks in on her fiancé Larry with her sister Janice. The same day she learns she was adopted, and Dennis and Teresa put her out of the house. What none of them know is that Lainey is the only heir of the Myers family, among the ten wealthiest families in the world. Her birth mother Helen, who runs the Myers Group, takes her in and dotes on her, and Lainey formally changes her surname. An engagement is arranged with Austin, who is wealthy and good-looking. She would rather cut the old family off entirely and start again, but Dennis, Teresa and Janice keep coming back to provoke and belittle her, treating her rise as something they are owed a share of. Lainey stops absorbing it and starts making the people who mistreated her answer for it, one at a time.
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.
Can I Just Go Broke in PeaceThe contract is plain. Spend the family fortune down to nothing and wreck the family name, and Anna goes home with a billion. That is what the system offered her when she woke up in a novel as the only daughter of Xu Youde, the most corrupt official in Celestria. The room was full of gold and jewels and she did not smile at it, because she knew that in three years the whole household would be put to death.
So she set about ruining them. She bought up the moldy old rice in the city and ladled it out as charity porridge in front of the refugees, insulting them while she did it. She squeezed protection money out of the big merchants. She drove the refugees out to build roads. Exile looked certain. The family money grew instead, and the common people started calling her a living saint who carried the world in her heart. Seeing them living quietly and well, she found another reason for being there.
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.
My Boss Is A Cyber-DaddyBrooke works a job nobody at the office really notices. Outside of work she draws a webcomic full of explicit scenes under a different name, and it has built a large following online. For months she has also been messaging a man she has never met in person, and the two have grown close through nothing but text.
When she finally agrees to meet him, he turns out to be Victor, the CEO of the company she works for, a man the whole office describes as cold and impossible to read. Brooke realizes that if he finds out she is the artist behind the comic, or that she is the woman he has been writing to, she could lose her job on the spot.
She starts covering her tracks at the office, dodging questions, changing her habits, doing everything she can to keep her two identities apart while Victor keeps showing up in places she did not expect him. Around the company he has a name for going through women and dropping them without a second thought, and Brooke takes this at face value, assuming it explains why he never settles on anyone.
It later comes out that the playboy reputation was never real. Victor built it deliberately, piece by piece, as part of a plan to get close to her without her guessing who he actually was.
Once More With YouThe account Shi Qi went by for four years was that her husband, Gu Hanshen, was the person who had done her the most harm. She played violin internationally, and in those years she was cold to him at home and left their son to grow up without much of her.
Gu Hanshen was the one who had reached her when she was at the edge of it. He took the humiliation that came his way without answering back, looked after the boy, and settled the Shi family's troubles where she could not see him doing it. He never asked her to explain how she treated him.
When the truth came out, Shi Qi found that the hatred had been aimed at the wrong man from the first day. She set about making it up to him and winning him back, and she was clumsy at both.
Back to Find My LoveRuan Yu's arrangement with Lu Chengyun has an end date built into it. On the day the novel's real heroine turns up she is going to break it off, step aside, and stay alive, which is the whole of what she wants. She had read that novel before she woke up inside it as the villainess written to die badly, and everything she does is aimed at missing that ending.
Lu Chengyun has nothing when she attaches herself to him. The family money is gone, he is a genius with no backing left, and she gets through the bad years next to him without complaining about them. Her feelings turn real somewhere in there.
His birth into a wealthy house comes out, and the original plot restarts and begins putting people back where the book had them. She pushes him away with her own hands to keep him clear of it, then leaves the city pregnant and without a word. The bankruptcy had been staged. Lu Chengyun comes back with the money he never actually lost, puts the city's infrastructure in play, and sends a private jet out after his wife.
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.
What Broke Wasn't Just the VowBai Yan wants a marriage of the ordinary happy kind. Kang Jian courts her, answers her doubts until she decides to trust him, and they marry quickly.
The marriage turns out to be a setup. He leaves her alone on their wedding night and is cold with her after that. His former girlfriend turns up and feeds lies into the gap between them. His mother carries an old grudge and works at Bai Yan constantly, at one point framing her for something she did not do. Kang Jian gets jealous over a male colleague of hers. Bai Yan keeps trying to be the wife she thinks she is supposed to be, and then she finds out that her own mother has been in a relationship with Kang Jian's father. At a family gathering Kang Jian insults her in front of everyone.
She asks for a divorce. Kang Jian has fallen for her by then and blows hot and cold all the way through the process. Her childhood friend Shang Mingchuan steps in on her side. Bai Yan gradually becomes independent of the household.
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.
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.
She Chose Happiness Over HistoryEmma Doyle was seven when she drank the poison meant for Stephen Grayson. Her mind stopped growing that day. Years later she is sent out to meet the betrothal arranged for her and climbs into the wrong bridal sedan chair, the one belonging to Governor Dylan Everett. He ends up married to a bride he was not expecting and does not send her back. He flies kites with her. He hangs a swing for her. He goes looking for doctors, and he sits with her and teaches her to write her own name one stroke at a time, and it is the first time anyone has treated her gently. Then the mix-up comes out, and Stephen Grayson, the boy she took the poison for, comes after her to bring her home. She has two men and one answer to give, and she picks the one who taught her what being loved feels like.
My Secret With Country BoysSofia, an uptown girl thrust into the heard of countryside after a tragic accident. With her parents gone, she seeks solace with Aunt Celine. But it's not just cows and fields she encounters—three charming boys turn her world upside down. As she delves into her newfound rural life, secrets of her witchcraft lineage unravel. Will she find love amidst the hay and magic?
She Came Like a HurricaneUma comes back to the city after three years away, with a plan to take revenge. She looks sweet and doll-like and is sharp-tongued and calculating underneath. She was the eldest daughter of the North family until her stepmother and her stepsister set her up and had her thrown out of the house.
She was a boxing champion in those three years, and worked as a mercenary. She uses both while she works out what happened to her birth mother, and what Willa did to her, and while she takes back the family money. Along the way she meets Terry, heir to the SJ Group. They test each other before they work together, and what they turn up runs through both families.
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.
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.
Pregnant by My New BossThe night before the engagement Clara walked out. Her fiance had been sleeping with someone else and her family had been trading on her for years, treating a daughter as a thing that could be sold to the right buyer, so she took what she could carry and went. Not long after, she found out she was pregnant, and the father was Cary Sampson, the richest man in the country. Clara went back to work at the hotel and intended to build something of her own there. Then Cary bought the hotel. He had been looking for her and he was not going to be talked out of it. Clara kept her head down and did the work, taking the shifts nobody wanted and turning him down each time he made an approach, because being provided for by a man was the exact arrangement she had run away from. He kept coming, patiently, and put challenges in front of her that she had to solve herself. Her standing at the hotel came from her own record, and somewhere in that stretch of resisting him she stopped resisting.
She Is His Moon and SunWilliam's family has arranged a marriage for him and keeps sending elders round to press it, and his answer is to produce a girlfriend who can be shown to them. Luna already works in his house as a nanny. Her plan for her own life is to work, earn money and retire early, and she takes the acting job because it comes with a raise. They live in the same place and perform the couple in front of the family, and the daily arrangement produces a steady run of misunderstandings. Luna is cheerful and says what she means, and William, who is not used to either, gets used to her. He is serious about it well before she notices anything. She is still working out how to raise the subject of her pay.
Tell Me You Love MeLin Qian grew up as the most talked-about young woman in the capital, and her family arranged her marriage to Fu Yuchuan. She kept the household and played the part of a wife without fault. Fu Yuchuan found her stiff and colourless, a woman out of some older century, and paid her no attention for the length of the marriage. Then she put divorce papers down in front of him. The dull woman he had stopped looking at turned out to have a temper, and he began wanting to know who she was.
Love in a Fake MarriageSong Nanqiu and Jiang Yanzhi sign a marriage contract that runs for one year. She takes it to escape her mother, who will not stop pushing her to marry. She is cold and efficient about it and treats the whole thing as a transaction between two people who each need something.
One night the police run a routine check at a bar she is in, and Jiang Yanzhi turns up to deal with the matter and finds her there. He takes her home afterwards and lays down rules about her behaviour. Living together, he backs her without saying anything when someone treats her badly, and the day she takes off her wedding ring he goes to pieces. They fall for each other by degrees.
There is someone Song Nanqiu has kept in her heart, and Jiang Yanzhi cannot get past it. He spends his nights jealous of a person he has never identified. At the end he finds out who it is.
Flash Marriage RedemptionIsabel Whitney marries Felix Sterling on the winter solstice, in a hurry. Felix is the second son of the Sterling family and he is disabled. The first thing he says to her on their wedding night is that he plans to die within the year. Isabel treats that as settled and decides to spend the year enjoying herself, and she figures she may as well have a pretty child by him while she is at it. She tells him: "If you don't want to live, spend one night with me. Let's have a baby first."
They live together after that and the days are warm and sweet. Felix had been living in a grey house with nothing much in it, and Isabel fills the days up. He starts wanting her there, and she finds she wants the same.
In Other Words, I Love YouAlice wins a scholarship to Ashford Institute in London, a school where nearly everyone else arrived by family money. Charles Kenward, called King by the other students, treats the place as his own and treats her as something that got in by accident. They fight over everything from the first week on. Then circumstances neither of them chose put them in the same house, sharing meals and hallways and the same front door, with the argument they had been having in public now continuing at close range.
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."
Rebirth: The Superpowered WifeYe An commanded the eastern front through the apocalypse. She was reborn as the daughter of a wealthy family in Dragon City, a girl the household had written off as weak and incompetent.
She met Fu Yunshen for the first time while she was covered in blood. She drove for him, he took the drag racing championship, and she left.
The second meeting was at a banquet of the wealthy families. Her younger sister tried to embarrass her in front of the room. Ye An kicked her into the pool, and said that anyone who wanted to conquer her could show first what he had. The Dragon City elites were at the tables for all of it.
Taming the Hellion PrinceIn the imperial capital marriages were arrangements between houses, and a wedding could go ahead with the groom swapped out at the hall. Shen Ruojin's betrothed ran off on the wedding day with her younger sister, the daughter of their father's concubine. Shen Ruojin married the man that sister had been promised to, Qin Lang.
Qin Lang was the young Prince Qin, known through the capital for drink and women and doing as he liked. On the wedding night he left Shen Ruojin in the bridal room and went to the Fanghua Pavilion. People said he had married her for the sport of it and she laughed along with them. She had grown up in a general's household, could handle a sword, and what she wanted was out in the empire.
She took her husband in hand. He went after the people who had wronged her, rose through the court, and put the power he gathered into her hands.
The Obsession of a BillionaireEvelyn Collins needed her father's debts settled and had no way to settle them. Alfred Prescott, heir to one of the most powerful families in the city, offered to cover all of it on one condition, that she spend three years as his kept woman, a canary in his cage. She agreed with her teeth clenched.
By the end of the three years she had fallen for him and had not said so. She left on the day the contract ran out, meaning to go with her dignity. Alfred expected to feel nothing about it and then could not leave her alone. He saw her smiling at other men, the woman who had once been his, and he set about getting her back.
Then Cecilia Bennett returned. Evelyn had never been told about her, and once she understood who Cecilia had been to Alfred she took herself for the stand in. She was pregnant by then and started making arrangements to disappear.
The Love He Never ForgotCheng Ling divorced her husband as soon as she found out he had been sleeping with someone else, and went back to work as financial director. On the first day the new chairman takes office, she looks up and it is Xie Lian, the younger man she abruptly cut off five years ago. His first words to her are a private phrase the two of them used to trade, said in front of everyone. She is standing there in patched sleeve covers with her glasses pushed down her nose and her hair pulled into a dull low ponytail, and the whole office already jokes about how she presents herself. Cheng Ling has her own reading of the situation. Five years ago she was on Highway 318 with dyed hair, loud, reckless, going wherever she felt like, and that is the woman he fell for. She does not believe an ordinary accountant in sleeve covers is the same thing to him, whatever he says with the old code words, and she keeps working under him on that assumption.
Riding into LoveRenegade biker Lyon falls in love on the first sight with Kat, a beautiful yet fragile young girl who lands a new job at Lyon's bike shop. As they fall in love, old wounds resurface when Lyon’s pursuer, unwittingly brings danger closer. Bound by love, Lyon and Kat decide to ride on towards a path of confrontation and salvation.
The Man Who BeggedChi Yuchuan had been in love with Song Zhi through the whole marriage and never let her see it. They divorced, and four years after that he turned up at her company, brought in over her as her direct boss. He had his fiancée with him and the fiancée was pregnant.
He came closer a step at a time. Song Zhi had no intention of going through any of it a second time, so she kept out of his way while he went on after her. Then Lin Lujian, the man she had loved before she married, came back. Chi Yuchuan, head of the Chi family and cold with everyone for most of his life, went to her with his eyes red and asked her to love him.
The Vengeance HuntDan Shaw's two sons want the man who killed their father to answer for it. Five years ago, on a rainy night, the father and sons were set up, and the father died when a car struck him.
The man responsible went unpunished, and for five years the brothers swallowed it and waited. Now the opening they needed has come and they intend to make him pay for what he did. Along the way there is a blind girl, and what she wants from them is not revenge.
I Played the Game, He Claimed My HeartXia Jin grew up in the Xia house as the illegitimate daughter, and her stepmother and her sister Xia An'an put her down at every turn. She set out to hurt the family through the one thing her sister wanted, which was Si Yan, heir of the Si family and hard to deal with in business. She played fragile in front of him and got into his bed.
Si Yan saw the revenge plan for what it was and let her run it. He kept her at his side, broke her pride and then saw to the repairs himself, and for a man who held everyone else off he could not do it with her. Wanting, loving and hating ran together in both of them.
Xia Jin later found out that the game had been going on for ten years before she made her first move.
Gilded CageA professor's recommendation is what puts Mandy in front of Kris, who operates at a level of wealth she has no reference for. What catches his interest is an old sachet from her hometown, worn out and worth nothing, and what it stirs in him is not affection so much as the wish to own something.
He presents himself as a mentor. From there he lays out a path she has no reasonable way to turn down: a position at the top of her field, an apartment she could never afford, a place at Harvard. Each thing arrives looking like generosity.
Mandy is grateful and works to deserve it, and underneath the gratitude there is something she cannot name that will not settle. She adapts to the world he has built for her without seeing that it was built, and that every door he opened was placed there by someone who had already decided how this ends.
The Scheming MaidEmma Harrison wants back the family she had twenty years ago. She was the daughter of a rich house then, and her life was one other people envied. Therese Parish was hired as her private tutor. Emma's father began an affair with Therese, her younger brother died in an accident, and her mother lost her mind after the shock. Emma swore that Therese would one day feel what it is to lose everything. Twenty years later she takes the name Janette Owens and gets hired as a maid in Therese's household, and from inside the house she starts on her plan.
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.
I Tied Him Up, He Stole My HeartThree years of mourning end and Wu Mengtian is handed a book of rules for proper women by her fiance's household. His mistress has been an open secret the whole time, and the people around her are waiting for the moment she is made a fool of. Her attempt to break the engagement is blocked. So she goes and takes a young cultivator, cold and good looking, and brings him back with her to answer every piece of gossip aimed at her. Women have no reason to tolerate men having multiple wives, she says. The cultivator turns out to be sharp and calculating, and starts feeding her strategies for the fights she is in. He is also the crown prince. She has now damaged the discipline he had spent his life keeping, and his answer is that the path is supposed to follow the heart, and in this life what he wants is her.
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.
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.
Camellia in BloomIn the winter of 2007, Jiang Ting, whose father was suffering from cancer, met his father's employer Zhao Yanqing by chance and formed a bond with him ever since. Zhao Yanqing silently helped, and Jiang Ting joined his company through hard work. The two rubbed shoulders many times during misunderstandings, restraint, and their respective growth. After years of hard work, Jiang Ting has transformed from a young student into a professional elite, and Zhao Yanqing has always protected him. After more than ten years, the two finally broke through the obstacles of identity, rumors and distance, confirmed their feelings through mutual understanding and respect, unlocked an evenly matched affection, and made their love like white camellia tea come true.
Spring in Full BloomFilm student Nora Hale enters the elite world of fictional Veridia under her calculating father's guidance. Her target is Adrian Ashford, the 29-year-old head of Ashford Group. Hiding ambition behind charm and innocence, Nora makes her move, only to find the untouchable Adrian falling for her.
A Bitter SpringA neglected girl is forced to share her home with a perfect boy controlled by his mother after their single parents move in together. They clash at first, but every fight exposes wounds no one else has ever seen. Just as they become each other’s only light, he is taken away, leaving two lonely souls to wonder whether spring can still come back.
Addicted to My New HusbandThe marriage Zhao Yuan is pushed into was planned in advance, and she goes into it believing it is an accident. Her older sister runs on the day of the wedding, so Zhao Yuan is put in the dress and sent to Fu Tingzhou in the sister's place. She has been in love with him for ten years without telling anyone. They share a bed, and she is both the closest person to him and the one he keeps furthest out. At his company she becomes the colleague he relies on for everything. She keeps telling herself that being Mrs. Fu is as much as she should ask for, and the wanting grows anyway, because what she is after is a heart that has never once moved for her. When she can feel it getting away from her she puts down the divorce papers and prepares to go, and Fu Tingzhou, who never lets anything show, comes apart and begs her in tears to stay. Afterwards she opens his diary and finds her own name on page after page.
Beyond the TideWei Xi is drunk at a street corner on the night her relationship ends, waiting for a car, when a black sedan stops in front of her. It belongs to Zhou Yushen, and at Jian'an Group everyone knows without saying it that his schedule does not stop for anyone. He gets out and bends down to hold an umbrella over her, then lets her cry in the car for forty-seven minutes without hurrying her.
She asks him what he is getting out of it. He says he wants the tide to keep its word and stop for him. Earlier, at one of the company seminars, she had been called out by name and moved into the front row, and no reason was given for it at the time.
Their Own Light 2Three couples continue their fierce and painfully real city romances, caught between desire, loyalty, pressure, and choice. One man becomes the final safety net for the woman he loves, one marriage survives every outside temptation through absolute trust, and one pair breaks every rule to choose each other. In the space between day and night, modern women learn when to surrender and when to stay awake.
Falling for the DevilMina works in the house of a man the city calls the Black Reaper, as tutor to his son. She took the post to get a foothold in a city where she had none. Every tutor before her had walked out on the boy. She gets the better of him with quick wits and nerve, and he comes round to her. With the father she argues over everything, and after a while the arguing turns into something else.
Two women from moneyed families are jealous of her and set about making her life difficult. The father comes down on her side each time. A senior from her school days, the one she used to have a crush on, comes to tell her he loves her. She turns him down, and admits to herself that the man she wants is the one she works for. He has kept, it turns out, keepsakes connected to her. There are misunderstandings and past hurts on both sides to be gone through before the two of them go public.
Swan and Her WorshipperAt 18, Sophie Reed loses everything and is sent to the isolated town of Willowtown. Glamorous and out of place, she clashes with the small-town world. That winter, she meets Lucas Shaw—a deaf boy hiding behind silence. One unexpected encounter sparks a long-running story of first love, healing, and heartbreak.
Hired My Fiancé to Chase Another GuyGrace Frost walks into the wrong room and takes Jacob Ward for the love coach she has come to hire. Jacob runs his family's company, one of the largest in the city, and he lets her go on thinking it. She booked the session because her best friend pushed her to do something about the senior at school she has been chasing, and the coach she meant to see is a well-known one. Jacob recognizes her the moment she comes in. Their families signed an engagement for the two of them when they were children. He worked his way up in business so that he would have the standing to find her and hold her to it. Grace remembers none of it. She sits down and asks him to teach her how to win another man, and the man she means is the senior.
When Love CollidesCorporate worker Charlotte awakens inside a novel as a doomed bride whose unfaithful groom will humiliate and kill her. Knowing the plot, she cancels the wedding and takes in Julian, a supposedly foolish young man, as a live-in husband. Julian is actually the poisoned, amnesiac crown prince; as his mind returns, he keeps up the act while secretly protecting the only woman who showed him kindness.