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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.
Trapped By His Hidden ObsessionSent as a spy to seduce a powerful official, she fails 189 times! Desperate for a divorce, she acts out, but he fiercely protects her instead. Discovering his secret room of her portraits unlocks her tragic memories. Can their love survive a devastating war, a faked death, and five years apart?
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.
The Warrior’s Blind WagerShen Mingzhu wanted love, and her circumstances gave her no way of going out to find it. Her mother died when she was young. Her father and her older brother were both killed in battle, and the shock of the news cost her her sight.
That left her with her father's clan, who were cruel to her and worked up a scheme to frame her and push her into a marriage on their terms. Around the same time she crossed paths with Yuwen Xiao, the Prince of Zhennan, a man known for being ruthless who was carrying a good deal of damage of his own.
She decided to take the risk. She would marry him and see whether love came out of it.
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
Unyielding Heart: Her Fight for LightLiu Xiaorou was kidnapped as a child and sold to a family in a remote village. They were waiting for her to come of age so she could be married off to their son, who was intellectually disabled, and used to bear him children. Over eight years she tried to run more times than she could count and was caught and dragged back every time. This time she ran again, made it to a road, and tried to flag down a passing car. It drove past her. Then it turned around and came back. The driver, Xiang Bokai, got her out and back to the city.
At the police station, the man who came to collect her was her father, Liu Huazhi, the same man who had arranged to sell her in the first place, using the money as his first capital to start over. In front of the officers he told them she had simply gotten lost. In the years she was gone he had divorced her mother, Cao Meiyu, remarried, and adopted a daughter who had no blood relation to the family at all. Liu Xiaorou also learned that her father had sold
The Emperor's AntidoteFaye Monroe and the crown prince, Julian, come to an exchange: she works on the poison in him, and he takes her medicines and tells her what they do. Before that he had her tested hard, on the assumption that the Empress Dowager had planted her, and she came through it. She had entered the palace as a maid to get near him.
She had come down from her island to finish a book on a hundred herbs and was collecting cases for it. The poison in Julian is reckoned the worst there is, and it has left him weak and cold with the people around him. The Empress Dowager had been giving it to him. She wants the Seventh Prince on the throne, and the head maid of Julian's household reports to her. Faye and Julian also turn up something about his parentage, and he begins moving on the succession.
Road of LustMy husband is fifty. He was driving, and his eighteen-year-old son from an earlier marriage was in the back seat with me. Every time the car went over a bump the boy's hand moved another inch up under my skirt. His hand was hot. I bit down on the blanket to keep quiet. My husband kept driving as though nothing was happening. If I had known what that back seat was going to become over the rest of the trip, I would have died before saying a word.
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.
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.
Swapped to a Beggar But He is ApolloIrene's stepsister tricks her into a swapped wedding, and Irene marries a poor wandering bard with nothing to his name. The bard is Apollo, god of light, in mortal form, and nobody knows it.
Her family keeps at her until she is in despair. That is what wakes Apollo's divine anger. He turns his holy wrath on the nobles of Athens, and afterwards he raises the mortal bride they wronged to the throne of the Queen of Light.
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.
Her Last DefianceXie Duo kept Lin Sangwan for ten years. The terms were his and he ran the arrangement as he liked, without asking her about any of it.
Lin Sangwan hated him for that. She had feelings for him and she held them down, and she fought the keeping itself the whole ten years. Xie Duo was cold with her and never worked out that he loved her. Then she was gone from his life altogether. Six years after that a child turned up in front of him with a face very close to his own. The woman who had never given in to him had borne a child to another man, and Xie Duo went to pieces over it more than once.
The Eunuch I MarriedQin Wanzhi is the legitimate daughter of the Shenfeng Marquis house. She arranged to take another bride's place and married Xiao Xun, the eunuch who holds the regency and is spoken of in the capital as disfigured and cruel. Xiao Xun keeps a sealed imperial decree with the power to unseat the throne, and his widow would inherit it.
She played the attentive wife and carried medicine to him every evening. In the medicine she put poison, a small amount each night. Xiao Xun worked out what was in the bowl early and emptied it when she was not looking, and he said nothing to her about it. He then put on a bodyguard's clothes, gave the name Xiao Liu, and stayed close to her. From that position he watched her count and calculate behind the soft face she kept for the household, and he began to take an interest in her.
The court and the families around it were fighting over position through all of this, and the two of them worked the same side of it more and more often. She helped him hold up the story that he was a eunuch so he could get out from under the palace's hold on him, and he taught her how to move through the palace and reach the people who took her family apart.
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.
The Hands that Raised Me Killed My DadQi Simin came into the port city alone looking for her missing brother, with no contacts and no money for the kind of information that gets sold there. On a wet night she found a man bleeding out in the street and kept him alive. He was Fu Yaoyang, who runs the Fu family. To buy what she needed she lifted his watch and traded it, and that put her name into a house where the succession is being settled with weapons. Yaoyang had her installed beside him as his secretary, which kept her under his eye and also kept her out of reach of the second master of the family, who is working against them both. Fighting the same man pulled the two of them from hostility into something else. Then Simin found out what Yaoyang is. His father was a police officer who died in the line of duty, and the man who took in the orphan was Fu Jialiang, his father's enemy, who raised him carefully for twenty years as an instrument of revenge and an heir for a criminal empire. The debt of being raised sits on him like a chain. When Jialiang drops the charitable face and takes Simin, Yaoyang comes apart and then turns.
Trapped by the Twin Billionaire!Ji Mingwei wants to know who killed her father years earlier. She is known as the first beauty of Jinghai, and she is with Lu Jinran, the younger brother of the man who heads the Lu family. Lu Jinran wants to travel with the woman he is seeing on the side, so he sends his twin brother Lu Shiqin to take his place beside her.
Mingwei finds out what has been done. She keeps that to herself and goes along with the swap, using her position next to Lu Shiqin to look into her father's death and to settle with Lu Jinran. She gets what she was after. When she moves to end the arrangement, Lu Shiqin turns out to have been serious about her.
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.
Oath of Rebirth, Debt of BloodKelly Jay and Jodie Jay have the same father. Kelly is a consort by then, out of favour and shut in the cold palace, while Jodie holds a first-rank title through her husband's office. At a banquet in the palace, Kelly kills her.
The two of them come back to the day before either marriage, when the Knox family sends over its proposal. Kelly takes the letter and will have nobody but Frank Knox, who in the life they have already lived became Prime Minister. That leaves the other opening, the palace selection for imperial consorts, to Jodie, and Kelly hands it over as though she were giving something up.
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.
The Predator's PreyJiang Ye had wanted Ning Yue for a long time and had no way to reach her. She is stubborn and holds to her own idea of what is right, and being twenty-seven and running a company would not have counted with her.
Her father owed him money. Jiang Ye worked on the father, part pressure and part inducement, until the father sent his daughter to the creditor's bed against the debt. In front of Ning Yue he played the party who had been put upon and had no hand in it. She read the whole thing as her father's scheme and looked no further. From there he moved a step at a time toward getting her to marry him.
Simmering LoveShe was born into the Yan family and grew up in the Wen family as their adopted daughter, which left her with no proper place in either house. A marriage contract sent her to Shang Chen, a business tycoon.
Her birth parents kept their affection for the girl they had adopted in her place, and her adoptive mother sided with that girl and made things hard for her more than once. Her younger brother treated her as an enemy. Then Shang Chen put her behind him in front of all of them and said, "She is my wife, and no one shall wrong her."
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.
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.
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.
A Duet of Happily Ever AftersZoey Seatter has one night with Adrian Morris and finds out a month later that she is pregnant. She met him while she was getting her sister Liza Seatter away from a man who beat her, and Adrian was there with his brother Franklin Morris, working as mercenaries.
She is about to end the pregnancy when Adrian turns up and asks her to marry him, and he takes both sisters back to his house. Living under one roof, Zoey works her way into Adrian's heart, and Franklin falls for Liza. A robbery at a jewellery store, prenatal classes, and Liza's ex being dealt with all follow.
Ghost Marriage? Billionaire Saves Pregnant Wife!Lynn Jade's bright future is destroyed by her family. After a fateful encounter with tycoon Zane Sterling, who leaves her pregnant, her family's cruelty escalates. They humiliate her, sell her, and seal her in a coffin for a death marriage. As she bleeds, Zane discovers he is the father and races to save her and their twins. Will he make it in time?
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.
One More Chance, My Nurse Girlfriend!Xie Junlin has to marry and have a child, and he cannot stand being touched by a woman. He watched his father cheat on his mother and it left him that way. A doctor tells him to find a strong-willed girlfriend as a way of forcing the treatment along.
He meets a nurse, Tao Tao, and finds he does not recoil when she touches him. He pulls her out of trouble several times and the two of them end up somewhere ambiguous. She agrees to marry him, and they sign a master and servant agreement in which she is his master, the arrangement being part of the treatment. It works, and Tao Tao becomes pregnant.
They are happy for a while after the marriage. Then Xie Junlin's childhood friend Lan Yin and his aunt get involved, a misunderstanding comes out of it, and Tao Tao decides to divorce him and leave.
Her 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.
I Am the Prey of Three AlphasFinn is a Beta in a family that considers weakness a stain on all of them, so they send him to a werewolf academy that runs on cruelty and let him deal with it. Everyone there treats him the way he was treated at home.
He runs into three of the school's strongest Alphas and expects it to go badly. What comes out instead is that all three of them are bound to him as fated mates. Chris is cold and says almost nothing. Simon is gentle. Neal treats everything as a game. Each of them wants him, and they are not subtle about it.
Finn is caught between three people who are all serious. Meanwhile the students who think Betas do not belong at the academy organize against him. The three Alphas have a choice to make, and it is not obvious yet whether they stand together for him or turn on each other over him.
Of His Day and NightDorothy went into the marriage to pay for her mother's care, which made her the wife of Jerome, the wealthiest man in the capital. She is an andrologist. On the wedding night she met Samuel, presented to her as Jerome's brother, gentle with her and hard to put off, while Jerome himself stayed cold. She spent the months after that moving between the two of them and pulling at the question of who Samuel is. Samuel is a personality Jerome built after his younger brother was taken 17 years ago. The kidnapping goes back to Jerome's uncle, and once Dorothy has that, she and Jerome start working against him together.
Falling for the Thorned RoseThe Lowell and Lloyd families sit on two sides of a balance that neither has managed to tip. Lillian Lowell was thrown out by her own people, and on the night it happened she set fire to her grandmother's yard herself.
Shane Lloyd, the Lloyd heir, came through the flames with blood on him and took her home with him. He had a use in mind for the thorny rose he had picked up, which was to break the standoff between the two houses through her. She kept turning his arrangements back on him, and at some point he fell for her. After that he supplied the openings and she took them, and the two of them went after the people who had put them where they were. They covered for each other while they did it.
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.
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.
One-Night Stand With the Right ManJulian Ramsey comes home to break off an engagement he never wanted. The woman on the other side of it is Shelly Greene, whom he has already met without ever learning her name.
That was abroad. She got him out of trouble there, an aphrodisiac got into it by accident, and the two of them spent the night together.
Shelly needs the engagement to go ahead, because getting her family's company back depends on Julian agreeing to it. So she has to talk the man who came home to cancel it into keeping it. Neither of them knows who the other is, and they go on missing each other and falling out over it until the truth comes out and clears the misunderstandings.
(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.
My Favorite Model Is An Undercover BillionaireSong Xingye is a model with a good build who turns up at the right moment, and he is in fact a magnate. Li Zhinan does not know this. She is a fashion designer staging her own show to get close to Cesar, the richest man in Italy, and through him onto the international runways. The main garment is damaged shortly before the show opens. Li Zhinan takes the scissors to it herself, recuts it, and picks Song Xingye on the spot to close the show.
The show goes over well and the two of them begin to see each other. Li Zhinan takes the relationship for an exchange of money for company. It is a trap the man had set for her alone, and he played the harmless puppy to set it.
Done Being the Mistress of My Billionaire CrushLife has pressed Irene hard enough that she sells her first night, and the man who buys it turns out to be Chris, whom she has been in love with in secret for eight years. Afterwards he wants more of her, and keeps her as a mistress nobody is to know about. He does not expect it to turn into anything more, and she does not expect that either. The arrangement has a fixed term.
When the term runs out Irene leaves, and does not look back. Chris takes it that she is gone for good. It is only then that he understands he already loves her.
My Wife Ran Away AgainThe Young Marshal introduces his wife everywhere as a country girl who knows nothing about fashion, medicine, or guns. "My wife is perfectly obedient, my word is law," he tells people, and he says it while kneeling on a washboard at home. His wife treats patients with medical skill he insists she does not have, shoots the men who come after her, and puts the society women of the city so far in the shade that they ask who is bullying whom. The adjutants at the warlord's mansion listen to him defend her from bullying she does not need and ask him to keep hold of some dignity. She has a background she has not told him about.
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.
The Stand-In GirlfriendThe contract Zhou Shiyue put in front of Song Wennuan paid her to stand in for the woman he had been in love with for years, who was out of the country. She signed it on the spot. Two years of the job and she would have enough money to travel, which was the only thing she wanted out of a life she had not chosen. She had been an office worker before she woke up inside a short drama as the stand-in for its female lead, a part written to be used and discarded.
The two years were nearly up when the first love came home. Song Wennuan hung a banner and went out to welcome her. Zhou Shiyue then changed his mind about letting the arrangement end.
A wounded man turned up one night and the quiet she had built for herself went. His name was Lu Ling, and the two of them had been tied to each other from that first night, which she had no idea about at the time. There was a ring that answered to blood and knew its owner, and a family behind him that kept to itself.
Love Found Her After the DivorceElena Swift was with Ethan four years before they married, and they have been married three. She took him for a man with no money who could not walk, so she carried the household and did delivery runs for the extra income.
One of those runs puts her in front of him. He is the heir to one of the capital's biggest fortunes and is worth billions, and the woman standing with him grew up with him and has just come back into the country. Elena watches him hand her jewellery worth tens of millions as a birthday present. His account of it is that his friend comes from a rich family and the gift matched her position, and that he had expected Elena to be broader minded about it. The rest of the explanation comes later. The poverty was staged to find out whether she had married him for money.
He waits at home for her to come round and apologise. What reaches him is a set of divorce papers.
Clarence Fowler is the richest man in the country and cannot bear being touched. Elena's touch does not hurt him, and he asks her to marry him.
Contracted to a Sleeping CEOClaire Carter's father is bedridden and the family firm is weeks from collapse, so she agrees to marry Victor Foster, the head of a wealthy house who has lain in a coma since an accident. She had a plan of her own before that: her boyfriend had promised to run away with her on the morning of the ceremony. He never comes. She finds him alone with her stepsister instead, and then walks the aisle by herself at a wedding with no groom, into a house she has never lived in. That night she sits with the husband she has only now seen, motionless in the bed. Her boyfriend slips into the room, says he regrets everything, and works around to what he actually came for, which is her help stripping the Foster fortune. While he is still talking, Victor opens his eyes. He has been listening. Claire is left married to a man everyone in the household believes cannot hear them, in a house where the people around her are counting on exactly that.
We’re Not Blood, We Love!Seven years apart, can Leo get his first love back? At 15, Zoe lived with the Moores. She spent every day with Leo, and their feelings slowly changed.But a year later, the Moores had a crisis. They grew apart, Leo left the country, and their love stopped suddenly.
Seven years later, will Leo come back? What will happen after all this time?
Office Wife : How to Hunt a ManThere is no office wife. The woman a wife has been following, believing her to be her husband's mistress, is a Gen Z shaman who works on people by gaslighting them.
The wife keeps going anyway. Her husband ends up tied with rope. There is a whip, and a hiccup at the wrong moment. She kisses a younger man who has been filming with a hidden camera, and the two of them end up working together, awkwardly. The revenge that follows draws blood and gets away from everyone involved.
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.
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.
The Beast King's Secret TwinsJane raises her twin sons on her own, keeping out of sight. They are half dragon. She is blind and scarred from the fall into the beast abyss seven years ago, which she took for Darius, and he left her there to die.
Their mother needs help, so the boys go after the dragonbone hairpin Darius lost. They are caught with it and named as thieves. Darius rules the beasts and does not know that the two children are his own. He sends Jane to the water prison over 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.
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 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.
Under One Roof, Close to Your HeartYves kept what he felt for Willow to himself, and she put him out of the house before he had said any of it.
His mother and his stepfather were killed in a car accident on his sixteenth birthday. Willow was the stepfather's daughter, twenty-two at the time, and she took him in and became his guardian. They lived in the same house for two years, and by eighteen he had worked out what the feeling was. She sent him away not long after that. Four years later he was an idol with a career on the way up and she was running a café, and the two of them came across each other again.
Mr. Officer Steals Her HeartJiang Lu's mother died in what was recorded as an accident, and there was more to it than that. Jiang Lu teaches English at a middle school and wants a settled sort of life. Her elders arrange an introduction to Song Kui, who runs a criminal investigation team, and she nearly pulls out of it, because his work is dangerous and keeps him out in the field, and the two families are far apart in money. Song Kui was taken with her from the first meeting. He keeps at it, patiently, over a long stretch, and they end up together. Once things are serious he finds out what was covered up about her mother's death, and he starts working the case on his own, with very little to go on.
Dating the Zombie KingRosie Dixon's academic advisor tells her what the cure for the zombie virus requires: the genetic material of the Zombie King. A child by him. That is the price of ending the outbreak.
The apocalypse has already arrived, and Rosie was close to being killed by a horde when a figure cut through it and pulled her out. The Zombie King's red eyes went to her alone. "Come with me." It took her a moment to place him as Henry Miller, who had been quietly in love with her for years. At the Miller villa his parents, both undead and very well mannered, served raw meat and called her their daughter-in-law.
Henry follows her around and clings to her during the day, and at night he kills the dead to keep her safe. Rosie gets out her manual and settles on an order of operations: win over the Zombie King first, save the world after.
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.
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.
Fake Dowry Trap Destroyed My Toxic FamilyA frugal woman devotes years to supporting her family, craving her mother’s recognition, yet is treated as a mere ATM. Heartbroken by her family’s shameless fraud for her brother’s marriage, she severs all kinship. Facing slander and threats, she fights back firmly, punishes her vicious relatives, and embraces a brand-new independent life.
He Never Knew I Was the One All AlongQiao Yin married the man her family arranged for her, a doctor named Fu Tinglan she had hardly spoken to. She had agreed to the match after seeing Lu Jin'an sign a paper giving her up for the woman he had loved before her. Seven years deaf and unable to speak, she had kept her life arranged around Lu Jin'an until then.
The husband she had taken for a stranger was the man who had gone into a fire for her seven years earlier. Lu Jin'an found out afterwards that the money that had carried him through those years had come from Qiao Yin, and that she had been the only one who understood him through the deaf and mute years. She had stopped ordering her life around him by then.