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Pin Off, Queen OnSilia sealed the soul of the Red Dragon into her daughter Luna, turned her own spirit power into a pin to hold it down, and told Luna never to take the pin out.
The Spirit clan had been raised for generations to keep the Beast King, the Red Dragon, suppressed. Silia gathered the strength of the whole clan against it and got its core out, and that was as far as she could take it, so the soul went into Luna and the Spiritseal Pin was left with her to keep the dragon's power down.
Luna was born with ability of her own, and the pin holds that down along with the dragon. People treat her as useless for it and she takes the humiliation without arguing. She works out that she can draw on the dragon's power inside her, and she leaves the pin alone anyway, because of what her mother told her. Then her people come under threat and she takes it out, which frees the dragon's power and something larger behind it.
Daddy's Almost HomeDaniel Brown takes the jewelry designs drawn by his wife's daughter and passes them off to a company as his own son's work. The designs copy a piece Robert Wilson once gave Carol Jones, and when they reach Robert he recognizes it. Carol had found Robert injured and nursed him. He was a billionaire, and while he recovered they fell in love and she got pregnant. A crisis in his family pulled him away and he promised to come back. Her father seized her and married her off to Daniel, a jeweler with a violent temper. She and the girl have lived under him for eight years, and the girl has turned out to have a talent for design. Robert starts looking for Carol again. Two women turn up who are not who they say they are. A DNA test is done on the girl.
The Palace RemembersEighteen years ago a boy was ambushed and his mother, Luna, was hurt shielding him. She was never found. The boy was crowned soon after, and as emperor he has kept looking for her. She is closer than he knows. Luna lives in the Palace of Serenity as a slave doing heavy work, with no memory of who she was, keeping one small wood carving she cannot explain her attachment to. The carving is the one thing left from her son. What starts to move things is a window: a lattice cut with bamboo and birds, of a pattern the emperor knows from childhood, and seeing it again brings back pieces of the day he lost her. He begins to suspect a servant in that palace is his mother, but the court has its own accounts of who she is, and the suspicion becomes something his enemies can use. He acts on what he has been told, and not knowing her, he orders her flogged. A fire in the palace afterward brings out the truth and he pulls her from it. That does not settle anything, because the favored consort Jiang Wanting has understood what the woman is worth to him and is not finished.
Echoes of Mom's LoveWendy Freeman gave her son Jason Calloway her left kidney when he was a child and the illness he had would otherwise have killed him. She was raising him on her own. After the operation she could not do heavy work anymore, so she took odd jobs, begged when there were none, and moved from place to place with the boy. Men in the village harassed her and kept at it. Jason came to believe his mother was lazy and loose, and at one point took it that she had run off with one of those men. He left home young.
Fifteen years later the two meet by chance. Jason is by then president of a listed company, and Wendy is seriously ill with no one looking after her. The facts of those years come out one at a time as her condition gets worse.
Fake Love, Real DangerDaniel Lewis, who is a billionaire, has spent three years courting a woman without telling her about the money. He finds out she has been with him for reasons of her own. Before he can act on that, an accident takes his memory.
She uses the accident. She has him sign an organ donation agreement, with the kidney to go to her lover. When Daniel's sister comes looking for him, the woman tells her Daniel is mentally ill, keeps her away from him, and gives the same story to the rest of the Lewis family.
His family gets through to him anyway, and his memory comes back with their help. He attends the Lewis family banquet.
The Reincarnated NemesisYoselin's mother Christina, a master embroiderer, was framed to death by favored Countess Lily 20 years ago. Orphaned at 8, Yoselin later invents colorful silk threads, earning royal favor. After achieving fame, a palace lantern accident hurls her back to age 8—moments before her mother’s murder. Now, with past-life memories as her only weapon, the young girl must outsmart Lily to save her mother… but how?
Ignition: Return of the Drift KingThe mountain roads around the Shen village are the sort of thing a racing team will fight over, and the way such a fight gets settled there is a race for the right to use them. Chase Walker had been living in the village for five years as a mechanic, keeping quiet about the fact that he used to be a champion driver. He had walked away from the sport after a crash that killed his younger brother.
The Raptor Riders came for the roads, wanting them as a training ground, and pushed the matter at his repair shop. Chase agreed to drive for the village.
Hired Boyfriend Is a BillionaireCharlotte wants to keep her job. To keep it she has claimed a connection to Colton, a billionaire investor, and the claim is not true. So she hires a man to stand in as her boyfriend.
The man she hires is Colton.
Queen of MusicThe once nationwide sensation, the Mask Diva, retired for twenty years to return to family life, only to face rejection and betrayal from her husband and children.
Before the Fall of a RealmRuby Linton, a village girl, has decided that she is the crown prince's consort. The whole of it rests on one event. Crown Prince Hector Hill, travelling north to negotiate a peace at the border, saved her life, and she took that for love.
She installs herself at the prince's residence and does as she pleases there, giving orders in his name. The consequences land on Hector. He is held responsible for her conduct and reprimanded, the question of stripping him of his position is raised, and several other kingdoms begin forming a coalition against his country. This happens while he is still in the north.
Till We Meet AgainKelly comes back to her hometown after seven years away, with her daughter. She runs into Sebastian in a café. He is the man who was about to marry her, and he has spent those years believing she walked out on him, married someone else, and had a child with that man. He has not forgiven her for it, but he keeps finding reasons to be near her.
The day he proposed, a gunman came into the restaurant, shot his sister Elizabeth dead, and left Sebastian badly hurt after he put himself between the shooter and Kelly. While he lay in a coma his mother decided the whole thing was Kelly's fault. She told Kelly that Sebastian never wanted to see her again and pushed her out of their lives. Kelly was already pregnant and had told nobody. She had the baby on her own. Sebastian had assumed the girl was some other man's child, and he is starting to think she may be his.
Carrying the Supreme Mage's HeirOur team took to the streets of SF to see if we could make a random match happen! Our bachelorette was a smart and sexy woman in STEM who is tired of dating tech and finance bros, so paired her up with a guy who might be more...artistically inclined. Were the two able to cook up some chemistry, or did their experimental date fall apart faster than a lab fire?
Chasing the Dragon's BrideOur team took to the streets of SF to see if we could set two strangers up on a blind date and make a random match happen! We paired a girl who loves funny guys with a humorous hunk who kept her laughing...but the question is, was she laughing WITH him or AT him?
Fool No More: Her Sword Silences AllHarper Ryall was born the legitimate daughter of her family, with a talent for the sword that nobody had matched and a mind that stayed a child's. It was said that heaven had been jealous of the one thing and had taken the other back.
She was taken as a disciple by the Blossom Sword Sage and learned the sword under her. By the time she came home the family had gone badly wrong. A side branch of the clan was pushing the main line out, and there was a fight going on over who would hold the seat. Her own household was being humiliated at every turn. Then the Heavenly Sword clan arrived to settle an old score.
Her Guardian, His LightAmnesiac Foster heir Victor lives on the streets until he rescues Lillian Grant from relatives scheming for her fortune. Protecting her gradually restores pieces of his past. Recovering his own legacy becomes inseparable from keeping Lillian's inheritance out of the hands hunting her.
OMG! Bosses in Aprons!Noodle-shop owners Sable Green and Sylvia Lynn have spent years hiding as an ordinary, powerless couple. An attack on their family ends the performance: the cook is a deadly Lord and his wife a saint, and the martial world is about to learn what their quiet domestic life kept restrained.
The Grand MasterIn an empire that keeps an order of knights, the Empress takes in children with nowhere to go and trains them. Elsa's parents were murdered by George at Easter while she watched. The Empress Luna took her in and raised her, and Elsa became the most lethal of the imperial knights.
Fifteen years later Elsa went home to protect what was left of her family. She found a plot involving a serum that breaks a person's will and makes them obey. The red drug being used by the forces behind it had come from her mother. George came back, wanting Elsa's complete submission and threatening the people she loved if he did not get it. George's aim was to rule everything.
Wrestle the Night, Kid LordSecluded for three centuries, Lord Aether reincarnates as dying child Luna Lane in Aurora City. From her tiny form, she unleashes arcane power to defend the Reed family. But when failure claims Grace and Leo, she's left shattered. What was the point of an eternity spent chasing immortality if it couldn't even save the innocent?
Damn! He is the Emperor!Flooding wrecks the southern province, and Emperor Xiao Qian goes there in rags, partly to see how the relief is being handled and partly to look for the mother he was separated from. What he finds is the county magistrate and the police chief Wang Dayong skimming the relief grain, thinning the porridge until it is barely food, and squeezing money out of the survivors on top of it. He and his mother recognize each other, and the two of them are cornered. He is thrown in prison, and inside he finds his uncle and gets him out of trouble. At the governor's banquet Xiao Qian declares who he is. The prime minister turns it against him, and he is locked up as an imposter instead. General Zhang Meng reaches him in time. A dusty imperial robe and half a bowl of stale porridge are what the case against the officials rests on.
Cue the ChampionWhen billiards legend Aiden Shaw wins a championship, he's rewarded with the governor's 300-pound daughter and bolts. Fleeing to Riverstate under his grandmother's orders, he hides as a low-key coach at a fading billiards club. Branded a fraud, he's challenged to prove himself. Training a total rookie into a pro in three days, Aiden silences doubters. But as rivals rise and romance knocks, he must choose between ambition, loyalty and love.
Too Late To Save Our BabyJiang Yan gets pregnant after dozens of rounds of IVF, and every time she tries to tell her husband Xu Shuo, something interrupts her. Then the son of Zheng Jiani, the woman Xu Shuo has never stopped caring for, hits her with a scooter. Xu Shuo runs the hospital. He believes Zheng Jiani's account instead of his wife's, refuses to bring Jiang Yan in, and when a doctor is needed he sends him to treat the boy first. Jiang Yan loses the baby.
He learns the truth afterwards. Jiang Yan asks for a divorce, he apologises, and she gives him another chance, and he spends it shopping for clothes with Zheng Jiani and her son. She hits him in front of everyone and walks out. Later she arranges a burial for the child she never met. Xu Shuo comes after her, and he brings the two of them with him.
The Royal Flame: Secrets of the PalaceJason Ritchie was wounded while assassins chased him and was dosed with an aphrodisiac. He spent a night with Wendy Young and promised to marry her. He left because he did not want the men hunting him to reach her, and by the time he came back she had gone. Wendy refused to abort the pregnancy and raised their son Joe on her own.
Jason travelled back to the palace with the empress dowager for a blessing rite, and Joe turned up along the route. A blood test confirmed the boy was Jason's, which unsettled the ranking of the court. Wendy took work inside the palace to pay for Joe's medicine. Helene Johnson, jealous of her, pushed her into harder and harder positions, locked Joe up and set fire to a disused palace hall with the two of them inside.
Fate Takes a U-TurnRyan and Isabella used to be together. Years after they separated they met again, and the old feeling came back at once and they spent the night together.
Once that passed, each of them realised the other was engaged. Guilt set in. Ryan kept coming after her and Isabella kept backing away, and the distance between them grew.
Then they found out who their fiancés were. Each had been engaged to the other.
DemonbaneApricot Blossom Village lies in country where people and demons live within reach of each other, and it keeps a demon slayer to stand between them. The slayer is Nathaniel Reid. The villagers turn against him and his wife betrays him, and a fox demon from the Emerald Hills sets a trap that leaves him near death and sealed away. He breaks the seal, comes back, exposes the demons' plot and kills the ones who did it to him.
While he is doing that he finds demons being kept as slaves by humans. "People and demons are the same kind of life," he says. He frees them and joins with a half-demon girl against the demon king, who was behind the plot against him.
Bound in Your Glided CageFor three years Adriana was Nathan's lover, and the two of them kept it out of sight of everyone they knew. She then agreed to marry another man. Nathan lost his hold on himself over it and fixed on her.
Bound to the DevilOn her wedding day, Cassie Yate enters the Cloud Sect's forbidden ground to obtain the Heart Lotus for her dying fiancé Jacob Lambert. The emergency is a trap arranged by Jacob and Cassie's sister, and taking the relic unleashes spirits and frees Leo, the Demon Lord sealed for a century. Bound to Leo by a life-and-death pact, Cassie returns to face a tribunal and Jacob's open betrayal—until the demon she released arrives to save her.
Farewell my loverMia was an orphan. She took a bullet meant for a boy named Ryan, and the two of them were separated afterwards.
Ten years later Ryan is the heir to a family fortune and goes by Edward. Mia is living under the name Amelia. To save her sister she agrees to marry him, a marriage the families push through while they are fighting over the inheritance. Edward has no idea who she is and treats her badly. They go through a long run of misunderstandings before he works out that Amelia is Mia. Old promises and arrangements nobody told them about come out along the way, and the two of them end up working together against the people scheming for the estate.
Sorry, I'm a Hidden Heiress!Sophia Song is the daughter of the richest family in the city, and through seven years of marriage she never told her husband, Daniel Koe. She gave everything to the household and asked for nothing back.
Daniel's mother kept driving at him about Sophia. He believed his mother, and from then on he and their son hurt Sophia over and over. Sophia stopped trying with them. She took their daughter and left the house on her own.
Daniel found out afterward who she was and what his mother had been doing, and he started going after her to bring her back.
What? General Was a Bandit?Nobles in the imperial court held the grain stores and used them against the throne. General Yang Jian took his troops to Han Yang Cun, a place where rice could be grown, to break the hold on supply. He lived among the villagers as an outlaw and passed himself off as a bandit chief. In a famine year he handed out grain to feed them.
The next year the harvest was good. The villagers went to a senior commander and worked out a way to draw Yang Jian away from his camp. While he was gone the camp was attacked and many of his sworn brothers were killed. The emperor was touring the south at the time and stepped in. He punished the villagers, and for Yang Jian's service he granted him a princedom and a marriage to a princess.
Kill Me I'll Take the ThroneThe order for the execution of Aurelius is a test. Emperor Zenith is dying and has not decided which son should follow him. He lets the court see him favour his second son and sends a death edict to his eldest to set the two camps against each other and find out what Aurelius does with it.
Aurelius has just transmigrated into the body of the Summerian eldest prince, who has spent five years guarding the border, and the edict reaches him there. He commands the army on that frontier and cannot see how anyone expects to execute him. He does not know his father is counting on that. He marches the army back to the capital, kills the traitors at court, and claims the throne.
Trust Me or DieCassie Yates drives out to a villa in the forest with her boyfriend and her closest friend. On the way she falls asleep and dreams that the two of them betray her, and that everyone in the group is swallowed by an enormous python. She wakes up and tells herself it was a nightmare. Then she finds a shed snakeskin, far too large for anything that should be in those woods, and the rest of the dream starts arriving in order. She warns the others. Nobody believes her, and they go on with the holiday while she works alone in the cellar, stocking it and getting it ready. The python comes. The people who run have to run for their lives, and the ones who listened to Cassie are shut in the cellar with her.
Dragon Empress RisingKate Austin, daughter of the Dragon King, grew up alongside Marcus Jefferson, who later became the Celestial Emperor. The two were betrothed as children. Then Marcus's mother was killed, and he came to believe the dragon clan had allied itself with the demon clan and was responsible, and he cast Kate aside.
A thousand years pass. The Dragon King's lands are invaded and he is imprisoned. Kate disguises herself as a celestial lady and slips into the heavenly court to free her father. A love curse throws her and Marcus together for a single night. Afterwards he takes her for a traitor and has her chained at the platform where heaven's punishments are carried out. Kate learns she is pregnant, and that the child is divine. The woman who imprisoned her father then tries to have Kate killed as well.
The Boy from Another PlanetSomewhere beyond Earth there is a planet whose people have powers. A woman from that planet had a son with a man from Earth, and the boy, Atlas, is six now and has never met his father. He gets into enough mischief that his mother worries about what he will do to the planet, so she sends him to Earth, telling him it is training for a future as a guardian of the galaxy and that he can look for his father while he is there. He takes one photograph with him, part of it burned away.
On Earth he wakes a man out of a coma. The man is Gavin Gandy, the CEO of a company that is in trouble, and Atlas uses his powers to get him through the crisis. A hidden enemy, Dylan Chips, hunts the two of them. By the time Atlas's powers are nearly used up and his life is in danger, Gavin finds out that the boy is his own son.
No Cup, Just Smash!Ethan Walker used to play table tennis for the national team. Now he pushes a mop around a southern squad's facility and wants nothing more than that. He gives one piece of advice to a young player, the young player uses it at a national event, and suddenly people know who is holding the mop. They come looking for lessons. He runs. A friend sends him to Cloud Paddle Club, which is nearly finished as a going concern and happens to be hiring a head coach, and the director hands him the job on sight. The members do not accept it. Then the provincial selection is moved up, they are not ready, and they wash out of the first two rounds. Ethan's student Sun Yang wins his match, and Sun Yang's beaten opponent's coach, Pan Long, jumps him afterward. Ethan gets there first and puts the whole room on the floor without effort, which settles the question of the coaching job. He teaches them everything he knows and takes the club into the national north-south championship, where the northern squad pushes them to the edge. While everyone is still celebrating, he packs and goes without telling anyone.
No Net Ensnares MeSerena Scott was ten years old when she watched her mother go off the side of a building. Her mother survived the fall and did not wake up again. Serena stopped speaking after that day and has not spoken since. Eight years later she finds account books her father and her stepmother kept between them, and the entries do not match the account of the fall she was given. She studies business on her own without telling either of them. She takes what she has found to Martin Hale, and between them they establish that her mother's technology was taken and is now being used by the company her father runs. A takeover follows, to be settled at a shareholders' meeting, and her mother wakes from the coma before it is held.
Ring of EpochExtreme weather sweeps the planet and human civilization comes close to collapse. Survivors living in the future set up the Guardian Program and select Daniel Mills as the key figure in it. Daniel owns a ring handed down through his family. Inside the ring is a space with no limit, and the survivors treat it as the last resource they have.
A commander named Nora directs Daniel from a hundred years ahead of him. On her instructions he sees through a deception, keeps the ring out of other hands, and gathers supplies for the survivors around him. Misunderstandings and setbacks slow him. Two friends and a woman fighter join him. Nora later crosses the hundred years herself to work at his side, and the group starts building a shelter for the survivors.
Trophy Husband No MoreVincent Grayson was chairman of the Summit Group, and his wife does not know it. He set the company aside, kept the position from Stella Whitmore, and stayed home as a house husband, raising their daughter and putting his money and connections behind Stella's business until she was one of the best known women in the region. It cost him his career and his power, and the identity that went with them.
Then Stella starts mentioning a colleague, a man she calls her best friend, more and more often when she talks. At the party for her company's success Vincent watches the two of them kiss in a party game, in front of everyone in the room. After the party he decides to strike back at the two of them.
Last Gift to My Love-Hate FamilySeven years ago there was a fatal hit-and-run, and Zane Sterling said he had been driving so his younger brother Hunter Sterling would not be charged. His fiancee Diana Archer took the stand against him. His parents, Tyler Sterling and Claire Shaw, said nothing while he was sentenced. In prison Zane worked on controllable nuclear fusion technology, and the National Science Institute took notice of what he produced. He came out to find that his family had never intended to have him back. He put up with being hurt by them again and again before deciding to leave them behind.
He Who Draws, RulesFacing execution inside his own comic, Lucien Von discovers that his drawings can become real. He turns the pen toward invading armies and court conspiracies, protecting the Empress as he rises in power. Yet awakening in a psychiatric hospital before a doctor identical to his dead fiancée throws the reality of that entire world into doubt.
Nice to Meet FatherEmily Warren wanted to be with her father again, and for twelve years that was out of reach. She had been parted from him when she was small so that he could go back to the Warren family and be treated for cancer, and she had been sent to live with her uncle. Her uncle's family put her to work as a servant, mistreated her, and otherwise ignored her, and she said nothing about any of it to anyone.
She studied on her own and came first in the national college entrance examination. Her father had recovered by then and was running a company as its chief executive, and he had been looking for her the whole time. When the exam results were published, details in them matched what he knew of his missing daughter, and he went after the lead. Her uncle's family had a plan of their own. They intended to send their daughter to university under Emily's name and to pass that daughter off as the lost child.
Back to Win It AllNathan Chandler is divorcing Elise Rowan. He has been through this marriage once already. He and his daughter Lila died because of what Elise did, and he woke up back in the 1990s deciding to live only for himself and Lila. With what he remembers of the years ahead, he becomes a name in investment. An invitation to speak at a business conference in Southmere puts him in a room with Elise and her first love, and they goad and humiliate him before anyone says who he is. Lila does the matchmaking that brings his old friend into their household, and the three of them make a family.
Until My Vengeance ComesIn Cher Gould's class, how a child is treated comes down to what the other parents believe her family is worth. Cher's mother, Leah Gould, is married to a CEO and has kept that quiet since Cher was small, so her daughter would have an ordinary childhood. The other children take the family for poor and bully Cher over it.
Fiona Liam, whose son is in the same class, puts herself forward at the school as the CEO's wife, using Leah's name. She brings other parents and several teachers in with her, and the bullying widens to include Leah. Leah goes after each of the people who had a part in it, one at a time. Fiona works out who Leah is only at that point. Cher learns from watching it how to stand up for herself.
Fate Rewritten: Cleaning the RecordYuna Gomez is back at the hotel front desk for a night shift she has already worked once. The first time through, her best friend was careless, the guest in Room 312 had an accident, and Yuna was made to carry the blame although none of it was her fault. She has woken up on the same night with the chance to do it over, and she goes through every detail she can think of to stop the accident before it happens.
Things go a different way anyway. While cleaning the room she finds the music notebook that the guest, Luicy Smith, left behind. The notes written in it are wrong, and there is a secret coded into the mistakes. It leads her to a wealthy heiress, and from there to her best friend and to her own husband. The surveillance footage has been altered as well. Yuna works through the falsified records and the people who have her wrong, to clear her name and get at what happened in that room.
My Daughter Called Me a Liar!A development group has scheduled Thomas' courtyard house for demolition, and his nephew has already sold it to them behind his back and kept the compensation money. Thomas has lived there for twenty years waiting for his daughter Sherry, who was lost in an accident when she was small, in case she ever came back to the address.
He goes to the company to ask that the house be spared and is put in front of the chief executive, Lily Lewis. She takes him for a swindler and treats him accordingly. Thomas sees his daughter in her face, but the ginkgo leaf token that would have proved it is missing, and what he says to her is not believed. The demolition machinery arrives at the house.
Tender Cage of a SpouseOur team took to the streets of SF to see if we could make a random match happen! Our eligible bachelor, Mubarak, struck out on his first two blind dates of the day. So, is it true...is third times the charm, or is Mubarak straight out of luck when it comes to love?
The Godslayer Wants My LoveImmortal Master Jace ran a palace and took disciples. When Kiara, an ordinary mortal, came to him wanting to cultivate her way toward immortality, he fell for her at first sight and pressed her to marry him. She refused him and fled to hide with her clan. Jace killed the entire clan, including her family, to force her back, then shut her up in his palace like a caged bird.
She was pregnant and still would not accept him. He left to look for a herb for the pregnancy. Before going he took on a new disciple, Yasmin, who looked like Kiara, and treated her as a substitute. Yasmin believed she was the one he wanted.
The disciples did not know who Kiara was. When Yasmin came to the palace with them, they took Kiara for someone trying to seduce their master, and they tortured her.
Dumb Monk ConquerBernard Ford saves a girl and finds out she is his granddaughter. He goes with her to Skyward Sect, which his daughter Valerie runs, and Valerie does not recognize him. He has been away since she was ten. Her mother died young, the family on that side had him down as the useless son-in-law, and he went off to learn martial arts and has only now come back. His master let him go with a warning against misusing what he had learned.
Valerie is under siege. Her uncle, her mother's brother, wants the sect for himself, the disciples are weak, and the sect's name sits at the bottom of the rankings. Bernard sets about defending it and moving it up the list.
(Dubbed)Rebirth in Blood and MoonlightBetrayed in her past life, Emma Shawn chooses to be a widow rather than a bride, defying her ruthless family and burning her own wedding gown. But when the whip falls, the ‘dead’ General Oliver Sterling returns with a royal decree. Who is this woman truly mourning? And why does the Emperor himself watch their every move?
A God in a Fool’s FleshThe soul of Titan Gustin, the legendary Martial God, awakens within the body of Aaron Stone, a lazy, weak and ridiculed noble. Aaron then begins to tap into godly power as he dominates the Martial Alliance trials. But when another "Martial God" emerges, threatening his destiny, Aaron must uncover the truth and reclaim what is rightfully his—or he will remain trampled on as a "spoiled heir".
GOAT? I Just Got HereWord travels through the martial world about a master nobody can name, someone whose presence unsettles the strongest fighters in it. The man behind the talk is Ethan Carter, who was working as a security guard until he woke up somewhere with swords and sects and no explanation of how he got there. The reputation reached him before he had worked out where he was.
Everyone treats him as unbeatable and he does not know why. A duel on Mount Hua is coming, the sect he has ended up in is counting on him to save it, and the masters around him resent a standing he never claimed. He keeps misreading what is going on, and the trouble that follows comes out of that.
Carom on CallFelix Lawrence has a wife, a quiet life and no standing anyone can see, until two men turn up with a billiards challenge and an audience for it. His master had turned on him three years before, and the memory of everything up to that point went with it, so he does not know what he is walking into. The memory comes back during the match, and with it the fact that he was the masked champion of the game.
He beats them. The setup behind the challenge comes apart in public once he starts naming the parts of it. The Sovereign holds a banquet for his return and puts him across the table from the Aravian side's billiards champion, and he takes that one as well. Aravian forces have been assembling quietly through all of it, and what he picks up at the banquet goes to the people who need to know about it.
Drown With My Foster BrotherStella Lowry's parents were framed and sent to prison. She stayed on in the house of the powerful man who had taken her in as a foster daughter, because it was the only way to get near the truth, and she took the family name's real heir as an enemy. The heiress made her life there difficult enough that Stella went to her last option, which was Myles Foster.
Myles was known as untouchable, a man who kept away from women, and he agreed to help her clear her family. Stella planned every move. Myles put up his own defences and laid his own traps, and she fell into the feeling he had built around her without noticing it happening. "Brother, hold me," she said, going into his room, and he turned her down cold at first. The closer they worked, the less either of them could keep lying about it, and he began breaking the rules he had lived by. When what she felt and what she had come for collided, Stella had to decide which one she was there for.
Bye, Toxic In-Laws!Donna Blake arrives at her wedding expecting a home and finds the doors barred while her in-laws withhold promised payments, invent new demands, and pressure her into a prenup that strips away her rights. She abandons the ceremony, takes her child, and reclaims the identity she hid as the city's richest heiress. The grasping family loses the fortune it thought it was extorting when Donna decides she no longer needs their name.
Karma Strikes My Wicked Ex-HusbandZoey Shaw keeps his wife under a love curse. Under it Muriel Jones hands her parents' inheritance over to his family to spend, and she waits on them, and on his mistress, like a servant. The mistress is Yvonne Fraser, Muriel's best friend, and she and Zoey are working out how to take the whole Jones estate for themselves. The plan comes close to killing Muriel.
A lawyer, Barry Simpson, helps her break the curse. He has been through all of this once before. In that earlier life he watched Muriel, whom he had loved in secret for a long time, die badly in front of him, and this time he intends to save her. Muriel goes on acting as though she still loves Zoey while she puts a plan of her own together with Barry and his aunt. The plan is built so that Zoey and Yvonne are caught by their own doings.
Wearing My WarpaintGeneral Matilda Jones survives her emperor's betrayal because her husband gives his life to protect her and their unborn child. Hiding in a border city months later, she is asked to lead its militia but has lost the will to command. A northern invasion and the townspeople's desperate resistance force her to confront what is still worth fighting for.
God in Baby: Tears First, Blood LaterThe Martial Gold God has been sent down to the mortal world for a trial, and he comes to in the body of Barry Sullivan, a boy from a family that somebody set up. The father has dropped out of the picture, and Barry's older sister has been carrying the Sullivan martial arts school by herself. Barry goes back to the school to get her through it.
There he finds that the Sorcerer Tribe has already worked its way into the ordinary world and is getting ready to bring the Demon Lord back to life. If that happens the world goes up in hellfire. Barry sets the powers he brought down with him against the tribe. Its chief sorcerer is strong and does not let go of the plan.
She Loved in SilenceJane Lopez was born deaf and had polio at three, which put her in a wheelchair. Her mother May Stone has raised her alone since, working delivery routes to keep the two of them fed, and Jane has leaned on that care for her whole life. Just before Jane turns eighteen, May is diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer and told she has months. May's response is to stop being soft. She becomes hard with her daughter, pushing her toward doing things alone, refusing the help she used to give without being asked, because the point is to have Jane able to survive in a house with nobody else in it. Jane has no idea why her mother has turned cold. She reads the new sternness as rejection and pulls away, and the distance between them keeps widening while May keeps at it, running out of time to explain.
Back to 3025: The Young Fist Beats AllDaniel Tann wakes twenty years in the past as an eight-year-old, carrying the fighting skill of his future self into the virtual arena under the name Nameless. After defeating its strongest AI, he takes on elite human fighters and a former world champion, but his greatest bout comes when an underworld tyrant abducts his father and threatens the family gym.
She Fights, She RisesSelene Wren wants her standing in the Wren family back, and her mother's with it. Her mother has been demoted to a servant in the household. Selene had been the best martial artist in the family, born with the Pure Sun Body, a constitution that turns up once in a hundred years, until an accident made her absorb fifteen hundred years of cultivated energy from her master. Her body took it in and she became fat. Her relatives mock her, and her fiancé broke off the engagement in front of a crowd. Only her mother and her sister still treat her with any warmth.
Selene decides to enter the entrance tournament of the Heavenly Sect and win it. Her opponent there turns out to be the man she once spent a night with, and he sees through what she is doing. She places low in the rankings, but her master notices that she is carrying far more power than she shows. A hostile family then attacks her, and while she is close to death the stored energy breaks loose. Her meridians open, the extra weight comes off her, and her strength rises far past what it was, without her yet knowing how to control it.
Endgame on BoardSaving her father takes Hannah Green from an ancient Go puzzle to a match against undefeated legend Drake Falcon. Her victories over established players challenge their contempt for her, but the stakes extend beyond reputation. Her father's soul becomes part of the decisive contest.