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He's Done Letting Her GoLiu Xu has unusual physical strength. She was engaged to a man she had grown up with, and on the day of the engagement he handed her over to someone else. Rong Yanyun stepped in at once. He runs his company and had been waiting fifteen years for her.
They registered the marriage. He said love words out loud wherever they went and showed her off without holding back, to the point that people around them got goosebumps and the marriage became something everyone knew about. The former fiancé came back afterwards in tears and asked her to return to him. She produced the marriage certificate and said, "Sorry, I'm already married."
X-Ray Eyes, Billionaire RiseLincoln Cross was walking across campus with no money in his pocket when Audrey Sterling, whose father owns the company the campus is named after, hit him with her car and put him in the air. He got up with X-ray vision. He did not test it quietly. He used it in front of people, several times, and the effect on the ones watching was immediate. A man who can see through anything is not a curiosity. He is a way to know which stone is worth buying and which safe is worth opening. Vera Blackwood came looking for him, the heir to a criminal outfit that has been in the city for generations. Blair Leighton and Amber Collins turned up too, sisters who work as a pair and can between them get into most rooms in town. So did Audrey, who had knocked him down in the first place and now had a reason to keep track of where he was. All of them arrived at the same conclusion at roughly the same time, which is that a walking god of wealth is worth holding on to.
My Sisters Made Me RichVictor Hayes delivers food for a living, and after four years with Yulia Wilson he proposes to her in a public square. She turns him down on the grounds that she intends to marry into money, then walks over to Theo Woods of the Woods group and joins him in mocking Victor. Nine women pull up in luxury cars and take Victor's side. Jessica Lewis, daughter of the richest man in the city, hands him the keys to a Rolls-Royce and announces in front of everyone that she will be his girlfriend. Victor goes back at Yulia and Theo, then follows the women to their villa and learns they are his god-sisters. His father Fenglio had nine highborn women pursuing him; they became Victor's godmothers, and their daughters became his sisters. Living at the villa, Victor works out that the cheap bracelet he bought off a street stall shows him things before they happen and drops the knowledge he needs into his head at the moment he needs it. Jessica signs over a company worth a billion to him, and he uses the bracelet to find the holes in how it is run and to head off a kidnapping planned for a product launch. He beats a rival for Kang Qing on a racetrack, outbids Bai Youran at an auction for a jewel that clears up a fake-necklace scandal, and takes a technology prize that wrecks a Bai family scheme. The sisters grow attached to him. His grandfather starts pressing him to marry.
Rise of the Thug 2: Power CourtTừ Mục, người xuyên không đến thời hiện đại, mang tiền bạc vào cung để được kẻ gian tin tưởng, phối hợp với Viên Thao âm thầm thanh trừng gian thần, bảo vệ triều đình. Sau khi Viên Thao giao lại việc cai quản cho Viên An, Từ Mục được phong làm quan tước một phẩm, trợ giúp Viên An, nhưng bị nghi kỵ và giáng chức thành dân thường. Khi thấy Viên An muốn hòa thân với Bắc Địch, Từ Mục phẫn nộ từ quan, dẫn quân lên biên giới, dùng thân phận dân thường bảo vệ non sông đất nước.
Start of MeWhat becomes of us when fate ends?
Chloe Lynn, a betrayed housewife, but hidden beneath is a top scientist. Jensen Shaw, CEO of Apex Group, self-absorbed to the core.
Fifteen years of marriage shattered the moment. Betray and mistress. She will no longer hide who she is. Will they reconcile? Or will she rise from the ashes and start her new life?
Contract Bride? True Revenge Partner!Dong Xiaoxiao and Qin Ye marry on a contract. He is the heir of the Qin family, she needed to be inside their house, and the terms covered what each of them wanted out of it.
Her mother died years earlier and the account of that death never held together, which is what she is there for. She has intermittent mutism and keeps it hidden, letting the household take her for a girl who cannot speak at all. Her younger sister works against her from the first day. So does Qin Ye's elder brother Qin Yu, whom the family treats with respect and who has his own designs on what the Qin name is worth.
They get through one crisis after another together, and what is between them stops being only the contract. A jade pendant handed down in the family and an old diary come to light, and the two of them start putting together who was standing behind her mother's death.
Mr. Cupid in Rags' PaybackMr. Cupid wants a wife, and being a god he cannot simply go and find one, so his mother pushes him down into the mortal world to do it. He goes as a beggar. At a temple fair he meets Hazel Zane of the Zane family, and through a run of misunderstandings the two of them are married.
They live poorly. The Zanes see a beggar in the house and treat him as one, beating him and pressing Hazel to marry someone else. Hazel stays. At a birthday banquet Mr. Cupid comes back with a gift out of heaven and is laughed at as a beggar carrying trinkets, and he lets his power show. Her father will not back down even then, and his mother comes down after that.
A Dragon Tamer in a Dragonless WorldA Dragon Tamer works through a contract with a dragon, and there has not been a dragon anywhere for more than a hundred years.
At the graduation ceremony where each student's class is called out, mine came back as 3S, Dragon Tamer. 3S is the top rank and almost nobody awakens one, so everyone in the hall treated it as the result of the day. There is nothing left for me to sign a contract with.
Bye, Ex! He's My True Love!Wen Yu became the vicious Ji Xun’s fake fiancée for her boyfriend’s surgery fees, aiming to earn his disgust. Framed by Jiang Yueying, misunderstood by Ji Xun, she ended up in prison. After the truth emerged, Ji Xun time-traveled to make amends but found her heart taken. Jiang Yueying was punished, Wen Yu married her recovered boyfriend, and Ji Xun died of brain death from time travel, doomed to eternal regret.
Her Silence Broke His WorldA stepmother and a stepsister announce a pregnancy in public before the woman carrying it has told anyone, and then press her to end it. The woman is a college student who was working a temporary job at a hot spring hotel. One night there she ended up in bed with a guest who had been drugged, the richest man in the city. Nothing was said between them and she did not learn his name. He left behind a bracelet and nothing else.
She keeps the pregnancy, which turns out to be twins, and gets by on her own. She needs money for the birth and goes to sell the bracelet, and while she is doing that she runs into the man's grandmother, who recognizes it. A paternity test settles that the twins are his. She is given a job at his company and the two of them grow close there. His family spreads lies about her and she is dismissed. He gets to her in time. After that the stepmother puts her in danger and she is pulled out of it.
Return to Claim HerAdrian was the eldest son and heir of the Vaughn family. He died in a fire while traveling. His widow, Helen, took the family seal and ran the business. The elders of the family did not want a woman in charge and said so, and the fight over control got worse. Helen ignored the talk.
At the funeral Adrian's younger brother Nathan turned up. He had been missing for years. He came in carrying Adrian's will and the family token, and said that everything had been left to him and that he was the rightful heir. Nathan's face was the same as Adrian's, down to the last detail. His arrival began to bring out things about how Adrian had died.
Her Silent VengeanceSerene Gibson grew up as the daughter of General Ryker Gibson. Her uncle Stanley Gibson arranged the deaths of her parents, and she was taken into his household. She looked very much like her dead mother, so Stanley kept her confined near him, and her aunt and cousin beat and humiliated her. Her grandmother's protection kept her alive, and she behaved as though she had accepted her place.
What she wanted was the blood debt paid. At her cousin's wedding she showed what she could do, and the head of the shadow guards, Herrick, noticed her. To reach the throne room she needed standing, so she took lessons from the music master Song Jing, worked at the zither until she was granted the title of musician, and used it to get close to the court. She made an ally of Herrick and worked with Herric Xi as well, taking apart her uncle's arrangements a piece at a time.
Her father had left behind a secret about a salt mine. Serene used it as bait, and it drew out proof that the marquis had been dealing with the enemy. Her uncle's madness, her aunt's plotting and her foster brother's interference all stood in the way. The last of the evidence turned up in Longxian, on the frontier.
Fated to Misunderstand, Destined to LoveSeven years after their wedding was destroyed by family betrayal, Chloe must turn to the only surgeon who can save a child: her ex-fiancé Calvin, now a brilliant but resentful doctor. With a life in his hands and a broken past between them, will he choose revenge… or redemption?
Hidden Among Them, Ruler of AllWilson Slade is the heir of the Raphael Valley. He comes down the mountain to marry a woman of the Lamb family. The marriage is the treatment for the Nine Yang Severed Meridians he has.
The woman he is engaged to tears up the marriage contract in public and refuses the engagement. His master's instruction stands, so he marries a different woman of the Lamb family, Winona Lamb.
Other people are searching for Yama, the King of the Underworld, who has come down the mountain to find a match. Wilson is the man they are searching for, and to them he is a poor young man they look down on.
Yikes! Hubby Poisoned Me for Dough!Shen Shuyao, the first woman CEO in Beijing, is at an auction when she comes across her husband Gu Junci with Su Ruoxi, a college student whose studies Shen Shuyao has paid for over many years. The two are having an affair. He is there with her money and a family heirloom. Gu Junci has also been slowly poisoning her for a long time so that the family property will pass to him. Shen Shuyao lets him believe it is working. She pretends to be ill and hands the company over to him. He announces that she has died. The will that then comes out leaves everything to the country.
The Exiled Heir ReturnsThe five women Xavier Nolan's master gave him as a reward were there to kill him. The Dread Queen handed them over before he had finished his training, and their orders were to strike once he was far enough into his pleasures. Xavier had drilled that kind of feeling out of himself long before. One of them threw herself at him and said "Come on," and he knocked her out with a slap, then went at the other four until all five were down. His master took it as proof and made him the valley's number one assassin.
He came down the mountain afterwards and ran into Dark Dragon ninjas chasing Tessa Romano, who had already been poisoned. She caught hold of him and asked him for help. He gave her a cold look, pushed her off and kept walking.
What? My Kidnapper Is the True Heir?The port city is run by one man, and the Winters family has promised their daughter Evelyn to his adopted son. Evelyn has been raised to be obedient and has spent years doing whatever her relatives decide for her. Lucas Shaw grew up in a small repair shop in town and drifted into petty theft. He breaks into the Winters house on the night of Evelyn's engagement party and ends up taking her hostage by accident.
Evelyn goes along with it. She helps him get clear of the house and then makes him an offer. "Kidnap me at my wedding," she tells him, meaning the wedding her family has arranged with the adopted son. The two keep running into each other after that. Lucas turns out to be the son the man who runs the port lost years ago and has been searching for ever since. Evelyn, for her part, begins pulling away from her family's control. There are schemes, a betrayal, and scattered memories to get through. Together they face the fiancé, both families, and what happened in the past.
My Ruthless Protection, Her Endless Hatred?Yvette has lived in Joseph's house for three years and has hated him for the whole of that time. Joseph belongs to the family that runs the top gang in Yuncheng. He walked into the party held to celebrate her university admission, announced to the guests that she would be marrying him, and by the end of that night her father had been shot. Yvette holds Joseph responsible. Her stepmother Mary had arranged for Yvette to be poisoned at the party. Joseph knew about the plan, went there to stop it, and afterward let the blame for the shooting rest on him. He moved Yvette into his house and kept her there.
A woman named Vivian, who looks enough like Yvette to be taken for her, comes to live in the house. Not long after, Yvette is badly hurt, and then she is gone. Joseph goes through the city looking for her. What took place on the night of the party begins to come out as he searches.
My Top Doctor Stole My HeartCharles Summers drives race cars for a living and has an erectile problem he has told nobody about. He books an appointment with Joseph Johnson, an andrologist, and Joseph wants him from the first consultation. Joseph keeps the treatment going longer than the condition requires, using the appointments as a reason to see him week after week, and the two of them start sleeping together without telling anyone. Charles's family has a marriage arranged for him and expects him to go through with it. Joseph works on the people standing between them, pushing aside the ones who object and cutting off the arrangement his family made. Charles stops resisting the situation and accepts what it is. They keep the relationship hidden while the pressure from outside builds, and when a crisis breaks over them they decide to say publicly what they are to each other rather than keep hiding, which forces everyone around them to take a position.
The 101st Time I Let GoFiona Simmons and Xavier Stanley grew up together and were a couple from early on. There was a fire. Xavier came out of it holding that Fiona had been there and had not pulled him out.
They married and stayed married three years. In that time Xavier started arguments and filed for divorce a hundred times. Each time Fiona apologised and asked to be forgiven, and the marriage went on.
On the hundred and first filing they went to the civil affairs office together. Outside it one of Xavier's friends put a foot out and Fiona went down, and the friends mocked her out loud while she was on the ground. Her knee was cut. Xavier looked at her, said nothing, and left with them for a party being held to welcome Jenny Simmons back.
Fiona ended the marriage after that. Someone she did not know had put an offer to her, and she took it.
Heartguard Elixir Gone! Time for Vengeance!Her father wanted the money in it. Her mother had spent years developing a heart medicine and meant to give the formula away rather than sell it, and he had her killed before she could. On the way out she left the medicine with her daughter.
That is how the daughter ends up hunted by her own family. A man gets to her before they do and puts her behind him, then keeps her there whether she likes it or not. He knew her when they were children, from one thing that happened between them, and he has held onto it ever since.
She does not remember any of that. What she sees is one more person who wants the formula, so she leaves whenever she can, and he brings her back and tells her again what he feels, and she goes on not believing it.
Contract Lover? His Real Wife！Lena becomes Jan's contracted mistress for a year, and in exchange the money for her father's heart operation is paid.
The family business had gone under through bad management. Her father could not take it and had a heart attack that left him in danger of dying, and the surgery had to be paid for at once. Lena had nobody else to ask.
A year on she finds she is pregnant. Around the same time she hears that Jan is engaged, a match arranged for him.
Love You, Loud and ClearFor five years Violet Sterling let Nathan Payne believe she had been deaf and mute since birth. He was unknown in his field then and she kept it up through the worst of it, and she paid for his studio out of what her parents had left her without telling him whose money it was.
His hearing came back. The studio turned into a company. With that settled he said what he had been holding back: he had never wanted to marry her, and the fiancee who had dropped him when he had nothing was still on his mind. Violet answered him in her own voice. She ended it and took the match her family had arranged for her in childhood, with Ian Grant.
Ms. CEO vs. Mr. Trash Husband 2.0Jiang Ruoxue's husband wakes up one morning with a different person behind his eyes. Lin Xingye is a college student with exams coming and no money, and he comes to in that body, in that house, with the family and the staff taking him for the man he has replaced. Jiang Ruoxue runs the family group and is worth billions.
His first idea is to live off her money and do nothing else. Then he looks into what the man before him had been doing. He finds that the man gambled, took things from the household that were not his, and had been sleeping with Jiang Ruoxue's younger sister, Jiang Yao, who keeps a mild face on in front of everyone.
Jiang Yao comes to Jiang Ruoxue and pushes it in her face. Jiang Ruoxue stops arguing and puts divorce papers on the table. Lin Xingye tears them up, throws Jiang Yao out of the house, and takes Jiang Ruoxue's hand while she is still working out what has got into him. "Honey, don't cry. I'm really not divorcing you." He has no idea yet how he is going to make good on it.
Miss Her After She LeftIris was in love with Caspian and had kept it to herself. She slept with him, and it was her first time. Then she overheard him laughing with his friends about her family and about how poor and plain she was. She walked away and did not look back. Caspian did not forget her. Ten years later he staged a meeting with her. He put one plan after another into motion until the two of them were married. After the wedding she handed him a divorce contract.
What? My One-Night Stand Is the CEO?Pregnant from a fateful mistake, Summer rebuilds her life with the help of her charismatic CEO, Vincent, as love blossoms. On the verge of a dream wedding, their world shatters when a stranger confronts them with a claim that threatens to unravel everything: “I’m the father.”
Crown Princess? No. Game Changer!At the Polo Cup, Cecilia enters without giving her name and plays the match unrecognised. She wins it, and then she says who she is, and the court that had been watching is left staring.
Before that she had been told she had three months to live. She stopped drinking the bitter medicine, dropped the conduct expected of a crown princess, and went at the people who had spent years directing her, her brother among them, and the women of the court, and the Empress. Word of it went through the palace and past its walls.
Adrian, the crown prince, had never paid her much notice. He was there when she came off the field smiling in the sun, and after that he was the one pursuing her. She had meant the whole thing only as a way of spending the months she had left.
The Hidden TyrantSu Yu's mother was murdered when he was five years old, and he knew who did it: the senior lady of the Northern Pacification Marquis's household. To stay alive he spent the next fifteen years playing the useless rich son.
Fifteen years on, the emperor announces a martial tournament to pick a husband for his only daughter. Envoys from three foreign kingdoms enter their princes and mock the court while they are at it. The emperor orders his top warrior, Qin Wu, to sift the young contenders. Su Yu puts Qin Wu on the ground with one punch, badly hurting him, and is let into the tournament. In the arena, once the three princes have beaten everyone else, he goes in and finishes them with another punch. He is named the princess's husband. From inside the palace he works on getting close to the emperor and, with help from his old teacher, starts bringing the chief minister's plots into the open, along with what was done to his mother.
I'm Actually the Last CultivatorIn this world people cultivate toward immortality in stages, and the Tribulation stage is the highest of them. Anyone who has reached it has no equal. Qin Sheng, a Taoist on Ziyun Mountain, reached it long ago.
His master decides his student's character needs work before his pride gets ahead of him, tells him he is an ordinary man, and sends him down the mountain to live among ordinary people as a Taoist priest. Qin Sheng takes this at face value.
In a hidden realm he ends up saving, more or less by accident, a young woman of good family named Yang Qin who is in trouble. She takes him for the Holy Son of that realm and willingly becomes his wife. The two travel together and get into one dangerous situation after another, and he handles each one while still thinking of himself as a run-of-the-mill Taoist. Along the way he comes to think that cultivation is mostly a matter of training the heart. He also begins to notice that his own strength does not match the story his master told him.
Claimed by My Hunter HusbandFreddie is a hunter in Fountain Village. He is built for the work and says what he thinks, and what he wants is a wife and children and a house that is warm in winter. One day he kills a tiger, the next a wolf, and he has been known to slap a man who did nothing but walk past him. Word of that got around the village and no woman there would have him. Hannah, who arrived from the modern day, is the one who offers to marry into his family.
The Love I Could Not SpeakGerard Glover tells Jade Spencer to get close to Philbert Ford, the heir to the Duke of Josville. Philbert is due to marry Sydney Black, and Gerard wants that wedding to fall apart, because Sydney is the woman he loves and he wants her jealous. Jade has loved Gerard for years and goes along with it before she works out that she is only a tool for this.
The arrangement with Philbert stops being an act. Jade and Philbert marry. Gerard is left with his regrets.
Oh No! Their Son's a Billionaire!Yasuko and Shoichi had been married a long time, and Shoichi had dementia, so on the cruise he kept trying to shield her even when he was barely aware of what was happening. The trip was for their anniversary, by ship to Nagasaki. Their son had arranged it and offered the guide, Risa, a promotion for looking after them. Risa saw their plain clothes and took them for poor. She treated another couple in showy fakes as the chairman's parents and pushed Yasuko and Shoichi around, insulting them. Yasuko said nothing at first. Their children Hayato, Haruki and Misaki stepped in. Yasuko and Shoichi owned the largest group in the country.
Reborn: I Married You to SurviveThe term is three years. Lila Miller is dying after a car crash when a System offers to put her back among the living if she can make Jax Sullivan love her inside that window, with deletion as the alternative. Jax is the heir to the gang, and she knows his face from her childhood, when she used to watch him from a distance, though he has no idea who she is.
What Jax has instead is Ava Watson, who he has settled on as the love of his life and who draws attacks from every enemy he has. One of his men picks Lila to stand where Ava stands and take what is meant for her. Lila's condition for the job is that Jax marry her, which puts her close enough to work on the System's task. Over the three years she is stabbed again and again in Ava's place and Jax stays where he was. When the term runs out the System begins the deletion.
Legacy Rewritten: She Turns the TideAudrey Blackwell from the Republican era unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a nine-year-old girl in the modern world. Finding the once-prestigious Blackwell family now in decline, the ancient ancestor becomes the family's young matriarch. Using her vast network of connections from her previous life, she begins rebuilding the family empire and restoring it to glory.
Reborn: I Shatter My Written FateIn her previous life, Meng Yao trusted the Prince of Jin, Mo Jingzhao, and watched her family be destroyed before she died in bitterness. Reborn ten days before her wedding, she allies with Emperor Mo Juncheng to escape the engagement, but when Lin Miaomiao frames her and Jingzhao accuses the Meng family of treason, Yao and the emperor turn each scheme against its makers. The surviving General Meng exposes the accusation, Jingzhao's coup is foiled, and Noble Consort Lin's assassination plots fail; Jingzhao is executed, Noble Consort Lin is deposed, and Meng Yao becomes empress while protecting her family and ruling beside Mo Juncheng in a prosperous era.
Deaf Trash? I'm the Music God!Genius composer Leon lost his hearing saving his girlfriend Yuna but kept writing songs in secret to help her rise to fame. When he heard her mocking his disability, he left in silence. Now he returns as the Music God, shocking the crowd. And she tries to get close, unaware the man she once despised is right before her…
None Shall Escape: Her Revenge Written in JudgmentIn the early years of the Republic of China, with fighting spreading across the country, Yan Qingyi was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her stepsister framed her. Her brother believed the accusation and delivered her to death row himself. She was held in the cold of the prison and came close to dying there. At that point she awakened the inheritance of Ye Hongyu. The power of the three realms gathered in her body, and life and death answered to the tip of her brush, a single stroke enough to end a life. When she opened her eyes the flames of the prison shook. The day of her awakening was the day her stepsister and her brother were made to pay in blood.
I Play the Maid, I Rule in BloodJoanna Wells worked as an assassin and was married to a bodyguard. Nathan Chase was responsible for her husband's death. Joanna took a new name and entered the Chase house as a maid. When Nathan's girlfriend was facing a prison sentence, Joanna took the blame and went to prison in her place, and in return was given the chance to become Nathan's girlfriend herself. After her release she came between Nathan and the girlfriend a little at a time. Nathan had been mistreated by his father as a child. He grew attached to Joanna and cold toward the girlfriend, who fell into despair. A wedding was arranged between Nathan and Joanna. Before it, Joanna and Nathan's private doctor, a man Nathan had always looked down on, set a trap for the ceremony. At the altar Nathan learned who Joanna was.
Widow or Winner? She Wins BigKatherine Taylor wakes up inside a book as a minor character. Her husband is in a coma. The rest of his family is dead, and what remains of the household is her, a younger brother-in-law who spends money and picks fights, and a younger sister-in-law who falls for the wrong men. In the book all of them ruin each other and die, and a fortune worth billions passes to somebody else.
Katherine works out that three things she had always wanted, being beautiful, being rich, and being rid of a husband, have arrived at once. She decides the inheritance is hers and that anyone who goes after her money will pay for it. Then her husband opens his eyes.
You Stole My Home, Not My NameThere is a birthday party at the Sullivan house in Grandia, and the woman being celebrated as Mrs. Sullivan used to be the family's housekeeper. Evelyn Sullivan's mother is in the same house with the name of a mistress on her, and she has been beaten for it. Evelyn's father and her three older brothers stand with the housekeeper and with the housekeeper's daughter. The Sullivan name and the Sullivan estate came down through Evelyn's mother. The father married in.
Evelyn is the one legitimate heir the family has. She puts herself beside her mother in front of the guests, lays out what the housekeeper and her daughter actually are, and has the pair of them put out of the estate. Everyone who had taken a place in that house that was never theirs is punished for it.
No Escape from LoveWhen John discovered that the woman he had slept with the night before was a virgin, he was shocked. She touched his nose five years ago, though, and it felt exactly like the time she did it when he was blind. Their story begins with Nicole saving John after he was involved in a car accident, suffered a head injury, and momentarily lost his sight. He eventually fell in love with her after she took up the duty of caring for him.
My Script to Sweetness: Healing the Villain's HeartOliver Dawson is the villain of a novel, and the illness he carries brings on attacks that nothing settles. Cheryl Becker was partway through reading that novel when overwork killed her. She wakes up inside the book as the minor female character who has her name, and by accident she crosses paths with Oliver. His pain eases while she is near him, so he takes her back to his house and keeps her there to be looked after.
When Cheryl comes round she tries to get out and finds the novel's hero hunting her instead. In the book she was reading, that hero kills her by chapter fifty. She turns back to Oliver, who is the one person able to keep her alive. She knows the whole plot and what every character will do next, and she uses it on the hero, taking one opening after another that the story had set aside for him.
The Demon Lord's Fairy BrideThe man Liz Powell takes for her husband is the Demon Lord, and he is beside her because he wants the crystal heart in her chest. Liz is a flower fairy who read too many romance novels and paid the fortune fairy in spirit stones for a love trial down in the mortal world. She arrives, meets him, decides he is the husband she came for, and gives him everything she has.
He goes for the heart more than once and stops short each time. Living next to her wears the intention down, and he carries the cold poison eating at him rather than cut her open. By the time the two of them are close to something, Liz learns who she has been keeping house for, and that killing her was the plan from the start.
Oops, I'm a Princess!Luna's mother was accused of losing her virginity before marriage. She gave birth to Luna, who was called a bastard, and then killed herself. Luna was left an orphan with no one to claim her.
The Prince Regent took her in and told her she was his daughter, and that nobody but him would be allowed to bully her. The emperor offered to make her a princess. The empress dowager was delighted to finally have a granddaughter, and the princes decided the small thing was their little sister. Luna can understand animals, and she uses it: she wins over the emperor's mother, saves a prince from poison, and gets in the way of a duke's scheming. Ordinary people around the capital start calling her the dynasty's good luck charm.
One Night with My Husband's EnemyHer husband's secretary turns up pregnant and names the father. Qin Suyue teaches traditional Chinese painting and had not known about any of it, and inside a short stretch she has lost the life she was living.
She meets Cheng Junwen at the bottom of that. He is younger than she is and he is her husband's rival. She takes what happens between them for something brief with no name on it, and then he keeps at it until it turns into something else. He protects her without asking anything back, and through the worst of it he is the only comfort she has.
Her family's schemes start surfacing one at a time. With Cheng Junwen behind her, Qin Suyue ends the marriage and puts the family's arrangements out in the open. Old ties between the two of them come out at that point, and she learns the whole thing had been set up long before she walked into it.
My Word Is Law, My Love Is FinalOn her wedding night the groom did not arrive. A stranger entered her room. Her mother-in-law shouted at her, struck her and humiliated her in front of the household. Her husband was cold toward her. His mistress mocked her and talked openly about the relationship. The family then threw her out.
She was a decorated lawyer, which none of them knew. After the divorce she built up her practice, her business and a second relationship. The stranger from that night was the richest man in Yuncheng, a man who had kept his distance from women before. He treated her extremely well and she married him. Later, in court, she found that he was the defendant.
Flip of Fate: From Crumbs to CrownLucy Walker and Cindy Walker grew up in the same orphanage. At Lucy's birthday party Cindy put a knife in her. Both of them died, and both of them woke up on the day the adoptions were decided, with the gold coin and the piece of bread laid out in front of them again.
Cindy moved first and took the coin, which meant the Shaw family and their money. She pushed the bread across to Lucy and left it there, satisfied that she had settled where Lucy would spend her life. Lucy took the bread. What she had wanted was a family, and she got one.
Years later, going by Cindy Shaw, she invited Lucy to a charity gala and put her to work carrying dishes in front of people who mattered. Jacob Shaw, her adoptive brother, made a pass at Lucy and was turned down flat. Cindy and a friend of hers mocked her and ruined the vegetables she was carrying. Then a gift arrived for Lucy, expensive enough that the room went quiet.
In the pulling and shoving that followed, the jade pendant Lucy wore came into view, and somebody said it was the same as the one belonging to the richest family in the country. Nobody in the room would accept that a girl serving dishes could own such a thing. They made her drink, the pendant was broken, and she was about to be handed over to Jacob when her real family walked in.
Miss Schemer vs. Mr. CEOBella carries a list of the people she means to get even with. On it are the richest man in the city and the stepmother of her closest friend. The man's fiancée is the person Bella holds responsible for the tragedy in her past, and that makes him the one she has to reach.
Bella has ability and no money. The friend was born into money and has lost all of it, and the stepmother on the list is hers. The two of them work out a plan under which Bella will make the man fall for her. She is fourteen years younger than he is, and at first he treats her as someone he ought to keep his hands off. She puts everything she has into the attempt, and the two of them go several rounds of bluff and counter-bluff. Over time he begins to give way to her intelligence and her nerve. The gap in money and standing between them is a separate matter, and both of them have to deal with it.
A Little WhisperAnnie is five years old and she can understand what animals say to her. The animals around her tend to know what is happening before the people do.
Landon Hawthorne had money and a habit of taking himself apart, and he had got as far as deciding to end his life when Annie stopped him. He adopted her afterwards and gave her whatever she asked for. She kept him out of things he had no way of seeing coming, because the animals had already seen them. His grandfather was found that way. So were children who had gone missing, and after that a good many other people who would not have got out otherwise. Landon is her guardian on paper, which is what he uses against the adults who come after her.
Fall in Love with my Unknown WifeNoah is allergic to women, and his mother is pushing him to marry. He gets drunk one night and registers a marriage to a woman he cannot afterwards describe, and she cannot describe him either. The next morning he leaves the country. She stays and works to pay for her mother's medical treatment.
A year later he is back and they meet at the office, where she is working as a cleaner and not using her real name. He finds his allergy does not affect him around her, and asks her to be his girlfriend under a contract, partly to spite the marriage he is trying to get out of. They grow close while each of them is still trying to escape a spouse. His mother arranges a meeting for him with the wife he has never seen.
Dumping the Female General?Marshall married Vera Frost's cousin Ophelia while Vera was away, and they had a child together. Vera had spent five years at the front. She comes home to that household and to a marriage that has already been filled by someone else.
Vera does not accept the arrangement. She asks for the separation outright and starts pushing for it against the family. During the fight she meets Prince Alistair, who takes her side, and the two of them spend enough time on the matter that something else grows between them.
With Alistair backing her, Vera breaks the marriage and takes the matter to Marshall's family in public.
Dumped Me Pregnant? Pay Up, Mr. Crazy!Patrick Morrison is sleeping with a painter while Ariel Kelly is living in his house as the woman he has spent ten years saying he cannot do without. He took Ariel in off the street when she was a child, and the ten years since have been jealous ones.
Ariel loses the pregnancy. Patrick does not come, and afterwards he leaves the matter alone. She goes, and she takes her younger brother with her, who has been lying unconscious in a hospital bed. Patrick tries to get her back later on.
The Luck That Saved MeMianbao wants her father, whom she has never seen. Her mother is dead, and the village has decided the girl is a disaster and drives her out. She takes the family token and travels thousands of miles to the city where her father is the Governor, a warlord who has just taken another wife and still has no heir. She walks up to him and says, "Dad, it's me. Your real daughter."
She knows metaphysics and fortune-telling, and luck sticks to her the way it is said to stick to a koi carp. Silver coins start rolling up to the front door, and there is ginseng to be dug on the hill behind the house. The Governor's Mansion had been on course to be wiped out, the whole family with it, and with her reading the signs it gets through one crisis after another. The household takes to calling her its little blessing, and her father keeps her at his side.
Fate's Sweet MarkEvan Wilson is looking for the girl he was engaged to as a child, and she is sitting in his class at business college. Irene Allen was kidnapped at six, lost her memory, and was left at a construction site before the Allen family took her in and gave her their name. She is the Brown family's real daughter and does not know it. Twelve years on, she and Evan meet again, neither of them aware of what they were to each other, and feelings build between them anyway. The Brown family's adopted daughter finds out who Irene is and works to keep her from being recognised, going after both her place in the family and her engagement.
Warning: The Reborn RoyalThe charge against Prince Chase was false, and it came from his own brother, the crown prince. On the strength of it the emperor had Chase and his mother put to death. Chase then wakes in an earlier year with everything he learned at the end still in his head.
This time he knows what the crown prince and the empress intend before they act. A delivery of medicine turns out to be part of a poisoning plot, and he traces it back. At the banquet held for the marriage alliance with the tribes of the north, he brings the crown prince's part in a scheme into the open. A city in the realm is hit by disaster and the price of grain runs out of control. Chase finds a way to hold the price down, and the townspeople come over to him.
The crown prince goes further and makes a pact with an enemy army beyond the border. Chase lays a net for him and waits for the palace banquet where the rising is meant to begin.
Crown Snatched, Queen AscendsSierra, the daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, hopes to become the crown prince's consort. The one she goes after is Julia, whose father, General Wade, died protecting the emperor. After his death Julia's mother Yasmin took her back to their home province, along with a plaque from the court naming them a family of loyal heroes. Eighteen years later Sierra begins tormenting Julia and has the Wade family's ancestral shrine burned. Julia goes to the authorities with a complaint and is jailed for it. Sierra then takes over Julia's identity, is betrothed to the crown prince under Julia's name, and keeps up the persecution of mother and daughter.
At the coronation Julia tries to expose the switch. She is framed for a crime and sentenced to death.
My Ex Is Now My Brother?Nancy and Michael were a couple once, and now they live under one roof as stepsiblings. Nancy was left with relatives as a child and grew up shy and easily hurt. Michael was open and cheerful with her, and she fell for him. Then she found out that her family meant to use the relationship to get money out of Michael, and she broke it off abruptly to keep him clear of them.
Three years later Nancy's mother remarries and brings Nancy to live with her. Michael is the son of the new husband. He still resents the way she left him. He tells her he hates her, though he has not managed to forget her. Nancy keeps what she feels to herself because of the new family tie. One misunderstanding follows another between them.
Lie InheritedIan was the eldest son and heir of his family. Elias arrived with a forged DNA test. He then staged a traffic accident and claimed Ian's driving had blinded him. The family believed Elias and sent Ian to prison.
Ian served five years. On his release he found that his fiancée was carrying Elias's child and that the family still took Elias at his word. He cut off contact with all of them, and in that period he came across evidence of what Elias had arranged. He left to continue his research under his university professor, taking the professor's name instead of his family's. Three years later he came back and laid out Elias's scheme in front of everyone.
Trapped in Love’s Deadly GameThe city Elena left six years ago is still Ryan's city, and the two people who drove her out of it are still there. Back then a woman who wanted Ryan, and a man working with her, arranged for Elena to end up in bed with him. Afterwards they posed as Elena and demanded five million from Ryan to keep quiet about it. Ryan took Elena for a schemer who had sold herself for money. She was pregnant when she disappeared.
Her daughter now has a heart condition and needs an operation. Elena has no money left, so she comes back and asks the man for help, with no idea of his part in what happened. At a pool party she runs into Ryan. The woman announces that she is about to marry him. The man proposes to Elena, which is his way of keeping her away from Ryan, and Elena accepts in order to get out from under Ryan's pursuit.
Then the story of the five million comes apart and Ryan learns what was done six years ago. Elena and her daughter go missing. Ryan finds them at an abandoned construction site, where the woman has already set a trap. She has the girl, and she puts a choice to Ryan between the child and Elena.
The Billionaire's Secret WifeBarrett York is the most powerful man in the city and heads his family. Rachel Sheldon is drugged one night and wakes up in his bed. She finds out she is pregnant and drops out of sight for a year, and he finds her on the day the baby is born.
She hands the boy over to Barrett so the child will have a whole family behind him, meaning to go once she counts her debt paid. Barrett does not let it end there. He sends flowers and puts people around her to keep her safe, and he does not stop. What comes out while he is at it is that Rachel has been living under other names, one of them the hacker called Shadow and another a doctor who works under an alias. Barrett keeps at the pursuit as each one surfaces, and Rachel lets him closer than she meant to.