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My Dog Found the Stolen Wages!52 eps0A rescued golden retriever leads Lin Ye toward treasures and away from danger after his boss steals the construction crew's pay. Fubao's abilities even expose his girlfriend's betrayal, but Lin Ye spends his new resources saving the dog's life in return. With Shen Ya, he pursues the ledger needed to reclaim the workers' wages.They Called Me Spoiled... I Saved the Army!64 eps0At the Northern Frontier, Mira Caldwell is branded a spoiled troublemaker blamed for her family’s fall. In truth, her half-sister set her up. Before famine sparks mutiny, Mira must win the crown prince’s trust and use her agronomy training to feed the garrison. Can she clear her family’s name in time?The Family We Choose30 eps0Blood decides who your family is, but people can choose one. Several strangers have been hurt and abandoned by the families they were born into, and each carries that damage alone until they meet by chance. They start taking each other in, through pain, through loss, through nights when nothing is going well. Prejudice comes at them from outside, and betrayal from closer in, and one hardship follows another. They keep standing together to show that a family you pick can be warmer and more real than the one you were born to.One Night with My Ex's Godfather42 eps0Ava works as a forensic accountant. The night she finds out that her fiancé Ryan and his friends are tangled up in a betrayal, she goes to bed with a stranger, an older man. The next day she finds out who he is. Lucian is Ryan's adoptive father and the head of Black Crown, a crime organization. Ryan humiliates Ava in front of everyone. Lucian takes her side and freezes his son's rights to the family inheritance. Ava then goes into partnership with Lucian to look into her own father's disappearance, which she has come to suspect was a murder, and into 300 million dollars of dirty money. Lucian and Ryan are meanwhile fighting each other for control, and Ava's feelings for Lucian grow while she works beside him. The search turns on three financial keys. Ava and Lucian use them to push the traitors into leaving evidence against themselves.Reborn, I Chose the Fallen Kingmaker42 eps0On the day her trust account unlocks, the daughter of a mafia family is alive again. Her uncle took her shares six years ago, and she was burned alive in a warehouse at the port. She passes over the shareholders who hold power in the family and names a military strategist as her co-executor, and the two of them swear to make the whole family pay for it. He is a man whose fortunes have collapsed, and when she chooses him he is sitting in a wheelchair in a corner of the room.They Fed a Dragon With Stolen Children!61 eps0Imperial Preceptor Giles goes undercover as a mad beggar in Qingzhou to probe a drought plot. With sword cultivator Chance Shenton, he exposes the Qingzhou prefect and Abyssal Sage kidnapping yin-born children in a ritual to steal the nation’s fate. Giles breaks their trap and slays the black dragon, but a larger scheme looms.My Son Left Me, The Mountains Stayed55 eps0Betrayed by his own son, who pays for his mother-in-law's luxury care but not his own dying mother's, Dawson Lynn is pushed to the edge. He rejects all charity, vowing to save his wife himself. To do so, he must return to the treacherous mountains of his past. But will his desperate gamble cost him his life?The Regent’s Bride Who Wouldn’t Die61 eps0After dying in a tragic fate, a timid noblewoman and a powerful lord awaken with a second chance at life. Returning to the day she was sent away, she clings to the only person who can change her destiny. As they uncover betrayals, defeat their enemies, and rewrite their tragic past, an unexpected love begins to heal them both.Spend Fast... Live Longer?50 eps0Mason Chandler delivers food for a living and has run out of ways to get by. He agrees to a deal that trades years of his life for a large sum of money. The money comes with a condition, that he spend all of it before a deadline, and if he misses the deadline he loses the money and his life along with it. He goes through the deal twice and stakes his youth on it. It leaves him aged well past his years and close to death. He then learns that a magnate has been collecting other people's lifespans in secret and refining them into a serum. Mason joins up with Zia Shaw, a hypnotist. The two break into a restricted zone to take his years back and to expose the trade in eternal life that is being run there.My Rental Girlfriend37 eps0A jobless man rents a fake girlfriend online to survive his family's New Year pressure. He expects a quiet, plain girl. She shows up in ripped stockings and attitude. She's not what his parents want. She's exactly what he needs to get through the chaos.Unwanted Mother, Untouchable Princess51 eps0Luna Shaw, who takes in washing on a market street, is the Grand Princess. Her son Gale Lee does not know it. She raised him alone on that work and paid for his schooling. He is ashamed of her poverty. He tricks her out of the jade pendant she keeps on her and pawns it, hires a couple to pose as his parents so that he looks well born, and has her beaten in front of a crowd. An Imperial Commissioner follows the pawned pendant back to her and says who she is. After that Luna cuts the boy off. She closes every road he had to an official post. She then lays a trap that brings Prince Ping and the Duke Protector into the open. The two are behind a kinship claim that is to be settled by a blood test, and behind a plan to force the throne. Luna breaks up both, and then begins the work of clearing out the court.My Rant Summoned an Empire!64 eps0King of Qi Ewan Shaw orders Your Highness Liora Lee’s heart cut out to save his “true love.” Her rant about her Empress mother, God of War brother, Princess Consort sister, and Immortal Sovereign father is livestreamed to them. They strike back at the Kingdom of Qi. As the blade falls, her father descends—can the royal house survive?One Gem, Three Days to Live50 eps0What the geology student wanted, the first time through, was for his roommate to throw away the green stone he had picked up. The roommate called it an emerald. It was uranium mica, and it was giving off enough radiation to kill. The student said so, and the others put him out of the tent, and he froze to death in the open. He wakes up again shortly before graduation, with the stone about to be found. This time he wants nothing to do with it, and he says nothing and watches. The roommate and the friends around him will not give the stone up, and over the days that follow their hair falls out, they cough up blood, and their skin breaks into sores. They accuse the student of conspiring with the professor and the nuclear and chemical defense unit to take the stone from them. He has been recording everything from the start. A laboratory report confirms the dose is lethal and gives them three days. On graduation day the roommate seizes him and holds him as a hostage, meaning to die and take the student with him.Betrayed Bride, Bound to a War God61 eps0Betrayed on her wedding day, Zara Yan is cast into the Demon Abyss of the Nine Hells. She binds God of War Soren with a Life-and-Death Blood Pact and storms back to the Ninth Heaven, exposing her fiancé’s Divine Sovereign façade and the Heavenly Dao’s lie. Now the Eye of the Heavenly Dao unleashes Lightning Tribulation... will they be erased?The Throne Became Her Grave50 eps0Zhao Zhinian owes the throne of Great Qi to Gu Chang'an, the kingdom's war god, and once she is empress she has him condemned to be cut apart in front of the public. His master Li Tai'a, a recluse called the Sword Venerable of the human world, comes down alone, breaks through the troops and the death formation that guards the kingdom, and takes him off the execution ground. Gu Chang'an is ambushed afterward and put under an immortal curse. His will breaks and his faith goes with it. The one who has been directing the empress all along is the Venerable of the Xuantian Sect. Li Tai'a rebuilds Gu Chang'an's immortal bones and takes him into the Immortal Realm after the two of them.I Crushed the Auction of My Daughter's Life58 eps0The girl was sold before her mother got back. The mother had been gone ten years, and in that time her brother took the family property for himself. When the blood of a nine-tailed fox awakened in the girl, he sold her to a Taoist priest, who is keeping her as a supply of blood and means to drain her blood essence at an auction. Behind the priest stands a man whose plans go beyond the girl and take in the great families. The mother is a cultivator of the highest rank, and she has crossed back into the modern world to find the daughter she left behind. She is presented with a girl who has been given her daughter's face, and she nearly accepts her. A peach-blossom birthmark tells her the girl is a substitute. She goes after the real one and gets her out, and then she turns on the man behind the priest.You Called It Ascension, I Call It Murder!31 eps0Gavin interrupts an ascension ceremony with proof that Reverend Azurewood tore out senior disciple Julian Lewis's spiritual root and consumed it. He accuses the reverend of murdering earlier ascendants to refine an immortality potion, destroys the sacred crown, and activates a soul-eating formation. Azurewood's laughter suggests Gavin's exposure has triggered a trap of its own.The Secret Billionaire Baby34 eps0A hardworking single mother collapses from exhaustion and is rushed to the hospital by her little boy. To her absolute shock, the attending doctor is her ex boyfriend from six years ago! Bitter misunderstandings and sarcastic remarks fly, while her innocent son adds to the hilarious chaos. Will this dramatic reunion reignite their lost romance?Escaping The Toxic Family35 eps0Two months pregnant and suffering from severe morning sickness, she just wanted a simple meal. Instead, her cruel mother in law starves her, and her useless husband hits her! Heartbroken and completely shattered, she locks the door, calls her wealthy parents for help, and vows to escape this toxic nightmare. She will make them regret everything!Deep Dive30 eps0A clan of werewolves lives hidden inside a city of neon and nightlife. A string of strange disappearances breaks the ordinary calm of the place, and a woman goes looking for the reason. Her search takes her down into the city's underside, where every clue she picks up points to the same cold, secretive wolf shifter. She cannot tell whether he is behind the disappearances or the only route to whoever is. The line between people and monsters keeps blurring as she goes, and by then she is far enough into the supernatural side of the city that there is no way back out.The Beggar Queen ls the Ancient God55 eps0An abandoned orphan awakens an abyssal bloodline and fights from a slave pit through warlords, knights, and frost marshals. Allied with mortals, she assaults heaven itself and learns that its gods stole the power of creation. She is the true Genesis God, returning to reclaim what the impostors used to rule.The Werewolf Saintess Therapist and her Invirility Superman52 eps0A saintess of pure blood, cold with everyone, is made to treat the cursed wound of a prisoner in a sealed chamber. Touching him wakes the werewolf line in him, which he had kept hidden. Both of them can change shape, and both are being watched by the Elder Council. The two are enemies, and between hunter and hunted, between what they want and are forbidden, and between all of that and the rebellion building around them, the lines stop holding.Revenge On My Husband Who Locked Me in a Container60 eps0Nolan and Mandy's wedding is interrupted by the pregnant wife they sealed in a container and threw into the sea. Marissa Foster survived with help from her brother Charles, who had faked his death to investigate. They arrive with evidence linking the attempted murder to a plan for the Foster fortune and Charles's earlier staged accident.8-POUND BEEF,I'M DONE SERVING YOU!81 eps0Los Angeles, where a chef's Michelin rating is the whole of his career. V had one until an accident took it, and after the scandal he stopped cooking in public and moved into an abandoned back kitchen, working there at night. After closing, with the shutters down, he is given eight pounds of beef shoulder. It is the only ingredient he has to work with. There are no judges to please, no diners waiting, no applause. He cooks the shoulder alone, and while he works he goes back over the rise and the fall, the years when the room was full and the accident that ended them. What he is looking for on that one cut of meat is the thing cooking was before any of the rest of it.Fishing for the Pantheon42 eps0Silas commands a war god, and he uses it to collect taxes by force, raid other islands and strip them. He is one of eight billion people trapped in a sea of fallen gods, where each person gets an island of about twelve square metres and a fishing rod, and he has worked out that the fastest way up is to take what other people have pulled from the water. Ronan is a former combat engineer. He wakes a talent that lets him copy one object a day, and the first thing he fishes out is Thor, which gives him power and the beginnings of infrastructure. After that come Aphrodite, Heracles, Athena and Odin, and around them he builds farming, trade, medicine and a defence force. Silas attacks Ronan's pantheon repeatedly, and every assault ends with resources changing hands in Ronan's favour. Using tactics, illusions and the gods themselves, Ronan pushes toward the core islands and the remains of the titans.The King violent neighborhood45 eps0The man selling barbecue on the street in the ghetto is Horace Vance, the arms dealer known as the Quartermaster. Nobody there is supposed to know that. When thugs come round for protection money, gangs and old enforcers turn up to stand behind him, and he still says nothing, because his son Beau has just finished college and Horace wants him to have an ordinary life. Tony Crowe, a spoiled heir, has no idea who he is dealing with. He steals Beau's project, humiliates his own lover, and abducts Beau along with his friend Nora. He tortures the two of them with homemade explosives and a revolver standoff, then calls Horace and demands money. Horace goes after his son, and the Quartermaster name comes out with him.Don’t Provoke Him,He’s the King of L.A60 eps0Kane Morgan drives for a ride-hailing service. He founded Vertex Capital, and he left it after his eldest son Ethan died, to keep watch on his younger son Liam without Liam knowing. On a rainy night someone tries to take his car and a former subordinate, Victor, turns up, which is when it becomes clear Kane still has men and money behind him. Liam throws a party to welcome Aurora. Damian and his people humiliate him there, and Liam finds Vanessa, who had been engaged to Ethan, in bed with Damian. Liam is taken to a warehouse and learns that Ethan's death was not an accident, that Damian tortured him and killed him. Damian sets up a gambling game with Aurora locked up as the stake. Kane comes through the door.Reborn Heiress:My Ex Regrets Everything53 eps0Serena, the CEO of a large firm, hid who she was during her marriage and funded her husband's company anonymously. She was pregnant when his mistress took a minor injury. He assigned the only medical helicopter to the mistress. Serena and the unborn child died. She is reborn, back at a point after the wedding. She withdraws the anonymous capital from her husband's company. She writes transfer rules for the helicopter that allocate it by actual medical need. Divorce follows, then his bankruptcy, then a funeral, and through it she takes her name and her own life back. What is left is whether he works out who arranged it.HIS SPORES BENEATH HER SKIN30 eps0Mara sells morel flowers and is in the shower when Lucian's blue and gold spores spread over her, and moonlight mushrooms open on her skin. Lucian is the mushroom king who rules underground from the Root Palace, and the mark is the royal one. The whole city can smell it and knows what it means. Her older sister Celeste spent seven years training to become queen, and she wants the spores off Mara. Strangers pile on Mara online. She scrubs at the mushrooms and cuts the threads of them away, and every injury she gives herself lands on Lucian down in the Root Palace. The royal matriarch tries to break the link between them with silver veils that shut out light and with salt rain that kills the roots. Mara finds a warm gold light of her own, makes peace with Celeste, and the two of them go to bring down the Clean Root Tower. Then she goes to the Root Palace to be loved as an equal.The Pit Wall Bastard35 eps0In Formula Apex, a team's founder loses the right to their own name on the entry if someone else pays for the car. Soren was the fastest teenage driver in the series and a strategist, and his brother Cassian took all of it. In a rain race Soren called Cassian's forced pit stop and handed him the win, and he was paid 20,000 for it and pushed out. He used that money to buy the car Cassian had crashed and started the Black Wall team under a bridge. He signed Mika, a top driver the elite teams had dropped, and Rhea, a safety leader who had been banned. They go up against the Platinum team, its money and its AI system, through smear campaigns and sabotage. At the next race in the rain, Soren puts Mika on the outside line to take Cassian.Helping My Village Get Rich Broke My Heart30 eps0He helped his village get rich. Then a rumor turned them against him. When they storm his office demanding their money back and accusing him of betrayal, he realizes the people he trusted most may be his biggest threat. The company isn’t bankrupt yet—but their greed could bring it down first.Marrying Up in the 80s42 eps0Daphne Sue is back in her home village for a dinner, and the people there treat her as someone who has come down in the world. One of them tries to fix her up with a match on the spot. She has been living in the city with her daughter since she divorced her husband. That marriage lasted seven years, she worked herself to the bone for the family through all of it, and she found out he was cheating on her. At the dinner she takes out her gold jewelry, a necklace among the pieces, and tells them she is going to marry the director of the factory. Her ex-husband turns up and makes a scene, and her fiancé gets there in time to protect her.My Best Friend Wants My Compensation35 eps0Cecilia’s cheap rental to Yolanda’s family turns ugly when they demand demolition payout. Her the self-built home lies on the Ecological Conservation Redline, so it can’t be demolished, and she asks them to move out. Yolanda sides with her parents, and a lifelong bond shatters; how far will they go to make Cecilia pay?Don’t Mess With My In-Laws65 eps0A sharp and fearless woman enjoys a peaceful life with her loving in-laws and husband, until a greedy relative’s family begins taking advantage of their kindness. When an old family property dispute erupts, they send back their ambitious heir to claim what isn’t theirs. Calm and clever, she stands up for her family and fights to protect the home they built.A Crash That Changed My Life48 eps0Jenny enters the wealthy birth family and father she has only just found, meeting her sisters' uneasy welcome with calm. Two collisions involving the same car then bring a composed stranger into her path, adding an unexpected connection just as she begins a new family life.PSYCHO GENIUS: The Real Heiress43 eps0Kossa is the biological daughter of the Winthrop family. Penelope, who was raised in her place and passed off as the heiress, set her up, and the family committed her to a psychiatric hospital. No one visited for three years. Her condition got worse there, people called her a monster, and she held on through her cat and her studies. She is released and brought home. Penelope keeps needling her, and Kossa stops absorbing it. Her older brother Tristan finds out what actually happened and takes it badly. At the party held to celebrate Penelope's university admission, Kossa lays out what Penelope did and shows that Penelope's record as a top student was faked. Her own ability comes out at the same time. The Winthrops understand by then that they had spent years loving the wrong girl, and Kossa has already decided to leave and build her own life.Six Thousand Years To Save His Family60 eps0He vanished six months and lived six thousand years. He returns from a war among immortals to find his wife and daughter broken by relatives. His arrival stops a beating mid-blow. His wife rebuilds her dream and walks an international runway with ancient silk revived. Can the family he left behind ever heal?The Double Life of My Mafia Husband55 eps0Three years ago, Raymond spent one night with a stranger. Years later, Alan saves him from a forced matchmaking scheme and offers a marriage contract. As they fall in love, Raymond discovers Alan is that stranger, and his family may be tied to his mother's fatal car accident.Hunter's Prey40 eps0The Vampire High Table exterminates Silas's clan, leaving the last Witcher heir to kill an Elder and flee with half-blood noble Aion as his hostage. Survival forces captor and captive into an alliance against the corrupt Council that ordered the massacre. As trust and attraction grow, forbidden magic links their lives so completely that neither can escape the other's fate.The Expired Fruit King43 eps0At 63, Martin is deemed "expired" by AI and dumped in a compost zone. Armed with an obsolete price gun, he repairs discarded goods and restores their lifespan. With Pip, a hidden royal heir, he builds a market for outcasts, exposes the council's life-stealing scheme, and leads a rebellion to end the "expired" system.The Loser With a Pitchfork Is the Strongest War God55 eps0Everyone calls him a useless live-in son-in-law, but he is the strongest god of war. After being humiliated by his fiancée's family, he breaks off the engagement. When his sworn enemies return and Ragnarok nears, he finally reveals his true power and makes everyone who looked down on him pay.Upgrade30 eps0At fifty-eight, betrayed janitor Jackson inherits a scanner that restores the value of anything dismissed as worthless. Working with a secretive heiress, he applies that gift to corporate corruption and a citywide energy plot, becoming a defender of the people everyone overlooks.HE BURNED MY KINGDOM. NOW HE NEEDS ME.50 eps0After dragon prince Cedric destroys his kingdom, fallen wolf king Damon becomes his prisoner. Bound by a deadly pact, they uncover a vampire lord's plot behind the war. Forced to fight together, hatred turns to forbidden love... but Cedric must spend his life earning Damon's forgiveness.She Let Them Talk, Then Buried Them35 eps0The dispute starts over one parking space in the shared lot of the compound where the heiress lives. She parked her car there. A woman who says she is dating the heiress's brother took the space by force, and when that was questioned she raised a row, brought other residents in on her side, and gave them a version of events that put the heiress in the wrong. The heiress is the daughter of the family that owns the business group and has kept that to herself. The woman's claim on the brother rests on a false identity. Under the pressure the heiress says very little and keeps a record of what is said and done. When she has enough, she lays it out in front of the residents, and the woman's real identity comes out with it, together with the part the others played.Second Chance: Love vs. War41 eps0A woman betrayed and broken in her past life returns to her marriage selection. She chooses a general feared for his "curse" of dead wives. Instead of death, she finds protection, partnership, and love. Her sister steals the man she once loved. She keeps the man who would die for her.Sewing My Way Back65 eps0In 1985, a talented seamstress loses everything after being falsely accused and leaving her marriage behind. Returning home with only her sewing machine, she starts over in an abandoned workshop and meets a wounded veteran. As they heal each other’s scars, she turns her craft into a thriving business and rebuilds the life she thought she lost.Love As Cold As A Cage31 eps0Lin Xi sees university as her first chance to build a life beyond her mother's control, but Lin Guilan keeps dictating every choice. The daughter's resistance hardens into a rupture that leaves both women silent and wounded. Only after seeking comfort from her own mother does Lin Guilan recognize how possessiveness turned love into confinement, opening a difficult path toward listening, respect, and reconciliation.Bandit King System67 eps0A college student wakes up as a broke bandit leader with a broken fortress, a useless sidekick, and a system that gives him missions. He builds farms, walls, and trust, turning a ruin into a stronghold. When war comes, the former student becomes the region's only hope.Righteous Opera Star Crushes Hypocrisy50 eps0A renowned opera master repays her mentor who rescued her decades ago. When her kind teacher is defrauded of his house and reduced to begging by his greedy nephew, she bravely stands out, fights the unscrupulous relative, upholds justice, and defends the precious master-disciple bond.White City's Shadow Blade50 eps0The lord of White City takes a young orphan trained as an assassin and makes her his shadow blade. She serves him, and in exchange he promises to free her after a set number of years. They get through one lethal job after another together, and his real reasons for keeping her stay unclear the whole time. Something grows between them that neither names. As the date of her release comes closer she finds out that the freedom she was promised is a trap that was arranged in advance. There is a conspiracy underneath it. She has to decide whether to go on being his weapon or try to break out, and the cost of breaking out may be her own heart.I Turned into a Dog to Meet My Love56 eps0After transmigrating into a yellow dog, a man gains an evolution system and saves a kind lonely girl. He stays by her side through tough village days, protects her from bullying, and accompanies her to harvest blessings. The special bond between them blooms into sincere love, leading them to a happy urban life.Don't Open the Door at Midnight50 eps0She wakes into the night everything went wrong. Last time, someone opened the door. Two girls died. She was eaten alive for seven days. This time, the knocking starts at eleven. The thing outside wears her friend's voice. She begs them not to open. Rescue comes. The door swings wide. Is the thing behind the rescuers smiling?He Is... The Noodle Shop Heir?60 eps0Ending free meals at his parents' noodle shop makes a young successor the target of his own aunt's smear campaign. Years of indulging the neighbors have drained the business, and she has been leading the abuse. He stands by the new rules, using surveillance footage to challenge her lies and protect his parents' livelihood.I Destroyed Billion Empire after Divorce60 eps0The system the husband's company sells runs on patents held in the architect's own name, under a license she can withdraw. The marriage between them has been secret for three years, and in that time she has built his company into one worth billions. At the launch of the new project he presents her work as his lover's achievement, humiliates the architect in front of the guests, and has her thrown out. She divorces him at once and withdraws the patent license, and the system he has just launched becomes electronic scrap. She then takes up two identities she had set aside: heiress to her own family's fortune, and the architect who works under the name Zero. A penalty clause puts the company on the hook for a sum running into the billions. She also digs into the lover's background and finds that the woman is a fraud.I Kissed a Beggar and Released a Lord!55 eps0Reborn with past memories, a girl escapes a fatal fate of being sacrificed to enemies. She chooses a seemingly crazy beggar, whose hidden power is awakened by an accidental kiss. The disguised young marshal joins hands with her to crush inner schemes, defend the border, and gain a happy ending together.Light of New Detroit30 eps0New Detroit is a decaying city ruled by genetic modification and brutal machinery. She holds the only light that can break its cruel order, while he is a bio-engineered soldier trapped in mechanical chains. Together, they fight through the smog and steel to overthrow the city's dark tyranny.Forced to Marry, Saved by a Killer47 eps0Lucas, the illegitimate son of the Hamilton family, flees his arranged marriage and crosses paths with mafia boss Diego. To survive, they pose as lovers and team up to rescue Lucas's imprisoned butler. As danger closes in, their fake romance turns real, while family conspiracies, a drug network, and Diego's dark past threaten to tear them apart.Children Of Resonance:Saving Human Hearts52 eps0Nova City's Frequency Guardians battle Abyss Beasts born from human emotion, only to learn that the network's creator sees emotion itself as the enemy. Jace and his team must stop Ornn from erasing humanity's feelings and find a way for people to coexist with the creatures those feelings create.Thorned Contract: The Heiress Strikes Back30 eps0Evelyn, an oil heiress, is betrayed by her fiancé and stepsister and left for dead in the snow. Billionaire Astrid offers her a marriage contract tied to a $30 billion trust. Together, they uncover family secrets, battle a pharma empire, and reclaim Evelyn's inheritance. As their fake marriage turns real, they find love and redemption.My Boss Is a Luck Black Hole40 eps0New Aurora Tech employee Kevin discovers that CEO Aurelia's royal watch drains luck from people and converts their disasters into company profit. Pursuing the device's history puts him against a ruthless executive and draws him closer to Aurelia. Together they choose to expose the business's hidden cost, destroy the watch, and begin a life outside its curse.