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(Dubbed)The Stars Align for HerAbandoned at birth by a scheming maid, Stella Wilson was "found" years later—only to face betrayal. Her parents favored the impostor, her fiancé cheated. But when she walked away, they discovered the shocking truth: she's the lost sister of a powerful tycoon! Now, as they beg for forgiveness, she turns to the one who always loved her—her brother. Revenge has never been sweeter.
Heiress Returns to Claim the EmpireA woman who leads an underworld organisation called Red Phoenix comes home for her father's funeral. She has been abroad for years, since she ran away from home as a teenager, and it was abroad that she rose to the top of Red Phoenix. She was born outside her father's marriage and grew up resenting him for it. The news of his death reminds her of the affection he showed her, and she regrets having stayed away.
At home she finds her younger brother and sister being pushed around by their eldest uncle and third uncle. She calls a board meeting at the family company, foils what the uncles have set up, and takes the chairman's seat. The two uncles' households try to drive the three of them out and fail.
A relative kills the son of the head of the Dragon Temple and pins it on her. She proves with a recording who actually did it, and the man is punished. A cousin joins with another family to destroy her reputation and does not manage it. She has her own brother jailed for three months so that he learns to respect the law.
(Dubbed)Should Have LovedAt Eric and Heloise’s five-year anniversary, Heloise’s half-sister Vivian crashes the party, accuses her of stealing her fiancé, and pushes her—causing a miscarriage. Instead of standing by Heloise, Eric turns away and leaves with Vivian. Heartbroken, Heloise walks away… Will Eric get a second chance, or be haunted by regret forever?
Mr. Retired AvengerAfter being betrayed by his own daughter and son-in-law and forced into a nursing home from hell, David dies full of regret—only to wake up years earlier, with a chance to rewrite his fate. This time, he'll use his knowledge of the future to expose their greed, protect his wealth, and turn their schemes against them. But how far is he willing to go for revenge?
Cold Marriage? I Bore Your Brother’s BabyLucy Carter’s marriage to Adrian Smith was nothing but cold silence, until he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness. His mistress storms in with his only child, ready to take everything. But Lucy isn’t so easily broken. After one reckless night with Adrian's brother, Julian Smith, Lucy bears a Smith heir. Just when victory seems hers… Julian steps through her door…
King of the Deadly GameJason's family fixes a crime on him so his adopted brother Ryan walks free, and Jason takes a ten-year sentence for it. In prison he meets Tiger, an old gambler, and asks to be taught. Tiger teaches him the tricks of the table over the years inside.
Jason comes out and starts working through the family that put him there, exposing what they have been to the people who believed them. A friend from the orphanage he grew up in is in trouble with a casino, and getting him out means playing at the tables. That brings Jason up against the Gambling King.
Love Against CenturiesSnow falls on Serene Lake, and a fleeting encounter sparks a love too intense to ignore. But the man who captures his heart carries a secret that defies time itself. As passion collides with destiny, their bond is tested by forces beyond life and death. When time runs out, will love shatter—or rewrite eternity?
The Last SacrificeAdrian's birth family found him and brought him home. The family's adopted son laid a series of traps for him. In one, the adopted son broke his own leg and said Adrian had done it, and Adrian was made to kneel in the rain. After that Adrian ended up inside the Reincarnation Sanctum, a place that grants wishes in exchange for years of a person's life. He gave up years of his own for the family. The family then made wishes of their own, and each one was paid for out of his life, until his life ran out.
He came back as the Sanctum's true master. He laid the adopted son's schemes out for everyone to see and took back everything the family had gained. He met a man whose daughter was sick, treated her, and the two of them grew close.
(Dubbed)Defying Fate in a Novel WorldMarla Lynn wakes up 11 years after her death, only to discover her world is a novel. Her three younger brothers are the villainous counterparts of the main couple, doomed to tragic fates. Unable to accept their roles in the romance, she cuts the ties to change their destinies. But when her former rival returns, his gaze filled with obsession, will she be able to control the future, or will she become the one trapped by fate?
Gambling King: No Way to ReturnMurdered by a criminal syndicate after helping police dismantle gambling rings, Ethan Gowdy is reborn with a chance to save his family. His father's gambling debts once led to his sister being sold to Southeast Asia and drove Ethan to become a professional gambler and anti-gambling expert. This time, he joins forces with a casino owner to take on the men threatening his family, with his sights set on the syndicate that killed him.Light My FireAfter three years in a loveless, passionless contract marriage, Edith Blair decides to divorce her sexy firefighter husband when she discovers he’s made another woman pregnant. Despite the heartbreak of ending her decade-long crush, her husband refuses to sign the papers—unless she agrees to play the role of a loving wife for one final month. But as they grow closer, Edith uncovers a startling misunderstanding that could change everything...
Billionaire Lost Sweet Pregnant WifeAt a university dance, Evelyn Rose had a fleeting night with Damien Cole, leaving behind their son, Leo. A decade later, fate reunites them as Damien unknowingly falls for his new secretary. Love, betrayal, and a shocking family secret collide when Evelyn is revealed as the long-lost Hart daughter.
Gosh, I Married an Heir in Coma!Mia believed Caden was her true love, but she didn't know that Caden only took her as tool to flirt with Yuri, the fake heiress. Defeated and heartbroken, Mia walked away and wed Ian, the comatose heir of a noble house. But is this surrender... or the start of her greatest gamble?
Go to Hell, Your Majesty!Empress Yvonne Zane had Felix Lynn torn apart by five horses. He had spent everything he had to put her on the throne and bring the whole land under her rule, and it was as he died that he understood she had never loved him. Then he opened his eyes and found he was back in the past, before any of it had happened.
This time he walks out on his wife and child, cuts himself off from his family, and gives up on mercy. He lets it be known that anyone who defies him will have their whole family line put to death. He takes command of an army and sets it against the Empress, with the aim of taking the land for himself.
(Dubbed)Don't Mess with My Mother-in-Law!When Claire Hart visits her son Charles and daughter-in-law Wendy's home, she's unexpectedly humiliated by Vivian, the arrogant mistress, who mistakes her for Wendy and demands her to end the marriage. Masking her anger, Claire uncovers Charles's betrayal and financial support for Vivian. Furious, she sends Wendy away and vows to take down them both. Will her plan save the family—or tear it apart?(Dubbed)Master? Not Me!Marius, a vocational grad in sow postpartum care, returns home to cultivate. After 2.5 years stuck at the Qi Initiate, he faces a broken engagement and angers the mighty Godslayer. Forced to flee, his only hope lies in an arranged marriage to Yelena, the legendary Solara’s Valkyrie. Can this unlikely groom save his family from impending doom?
(Dubbed)His Ruthless Little GameRaised in a rain-drenched town and locked away by greedy relatives, she faked madness to survive the rot. Inheriting everything they coveted, she bided her time—until the day she escaped that cursed house. For revenge, she sets her sights on the powerful heir of Jinzhou, laying a trap step by step... only to find herself dangerously indulged.
(Dubbed)The Billionaire’s Broken DollZanna Woods, the powerful leader of the Woods Group, was betrayed by her own sister and fiancé and was almost killed—she lose her memories and regress to the mental age of a five-year-old. She was "found" by Upton Ford and impulsively married to him. When the two gradually developed feelings for each other, another accident triggered the unexpected return of her memories...
(Dubbed)Emerged from the AshesThe fire that consumed Maria's decade-long marriage also exposed the ugly truth—her husband's infidelity and gold-digging schemes. In the ashes, she rose again as her twin sister, weaving a perfect revenge: every betrayal repaid in full, every dollar reclaimed.
(Dubbed)Scarlett's Lucky CharmOrphaned Luna rescued by Scarlett, a fierce outcast widow. Miraculously, Scarlett’s luck changes. Money flows, treasures appear, and opportunities arise. Why? Luna has a Midas touch! But envious relatives and greedy foes will stop at nothing to tear them apart. A dazzling tale of magic, betrayal, and unstoppable fortune, where the unluckiest duo becomes the wealthiest and happiest pair in town.
Mommy, Why Did Daddy Let Me DieWhen a tornado strikes, William makes a devastating choice— he saves his ex and her child, leaving his own daughter Fiona behind. She doesn't survive. Rachel is crushed by grief, burdened with a truth she can't bring herself to say. As Fiona's funeral nears, will William uncover the secret before it's too late to make amends?
Oops! I Accidentally Married the CEOMonica found out that her fiancé cheated on her with her best friend, on impulse, she proposed Cullen, a strange waiter. After the marriage that Monica gradually realized that her husband's identity seemed suspicious ...... What exactly is Cullen's hidden identity? How will their relationship really work out?
100 Goodbyes, Never Turning BackWhen Lily, a gifted cellist, catches her husband, Marcus Howard, kissing another woman in public, she walks out done with their one-sided marriage.
He thinks she’ll come crawling back… until she starts thriving and dating his powerful best friend, Ethan Norman. Marcus loses his mind and decides to win her back, no matter what it takes.
But is it already too late? Or does he still stand a chance...
Kneel before Your QueenMartha Collins leaves the military to serve her husband's company diligently, only to hear, "You're just a useless secretary, while Jessica is a strong, independent captain." Her husband's stupid friends mock her, but they never know she was once a fierce soldier, fighter pilot, polyglot, top scholar, and elite hacker...
Burn The Queen DownShe wants a chance to do something about her elder sister, and she does not get one. She is already dying when she learns the truth. The sister, who has become Empress by then, was never their parents' child, and she is the one who killed the whole family. Years earlier that sister had been promised to a sick man, in a marriage arranged in the hope that a wedding would cure him. She was afraid of being left a widow, so she arranged for her younger sister to go in her place. The groom recovered. The sister then changed her mind about the match and let it be known that the younger one had stolen her husband, and the younger one was despised for it until she died.
She wakes up on the day before that wedding. This time she pulls the sister's mask off in front of everyone and turns down the match, one everyone envies, and the sister is left to regret it. After that she turns to the people who destroyed the family, and she does not stop for the ones who get in her way.
Lucky Wife, Rising HusbandMarried off to a fool, Joanna Miller thought her life was over, until miracles struck! The Woodson family’s luck skyrocketed: treasures appeared, disasters vanished… and her “useless” husband? Not only woke up a genius—he aced the imperial exams and seized power! But now, does the empire’s hottest rising star still need his “lucky charm” wife?
The Missing HeiressTen years ago, young Misaki vanished during a festival. Switched with another girl by a scheming woman, Misaki was dragged into a life of poverty and abuse, while her replacement lived in luxury as the heiress. A decade later, Misaki reappears—stronger, determined, unknowingly standing right before the family that has searched for her all along.
Reborn: Off the Rails with BestieYara was pregnant and was being beaten by her husband. Kiki went along with her on a trip. Kiki's boyfriend bought her a lower-berth ticket on the sleeper train and told her not to swap it with anyone. On the train Kiki had the lower berth and Yara the upper. Yara asked to switch and Kiki refused.
During the night Yara fell from the upper berth and lost the baby. Yara said Kiki was to blame, and the boyfriend agreed with her and said Kiki had done it out of jealousy. Yara's husband then strangled Kiki to death.
After she was dead Kiki found out that the boyfriend had been cheating on her with Yara and that the two of them had set the whole thing up. Kiki came back to life and decided to take revenge on all three of them.
The Many Faces of Mrs. WhitmoreAfter years in the dark, Vivian Colman returns to the world that betrayed her—smarter, stronger, and no longer the woman they remember.
Tangled in secrets, power, and hidden identities, she enters a dangerous game where trust is rare… and revenge runs deep.(Dubbed) Reborn to Rewrite It AllShe warned him and saved a powerful man, only to be blamed when another woman died in childbirth. Betrayed and punished for her loyalty, she dies full of regret. But fate gives her a second chance—reborn on the very day everything began. This time, she trusts no one. She’ll rewrite her fate, save the right life, and make them all pay.
My CEO, Stop Seducing MeWendy is cheated on by her boyfriend Bob and spends the night with Ryan, who turns out to be Bob's younger uncle and the CEO of the company she works for. Ryan falls for her at once. She cannot believe a man like that would want someone ordinary, and treats the night as an embarrassment.
Ryan does not know how to say what he means, so he asks her to be his girlfriend as a way of getting back at Bob. Wendy takes this at face value and decides she is a tool for teaching Bob a lesson. What Ryan does over the following weeks gradually convinces her otherwise, and she becomes his girlfriend for real.
His Mother? The CEO's Mistress?As her revenge plot unfolded perfectly, she never expected that the 'mistress' she'd been targeting was actually her future mother-in-law! The war of misunderstandings escalated wildly... until one fateful moment, when the shocking truth hit her: the trap she'd set was now her own undoing.
Queen Strikes: Traitor's FallChloe, CEO of California’s top hotel chain, sponsors poor student Elias and later marries him. On their 10th anniversary, she plans to hand him the company—but a mistress’s video exposes his long-time affair. Chloe confronts him at a hotel branch, only to face humiliation. As Elias arrives, the truth is about to explode.
She Slept, They Waited a LifetimeOne family's eldest son runs a project that puts a person into frozen sleep inside a capsule, and it needs volunteers.
The youngest daughter of that family was the one everybody doted on, until another woman framed her and took her place as the heiress. After that the rest of the family stopped caring for her. She was shut out and treated badly in her own house. She went on looking out for her family in her own way without telling anyone. She put her name down for her brother's sleep project in secret and went into the capsule.
Only after she was under did her brothers learn that she was the real heiress all along. They wait thirty years for her to wake up, long enough for their hair to turn white.
Mommy’s Little HeroChloe's father has remarried, and his new wife is a practical woman. She and a relative of hers have settled that Chloe will marry a man with a violent temper whose family has money, and they keep at her until she agrees.
Chloe has been waiting seven years for someone else. Seven years ago she found Xander badly hurt and looked after him. He was a ruler from another galaxy and had powers, though she never learned that. She became pregnant and had a son, Lucas. Xander left Earth, and when he came back he found only the boy, so he took Lucas away with him rather than be a weight on Chloe. She has waited since then without knowing why they went.
At that point Lucas, now seven, comes back to Earth to find his mother. He has powers now, and he uses them to stop the wedding and to get his mother out.
Hurt Me HarderZora Grant fell for their servant Robin Thompson, but faced fierce parental opposition. Forced to elope, her father died halting them. Pressured by her mother, Zora ended the relationship. Five years later, billionaire Robin returned to A City, reigniting their entangled lives.
Bullied the Wrong BrainEllie Blair decides that the woman she has just hit with her car is an impostor passing herself off as Professor Selena Meyer, and the woman is Selena Meyer.
Ellie is on that road because her mother sent her. Anna Blair runs Blair Corporation and wants Selena's patented research for the company, and Selena is waiting at a rescue center to be collected. Ellie crashes on the way there, and the person the car hits is Selena. There is a gift in the car and the crash ruins it. Ellie blames Selena for that, loses her temper with her, and comes away sure that the woman is a fraud.
Hope Brought Him BackWilliam Campbell took Nora Summers for a woman who was after his money. Six years ago she was working in a bar, and one night she and William ended up in bed together. Someone had drugged him beforehand, and who did it has never come out. Afterwards he treated her as a gold digger and humiliated her for it. She left without saying anything and only later found out that she was pregnant with his child. She had the baby, a girl named Hope, and raised her alone. Hope looks exactly like William's younger sister, who is dead. Now Nora's uncle's family means to marry her off to a man in exchange for money, and she has nobody else to ask, so she sends Hope to find William. Hope chases his car down the road and tells him that bad people are about to take her mother away. William gets there in time. Once the two of them have straightened out what happened six years ago, they register their marriage at once. Her relatives keep coming back to squeeze money out of the couple, and Nora finds there is more to being married into the Campbell family than she expected.
My Great-Grandma from the PastAfter a fatal crash with her son, Evelyn Rowe wakes up 70 years later—her child now an old man, surrounded by troublesome great-grandkids. Before she can adjust, the fifth grandson corners her: "Heard you’re into me?" Only to be slapped away by the patriarch: "Scoundrel! Kneel—this is your great-grandma!"Rebirth Trap: Heiress Gone WildTwo sisters grow up in the same orphanage. On one day two couples come to adopt: a pair worth hundreds of millions, and a pair of well known actors. The younger sister picks the money. The older one goes home with the actors. The rich household wanted a child for her blood, and she is kept and drained for it. Her sister is raised properly, trained, and becomes a star. Years of watching that from where she is turns the younger sister into someone who walks up to her sister at an awards ceremony with a blade, and there is blood on the stage. Then both of them are back in the orphanage on the day of the choosing, remembering everything. This time the sister who chose the money chooses the actors, and the other takes the wealthy couple. Neither of them knows what is actually waiting in either house, only that the version they lived through was not the whole of it, and the family that farmed a child for blood is not the crueler of the two.
I Married Up, Ex Lost ItOn their 8th anniversary, Ethan humiliates Eve by kissing his new lover, which makes her marry another billionaire out of spite. But when Ethan discovers she once donated a kidney to save his life, his regret turns into obsession. Now, as Eve enjoys her lavish new life, her ex is crawling back, begging for forgiveness... Will she take him back? Or let him rot in guilt?
On Pointe, Off GuardRenowned dancer Charlotte wakes up in 1980—pregnant, despised, and abandoned. She fights back with food, stories, and dance, even joining a cultural troupe to reclaim her life. Pregnancy turns stormy when she vents on Andrew, unaware he's already fallen for her. She plans to leave, but he won't let go. Can she escape… or will love trap her?
Apathia: The Sovereign's RiseBetrayed by his family, Issac died cultivating the Affectio. Reborn, he embraces the Apathia, gaining power by severing familial ties. Surrendering his Five-element Spiritual Roots and Celestial Bloodline to his siblings, he awakens greater abilities. Exiled by his parents, he ascends as the Primordial Divine Sovereign. When his family begs for forgiveness, Issac vows to make them suffer as he did. Will his heartlessness bring ultimate power or consume him?(Dubbed)East of EdenSeren Jones works tirelessly to care for her ailing mother-in-law, only to discover that her husband, Leonard Lee, has proposed to his first love, Anna. Determined to break free, she divorces him and joins Marcus Carter’s company. But just as she starts anew, Leonard and Anna conspire against her, pulling her into a storm of betrayal and revenge. Can she take control of her own destiny?(Dubbed)Take Two, Eva!Eva dies donating marrow to save father Wyatt while stepsister Raina receives the credit and remains his adored child-star favorite. Reborn before that sacrifice, Eva refuses to let Raina's lies and their mothers' hidden history consume her again. Her second life is a chance to leave the golden child's shadow and choose herself.
(Dubbed)Rise from the AshesIn her previous life, orphan Leah Stein, framed by Lerry, was expelled from the Sect and met a tragic end. Reborn, Leah devotes herself to cultivating Apathia. And she refuses to forgive those who hurt her before. Caught in this situation of past grudges and new-found resolve, how will Leah rewrite her destiny?
(Dubbed)She Who Carves the DawnIn a time of ambition and sacrifice, Catherine Reed stood by Malick Stone through poverty and struggle, only to be repaid with lies, betrayal, and ruin. Framed and abandoned, she chooses to walk away from the past and into a future rebuilt by her own hands. But some betrayals don't stay buried for long...
Wait, I'm Actually A Golden Heiress!Winnie Morgan is cast out of the Morgan family after they find their biological daughter. With nowhere to go, Winnie is taken in by Marcus York's grandmother, who arranges for her to work at his company. As they spend more time together, their feelings for each other grow, while Winnie's true identity slowly begins to unfold...
My Elegant Wife, My Unrivaled ManJonathan Lambert is working as a security guard, and neither he nor anyone around him knows who he is. He lost his memory three years ago. He is in fact the head of the Heavenly Temple, and the guard job is where the three women who hold the other Dragon-Phoenix Pendants finally catch up with him. One of them now runs a company and is hiring bodyguards. Jonathan applies. She notices a scar on his hand that looks familiar, then the jade pendant at his neck, and starts checking into where he came from. Around the same time a man who says he serves the Heavenly Temple, and who is plainly someone of rank there, walks up to the guard and addresses him as 'Lord God'. Jonathan has no idea what he means.
The pendants go back to the year the Warlord learned that four children, Jonathan among them, carried the Dragon-Phoenix Pendants. He wanted the fortune the pendants held, one dragon and three phoenixes, and with it the emperor's throne, and he sent men to kill all four. Jonathan drew the killers off so the other three could get away. The four scattered and kept the pendants as the one way of recognizing each other later. That was more than a decade ago. The three women have each risen to the top of their own fields since, and news that Jonathan is alive reaches them around the time he walks into the interview.
Tears of the MissChristine Lewis was taken as a child and grew up away from her family. She married into a house where her mother-in-law abuses her and her husband stands aside, and after her daughter is born the treatment gets worse. Her husband keeps up the appearance of a marriage while she absorbs the rest of it.
A pendant she has had since childhood is what breaks it open. It identifies her as the sister the Lewis brothers have been searching for over twenty years, and Michael Lewis and his family finally find her. Another woman has been living in that place as the family's daughter, and Christine exposes her. She takes her husband to court over the divorce, keeps the child, and starts working. Her three brothers back her. New trouble follows from the people who lost by her return.
Gone with the Peony SecretTwenty years ago Helen Zora was hired by the billionaire Charlotte Chapman to look after her newborn daughter. Helen envied the money and the position, and while Charlotte was out with her two sons she swapped the babies, so her own daughter Yolanda grew up as Sophia Julian, heiress of the family in Water City. The real daughter was raised by a man who collected scrap, under the name Quinn Frank. Quinn did well at school and got into the same key middle school as Yolanda. Yolanda, jealous, tried to have her expelled, and in the course of it Charlotte learned the truth and went to claim her.
The Heiress's ReckoningBetrayed and killed by her family, Yani Stark is reborn on the morning of her ill-fated one-night stand. She escapes, fleeing overseas to protect her unborn child from family conspiracies. Years later, she returns with medical expertise and evidence of her stepmother's crimes. As she takes down her enemies, she rekindles romance with the child's father. Along the way, she also finds her true love.
A Snowbound Journey HomeSnow shuts the Alden Expressway the day before New Year's Eve, and the drivers caught on it sit there twenty-four hours in the cold with nothing to eat. Chloe and her brother Ryan carry instant noodles out to the road and sell them at five yuan a cup with the hot water free, which is barely over what the noodles cost them.
Leah is from their village and does not like watching this. She puts word around that the two of them are gouging people, and the crowd takes it up, first demanding the price come down and then demanding the noodles for nothing. The stall is smashed and the money is taken.
The storm gets heavier. Leah has been telling people her boyfriend is bringing a load of noodles up the road, and he cannot get through. The drivers are left with no food at all, and by then the brother and sister have nothing left to sell them.
Falling StarsCecilia Clarke, the daughter of a billionaire, hides her identity for love, marrying Jack Zane. After being humiliated by him and their son, Arthur, she divorces and seeks revenge, ensuring the father and son face the consequences of their actions. With Andy Harrison, she rises to the top—will their past be erased?
My Tempting Yet Aloof Mr. RightInnocent college student Norah Spencer accidentally spends a night with the aloof, domineering CEO Ashton Dixson—who’s allergic to women—and ends up pregnant. A month later, fate brings them together again at a campus job fair. Ashton mistakenly assumes Norah is a gold-digger, while Norah is pressured by her mother and brother to have an abortion and marry a much older man...
Here comes Mr.RightJulia catches her fiancé cheating on their wedding day and impulsively hires the man who storms into the ceremony to play her replacement groom. Grayson accepts the role while concealing that he is a billionaire—and that Julia is the long-lost love he has been trying to find.
Rise of the Fallen LordOnce the revered Sovereign Lord , Dante Vaughn is now a fugitive, hunted by relentless bounty seekers. After rescuing the daughter of the wealthiest tycoon, he becomes the target of a sinister scheme orchestrated by the ruthless Brooks family members, who frame him for a crime he didn't commit. As he battles against betrayal and persecution, Dante must uncover the truth behind his family's massacre and exact his long-awaited vengeance.
Fearless JourneyAfter her grandma's death, Grace Lynn heads to the city for her parents, only to find they've moved on and don't want her. Lost and hurt, she gets unexpected help from Margaret, a CEO she once saved. With the fresh and unknown future, let's see if Grace can get back on her feet and start a new life.
Legends of The Last CultivatorXavier Lanth, Earth's last cultivator, spends 13 years in a perilous mountain retreat. After emerging powerful, his family is swarmed by the elite. Amidst opportunists, they must discern whom to trust.
True Heir of the TrillionaireLeo Taylor has always lived a modest life, but when he reconnects with his estranged father—a trillionaire—everything changes. Just as Leo begins to embrace his new identity, a cunning colleague, Peter Wilson, steps in, claiming to be the true heir. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, only one question remains: Who is the real heir, and who will be exposed?