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Baby Bargain with the DevilSix years ago Cade had lost everything, and Alina was made to walk out on him. His mother arranged it. Alina kept quiet about the pregnancy and raised the girl, Maisie, on her own, while Cade spent the six years certain she had traded him for money.
Maisie is five when she is diagnosed with leukemia. What she needs is cord blood from a second child. So Alina goes back to Cade, who is running a large company now, gets into his bed and kneels to ask him for a child. He does not know what she is after. She takes the sneering, the insults, being stripped in front of other people, and keeps coming.
The woman his family would rather he married pushes for that match. His mother goes at Alina and the girl more than once. A paternity test comes back saying Maisie is his.
Can't Fight My Heart, UncleThe two families in Riversouth keep to arranged matches, and when one of them is called off the elders on both sides are left with the mess. They also keep an older custom, in which a small child at a ceremony is set down to reach out and take hold of something, and whatever she takes first is read as the shape of her life.
Celeste lost her parents young and was brought up by Zane, whom she calls uncle. He raised her carefully and she grew up sure that he was out of her reach.
An aunt living far off sends a letter breaking off an engagement, and both families are thrown into it. The elders have nothing to suggest. An aunt by marriage says that Celeste and Zane suit each other well enough to be matched instead. Celeste is out in the rain in Riversouth when she looks over at him and her face goes hot, and she agrees to it.
She hears afterward what happened at her own ceremony as a child, when the first thing she reached for was Zane's hand.
Killer Wife, Spoiled LifeClaire Barlow marries into the Carter family under an arranged match, taking the place of a half-sister and entering the house as the Barlows' illegitimate daughter. She agreed to the marriage because her adoptive father had been killed and the Carters are where the answers are.
She was sold overseas as a child and raised by an organization there, trained in fighting and in the other work the organization did, and she took over running it from her adoptive father before his death. It left her quiet and hard to read.
Ethan Carter, the heir, grew up with nothing asked of him and had settled into being a playboy. He did not want the marriage. He falls for her anyway. The Carter family has its own arrangements and its own secrets, and Claire is inside the house now.
Seduce My Sister's Man to RevengeIn the Cole house the second wife and her daughter had years alone with Yasmin's father, and by the end of them he took their word over his own daughter's. The frame-up cost Yasmin everything she held, and her father put her out of the house himself.
She spent the next several years abroad with no fixed place to live. She came back for two things, which were making the pair of them pay for it and getting back what had been hers. On her return she found her stepsister on the arm of Shaun Wyatt, who had been engaged to Yasmin before any of it, and she treated that as the place to begin.
Her Fate Was Written. She Says No!NPC Serena Johnson unexpectedly gains self-awareness and finds herself in the Script World. To save Arthur Scott, her adoptive grandfather, she defies the Book Spirit, tears up the original plot, and travels back to her 18th year. Did she manage to save her grandfather in the end?
Cross-Dressed General Fights FoesHarper Jensen has the Foster family living with her at her country home. Gavin Foster supported her for years, and his company has just collapsed, his house has been seized, and the family has no money left. Harper herself has just been admitted to Northby University. The Fosters, who had never wanted for anything, are starting again from nothing. Gavin's son Ethan gives her more trouble than the rest of them, and Harper takes it on herself to bring him into line.
The Princess of His HeartChris Lynch's worry is that his father Hank will end up on his own with nobody to look after him, so he puts Hank forward for a televised matchmaking show. Hank agrees to go on it.
The show runs like any other one until the people who know Hank start turning up. The chairwoman of a company, a woman who runs an underground operation and an actress the audience recognises are all old confidantes of his. Firms at the top of their industries cannot keep their systems running without his investment. None of this was in what his son knew about him.
Exes in One Bed!Five years earlier, Bai Xiyue and Ji Liancheng divorced because of a misunderstanding. Upon returning from overseas five years later, Bai Xiyue joined Fushen Hospital, where she unexpectedly reunited with her ex-husband. Through a series of coincidences, the two even ended up sharing the same bed. From that moment on, Ji Liancheng forcefully reentered her life, relentlessly pursuing her at every turn. Though divorced, the two found themselves continuing to share a bed, blurring the line between former spouses and lovers.
Your Late Repentance Means NothingElara Grant ran into a burning building and pulled Damon Sterling out of it. Regina Clark told everyone she had done it, and Damon believed her. Elara stayed anyway, for seven years, and kept believing he would eventually see clearly.
What he did instead was lie under oath. In open court, protecting Regina, he swore to a version of events that made Elara a plagiarist who had stolen someone else's work. The accusation stuck. Elara left Los Angeles with her name ruined and no way to argue against the man everyone believed.
She went into medicine and became one of the best surgeons in the field, and the reputation she built there is her own. The truth about the fire and the plagiarism eventually comes out. Damon has to live with what he did, and he has plenty of time to think about it, because Elara is not interested in his apology. When she comes back, the question is not whether she will forgive him. It is what she plans to do now that she can.
Married To The Blind BillionaireA marriage contract in Lin Xiangxiang's family names her cousin Lin Yuan as the bride, and Lin Xiangxiang is sent in her place. The groom is Xie Wang, head of a large family in the capital. People say he has chronic headaches, that his eyes have gone bad, that he is cold and settles things without argument. Lin Xiangxiang comes from the countryside and goes to him afraid. He treats her gently, which nobody had told her to expect.
A year later his sight is close to coming back. Lin Yuan works out a scheme that drives Lin Xiangxiang out of the house, and the two of them are apart with no reason to meet again. A pregnancy test result brings them back into the same room, and Xie Wang finds the wife he had lost and keeps her with him.
I Married the Real HeirNancy is forced by her stepmother to marry, only to discover that the man her stepsister is about to marry is a fake heir to the Ford family. The real heir, Samuel Ford, is still working at a construction site. Nancy quickly tracks him down and marries him. When Samuel is finally recognized by his family, Nancy also gains entry into the Ford family. Together, they fight their enemies, reclaim Samuel's position as heir, and help Nancy take back her company. As they grow closer, love blossoms, and the two finally tie the knot.
My Secret Child With The CEOSu Tian was dying and asked Min Hui to take her name and go to Xin Qi in her place. Min Hui did it and fell in love with him under the borrowed name. When Xin Qi found out who she actually was, he ended it.
Five years later he runs the Bluebird Group, and Bluebird is a large client of Bai'an Tech, where Min Hui heads research and development. They meet again across that account. Xin Qi sees Cheng Qirang harassing her, then learns that her son, Min Quanquan, is his, and he moves into her home. Bai'an's AI, Mister, comes under attack around the same time, and Cheng Qirang moves to buy the company. Min Hui fights the takeover and Xin Qi puts money behind her.
Trapped by the Man I SavedAh-young was a reporter with a name people knew, and the boy she pulled out of the mud could not speak. She took him in. On a night of heavy rain she tore up his future and drove him out into it, and by then her own career had collapsed and she was working alone. He came back years later under a different name, a rising star in the legal world that everyone was careful around, and he began closing off her routes one at a time until there was nowhere for her to go. She used her pen against him and worked back through the fog around that night, the wound both of them still carry.
His Mother... My Father's SinAt eight years old, Lin Qingmiao turned her father in to the police after he accidentally killed Zhou Jin's mother in a hit-and-run. Instead of receiving sympathy, she was labeled a traitor and forced to endure years of stigma and bullying. She was left with no choice but to assume the name Sun Tao and flee to Gangcheng. There, she met Zhou Yusheng, a disillusioned driver, and the two unexpectedly fell in love. Yet as their affection grew, Qingmiao found that Zhou Yusheng was none other than Zhou Jin. Their love story is only beginning to face its greatest trial.
Resists Servant？Craves Her Touch！The four great houses were supposed to be guarding the Four-Sided Cauldron, the vessel that held the country's fortune steady. A hundred years ago men inside those houses were working with the Japanese, and by the time it was in the open the war was everywhere. Ji Xue, daughter of the Yellow Emperor and the drought goddess Hanba, went into a long sleep in the old Qi mansion to keep the cauldron out of their hands. She is under a curse that will not let her die, and she keeps herself going on blood.
A century later Qi Wang, a son of the Qi family, is being hunted and hides in that same mansion. His blood wakes her. She tells him he is her servant now and her supply. He objects out loud and does not keep away from her.
The cauldron is taken again and the two of them go after it. On the way they turn up things the Qi family had kept quiet.
Her Death Drove Him InsaneXie Linyuan told anyone who would listen that Shen Qingyuan was the woman he hated most in the world, and that if she died in front of him he would not move.
The report came back from the front that she had been killed in battle. Whatever he had built to keep her out did not survive the sentence. He lost his reason overnight, and the coldness everyone knew him for turned out to have been holding something else in place the entire time.
What he does with the rest of it is the question, because the thing he wants to take back has already happened and there is nobody left to say it to.
Undercover LoverJasper holds Alfred, the head of the Blood Eagles, responsible for the death of the boy he loved as a child, so he gets himself inside the gang to reach him.
A cop called Klaus keeps turning up in his way, arrogant with it, and the two of them spend as much time circling each other as fighting, one on each side of the line between the police and the gang. Jasper finds out that Klaus is taking money from the Blood Eagles. He has no idea that this is the boy he has spent years believing was dead.
They become lovers with the hatred still in it, and neither of them leaves the side he is on.
My Bestie Watches as My Prince Spoils MeMargaret Harris's husband died young and left her with nothing. Her closest friend, Lisa White, whom she had known for more than ten years, since the days they wore the same school uniform, married a man who became chairman of his company, worth tens of billions, and there was a wedding that people called the wedding of the century. Margaret's jealousy settled on her. Margaret killed Lisa at that wedding and then took her own life.
Both women open their eyes on the day of the blind date, years earlier. Margaret knows now which of the two men will end up rich, and she sets about seducing him away from Lisa. Lisa lets him go and accepts the other one, who appears to have no money. He is Mark Thompson, the heir of a business family, and he has kept that hidden. Lisa has no idea of it when she agrees to him. Margaret goes on working against her all the same.
Drunk Night Made Me Billionaire's Fake WifeThe Jiang and Shen families arranged a marriage to hold their business together, and the bride, Shen Zhiyi, is in prison for drunk driving, so the wedding cannot go ahead as agreed.
Song Yanzhi had walked in on her boyfriend with a rich woman not long before that, drunk herself into the ground over it, and ended up in bed with Jiang Yancheng by mistake. He runs his family's company, keeps a cold face on it, and he is the groom the Shen match was for. What he puts to her is that she take Shen Zhiyi's name and stand in at the wedding so the two families keep their deal. She takes it, and whatever is between the two of them comes after the marriage.
From His Tutor to His DarlingAyden Clark grew up rich and refused to study, and his mother eventually hired Ivy Harper to live with the family and tutor him. She got him up at dawn, made him run, and drilled him through dictation and exercises until the work stuck. He learned discipline from her and started to want things for himself. Before she left to go back to her own town, he made himself a promise that he would marry her when he was grown. Eighteen years later he runs the largest fortune in the country and every stock exchange watches what he does. On the day the empire is finally his, he walks out of the board meeting and drives back to the village to find her. Ivy is no longer the tutor he remembers. She designs under a professional name at a rival firm and is also a doctor good enough to restart a stopped heart. His grandfather starts pushing an arranged marriage that is meant to bring good fortune to the family. Ivy's relative Jade works against her, and Beatrice Ferdinand runs her own maneuvers on the business side. Ayden and Ivy end up handling all of it together, closing deals and putting down the people trying to split them, while the promise he made as a boy turns out to have held.
Love in DeceptionBaisha Village is slated to be cleared and rebuilt as a factory. Xia Zhi goes to see Han Yu, the company president behind the plan, and asks him to leave the village alone. He humiliates her instead. Angry enough to want something back, she agrees to Shen Anran's plan to drug him. The drug works but the rest of it goes wrong, and Han Yu ends up in a car crash and loses his memory. Xia Zhi, covering for what she did, tells him he is her boyfriend Xiao Yu and takes him back to Baisha Village. They live in the same house, day and night, for long enough that whatever they feel for each other stops being an act on her side. Meanwhile Han Yu's second uncle wants the family inheritance and sends people after him. In the middle of protecting Xia Zhi from them, Han Yu is hurt, and the injury brings his original memories back. The trade is that everything from the amnesia, including the village and her, is wiped out of him.
Spoiling Me, Spoiling You - The Rich Wife's Sweet GameSophia is a nurse who collapses at the end of a night shift and opens her eyes in another woman's body, married to the richest man in the city. The welcome is a woman from the dead wife's circle who calls her a mistress to her face and makes a serious attempt on her life, wanting her killed alongside the man she supposedly slept with. Sophia sorts out her situation quickly. The husband, Spencer, is wealthy, good-looking and has no heir, and she is not going to keep playing the poisonous wife everyone remembers. She decides the safest future available is to make him want her, so she becomes affectionate, attentive and slightly ridiculous about it, working on a man known for being cold and for disliking women in general. He does not shake her off. He warms up, then keeps going, until the household is watching him dote on the wife he used to avoid, and Sophia has to deal with the people who preferred her as a villain.
Twelve Summers, One HeartbeatLacquerware is a craft handed down from master to apprentice, and it is possible to share a master with a senior apprentice you have never met. Sophia's master was accused of copying another artist's work and took his own life. Sophia, who carries on his craft, has since lost both a boyfriend and a career.
She goes back to her hometown and opens a small lacquerware shop. The one person who might know what happened to her master is that senior apprentice, and she starts looking for him. Meanwhile a blind date puts her across a table from Trevor, a tattoo artist. Her ex-boyfriend has been turning up and refusing to leave her alone, so she asks Trevor to pose as her boyfriend, and he agrees. They spend a good deal of time together and the arrangement stops being an act.
Trevor is the senior apprentice she has been looking for, and he is also her ex-boyfriend's cousin. He first saw Sophia twelve years ago and has kept an eye on her from a distance ever since, waiting for her to come into her own and helping her without letting her see it. He backs her entry in the national lacquerware competition, where she has a chance to clear her master's name, and the two of them dig into the master's death and the old quarrels of the previous generation that lie behind it.
Addicted to YouShen Qingli was in love with Gu Heng for eight years without telling him. They slept together once, and afterwards she asked him to pay her for the night, which is the part she came to regret most. He came back for more of it. The nights went on, and in daylight he passed her like a stranger.
Then an engagement was arranged for him, and Shen Qingli cut it off between them. She thought that was the end of it and that they could part quietly. Instead he took her back to the Gu house in Beijing. Old grudges in that family surfaced while she was there and the household came apart in a single night. Gu Heng, hurt, sent her away from it. After that he kept turning up wherever she had got into trouble, pulling her out of one thing after another, while she went on assuming she was a plaything he could put down whenever he wanted.
Love, Betrayal, and the Truth BetweenThe orphanage where Shen Wu grew up is scheduled for demolition, and she is up against the property men over the site. He Yanxiu comes back into her life in the middle of that. He is the richest man in Cloud City now, and five years ago he was the man she walked out on.
He was dying at the time. The head of his family would pay for the treatment on one condition, that she break it off and do it in the manner of a woman leaving a sick man for a rich one, so she played the scene out in front of him and let the story stand. Her name and her dancing went down with it, and she has carried the reputation since.
He Yanxiu does not know any of that. He uses the orphanage against her to get her signature on a contract putting her at his disposal twenty-four hours a day, and he spends the arrangement settling accounts, one humiliation after another. She takes it for the sake of the building and the children in it. What he watches over those weeks is a woman who holds up under all of it, and he ends up drawn back to her against his own anger. Then what actually happened five years ago comes out. He goes against his family over it, and by that point Shen Wu is finding her way back to dancing.
I Went for Money, Found LoveThe Fox Spirit Emporium keeps fox spirits at every level of cultivation, and every one of them trades in romance and seduction for its clients. Jin Xian is the only male fox there and the only one who went crooked in his training. He deals strictly in sudden wealth and turns down anything to do with love or desire. Jiang Ci comes to him not long after a relationship ended badly. Her view by then is settled: affection is a consumable, it runs out, and the only thing that will not betray her is money she is holding herself. So she wants what he sells, and he is willing to sell it. What follows runs through the city, through the business of getting rich fast and what people are prepared to hand over for it, and through the two words the shop's whole trade rests on, money and want.
His Scheme Turned Into ObsessionXia Yuning provokes Li Chengzhou to get herself out of a secret underground syndicate, and he takes notice of her at once. The days she disappears afterward leave a mark between her and her fiancé, something neither of them can talk through cleanly. Li Chengzhou is practiced at reading people and bending them to what he wants, and he uses that unresolved gap to pull her toward him a step at a time. He treats it at first as a game, a conquest to be finished and set aside once he tires of it. He holds back the truth of where she was during those missing days and uses it as leverage whenever she tries to pull back toward her fiancé. Somewhere in the middle of managing her, the calculation stops being calculation. What he built to trap her turns into something that cuts into him instead, and the plan he set in motion keeps running even after he no longer wants it to.
The Billionaire Disguises to Claim Me?On her wedding day, Sylvia is humiliated by her contract husband. In a bold revenge, she hires a gigolo to bear her child. But Chris, disguised as the same gigolo, fights for control. As secrets from the past resurface, Sylvia vows: “The love I missed… I’ll reclaim in a lifetime of reckoning…” Who will truly win her heart?
We Turned Alliance into LoveShen Moran wants standing of her own, the kind nobody can take back, and she starts from nothing. She is an orphan. The household that adopted her used her for what she could bring in, and she worked out young that letting anyone see what she actually felt was expensive, so she stopped doing it.
She gets herself out from under her adoptive mother and goes into acting. Lin Qian, who used to bully her, turns out to be useful, and she makes a friend of Su Nian, the true daughter of a prominent family. Every move is worked out in advance. Her boyfriend Gu Yechen is one of the few people who reads the tenderness under the hard front, and he watches out for her without making anything of it. She is close to taking Best Actress when Gu Yechen is ambushed pulling her out of a setup.
The Real Heiress Rose for Revenge!The Marquis's household is about to receive its true daughter. Someone in it kills her instead.
Qi Yuan wakes on the night before she is to be fetched back to the family, with her memories of the life that already happened and no hesitation about killing. She swears she will change what is coming and collect the blood debt her enemies owe her. Before she reaches the mansion she runs into Prince Xiao Yunting earlier than she did the first time. Neither of them knows that her second life was bought when Xiao Yunting traded away his own in the last one.
From Heartbreak to Fated LoverMason Collins had a first love before Ava, and when that woman came back he told Ava what the last four years had been worth to him. She had been a pastime. He meant to marry the other woman and keep Ava out of sight on the side.
Ava had believed him for the whole four years. She left, and signed a contract marriage with Anderson Lauren, a man with money, on the understanding that it was an arrangement with terms and nothing else.
Anderson had been looking for her for years before the contract was ever drawn up, and the arrangement was his way of getting to her. Ava did not remember him at all. He put himself between her and whatever came at her while old business worked its way to the surface: people who wanted something from her, and an account of her childhood in which she was not simply an orphan with nobody behind her.
Where the Wind Comes HomeYan Rui is a doctor. After an incident in surgery she stops wanting to be alive, and she travels up Qingyun Mountain intending to end it there. On the mountain she runs into Duan Bo'an, who leads the patrol team and has been searching the same slopes for his older sister, missing for some time. He does not lecture her. He keeps turning up where she is, quietly, and puts himself between her and the drop more than once, and his stubbornness about staying alive gets into her. She listens to him about his sister and he listens to her about the operation, and both of them come out of it lighter than they went in. Once Yan Rui has decided to live, the people behind the events that ruined her take her. Duan Bo'an goes after her alone into obvious danger, and she is badly injured shielding him. Three years pass with him gone, working out what actually happened, and when he has the truth he comes back to the place on the mountain where they first met.
The Prince & His Mr. Lady DoctorA doctor from the present wakes in the body of Duanmu Xuqing, the second daughter of a noble family whose property has just been confiscated and whose members have been sentenced. She binds her chest, takes a man's name, and enters the household of Long Jingxiu, a prince known for his campaigns, as his personal attendant. She keeps hidden that she carries the Sacred Body of Heavenly Fragrance.
She uses modern medicine to treat the injured and repeatedly pulls people out of danger. Long Jingxiu grows attached to the attendant and is unsettled by it, believing her to be a man. Her identity comes out. After that the two of them work against the plots around the household together, with a betrothal still standing.
Taming the Monster, One Last TimeSong Ru's assignment was to reform Wei Xu, a villain nobody else could handle, and she spent everything she had on it. She was close to finished when the system failed and she vanished without warning. She opens her eyes eleven years later in a new body, as Song Qingru, third daughter of the Song family. In those eleven years Wei Xu learned that Song Ru was dead. It turned him. He is now the state preceptor, white haired, and the court is afraid of him. The mission is still open and it still names him, so Song Qingru has to walk the same road a second time, approaching a man who has already been through this once with someone he does not know was her, and who has spent a decade becoming far harder to reach than the person she nearly saved.
Married First, Loved ForeverQi Sinian has wanted Zhong Xiran for eleven years and has never told her. The marriage she agrees to on a snowy night in North City, hours after her first love Huo Xin leaves her, is one Qi Sinian arranged, and she goes into it as a match settled between families.
Four years follow in which neither of them warms to the other. Huo Xin comes back to North City. Her family presses her over the marriage and talk about her circulates. Somewhere in that stretch she starts to learn what the arrangement was actually for, and that Qi Sinian had it in place well before the night Huo Xin left.
Her Secrets, His SurrenderJia He ran the Jia Group. Years before that he had walked out on Li Weixi's older sister. Li Weixi worked as a "hunter" in elite circles, and for this job she made herself into a secretary with nothing behind her, harmless and easy to overlook, and got hired. What she wanted was proof of what he had done to her sister, and his standing taken away from him.
He worked out who she was soon after she arrived and said nothing about it. Having her close suited him. He let the small maneuvers pass, sat through the performances, and covered for her when one of her lies needed covering. The two of them spent a long stretch testing each other.
She was close to having what she came for when things started going wrong in quick succession and she could not keep up with them. Jia He put himself in the way to protect her, more than once. She noticed her own appetite for revenge going soft, and then a misunderstanding sent her out of his life. After she disappeared, Jia He came apart and let the family holdings go.
The Art of Loving YouPauline's parents let it be known that they had gone bankrupt and then remarried each other, and they kept the household small and short of money on that basis. Her mother heads a criminal organization and her father is a known name among collectors, and neither fact reaches Pauline. She wakes ten years further on than where she was, back with the family, and she takes the bankruptcy for fact at first. There is an older brother who is cold with her and a younger one who behaves like a child, and a good part of her days goes into matching wits with them. Things stop adding up, and she works out what her parents are. She keeps that to herself and lets the arrangement stand, and she takes her place in the plan they have been running on her, which involves growing out of being the spoiled child of the house. The damage left from her own childhood gets worked on along the way.
One Night to ForeverYu Xi's father owes money he cannot repay, so she is married to Zhou Bingsen to settle it. He agreed to the marriage because his family pushed him into it, feels nothing for the woman on the certificate, and in two years the two of them have never actually seen each other's faces. Yu Xi works as an interior designer. Zhou Bingsen hires a firm to fit out a new house and the designer assigned to him is his own wife, which neither of them realizes. He spends weeks going over plans with her and falls for her. Yu Xi finds she likes him too and pulls back, because as far as she knows he is another woman's husband. The woman he thinks he married is Feng Lili, who took Yu Xi's identity and has been living as Mrs. Zhou on it. Yu Xi and Zhou Bingsen only get to the truth when Feng Lili's arrangement comes apart in front of them.
His Wife, His Art, His MadnessCoco is an orphan raised in the Crown Prince's household, sickly and without standing of her own. On the day she enters the palace she stumbles and falls into the arms of Gaspard Giraud, the Grand Secretary, in front of witnesses. Her reputation is ruined, and he marries her at once. For three years he keeps his distance. She decides he is ashamed of where she came from, and to work off the resentment she writes an anonymous serial called The Grand Secretary's Wife, which sells everywhere in the capital. Gaspard begins hunting for the author. Coco breaks into his study to burn the evidence, collapses there from her old illness, and he nurses her himself with a care she has never seen from him. On a southern tour she drinks too much and says more than she meant to, and in the aftermath she learns he has been dosed with a drug by someone in his own circle. Then she becomes convinced he arranged the death of her friend, and she runs to his private house in the south. The walls of one room are covered with hundreds of painted portraits of her, each one signed by his hand, "to my wife." Rebels catch her on the road. Gaspard trades away his most valuable ally to get her back and cuts down the rest himself. The shock brings back what she had forgotten: she was born to a southern noble house, she saved him when they were children, and her family was wiped out for sheltering his. The carriage accident and the marriage proposal were both arranged by him.
Baited by Love: Tangled Hearts, Dangerous GamesZheng Jinyi puts herself in front of Chu Ye nine years after the last time and lets him take the bait. The revenge on Zheng Guozhou is set out one step at a time and she is the lure in it. Zheng Guozhou has had her since she was small, kept locked in, raised into the perfect work he meant to make of her. She is pulled between getting free of him and staying with Chu Ye, and the time she has left is already counted. Chu Ye belongs to the families that run the capital, and he works out early that the whole thing is a trap laid for him. He goes further in regardless, and each time the plan leaves her somewhere dangerous he is the one who gets her out.
From Stoic to SmittenSong Jin has been pursuing Xu Yanqing, and he brings her to a party with his friends. Yu Zhi is one of the men there. A year before, Xu Yanqing had sold her first night at a high price to a stranger to pay for her sister's treatment, and the stranger was him. He recognizes her and pushes her up against the wall. She panics and gets away, back to the private room, but Song Jin walks her over to Yu Zhi and tells her that the medicine that can save her sister is held by Yu Zhi alone. She sets her pride down and asks him for it. Yu Zhi makes her work for every step of it, because what he wants is to pull her back into that night.
She Married Down to RiseBorn into hardship, Lillian Hunt is forced into a lowly marriage after years of abuse. To change her fate, she disguises herself as a noble lady and enters high society, drawing the attention of Adrian Linwood and Victor Ashford. As schemes unfold, she becomes bound by a deadly parasite. Will she rise or fall?
Oops! My One-Night MistakeYe Qingli's grandfather is dying, and his last wish is to see her married. She is the seventh daughter of the Ye family and the one the family dotes on most, and she sets out to find a husband fast enough to give him that. She picks the wrong man. She mistakes the president of a company, a domineering man, for the one she was supposed to marry, and by the time the mistake is clear she is already tangled up with him and he refuses to let her go. He is also her older brother's sworn enemy.
The two of them are growing closer when a crisis in the Ye family forces Qingli into a marriage with someone else.
The Substitute Bride Who Won Everything!Tu Mingyue was married to Gu Ziyan in her cousin's place. He was said to be poor and unable to walk, and she went through with it because the marriage brought in money for her grandfather's treatment.
She is an orphan, and her uncle's household had been living off her for years. After the wedding she moved with Gu Ziyan to Happiness Village, planted vegetables, and built a small business out of that, saving toward treatment for his legs. She did not know that he was the richest man in the country, that he had come to the village under another name to study the business there, or that he had been clearing things out of her way the whole time. Her cousin and her aunt kept coming after her, with an accusation staged in a supermarket, a forged contract, and trouble at a farm, and each attempt fell apart. The cousin then had her taken and held, which brought everything into the open. When Gu Ziyan's real name came out with it, Tu Mingyue was angry at having been kept in the dark, and she left the village.
Under Fire, Under Your SpellElla Foster was out on a job with Cameron Grant when she found Matthew Everett cornered by the men hunting him, and got him out. He had a reputation for keeping women at a distance, and he was drawn to her anyway.
Killing was her work, assigned by the organization that had trained her. Matthew was an heir who had broken with his own family. Neither of them had been in love before and neither knew how it was supposed to go, so they worked it out between them. The Everett family came after him and the organization came after her. They stayed together through both, without much fear of dying.
Bye Bye EX, The Best is NextFeng Hanzhou wanted an heir and his wife had not given him one, so he took up with another woman. Song Youning walked in on it. He stood where he was and explained himself: “You can't bear a child. The Feng family can't end with you.”
She made a call that night to a number people in Nancheng knew better than to touch. The man at the other end was Feng Yan, talked about around the city as Lord Yama, and family to her husband on the Feng side. She married him.
Feng Hanzhou saw her again on her wedding day, and by then it was done. He went down on his knees in front of the guests with his eyes red. “Wife, I was wrong. Please, just look at me one more time.” Song Youning took a step back from him and into the arms of the man behind her, and Feng Yan's arm closed around her waist. Feng Yan told him he had the order of the family wrong now, and that he should be addressing her as Cousin-in-law.
Villains of the Story, Rebels of the EndingIn the book that runs this world, Lin Mo's three younger brothers are written as the villains standing against the hero and heroine, and each of them is written to end badly. She learned that as she was dying. Eleven years after her death she opens her eyes in the same world, alive, with the plot already partway through.
She will not have her brothers used to fill out someone else's romance, so she moves to cut the whole thing loose. Her old enemy is there when she comes back, and he watches her with an obsession that gets in the way of what she is trying to do.
Seduce His Uncle, Ruin My FamilyIvy Green is held by the Hunt family's rivals, the Sung clan, beaten and locked up, and she pretends to have lost her mind so they will leave her alive. Her grandfather is killed. She decides the way out is Leon Hunt, and she seduces him to get herself carried off the estate. After the night together he learns she is engaged to his own nephew, Marco, and breaks the engagement off. He also exposes what the Sungs have been doing and takes her back to her family's house. He knows by then that she used him and helps her anyway. She brings down her sister Laura by proving the writing Laura passed off as her own was ghostwritten. The Sungs answer with plots, with a bomb that turns out to be fake, and Leon keeps standing in front of her. Ivy forces confessions out of them and the authorities come for the family. She finds out who killed her mother. Somewhere in all of it she stops using him and starts loving him, and a year later he fakes an illness to make her say so.
Coroner? She’s the Mother of His HeirWhen an emperor of this dynasty dies, the consorts he leaves behind are buried with him. Jiang Yiyi, a forensic doctor, wakes up in the body of one of those consorts with the burial already arranged. In the middle of that she becomes entangled with Su Cangmo, the emperor who has taken the throne and who is known for his cruelty. Afterwards she drops the name she had, calls herself Jiang Yi, and raises her son Jiang Xiaoyuan by herself.
Six years pass before she and the boy are in front of Su Cangmo again. She can read a body and close a case, and he gives her the work and then a place at court on the strength of it. Being around each other does the rest, and feelings develop between them. Their daughter Su Yaoshi, who had been separated from the family, is found in the same stretch of time. There are still things between Jiang Yiyi and Su Cangmo that neither has explained, and a rebellion is gathering.
Your Love Is My ChainsSienna Quill's father is pulled into a financial crime he had no real part in and is sent to prison. To keep Harry Ford clear of the fallout, she manufactures evidence that she has been unfaithful and ends things with him. She is carrying his child at the time and does not tell him.
She raises the boy on her own for the next six years. He falls seriously ill, and the treatment costs more than she has. Harry has gone back to his family by then and stands to inherit it, and when the two of them meet again he still believes she cheated. He takes her for someone chasing money and humiliates her in front of other people when he gets the chance. She keeps the boy's parentage to herself while the bills mount, until the blood tie between Harry and the child comes out.
I Seduced the Wrong ManRachel Yale is cornered with nothing left to lose, so she gambles on getting close to Louis Brown, who holds more power in Newfork than anyone else. People say he has no heart, that ghosts keep their distance from him, and that he is afraid of neither gods nor devils. He works out early that Rachel has a reason for approaching him and lets her come closer anyway. On his side it is contempt at first, and a game worth playing for a while. The game turns into attraction and then into something he cannot put down. The man everyone had placed above them steps down off the pedestal, and after that he is the one who protects her.
My Secret Lover Is My BrotherQuincy Gabriel is the eldest daughter of the Gabriel family. Her fiancé and her stepsister were involved with each other behind her back. The succession to the family was still open.
She decided to have a child and to arrange the father herself. She asked her closest friend to find a man who was dependable and would do as he was told, and the friend found one. Norman Clark is her brother in name only, and he had been in love with her for years without saying so. He heard about the arrangement while he was abroad, came back, and took the place of the man the friend had lined up. He met her as the stranger she was expecting.
The Blind Billionaire's DealA breach-of-contract penalty of 300 million stood against Xu Can. She married Fu Yanzhou, a company chairman who was blind, and the marriage covered the sum. The terms as she understood them were money and nothing else.
They lived in the same house. Xu Can started making approaches to him and teasing him openly, and Fu Yanzhou went from turning her down to going along with it.
His sight came back. He kept that to himself and carried on being treated as a blind man in his own house, and he was jealous of her without saying so. By then Xu Can had worked out that the arrangement had stopped being an arrangement on her side.
The 100-Day Bride I Married Is A LegendSeven years ago Julia Green stabbed her own father and was sent to prison for it. Two years into that, Kevin Palmer stood outside the prison gate holding an umbrella and was told she had been released long before. Sometime after she got out she found him badly hurt and kept him alive, and he never saw who had done it. He has been looking for her since.
They meet again seven years after the stabbing. Kevin is a lawyer, and she is sitting in the audience while he is being interviewed. Someone beside him asks whether he knows her. "I don't know her," he says, and that is the whole of it.
Her grandfather arranges the rest. She marries into the Palmer family on the terms he sets, a hundred days and then out of it. Kevin holds himself back from her while he goes on looking for the woman who saved him, and pieces of who Julia is come out over those days. She writes a resignation letter and gets ready to leave. He puts her against the wall and asks if she is leaving him again.
Sisters in VengeanceTwo babies were swapped at the hospital where they were born. Jiang Yiyi, the Jiang family's own daughter, was raised somewhere else, and Jiang Shuyi grew up in the Jiang house as the heiress.
Eighteen years later Jiang Yiyi came back. The household expected a fight over the parents' affection and over the inheritance, with Shuyi as the one who would have to be pushed out. Instead Yiyi attached herself to Shuyi from the day she arrived and stayed there.
Shuyi took a while to believe any of it. As the two of them lived alongside each other she came to accept that Yiyi meant it, and they started working together against the people who had been going after them.
He Never Knew I Had His BabyLorraine and Zachary see each other again at their university's anniversary event, six years after they split. They had been together as students there. Zachary's mother interfered, a misunderstanding followed, and that was the end of it. He still holds the separation against her, and he is cold with her at the reunion, though what he felt has not gone anywhere. Lorraine is composed and keeps her distance. He then finds out that she had his child after they parted and raised the child without telling him.
Written By StarsThe wedding was a day off when Wendy found out that Michael had never gotten over Xena, the first girl he loved. She had spent ten years chasing him.
She walked out of the house and went wandering the streets, and while she was out there she was robbed. Steven turned up. She had not seen him in years, and he stayed with her through it. She still meant to give Michael one more chance, and when she went to find him she saw him with Xena and saw that nothing between them had changed. She was drunk that night and she married Steven.
In the morning she wished she had not. Steven went on treating her as though the marriage were something he had wanted, with no conditions attached to it, and over time that wore her regret down. Later she saw the scars on his back. They came from a fire at her school years before, the one she had been carried out of, and she worked out that the man who carried her was Steven and that she had spent the years since then loving the wrong person.
She Writes Her Own CrownLou Xinyue was cast out by the marquis household and died as a discarded wife. She comes back to the beginning of it with everything she learned, and the meekness is gone. She is in fact the trueborn daughter of the Prince of Jiyang's household, a fact the family that raised Lou Ruoxi in her place has kept buried. She has medicine and she has a head for court maneuvering, and she uses both on Shen Huanian, the man who ruined her, and on Lou Ruoxi, the false daughter wearing her name. She tears up the marriage contract herself and drags the scheming behind it into the open. Xie Ziwei, the cold commandery lord, is carrying a rare gu poison in his body, and the two of them work as equals, each with something the other cannot manage alone. Every person who betrayed her pays for it, and she helps Xie Ziwei settle the court and take hold of real power.
Oops! I Seduced Emperor!A modern girl, Sylvia, accidentally transmigrates into a cliché novel as a cannon-fodder side character. To escape her fate of being forced into a ghost marriage by her family, she sets out to seduce the Crown Prince for survival. But she makes a grave mistake—she accidentally charms the most powerful man in the empire, the Emperor himself.
The Dangerous Kind of LoveLou Chong's family had money and a political name in the capital, and he had a reputation at Xijing University that he did nothing to correct. He was good-looking and he behaved as he liked.
Li Xing was at the same university, the top scorer in the entrance exam and short of money. Being poor and being the one people looked at made her a target. Her grandmother's hospital bills came due, so she took online work standing in as a client's girlfriend for a fee. One client tried to force her during a booking. Lou Chong pulled her out of it, and that was how the two of them met.
A client calling himself Hunter then booked her for a month. Hunter was Lou Chong, and he kept the polite version of himself up in front of her while he arranged her days. She understood who he was when she met Hunter face to face, and she wanted out. He brought up the hospital bills and told her the contract stood, and said he would have her loving him inside the month. She told him it was not going to happen and stayed anyway, because of the bills.
For that month he was careful with her and she found a side of him she had not expected. The two of them were seen together in his Aston Martin, where he had lifted her onto his lap with one hand, her back against the wheel and his hand around her wrist while he showed her how. She was in love with him before the month was up.