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Hiring My Sweet WifeChloe Shaw finished school and went on living at her parents' place without working. They put her out of the house and told her to keep herself for three months. She went to her best friend, and heard from her that the friend's uncle was looking for a wife and paying a salary for the position. The money was enough for Chloe. She sat the interview, agreed to it, and the marriage was registered.
She had three months of doing nothing at someone else's expense planned out. What came out of the arrangement instead was that the man she had married had been in love with her for a long time before any of it.
I Married a Secret BillionaireSix months before any of it, Sydney and Evan met once, in prison.
Sydney later found out her boyfriend was sleeping with his boss. She went drinking. Outside the bar she walked into Evan, who is the richest man in Riverton, which she did not know. She asked him to marry her straight away and he agreed.
After the wedding her circumstances improved quickly, and her ex heard about it and took it badly. Sydney worked out gradually that the man she had married had more reach than she had assumed.
7 Years, and I'm Still His to ClaimLuo Yan left Cheng Jing and moved abroad. Cheng Jing spent the next seven years missing her and told no one. Seven years after she left, Luo Yan was assigned to interview him for a report. He saw who it was, slammed the door and walked out. Her boss ordered her to go to him in person and apologize. She went expecting the visit to be his way of getting back at her. When she opened the door, Cheng Jing met her with a heated declaration of love. Luo Yan did not hold out against it and began to fall for him again.
The Healer’s SecretEmmeline Miller takes the Grand Duke's heir to the County Governing Hall and files suit over what was done to her father. The magistrate hearing the case has already been bought by the Grand Duke. Emmeline is beaten until she is close to death and thrown out among the bodies in the mass graves.
She is a huntsman's daughter and has nothing behind her. A doctor named Alden Cross finds her there and treats her, and he keeps who he really is to himself. She does not trust him at first. That changes, and the two of them fall in love and get through what comes at them together.
Careful, You're DangerousSylvia comes back from overseas and finds the Shepherd family caught in a scheme their rivals set for them. She goes to Theo, a commander in Swallow City, and offers to become his secret lover in return for him pulling the family out of it.
Her parents abandoned her when she was small. Yale Shepherd took her home and raised her like a princess, and she read her dependence on him as love. The Shepherds found out about it and sent her abroad.
Theo has wanted her for years without saying so, and he has his own plans for winning her properly. She is kidnapped at one point, and what he does to get her back costs him. By degrees the way he handles her gets through, and she starts going back over what she felt for Yale.
Hooked Her Ex’s Forbidden BrotherSerena breaks up with her boyfriend. That night she goes to a bar and approaches a man she has never met. They spend the night together. She then learns that the man is Lucas, the younger cousin of the boyfriend she has just left. Lucas ranks first among the sons of the elite families of Kingsley and is the one person her ex has always been afraid of. Serena did not know any of this when she picked him out at the bar. Among those families Lucas is known for being cold and controlled.
Love Me, but Hurt Me?A fire in childhood killed Sophie Sutton's mother and the youngest daughter of the Morton family. The two households never recovered from it, and Sophie and Henry Morton, who had been close before the fire, grew up hating each other across that loss. Sophie spent years abroad. On the night she came home her father Philip got her drunk and had her put into Henry's bed, and neither of them understood until later that it had been arranged. Her brother had gone missing by then, and when Sophie pressed her father for help finding him, the condition he set was that she marry Henry. She agreed without arguing about it. The marriage put two people who blamed each other for a death into the same house, and they quarrelled in the open while wanting each other in private. Around them the families were fighting over property, and the terms Philip kept adding suggested he had a reason for wanting this particular match that had nothing to do with the missing son. Sophie began pulling at the fire, the inheritance, and her father's arrangements at the same time, aware that whatever she found would decide whether what she felt for Henry was allowed to be anything.
Feed the DemonClara Ríos is a grass spirit. She was sent down to the mortal world to help Leonardo Salazar, an immortal lord, through his Love Tribulation, and she understood her orders to mean she was to devour her master. What she actually needs from him is his kisses, which restore her own energy.
The Crown Prince and the immortal lady Carmen Montes both scheme against them, and Clara and Leonardo fight the two of them side by side. Over the course of it Clara stops wanting to devour him. She wants to stay with him.
The Marshal's Reborn BridePrincess Yun Jing is married at the end of the Qing dynasty, and her husband Shen Yifu leaves on the wedding night without explanation. She dies six months later. Her soul wakes ten years on, in the Republic era, in the body of a girl named Lin Yunzhi. This time she intends to decide her own life, so she goes to Shanghai to study, and finds Shen Yifu there as a university supervisor. He notices her gestures and mannerisms, which are those of his dead wife, and starts testing her. Meanwhile the Lin family is in trouble. Her eldest brother's oil research has attracted people who want it, and her elder sister's death does not hold up to examination. Handling those crises puts the two of them together, and feeling grows between them, and a habit of hers that nobody else could have known confirms for him who she is. The danger closes in, and to protect her and clear out the men behind it he returns to the army, taking up his old post as a young marshal. The reason he ran from the wedding comes out: he had been ordered away on revolutionary work and had no choice, which settles ten years of misunderstanding between them.
Playing Innocent, Winning His HeartSophie Stone got into bed with Victor Hayes to settle a score with the woman she was competing with, who is his niece. Victor is the money behind a large business house, and everyone around Sophie assumed that a girl her own family treated as a burden would be skinned alive for provoking him.
That is not how he handled it. He kept her, paid for her, and said in front of people who had known him for years that his support went to Sophie regardless of who was in the right.
The trouble came out of her own household. Her half-sister set her up, which put Sophie in the middle of the quarrel between the Stone family and the Hayes family, over business and over who was ending up with whom. There was a prize Sophie had won that she was accused of not having earned, and the accusation stood until the facts about it came out, along with the facts about where Sophie actually came from.
Veil of Revenge, Kiss of DesireThree sons of wealthy families drove a girl to take her own life. Her mother was beaten into a coma.
The girl was Beth Durham's younger sister. Beth dropped out of university and took work at Cloud Lounge, which is where Harvey Clark spends his evenings. Harvey holds more power than anyone else in the city, and getting near him was the whole reason Beth went there.
At the lounge she plays a woman who is fragile and easy to manage, and she works out each step before she takes it. Harvey attaches himself to her, possessive about it and giving her all of his attention. Beth had not allowed for that in her planning, and she ends up in love with him.
I Proposed To My Fiancé’s BrotherOn the eve of her engagement, a wealthy heiress discovers a mysterious novel on her future brother-in-law’s computer, with her and him as the secret leads. Believing he has loved her all along, she boldly proposes after her fiancé’s scandal breaks. Their contract marriage begins with hilarious misunderstandings and unexpected romance, until the truth behind the novel is finally revealed.
Reborn to Fall Back Into His ArmsMia Mason dies and opens her eyes three years earlier, keeping everything she knows and with none of it done yet. In the life she lost she was married to a man called Yin Ting, who gave her the silent treatment for the whole three years of the marriage, and she learned why only as she was dying. He had married her to get back at Ninth Master, the man who had raised her, and the person he actually wanted was his childhood friend Yu Tiantian.
Ninth Master is her guardian, the man who brought her up, cold and off on his own. In the first life she was frightened of him and ran, and she hurt him on her husband's account. Three years back, she goes to him instead and holds on to him, and what she wants now is to spoil him and look after him. She had liked him for a long time herself. He had buried what he felt and settled into the idea of being alone for good, so her going at him this hard is not something he was ready for.
Trash Man Stolen? Secret CEO Mine!Caroline and Lucy have been friends for years, and their lives went in opposite directions. Caroline married a man who became president of a corporate group and lived well. Lucy lost her husband and her money, and the envy ate at her until she attacked Caroline on her wedding day and then killed herself. Both of them wake on the day of the blind date that started it. Lucy goes after the man she knows Caroline is meant to marry, wanting the wealth that came with him. Caroline lets her have him and picks a plain working man instead. The working man is the heir to a fortune, a young company president keeping it quiet. Lucy believes she is the one running things.
Dominate Me Please, GeneralSu Miao was the legitimate daughter of the Duke's household, and she trusted her half-sister Su Mingyan and the Crown Prince Rong Yu. They destroyed her family, and she died in the cold palace. General Qin Yan died on the battlefield trying to protect her body. She opens her eyes on the night she was sent to Qin Yan's room. This time she makes him an offer: she will help him take power if he protects her family. What she does not know is that he remembers the last life too. He passes in public for a man with nothing to do and in fact commands the thirteen ghost guard armies, and he is possessive about her past all reason, clearing anyone out of her way. The bargain between them turns into something neither of them arranged. The Crown Prince's treason comes out, and so does what her half-sister really is. On the night of their wedding she goes up to the attic and finds the walls covered in portraits of herself.
From Probation to Proposal: Triplets with the CEOHuo Zhining spends the night with a woman he cannot afterwards identify, because someone had slipped a drug into his glass at a company function and he remembers almost none of it. The woman is Lin Xi, an intern in his own building. She grew up in a village, got into the finance program at one of the country's best universities, and took the job to pay for her mother, whose Alzheimer's has reached the point where she sometimes does not recognise her daughter. Lin Xi has no connections at the company, which is why her probation kept getting extended while colleagues with family in the industry were confirmed.
Two days later the notice comes through that she has been made permanent. She assumes the two things are connected and that she has traded her body for the position, so she says nothing about that night and arranges her days around not being in the same room as him. It does not work. She is put on his projects, sent up to his floor, kept in his sightline.
Then she finds out she is two months pregnant, with triplets, and that whatever passed between them has left the two of them physically linked in a way neither can explain: he wakes up nauseous in the mornings she does. Huo Zhining works out who she is, moves her into his house, and starts behaving like a man with a wife to look after, while Lin Xi is still carrying the belief that her job was bought and not earned.
My Boss Is a Villain? Watch Me Fix Her!Zoey Devro is the hanger-on of Elaine Luke, a rich girl in a novel called The CEO's Little Wife: Buy One Get One Free, which runs on old plots and has crooked values. Zoey has read it and knows how it goes. Elaine offends the male and female leads, her family is broken up over it, and the hanger-on who kept giving her bad ideas ends up no better off.
The system that put Zoey inside the book sets her the job of correcting the way Elaine throws herself at a man who is using her. Zoey stays close to her employer and blocks the worse ideas before they get anywhere. She helps Elaine turn on the man and show people what he actually is.
While that work is going on, Zoey keeps her grip on the rich girl's protection and builds up money and a career of her own.
Reborn Princess: The Shadow She CommandsShen Ting had a private army no one knew about, and after Xiao Jinning helped him to his marriage he turned it on the Xiao clan and killed all of them. She had loved him. Shen Xiao had been in it with him from the start.
She comes back to life at a point before any of that. Shen Ting's power is still unmapped as far as she knows, so she keeps her hatred to herself and waits. She takes Shen Xiao in and brings him up as her own, intending to make a weapon out of him. She works on Jiang Jihuai to bring him over, and she looks for Meng Jue, and the revenge gets laid out piece by piece.
The Shen Xiao in her household is Ling Yuan under a borrowed name, sent in to find whoever commands the Gu poison. What he turns up is that Xiao Jinning is the person who saved his life years before. He is pulled between hating her and wanting her, and when she is in danger he stops resisting it and goes ahead of her to clear what is in her path, asking for nothing except that she think well of him.
The Killer Heiress ReturnsFiora Levine ran the Falcon Guild, an assassin organization ranked first in the world. During a job she found out she was the daughter the Levine family had lost eighteen years earlier. The Levines controlled a financial conglomerate. She went back to them presenting herself as a weak girl raised in the slums and did not tell them what she did for a living. The family took her in and protected her.
Seth, a relative on the Levine side, began working with a mafia group to expose who she was and pull down the Levine house. Survivors of a gang called Black Dragon were waiting for a chance at revenge over the same period. The Levines' adopted daughter treated Fiora as an enemy at first and later worked alongside her. Fiora also met Wilfred Powell, who presented himself as a womanizer and was in fact the head of a syndicate called Night Owl.
The Prince Is My Second ChanceIn the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi the Northern Di invade. General Xie Boqing takes command of the army in the crisis. The emperor is a foolish and suspicious man, and he turns on the general, who is captured and executed. The general's daughter, Xie Yu, goes to Huaiyang City to collect her father's body, and beneath the city wall the imperial soldiers who came after her shoot her through with thousands of arrows.
Zhao Huaiyu, the fourth prince, is disabled and has loved Xie Yu in secret all his life. After her death he goes after power for the sake of revenge and in the end takes the throne. He has the Mermaid Lamp, which can turn time back at a price, and the price is the soul of someone who loves. He pays it and returns to the days before Xie Yu died. Under a false name he makes a bargain with her: she will be reborn and the two of them will change what is coming.
Back in the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi, Xie Yu tries to keep her father from marching and cannot, so she stays in the capital and works the court from the inside to keep him alive. When the emperor issues a decree arranging her marriage, she gives up the crown prince, who betrayed her in her first life, and chooses the fourth prince, Zhao Huaiyu, whom the rest of the court takes for a man of no account.
Tempting the Mafia BossAn Jing is an orphan from a family that lost its money, and her aunt intends to sell her to a wealthy merchant. To get out of it she goes after one of her aunt's lovers, Qin Buxiao, the second-in-command of the strongest gang in the port city, planning to take enough money from him to study abroad and leave. Buxiao works out what she is doing and keeps her at his side.
With the plan gone and the situation dangerous, she plays the obedient girl. Then she sees what he actually is. During a fight between gangs he puts his own body between her and the guns, and he arranges her overseas study application himself. He never hands it to her. His own gang turns on him, he is ambushed, and he goes into the sea.
An Jing goes abroad to study. There she runs into Qin Buxiao again, and he has lost his memory.
The Veiled VindicatorMia Smith wanted to finish school. Madeline Trott and the others around her made that impossible, and the bullying went on until Mia dropped out. Years later she tested into university with high marks and came back as a model student. Madeline was involved with Shawn Shane, and Mia worked into that relationship, playing the two of them against each other and setting traps one at a time while nobody traced the scandals back to her. She kept at it until the Trott family business went under and Madeline was convicted.
My Hired Boyfriend Is A Secret CEOYasmine Jones tells people at work that her boyfriend is the head of the company. It is not true, and it does keep the harassment off her. Then she has to produce him, so she pays a man to turn up and play the part. The man she hires runs the company.
She had left home under the name Yara Shields to get out of a marriage her parents arranged for her when she was small. She went to another city and took a junior job where nobody knew her family.
He does not tell her who he is. He was sick often as a boy and other children went after him for it, and she was the one person who stayed near him until his family moved away. He has come back from abroad to look for her. She does not recognize him, takes him for help she paid for, and he keeps playing whatever she needs him to be.
Loyal To The Crown Addicted To HerThe throne of the Southern Kingdom goes to Nangong Sheng because he is the legitimate son. He is not capable of much else and does not need to be, since the border general Chu Yuan stands behind him. Chu Yuan took command of a hundred thousand men at sixteen, swore loyalty to the throne and the country, and swore he would never marry.
Nangong Yao is the Princess Royal, and she watched her mother die when she was small. She grew up inside the palace holding that nobody can be trusted, and she goes after the throne with hard methods.
On a hunt she surrounds Nangong Sheng and moves to kill him. Chu Yuan lets himself be taken prisoner and humiliated to keep it from turning into a war between the two states. That is the first time he and Nangong Yao meet, and something comes of it that neither of them planned.
She treats his loyalty as a piece to be played, using aphrodisiacs and the offer of power to get him to turn on his master. He does not turn, and his reason for it, that he is there to protect ordinary people, is what reaches her.
Nangong Sheng is meanwhile dealing with agents out of Qi, and he frames Chu Yuan more than once and moves against him.
Pampered by My Silver Fox UncleJane Young, eldest princess of the Vermilion Kingdom, was fifteen on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony. Her soul left her body during it and woke in the body of an eight-year-old girl in the present day.
That girl had been swapped with another infant at birth and was the household's real daughter. Her family kept her at a distance and gave the other girl the attention, and she died of hunger.
Jane laughed once she understood the situation. A father is supposed to be kind and a child dutiful, she said, and since this one was not kind she would go and get another. She picked out a man the whole neighborhood wrote off as useless. She had been a princess of an imperial house, and she took the view that a grown layabout would not be much trouble to bring into line.
Reborn as a Princess… to KillSerena killed for Adrian York, only to die by his betrayal. Now reborn as the frail Lady Selene of Northvale, she must disguise strength as weakness. To strike back, she traps the Regent in her web. But as sparks turn to fire, can love survive a court built on lies…
My Sweet Husband Is a Secret TycoonEliana's father and her half-sister, a daughter he had outside his marriage, are working to stop her from inheriting the company that belonged to her mother. Eliana, of the Elliott family, went from a rich family's daughter to a woman with nothing almost overnight. Her answer is a plan to have a child and raise it without the father, which she believes will let her take the company back. At a club she picks out Keaton Massey for the job, judging him on his face and his build. She does not know that he is the richest man in the city, or that a car accident has just taken his memory.
The two of them end up living together without knowing each other's names, and Keaton follows her around all day acting sweet and clingy. He had been in love with her since her school days. When his memory returns he keeps his identity from her, buys up shares in the company on her behalf, and goes on acting obedient and cute, asking her whether being so well behaved has earned him a reward. The schemes her father and sister aim at her keep coming apart for reasons she cannot see. Eliana becomes pregnant with triplets, which throws Keaton's whole family into an uproar.
We Met Long Before the WeddingThe woman Gu Xiuyuan marries under protest is the girl he has spent sixteen years looking for, and he does not know it. When he was eight and living at a sanatorium with his legs ruined in a car accident, he met Xiao Cao, a child cut off from her family since she was small, who could heal living things and talk to animals and plants. She healed his legs. The two were taken away separately before they could say goodbye and lost all contact.
Sixteen years later Gu Xiuyuan runs the Gu Corporation. He is fussy, obsessive about cleanliness, and has stayed celibate all this time waiting for Xiao Cao, but every search for her has come up empty. A marriage arranged between the families forces him to take the Su family's second daughter, Su Tinghe, who is sent in as a substitute bride. Tinghe has the same brightness Xiao Cao had, and he thaws toward her more than he means to. His grandmother pushes the two of them together and they end up in bed. Then a lead on Xiao Cao finally turns up, and it points to Tinghe's elder sister Su Yutong, the Su heir who is said to have awakened a special ability. Gu Xiuyuan takes it as a choice between wronging Xiao Cao and letting Tinghe down.
His Longest SecretOn Emma's birthday, with the wedding close, Spencer took a call from his first love and left Emma alone out in the middle of nowhere. Two drunk men found her there and nearly assaulted her before Joshua got her away from them. She had stayed with Spencer through his worst years and was still with him when he came out of them. She called off the wedding and married Joshua almost immediately. Joshua had come back to Riverton not long before as the heir to a fortune there, and he had been in love with her for eight years, which she did not know when she agreed to it. He spent on her freely after that.
I Married Him to Destroy ThemRuan Hongxiu's parents were tortured to death by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she was forced to join the Prime Minister's Mansion and became the most humble slave under a contract of prostitution. An ant crawls out of the mud, and the only way to survive is to borrow a knife to kill people, and Anping Marquis Shen Zhiyan is the knife she chooses - he has power, hatred, and ambition. Ruan Hongxiu sent herself to the Hou Mansion, exchanged calculations for trust, and used her body for chips, leading Shen Zhiyan step by step to point the tip of the knife at the Prime Minister's Mansion. On the day of the wedding, an imperial edict made the person next to her a prisoner. She cut off the marriage in public, wanting to step on him to survive, but she didn't know that he had already prepared an escape route for her. Ruan Hongxiu has only regarded herself as a chess player in her entire life, and has never thought that anyone would be willing to play chess for her.
Flash Marriage with a BillionaireMu Qianxue's family has a marriage lined up for her, arranged the way they would arrange any other piece of business. Her answer is to go out, find a beggar on the street and register a marriage with him the same day.
The beggar is Feng Jiucheng, president of the Feng Group. His own brother set him up, and he came close to dying in a plane crash. He got out of it with injuries that took his memory, and he had been living on the street since, until Mu Qianxue gave him somewhere to stay.
She looks after him and his memory starts coming back in pieces, and with it what was actually behind the crash.
Answer to My HeartCecelia Collins wants to keep the child she is carrying. She has spent years under an arrangement that requires her to act as though she cannot speak, and when she is taken by kidnappers she comes to think Ivan Justice does not want the baby. She gets hold of a phone and calls him as one of the people holding her, which keeps him on the line without him knowing who he is talking to.
The calls go on and they are tense. Over the course of them the things the two of them had wrong about each other come apart. Ivan encourages her to give up the pretence, and she starts speaking as herself again.
My Dead Ex Came Back RichFive years ago she had money behind her and he had none, and her family made her sign the divorce papers to keep themselves safe. Word about his plane came the same day.
He comes back five years later. The crash was staged, he heads a conglomerate now, and she is the one with nothing left. He puts her to work in his house as a servant, the first of the things he does to her for the divorce. He does not know that the boy she has been raising by herself since the crash is his son.
The further he takes it, the more of those five years he turns up. He finds out that she sold everything she owned looking for him and borrowed money to pay for a grave, and that she took the humiliation without saying anything so the boy would be looked after. The boy is put in danger at one point, and after that he stops the revenge and starts trying to win her back.
Here's to One Night and a LifetimeLin Yuan gets drunk one night and walks into the wrong room. It belongs to Fu Mingxiu, one of the powerful men in Beijing's entertainment circles, and she spends the night with him. The next day she goes to the hospital for a physical and finds him there as well. He passes himself off as a doctor so he can examine her, and while she is sitting in front of him he arranges to see her again.
Lin Yuan assumes that squares things between them and that she is done with him. Fu Mingxiu keeps coming back. Her problems get handled before she has to deal with them, and when people bully her he settles it on her behalf. She has been telling him all along that she has a boyfriend. Once he works out there is no boyfriend, he stops holding back and goes after her openly.
Sassy Wife & Mischievous GuardThe Ford family had settled on a bride from the Yeager household. The daughter promised to them was the younger stepsister, and the household sent Sienna Yeager in her place. Sienna had arrived in the body of a girl that household had been knocking about for years, having come from a thousand years earlier with no part in arranging any of it. She went through with the wedding because refusing would have cost her more.
Theodore Ford, the heir she married, died in a car accident on her first day in the house.
She stayed on anyway. She got the old madam onto her side, brought the younger brother and sister into line, and before long the household ran the way she wanted it to. The plan after that was an easy life on Ford money. Then she began to notice that the bodyguard the old madam had assigned to her was looking at her with more nerve each time, and that he was always somewhere close by.
You Are My Heart's DesireYears after a forced breakup, my ex-boyfriend's mother took the money and begged me to get back together with him!
“The affection of poorness is worthless.” My family company went bankrupt, my father committed suicide, my mother was critically ill, and I had no choice but to take my boyfriend's mother's money and leave him! Unexpectedly, many years later, his mother once again came to me with a huge amount of money, and begged me to return to his side! Little did I know, he had become a dominant CEO and all he wanted was to get back together with me! Should I say yes this time?
I Tamed the City's Deadliest ManThe Regent is the man the capital steps aside for. People who cross him are used as the example, and it has been a long time since anyone tried.
Jiang Li reads the novel this place comes out of and complains about it the whole way through, and then she is inside it, in the body of the girl the book puts through everything. She has more physical strength than she knows what to do with and no ability to sit still. She decides early that if she is not going to be comfortable, nobody else is either. She hits the people written to hurt her, talks back at court, takes on her own family, and spends a night with the Regent. The ones who were supposed to ruin her come apart instead, far enough that they start doubting what they thought they knew. The Regent has never met anyone who is not afraid of him, and he keeps finding reasons to be wherever she is.
Fallen for the BeastLin Chuxia wants the Lin Group, which her own family holds and will not let her near. The business is in trouble, and the price of saving it is a marriage she does not choose, to Lu Li, a man whose face is disfigured. She marries him and then works with him to take the company back. Her relatives come after her for it, over and over. Lu Li protects her and puts his own weight behind her, and she gets a footing inside the company.
While that is going on, a man she does not recognize keeps turning up around them, and she begins to doubt that her husband is who he says he is. They get through the crises together and grow closer, and she is still trying to work out who Lu Li actually is.
Don't Save Me, StepbrotherSloane leans on her stepbrother Oliver for everything. Her stepfather puts his hands on her and her mother flatters him and says nothing about it, so when the ground gives way under her, Oliver is what she catches hold of. He is not as strong as she needs him to be. She knows it, and she keeps taking his kindness and his sense of right anyway, and she survives on it.
To her he is the one who saved her life and walked her back toward morning, and she is the disaster he pays for by being a decent person. Believing that, she leaves the coastal city to give him his freedom back. She does not turn around, so she does not see him watching her go.
The Hidden Half of LoveEmily Davis mistook Julian Evans for the man who had saved her life. She signed a three-year marriage contract with him. During the marriage Julian treated her with cold silence and manipulated her, and there were provocations from the people around her. When the contract expired she saw Julian being affectionate with another woman and terminated the contract.
Felix Evans, the man who had actually saved her, then stepped in. He protected her from Julian's schemes and helped her start her own business. Julian set a trap that would expose the truth. Felix cleared away each obstacle put in her path.
Scent of RevengeEvelyn witnessed her mother killed and was sent away for a decade… Back home, she seduces General Lucian as her pawn to strike at her father. But revenge is messy, hearts get tangled… Will she succeed—or lose everything she holds dear?
Love Beyond SightClaire sets out to trap a rich man into marriage, and the man she picks is Ethan Lancaster, who has been in love with her since university without ever saying so. She does not recognize him. Back then he helped her again and again, but she was badly short-sighted and had no money for glasses, so she never saw his face clearly. He has since made a success in business.
Claire grew up in a family that only counted its sons. Her parents ignored her and used her when it suited them, and the one person who was warm to her was her grandmother. The grandmother is now ill, and the marriage scheme is Claire's way of paying for her care. Ethan knows exactly who Claire is. He plays along as the man being fooled and turns her plan back on her, so that she is the one who ends up caught, and once she is, he keeps her at his side.
Clash of Hearts: She Who Builds Her ThroneMing Yuntang practices as a Dao physician, and she is made to marry Rong Jingyu, the heir of his house, who has a reputation for madness and for violence. Rong Jingyu takes her in for a practical reason. A wife keeps his stepmother occupied, and with the stepmother occupied he can put his attention on the crown prince.
Ming Yuntang means to keep her head down. People with something to gain keep turning up in front of her, near enough every day, so she deals with them, and she changes the method each time so the job does not go stale. She settles the inner household on her own, then goes further and cripples the crown prince, which was not what Rong Jingyu had asked for.
The trouble grows past what he had planned around. He spends his days climbing, he arrives at a position of real power as a corrupt official with the court in his hands, and his true identity turns out to hold a secret of another sort.
Loved You Before You KnewIn their circle a marriage between two families is taken to be about money, and nobody looked past that with He Zhizhou and Wen Ning. He was cold to her for years and never explained himself, so she believed it as well.
Her father was arrested and the case went against him. Wen Ning was pushed into work accompanying guests at drinking parties. He Zhizhou said nothing to her about it and went after the case on his own, and the verdict was overturned.
She found out she was pregnant and ran. He went after her, took a knife wound in the course of it, and would not let go of her.
At their wedding he told her he had loved her since high school and had been looking out for her the whole ten years.
Unveiled Desires: A Twisted RomanceJoyce Reed married Jeremy Robinson days after she found out her boyfriend had been sleeping with her closest friend for most of the time they were together. She married him without knowing who he really was.
Before that she was a college student caught in a setup arranged by her cousin, which put her in a room with Jeremy for a night. She spent the weeks afterward sick with the idea that she had cheated, until the truth about her boyfriend and her friend came out. Jeremy was known around Harbor City as a man with money and reach; how much of either, she learned later.
After the wedding came his jealousy, his protectiveness, and spending on a scale she had no reference for. He made no secret of how he felt about her and gave no sign of dropping the matter.
My One-Night Lover Is My Contract HusbandEmily Green returns home only to be greeted by an unexpected gift from her mother—a marriage certificate. Rumor has it her husband is a total jerk. Determined to get a divorce, she accidentally spends the night with a charming escort, only to discover he's actually her mysterious husband!
My Revenge? Marriage with the Richest!Zack Gomez and the woman he kept took the Yale family money and then killed Nancy Yale for what was left. She opens her eyes again some time before the wedding that set all of it in motion.
This time she wrecks the ceremony in front of the guests and registers a marriage with Liam Swift, the richest man in Riverton, on terms the two of them agree beforehand. Her father's company comes with a performance agreement she has six months to meet or lose it. She works those six months with Liam behind her. There is a fight over scandium, more lies out of the man she was going to marry, and business rivals coming at the company from the side. Somewhere in it she gets at what actually happened to her parents.
Broken Bonds, Shared FireSu Jinyan was left as an orphan by her birth mother, Liu Qingyi. Ling Yao grew up in the same woman's house as her stepson, watched and managed by her. Su Jinyan approached Ling Yao on purpose. The two became involved, and the relationship broke both of their lives apart. Su Jinyan set a trap that pulled Ling Yao down from the top of everything he had, and after it closed she left without a trace.
Years later Ling Yao filed a report against her that ended her medical training. He brought her back to the rented room they had used before and kept her there. They lived under the label of brother and sister, hurting each other and taking warmth from each other in the same rooms.
The man who killed her father turned out to be someone else. Ling Yao's fall had been staged and Su Jinyan's revenge had been cover for something else. The two of them work together against the person behind it all.
I Came Back for YouLucian Foster was adopted into the Foster family as a child so that his blood would be on hand for Adrian. The two of them grew up inside that arrangement, and what came out of it ran between beatings and protection in both directions. Lucian holds the Foster Group now. Adrian is the heir on the paperwork, a sculptor who keeps a mild face on in front of his brother.
Adrian's biological father, Vincent Chase, faked his death years ago and is still alive. He keeps Lucian on a poison, and that is who is actually running the company through him.
Skyler Sullivan puts venture money into companies, and she noticed the Foster Group's stock moving in ways it should not. When she came to look into it, Adrian let her see the broken version of himself, on the calculation that a woman who takes things apart would want to take him on as well. The two of them began shorting the company's stock together. Then a car crash took Adrian's memory, and in the gap the childhood between him and Lucian came back.
My Heart Has Always KnownNina Judd married Sean Zane in her sister's place. The sister vanished before the ceremony and her father put Nina in the marriage instead, which was also how she got her mother away from him after years of him hurting her.
Sean is the heir to the Zanes, one of the richest families in the capital, and he left on a business trip on the first day of the marriage. He worked constantly and had little to say to her. Nina decided the arrangement suited her. She was careful in the role of Mrs. Zane, treated her husband as a business partner, and kept to her side of the distance between them.
One night he closed that distance himself. He told her he was not happy with how polite she was with him, or with how well she kept her manners in place.
My Perfect CEO Husband in TrainingThe engagement is arranged for her without her agreement. A freelance photographer is told she will be engaged to the chief executive of a corporate group, a man she finds stiff and dull. She hands him a list of three rules meant to keep her life her own, and she expects to be bored by him.
He is quiet with her and attentive in small ways, bringing her shoes over and making her hot drinks. That starts to work on her. Then something out of her mother's past makes her misread him, and she calls the engagement off and leaves. Away from him she realizes what she feels. A run-in with a man who once courted her makes the mistake plainer. The chief executive turns up in a temper on her behalf, and after that he follows her.
Kill Cinderella’s ScriptSong Zhenxing worked out that she was a supporting character in someone else's story, one of the ones written to die early, and she stopped behaving like it. A man her family matched her with tried to make her the other woman in his life and she stabbed him. Her relatives moved on the family company and she took the shares back off them, with her brother alongside her. Her mother kept arranging more matches, so she hired a man of her own instead, a twenty-year-old named Lu Zheng, who did as he was told and asked for nothing.
He stayed pliant for as long as it suited him. She woke one day somewhere she did not recognize, with Lu Zheng standing over her, smiling, and nothing gentle left in his face. He was the fiancé her family had settled on for her before any of it, and he had spent the whole arrangement letting her think she was the one who had hired him.
His Athlete BoyfriendIn the ring box Zane keeps there is a slip of paper marked D.K., and Damian finds it. Daisy is captain of the cheer squad. Damian settles on her as the person the ring is meant for.
Damian plays soccer at Oak Valley High and Zane is captain of the football team, and the two of them have been rivals for a long time. Zane kissed him without warning at training and has been after him openly ever since, having wanted him for years. Damian holds him off. They needle each other, Zane carries him in his arms once, there are flowers by the sea, and there are stretches where each of them stays out of the other's way.
A kiss in drama class is real on both sides. Zane puts himself in front of Damian during trouble in an alley. Damian's guard comes down some. Then something at the school dance is taken the wrong way and Damian arranges to graduate early so he can be gone.
Hell? Just My Flirting Game.A man finishes a dating game. To chase excitement, he pursues all the female characters and unlocks the final achievement. Then, a global trial that decides the fate of nations begins. He is unexpectedly chosen. To his shock, he finds out this is the exact game world he just completed. How will he take control of this world?
Love, Lies, And LeverageElite lawyer Kylin Taylor walks into a cafe and finds her fiance Zane Walker attending tenderly to his mistress. She doesn't make a scene. That night, she slides a condom into a legal contract and hands it to Zane's closest friend, David Evans, Eryland's most talked-about playboy. "Hotel tonight? It's on me." What begins as cold, surgical revenge becomes something stranger: she uses David to deliver Zane a humiliation; David plays along with every sign of enjoying himself.But as the game deepens, he drops the act entirely and and starts betting everything he has on her instead of the thrill. Kylin realizes, with a jolt, that she never had control of this board to begin with. Someone laid these pieces into position ten years ago, and it wasn't her.
Mind Leak: Family On AlertAdrian ended things with Vanessa. Mandy set her up for something she had not done, and inside a day the industry was treating her as a joke.
Victor had been her first love years earlier. He came back into contact with her with an arrangement already worked out, and the two of them started by using each other against the same people. They went through the Yale family's business together, and what came out of it was the way the company had been run against her, an heir the family had never acknowledged, and old business about who inside it had informed on whom. Vanessa was the one who took it public.
From Fake Marriage to ForeverMadeline drove her stepdaughter out of the house as a child and let the rest of the family believe her dead. Years later Ruth Sinclair comes back to Veridia's capital under the identity of the chancellor's discarded eldest daughter, meaning to find out what really happened to her grandmother.
The household marries her off to Ryan Hayes, the young lord everyone in the capital calls a wastrel, a man who spends his nights at wine houses and his afternoons asleep. The wedding is arranged for reasons that have nothing to do with either of them. Ruth treats the marriage as cover for her investigation and sets about trying to reform her husband's habits while she works the case on the side. Ryan keeps turning up exactly when she is in danger, always with some excuse about passing by.
She starts to suspect he is not what he appears. He runs Whisperwind, an intelligence network operating out of the capital, and the drinking and gambling are a costume he put on years ago and never took off. Once she confirms it, the two stop circling each other and start comparing notes, and the case opens out from a private grudge inside the chancellor's household into a conspiracy reaching Madeline and into dealings with a foreign power.
Working the investigation together, sharing rooms, arguing over evidence and strategy, the two of them stop performing the marriage and start living something closer to it. Ryan tells her once that if she ever throws him out a window she'll regret it. She says she'll take the risk. He laughs and asks if she really could bear to.
The Bastard Heiress: Eleanor's RevengeEleanor was executed by the family who raised her. Now she's reborn.
This time, she won't save them. She lets the keys slip, the silver bleed, the scandals bloom. A masked assassin offers an alliance, but his secrets cut deeper than her own. When the final secret drops, her family won't just lose their fortune. And she'll finally be free...
This Lady Slays the GameMariana holds the title Lady Serenity and a fortune to go with it, and she is engaged to Luther, a cavalry general. She finds him with a courtesan from a pleasure house. The affair is the smaller injury. Luther had claimed for years that he was the man who saved her life when she was young, and he built his standing with her on that claim while what he actually wanted was her money and her rank. Mariana strikes a bargain with a stranger named Bradford: they will act as a couple in public and use it to strike back. Bradford is the Marquis of the North, and he is the man who really pulled her out of danger that night. He has loved her since without saying so. Her father objects to the match, and the Empress Dowager issues a marriage decree that has nothing to do with what either of them wants. The Second Prince, working with Luther and the courtesan, arranges a kidnapping and then a poisoning, and the two of them pick the plots apart one at a time.
The Childhood Friend I Couldn't ResistThe reason Ian Warren gave for marrying Alice Clare on a few days' notice was invented. He had been looking for her for eighteen years, he had just found her, and he was afraid she would go missing a second time, so he produced a pretext that would hold and had the wedding done.
He had been a sick child once, sent out of Granton to the countryside to recover, and a girl he met there kept at him until he agreed to the operation. It worked. They set a day to meet again, and on that day Alice was gone and nobody could say where.
After the wedding Ian, by then the richest man in Granton, kept her comfortable and gave her whatever she wanted, on the understanding that he was the one arranging everything. He worked out later that Alice had walked into the trap knowing it was one. She had been planning her way toward the same marriage since the countryside.