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Blade Or Bride?A massacre over a legendary golden burial suit leaves Diego Rios with one jade fragment and a vow to avenge his father. He later marries the woman who once stabbed him, never recognizing her after her face was changed. When their identities surface, Diego turns his sword on his wife—until the true architect of both tragedies arrives and forces them to fight side by side.
The Dragon Princess ReturnsShe sacrificed her magical blood to build her human husband's empire, only to catch him cheating! To save his mistress, he violently drains her blood, killing their unborn child. Rescued by her royal family, the true Dragon Princess returns! She reclaims her wealth, fires her cheating ex, and finds true love with a billionaire CEO.
A Wasted Life, A Brand New DreamHe gave his family everything, even turning down a space program. They repaid him with public humiliation. Broken, he walked away and chased the dream he buried decades ago, serving his country and rekindling a lost love. When a man who lost everything finally chooses himself, can the past ever be reclaimed?
I Made Them Rich, They Ruined ThemselvesA kind entrepreneur builds a pet clothing factory in a remote village to help locals get rich. However, greedy villagers detain goods and raise prices during peak orders. She leaves without hesitation to protect her brand. The villagers’ reckless use of toxic fabrics causes severe accidents, landing them in court with ruinous debts and prison sentences.
Betrayed by Him, Chosen by a KingBetrayed by the man she sacrificed everything for, a determined businesswoman loses it all overnight. Just when she thinks love is over, she marries a mysterious stranger and fights to reclaim her family’s fortune. But her new husband hides a shocking identity—and their love faces its greatest challenge when enemies strike.
I Rebuilt The Corrupt Car IndustryChen Feng inspects used cars, and he is good enough at it that the dealership he worked with built its whole reputation on his word, advertising every car on the lot as accident free because he had signed off. His partner took the credit, cut his share, and talked down to him in front of staff. Chen Feng resigned with nothing lined up. He started again on his own, keeping to the same standard, and began writing reports for ordinary buyers instead of sellers. With his eye and his measuring tools he found what dealers had covered up: cars that had been under flood water, cars welded back together out of wrecks, odometers rolled back, deals worth millions built on a lie. His appraisals stood up when the sellers disputed them, and buyers who had been cheated used them to get their money back. Word spread through the trade. He built the business around what the reports said rather than what a seller wanted them to say, and other dealers began having to work to that standard.
She Made Him, She Broke HimShe was a billionaire's daughter who wanted to be loved for herself. So she marries a poor man, builds her husband's empire, only to be betrayed by his affair. So she pulls her funding, reveals her identity, and collapses his world. And she finally marries the man who never stopped loving her.
Secrets We Only Told Each OtherA fallen heir and a reclusive writer trade their darkest secrets online, healing each other in the quiet. They miss again and again in the real world. Then, across a roaring street, they scream a confession louder than any fiction. When two broken souls finally collide, can a love built in the dark survive the light?
This Husky Is A Detective!A detective is reborn as a husky about to be stewed. He binds to a police dog system and turns chaos into his greatest weapon. He tears down villas, sniffs out bombs, and rises from cooking pot to legendary hero. When a husky starts solving crimes, can the world handle justice on four paws?
Single Mom, Big BossAfter her husband runs away with everything, a young mother leaves her old life behind and takes her daughter to a new city. Starting with nothing, she turns her sewing skills into a business empire while facing betrayal, schemes, and those who want to see her fail.
My Arrogant Bully Falls FirstLiam and Aiden treat each other as enemies. They provoke each other in public and argue whenever they are in the same room, and the arguing does not cool anything down. Aiden's pride keeps him from saying anything straight, so Liam reads him as untrustworthy, and Liam's own assumptions about Aiden turn small incidents into grudges. Both of them keep secrets from the other, which is part of why the misunderstandings hold for as long as they do.
After a long run of fights they admit what they actually feel and get together. New trouble is already forming around them by then.
Wasteland SovereignCain conceals his supernatural power and position as ruler of Dome City, living as a scavenger while searching for his girlfriend. She sees only poverty and joins a wealthy young man in humiliating him, while kindhearted Vera stands apart from their cruelty. After defeating each attack in silence, Cain reveals his authority, punishes his enemies, severs the false romance, and chooses a future with Vera.
The Hidden Master Returns to a Noob ArmyTen thousand years after the nuclear war, recluse Silas dwells in the wasteland’s Grey Zone. He casually shatters an S-class radiation storm with a slipper, spotted and recruited by his former apprentice, Imperial General Valeris. Dismissed by aides as a powerless F-rank weakling, he casually slays an S-class beast, yet is only deemed lucky. He later reveals his forbidden SSS+ strength, eliminates traitors and foes, and sacrifices himself to slay the apocalyptic Glutton.
The Baby Daddy Is a God of WarFive years ago, Adrian hid from his enemies as a ranch hand. By accident, he ended up spending one wild night with Victoria, a powerful CEO. Now, she's back with their daughter, Mia — and a marriage proposal he never saw coming. Adrian just wants to stay hidden. But when Victoria and their daughter are humiliated and nearly killed, he stops holding back: He's really the CEO of Black Shield, a global arms empire, and the heir to a Texas dynasty. Everyone who hurt his family is about to pay…
The Substitute Bride & His Ultimate RegretMia, an adopted daughter, is forced by her fiancé Derek and biased family to take her pregnant sister Vanessa’s place and marry Alvise, a mafia godfather rumored to be cruel and paralyzed. Framed repeatedly by her sister, abandoned on a desolate street and nearly assaulted by thugs hired by Vanessa, Mia is rescued by Alvise at her darkest hour.
Stolen HeiressTo stay low-key, Chloe, the real conglomerate heiress, hides her identity. Housekeeper Martha lets her daughter Mia steal Chloe’s valuables to pretend to be a rich heiress. With nouveau riche Julian, Mia bullies and slanders Chloe at school. At a manor banquet, Mia occupies the main seat in Chloe’s ancestral gown. Enraged, Chloe smashes the window. Her tycoon parents rush back from overseas, kick the manor door open with security and lawyers, and expose the fraud with solid evidence.
The Heiress's Reunion GameEvelyn is taken in by her biological family, the nouveau riche Millers, who abandoned her years ago. She faces constant humiliation: her adopted sister Chloe gives her a $1,000 discount card, her brother Charles calls her a “savage,” and her parents offer her cheap second-hand items. At school, Chloe has a classmate throw coffee on her and forces her to wear a maid costume.The Countdown of FavoritismThe family could see the countdown to Rosalind's life. Believing she would not live past eighteen, they poured all their resources into favoring her, while mistreating her younger sister, Elowen. When Elowen ran a high fever, her parents locked her in the cold, dark basement while they busied themselves preparing for Rosalind's eighteenth birthday. The girl died in despair.
Taming My Four Villain SonsOrdinary Lucy wakes as Luna, the villainous stepmother in otome game Night of the Blood Oath—right after gouging her youngest son Ian's eyes. To survive brutal death at the hands of her four twisted stepsons (obsessive, calculating, untamed, broken), she must reverse their hatred through an unbreakable blood oath. A perilous game of survival, redemption, and forbidden desire begins.
General's Widow: Iron Feather RisesA legendary general gives up her career for her husband, only to return and find him living with another woman, her father's heirlooms destroyed, and her loyal horse tortured to death. She puts on her armor, reclaims her army, and rides toward revenge. The Iron Feather rises again.
Rescued By The Fierce HeroIn the village a divorced woman still counts as her husband's family's business, and anything said about her stays said. Zhou Yanwan is the one it lands on. Her ex-husband's people work her and push her around, and the neighbours keep the talk going.
Lin Shu comes back to the village. He stands with her in front of the people repeating it, and the two of them end up together. They go into hauling and vehicle rental to get out from under the poverty and the reputation. Wang Zhen, Zhao the Third and Chen Mengrou go after them, first over the house and the money, then with an accusation that Lin Shu had been embezzling. After that they bring in traffickers, who drug Zhou Yanwan and carry her off. Lin Shu has a service record behind him, decorated, that he had not mentioned to anyone, and it comes out while he is going after her.
Dumped as a Nobody, I Return as a Queen!Chloe made a bet with Adrian, a friend from childhood: she would dress as a girl from the slums and chase Liam until he gave in. She kept it up for three years, following him, confessing over and over, doing whatever he asked. On the 1,081st confession he humiliated her in front of everyone. She said "Game over" and walked out. She was the heir to the Costa family the whole time, and she went back to that name. Liam found out what she was and started looking for her. By then she was preparing to marry Adrian. Liam joined with Viviane and went to the wedding to wreck it. The two of them lost.
My Husband Cheated With My RobotAfter meeting a tragic end in her past life, He Chuyan is reborn at the crucial moment when she was framed. She exposes the plot of her fiancé and cousin on the spot, cutting off all ties with them without hesitation.
In this new life, she takes the initiative to approach Lu Mingzhao, president of the Lu Group, who sacrificed himself to avenge her in her previous life. Side by side, they bring their enemies to ruin, and stand united against internal family conflicts. Eventually, they uncover her second uncle's power-grabbing scheme and remove all obstacles.
With everything settled, Lu Mingzhao takes full control of the family business and proposes to her romantically. Their fate was sealed long ago. After two lifetimes of deep affection, they finally embrace a happy ending.
The Wolf Clan's Holy Son ReturnsTwo best friends accidentally travel into a novel as doomed minor characters. Faced with destined tragic ends, one pretends to be delicate to win the aloof prince, while the other transforms into a bold lady to tame the ruthless hostage.
Using modern wisdom, they fight back at royal feasts and launch businesses in the capital. They reverse their fate amid dangerous power struggles, and make cold-hearted villains succumb to love. Witness the two heroines break predicaments and turn defeat into victory side by side.
Ring of the dark：Elven KnightShen Mingshu loved Pei Qingyan for seven years and waited five years to marry him. Yet at the spring banquet, she watched him give her destined marriage lot to Jiang Xuelan. Bedridden with a high fever, she was accused of putting on a pity act. Devastated by his coldness and abandonment, she gave up hope, broke off the engagement, and married Xiao Chengyu, the heir of Lord Zhongyong. When Pei Qingyan came to his senses and pestered her relentlessly, Shen Mingshu resolutely went to the border with Xiao Chengyu. Having long loved her at first sight, Xiao Chengyu won her heart in return, and they found mutual happiness. Meanwhile, the stubbornly deluded Pei Qingyan ended up reaping what he sowed.
Hidden Director"I died on a snowy night, filled with hatred and regret for my husband.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day of our engagement.
In this life, I will love him no more.
That valiant general shall be my true destiny."
The Fake Heiress Takes All"The legendary General of Zhenbei, whose fierce reputation struck fear even into children at night, actually took off his face mask in public to marry the most beautiful woman under heaven.
No one could have imagined his unparalleled beauty that could captivate all living beings."
I’m Pregnant, It’s Not YoursA man's white moonlight is the first love he never got over, the woman every later one gets measured against. Iris is married to a man who has one, and his secretary has the same face as her. That is where his attention goes.
Iris does not argue about it. She asks for a divorce and tells him that the child she is carrying is not his, and then she leaves without looking back. Five years later she comes back with a position of her own and a new man beside her, and by then her ex-husband regrets the whole thing.
Storage War They Sold Me Trash. I Bought Their KingdomBetrayed by his fiancée and buried in debt, fallen heir Jack Miller awakens a mysterious power that reveals the hidden value of forgotten treasures. Turning worthless junk into fortunes, he rises from a penniless outcast to a powerful tycoon. But as his family's downfall is exposed, Jack begins a ruthless path of revenge.
Marked by the Leopard KingSylvia of the Deer Clan is framed by her sister and bound in a soul contract after one night with feral Snow Leopard Emperor Leopold. She hides for five years to raise their gifted triplets beyond the reach of beast-clan law. When her sister attacks again at an imperial banquet, the bond restores Leopold's memory—and the children's golden leopard eyes reveal three royal heirs.
Married for Justice: Every Lie UnravelsExiled for 20 years after being framed by High Priest Lothair, Thunder God King Renault is brought back to Asgard by Valkyrie Silvia during a fire demon invasion. Hiding his identity, he secretly crushes rivals and elevates a lowborn wind god. When Lothair uncovers him and allies with the Fire Demon King to sacrifice Silvia, Renault reclaims his hammer, returns as God King, destroys the demons, and rebuilds Asgard under a merit-based order.
A Taste of Justice: Served with HonorDavid, a retired veteran living under an alias to run a sandwich shop, bravely rescued Emily from a burning car crash, only to be framed by her, her husband Richard, and Matthew for stealing 80,000 dollars and harassment. The trio incited public opinion via livestreaming to force him to transfer his shop, and even threatened him using his critically ill mother. David turned to his group of 387 veteran comrades for help, and lawyers, detectives, doctors, and tech experts quickly rallied.She Defended Him, Then Took Him DownTo get life-saving asthma medicine for her daughter Mia, lawyer Vivian Stone is forced to defend Ryan Carter, the son of Seaton's richest man, who is accused of assaulting a woman. But Ryan and his gang target Mia instead. After seeing what they did to her daughter, Vivian reveals who she is and publicly cuts ties with the Carter family. When the trial begins, The public is on the Carter family's side. Then Vivian walks in. This time, she's the lawyer for the victim.
Blood HarvestMorrison, a former top CIA operative, lives under an assumed name after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, leading a quiet farming life in a small town with his daughter Vivian. The local criminal syndicate, the Rosetti family, covets his farmland. To force Morrison into submission, Theodore, the family's young heir, kidnaps the 17-year-old Vivian and tortures her to death brutally. Having lost his sole emotional anchor, Morrison casts aside his medication restraints entirely, unearths the stockpile of weapons he has hidden away for a decade, and storms the Rosetti manor alone to exact revenge. Senior figures within the city's police force, municipal government and the CIA are all well aware of Morrison's terrifying combat prowess from his past. They order an emergency city-wide evacuation and stand aside to let him wipe out the entire criminal family, kicking off a brutal vendetta of blood for blood. Revolving around paternal love, trauma, corrupt power networks and unbridled vengeance, the story interweaves the lingering shadows of past killings with the mutual despair and devastation of the present, unfolding an unstoppable bloody reckoning.
Reborn as the Pampered HeiressLu Daniu went into the water after her younger brother when they were children and nearly drowned getting him out. She stayed with the family until his wedding was arranged and left before it, so that she would not be a weight on them.
She is born again as Lin Xi, the daughter of a rich household. In this life her mind is quick and she finds she can paint. Her mother, Xie Wan, and her older brother, Lin Jingxuan, put money and time behind her without asking anything for it. A set of paintings she calls Rebirth takes the gold prize at a fine art award, and she gets a show of her own.
Her first family comes looking for her and asks to be forgiven. Lin Xi turns them down and stays where she is.
A Doctor? Now She's Their Ruin!In the novel there is a daughter the household bullies and the story disposes of, and she leaves grudges behind her. A surgeon wakes up in that body, under that name. A system starts talking and puts terms on the table: clear the grudges the first girl left, and there is a payment in silver and a way back to the century she came from.
She wakes drugged. She holds out against it long enough to get out of the room, and on the way she runs into a warlord and ends up with him. Back at the family house they are cold with her and take nothing she says as true. The warlord backs her, and she goes at the household with what she knows from a hospital and a modern life, which none of them have any answer for.
The Supreme Father ReturnsA legendary martial supreme returns to the city just in time to stop his daughter's true love from being destroyed! Fiercely protective, he crushes the arrogant villains bullying his child. Along the way, he reunites with his long-lost billionaire wife after twenty-three years. Watch as he reveals his terrifying true identity and dominates the city!
I Wanted to Be a Hero, But I Messed Up!A clumsy teenager dreams of becoming a superhero and earning everyone's admiration, but he keeps ruining everything. After finding magical piano keys, he gains real superpowers—only each strange ability comes with a ridiculous, uncontrollable side effect. His already chaotic school life spirals into even greater disorder as he tries to become the hero he imagined.
One Lottery Makes Me RICHA scientist becomes a janitor after funding his wife's cancer treatment. She betrays him with his boss. They throw a losing lottery ticket in his face, it's worth a hundred million. He hides the win, buys the company, fires the betrayers, and returns to tech innovation. Revenge is in the fine print.
The Thug Plays A SpyYe Chen, chief instructor of the Dragon unit, is sent in to recover a stolen national treasure, the head of an ancient bronze Buddha. His cover is a street thug, and it puts him next to Shen Rushuang, chairwoman of the Tianqi Group, whom he is also there to protect. Lei Tai, who runs the local criminal outfit, comes at them repeatedly and Ye Chen breaks up each attempt. The cover costs him elsewhere. He cannot tell Mu Wanqing, his fiancee, who has waited years for him, what he actually is, and she takes what she sees at face value and leaves him. The Buddha head that surfaces turns out to be a fake, and working back from that reveals the leak inside his own organisation: Lin Yue, the Dragon unit secretary. She takes the real Buddha head, takes Shen Rushuang with her, and runs for open water. Ye Chen goes after them across the sea, and finishing the job means deciding what to do about the identity he has been carrying.
My Live Stream Saved an Entire VillageA livestream host promises huge compensation after a shipping mistake and goes viral overnight, facing massive order losses. He launches creative rural self-pickup activities and traditional feasts to attract urban crowds. Tourists and corporate teams flood the village, clearing stagnant crops and boosting local tourism. Can his casual mistake spark a brand-new rural revival?
That Modern Girl Became a Princess!A skeptical college student accidentally time-travels and becomes a prince's wife in a turbulent dynasty. No Wi-Fi, no rights, just ancient rules and hidden enemies. But she has modern logic, sharp wit, and zero patience for palace nonsense. She didn't ask for this. She's about to own it.
Despised Crow Bride Rules the Three RealmsHated for her lowly crow form, a princess is forced to marry a disabled outcast dragon. Hidden within her lies a sealed colorful phoenix bloodline, awakened by true love. She heals her husband and blesses aquatic clans. Facing cruel schemes and demonic chaos, she unveils her true form. Can the pair conquer all evils and reign over the three realms?My Husband Cheated With My RobotGenius Sera gave her husband wealth, fame and love, but he chained her to train tracks to kill her. For years, he played sick SM games with her robot. Reborn at the Global Tech Summit, she watches him steal her tech firm. But the summit is her trap to ruin him. When he cheers his fake win, he learns the wife he hated owns the whole tech business.The Wolf Clan's Holy Son ReturnsBetrayed by his mother and robbed of his birthright, a fallen prince escapes the dark abyss. He returns not just to reclaim his throne, but to crush the impostor who stole his destiny, rescue his captive father, and ignite the ancestral power of the True Alpha!Ring of the dark：Elven KnightTwenty years after her family's slaughter, Elsa returns not as a victim, but as the Empire's strongest Grand Master. Concealing her identity, she defends her ruined home from usurpers. When the traitor George weaponizes her captive mother to fuel the Dark Ring, tragedy triggers Elsa's ultimate elven awakening...
The Mafia Queen Bought a Virgin BrideThere is a debt on the family and it is called in at the worst moment. Clara's father dies, the money goes with him, and she is made to stand at his funeral in a wedding dress to settle the account. She has nowhere to go after that. Victoria, who runs a mafia organization, takes her.
Clara thinks she has landed in hell. She has no idea that Victoria has been keeping her safe for the past two years without ever saying so. Then the man Clara had been with betrays her, and she starts looking at the whole arrangement again. She goes over to Victoria's side, and the two of them move against the organization and the throne that sits on top of it.
Your Worthless Husband Is the Final BossFor twenty years the man cooking the meals and minding the children in that house was the Ark Master, and nobody living there knew it. Mark's wife took up with another man, the man moved in, and the three children took their mother's side. The four of them put Mark out and left him to the zombies without letting him take a coat.
He is the only person who can open the Ark, and he comes back holding the survival list. His ex-wife is on the floor asking to be forgiven, the lover says he knew nothing about any of it, and the three children are crying and calling him Dad. Mark marks a cross beside each of the four names and tells them the Ark doors open in the morning.
Jilted On Wedding Day, Royal Parents Find MeOn her wedding day, low-rank healer Aria's long-lost "peasant" parents arrive and are humiliated by her fiancé's family. She breaks off the engagement to protect them, unaware they're the King and Queen in disguise, testing her heart. As her true power awakens, the royals reveal themselves, crushing every enemy and restoring her rightful destiny.Hidden DirectorPiper leads three employees on the verge of layoffs to secure the company's core project. Yet on the eve of bonus distribution, she catches them plotting to remove her name and force her resignation so they can pocket all the bonuses for themselves. Faced with false accusations, humiliation and violent expulsion, Piper remains calm, for she is secretly a director dispatched by the headquarters.The Fake Heiress Takes AllMarcella, ruler of the Vitiello family, returns home after years abroad only to find her husband Graham favors Mallory, his illegitimate adopted daughter. Her biological daughter Elowen has lost the heirloom necklace, dropped out of elite school and endured long-term abuse. Surveillance footage exposes their crimes; the housekeeper turns out to be Mallory’s grandmother.
The Queen Awakens: My Alpha’s Biggest RegretPrincess Luna Selena hid her crown for love. On a stormy night, her Alpha locked the door to be with his mistress and her child, endangering his cubs. Bleeding in the mud, Selena begged tearfully, only for him to coldly hang up. In absolute despair, she awakens her royal bloodline! Determined to make those who hurt her cubs pay the price.
The Mafia King’s Runaway Pregnant BrideDrugged and sold to a gambler by her boyfriend, Elena Moore flees into a stranger's room. One wild night later, she vanishes with two pink lines. Three years on, her son is dying, and she tries to pawn an antique ring that won't come off—only to summon Damian Black, the Mafia Don she slept with. He spent three years eliminating every threat, just to bring her home safely. The ring chose its master. So did his heart.
My Seven Stunning Senior Sisters S5Chu Ming was taken in as a child by seven masters and raised in the mountains. Over about twenty years they handed him everything they had, and he learned all of it.
He expected to stay up there. The masters sent him down instead, with an assignment. Seven senior sisters had gone out into the world ahead of him and were having a hard time of it, and he was to find each of them, put the sect back on its feet, and carry on its line by having children.
He had never been in a city before. He goes looking for the seven, runs into people who take against him, and finds the sisters further along in their own lives than he was told, several of them stronger than he is.
My Master Is An Ancient God S2Yang Fan wants to stop being the one everybody steps over. He has no money and no standing, and no way to answer the people who push him around.
It goes as far as him nearly dying. In that state he touches the seal on an old pot and breaks it, and the spirit sealed inside comes out. It belonged to an immortal of the ancient world, and the two of them each have something the other wants.
They agree terms and settle it as a master and a disciple. The immortal teaches him out of a tradition nobody passes down any more, and Yang Fan takes in as much of it as he can hold. His strength moves quickly after that, and the people who had written him off go on as before for a while.
Return Of The Ultimate Survivor S1Seven years ago the Lu family, which ran Yu City, was wiped out in one night. It was set up, and whoever arranged it stayed out of sight. Lu Feng got out alive and was the only one.
He spent those seven years away, training in medicine and in fighting. Then he came back to Yu City and started working through the people connected to that night, treating patients and fighting when it came to that.
What he turns up runs past the killing of his family. His own house had been keeping something, and the men who moved against it were acting for someone further up. Each opponent he clears brings a harder one after it, and by now there are people around him he has to keep out of the way.
Forgotten Daughter, Unstoppable QueenLu Zhaohua grows up in a family where a daughter is water poured out of the house. After the college entrance exam she is told she did not get in, so she takes work, and her wages go to keeping her older brother and her younger brother in school.
She saves for years to go back and study herself. The money is gone when she goes for it. Her parents have taken it and bought the younger brother a car. She also finds out that the admission letter had come to the house years before and they had put it away.
She cuts the family off and keeps up with her grandfather only. Eight years later she is running a listed company.
She goes back to the village when word comes that her grandfather is dying. She turns up in plain clothes and says nothing about the company, and her parents take it that she has failed out in the world. They tell her the older brother's business is doing well and the younger brother has got into a large firm. The older brother's business runs on money she put in, and the large firm belongs to her. Her parents work out that she could be married off to an old bachelor in the village for the bride price.
No More Saving My StudentsAfter being betrayed by the students she once saved, she gets a second chance at life. This time, she refuses to rescue the ungrateful ones who ruined everything. As they fall into a deadly trap of their own making, she protects her mission, takes back what she gave, and makes them pay.
He Brought WiFi to the Dynasty!A modern man is transported to ancient China with a system that demands he become the richest man in the realm. Using a laptop and modern business tactics, he creates delivery apps, weather maps, and livestreams, earning wealth and enemies. The old elite fight back. He outsmarts them all.
The Empress Strikes BackPrincess Chu Nanqiao gave her husband Xiao Jingheng everything she had. She took a poisoned dart meant for him, lost the child she was carrying, and handed him the influence that made him Grand Chancellor. He repaid it by taking up with another woman and standing by while his wife was insulted in her own household. Chu Nanqiao stopped absorbing it. She divorced him, laid his crimes out in front of the court, had him stripped of his office, and took back the military tally that gives its holder command of the army. Xiao Jingheng went into exile and from there made terms with the enemies of Northern Qi, then came back at her with their forces and had her seized so he could get the throne. Through all of it Xie Ci, the shadow guard who has protected her without asking anything for it, stays at her side. She breaks the rebellion, takes the throne herself, and makes Xie Ci her consort.