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Out of Love, Into YouCheng Qingye has stopped sleeping. Her wedding to Lyu Xudong, who comes from a powerful family, is close, and she has found out that he is seeing someone else. Her mother is seriously ill, and she has been with Lyu for five years, so she keeps what she knows to herself and lies awake at night instead. She goes to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic for the insomnia and is treated by Yu Song. She is drawn to him and proposes that they spend one night together. Yu Song already knows who she is, though she has no idea of it. He uses the treatment as a reason to stay close, and gives her somewhere to put the anger she has been holding in.
Under his guidance she starts to push back. On the wedding day she stands up in front of the guests, lays out what Lyu Xudong has been doing, and calls the marriage off. Afterwards she and Yu Song grow closer, and it comes out that he is the heir to a wealthy family and that his mother and hers were old acquaintances.
You Dumped Me, I Got a PrincessGabriella has spent three years with a husband she treats as dead weight. Yannick does what he is told in her house and takes the remarks without answering back. When the man she was in love with before the marriage comes back into town, she puts Yannick out and ends it.
Yannick is the hidden heir of the Ye family, counted as one of its three prodigies in the capital. Once the divorce is settled he goes back to his own name. The men who run the Southern Province defer to him, doctors with reputations of their own do what he says, and the connections at the top of the capital are in his hands.
Gabriella works out what she gave up and comes back to ask for him. He refuses her without discussing it, then takes apart the man she left him for and everything she had built her life on. Winnie comes from one of the capital's ranking families and chooses him without needing to be talked into it, and Gabriella watches that happen along with the rest of the city.
Two Broke Writers vs. the Orignial HeroineThe novel is a cheap romance about two women fighting over the same man, and the two women who wrote it fall into it. Broke, they land as rivals, one married to the second son who uses a wheelchair, the other married off to the elder brother. The script has them tear each other apart over the men and then lose to the real heroine. Neither of them wants to play it. They would rather make money, chase good-looking men and get out. Then the real heroine shows up, and she is the daughter of the landlady they could not stand back in their own lives.
The Seventh Winter Without YouMeng Sheng's father lived off his own children, squeezing what he could out of Meng Sheng and his sister. Xia Qin lost her father in her last year of high school, and her mother went cold on her. Meng Sheng was delivering packages then. The two of them got together and agreed they would move to the same city.
Rumors and both families came down on them. To get his father off Meng Sheng and his sister, Xia Qin sold her house and paid out 300,000, then went to the airport and let Meng Sheng believe she was leaving him for the money.
Seven years later they meet again on a snowy night. Meng Sheng has come up in business. Xia Qin works at a convenience store and is raising her son Tongtong on her own. He starts out wanting to pay her back for the airport and ends up trying to find out what actually happened. Zhou Yanran goes after Xia Qin, Tongtong loses his sight, and Meng Sheng puts himself at risk to keep them safe.
My Sunshine in the RuinsNing Anan grew up in an orphanage and became a nurse at a small clinic. Her luck has been bad in most of the ways a life can go wrong, and she has responded by being relentlessly cheerful about it, which the people around the clinic have come to rely on. She gives away kindness the way other people give away change. Fan Wujiu is the one person it does not reach. He was born in the slums of Cantana and raised in the tangle of that place, where staying alive meant staying alert every hour of the day, and years of that made him quiet and closed off and hard to sit next to. He decided a long time ago that he was born into hell and belongs to it. Then Ning Anan turns up in his life and does not treat him as a problem to be managed. Her softness turns out to be the only thing that gets past him, and it becomes his weak spot in a world where having one is dangerous. He becomes necessary to her in turn. The two of them keep each other upright while the circumstances that made him what he is close back in around them both.
Veil of Steel: Her Blade RemembersIn the fifteenth year of the reign, the woman known as the god of war, Regina, rides north to reinforce the border and is ambushed by a spy. She goes over a cliff and loses her memory. A merchant pulls her out and gives her a new name, and to repay him she takes another woman's place in a marriage to Liu Shifei, the young general. On the wedding night he leaves her alone, and three cold years follow. Then Liu Shifei comes home with a noblewoman, Lin Mo, who is claiming to be Regina. The two of them accuse her of adultery and demand she give up her position. Close to death, her memory comes back. She threatens the Liu household into returning her dowry and her writ of divorce, and swears to find out who slaughtered the Mo family army. Crown Prince Cassius helps her; he passes for crippled and harmless and is nothing of the kind. They fix on the army supervisor Sun Zhen as the man who knows, and she searches his residence at night, where she finds proof that the Empress Dowager and the Prince of Liang plotted with Sun Zhen and with Liu Shifei's father to lead the Mo army into a trap and clear a path to the throne. At a palace banquet she exposes Lin Mo in front of the court and proves who she is. The Turkic tribes cross the border, and she takes command of the army with the Crown Prince beside her.
He Came From the SilenceNadia Wolfe spends ten secret years with her father’s subordinate Jack Mayer, but he refuses marriage when her family collapses and again chooses childhood friend Bree. Nadia answers without pleading, selecting mercenary Lucian Wyler and demanding the earliest wedding possible.
Buried Secrets, Burning HeartsRight before their wedding, Ethan Stone makes a shocking discovery: his girlfriend, Sharon Royce, is actually his stepsister. After his mother takes her own life, he chooses to leave Sharon and bury the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Five years later, he learns that Sharon was adopted and that they were never related by blood. With this revelation, Ethan returns from abroad—determined to win her back and avenge his mother.
Ashes of LoveJiang Ruiya is the heiress of the Jiang Group. Her parents die in an accident, and her secretary, Bai Xiuyan, arranges things so that Ruiya becomes the suspect in their deaths. Then Ruiya finds herself back at a point before the accident, with everything that happened still in her memory.
She uses that memory to get past the traps Bai Xiuyan lays for her, and after a good deal of trouble she gets her parents out of danger. While she is doing it she finds that the plot against her family was put together by Bai Xiuyan and her own husband, Park Zhenhong. A police officer, Lin Yi'an, helps her, and through him she learns that Park Zhenhong's ambitions go further than anything she had uncovered so far. Ruiya decides on revenge. A man named Song Taixun, whose background she knows nothing about, works alongside her. The two of them lay traps of their own and dig out the truth, and over that time they come to trust each other and then to care for each other.
Billionaire's Accidental TwinsMina's mother takes her tuition money to cover the gambling debts of her brother, and Mina is left with no way to stay in school. She takes work at a bar, where a customer harasses her and Lucian steps in. They spend the night together, and the next morning he takes something she says as a demand for money and leaves.
Mina turns out to be pregnant with twins. Lucian's mother takes her in, and once Lucian learns what actually happened he comes back for her and gets her out from under her brother's creditors. She returns to university and is bullied there, and while all this is going on she finds out she is not her mother's biological daughter. A rival for Lucian pushes her, which brings on an early birth, and later has her taken. Lucian deals with it, and the two of them marry.
Vengeance & Grace: Millionaire's Cherished WifeIn the life before this one, Xamira was betrayed by the man she was with and by the woman who wanted him. Two years of what they did to her cost her eight pregnancies, one after another, and she bled to death at the end of it.
She wakes at an earlier point in her own life with a plan for the pair of them. The first step is marrying Jotham Shadforth, the richest man in Solthar, who runs the place the way he likes. The marriage turns into something other than a step in a plan. Jotham puts himself between her and whatever comes at her, his family takes to her, and she carries a child this time without the trouble she had before.
She and Jotham go after the man and the woman together, and they make the two of them pay for what the first life cost her.
My Groupie Honey is a Movie StarAbigail, a reporter at Litera Magazine, has a flash marriage with actor Liam Baker. When Liam announces his marriage, the entertainment world is stunned, speculating about Mrs. Baker's identity. Meanwhile, Abigail's half-sister, Lily Miller, falsely claims the title and mocks Abigail, assuming she married a poor man. Abigail navigates the challenges to help Liam keep their marriage hidden, unaware that Liam’s secret crush has always been her.
Swapped Bodies, Stolen HeartsAn accident swaps the bodies of undercover rookie Maria and the ruthless crime lord Elliot. Trapped in each other's lives, she must fake being the boss while he secretly investigates from within. Forced to cooperate, their fiery clashes ignite a dangerous game of deception, and an even hotter romance… But in the end, can they both survive their fate?
The Fired Flipped the ScriptJiang Lai lands a project worth several million for her company. Her boss favors his girlfriend, who works there too, and Jiang Lai is fired unfairly and then blacklisted across the industry. Wen Jingran, who runs the Wen Group, notices her and offers her a job. Once there she becomes the client that her old company has to answer to, which is an embarrassment for them.
Her old boss spreads stories about her, and some of the employees who have been at Wen a long time plot against her as well. She answers with documented evidence, clears the mess, and moves up on the strength of her work. Along the way she and Wen Jingran come to rely on each other and build a close working trust. Around the time she reaches the top of her career, things from her past start coming back up, and she faces a choice in her love life.
Shadows of the Past, Flames of the HeartSamantha Shaw, the former mayor's daughter, secretly marries Stanley Keller, CEO of Apex Corp, to save her imprisoned father. While seeking evidence, she overcomes constant schemes with courage and medical skills. Just as their marriage of convenience transforms into genuine love, Stanley's first love returns.
In Her Name: An Imposter's RevengeGrand Marshal Keene was accused of treason and collusion with the enemy, and his household was put to death. His daughter Winona fled with a servant loyal to the family. On the road they came across Yvonne, the eldest daughter of the prime minister, who had been driven out of her father's house and had fallen ill during her own flight. Winona took Yvonne's name. With Yvonne's maid she lived on a farm far from the capital for ten years, working to establish what lay behind the treason charge against her father and behind what was done to Yvonne.
Unexpectedly YoursTina Lewis's grandmother became critically ill. Tina married Xandy Brown, who was in a vegetative state. Xandy woke on the wedding night and told Tina to get out, and she left.
Eight months later Tina was pregnant with twins and near her delivery date, with nobody with her. Her mother had emptied her bank account. Tina went on working late into the pregnancy and took work delivering food. She and Xandy came across each other again while she was out on a delivery, and he did not know who she was.
Fake Marriage With My CreditorPearl inherits her late mother's debt-ridden company, only to discover her creditor is Nathan, the man she abandoned after a one-night stand years ago. Still bitter about the past, Nathan proposes a contract marriage. As they battle traitors within their families, old misunderstandings unravel. Can a contract built on revenge become real love?
Seducing My Western DaddyBlake has been in love with Jaxson for a long time and cannot say so. He is forty-five, he owns the ranch, and he became her guardian at her father's death because he had promised his friend he would look after her. She is twenty. As her guardian he treats her as a child, which is the thing she is trying to change.
By day she teases him around the place, sweet about it, staying inside what a ward is allowed to do. At night she works as a dancer to pay off her brother's debts, and part of why she does it is that the dancing makes her look grown, which is how she wants him to see her.
A gang comes after the debt. Jaxson finds out about the night work while he is dealing with them. He uses what he has to clear the danger away from her, and the guardian line he had been holding does not survive the discovery. After that neither of them keeps to the arrangement they were put in.
The Dragon King’s Rejected PrinceThree years ago, Lynn saved Caesar, a black dragon whose Dragon Soul had fallen into chaos. Caesar forged a Dragon Bond with Lynn, the only elf who could calm him. When Caesar's first love, Isabella, returns, Lynn realizes he was never truly chosen. Heartbroken, he leaves for the frozen lands to find his own future. Only then does Caesar realize that the elf he took for granted has become irreplaceable. But can the proud Black Dragon Prince win back the love he lost?
My System Says: Romance or Die!Trapped in the deadly horror game of St. Mary's Academy, Sean is bound to a bizarre Lust Survival System. To survive and find his sister, he must seduce the terrifying boss, substitute teacher Alaric. As danger and desire collide, Sean maxes out Alaric's affection to escape, only to find Alaric waiting for him in the real world.
Reborn Consort: Scheming My Way to the ThroneCharlotte Hart lost her whole family to the Sixth Prince, the man she had married and had thanked for years as the one who saved her life. His concubine helped set the household up, and Charlotte believed the pair of them until it was finished. She was a general's daughter. By the end there was nothing left of the house she came from, and nothing left of her either.
Then she is three years back, with everything she went through still in her head. She keeps clear of the Sixth Prince, breaks up the concubine's plans as they form, and gets herself out of the marriage. Cameron Ashford, the crown prince who had been stripped of the succession, is the one she goes to. She offers to help him take the throne, and somewhere in that work she finds out that Cameron was the man who saved her, and that she had spent an entire life thanking the wrong person.
"I will pay my pain back a thousand times over," she says of the two who used her. The fighting at court is over the empress's seat and who ends up holding the succession, and she walks into it already knowing how it went the first time.
Marry the Enemy, Hunt the MonsterKim Seol-ri is studying abroad when her parents die one after another in a run of incidents that are not accidents. The name that keeps coming up is Dracula, and nobody knows who that is. Her father's will leaves instructions that she marry Shen Houming, the childhood friend she grew up next to, a man who shows nothing on his face. She agrees to it. The marriage is how she announces that she intends to find the person responsible and put him in front of a court, and the wedding is where she says so. She digs, and the deeper she goes the less the arrangement looks like a contract to her.
Love Caught Fangs and ClawsYuri is in high school and gets nothing at home. His adoptive parents keep what they have for their own son. At school he is the one people pick on. He is friendly about all of it, quick to put other people first, and none of what it costs him shows.
Then a vampire lands in his swimming pool. Brian is the heir of a clan that has lost its position, and for centuries he has held to his father's rule that a vampire does not drink human blood. His enemy has just taken out half his heart with one strike, and he should not have survived the fall. Yuri's blood is what keeps him alive.
Brian wants more of the blood. He follows Yuri around without being seen. Lucius, a werewolf, stays close to Yuri and takes whatever comes at him, and Brian starts minding that a good deal more than the blood explains.
Yuri does not know that his blood brings the dead back, or that he was not born human. Other people find out, come after him for it, and put him in a position where he has to choose between Brian and Lucius.
Blood And Herbs For A Dragon's BetrayalOne fruit could save a life at the height of the beast tide, and she went in among the beasts to bring it out. The brother took it from her hands and carried it to his sister, who was crying over a scratch on her face. "Her face can't be left with a scar," he said. The beasts closed over her and she died there.
Before that she had been the strongest fighter in the Blazing Sun tribe. She found a pair of twin dragons and brought them both through. The brother was close to death, and she spent the tribe's best herbs on him, opened her wrist and cleaned his channels with her own blood, then taught him to fight. When the beast tide came the two of them were badly hurt.
She opens her eyes at the same point in her life with all of it still in her memory. This time she wants nothing to do with the brother and puts her blood and her herbs into a blind merman. The brother then attaches himself to her and asks to come along. Whether he is carrying the first life in his head as well, or working at something else, she has no way to tell. The beast world around them is changing while this goes on.
Ugly Girl God of CookingIsabella Vance was a sorceress who had reached the point of her heavenly tribulation, and the lightning struck her before she got through it. The God of Death collected her soul by mistake and put it in another world, in the body of the Sterling family's daughter-in-law, a woman they thought ugly and treated accordingly. Isabella still had her magic and said what she liked. She used it to deal with the relatives who had been bullying the body's owner, and spells she cast almost carelessly brought in a great deal of money. What she did not know was that every person in the Sterling house could hear her thoughts. She would think that the CEO's tie looked terrible and he would glance down at it. She would call her sister-in-law's makeup stagey and the woman would drop her powder puff. The family said nothing and went on listening. The CEO went from wanting nothing to do with her to finding reasons to be near her, and eventually said in front of everyone that he was going to have her. While Isabella was still trying to work out how to keep her thoughts to herself, she found an old diary one night with a line in it saying that her arrival had been summoned.
Our Husbands Refuse DivorceA rich family takes on daughters-in-law by contract, with a large payout at the end of the assignment. Two sisters from the Song family sign up and marry the two Jiang brothers. The elder sister, who can fight, is put with the younger brother, a playboy she is supposed to bring into line. The younger sister talks constantly, and her assignment is the elder brother, who has shut himself away from everyone.
Both of them finish the work they were hired for. The sisters file for divorce so that the money can be paid out, and the brothers tear up the agreement instead. Neither husband is willing to let his wife go.
Your Majesty, Please Divorce Me!Sophia Carter worked in an office and won a lottery jackpot. The excitement killed her before she could collect the money. She opened her eyes in another world, in the body of the empress of the Cloud Kingdom, a woman the court had written off as weak and useless.
A system spoke to her and began handing out tasks. She refused all of them. It told her that the way back to her own world was a decree from the emperor stripping her of the title. From then on she did as she liked, caused trouble around the palace, and asked her attendants every day when the decree was coming. It did not come. Her position at court got firmer instead, and the people around her, the emperor included, came round to her.
Revenge Sent Me Into His Uncle's ArmsAfter rising from humble beginnings, Claire Blake suffers a cruel betrayal from her boyfriend Evan Stone. Bent on revenge, she gets close to Victor Stone, her ex’s uncle. Sparks and tensions fly between them as they test each other in both the business world and romantic relationship. Side by side, they tackle numerous dangers, dig up long-buried truths and dark plots. Having sorted out their feelings, they choose to stand together and embark on a lifelong marriage.
I Woke Up in a Short Drama?The Hart family is poor, and Sophie's inner voice, which the whole household can suddenly hear, gives them a reason: Charlie was born with a rich fate and Jacob with a poor one, and the family has been treating the two the wrong way round. Overnight they reverse it. Charlie gets favors, gifts, and deference. Jacob gets beaten and insulted.
Sophie married into the Hart family as the scheming daughter-in-law, and before her thoughts became audible she could not get anyone to listen to her. Now the family hangs on them.
The money follows. Their mother becomes president of the chamber of commerce, their father a lottery tycoon, and the eldest son Ben rises in business. The Harts start treating Sophie as the family's lucky charm and dote on her.
Wait, the Villain Is a Nanny's Daughter?In the Cafaro Empire, Hailey served the noble lady Natalie from childhood, and the two of them came through years of difficulty together. Natalie became empress. Hailey was raised to a high-ranking concubine and ran the harem alongside her, and she was still working at the palace at sixty.
Then she wakes in another era as the daughter of the Smith family's housekeeper. The Smiths have just brought home their real daughter, also called Natalie, fetched back from the countryside, and her face is the same face Hailey served for a lifetime. This Natalie is bullied by Mila, the girl the Smiths adopted and raised in her place, and she is too frightened to answer back. The parents take Mila's side. Hailey decides to stand with Natalie, deal with Mila, and take on the parents who favour her.
Lady of Fortune: Luck at Her SideOn her first day inside the palace, Su Xing casts a fortune for herself and reads that she wins by lying still and doing nothing. She takes it at face value. Her days after that are eating, sleeping and keeping out of every quarrel in the harem. Then she happens to help Consort Liu find her missing Persian cat, and the quiet is over. The attention brings the jealousy and the plotting of the other women with it. Su Xing has no intention of giving up the idle life, so she answers each trick with a trick of her own, fitting the work in around naps, meals and rounds of mahjong.
The Fallen God & His Mute MuseIn the Celestial Realm spirit stones are lent at interest, and an immortal who cannot cover the debt is sent down to be reborn among mortals. Lu Ming, a Golden Immortal, borrowed on those terms, could not pay, and went down.
His soul lands in the body of a compulsive gambler who had been killed over the same kind of debt. The gambler left a wife who cannot speak. She had been loyal to him and looked after him, and she was still treated cruelly for it.
Lu Ming decides to begin his time as a human inside this marriage. The first thing he does is earn money, and then he works on refining pills that would give her back her voice.
Faking Fool, True RULERJesse Taylor has power he cannot use in the open. He is the third son of Prince Josh, he has reached the half step to Earth Immortal, and he heads the Net, the first assassin organization in the martial world. In front of everyone else he behaves like a fool, and has done so since he was small.
His father is the reason. Josh Taylor's service in the field and the army that came with it made Emperor Kurt Martin suspicious of the manor, and any sign of strength in the household would have been read as a threat. Jesse held the act for eighteen years while the family went on giving the throne the loyalty it had given for generations.
The emperor made another move to clear out Josh Manor. Jesse gave up the disguise and used what he had been hiding.
Mistress? Please, I'm the BossLinda Zouch is married to Mark Latham. After the wedding she hands him full control of their company and almost never goes in herself. One day she goes to the office to see him, and Maria Gilford, his secretary, takes her for a mistress. Maria gets the rest of the staff to join in, and they bully and humiliate Linda, who takes it without answering back. When it comes out that Linda is pregnant, the treatment gets worse.
See? My New Family's RICHER!Plants can talk, and Layla is able to hear them. On the day her mother dies she phones her father, and then her mother's brother. Her father tells her not to come looking for him. The uncle's answer is that she should go and die. The richest man in the city happens to be passing, and he takes her home and makes her his daughter.
She goes in expecting to be the pitied orphan. On the day she walks in, the grandmother waves a hand and goods from brand shops all over the city are brought in for her to pick through. The younger uncle, tight with money by reputation, says she can have the run of his savings, and the older brother goes around telling people his sister is the best in the universe.
Layla pays them back with what the plants tell her. A flower tips her off to an employee who has been betraying her new father's company. The younger uncle's crippled leg is cured after she asks the grass what is wrong with it. She chats with a big tree and comes away with enough to get a murderer caught, and a cabbage lets slip that the grandfather, stern with everyone, does whatever his wife says at home. Her days go to gossip, gardening and settling scores with people who have it coming.
Her birth father eventually learns where she has ended up and comes to the house wanting her back, which her new father refuses.
Kiss Me HarderVivienne Norton, once the cherished daughter of the Nolan family, is enslaved by her adoptive family. After a fateful night with Adrian Leighton, she finds herself entangled in a deadly web of betrayal. With Adrian's help, she fights to expose her family's secrets. But can she trust him, or is she just another pawn in a game of power?
Too late to Love you RightA mate bond can be forced on two people in this world, tying them together whether either of them wants it. Selina was bound to Lucas that way. She is an assassin and he runs a mafia family, and she spent thirteen years guarding him while he hated her for the bond that had put her there.
Sophia, who grew up with Lucas, came back. Lucas gave her Selina's place and let her punish Selina, and he watched it happen. Selina was pregnant at the time. She went after a medicine that would break the bond, since breaking it was what Lucas wanted, and getting it nearly cost her life. Sophia took the credit for the medicine, and his affection with it. The night before the wedding Lucas found out where the medicine had come from, and that Selina was carrying his child.
The Nobody I Married Was RoyaltyThe wounded man she takes in has no memory of who he is, so she puts him to work in the stables and gives him a name to be called by. He is the missing crown prince.
She has sworn off the imperial family. In a life before this one she married into it, and that marriage ended with her dead inside the palace. She is living the same years over again, a noblewoman of a high official's house, and her plan this time is to take a stablehand for a husband and keep away from court.
Her younger sister came back to these years as well. The sister goes after the crown prince first, rescues a man who is passing himself off as him, and expects the match to lift her above the rest of the family. The family takes the sister's side and puts the elder daughter out of the house. In the stables the man's memory has begun to come back, and the only standing the elder daughter has to build on is her medicine.
Blind Behind Lies, Love Upon RevengeThe Ruskin family's adopted daughter is treated as slow-witted, and the family uses her as a piece to trade. They send her to a marriage that was arranged for someone else. The groom is a business tycoon the whole city believes is blind in both eyes.
The marriage runs on a contract. She plays the fool because it keeps trouble away from her, and he keeps up the blindness because it keeps him out of sight. On the wedding night they share a bed and spend it feeling out what the other one is hiding.
She is in fact the figure nobody has identified who holds the commercial lifeblood of the city. He has spent five years preparing, moving one step at a time, for revenge. There is a reason the Ruskins could place her in that house: her face closely resembles the woman he loved and lost, and he sees that woman when he looks at her.
Behind it is a traffic accident whose real cause was never told, identities that were swapped, and the schemes of a wealthy family. As the masks come off, the truth turns out to be both a way out and a way down.
OMG! Triplets with the Cold Tycoon?From childhood she was kept as a supply of blood for her older brother and drawn on whenever he needed it. Her brother later sold her to a lender named Wang. The family owed the man money and she was handed over against it.
With nowhere left to go, she spent a night with a man who runs a company and has an allergy to women. He had kept away from women for years before that night. She was pregnant afterwards, with triplets, which almost never happens.
Ancient Bullies? Don‘t Mess With a CEO!Female CEO Willa accidentally time-travels and becomes the bullied wife of a nobleman. Her sisters-in-law keep framing her and making her life difficult. But as a modern woman, she is not easy to push around. How will she use her intelligence to solve these problems? And where will her fate lead her?
Divorce the Fake, Marry the ThroneA woman wakes up inside a novel she has read, in the body of the neglected wife of a marquess household. Her husband stages his own death and goes to live elsewhere with the woman he loved first. She keeps the household running on her own for three years and is pushed out to a mountain retreat. Then he comes back and moves to take the principal rank in the family. She files for separation the same day, takes the property that is hers, and leaves.
At a court banquet she sees the man who has been beside her every day and learns he is the prince regent. The household finds this out at the same time she does.
Adapted from the novel Fujun Jiasi Sannian, Jingcheng Fozi Fengkuang You Ta Pojie by Qi Huangshu.
Cry For Losing MeEileen believes Lucian is her rescuer until she learns he merely used her as a shield for Vera. She swaps their marriages to reclaim her mother's inheritance, sending Vera toward danger while wedding supposedly disabled Edward; by the time Lucian discovers Eileen was his true savior, she has already risen to the top of the empire.
Am I Only His Hidden Wife?Lin Weiwei is the daughter of the Lin family and a working actress at the top of her profession, and she is married to Yan Jia, who controls more money than anyone else in Hong Kong City. Nobody knows about the marriage. Weiwei keeps to his side, protected, provided for, and rarely out of reach of his household, and for a long stretch she is content with that arrangement. What ends it is Jiang Xi coming back into the country. Jiang Xi was Yan Jia's first love, and she goes out of her way to be seen near him and to say things in Weiwei's hearing that are calculated to land. Yan Jia does not explain himself. He starts losing his composure at moments that have no other cause, going quiet, leaving rooms, and Weiwei fits those moments together with Jiang Xi's return and arrives at the obvious conclusion. She stops hoping the marriage can be repaired and gets as far as preparing the divorce. Then she finds out she is pregnant, and the decision she had already made has to be made again.
I Wanted Peace, But They Handed Me the CrownWhitney Shaw is hailed as the great doctor of the 21st century—until she wakes up as a useless noble lady in ancient times. She wants a quiet life, but her fiancé is cheating. She wants to do nothing, yet is pushed into becoming the top scholar. Even her boy toy turns out to be a spy. As if that weren’t ridiculous enough, she’s tricked into marrying a prince and rises to a position she never could have imagined.
The Quiet Bride Is a KillerShang Zeyan married Lu Yi believing she was a daughter who did whatever her family told her, which was the reputation she had. When she divorced him at the lowest point of his life he read it the same way, as one more thing her family had told her to do, and it fixed his view of her as dull and obedient. The reason she left was a peacekeeping rescue mission she had been called to. Lu Yi is a peacekeeping soldier, hard-tempered and highly trained in combat, and Shang Zeyan knew none of this.
Some time after the divorce Shang Zeyan makes a success of himself and comes out on top in the struggle for control of his family. He is still in love with her. He demands that she marry him a second time, as a way of paying her back for leaving.
Ex-Wife? She's the Godfather.Evelyn Song has been a quiet wife for seven years when her husband's mistress turns up pregnant and tells her to make room. Evelyn puts the woman in her place on the spot. Her husband is angry about it and takes the mistress's side. Evelyn makes one phone call to the military headquarters, and the elite unit he has been so proud of is disbanded.
She ran the underworld of the city before the marriage and set that aside to help her husband rise. The organisation that backed him through those seven years was hers the whole time, and he did not know it. After the divorce she takes the Commander post he had been angling for, and the people he spent years courting take their orders from her. She also has a new lover by then.
Bad Boy Begs for Her Love AgainAfter being cheated on by her fiance, Molly Stewart gets into a car accident but gains a blessing in disguise. She is rescued and mentored by Betsy Greenwood, matriarch of the Hudson family, becoming Vice President of Hudson Group. Xavier Hudson, the family's notorious playboy, falls for Molly at first sight when he sees her at the company. Betsy adores Molly and deliberately schemes to bring them together. After marriage, the two begin their chaotic, bickering daily life.
The Love Rewrite: 5 Days to GoSu Wan and Lu Chenzhou are five days from their wedding when she finds out what he has arranged. Lin Yueyao, the woman he loved before Su Wan, has asked for one last wish, and to give her those five days he means to drug Su Wan into losing her memory for a while. Su Wan learns of it and only pretends to take the dose. For five days she plays along as his sister and watches the way he looks after Lin Yueyao. On the wedding day she puts Lin Yueyao at the altar in her place and goes.
She settles in North City and takes up painting again, which she had put down years before. Gu Huai'an owns a gallery there. He takes her work seriously and helps her mount an exhibition of it. Lu Chenzhou comes to North City after her and tries to come between the two of them, including by making public that Gu Huai'an is heir to a wealthy family.
The Real Heiress ReturnsThe Wynn family raised the wrong girl. Their real daughter, Zenna Wynn, was found late and brought into a house that had already decided what she was worth. Her aunt needs blood from her for treatment. The girl raised in her place arranges situations meant to embarrass her in front of guests. Her parents apologize for her manners.
Zenna is a diviner, and before the Wynns she was the most powerful figure in a world they know nothing about. She lets the identities come out one at a time. She practices an old school of martial arts. She practices old medicine, and the people who need it come to her. She controls a financial group that operates through other names. The heads of global companies bow to her. The Wynns are still in the room when it happens.
Bye, Fallen Empress! I Run the Palace Now!A modern HR director, Qiao Zhixin, is transmigrated to become a disgraced Empress who has lost the emperor's favor and is abandoned by the harem. She decides to run the palace like a business, implementing modern management strategies like establishing rules, training concubines and staff, and investigating financial loopholes. Qiao Zhixin skillfully navigates the treacherous harem politics, thwarting the schemes of the favored concubine Su Yuwan and earning the emperor Yuwen Yao's trust and deep affection. Her modern approach to governance even helps the emperor resolve difficult court affairs, and together they work to protect the empire, achieving both love and career success.
Not Here for Love, Too Busy Making MoneyLiana Ingleby worked out early that money is not everything and that without it a person can do nothing at all. She used what she had, her own ability and what she had learned, and took every opening that moved her up a step. At school and later in the market she was the one who saw the single opening worth taking and got to it first.
Then the campus took in students on sponsorship, and the settled life she had built there stopped being settled.
The people she had filed as allies of convenience, useful to her while she was useful to them, turned out to be running something among themselves. It took her a while to work out what it was. They were playing a raising game, the sort where a player takes charge of a character and brings her up, and the character being brought up was Liana herself.
Addicted to Your KissRuth Larson's family sells her off to Logan Harlow for money. He icily says that he won't touch her. But when they run into each other at the club, he downs her alcohol in a jealous fit. Ruth asks him to mind himself. But he responds in an aggrieved tone, "Why? Are you scared of others finding out you're married?" This confuses Ruth. Didn't he say they would be divorced in a month? What is he playing at now?
Enchained by Love, Unleashed by VengeanceThe Serpent God's bloodline runs through Vesper Zook, and its descendants can bear spirit eggs. Ten years ago Jacob Ward, then a boy, saved her life. To repay that and to save him, Vesper leaves her own kind and marries into the Ward family, where she gives birth to three eggs.
Jacob believes the girl who saved him was his adoptive sister Aurora. With Aurora beside him he forces Vesper into a guessing game played over the eggs, and each round she loses kills one of them. She loses twice and watches two of her children die.
All That's Left of You Is HistoryThe Gale and Flint families arranged a marriage between Serena Gale and Ethan Flint. They married first and the feelings came afterwards.
Helen Gray then appeared, with the same face as the woman Ethan had loved before the marriage. Ethan took Helen's side against Serena, put her ahead of Serena in one matter after another, and treated her as a stand-in for the first love. Each time he went further past the limits Serena had set.
Serena left him. She went through the pregnancy and the birth without him and raised the child on her own, and the divorce went through. Ethan came back and asked her to return to him. Serena had a life of her own by then.
Restoring My Life: From Blood Bank to CEO's BridePortia Brooks gave up her legs trying to save her birth mother. After that the Brooks family used her as a supply of blood and kept drawing on it until there was nothing left, and her fiance and her half-sister took up with each other beside her deathbed.
She comes back alive at an earlier point and cuts the blood ties at once. She exposes what the relatives had been living on, drops the fiance and pulls the cover off the sister in front of people who count. Restoring antiques is her trade. She marries Wesley Locke, the richest man in Northden, on short notice and uses his reach to go after the people who bled her. When the family turns affectionate again she has no use for it. The two she keeps are the adoptive mother who raised her and the man she loves.
Love, Ten Years in the MakingAfter a night of unexpected events, Frida Glover ends up in an impulsive marriage with her best friend's brother, Trenton Dixon. She expects it to end soon, but Trenton surprises her with endless love. It is only later that she learns their marriage was his long-laid plan—and she has always been his crush.
Conquer Me with a KissAn old grudge, carried since she was young, decides what she does. The wounds from those years have made her hard and sharp under a sweet face, a flower with thorns that has grown in the dark. When a cold and dangerous man comes into her life she picks him as her way to settle it and goes after him, meaning to use him.
He has been running his own game, and she has been his prey without knowing it. They get close, tie themselves to each other and hurt each other, and the passion and the damage run together until the two of them drift apart. When she leaves, he comes apart. He has gone too far in to let it end, and he sets out to get her back, ready to take on the whole world and wreck whatever is in his way.
Fake Fiancée, Real TroubleRyan Landon, a cold billionaire, fires his secretary Sofia after she confesses her love. But when a ruthless power struggle erupts inside his own family, he finds himself drawn to the very woman he rejected... Will he risk his empire for her?