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Hurt My Girl and Suffer!After Clara follows the Creststone Pendant to find her real father, Prince Martin, she is met not with recognition but cruel humiliation from Vivian. Rescued by the mysterious Regent Joshua, Clara awakens a power she barely understands. But will it be enough when her greatest enemy finally steps from the shadows…
The Betrayed Trillionaire ReturnsBetrayed by his greedy hometown, a tech genius is stripped of his wealth and forced out penniless. Little do they know, he left a trap! He rebuilds his empire in a rival village, turning them into billionaires. Watch as the toxic traitors go bankrupt and beg for mercy while he rises to the top!
The Fired Chef Strikes BackAfter building a massive empire for his boss, a master chef is brutally betrayed and fired with nothing. Backed by his loyal girlfriend, he starts a humble street stall that instantly goes viral! Furious, the evil boss tries to ruin him but causes a toxic food scandal instead. He will make them pay!
Evolving Into The Ultimate GodMocked for having a trash bloodline, a bullied teenager suddenly awakens a mysterious infinite evolution system on his 18th birthday! Starting from the very bottom, he ruthlessly crushes his arrogant rivals, steals their luck, and transforms into an unstoppable deity. Watch him rule over all realms!
Realm Lord: Infinite SSS‑Class EvolversThe real Dale heir swapped at birth, had the weakest E-grade Villager unit and suffered abuse from his stepmother, fake heir Danny and sister Lina. He unlocked a top job-change system turning villagers into SSS myth units with shared skills. As an EX Holy Lord, he defeated the Abyss Lord to save humanity and ruled his army alone.
Beast System Defeats Evil ExperimentsChen Fan is eighteen and works at a factory on a temporary contract, which the foreman treats as licence to push him around. He swallows an ant, and something in him wakes up that lets him take on the traits of any creature he consumes. Jiang Xiaoyu's father needs surgery and there is no money for it, so Chen Fan starts taking cage fights for cash. The boxing gym turns out to be tied to the factory, and both of them to Xie Zhiren, who has been running illegal genetic experiments on people using the plant as cover. Liu Qiang and the gym owner are working for her. Chen Fan gets others together and goes at the site where the experiments are done, where the opposition are modified the same way he is. After the fighting stops, most of what he can do begins to drain away.
Bow to the Scorned MaidAmelia is the last of the Blaze line, and she hides that to pay off a debt, living as someone of no particular family. Her husband Oliver and Catherine, who is taken for a saint, both betray her. Her magic returns to her. In the Holy Oath Hall she states her lineage aloud and claims back the sacred beast that belongs to it.
At the Abyssal Swamp she learns that Catherine sacrificed her own entire family. On her wedding day Amelia lights the Holy Fire and passes judgment on the two of them, which breaks their scheme and the old rules of conduct that had held her. The pair end up in the frozen wastelands of the far north, turning on each other. Amelia melts the eternal frost over the city and spring comes back to it.
Heartbeats On IceAvery Clark needs a full scholarship, and the way to get one is to take the unpaid job nobody else wants: team manager for the Laurent hockey squad. The locker room she walks into runs on rivalry and noise, and four of the players make her life difficult in four different ways. Declan Hayes swings between silence and temper. Finn Sinclair is gentle with her and awkward about it. Wyatt Reed treats everything as a joke, including her. Brody Evans wants to know where she is at all times. Avery keeps the schedules, handles the equipment and argues with all of them, and the arguing gradually turns into something none of them will name out loud. The pressure comes to a point at Christmas, when three of the four ask her to dinner on the same evening and she has to give an answer to each of them.
Midlight IllusionCora is haunted by bizarre events as conflicting messages from her family and strange encounters reveal fractures in time. She discovers her sister Ella has repeatedly rewound time with a mysterious stone carving to escape a stalker, but fate always resets the tragedy. After countless failed attempts, the sisters uncover their mother's silent sacrifice and learn to face destiny together.
Behind the Dirty DealsProcurement manager Emma uncovers a supplier's price gouging and use of spoiled ingredients, refusing to compromise despite relentless smears and sabotage. As corruption spreads through the company, she gathers evidence, exposes multiple conspiracies, and helps bring the guilty to justice while reforming the procurement system to protect the business and her colleagues.
The Wrath of Snake SpiritIgnoring Jack's warnings, mine supervisor Sam recklessly exploits a sulfur-gold mine inhabited by snakes, provoking the wrath of the Snake Spirit. As deadly attacks spread across the mining camp, Sam's greed only worsens the disaster. In the end, he dies by his own arrogance, while Jack leads the surviving miners to safety and the cursed mine is permanently sealed.
The Snow Stopped for MeAfter spending five years in a secret relationship with her boss Darius, Vera loses both her promotion and her faith in love. She returns home to rebuild her life, while Darius gradually realizes the sacrifices she made for him. Through misunderstandings, danger, and redemption, Vera rediscovers her confidence and forges an independent future on her own terms.
Survive and ExposeWith a disabled left hand, Ivy becomes the target of her uncle David's illegal human experiments for financial gain. As her mother is manipulated into supporting the scheme, Ivy secretly gathers evidence and reports the crimes in time. After David is imprisoned, mother and daughter reconcile, and Ivy earns admission to Harvard, builds a successful career, and embraces a brighter future.
Crown of Silver WrathWasteland warrior Bianca returns to the Crimson Wolf Pack after receiving a summons from her brother Lucien, only to be humiliated by Blaze and Scarlett. When Lucien arrives to protect her, the tables turn. As justice is served and the guilty are punished, Bianca grows beyond hatred and resolves to become a fair and respected leader of her people.
Billion Dollar Bed: Addicted to HimTo claim his inheritance from a billion-dollar trust, Iver—the fiercely proud captain of a competitive swim team—must agree to one impossible condition: living under constant surveillance in a secluded mansion with his cold, obsessive, and dangerously unpredictable stepbrother, Kardel, the heir to a ruthless financial empire.
Iver has spent his entire life rejecting everything Kardel represents. But trapped beneath the same roof, his resistance begins to crumble as Kardel’s possessive obsession grows more intense with every passing day. What starts as a battle of wills soon becomes a dangerous game of temptation, control, and undeniable attraction.
When a brutal family power struggle threatens to destroy everything—and a multi-million-dollar bounty placed on Iver’s life sends killers closing in—Kardel reveals his true nature: not a monster, but the one person willing to burn the world down to protect him.
Caught between fear and desire, hatred and longing, Iver’s carefully built walls begin to fall apart. The man who once recoiled at Kardel’s touch finds himself craving it instead.
My Four Divine Guardians Are Completely Obsessed With MeAlina is betrayed by her boyfriend and her best friend at the same time. At the academy she is mocked for her grey wings, a bloodline the other students treat as low. She is then taken into the Volkoff family, a household that keeps its business hidden, and through it she is pulled into a war between angels, demons and the royal line. Three men circle her there: Alexander, her cold black-winged stepbrother, Mikhail, the student council president who is polite in public and less so otherwise, and Lucifer, a fallen angel. The divine power sealed in her body begins to wake, and she learns she is a royal heir with a claim strong enough to unsettle heaven's order. Her move on the throne starts from there.
My Online Crush Is My StepbrotherMax’s perfect online boyfriend “Babe” is sweet, caring, and always understands her. What she doesn’t know is that he’s actually Damon, her annoying stepbrother she can’t stand. When Damon discovers her secret identity, he starts showering her with affection. As Max searches for the truth, their long-awaited meetup reveals a shocking surprise.
She Stole a House!A thief breaks into a blind woman's home and is mistaken for her dead daughter. She plays along, and discovers the family is being destroyed by villains. So she stays. She fights. She protects. When the truth comes out, she expects hatred. Instead, she finds the family she never had.
Conquer Four Heroines to RiseCole worked as a deckhand on a yacht and was treated badly by the people aboard. The yacht went down and he washed up on an empty island. Nobody came for him. There he unlocked a conquest system, and with it he stopped being someone who could be pushed around.
Grace, Charlotte, Olivia and Zoe had been stranded there too, and he won them over one by one. Pirates came and he fought them. Blackstone was running experiments on people on the island, and he went through those. Then he found out the shipwreck had been arranged, and he turned on the man behind it and made for a way off the island with the women who had joined him.
My Exiled Alpha StepdadElara wanted her daughter Nia kept safe, and Nia was weak. After Damon died the two of them were handed over to Ronan, an Alpha who had been exiled and who people were afraid of. He barely spoke and gave orders in a hard voice, and neither of them could tell what he meant by any of it, though what he ordered kept them warm and out of reach.
Ronan took a rare wolf elixir and gave it to Nia. The White Wolf blood in her, which nobody had known about, starts to move.
Love Gamble with His Secret BabiesA crime lord runs a casino, and Mia goes into it to bring him down. To stay close she passes herself off as his mistress. What she did not plan on was Sean, the man's adopted son. She falls in love with him and becomes pregnant.
Sean knows and says nothing. He works from the dark side of the operation, cleaning up the traces she leaves and keeping the men away from her, and he risks his own place in the household to do it. The child is the part that cannot be explained away if anyone finds out.
I Renovated It, Now She Won't Rent?A young designer takes her aunt's unfinished flat at 500 a month, on her mother's recommendation. She spends 50,000 and six months renovating it herself. The videos she posts of the work spread, and someone turns up willing to pay 3,000 a month for the place.
She offers to raise her own rent to 1,500 because of the family connection. Her aunt asks for 4,000, and when that is refused, threatens a penalty and moves to take the flat back with the renovation still in it. The designer strips the work out, all of it.
Her aunt starts telling people things about her that are not true. She opens a studio with backing from an investor, and her aunt takes her design plans, puts them out as proof that the designer copied someone else, and pins the blame on her. The truth about it surfaces later.
Framed, Then Found a Darker Truth!Chang Le is the princess of Daxing, raised indulged and taught since childhood to think about the people. On the day of her coming of age ceremony she goes out on a boat. The boat hits a bridge and a body is found hidden there. The boatman accuses her of being behind the killing and kills himself.
She is a suspect with no way to clear herself from inside the palace, so she leaves in secret and travels to Qiongzhou. What she finds there is a large crime running underneath the prosperity of Daxing.
Racing Legend Returns For Family!A racing champion lost his wife due to a rival's sabotage. He retired from racing. His daughter secretly starts a racing team to find out the truth about her mother's death. This deepens the conflict between her and her father. Then the daughter gets hurt during a race. He finally wakes up. Will the misunderstandings between them be resolved?
People Suffer, Emperor Goes Undercover!The emperor of Dacang has a daughter he lost years ago, and an empress who has not seen her since. An assassination attempt on him at Dingguo Temple brings out something else: from the man who attacked him he learns that in Nanzhou, where he is from, officials are grinding the population down.
He travels there in disguise. People take him for nobody and treat him accordingly. In Nanzhou he finds bribery, offices being sold, and ordinary abuse of the people, so he declares who he is and puts the governor Wei Qin on trial. In Liangzhou three brothers of the Tao family have been keeping civilians in servitude. He gathers evidence against them and sentences them to death. Somewhere along the road he comes across the missing daughter and sends her back to the empress. What he has seen of his officials decides him on clearing out the court.
The Godmother’s Wrath: Don't Touch My DaughterAfter her daughter is bullied into a coma, a retired underworld Godmother returns to crush the corrupt those who destroyed her family, bankrupt an empire, and deliver justice, so her daughter can wake up and finish the fight herself.
Reborn, I Reject the Crown Prince!In her past life, she loved the crown prince and died with regret. After rebirth, she gives up the position of crown princess and asks the queen to arrange her marriage to her childhood sweetheart. But there is a bigger secret behind it all. Then the crown prince tries to frame them. How will they handle it?
A Millionaire's Revenge Tastes Like GrapesA tech millionaire returns with a rare grape, only to be betrayed by his uncle and the villagers. He tears up the contract, pulls the equipment, and leaves their harvest to rot. He invests in a failing farm run by veterans and builds a billion-dollar empire. When he arrives at the city's top, can the villagers finally understand the price of greed?
They Buried Me, I Forged a KingdomAfter a humiliating broken engagement, he harnesses his secret: advanced industrial tech. He defies the monopolies that control the market, turning barren land into an industrial empire. He's crushing the old guard, but they won't go down without a fight. His revenge is just beginning.
(Dubbed) I Dumped My Obsessed Ex for a Mafia LordTortured for five years by a man who only loved her adopted sister, the young lady is reborn. She cuts all ties with him and marries a ruthless mafia leader to fulfill her destined fate. Too late, her former lover awakens to his true feelings and drowns in remorse—can he ever redeem his irreversible mistakes?
Cracked Statue Becomes a GodA broken village god, forgotten and cracked, gets one last prayer from a dying believer, and awakens a system of faith and power. He defeats demons, gathers worshipers, and grows from a forgotten statue to a true divine protector. Sometimes gods aren't born. They're rebuilt.
Undercover in the Palace and Now She's Pregnant?To save her wrongly imprisoned father, a nobleman's daughter sneaks into the palace disguised as a maid. The Emperor hasn't touched a woman in ten years — but the first one to carry his heir becomes Empress. Six months later, she's pregnant... And someone at court just found out. Can she survive what comes next?
From Fired to Champion Coach!Xu Yan was the best player in the world and he lost the final through his own arrogance. His mentor died over it. He stopped playing and spent ten years out of the game.
By then he is an assistant coach with the Thunder team, where he is humiliated, and his time there ends badly. An old man named Bai Ye finds him with an offer to coach the Miracle team, a squad at the bottom that nobody expects anything from. Xu Yan takes it and rebuilds them around his own reading of the game. They win their way into the later rounds of the national tournament, well past where anyone had them. His mentor left a last wish that was never carried out, and the man Xu Yan lost to ten years ago is in the same bracket.
She Erased Their Love to Avenge Her Family!Her entire family was massacred in a royal power struggle. To infiltrate the court and uncover the truth, she sacrificed her own memories of the prince she loved — and disguised herself as his student. Now feelings are growing again... and her cover is slipping.
Can she expose the conspiracy before it's too late?
Framed Into Prison. Came Out a Real Chef!A ten-time cooking champion, framed by his own partners and thrown in prison. Behind bars, a legendary old chef teaches him what real cooking actually means. Four years of grinding. Now he's out... Can one honest bowl of noodles take down an entire corrupt empire?
Professor by Day, Master by NightLucy is a medical student living with a father who beats her, and the one place she gets any relief is a submissive arrangement with a man she has never seen. She has called him Daddy for two years and knows him only as a voice.
A new anatomy professor arrives, cold and exacting, and the first time Ethan Walton speaks in the lecture hall Lucy stops hearing the lesson. The voice is the voice. She has no way to reconcile the man at the lectern with the one who has been keeping her upright at night.
Her father's gambling debts come due and he arranges to hand her over to the men he owes. Ethan turns up armed, takes her out of it, and puts her somewhere safe. Later she is put up for sale at an underground club and he pays two hundred thousand dollars to walk her out of the room, and the night that follows is not part of any arrangement. Lucy is now split between two men and does not know they are one. When her mother is dying and Lucy breaks the rules to be at the hospital, it is Ethan who finds the kidney that saves her.
Velvet, Blood & PowerLila wants the man who destroyed her family dead. Twelve years ago she watched her sister Mira killed with a gold hairpin driven through her throat, on the orders of one of a general's mistresses. The general is Julian Ashford.
So she becomes his favorite mistress. She dances, she is beautiful, and she carries a blade under it. She sleeps beside him and waits for the right moment.
On the edge of doing it she finds out Mira loved him. She is caught between the hatred she came in with, the truth, and a wanting she never planned on. The wife, the other mistresses, spies and rebels all move around her, and the seduction and the revenge run together.
The Wife's ReckoningThe Ward family runs on money and on the arrangements money buys. Derek Ward, the heir, married Aylin and then spent three years away from her. His mother pushed her around the house. Aylin took it, and when she asked her husband about any of it he put her off.
Then Derek's mistress moved into the apartment next door with the daughter she had by him. Aylin began to fight back, and while she was fighting she learned that her own mother's death, recorded as an accident, was not one. She has nothing left to lose now, and she sets out to pull apart the Wards' lies one at a time.
Peasant Daddy Rules the WorldA woman took the place of the bride's family as an heiress, and the groom's people believed her. The bride's father had come to the wedding straight from an ambush, in a shirt with blood and mud on it. The groom made remarks about how he looked. The in-laws told him to leave. The false heiress made him kneel.
The man they were talking to is the most feared warlord alive. A five-star general comes into the hall and salutes the old farmer in front of everyone.
No place for his late loveCynthia exposed the God of War's lies and married the Underworld God's son. She healed her true love and found happiness. The regretful Aethon could never win his wife back and eventually vanished. The heroine began a new life.
Sacrifice Only Brought DoubtXia Donghai raises his daughter Xia Tian alone. Her mother is Cheng Xin, who married him against her father's wishes and nearly died giving birth, and the baby was carried off with fluid in her lungs. Cheng Xin's father put her in hospital, put the blame on Xia Donghai and made the two of them divorce.
Years on, Xia Donghai falls ill. Treatment means a lung transplant, and rather than leave that weight on Xia Tian he tries to kill himself and is stopped. Xia Tian goes to her mother to ask for help. Her grandfather reaches her before any answer does and sends her away.
She comes into the Cheng house afterwards as hired help, looking after Du Xiaolang, the boy her mother had later. Her mother speaks to her the way she speaks to servants. When Du Xiaolang's condition turns bad, Xia Tian agrees to give him her heart, and her grandfather tells her he does not believe her and threatens her over it.
From Reject to God-SlayerArthur wanted a family. He worked as a butcher and trained under Uther, and he went looking for the people he came from. Along the way he saved Vivian. What he found was that he was Duke Richard's son, the one who had been thrown out.
He kept quiet about it. It came out anyway when a knight of the highest rank went down on one knee in front of him. Zalrok, a knight who had fallen, took Arthur's mother for a rite of the abyss. Duke Richard went in after her.
Arthur learned the God-Slayer Arts, took the title God of War, and put Lionheart back together.
What? My Daughter’s School Disappeared?City No. 1 High School has the campus everyone knows and a branch campus that takes enrollments. Su Yunjin raised her daughter on her own for sixteen years, and the branch is where the two of them go on enrollment day.
Her daughter goes in and does not come out. The school is gone as well, buildings and all. The police look into it and tell Su Yunjin that No. 1 High has never had a branch. She takes it to the main campus to make someone admit otherwise, and what she gets for it is a locked psychiatric ward, where she is held and treated as mentally ill. A flowerpot falls on her from an upper floor. Then it is enrollment morning again, with her daughter still at home.
Died Broke, Woke Up A Healing God!Xu Yang is a university student with late stage liver cancer and no money left for treatment. He walks into a foot spa and finds his cousin's wife there, sold to settle a debt. He tries to get her out and the men holding her beat him until he is nearly gone. Lying there he wakes the Shennong herbal codex, an old body of medical knowledge that comes to him whole. He gets up, gets her out, and puts the thugs down. The cancer that was going to kill him he cures himself overnight. From there he works outward. A field of medicinal crops is destroyed and he rebuilds it in a single night. He treats illnesses other doctors have given up on. He brings a wealthy businessman back from dying with three needles. He takes salt ruined ground and makes it grow again, and gets the whole village planting herbs on it. The debt collectors and the merchants who had been squeezing the district find him standing in their way, and so do people from his own past who assumed he was finished.
He Broke My Pills, I Broke His WorldThrown to the zombies after his tormentor crushes his life-saving medicine, the seemingly weak man finally snaps. He unleashes a terrifying power from his symbiosis with the zombie virus. But after escaping the chaos, his journey leads him to a secret Genesis lab, hinting at a much larger conspiracy...
Son, You Saved the Wrong Father!A doctor lets his own father die while saving his father-in-law, then skips the funeral to celebrate the survivor. At the grave, he learns the man he saved caused the crash while drunk—and that his wife helped conceal it.
The Abused Mafia HeiressYang Tianxiong, the richest man in Shangjing and formerly the head of an underworld family, lost his only daughter at a temple fair twenty years ago. She was taken in by a wage-earning couple and grew up as Yang Mingyue. Her adoptive parents died one after the other once she reached adulthood, leaving her a flat and half a jade pendant, the one thing that ties her to whoever her blood family are. She looked for them for years and got nowhere, and by the time Lin Haoyu appeared, gentle and well-spoken, she was ready to believe she had found somewhere to belong. Friends told her not to go. She married him anyway, sold and mortgaged what she had, and moved a thousand miles to his hometown. Over two years her money pushed him from a junior clerk into a management post. With no family of her own behind her, his mother Zhang Guifen makes a project of humiliating her, and Yang Mingyue swallows it because she is pregnant and expects the child will change how she is treated. The other half of the pendant is still out there.
Don’t Mess With the RookieA new employee is bullied by her coworkers and forced to pay for their expenses just to secure her position. But when she finally fights back and exposes their dirty secrets in front of a powerful client, they realize they’ve messed with the wrong person. As they plot to bring her down, she turns every attack into her rise to the top.
My Son Got Bullied? Now Mom Fights!She is a CEO, but she hides her identity and sends her son to her own kindergarten. To her shock, her son has been bullied for a long time. She fiercely protects her son and investigates in secret. Then she discovers a bigger hidden secret. Can she clean everything up and fix the kindergarten?
What? My Daughter’s Lover Insulted Me?After years abroad, a wealthy father meets his daughter’s secret lover at an auto shop and discovers that the young man is manipulating her into misappropriating project money. At the father’s welcome-home party, the lover mistakes him for the daughter’s husband and insults him, unaware of who he is. The father hides his identity and baits him into exposing more of the scheme until his daughter arrives and the affair is revealed.
The War God's RegretMia is a nymph who lies. She worked on Sebastian, the War God, until he drew the divine essence out of his wife Stella, then did it again, and again. He humiliated Stella and left her, and by the time he had finished she was gone.
Stella came back through the Abyss. Julian gave her the power that made her its Queen. Sebastian learned afterward that Stella had once given up her own life to save his. Stella takes her place beside Julian, and Sebastian is left with a price he cannot pay off.
Hero of the Deep: My Family Regrets Letting Me GoEthan, the Hales' unwanted adopted son, is recruited for Project Abyss. Framed and cast out like trash, Ethan vanishes. When will the Hales learn they discarded their last shot at survival? Meanwhile, a blue-ringed octopus shapeshifts into his sister to stop him. Walking on a razor's edge, she sways...
Green Lantern vs Cliff MonstersDeserting their old camp, the protagonist guides his group to a ghost-fire village ringed by three sheer cliffs and the sea, an unbeatable natural fortress. Holding a pale green lantern on guard duty, he confronts shadowy fiends through the whole night. Come sunrise, monster bodies pile below the cliff, yet the colossal lurking beast has disappeared without a single trace...
A Weak Girl Saved the Martial Hall?A city martial arts tournament is under way when part of it comes down. Liu Suli, who is there to fight, gets a girl clear of it, and in the accident her soul passes into the girl's body. The girl is Ye Lingshan, whose family runs a martial arts school and whose uncles have been working toward taking it from her. They come at Lingshan expecting no resistance. She answers them with the Void Splitting technique, which nobody at the school has seen before. Han Lie arrives with three fighters to take the inheritance and she puts all three down with the Broken Blade Staff. Her student Lin Yuxuan begins to suspect that the person teaching him is not Lingshan. Xu Luo, an enemy from before, comes looking for revenge while she is holding the family together.
American Sniper: The Kid of GunsThe nine-year-old defending his family's shooting range carries the mind of legendary sniper Carl Oliver. Carl died pulling Spencer from a car explosion, only for his spirit to enter the boy's body. He must now use his experience against predatory relatives, business rivals and killers threatening his new family.
Sweet Trap of the Ghost KingIn the tenth year of supernatural revival, a global ghost marriage system is activated. Little does she know, this weak-looking partner is the supreme ghost emperor who has guarded her across countless lifetimes.
The Golden Crop He Left To RotHe brought a way for the village to earn real money, but they called his kindness greed. So he stepped back. He told them to sell the golden crop themselves and watched as the truckload of fortune began to rot. When the harvest turns to waste and the promises turn to dust, whose name will they beg for when ruin finally knocks on their door?
The Miner's Wife? She's the Big Boss!Canteen No. 2 at the mine was nearly closed until the narrator brought the West Zone miners to it, hundreds of men coming up from several hundred metres underground with an appetite. The queue got long and Qian the Fat Man, who owns the place, made his money. Once he had it he decided the miners ate too much. He worked out an arrangement with the canteen supervisor and began charging for second helpings without telling anyone, then cut the minced meat out of the dishes entirely. The narrator brings his lunch tin, still black with coal dust, to argue about it. Qian points at him in front of everyone: the same thirty yuan a day meal subsidy, and the technicians from the East Zone control room eat less and stay clean, so why should he keep feeding a crowd covered in mud. What Qian does not know is who runs the new East Zone mine that just finished construction across the way, the sealed, dust-free one his future customers work in. It is the narrator's wife.
Extra? I'm the Real Leading Part!Zhao Tiezhu comes off a mountain road into a film city, and the crew takes him for one of the extras. He is hungry and he cannot read, so the script is no use to him. He had left home because there was nothing to eat there. He plays the scene out of what he has already been through, and it holds better than the work of the trained actors next to him.
He stays on. He keeps to the rules of the set and picks up characters off the pages he is handed, and the work in the story turns into work he does when the cameras are off. He opens ground, plants it, and feeds his family from it.
The Lady Boss Is RuthlessA tycoon rushes to kindergarten believing her son has been hit by a car, only to find her ex-husband's new wife responsible. The driver tries bribery and blame-shifting before learning the dead boy is her own child. His funeral exposes her affair with the kindergarten principal and the secrets surrounding his birth.