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CEO of Leeching? No, Music God!Jiang Chen means to live off Su Luowei. She is a household name, he has no interest in working, and he keeps the rest of himself out of sight so the arrangement can hold.
He was at the top of the entertainment industry in his last life and he came back from it with a fear of the business he cannot talk himself out of. So he writes at home, turns down everything, and lets people take him for idle. Then a sheet of his handwritten lyrics gets out. It is good enough that people want the name behind it, and Chenwei Media, which is in the middle of losing its footing, pulls him in on the strength of it.
He starts putting out singles. A rival company leans on Chenwei and other people in the business come at him in the open, and he answers with more releases. He is publishing under a pen name on the literary side at the same time, and he ends up running the music side of the company he had been trying to stay out of.
Reborn as a Tiler? Watch Me Rise!A transported youth spends three years tiling a legendary mountain and befriends the monkey king imprisoned there. Believing the Heavenly Emperor is his father exposes a divine conspiracy, after which the Emperor turns him into a weapon for a counterattack. Marriage to a fox spirit and victories over demons give the supposed laborer a chance to wreck the gods' design.
Alchemist in ApocalypseLeft for dead by zombies after a cruel betrayal, he’s thrown into a forbidden immortal realm where he’s taken as a rare cultivation vessel, mastering dual cultivation and ancient alchemy. Returning to the apocalyptic wasteland, he dominates survivors with divine pills and takes ruthless revenge. Yet his godlike power ties to a deadly secret that threatens to destroy both worlds.
A Face Stolen, Hearts BetrayedSurgeon Claudia loses both her father and adopted sister Reina just after Reina finds her wealthy birth family. A mysterious man, Rory, pressures Claudia into taking Reina’s face and identity so she can enter the family and hunt their killers. Their dangerous alliance grows intimate as they navigate conspiracies and mistrust, leaving Claudia unsure whether Rory is her partner or another threat.
Ghost Reaper on the ClockModern medicine has cut human deaths so sharply that ordinary soul reaper Lin Feng cannot meet the underworld's performance quotas. Then a strange dungeon pulls him into a lethal game filled with creatures everyone else flees. Lin sees a backlog of souls waiting to be collected and begins turning supernatural horror into the best numbers his office has ever seen.
The Ultimate Seal LordExiled and living with strays, a former genius accidentally finds the legendary Imperial Seal! Instantly becoming the Supreme Lord, his ordinary pets transform into mythical guardian beasts. With his destiny rewritten, he must rise to defend the borders, crush his enemies, and protect the fate of the entire empire!
The Racing Legend Drives a Taxi Now!Carson Voss, once a top racer, saves Freya Colton on a fast ride to the airport. After learning his former disciple has turned rogue, he decides to return to the racing world. To reclaim his title, he must retrieve four powerful artifacts. With the first one in hand, can Carson reclaim his legacy?
Kitchen, Kill the Gods!In a world overrun by beasts, a cook awakens the Gourmet System, and opens a stall at the Forbidden Zone. His spirit dishes heal the wounded and tame monsters. He shatters the elite’s monopoly, leads armies against the hordes. From a village cook to a national guardian, one recipe at a time. But when the system grows hungrier… who is cooking whom?
Mistaken Bastard, Real HeirThe Spare. The overlooked second son. The prince nobody sees.
Kaelen Veylor has spent his whole life in the shadow of a golden brother and living in a kingdom that already decided what he was worth.
Until Valgard Academy - where no one cares whose family you come from, and the only thing that matters is whether you're still standing at the end.
The Blood of the Fallen is an epic fantasy about what happens when the person everyone underestimated stops proving them wrong. One duel at a time.
Kick Me Out, Lose It AllClaire Stone's dessert shop turns a dying mall into the hottest spot in town—until greedy landlord Derek Payne forces her out to make room for an influencer café. But Claire is already one step ahead. She moves her businesses across the street, takes the mall's biggest tenants with her, and watches Derek's empire collapse. When corruption comes to light, Claire finally takes back everything she earned.
S-Rank Throne: Princess AscendsLillian wakes up inside a novel as the Fifth Princess of the Elf Kingdom, a minor character who in the book is handed over to a vampire in a sacrificial rite in the first chapter. She wants to live past that scene. What she has instead is no standing at court and a sister, the Third Princess Lilia, who is already moving against her.
By accident she breaks the seal on an S-rank vampire who has been shut away for a thousand years. He grants her one wish, and she asks him to follow her for the rest of her life. That is not enough on its own, so she sets about taking the things that were supposed to go to Lilia: the werewolf who would have served her, her place among the candidates for queen, and a fallen angel.
Lilia gets away and attacks during the ceremony. Lillian puts her down, and Lilia calls up the most evil spirit in the kingdom. The Queen seals it at the cost of herself, and the spirit is still loose in the kingdom with Lillian left to face it.
No Revenge Until a Snake Spirit Came!A gravely ill chief executive discovers that the adoptive father he trusted exterminated his birth family. Before he can complete the revenge he has planned, he encounters a woman who carries the reborn spirit of a snake, binding his human vendetta to a supernatural fate.
I Ditched My Leeching FamilyWhen her nephew destroys a valuable design draft, a woman faces steep penalties—but her family demands her luxury apartment and savings instead of helping. Her brother's family has already lived there rent-free for years, and she finally sells the property and leaves. With a powerful investor's support, she takes legal action to recover her money and hold her family accountable for years of exploitation.
The Million-Dollar DivorceRahul spent five years living with his wife Sonia and her family, who ran through his money and treated him as a servant in his own marriage. Her brother slapped Rahul's mother Kavita, and when Rahul objected, Sonia took her brother's side and told him to divorce her if he did not like it. He agreed. A lawyer drew up the papers, both signed, and the property was split.
Sonia's family kept using his credit cards after the signing. They bought a car, an apartment near a good school, and jewellery, running the balance to about a million. The cards were no longer his, so the debt sat on Sonia's name. Rahul moved into a large house with his mother and his daughter and waited for the bills to reach her.
The Janitor Billionaire Strikes BackLogan Walker is a billionaire and has superhuman powers. For the sake of a woman he lived disguised as a janitor. The woman was after money and left him, and men who competed with him treated him with contempt while he was in the disguise. He then married Eleanor Sterling, a CEO, without planning to. The two of them were mocked by the people around them. Each of them disclosed to the other who they really were, and they moved together against the people working against them. Logan used his powers openly. They climbed to the top of the city.
Trapped by Robbers in Remote InnTwo travelers turn up at the guesthouse in the mountains on a night of heavy rain and ask for a room, saying their car has broken down. They are Zhang Meng and Chen Wei. The hostess, Su Wenxi, is about to open the door when the guesthouse AI system, Shanxiao, warns her: Zhang Meng is a wanted man, and Chen Wei appears to be there against her will. Su Wenxi lets them in and watches. Their outer clothes are soaked but the layers underneath are dry, and both have the same thorn tattoo, the mark of a jewel robbery crew. This was not shelter from the weather but a break-in they had planned. The woman who looked like a hostage, Chen Wei, is the one giving the orders. A third member of the crew forces his way in and the power goes out, with the emergency supply on a clock. Su Wenxi stops being the prey and goes after them, and walks into a trap set deeper than the first one.
Mistaking The Mother-In-Law For A MistressPrince Edric is marrying Isara, a pearl diver, and his mother Queen Astraea is staying in the castle that had belonged to her dead daughter Freya, recovering from illness without telling anyone who she is. Isara takes the woman in the castle for another woman competing for Edric.
Isara brings her sisters. They wreck the castle and hold Astraea down to take her eyes out. Edric is on his way.
(Dubbed) Divorcing The Heartless CEOShe endured 4 years of coldness while her husband pampered his first love. After losing her baby to his cruelty, she signs divorce papers and leaves to chase her dreams. When he finally realizes his true feelings and begs for another chance, she has already found true love with a better billionaire. Left with nothing, he can only regret.
She Built an Empire While They CriedAfter eight years of betrayal, she was killed to protect her family's favorite. Given a second life, she cuts ties and rises as a business icon. But when her brothers finally realize their mistake, can any apology undo a lifetime of cruelty?
I RULE the Endless ApocalypseAfter an all night gaming session, a man wakes up as an apocalyptic base leader. He soon faces betrayal from internal elders and loses his lover. Cornered by countless threats, he awakens a powerful civilization system with abundant supplies and exclusive perks. Will he crush all the enemies, and lead his people to survive and thrive in this world?
I Made 4 Demons My BoyfriendsHer boyfriend and bestie killed her into a nightmare dimension. Now she's got four demon kings fighting over her, an apocalypse on Earth, and zero regrets. Hell sent its worst; she sent them back in love. The world isn't ready for a queen with a monster harem. And She's bringing her harem home to save the world!
My Babies! Protect Mommy Now!A young princess and her mother are exiled to a royal temple after palace intrigue. There, she befriends the general's son, and together they face assassins, uncover treachery, and navigate deadly schemes. Can two children survive the palace's dark plots... and protect their family?
Heiress Back in ActionSouthport heiress Olivia Sanders is betrayed by her cousin and closest friend, robbed of her fiancé, and sold into brutal captivity abroad. Survival transforms her from victim into the Lioness, feared ruler of the criminal continent. She returns with a powerful, enigmatic guard just as the women who stole her life celebrate their new status, turning their triumph into the opening of her reckoning.
Her Baby's Father Is A She?Black has always been a girl with a boyish look. One day, her brother Zane calls her to the school office. The reason is Vivian insists she is pregnant and says Black is the father. With no way out, Black simply says she'll marry her! What happens next is anyone's guess.
Caught in the ActRachel, a housewife who had lost her child, frequently dreamed of her husband Anthony being unfaithful. To ease her doubts, she sought out a "detective" named Bryan to uncover the truth, only to discover...
Unleashed! A Demon God in Me!Su Bai wants the demon god sealed inside him awake. What feeds it is malice, so he sets about getting people to hate him and takes in what that produces. Nothing comes of it until the medical exam for the college entrance, when whatever is in him breaks out in front of the room. The war goddess Ye Shuang takes over guarding him after that.
He enrolls at the war academy in the capital. He is nearly killed there several times, and the demon god's power comes up in him. He clears out mutant beasts, breaks a plot by the Beast God Cult, and crosses into another world where he fights the Void Sovereign with his hands. He sleeps for three years afterward.
Mess With Me, You're Done!Guo Hongqin sold fish on the street for more than twenty years to raise her adopted son Lu Ming. Lu Ming, his wife Jiang Xingyue and his mother-in-law Shen Cuiqin told her they were treating her legs. What they injected damaged her bones, and the plan was to take her marrow for Shen Cuiqin. Guo Hongqin also found out that her own son Abao had been taken and sold years earlier by Lu Ming. She ran, close to death, and was picked up by Gu Tingshen, who heads the Gu Group and is Abao. At a family banquet she is humiliated in front of everyone, and Gu Tingshen says who he is and lays out what they did.
Leaving The Toxic Family BehindReturning home for the holidays, she discovers her father’s secret affair and gets kicked out with her mother. Instead of breaking, they fight back! From standing up to heartless relatives to launching a massive livestream business, they reclaim their power. She helps her mother find a new purpose and uncovers a life-changing secret, leaving the toxic father with nothing but regret.
Funeral Mahjong: The Queen Wins It All!The house at stake is paid off to the last cent and it belongs to Zhang Lan. On the eve of her husband's funeral her son Zhou Hao sets a mahjong table up in the mourning room, brings in his mother-in-law Zhou Xiuqin and a few others, and plays for it.
Zhang Lan was the name people used to drop when they talked about gambling in that city. She left the tables so Zhou Hao could grow up away from all of it, and what came back to her from him was contempt. She had not sat down to a game in years.
She takes the empty seat. The others at the table have arranged the hands among themselves beforehand and pass signals across it. Zhang Lan plays through that and closes with a Thirteen Orphans, and the deed stays in her name.
Backstab While I Train? You'll Regret It!To break through the ceiling that has held him for ten thousand years, Chu Changge seals his own cultivation and takes work as a sweeper inside the Taixuan Sword Sect, where nobody knows the founding patriarch is scrubbing their floors. His disciple Xiao Jue is courting the young lady Ye Qingcheng and wants the sect's protective key to impress her. Xiao Jue takes the key, breaks the spirit roots of Xiao An, Chu Changge's adopted boy, brands the child as demon-blooded and has him dragged to the immortal execution platform. Chu Changge unseals himself and reveals who he is. Xiao Jue is beaten and set to the filthiest labour in the sect, and he goes over to the Demon Lord rather than accept it, coming back with an army at his shoulder to besiege the mountain. Chu Changge lays out in front of everyone how the frame-up was built, and settles the siege with a single stroke. When the way to ascension opens for him afterwards he turns it down and stays below, taking Xiao An as his own disciple.
I Saved My Daughter, She Hated Me Forever.Yue comes back a hundred years after she fell into the Nine Hells. She carries the title of Supreme Immortal of the Nine Hells now, and she has returned to the demon realm to take revenge on Mo Cang, the demon king who raised her, since she holds him responsible for her mother's death.
Mo Cang had found her as a child with the True Dragon bloodline and saved her life. When she turned against him he hid her in the forbidden zone to keep her out of reach. Lingyu, the false heir, was jealous of her, tormented her there and pushed her into the abyss.
The Grand Princess of the nine-tailed foxes makes use of the split between father and daughter. She tricks Yue into setting up the Ancient God-Slaying Formation against Mo Cang. Before it is finished the truth comes out. The betrayal a hundred years earlier had been the Grand Princess's own doing, and Mo Cang had cut out his heart and given Yue its blood so that her soul could be remade. Yue's memory of that time comes back, and the True Dragon bloodline in her wakes.
The Arms King's Fatal BlindnessChloe's bodyguard Kyle keeps rejecting the woman who actually saved his life, mistaking someone else for his rescuer. Forced to marry comatose tycoon Ethan to save her family, Chloe spends three years finding comfort beside the sleeping husband who has long cherished her. His awakening gives her the support her secret love for Kyle never did.
Kill My Billionaire HusbandHailey Scott is broke and works as an assassin. During a chase she causes Charles Hill, a billionaire, to lose his memory. She takes him back to her place, hides him there, and tells him they are married. He believes it, and the two of them fall in love while the truth about who each of them is starts coming out. Then Hailey's employer tells her to kill Charles. She refuses and protects him instead, and the two of them fight the people coming after them.
Love Came Too LateElena gave up her career to keep house for her family. Her husband was seeing a woman named Sophia. Elena did not confront him. She signed on to a space mission and left without telling him where she was going. He found out afterwards and was left with his regret, and by then she was already far away.
(Dubbed)Return of the Drift KingRacing champion Chase Walker has spent five years hidden as a rural mechanic when the Raptor Riders challenge his town to a race with its future at stake. Saving his neighbors means returning to the wheel and exposing the legend he abandoned.
Good Luck, My Perfect AI SisterOnce the favorite daughter, she was erased when a perfect AI sister arrived. Three years in a reprogramming institute crushed her soul. Now she's the obedient copy they wanted. Her parents moved on. Her brother still watches. Tonight, birthday candles glow in the next room, but no one remembers it's her day too... So why is she smiling in the dark?
(Dubbed) No Scheming: I See EverythingCheated on and expelled from his own home, an ordinary man suddenly develops psychic abilities. He applies them to lotteries, stock trades, and valuable jade, building a fortune while settling accounts with those who humiliated him. His rapid rise provokes an enemy whose repeated plots turn financial success into an escalating personal war.
Back at Eight: The Football LegendWhen legendary football King Thomas wakes up in the body of his 8-year-old great-grandson Theo, he faces a Dracoland football under siege by corrupt owners and match-fixers. Leading Evergreen FC against ruthless rivals and foreign invaders, can the King reclaim glory and expose the shadows lurking behind the beautiful game?
Sweet Invasion: Falling for My Alien ExPaisley Neal works as a researcher and spends her days being pushed around by her supervisor. She has been with Max Sutton for years. She learns he is cheating, and she joins with the other woman to corner him. Max dies in a car accident. A few hours later he walks back into the apartment with no injuries and behaves as he always did toward her.
Paisley watches him and records what he does. The body is being used by something from Planet M62 that is learning to live among people. She decides to study it and publish the results under her own name.
Ten years earlier a fragment of a star core was lost on Earth and absorbed by Paisley as a child. It bonded to her body, and it can only be taken back if she gives it up willingly and loves the one asking. Retrieval will take a long time, so he goes on living in the apartment as her boyfriend. He begins learning what human feeling is, and she stops treating him only as a subject.
Immortal Descends: Curing My Mute WifeThere is a debt owed in the Celestial Realm, and the creditors chasing it are hunting him for it. Michael Coltrane, the immortal who owes it, gets away by taking the body of a gambler in the mortal world who carries the same name and is in his own trouble over money.
His powers come back to him there. The body he has taken has a wife, Evelyn, who cannot speak, and he makes medicine that cures her. He wins a fortune buying uncut stones and betting on what is inside them, opens a clinic, shows up a man who had been treating patients as a doctor without being one, brings the local magnates round and pushes the gangs off. He and Evelyn live quietly for a while.
Then the creditors come down from the Celestial Realm after him, bringing soldiers with them.
I'll Never Let You Die AgainEthan Khak led the Blue Brotherhood. He loved Carlin Sim and let her go, thinking it was better for her. Her fortune was taken from her and she was tortured. Ethan killed the men responsible and then died beside her body.
He wakes up alive again, at an earlier point. He goes to her wedding, takes her out of it, and shoots the man she was going to marry. He keeps her shut in where he can guard her and tells her he will protect her at any price. She thinks he is a devil. She becomes pregnant while he is holding her there.
Bianca Pek arrives, calls her a kept woman, and pushes her from a height. Ethan gets back too late and finds her lying in blood.
Chef's Revenge: Betrayal Turned EmpireTwo friends own a restaurant together, and it clears 5 million yuan a year. Wang Ting keeps all of it. She hands her partner Li Jia, a single mother who does the cooking, 100,000 for her share and humiliates her while she does it.
Li Jia's daughter needs heart surgery. Li Jia takes the 100,000 and opens a place of her own called Jiaji. She runs it honestly and it fills up with customers. Wang Ting's kitchen has lost its main cook, and she starts skimping on ingredients and undercutting prices, and her restaurant goes downhill. She then turns to poisoning, and after that sets fire to Jiaji. Li Jia's daughter has still not had her operation.
Caught In Her WebA beautiful streamer moves into a creepy apartment. A peeping landlord watches her every move, while a predator hides under her bed. She seems like the perfect prey. But when the attacker ducks into her closet, he makes a terrifying discovery—a bloody corpse wrapped in plastic! Who is the real victim here, and who is the ultimate killer?
Divine Awakening: Banishing the Ex-HusbandElira loved Kaelos, who was weak and had no standing of his own. She is the daughter of Zeus, and she gave up the Scepter of King Zeus, and with it her own rank, to have Kaelos crowned Divine Speaker. Everything he holds came from her hand. Once he had the title he betrayed her and humiliated her, and he behaves as though the power was always his. Elira stops sparing him and sets out to take back her dignity and the supreme power she handed over.
Beg Me Back, Watch Them CrySophia wants the family she was born to. She was swapped at birth and spent ten years elsewhere before returning to the Graysons. Olivia holds the place of heiress there and does not intend to give it up, and she works against Sophia from the start. Sophia is betrayed and serves three years in prison.
She comes out working as an artist under the name S.G. Tristan protects her while she brings out what happened in the past. She turns down the Grayson money. Olivia makes one last attempt on her. Sophia leaves for Paris.
Bullying The Hidden ExpertForced by toxic neighbors to approve an elevator, she warns them about the dangerous quicksand below. They ignore her proof and force her to sign! She demands a liability waiver just before the building collapses into ruins. Blaming her, they suddenly discover she is actually a top national geologist! Ultimate karma strikes back.
Father! I’ll Take Your Empire!Su Zhenbang built his fortune on his first wife's family money, and while she was dying he was already with another woman. After the funeral he sent his daughter Sophie away to the countryside. The stepmother saw to it that she stayed there for fifteen years.
Sophie is called back. She goes at the stepmother and the stepsiblings directly and takes hold of the resources inside the family company. At her school she builds a network of her own and shows what she can do. Inside the group her business proposals work, and the older executives come around to her, until her father trusts her with real ground. While all that is going on she is digging, and she finds proof that her mother's treatment was deliberately held back and that the stepmother meant for her to die.
At an emergency shareholders' meeting Sophie lays out the evidence. Her father is stripped of his position and she is voted chair.
(Dubbed) Born to DominateYannick Young thought he was just another weak disciple. But when he aces a deadly sect trial, the truth hits—he’s anything but ordinary. Jealous rivals, secret mentors, and ancient enemies stand in his way. Is he ready to claim the power he never knew he had?
Mystery of the LadyHumanity has spread across the whole solar system. All of it governed by the Syndicate, a group of five omniscient and untouchable AI gods.
Until now.
Five years ago, Adrian found something wrong inside the markets. Something growing in the dark spaces between financial transactions. The Phantom — not a virus or a rogue algorithm, but a consciousness the markets themselves created. He tried to warn them. He died. Now his brother Ryan Kwan wants answers.
Dealmakers' Vault is a cosmic financial thriller about what happens when the system everyone trusted stops serving humanity and starts hunting it.
Too Late: The Divorce Is Final150 years ago, America closed its doors to the world. No one has been inside since. Former elite soldier Marcus Logan wasn’t looking for a mission; until someone stole a top-secret chip and framed him for it. Now he’s on the wrong side of a 100-foot wall, in a country that executes trespassers, staring at a city that no longer exists.
The thriller you didn’t know you needed. A story about what happens when the world’s most isolated nation has a secret worth dying for. There’s no going back now.
Solely MineEthan Vale was an ordinary teenager in a world where ordinary means invisible. Until one night something slipped under his skin. Now he hears a voice that isn't his, feels power he never had, and can't tell whether it's him or the Parasite.
A superhero story about identity, symbiosis, and the cost of becoming something new.
Are you ready?
Earth-King Returns from the ShadowA wounded god falls to Earth and hides in the home of Mia, a struggling single mother. Toeveryone else, he is just a poor, broken man with no past and no power. But Mia’s little daughterLilycallshim “Daddy” the moment they meet, and her touch mysteriously healshisdivinewounds.At first, he stays only to recover. But when thugs, billionaires, soldiers, and dark forces comeafter Mia and Lily, he starts reclaiming his lost artifacts and divine power. The man everyonemocked as useless is rising again, not to rule the realms, but to protect the family that saved himand gave him a heart again.
Married My Dad's Billionaire FriendYoung designer Daphne catches her boyfriend cheating, and dumps him on her birthday. Still feeling devastated, she finds out she's engaged to Richard, her late father's billionaire best friend. They have a whirlwind marriage. Upon joining his company, she faces workplace bullying and plagiarism accusations. While crises and misunderstandings are being resolved, their love deepens. Daphne gets pregnant, and they finally get their happily ever after.
I Crowned You in Glory, You Buried Me in BloodIn her past life, Teresa Baldwin's entire family is executed by her husband, Jesse Norman, and his concubine, Lea Harvey. Teresa willingly gives Jesse everything and helps him secure the position of general, believing he is Ruben, the man who once saved her. When she is given a second chance at life, she vows to make Jesse and Lea pay for everything they have done.
She Walked Out of Hell, Straight Into Their RuinThree years ago, Mia Shaw’s stepmother framed her and had her locked away in a mental hospital, where she endured endless suffering. After her release, she is determined to take revenge. By chance, she saves Nate Blair’s grandmother and earns his support. With him by her side, Mia begins her quest to bring down everyone who once hurt her.
He Killed God With... A Fox?Lin Fan takes in a small fox and a white snake, two creatures everyone treats as worthless. They carry the blood of gods. He raises them until the fox becomes a nine-tailed heavenly fox and the snake becomes a white dragon.
Before that he watched Wang Batian kill his parents over a sacred cauldron. At the bottom of it he woke a divine bloodline and a system that copies any skill without limit. He goes back for Wang Batian, kills him, and breaks up the Blood Demon sect's plot, and in doing so learns that the person who set all of it moving was Lin Tianjiao, the sect master, who wants to steal a destiny and pass himself off as an immortal. Lin Fan gathers what force he can find and goes at the false immortal.
How to Tame My Devil SlavesLilith is a villainess in an otome game called Demon Butlers, and the game has already decided she dies. Shirley wakes up in her body with the terms laid out: turn the bloodlust of the four demon butlers who serve the house into devotion, or the ending stands.
She cuts herself and heals one of them with her own blood. Then she wakes Yegard, the most dangerous of the four, because the Demon Control Trial ahead of her has been rigged and she cannot pass it alone. She is ambushed on the way, with none of the four beside her, and has to work out whether the hold she has on her monsters is real.
Magicless Bride, Powerful RiseEvelyn is born into a noble house in a world where magic decides everything, and she is born without a mark. The law says the Markless are put to death. Her family passes her off into a marriage with Lucian, who everyone calls a monster, and the match is treated as a way to be rid of her rather than a match at all. She lives with him expecting to be handed over or worse.
Lucian protects her instead. Her magic wakes while she is under his roof. The two of them go back through the death of her mother and find that it was murder, and the trail runs into the same bloodline law that condemned her. Evelyn breaks the rule that has stood for centuries, and Lucian stays with her through it.
Divine Chef Strikes Back!The God of Cookery comes down to the human world to face a trial that fate has set for him. He lives as Chen Li, eldest grandson of a family of imperial chefs. He falls from a cliff, loses his memory, and spends ten years in the countryside without knowing who he is. When his memory returns he goes back to Baiwei Lou, the family restaurant. His sister-in-law Su Wanxin has waited there for him for ten years and held the business together. She has an unusual sense of taste. Chen Li's uncle wants the restaurant, and he has cornered her into a life-and-death duel arranged so that her wrist tendons will be cut. On the day of the duel the head chefs go over to the uncle. Su Wanxin is badly hurt while shielding Chen Li. He grabs a knife barehanded and begins cooking a bowl of rice, the dish called Soul-Stealing Rice.