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Don't Make Me Come OutChance had a name once, in a line of work he keeps to himself. He put it down and went to live among ordinary people, on the same streets as everybody else, with his family and nothing else to look after. Enough time passed that the name stopped meaning anything to anyone who had not been there.
His daughter runs into trouble he cannot deal with from where he is standing, and he stops keeping his head down. Word gets around that he is active again, and men he used to work with come back to him without being asked twice. What he was good at then he is still good at. He uses it on the people who went after his daughter, and on holding things steady around the family while the rest of it plays out.
Apocalypse: I Have a Super Fortress in AdvanceRay, a former FBI ace agent, chose to live incognito as a low-level mechanic just to return to his family. On the eve of the zombie apocalypse, he is brutally betrayed by his manipulative, social-climbing wife and humiliated by a Wall Street elite who strips him of his fortune. With a cold sneer, Ray signs the papers and retreats with his adopted daughter into a subterranean, nuclear-grade fortified bunker—a stronghold that drained his entire life savings.
Python Doom: Nightmare Came TrueNeha goes to a forest resort villa on holiday with her boyfriend and her best friend, and the two of them are sleeping together behind her back. She learns it in a dream on the way there, a dream that also shows a giant python swallowing everyone at the resort. She tells the others what is coming. Nobody believes her, so she prepares the basement on her own.
The boyfriend's brother is the one person who listens and hides with her. The python arrives as she said it would. The people who took her seriously are in the basement, and the rest are outside with it.
Reborn as the Almighty GeneralHe Minghua killed the whole Ye household while Ye Wangshu was a child. She went over a cliff during the slaughter and was found and raised by the empress of Great Cang. Fifteen years later she holds a general's command and comes back to the region where she was born, looking for anyone left. She arrives while the Tang family is being squeezed by a local strongman named Xue Fugui, steps in on their side, and learns from them that she is related to them. That is also where the older business reopens. He Minghua has been dealing with the state of Hua behind Great Cang's back, and he has Tang Wan, Ye Wangshu's mother, held alive and is drawing her blood to refine into poison. Everything Ye Wangshu does after that runs on the two facts together, the treason and the mother, and she does not send anyone else to settle it. The court is unstable, the border is not quiet, and she is the one with troops.
They Paid Me in Funeral MoneyTop engineer Xiao Yang secures a billion-dollar deal for his company but is publicly humiliated with fake funeral money as his year-end bonus. He rejects lucrative offers from rivals and chooses to stay and witness his company's downfall. After being demoted and seeing an incompetent director ruin the technical department, the client cancels the massive order and demands huge compensation, pushing the company to the brink of collapse. Xiao Yang, however, has already left with his core team to establish their own venture, securing a new, lucrative contract and proving his worth.
Wait! She’s the Billionaire’s Sister!Sherry tortures Emily as a supposed gold digger pursuing her billionaire fiancé Mason, certain she is defending her place in his family. Emily is actually the sister Mason has spent more than twenty years trying to find—and the one relative whose approval determines whether the marriage proceeds. Mason's arrival exposes the mistake and places Sherry before the woman she made powerless.
Eternal Oath of SeraphinaThe mortal family Seraphina had sworn to protect breaks that oath, and she has spent a thousand years and more carrying what it cost her. She is the first vampire. She answers the betrayal in blood.
While she does, an old rival of hers surfaces with a plan to put every vampire under his control, and she goes to war against him over that. The hunter protocol, built to kill vampires of every side, wakes at the same time, which leaves her fighting one enemy who wants her kind enslaved and another that wants them gone.
The Verdict of BetrayalWhen Oliver—lawyer Natalie's first love—hits and kills an elderly man in a hit-and-run, her husband Weston wants to bring him to justice for the victim's sake. But Natalie, believing the dead man is Weston's father, uses her legal expertise to block the case and personally defend Oliver. She successfully argues in court that the death was a staged accident. Oliver walks free. Then the truth shatters her: the victim was not her husband's father, but her own. Consumed by guilt, Natalie faces the wreckage of her choices—and a justice that can no longer be served.
My Sloppy Husband Is Actually an ImmortalA century of seclusion has brought Zenith Sect grandmaster Elden Vance to the threshold of immortality but no farther. Divination reveals that Lyna Vale is his lost companion reborn, so he descends the mountain to marry her. Her family mocks his humble appearance and welcomes an impostor instead, until Elden unmasks the fraud, shields Lyna from a demonic revenge attack, and faces the mortal trial that could let them ascend together.
Universal Rizz: Conquering the Horror WorldIn Dread World, every adult risks being dragged into deadly dungeons. Just before entering his first dungeon, transmigrator Tristan Shaw awakens a bizarre skill called Universal Charisma. While others struggle to survive, he talks his way through Wraiths and impossible situations, turning the horror world upside down with nothing but his quick wit and silver tongue.
Cameras in the Ward: Desire and DeceitAfter accidentally injuring her arm, Evelyn Habden is admitted to the hospital, where she kindly helps the family of a caregiver injured in a car accident. Her compassion leaves Logan Mofat feeling inexplicably guilty. When she unexpectedly discovers hidden surveillance footage that exposes a conspiracy, she convinces him to fight back together. The two join hands to set a trap and reveal the truth.
Hold Me Tight, Mr. FirefighterRaymond Longwood may be a heroic firefighter by day, but beneath the uniform lies a secret—he’s also the sole heir to the powerful Longwood Group. Pressured by his grandfather to marry, Raymond refuses to settle until he finds the mysterious girl who once saved his life in a raging fire.
Kicked Out by My Son, Crowned by the SeaHector Zeller, once the top fisherman, gave up his career and sold his house to move to the city to raise his son. Yet he’s scorned by his daughter-in-law and ignored by his own son. On his fiftieth birthday, he’s cruelly kicked out. Will the former Fisher King stage a comeback?
The Oracle's CurseIn a world where an oracle's scroll is taken as binding, a curse read out over a man is a sentence nobody argues with. Penelope, a healer, was told Odysseus carried one. To break him away from her and save him, she pretended to betray him, and then raised their son by herself for six years.
Odysseus comes back from the war a hero. He wants to know what happened and will not let it go, and he notices the boy has his features. Daphne works to keep the two of them apart. Odysseus finds the scroll and sees that the oracle was faked. Six years of lying come apart, and what Penelope gave up is laid out in front of him.
Mom’s Back, Nobody Touches My Daughter!A forged letter of authorization puts the Qin family in the hands of Xia Yiming, who married into it, and Tang Rui, the woman he has been carrying on with. His wife Qin Yu is by then locked away on the family's estate in the countryside, where he had lured her, and he lets it be known that she is dead. Qin Yu had been in a bad way since her mother, Qin Zhaoyan, vanished five years earlier without any word, and that is what Xia Yiming used to get her out there.
Qin Zhaoyan comes home five years after she disappeared. Xia Yiming tells her that her daughter died of an illness a few days before, and a coffin is laid out for the funeral. Qin Zhaoyan does not believe him. She asks to see her daughter's body and sends her assistant Chen Wei to look into the death. Just as the coffin is about to be burned, she learns that no record of any death exists and that people in the village say they have seen Qin Yu. She has the burning stopped and orders the lid forced open.
He Cheated, She Suffered, Now He PaysShe transferred her husband's cancer into her own body and suffered a decade of chemo. He cheated with her best friend, stole her fortune, and now plans to inject her with poison. He thinks she's helpless. He forgot she still controls the system. When she unbinds it, every ounce of agony she endured will return to him, a hundredfold.
The ShrinkocalypseMark and Winter are both university students, and both have awakened a power since the night everything changed. Winter comes across as cold and is kinder than she looks. Mark's power is the Infinite Evolution System, which lets him grow stronger by absorbing biomass and by taking the abilities of whatever he kills. The two of them decide to stay together.
The night in question is the one when every person on earth shrank to a few centimeters tall. Civilization stopped working, and the ordinary world turned into a jungle where nearly everything is big enough to kill them. Mark's system woke in him at a moment when he was about to die.
They run into other awakened people who mean them harm, along with mutated animals, the infected, and a cult. What they learn along the way is that all of it traces back to crystals called Xeno-Cores, which are scattered across the world. Mark sets out to collect them.
The Unwanted Goofy Son-in-LawMason Quinn transmigrates to Dareth as the foolish heir of the Duke of Quiven. Dreaming of an easy life filled with leisure and fun, he is horrified to discover that he is engaged to a princess. Determined to break off the marriage, Mason unexpectedly transforms from a useless playboy into a legendary statesman and feared god of war. But as he receives more and more honors, he finds it increasingly impossible to call off his engagement to the princess.
Doomsday Supply Station: All My Staff Are Total Tough NutsIn a world where heroes are worshipped and mutant beasts are feared, I was cast out of the shelter like trash for not being a hero. But by chance, I gained the power to control the life and death of those beasts. So I opened a supply station beyond the walls, making a fortune by selling the crystal cores hidden inside the monsters. While others struggle to survive the apocalypse, I rise to the top—heroes? Even S-rank ones end up working for me.
S-Class Horrors? No cute girlsLin Lu was an ordinary young man until he crossed over into a world overrun by malevolent spirits. His eyes take in the other side of that world. The S-class spirits and the Ghost King that everyone around him sees as bloody and horrifying come through to him as women, a loli, an older sister, a cold queen, a princess, each with her own temperament. The place is full of temptation as far as he is concerned. Later a pair of twin ghost sisters knock at his door and he opens it to them.
Blind Witness: To See is to Die!A country girl, she works as a masseuse and pretends to be blind because that is how she makes a living. In a villa one day she is in the room when Gao Ning, a well-known detective, and Qin Yue kill the old master of the house. She keeps the act up through the blood and the knives, telling herself she can see him but must not let him find out, and she gets out alive. Gao Ning does not believe her. He poisons her eyes so that she really does go blind, and then frames her for the murder. She is locked away, and there she finds people who will work with her: another detective who has lost everything, and the dead man's son. Knowing how much Gao Ning thinks of himself, she leads him step by step into a trap set at the funeral, where a recording hidden in her white cane plays back what he did.
My Sister Wants My Brain OPEN!A doctor's fiancé goes missing. Her stepsister then shuts her in a basement, keeps her working there for three years, and puts her own name on the research that comes out of it. When the fiancé returns, he is told that the doctor took her own life days before he got back. The stepsister produces a forged letter in the doctor's hand leaving her body to brain research. The stepsister has an operating room prepared for a craniotomy to be performed while the doctor is still alive. The fiancé asks to see the body and is refused, and he forces the doors of the operating room.
My Brother Dragged Me Back to HellThe gangs run the city, and the police cannot touch the men at the top of them. A dancer has spent eight years hiding her name to stay out of the one her family belongs to. Her brother tracks her down and brings her back to the family house anyway, where her adopted sister has traps waiting for her, one attempt after another on her life. To stay alive she picks up her old identity again and starts planning instead of running. Working through it she finds that the sister and the gang's old master have been dealing with foreign powers and selling out the country. The old case of her mother's killing comes apart at the same time. Her mother had belonged to a patriotic organisation, and the man who killed her is the old master, who has been sitting in front of her the whole time looking kind.
Honey, Don't Start My Funeral Without ME!Zhou Lei lures his wife Su Mian into a landslide zone during the rainy season, leaves her buried alive, and rushes through a death certificate so he can collect a fortune in insurance. Su Mian claws her way out of the mud with bloodied hands. She arrives at her own funeral just as Zhou performs his final act as the grieving widower, carrying the evidence that can destroy him.
No More Mercy for My ExJohn Morgan wanted to stay in his own house as the husband who kept it, and that was the one thing his family would not let him have. Twenty years went into it. He never told his wife Eva or their three children, Mia, Alex and Amy, what he was worth, and the four of them settled on the view that he was worth nothing. In the end they put him out of the house.
He went back to work. He took back the chief executive's seat at the Nexus Group, which employed Eva. At the company gala the ownership of the group was read out with him standing in the room, and everyone there heard whose name it was. Eva and Gilbert Newman, whom she had been seeing, were dismissed that night, and their names went round the trade until no firm in the city would take either of them.
Falling Objects, Fallen MistressCEO Tristan Kelly's mistress, Vivian Camp, injures his wife, Clara Finch, with a falling object. Tristan's mother, Katherine, rushes to save her daughter-in-law only to face more hostility...
Cry For Losing MeEileen took Lucian for her savior, only to know she was Vera's human shield. She then schemes a marriage swap to seize her mother's inheritance. On the wedding day, Vera walks into peril while Eileen weds the "crippled" Edward. When Lucian realizes Eileen was his true savior, he's full of regret. But Eileen's already been the empire's top power.
Daddy's Best FriendHeiress Elias Weaver is madly infatuated with Alexander, her father's iron‑willed close friend. The two fall deeply into a forbidden romance, but break apart due to a carefully orchestrated "bigamy scam." Facing a family bankruptcy crisis, Aurelia is forced into a political marriage with a politician, even planning to end her own life after saving her family. In the end, the affectionate politician magnanimously lets go and resolves the crisis. With misunderstandings cleared, Aurelia and Elias finally find happiness together.
Owned by the Bad Boy AthleteTop swimming superstar Rowan is drugged and caught in an unexpected intimate encounter with Evan, a sports journalist who has secretly been in love with him. Evan flees in panic but accidentally leaves behind a borrowed press credential, leading Rowan to mistakenly believe that a vain female journalist named Lena was the one that night. Lena seizes the chance to cling to him, yet Rowan senses something off during their interactions. His gaze gradually locks onto the flustered, evasive Evan. A test, an out‑of‑control kiss—and the truth is completely exposed: the person from that night has always been him. As scandal erupts, family pressure mounts, and public opinion closes in, Evan—a wealthy heir—steps forward to protect the man he loves. From a secret, humble crush to a binding contract, this forbidden love story, born of an accident, burns fiercely against a backdrop of high society and blinding stardom.
Tempting Luna IdentityAfter the playboy Joey accidentally falls into the water, he transports to a world of werewolves, and finds himself in a she-wolf’s body. While trying to find a way back to the hunman world, she is chosen to be the wife of the future alpha Oscar. Even worse, she finds herself gradually drawn to Oscar, unable to resist him.
Buried Alive? Now I JUDGE You All.A young magistrate of the capital is sent to catch a woman who has come back from the underworld to settle scores, and he ends up forced to serve as her bodyguard. Somewhere in that arrangement the two of them fall in love.
She had been the legitimate daughter of a noble house. The night before her wedding her own relatives buried her alive so they could steal her destiny for themselves. The coffin opened onto the underworld, where she was made a judge and handed the judge's brush, and she swore to pay each betrayer back one at a time. The magistrate was assigned to hunt her while she was doing it.
The plot against her runs further than her family. It brings a disaster down on the underworld itself, and in the middle of it the magistrate takes a blow meant for her and his soul is torn apart. She decides to alter the Register of Life and Death to bring him back, which means going against heaven.
Blood Revenge on New Year's EveMaria Garcia has given birth four times, each delivery by caesarean on New Year's Eve, and each infant died within hours. The household settled on an explanation early: she is a curse on the family, and by the fourth loss the whispers had hardened into an accusation that she killed her own children. Her husband repeats the accusation in public and comforts her in private. She spends years inside that arrangement, half believing it herself, until she wakes from a collapse with her head clear and starts going back over the four nights one at a time. The dates were not chance. The infants did not die of anything a doctor named. Someone in the house arranged each death, and the marriage that looked like devotion was cover for a trade that has been running for over a decade, with money moving through people who called themselves her family. She begins collecting proof quietly, letting them go on treating her as the broken woman they expect, while she works out who handled the babies, who paid, and who signed. The next New Year's Eve is the deadline she sets for herself.
Moan for Me! My Ex's Alpha Dad 2Kelly and Max are together against the rules of the pack, and it sets off the Red Mate Bond between them, which comes with a curse attached. Kelly is an Energy Parasite. Her touch drains the life out of whoever she holds, and the man she holds is the Alpha King.
Max had cleared her name shortly before this. He weakens as the bond keeps working, enemies close in on the pack while he is in no shape to fight them, and Kelly has to decide whether to stay near him at all.
Drift King: Rise of the Phantom RacerOn the remote mountain roads, a young mechanic hides a secret talent. Thrown into a world where raw speed clashes with ruthless ambition, his ordinary life collides with pride, betrayal, and buried legacies. Is he ready to claim the destiny waiting at full throttle?
Falling in love by a mistaken vowLuca, "allergic" to women, drunkenly marries Isla—neither remembers each other's face. He flees abroad; she struggles with her mom's bills. A year later, he meets her as a cleaner, hires her as a contract girlfriend, they fall for each other... and later realize they're actually married.
Invincible Down The HillMason Mor needs three million. His master sent him down from the mountain to raise it, saying the temple needs repairs, and Mason answered an advertisement and went to the interview. The employer is Chloe Chin, CEO of the Chin Group, which has just built the Nuwa system. Foreign money wants the system and has put people on her.
Mason is a Taoist and has spent his life on the mountain, which is why nobody at the Chin Group expects what he does when the assassination attempt comes. He handles it without difficulty and is hired as her bodyguard. Vincent Lim of the Lim Group wants the Nuwa system too and starts courting Chloe to get near it. Mason lays out what Vincent is doing in front of everyone present, and Vincent begins taking his revenge.
The Slap Queen No One Hurts My Baby GirlLily has a rare illness, and the medicine for it does not exist yet. Her mother Regina goes overseas to develop it herself, and stays away three years finishing the work.
Regina runs the Jiang family and City A is afraid of her, or was. While she is gone her husband Victor, who married her for money, works with the housekeeper Harper and Harper's daughter Yvonne to take over the household. They put Yvonne in Regina's place as mistress of the house. Lily's fiance Felix joins them, and together they make Lily a servant in her own home. She is beaten daily until her mind gives way.
Regina comes back with the finished medicine to find this. She takes Lily out of the house and swears she will have her position back. There is a banquet coming, and she means to settle with all of them there.
My Cold Blooded Alpha KingThe cold-blooded Alpha King, Logan, meets the naturally alluring she-wolf Anya. But Logan, with his solitary nature, resists letting Aniya get close. The forbidden love between beauty and beast breeds desire amid reluctance, as both sides gradually fall into the depths of destined love.
Dragon Firefighter and His LoveMatteo takes a lover while married. To protect her he shoots himself in front of his wife and asks her to spare the woman, at a point when his wife is carrying his child.
The wife had been through years of fighting and reconciling with Matteo before that. He once saved her life, they married, and she believed nothing could break the marriage. After the betrayal she decides to let him go and end it quietly. The lover does not stop there. She stages a kidnapping and puts the blame on his wife. Matteo believes her over his wife, and in the confrontation that follows the pregnancy is lost.
Protect Me, My Mr. PhD from the FUTURE!Lucas Wilson, a modern office worker, travels through time and becomes a son-in-law of the Hayes family. The original Lucas was a gambler who abused Emily Hayes and worked with Chloe Parker to take the family fortune. After coming to this new life, he changes his ways. With his math PhD and medical skills, he protects Emily Hayes, breaks the plans of the Parker and Quinn groups, solves family and business problems, restores the Hayes Group with a century-old remedy, and finally gains both success in his career and love.
Mess With Me, Meet the CureBetrayed and sent away for eight years, a brilliant young woman discovers the cure for a deadly virus. Returning home to a treacherous family, she must fight for her inheritance and survive their schemes—revealing that the mysterious scientist they seek is the very one they wronged.
What? That Loser Is a Martial Master?Kelvin Hsia heads a branch family under the Mingshan sect, and everything he does is aimed at raising the family's standing. His son-in-law Vincent married into the household and is treated as worthless there. Vincent is weak, and the household talks about him openly. Kelvin has pressed his daughter Felicia to divorce him more than once. She has refused every time.
The sect holds its clan tournament, and the Hsia family goes into it in trouble. Kelvin's two sons, who had done most of the boasting beforehand, are beaten quickly and end up on their knees asking their opponents for mercy. Vincent then steps in and fights, and the power he shows is nothing anyone in the family knew he had. The question of who he actually is comes after that.
False Weakling, True PowerPrincess Isolde of the Aurelian Empire announces that she will choose a husband through open combat. The empire is built on magic and expects the tournament to settle the question quietly. Instead the announcement reaches the three northern kingdoms, and their fighters arrive to make a point about who the strongest really are.
The northern mages start trouble in the streets of the capital and nobody can stop them. Then one spell lands from somewhere in the crowd and the attacker is gone, killed outright by magic at a level the city has not seen. Kael, the empire's First Mage, starts looking for whoever cast it. He works through the noble houses and the known masters and comes up with nothing, because he is looking in the wrong places.
The caster is Lucien, a young man everyone in the capital has spent years dismissing as weak and useless. He has been hiding what he can do for a long time and has had reasons to keep hiding it. The selection tournament is where that ends. When he steps onto the platform, the empire finds out that its most powerful mage has been standing in front of it the whole time being laughed at.
The Bait BrideLydia Hart's mother is dead and the family that remains has debts to settle. They sell her into a marriage she did not agree to. Adrian Blake pulls her out of it and tells everyone she is his girlfriend, and for a while Lydia thinks that is what she is. What she works out later is that Adrian took her on to draw out a rival, and that the woman he wants is someone else.
On the day of the wedding Lydia refuses to go through with the arrangement she was handed. She swaps places with the other bride and marries Lucien Carter instead, a blind man the guests treat as a joke. Lucien turns out to be less helpless than the room assumes. He shields Lydia from Adrian's people and starts pulling apart what the family has been hiding about the sale, the debts, and who arranged them.
The Royal Flame: Secrets of the PalaceJason Ritchie, fleeing assassins, shares a night with Wendy Young, promising to marry her. Fearing for her safety, he leaves, only to return and find she’s gone. Wendy refuses to abort and raises their son, Joe. Years later, when their blood reveals Joe’s royal lineage, Wendy enters the palace to survive. But Helene Johnson, consumed by jealousy, will stop at nothing to destroy them. Can Wendy protect her son—or will the palace crush them both?
Pieces Of HerTaylor's parents investigate her dismembered body without realizing the victim is their daughter. Her ghost has watched the family celebrate Emma for finding a heart donor for her brother Noah, after Taylor's own heart was torn out while she was alive. The police officer and forensic examiner must confront a crime far closer to home than they know.
Net of Betrayal, Empire of the SeaMocked for the ear deformity he hides beneath earmuffs, Liam Hunt possesses extraordinary underwater hearing and has spent years using it to help his brother fish. When his family withholds his earnings and humiliates him, Liam buys an old boat and succeeds alone. He eventually builds a fleet, brings prosperity to the village, and supports only his parents' medical care while setting firm boundaries with those who exploited him.
Trapped by My Four ExesA downtrodden fast-food worker with no memory... is actually the cold-blooded assassin who once played four terrifying billionaires like fools? Three years after a car crash wiped her memory, Chloe is flipping burgers in the slums, struggling to survive. Until one rainy night, she is cornered by four of the world's most powerful and dangerous men—her ruthless billionaire ex-husband, a savage underground fight king, an obsessive genius doctor, and a controlling hacker god.
Bro Betrayed, Wife Kills Me? NOT TODAY!The wedding Han Su comes home to is his own wife marrying his younger brother. Han Su was a general who had fought bloody campaigns at the front, and during the war Han Mo shot him in the back and accused him of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country. Han Mo then spread word that he had died, and used it to take his wife, his children and his rank, with the village believing every part of it.
Han Su survived and made his way back. His relatives and the villagers he had protected turn on him, and he is condemned to death. The order for the execution is given by the woman he loves. As the blade comes down, a secret is about to come out.
Taming My Four Villain SonsThe four sons of the house each have a reason to want Luna dead. The oldest is fixed on her, the second calculates, the third is untamed, the youngest, Ian, is blind in one eye because she put out his eyes herself. She is not Luna. She is Lucy, an ordinary girl who woke inside the otome game Night of the Blood Oath, in the body of the villainous stepmother, seconds after the act. In the game's script Luna dies at the hands of the sons she abused. The way out is the Blood Oath, a bond that cannot be broken once made, and to make it she has to turn their hatred into trust. Each of them is dangerous in a different way, and each has to be won separately.
Mother's Love Is My Strongest SpellEleanor Ironwood's mother went into slavery to keep her alive, and her sister was handed to a marriage that was cruel to her. Eleanor had been born with magic in her. Women in her world were not allowed to learn it, so the ability sat unused while the family came apart around her.
A magician who lived out of sight took her away and taught her. The old power in her woke up under him and she learned to command dragons. Years later she came back to take the Ironwood house for herself. It had been broken in the time she was gone, and its heir knelt when she arrived.
Even Gods Bow to HerTwelve ruling houses owe their power to a goddess who never meant them to rule. Sixty years after dividing her divinity into Eternal Embers to avert humanity's destruction, blind seer Morgana wakes to find her guardians have built empires for themselves. She visits them in a black carriage to reclaim each ember, offering every house one final truth.
The Devil Dragon's Substitute BrideHer younger sister is dying and will not last without help. The cousin promised to the Dragon Duke refuses to go, takes a man who looks kind instead, and the family sends her in the cousin's place, as the bride handed over. The duke is said to eat people and to be brutal with everyone near him.
The man waiting for her turns out to be good-looking, and after the wedding he indulges her and puts what he has behind her, so she climbs back up from where she had been left. The cousin's own marriage goes badly and her husband treats her poorly. Word reaches the cousin of how the girl who took her place is living, and the jealousy sends her out of her mind.
After Switched Fiancé, I Married a Mafia BossBetty's fiancé Cedric Atlante had no money, so she broke it off, took up with her sister Sophia's boyfriend, and arranged for Sophia to stand in her place at the wedding. Sophia said yes to it with her heart in pieces. Cedric turned out to be the grandson of the head of a mafia family, which none of the people who had written him off knew. He had wanted Sophia since the first time he saw her. After the wedding he spent on her at a level the rest of the town talked about, and Betty began to see what she had handed over.
Bankrupt My Cheating HusbandLeah Carrington is a billionaire heiress who hid what she came from and married Leo Leach, who had nothing. She spent eight years building him into a CEO, and she paid for the treatment that saved his mother Susan when Susan was sick. For most of those eight years Leo has been seeing Shirley Sinclair. Leah knows and has let it go on. Shirley beats Leah and Susan in a public place, and when Leah calls Leo he stays on the phone with Shirley and tells Leah he has nothing to say to her. Leah stops absorbing it. She goes to Susan, who takes her side against her own son, and to Sean Rockefeller, who she has known since childhood, and the three of them set out to bankrupt Leo and take Shirley apart.
The Nirvana Heiress: My Global PersonasJulian seeks foreign money to fight investor S, unaware his discarded wife commands the tycoons he hopes will help. Stella Voss married under a hidden identity, only to be framed by him and her stepsister and forced out penniless. Restored to her family's power, the secret Dark Web Council chief returns to dismantle the business empire built by the man who betrayed her.
Fake Ancestor? REAL ONE's Back Now!Sabrina Randolph is married to the only grandson of another house, a man who is dying, on the understanding that the marriage will turn his luck and keep him alive. Her stepmother arranged it and took the money for it.
The Randolphs have never had much use for Sabrina, who is the eldest daughter of the family. The soul in her is a diviner who read the heavens for an imperial court a thousand years ago, which nobody in either house knows. She can see what is actually wrong with her husband. The family's adopted son has put a curse on him that pulls a man's life and luck across to whoever cast it, and the money follows.
While she is working the curse loose, the adopted son gets the wrong end of it and settles on Sabrina's half-sister as the ancestor his sect has spent a long time looking for. At a banquet at her husband's house, the half-sister uses the standing that comes with that name to go at Sabrina in front of the guests.
The Unwanted Girl Who Brought LuckGrace called her niece Leonie cursed and beat her. When word came that Leonie's father had died, Grace put the seven-year-old out of the house. Ada, Leonie's grandmother, took her in and paid five pounds of flour for her. Leonie was an angel and kept it hidden. Wild honey appeared where she went, and boars, and a spring whose water healed the sick. Grace and her daughter Ella went after Leonie again, and the light around her grew brighter. Leonie held to the belief that her father would come back in the light.
Betrayed by Love, Reborn as a QueenQuinn Lane took the blame for Jason Cole after one night with him and served the sentence in his place. Their daughter Nora was born while she was inside. She had gone on expecting that Jason would one day acknowledge what she did for him, and at his engagement party she learns he had been seeing someone else the whole time.
Jason has never known that his success rests on Quinn's work. The name he has and the money behind it came out of what she built for him. She is out now, and she has come back for it.
The Daughter Who Commands DragonEleanor is born gifted, but as a woman, she is denied everything, including magic. Her sister is sacrificed to a brutal marriage, her mother enslaved to save her. Taken by a hidden Archmage, she awakens forbidden power and commands dragons. When she returns, her house lies broken, its heir kneeling... this time, she comes back to conquer.