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Fake Star? True Scheme Queen!Ava Parker, an actress with a bad public reputation, is the eighteenth woman kept by a wealthy heir. On the day she learns she is pregnant she starts hearing her unborn child's thoughts. The child tells her what happened before: she announced the pregnancy loudly, expecting the baby to raise her standing, the family decided she had schemed her way in, a rival named Su Xiaoxi worked against her, and she was thrown out.
The child's instruction is that she act meek and stay in the corner. Ava drops the sweet act she had been performing in public, and each time someone sets her up the child warns her first. She names the people behind it. She then gives birth on a livestream to show she has done nothing, and takes her place in the family.
$3 Million Reasons to Leave My Family!Sarah Bailey is 55 and has moved back to the old house in her hometown. She has stopped sending money to her daughter. All the money she earned used to go to the daughter, the son-in-law and their child, and on her last birthday the daughter handed her a red envelope with 18.8 in it and called her money-grubbing. Sarah announced on the spot that the support was over and packed her bags.
The old house sits in an area marked for demolition, and the compensation comes to three million. The daughter's household, with no one behind it now, falls behind on the mortgage, and the daughter has a miscarriage and then a divorce. Out of options, she stages her own death to get money from her mother, and Sarah sees through it at once.
The Guardian: Human VS DemonFor three hundred years, the cultivator Sean Yale single-handedly guarded the pass, keeping the demon invasion at bay and ensuring peace for Aureate. But his long vigil bred only complacency and distrust. Accused of fabricating the demon threat, he was cast out by the very nation he protected. Without him, the demons descended, throwing the realm into chaos. As Aureate faced its doom, Sean moved on, aiding other lands against the onslaught, his legendary might now sought by all who once doubted him. In the end, it was he who pushed the demons back to the wastelands and restored peace, leaving those who betrayed him to face the consequences of their folly.
Careful! My Fiancé Has X-Ray Eyes!Noah is born with a holy body and grows up at a mountain sect. He reads the old scriptures there and opens the divine eye, the third person ever to do it. His master gives him one half of a piece of jade, the divine half, and tells him the demon half is carried by a woman he was engaged to as a child. If the two of them cultivate together, he can break through to the sacred body.
He says goodbye to the five older sisters of the sect who had looked after him since he was small, and goes down the mountain to find her. He runs into Amelia outside a hotel, where she is standing with her sister. A flowerpot comes down off the building above them. Noah reaches Amelia first and the two of them end up pressed together on the ground, and she takes him for a pervert. Noah tells her that if that is what she thinks he is, he will prove it to her. He stays in the city from then on, and Amelia still has the other half of the jade.
OMG! A Guard is The Hottest Catch?Nathan Steele works security at a residential compound. Georgia Walsh, who owns one of the houses, calls him in to fix a pipe, and while he is there debt collectors arrive at her door. He deals with them for her. That is also when a system attaches itself to him, one that pays out rewards according to how she comes to regard him.
Georgia's family has arranged for her to marry Daniel. She would rather not, and she gives herself to Nathan instead. He tells her he will take responsibility for it and can help her with her problems, and she does not believe a compound guard can do anything of the kind. At a bar a man has her cornered. Nathan gets her out and comes away with that man's money as an investment too. He also pays off her debts. When the head of a large group falls ill, Nathan treats him, and through that Georgia receives an investment of a billion. The group head's daughter falls for Nathan in the process. The system gives him the ability to see through walls. Daniel tries to kidnap Georgia and fails, after which Nathan helps her obtain shares in Daniel's family company. Later, the daughter and another woman whom Nathan has by then bested both move in with the aim of marrying him.
Bye, Fake Family! I'm the Queen!After eighteen years as the Shen family's supposed heiress, Xu Yan is framed and expelled when biological daughter Shen Yue returns. The poor birth family she finds in an urban village offers a warmth the mansion never did, and Xu Yan begins improving their lives while defeating Shen Yue's repeated provocations. As the Shen household reveals itself to be a nest of danger, Xu Yan's own secret power—including her role behind a major technology company—starts coming into view.
Her Shadow? Not Anymore.Fay tells Marcus to take the blame for a blunder made by her protégé, and orders him transferred to Africa. He has just come back from putting out a major crisis for the company. He refuses, and she answers with a stream of harsh words. Marcus decides to leave Orion Group.
Seven years earlier he had given up a career abroad to stay with Fay, who is his wife. He worked behind the scenes, built her company into Orion Group, and put her in the chairman's seat. Once he is gone, the partners who dealt with him for years pull out one after another. Financing stalls. The South City project, which the protégé was running, falls apart, and the group comes close to bankruptcy. Only then does Fay understand what Marcus had been carrying for the company. By that time he has started over in a new life away from it.
The Filigree HeiressOnce cast out by a patriarchal dynasty, world renowned jeweler Thea Shaw returns home for a funeral and finds her family empire rotting from within. A rigged heir, stolen traditions, and a fortune held hostage by blood. She bets everything on craft, legacy, and revenge. But when power strikes back, can gold still set her free… or tighten the cage?
Countdown to Save a True HeiressWhen Selene Onassis's cryo-pod fails, Dr. Charlotte Reed must deliver the only serum in 3 hours. Sabotaged by Isabella—a woman claiming to be engaged to Selene's brother—Charlotte faces mid-air attacks and a ground ambush in a desperate race against time to save Selene's life.
Late to Love, Right on TimeSharon Lucas’s adopted sons nearly drown her fighting over a five-million-dollar house payout, but stranger David saves her. She shelters him after apparent amnesia, unaware he is chairman William Lester and is feigning his condition to investigate her identity.
Baby's Whisper, Family ArmorVivian transmigrated into a short drama as a baby after criticizing it. Found by the Shaw family, they could hear her thoughts, so she revealed the plot: their seemingly sweet adopted daughter, Mandy, was secretly draining their luck. With Vivian's help, they foresaw and foiled Mandy's schemes. In the end, Mandy vanished due to backlash, while the Shaw family prospered.
What? Racing Ace Is A TRUCK Guy!Noah drives for a delivery company. He pulls a kidnapped boy named Leo out of a car and finds the boy is his son with Ella, an ex he had lost touch with. The man behind the kidnapping, Zelda, is trying to take over Ella's racing team and the championship seat that comes with it.
Noah's father was the king of speed, and Noah has never used what he inherited. He starts driving again, first on the mountain road, then in the championship final. He wins the title and turns up evidence that Zelda was involved in the deaths of Ella's parents. The head of the championship, whom he meets in the course of it, turns out to be his real father.
He breaks up a scheme by the Thunder Group and protects the Crown team. When it is over he turns down the offer to run the team and keeps the delivery job.
Cinderella? No, I’m Princess!Annie left her noble family due to her mother and lived humbly. Her boyfriend Ian and his mother mistreated her for her background. When bullied, her grandmother Mrs. Bates defended her, revealing Annie's true identity and her mother's past. Though Ian's family continued to harass her, they failed. Finally, the wrongdoers were jailed, Annie inherited the Bates Group, and found true love.
I Dumped My Obsessed Ex for a Mafia LordIn this world a woman can be born a second time into her own past, with the first life's memory intact. Zinnia Zhou, the young lady of the Zhou family, spent that first life on the wrong man. She and Luther tormented each other for five years, and only at the end of it did she learn that the one he wanted was her adopted sister, Zara.
In the second life she decides she owes Luther nothing. She cuts every tie with him and gives him back to Zara. Zara was supposed to be married off far away to Jeremy, who leads a mafia family, and Zinnia goes in her sister's place. Luther hurts her several more times in this life before he works out that it was Zinnia he loved. He tries to win her back after that.
Your Son? My Weapon!Haley Evans reenters Hugo Carter's family as his son's prospective bride after discovering she has unknowingly been his mistress for ten years. Winning Jasper's devotion gives her a means of revenge. Hugo's neglected wife Nina becomes her ally, joining the two women he deceived against him.
His Lost Lycan LunaAdapted from Novel by Jessica Hall. After a pack that never wanted her took her in, Ivy expected death. But on her 18th birthday, King Kyson, the last Royal, came not to save her, but to claim her. Now, his obsession awakens a dangerous bond, threatened by secrets that could tear them apart.
The Villain Wants Only MeNina transmigrates into a drama and lies to the antagonist Shawn Grant about being his future wife to avoid her tragic fate. Over time, they develop real feelings. After trials and overcoming schemes by Ryan Grant and Yvette Swift, they break the plot's constraints, rewrite their destinies, and reunite in the real world for a happy ending.
Don't Mess with the Baby King of Hell!After falling from the Underworld throne, Lena is reborn as a mute child and hides her divine power while protecting her widowed mother. When greedy relatives turn violent and a sinister cult targets the family in Brightshore, Lena's forbidden magic awakens and ghosts and other supernatural threats emerge. She must choose between returning to the Underworld and remaining on Earth to defend her mother.
Chains to Crown: After Prison, I Rule the WorldChen Sheng, courtesy name Bahuang, served in the army and was known there as the Soldier King. An accident was arranged against him, and he was framed for it. He went to prison.
The prison held men who had hidden what they could do. Each of them was a master of some skill. Chen Sheng inherited what they knew and came out carrying all of it. He went back into the city and took up the protection of a college student, the girl known as the campus beauty. He drew his sword on one wrongdoer after another. Each fight took him a step higher, and the fights kept coming.
My Boss, the Christmas GigoloOn Christmas Eve, Claire dumps her fiancé for hiring a hooker on engagement. Heartbroken, she has a one-night stand with Ethan but flees next morning, mistaking him for a gigolo. Ethan later buys Claire's workplace hotel. When revealing Claire’s pregnant with Ethan's quintuplets, they get married. After trials, the two genuinely fall in love.
Her Protector in the ShadowsJulian risked everything to save Evelyn, only to be forced by her mother to take the money and drive her away. Five years later, she reappears as a singer struggling to survive. Their reunion ignites jealousy, corruption and a danger that stalks them from the shadows. When truth cuts deeper than betrayal, will love save them… or destroy them?
Love Erased: Goodbye, My Cheat Wife!To fulfill her first love's final wish, Catherine gives her husband Damian a potion that promises temporary forgetfulness, but the truth is far deadlier than she knows. When the time comes, he asks her coldly, "Miss, who are you?"
Forced to Marry the CEO I SavedIan Frost descends the mountain searching for his childhood sweetheart and saves Zoe Sterling from assassins, only to be pushed into marrying her. Posing as the family's bodyguard, he battles Mr. K and the Dark Lord until the mission reveals that the latter killed Ian's father and burned his orphanage.
Queen of the Riches: Hands Off What's MineCynthia Lane, heiress to her father's conglomerate, returns from studying overseas and is mistaken for a maid by Rachel Moore, the mother of her father's secretary, Lydia Arnold. Rachel and her idle son Charles, who have been living in the family mansion while Lydia schemes to win Cynthia's father's favor for his wealth, subject Cynthia to humiliation, forced labor, and improper advances. Cynthia endures the abuse to investigate Lydia and spare her father's feelings, but uncovers Charles's massive embezzlement and Lydia's long-running deception. The family attacks Cynthia's childhood friend when he comes to help and tries to confine them and conceal the evidence, but Cynthia's father returns and the crimes are exposed, leading to arrests for embezzlement and illegal detention.
My Janitor Dad is the Supreme?Twenty years ago Xiao Shi won the title of Supreme, and his opponent Zhao Chuan died from the bout. Zhao Chuan's disciple Chen He answered that by killing Xiao Shi's entire family. Only his small son Xiao Hui came through it. Xiao Shi decided that the highest use of martial arts is stopping a fight rather than winning one, buried his name, and took a job sweeping floors at the Youlong martial arts hall so he could raise the boy inside its walls. Twenty years on, Xiao Hui is the senior student there. He thinks his father is a coward who cleans up after fighters, and he has spent his life planning to find the Supreme, learn from him, and settle the debt. Zhao Zhenghe, who is passing himself off as the Supreme, announces a tournament that every entrant must sign a life and death waiver to join. Xiao Hui enters over his father's objection. When a match puts him in real danger, Xiao Shi steps out and fights, and his son finally sees what the janitor can do. Xiao Hui demands the truth and gets nothing, because his father has already worked out that someone arranged all of it.
OMG! Mom Loves My "Foster Brother"?Murdered for discovering her mother-in-law Celia's affair with their sponsored student Mason, Sabrina is reborn on that fatal day. This time, she orchestrates a public downfall, weaving a trap to expose the scandal and her little brother's true parentage. Beware, her stage is all set. Sabrina will avenge her past life, and seize control of the legacy!
Bound to My HeiressIn her first life Stella took Isaac to be the man who had saved her, and agreed to marry him. The man who had actually done it, Adrian, lost his memory in an accident. He ended up working as Stella's bodyguard and stayed close to her without telling her anything.
Isaac was involved with Stella's stepsister Ivy the whole time. The two of them lied to Stella repeatedly and planned their moves against her in detail. Stella learned all of this only as she lay dying.
She then woke up on the day before her wedding to Isaac, with her memory of everything intact, and with Adrian still working as her bodyguard. This time she sets out to protect the people who care about her, expose Isaac and Ivy, and stay with Adrian.
Payback With X-Ray EyesJobless Sage awakens X-ray vision after girlfriend Maggie mocks him, and the new ability lets him identify a million-dollar antique. Maggie steals the treasure for her father and later humiliates Sage’s own family, prompting him to end their engagement. By then Sage has impressed an antiques leader and saved a tycoon’s daughter; when the region’s most powerful figures arrive seeking him, Maggie learns exactly whom she discarded.
The Lost Memory ChefAfter his father's wrongful case, legendary folk chef Sean Gorton refuses an imperial summons and hides as a menial worker at Baiwei Restaurant. When Fang Huixue is trapped in a deadly culinary contest, Sean reveals his unmatched knife work and a lost technique to save her. Victory exposes a court secret behind his father's death, but Sean loses his memory on the road to the capital before he can take revenge.
Yes! My Sweet Bossy Wife!Sienna Donne's temper ruins a match with a civil servant but attracts welder Ethan Joe, and the pair quickly decide to marry. Ethan's father Finn investigates Sienna's restaurant and stirs conflict before finally relenting—then Sienna's abandoned niece Eileen appears at the engagement, prompting Finn to make the child's expulsion a condition of the wedding.
The Breakup Pro’s Own BreakupAnya Rhodes takes breakup jobs for a living, and the order that comes in asks for a marriage to be ended. The marriage is her own. It was placed at the request of Lilith Crowe, who has been passing herself off as the daughter of a rich family and pushing herself at Anya's husband, Soren Wolfe, in the hope that the wife will file for divorce and leave the position open. What Lilith hands over includes proof of the affair.
Soren is taken for a good husband. He has been put off by the scar left on Anya's stomach after the birth of their daughter, and his parents, who call her a daughter of their own, complain behind her back that the child was a girl. The family lives on her money and thinks of Soren as a young man who made himself. Anya's father is the richest man in the city, and the company Soren calls his own work was a small firm she handed him when they married so he would have something to practise on.
Once she has all of it, Anya starts working against him. Soren moves assets out of the marriage and presses her to sign the divorce. Their daughter is taken during this.
Oops! The Phony Princess Wins Again!Su Nian'an's father runs an international finance group, her mother is an actress, and her older brother is treated as a prodigy. She is the ordinary one, and she settled early on into doing as little as possible. Then Du Ruoqing arrives claiming to be the family's real daughter, and a DNA test is ordered. While the results are pending, Du Ruoqing has Su Nian'an put out of the house.
Su Nian'an packs without arguing. Du Ruoqing keeps pushing, taking on more and going further to prove which of them belongs, and the household staff and the family drift toward the girl who asks for nothing. Su Nian'an watches her go, and the less she does, the better things turn out for her.
He Who Succeeds By Saving LivesEthan's business partner, the one he trusted with everything, turned on him. Ethan came out of it with injuries bad enough to take his memory, and he ended up in a village in the mountains where nobody knew his name.
A widow there took him in and looked after him for five years. His memory came back on its own, and the medical training he had before came back with it. He started treating the people in the village and the villages near it, then put what he knew into the trade the place lived on, and it began to earn. The partner is still running the company the two of them built, and Ethan sets about going back for it.
Brothel Girl? True Princess!Eighteen years ago the Queen, then a consort, swapped her newborn daughter for the Prime Minister's newborn son to keep her standing at court. The minister's wife found out and took it out on the child. She left the princess at the door of a brothel and put her own niece, Sara Ford, in the girl's place. The boy was raised as Prince Edward and in time named heir. Luna Reed grew up in the brothel. When Edward travelled the country in disguise and was attacked, Luna saved him, and he decided to make her his crown princess. On the day she was to enter the palace, Sara Ford and the Queen barred her way, humiliated her, and tried to have her put to death. It was while Luna lay close to death that the Queen noticed a mark on her arm and understood that this was the daughter she had traded away eighteen years before.
Flash Marriage to My Lady BossAidan's girlfriend of six years leaves him on the day they were to register their marriage. That same day he meets Flora, head of the Vale Group, who is being pushed into a matchmaking meeting with a playboy from another family, and the two of them marry on the spot. Flora notices the jade pendant he wears and starts to think he is Wyatt, the son the family lost eighteen years ago, the boy she was betrothed to as a child.
He is taken back to his birth family and lands in the middle of their infighting. His father is having a hard time of it. At a technology conference he gives his real identity as Zoro. His grandfather behaves oddly around him, and at the grandfather's birthday party Aidan starts putting together how he came to be lost in the first place.
My Five Sisters, My RulesMedicine Valley's Master Shattock goes undercover as a security guard in the city to search for his five long-lost sisters. Learning they are each in crisis, he reveals his true self, using supreme medical skills and martial arts to overcome all threats—from resolving business troubles to curing rare diseases and reclaiming family legacies. Through these battles, he uncovers his identity as the sole survivor of a great family, ultimately confronting those who destroyed it, avenging his past, and reuniting with his sisters for a peaceful life.
Love Was the Cover Story for His RevengeSeven years into her marriage to Ben Kirk, Eve Gray begins an affair with her personal trainer, Luke Reid. Ben finds out. At the same time the company he built from nothing is preparing to go public, and a divorce filed now would hand Eve half of everything he owns.
Ben swallows his anger and lets Eve and Luke go on with their guard down. He lays out a trap for the two of them in stages and pushes them into it one step at a time.
No More Ms. Nice Landlord!Jack Everett got the tenants of Neighborly Haven organized. The rent was far under what the place was worth, the canteen cost them almost nothing and the gym was free, and after long enough they took all of it as owed to them. The landlord was Claire Holden. She had put everything she had into the building to keep a promise to the woman who raised her at the orphanage, and she filled it with people the city had no other room for. Around the neighborhood she was the angel landlord.
The tenants went after her together, with some of the complaints made up, and the thing ended in court. Claire went bankrupt over it and came out of the case with a name as a landlord with no heart. The hearings and settlements also turned up the illegal business Jack Everett and Austin Brooks had going.
Claire emptied Neighborly Haven out. She stopped handing anything over for free, and she turned the building into the hotel she had wanted to run in the first place. A number of the tenants who had signed against her asked to come back.
Marry His Uncle for RevengeCandy marries Ethan, the head of the Hawk family, almost at once after his nephew Tony, who had been her boyfriend, humiliates her. Before the wedding she pays Tony back with what she calls a "sterilization" package. The marriage makes her his aunt.
Ethan is the most powerful man around, and the marriage puts Candy inside the Hawk household. From there she exposes the two-faced women around her, deals with the odd characters who cross her, and lives well on the family's money. It is a marriage first and love afterwards, and in time Candy learns that Ethan had been in love with her for years, that the wedding was his plan from the start, and that he meant it as a way to keep her beside him.
Mr. Stupid, You Wronged Your GoddessElla has been married to Austin for two years. She loves him and she is carrying his child. Then she hears him tell Diana that he loves her, and she understands that she has only been a piece in his game.
Years earlier someone had saved Austin, and he owed that person a debt he meant to repay. He decided it was Diana. For Diana's sake he arranged for Ella to be robbed of her virginity at the time of her wedding, then presented himself as the man who had rescued her, and it was Austin she ended up married to.
After what she overhears, Ella is tricked, takes a fall, and loses the baby. When she tells Austin she was pregnant, he says she is lying. She signs the divorce papers and goes. She takes up her place again as the heiress of the Sue family, and when the Fox family comes after her she fights them.
The Prince Betrayed Me... I Married the Emperor!Luna spent her family's fortune putting the third prince, Leo, on the throne, because he had promised to marry her. On the day of his coronation he accused her of treason and had her executed. He had been with her half-sister Giorgia the whole time.
She wakes again on the day of the bride's ball, where a woman throws an embroidered ball to pick a husband. Remembering everything, she does not throw it to Leo. It lands on a beggar named Jason, who is the emperor traveling in disguise. At the wedding Leo and Giorgia hurry to pay court to the new empress without knowing who is under the veil.
My Champion Is a CavemanDarin was once a rising track star until his sponsor Zane crippled his left leg. Now stuck coaching the failing Seaport Team, he is moments away from being fired. Desperate, he heads into the wilderness and comes back with someone no one expected: Bobo. What follows is something none of them are ready for.
Reborn with a Payback SystemA system rescues Lia as her selfish family drains the last of her life. Reborn with its help, she rises to lead Kingdom Group and turns her new power against the relatives who return expecting the same victim.
OMG! The "butcher" Son Is the Family Savior!He comes down from the mountain to look for the parents he has never met, carrying a jade pendant with his name carved into it. Lu Zhenshan, the father he finds in Jiangcheng, calls him trash and wants nothing to do with him.
On the road in he had come across the Gao family hunting Lu Zhiwei, and he beat the men chasing her, which put him inside the fight between the two houses. In the Lu house the pendant turns out to have something to do with Lin Yuerou, and he feels close to her without knowing why. He keeps what he can do to himself while the family treats him as nothing. When his mother and his sister are in danger of their lives, he stops hiding it and fights.
Prisoner? No! I Want The Crown!Blair is the real princess of Daxon. Lily was switched with her as a child and has lived in her place ever since, and Blair spent the twenty years that followed in a dungeon in an enemy kingdom.
She comes back to the palace with no belief left in anything but power. She starts by taking the general who is engaged to Lily. At the Tiance Tournament she shows the court what she can do, and when black magic traps are laid for her she breaks them. The emperor carries guilt over what was done to her, and she puts it to use, breaking the alliance between the Empress and the Empress Dowager and then bringing the prince's betrayal into the open. Through all of it the general lets himself be used as her pawn and keeps her protected while the palace fills up with plots.
Top Scholar in a Jail CellJulian Chase's wife is a princess. She keeps that to herself in order to test what kind of man he is, and in his father's house she is laughed at as a peasant. Julian was born outside the household and brought back into it three years ago, and the family holds his birth against him.
His father, a court official, also has an adopted son, and that son wants Julian gone. He sets a trap, and Julian is jailed for three months on a false charge. When he comes out, nothing at home has changed. The examination results come in, and the father takes it for granted that the Top Scholar is the adopted son. He cuts Julian off.
Julian's wife starts asking questions on her own. A Grand Secretary calls at the house and says the Top Scholar is Julian. The two of them agree to go to the Feast of Honors together.
At the feast the family treats Julian as a hanger-on, and the adopted son claims the title in front of the guests. Julian stands up and goes through what has been done to him over three years, the frame-up included. Then his wife steps forward and tells the room who she is, and the adopted son goes on arguing his case even then.
Reborn to Crush the Fake HeiressWendy was murdered by adopted sister Nancy, framed for plagiarism. Reborn, she traps Nancy into exposing fraud, seizes Smith's Place and cuts ties with her biased family. But Nancy’s not done plotting yet. At the Royal Cooking Competition, there is a deadly recipe switch waiting. How will she turn the tables this time?
Mr. Debt Collector's Sweetest LoanA fire kills Lena Duncan's parents and leaves her with their debt and a younger brother to raise. On her birthday the debt collector who comes for her is Allen. They were born the same day, and much of what happened to him happened to her too. Over a birthday cake something starts between them.
Allen gives her more time to pay and steps in for her more than once. She is good with numbers, and he takes her into his company, where she works on collections. They run into the criminal underworld, into fights inside his family, and into a threat to burn her out. Allen takes his revenge for her and takes back control of the company. The two of them reopen her family's food business.
Rise, Village Healer!He finishes university and goes back to the village where his parents live, meaning to look after them and do something for the place. His girlfriend since childhood goes behind his back, and a local strongman starts humiliating him in front of the neighbors whenever he gets the chance.
At the bottom of that, something opens up in him. He can see through solid things and he knows medicine, acupuncture included, without having studied any of it. He uses it on his father first, who had been left disabled, and then on the daughter of the richest house in the province, who is in the middle of an attempt on her life.
Word travels. People bring him cases the hospitals had given up on, and he shows up several men in the area who had been passing themselves off as doctors. The strongman keeps sending people to stop him and keeps failing at it. He opens a clinic in the village, where a lot of the patients cannot pay much, and the woman he pulled out of the ambush comes around to him.
The Master Chef... But He Can't Taste?Noah wants the title of Master Chef back. He cannot taste anything. He was the youngest chef ever to be spoken of as the next Master Chef, and the way to the top was open to him until the final of an international cooking contest. A rival from abroad tricked him there. Noah, sure of himself, took an experimental ingredient the man had poisoned and cooked with it. The judges collapsed after eating the dish. Noah tasted it himself and his sense of taste never came back. The country he cooked for was disgraced. His mentor, who had stood up for him and led the Gastronomic Alliance, was broken by what happened. Noah left the trade and lived as an ordinary man. Later a businessman moves to take over the restaurant that has taken Noah in, along with the people it shelters. Noah goes back to cooking to stop him, working from experience and what he remembers of flavors, and the businessman's move on the restaurant is only days from being complete.
Deaf! Her Vengeance BlowsSienna, born into a patriarchal suona family, secretly masters the forbidden craft and saves her clan, only to be betrayed and left deaf. Taken in by Gary Scobell, a hearing-impaired music heir, she learns to hear again and rises for her birthright as a hidden truth behind the legendary “Hundred Birds Hail the Phoenix” begins to emerge.
The Pretender EmperorKlem Shaw acts in short dramas until an accident puts him in the empire of Argentea, in the body of a stand-in for the Emperor. The real Emperor has been driven out of the palace by the Empress Dowager, and Klem is pushed out in front of the court in his place. He plays the fool to stay alive, but the Empress Dowager is not satisfied with a puppet and moves to take the court's authority for herself. Cornered, Klem falls back on what he did for a living and performs the Emperor so convincingly that he is harder to doubt than the man himself. He wins over ministers and generals one at a time and turns the balance around, and he is close to bringing the Empress Dowager down when word arrives that the real Emperor has come back.
Stolen Heiress Becomes Puppetry Prodigy!The shadow puppetry master takes Pearl in when she is about five, because he is old and wants someone to pass the craft to. He was told he was buying a boy. A prostitute had shaved the child's head and put her in boy's clothes before the sale, and once the master finds out she is a girl he puts her out of the house. The two of them have nobody but each other after that, and in time he sets the old rule about male heirs aside and teaches her the whole of the shadow puppetry.
Pearl was born late in General Swift's life and doted on by both parents. She was taken not long after her birth, and five years passed between the kidnapping and the sale. Master and pupil are invited to perform at a birthday banquet, where the host's wife, Yvonne Lynn, sets out to make it difficult for them, and Pearl's parentage comes out in the middle of it.
Return of the Beggar EmpressSelene wants a doctor for her mother and cannot get one. Six years earlier her father was chancellor. Then a false accusation brought the family down, and the sentence was beggary, for life, with no way back to rank. Before that happened, on one night, she and the emperor had saved each other's lives by chance. She now has a son, and she takes him with her on the search.
The people who knew the family in its good years are the ones who get in her way. They bully her in the street. In the middle of that she learns that the man from that night, her son's father, is the emperor himself, and that he has spent the six years since looking for her.
Mr. Iceberg, You Are My Only Cure!Lillian Hawe, the top assassin of Country A, known as the Shadow Assassin, was poisoned with Heart-devouring Poison during an international summit and was hunted afterwards. She ran into Ethan Thorne, heir to the Thorne family, who was autistic and did not speak, and she kissed him while the hunt was still on. She then learned that the antidote was Ethan himself, who carried a birthmark shaped like a yin-yang fish, and that the cure required intimacy with him. She went back to the Hawe family, took the place of her sister Sissy in the marriage the Hawes had arranged with the Thornes, and married Ethan. In the Thorne house she changed the way he lived and he began to trust her. Feelings grew on both sides. Ethan was kidnapped and Lillian got him back, and after that he began to speak. He decided to cure her. Lillian learned that the cure could cost him his life, and that the alternative was to look for another antidote.
My Warlord Husband Strikes Again!Long Zhen went into Dragon City's underworld alone with a knife fifteen years ago to keep his brothers out of it. It made his name and it cost him fifteen years inside. He comes out wanting nothing more than to live quietly with his wife and daughter, and turns down the offer to take over the family group, which is the richest firm in the city. His daughter has spent those fifteen years without him and does not want him back. Meanwhile the men who run things now have been leaning on his wife and his daughter, treating them as people with nobody behind them. Long Zhen has to decide how long he can keep being the man who walked away from all of it, while the people who did the leaning start to hear whose family they have been touching.
The Final FacadeSix years ago after Flora saved Donis from a murder incident while pregnant, she was abused by her family post-birth. They later exploited her stock prodigy son, Felix, to manipulate stocks. When Donis came to claim paternity, he was deceived, causing Flora's hospitalization. He eventually uncovered the truth, reconciled with Flora, secured justice, and they celebrated a successful vow renewal.
Mortals! Little God of Wealth Is Here!Yunbao is a junior god of wealth in the heavens. She goes into the fortunes of people below and changes them without clearing it with anyone, and her master sends her down to the mortal world over it. She lands there in the body of a child. The way back up is to take someone marked for great fortune and make a success of him.
The man she settles on is Lin Lang, who is decent and has had nothing but bad luck. He puts himself in the way of harm for someone else while she is watching, and that decides it for her. She starts working on his luck with what she can still do, and the run of failures turns. The change carries him into a large holding company, where he comes near Shen Zhiyi, a company head who is short with people and warmer than she looks, and her grandfather. The four of them settle into something like a household.
Gao Ming is competing with Lin Lang and does not take the change well. He goes at him through the business first, then further than that, as far as a kidnapping. Yunbao gets them clear of it each time.
Little Guardian? No, That’s My Big Boss!Chris Preston hired a bodyguard on somebody's recommendation. He runs a company that a rival had been working against for some time, breaking up its deals and sending people after him, and his own security staff had been beaten in one attempt after another.
The bodyguard who turned up was six years old. Her name was Momo. She came up to about his knee and carried a rabbit doll with the stuffing coming out of it, and what she asked him for was a hug and some ice cream. Chris did not take the arrangement seriously. Then an assassin came for him and Momo put the man down using a lollipop and the rabbit doll. After that he stopped questioning the recommendation and kept her with him.
They Mocked the Village Girl. Big Mistake!She grew up in the countryside and is an unusually strong fighter. The rich family whose blood she carries confirms that she is their daughter and brings her back to the house that was taken from her. Her relatives call her wild and unrefined, and she lets them. Inside she finds a household run by its housekeeper, who bullies the family and the girl who was raised as the daughter in her place. She settles things with her fists. When danger comes and the others freeze, she is the one who steps in and ends it. The fights she picks inside the house often turn ridiculous, and along the way old secrets come out and the family starts to hold together.