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Don't Forget My LoveIn the Dayu Dynasty, the establishment of the Crown Prince was imminent. The court was divided into two factions, and the quarrel was in full swing. The third prince, Jun Lingchuan, devised a strategy, won the emperor's heart, and succeeded in ascending the throne of the prince, while Yun Qianyu, the daughter of the prime minister Yun Haotian, was also married as the crown prince, and became involved in the affair. Unwilling to be the victim of a political marriage, Yun Qianyu chooses to resist and run away in the face of power, but unexpectedly encounters the prince, Jun Lingchuan, who is out on patrol in micro clothes. Destined to meet for the first time, entangled for a lifetime. The two experienced life and death, shared weal and woe, more and more unknown truths were unraveled, and they also put themselves in danger. Facing relatives and loved ones, how should Yun Qianyu choose...
Office Wife : How to Hunt a ManThere is no office wife. The woman a wife has been following, believing her to be her husband's mistress, is a Gen Z shaman who works on people by gaslighting them.
The wife keeps going anyway. Her husband ends up tied with rope. There is a whip, and a hiccup at the wrong moment. She kisses a younger man who has been filming with a hidden camera, and the two of them end up working together, awkwardly. The revenge that follows draws blood and gets away from everyone involved.
Love Found Her After the DivorceElena Swift was with Ethan four years before they married, and they have been married three. She took him for a man with no money who could not walk, so she carried the household and did delivery runs for the extra income.
One of those runs puts her in front of him. He is the heir to one of the capital's biggest fortunes and is worth billions, and the woman standing with him grew up with him and has just come back into the country. Elena watches him hand her jewellery worth tens of millions as a birthday present. His account of it is that his friend comes from a rich family and the gift matched her position, and that he had expected Elena to be broader minded about it. The rest of the explanation comes later. The poverty was staged to find out whether she had married him for money.
He waits at home for her to come round and apologise. What reaches him is a set of divorce papers.
Clarence Fowler is the richest man in the country and cannot bear being touched. Elena's touch does not hurt him, and he asks her to marry him.
Secret Sugar On MeCatherine Wilson's husband sleeps with other women and her marriage has been empty for years. She takes a lover, Abel, much younger than she is, and she understands the arrangement as a simple one where she pays and he is available. It crosses lines of age and class and it stays hidden. The affair goes on until she decides to end it, and ending it is what brings the truth out. Abel is not a kept boy she can dismiss. He is Mr. Harris, the wealthiest and most powerful man in the city, and everything her family owns sits within reach of him. The secret she thought she was managing turns out to be the thing that can level her household, and she has to decide what to do with a man who let her believe she was the one in control.
Riding into LoveRenegade biker Lyon falls in love on the first sight with Kat, a beautiful yet fragile young girl who lands a new job at Lyon's bike shop. As they fall in love, old wounds resurface when Lyon’s pursuer, unwittingly brings danger closer. Bound by love, Lyon and Kat decide to ride on towards a path of confrontation and salvation.
The Princess of His HeartChris Lynch's worry is that his father Hank will end up on his own with nobody to look after him, so he puts Hank forward for a televised matchmaking show. Hank agrees to go on it.
The show runs like any other one until the people who know Hank start turning up. The chairwoman of a company, a woman who runs an underground operation and an actress the audience recognises are all old confidantes of his. Firms at the top of their industries cannot keep their systems running without his investment. None of this was in what his son knew about him.
A Vow to the Wrong ManLeila West got engaged to Ian Holt out of gratitude, because he had saved her life. Three years on the engagement existed on paper and nothing more. Then Ian's childhood friend Sara came back to the city, and Leila understood where she stood. Rather than upset the two families she agreed to keep up the appearance of the relationship.
During that time she met Noah Holt, Ian's older cousin and the chairman of the Holt Group. He was reserved and careful with her, and in his company she began to feel what the past years had lacked. She also began to suspect that the man who pulled her out of danger was not the one she had been engaged to.
Debt to Doting: His Sweet TrapTiffany marries Boris to pay off a billion-dollar debt, expecting a practical arrangement. But her mischievous heart and his careful plan spark unexpected trust and affection. As family tensions and secrets surface, can love survive the games they never saw coming?
[Dubbed]She Is His Only DesireAfter a grueling surgery, a woman discovers her patient is her husband's mistress and is subsequently framed and fired from her job. Her fortunes shift when she becomes the exclusive physical therapist for the matriarch of the powerful Holden family. There, she enters into a contract marriage with the family's cold, noble eldest son, who unexpectedly falls for her and begins to shower her with deep affection.
Thawing Mr. IceThe blueprint was simple: a marriage of convenience, no strings attached. Wendy Winslow and Jason Forrest were prepared for a polite, distant partnership. However, they were not prepared for the whirlwind of sweet feelings that would turn their world upside down.
Pampered by My Ex-husband's Billionaire FriendThe man who answered Ruan Yong's offer to father her child turned out to be Mu Jingchen, her ex-husband's close friend. What she thought she had picked was a male model with the right face and build who had applied like anyone else. Mu Jingchen runs his own company, has a name for being ruthless, and is known for keeping away from women.
Ruan Yong came out of her divorce from Ling, who heads Ling Corporation, with a large amount of money. She wanted a child and put a heavy reward on the search, meaning to be done with the man once she had one. Ling has since changed his mind about the divorce and is on his knees asking her to take him back.
Ring Your Bell AgainEight years later, maxillofacial surgeon Natalie treats Zachary, who comes in with another woman. She thought their paths had parted for good. One summer night, Zachary rings her doorbell, asking if she ever thought of him, if she still cares. Natalie answers, almost against her will: “I did. I do.”
The Deliberations of LoveBy divine mercy, I was given chances to start over.
On my first rebirth, oh no, the poisoned wine was already at my lips. Couldn't the gods have hit rewind just a little earlier?
The second time around, I stopped that idiot, but I couldn't stop his bumbling accomplices. Dragged down by the team, I died again...
And then, on my final reincarnation, I returned to the eve of the bestowed marriage, not yet married. This time, I'm done playing!!
Mister With a PlanWen Song married Gu Yunzhou after recognising the wrong man at a blind date. He is the richest man in Jiangcheng and the uncle of her best friend, and the two of them registered the marriage on the spot. What she did not know was that the cold uncle her friend used to complain about had been planning around her for a long time, to the point of buying the company she worked for so that he would be her boss.
She had been trying to get out of her mother's house. Her mother remarried when Wen Song was eight, and the stepfather watched her in a way she could not stand. She told her mother about it and was never believed, so she settled on marrying fast and moving out.
The stepfather kept coming around after the wedding, and an actress went after her out of jealousy. Gu Yunzhou stood in front of her each time and dealt with them. Wen Song kept at her mother about the stepfather until her mother saw him for what he was.
I Seduced the Wrong ManRachel Yale is cornered with nothing left to lose, so she gambles on getting close to Louis Brown, who holds more power in Newfork than anyone else. People say he has no heart, that ghosts keep their distance from him, and that he is afraid of neither gods nor devils. He works out early that Rachel has a reason for approaching him and lets her come closer anyway. On his side it is contempt at first, and a game worth playing for a while. The game turns into attraction and then into something he cannot put down. The man everyone had placed above them steps down off the pedestal, and after that he is the one who protects her.
Love on the EdgeAs a chairman's failing health sparks a brutal succession battle, Claire Walsh joins forces with her bodyguard Kirk Jensen to navigate family betrayal and external threats. But when a controversial drug tied to the company's future begins to unravel secrets, one question remains—who can she really trust?
The Empress's Dying SecretEthan knows something is wrong. His empress is ignoring him and even pushing him away. But he sees the cracks. The fear in her eyes when he's wounded. The soft way she says his name in her sleep. She still loves him. She must. So he searches for the truth. And when he finds it, it breaks him. Because she's dying.
My Bedside Assassin:I Played with Fire and Got BurnedVictoria Jones entered the palace and engaged in power struggles with her elder sister Luna Jones and others. She allied with Beauty Rose to confront frame-ups. The iron map of the Southern Realm sparked assassinations and a coup. His Majesty Andrew Rook faked his own death to turn the tide and killed the vicious Prime Minister. Past grievances and mysteries of birth were finally revealed, and everyone met their respective fates.
She Writes Her Own CrownLou Xinyue was cast out by the marquis household and died as a discarded wife. She comes back to the beginning of it with everything she learned, and the meekness is gone. She is in fact the trueborn daughter of the Prince of Jiyang's household, a fact the family that raised Lou Ruoxi in her place has kept buried. She has medicine and she has a head for court maneuvering, and she uses both on Shen Huanian, the man who ruined her, and on Lou Ruoxi, the false daughter wearing her name. She tears up the marriage contract herself and drags the scheming behind it into the open. Xie Ziwei, the cold commandery lord, is carrying a rare gu poison in his body, and the two of them work as equals, each with something the other cannot manage alone. Every person who betrayed her pays for it, and she helps Xie Ziwei settle the court and take hold of real power.
I Married a Secret BillionaireSix months before any of it, Sydney and Evan met once, in prison.
Sydney later found out her boyfriend was sleeping with his boss. She went drinking. Outside the bar she walked into Evan, who is the richest man in Riverton, which she did not know. She asked him to marry her straight away and he agreed.
After the wedding her circumstances improved quickly, and her ex heard about it and took it badly. Sydney worked out gradually that the man she had married had more reach than she had assumed.
A summer nightNina and Samuel's relationship begins with an unexpected pregnancy, leading them through family, love, and career challenges. With support from her mother and friends, Nina stands up for herself and grows in her career, eventually marrying Samuel. Vivian accepts Nina as her daughter, and family ties are healed. Together, everyone faces life's changes, embracing new chapters of happiness while navigating love, family, and regrets.
Playing Innocent, Winning His HeartSophie Stone got into bed with Victor Hayes to settle a score with the woman she was competing with, who is his niece. Victor is the money behind a large business house, and everyone around Sophie assumed that a girl her own family treated as a burden would be skinned alive for provoking him.
That is not how he handled it. He kept her, paid for her, and said in front of people who had known him for years that his support went to Sophie regardless of who was in the right.
The trouble came out of her own household. Her half-sister set her up, which put Sophie in the middle of the quarrel between the Stone family and the Hayes family, over business and over who was ending up with whom. There was a prize Sophie had won that she was accused of not having earned, and the accusation stood until the facts about it came out, along with the facts about where Sophie actually came from.
Flash Marriage with a BillionaireMu Qianxue's family has a marriage lined up for her, arranged the way they would arrange any other piece of business. Her answer is to go out, find a beggar on the street and register a marriage with him the same day.
The beggar is Feng Jiucheng, president of the Feng Group. His own brother set him up, and he came close to dying in a plane crash. He got out of it with injuries that took his memory, and he had been living on the street since, until Mu Qianxue gave him somewhere to stay.
She looks after him and his memory starts coming back in pieces, and with it what was actually behind the crash.
When Forever Drifted ApartHuo Sihan, the richest man in Yuncheng, was in a car accident and did not come out of the coma. Chi Wan looked after him for three years under an assumed name, and nobody around him knew she was the doctor people call C.
He wakes up and goes back to thinking about his first love. Chi Wan is holding two marriage certificates by then. She takes the hurt of it and turns away from him, to Huo Nan. She marries again. What she had kept quiet about herself comes out, and she deals with the people who had worked against her. Huo Sihan, who understands by then what he did, starts the long work of trying to get his wife back.
My late Hubby: Start Over With YouShe never knew how deep his hidden love was until her dying breath. Fortunately, they got a second chance at life—and a chance to love.
My Maid, My SalvationCynthia is only a maid, and her master is the ruthless villain everyone fears. But behind closed doors, she knows a different man—one who pushes her to grow, cares for her in the smallest details, and steps in when her fiancé abandons her. Little by little, he changes her life in ways she never imagined. Just when everything begins to feel like a dream, an imperial death order shatters it all.
Reborn to Rule the GameThe heiress who sacrificed her education to finance her lover's stardom gets another chance during their variety-show shoot. Knowing he will repay her devotion by selling her to an underground sexual livestream, she withdraws his privileges, returns to her own ambitions and prepares to expose the truth publicly. He mistakes her rejection for another bid for his attention.
Dusk LoveJian Morran, the heir to Jian Corporation, intends to establish her own brand, Yunee, and strategically approaches male model Huo Jinyan to act as her boyfriend. Believing his background as an 18th-tier model makes him easy to manipulate, she is surprised when he turns the tables. Unknown to Jian Morran, Huo Jinyan is also the CEO of Vandi Corporation and has harbored a secret crush on her since their school days. Upon returning to their homeland, he gets close to Jian Morran under the guise of a model living near her home. While appearing to make things difficult for her publicly, he covertly assists her with various work matters. Jian Yicheng, Jian Morran's cousin by marriage, harbors strong feelings for her and employs all means necessary to win her affections, especially with the appearance of Huo Jinyan.
The Childhood Friend I Couldn't ResistThe reason Ian Warren gave for marrying Alice Clare on a few days' notice was invented. He had been looking for her for eighteen years, he had just found her, and he was afraid she would go missing a second time, so he produced a pretext that would hold and had the wedding done.
He had been a sick child once, sent out of Granton to the countryside to recover, and a girl he met there kept at him until he agreed to the operation. It worked. They set a day to meet again, and on that day Alice was gone and nobody could say where.
After the wedding Ian, by then the richest man in Granton, kept her comfortable and gave her whatever she wanted, on the understanding that he was the one arranging everything. He worked out later that Alice had walked into the trap knowing it was one. She had been planning her way toward the same marriage since the countryside.
Doting Snake LordElena wants the day she died on not to arrive a second time. In the life before this one her sister Veronica and her fiancé Grayson swapped out her golden dragon egg, put the theft and an affair on her, and she went into the Dragon Pit. She wakes up back before any of it has happened, with nothing of her own to use against them.
Nidhogg, the Dragon Progenitor, has been held in confinement for a long time. Elena goes to him and asks for help. She comes away carrying nine of his heirs. On the day she gives birth, Veronica and Grayson arrive with the same accusations as before, and Nidhogg comes out and stands over her while the room is still full. He tells the people there what Veronica actually is.
My Clingy CEO HusbandWhen Ryan's company is hacked by Void, his family is targeted. As Void's identity is revealed and a kidnapping occurs, Ryan fights to save them. Can this couple overcome crises, raise twins, and stand together through it all?
Unexpected Knot: My Husband Is a TycoonMadeline learns her boyfriend has been sleeping with someone else and only wanted her money, so she ends it. Her manager at the shoe store is pushing her to marry, and she ends up in a rushed marriage to Caden Wilson Cashmore, a divorced father raising two small children and working as a volunteer male nurse. She assumes they are both poor people getting by on hard work, and expects a plain and quiet life. Caden is in fact the head of a large group, and he took the nursing work to carry out his dead brother's last wish, searching for the person who received his brother's heart. The twins, a boy and a girl of about five, have their own project. They worry about their handsome single father and set out to secure a mother, and they pick Madeline before either adult has decided anything. Madeline keeps noticing money and influence around her husband that a nurse should not have, and she tells Caden to say what else he is hiding from her. He is holding both children when he answers that the twins are hers as well, the children she was told she lost at birth five years earlier.
Pregnant and Pampered by the CEOWen Wan is pregnant. Fu Wang, the richest man in the capital, has a violence in him that he cannot bring down on his own, and she turns out to be the one thing that quiets it. To keep the child safe she marries him, and it is done fast.
The family she comes from works her for money and keeps coming back. A young woman who has been living as the daughter of one of the capital's rich houses lays traps to ruin her. Fu Wang puts the whole weight of what he owns behind his wife and settles with the people who come at her. Wen Wan is the true daughter of that house, and the fact comes out.
Poisoned ThroneAfter tending to the crown prince's injuries, Violet Harper finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue, facing assassination attempts, power struggles, and fights over destiny. Amidst kidnapping, illness, poison, and palace upheaval, Violet and Edmund forge a tumultuous bond, ultimately choosing love over doubt.
Her Rejection, My ChanceAdrian held out a gold card to Evelyn in the campus canteen. She knocked it out of his hand and told him not to insult her with his dirty money. The card landed on the floor and Natalie, who was poorer than Evelyn, picked it up and handed it back to him politely. He looked at her for a moment and made an offer: talk Evelyn into taking the card and he would cover Natalie's tuition and living costs too. Natalie talked her round. What she got in exchange was a place in Adrian's house as his kept woman, the stand-in for the girl who had refused him. Years pass. She works as his secretary and is finally out of poverty, and at night she is the substitute for Evelyn, who is abroad. Evelyn comes back. Natalie starts arranging her own quiet exit, having always understood which of them he actually wanted. Adrian does not take it the way she expected, and the man who bought her attention now wants something she never agreed to hand over.
Not His Blood, But His HeartSu Nian was convicted over a car crash her boyfriend caused and sentenced to three years. While she was inside, the head of one of the wealthiest families in the city, Old Master Feng, came to her with an offer: blood donations for his grandson Feng Yechen, who was ill, in exchange for an early release. She took it and got out ahead of her term.
On the day she came home she found her boyfriend in bed with the woman he reported to at work. Within days of that, Su Nian married Feng Yechen. After the wedding he treated her as the first concern of the household, and the two of them went after the boyfriend and the woman together.
One Kiss till the End of TimeSheng Siyan puts a marriage registration in front of Xia Ning and tells her he is marrying her to take responsibility for the child she is carrying. Before that night the Sheng family sat at the top of Yuncheng, and its head had told everyone he could not stand women, which kept people at a distance and covered the actual reason. A curse in the bloodline allows him one woman for his whole life and no more.
Xia Ning came to him at the end of a night when she had run out of places to go, her eyes red, and kissed him. She found out she was pregnant and went to book an abortion without telling him. Every slot in the gynecology department had been taken overnight. After the registration he stops keeping his distance. He holds on to her through the night and tells her, "Ningning, I'm sticking with you for life." She tries more than once to get out of the marriage and does not manage it.
Bride Chooses Again"My scumbag fiancé wants to take a concubine?
Sorry, I’m marrying my childhood sweetheart instead—
and this royal prince dotes on me like crazy."
Against the Tide: A Youth RewrittenLin Yutong ran Xia Yu and Li Yiran down with a car while they were pulling Chen Anqiao clear, and Lin Yutong's parents settled the matter without much trouble, since the three girls ran with a delinquent crowd and had no money and nobody behind them. Chen Anqiao had nothing to take it further with.
She woke up again in her second year of high school. She got the three of them out of the delinquent crowd, dropped her boyfriend Wang Qiang, and started studying. From the last life she knew that Zhou Ke, the top student in the year, had been dragged down by a father who beat him, and she reached that early enough to change it. Zhou Ke owed her for it and offered to tutor the three girls.
Lin Yutong, whose grandfather sat on the school board, took against Chen Anqiao over it. Chen Anqiao and the other two earned their school fees while they studied. She brought out what Lin Yutong had done to a classmate who was left disabled by it, and went after the Lin family's business dealings after that.
Strangers by Day, Family by NightStruggling window cleaner Eleanor catches her husband cheating, divorces him, then has a drunken one-night stand with a billionaire, and flees. The next day, he lands a job as her son’s homeroom teacher to hunt her down. As their past collides and a seven-year-old secret son comes to light, can a broken family rebuild against all odds?
Fast Forward 20 Years, I Rewrite My Life with ForesightChloe is sent to when she is forty. She faces crises including Yancy's infidelity, family conflicts, company collapse, asset transfer, and kidnapping. With help from Ethel, Orson and others, she divorces her husband, fights for child custody and corporate control. She founds Lin Group and achieves success, regaining family bonds, friendship and self-worth. Just then, a sudden car accident changes everything…
Hey General, Your Disabled Husband’s Running AwayIn Zorvath, a person from another world can take over a living body and hold it. Nina Chase, the country's ranking general, lost hers for three years.
The girl who had Nina's body spent that time chasing a man. Nina's rank and honors went with it, the marriage ended, and the country came to know her as the woman who lost her head over love. When Nina wakes in her own body again, the people who served under her have gone and her husband wants nothing to do with her.
She works through the mess in order. The arrangements the other girl made are undone one at a time, and the people who turned those three years to their own profit are made to answer for it. Nina goes after her husband as well and keeps at it until he hears her out. They are back together by the time the country is attacked again, and she takes up her spear and rides out with him.
The Mistress' GambitEvelyn's husband, the Marquess of Ironhold, is away for long stretches and brings home a pregnant concubine; his mother rules the household and has spent years making the marchioness's life miserable. The woman in that role now is not the one who started it. A history student stayed up reading a novel, died of exhaustion, and woke inside the marchioness's body.
She works out that she has to live to old age in this life, so she sets about making it bearable. She takes over the running of the mansion, fights her mother-in-law, wins over the children and the other concubines, and arranges a second marriage for the pregnant concubine so the woman is provided for. She sorts out the household's money and the children's prospects. In time she and her husband come to terms with each other.
Revenge of Royal PrincessLi Yanchu, a princess of the royal house, pulled Han Shu off the execution ground and trained him. The purpose was to make him a tool of the imperial court, in the service of the emperor, her younger brother Li Jie. Later she fell ill and was dying. She arranged her own death so that Han Shu would go on faithfully assisting Li Jie.
Three years after that, Li Yanchu woke in the body of Xie Yugui. She found that she was seriously ill, and that the illness came from poison. She began to look into who had done it. The investigation brought her back into contact with Han Shu, and his character had changed completely since she last knew him.
Silken Intrigues: Lust, Power and BetrayalLisa Hall is taken into the palace as a concubine on the strength of a claim that she saved the emperor's life. The woman who actually saved him is Eden Shaw, a healer and Lisa's closest friend, who came across Ryan Jones by chance when he was in no state to help himself and treated him. Lisa has taken Eden's name along with her deed, and once she is inside the palace she starts looking for a way to get rid of her.
Eden's medicine gets her promoted to vice director of the Royal Infirmary. Then Lisa learns that Eden is pregnant and sets a trap to frame her over it.
The Princess and Her Handsome SuitorsA middle-aged woman who fears marriage accidentally turns into a princess who is a licker in a world dominated by women. There are countless handsome men in the harem, and her husband is even more handsome. She kicks the scumbag away and enjoys thousands of handsome men alone. It's so cool!
My Lover is Two Decades YoungerA woman trapped in a broken marriage for 8 years finds her heart shaken by a man, and she must choose between her husband and the new man to find true love and happiness.
Love Magic Hongsi BarHongsi is dumped at a funeral by the man she had been with for eight years. What her grandmother, a master of traditional liquor, left behind is a secret recipe, and from it Hongsi makes a liquor called the breakup tune. Two people who drink it together fall in love.
The liquor pulls a Korean Wave star and a younger apprentice into her life, among others, and she ends up in relationships she did not plan. She also has to fight to keep hold of the recipe. It runs funny in places and sad in others.
I'll Find You In Every Life"In their first life, he married me as his crown princess to repay a debt. Before his death, he confessed his heart belonged to another.
In the second life, I refused to marry him and chose to set him free for his true love. Yet when we met again, he stood there with red eyes, drowning in regret."
Love's Flight, Palace's CageEmperor Alan Richmond misunderstood Emma Bennett, leading to persistent conflict. To protect her daughter Rosie Franklin, Emma navigates court intrigues involving the emperor and Empress Audrey Warren. Amid power struggles, conspiracy, and family ties, Emma faces false accusations and punishment but ultimately leaves after the emperor uncovers the truth.
Lost LoveA rich girl falls for a poor boy. Forced to break up by her father, she saves him from an attack and disappears. Years later, she’s a struggling single mother, he’s a celebrated doctor. He hates her for leaving… yet can’t bear to see her suffer.
An Ex-Con Mother's QuestElaine Norman wants her twin sons back and cannot get to them. Her father is holding them over her. She has just come out of prison, where she served a sentence for a crime he committed and let her take the blame for. Now he tells her to marry Matthew Stone, in a marriage that is supposed to drive off bad luck, and he uses the boys to make her agree. Elaine is also the doctor known as the Master Healer, which nobody around her knows.
She goes through with the wedding. Afterwards she learns that the younger of the twins has died. While she is mourning him she notices that Matthew's son has the same birthmark her own boy had.
[Dubbed]The Beloved Who Wandered AwayChloe grew up in the Lin household alongside Vivian, the adopted daughter, who went after her at every turn to secure the inheritance and once accused her of stealing a bracelet. Chloe ate a chocolate that had been poisoned and collapsed. The family ignored how bad her condition was and rushed Vivian, who was only pretending to be ill, to the hospital instead. Chloe woke up ten years earlier with the memories of that life. She used them to expose the drowning incident Vivian had staged, and the family took Vivian's side anyway, so Chloe broke with them and left.
On the road she saved a man named Sebastian, the richest man in the country, without knowing who he was. With no money of her own she started a business on what she remembered: she spotted a fraud a picture dealer was running on a friend and sold a genuine Monet at a high price, which gave her the capital to begin. She returned part of the money to the Lins and was humiliated for it, and Sebastian stepped in. Once she learned her benefactor was the richest man in the country she convinced him to invest a hundred million in developing the AI glasses ARIS. He backed her against the Lin family.
When ARIS launched worldwide, the Lins' own product event collapsed after a safety accident and the family neared bankruptcy. Vivian's long history of stealing jewelry and copying other people's technology came out and she was jailed. The Lins sold the family mansion to pay their debts, and the anonymous buyer was Chloe.
Who Falls FirstEvelyn and Nathan enter an arranged marriage, bound by a contract rather than love.
Cold and distant at first, they navigate family pressure, misunderstandings, and daily life side by side. Little by little, walls fall and hearts draw closer...
She Wins AllA secret underworld heiress spends three years turning her husband's failing department store into the city's leading business, all while posing as a conventional wife. He returns from overseas with her pregnant stepsister and demands both the company and her place in the marriage. After they kill her cat and destroy her mother's memorial tablet, she allies with a newly appointed military commander, casts her husband aside in public, and moves to reclaim control.
Reborn After Five Years of MarriageElaine Carter spent ten years in love with one man before she married him, and she married him on the back of a debt his grandfather owed her family. She thought marriage would be enough and that his feeling would come with time. Five years in, he still kept away from her and she slept alone.
He fell for a college student the first time he saw her and put everything behind that girl's family, clearing their house for redevelopment and paying for her father's operation. He wanted a divorce at any cost. Elaine would not sign, and holding out cost her everything. The family company was squeezed into bankruptcy under his pressure, her parents could not carry the loss, and her first life ended with the divorce papers signed at last.
She wakes again at an earlier point with all of it still in her head, and this time the divorce is what she wants. She goes back over the things that were done to her before and works out who arranged each one, keeping her distance from Adam Quinn and Finley Evans while she does it.
Blind Date to Billionaire BlissA mysterious old man hands her a husband. She had been having no luck at all with dating, meeting one oddball after another, and now she is married in a hurry to a man she did not choose.
She takes the marriage to be a contract and nothing more. The husband turns out to be serious-looking and, after the wedding, spends every day finding a new way to tease her. Going out with him is like opening a mystery box. The things he picks up along the way run to ten million.
Blind Behind Lies, Love Upon RevengeThe Ruskin family's adopted daughter is treated as slow-witted, and the family uses her as a piece to trade. They send her to a marriage that was arranged for someone else. The groom is a business tycoon the whole city believes is blind in both eyes.
The marriage runs on a contract. She plays the fool because it keeps trouble away from her, and he keeps up the blindness because it keeps him out of sight. On the wedding night they share a bed and spend it feeling out what the other one is hiding.
She is in fact the figure nobody has identified who holds the commercial lifeblood of the city. He has spent five years preparing, moving one step at a time, for revenge. There is a reason the Ruskins could place her in that house: her face closely resembles the woman he loved and lost, and he sees that woman when he looks at her.
Behind it is a traffic accident whose real cause was never told, identities that were swapped, and the schemes of a wealthy family. As the masks come off, the truth turns out to be both a way out and a way down.
Their Lies Stole My LifeAs the adopted daughter who took my place, from today on, I’ll take over everything you have — starting with your room.
Not Here for Love, Too Busy Making MoneyLiana Ingleby worked out early that money is not everything and that without it a person can do nothing at all. She used what she had, her own ability and what she had learned, and took every opening that moved her up a step. At school and later in the market she was the one who saw the single opening worth taking and got to it first.
Then the campus took in students on sponsorship, and the settled life she had built there stopped being settled.
The people she had filed as allies of convenience, useful to her while she was useful to them, turned out to be running something among themselves. It took her a while to work out what it was. They were playing a raising game, the sort where a player takes charge of a character and brings her up, and the character being brought up was Liana herself.