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Ms. Substitute Marries Her Mr. RightOn her wedding day Gabriella is about to be married off to a man who is old and overweight. A man she spent one night with a short while before walks in and says she is his wife. He is Steven, a billionaire. He dotes on her, and the reason is a debt he owes her. Years earlier she saved his life. The marriage holds until the truth about an accident from years back comes out, and everything the two of them have is put at risk.
The Conglomerate's DaughterA rich girl wants to know whether her boyfriend loves her for herself, so she keeps her family money out of it and lets him believe she has nothing. He dumps her, and he is cruel about it.
A CEO turns up at that moment and stands between her and the man, and she falls for him. The two of them go after the boyfriend together and make him pay for it.
I Woke Up as the EmpressThe prince spent three months as her prisoner, and she was the one who had him tortured. Cinderella came by that position by accident. She passed out drunk and woke in the body of a princess of a kingdom that was already falling. The rebels finished it off, and the man leading them was the prince from the cells. She set out to keep her head down and stay alive. He married her instead, made her queen, and gave his attention to no one else.
Flash Marriage with a Beautiful CEOIn a world where a marriage proposal comes with a betrothal gift, a woman running a company worth hundreds of billions arrives with hers and proposes to him in front of everyone. He had lost his job by then. His own family had betrayed him and every place he applied to turned him down, and he had nowhere left to go.
With her money and her backing behind him, he starts his counterattack.
The Pretend LoveA love entangled in pretense yet destined for truth. Li Wan, still haunted by the death of her ex-boyfriend Huo Sinian, marries his look-alike, Huo Yuchen, as an emotional crutch. Three years later, she finally sees through the illusion, resolves to divorce him, and returns to acting to take control of her own life. Meanwhile, Huo Yuchen—the cold, calculating president of the Huo Group—only realizes he has truly fallen for her after she leaves. Faced with Li Wan’s resolute independence and personal growth, Huo Yuchen embarks on a relentless pursuit to win her back. Amid corporate power struggles and emotional turmoil, the two confront their deepest wounds and learn what it truly means to love and respect each other. This is a story of self-redemption, rebirth, and a love that both must fight for.
Weak? I Tamed the Real Dragon!Andy Sanford wants to be a Dragon Tamer, which was the strongest class anyone could take until the dragons of Blue Star died out and left it worth nothing. Everyone else awakens into classes that are good for fighting the beasts and the evil god that has come down on Blue Star to enslave or kill everything alive. Andy gets into the military university in the capital on his own marks and takes the Dragon Tamer class anyway, to general mockery.
Then the Divine Dragon System opens to him and he can summon ancient true dragons, the eastern kind. What this world calls dragons are western lizards said to carry a trace of true dragon blood. Andy is pulled into a fight between larger powers and goes into the Land of the Fallen Gods, where the things he meets come from outside this world.
Revenge on my ex-husbandIn a family where the men marry to hold property together, a woman divorced by one of them can still be brought back into the same house through another marriage. She spent years in an unhappy marriage to a man who cheated on her and wrecked her life. After the divorce she marries into his family again one rung above him, so that when they meet he has to lower his head and address her as an elder relative by marriage. What he took from her she means to collect back with interest.
Alpha's Miracle LunaAfter her mother is murdered, Chloe Colins grows up an orphan without knowing her powers or noble heritage. Alpha James Colins, the man who secretly caused her mother's death, adopts her and plans to make her the mate of his son Nate to rescue the declining Silvermoon Pack. When the truth tears through the appearance of a loving home, Chloe's arranged future becomes a forbidden romance built on a cruel deception.
Scrubs HeartbeatDr. Hannah Stone’s first day as a medical intern involves saving a life with her secret crush of ten years, Dr. Gregory Ramsey. Fueled by passion and determination, she pushes through the challenges, proving herself and earning the admiration…
AnoMart: Rules of the WastelandSurvivors pay in hexcoins at Justin Lowe's supermarket. What they carry out is prehistoric snacks, high-tech weapons and supplies that come from no supply chain anyone can point to, and each sale upgrades the store, which puts stock on the shelves stranger than the last lot. The staff are S-rank anomalies. Outside the shop they are what everyone else is running from, and inside it they clock in, take instructions and keep the shelves filled.
Justin's family threw him out for having no talent, before any of this. He opened the store after the world ended and has run it on plain commerce since. Over the anomalies there is a lord with the reach to destroy the planet. Rival bases come at the shop, people try to have him killed, and he gets pulled into the power struggles among the survivor camps, which he gets through by argument and nerve.
Doomsday Looter: Stats and BeautiesThe week before the apocalypse begins, Ethan Cross wakes up in his own past. He carries the Omni-Loot System, which absorbs the attributes of every creature he kills, so he goes to the underground fighting arenas to gather strength. There he meets Victoria, who is to become the future empress. When the apocalypse breaks out he gets her out through the encirclement and the two of them fight the Light Society and the martial arts association together. He levels up while his enemies fight each other, takes mythic relics, and beats the top fighters until he breaks past the limit and becomes a god. He and Victoria end the war of the gods and set up a power of their own against a bigger threat coming after it.
Caged In LoveAlex is engaged to Bella, who comes from money, and the wedding is going ahead. Amber, who has been with Alex for years, steps aside over it. Jonas, her ex and Alex's younger brother, comes back at that point and wants to take her away and start again with her. The two brothers turn on each other over her. Amber goes back to Alex, and it is not an easy choice.
They grow closer and set a date to marry. Then Jonas learns that Amber's father killed the father of both brothers. Amber knows she has to leave. Alex will not have it and shuts her in. She finds out she is carrying his child.
Lady Alpha’s Undercover RomancesA series of deaths at the pack has gone unexplained, and Sibel takes a job there as a janitor to look into them. She is the new Alpha. She presents herself as an Omega, and because of that she is bullied badly, put through humiliation, and nearly killed while the investigation goes on.
Two men want her during this. Dylan is her childhood friend, a Beta who has stayed near her for years. Cedric is an Omega with a painful past. Sibel has power she has not used, and the person behind the deaths is still running things.
Don't Fall in Love with Me, HusbandNora and Ted's hurried marriage turns out to be a reunion neither understood. A night of passion brings the designer into the billionaire's world, where old wounds expose how long their lives have been connected. Class prejudice and concealed plots put that rediscovered bond under pressure.
My Baby Is A Gambling KingFemale CEO Lin Xue met her husband Chen Zhiwei and her childhood sweetheart Zhou Xiaoyun during her pregnancy, and they set up a scheme. They pressed hard at the poker table in an attempt to embezzle property. In a desperate situation, the fetus in the belly turns into a "card god" against gambling, and mother and son start a hard-core counterattack together! Lin Xue solved the situation layer by layer, exposed the ugly truth about cheating and embezzlement of public funds, and even outsmarted the evil forces in underground casinos, so that all the greedy people were arrested. Winning or losing is determined in one round, and you should avoid gambling in your life. This battle against gambling finally shows the true nature of human nature, and explains the true meaning of life of not gambling to win! Stick to your heart and stay away from gambling, justice will eventually come!
Game of DraftsMaria Smith takes on a series of residential design projects, only to find herself trapped in a web of rivalry, romance, and revenge. She must survive betrayal by a business partner, stolen designs, a suspicious accident, and a power struggle that tears her family apart. In the end, her design proposal, “Celestia,” wins. Her father comes under investigation. Morgan Chandler dies. And Maria, reborn, walks away from the wreckage into a new life, with Wilder Stone by her side.
No One Knows My Cat Is a Real MonsterFred wanted a beast worth having out of the summoning ceremony. What he gets in his last year of school is a Shadow Cat at F rank, the bottom of the scale, and while he is standing there his girlfriend Rhea accuses him in front of everyone and ends it with him. The school expels him. He is left with the cat.
The God-Tier Beast Master System wakes in him a moment after that. The Shadow Cat is pushed up through a million levels of growth into a god-tier beast that feeds on energy, the Chomper, which kills Citybreaker-class beasts in one strike and holds down Nationbreaker-class ones without much effort. The Void Devourer comes to him as a guardian beast soul.
The guild names Rhea the greatest genius in a hundred years, and she has no idea that the boy she threw over has already reached Worldbreaker. Fred is going for godhood. He picks up inheritances of power as he goes, works with some beast masters and against others, and the beast tides keep arriving.
Begging for the Wife He LostBruce Thorne thought Yara Vale would never leave, no matter how deeply he hurt her. But when her mother's jewels become the price of escape, Yara signs the divorce and disappears. By the time Bruce begs for her back, the woman he once cast aside has become someone he can no longer reach...
Justice in Heels: The Outcast’s RevengeReborn as the true heiress of the Jensen family, Lynn uses her legal expertise to fight the Jensens and her foster parents. She endures cold neglect, school bullying, financial lawsuits and kidnapping. In court, she exposes their crimes and refuses any settlement. Will she claim the Jensen Group and start her new life in Oceanport…
The Clouds Part, the World AwakensAfter years of believing her children were lost, Yancy discovers her husband, Zephyr Shane, gave their children to his mistress. Devastated but resolute, she allies with tycoon Jace Cullen, re-enters the medical field, and plans to expose the truth at a global summit, seeking revenge and the recovery of her children while Zephyr loses everything.
Betrayed Zora Rules AllDee Reynolds arrives in an interstellar world without meaning to and, soon after, wakes a system that answers only to her. People there put obstacles in her way from the start, some of them set deliberately, and she gets past them with what the system gives her and her own judgement. The politics where she lands are unsettled, and she brings them back under control.
She then finds energy sources rare enough to matter to the whole empire, and between that and the ground she has already taken, she works her way into imperial power. Her mental abilities wake later and turn out to be strong, and she is named heir on that basis. Her intention after that is to take the empire out further into the stars.
Beast Awakening: Rise of the UnrankedThe man who killed Kael Ashford's parents has just come back into view as a respected War God, and Kael means to make him pay for it. Kael has been trying to find out the truth about his parents' deaths for some time. In this world everyone awakens a beast soul, and Kael's awakening was rated D, which made him the academy's punching bag. At the awakening ceremony his girlfriend humiliated him in front of everyone and left him. What nobody around him knows is that he awakened seven divine beasts, the Monkey King among them, which makes him the only Ultra SSS rank alive. After the breakup he went into a beast trial that no one had ever come out of and awakened the Kirin there. Kael has no intention of stepping back, and the conflict between the two of them grows.
Not Your Average Eldritch GamerLyle York is in a game with a ninety-nine percent death rate, dragged into it out of a college classroom. The others in his instance are running and screaming. He has switched on the Brutality System, which scores him on cruelty, and he goes through the place as the Bloodthirsty Butcher.
One of the things in there comes through a door with an axe, laughing, then sees him and goes down on its knees. 'Big brother, I was only passing through.'
He breaks one instance after another and collects the crystals the anomalies leave behind. He clears out a village. He takes over a bus. The woman with the split mouth ends up kneeling in front of him, and he spends some of his time teasing the bosses. The system keeps sounding the same alarm about an unknown error and another instance collapsing.
No Gods Above MeYe Qiu came up from Blue Star as the finest talent his world had produced in an age, and when he ascended to the Heavenly Court they put him to work as material to be spent. His daughter is imprisoned there. His wife Lin Wan'er is held with her soul detained, and Deng Tianjun and the other powers of the court humiliate him whenever it suits them. With nothing left to lose he activates a divine sign-in system and breaks through to the Great Emperor realm, and from that point he stops obeying. He gathers the Monkey King, an old acquaintance, along with Yang Jian, who has swallowed years of insult, and Nezha, who tears off what was binding him. The four of them go through Flower Fruit Mountain, fight the Heavenly Court, force their way into the Underworld and up Sacred Mount, against the Jade Emperor and the Buddha and everything at the top of the order. He wants his family back. He also wants the arrangement broken, the one where immortals and buddhas stand above every living thing as a matter of course.
Commander's Obsession: Falling for My Galactic BrideKarlie Scott is married off to Anton Bright, the strongest fighter and highest-ranking commander on Alpha Planet, and she spends her first weeks as his wife trying to get the arrangement annulled. She files, argues, and looks for ways out of the house. The man she is trying to leave frightens the rest of the Empire. Officers do not contradict him and his rulings are not appealed. Alone with Karlie he puts all of that away. He follows her from room to room, keeps his voice low, and when she raises the subject of separation his eyes go red and he asks whether she is going to abandon him again. That word again points back to something between them that predates the marriage contract, though he does not explain it. He answers her demands with softness, agrees with whatever she says, and then finds a reason she should stay another day. Each concession narrows the ground she was standing on. Karlie keeps drafting her exit while the prince builds a version of himself she has more and more trouble walking away from, and he has no intention of ever signing the annulment.
Heart UnchangedOn New Year's Eve, Leonard Chambers is ousted by his family over disputes. After revealing his role in the Celestial Chamber of Commerce, he reclaims resources from and bankrupts his son, leading to their family collapse. When he is mocked at a gathering, he shows his influence and reports his son for illegal actions. In the end, friends' care inspires him to let go of the past and enjoy life.
End of World? I've Got an ArmyThe Red Moon came down and monsters woke across the world. Human civilization broke, and the survivors built camps inside what was left of the cities. Some people found they could tame the monsters and bind a spirit beast to themselves by contract, and a tamer's strength was set by the potential of the beast he held. Strong tamers were fought over by the powers that remained. Nobody knew where the Red Moon or the monsters had come from, and there was talk of an ancient secret in the Abandoned Zone that had drawn many fighters there and buried them.
Xaden had no talent for it. His family threw him out and the woman he loved betrayed him. With nothing left, he awakened the Spiritual Beast Supplier System, which gave him beasts that could grow without limit. With a single Slime he killed a Troll in front of the army. After that he built a base and trained beasts there. His family moved against him and he crushed them, then went up against the Noble Family Alliance blow for blow. In the wasteland he killed assassins, broke into the forbidden zone, and took divine beasts out of it, among them an Immortal Skeleton and a winged eagle king. He seized the crystal stones marked with divine patterns and broke up a blood sacrifice. By then the beasts under his command numbered in the tens of thousands.
Wrong Bride, Right LoveFive years ago, Jiuyou King Jiang Yusheng killed 400,000 people in Northern Xinjiang to protect Northern Xinjiang, but he also developed inner demons and needed to enter the world to practice. Later, he went to Hanhai and became Chen Bailu's licking dog. Five years later, when he and Chen Bailu were about to get married, Chen Bailu canceled the wedding because of his sweetheart Xu Siqi. It happened that Shen Jingzhe's groom was kidnapped, and Shen Jingzhe offered to buy Jiang Yusheng for five million to marry her. After getting married, Jiang Yusheng's inner demons became stronger and stronger, and his relationship with Shen Jingzhe also sublimated through incidents.
Framed Before the VowsAt a dinner before a powerful family wedding, Shen Xue accuses Lu Sheng’s younger sibling Lu An of assault and demands that the Lu family answer for it. Lu Sheng counters by revealing that the family’s supposedly young male heir is actually their second daughter, making the accusation look like a staged scandal. Just as the crowd begins to dismiss Shen Xue’s claim, Lu Sheng’s husband Gu Yanche suddenly turns against her, leaving the sisters trapped in a renewed public crisis.
The Beast I Bought Broke the RulesDawn is sitting the Grand Exam with a spirit beast he bought on the black market. The beast is one the others look down on, but buying it set off a system of primordial reversion, which changed Dawn's genes and made him a Beast Tamer, and the beast itself has been evolving well past anything of its kind. He uses it to beat the heirs of the big families in the exam. Then a beast plague hits Riverport and the contestants have to fight to stay alive. Dawn joins Sunny and his team, and they work through rivals, fights inside the school, and a trade in potions, until the only way to save the city is to bring down the Dryad. On the way he runs up against the Primordial Beast Cult and begins to learn where he came from. After the Dryad the city gives him its honors, and he sets his sights on the Dragonfire Taskforce.
The Amnesia Was Just His ActAcross Shawford's leading families, Jojo, Ian King, and the others are drawn into a tangled web of love, marriage, and corporate power after a car accident leaves Ian’s memories scrambled. As amnesia, a fake marriage, a battle for shares, online exposure, and a shareholder meeting set off one conflict after another, everyone fights for their own agenda. In the end, Ian regains his memory, reveals the truth, and the relationships take a dramatic new turn.
The Abyss PenitentiaryEvan Cross wants to be free of the Abyss Penitentiary. For years his body has been awake while his soul is chained up there, so he is drowsy all the time and gets bullied for it, and he has learned to put up with that. Then the dream changes. Behind bronze bars the Monkey King opens his eyes and calls him the Seventh Warden. Evan makes a deal with him: he will find the Monkey King's lost staff, and in return he gets to borrow the Monkey King's power and finally get out.
He draws on the staff's power for the first time to save a girl with an evil thing living inside her, and that gets him taken in by the bureau that investigates strange incidents. He passes their test and becomes an intern. While he is hunting for the staff he learns that the Abyss was built to hide the thing the Celestial Realm fears most, that keeping prisoners was only ever the cover for it, and that his own place there was never simply a warden's. Then he finds out by chance that the staff is in the safe at the bureau's branch office.
Knocked Down, Not OutMary Ross has a rare blood type, and a crime ring that needs it takes her. Her mother Esme owns the building where Hunter Ruse rents a room, and Hunter is the one who goes after the men who took her.
Hunter had been an undefeated kickboxing champion until someone drugged him before a match he could not afford to lose, and he lost it. The argument with his opponent after the fight ended with his own daughter dead. His wife left him, the association threw him out, and he spent the years that followed delivering parcels. Esme and Mary came into his life during that stretch.
Getting Mary back means fighting again, in death matches with no association behind them. Delivery drivers, stallholders and other people nobody in the city looks at twice help him work out where the ring is keeping her, and he goes in against the men running it.
Wait? Jade Emperor is My Dad?!Jamie Carter takes the Heavenly Emperor for his own birth father. The mistake comes at the end of a stretch in which Jamie, a young man from the present day, has been dropped into the world of Journey to the West and handed a beginner quest by a system: laying tiles on Palm Hill, the mountain Sun Wukong is pinned under. While the job goes on he and the monkey fall into the habit of eating together, and the two of them get into a run of small trouble. By the time the tiling is finished, Sun Wukong's term under the mountain is close to its end.
Jamie is getting ready to move away from Palm Hill with his father when the Heavenly Emperor comes down to look over the mortal world in person. Jamie runs into him and insists that this is the man who fathered him. From there one blunder follows another, and the disorder spreads from the mountain up to the heavenly court and out to the gods of the Western Heaven, who are left scrambling. Each new incident brings the truth about who Jamie is a step nearer to coming out, and in the meantime a divine power of his own starts to show, a little at a time.
Back to the Fields, Back to YouWaylon returns to the rural era with memories of wasting his first life on Maren, the woman who betrayed him, while overlooking Shiloh until she died saving him. He chooses Shiloh this time, protecting her from being sent away and helping clear the stigma attached to her family. By improving roads and developing a profitable medicinal crop, Waylon also gives their village a future while Maren works to sabotage the life he is rebuilding.
Escape from My Billionaire ExLaura married into wealth as the adopted daughter, but her husband Bryan only loved Emma, the real heiress. When Emma got hurt, Laura took the blame. Heartbroken and pregnant, she vanished without a word. Five years later, her sick son brings her back to the one place she swore she'd never return—right into her ex-husband's path.
Hunger Games: Snake Edition (3D)Ryan Cole wakes up in a world of beast tamers as an F-tier snake with rough skin, the kind other tamers call a trash snake, and the girl who owns him wants him gone. She is the academy beauty, and she throws him away in front of the other students, who laugh. He is left with nothing and close to dying.
At the edge of death he unlocks a devouring evolution system. The first thing he eats is a shadow wolf, and he levels up. After that he hunts for points, eating creature after creature, and the snake body turns into a flood dragon. More evolutions follow until he becomes the Creator Dragon, a form that frightens the whole world.
A beast tide then sweeps across the planet and rifts open in space, letting through enemies from outside. Ryan sides with the humans and fights at the front through the blood and fire. He eats gods as well, and keeps going up the evolution path.
Bride WarA woman in her thirties faces a fierce battle of love and weddings as she competes with two other women for the man she wants in a desperate, emotional wedding race.
The Wedding Trap\Reborn to Stop ThemOlive's younger sister came to the wedding early to help her dress. The groom's friends caught the sister alone in the bridal room and shut her in, calling it a wedding-day prank, and in the scuffle she fell down the staircase and did not get up. Her fiance's parents had the connections to get it written down as an accident. Olive walked into traffic in a daze afterward and was hit by a speeding car. She opened her eyes at the moment the wedding party was arriving to collect the bride. This time she held her sister's hand hard, pushed her into a taxi bound for their great-uncle's house, and stood watching until the car was out of sight before she let herself breathe. Then she went back inside to deal with the fiance and the family that had covered for him, and called the wedding off. The groom's side had reasons of their own for wanting the ceremony to go through, favors owed upward and a promotion riding on it, and they had no intention of letting a bride change the plan. Olive's warnings were brushed aside and she was put out of the hall. The prank went ahead as scheduled. The person locked in the room was someone else.
Throne of the Switched PhoenixElara, who rules the Phoenix Clan, saved her husband Adrian's life. Adrian and her half sister Lilith went behind her back afterwards, and they swapped Elara's daughter for a daughter Lilith had outside the marriage. Elara's daughter grew up as Elysia, loved and looked after, and in time she was named heir. The other girl, Morrigan, was raised by her birth mother, who mistreated her and used her for her own ends, and Morrigan went to the dark arts.
Sixteen years on, the swap was uncovered. Adrian and Lilith were arrested once the plot was traced back to them, and Morrigan's parentage came out along with it. The Wolf Clan attacked around then, and Morrigan used a forbidden technique belonging to the Grey Feather Clan to drive them off, which put military power in her hands. Elara gave Elysia the running of the court and gave Morrigan the fighting outside it. The two of them are supposed to be holding the country steady together, with the conflict between them going on underneath.
Who’s the Fake?A top satellite engineer, Stella Summers, is blinded and framed by an impostor, Loretta Quincy, who poses as the director's daughter. While Julian Sinclair, Stella's blind fiancé, stands by the impostor, a satellite failure threatens national security. When the truth finally surfaces, who will pay the price?
Her Scent, His Lost LoveThe Prince of Chu spent his wedding night with his bride's half-sister. Mu Yan had lost her virginity well before the marriage and expected Han Rui to work it out and set her aside, so she put Mu Ting into the room in her place, the two of them being close enough in build for it to hold. Mu Ting went because Mu Yan had her mother's life to hold over her. By morning the woman was gone from the room and Han Rui had no name for her, only that she had been quiet with him.
Mu Ting was the daughter of a concubine of the Mu house. Mu Yan and Mu Yan's mother had been on at her since she was small, and after they made her drink something that took her voice she went on acting mute because it was safer. In the prince's household Mu Yan kept at her. Mu Ting turned out to be pregnant, and from then on she planned every move around her mother and the child, with Mu Yan on one side of her and Han Jing, who wanted the throne, on the other. Han Rui had said he would find the woman from that night, and in the meantime his feeling for Mu Ting grew.
She Was Never My DaughterAfter getting the truth about his daughter, Chole, not being his biological one, Edward Harrington gets a divorce from Margaret Whitmore. Vivian Blake wants to be Olivia's mother and to marry into the Harringtons. Olivia finds warmth in her real family, while Margaret faces her downfall.
Eighteen, Retired, and Out for BloodAt 18, Wyatt conquered Wall Street and retired with $100 billion. But home is now a battlefield. When a ruthless syndicate targets his family’s legacy, the titan returns with a shadow army to crush them. From shorting corrupt empires to rewriting the rules of global power, Wyatt is unstoppable. But can the man who owns everything survive the one trap money can’t buy?
Don't Mess with That BeggarTimothy sits at the side of the road with a begging bowl. The passers-by, and the local bully who kicks the bowl out of his hands, have no idea he is the man known as the King of Hell. His face goes cold when the bowl goes flying. He is working out how to poison the man when he is interrupted.
Winnie Shaw is in the bath when a servant brings word that the boy who helped her years ago has been found, and that he is begging in the street now. She leaves at once. In front of a crowd she kneels in the road and asks Timothy to marry her. He looks at her and decides a woman who repays a debt is worth going with, and says yes.
He goes back to the Shaw house with her. Her family treats the marriage as a public humiliation, a daughter of their rank tied to a beggar, and puts a choice to her: drop him, or get out of the family. Timothy tells them they will regret it if he and his wife are made to leave.
You’ll Always Be MineFu Mingshuang's father, Fu Zhenchuan, has arranged who she will marry and considers the matter settled. Her way of refusing is to attach herself to Lu Shiyu, the heir to CM Entertainment, on the excuse that she wants a leading role and he can give it to her. Lu Shiyu has his own weight to carry, a family that expects a great deal of him and a depression he manages quietly, and at first he has no patience for her. What holds his attention is that her rebellion is not a performance, she really does intend to break the arrangement, and being near her loosens something in him. The bargain between them turns into something neither of them planned for. Her father moves against the relationship, misunderstandings between the two of them turn into open fights, and there are engagement obligations and business interests on both sides pulling them in opposite directions. They go from testing each other to standing on the same side. With help from Fu Qingzhou and others, they get out from under the arrangements made for them and decide to marry.
Plan to Win Her As My WifeAfter spending three years helping her husband build his fortune, Qiao Zi discovers him cheating with her best friend—and threatening to hide their assets when she demands a divorce. She quietly gathers evidence and rebuilds the career she abandoned, aided by Jian Zhaoxu, the wealthy best friend who has loved her for years. By reclaiming both her property and professional power, Qiao Zi leaves her faithless husband behind and chooses the man who supported her return.
A Life of Her OwnA mother's quiet devotion ends in public disgrace when her daughter accuses her of taking her savings. With nothing left to lose, she fights to clear her name and discovers she was never the one lost.
Wait, My Parents Are Loaded?John Foster has been told his whole life that the family has no money. His parents have kept that going for the twenty-five years he has been alive, on the idea that being rich would spoil him, and he has eaten out of a Ming bowl in a plain house without ever asking what it was.
He goes out to work and never seems embarrassed about being poor, and that is the thing Cora Bradley notices. She runs a technology company, her family is pushing her into a marriage she wants out of, and she offers him money to stand in as her fiance while the two families are introduced. He takes the offer because he thinks his mother is sick and the money would go to her. Once the engagement is public, people who wanted Cora or wanted her company start setting things up to catch him out. He gets through most of it on his own quickness, and his parents clear away the rest from behind him without letting him see it.
What the South Wind KnowsShunned by her family, Nora Lane struggles to raise her daughter alone. The Chase family is torn by inheritance feuds and resentment. Fiona Wells’s plot to seize control through fraud unravels, leading to a kidnapping that forces Nathan to risk everything. As the matriarch falls critically ill, hidden truths are about to surface…
Love BetrayedCharlotte left her own family's name behind to marry Daniel when he had nothing, and what she wanted out of it was the promise he made her before the wedding, that there would never be anyone else. Five years went into building the company with him, and she believed she had it.
Miranda came back from abroad and announced she would be keeping house for Daniel. She had known him a long time, and whatever was between the two of them went past the arrangement Charlotte was told about. Charlotte said what she could see. Daniel kept Miranda in the house anyway. Miranda worked her way into the business and into the family, the lies piled up, relatives took sides, and the company started going under.
Charlotte stopped trying to hold the marriage together and moved to hold on to what she had built. The money that kept the company open came from Nathan, an investor who had been in love with her the whole time and had never said so.
When I Got the Villain‘s ScriptRaised in the countryside and crippled by timidity, Rachel Atwood returns to her elite family only to be bullied by the scheming Aria. But the tide turns when Chloe, Rachel’s fierce confidante from an ancient life, transmigrates to her side. Seeing her mistress’s weakness, Chloe vows to transform the shy girl back into the formidable leader she once was. Under Chloe’s guidance, Rachel will reclaim her voice, dominate the stage, and take back the legacy that was always hers.
The Million-Dollar BetrayalWhen Chen Feng's company nears collapse, his friend Tang Yi gives him his entire savings and then lands projects worth hundreds of millions, rescuing the business within a year. Chen promised Tang a management post and annual dividends, but at payout time he denies the agreement and recasts the original investment as a mere loan. The small fraud threatens to bring down everything Tang built for him.
The Sweetest TrapA chance encounter on the West-Stream Trail binds Jace and Sylvia together. Amidst family secrets and a deadly "accident," trust is their only weapon. As Sylvia risks everything to expose a dark crime, can their bond survive the wreckage? The trial is over, but a new contract awaits. This time, how long will it last?
Game over: The real Heiress Strikes BackAt Vanguard Group, an intern claims to be the CEO’s only daughter. Iris loves the spotlight and the title of heiress, and no one dares question her rise. But behind the glamour, decisions turn reckless and whispers spread. The true heiress, Rachel, slips into the shadows as the empire begins to tremble. When a lie wears a crown, how long can it stand?
My Haunted Marriage, My Perfect RevengeLuna discovers Victor Reed's affair and insurance scam after strange events in their home expose the truth. Misunderstood by her family, she gets a second chance and plans her revenge. With a neighbor's help, Victor Reed and Chloe Martin face the consequences of their schemes. Victor loses everything and leaves the marriage with nothing, Chloe walks away, and Luna moves to a new city with her son, who refuses to ever call Victor his father again.
No More Mornings with YouVivian Ingram divorced Simon Holloway after his betrayal, took back billion-dollar investments, and removed him from his position. As the heir of Ingram Group, she revived the family business with the help of her former love, Brandon Pierce. Amidst business battles and Simon's attempts to win her back, Vivian grew through emotional challenges and patent bids, ultimately opening a new chapter in her career and life.
Beast-Taming: All Evolve, I RevertBeast tamers bond with a spirit beast and spend their lives pushing it up through evolutions. The bond costs money, and a tamer without money is left with nothing that will agree to it.
Miles Collins is an illegitimate son the Collins family has driven out. He wakes an all-attribute taming talent, the kind that turns up about once a century, and it does him no good, because even the lowest-tier spirit beasts refuse him over his poverty. The school treats him as a joke. His half-brother Ryan Collins and Sophie Grant call him useless in front of everyone, and their goading is what wakes the system in him, which runs a beast backward toward its ancestral form. In an age when every tamer is evolving, Miles takes a green caterpillar nobody else wanted and carries it back to the Void Azure Dragon.
Dead to Me, Back for HerAfter breaking up with Michael Li, Grace Jiang finds her family ties exposed by Lucas Ji, drawing herself and her daughter Emma into a fierce battle over inheritance, marriage, love, and business interests. As family members clash and secrets come to light, Grace ultimately rises to become heir, marries Lucas, stands by her family and her career, and Emma finally finds comfort.
Seed of TomorrowDuring the acid rain apocalypse, the global order has collapsed.Humanity is faced with imminent danger that threatens their survival.In my previous lifetime, I cowered in my safe house and counted down the days of survival with great difficulty. But Amy Carter's jealousy toward me caused me to get attacked by the villagers. In the end, I died under the zombies' hungry maws.When I get reborn, I receive an RV at a village ceremony and modify it. Not only that, but I've also awakened a farm system. I get to live my life without worrying about my basic needs.On top of that, I've obtained great combat power, too.Meanwhile, Amy has awakened a system of her own that allows her to evolve and command zombies around her. In this lifetime, she vows to kill me no matter what. This marks the start of the apocalyptic vendetta between us.