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Frost and ClawVera Thorne returns to graduation day with memories of being eaten during the coming dinosaur apocalypse. She borrows four hundred million dollars to turn Raptor Cave into a fortress, then uses an awakened system to tame prehistoric beasts. After defeating fellow returnee Mia Ruth and sending the dinosaurs back to their era, Vera expects peace—until temperatures plunge to minus seventy and a new ice age begins.
Twist of Fate: Reclaiming My ThroneSu Yunqing lost the first two rounds of the arrow-tossing contest on purpose, so that Zhao Jin and Lin Wan'er would take her for careless and put more on the table.
She had been at this contest before. In that life she trusted the crown prince and lost him the hairpin that commands the shadow guards, and Zhao Jin and Lin Wan'er used what it gave them to wipe out the Su household. She woke again on the day of the game, in the weeks before her wedding.
Lin Wan'er opened by wagering the hairpin, which was a way of naming what she had taken. Su Yunqing put up the whole of her dowry, the land and the property with it, on the first round to bring her in.
Taming the Fake PlayboyThe "villainess" Ivy has married the notorious playboy Dylan. Their domestic life is anything but peaceful, often escalating into physical brawls at the slightest provocation.
Return… or Not?Estranged from his family over a bitter inheritance dispute, Evan Carter, hasn't looked back—until his father falls critically ill. With a life-changing decision hanging in the balance, one question remains: will he pay for the surgery?
NobodyColin Bradford moves to the city after family troubles and befriends Emily Foster amid the city's nightlife. Navigating family feuds and social conflicts, he grows from a small-town kid into a respected city figure, finally finding his way forward. But when the people he loves are pushed too far, will he honor his mother's last wish? Is Eclipse Lounge where his journey begins… or where it all burns down? How high can a mountain boy truly rise?
The Swapped Child Back to MeOn the tenth anniversary of her marriage, Emily is preparing to sign her shares of the family group over to her husband when she learns that the boy she has raised for ten years is not related to her. Her husband and the woman he had been with before their marriage swapped the babies at birth and kept seeing each other for years afterward. Her biological son has been living with that woman, in rags and covered in bruises. Emily gathers the evidence and lays it out in front of the board, takes back control of the company and files for divorce. She gets custody of her son and stays close to him while he works through what was done to him.
Carrying the ThroneVivian's hard-won IVF pregnancy carries the only remaining bloodline of an heir believed dead. A clinic used Leo Hale's sperm instead of her husband's, drawing the Hale family's search to her. Leaving her cheating husband puts Vivian in the midst of a dangerous succession struggle over the billionaire family and her unborn child.
Island of Second ChancesYvonne and her husband Henry start a new life on a remote island after a difficult past. Through misunderstandings and personal growth, she finds her place among military families. A devastating flood unites the community in rescue and rebuilding, testing resolve with hidden dangers and shifting relationships. Deepening love and trust draw the family closer, leading to a heartwarming new beginning.
Reborn 1980: Family GloryIn their past life, the elderly couple favored their selfish sons and ignored their loyal second son, ending up frozen to death. Reborn in 1984, they swear to protect the dutiful son, and discipline their ungrateful children. With future knowledge, wiil they lead the family to get rich? Will they finally embrace lasting harmony?
I Play to WinZoe is chosen as Crown Princess, making her sister Mia jealous. In the dangerous Eastern Palace, she faces schemes and poison, but wins Prince Ryan's protection. As a royal banquet nears, Mia plots to secure her place. But a dark secret about missing girls starts to emerge. Can Zoe expose the truth before the palace destroys her?
They Called Me a Rapist Now They KneelEx-doctor Pax Chan, framed and imprisoned, got the Dragonrise Ring. His quest is to recover nine golden needles and find his families. As he navigates feuding families and rises through the underworld, he attracts powerful women. After claiming the Southwest throne, he learns that his past points to Rivertown. But what or who awaits him there?
Back to 1987: Snack & SpouseFrank Lee travels to 1987 and marries Stella to save his family. A spicy snack business lifts his village from poverty. Their calculated marriage slowly turns real. But an old enemy from the future knows his secret...
Reborn: Charlotte's RevengeCharlotte Ashford was abducted by the Ashfords at 5. For 11 years, she endured mistreatment. Then she was sent to take her brother's place on the battlefield, where she shielded Prince Sterling from an arrow. She died. Then she opened her eyes. Reborn to the time before she joined the army. What she didn't know: Prince Sterling had also returned.
My Calculated RomanceIn the 1980s, two sisters from the ordinary Rivers family are both desperate to marry the factory director's sons to avoid being sent to the countryside. The beautiful Mavis uses every trick in the book to capture the heart of the younger son, eventually turning the wild rebel into her devoted "loyal dog." Meanwhile, despite being the "golden child" of the family, Selina's pursuit of the eldest son is far from lucky. Why did these two sisters end up with such drastically different fates?
The Arcane Order Elder Takes Me AntiquingEthan Shen and Summer Shaw form a partnership to solve supernatural cases, expose Victor Wang's crimes, and hunt dark forces. Summer often rescues victims with her apprentice, tackling incidents like the Fox Spirit at Brookview Hotel, Yannie Han's life exchange, and the ghost marriage plot. They confront tragedies of sexism, greed, and family bonds. The arcane mentor-apprentice duo joins forces to punish evil and save the innocent, earning Ancient Hall widespread acclaim.
Drive.One night with her chauffeur. Now she's fighting for her life. Grace's brother is murdered——leaving evidence that exposes a smuggling ring. Now she's a target. Her only protection? Conrad, a driver with a deadly past. But he's hiding something... When the truth surfaces, will it save her——or destroy her?
The Doctor Mother-in-LawHelen wakes up in a feudal past, trapped in a family falling apart. But she's got 21st-century medical skills and zero patience for tradition.
Her move? Flip the script.
She saves her granddaughter from being sold, tracks down her lost family, and pulls the Stones out of poverty. But Helen doesn't stop there. She opens a clinic, fights for women's rights, and shatters every rule that stands in her way.
The Stones rise together. Through betrayal, resistance, and impossible odds, they go from outcasts to legends. From survival to celebration. From nothing to everything.
But in a world that fears change, how long can their revolution last?
A Sleeping Fortune AwakesCharlotte Benson married Graham Carmichael while he was in a coma. The match had been put together through her half-sister's scheming, and the first time it was forced on her she went off a building and died. She opened her eyes again on the night of that same forced marriage, and this time she went through with it.
People around the family expected her to sit out her years beside a man who could not wake. On the wedding night Graham woke. His condition had not been what the household believed. Charlotte had her husband and her mother-in-law behind her after that, and she moved against her stepmother and her half-sister over the shares and the family property that had been taken from her. There were traps laid for the two of them along the way, and matters from before that had never been settled.
A Virtuous Girl's Dating GuideDing Zhou makes a living in Chang'an City as a fortune teller and appraiser, helping people with money matters, disputes, and illnesses. He exposes the crimes of James White, takes his revenge, makes new friends, and earns their respect. Ding Zhou often relies on divination, inner strength, and martial skills to resolve crises. In the end, he brings James White to justice, shifts the balance of power in Chang'an City, and decides to start a new chapter in his life.
Evolve to DevourEveryone in the beastmaster world takes Ryan Summers for what he appears to be, an F-rank Muckhide Serpent, the lowest thing there is. He is a man who woke up in that body after crossing over. The girl the academy calls its beauty turns him down, the rest of them make a joke of him, and it goes far enough that he ends up close to dead.
That is when the Devouring Evolution System opens in him. He eats a Shade Wolf first. The serpent thickens into a python, and the line runs on from there toward a Creation Dragon that can shake the world.
The Beast Horde comes over the whole planet around then, with invaders out of another world behind it. Ryan takes the human side of the fight and goes on eating what he kills, gods among them, to push the evolution further.
Horror Isekai: Twin Beauties Turn Me OnAudric Lane, an ordinary young man, is put into a world after the apocalypse where eldritch beings have taken it over. His eyes show him the other side of that world. Where other people see apex eldritch and Eldritch Sovereigns, he sees women, some older and some young, each with a temperament of her own.
He works through the dungeons with his ability. He subdues the Anomaly Queen of the Red Moon and several other anomalies. He converts the dungeon into a place where people come to relax. In front of everyone watching, he goes up against the evil god and the dungeon that the country's fate is tied to.
Return to Glory: Unyielding PowerFramed by the woman he loved, Nathan Drake returns from prison stronger than ever, armed with deadly skills and buried truths. As rival families circle and secrets surface, he fights to save his shattered clan… until he discovers the one enemy he never suspected was closest of all.
Revenge: Taking Back My CrownNatalie Harrington's world shatters when her father remarries, bringing a scheming stepmother and sister into her home. They want her inheritance, while she wants justice. From a marginalized daughter to a powerhouse CEO, Natalie outplays them at their own game. But as scandals break and crowns fall, how far will she go to reclaim her empire?
Reborn to Evolve the BeastsCasey Stone and her sister Melly are daughters of the Stone family, the strongest beast tamers in the beast world. On the day they come of age, both are due to awaken their beast-taming arts, choose beast-men for dual cultivation to raise their spiritual power, and work toward summoning spirit beasts strong enough to make one of them Sovereign of All Spirits, which would keep the beast tamers in control of the beast-men. Casey awakens Beast Horde Summoning. Melly awakens Ferocious Beast Transfer, and she uses it to loose the savage beasts she has called up herself and pin them on Casey. Casey is branded a disaster and a traitor, and she is executed.
Then she opens her eyes on the eve of the same day. This time what she awakens is Beast Bloodline Evolution, which lets her take the same savage beasts and evolve them into ancient divine beasts. She sets about paying back the people who destroyed her.
The Muggle KingpinIn the apocalypse people live in fortified bases and trade for anything they cannot make themselves. Survivors running from a blood vine find a supermarket still open, and inside it the shelves hold prehistoric food and high-tech weapons. Payment is in Anomaly Coins.
The shop belongs to a young man whose family threw him out for having no ability. The staff are S-rank anomalies he has hired and tamed, and they take his orders without argument. Trading with survivors unlocks more of the stock and upgrades the shop itself. Shortages set the bases against each other and he works the politics of that from behind the counter. An auction he runs brings out things people had kept quiet about. He writes rules for how business gets done, and customers who buy from him get an escort back to their bases.
Frontier Warrior: Rise to PowerSimon rises from scholar to Captain of Ironfort, leading troops against the Tartars, fighting bandits, and handling disputes. As he protects his fiancée, Stella, and navigates power struggles, Simon faces deadly betrayals and dangerous battles. Can he survive?
The Funeral That Made a BossRising Dragons is an underworld organization in Houndvale City. Five years before, Jeffrey Reid's wife betrayed him, his parents were killed, his sister was taken, and he got out alive by a narrow margin. He spent those five years learning martial arts, then came back and worked his way inside Rising Dragons on an oath he put as "a world without darkness." At a funeral he drove off hired killers with his bare hands, and the reputation from that one fight moved him up to head of a hall. He answers force with force from there, going after traitors and clearing out the men who run the underworld, and his old enemies come up for punishment one at a time. Behind all of them is someone who has stayed out of sight since the beginning.
She Married Me By Accident, I Married Her by DesignTo save her brother's struggling company, Queenie Jones mistakenly identifies Tyrone Yale—who has secretly loved her for 11 years—as her blind date. A rushed marriage follows, binding two strangers by a single certificate. After the wedding, Queenie faces workplace sabotage from an old classmate, pressure from her mother-in-law, and constant attacks from a romantic rival, while her troubled family continues to weigh on her. Behind the scenes,Tyrone stands firmly by her side—shielding her at work, confronting every scheme, and slowly revealing the truth of his long-hidden feelings. What begins as a marriage of convenience turns into something real. Through every crisis they face together, love grows, misunderstandings fade, and hearts finally open. A mistaken marriage leads her to the love she was meant for—a tender, triumphant romance of redemption and devotion.
A Lifetime's Lanterns, Returned to the HeavensIn her past life, she married Prince Lu Mingqing and helped him ascend the throne, only to end up with her entire clan slaughtered and a brutal death.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day before their wedding—the day Lu Mingqing was cheating on her with her half-sister.
This time, she married the dying Regent instead.
She cured his poison; he shielded her from harm.
A powerful pair, they plotted step by step, outwitting the hypocritical villainess, killing the traitorous scumbag, and vowing to take back everything she lost in her past life—including the empire itself.
Cursed Bloodlines: A Fortune Teller's TaleLiam Lynch returns to his hometown after mastering the ancient arts of Feng Shui and fortune-telling. He seeks revenge against the Shaw family, who ruined his family and stole their luck. As he sets up his stall, exposing dark secrets and battling deadly curses, will he exact his vengeance, or will demonic forces consume him?
Mafia Mamma's Hot LoverRichard, the man the St. Clair family trusts with its business, is the missing heir of the family they have been at war with. Nobody in the house knows it, and neither does Maria, who has known him since they were children.
Maria is a housewife who has been betrayed, and the family treats her as a middle-aged woman of no account. At her grandfather's funeral she learns she has inherited the whole St. Clair operation, which makes her its Godmother. She takes the seat and looks for a way to have peace in a business that runs on violence. Richard is the advisor she works with, and what was between them as children starts up again.
His blood pulls one way and his loyalty the other. The two of them go at each other in public and work together in private, through attempts on their lives and betrayals inside the family, trying to work out who is actually driving the war.
Invincible Dragon: The Sisters' ProtectorTim comes down the mountain and goes back to Duskshire to look for his nine sisters. A strange old man carried him off when he was a boy and kept him eighteen years in training, and by the time he leaves he holds the title of Dragon King of the Dragon Court and has broken through in his art. The first sisters he finds are the eldest, who chairs a company, the eighth, who works at the security bureau, and the fourth, a doctor. He deals with a business crisis for one, a family plot around another and a threat to a third's life, with his fists and his medical training. One family's scheming and a ritual poison pull him into danger of his own.
He brings other groups under his control as he goes and punishes the people who did wrong. Pieces of why he was taken as a child come out along the way. He meets the younger sister of a man called Dragon Eight. He also comes across the ninth sister, who has lost her memory.
What? A Zombie King Protects a Human Baby!The dead walk and the cities are gone. Riven Hoyle came out of the collapse bound to a system that made him Zombie King, an overlord the undead obey and fear. Picking through a ruined stretch of the wasteland he finds a baby, alive and alone, and takes her with him. The infant is Elara Harvey, a human empress who ruled once and has been born again into this small body, keeping her mind and her claws and saying nothing about either. Riven, who feels almost nothing for anything living, becomes an obsessive father. He turns his millions of corpses into a labor force and an army, clearing the wastes and building a place where the child can be kept fed and safe, and anything that comes near her is put down. Elara plays along in her swaddling while she takes the measure of the world she landed in, and her old power begins to return in pieces. Humans still hold pockets of territory, the demons want their share, and the ability to bring the dead back is the thing all three sides are trying to control, which makes a resurrected empress in the arms of the Zombie King the most valuable object on the continent.
Before the Vows Were SaidHeiress Audrey Winthrop hides her identity through seven years with her fiancé and quietly advances his career, planning to reveal everything after their wedding. When his family humiliates her and downgrades the ceremony, she exposes who she is, cancels the marriage, and strips them of the future she provided.
Twin Serpents' CurseIn the thirty-fifth year of the Dali reign, a man arrives at Willowell Monastery on Mount Aetheron with a donation of silver and is given leave to stay. He is there for the Aurum Core carried by one of the two serpents who have held the mountain's earth vein for a thousand years. A spider spirit wants the same core and proposes they work together.
Kane Black and Ivy White have lived beside the monks in human shape for centuries. A fire breaks out in the temple and the pair go into it to put it out, which is what brings them to the attention of the two visitors. The visitors use illusion to take the shape of the abbot, and Kane is poisoned and his Aurum Core taken from him.
Ivy White turns on the monastery. She raises floodwater and the dead and moves through the grounds after the monks and the villagers sheltering in the scripture hall, and the abbot has no way to prove it was not him. The two who took the core are not finished, and what they mean to do with it would break the earth vein under Mount Aetheron. Manjushri comes down carrying a mirror that shows what happened in the temple. Ivy is left deciding between the revenge and the mountain.
Don't Mess with the Billionaire's DaughterJames Ward is the richest man in America. After his divorce from his French ex-wife, their daughter Camille grew up in France with her mother, and every European business trip he takes is arranged so he can see her. She often comes along to formal events and works the room as his English-French interpreter. Eva Grant wants into that class of people and stages an assassination attempt on James so she can save him from it, taking a real knife wound for the performance, with her mother helping her plan it. It works. She becomes his fiancee. Camille flies in for the beach wedding to surprise her father. Eva has no idea who she is, decides she is a mistress, and sets about humiliating her, the same treatment she and her clique gave Camille years earlier at a high school summer camp. Then Eva's friends start turning on one another and the details come out: the affair and the pregnancy with Bob, who belongs to one of them, Kelly's scheming, and the fact that Eva's mother has been using her daughter as a way up.
Take or Be TakenA woman, Seo Young, who died due to her best friend’s plot, returns to one year earlier, triggering a fierce survival thriller
He Married Another, I'll Wed the Enemy!The Bellaros border is close to breaking and the court needs a marriage to hold it. Eloise Quimby asks the emperor to be the one sent. She grew up alongside the crown prince, and for ten years, whenever he was in the capital, the two of them were rarely apart, and the court took it for granted that they would marry. The crown prince ignores the mockery that now falls on Eloise and holds to marrying Camila Lowe, the younger sister of his own guard. Eloise stops expecting anything from him after that. The emperor does not understand why she wants Bellaros and she does not change her mind, so he issues a decree naming her Protector of the Realm and setting her departure at seven days. The crown prince has always taken it as settled that she would never leave him, and nobody has told him about the decree.
From Romance to RevengeThe novel is a romance written for women, and its villain is a simpering hanger-on who dies a pathetic death in the original. A man from outside the book wakes up in that villain's body.
He is at the Tribulation Crossing stage, and he takes the position that a villain owes nobody any morals. When a cultivator at the Foundation stage makes a false accusation against him, he crushes her with the Great Wilderness Heaven-binding Finger. His warning to the rest is that anyone who slacks off in cultivation today ends up in his Soul Banner tomorrow. The Chosen One steps in on her side, and he goes after the Chosen One's entire clan. Eventually he meets a master he cannot beat. He shouts "Dad, help!" and his father comes and handles her.
Revenge at the Weddingfter being publicly humiliated by her fiancé and his "best friend," a sharp-tongued heiress turns her wedding day into a spectacular act of revenge, trading up for an even more powerful husband and exposing decades of her fiancé's family secrets.
Touch My Daughter, Then DieLillian Hastings is Evelyn Hastings' only child and the one person Evelyn is soft about. To everyone else Evelyn is the head of the Hastings family, the woman whose word settles a matter and whom people in the city have learned to be careful around.
Lillian has a rare illness. Three years ago Evelyn left the country to have a drug for it developed, and three years later she came back with it finished. While she was away her husband had taken up with the nanny and moved her into the house, their daughter was going about as the young lady of the family, and between them they had taken over the Hastings family. Lillian had been put to work as a servant in her own house, with her own fiance joining in on it, and the daily handling had broken her mind. Evelyn means to settle the accounts at the next banquet.
Fate Led Me to YouLyra, Goddess of the Phoenix Clan, hid her identity to protect the Sterlings for three years, enduring humiliation. Once exposed, the Sterlings fell for their disrespect. She left, uncovered conspiracies, became a guest of the Sullivan Family, upheld justice in Riverdale, and grew close to Julian Sullivan, leaving the Sterlings full of regret.
Patience and LoveAfter regaining her memories, Rachel Powell divorces Graham Turner amidst Veronica Clark's involvement and family indifference. She returns to equestrian competitions, winning a title to prove her strength. Supported by Dustin Blake, she bravely fights for custody and dignity. Will she fall for Dustin?
Mess with Me, Meet My DadAudrey is a student who lives frugally, but because of this, she becomes a target of the student council president, Kira. Taking advantage of her wealthy background, Kira enjoys bullying students like Audrey. But she's picked the wrong target this time. Audrey isn't as poor as she seems, and her father is a powerful figure no one dares to provoke.
Revenge with a Full TankJade Rivers discovers that her boyfriend, Tyler Sterling, uses her car to impersonate someone else's boyfriend. After confronting him, she's falsely accused of being a mistress. Truth reveals the car belongs to Jade, and Tyler is shunned. With support from Wyatt Lennox and her family, Jade decisively ends the relationship and moves on.
Clear BreakLyra owes a debt to the elder Sterling, and to repay it she goes to work under his son and promises the old man she will support him. The son lets his girlfriend push Lyra around at the office, and Lyra puts up with it for three years because of that promise. Then someone drugs her in an attempt to set her up. She resigns and takes the company's core team with her to the Sullivan family's firm. The Sterling son only begins to see what he has done once she is gone.
Inside the Sterling group the balance of power breaks down and the infighting gets worse. At the Sullivans, Lyra rebuilds the business piece by piece and keeps landing wins, and the standing of the firms in the industry shifts around her. The Sterling side slides out of control as one scandal after another comes to light. She uncovers several schemes along the way, the Sullivans come to trust her, and she and Julian Sullivan grow closer. She is pushed further up the Sullivan firm and has a new decision to make about her own position. The rivalry between the two companies comes down to a bid for a contract that both of them want.
The Prince I Refused Came Crawling BackShen Yao was raised in the general's residence and orphaned there. The emperor granted her a marriage by decree. She married the crown prince, Xie Jingchu, moved into the East Palace, and was humiliated and mistreated there until she died.
She opened her eyes at the banquet where the marriage had been granted. The decree was the same one. This time she named Xie Yuan, Prince Jing, the crown prince's uncle, who had been badly wounded in battle and had not woken since.
The wedding took place and Xie Yuan woke afterward. He treated her with respect, kept her from harm, and over time the two of them came to care for each other. Xie Jingchu began to recall the life before.
Watch Me RiseIT engineer Su Ying creates the system that wins her company an investment worth hundreds of millions, only for the new CEO to cut her promised bonus below zero and award three million to his inexperienced lover. Su stops donating unpaid labor, and the launch collapses without her. When management tries to saddle her with a billion in losses, the supposedly angry investors greet Su with deference instead.
The Wrong EnemyYe Zhiqiu, a top scientific research professor, went to the Jiang Group with core documents to find his son Jiang Xingxing to promote the completion of the project. He happened to meet his daughter Ye Yingying, who was an intern at the company. Jiang Xingxing's fiancée Shen Yi misunderstood that the mother and daughter had ulterior motives, and collaborated with their subordinates to verbally humiliate and cause physical conflicts. They also tore up and burned confidential documents related to the patient's wishes, which put Dean Li in crisis due to an asthma attack.
RV: Mobile ApocalypseThe weather changes across the whole planet, an extreme cold sets in, and some of the people caught in it mutate into zombies. In her first life she got through it on 100 tons of coal she had won in the lottery at her company's year-end party. A woman she had trusted sold her out and took her revenge, and she was killed in the cold.
She wakes up on the day of the same year-end party, the day before it starts. This time she buys a run-down camper van and rebuilds it into a fortress on wheels, and she buys up military supplies and food in bulk before the cold arrives. Somewhere in the rebuild the van turns out to come with a system attached to it, and the system keeps her supplied. The temperature falls to minus 160 degrees. She drives out through the ruined cities and into the frozen country beyond, dealing with zombies and with mutants as they turn up. The woman who betrayed her the first time is still alive in this one, and so is a gang that calls itself the Midnight Circus, and both of them come after her.
A Mother’s Mercy Ends HereIn a noble house rotting from within, a despised illegitimate daughter crawls out of the shadows as bloodlines are torn open. A spoiled heiress hides treason, lust, and a dangerous pregnancy. Imperial edicts fall, armies move, and truth cuts deeper than steel. When power finally chooses its heir… who will survive the ascent?
Not the Crown, But You AloneCharlotte Grahame marries Nicholas Shaw after a broken engagement and gets entangled in Henry Sutton's political conflicts. During a fierce auction in Pearblossom County, Nicholas is revealed as Prince Lionel Shaw, leading to Henry's fall. Charlotte faces deceit and inheritance battles but finally uncovers the truth. Realizing Henry's true nature, she chooses a quiet, happy life with Nicholas.
Broken MarriageA woman whose marriage is falling apart and a man whose marriage has been shattered engage in a comedic, chaotic romantic comedy after their relationship breaks down.
My Fake Poverty vs. Her Secret Mafia LifeEthan, the richest man's son, was deliberately raised in poverty and arrives early for college to earn his own living. He falls at once for Audrey, the feared daughter of an underworld family, and each conceals the powerful lineage behind an ordinary identity. Their romance becomes a contest of secrets as Audrey's erased past, her mother's death, and a forbidden drug threaten to reveal murder, family betrayal, and who they really are.
Badge of Duty, Heart of TroubleDaniel works as a security guard at the company where his son Cody is employed. Before this he was retired, living quietly and well away from the financial markets. Cody talked him into the job on the idea that a father with nothing to do would be better off with a low-key post, and Daniel went along with it because it was his son asking. On his rounds he catches the eye of Jessica, the company's president and Cody's boss.
Daniel then turns up at the most exclusive gala in the city. The heads of the industry there bow to him. Cody watches this happen and begins to learn about his father's past in the markets.
The Unbeatable Bodyguard from the MountainsAscension past the mortal boundary requires that a cultivator have no debts left in the world below. Miles has the power and cannot finish the climb, because his ties are unsettled, so his master sends him down the mountain to cut them, starting with an arranged marriage his family owes.
The bride is Camila, heiress to her family's group and the person who refuses the match her father made. She treats Miles as a nuisance her family has attached to her. Then the trouble starts arriving: harassment, corporate maneuvering inside the company, rival heirs, hired men, and people after an old formula her family holds. Miles handles each one as it comes, mostly out of her sight. There are livestream sales showdowns and there are fights.
What she has is a bodyguard she looks down on and no other defense, and over time she stops resisting him. They work through the betrayals and the people trying to kill her, and through the contract that put them together.
Slandered Online? Benefits Terminated.Su Meng is recruited by Tengfei Technology CEO Chen Lan due to her dedication, but after six months of growth, she becomes lost in fame and fortune. Dissatisfied with a 2000 yuan shopping card benefit for the Mid-Autumn Festival, she fabricates negative rumors about the company on short videos, triggering a public relations crisis. She's also instigated by Zhao Yongqiang and Wang Gong to incite employees to make unreasonable demands. After Chen Lan exposes her misconduct, she resigns. Su Meng starts a business using her internet celebrity status but snatches customers with low prices and purchases defective equipment, causing a medical accident. When held accountable at the conference, she attempts to sell sympathy for pity but is exposed for hiring water armies. Ultimately, the truth is revealed, she confesses and is arrested, with her accomplices also facing consequences. Chen Lan restores the company's reputation, and Su Meng realizes that traffic isn't ability and that opportunism harms herself.
She Was More Than the Woman in UniformEric was an ordinary employee when Sophia married him. She spent three years pushing him up through the airline until he was General Manager, and she had arranged to hand him control of her whole group in three days' time. He did not wait. He had been using the Platinum card Sophia had given him to spend on Donna, his mistress, who boarded a flight with her brother in the manner of a woman who considers the airline half hers already. Sophia happened to be on that flight, working it in a flight attendant's uniform for an unannounced inspection. She recognized the card in Donna's hand and understood what her husband had been doing with it. Donna played to the cabin and insulted the attendant serving her at some length. Eric backed Donna and told Sophia to apologize. The apology was still being demanded when Sophia's name came out in front of everyone.
The Diminutive HealerLucas Shaw wants nothing to do with medicine. His mother sends the family's unmanageable heir up the mountain to be disciplined into shape as the student of a Taoist master whose main interest is money. Up there he runs into Sylvia Suey, cold, exact, already a prodigy with needles, and he is made to address her as senior sister. Between the humiliations and the drills he starts picking up the medicine, and the two of them go from fighting each other to something close.
After he comes back down, his grandmother collapses and is not expected to live. Sylvia breaks the rule her school laid on her and uses the Nine Returning Needles, and the grandmother lives. The name of the technique gets around fast.
The two of them then go through the city looking for where Sylvia came from. They meet a lot of people in medical circles, and her needles get them through cases nobody else can settle, including the trials set by the Pine Crane house and the traps of a place called the Thousand Turns Forest. Lucas puts together a backing of his own among the doctors. What comes out at the end is that Sylvia's birth parents were students of the students of a divine physician nobody can identify.
From Ashes, a JewelIn the capital of Yongzhao, a girl in the poorest quarter with no parents and no household behind her has her looks counted against her. She is expected to be torn apart by the pack once she is grown.
Fu Ping is such a girl. A gilded phoenix carriage comes through the wind and snow of the slum one day and the two highest people in the realm step down in front of her and take her back to the palace. She is made Princess Mingzhu of Yongzhao and moves overnight into the inner halls.
Inside the palace her imperial father has her body confined, the empress who had spoken gently to her draws a length of soft silk around her throat, and her younger brother the crown prince turns a sword on her. Lin Zechuan, who had promised to grow old with her, throws her out like a worn shoe. Fu Ping comes out of the burial ground on her hands and knees over the bodies stacked there, with mud and blood on her fingers, carrying what she means to do to the imperial house.