

Quinn Thorne, a club waiter, accidentally rescued Sera Dutt when she was drugged. Quinn is mistaken for an antidote by Sera, who takes half of his necklace jades as a token. Six years later, Quinn works at a Dutt Group construction site to fund his foster mother's medical bills. Mocked by coworkers for being single, he encounters Sera and her daughter, Lila, who calls him "Dad" after recognizing his matching necklace.

Billion-dollar conglomerate founder Sarah returns home, keeping her wealth hidden, hoping only for a quiet wedding. Unexpectedly, Hailey, her son's fiancée, humiliates her relentlessly to seize her wedding venue — completely unaware that the victim before her is none other than her fiancé's own mother! Hailey resorts to extreme violence. She shoots Sarah and has her bound and drowned in a resort pool to silence her. Miraculously surviving, Sarah refuses her son's protection. Disguised as a waitress, she infiltrates the engagement gala. Before the city's elite and assembled media, witnesses and irrefutable evidence come to light, exposing Hailey's full conspiracy: fake-pregnancy fraud, embezzlement, and attempted murder. The villain is publicly ruined. Sarah makes her triumphant return, reclaiming everything that belongs to her!

International detective Kerry Weldon accidentally transmigrates into a workplace Mary Sue novel as cannon fodder. She activates a Cannon Fodder Survival System that requires collecting others' emotions to extend her life.After inadvertently calming the volatile CEO Logan Williams' fury, she's hired as his assistant. Discovering Logan's emotional fluctuations boost her life force most effectively, she deliberately provokes him. Logan suffers from a rare emotional disorder that mysteriously improves around Kerry, and he gradually falls for her. Meanwhile, the original female lead Melanie Norman, jealous of Logan's special treatment toward Kerry, repeatedly targets her as a thorn in her side.
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Selma Sullivan follows her husband, Chester Sanders, home for the New Year, only to be targeted by his childhood sweetheart, Shirley Zamora. Knowing Selma is allergic to scallions, Shirley deliberately adds them to every dish, then burns Selma's multimillion-dollar contract and even drugs her, hiring a man to assault her. Yet Chester and his family always tell Selma to forgive her. After being driven to her death, Selma is reborn. This time, she replaces Shirley's scallions with the ginger Chester is allergic to and her contract with his $500,000 loan. She makes her husband's family pay for every "forgive and forget" they ever demanded.

Fresh out of prison, Linda Merrill sought redemption,only to be ensnared by Zack Shepard into a personal hell. Forced into a devil's bargain, she became his pawn in a scheme to seduce his own brother, Kyrie. But as deception bled into desire, Zack was consumed by regret—trapped in a trap of his own making, and utterly lost for a way out.

John Brooke has spent years doing construction work to put his girlfriend through school. The day she finally graduates, he shows up with a ring.She shows up with news that she's marrying his best friend. The whole humiliating scene plays out right in front of Luna Taylor, CEO of Taylor Group, who happens to be passing by. She sees in John something she rarely encounters— genuine goodness. On impulse, Luna proposes. He says yes. John's ex watches the man she discarded walk into a life she couldn't have imagined for him and realizes too late exactly what she threw away.

John Brooke has spent years doing construction work to put his girlfriend through school. The day she finally graduates, he shows up with a ring.She shows up with news that she's marrying his best friend. The whole humiliating scene plays out right in front of Luna Taylor, CEO of Taylor Group, who happens to be passing by. She sees in John something she rarely encounters— genuine goodness. On impulse, Luna proposes. He says yes. John's ex watches the man she discarded walk into a life she couldn't have imagined for him and realizes too late exactly what she threw away.

"Morgana, a brilliant software engineer and AI specialist from the slums, is the devoted wife of Kael Moretti—the powerful heir to a vast gold-mining empire with deep mafia ties. Publicly, Kael is the ultimate devoted husband who sacrificed power for love. Privately, he has maintained a long-term affair with his childhood friend Bianca Rizzo and secretly fathered twin sons with her. While pregnant after years of failed IVF, Morgana discovers the truth through photos, DNA evidence, and Bianca’s calculated provocations. Heartbroken and determined, she stages her own death by orchestrating the explosive collapse of Kael’s main gold mine, vanishes with his fortune, and starts a new life under a false identity."

Lydia Nott's mother-in-law falls gravely ill, but Ian Hart, mistakenly thinking the ambulance is for Lydia's ex-boyfriend, blocks its path. At the hospital, he refuses to donate blood and even destroys the blood source needed for the rescue. Despite Lydia's efforts to find help, her mother-in-law dies. Ian skips the memorial to attend Ivy Scott's birthday, only to learn the truth too late. When he tries to expel Lydia from the Hart family, he discovers she's the rightful heir. Stricken with guilt over his mother's death, he is left to face the consequences of his actions.

Top student Willa Easton was sent to a youth correctional center at fifteen. Her parents only wanted to scare her troublemaking younger brother Jude into behaving. For three years, instructor Vincent beat her, locked her in isolation, sexually assaulted her, and forced hormone shots that permanently destroyed her uterus. Every time she begged to come home, her parents believed the fake videos he sent them. On the night of the family dinner celebrating Jude’s acceptance into a top university, Willa was finally released. Broken and triggered, she was locked in the storage room by her father. That night, she tried to hang herself. When the hospital revealed her body covered in scars and the full truth came out, her selfish parents were left drowning in guilt. Jude’s mind collapsed. He would spend the rest of his life regretting what they did to her.