

Claire Carter spent a year caring for her brother Ethan Carter’s newborn, giving up a high-paying contract and enduring exhausting days with nothing in return. Instead, Ethan demands she pay for living expenses, forgetting the fact that he once begged her for help. Refusing to be exploited any longer, Claire signs a contract and leaves. On the child’s first birthday, Ms. Parker arrives with a bill that changes everything.

Five years ago, Zoe Lovell was sent to prison by her own parents to cover up her younger sister's accounting fraud. Before being taken away, she swore revenge. After years of suffering behind bars, Zoe finally returns home—only to discover that her parents feel no guilt for what they did. Instead, they hand nearly all of the company's shares to her sister, Xena Lovell, and continue to treat her as the favored daughter.

On the day of my mate-bonding ceremony, my parents suddenly brought my mate home and told me the marking ceremony that day would be with someone else. “Your sister was poisoned by wolfsbane. There's no cure, and her dying wish is to become David’s mate.” “You’re her older sister. Can’t you be kind and help her out?” My mate also tried to persuade me. “Don’t worry, it’s just for show. After she dies, we’ll still be each other’s one and only.” Still, I refused. However, my parents forced me to drink a potion that blocked my mind link, tied me up, and threw me into the silver mine behind our villa. “We’ll untie you once the ceremony goes smoothly,” they said. But soon after they left, I was attacked by a vicious rogue wolf. After endless torment, I was killed. It was only when my body started rotting that they remembered I was still bound in the mine.

Born with extraordinary luck, Emily Duffer is left disabled after saving her brother because her parents refuse treatment. Four years later, overwhelmed by debt, they abandon her. She is later found by debt collector Benson Boyd, who takes her in after witnessing her strange good luck. Nearly dragged into hell by Benson's wicked family, Emily becomes the reason he cuts ties with them—and the family he chooses instead.

On the day Erin moves into the family’s new home, she discovers that the three bedrooms have already been assigned—to her parents, her brother, and their adopted daughter Sophie. Only Erin’s name is missing. Ten years earlier, Sophie’s father, Thomas, drowned on the same day Erin’s brother Ryan fell into the water. Their mother, Helen, has always believed that Thomas died saving Ryan, and from that moment on, she demanded that the entire family spend the rest of their lives repaying that debt. For ten years, Erin has given up her room, her parents’ attention, and her brother’s protection for Sophie. Even Ethan, the boyfriend she has been dating for three years, has gradually grown used to putting Sophie first. The final blow comes when Erin discovers that her parents, Ryan, Sophie, and Ethan all belong to a group chat called “Sophie’s Family”—a family group that includes everyone except her. When Ryan tells her, “If you don’t want to help repay what we owe her, then get out,” Erin finally gives up on them completely. Without telling anyone, she leaves for New Mexico to join a five-year aviation meteorology research program. Only after Erin is gone does the truth about the accident ten years ago finally come to light: Thomas was never the person who saved Ryan. The Carter family is devastated to realize that, in trying to repay a life-saving debt that never existed, they drove their own daughter out of the family with their own hands. Five years later, Erin returns to Portland as the leader of the research project. Faced with her remorseful family and Ethan’s desperate request for another chance, Erin chooses neither revenge nor reconciliation. She simply walks away. At last, Erin understands that a life truly belonging to her was never something anyone else needed to make room for.

On their 20th wedding anniversary, James Wrighy's wife and son fly overseas to celebrate her first love's birthday. When they are kidnapped, he brings the ransom but is forced to stay behind as a hostage so the other man can go free. After waiting three years for rescue, he returns home to find his son calling another man "Dad" and his wife accepting his mistreatment. Heartbroken, he finally walks away, leaving them full of regret.

The day a rat sold out our East Coast safe houses, the FBI got its hands on the addresses of every old base belonging to the Five Families. The Commission gave the order: every associate had to report to the neutral church and register within seventy-two hours. Only those who completed registration would make the evacuation list and be picked up by the convoys. Once the list was sealed, no one could be added. But Viola Romano claimed she was the daughter of the Commission's Chairman. She said her father had already saved a spot for everyone. They didn't need to register, and they could still leave on the priority convoy. My friends believed her and canceled their registrations, one after another. I begged them not to gamble with their lives and told them to register just in case. Viola immediately accused me of being jealous and trying to ruin things for everyone. My boyfriend, Matteo Russo, said I didn't understand power and that I belonged in line with the ordinary members. In my last life, I reported the whole thing to the Commission. Viola was exposed. Everyone managed to register before the deadline and secure a spot on the evacuation list. She was cast out of the Family for impersonating the Chairman's daughter and obstructing an emergency evacuation. In the end, she died in an FBI raid. Everyone said she got what she deserved. They thanked me for saving them. But after we moved into the new safe house, Matteo shot me from behind. The bullet went straight through my heart. The people I'd saved just stood there, watching coldly. "The worst that could've happened to us was getting arrested by the FBI. Viola lost her life!" When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day Viola promised to get everyone onto the evacuation list.

Five years ago, Zoe Lovell was sent to prison by her own parents to cover up her younger sister's accounting fraud. Before being taken away, she swore revenge. After years of suffering behind bars, Zoe finally returns home—only to discover that her parents feel no guilt for what they did. Instead, they hand nearly all of the company's shares to her sister, Xena Lovell, and continue to treat her as the favored daughter.

While the festive season closes in, Claudia Roman loses 200 thousand dollars in a gambling scheme plotted by her best friend Jane White. The money was meant for her daughter's tuition, her father's medical bills, and the living expenses of her family of three, so to win the money back, Matt Swain joins the game. Initially, he intended to leave after winning the same amount back, but Jane and Kelvin Grant kidnap Claudia, forcing him back into the gamble.

Gifted painter Madison loses her family’s love, her fiancé, and her art to her adopted sister. Abandoned in a burning car by her fiancé, she dies and watches from beyond as the truth comes out and the family that betrayed her turns on itself.