

Ivy Shaw knew from the very beginning that the marriage certificate she and Noah Grant held was fake. But during their five years together, Noah had given her so much tenderness that she mistakenly believed she had finally exchanged sincerity for sincerity. It was not until she woke up once in the middle of a coma that she overheard Noah talking to his private doctor: the strange illness she had suffered every month all these years had been caused by Noah drugging her and drawing her blood, and he had stayed by her side only to use her blood to treat her half-sister, Chloe. Another hospital soon confirmed that prolonged blood loss and medication had caused multiple organ failure, and that she had at most a month left to live. Ivy no longer argued, and no longer waited for Noah to turn back. She relocated her mother’s grave, arranged her own burial plot and funeral, and even designated her father Richard and Noah as her pallbearers. But until the very last day of her life, Noah still chose Chloe again and again, and even ordered someone to destroy Ivy’s mother’s grave. In the end, Ivy died alone at home. Only after receiving the funeral home’s notification did Noah discover that Chloe had never been ill, that Ivy was the girl who had climbed over the wall to comfort him in childhood, and that the coma and blood draws he himself had caused had killed the one who truly loved him.

In his past life, Ryan, heir of the Silver Moon Clan, trusted the spy Oliver, and his whole clan was slaughtered by the Blood Moon forces, while the Dark Night Wolf King Cedric died saving him. Reborn on the eve of the massacre, he exposes Oliver, tames the mutant giant wolf, bonds with Cedric, and crushes the Blood Moon Clan's schemes. At last, they awaken the Silver Moon Halo to purify blood poison, slay High Priest Kaelen, unify the seven clans, marry, and welcome peace and love.

After nineteen years of cultivation in the mountains, Ethan Carter is sent into the mortal world to complete his final trial. A chance encounter with CEO Claire Bishop leaves him burdened with a huge debt and working as a security guard at her company. Hiding extraordinary martial arts and fortune-reading skills, Ethan resolves one crisis after another while searching for his long-lost family—and discovers that fate has prepared far more than enlightenment.

Last night I received notice that the Family was cutting me loose. The explanation was flimsy: my thinking was outdated, I refused to modernize, and I was seriously obstructing the Family's expansion. That morning, my fiance stopped me in the corridor, his expression icy. "Kelly was right. Someone as stubborn and inflexible as you only holds the Family back. "And don't blame me for cutting you. You offended someone you shouldn't have." Kelly leaned against the railing, surrounded by her men, and watched me with a smug smile. She was the Don's own niece. Two weeks earlier, she had been parachuted in to take over the Family's core operations, using reform as an excuse to purge every elder. At the Family meeting yesterday, I rejected her reckless expansion plan in front of everyone. Kelly shot me a cold glance from the crowd, contempt sharpening her voice. "Certain old relics who can't move with the times outlived their usefulness long ago. Clinging to power only drags the whole Family down. "If you know what's good for you, get out." My expression remained unreadable. Without a word, I signed the papers withdrawing from the Family. What she didn't know was that I had never needed to stay in this Family. Someone had begged me to stay and hold it together. Then I posted on Instagram. "I have left the Family. I look forward to seeing what comes next." The moment the post went live, the entire underworld erupted.

Over the course of five years, Renee’s lawyer fiancé, Owen, calls off their wedding fifty-two times. And every single time, it’s because of his beautiful young intern, Vanessa.At their fifty-second ceremony, Renee stands alone at the altar with a fever while Owen rushes Vanessa to the hospital over an injured ankle. Before leaving, he promises to make it up to Renee at their next wedding—confident that no matter how many times he abandons her, she will always be there waiting.But this time, Renee doesn’t cry or beg him to stay. She quietly destroys her wedding dress, resigns from their law firm, and clears everything she owns out of their apartment overnight.When Owen finally returns to the dark, empty home and finds her broken bracelet in the trash, he realizes that the woman who once loved him more than anything has vanished from his life.What he doesn’t know is that Renee has been hiding a powerful identity—one that could shake the entire legal world.

Three days before my marking ceremony, someone set fire to the bridal shop while I was inside trying on my ceremonial dress. Alpha Marcus threw the arsonist into the pack prison, sentencing them to the harshest punishment our laws allowed. I lay in the hospital bed, my body covered in third-degree burns, refusing to wake fully as the reality of my disfigurement sank in. In my semi-conscious state, I heard Marcus speaking with the pack's healing witch. "Alpha, we can still heal her completely with the ancient magic. If we wait any longer, Sarah will bear these scars for life! You just want Miss Rachel to be your Luna at the marking ceremony. This is cruel beyond measure!" "Let her keep the scars. I'll provide for her for the rest of her life, but if she's healed, she'll definitely cause trouble at the marking ceremony." "I promised Rachel that her pup would be welcomed into the pack with full honors. Only when Sarah is completely disfigured will she be grateful enough to raise Rachel's child as her own. The scars are necessary - at least this way, she won't dare mistreat the pup." In the corner of the room, where no one was watching, a tear slid down my burned cheek. So this was the truth. The marking ceremony I'd dreamed of was nothing but a lie. The mate bond I longed for would be my death sentence. If that's how it had to be, I would give him what he wanted.

Talia Bennett had loved Gavin Cross for five years. Five years ago, she was one of the most promising young painters at the New York Academy of Art. But to become the kind of woman Gavin wanted, Talia gradually gave up her career, changed her personality, and reshaped her entire life around him. In return, all she earned as a reputation among New York's elite as reckless, unstable, and hopelessly obsessed with Gavin. When Gavin eventually grew tired of her, he fell for Sienna Cole— a younger, innocent- looking woman who bore a striking resemblance to the Talia he had first met five years earlier. Even after ending their engagement, Gavin remained certain that Talia would eventually come back to him. What no one knew was that the Bennett family was already on the verge of bankruptcy. Desperate for money and protection from the powerful Moretti family, Talia's father, Harold Bennett, planned to marry off her nineteen-year-old younger sister, Maya.The intended groom was Ronan Moretti, the wheelchair-using mafia boss whose name alone was enough to intimidate the entire East Coast underworld. Determined to protect her sister-and finally break free from years of her father's control- Talia volunteers to take Maya's place. She expects nothing more than a marriage of convenience. Instead, she discovers that Ronan is nothing like the ruthless, merciless man described in the rumors. He never forces her into anything. For the first time in years, someone gives Talia back the right to make her own choices. Just as Talia decides to go through with the marriage, Gavin calls and orders her to return, arrogantly offering her one "last chance." For the first time, Talia refuses to give in. She hangs up the phone-and kisses Ronan first. Three days later, Talia and Ronan quietly make their marriage official. It is not until their public wedding that Gavin finally realizes the woman he believed would never be able to live without him has become Ronan Moretti's bride.

Donald Chester was tricked by his mother and younger brother's family into staying in the same household, leaving his wife and daughter at the mercy of the Chesters' abuse.He spent his life breaking his back in the family feed mill, only to be cast aside when it finally went public and made a fortune—dying in misery. Traveling back to 1988, Donald decisively split from the family and took his wife and daughter back to live in the countryside—only to discover that the fields and ponds are overrun with crayfish, a scourge to the villagers.Donald resolved to make a fortune for his own family by selling crayfish and forging a path to prosperity.

Having concealed her identity as the empress, Astrid Sinclair visits the Crown Prince's palace just to watch the ceremony of his marrying a consort named Daphne Lowell. But she ends up getting framed by Daphne for allegedly tearing her wedding gown. Alaric Talbot, the Crown Prince, and the Lowell siblings mistake Astrid for a concubine who has lost the emperor's favor, so they start humiliating her and even threaten to torture her. How will Astrid get her revenge?

My cold, ruthless Mafia godfather guardian tore off his mask the night of my twenty-first birthday. He doesn't want me to call him uncle anymore. He wants me as his caged bird.