

Although Nathan York loves his wife, Laila Smith, he takes a mistress. The day Laila discovers his affair, she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Given a month to live, she chooses to end it in seven days by ingesting poison. Unaware, Nathan plans a grand anniversary celebration on the day of her death. When the poison takes effect, he mistakes it for a joke—until she collapses, blood on her lips, as divorce papers and photos of his betrayal scatter around him.

Tina rescued Zion, a mute slave in the fighting pits, under a mysterious identity while in Cloudon. She believed their love was a predestined redemption until Zion was exposed as the illegitimate son of the Stone family. Only then did she realize his approach had also been a transaction. Tina tried to cut ties, only to be dragged into the Stone family's internal strife. After seizing power, Zion drugged her to erase her memories of their past together and her former alter ego, sending her back to Jadeport to live as an ordinary woman. Now, he schemes to win her back with a whirlwind marriage, but as Tina's memories gradually return, the truth of their past begins to surface.
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On the night of their third anniversary, co-pilot Tracy Swift ends up in bed with a stranger, only to discover the next morning that her fiance was in the next room doing exactly the same thing, and with her stepsister. She spends the wedding day absorbing two revelations at once, that the man she spent the night with is her fiance's own uncle, and that her fiance has chosen to announce the affair publicly and call off the engagement on the spot. Betrayed by her relationship and her family in a single afternoon, Tracy is still standing in the wreckage when the most untouchable man in the city hands her a marriage proposal and waits to see what she'll say.

On the night of their third anniversary, co-pilot Tracy Swift ends up in bed with a stranger, only to discover the next morning that her fiance was in the next room doing exactly the same thing, and with her stepsister. She spends the wedding day absorbing two revelations at once, that the man she spent the night with is her fiance's own uncle, and that her fiance has chosen to announce the affair publicly and call off the engagement on the spot. Betrayed by her relationship and her family in a single afternoon, Tracy is still standing in the wreckage when the most untouchable man in the city hands her a marriage proposal and waits to see what she'll say.

After giving birth to twins for the powerful Todd family, Vera Bell is drained of her blood in the delivery room to save their chosen heir, Finn Todd—leaving her lifeless, clutching a blood-stained lucky charm. Seven years later, mute and stripped of her memory, Vera survives by scavenging while raising her daughter, Grace Bell.

Rue Shaw reconnects with her childhood friend, Leo Judd, and his dying mother. To fulfill Leo’s mother’s final wish, Rue agrees to marry Leo for his sake, repeatedly neglecting her husband, Cory Gould. Ultimately, Cory grants a divorce, leaving Rue and Leo together. Meanwhile, Cory’s old friend, Linda Lane, swears she won’t let him go again.

Wolf king Caleb fakes amnesia in the hospital, but his fiancée Vivian grabs the hand of Ryan—the man he calls his brother—and announces they're a couple. Turns out the woman he loved and the brother he trusted had been cheating behind his back for three full years. Done being used, he returns to his family, reveals who he really is, and pulls all funding from LumenWorks, collapsing everything they built on his betrayal.

Given a second chance at life, Charles Grant wakes up as his 27-year-old self. He has a son, a daughter, and a wife who is the world’s richest woman, Lynette Stone—the woman every man dreams of. The first thing he does after returning is deliver their divorce agreement to the woman he truly loves. This time, he chooses to let Lynette go—and, in doing so, finally sets himself free.

My wife made me get a vasectomy. Not once, but ninety-nine times. Right before the hundredth operation, the doctor looked at me with pity in his eyes as the anesthesia failed to fully kick in. "Ms. Gibson really knows how to destroy a man," he murmured. "She's put him through ninety-nine vasectomies, then had them reversed—again and again. However, his body's long since broken. There's no chance of children now." "It's probably for her ex. Word is, it's his own brother. The scandals in these wealthy families—unbelievable." Because of a hospital mix-up at birth, my and Jeff Cunningham's fates were exchanged. He grew up with the Cunningham family, while I lived a poor life. Years later, my parents found the truth, taking me in and sending Jeff away. To make things worse, I became Wynnie Gibson's new fiancé. I once asked her, barely able to speak through the pain, why she would marry someone she did not love. She looked at me calmly. "To get revenge," she said. "You came home and stole Jeff's place. He was the one I love. He drank himself to death after you returned." Even my biological parents knew she was poisoning me. However, they turned a blind eye. They did nothing to stop her. They knew Wynnie had got pregnant with Jeff's child through IVF—planning to raise the child and let him inherit the family fortune. I coughed up blood and threw myself into the sea. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day I was first reunited with them. This time, when I saw the sorrow in their eyes—sorrow not for me, but for the son they lost— I chose to let them go.

After sleeping with the gentle Peggy Grant, Luke Leith is confronted by her father, Eric Grant. Their argument ends in tragedy, claiming the lives of Eric, Peggy, and Luke's parents. The heavens take pity on Luke and grant him a second chance, sending him back to that fateful night in 1985. Standing before Peggy once again, Luke vows to stop being a coward and do everything he can to rewrite their fate.