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The kingdom of Narethia sees two baby girls born at the same moment. A high monk prophesies that one of them carries the phoenix destiny—the future mother of all under heaven. Which girl holds the phoenix fate will only be revealed after eighteen years during the marriage alliance. The King of Narethia believes the destined one must be Joselyn Osborne, so he spends vast amounts of gold and silver nurturing her while completely ignoring Lainey Osborne. Eighteen years later, with Narethia’s national strength failing, a marriage alliance becomes necessary. The King and Ashtyn Harper scheme to have Joselyn marry into the Myrraveth royal family while sending Lainey off to the barbaric wasteland. With her mother imprisoned in the palace, Lainey tearfully departs for marriage. After traveling thousands of miles to reach the Outlands, she is utterly shocked to discover that the so-called barbarian host is actually the King of Zuyenne,and the supposedly impoverished land is overflowing with gold, silver, and precious jewels...

When Yasmin Conrad was just a kid, she watched her mom get torn apart by vicious dogs because she swept some cherry blossoms wrong. The person who ordered it was Elsie Hudson, who was about to become the Queen.Elsie wasn't satisfied with just one murder; she wanted Yasmin dead too. Right before the wolves could get her, some mystery person saved her and made a deal: learn how to seduce powerful men, get into the palace, and take down the woman who ruined everything. Now Yasmin's ready to use every trick in the book to destroy Elsie, because some things can only be settled with blood.

Nolan Lawson, past fifty, never expects a second chance—until a mysterious system restores his youth in a world torn by war. To survive, he strikes a deal with the gravely wounded General Harper Hartwell. Harper, disguised as a man, slips into the army camp with him. From farmer to fighter, Nolan begins an extraordinary rise to power, carving his path in the chaos of a broken land.

Modern-day gamer Leo Kane dies suddenly after an all-night gaming session and wakes up in another world as Grecan's most feared assassin, Cipher. Upon awakening, he's hired by Imperial Guard officer Hugo Spence to kill a woman named Lady Brooks. Intending to take the money and slack off, Leo's plan collapses when he's captured by his target, Poppy Brooks, who discovers his assassination mission. After Leo bravely drives off a group of bandits, Poppy's view of him changes. When she later learns that Leo once saved her life, their relationship begins to thaw, sparking a bond neither expected in a world built on blades and secrets...

Jamie Loxley, a nobleman's daughter, faces a difficult arranged marriage and decides to keep the child but leave the father behind. What she doesn't know is that he has just become the Seventh Prince, the very man she's now contractually bound to marry. Worse? He knows exactly who she is, and he's not hiding. Disguised under a new face, he engineers one "coincidental" meeting after another, pursuing her with shameless, relentless devotion. Jamie watches this sticky, grinning disaster of a man and can only sigh. "Your Highness, where is your dignity?"

Cecilia Moore gets a second chance at life. In her previous life, she was the legitimate eldest daughter of Lord Moore. The King arranged her marriage to the outstanding third son, Danny Mallin. But on the day of the marriage decree,Danny heroically rescues her cousin Monica Moore from drowning.Under pressure from the Moore family matriarch, Danny takes both Moore sisters as his wives. After Danny ascends the throne, he allows Cecilia to be the Queen for just one day before cruelly poisoning her and their unborn child to death. He then massacres the entire Moore household. It turns out Monica is a transmigrator from another world, and everything was a scheme orchestrated by her and Danny. Now returned to the day of the marriage decree, Cecilia decisively rejects Danny this time and chooses Prince Oscar, the man infamous throughout the capital as the realm’s most notorious playboy.

Nina unwittingly provokes three demon lords in her quest to return to the modern world. The aloof and proud God of War, the ambivalent Lord of Demons, and the scheming and cunning Crown Prince all join the fray, vying for her affections. Nina: I can't take you out anymore. You're ruining my chances of getting married. Justin: Whoever dares lay a finger on you, I'll make sure they're utterly annihilated. Demon Lord: Any fool who dares make a move on you, I'll cripple him first. Chip: If you don't take me, I'll break your legs.

Centuries-old tiger demon Mavis Hoover is cast down to the mortal realm by Heaven to experience the complexities of human emotions. She awakens to find herself reborn as a vicious stepmother. To complete her trial, she learns to become a virtuous wife and mother, fiercely protecting her children, earning money to support the family, and even rooting out traitors. Through her daily interactions with her family, the once-aloof tiger demon gradually begins to understand true human feelings and eventually finds genuine love with her husband, Leon Saul.

Sixteen years ago, King Phoenix Elara saved her husband Adrian, but he betrayed Elara along with her half-sister Lilith. Together, they secretly switched the King's real daughter with Lilith's illegitimate daughter. The true daughter,Princess Elysia, grew up surrounded by love and kindness, eventually becoming the rightful heir to the Phoenix Clan. The fake daughter, Morrigan,lived under the cruelty and manipulation of her birth mother, became fierce and learned dark powers. Sixteen years later, the truth came out. Adrian and Lilith's plot was exposed as treason, and they were executed. Morrigan's identity was revealed, but she refused to be bound by fate. She mastered a forbidden technique of the Mistwing Clan, devoured its power and turned the tide of fate during the war against the Nightwolf Clan. With that, she rose to command a mighty army. Seeing the shifting tides, Elara seized the opportunity, placing Elysia in charge of the realm and sending Morrigan to lead the armies. On the surface, the two daughters held the kingdom together, but under the calm, hidden currents of danger were already moving.

Julie Meyer is a divine maiden who spent a hundred and twenty thousand years trapped in a magic lantern because of the Evans family’s greed. Reborn, she finds them exactly as she left them—hungry for more than they deserve. So she gives it to them. Andy Evans wants to be emperor. Drake Evans wants total political power. Ruby Evans wants beauty beyond compare. Julie grants each wish with a smile, then watches as every desire curls back and destroys them from within. The revenge is precise, elegant, and utterly merciless. When the last wish is spent and the lantern finally goes dark, the debt is paid in full.

Being framed, Young General Jim was sent to the imperial prison. There, he had a one-night stand with Nancy. At the same time, Nancy's food inspired Jim and helped him clear his name. 8 years later, to cure her son's disease, Nancy went to the Northwest with her children to find Jim. After everything, Jim realized that Nancy was the girl from back then and had borne two kids for him...

At the end of the Qrento era, wars rage across the land. Josh Cohen transmigrates into a hopeless gambler—flat broke, yet with a beautiful wife and a stunning younger sister-in-law. Their home is empty, not even a scrap of food to spare. Just then, his wife, Eloise Sutton, brings a steaming bowl of porridge. “Yesterday… that was my fault. I shouldn’t have drugged you,” she says.

When Hespera's elder legitimate sister Rachel gets pregnant, Hespera is sent to be Rachel’s husband's concubine. But Rachel's delivery day becomes Hespera's death day. Reborn, Hespera plays her cards carefully: she wraps Rachel's powerful father-in-law around her finger, marries him, reclaims her legitimate daughter status, and takes revenge on all.

A modern obstetrician, Loren Saul, is accidentally transported into an imperial dynasty. After his sister-in-law refuses to offer her unborn child as a "medicine" for Lady Sofia, the two are sentenced to death. When a royal notice promises pardon and promotion to anyone who can restore the concubine's milk supply, Loren seizes the chance and enters the palace using his modern medical knowledge. Inside the palace, his extraordinary skills save the Lord General's son, cure Lady Sofia, and even perform a daring C-section to save Princess Natalie of Zephyria. Rising from a condemned prisoner to Director of the Wetnurse Guild and a trusted imperial physician,Loren navigates deadly palace politics while using modern medicine and sharp wit to change his fate and build his legend.

Naomie Baker is reborn and returns transformed, shedding her former timidity and revealing a cold, decisive ruthlessness. She punishes the wicked and strikes fear into the Baker family, showing no mercy to her elder brother Lucas, who had repeatedly humiliated her. Her younger sister Chloe schemes against her time and again, only to be outmaneuvered at every turn. In the end, Chloe’s true identity as a traitor colluding with enemy forces is exposed, and she is sent to prison.Joining forces with the male lead Arthur, Naomie works in perfect coordination, inside and out, to completely crush the rebellion. Together they ascend the throne and rule the realm side by side, with Naomie becoming a legendary empress remembered for generations to come.

In her past life, Florence Weston broke off her engagement to Atticus to enter the palace for the Emperor, only to be betrayed and die in despair. After her rebirth, she chooses Atticus as her husband.Everyone expects her to suffer, but with her wit, Florence earns both respect and love—until the heartless Emperor from her past life returns,dangerously obsessed with her.

Princess Valerie Stone of Dazel was once adored, until she was exposed as a false princess and framed by Holly Stone for harming her. To protect her, the emperor and crown prince exiled Valerie as a hostage to Northo—unaware she would be enslaved and disgraced. Three years later, scarred but unbroken, she returns to speak the truth, only to be ensnared in new lies and condemned once more.

Luna Ashford is a sharp modern forensic scientist who wakes up one day as the princess consort of the seventh prince of the Solmire Empire—wife to Jothan Barnett, a prince the entire court whispers about:brutal, cursed, a man who buries his wives. Her system gives her a clean exit: earn enough intimacy with Jothan and solve the wrongful case shadowing his past, and she goes home. Simple enough. Except the monster the rumors promised turns out to be something else entirely, and the case runs deeper and darker than any file she's ever worked. She came to investigate a prince. She didn't plan to understand him.