

After unexpectedly spending a night with her longtime crush, Xavier Reed, Serena Harper discovers she’s pregnant with his child. To her surprise, Xavier proposes immediately—but married life is nothing like she imagined. He refuses to acknowledge their daughter and begins mistreating both Serena and the child when his first love, Aria Spring, returns from abroad six years later. Heartbroken and unable to endure the pain, Serena leaves the country with her daughter.

Serena, eight months pregnant, suffers financial abuse at the hands of her husband Caleb. Falsely accused of theft, she is arrested and imprisoned. Abandoned while going into premature labour, she resolutely divorces him to build an independent life. Later she finds Caleb trying to make amends — but his belated love is no longer what she wants.

Seren Voss is the heiress to the Voss Group. Her husband, Torin, is a high-profile lawyer. Time and again, he puts the widow and son of his fallen best friend before his own wife and daughter, leaving them to suffer. After enduring enough, Seren takes their daughter, Lila, who has suffered severe emotional trauma, and flees Oak Valley. Even when Torin finally realizes his mistakes and does everything he can to make amends, Seren and Lila refuse to look back. They leave their painful past behind and start a new life together in Seattle.

Serene Young fell in love with Mason Davis when she was young and eventually married him years later, fulfilling her wishes. However, she soon discovers that he only married her for the benefits it brought. For nearly a decade, Serene devoted herself to Mason, enduring mistreatment and heartbreak. Now diagnosed with cancer, she catches Mason with Wendy Reed and decides to divorce him.

Serena Valentine escapes a private psychiatric hospital, three ribs broken, weeks to live. Dying of ALS, she has donated her body to an experimental chemical study that will dissolve it completely. Outside waits Adrian Cross—the man she once loved. Five years ago, Adrian's sister Isabella died in a kidnapping fire; everyone believed Serena abandoned her to save herself. Adrian had his friend Marcus send her abroad; Marcus instead imprisoned and tortured her for five years. Now engaged to Veronica Ashford, Serena's old bully who claims she saved him from the fire, Adrian keeps her as a servant and sexual outlet; sworn to Isabella's secret, she says nothing. Veronica frames her in a sea accident; enraged, Adrian throws her overboard. A forced bone-marrow donation to Veronica leaves her paralyzed. Told she fled with money, he burns every trace of her. When both are abducted, he saves Veronica—leaving Serena to the flames. The truth: Serena nursed him on a cruise and carried him from that fire; Marcus imprisoned her; Veronica stole her identity as rescuer. Her phone holds hundreds of unsent love messages—the last: "Please, come and save me." His search comes too late—Serena is dead, dissolved, with nothing to bury. He sends Veronica and Marcus to the same hospital, then endures the torture himself. After watching the video of her destruction, he tries to die but is saved, cursed: "May you live a long life—and spend every day of it with nothing." Years later, a crippled beggar wanders the New York waterfront, whispering Serena's name—condemned to live, paying for the woman he destroyed.

On her birthday, Serena, the chairwoman of Wall Street's Sterling Consortium, discovers that her husband, Hunter, has been using her trust fund to buy luxury cars for his mistress Chloe. At the scene of a car accident, Chloe arrogantly humiliates Serena, never realizing that she has crossed the wrong woman. At a lavish charity gala, Serena makes a stunning entrance and publicly exposes the ugly truth about Hunter and Chloe. She immediately sets divorce and asset forfeiture proceedings in motion, making the two betrayers pay dearly for their betrayal.

Serena Hader, a motherless farm girl, cares for her ailing father while enduring abuse from her stepbrother and cruel stepmother. To survive, she sells vegetables—until one night, she shares an unforgettable encounter with the powerful Prince Regent, Jason Shaw. Mistaking her intentions, Jason leaves her with only a pendant, unaware she’s pregnant. Eight months later, Serena flees home to escape her stepbrother’s advances and nearly miscarries—only to be saved by a marquis.

After spending five years away from the United States, international humanitarian doctor Serena Hale returns to San Diego for the first time—not to come home, but to finalize her divorce from her husband, Adrian Pierce. Her younger sister, Chloe, is pregnant with Adrian’s child and is about to give birth. Everyone believes Serena is nothing more than a disgraced doctor whom her husband sent to a war zone to “teach her a lesson.” No one knows that she has already become Dr. S, the lead researcher behind a breakthrough against a deadly virus, and that she is carrying top-secret research data tied to federal biosecurity. Adrian refuses to believe her true identity. Seeking revenge on Chloe’s behalf, he even personally injures Serena’s right hand—the hand she relies on to hold a scalpel. Desperate to take Serena’s place as Mrs. Pierce, Chloe destroys the classified data drive and frames her sister for it. Only when Serena’s true identity is exposed in front of everyone does Adrian realize that the woman he destroyed with his own hands has already become someone the entire country is determined to protect. After the truth comes out, Adrian gradually uncovers everything that really happened five years ago and becomes consumed by regret. But Serena no longer loves him. Instead, she grows closer to General Ethan Grant, the man who has quietly protected and supported her all along. Three years later, shortly before Serena’s wedding, Adrian kidnaps her in a desperate attempt to stop her from moving on. In the end, Chloe chooses to save her sister and dies after taking a knife meant for Serena. Adrian is sentenced to death. Serena adopts Chloe’s child and finally leaves the past behind for good.

Murdered by her sister and husband, Serena is reborn at the Husband-Choosing Rite. She rejects the treacherous Wolf Heir for Soren, a Serpent Lord rumored brutal and penniless—but actually gentle, devoted, and the realm’s richest man. To protect her child, family, and every clan, Serena unleashes ruthless revenge.

"Serena, the rightful daughter of the Witch Clan, devoted her heart to Adrian in her previous life. She spared no effort to support him, helping him rise to the throne. But in the end, she was betrayed by Adrian and her adopted sister Celeste. Pregnant with his child, Serena was poisoned and killed. By a twist of fate, she was reborn and returned to the day of her twentieth birthday ceremony—the day she was destined to choose her husband. This time, she no longer clung to her old love. Instead, she chose Poseidon, the youngest son of the former clan lord. A man everyone looked down upon because of his incomplete bone fins. Poseidon was Adrian’s uncle. In her previous life, Adrian had treated Serena with arrogance and contempt. But in this life… The man who once looked down on her could only bow his head and call her: “Aunt-in-law.” For years, Poseidon had secretly loved Serena. In her previous life, he was the one who saved her. And after her death… He personally sought revenge for her. Only after losing everything did Adrian finally realize his mistakes. He desperately tried to win Serena back. But Serena had already seen through him. Not every regret… Deserves forgiveness. In the end… Serena chose the man who had always cherished her. Together with Poseidon, she seized power, ruled side by side, and began a brand-new life.