

A week before Easter, Adrian gave me seven days off and had a ticket to Stockholm slipped into my bag. I thought he was finally learning how to care. Then I heard him talking to our son on the staircase. “Dad, are you really going to marry Aunt Bianca? What about Mom?” Noah was holding his model car, trying to sound brave. Adrian was quiet for a moment. “It’s only a legal marriage. Matteo is gone. Bianca and Sophia are exposed, and I can’t leave them that way. They need the DeLuca name for protection.” “Does Mom know?” “She can’t know.” His voice softened. “Keep this from her, Noah. On your birthday, I’ll buy you that Aston Martin model you want.” So the ticket was never a gift. It was a way to move me out of the picture. If he could put his family name on another woman, even for show, then I could take back the pride and ambition I had buried in this marriage. This time, when I left for the north, I would not come back.

A week before Easter, Adrian gave me seven days off and had a ticket to Stockholm slipped into my bag. I thought he was finally learning how to care. Then I heard him talking to our son on the staircase. “Dad, are you really going to marry Aunt Bianca? What about Mom?” Noah was holding his model car, trying to sound brave. Adrian was quiet for a moment. “It’s only a legal marriage. Matteo is gone. Bianca and Sophia are exposed, and I can’t leave them that way. They need the DeLuca name for protection.” “Does Mom know?” “She can’t know.” His voice softened. “Keep this from her, Noah. On your birthday, I’ll buy you that Aston Martin model you want.” So the ticket was never a gift. It was a way to move me out of the picture. If he could put his family name on another woman, even for show, then I could take back the pride and ambition I had buried in this marriage. This time, when I left for the north, I would not come back.

For 20 years, Damon Stone gave up his empire to be a devoted husband and father. Then his birthday shatters it all. Wife Vivian Hart's affair and a son not his own. With his heart dead, he returns as chairman, laying careful traps for each backstabber and fraud. Behind bars they go. He restores his company and rewrites his destiny.

The Stone family had a bizarre rule: Miles' mother had to invite Grandpa to dinner seven times before he could eat, leaving dishes cold and her voice strained. Newlywed Clara Parker, bold and forthright, broke the ritual publicly, calling it pointless torment. She insisted on one invitation and ate first, confronting the stubborn patriarch. Her husband Miles Stone stood by her and his mother.

Alpha Damon repeatedly neglected his own son, Finn, choosing instead to care for his adopted sister’s son, Nico. Finn’s father was absent time and again—on his sixth birthday, during the Moon Ceremony, and on Family Day. His excitement slowly turned into heartbreak and despair. Unable to bear watching her son suffer any longer, his mother, Elara, severed their mate bond and took Finn back to her northern homeland. Damon eventually realized what he had lost and stripped himself of his own authority in remorse. Two years later, he traveled north to beg for forgiveness, only to find that Finn no longer longed for his father’s love.

Three years ago, Damon Reed was hit by a truck and left in a vegetative state saving his daughter Molly. Three years later, Molly sells flower cakes on the street every day to scrape together 30,000 yuan for her father's new medication. Her devotion moves everyone around her — strangers, city workers, even other patients' families at the hospital all pitch in.

Three years after a virus apocalypse, cities lie in ruins, and humans and zombies hunt each other for survival. While others struggle to stay alive, Zack Larson opens a restaurant in the end times. With unlimited clean water, endless food, and zombie “employees,” his place thrives. Even the zombie leader must come politely—just to get a meal. In this broken world, Zack runs the safest, strangest restaurant in existence.

After losing his eldest son Ethan, Kane Morgan, founder of Vertex Capital, became utterly disillusioned, retreated from the spotlight, and began driving for a ride-hailing service to quietly watch over his younger son Liam. During a carjacking on a rainy night, his former subordinate Victor appeared, revealing that Kane still commanded a vast, hidden power. Liam threw a welcome party for his beloved Aurora, only to be humiliated by Damian and his gang. He also stumbled upon his late brother’s fiancée Vanessa having an affair with Damian. Shortly after, Liam was kidnapped and taken to a warehouse, where he learned his brother’s death was noaccident — he had been deliberately tortured and murdered by Damian. Damian then set up a cruel gambling game to torment Liam and imprisoned Aurora. At the critical moment, Kane smashed through the door and overpowered everyone with his formidable strength. Victor arrived and bowed in submission, and only then did Damian realize the taxi driver was a top-tier capital magnate. Kane declared his revenge, returned to Vertex Capital, and used his wealth and connections to launch an all-out assault on the O’Hara family’s business empire. Victor severely punished his own son Taylor, while Vanessa’s repentance proved futile. After enduring these trials, Liam reconciled with his father, and together they managed the conglomerate. He and Aurora fell deeply in love, and the O’Hara Group ultimately collapsed completely.

For three years, Gwen played the perfect wife to mech commander Damien, forgiving every betrayal as another bead vanished from the bracelet she gave him. When the last bead was gone, so was she. Now the mech legend is back on the battlefield, and Damien and his first love are about to regret ever crossing her.

Born and raised in isolation, Fiona Smith carries more than just her grandfather's extraordinary culinary techniques—she harbors a burning desire to escape the mountain that has been her silent prison. When a twist of fate brings her into the orbit of Ethan Parker, the cutthroat restaurateur of River Dine, she sees an opportunity for more than just a job—she sees a chance at redemption.