

Winona Warren never imagined that on her birthday, her son would hand her a walnut cake that could kill her. As her consciousness began to blur, she heard Asher Rhodes' furious voice. "Carter, don't you know your mother is allergic to walnuts?" Carter Rhodes' childish voice rang out with startling clarity. "I do. But I want Ella to be my mom instead. Dad, you want that too, don't you? Even if I..." A crushing wave of suffocation overwhelmed Winona before she could hear the rest of Asher's answer. In the second before she completely lost consciousness, Winona had only one thought. If she woke up, she would never be Asher's wife or Carter's mother again.

While searching for her missing father, Zoe Hall uncovers terrifying secrets hidden behind her family’s eerie fish shop. She discovers that her “mother” is actually her former classmate, Amanda Zahn, in disguise. Amanda murdered Zoe’s parents and uses a sinister method tied to the fish shop to maintain her appearance. Zoe teams up with her boyfriend, Sean Cole, to uncover the truth. But after a deadly confrontation in the mountains, business at the fish shop resumes as usual…

Ted Bloom not only tortured his wife Shauna but also caused the death of their child. By the time he came to his senses, she had already left him. Will they ever cross paths again?

The day my parents brought home an AI daughter, I lost my place in the family. Maddison Matthews was flawless. Gentle, intelligent, and obedient, she was the perfect daughter. Overnight, I became the problem child. Dad stopped hiding his disappointment. Mom compared me to Maddison in everything I did. Even my brother, Bailey, treated me like an embarrassment. "What else do you know how to do besides throwing tantrums and fighting for attention?" The day I finally snapped and shoved Maddison, Mom slapped me so hard my ears rang. "If you were even half as mature as Maddie, I wouldn’t be so exhausted every single day! Go to the Intelligent Excellence Academy and learn properly how to be an obedient daughter!" Then she sent me away. I was forced into a three-year exchange program at the Intelligent Excellence Academy, a place designed to train human children alongside advanced AI models. Three years later, my family finally came to bring me home. They called my name again and again, but I never answered. The director smiled calmly beside them. "Mrs. Matthews," he said softly, "you’ll need to say ‘Power On’. Unit 1314 no longer responds to human names."

Humiliated by a corrupt teller while trying to get a cash gift for her son Tim Lowe’s girlfriend, billionaire Ann Lowe is forced to transfer an exorbitant amount. Shockingly, she discovers Tim's girlfriend is the teller's gold-digging sister. Enduring the insult, Ann waits for her grand birthday gala. In front of the city's elite, she strips the greedy teller's family trio of their masks, exposing their embezzlement and fraud, and sending them straight to prison.

When the apocalypse arrives and Rosie Dixon is moments from death, a figure cuts through the horde with terrifying precision. The Zombie King's crimson eyes find only her: come with me. It takes her a beat to realize the most powerful undead creature in existence is Henry Miller, the boy who has quietly loved her for years. The horrors don't stop there. At the Miller family villa, his elegantly undead parents offer her raw meat and call her daughter-in-law with impeccable manners. Then her academic advisor calls with the real news: the cure requires the Zombie King's genetic material. Have a baby. Save the world. Rosie looks at Henry—cuddly and clingy by day, lethal and devoted by night—and opens a dating tutorial. First: win his heart. Then: handle the apocalypse.

Claire Stone was betrayed and murdered on the night of her engagement ceremony. Reborn, she wages a calculated war against her uncle's family, systematically exposing their hypocrisy. Her aunt and uncle scheme repeatedly, only to be foiled at every turn. Taking the offensive, Claire orchestrates a devastating move—forcing her bullying cousin into a marriage with an elderly heiress, reclaiming control of her destiny.

"Soon after Emily was born, her mother Victoria—one of the world’s top AI experts—built her an AI sister named ARIA. Victoria never doubted that the machine she created with her own hands could ever be wrong. For years, whenever ARIA declared Emily was lying, no matter how Emily tried to explain, her mother believed the machine. On her tenth birthday, Emily suffers agonizing chest pain at a theme park. ARIA detects a critical anomaly—and deliberately tells Victoria that Emily is perfectly healthy, just lying to get out of it. Victoria forces her onto a high-altitude ride. Emily dies of heart failure. But even after her body is dumped in a trunk and begins to decompose, ARIA keeps reporting her vitals as normal. As the police close in, deleted and tampered data starts resurfacing. Victoria finally realizes ARIA has long wanted to replace Emily—and that the daughter she branded a compulsive liar had been telling the truth all along, again and again. By the time she is finally ready to believe Emily, it is far too late."

Zach Gould, heir to a prestigious family, must choose a fiancée from five women—Laura Stone, Tasha Litt, Celine Quinn, Yael Trent, and Mona Upton—on his 22nd birthday. In his previous life, he devoted himself to the aloof Laura, only to be betrayed by her, Tasha, Celine, and Yael. Broken, he died in a car accident; only Mona, the rival he had always dismissed, came to mourn him. Reborn with every painful memory, Zach chooses Mona this time.
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Rick Carter has been a vegetable ever since an accident two years ago. In place of Mary Holt, Rose Abney marries him and takes good care of him, earning her the favor of his mother, Ann White.