

After losing her parents in a car accident, Chloe Ford is taken in by Sean Lloyd, who raises her with care. When she turns eighteen, she confesses her love, but Sean rejects her and urges her to focus on her studies. Refusing to give up, Chloe’s persistence forces Sean to fake a fiancée, shattering her heart. Silently, she leaves for a distant school, disappearing from his life.

Evan Hart was abandoned by birth father Derek Reed at age one following his mother’s death and adopted by Edwin Hart. As Edwin prepared to pass down his business empire to Evan, Derek came with his family to recognize their blood bond. Evan refused to visit the Reeds without his grandfather. Edwin pretended to live in poverty and accompanied Evan to uncover the family’s plot: they wanted Evan solely to provide blood for his ill stepbrother.

Carrie Burr quietly succumbs to cancer while her children—Adam, Brett, and Dana—remain unaware, engrossed in their busy city lives. As they eagerly prepare for her 60th birthday celebration, they look forward to bringing her a joyful surprise. Tragically, the day they had planned to honor her becomes the day of her funeral. Their anticipated smiles give way to deep sorrow and heartbreak as the reality of their loss sets in.

Swapped at birth, Loey Zeller grows up in a gambler's household, spending 18 years in misery. When she finally returns, she is met with her parents' blatant favoritism toward the fake heiress, Grace Zeller. Jealous of Loey, Grace sows discord and has her sent to a brutal training camp. Six years of torment forge Loey into a cold, calculating woman. On her first day back, Grace frames her once more—but this time, Loey fights back and vows to repay them tenfold.

Swapped at birth, Loey Zeller grows up in a gambler's household, spending 18 years in misery. When she finally returns, she is met with her parents' blatant favoritism toward the fake heiress, Grace Zeller. Jealous of Loey, Grace sows discord and has her sent to a brutal training camp. Six years of torment forge Loey into a cold, calculating woman. On her first day back, Grace frames her once more—but this time, Loey fights back and vows to repay them tenfold.

To repay a fallen comrade who once saved his life, Ronan took in his comrade’s orphaned son, Noah. From then on, he repeatedly sacrificed his own daughter Ivy’s happiness and well-being in the name of “showing compassion to an orphan”: turning her birthday party into a welcome banquet for Noah, killing her beloved horse, giving away her hard-earned medal of honor, and finally abandoning his own daughter during a wolfsbane explosion to save someone else. After enduring it all for seven years, Elena finally revealed her true identity—the daughter of the Alpha King of the Northern Crown. She took her traumatized, speechless daughter and left for good.Two years later, Ronan finally realized the magnitude of his mistakes—but by then, it was already too late.

Ronan is the Alpha of Silverpine Pack. To protect Mara, the widow of the warrior who died saving him, and her young son, he repeatedly chooses them over his own family. The entire pack praises his loyalty and honor. Only I know that every promise he keeps to Mara teaches his own daughter to stop waiting for him. Then Ivy writes in an assignment at the pack academy: [My father is dead.] [He did not die at the border. He died at Mara’s house. Every time she called, he went to her and forgot how to come home.] Ronan finally realizes something is wrong and returns with a belated gift. What he does not know is that a summons from the Northern Crown has already reached me. In fifteen days, I will take Ivy home, reclaim my place as the Alpha King’s daughter, and accept my appointment as Northern Crown’s next chief healer, a future I once gave up for Ronan.