
![[ENG DUB] I'm the Target, and the Trap](https://acfs3.goodshort.com/dist/src/assets/images/pc/common/f901131c-default-book-cover.png)
Elly Ward knows money isn't everything—but without it, nothing works. Using her skills and smarts, she seizes every chance to get ahead, whether at school or in the business world. Life is steady—until a new sponsored student arrives, shaking everything up. She soon realizes the people around her are playing a strange new game… and she's their target.

Elly Ward knows money isn't everything—but without it, nothing works. Using her skills and smarts, she seizes every chance to get ahead, whether at school or in the business world. Life is steady—until a new sponsored student arrives, shaking everything up. She soon realizes the people around her are playing a strange new game… and she's their target.

Mia, a 20-year-old junior at NYU, is tricked by her ex-boyfriend Trent onto a luxury yacht under the excuse of a ""party surprise."" In truth, he plans to sell her virginity at an underground auction to pay off his massive gambling debts. Mia’s roommate and best friend Sienna is Trent’s secret lover and accomplice. Meanwhile, Cassian, a cold-blooded 30-year-old cleaner for the mob, is on a mission near the yacht and on the run from hitmen. He runs into Mia by chance on the deck. The two start off hostile and distrustful of each other, yet are forced to work together. Cassian grows attached to Mia after she tends to his wound, while Mia develops tangled feelings for this dangerous stranger. When Mia is locked inside a glass display case at the auction, put up for bidding, Cassian storms the venue. He shoots the buyer, intimidates everyone present, and forcibly takes Mia away. Trent’s knees are shattered on the spot, and he drops to his knees begging for mercy. Cassian escapes with Mia on a speedboat. Out on the sea, he declares possessively, “You belong to me.” Mia wavers between fighting back, resisting, and physical surrender. The story ends with Mia curled up in the corner of the speedboat, wrapped only in Cassian’s shirt. It hints that their escape has only just begun — the danger is far from over.

Owen Lane and his wife Evelyn Denton live an ordinary, tightly budgeted life, carrying a heavy mortgage every month. Evelyn's brother Mike Denton drifts from job to job, favored by their mother, and keeps finding reasons to ask his sister for money. Evelyn always gives in, and Owen swallows his frustration for the sake of peace, telling himself her loyalty to family is simply who she is. Then Owen wins the lottery, eight million after tax. It is enough to change their lives, but he says nothing to Evelyn at first. He is afraid of what her family will ask for once they know, and afraid of how far Evelyn might go to give it to them. The silence he keeps becomes its own kind of test.

Amber, a genius Ivy League student, is drugged and sold into a black-market trap by her abusive family. After a night of uncontrollable passion inside a thunderstorm Maybach, she realizes her Ivy League degree won't rewrite her destiny—but Ethan Blackwood, the billionaire king of New York, can. Refusing to accept a humiliating $500,000 buyout check, Amber tears up her top-tier diploma,Society's hypocrisy, and marches straight into Blackwood Manor with a duffel bag of cash—demanding to be hired as Ethan's personal maid. Inside this opulent cage, she wields her lethal intellect as a chess master, dismantling rival conspiracies, manipulating family coups, and reverse-taming two dangerous Alpha men. She forces Ethan, the tyrannical billionaire, to kneel before her and surrender his empire, while turning Tyler, the deadly executive assistant, into a obsessively loyal hound who commits murder in the name of love. On the day of their lavish, televised ""Black Wedding"", as the vows are about to be sealed, Tyler—covered in blood and holding a withered black rose—shatters the church doors to unveil their dirty secrets to the world. Surrounded by flashing cameras and two obsessively devoted men waiting for her command, Empress Amber holds out her hand for the ultimate, deadly choice...

Five years ago, gifted surgeon Elara Voss fled a suffocating marriage while secretly carrying her husband's unborn daughter. Now, one drunken mistake lands her back in bed with her cold, billionaire ex‑husband, Damian Sterling. Determined to protect their five‑year‑old daughter, Elara insists the child isn't his and proposes a strictly physical arrangement: Tuesdays only, no publicity, no interference, and no entanglement. What she doesn't know is that Damian has loved her for five full years and waited for her all along; he simply never knew how to express his feelings. As old desire reignites, their daughter's identity and the carefully staged fake‑infidelity hoax that destroyed their marriage begins to surface. Can two people who never learned to understand each other's love give their marriage a second chance once the truth comes to light?

On the night of their third anniversary, co-pilot Tracy Swift ends up in bed with a stranger, only to discover the next morning that her fiance was in the next room doing exactly the same thing, and with her stepsister. She spends the wedding day absorbing two revelations at once, that the man she spent the night with is her fiance's own uncle, and that her fiance has chosen to announce the affair publicly and call off the engagement on the spot. Betrayed by her relationship and her family in a single afternoon, Tracy is still standing in the wreckage when the most untouchable man in the city hands her a marriage proposal and waits to see what she'll say.

Six years ago, Alyssa Moss lost her voice in a car accident and was led to believe that her husband, Caleb Wood, had cheated on her with Mandy Shaw. Crushed and betrayed, she faked her death and disappeared. Now, she returns as Anna, a renowned architect, with her son, Connor Wood. But when she unexpectedly crosses paths with Caleb and Mandy, she must hide Connor's true identity. When Connor is kidnapped, Alyssa and Caleb join forces to rescue him—only to discover that every lie and heartbreak between them had been orchestrated by Mandy all along.

Cold-hearted CEO Karen of Hayes Group is trapped in brutal internal family power struggles. Convinced that the gentle Shana is a pawn planted by her stepfather Leon, she spends one turbulent night with Shana out of suspicion and caution, leaving money afterwards to treat their encounter as a transaction. Shana refuses to take a single cent. Born into a reclusive wealthy family, she has had a crush on Karen since her youth and approaches her purely out of long-held secret love. Plagued by doubt, Karen keeps testing Shana, yet against her better judgment, she keeps making exceptions and falling for her.Leon and his daughter scheme relentlessly to seize corporate power and close in on Karen step by step. After layers of misunderstandings are finally cleared up, Karen realizes Shana's selfless true affection. She dismantles her stepfather's power-grabbing plot, lets down her defenses, and embraces this years-long secret crush. The two find mutual love and stay together.

Rihanna injures Gael, CEO of Doyle Group, and mistakenly believes she has caused him to lose his ability to have children. Out of responsibility, she chooses to marry him. But Gael has secretly loved her for many years. He decides to conceal his "medical condition," seizing the opportunity to be close to her, and begins a sweet love story with Rihanna where marriage comes before love.