

The night I lost the promotion I had worked for years to earn, I sent my boyfriend, Arthur, a text message. [I'm a little tired today, but the hot dog at the corner actually tastes pretty good.] My screen stayed dark. Half an hour later, I couldn't stop myself from typing again: [Are you busy? I just want to hear your voice.] A reply finally lit up my screen: [Are you trying to guilt me into sending you money?] I stared at the text, frozen. When Arthur had first started his company, his mother had drained every account and disappeared with all the funds, leaving him with billions in debt overnight. After that, he hated one thing above all else. Women who loved him for his money. For seven years, I had done everything I could to prove I wasn't one of them. We went Dutch on meals, I returned his gifts, and the results of every corporate project I handled were laid out in the open for anyone to scrutinize. And now, as I mindlessly scrolled through social media, I saw a selfie posted by Jessica, the intern who had just stolen my promotion. She was wearing a plunging V-neck gown, pinned with a pigeon-blood ruby brooch. The caption read: [Thank you to Mr. Whitmore for the congratulations. I look forward to learning from you in the future.] That brooch was a top-tier custom piece. I'd seen it in a catalog from an auction house. Tears blurred my screen into a messy haze. I suddenly understood. The innocence I'd spent seven years proving was worth less to him than the hot dog I'd just choked down. Since that was the case, I dialed a number I hadn't called in a very long time. "Papa, I want to come home. I'm ready to be the heiress."

There are 109 sisters in my family, and at home I’m the bratty little ruler. But school is a different story. Giovanni Rossi, a rich student, corners me in the washroom with his lackeys and sneers that a low-income student like me has no right to put on airs—breathing their air has consequences. After a brutally savage beating, I grab Giovanni and roll down the stairs with him.When I wake up, Dean Marcella Greco furiously scolds me. She says Giovanni only beat me up; if someone insults me and puts their hands on me, I should be asking what I did wrong. She demands my guardian come at once, or I won’t be allowed to leave.My guardians—my 109 sisters—are not ordinary people. I’ve lived a normal life for more than a dozen years to keep them out of trouble. But if trouble comes to my door, I can’t help it.“Are you sure you want to meet my guardians, Ms. Greco?”

Dressed as a janitor, Kane attends his sister Evelyn’s engagement party, only to face bitter insults from her fiancé Dorian and his snobbish family.But when the city’s most powerful tycoons drop to their knees in absolute fear, the horrified Winstons discover the truth: Kane is the Shadow King.

Once honored as Black Harbor's Princcesses,Betrayed, Broken, Abandoned. The mermaid sisters return from the depths—not for love, but to seize their true destiny.

Twenty-three-year-old Ines escapes the Visconti crime family that raised her for nineteen years, hoping to find her biological parents and live an ordinarylife. Eight months later, her birth parents give her away once again, this time to a debt broker to settle her younger brother's illegal gambling debts. But the car takes her straight back to the Visconti estate—the very place she fought so hard to escape. When her identity is revealed, her adoptive parents prepare to take revenge on her behalf. Ines, however, insists that her biological family be held accountable through the law. Soon trapped once more by her adoptive family's love and control, she decides to stop running. She pretends to accept her place in the family while secretly working with Naomi, who has been forced to serve them, to gather evidence of their crimes. Ultimately, Ines brings down the crime family that raised her. She neither returns to the birth family that abandoned her nor accepts the devotion of an adoptive family whose power rests on crime. For the first time, she truly chooses her own life.

My cold, ruthless Mafia godfather guardian tore off his mask the night of my twenty-first birthday. He doesn't want me to call him uncle anymore. He wants me as his caged bird.

Fifteen years ago, orphan Chloe saved bloodied boy Kevin with her star necklace. Now Kevin is New York’s fearsome mafia godfather plagued by manic disorder, while Chloe, a top fashion designer, is framed by her cruel stepsister and stumbles into Kevin’s room by accident. Her unique scent is the only cure for his outbursts, so they enter a contract marriage. Kevin becomes an overprotective husband, crushing perverted investors, hostile rivals and the stepsister who tries to impersonate his long-lost savior. He clears all hurdles for Chloe, who fights back against her toxic family and enters the top international haute couture contest with her stunning talent. The hidden star stitch on her design finally uncovers their 15-year fated bond. The two powerhouses hold a romantic grand wedding on the glittering global runway, standing side by side at the peak of their respective fields.

After five years with mafia heiress Diana Valent, Kaelin Therrin, a lead astronaut, learns she is pregnant withthe child of the man she believes saved her life. Heartbroken, he calls off their wedding, destroys every gift she ever gavehim, and leaves for outer space alone, devoting himself to the space program on Mars. Two years later, Kaelin is engagedto someone else. Then Diana discovers the truth-the man who took the bullet for her five years ago was Kaelin, not Elliot. But by then, it' s too late. He no longer loves her.

Every April Fools’ Day, Wilson Hale and Chloe Mercer turned our anniversary into a joke. A fake proposal. A trick ring. A room full of laughter. And every year, Wilson was sure I loved him too much to leave. This year, cake cream slid down my face, my ring hit the marble floor, and he still smiled like I would forgive him by morning. He forgot one thing. I was not Vivian Gray, the lonely girl with nowhere to go. I was Vivian Vescari, daughter of the most feared mafia family on the East Coast. I had left that world because I wanted to be loved before anyone knew my name. For six years, I thought Wilson was that man. Then I learned even his first confession had been an April Fools’ bet. So I stopped being the joke. I went home.

The rickshaw puller, Dylan Hanks, got an intel system by chance. With the intelhe seized a chance to save Jerico Lee, the head of the Cherico Gang, and then he started working for Jerico. After that, Dylan exposed the truth of the death of Tina Foster's daughter and won the Great Fortune Casino. However, Tina found out that Jerico was involved in her daughter's death, so she threatened Dylan to kill Jerico. On the other hand, Jerico took Dylan's parents to San Feria, which made Dylan no longer dare to trust him anymore. Could Dylan get out of all the trouble? How was he going to protect his parents and himself?