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Game streamer Rena Truman wakes up in a virtual interstellar realm as a top-tier heiress armed with a "villain system." To earn points and cash out, she throws herself into playing the vicious rich girl. But her 21st-century conscience keeps backfiring—every "evil" act she commits turns into an accidental redemption. When a disillusioned priest, a cold-blooded general, an innocent merman, and the empire's iron-fisted commander all gather around her, each falling hopelessly in love, Rena is left stunned. She was supposed to make them hate her. So why is everyone head over heels?

Game streamer Rena Truman wakes up in a virtual interstellar realm as a top-tier heiress armed with a "villain system." To earn points and cash out, she throws herself into playing the vicious rich girl. But her 21st-century conscience keeps backfiring—every "evil" act she commits turns into an accidental redemption. When a disillusioned priest, a cold-blooded general, an innocent merman, and the empire's iron-fisted commander all gather around her, each falling hopelessly in love, Rena is left stunned. She was supposed to make them hate her. So why is everyone head over heels?

Erin marries Kane, the heir to a powerful mafia family, and they have a daughter named Lily. However, Lily becomes seriously ill and needs a bone marrow transplant. When the second bone marrow donation is unexpectedly canceled, five-year-old Lily does not live long enough for a new donor to be found. Carrying her daughter’s ashes and a drawing Lily made, Erin goes to find her husband, only to catch Kane having an affair with Chloe, the donor. Erin also learns that Kane allowed Chloe to withdraw from the donation.Erin decides to divorce Kane, but Chloe frames her for a car accident, and Kane has her locked inside one of the mafia family’s factories, where she is tortured. As soon as Erin is released from the factory, she goes to Kane’s mother, Victoria, and signs the divorce agreement. To fulfill her daughter’s final wish, Erin takes Lily’s drawing to Chloe’s birthday party. However, Chloe deliberately humiliates her. Erin is then burned with sulfuric acid and imprisoned in a basement. During her captivity, the fractures in her hand, her burns, and her previous injuries become severely infected because they are left untreated. After Victoria removes her from the basement, Erin leaves Kane for good.It is not until Kane learns of Lily’s death and discovers what Chloe and Victoria did to Erin that he realizes his own actions have driven his wife and daughter away.After escaping, Erin collapses outside an airport and is rescued by Noah, her former high school classmate. Following nearly three months of treatment and recovery, Erin lays her daughter to rest, finds work, and begins rebuilding her life. Kane tracks her down, publicly admits his wrongdoing, and uses a dangerous car collision to beg her to reconcile with him. Erin firmly rejects him.In the end, the police take Kane in for questioning in connection with Chloe’s death. Erin builds a new life with Noah and receives a confirmation letter approving her return to Bay University.

On her wedding day, Megan's fiancé Mark vanishes without a trace. After four years of investigation, the police still turn up no leads whatsoever. Consumed by her relentless obsession, Megan is taken by her best friend Jennifer to a hidden underground store that sells so-called hyper-realistic ""shared boyfriend"" companion robots. She is horrified to discover that ""Robot No. 07"" is none other than Mark, missing for four years. He is kept subdued with drugs and electric shocks, disguised as merchandise to be exploited for profit. To save her beloved, Megan swallows her humiliation and feigns compliance, secretly gathering evidence. Step by step, she uncovers the shocking truth: her best friend, driven by hatred born from scorned love, was the one who ""donated"" Mark to the store owner. In the final showdown, Megan collaborates with the police from the inside to raid and shut down the illegal operation. The two lean on each other through the long aftermath of trauma, moving steadily toward healing and a new beginning.

In this episode of GoodChat, Evan Gambardella and Greg Duffy take us behind the scenes of their newest project, Straight Until He Kissed Me. The conversation dives into their acting journeys and the world of vertical storytelling, exploring how they each found their voice on-screen.

After three years in a coma, Vera Larson wakes to betrayal: her husband Trevor Irwin and secretary Giselle Bell have seized Larson Group and tormented her daughter, Yuna Larson. Armed with evidence, she returns,exposing their schemes at a banquet, bringing the villains to justice,reclaiming her company and daughter’s happiness, and even establishing a foundation to help children in need.

The earthquake hit out of nowhere, and the whole class jammed up at the door. Rainee Bianco, our resident queen bee, jumped onto the podium. "Don't freak out! Get into the triangle zone and wait for rescue!" Yeah, no. Experts had already called that advice bogus. The so-called triangle zone wasn't safe. I looked out at the lawn. "We're on the third floor. Jump now, and we might actually make it!" Everyone froze for half a second. Then they started climbing out the windows. Everyone but Tristan Dodd, my childhood best friend. He bolted straight for the triangle zone. I ran after him, grabbed him, and dragged him out the window with me. He walked away without a scratch. I shattered my leg. After that, Tristan acted like I'd hung the moon. He took care of me every day, and after graduation, we ended up together. Then Rainee found out. She got drunk, fell into a lake, and drowned. The second Tristan heard, he shoved me off a cliff. "If I didn't owe you my life, you really think I would've picked you? She was right. This is all your fault!" When I opened my eyes, I was back at the exact moment he ran for the triangle zone. 'He wants to die this time? Fine by me.'

Ji-Yeon, the wanna-be among the theater majors at school, dreams of a bright future after being cast in a famous director's work. However, her life shatters when her best friend Yu-Mi spreads a deepfake video of Ji-Yeon having an intercourse with Professor Park, and on top of that, has an affair with Geon-Woo, Ji-Yeon's boyfriend. Determined for revenge, Ji-Yeon teams up with the teaching assistant Su-Ho, who exposes Yu-Mi's true identity to her.

Husband prefers secretary, who looks like his white moonlight, over his wife Iris. Calmly, Iris asks for a divorce, revealing that the baby she's carrying isn't his. Five years later, she returns powerfully with her new flame, while Husband is left drowning in regret.

The orphan girl Renee was bullied to the point of disability in the family that adopted her, and was forced to marry in place of their biological daughter, Isabelle. The groom, Leander,pretended to be blind to investigate the cause of his parents' death, and he witnessed Renee being bullied. In reality, Renee had the identity of the AI master "Nutien," and Leander turned out to be her long-time mentor. The two progressed from testing each other to trusting one another,joining forces to bring the villains to justice. In the end, Leander proposed, and Renee began a happy life with him.