once upon a time i was falling in love

I was born broken. My Alpha mother was the one who branded me. She said emotion was a sin. A weakness. Especially for a werewolf. Especially for an Alpha’s heir. The day we were born, she clamped emotion-suppressing collars around our necks. Mine and my twin sister's. The slightest flicker of emotion, and the collar flashed red. My mother would then push the button, injecting me with a diluted "silver solution" to suppress my feelings. But my sister Cassia's collar? Always a calm, steady blue. Even when she shattered Mom's precious moonstone, it just pulsed gently. And me? I’d just whisper, "Mom, the thunder scares me," and my collar would erupt in a violent red. Then came the sting of silver poison burning through my blood.. I used to argue. But Mom always said the same thing. "The data doesn't lie. Pain is a teacher. This is for your own good." After thousands of these injections, I started to believe it, too. That I was born out of control. The night of the alliance's Moon Goddess Festival, Mom was taking my sister to the rooftop party. Something scared me during the day. The collar flashed red, and my mother started the punishment. But this time, the collar malfunctioned. It shot a dose a thousand times stronger into my neck. I collapsed on the carpet, begging, "Mother, the collar... it hurts so much... help me." My collar was flashing a frantic red. My mother just looked down at me, drenched in a cold sweat, and pressed the button for the maximum dose. "You'd lose control like this just for attention? You're a lost cause." She turned, took my sister, and slammed the door. I couldn't help but think, Mom must be right. The collar is red. It doesn't really hurt. I'm just being dramatic, looking for pity again. I'm sorry, Mom. In my next life, I'll be the perfect daughter you always wanted.

Frankie, a musical prodigy, sacrificed everything to make his wife Sophie a star, only to be cast aside like a forgotten melody.Betrayed and broken, he died in obscurity—until he awoke twenty years in the past. This time, he'll harness his genius for himself, ascending to heights Sophie could never imagine. As his symphonies dominate the world, she and their kids, who have forgotten him, are left with a haunting question:Was their betrayal worth losing a legend?

For seven years, Naomi Stone loves Ethan Ward quietly and completely and gets cold indifference in return. She tells herself patience is enough. It isn't. The breaking point arrives on her birthday, when she watches Ethan and his daughter shower warmth and celebration on another woman without a second thought.Something in Naomi goes still. She files for divorce, walks out without a scene, and throws herself into building a life that is entirely her own. She turns out to be remarkably good at it. Only then, when she is no longer waiting by the door, do Ethan and his daughter suddenly remember every good thing about her they never bothered to acknowledge while she was there.

Once the prestigious heiress of North Group, her life took a devastating turn with a failed marriage, resulting in the loss of her entire family and loved ones.Upon her release from jail, she resolves to confront her ex-husband and his mistress, bringing to light the truth from two years ago to clear her father's name.

Military doctor Donna Healy dies suddenly and gets reborn in the wartime era as a general's daughter. Honoring her engagement, she marries Commander Stevie Garrison, only to get abandoned on their wedding night for his mistress, the cunning Gloria Carpenter. Having seen life and death in her previous life, Donna just laughs coldly at this joke of a marriage. A scumbag and his manipulative mistress? Perfect match! Saves her the headache of dealing with them. She never wanted this arranged marriage anyway, and now that the masks are off, she's finally free. Whoever wants this miserable life can have it—she's out!

Vera Nelson has spent three years as a devoted wife, supporting her husband Jason Ford's rise as a star lawyer. But when his first love, Nia Jones, returns, he begins to neglect Vera's feelings, and distance grows between them. Once a brilliant lawyer herself,Vera quietly walks away and returns to the legal world.When she rises to fame again, Jason finally realizes the legend he's long admired is the very woman who once gave up everything for him.

High school graduate Annie Xavier dies in an accident on the day she's accepted to Quinbert University, but her mother, Lydia Smith,misunderstands her and pushes her away,causing her to give up the will to live.Manipulated by her adopted daughter, Lydia unknowingly harvests Annie's organs, including a heart for the adopted daughter. Only when the funeral home calls does Lydia uncover the shocking truth and expose the adopted daughter and her father's scheme.

This story follows a naive yet kind-hearted American girl who travels to Russia in search of her husband, only to discover he is a notorious playboy. Stranded and endangered in a foreign land, she is rescued by a Russian general. Through their growing interactions, her fear of him gradually transforms into admiration and affection. However, in an unexpected twist, the Russian general she falls for turns out to be the father of her deceitful ex-husband. Where will their forbidden love lead them?

Chloe Summers had it all: stellar grades, a bright future…until a vicious bullying campaign tore her world apart. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse—toxic work drama, a lying ex—in walks James Walton. He looks her dead in the eye and says, "Use me. My connections, my name, my resources—consider them yours. Step up, climb higher. I'll make sure you get everything you ever wanted. Your dreams? Consider them done."

Lia kept her identity a secret in order to marry the CEO of Bough Holdings, Sam Bough. However, not only was she humiliated, she had to become a walking bloodbank for Mandy Moore. This devastated her and decided to divorce Sam and reclaim her lost identity. So. this began Sam's arduous journey of winning Lia back.

Joanna, the only daughter of wealthy Spencer family, was abandoned by her grandmother who favored boys. After losing her memory, she was raised by a fishing village elder. By a twist of fate, she joined Spencer Group, where misunderstandings led to her regaining her memory and reuniting with her family.

Ronald Brady, Death Valley's most gifted assassin, is rewarded with five beauties before leaving training. They are secret killers sent to test him—but he has already mastered absolute ruthlessness. He easily knocks them out and earns the title of number one assassin.Years later, he leaves the mountain and finds the poisoned Mabel Chandler, who is being hunted by Ghost Order assassins. She begs for help, but he coldly pushes her aside.When the assassins mock him, Ronald only glances up—and killing intent instantly engulfs the air.

On my twentieth birthday, I had to choose a husband before all of Olympus. Everyone thought I would choose Apollo Olympion, the radiant heir of the sun god and the man I had loved for years. In my last life, I did. Because of me, he gained Zeus’s favor, sacred estates, and the right to rise above every divine heir. But after our marriage, he gave his sunlight to Celeste, the dying flower nymph my mother had taken in. When Demeter drove her away, Apollo blamed me. From then on, he hated me. He humiliated me, broke me, and finally let my sacred medicine become slow poison. I died carrying his child, on the night the spring inside me withered. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on my twentieth birthday. This time, I let them have each other. So before Zeus and every god in the Golden Hall, I chose Cassian Hadeion, the last blood of Hades. The cursed underworld prince everyone mocked. Apollo sneered. “Choosing him just to make me jealous?” I ignored him. Because in my last life, after I died, Cassian was the only one who avenged me. Then Apollo stepped closer and whispered, “Funny. That wasn’t who you chose last time.”

Five years ago, Jeffrey Reid's wife betrayed him, his parents were murdered, his sister was abducted, his family destroyed. He barely escaped with his life. Five years later, he returns after martial training, carrying the oath "A World Without Darkness" as he infiltrates Rising Dragons. At a funeral, Jeffrey defeats assassins barehanded and becomes famous overnight, rising to a head. Jeffrey uses violence to fight violence, eliminating evil wherever he finds it. As his enemies fall one by one and the mastermind behind everything surfaces, he will use his own methods to restore peace to Houndvale City and honor his fallen family.

After transmigrating into a novel, a modern office worker becomes a villainess who abuses her four beast husbands for fun. To survive, she must win back their trust before it's too late. She kisses the unicorn, saves the lynx, flirts with the nine-tailed fox, and spoils the flying squirrel. But just as love begins to bloom, she is ordered to sacrifice them all. Instead, she chooses to fight the fate and discovers she was the one most fiercely loved all along.

The female CEO, Nancy Scott, had a one-night stand with a young guy, Tyler Forbes, planning to send him away with a settlement, only to end up in a flash marriage with him. Little did she know, he was actually a mysterious powerful tycoon in disguise.

Clara unexpectedly sleeps with Asher. However, Mandy later takes credit for it. Worse, Asher mistakenly believes she is the daughter of the man who saved his life. So he promises to marry her. On the other hand, Asher's stepmother forces Clara to marry Asher. So he suspects Clara to be a spy and insists on divorcing her. When will he find out the truth?

My parents once treated me like a princess, buying me a lavish home, braving the rain to get me cake, and filling albums with my smiles before I turned five.After my sister was born, I lowered the air conditioner by just one degree to keep her cool, only for my mother to slap me and lock me in the refrigerator, saying, "Stay in there until you've learned your lesson." They forgot to unlock the lock, but at five years old, I couldn't escape, just as I couldn't escape being forgotten. It was our neighbor who broke down the door to save me. My parents thought I had died, and when they saw me return, they broke down in tears, begging for forgiveness.