

The day before we were scheduled to fly to Meridianna for our wedding, Harrison Tucker, my fiancé of five years, swapped my and my parents' first-class tickets for Mandy and her parents without saying a word. He said casually, "Mandy hasn't been to Meridianna and wanted to take her parents out for vacation, but there weren't that many seats left in first class on our flight... You guys take a ship over. I've already bought you the tickets." I looked toward my fiancé's family, and surprisingly, not a single person opposed Harrison's decision. It was then that I finally gave up all hope. After they boarded the plane and departed, I canceled the wedding venue, as well as the luxury hotel and high-end services I had booked. I want to see exactly how Harrison, a customs declaration clerk making only a few thousand dollars a month, was going to accompany his "dear friend's" family to go around Meridianna without my help.

It’s been five years since my mother married into the Sterling crime family, and my relationship with my stepbrother, Louis, is still ice-cold. He’s arrogant, aloof, and wouldn’t give me the time of day. I know better than to even try. Until I saw it: a birthmark on Louis’s body, identical to the one on my online boyfriend, Rowan. I thought about the messages Rowan had sent me every night for the past two years, the ones that made my face flush and my heart race: Baby, I can only fall asleep thinking of you. I need to see you. I’ll show you how much I want you. I’m going crazy thinking about you… I just couldn’t square the man in those messages with the cold-as-ice Louis. To make matters worse, I had just lied to Rowan, telling him I’d failed to get into Harvard and wasn't good enough for him, before breaking up with him. If he finds out it was me who dumped him, I’m pretty sure he’ll tear me to pieces. I was already packing my bags, ready to bolt. But then Louis appeared, blocking my path. He leaned in, his low laugh a menacing rumble in my ear. "Think you can play me and just walk away? Who gave you the balls?"

To pay for his adoptive mother's medical treatment, Dexter Scott works tirelessly as a laborer at a construction site. On his way to work one day, he rescues Chloe Warren, the daughter of the wealthy Warren family, after she is bitten by a venomous snake. After recovering, Chloe decides to track Dexter down at the construction site to repay him. Meanwhile, Dexter arrives late because he stopped to save Chloe, only to be mercilessly humiliated by the site manager. Just as the manager throws Dexter off the job, Chloe arrives. When she learns that Dexter has been kicked out, Chloe personally teaches the manager and Dexter's girlfriend a lesson. Just when Chloe thinks she and Dexter have missed their chance to meet again, fate takes an unexpected turn: Dexter somehow ends up working as the Warren family's male nanny.

As chaos broke out near the river, my mother secretly left me on a piece of driftwood floating on the water.My crying caught the attention of the winning side.They walked over with their guns raised, and one of them pressed a pistol right against my forehead.“Why don't we adopt him?”Since then, I have 109 sisters in my family.At home, I'm the bratty ruler.But in school, things were not so good.Giovanni Rossi, a rich student, has me cornered in the washroom with his lackeys flanking him."You're just a low-income student, so why are you still putting on airs around us? Polluting the air has consequences!"Since the beating I've received is far too brutal, I grab Giovanni and roll down the stairs with him.When I woke up, Marcella Greco, Dean of Students, berated me angrily.“All Giovanni did was beat you up. When someone talks trash and puts their hands on you, you ought to be asking what you did wrong.How dare you plot revenge against him instead!”“Summon your guardian here right away,or forget about leaving!” All of my hair stands on end as soon as I hear the command.My guardians—109 sisters—none of them are ordinary people, and I've been leading a normal life for more than a dozen years in order not to cause them any trouble.But if trouble shows up at my door, then I can't help it.“Are you sure you want to meet my guardians, Ms. Greco?”