

Quinn Thorne, a club waiter, accidentally rescued Sera Dutt when she was drugged. Quinn is mistaken for an antidote by Sera, who takes half of his necklace jades as a token. Six years later, Quinn works at a Dutt Group construction site to fund his foster mother's medical bills. Mocked by coworkers for being single, he encounters Sera and her daughter, Lila, who calls him "Dad" after recognizing his matching necklace.

After five years of marriage to her tennis partner Enzo, Isabel uncovers a devastating truth: she was merely a shadow of Julie, the woman he never forgot.Enzo abandons everything when Julie returns. But when Isabel vanishes from his life, desire turns to torment—and regret comes far too late.

Quinn Thorne, a club waiter, accidentally rescued Sera Dutt when she was drugged. Quinn is mistaken for an antidote by Sera, who takes half of his necklace jades as a token. Six years later, Quinn works at a Dutt Group construction site to fund his foster mother's medical bills. Mocked by coworkers for being single, he encounters Sera and her daughter, Lila, who calls him "Dad" after recognizing his matching necklace.

To honor a thousand-year promise, Serena Turner sent a puppet to bear the pain inflicted by her reborn lover, Nigel Dalton. Only when it breaks does he grasp the truth. By then, Serena has met her kindred spirit, Simon Clark, and the three are caught in a whirlwind of emotions. After life-and-death trials, she chooses to start over—only to uncover Simon’s love that spans lifetimes.

"Serena is a human girl born with rare blood that can naturally heal vampires. In her previous life, she was betrayed by her vampire fiancé, Kane. While pretending to love Serena, Kane was devoted to Lina, a half-vampire with an unstable bloodline. Behind Serena’s back, he stole her guaranteed admission to an elite university and gave it to Lina. Worse, while Serena was unconscious, he secretly drained her blood to keep Lina alive. Trapped in a loveless marriage for ten years, Serena was forced to give blood again and again until her body finally gave out. Protected by Kane, Lina spent years exploiting Serena’s healing blood, stealing her future, and taking her place among society’s elite. But Serena gets a second chance. Reborn with all her memories, she sees through every lie. This time, she secretly changes her university plans, leaves Kane behind, and cuts him out of her life for good. No more stolen blood. No more stolen future. Serena breaks free from the fate that once destroyed her and begins a new life on her own terms, where true love is finally waiting for her."

Murdered by her sister and husband, Serena is reborn at the Husband-Choosing Rite. She rejects the treacherous Wolf Heir for Soren, a Serpent Lord rumored brutal and penniless—but actually gentle, devoted, and the realm’s richest man. To protect her child, family, and every clan, Serena unleashes ruthless revenge.

The modern special agent Serena Brook awakens in the Great Cian, now a village woman named Serena Yale, stepmother to three children whose father vanished after leaving for the imperial exams.With her ""Emotional Resonance System"" activated, Serena turns scarcity into plenty: daily meat feasts, hotpot dinners that tempt the whole village, and a thriving candied hawthorn business.But peace is fragile. As hidden threats gather, can she protect her newfound family from the dangers closing in?

On her birthday, Serena, the chairwoman of Wall Street's Sterling Consortium, discovers that her husband, Hunter, has been using her trust fund to buy luxury cars for his mistress Chloe. At the scene of a car accident, Chloe arrogantly humiliates Serena, never realizing that she has crossed the wrong woman. At a lavish charity gala, Serena makes a stunning entrance and publicly exposes the ugly truth about Hunter and Chloe. She immediately sets divorce and asset forfeiture proceedings in motion, making the two betrayers pay dearly for their betrayal.
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Serena Rivers spends three years in prison for a crime she didn't commit and uses every single day of it. She trains under four of the most formidable masters the underworld has ever produced and walks out as something entirely different from the woman who walked in. On her first day of freedom she corners the cold prison warden Xavier Stone against the water dungeon wall and kisses him without apology. He is her insurance policy and she knows it. Outside, the fake heiress has stolen her shares, her younger brother demands she kneel, and her former fiance has already moved on with a new bride. She tears up the rejection notice on the spot. Moments later, the Stone family motorcade arrives, the warden reveals himself as the family patriarch, and he shows up with a hundred billion in betrothal gifts and absolutely no intention of letting anyone touch her again. Together, they dismantle every person who had a hand in her three lost years.

Serena Moretti believed she had the perfect life.Once a waitress from the slums, she married Alessandro Moretti—the ruthless Mafia heir who supposedly traded his throne of blood and gold for her. Until she discovered the truth. While Serena poured everything into their marriage and years of failed IVF, Alessandro had been living a second life with his childhood friend Bianca Rizzo. Bianca had given him twin sons. Heartbroken and pregnant with Alessandro’s child, Serena refused to stay. With her only trusted friend Isabella, she staged a catastrophic avalanche that “destroyed” the luxury Alpine Scenic Train—and faked her own death in the snow.