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When my mind-link request had been ignored by my parents for the twentieth time, I went to the Werewolf Council, clutching the report on silver dust corrosion in my hand. “Hello. I’d like to renounce my pack identity—effective immediately.” Ten minutes later, my parents burst in, dragging my adoptive younger sister, Elsa, with them, panic written all over their faces. The door burst open with a bang, and my Beta father charged in like a storm. His fangs bared, claws twitching. “You’re nothing but a spoiled brat craving attention! Stop this pathetic act. You’re an embarrassment to a Beta’s name!” My mother, a forensic specialist for the pack, immediately snatched the report from my hand. After a brief glance, she let out a cold sneer. “You faked this report just to get our attention? You’ve been a liar since you were a pup.” Elsa clung to both of them, tears in her eyes as she sobbed, “I’m sorry, Jenifer. It’s my fault for holding the shifting ritual. But please... don’t lie to our parents just to make them feel guilty!” Blood was still pouring from my nose, but I wiped it away calmly and stood tall before the werewolf councilors once more. “I haven’t had a real family for a long time. Please—remove all my personal records from the pack. I just don’t want my funeral—scheduled for three days from now—to be delayed.”

When my mind-link request had been ignored by my parents for the twentieth time, I went to the Werewolf Council, clutching the report on silver dust corrosion in my hand. “Hello. I’d like to renounce my pack identity—effective immediately.” Ten minutes later, my parents burst in, dragging my adoptive younger sister, Elsa, with them, panic written all over their faces. The door burst open with a bang, and my Beta father charged in like a storm. His fangs bared, claws twitching. “You’re nothing but a spoiled brat craving attention! Stop this pathetic act. You’re an embarrassment to a Beta’s name!” My mother, a forensic specialist for the pack, immediately snatched the report from my hand. After a brief glance, she let out a cold sneer. “You faked this report just to get our attention? You’ve been a liar since you were a pup.” Elsa clung to both of them, tears in her eyes as she sobbed, “I’m sorry, Jenifer. It’s my fault for holding the shifting ritual. But please... don’t lie to our parents just to make them feel guilty!” Blood was still pouring from my nose, but I wiped it away calmly and stood tall before the werewolf councilors once more. “I haven’t had a real family for a long time. Please—remove all my personal records from the pack. I just don’t want my funeral—scheduled for three days from now—to be delayed.”

Legendary diplomat Wanda Jason once left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for love, only to be rejected by her husband, Marshal Liam Joy, and their son Felix. Resolute, she divorced him and returned to diplomacy under the name Wan,stunning the world once more. When Liam realized his mistake, it was too late. Yasmin Zeal,desperate to marry Liam, exploited her brother's life-saving debt and drove a wedge between Liam and Wanda, until her true identity as a traitor's sister was exposed. Regretfully, Liam went to war and died in battle, leaving a final confession: "My only wish was to grow old with you." Wanda, with her son and adopted daughter,took up a new mission—walking toward a new dawn.

Legendary diplomat Wanda Jason once left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for love, only to be rejected by her husband, Marshal Liam Joy, and their son Felix. Resolute, she divorced him and returned to diplomacy under the name Wan,stunning the world once more. When Liam realized his mistake, it was too late. Yasmin Zeal,desperate to marry Liam, exploited her brother's life-saving debt and drove a wedge between Liam and Wanda, until her true identity as a traitor's sister was exposed. Regretfully, Liam went to war and died in battle, leaving a final confession: "My only wish was to grow old with you." Wanda, with her son and adopted daughter,took up a new mission—walking toward a new dawn.

Eliot Cliff, raised as an outcast with only his mother, is suddenly claimed at eighteen by his long-lost father, Marion Luke—a powerful underworld figure.Drawn into a cold, transactional family, Eliot agrees to serve as Marion's heir to fund his mother's medical treatment. Thrust into a life of violence and loyalty, he fights without regret, rising until the very streets fear his name.

Chloe Smith is the sole heir to her family fortune, orphaned when her parents were murdered. Sent to the mountains as a child, she masters eighteen combat arts before descending to claim her inheritance. Everyone mocks her. Her fiance wants to break their engagement. Chloe ignores it all, until the mastermind behind her parents’ deaths finally surfaces. Only then does she reveal her true, deadly capabilities.

Emergency physician Charli Spencer dies suddenly from overwork and wakes up in the body of her namesake in the Republican era.There, she shares a night of unexpected passion with Stephen Dawson, the formidable Warlord of the capital. But fate soon pulls them apart. While Stephen becomes obsessed with finding her again, Charli discovers she is pregnant and chooses to raise their son,Kevin alone.Five years later, Stephen finally uncovers the truth about Kevin. Determined not to lose them again, he proposes to Charli and begs her to enter the Marshal's Mansion as his wife...

Chloe Smith is the sole heir to her family fortune, orphaned when her parents were murdered. Sent to the mountains as a child, she masters eighteen combat arts before descending to claim her inheritance. Everyone mocks her. Her fiance wants to break their engagement. Chloe ignores it all, until the mastermind behind her parents’ deaths finally surfaces. Only then does she reveal her true, deadly capabilities.

Sarah died in hatred after being deceived by her husband's fake death. Getting a second chance, she decided to take revenge. She exposed her husband's scheme, stood up to her mother-in-law's and Yolanda's torment, and ruined her enemies' plans. After she got pregnant with the Emperor's child, Sarah used the Emperor's power to improve her strength and collected the evidence against her husband. In the end, Sarah made her husband pay the price and became the Empress.

Two orphan girls die and return to the day they choose their futures. Cindy Walker grabs the gold coin from the wealthy Shaw family and pushes bread toward Lucy Walker, assuming she's condemning the latter to poverty. But Lucy is simply grateful for any family at all. Years later,the now-rich Cindy Shaw invites Lucy to a charity event as hired help, expecting to humiliate her in front of high society. When expensive gifts arrive for Lucy and her jade pendant is revealed, the crowd refuses to believe a servant girl could possess such wealth. They force her to drink,smash her pendant, and nearly hand her over to Cindy's adoptive brother Jacob Shaw,until her real family arrives to save her.

Skyler Reid spends three years being the kind of husband most people only read about. He cooks, he tends the house, he keeps the light on when his wife Ruby works late, he asks for nothing in return. She is a celebrated lawyer with a demanding career and he builds his entire life around making sure she never has to worry about coming home. It works, until it doesn't. When Ruby's first love Brandon Lowe resurfaces with a divorce case that needs handling,everything shifts. She pours herself into his affairs without question, and when Brandon frames Skyler with a flimsy accusation, she doesn't pause to ask for his side. She just turns on him. Skyler looks at the woman he has quietly loved and served for three years and realizes she has never once looked back at him the same way. He stops fighting for something that was never quite his and lets go. Only then, when the warmth is gone and the light is finally off, does Ruby understand what she had in her hands and chose not to hold.

To pay for her mother's medical bills, Teresa drops out of school and works as a cafeteria worker, but is discriminated against and framed because she is mute. Nolan is a cold, aloof CEO. The two should never have crossed paths, yet they accidentally spend a night together, and Teresa is horrified to discover she's pregnant. Strangely, Nolan develops telepathy and can read her mind. From then on, every thought of hers reaches him. She finally has someone to rely on and love, no longer bullied, and is doted on like a precious treasure. But a new crisis is already looming...

Sophie Lee, the adopted daughter of the Lee family, loses her fiancé to her sister. By a twist of fate, she marries retired Captain Yale Zeller. In the midst of small-town life, their marriage of convenience grows into true love, as they face life's ups and downs together.

Avery, a struggling call girl, seizes the chance to marry the sole heir of the rich Waldorf family to earn money for her mother's medical bills. However, her future husband, Elliot, is a vegetable. Can Avery fulfill her commitment in this unexpected situation?

To pay for her mother's medical bills, Teresa drops out of school and works as a cafeteria worker, but is discriminated against and framed because she is mute. Nolan is a cold, aloof CEO. The two should never have crossed paths, yet they accidentally spend a night together, and Teresa is horrified to discover she's pregnant. Strangely, Nolan develops telepathy and can read her mind. From then on, every thought of hers reaches him. She finally has someone to rely on and love, no longer bullied, and is doted on like a precious treasure. But a new crisis is already looming...

A year into her contract marriage with billionaire Becket, Tessa is still a virgin. When her grandma-in-law demands a baby, Tessa lies, claiming Beckett is impotent. Tessa believes Beckett avoids her because he's hung up on his ex, but what she doesn't know is that he secretly loves her since three years ago. He keeps his distance because he thinks she only married him for his money.

Within the halls of Golden Feather Academy, wealthy stepsiblings Tanya and Leo, bound by family but not blood, hold court as the institution's dual reigning icons of popularity. As the holiday break ends, the queenly Tanya sets her sights on the newly elected Student Council President, Logic—son of the nation's president. At the grand ball, her calculated allure meets only his icy dismissal. Stung and pride inflamed, she makes a reckless wager with her notorious playboy stepbrother, Leo, who has just slipped into her bedchamber under cover of night: if Leo can seduce and shatter the seemingly incorruptible, iron-willed heterosexual scholar Logic within one month—turning his arrogance to ashes and his reputation to ruin—she will grant him the one thing he's craved for years: a night in her bed. The libertine Leo, who believes his charm can conquer anyone except the elusive Tanya, acknowledges the formidable challenge of making Logic fall in love. Yet, brimming with audacious confidence, he accepts, plunging them all into a twisted game of seduction and vengeance. However, as the month draws to a close, a chilling realization dawns on Tanya: not only has she been denied the sweet venom of revenge against Logic, but she may have irrevocably lost the mercurial, ever-devoted Leo—the brother whose affections she'd always held in a delicate, dangerous dance of veiled dominance—to the very heart he was supposed to destroy.

After Queenie's parents reclaimed their biological daughter, they cast Queenie out of the house. Beckham's grandmother took her in, offering her a place to stay and arranging for her to work at Beckham's company. As Queenie and Beckham spent time together, they gradually fell in love, while the truth about Queenie's real identity slowly came to light.