what happens when screws are removed from bones

My husband cheated with my high school first love, the one I personally betrayed. She hated me to the bone, plotting revenge with precision. But what she didn't know was I heartlessly left her back then to protect her, because I was actually the illegitimate daughter of a corporate chairman. I choose to accept her revenge, to repay that betrayal. Yet between hatred and testing, our buried feelings spiraled out of control. I couldn't help but kiss her. As revenge began to waver, love rekindled. A forbidden romance born from betrayal was about to go beyond control.

After Hector brands her barren and shameful, Natalie dials a number that changes everything and becomes the wife of the city's real ruler. When Hector begs at her wedding, she moves away from him and into Ethan's embrace. Ethan announces, ice-cold, "Just so you know, she's my wife."

Following the tragic death of her twin sister Alice, Ariel takes her place in order to enact revenge on Alice's cheating fiancé and manipulative adoptive family. However, Ariel's mission becomes more complicated when she meets and marries billionaire Victor, and must hide her true identity from him.

Evelyn Gibson, from a rural background with an Alzheimer’s-stricken mother, graduates from a top university with a finance degree but struggles in the corporate world without connections. Desperate as her promotion stalls and her mother’s memory fades, she encounters her drugged CEO, Adam Howe, and they sleep together.She receives a promotion notice the next morning and despises herself, believing she sold her body for advancement. She avoids Adam, but their entanglement deepens. When she discovers she’s two months pregnant, Adam brings her home and begins spoiling his wife relentlessly.

When Vicky Evans was ten, she took Ryan Seymour in and took him as a little brother. Unexpectedly, Ryan fell in love with her. Vicky didn't know what to do and went abroad to avoid him. Five years later, Vicky caught her fiancé cheating on the night she came back. However, Evans Group faced a financial crisis. Meanwhile, she started to find out some secrets about Ryan.

Mandy Gibson was set to be the legal successor of Gibson Corporation, but when her mother died of a plane accident, her father was bewitched by his mistress Landy Chapman and her daughter Ruby Gibson. To get to the bottom of her mother's death and get back what belonged to her, Mandy Gibson trudged along her path of revenge. As fate would have it, she ended up getting Leo Harper, the heir of Harper Group, involved along the way...

Once a carefree fairy in the Heavenly Realm, May descends to the mortal world and is born into Magistrate Shane Graham's family.Tragedy strikes when her mother dies in childbirth. Branded a cursed child, she is ordered to be abandoned, but a compassionate midwife carries her to the humble Tobin family, and from that day,fortune smiles upon their home.

Gabriel’s wedding is interrupted when mafia heir Sebastian, fleeing assassins, hides in his hotel room closet. With their reunion stirring old feelings, and faced with betrayal from his bride-to-be, Gabriel impulsively marries Sebastian to secure his inheritance. But as dark family secrets unfold, their future together becomes uncertain...# gay # boy's love

Chloe, a quiet, and reserved college student, has a werewolf bestie Amelia, and she had no plans to bring herself into Amelia's world, knowing all too well that werewolves and humans didn't mix, but that all changed when Amelia invited her to the Aberdeen ball, the biggest party of the year for the pack. How could she say no when Amelia gave her best pouty face and puppy dog eyes? Chloe agreed simply to help her friend feel at ease, but what she wasn't prepared for was meeting the Alpha. They are destined soulmate? No way! At this point, Chloe's childhood sweetheart who she once had a crush on reappears in her life, but now he has turned into a vampire to get revenge on the Aberdeen pack...

Dylan, a revered figure of Mount Colon, fails in meditation and awakens in the body of a ridiculed "simp." When forced into a marriage of convenience, he demands dowry upfront. Criticized for his temper, he retorts, "You're so nice—why not just tolerate it?" A live-in husband? In his world, no one can stop him from being arrogant!

An accident leaves Lina pregnant with the Harrington CEO’s baby, but her newborn son is taken from her. Years later, she becomes a cleaner at the Harrington Group to find him—only to meet her son, Lucas, on her very first day. And when Madam Harrington chooses Lina as her future daughter-in-law, Lina’s life changes overnight.

In the previous life, Evelyn Lester found that her roommate, Felice James, had planted malware on her phone and stolen her money. In the end, Evelyn was pushed off the roof by Felice and died. After Evelyn came back to the first day of college, Felice suggested traveling abroad again. This time, Evelyn put her smartphone in the dorm and took an ancient phone instead. She couldn't wait to see what Felice would do when she couldn't pretend to be wealthy again.

Elise Pierre, a university student, has just stepped into the society when she accidentally spends a night with Louis Denton, a CEO who is known to be allergic towards women. A month later, at a career fair, their paths cross again in an unexpected twist of fate. While Louis initially assumes Elise is a gold digger, he arrives just in time to rescue her from being married off to an older man for a bride price of $100,000. When Elise opens her eyes again, she finds herself in Louis's luxurious home, where she begins to be enveloped in his love and affection.

"Nina Bale, once a proud and battle-hardened general, is forced to retire from the military after suffering a serious injury. Her father, Ian Bale, resigns from his post to care for her. Seizing the opportunity, his other wife, Leah Lowe, schemes to marry Nina off to a frail, sickly man—while planning for her own daughter, Tara Bale, to wed the esteemed Prince Neil.But on the day of the double wedding, everything goes wrong.In a twist of fate, Nina and Tara end up in the wrong bridal sedans. When the veils are lifted, it's already too late—Tara is married to the sickly man, and Nina becomes Prince Neil's consort."

Orphaned and utterly alone, Frank Judson has lived undercover for years on end. To perfect his alias, he's mingled in every entertainment den in the city, only to be busted, again and again, by Lila Tynan, his high school desk mate turned police detective. A reunion, but not the kind he'd imagined. Then comes the order from Captain Sam Lunn: infiltrate the inner circle of Bernice Ruth, the shadow queen of Yorick's underworld.Starting from the foot spa SpaVille,Frank begins to peel back layer after layer of deception. Yet when the fog clears, she realizes, deep down, he's still the same boy she once knew.

Laura is the only daughter of the commander at Silverwood Aviation Base. In an effort to let her son meet his father, Richard Jones, she took the child to her husband's workplace—only to discover that Richard had already remarried someone else in Silverwood. Laura's arrival provoked a fierce reaction from his new wife's family, the Smiths, who not only humiliated her but also severely beat her son Nick, leaving him in a vegetative state. Faced with Richard's attempts to shift all the blame onto her, Laura decides to fight back and make sure the scumbag and his mistress get what they deserve.

Amber Butler presents to Cloudhaven City as the well-mannered only daughter of a wealthy merchant family. In reality she founded and runs Glimmer Security, an elite protection firm that takes only female clients and operates in the grey zones of the law, handling domestic violence, trafficking, and the crimes that official channels quietly ignore. Her father arranges a match with Jasper Green, a quietly brilliant doctor of humble origins. Amber is skeptical; Jasper is disarming. What she doesn't know is that he comes from a place called Echax Village, a settlement that doesn't appear on any map and carries its own ancient weight. The closer she gets, the less ordinary he seems.

Sean Zink awakens the Divine Codex after a sudden time travel! Hogarth rises from humiliation to unleash his divine power. Lunaris seeks to destroy the nation,but he calls Selara to strike the moon. Valior Sharman faces Sazanor, and the Ancestral Dragon crushes the demon. When the Three Divine Deities wield the Primordial Treasures, the nation stands unchallenged, and its fortune reignites!