what is unrequited love

Tracie Reed grows up in a family that favors boys over girls, with parents who neglect her and only want to take from her. Her only source of warmth is her grandmother. During college, she receives help multiple times from Mason Walker, who secretly admires her. Due to severe nearsightedness and inability to afford glasses, she never clearly sees what Mason looks like. When they meet again years later, Tracie doesn't recognize him as Mason. To save her grandmother, Tracie schemes to trick Mason, but he turns the tables and draws her into his life instead.

Quincy Lewis, the Dragon Clan's fourth daughter, vowed to marry her mortal savior, Calvin Luke, and help him rise to power, tolerating one hundred mistakes. Her three brothers followed, disguised as powerful magnates to aid him. Unaware they were her brothers,Calvin grew partial, convinced his mortal love was the key. But each act of despair cost Quincy a dragon bone. With only three left, his final acts of betrayal shattered them all.

On Lindsey's wedding day, the groom, Ethan, ran away. Lindsey then randomly found a handsome guy, Marcelino, at the wedding venue to complete the ceremony with her, humiliating Ethan's family. Marcelino, wanting to avoid a blind date, used the excuse of dealing with high-ranking executive embezzlement issues at a branch company. However, unexpectedly, he entered into a marriage of convenience with Lindsey and gradually fell in love with her.

Finley Sharpe, a fish vendor, enters a contract marriage with Yale Shaw. By spreading rumors and flattering him,she wins his trust and affection. But just after they confess their love, a head injury restores Finley's lost memories—while erasing all memories of Yale. Desperate to win her back, Yale pulls every trick he can think of... even pretending to be blind.

Elena, a downtrodden werewolf, crosses paths with Theodore, the seemingly merciless Alpha of the Blackvine pack. Their encounter sparks a revelation: they are fated mates. As passion ignites, they are thrust into a perilous dance, battling against societal divides and formidable adversaries. The burning question looms large: will their love conquer the insurmountable odds, or will fate cruelly tear them apart?

Jane fell in love with Cillian at first sight and married him, though he was believed to bring her misfortune. She thought her secret crush had finally come true, but Cillian's heart belonged to Melanie, someone he couldn't have. Jane hid her feelings and worked hard to make the most of her marriage while paying off her parents' debts. After Melanie returned, she repeatedly provoked Jane, leading Jane to decide to divorce.

Harper Allen is born in Prosperity Village, where women possess a special constitution that produces multiple babies per pregnancy.Because they have too many children, the village is desperately poor. Harper is chosen by the villagers to work in the city and bring hope to everyone—and she just happens to run into the Lauren family patriarch offering a fortune for a grandchild.Perfect timing! With the old man’s arrangement, Harper marries Spencer Lauren, the aloof CEO cursed by his family bloodline of “Any woman who bears a Pierce heir will die.” But the prideful CEO refuses. What to do? No job is too difficult for a hardworking woman—she has plenty of strength and methods! That very night, she ties up the struggling Spencer and tosses him into the bridal chamber...

Lila needs money to save an orphanage, while William is a billionaire who hates gold-diggers. Though they suddenly become married, William decides to hide his riches thinking that Lila could just be after his money. As time passes, William falls deeply in love with Lila… problem is, she hates liars more than anyone else.

He used to be an illegitimate kid of an influential family, while she used to be kicked out from a wealthy family. Rosalee Chase thought her encounter with Ciaran Laurent was an accident. But three years later,Ciaran tried every possible way to get close to her and help her get back what was taken away from her. But, one day, he overheard that she said she couldn't fall for her.

Four people tangled by fate enter a deadly game of "method" — with one rule: get caught, you die. To find love. To protect it. To use it. To steal it. Three of them are thrown back in time to different moments in their past, turning love and betrayal into a high-stakes cat-and-mouse. Each return resets the board, each performance blurs truth and acting, and the villain who once drove them to their deaths becomes the counterweight in a rigged match. After being betrayed by the man she sacrificed everything to make a star and dying for it, one woman rewinds the clock to take him down, no matter the cost.

Photographer Cecilia Stone is pushed by her best friend to go on a blind date, but fate has other plans—she accidentally ends up with her friend’s older brother, Yves Jensen, and they marry on a whim. By day he’s a stern CEO; by night, he’s tender. To keep their marriage, he hides his identity,sparking a hilarious, heartwarming tale of marriage first, love later.

In her past life, Myla Scott sacrificed the respect and dignity of being the eldest daughter of the Scott family to marry Shawn Ford, only to endure endless humiliation. In Halton, everyone knew that Shawn's true love was Susan Quinn, and Myla was nothing more than an afterthought. Shawn despised her, drained every last ounce of value from her, and left her to die a painful death on the operating table. But this time, in her second life, Myla is determined to take control. She focuses on rebuilding herself, striving for success in both her career and love life. What she doesn't expect is for her cold and indifferent ex-husband to suddenly change, becoming obsessed with winning her back. As their complicated relationship reignites, the truth behind her tragic death in her past life begins to surface.

An abusive parent makes young Dorothy and Nelson the closest of allies - but a car accident tears them apart. When their paths cross once again in adulthood, will they recognize each other and let their bond bloom once more?

Caught in a treacherous web of deceit spun by her own sister, Laura Sharp watched helplessly as her world crumbled, losing everything: her fortune, her love, and nearly her life. Now, five years later, she emerges as the formidable CEO of SK Group. Her unwavering mission? To reclaim what was ruthlessly snatched from her, starting with the acquisition of Sharp Group. She swears to retrieve everything stolen from her five years ago, no matter the cost!

The U.S. nuclear medical professor Charlie Clare quits his career for family, but is abandoned as his wife and daughter favor his love rival Isaac. After suffering his family’s ignorance, he decides to leave for the Unicorn Project, which he designed for healing his daughter’s neuro-skel birthmark as his life work. But unaware that Charlie’s burning his life for them, his wife and daughter deepen the rift with Charlie upon reunion and eventually destroy everything Charlie left for them with their own hands before realizing their errors, only to find it too late.

Lucas Fuller was obsessively in love with Vivian Ashford,daughter of his family's driver, pursuing her from college and finally getting married. However, Vivian's heart belonged to Alfie Collier, and together they conspired to kill Lucas by exploiting his diabetes, tempting him with food until he died. In his final moments, Lucas witnessed a heartfelt confession from Isabel Harlow, who had also once struggled with obesity. Upon being reborn, Lucas returns to Alfie's birthday celebration where he sees Vivian attempting the same manipulative tactics, using him as an ATM. This time, Lucas changes his fate by exposing Vivian’s deception and publicly professing his love to Isabel, despite facing ridicule. Lucas and Isabel make a pact to win a modeling competition to humiliate Vivian and Alfie.

Sophia Sidney, a devoted housewife, believes patience and sacrifice can hold her family together—until one phone call shatters everything. Her husband, Liam Howell, is caught in a hotel scandal with his long-time first love, Candice Gosse. When Sophia rushes to his side, she is met not with remorse, but blame.Heartbroken and furious, Sophia demands a divorce. What truly destroys her, however, is realizing that the two children she raised with her own hands choose Candice over their own mother. In that moment, Sophia understands she has already lost her place in this family.She leaves the country, cutting all ties. Only after she's gone does Candice reveal her true face, and the children begin to miss the mother they once took for granted.But love has turned to ashes. This time, Sophia will never look back.

After transmigrating as Yulia Jones—the vicious ex-wife of male lead Jensen Forbes in the novel—she knows the original plot all too well: Yulia aborts their child and divorces him just as his family is sent to the countryside. Determined to rewrite her fate,Yulia devises a new plan, that is to keep her handsome husband by her side and embark on an unexpected journey of love and family.