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Five years ago, waitress Willow Shelby spent a night together with a drugged CEO, Marcus Ives, and bore his heterochromatic twins. When their unusual eyes spark suspicion, Willow and her sons face humiliation, expulsion, and kidnapping. Marcus rescues them, exposes his fiancée’s scheme, and reunites the family. In the end, love and justice prevail, promising a future full of happiness.

Reborn into the apocalypse, I rise as an SSS Feralmancer. My ex leaves me for an S-rank genius, so I form a contract with a D-rank fox everyone laughs at. Hidden from all, she’s an SSS Novem Empress. With a dual contract, she evolves three levels in three days. When the beast tide descends and the city betrays me, she has already reached eight tails!

When Empress Maria Devin falls gravely ill, she seeks her long-lost daughter, Lillian Devin, to pass the throne.Once devoted to her husband, Matt Goodwin, Lillian is betrayed and forced into divorce. Protected by the loyal eunuch Jerome Barry and aided by Chris McNeil, she uncovers the truth, punishes the wicked, and rises from abandoned wife to empress, reclaiming her destiny amid betrayal, revenge, and palace intrigue.

When Samuel, having regained his sight, meets designer Amanda.he is stunned by how much she resembles Emma his ex and thelove he once lost. Determined to uncover the truth about who shereally is, Samuel keeps testing and questioning her. As they getswept up in mounting pressures and tangled schemes, old flamesreignite, pushing them to face the past head-on and fight against allodds for a future together.

Christina's adoptive mother gives her a brutal choice: Christina can give her virginity to a 70-year-old rich man, or watch her brother be killed. She chooses the former, but those plans are jeopardized when the old man seeks pleasure elsewhere. Who would have thought his son, Logan, would become her Mr. Right? "Sleep with me, right now!" Christina begs...

On her father-in-law's 50th birthday, housewife Clara Wynn catches him having an affair with her husband's childhood friend. When she tries to expose them, everyone turns against her, and Ivy Lane pushes her into traffic, killing her. Reborn on that fateful day, Clara pretends to comply while secretly plotting, setting traps that will make everyone witness the truth for themselves.

As a child, Jensen Fort hates studying until his mother hires Carine Nett as his little caretaker. Seeing Carine's many virtues, Jensen becomes disciplined and studious,secretly vowing to marry her when he grows. Now a global business tycoon and the world's richest man, Jensen's first act after achieving success is returning to the countryside to marry Carine.

At just twenty-four, Christer had already developed the acclaimed Skynet system. However, his triumph was short-lived when his girlfriend, Rechell, deceitfully took it from him and gifted it to her affair partner. To Rechell,the struggling Christer was unworthy of her; he was merely a temporary balm for her emotional wounds.Little did she know, Christer was the biological heir of the Lonsdale family, one of the wealthiest dynasties in the country.

Hollywood superstar Judy's wedding of the century takes a scandalous turn, when her cheating groom's sex tape is leaked to millions of livestream viewers. Is it an accident, or is there a puppeteer pulling the strings? A young showbiz mogul, George, mistaken for a gigolo by Judy, spends a wild night with her and pledges to become her agent. Is that true love blossoming in La La Land, or is there some sinister agenda at play?

They have known each other since they were young, yet his bride isn't her. After being drugged, the wealthy man, Bradley Judd, saves her by spending a night with her. When they meet again, five years have passed. She returns to the country with a pair of twins, trying her best to keep them hidden. Nevertheless, he still finds them in the end.

Former Silvermoon Alpha Ada hides as a healer to protect her unawakened daughter Daisy. When Daisy is bullied and abducted by the ruthless Knight family, Ada must unleash her dormant Alpha power. As she confronts betrayal, wolfsbane plots, and a shocking truth—Daisy’s father is Darkmoon Alpha Rex—will Ada save her daughter, end the pack war, and embrace her destiny?

Burdened by her father’s debt, Seoyoon ends her relationship with Leejun through a painful lie. While chasing after her, Leejun is nearly killed in an accident. Years later, Seoyoon is raising their child alone, while Leejun returns in triumph. When their paths cross again, old wounds, hidden truths, and unresolved feelings flare back to life, upending everything they thought they’d left behind.

One day, while feeding fish, Yvette accidentally fell into the pond and discovered a life-shattering truth: She had no blood relation with her parents or her five brothers. She was nothing but the Stewart family's false heiress! Faced with the certainty of losing everything, Yvette decided to stop struggling altogether and just enjoy life before being kicked out. But when Harriet, the true heiress, finally returned, her brothers shielded Yvette behind them, pleading, "Harriet, let her stay.She's... not exactly sharp. It's too dangerous for her out there aloneOne day, while feeding fish, Yvette accidentally fell into the pond and discovered a life-shattering truth: She had no blood relation with her parents or her five brothers. She was nothing but the Stewart family's false heiress! Faced with the certainty of losing everything,Yvette decided to stop struggling altogether and just enjoy life before being kicked out. But when Harriet, the true heiress, finally returned, her brothers shielded Yvette behind them, pleading,"Harriet,let her stay.She's... not exactly sharp. It's too dangerous for her out there alone."

After losing his parents, Conrad Nord is taken in by the three Lowe sisters—each with her own charm and growing affection for him. They make him promise to marry one of them when he grows up. But their peaceful life unravels with the arrival of Harvey Scott, whose innocent facade wins the sisters' trust.Consumed by jealousy, Harvey frames and endangers Conrad,forcing him to face the painful truth of where their hearts truly lie.

Betrayed by her stepbrother Edward and left to die with nothing but regrets, Celeste Welsh gets a second shot at life. This time? She's playing for keeps. Revenge against Edward is at the top of her list—but things get complicated when love unexpectedly walks in. Now, she's juggling payback and passion, determined to live this life with no regrets. Sweet, fierce, and unstoppable, Celeste is rewriting her story…

After suffering aphasia from a car accident, Heather Phillips is devastated when her husband William Manning asks for a fake divorce to appease his mistress. Taking him at his word, Heather makes it real. Sebastian Hart, heir to the Hart Group, flies back immediately upon hearing the news and proposes to Heather. She leaves with him without looking back, leaving William filled with regret.

Chris Leif gave up his family inheritance to become a stay-at-home husband for his wife, Queenie. When Queenie's first love,Nathan,returned to the country, her family began to look down on Chris. Pushed to his limit, Chris chose divorce and started a new life. Only then did Queenie and their daughter realize how remarkable Chris truly was—but it was too late to win him back.

Once a feared underworld lord, Eddie chose a quiet life. Four years later, she returns—Nora Olson, a stunning CEO, holding a child—and shatters his calm world: ‘She’s yours. Marry me, and be her father.’ A flash marriage. Family betrayal. Corporate war. And just when she needs saving most, the richest man alive calls her new husband… son!