

At ten years old, Elsie suddenly began seeing red lines connecting the tops of men and women’s heads. They weren’t symbols of destined love—they only appeared when two people had slept together. She witnessed her father’s affair with her own eyes while her mother endured it in silence for years. From then on, Elsie chose her partners based on one thing alone: whether their heads were clean.Seven years later, she chose Lucas, whose head was completely blank. Their wedding was set for the next day.But then Elsie saw a red line stretching straight from Tessa’s head to her fiancé’s—and just the night before, when he drove Elsie home, his head had still been clean.Elsie called off the wedding.Lucas’s family surrounded her home, forcing her to put on the wedding dress and threatening her with breach-of-contract penalties and public humiliation. Dressed in black, Elsie walked into the banquet hall, played the surveillance footage for everyone to see, and used the red lines to expose the long-buried secrets of the entire family.The wedding became a courtroom.

Twenty-three-year-old Ines escapes the Visconti crime family that raised her for nineteen years, hoping to find her biological parents and live an ordinarylife. Eight months later, her birth parents give her away once again, this time to a debt broker to settle her younger brother's illegal gambling debts. But the car takes her straight back to the Visconti estate—the very place she fought so hard to escape. When her identity is revealed, her adoptive parents prepare to take revenge on her behalf. Ines, however, insists that her biological family be held accountable through the law. Soon trapped once more by her adoptive family's love and control, she decides to stop running. She pretends to accept her place in the family while secretly working with Naomi, who has been forced to serve them, to gather evidence of their crimes. Ultimately, Ines brings down the crime family that raised her. She neither returns to the birth family that abandoned her nor accepts the devotion of an adoptive family whose power rests on crime. For the first time, she truly chooses her own life.

Luciana Bridge caught her husband Alex cheating on her just as she was about to tell him the good news that she was pregnant with his baby after artificial insemination. Then she learnt of the sperm mix-up that has left her carrying the child of powerful billionaire David Carlson. Lulu moves into David's mansion to become his secret surrogate and openly fiancée, only to discover that he wants more than just her surrogacy services.
![[ENG DUB] He Looks Ordinary, Until Reality Starts Shaking](https://acfs3.goodshort.com/dist/src/assets/images/pc/common/f901131c-default-book-cover.png)
Darren Wagner has guarded his purity for a billion years, secretly building world-destroying power while hiding near the Hexalo Guild, waiting for a natural spirit to lose its purity. But when a saintess disguised as a maid stumbles into his fate—and even her mother is dragged in—everything changes. At the grand ceremony, his identity is exposed, demons strike, and his “pet chicken” suddenly transforms into an ancient phoenix, killing the demon lord in one blow and shocking all.

Ashley and her mother became separated during her childhood, and Vanessa, an orphan from the same orphanage, assumed Ashley's identity. As Ashley grew up and pursued a career in design, she faced constant challenges and manipulation from Vanessa. Vanessa also deceived Ashley's biological mother, causing trouble for Ashley at every turn. Fortunately, she crossed paths with Malcom, who trusted and appreciated her.In the end, through continuous effort and personal growth, Ashley managed to reconnect with her biological mother, reclaim her true identity, and emerge as a talented designer. She also found love. Meanwhile, Vanessa faced the consequences of her actions.

In the middle of the night, my husband started talking in his sleep. "My little treasure, Daddy's taking you and Mommy to the new house tomorrow." But we were using protection. Where the hell did a kid come from? So I opened his phone. I saw the money transfers to another woman—spent on all kinds of luxury shit and a house. The photo album had pictures of her in a skimpy stripper outfit, a little bump in her belly. The last one was an ultrasound. Four months along, it looked like. I didn't make a sound. Just saved the evidence. They were about to learn the price of betraying a mafia princess.

A three-year-old boy shows up at a mansion on a rainy night, clutching a worn teddy bear and a hospital bill—demanding his billionaire father pay three years of child support. The family tries to bury the truth, but the boy carries his late mother's secret: a recording pen sewn inside the teddy. Piece by piece, the lies unravel—deleted texts, forged transfers, and the vicious scheme that drove his mother away. The real villain? The elegant grandmother, who deemed a commoner's blood unworthy. Justice arrives. A father finds his son. A mother's final wish comes true.

Ethan mistakenly believed that Scarlett's father had killed his own father, leading him to confine Scarlett in a mental hospital, where she endured torment for two years. Later, Ethan, in an effort to thwart his stepmother Evelyn's scheme, chose to enter into a fake marriage with Scarlett, with a three-month deadline. However, just as Ethan and Scarlett received their marriage license, Ethan discovered the mysterious woman he had slept with, Sophia.

Five years ago, biomedical researcher Mara Ellison’s husband, Caleb Warren, was involved in an accident while on a business trip in Australia and was declared “missing.” Everyone told Mara that he was dead. Unable to cope with the loss, Mara once attempted to take her own life, but Caleb’s best friend, Julian Hayes, saved her and stayed by her side through the next three years of trauma and recovery. In the fourth year, Mara finally opened her heart to Julian, and the two began a relationship. In the fifth year, Mara discovered she was pregnant and planned to surprise Julian with the news. Instead, she accidentally found evidence in his study revealing that Caleb had never died. He had already built a new family with Mara’s best friend, Sienna Brooks, and the two had a four-year-old daughter. As Mara continued investigating, she learned that Julian had known the truth from the very day he saved her five years earlier—and that even her own mother, Helen, had known all along. Everyone had helped maintain the lie for five years, all in the name of “protecting” her. After the truth came out, Mara lost the baby due to complications in early pregnancy. Caleb, Sienna, Julian, and Helen each eventually confessed what had really happened five years before. Mara finally understood that they had not lied to her only once. Every single day for the past five years, they had made the choice to keep deceiving her. In the end, Mara forgave none of them. She left the city, returned to work, rebuilt her life, and continued therapy, slowly freeing herself from her emotional dependence on Julian. A year later, when Mara saw Julian again, she no longer needed his explanations. At the end of the story, she buys a pair of white baby shoes in memory of the child she lost and writes on the card, “Mommy remembers you.” Only then does she truly understand that the person who finally pulled her out of the ruins was herself.

Darren Wagner has guarded his purity for a billion years, secretly building world-destroying power while hiding near the Hexalo Guild, waiting for a natural spirit to lose its purity. But when a saintess disguised as a maid stumbles into his fate—and even her mother is dragged in—everything changes. At the grand ceremony, his identity is exposed, demons strike, and his “pet chicken” suddenly transforms into an ancient phoenix, killing the demon lord in one blow and shocking all.