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Su Yuhan, a modern-day hustle queen, had finally saved up enough for retirement and was ready to just lie flat, but she suffered a sudden heart attack from excessive overwork the day before retiring and transmigrated into a certain urban, group-pampered novel... as the female lead's stand-in. Because the original owner had similar looks and disposition to the female lead, Jiang Yuxi, she was targeted by several of the female lead's lonely simps and spare tires while the latter was abroad for further studies. She was forced to sign a contract, becoming a despicable stand-in in the eyes of the world who got ahead using her face. Later, she lost herself under their tender offensives, acted out dramatically, and was ultimately kicked out with nothing to her name right before the female lead’s return, dying a violent death on the streets. After transmigrating, Su Yuhan immediately wanted to run away, but the contract termination fee was too high, she was saddled with huge debts, and she had a critically ill grandmother at home in need of life-saving money. Su Yuhan: “...” Rolling up her sleeves, she got straight to work. No one can stop me from making money! In just a few short months, she became... The leader of an online comment army, hailed as the divine nemesis of the paparazzi; A mysterious financial tycoon who could shake up the business world with a snap of her fingers; An expert antique appraiser who exposed fakes and cracked down on smugglers; A treasure of an influencer, proficient in multiple intangible cultural heritage techniques; ... Just as she was thriving in various industries, the several Sugar Daddies who treated her as a stand-in were fighting tooth and nail over her, splurging cash for the rights to her vacation time. "One extra dinner together, I'll add one hundred thousand." "A one-day trip to the amusement park during the holidays, I'll add two hundred thousand." "One all-nighter to boost her online rankings, I'll add two hundred thousand." "Attending a high-society banquet together, I'll add two hundred thousand." "One overtime tutoring session for final exams, I'll add two hundred thousand" "..." Su Yuhan: Don't fall for me, it's a lost cause. My one true love is the God of Wealth!

Her three-year marriage to Tristan Grayson, in the end, was nothing but a joke. In the eyes and heart of Tristan Grayson, there was only one woman, and her name was Maggie Monroe. As for her, Mika Summers, she was merely a prop for a smokescreen. And so, covered in blood, she escaped his world... However, he refused to let her go. Finally, at the end of her rope, she said: "Tristan Grayson, what will it take for you to finally let me go!" "You are my woman, Tristan Grayson's. How could I possibly let you go?" ...

"I...Love you." "You're a black magician?" "Haven't you put the pieces together, you dumbass?" "YOU! You're the reason for my misfortunes!" "I'm sorry... I'm really sorry." What the hell is happening?! On the day Sienna received her inheritance, she was tragically hit by a truck and woke up inside the novel "The sun that melts the snowy mountain" in the body of Raina Atara Aillard, An important character's sister yet was never mentioned, the noblest lady yet disrespected. A story full of twist and turns, chaos, fun, and gloom.

Sera Ashveil was never meant to survive the marriage. Sent as a disposable substitute bride to the most feared Alpha in the territories, Caius Dravhen, she expects the same fate as every woman before her: broken in three days. Instead his curse wakes the monster the Ashveil pack spent nineteen years beating down. She arrived as a sacrifice. She will leave as the nightmare they created.

I'm his fiancee's younger sister. He's the man I've always loved. When my sister doesn't show up on her wedding day, I have no choice but to take her place - but marriage to Zephyr Hayes is nothing short of torture. The elusive billionaire media mogul is the man I've always loved... yet he's only ever had eyes for my sister. Married to him at last, I am determined to do whatever it takes to win him over. After all, everything is fair in love and war. And this? This is war.

Nadia Voss has spent a decade being the backbone of the Ironstone Pack. She built its defenses, funded its watchtowers, trained its warriors, and raised its heir. She was also, slowly and without anyone noticing, given less and less in return. When the Ashveil Curse claims her, the pack's healer names a cure: the Silver Moon Rite, performed within forty-eight hours. Her Alpha mate, Cassian, gives it instead to Lyra- the adopted sister Nadia herself brought home at seventeen, who has spent the years since taking everything Nadia owned, one piece at a time. Nadia does not scream. She does not fight. She signs every document they put in front of her with a steady hand and a composed face. But in the three days before her death, she moves with the precision of someone who has been planning longer than anyone realized- locking assets behind bloodline seals, registering evidence with neutral-territory law, writing a letter that will be released only when the people who wronged her have begun to relax. She dies alone on the third day. Then the trap begins to close. And fourteen months later, in a neutral-zone legal office, a woman places a document on a desk and begins the process of returning to the life she was owed. Blood and Silver is a story about what strength actually looks like when no one is watching and what the patient and the precise can build, even at the end.

Elena, 22, lived an ordinary life until she found an old, oval mirror in storage and hung it in her room. One night, the mirror began to shine and hum. Thinking she was dreaming, she approached it. A man’s figure emerged, offering his hand. She took it and stepped through the glass threshold. Inside, she didn't find another world, but rather a cascade of her own memories. The boy revealed, "I am the Keeper of your lives." He presented her with a daunting task: to return to her own reality, she must relive every event of her life, from start to finish, once again. This is the beginning of their journey—Elena and the man behind the mirror—into the vivid, inescapable landscape of her past.

Melisa was a lonely girl destined to be unloved, but fate had other plans when she began having strange dreams—visions of a life where she was forgotten, abandoned, and trapped in a loveless marriage. Forced by her parents to stand at the wedding altar in her sister’s place, she was meant to marry Tristan Soveir, the notorious playboy. But fate twisted once more, and the groom was also swapped—to none other than Leonard Soveir, Tristan’s eldest brother and the powerful heir of the Soveir family. Thrown into an unexpected marriage, Melisa is no longer the timid girl who once faded into the background. This time, she refuses to be a mere substitute for Olivia. With memories of her dream guiding her, she steps forward to change her fate. Follow her journey as she unravels the mystery behind these dreams and fights to carve a new path for herself. Will she still remain in her sister’s shadow, or will she claim a life of her own? "I will never become the pathetic me from my dreams."

She was never supposed to be Luna. Soraya Windsor was the bastard daughter of the Gamma. The backup plan. The convenient choice. The girl who had loved Jordan Rutherford since she was twelve and foolish enough to believe he would one day see her as more than his best friend. As more than a placeholder. For five years, she was everything he needed: the perfect Luna, the devoted wife, the woman who raised another woman's daughter as her own flesh and told herself it was enough. That love, even unreturned, was still love worth giving. Jordan never chose her. Not once. Not even when she was caring for his child. Then Magda returns. Jordan's first love. His first choice. More cunning than beautiful, more dangerous than anyone remembers — and she’s here to fulfill a promise that will burn Soraya's world to ash and reduce everything she built to nothing. Soraya makes the only decision she has left, she walks away. Five years later, Soraya Windsor is wealthy, untouchable, unforgiving—and Jordan Rutherford needs her help. Only that, he is about to discover what it costs to make someone's love feel like a favor. His Pack is crumbling, Jordan is desperate and she is the only one who can save them. But why would she? Hell hath no fury like an unwanted Luna.

Two different worlds meet in this beautiful romance. He turns her simple life upside down... All he cares about is son and his business. He doesn't know how to love. Mia Anderson is a lowly housekeeping staff who wants to be a famous actress one day, so all she does is work hard. But when she becomes entangled with this powerful and cold hearted CEO, Ethan Regal and his sweet son whom she has a special connection with. Her life becomes a not so simple one as he involves her in a contract marriage to escape another marriage arranged by his family...

A fire burned Wen Wan to death. Three years later, Jiang Niansheng appeared, wearing Wen Wan's face. Sheng Hanye, who failed to save Wen Wan, married Jiang Niansheng to make her Wen Wan's substitute. This was a turbulent contract marriage. He only married her for her face, and she only married him for his money. He was the aloof, domineering CEO; she was the obedient, passive contract wife. Everything changed when Jiang Niansheng realized she was indeed Wen Wan. Jiang Niansheng escaped from the marriage, determined to make Sheng Hanye pay for everything he had subjected her to during their marriage. Sheng Hanye, "Jiang Niansheng, you're mine. You've signed your autonomy away to me." Sheng Hanye, "Ah Sheng, can you forgive me? I am forever yours..."

Warning: This story contains BDSM steamy scenes, mature language, and forbidden romance.Recommended for readers who enjoy emotionally intense and sexually charged love stories with depth. ……. My father is a powerful politician. His enemies killed my mother. Now they want me. To keep me alive, he hires the most expensive security company in the city. Three men show up at my door and drag me to a secret beach house. Dante, Nikolai and Enzo My bodyguards. My captors. I’m a medical student. I’m supposed to study for exams, not stitch up gunshot wounds and listen to bloody stories that make my thighs press together. I should hate them.I should be begging to go home, not aching for the men that might destroy me. Instead, I let them pin me to the wall, big bodies caging me in, heat rolling off their skin as rough hands toy with the buttons of my shirt. One of them leans down and growls in my ear, “We’ve wanted to do this since the first day we laid eyes on you kitten”

MATURE CONTENT Who hasn’t dreamed of living in a castle — even if just for a moment? That’s exactly what happened to Amber-Ruby. She discovers that her charming friend and colleague Duncan has been hiding a huge secret: he’s a prince. He claims he needs her help — his terminally ill sister has only 72 hours left, and all she wants is to live like a normal girl one last time he asks her to switch places since she looks exactly as her sister. “It’s just for 72 hours,” she says. “What could possibly go wrong in a castle?” Everything ! Because the reason Duncan gave her was a lie. And what started as a harmless roleplay turns into a dangerous trap. Amber-Ruby is now part of a royal scheme she never saw coming — and she may not survive it. Tangled in a royal web of secrets, danger and desire. ---

[TW: R18+ Content] "Father, I did not ask to be born," she sobbed pitifully in front of her father, who only glared at her with unmeasurable contempt. Since then, she became desperate until she became the person she never wanted to be. She never asked to be born, and she never asked to be born again. She only wanted to end her suffering. So why, when she opened her eyes, was she back to the time she was born? With the second chance given to her, will she avoid becoming the Wicked Empress again, or will she drop her crown and choose which path to take?

You were sent here to be forgotten. Instead, you've made yourself impossible to lose. Lady Xu Lianhua never expected to be chosen for anything least of all marriage to the most powerful man in the empire. She's the illegitimate daughter, the family disgrace, the beautiful mistake her father's wife pretends doesn't exist. When the Imperial summons arrives demanding a bride from the prestigious Xu family, everyone knows it should be her legitimate half-sister, Xu Mingzhu the golden daughter, beloved and perfect in every way. But Mingzhu is in love with someone else. And desperate families make cruel choices. On the eve of the wedding, Lianhua is drugged, dressed in her sister's red bridal robes, and sent to the Imperial Palace as a substitute. The plan is simple: once the marriage is consummated, the Emperor will discover the deception and discard her. Mingzhu will be free to marry her lover. Lianhua will be exiled or worse and the family's honor somehow preserved through this twisted logic. Except no one anticipated the Emperor himself. Emperor Shen Yuzhi is a living legenda warrior who claimed the throne at sixteen through blood and brilliance, who crushed three rebellions before his twentieth birthday, whose cold beauty is matched only by his ruthless reputation. They say he has no heart. That he married for politics, not love, and expects nothing from his Empress but silence and an heir. He knows about the substitution the moment he lifts her veil. He sees the fear in her eyes, the drug still clouding her system, the desperate way she tries to hide her terror. He should have her family executed for this insult. Instead, he offers her a choice: Stay and be my Empress in truth, or leave tonight with enough gold to disappear forever. Lianhua, with nothing to lose and nowhere to go, chooses to stay. She expects neglect. Coldness. To be a decorative ghost in the palace, useful only for producing heirs. What she doesn't expect is to be summoned to the Emperor's study three nights later not to his bed, but to his war council. Or for him to slide a stack of military reports across the table and ask: What do you see? Growing up invisible taught Lianhua to observe everything. To read between lies, spot patterns in chaos, understand the games people play when they think no one's watching. She spent years in her father's library, devouring strategy texts and historical records no one thought a daughter should read. And now, with nothing left to fear, she tells the Emperor exactly what she sees: the border conflict isn't random raid sit's a coordinated invasion. The merchants requesting tariff reductions are funding rebels. The peace envoy from the Western Kingdom is an assassin.

In a twist of fate, Kalina Levesque, the invisible second daughter of a wealthy family, finds herself bound to Rhys Castillon, a widower haunted by the loss of his late wife Siennah, in a contract marriage arranged by his grandfather. What begins as an obligation turns into a journey of healing and self-discovery for both parties. Kalina's carefree existence is shattered when Rhys repeatedly rescues her from perilous situations, including a misunderstanding involving a balcony rail and a swimming pool. As he becomes her reluctant guardian angel, Kalina's feelings for him grow deeper, igniting a forbidden romance. However, their newfound connection is put to the ultimate test when Rhys's presumed-dead wife, Siennah, unexpectedly returns, forcing him to confront his past and make a heart-wrenching choice between the two women he loves. Amidst this tangled web of love and loyalty, a secondary romance blossoms between Rhys's steadfast personal assistant, Tristan Mercier, and Kalina's best friend, Mireille Bellerose, who relentlessly pursues Tristan despite his reluctance to open his heart.

The Groom Mistaken, The Destiny Chosen:-Groom By Mistake,Mine By Destiny A missing groom, a lifted veil, and a stranger standing where her future was supposed to be-her life changes in a single breath. Bound by a marriage born of chaos, she finds herself tied to a man who is a quiet university professor with a past he never speaks of and a calm that feels unsettling. As obligations blur into connection and unseen forces begin to watch from the shadows, what started as a mistake slowly reveals itself as something far more deliberate. Because sometimes, the wrong groom isn't an accident-he's destiny choosing its own way. How did the groom vanish minutes before the ceremony? Why did this replacement step into his shoes with such chilling ease? As the families erupt in scandal and the bride faces a life-altering choice, a darker question emerges: Was this a mistake of fate, or a cold, calculated move? She was supposed to marry for duty. Now, she's bound to a mystery.

Her sister's fiance was said to be dead in an accident, but her parents won't give up on this marriage for their own benefits. Of course, they won't sacrifice her sister - she's always the favored daughter. But as for her, well, they never cared for her. That's how she became a substitute bride for her sister, marrying a dead person. Until she finds out... he wasn't dead at all!