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Life isn't easy for Chris Blanning, valedictorian at a snobby private school. It's hard enough dealing with bullies already, but when his scholarship isn't enough to cover tuition, he's got to tutor his worst enemy — Lucien Alaric, the spoiled bad boy he just saw trying to seduce their teacher into changing his grades! Even worse, Lucien's figured out his deepest, dirtiest secret in return. All he can do is keep his friends close, and enemies closer — but maybe Chris is getting a little too close...

Elbert Weiss had a dream where a criminal shot him in the head. At first, he brushed it off as just a nightmare, but the reality proved him wrong. Just when he felt helpless, a mysterious simulation system appeared, guiding him through countless life-threatening situations. When a courageous railway officer sacrificed his life, Elbert finally stopped being a coward. With newfound courage and sharp intellect, Elbert took control, outsmarting the criminals and bringing them to justice, saving everyone on board.

Robin is saved by the penniless Ron when she was kidnapped as a child and lost her memories. However, 13 years later, Anna, Robin’s ruthless birth mother, finds her and stops at nothing to snatch her back. Will Robin turn her back on the father who raised her for the riches of her birthright?

After dying on a night shift, nurse Sophia wakes up as the wife of a top tycoon. But she's immediately accused of being a mistress by the original wife's bitter ex, who even threatens her life. The husband, Spencer, is rich, handsome, and heirless, so Sophia decides to charm him into securing her future. To her surprise, this cold, woman-hating man turns into a loving, doting husband who can't get enough of her.

Yvette, orphaned daughter of a fallen general, once married Crown Prince Jeremy and suffered endless humiliation. Reborn on the day of the imperial marriage decree, she refuses to repeat her fate. This time, she chooses the Emperor's injured brother, Prince Yale. Miraculously awakened, Yale gives her respect and protection, and love grows between them, while Jeremy, recalling the past, realizes too late he has lost her forever.

After a chance encounter reveals her "struggling" husband, Paxon, is actually a billionaire, Sienna's world shatters. When a casual apology is his only offer for gifting jewels to another, she walks away. Now divorced, Paxon expects her to return. But Sienna stuns everyone by entering a marriage contract with a mysterious tycoon.

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Lucas Harrington has two problems: too much money, and too many women chasing it. Desperate to dodge yet another arranged marriage, he drops a bombshell: $100,000 a day to rent a girlfriend for New Year's. Enter Joanna Collins—ice queen, self-made millionaire, and the last person who needs the cash. She signs the contract anyway. Over drinks and family dinners, something shifts. Lucas, spoiled heir who's never washed a dish in his life, finds himself in an apron, chopping vegetables. By the time the fireworks fade, he's not just in love—he's trained. Loyal dog, willing slave, whatever she wants.

Framed at nine by a fake heiress and pushed off a cliff by her own mother, Winter Sinclair survives and is rescued by a mysterious master. Twelve years later, she returns as a metaphysics prodigy, saving tycoons and cracking impossible cases. As her corrupt family schemes against her, each is publicly exposed. While the Sinclairs self-destruct, Winter rises above them, untouchable, unstoppable, and rewriting fate itself.

Betrayed by her family, Skylar is forced into a compromising situation with a sleazy-looking director in exchange for her grandmother's medical bills. However, she unexpectedly has a one-night stand with Maxwell, CEO of Klein Group, instead, leading to an unplanned pregnancy. Sent abroad, Skyhlar returns six years later with her son and opens a restaurant. Fate eventually brings her and Maxwell back... Will he recognize Skylar as the unforgettable woman from that fateful night?

When high school swim team captain Aidan Crew loses his essential after-school job due to his rich bully Will Harrison standing up for him to his boss, he has no idea how he's going to pay his mother's substantial medical bills and rebuild his college fund, until Will offers Aidan a humiliating, but lucrative job as his pool boy. Aidan reluctantly takes the gig and the two start to fall for one another, but they must navigate the hatred between their families and vicious school bullies, while protecting the secret of Aidan's pool boy gig and the feelings building between them.