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Jane Wellsy has a secret — she's got a crush on her step brother Nate Duncan. No one knows except for her worst enemy, hockey badboy Zach Gates. Even worse, Jane finds out Nate's new transfer student girlfriend was her bully from high school, Melissa! When Melissa finds Jane's smutty story and demands to know if it's about Nate, Zach swoops in to save her, kicking off their fake relationship to keep her secret safe. As they spend time together, Jane finds there's a warm, kind heart under Zach's cold bad boy persona, ready to heal her broken heart and face the world at her side...

She sells illegal fireworks. He runs the underworld. When she mows down his assassins with a minigun, he repays her by canceling her arranged marriage—to his own nephew—and claiming her for himself.

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.

When Joy Sarratt saves the impoverished Robin Ward, their bond seems unbreakable. Yet, Robin's ascent to the top of the imperial exams catapults him into the heart of the capital—and into the arms of Mia Love, the influential duke's daughter. As Mia steps into Robin's life, Joy is thrust into a world of betrayal, enduring relentless humiliation and mistreatment.

Before meeting the girl, the boy was not interested in women. After a night of passion with the girl, which resulted in her pregnancy, he took responsibility by bringing her home to care for her. Gradually, he began to understand, like, and pamper her. The girl, in turn, fell in love with the boy during their time together.

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After a spontaneous first meeting, they got married right away. She secretly works as a janitor at his company while facing bullying and jealousy from coworkers. As the company president, he quietly protects her whenever she's in danger—but how long can they keep their secret?

Fayne Carter wakes up as a despised live-in son-in-law, constantly humiliated by his cheating wife and her lover. Just when he's about to snap, he unlocks a game-changing system: spend on his "wife" and get 10x cash back. But Fayne quickly discovers a loophole—any married woman qualifies. From his mother-in-law to his rival's wife, he starts spoiling them all, stacking millions while turning the tables on everyone who once looked down on him.

In his past life, he was ignored by his family and betrayed by his brother, leading to his death. Heartbroken before his end, he wakes up on his birthday ten years earlier. As his sister finally enters his room, she discovers the miserable life he endured as the family's overlooked prince. Unfortunately, he has long lost hope in them.

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.

Rae's dream was to be a pilot. But when she found out that she was pregnant, she married her boyfriend and settled down as a housewife. Seven years later, while on her husband's flight, Rae discovered his secret: he had been keeping a mistress for years. Adding to the horror was the plane crashing in a thunderstorm; it seemed that certain death awaited them... Until she found herself going back in time with her memories intact. Now, Rae must make new choices to rewrite her future... before it's too late!