breaking the ice short story Movies & TV Series

Damian, the CEO of the world's most powerful military-industrial group, is mistaken for a poor salesman earning only $3,000 a month. Unexpectedly, he enters into a quick contract marriage with Iris, a company’s boss. Damian accompanies Iris to her hometown for a Christmas dinner, where he faces constant belittlement from her relatives and ridicule from Iris's suitor. Damian continually turns the tables on the antagonists, proving his power and status, and ultimately finds true love with Iris.

Adopted by the Lear family, Frank Dunn grows up in a loving home, marries his college sweetheart, and starts a family. However, everything changes when his adoptive parents reunite with their biological son, Tim Lear. Outwardly humble, Tim secretly frames Frank to secure the family inheritance. Despite Frank’s efforts to prove his innocence, his adoptive father sides with Tim, while his mother and sisters turn against him, seeing him as a thief of Tim’s rightful life. Though mistreated, Frank stays to repay the Lears, even rejecting his biological parents’ offer to return. But on Tim’s birthday, Tim orchestrates a fatal car accident, leaving Frank’s body abandoned. In his final moments, Frank realizes Tim was behind his suffering—but as darkness consumes him, he opens his eyes again, back on the day his wife tragically died.

I was once a billionaire CEO, but my husband tried to murder me to seize my fortune. Miraculously surviving, I went into hiding and was unexpectedly taken in by an incognito CEO. Now, fully prepared, I'm ready to rebuild my empire and reclaim everything that is rightfully mine.

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Naomi Chapman was tormented as a poison tester for 10 long years, till her stepmom got her back to get married on her daughter's behalf. Naomi became the antidote for her husband Samuel Hunt, Highvale's most revered general. She found love at her new home and learned to stand up for herself.

The man, from an ultra-wealthy family, falls for an ordinary woman and saves her in an accident, leaving him injured. His mother cures him but convinces him to fake paralysis to test the woman’s loyalty. Before the wedding, he discovers her betrayal with his friend and plans to expose them at the ceremony.

He's the kingpin of the underworld, rescuing damsels in auction. But when he finds out his own wife and daughter are being bullied, he decides to take revenge, revealing his true identity and fighting for his family!

After three years on the battlefield, the wife returns victorious, but unexpectedly pregnant! The former Grand Marshal of the empire's army had retired due to his parents' last wishes and married a woman known for her bravery and ambition. She aspired to achieve greatness on the battlefield, and before she left, he gifted her a legendary spear forged from thousand-year-old cold iron. Three years later, she returns clad in silver armor, pregnant, and holding another man's hand. She presents a letter of divorce, declaring, "My husband must be a heroic figure who stands tall, not a weak scholar with no strength." Unbeknownst to her, the seemingly powerless man she had married was actually the empire’s guardian deity. When he dons his marshal armor once again and takes up his legendary weapon, she finally realizes the true identity of the man she once scorned.

As a seasoned gambler and master of the game, I've seen it all. Here's a simple truth: steer clear of gambling. In this world, nine out of ten bets are a con.

He was once a genius entrepreneur who dominated the business world. However, due to persecution, he went into hiding, assuming a low-profile life as a designated driver. Twenty years later, to save his son's company from being sabotaged by an old rival, he decides to make a comeback...

An immortal was tricked before his death into marrying a foolish granddaughter of a powerful family. Initially, he planned to ignore her, but he soon discovered that her unique bloodline was essential to his cultivation. Reluctantly, he decided to secretly protect her. The female lead was once infamous as the "madwoman" of her family, known for her violent and unpredictable personality, as well as her unfathomable skills in poison. However, when faced with her savior, she chose to hide her true self, pretending to be an obedient and gentle girl by his side. Yet, her younger sister, driven by greed for the family fortune, relentlessly bullied and oppressed her. Forced into a corner, the female lead had no choice but to transform into a ruthless figure in the shadows, hiding her true nature from her savior as she navigated the challenges and dangers that surrounded them.