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Invited to a secret streaming broadcast, Jae-in begins the "Falling Quiz Show," where she can win 1 billion won by answering only the truth. However, the host unexpectedly starts asking about the death of her younger brother Jae-ha, who recently died in an accident, leaving Jae-in flustered under suspicion that she may be connected to his death. Following the rules, the floor gradually opens while ropes tighten around Jae-in’s neck… Jae-in claims that Jang Doo-yeol, who had bullied Jae-ha since childhood, is the culprit. Jang Doo-yeol, kidnapped and brought to participate in the quiz show after being named by Jae-in, points to the owner of the chicken shop where Jae-ha worked as the real culprit, while the owner in turn accuses Jae-in. Amid endless mutual accusations and revelations, a “Chicken Game” among the three protagonists—rushing toward a catastrophe that could have been avoided—truly begins.

In a world where choices can reshape destinies, two sisters awaken to a mysterious system that demands a life-altering decision: choose between a billion dollars or their own mother. In their past lives, Hannah's younger sister, Ingrid, chose the billion and entered a life of luxury, only to face a downfall. While Hannah chose family and thrived through her own hard work. Consumed by envy, Ingrid killed her sister. Now reborn to the day of their choices, Ingrid chooses family instead, while Hannah reluctantly takes the billion. But as Ingrid basks in her supposed victory, Hannah smiles. After all, who knows if her sister just picked hell?

Caroline has just picked up her engagement ring that she ordered a few weeks ago. She wants to show the ring to Matthew, her fiancé, at Matthew's apartment. When she arrives at Matthew's apartment, she discovers Matthew having sex with her stepsister, Alexis. Caroline is furious and quickly leaves Matthew's apartment, but accidentally gets hit by a speeding motorcycle. At that moment, Jack, who is overseeing his company's apartment, sees Caroline and immediately saves her. The next day, Alexis and Matthew visit Caroline at the hospital, but Caroline, feeling very sad, asks for the engagement to be called off. While at the hospital, Caroline sees a man attempting to steal the wallet of an elderly patient. Caroline helps the elderly woman. While escorting the woman back to her room, Caroline receives a call from her late mother's company lawyer, informing her that her stepmother plans to transfer ownership of her mother's Rosewood company to Caroline's greedy stepmother, Joana. Upon entering the woman's room, Caroline discovers Jack, the woman's grandson, who has just arrived, and the woman, named Nancy, is seen scolding Jack, who is also unmarried. Jack appears disheveled as he had just returned from inspecting his company, leading Caroline to assume he is poor.A few days later, Caroline meets Jack at a cafe and asks him to marry her. Eventually, the company falls into Caroline's hands, and she struggles to restore her mother's company to its former financial glory, which has suffered a decline.Throughout their journey, Caroline discovers that Jack is the heir to the famous Stone family. However, the conflict is not over as her stepmother, Joana, tries to sabotage their marriage. In the end, Caroline and Jack overcome all obstacles and begin a new, happy life together.

Aurora Quinn loved Oscar Russel, but he and his sister Luna betrayed her. After death, she learns Oscar’s brother, Lucian, was her true protector. Reborn, she returns to the moment Sir Russel asks her to choose a husband and picks Lucian. Oscar keeps scheming but at the wedding Lucian exposes him onstage. In the end, Sir Russel revives and expels Oscar, while Aurora and Lucian start anew.

Amelia Sutton wakes up as the disposable character in the novel she read. Forced by her infertile husband, Carey Abbott, to bear a child to secure his title, Amelia makes a daring choice: she picks the future Emperor—the blind musician, Ansel Sinclair. Using her knowledge of the story, she turns from a pawn into the player, becoming the obsession of the man destined to be a tyrant.

Cassie finds out that her sister Lisa is having an affair with her richest boyfriend, Eric. But instead of feeling ashamed, Lisa says Cassie and her mother Helen are a drag because they were born poor. The injured mother nearly died of a heart attack. In order to get back at her sister and her ex-boyfriend, Cassie decides to marry the richest man, Johnny Brisson, and becomes her sister's mother-in-law and her ex's stepmother.

After a two-month hospital stay with zero visits from her husband, a three-year contract wife finally wakes up: She was invisible in her own marriage. Now? She's done playing nice. She fires his snobbish staff, replaces every piece of furniture he picked out, and adopts the one thing he hates most: cats. Then she returns to the workforce—starting at the bottom as a designer, crushing office politics, and landing the client her bosses couldn't close.

Shawn gave Joyce Lynn and Lynn Tech his genius. They gave him a dismissal letter in return. With the help of Rachel, the investor, Shawn turns his exile into a revolution. Now, the woman who wronged him watches as the empire she built is dismantled, line by line of code.

Celine Samuel, the chairwoman of Samuel Group, is about to marry Harry Chase. When she humbly goes to pick up Harry's mother at the airport, she's mistaken for his mistress—while Harry's glamorous mistress Amy is embraced as the future daughter-in-law. Now, Celine must endure public humiliation from Harry's mother, who has no idea she's insulting the real boss.

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 being transported into a book, Claire finds herself framed into marrying Sean—the man originally meant for her sister. Adaptable by nature, she channels her energy into securing wealth, knowing money is the true source of power. But on their wedding night, Sean drops a bombshell: he has an incurable disease. What follows is a marriage of convenience between a gold‑digger and a reckless noble, where Claire masterfully transforms the young lord from a playboy into the perfect "henpecked" husband.