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Carrie Brown never imagined her life would take a turn from being a hotel maid to marrying one of the most powerful and enigmatic tycoons in the city. When she agrees to a marriage of convenience with Tyler Yates, a ruthless billionaire with emotional walls taller than his skyscrapers, she expects nothing but shelter, stability, and the means to pay for her younger brother Peter’s medical bills. Tyler, still scarred by a devastating scandal from his past involving a former lover who falsely accused him of assault, has sworn off emotional attachments, especially with virgins. The media storm left his mental and physical health in tatters, triggering an autoimmune disorder that resurfaces during times of emotional stress. When a problem arises with his business regarding his reputation, he comes up with this solution: a cold, transactional marriage with clear boundaries and absolutely no feelings involved. But Carrie’s quiet strength, resilience, and beauty begin to crack through his iron façade. She’s different, unbothered by his wealth and unafraid of his mood swings. The very thing he fears, emotional vulnerability, starts creeping in. Carrie, meanwhile, is not immune. Despite their distant arrangement, she finds herself drawn to the brooding man who hides so much pain behind sharp suits and sharper words. When their controlled world spirals into chaos with a stolen kiss, an unexpected illness, and a forbidden night that unveils Carrie’s virginity, both are forced to confront what they’ve tried to deny. Tyler is haunted by the fear that history might repeat itself. Carrie is tired of being treated like a business arrangement. Their fragile union is pushed to its limits as emotions collide with secrets. Peter’s recovery, office rumors, meddling ex-lovers, and jealousy make this more than just a paper marriage. Now, they must decide: will they run from the past and each other, or finally face the truth — that love was never part of the deal, but maybe it’s what they both need most?

A Promise Brought Her Here. The Longfield Brothers Will Never Let Her Leave. Carmilla Morris is a vulnerable twenty-year-old orphan with one desperate mission: to save Mary Garden, the house she inherited from her adoptive mother. To do it, this lonely, never-been-kissed young woman has accepted a five-year sentence. She signed a contract to serve at Longfield Manor, home to the richest and most powerful family in the world—the domain of two brothers as dangerously seductive as they are impossible to resist. The rules are crystal clear: You cannot leave. You cannot say no. You cannot fall in love with them.

After a one night stand with a mystery man, nyla fled New York with a baby in her belly, fear in her heart and a broken dream,a job offer forces her to return back to the city were it all started and to her greatest surprise, her boss is the man who ruined her. he's now engaged to the daughter of the most powerful man in the city, but that doesn't stop them from yearning for each other as they both fail to keep their past behind them, His ruthless fiance is cooking up a plan to ensure they both pay for their slip up. Trapped between a game of love, hate and envy, the billionaire is forced to make a decision when something threatens the life of his only child.

"I would rather die than birth a monster's child." She spat. This drew out a low derisive chuckle from the tall figure standing in front of her. He grabs her jaw firmly, forcing her to look into his eyes. His other hand secures her wrists tightly above her head. The wall meets her spine because of how pinned she is against it. Lips hovering close to hers, he whispers, "Not only are you going to carry my child and birth it. I am going to keep you buried under me for as long as I wish. Making sure my cock is the only thing that you know and remember. Ruining you for anyone else like I did before. Shattered into a million pieces by her sixth heartbreak, Gweneth gave herself to alcohol and a reckless one night stand with a stranger. The stranger happens to be none other than the cold, charismatic Calyx Lamont—her highschool bully and a spawn of the devil. He is someone that she had given her all to run away from. A man that she had swore to never encounter again. One month later, Gweneth is faced with the dreadful realization of a pregnancy. As well as an ironclad contract from Calyx Lamont to be his contract wife and birth the baby—all against her wishes.

At nineteen, Ella Thompson had everything a young woman could want: wealth, beauty, and a prestigious family name. But all she ever wanted was her father's love. Growing up in a family such as hers should have been a dream, but living with a stepmother who despises her and a stepsister who charms everyone while tormenting her behind closed doors has turned her life into a nightmare leading to her death at twenty-six. Ella wakes up six years in the past, just a few weeks before her twentieth birthday. Armed with knowledge of how her life unraveled, Ella has a chance to change everything. What Ella hadn't anticipated was him. Alexander Giovanni Sterling

He lost everything in one night. His job. His girlfriend. His dignity – in that order, at a company gala, in front of everyone. Ryan Russo hit rock bottom with $247 in his bank account and nowhere to go but down. Then his phone showed him something that shouldn't exist. A system. One with a single, ruthless premise: spend money on pleasure, seduction, and revenge – and it comes back multiplied. What starts as desperation becomes something Ryan never expected. Money. Power. Rooms he was never supposed to be in. Women who don't give most men a second glance. But the system has its own agenda. And the higher Ryan climbs, the more he starts to wonder whether he's playing it – or it's playing him. ---- Tags: System, Revenge, Harem, R18 No NTR, No Yuri

Love was never meant for someone like Caleb Garcia. At least, that’s what he believed. The city glittered beneath him, a sea of lights stretching endlessly into the horizon. From the glass walls of his penthouse office, everything looked small—people, problems, even emotions. Especially emotions. Caleb stood still, his hand wrapped around a glass of untouched whiskey. His reflection stared back at him—sharp jawline, cold eyes, and a face that had never learned how to soften. “Love is weakness.” The words echoed in his mind, spoken years ago by the one person who taught him everything about it—by breaking him.

Eleven-year-old Jiarui (now Zain Yan) only wanted to blow out his candles and wish for his father’s return. Instead, he witnessed a massacre. On his birthday, three masked assassins shattered his world. He watched his mother, Zhao Qi, fall to a bullet, and his little sister, Jiya, sacrifice her life to save him.and he send him orphanage The image of a Dragon Tattoo on the killer’s arm was burned into his memory. Jiarui died that night; in his place, a cold-blooded survivor was born. The Present: The Predator and the Pawn Years later, Jiarui has been adopted by the powerful Zhenyu Yan, CEO of Z.Y Empire, and renamed Zain Yan. Now 27, he is Shenzhen’s most ruthless billionaire. Alongside his adoptive sister Fengning, he has built an empire, but his soul only hungers for one thing: the head of Lu Kang, the man who betrayed his father and caused his family's slaughter. Enter Aanya Lu (21), an innocent, hardworking girl who adores K-pop and dreams of a simple life. Zain discovers a devastating truth: Aanya is the beloved niece of his arch-enemy, Lu Kang. To destroy the uncle, Zain decides to break the niece. He pulls her into his corporation, intending to use her as a "weapon of revenge." The Twist: Love, Betrayal, and The Dragon King However, Aanya isn’t just a stranger. Years ago, Zain saved her from thugs to protect Fengning, and she became his first, secret love. Now, torn between his burning hatred for her bloodline and his possessive obsession with her, Zain forces a Contract Marriage to keep her trapped in his "Basement of Silence." But the shadows are closing in. Aanya’s ex-boyfriend, Ruan Jian, returns. Once her support, he shattered her heart—not out of malice, but because he is the Right Hand of the Dragon King. He knows the secret of Aanya’s birth: she isn't just Lu Kang's niece; she is the key to the Dragon King’s ultimate power. As bullets fly and the truth about the "Night of Blood" emerges, Zain realizes that Aanya isn't his pawn—she is his only weakness. To save her, the Heartless Wolf must decide: Will he complete his revenge, or burn the world down to protect the girl whose blood is tied to his nightmare? You are my wife, Aanya. Whether it's the ghosts of your past or the kings of the underworld... no one takes what belongs to me." — Zain Yan .Note: I am a new writer, so there may be some small mistakes in my novel. Your love and support are my greatest strength.”.

A ticket to Paris was meant to be my salvation, not a trap." Lian was just an ordinary university student drowning in tuition fees and endless deadlines. When she received an unexpected invitation from her estranged aunt, the mysterious Mrs. Winston, she saw it as her only way out: organize high-end parties in the heart of Paris in exchange for a full scholarship. But Paris hides secrets behind its glittering lights. As Lian enters the world of elite society, she realizes that this wasn't just a job—it was a game she didn't know how to play. Between the pressure of her new life and a mysterious encounter that threatens to change everything, Lian must learn to survive in a city where love is the most dangerous risk of all. Will she find her destiny in Paris, or will the city’s secrets consume her

Power always comes with a price. Behind wealth, status, and perfect smiles lie secrets no one dares to expose. She thought she was stepping into a world of luxury and protection. Instead, she found herself trapped between desire, control, and sins that could destroy everything. In this game of power and obsession, love is never innocent.

In America’s most powerful business families, blood determines everything, well except for Alfred Lancaster. Born as the illegitimate son of the formidable Stanley family head, Alfred grew up inside the walls of unimaginable wealth but outside the circle of acceptance. To the world, Alfred didn’t exist. According to the Stanley family, he was a stain to be hidden. The only thing they ever offered him was distance and a monthly payment of $55,000 to keep him silent and invisible. Alfred was forbidden from using their legendary surname. But amidst all this family never realized was that Alfred didn’t need their name, he had something far more dangerous: A mind built for domination. Alfred was a genius in his own right, business and finance were second nature to him. From childhood, Alfred secretly studied global markets, corporate structures, and financial warfare. While the Stanleys ignored him, mocked him, and underestimated him, he quietly built something no one could see, an invisible fortune moving through layers of hidden investments and shell structures across the world. By his 18th birthday, Alfred Lancaster had achieved the impossible. $500 billion in liquid cash....Self-made.....Untraceable.....Untouchable. But on the very day he reached adulthood, the Stanley family revealed a truth that changed everything. Years earlier, Alfred’s late grandfather had forced his father to sign a binding contract requiring the Stanley family to shelter him for 20 years. Now that Alfred was legally an adult, his stepmother made their position clear: He had two years left before he would be expelled from the Stanley Mansion forever. To Alfred this meant two years of protection, access and opportunity. Most people would have panicked but not Alfred he actually smiled, because to him, the equation was simple: Two years + $500 billion = an empire. If he had to leave the Stanleys in two years… then he would leave as something they could never ignore again. From that day forward, the quiet illegitimate son they called a burden disappeared—and something far more dangerous took his place. Working silently from the shadows of the very Family that rejected him, Alfred began assembling the foundations of a hidden corporate kingdom. He acquired failing firms before anyone noticed their value, repositioned capital across continents, he also recruited brilliant minds loyal only to him and constructed a mysterious private consortium whispered about in financial and business circles but never fully understood: A.L. Consortium. Just a name with pure influence, fear and results but no face and no public owner. While the Stanley family believed they were raising a powerless cub waiting to be cast out, Alfred Lancaster was quietly becoming a predator watching from the dark. Within two years, he would leave their home, five years later, he would return to the world stage. And when he finally reveales himself, the truth would shake governments, corporations, and dynasties alike: Now the question isn’t whether Alfred Lancaster will rise. The question is : What happens when the Stanley family realizes the boy they tried to discard has become the force that can decide their fate… and the fate of nations?

Sarah’s life shatters in a single moment. After a devastating accident, she wakes up with no memory of who she is, where she belongs, or the people she once loved. Lost and broken, she is given a new name… a new identity… Sofia. As she struggles to rebuild her life, a kind and gentle doctor, Kevin, becomes her only support. In his world, she finds warmth, care… and a little girl who unknowingly fills the emptiness in her heart. But somewhere far away, a man named Ryan is desperately searching for her—haunted by guilt, regret, and a love he realized too late. As fragments of Sarah’s past begin to return, questions arise— Who was she before the accident? Why do certain faces and moments feel so familiar… yet so distant? And when the truth finally comes out… will she choose the life she lost… or the one she is slowly building? Because sometimes… forgetting the past isn’t a curse. Sometimes… it’s a second chance.

黎星染在雨夜落难，被权势滔天的宫烬强行囚在身边，沦为他心头白月光的替身。在他偏执的占有与接连不断的误会中，她爱意耗尽，彻底心死，决然逃离。直到彻底失去，不可一世的宫烬才幡然醒悟，放下所有骄傲千里追妻，不惜以命相护、倾尽一切，只为挽回那个被他亲手推开的人。爱恨焚城，误会散尽，两人终将解开所有心结，在破碎之后，重新拥抱属于彼此的圆满。

A young woman whose life changed completely and became harder and more suffocating after her parents' death. She holds on to just one hope, to create a better future for herself and her disabled twin brother. She is determined to break free from the cycle of hardship and is ready to do whatever it takes by working extremely hard and changing their future. She believed that every situation comes with an opportunity, you just have to know how to use it or grab it. She crosses paths with a man who appears to have it all, a powerful, famous, dangerous, and attractive billionaire. His cold reputation is just as strong as his belief — that true love doesn’t exist. To him, love is just a transaction. Every woman he has ever met wanted just one thing, his money. He believes real love doesn't exist and has kept his heart closed for a long time, refusing to think he could be loved for who he really is. But then an unexpected accident brings their lives together. Spotting a chance she can't pass up, the young woman takes a big risk and makes a daring choice. She sneaks into his world as his PA, determined to win the heart of the untouchable billionaire with her charm, beauty, and talents — so she can use that as a stepping stone away from poverty. What starts as a clever plan soon becomes something much more complicated. With late-night work shifts, special occasions they went together, incidents, and quiet moments, fragile feelings start to grow, feelings neither of them were expecting. But underneath those feelings lie dangerous secrets. Secrets that could ruin everything. When love is built on lies, and fate isn’t kind… will their hearts make it through the truth?

Louis Smith never believed in love, he always thought of it as a dead weight. Claire Montgomery never allowed herself to hope for it. When a one-month contract marriage becomes the only way for him to secure the CEO seat he’s worked for his entire life, he is left to ask the one person he found fitting— and she agrees because deep down she would love to fully understand the complexities of the marriage her friends have idolized. She’s been quietly carrying the weight of family expectations, personal insecurities, and the fear of being alone in a world that measures women by their marital status. Accepting this contract is her chance to step into control of her own story, even if it’s only for a month. Living together, sharing small moments, pretending to be a married couple… it doesn’t stay pretend for long. The walls they’ve built around their hearts begin to crumble, leaving them vulnerable in ways neither anticipated. And when fear, pride, and past pain collide, the contract ends and so does the fragile trust they’ve started to build. For him, it becomes a lesson in loss. For her, a test of self-respect. And for both, the realization that love doesn’t follow contracts or timelines. Now he has three months to prove he’s more than the man who walked away… to show her that love isn’t something you fear, it’s something worth fighting for.

Lina Chen wakes from a coma with her engagement ring, her ex-boyfriend's face in her mind, and no memory of the past two years. To her shock, a ring adorns her finger—not the one her ex gave her. A pair of twins call her "mama." And a devastatingly handsome CEO, Ethan Blackwood, claims to be her husband. She doesn't recognize any of them. Terrified and disoriented, Lina rejects this strange new life and returns to her family and her ex-boyfriend, Ryan—the man she believes she was about to marry. They welcome her with open arms. But something is wrong. Ryan is unusually close to her best friend, Chloe. Her parents dodge every question about Ethan. And no one can explain why she has a scar on her wrist or why she flinches at the sight of stairs. Then the memories begin to surface in fragments. A restraining order against Ryan. Chloe's hand on her back—pushing. A letter Lina wrote before the coma: "If I forget, find me. Don't give up." Lina secretly reconnects with Ethan and the twins. He doesn't pressure her to remember. He simply shows her evidence—videos, documents, a diary—that paints a horrifying picture: her coma wasn't an accident. Her memory loss was induced. And the people she trusts most are the ones who erased her. Now Lina must pretend she's still lost while piecing together the truth. Because the closer she gets to remembering, the closer someone gets to silencing her forever. She thought she woke to a nightmare. But the real nightmare is the life she's desperate to forget.

Alicia Sinclair has been in an arranged marriage with Alexander Blackwood for two years. when she finally thought their marriage was unbreakable, Alexander returned with his model ex girlfriend and asked for a divorce, Alicia's world crumbled and after multiple failed attempts to make him change his mind she decided to leave with her unborn child just for Alexander to be the one begging her to stay." if we had a child would you still want a divorce?""there is no what ifs"she replied coldly .But does she really not have feelings anymore for the man she loved for six years?.

Trisha Hart was a nursing student working as a waitress, scraping by, unaware that the world she lived in was only the surface. That was, until Rowan D’Arcy — billionaire, vampire, and ruthless mafia king … stepped into her life. Dangerous. Dominant. Obsessively magnetic. From the moment their eyes met, Rowan claimed her. Not with words, but with the way his presence crushed the air around her, the way his dark gaze stripped her bare. She should hate him. She does hate him. Vampires took her sister, the only family she had left ..and Rowan is everything she swore she’d destroy. But desire is cruel, and obsession is contagious. Every glance, every brush of his hand, every heated command pulls her deeper into a world she swore she’d never enter. A world where luxury hides blood, hotels conceal secrets, and one wrong move can mean death. Then comes the impossible: Trisha carries his child …a forbidden hybrid, a living proof of their dangerously intoxicating connection. The very existence of their love threatens the fragile order of the vampire world. Now hunted by enemies, consumed by desire, and bound by a passion neither can resist, Trisha and Rowan must navigate a deadly game where surrender feels inevitable, obsession is inevitable…

THE DEBT BRIDE Ava Merritt has spent her entire adult life cleaning up after her father's disasters. The remortgage. The failed investments. The loans from men whose names aren't spoken at Christmas. This one is different. This one has a name: Zane Holloway. Private equity. Old Chicago money rebuilt from nothing. The kind of man who takes up space in a room without raising his voice or moving quickly — whose stillness is what people find unsettling long after they've forgotten everything else about the meeting. The debt is real. The offer is clean. One year as Zane's fiancée to satisfy the conditions of his grandmother's estate, and every dollar her father owes disappears overnight. Her law school tuition — all three remaining years — paid in full before noon. Ava is a paralegal. She reads contracts for a living. She reads this one three times. She signs it anyway. What she doesn't read carefully enough is clause 14, subsection C — buried on page forty-seven, written in the precise, unhurried language of a man who builds traps the way other men build companies. The clause that tells her Zane Holloway has maintained documented familiarity with her professional record, her academic standing, and her personal circumstances for a period no less than twenty-four months prior to the execution of this agreement. Two years. He knew about the debt before her father sat down at that poker table. He knew about the tuition. He knew about the specific number that would make her sign. He didn't find her. He waited for her to find him. Now she lives in his penthouse on the 72nd floor with Lake Michigan spread black and glittering below and a man across the hall who planned every inch of this and still — somehow — looks at her like she is the one thing in his life he didn't see coming. Ava has two choices. Find a way out of a contract she signed with her eyes open. Or find out why a man who controls everything chose to let her in. One year. One contract. One truth buried deep enough that pulling it out will change everything — including her.

Lucas Elliott, the formidable CEO of ZigLan Corp. is known to the boardroom as "The Ice King" and to the underworld as the lethal Elian. Behind his iron mask, he battles with Cystic Agnosia, a rare neurological disorder that leaves him suffering from cold-induced seizures and psychological isolation . He has built his life on absolute control, until one night of drug-induced passion with a stranger shatters his icy resolve. Beatrice Kingston, a talented designer from the humble streets of Oakhills, is the victim of her sister’s cruel envy. Orchestrated into a high-stakes betrayal, she finds herself pregnant with the heir to an empire she doesn't understand. When Lucas discovers her, he whisks her away, to hide her from the vipers in his own family and his ruthless rival, Damien. As the "Ice King" begins to melt under the warmth of Beatrice’s presence, the war turns deadly. With Damien tightening his grip on the government and the underworld, Lucas must navigate a minefield of sabotage and secrets. In a world where love is a liability and power is a death sentence, Lucas and Beatrice must decide if their fragile bond is a sanctuary or a target.