In the rain-shrouded town of Blackwood, Oregon, 24-year-old biology PhD student Elena is forced to be auctioned off at an underground auction house in Portland's docks because her adoptive father has racked up massive gambling debts. The buyer is Alistair Thorne, the owner of an ancient manor deep in the Blackwood forest. The Thorne family operates a multinational timber business, but their true identities are an ancient vampire clan that inhabits the area. The family heir, Alistair, is suffering from "Silver Rot," a disease that is steadily weakening his bloodline. Elena is no ordinary sacrificial offering; she is a rare "living vessel," possessing a unique antibody in her blood that is the only hope for alleviating Silver Rot. The ritual to completely cure the disease requires draining all the blood from her heart. The two sign a one-year blood pact, and Elena is forced to become Alistair's nominal wife. She must endure Alistair's cold and obsessive possessiveness and control, while also guarding against the schemes of Silas, the family's head of internal affairs. Silas, coveting the inheritance, secretly plots to harm Elena, attempting to ruin the ritual and thereby depose Alistair and seize control of the family. Desperate, Elena unexpectedly finds a long-lost formula for a bio-gel in a brass pendant left by her grandmother. This potion can trigger a deep state of suspended animation when the heart is severely damaged, repairing the body's circulatory system. When the scalpel is pointed at her chest during the ritual, this cruel hunt disguised as redemption transforms into a life-or-death gamble for two lonely souls to break free from the shackles of an ancient bloodline.
60 EPAfter five years of marriage marked only by coldness and betrayal, Vivian—her heart broken—pretended to have lost her memory and calmly handed him the divorce agreement. Her husband, Damian, assumed she was playing hard to get, but he gradually discovered that she was hiding a secret identity and past. As the truth unfolded layer by layer, his remorse had only just begun—but would she ever forgive him…?
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60 EPIn his previous life, imperial prince Alex was assassinated by his jealous brother Cassius at the coronation ceremony, and only at the point of death did he understand the emptiness behind glory. Reborn back at the sacred mate-selection ceremony, he gives up the noble lady Livia and chooses a flower-selling girl named Elena, willing to lose his prince status for her. The two live a poor but warm life, yet Cassius's persecution comes one after another, and he even slanders Elena's token as stolen goods. To prove his wife's innocence, Alex undertakes the burning divine trial of the steps. At the desperate moment when he is about to be executed, Elena reveals her true identity—she is actually Athena, the goddess of war. However, love between a mortal and a goddess is not accepted by the divine realm, and Alex must pass the test of letting go of his past-life obsessions to truly stand beside the goddess and reclaim his own life. But just then, an even greater crisis has already quietly arrived.
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50 EPIn her past life, Elvira Lane was branded the "Scarlet Tyrant." Caught in a power struggle for the throne, she was framed by a conspiracy involving the Vampire Council, the Church, and the elders of her own clan. Ultimately, she was assassinated by the "Hunter King" Seran and entombed within a crystal coffin beneath the moonlight. A century later, realizing he had been manipulated by lies, Seran spent a hundred years guarding her coffin, consumed by profound remorse. Then, the moonlight reversed, and Elvira was reborn—three days before the commencement of the "Seven Nights" royal succession trials. Upon her rebirth, Elvira uncovered a plot by the clan elder, August, to strip her of her royal bloodline inheritance through a political marriage contract; she tore up the agreement in public, severing ties with the Council of Elders. Simultaneously, she discovered that her seemingly docile younger sister, Lilith, was actually a "vessel for holy blood" planted by the Church. Elvira resolved to follow the trail, determined to uncover the truth behind the false accusations that had ruined her in her previous life. Seran, who had also been reborn—retaining the memories of his century spent guarding her coffin—arrived as an overseer for the Church. Bound by a "silence curse" that prevented him from revealing the truth of their past, he could only offer his deep, aching regret. Recognizing that he was not the mastermind, Elvira chose to keep him by her side in the Rose Tower. During the Seven Nights trials, Elvira awakened the lingering spirits of ancient Blood Knights, rectified the distorted history, and forged alliances with various factions. Piece by piece, the truth emerged: the massacre she had been blamed for was entirely fabricated. In reality, it was her sister Lilith—manipulated by the Church and eventually consumed by darkness—who had opened the Gate of Calamity. In the end, Elvira exposed the truth, settled old scores, and sealed the Gate of Calamity. Recognized by the Thirteen Clans as the "Scarlet Queen," she shattered the crystal coffin to forge a new kingdom of the night. Seran, having turned against the Church, became her co-ruler and the commander of her frontier forces.
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60 EPSea goddess Thetis saved Marius, founder of the Sterling family, decades ago—and he later saved her. On his deathbed, Marius asked her to protect his grandson Julian for five years. Thetis hid her divinity and married Julian. For five years, he saw her as a jobless housewife—while she secretly used her power over tides and storms to fix Sterling's routes, avert disasters, and secure key projects and alliance membership. Julian credited himself and his returning ex Vivian. Thetis never argued, keeping her promise to Marius. When the five years ended, she signed the divorce and became herself again. Only at the Thalassa Circle ceremony, when global shipping elites bowed to her, did Julian realize—the tide goddess he prayed to daily was the "worthless" wife who had held up his empire all along.
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60 EPAtlantis was a kingdom under the sea. The color-scaled nobles ruled. The gray-scaled commoners suffered. Queen Diana lost her four-year-old son Leon in a rebellion twenty years ago. To protect her daughter, she sealed Alice's seven-colored royal tail and raised her as a gray-scaled commoner. On her eighteenth birthday, Alice was working in the lord's mansion. The lord's daughter Bella stripped her scales in public. Her boyfriend Danny handed the knife to please the powerful. Queen Diana broke down the door and saved her. The adult tide rose. Alice revealed her seven-colored royal tail. General Arthur protected her. He fell in love with her. But a birthmark and a token made everyone believe he was the lost prince. The lovers were forced to call each other brother and sister. The truth came out. Arthur was not the prince. The real killer of Leon, and the person who had been harvesting gray scales to fund the rebels for twenty years, was Lady Martha. The abyss army reached the gates. The queen was poisoned. Alice united the gray-scaled commoners, defended the city, awakened her full royal tail at the coronation, defeated Martha, and pushed open the palace doors that had been sealed for a hundred years.
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60 EPCarol is the heiress of Chicago's historic Bennett hotel family. Ten years ago, against her family's objections, she married Mason, a man from a humble background, bringing with her a Virginia winery worth tens of millions. After the wedding, she stepped back from management and spent ten years caring for her "paralyzed mother-in-law" Diane and running the household—yet she was constantly ordered around, belittled, and subjected to cold violence, not even appearing in the family photo. One day, she stumbles upon a post by her "sister-in-law" Ivy bragging about "making the wife serve my mother for free," and secretly installs cameras. She captures Diane standing and walking, and records Mason and Ivy plotting to take her abroad, stage an accident, and collect five million in insurance. She realizes: Diane is not Mason's mother but Ivy's; Ivy is not his sister but his legal wife, never divorced in Nevada. Carol stops enduring. While the two are abroad, she sells the winery for nine million to a liquidation company and stages a memorial service for Diane's "sudden heart attack," summoning Mason and Ivy home—and inviting Mason's "dead" biological parents. At the service, she plays the recording, exposing bigamy, fraud, and the murder-for-insurance plot. The three are legally evicted and quickly turn on each other: Ivy flees with the cash and is arrested, Mason ends up a day laborer, and Diane, her fake paralysis turned real, dies alone in a cheap rental. Carol reconciles with her parents, founds her own boutique hotel, and reclaims her career, dignity, and life.
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60 EPMaeve, heiress of the Veyra conglomerate, endures five years as a nanny in Richard’s household to reclaim her late father’s empire. The moment her contract ends, she walks away and takes back control. When her ex-husband Richard, the vicious Jessica, and their son Leo provoke her, she crushes them at galas and investment meetings—and bankrupts Richard outright. Then Richard learns Leo isn’t his biological son. Jessica, cornered, kidnaps Maeve; Richard, consumed by regret, accidentally falls into the sea and dies. In the end, Maeve finds happiness under William’s devoted protection.
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68 EPFor years, Irene loved her husband, Alex, deeply—only to be repeatedly misunderstood and cast aside because her younger sister, Vivian, claimed credit for everything Irene had done. Completely heartbroken, Irene chose to leave. It was only when the long-buried truths finally came to light that Alex realized the person he had let slip through his own fingers was, in fact, the one who loved him most in the entire world.
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51 EPOn Christmas Eve, her adoptive mother, Margaret, overturned the dinner table, withdrew the $50,000 she had paid toward the property taxes of Lily’s biological parents, and took Lily away. Moved by pity, Lily secretly signed away her rights to a trust fund to provide them with money—only for her biological family to lock her out in the freezing snow on New Year’s Eve. Standing in the icy rain all night, she listened to the sounds of them laughing as they counted the cash, and finally severed all ties with these parasitic relatives. Under the firm guidance of her adoptive mother, Lily spent two years transforming a local noodle shop into a city-wide chain of high-end bakeries, successfully ascending to a new social class. Meanwhile, her biological family—now stripped of their financial lifeline—faced bankruptcy and the impending auction of their home. They cornered her outside her bakery, using the guise of "family" to coerce her into paying off her brother’s gambling debts. On a snowy Christmas Eve in Central Park, Lily sat between her adoptive mother and her biological mother, a document of asset liquidation—which would seal the fate of her biological family—resting in her hands. She hesitated, her pen poised but yet to touch the paper.
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60 EPLouisiana sugar heiress Lenore was pushed into a swamp by husband Trent, losing her child and left "paralyzed," then imprisoned for six years. She secretly stops her injections, recovers, and exposes Trent's affair with nurse Patsy and their plot to pass off an illegitimate daughter as heiress, uncovering mastermind Earl. At the launch she reveals everything; the villains are jailed, Patsy dies shielding her and entrusts her daughter, and Lenore adopts the child, accepts lawyer Quint, and restarts her life.
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