A homeless girl named Lil saves an expensive watch belonging to nightclub owner Nathan Sterling. He takes her into his home, where tension and romance begin to spark between them. But Lil turns out to be more than she seems — she helps uncover a web of fraud at the casino. Nathan offers her a job and a place to stay, and though they try to resist their feelings, the attraction only grows stronger. However, looming in the background are Nathan’s jealous fiancée and dangerous enemies from his past.

My father was going to sell the family airline, and I knelt, begging him all night. He sneered, "What do you know? The Four Families are colluding to drive prices down—we can't hold on." With tear-filled eyes, I tremblingly dialed Rudra’s number. "Help me… they’re selling Skyjet to the Chen family." "Don’t be afraid," he said. "I’m on my way." Half an hour later, the grand ballroom doors burst open. He walked in, dressed in a black suit, and silence fell across the room. My father frowned. "Aren’t you the illegitimate son I cast out? How dare you show your face here?" I froze. Illegitimate son? But Rudra only smiled, slowly untying his tie. "Father, you’re mistaken. I’m not your illegitimate son—I’m your firstborn heir, the one you personally sent away. Records can be altered. DNA cannot." The room erupted in shock. Then he turned to me, his gaze soft as firelight in a snowstorm. "Aylia, I’m sorry I kept this from you for three years." He pressed play on his phone. A recording began—four male voices, the heads of the Four Families, conspiring to swallow Skyjet whole. And leading it all? My own father. "Just marry your daughter off to the Chen heir, and thirty billion will hit your account immediately." I felt like I’d been struck by lightning. Rudra gently took my hand. "I won’t let you marry him. And I won’t let them sell." "Because—" he lifted his eyes, scanning the crowd, voice cold as ice—"over the past three months, I’ve quietly acquired 51% stakes in all four families’ companies through offshore entities." My father collapsed into his chair. "You… when did you…?" "From the moment you first forced Aylia to sign that contract," he replied calmly. "You said she wasn’t fit to lead. But the one truly unfit… is you." Tears streamed down my face. Now I understood why he always took secret calls late at night, why he knew every merger clause by heart, why he once whispered, “I’ll give you a home that’s safe forever.” He didn’t come to save me. He came to take everything back. And I? I had already fallen willingly into the game he designed. In the epilogue, I browsed his old phone and found the first note he ever wrote: [Wait for the day her father betrays her—that’s when I reclaim everything.] Beneath it, in smaller text: [Oh, and I genuinely fell in love with her. Unplanned.]

Under the chandelier at the birthday party, Molly wore a sequined little dress, carrying a strawberry cake toward the corner. Laughter filled the air, and the champagne tower shimmered with dreamlike sparkles. Suddenly, the front door crashed open. A drenched man stood in the doorway, rainwater dripping from his trench coat onto the carpet. He stared fixedly at Molly, voice hoarse: "You're... Molly?" Silence fell over the room. The little girl looked up, her eyes utterly calm. "You've got the wrong place, Uncle. Mom didn't invite you." The man staggered, nearly losing his balance. "I'm your father... I've been looking for you for three years! After that car accident, they told me you were dead—said both of you died!" "Shut up." Her mother approached in high heels, elegantly linking arms with her well-dressed new boyfriend. "Sir, we've already called the police. Please leave immediately." The man roared, "Lin Wan! Can you say that to your child's face?! I'm her real father! The DNA will prove it!" The mother sneered, "What kind of homeless fraudster chasing compensation are you? My daughter was conceived through IVF—the father's information is confidential. Who do you think you are?" Gasps rippled through the crowd. At that moment, another door on the opposite side of the hall slowly opened. A man in gold-rimmed glasses stepped in, holding a document, followed by two people who looked like lawyers. "I regret interrupting this spectacle," he said, his gaze settling on Molly's face as he spoke softly, "but according to the Supreme Court's final ruling three months ago—I am Molly's biological father." Dead silence. He removed his glasses, eyes glistening. "Your mother illegally obtained my sperm sample. The artificial insemination was carried out overseas. This child... is truly mine." The mother's face paled. "Impossible! That file was destroyed long ago!" "But the surveillance footage wasn't," the man replied calmly. "Every moment you stole the sample from the fertility clinic is preserved in the official records." Molly looked down at the cake in her hands, watching the cream drip slowly onto the floor. Then she spoke, her voice childlike yet clear: "So... do I have two dads now?" No one answered. Only the thunder cracked outside, as if heaven and earth themselves were asking— Blood or nurture, lies or truth, which one truly earns the name of father?

I Kissed a CEO, and He Liked It The champagne tower shimmered coldly beneath the crystal chandeliers. When Alice stepped into the ballroom in ten-centimeter heels, every man’s gaze shifted—just slightly. She wore a black dress, a pearl necklace resting on her collarbone like a drop of poison suspended mid-fall. Jack approached with a wine glass in hand, his tie loosened by one button, eyes flickering over the pearls at her chest. He smirked, “All the female guests tonight have good taste.” Alice didn’t answer. Instead, she slowly traced a finger across his lapel, leaving behind a faint red mark—the color of her lipstick. “You’ve mistaken me,” she whispered. “I’m not a guest.” Before the words faded, a waiter stumbled into her, spilling red wine all over her skirt. Silk clung to her thigh. The crowd tittered. Someone murmured, “Who is she? Pretending to be high society and now completely humiliated.” But she smiled. At exactly 10:07 p.m., surveillance footage showed her entering the CEO’s private elevator. No access card swipe. Yet the door opened for her. Three days later, HR received a complaint: the Finance Director claimed he’d seen a woman’s photo hidden in Jack’s desk drawer. On the back was written: *Gabrielle Taylor, height 178cm, full measurements listed, marital status: married, husband’s surname unknown.* But Alice had never used that name. What truly sent chills down the spine was another security clip retrieved from the archives: that night, before stepping into the elevator, she’d paused in front of the grand hall mirror, adjusting her skirt. The camera zoomed in. She spoke silently to her reflection. No one could make out the words. Until I magnified it three hundred times, frame by frame. She said: “Darling, I’ve found you.” And the “you” she addressed was a charity gala photo on the wall behind Jack—a woman in pearls, arm-in-arm with him, smiling gently in the corner of the image. His wife. The one who died in a car crash five years ago. At her funeral, Jack wept against the coffin until his voice broke. Now, his new lover stood before him in the same dress, wearing the same pearls, drawing him slowly—step by step—back into hell. My phone vibrated. An anonymous message appeared: [Did you know? The real Gabrielle didn’t die in a car accident.] [You were the one who pushed her into the cremation furnace.]

On a stormy night, I knelt outside the obstetrics ward, clutching my mother’s critical illness notice. My phone lit up—Owen’s final ultimatum: *"The day the baby is born, your mother gets into ICU. But remember—you're a surrogate, not a wife. Don’t dream."* I didn’t cry. I folded the notice neatly and tucked it into my chest, then turned and walked into the rain. I knew exactly what I was doing. Trading my womb for her life. Three months later, the ultrasound showed twins. The nurse smiled and said congratulations—but Owen’s face darkened. "Who gave you permission to carry two? The contract says one!" He slapped me in front of everyone. "Melissa, you better explain this—or your mother gets discharged tomorrow. Carried out in a body bag." I cupped my cheek and laughed. "Because…" I lifted my gaze, staring straight into his eyes, "this is the last time you’ll ever treat me like livestock." "These two babies? They’re not yours." "My doctor and I switched the embryos. What you’re carrying now—is someone else’s child." Owen snapped. He locked me in the basement of his mansion, threatening to cut them out for DNA testing. But that same night—gunfire erupted. Masked men stormed in, shooting at everything. As a bullet grazed my abdomen, Owen threw himself over me, shielding me with his body. Blood gushed from his shoulder as he roared, “Don’t touch her! Harm her and I’ll kill you!” In the firelight, I finally saw his eyes—not cold, but aching. “Why…” I whispered, trembling, “when you hate me…” He pressed a kiss to my forehead, voice broken. "Because I already knew… that night during embryo transfer, you swapped the samples yourself." "But I let the twins live." "Because the moment you fought to save your mother… I fell in love with you." Sirens wailed in the distance. He held me tight in the pool of blood, guarding me like I was the only light left in the world. But no one knows—the one who pulled the trigger was me. The moment the livestream’s chat popped up: *[The female lead will be betrayed by her closest ally and die on the delivery table]* I struck first. This time, I’m no longer a pawn. I gently touched my belly and whispered, "Kids, Mom’s first lesson for you is—" "Don’t trust tears. Don’t trust vows. Trust only the gun in your hand." The rain still falls. But we—we survived until dawn.

The moment genius scientist Emma activates her breakthrough time-machine, she expects fame—not betrayal from the sister who hates her for a hospital mix-up that tore their lives apart. But Samantha’s revenge backfires, and the two are hurled ten years into the past, landing Emma in a twisted timeline where her sister is ready to steal her identity, her family, and even her fiancé. As Samantha fights to claim the Carter family’s heiress title, Emma is forced to rebuild her life from zero—caught between identity theft, family secrets, corporate warfare, and a dangerous butterfly effect she might not survive. In the chaos, she meets Matthew, a mysterious man whose gentle support hides the shocking truth: he’s actually a powerful chairman, and the key to rewriting Emma’s destiny. Their connection sparks across timelines, but every step Emma takes threatens to unravel the future she once knew. And just when she believes she’s found love, purpose, and a path back to her rightful life, a devastating revelation about Samantha’s true intentions hints that the real threat isn’t the past they landed in… but the future waiting for them both.