This is a story about a stunning beauty caught in a struggle between power and love. Intelligent and beautiful, she finds herself entangled in palace intrigues. To survive and seek revenge, she must use her wit and charm to carve out a place for herself in a treacherous environment.
Finance elite Lu Chenzhou meticulously traps naive girl Lin Xiaoman in a debt scheme to take revenge on a business rival. But as they spend time together, he discovers she's struggling with her comatose brother's exorbitant medical bills. When deception meets redemption in this layered game, who's really playing whom?
To protect her grandfather's cultural relic restoration workshop, Su Wan reluctantly enters a contract marriage with Mo Jingshen, the cold and ruthless CEO of the Mo Group. Everyone mocks her as a "treasured wife" clinging to Mr. Mo, yet no one knows she's a hidden genius restorer, piecing together broken ancient porcelain in her workshop late at night. Mo Jingshen seems distant on the surface, but secretly shields her from industry suppression and even learns about cultural relics to get closer to her. When someone publicly accuses Su Wan of "climbing the social ladder", Mo Jingshen pulls her into his arms and takes out their marriage certificate: "It's not a contract—she's the wife I begged three times to marry." Turns out, from the day he saw her squatting in the rain picking up broken porcelain, she had already etched herself into his heart.
Shen Qingtang, the disgraced general's daughter who was exiled a decade ago, returns to the capital posing as a merchant. While running a rouge shop as cover, she secretly investigates her family's massacre, only to clash with imperial censor Pei Jingchen. As their childhood betrothal resurfaces, as political rivals' daughters approach with ulterior motives, and as a mysterious fire destroys crucial evidence—she must choose between vengeance and love. Meanwhile, in the palace shadows, the mastermind behind it all awaits her next move.
Business prodigy Shen Qiwu is forced into an arranged marriage, only to discover her fiancé Lu Chen is a corporate spy planted by rivals. As she prepares to expose the scheme, Lu Chen reveals his shocking true identity—the long-lost heir to the Shen fortune. Two proud souls engage in a high-stakes game of business and romance, but can the phoenix truly perch on this 'rotten wood'?
Successful jewelry designer Lin Xia reunites with her high school sweetheart Cheng Yuan, only to discover he's the investor behind her new project. As the two navigate between business cooperation and rekindled old flames, Lin notices Cheng's wedding ring has mysteriously vanished. She soon uncovers that their decade-old breakup hides a truth far more painful than she ever imagined.
Lin Xiaoman, who failed the college entrance exam, was mocked by villagers as "the most useless kid in the village". His ex-girlfriend, who cheated on him with a rich second-generation from the county town, even sarcastic him, "You'll never turn your life around." But he was determined to make a name for himself in the village—when he found that the old-fashioned apples were unsalable because they were "too rustic", he used short videos to film the warmth of the village and the crisp sweetness of the apples. However, he was doubted by the village head as "not doing proper work" and even had his internet cable cut by competitors secretly. But when the first video went viral, city people drove to buy apples, when the villagers' wallets bulged, and when Xiao Tang, the village secretary's daughter, quietly handed him a bowl of hot porridge and said "I believe in you", Lin Xiaoman finally understood: Counterattack never means running away to the city, but taking root in the village and becoming his own light.
Ice-cold lawyer Li Chenzhou enters a contractual marriage with a seemingly helpless girl to escape family pressure. On their wedding night, golden runes ignite on her fingertips, unleashing ancient powers dormant for millennia. As shadowy conglomerates launch deadly schemes, Li discovers his demure bride is the primordial Dark Sovereign who controls life and death. Their 'chance encounter' was an elaborate vengeance plot spanning centuries. With the contract expiration looming, three prophecies begin to unfold – and the fate of worlds hangs on whether he can ignite her long-dead human heart.
A mysterious diary records events that are about to happen in the future. The protagonist accidentally obtains this diary and starts acting according to its predictions, only to gradually realize that things are not as simple as they seem.
In a 1965 northwest Shanxi village, time-traveler Lin Xiaoman is at her wits' end—her dad is a "cunning old fox" who sneaks feed to the production team's cattle, her mom a "fiery Wang Xifeng" who out-yells any villager in a fight, and her brother a "little devil" who climbs roofs if unpunished for three days. The whole village calls their family a "den of oddballs," but when Xiaoman hides in a haystack crying over gossip, her dad gives her fruit candies saved for half a month, her mom yells through the village to defend her, and her brother pins her bully in the mud to apologize. Turns out, those "oddballs" are just people pouring all their strength into protecting each other in hard times... When a city-educated youth notices her "uniqueness" and the production team's account books hold secrets, how will this bunch of "oddballs" turn their bitter life into something sweet?
Three days before the wedding, Lin Chuan was dumped by his five-year girlfriend Su Xiao—she left him for a rich second-generation, sneering, "You can't give me what I want." Heartbroken, he squatted outside a convenience store eating instant noodles when his phone suddenly showed a "Sweet Romance System" notification: bind with Xia Wan, the campus belle adored by all boys. Complete tasks for luck buffs; fail and face social death penalties. Xia Wan initially found him "annoying", but his gentleness when wiping a stray cat's paws and tilting the umbrella all to her in the rain slowly melted her heart. When Su Xiao saw their intimate photos and begged to get back together, Lin Chuan smiled and held Xia Wan's hand: "My happiness now comes from her." And the system's ultimate task? "Spend your life with your bound partner."
