The Quinlans think ten thousand is a generous farewell for the girl whose blood kept their daughter alive. Wait until they see who has a seat waiting for her at dinner.
Lily runs out on an unfaithful husband, loses her contact lenses, and rings the wrong bell. The next morning, her in-laws make a worse mistake. They ask who has been paying for her life.
Sophie Sullivan remembers her name. Her captors know the number on her file. Now she has a locked room, an eight-metre drop, and a reason to start tying knots.
Anne Sutton takes her sister’s place in a powerful household, determined to protect her family and make her former fiancé answer to a different relationship.
He Tiantian finally gets the devoted family she wanted, then discovers that the same gift for making people feel cherished is also her parents' business strategy.
Opening chapters 1–8 of the first story arc · catalogue entries 1–8
A former soldier returns to her frail schoolgirl body with a family to save, only to find that changing their habits may be harder than remembering the danger ahead.
Qin Mu returns for a fashion show and finds her work trip turned into a marriage she did not agree to, with a child waiting in the life she meant to resume.
Anning takes another woman’s place with three wishes to fulfill, while a reborn older sister treats their shared household as a contest over somebody else’s future.
Gu Tong returns to the first week of an uneasy marriage, just as an overcrowded hospital offers her a chance to change both a patient’s fate and her husband’s opinion.
Shi Nuan expects to deliver a forgotten gift and leave. By morning, family interests, a powerful rescuer, and her missing car have made that simple errand impossible to untangle.
First eight distinct story chapters · catalogue entries 1–10
Lily Turner walks away from betrayal on her wedding eve, only to find that escape gives powerful strangers and familiar enemies new ways to control the account.
Three-year-old Bai Zhi’er carries a modest gift into an intimidating palace, where finding her father also means discovering how dangerous his protection can be.
Ariel Morris returns to rescue a failing company. Arlo Seys hears the woman he cannot forget asking for a business appointment, and neither is ready for the meeting.
Su Han’s relatives want to exchange his future for an alliance. His father objects, and the former emperor inside the ruined prodigy has plans of his own.