Returning to the moment her reputation was destroyed, Qiao Qiqi changes who gets to tell the story and walks through the front door to the parents she once avoided.
An injured maid faces confiscation and prison with a hidden store of supplies, a frightened companion, and almost no privacy in which to use her advantage.
Nineteen-year-old Gu Qibao wants distance after a confused encounter with Di Mingjue, while relatives treat their marriage as a problem to settle between themselves.
Ji You can polish discarded seeds into jewelry. Before she can sell a bracelet, she needs somebody on the Star Network to stop laughing long enough to look at it.
Back in a village she once wanted to escape, Gu Jin recognizes an injured boy and makes a promise that must survive his distrust and her household’s shortage of food.
A fugitive finds a shop beyond his pursuers' reach, where the proprietor takes his impossible request seriously and his expectations about immortals much less so.
Opening chapters 1–8 of the first story arc · catalogue entries 1–8
Back in her mother’s market with an engagement to break and an admission letter to find, Xiaoqian knows exactly whom to blame. Then her mother picks up a brick.
Tiana escapes a marriage arrangement, turns her family’s acting ambitions against them, and tests whether fans can replace the worshippers she once had.
An unwanted obligation follows Qingxin out of a hotel, into a family betrayal, and finally into a job where selling a drink is mistaken for offering herself.
Qiao Sang cannot answer this world’s school questions, but choosing her first beast teaches her about money, trust, and the gap between a cute face and a quiet temperament.
Four years before her death, Xuexue can hear her foster mother fussing over her sickbed again. What can she do for a woman who has grown used to being hurt?
Opening review of complete story chapters 1–9, including the narrative prologue.
Mu Anhan swims away from the man she tried to elope with and straight toward her husband’s rescue boat. Back home, getting her three-year-olds to come within reach proves much harder.
Five-year-old Jiaojiao inherits a beloved place in the Ruan household, along with memories of a story that threatens everyone feeding and protecting her.
Yufei wakes up grieving a baby nobody else remembers. Back in the same marriage, she makes a change her husband notices the night he comes home to a dark bedroom.
Three months and a storage space give Evelyn a spectacular head start, but a flooded apartment building keeps bringing people to the door she has worked so hard to secure.