Abusive Characters
Beyond the Springtime Dream
The third time my parents came to order me to pay my brother’s gambling debts, I tossed a dagger onto the ground.
“Fine.
One finger for a thousand taels.”
As they had so many times before, they cursed and lunged to beat me.
A guard caught them by the backs of their necks and pinned them to the ground.
I raised an eyebrow.
The guard kindly taught them to kowtow.
“Repeat after me—We greet Her Highness, the noble consort.”
Yaoniang
My father was an imperial censor, and nothing mattered to him more than his reputation.
He had fathered me on a prostitute.
Mother and I were the greatest stains on his life, and he would have liked nothing better than to be rid of us.
Wings Beyond the Cage
I was the only child in our village with no siblings.
My classmates envied me.
“Your parents must spoil you rotten.”
What they did not know was that my status as an only child had been stolen.
The Shattered Canary
When General Lin Zhao returns from the northern frontier with a beautiful, unconventional young woman, Cheng Qingqing fears she is about to lose the husband she has loved since childhood.
Then Xu Liuzhao tells her an impossible truth: their world is a book, and Qingqing is its doomed heroine—a treasured canary destined to be abused, blamed, and caged by three powerful men.
Xu Liuzhao came to save her.
To survive, Qingqing must unlearn everything she was taught about love, obedience, and a woman’s place—and discover how far she is willing to go to claim her freedom.
The Coward Who Married a Monster
Gu Lin is a notoriously timid player who survives the Infinite Horror Game only by hiding behind her powerful boyfriend, Li Jingchi.
When a harmless slogan mutates into a world rule and hurls her into an SSS-rank wedding instance, she wakes beside a charred, many-armed entity that insists she is its wife.
To escape, Gu Lin must decode the rules, confront the man who sacrificed her, and decide whether the monster she fears is truly more dangerous than the humans she once trusted.
Fortune Favors Shengsheng
My younger sister was blessed with heaven-defying luck, while I was a walking disaster.
Only later did I learn that she had bonded with a system.
She could choose one person to suffer misfortune and turn that misfortune into luck for herself.
I was the unlucky person she chose.
Then I bonded with a system too.
Mine had only one function: rewrite.
My sister remained lucky, but the people paying the price became my father, my mother, my brother, her boyfriend…
And she successfully turned herself into a jinx despised by everyone equally.
Furong Bows No More
Li Furong spends three years saving Xie Qingheng through exile, only to be dismissed before his powerful friends as nothing more than a loyal servant.
When the man who promised her a future breaks his word and forces her into a nameless place in his household, she turns every lesson in survival against him.
Trapped among noblewomen as dangerous as the men who command them, Furong must decide how much of herself she will sacrifice to win the one thing she has always wanted: a life that belongs to her.
The Ninth Daughter
Everyone in the capital knows that every beauty who disappears into Minister Luo’s rear courtyard carries him one step higher in office.
Born mute—or so the household believes—his ninth daughter survives by making herself small and useful to the family’s favored eldest daughter.
As sisters are sold, married, and sacrificed for the ambitions of men, Ah Jiu realizes that obedience will never buy her freedom.
To escape the Luo estate alive, she must wager the one thing society says determines a woman’s future: her face.
The Antique Gambit
My scumbag husband beat me and threw me out of the house.
Then, out of nowhere, I gained the ability to see what things were worth.
With the last ten yuan in my pocket, I bought a piece of junk.
I turned around and sold it for more than ten million.
The Counterattack of the Original Wife
A gripping tale of betrayal, revenge, murder mystery, hidden identities, an original wife’s counterattack, and one woman’s awakening.
Qin Jiajia, granddaughter of the renowned painter Qin Mo, loses her womb and then her life in a fire after being betrayed by her husband, Zhong Mingjiang, and his mistress, Luo Xia.
But soon afterward, an anonymous text appears on Luo Xia’s phone.
“A life for a life. Your reckoning is here. Are you ready?”
On his way home from work, Zhong Mingjiang encounters something equally horrifying: photographs of Qin Jiajia’s charred, mutilated body suddenly appear inside his car, along with a blood-soaked uterus on the passenger seat.
Every chilling incident leads back to Qin Jiajia’s death.
Trapped in boundless terror, the cheating husband and his mistress cry out for help, but no one answers….