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At a young age, Durua Valrose realizes that she’s been reincarnated as the villainess of a novel who is destined to die at the hands of the male protagonist, Nocturne Edgar. Determined to change her fate, she tries to befriend Nocturne, but little does she know that he is the only living black mage who can hear, sense, and even control people’s thoughts and emotions. To Nocturne, Durua is an enigma. She is the first person that he’s encountered who is not susceptible to his magic, a fact that makes him feel both intrigued and intimidated at the same time. The two form a strained friendship, but Durua has no idea whether the story is changing for better or worse. Will she be able to rewrite her ending and escape death?

What’s age when it comes to true love? For Seung-oh, his age is becoming quite the concern. Twelve years older than his boyfriend, even the ten years they’ve already spent together seems to fade away in the shadows of his anxiety over aging. Hyeonwoo, meanwhile, couldn’t care less that he’s dating a much older man. His most important concern is the clear change in his partner, and the effect it’s having on their sex life. Determined to show Seung-oh that he’s just as desirable as ever, Hyeonwoo embarks on an adventure of intimacy, sexuality, and affection. Because after all, when it comes to love, age is nothing but a number.

ER doctor Olivia is pregnant with her late husband's baby thanks to in vitro fertilization. However, the friendly smile and captivating eyes of David, the new surgeon from New York, have her heart soaring. She has no intention of entertaining the busy hospital's newest playboy, though. She's planning a quiet, peaceful life with just her and the baby...until she learns that there has been a mistake at the fertility clinic!

To think that I’ll see the Count, my lifesaver, again in this way…! Toni accidentally reunites with her old friend, Paul, when she loses her job in Portugal. Paul begs Toni to replace his fiancée and takes her to his grandmother's house, which is the castle of the Count’s family. It seems that Toni has been involved in a big parody play. Knowing the castle’s owner, Count Raul, makes her even more perplexed. The man who helps her when she almost has an accident is a count, but he thinks of Toni as a villain who is after the family’s property, and he sees her with hatred now!

Jaime just wanted to know the mother who left her. But she found so much more… Jaime came to Bermuda to learn why her mother, Catriona, abandoned her when she was young. Catriona is living on the island under a fake name, and Jaime has left her job and gone to the island to work as her secretary. All Jaime wanted was to know the truth about her mother, but she hadn’t expected this. During Jaime’s trial period as Catriona’s secretary, Dominic begins to hang around her more often than necessary. She’s not beautiful like Catriona, so what is his game?

Did I really make love with this man? Samantha is shocked to find a man by her bed when she wakes up in the hospital. What a handsome and gentle man… But who is he? Where am I? Samantha discovers that she has amnesia due to a car accident and the handsome man is Garrick Randall, her husband and the father of her unborn child! However, she has no memory of their past as lovers… They are married, but for Samantha, they’ve never even kissed before…

Can a fleeting past romance between an optimistic young man and a great actress be resurrected? Julia is an actress who abruptly departed from the silver screen, as well as society, ten years ago. Quinn, a reporter, tracks her down on an island in the Caribbean to negotiate her appearing onscreen for an interview. There is one thing he has not been able to forget since she disappeared all those years ago: the love the two had shared when they were young. As soon as he arrives on the island, he is shocked to see her with a child. But why did she disappear all those years ago? Julia reveals the child she’s with is her son and that she left to start a new life with someone else...

What’s a girl to do when she has sworn off love completely? Get married, of course! When Seunghui Wu is scarred after the end of a relationship eight years ago, she refuses to even consider dating. But when her father comes to her with a old contract he made, promising her to another man’s son, there’s not much she can do. Despite her circumstances, Seunghui is determined to get married on her own terms, which are all conveniently laid out... in a prenup!

【A story by New York Times bestselling author becomes a comic!】Jane and her husband, Demetri, have been living apart for five years when he reappears in her life out of nowhere, asking to officially get a divorce. He’s as charming as ever and Jane is shocked to realize that she’s still in love with him. She starts to panic, and Demetri attempts to calm her down…but they fall into each other’s arms and spend a passionate night together. Jane chalks it up to a simple mistake?a way to get some closure?but destiny has other plans for the couple. Jane is pregnant!

I knew it was only a marriage of gain and loss, but my heart ached... Helen, an aristocratic young woman, accepted a contract marriage to Jake, a wealthy billionaire. When her father died in an accident after spending all his money, Helen was left penniless and with no other choice. For the next three years, Helen played the role of the perfect wife Jake wanted, without sharing a bedroom with him. But now, every time she looked at Jake, she felt a sad ache in her heart. He only wants an elegant, decorative trophy wife. He can't possibly love me...

Matteo’s debonair veneer rubs off the moment he tries to cheat on Grace’s best friend…with Grace! After collapsing due to overwork, Grace visits her friend in Italy to recuperate. There she meets handsome aristocrat Matteo. He’s so gorgeous he takes her breath away. Then her friend proudly announces that she’s pregnant with Matteo's baby. But a few days later, he hits on Grace! How can he imagine that she’d accept his advances when her friend is carrying his child?

Mom ran away with a younger man? Still doubting the situation, Rachel goes on a mission to a Caribbean island. She can't believe that strong and sexy Matthew Brody, who owns the majority of the island along with a hotel and plantation, is really her mother's lover! Rachel begins associating with Matthew under a fake name, but she notices that her heartbeat quickly responds each time he touches her. She longs to lose herself in his sweet invitation... And even though she knows he's her mother's fiance, she offers her body and soul to him!

"He's the only one who will see the real me." Having left the garish modeling world behind her, Lynne moves to the quiet town of Gettysburg. Tired of being praised solely for her looks, she's changed her name and clothes in order to finally live in peace. But on the day she moves into her new apartment, Lynne gets into a dispute with her neighbor Brendan after he trips over some boxes she left in the hallway. Little does Lynne know, Brendan is blind. Light no longer reaches his beautiful eyes. Brendan promptly forgives Lynne for her embarrassing blunder, and before long the seeds of love are sown in the unlikely pair.

Katie decides to set out on the road in the middle of a raging storm. While trying to find cover from the rain, something leads her in the direction of an old castle. There she finds the secluded O’Neal, whose eyes invokea sense of nostalgia in her. Though her stay proves to be eerie, she can’t help but want to know more about O’Neal. It’s as if some unknown force keeps nuedging her to get close to him. Katie decides it’s up to her to set O’Neal free from his chains, but will her feelings hold true once she sees the truth behind his torment?

Robina is the daughter of a poor noble family, and this ball is her first and final attendance in the London Season. It's there that the handsome Lord Exmouth gives her a taste of her first dance. When the sweet music and dreamlike moment are over, he invites her to stay at his estate for the summer! This must be a serious invitation with marriage in mind! The only thing is, she's heard he still isn't over his dead wife...

The Lord d'Arenville has good looks, almost like a Greek sculpture, but has been called the Ice Earl because of the way he treats women. Tallie, a resident tutor, is busy planning a party for him. Then, she accidentally overhears him in conversation: "What I want for my wife, is someone who has good teeth and wide enough hips for childbearing." Is that all he thinks of women? She becomes angrier still when she overhears that he thinks she'd make him a good wife!

The woman the playboy fell for had a sorrowful past… To escape a scandal, Gabe travels to London to stay with his cousin and suggests they trade places for a while when he sees how hard his cousin has to work to maintain his castle and estate. At the castle, Gabe meets Freddie, a woman who claims to be the manager of the place. Being a widow with a daughter to care for, she’s not at all Gabe’s usual type. Yet there’s something about Freddie’s sad past that draws his attention…

Cam, a reporter who leaps into danger and has a reputation as a playboy, returns to Spain for the first time in six months. When he arrives at his villa with a beautiful woman in tow, a quiet widow appears in front of him. Widowed Liz, who's in charge of managing the villa's garden, isn't Cam's type, but he can't get her out of his mind. When she cries at the memory of her late husband, it shocks him. Is there even one woman who would cry for Cam? He realizes he wants a loyal partner. He'll even give up his playboy ways to win one!

“I want you to pretend to be my lover.” At the request of her lovable friend, the old millionaire Kastro, Joanna arrives in Greece to play the part of a wicked woman who deceives the elderly. Sure enough, the Kastro residence is in an uproar over the young lover the sixty-seven-year-old head of the family has brought with him. But a fated meeting awaits her there. It is with old Kastro’s son, Demetrios. Each time she is shot through with his glances of intermingling hostility and jealousy, her body and heart are shaken. But in their positions as a father’s lover and his son, they cannot possibly be drawn together…

Is there more to his kindness than just repaying his debt? Isabel is a tomboy and skilled hunter. She finds herself bewildered by the sudden reappearance of her neighbor Viscount Blackwood. The viscount was recently cleared of charges against him by notes written in Isabel’s father’s journal. Now, six years after the crime, the viscount will do anything to take care of Isabel. His smile has always made her heart race. Is there more to his kindness than just repaying a debt? Isabel is convinced that nothing will ever come between them…until the truth behind the crime forces them to rally together!

When the man she’s always loved can’t see the woman she’s become, Kristin decides to take charge of her life. Ten years her senior, Derek was Kristin’s guardian from the time she was a child. She’s loved him all along and now that she’s twenty-five, she’s decided to propose to him. She knows that he sees her as a little sister and that he still loves his late wife, but she desperately wants to put an end to her lengthy one-sided love. But Derek won’t take her seriously! Disappointed, Kristin decides to start fresh. She’ll change her appearance, display her womanly charms and enjoy a new, more exciting life.

Dominique was in the pits of despair after losing her parents, but John's kindness has helped her to heal. So she moves from England to Brazil in order to marry John, who works for an oil refinery there. However, the person who greets her at the airport is the company's president, Vincente. He seems charming and a little dangerous, and when he kisses Dominique, her heart suddenly wavers...

How could I be attracted to someone who doesn’t even know how to seduce a woman. Dane Ross is a workaholic company president, who gets demanded by his doctor to take a ten-day vacation from work. His secretary, Kathryn Collier enjoys her time without her unfriendly and boring boss, until she receives an urgent call from him, ‘help me! There are baby twins at my door!’ Shocked to hear her boss ask for help, Kathryn drops her work to run to the boss, to see him struggling with two energetic baby girls. Seeing Dane in his normal clothes covered with baby saliva and talking softly while changing diapers…this isn’t the Dane Ross she knows!

"Rent a Husband." Paula, a career woman, jumped at the headline of the newspaper ad. This was exactly the lifesaver she needed! Two years have passed since she lied to her boss about being married to mollify him and his outdated thinking. He won’t admit that single people can be successful. Her hard work has allowed her to move up the ladder, but she felt guilty every time she had to lie. Now her boss has insisted on meeting her husband at a dinner before he will promote her. This ad was her best bet to survive her predicament, so Paula immediately called. But she never would have expected the person she hired to be so attractive!

Olivia looks for her sister at the hometown airport she left behind fifteen years ago only to find the last person she wanted to see—her ex-husband, Joel, whom she'd divorced when they were both too young, poor and proud for commitment. Now that they're both adults, Olivia can't help but notice what an attractive and mature man he's become...and she's filled with regret. On top of that, the two are unable to rekindle their love because of a secret from their past...

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He’s uncovered a shining pearl in the slums of London! English aristocrat Richard meets George in a London slum when he catches the boy stealing. Richard can tell from the boy’s accent that he doesn’t truly belong there, though. Did he run away from home or get kidnapped? Richard decides to take him back home. But after the boy is given a bath, Richard is shocked to find that George is actually a beautiful girl! She confesses that she’s on the run after being forced to marry to pay off her uncle’s debts. Richard finds himself drawn to her…but can he save her?

He fell in love the moment he walked in the door… Patrick is ready to confront Isobel, who’s having an affair with his sister’s husband. But when he meets her, she doesn’t seem like the type to go after a married man. Would his brother-in-law really cheat with such a plain, shabbily dressed woman? Could she be hiding an evil heart under her mask of innocence? And why can’t Patrick stop thinking about her?

Charlotte is about to be married to a British marquis she’s never even met before. When her father’s gambling habits caught up with him, he offered the hand of Clarice, Charlotte’s twin sister, to pay off his debt to the marquis. There’s just one problem—Clarice has gone missing! So Charlotte ends up disguising herself as her twin sister to become the infamous old lecher’s bride in her place. She can’t believe her misfortune…until she meets him face-to-face and learns he’s nothing like she’d imagined. He’s young—and shockingly handsome. But his eyes are full of contempt for Charlotte and his words are full of scorn. It’s true their marriage was born of obligation, but why is the marquis so cruel to her?

Anny has a hunch that the man she's dating is sitting in front of her about to propose. But it's no good…there's someone she just can't forget. At that moment, her cell phone rings. It's a call from her boss at the newspaper telling her that Van Carlisle, a big shot in the business world known for his aversion to the media, has demanded an interview with her! Anny's heart is hit by a violent wave. She met Van as a child, they fell deeply in love with each other and then broke up. He's still the man she loves most in all the world. And now he wants to see her again. But why?

His sweet gaze penetrated my boyish exterior as if he were searching for the truth... In order to uncover the truth behind the death of her uncle, Lady Georgiana dresses up as a boy and heads to London. While chasing after one of the suspects, Viscount Fincham, she finds him being assaulted by strangers. In that moment, without thinking, Georgiana steps in to his rescue. The viscount, captivated by the beautiful eyes of the young boy who came to his rescue, soon realizes that Georgiana is actually a young woman from a commoner family. Unable to contain his curiosity, he gives her a proposition. "Would you work by my side as my personal aid?"

Gustav Bauer, a renowned painter of the world of 12, is called upon by Queen Ephedra to paint her royal portrait. However, the Queen's plans go far beyond what she could have imagined. Involved unwillingly in a dark plan, the artist will realize that fate is cruel and that his destiny will lead him to enter history in a way he had never imagined.

After being bullied in high school, Hana dropped out of school and has been working part-time ever since. One day, she tries to relieve her daily stress by wearing a sailor suit.

It’s all my fault. All Eve wants is to live a quiet life as a teacher, nothing more. But she kept telling herself that all her troubles?being abandoned by her mother, abused by her stepfather?are her own fault. And when she resists an unwelcome kiss from the minister at church, he hisses the same words at her: “It’s all your fault.” Fleeing home, she encounters Jake, who gently consoles her with the words “Nothing is your fault.” Eve feels she’s been saved. But she can’t cling to Jake… He is someone else’s man. Someone else who is obsessed with youth and beauty, and who makes everyone around her miserable…

He is blunt but kind… Is this feeling love? The steady Rhia has worked hard to take care of her free-spirited younger sister as a substitute parent. But not this time. Her sister, who is an unlicensed driver, has a car accident, and her boyfriend, who was riding with her, is in a coma. That man's uncle Jared blames the girl for that, and Rhia is forced to pretend to be her sister who has run away. Jared says his nephew, who has regained consciousness, wants to see Rhia's sister... but that's impossible, because he's blind now! However, the arrogant Jared takes Rhia away in his private jet...

Life never goes the way Carrie expects, just like her stubborn curly hair. It was Friday the 13th and she was having a bad hair day. Unemployed and looking for a job, Carrie was on her way to an interview when she got into a collision with a luxury car. To make matters worse, the car’s handsome driver was also arrogant! And her bad luck didn’t stop with the damage to her car?when she arrived at the interview to meet the company president, Carrie is shocked to discover it’s the same driver she just ran into!

She's an enigma, and she's going to lead my life into further turmoil… Dan's company was on the verge of bankruptcy due to his best friend's betrayal, and his fiancée had run away. One day, he woke up to find a seductive woman named Shannon in his room. "You were so passionate yesterday," she said, but despite her bold words, there was a mysterious side to her that is hidden. Dan tried to get rid of Shannon, who in turn tried to stay with him with promises he doesn't remember, and then they were kidnapped. What is going to happen to me!?