The Emperor Is a Pawn

After Lisa Thornton straps her lifelong friend Dominic to four massive drones during a school assembly, he becomes a viral laughingstock to impress her crush, Steven Baxter. Forced to hover helplessly until the batteries fail, Dominic returns to the ground only to face further mockery. When he finally chooses to sever their ten-year bond, Lisa is blindsided. This modern young adult romance explores the breaking point of a toxic friendship and the fallout of a cruel public betrayal.

While she quietly tended to her poultry in the countryside, her husband, Jasper Coleman, led a scandalous double life in the city. His reckless affairs resulted in secret twins, for whom he threw a grand hundred-day banquet. Unwilling to be cast aside, she crashes the high-society event with two of her wildest roosters. Confronting a pale, panicked Jasper in front of his guests, she delivers a humiliating public toast that exposes his infidelity to the entire room.

For five years, Patrick Dempster worked tirelessly as a food delivery driver, dedicating his hard-earned salary to fund his girlfriend Eloise Shaquille’s postgraduate tuition and daily expenses. But once her graduation finally arrives, Eloise confronts him with a harsh reality: a highly educated graduate and a simple delivery man no longer belong to the same social class. Heartbroken and trembling, Patrick fears the worst, only for Eloise to deliver a life-changing proposal.

After three years of marriage, Selina Miller is forced to endure a tragic abortion while her husband, David Wilson, cares for his ex-girlfriend. Selina immediately divorces him, claiming a $100 million settlement before revealing her true identity as the Robinson family's long-lost heiress. Now managing a billion-dollar company, she is guarded by her elite brothers. When David discovers the truth about their lost child, he is consumed by a guilt that no amount of wealth can ever fix.

Florist Scarlett’s world collapses when Alpha Kaelen Blackwell mistakes her for Fiona, his missing bride. Trapped in a gothic estate, she is coerced into marriage to help his ailing grandmother. While Blackwell's relatives scheme for his ruin, Scarlett navigates a lethal ultimatum. Despite her existing engagement, she is drawn to her captor. To endure the surrounding threats, she must finally expose her hidden identity as a legendary healer.

While visiting her own premium auto shop, a powerful female executive is mistaken for a low-level employee by an entitled socialite. The stranger demands a car wash and hurls a ten-cent coin as an insult, mocking the protagonist's perceived poverty. However, the situation escalates when the woman claims her mother-in-law is the chairman of the Penzo Group. Unfazed, the true owner calls Leo Penzo directly to confront the blatant lie and reveal her identity as the actual person in charge.