The Pretender Emperor

After two months of cohabitation, Carly discovers she is pregnant with Edgar Chapman’s child. Eager to share the news, her world collapses when she encounters him at a gynecology clinic, tenderly supporting Lindsey, his first love, through a prenatal exam. Caught in panic, Edgar chooses to comfort Lindsey when she complains of sudden pain, pleading with a devastated Carly to wait for him. Clutching her secret test result, Carly is left alone to face a crushing betrayal.

Liliana Veyne traded thirteen years of captivity for one mission: enter Supraveil Academy, kill Xaden Draven, and reunite with her lost sister. Disguised as another student, she discovers her borrowed identity carries enemies everywhere and a dangerous history with Xaden's twin, Darian Draven. Surrounded by wolves, witches, and supernatural threats, Liliana fights to avoid exposure while a powerful mage blackmails her into stealing a forbidden book from Xaden. Forced closer to the man she was sent to murder, she battles an overwhelming connection and rumors that intimacy with Xaden means death. As students mysteriously die and dormant powers stir inside her, Liliana uncovers secrets tied to the last sleeping dragon and three powerful men pursuing her.

As an ordinary and unremarkable woman, I never expected to date a wealthy, stunningly handsome partner who treated me with endless warmth and care. My friends always joked that I was a plain frog who had somehow captured a magnificent swan. Eager to improve myself, I underwent cosmetic procedures and learned how to dress fashionably. Yet, the moment my transformation into a beauty was complete, he abruptly broke up with me.

At their engagement party, Luke is blindsided when Oliver Gibson, his fiancée's sworn brother, demands he sign a surrogacy contract. Oliver claims Shannon Hoffman promised him a child years ago, making the contract a condition for the marriage. When Luke confronts Shannon, she carelessly dismisses it as a childhood joke, telling Luke to just sign it to avoid trouble. Heartbroken by her cold indifference, Luke realizes there is no reason to hold on to this relationship and decides to walk away.

After refusing to abandon her successful career, a top architect faces a brutal betrayal from her husband, Franklin, and his mother. To force her into domestic submission, Franklin steals her museum design and leaks it, causing her public ruin. They gloat over her downfall, believing she is trapped. However, they have no idea who she really is. With a single phone call, she fires Franklin from his subsidiary job and prepares to take her rightful place as the Sterling Group's new CEO.

A quiet holiday morning turns into a nightmare when Chase returns home at four-seventeen. As his wife folds their child's laundry, she expects his usual warm greeting. Instead, a simple forehead kiss exposes a devastating betrayal. Lingering on his skin is the sweet, heavy scent of jasmine—her cousin's signature perfume. This modern novel unravels a heartbreaking story of shattered trust, forbidden desire, and a family torn apart by a devastating secret.