Forced marriage

Luce, the daughter of a duke, falls into despair after her stepsister steals her fiancé. As a replacement, she is arranged to marry Arnolfo, a man feared by all and known as the “Marquis of Death.” Before facing this unwanted marriage, Luce decides to make one last memory as a single woman by attending a masquerade ball—where she ends up spending a night with a mysterious man. She intends to keep that night as a secret tucked away in her heart… until she meets her husband for the first time on their wedding day—only to discover that he is the very same man from that one-night encounter! Luce doesn’t want him to think she’s a shameless woman who plays around at night, so she decides not to reveal her identity. However, Arnolfo sweetly desires her every night, and she finds herself giving in again… just like that night!

The female lead, Jian Yan, was forced into marriage by her stepmother and ended up becoming a hot topic online. To resolve the situation, she agreed to marry Gu Linxiu, the male lead, whom she had just met. Jiang Yan believed that Gu Linxiu was wealthy, disabled in both legs and was still mourning a lost love. In reality, while the wealth was real, the disability was just a misunderstanding and the "lost love" wasn't gone at all. It was her. After seeing an entire wall covered of photos of her and Gu Linxiu from their youth, along with candid shots of her taken from different angles, Jiang Yan was completely stunned. No one even told her she was in this kind of relationship?

Two families who loathe each other to the core: Vermonte and Temnes. Clodel becomes the sacrificial offering for a forced reconciliation, marrying Kaian, the Duke of Temnes. “So you’re a bride unwelcomed by Temnes. Know your place and walk in on your own feet.” Kaian treats her coldly, as the heir of a family locked in long-standing hostility. “How admirable. Selling yourself to a man from your enemy’s house because of starving children.” For him, it was an unwanted marriage. For her, it was a marriage she chose. Clodel endured the humiliation poured upon her— she had not come here ignorant of what awaited her. Between the two, a fragile bond of husband and wife begins to take root. Gradually, he grows obsessed with Clodel, and she finds a reason to live in Kaian. But a shallow, unstable relationship is easily shattered and ruined. “It’s disgusting—mixing such filthy blood. It’s not like you can split a child in half.” Upon learning her husband’s true feelings, Clodel leaves him behind.

Natalia Soares lived a quiet life, peacefully growing crops in the lush territory of Flourish. But one day, she is suddenly chosen as a fiancée candidate for Lulof Vandiego, the "Villainous Emperor" of the Beauvoir Empire. Lurof is a peerlessly cruel emperor who built his empire in a single generation. His purges were so severe that he was even rumored to have "black blood" flowing through his veins. Arriving at the imperial capital filled with anxiety, Natalia is met by a young boy who suddenly brandishes a knife at her—it's Lurof's eldest son, Livio. There is the eldest son, Livio, who has closed off his heart, and his little brother, Reindert. As Natalia struggles to close the distance between herself and the two children, Lurof is, for some reason, rushing the engagement from behind the scenes. It turns out that Natalia secretly possesses a "special power" that is indispensable to the empire's prosperity—? Simply becoming the emperor's consort isn't enough to make them a true family. To become a mother to his children and melt the cold emperor's heart, Natalia's struggle begins now—!