My Ex-Boyfriend is The Almighty Client

For three years, concert pianist Thea endured the gilded cage of her marriage to billionaire CEO Julian. While high society envied her, she was forced to beg his chief of staff, Ava, for every cent. When Ava intentionally blocks the emergency funds needed to save Thea's injured hands, her musical career is permanently shattered. Realizing Julian’s doting persona is a sham, Thea decides she is done. With her dreams ruined, she prepares to file for divorce and walk away forever.

After three years of a hollow marriage, Jane decides she has had enough of her husband Drake’s coldness and his lingering feelings for his first love. She chooses to leave, seeking a fresh start away from the billionaire’s shadow. However, her departure triggers an unexpected change in Drake. Realizing the depth of his loss, he begins a desperate pursuit to reclaim the woman he once ignored, hoping to prove his devotion and win her back.

While picking up his son from an elite preschool, Kyrie Stone’s father is confronted by Adam O’Neil, a judgmental parent who mistakes his dusty construction site attire for poverty. Adam blames Kyrie for his own daughter’s academic struggles and mocks the father’s apparent low status. Unaware that the Stone family actually owns the prestigious institution, Adam continues his aggressive verbal assault, leaving the billionaire father stunned by the man's sheer arrogance and baseless assumptions.

"Still playing dirty, Huntress?" he taunted, pinning me with those piercing grey-blue eyes. "Still hiding behind your daddy's money, Reaper?" I shot back, my blood boiling. Lanaya Roux and Maverick Hayden are college hockey royalty-and bitter rivals. As the captains of competing university teams, their hatred on the ice is matched only by the legendary feud between their billionaire families' empires. But when their ruthless fathers force them into a fake engagement to secure an $18 billion corporate merger, Lanaya and Maverick are thrown into the ultimate game of survival. The rules are simple: Live together in the same penthouse. Smile for the cameras. Pretend to be madly in love for six months. It was supposed to be strictly business. But behind closed doors, the venom they spit at each other quickly morphs into a scorching, undeniable addiction. Maverick is an arrogant, aggressively protective alpha who refuses to let her go, and Lanaya is the fiercely independent captain who refuses to submit. Beneath their explosive chemistry lies a devastating secret: a shared tragedy from eight years ago that claimed the life of Lanaya's brother and shattered their innocent childhood bond. With the national hockey championship on the line, scandalous secrets surfacing, and unseen enemies sabotaging their every move, the line between love and hate has never been so dangerous. What happens when the fake engagement to your worst enemy becomes the only real thing in your life?

Knowing the tragic plot of the book, a mother realizes the sweet sixteen-year-old girl she raised is actually a wealthy family's biological daughter. In the original story, this gentle girl returns to her rich biological parents only to be ostracized and driven out by the scheming fake daughter. Armed with this knowledge, the mother embraces her obedient child and vows to shield her from this lonely fate, determined to rewrite her destiny and protect her from the impending heartbreak.

After eighteen years of sacrifice, Shea Wilde is betrayed on the day her foster son becomes valedictorian. Her supposedly deceased friend, Lilian Reyes, resurfaces with a wealthy lover to reclaim the boy for a massive inheritance. Instead of gratitude, Shea is met with a meager payout and her son’s cruel disdain. Consumed by rage, Shea dies only to wake up in the past. This time, she refuses the burden and sends the infant to an orphanage to reclaim her own life.