The Best Season Has Already Passed

When gifted cellist Vivienne Aurel inherits her late father's catastrophic $4.2 million debt, she expects to lose everything. She doesn't expect the debt to be bought by Caspian Vane, the most feared private equity magnate in New York. Caspian doesn't want to ruin her; he wants her to work exclusively for him as the artistic director of his new cultural foundation for eighteen months. Forced into his world under a binding agreement, Vivienne prepares to fight against a cold, transactional cage. But as the intense, quiet proximity between them begins to blur the lines of their contract, she discovers a terrifying truth: the man who now owns her future has been watching her from the shadows long before she ever knew his name.

After being brutally fed to dogs by her husband’s secretary on her birthday, Claire dies in agony while John Garnett ignores her pleas for help. Her remains are buried in his backyard, intended to serve as a silent witness to his infidelity. However, the black rose seeds she held in death sprout a month later under a heavy rain. As John begins to wonder where she has gone, a supernatural transformation takes root. This dark romance and mystery explores a soul's thirst for vengeance.

The marriage between Joslyn and Kade was a union of two prominent families in the city, but it also hid her deep, unrequited love. Five years ago, she believed that Kade had lost his sexual function due to a car accident while saving her, so she willingly accepted a platonic marriage. She even continuously invested the profits of the her family into the his family to ease her guilt. It wasn't until a chance encounter that she discovered Kade's affair with his childhood sweetheart, Scarlett, that she realized the so-called "secret illness" was all a lie. Kade had not only fully recovered but had been spiking her drinks with sleeping pills for a long time. Moreover, due to a misunderstanding from when she returned from being taken away by her uncle-mistakenly deemed as being from a "place of ill repute"-he considered her "dirty" and deliberately kept his distance. More cruelly, the car accident back then was not to save her but because Kade was on his way to pick up Scarlett at the airport. The series of betrayals and schemes finally awakened Joslyn. Under constant threat from Kade and Scarlett, she faced numerous dangers-from being pushed in front of a knife, undergoing skin grafts, to nearly falling off a cliff due to tampered brakes. Ultimately, she decided to sever ties with the past and, with her uncle's assistance, went abroad. Overseas, Joslyn found her true self, pursued a PhD in finance, and took over her family business. Unexpectedly, she encountered Kade again while dealing with gangsters. Kade, now truly remorseful, did everything to protect her from the gang, even sacrificing the his family's interests, yet it couldn't undo the past wounds. Meanwhile, Kade's half-brother, Nicolas, allied with Scarlett to disrupt the family inheritance. In the end, both Nicolas and Kade perished in an explosion. Years later, Joslyn became a CEO. She let go of past love and hatred, established a foundation to support African communities in accordance with Kade's last wish, and shifted her life's focus to greater love and responsibility, embarking on a new chapter truly her own.

After their family's bankruptcy, her sister begged her to marry the reputedly violent Julian Valerius. But when Julian became a doting billionaire CEO and her sister ended up penniless, jealousy drove her sister to push her into traffic. Reborn before the wedding, she watches her sister greedily claim the wealthy marriage alliance. She gladly steps aside, knowing the dark truth: her sister has willingly rushed into the clutches of a tormenting pervert to bear his heir.

Davidson supported Claire's rise to success before retiring to raise their daughter, Nancy. When he attempts to book a lavish $18,000 banquet for Nancy’s tenth birthday, he discovers their funds have vanished. Claire blames the high costs of bribing a corrupt new government official to secure a business bid. However, Davidson knows the truth: his own father is the official in question. Realizing his wife is deceiving him, he sets out to uncover the real destination of their fortune.

After five years of marriage to Blake Sullivan, Karen tries to reclaim her husband's heart by forcing his mistress away. Her plan backfires when Blake responds with cold-blooded vengeance, bankrupting her family and forcing her father into a humiliating submission. Now, the billionaire turns his sights on Karen, determined to make her pay. In The Nasty Side of Love, Karen must endure the brutal reality of Blake's wrath as he vows to show her what hell on earth is truly like.