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BOUGHT AND CONQUERED

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Lily Chen is drowning. Her small fashion design studio is three months from collapse. Her mother needs surgery she can't afford. Her best friend suggests something desperate: auction off a date with herself on a luxury bidding platform. Just one date. Just enough money to survive. Mysterious billionaire Xavier Thorne wins with a bid that makes the entire room gasp. But he doesn't want the date. He wants her. He shows up at her studio the next morning, checkbook ready, buying the original designs she refuses to sell. He wins her fashion show sponsorship from a rival brand, crushing them with a single phone call. He pays her medical debt without asking. He appears everywhere she goes, inserting himself into her life like he owns the right to be there. Lily thinks he's playing a game. A rich man's entertainment. A temporary obsession. She doesn't understand that Xavier has been watching her for two years. That every problem she's faced, he's wanted to solve. That the auction was just his excuse to finally touch her, finally claim her, finally make her his. What starts as her desperation becomes his possession. What he means as protection, she experiences as control. And when the truth emerges about why Xavier is so desperate to keep her close, Lily must decide: Is he a savior who loves her, or a predator hiding behind diamonds?
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The Villainess Who Refused to Kneel — Five Monsters Claimed Her

They called her a traitor. A witch. A jealous fiancée who tried to kill the Crown Prince. On the day of her execution, as snow fell like a blessing, Seraphina Valemont smiled. Because she knew the truth. She had been framed. And the man she loved — Crown Prince Lucian Aurelius — chose the throne over her. The blade fell. She died. And then she woke up. Three years before her execution. On the night of her engagement banquet. This time, she will not beg. She will not love blindly. And she will never kneel for a man who once let her die. If the empire wants a villainess— She will become one. But something is different in this timeline. The Crown Prince who once abandoned her begins to chase. The war-scarred General watches her like she’s a battlefield he wants to conquer. The cursed Duke smells the storm beneath her skin. The Imperial Mage remembers her execution. And the Merchant King decides she might be worth more than the Crown itself. Five powerful men. Five dangerous obsessions. One woman who refuses to belong to any of them. Jealousy ignites. Politics unravel. War approaches. And as secrets from her first death resurface, Seraphina realizes— She isn’t just rewriting her fate. She’s rewriting the empire. But when monsters begin to claim what they desire… Will she choose a king? Choose all five? Or burn the throne to ash and walk away alone? This time, the villainess won’t die smiling. This time— She wins.
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