It has been six years since Jessica Quinn fell deeply in love with the cold and aloof Harlan Spencer at first sight. After much effort, she finally married him, but their two-year marriage remains unconsummated. By chance, Jessica discovers Harlan harbors an unhealthy obsession with his non-biological sister, Talia Spencer, whom he dotes on endlessly.

Switched at birth, Ruby Wright endures twenty years of hardship in the countryside before being returned to the wealthy Wright family—only to be warned not to outshine their beloved adopted daughter. But Ruby is no fool. Beneath her meek facade, she stirs her father's guilt, turning pity into power. While others scheme, she quietly amasses wealth and shares—until the so-called country girl claims her place as the true heiress.

During the Tang Dynasty, Jiang Wanyin, head of the Yunmeng Jiang sect, investigates brutal attacks on wealthy married men and wandering monks. When his nephew Jin Ling reports strange claw marks resembling wolves or foxes, Jiang Cheng ventures into a fog-shrouded forest at night. With Sandu gripped tightly in his hand, he wonders if the legendary huli jing—fox spirits capable of assuming human form—could be more than just children's tales and legends.

Born into a prestigious and wealthy Russian dynasty, Damiano Mikhailov is the heir to a long-standing legacy of influence, power, and ruthlessness. Raised in a strict, emotionally distant household, Damiano learned from an early age that love was a weakness, power was everything, and family prestige must be preserved at all costs. When Hugo Bedeau, a famous medic and researcher, handpicked him as a potential groom for his daughter, Damiano saw it as yet another strategic move. Damiano has a clear, unwavering vision of what his wife should be: demure, obedient, and utterly devoted to him. To him, a marriage is not about love—it is about power, control, and legacy. However, Hugo Bedeau's daughter doesn't seem to fit his ambition of an 'ideal wife.' Kindhearted, graceful, playful, curious, impulsive, and given to flights of fancy, with a mischievous aspect to her personality, she has gained a reputation as a beauty and a seductress, delighting in playing with suitors as though they were her devoted puppies. But for all her playfulness, she has no desire to marry.