Transmigrating into a parallel world and nearly getting hit by a flying car is bad enough. But coming home to find a ridiculously handsome, high-end synthetic butler—along with a staggering $1.25 million debt attached to his activation—is a new level of hell. Tan Li just wants a refund. "Can I return him?" she asks the manufacturer. "Abandoning a synthetic is illegal, ma'am," the rep replies. Fine. How bad can it get? Terror Event #1: What if the synthetic butler has a real human template—and that template is a dangerously obsessive man who looks exactly like him? Terror Event #2: While working a dangerous gig, Tan Li runs into a dead acquaintance walking and talking. What kind of haunted city is this? Terror Event #3: Her boyfriend comes back from a mission with total amnesia. Perfect. Maybe it's time for a clean breakup? Except, when Tan Li meets the elusive and elegant Mr. Xie Zhen, he holds her hand a little too long. "I apologize," he says, smiling politely with a chillingly dark look in his eyes. "It's just... you share the exact same name as my wife." Tan Li is tough, sharp-tongued, and totally unfazed by ghosts. But she might have just met her match in a deceptively gentle man who is definitely not what he seems.

She is a legendary healer with a deadly poison in her veins, a severe case of OCD, and a blood-soaked revenge to execute. Jiang Wanzhou has exactly three rules for life: no nonsense, no noise, and no reckless fools. Then she saves Lou Cheng. He is loud, he is reckless, and he has a mouth that could annoy a saint to death. He possesses all three of her most hated traits, yet he refuses to leave her side. “A life debt must be repaid with marriage!” the shameless prince declares. Jiang Wanzhou has no time for romance. She plots to get rid of him. Attempt #1: A bowl of laxatives. Attempt #2: A silent escape in the dead of night. Attempt #3, #4... Until the moment she realizes she no longer wants to push him away. But she is a loser in the game of life, with too many enemies. Lou Cheng merely grins, dropping his clownish facade to reveal the terrifyingly capable prince beneath: “Then use me as your pawn, Wanzhou. Command me, let me kill for you. As long as I draw breath, you will never lose again.”

When Caleb and Nora are paired together for a semester-long history project, their opposite worlds collide. Nora is fascinated by the boy who seems so free, yet refuses to let anyone close. Caleb is unnerved by the girl who treats every day like a celebration, despite her uncertain future. As late-night study sessions and small-town adventures unfold, an unspoken understanding grows between them. They are both secretly pining, both terrified of ruining the delicate balance they've built. But as graduation looms and decisions about their futures creep closer, they must decide if they are willing to cross the lines they’ve drawn.