3 Book(s) Related to he broke

"You were meant to be my death. Instead, you've become my damnation."
Aria Thornwell has spent three years as a healer in her town, attempting to forget the night her former fiancé publically humiliated her by selecting her affluent stepsister instead—taking Aria's family fortune with him. Now, she lives quietly, utilizing her skill to aid the underprivileged while her stepfamily flaunts their stolen fortune.

But on the winter solstice, everything changes. She's chosen as the ceremonial bride for the vampires' holy Winter Feast—a "honor" that guarantees death at daybreak following the Christmas Eve rite. Dragged to the Crimson Vale with five other human tributes, Aria is prepared to meet her fate with dignity.

Until she meets him.

Lord Sebastian Thorne, the ancient vampire who has presided over the Winter Feast for eight centuries, is meant to drain her at dawn following the binding ritual. It's tradition. It's law. It's survival—the ceremonial blood maintains the vampire realm for another year.

But as Sebastian's lips brush her throat in the ceremonial hall, something unbelievable happens. Her blood doesn't simply sustain him—it wakes something in him that's been dead for generations. And in a move that shocks the whole vampire court, he refuses to complete the rite.
"This one is mine," he proclaims, his old strength sweeping the hall. "Anyone who touches her answers to me."

Trapped in the Obsidian Palace as Sebastian's "protected bride," Aria discovers three frightening truths: Sebastian isn't protecting her out of mercy—he's dying from an ancient curse, and her blood is the only thing keeping him alive past Christmas; the vampire court will do anything to kill her and reinstate the ritual; and her "ordinary" healer's gift is actually a rare and dangerous power that vampire nobility has been hunting for generations.

Jiang Xiaoning had been married to Wen Zeyan for five years, yet she was driven into utter despair by the scheming of Wen Nuannuan, her husband’s adopted sister.
A single glass of water led to her being forcibly tattooed with the character “Slave”. Secret photos in the attic, frame-ups on the stairs, forced kneeling on broken glass—Wen Zeyan’s favoritism and cruelty pushed her into the abyss step by step.
To make things even worse, she was locked in a dog cage, treated as an auction item, and the relics left by her mother were also taken away.
Just when she was completely hopeless, Gu Zhan, the heir of the Gu family, saved her at a sky-high price. He turned out to be someone she had helped unknowingly in her childhood.
After going through all the betrayal and suffering, Jiang Xiaoning cut off her past. Protected by Gu Zhan, she covered the humiliating tattoo with honeysuckle patterns and stepped into a new, happy life.

Everyone said I was just a shadow of Ethan, that I was nothing without him.
So during the tryouts, to comfort his "scared" sweetheart, he let go mid-jump, almost costing me my life.
He was betting I couldn't leave him, that I'd forgive him like I did the last eighteen times.
But he lost.
This time, I didn't cry or throw a fit.
I simply tossed the apartment key that symbolized our seven years together into the trash, then turned and walked toward my own world championship.