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Seven Seas Licenses Revenged Love, a New Danmei Novel
Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the danmei novel Revenged Love by Chai Ji Dan, arriving in English in early 2027, alongside a 2025 live-action tie-in.
4 min readBy Ethan Mercer
TL;DR: Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the danmei novel Revenged Love by Chai Ji Dan on February 5, 2026. The English volume one arrives in early 2027, and a 2025 live-action tie-in already built the series an international audience.
Key Takeaways
- Seven Seas Entertainment announced its license of Revenged Love (逆袭) by Chai Ji Dan on February 5, 2026.
- The novel runs 283 chapters plus 5 extras and follows a revenge-turned-romance plot between two corporate rivals.
- English volume one is targeted for early 2027 in large-trim paperback.
- A 2025 live-action adaptation, subtitled in English on Viki, YouTube, and GagaOOLala, already built the series an international audience before the print license.
What Happened With the Revenged Love License
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on February 5, 2026 that it has licensed Revenged Love (逆袭), a danmei novel by Chai Ji Dan, as part of a five-title danmei wave that also included Golden Assistant, The Sword Named No Way Out, Transform Me, Mark Me, and Look Up at Me.
The story follows Wu Qiqiong, dumped by his girlfriend after she leaves him for a wealthier man. He reinvents himself as entrepreneur Wu Suowei to prove his worth, only to find his business success blocked by Chi Cheng, his ex's new boyfriend and a spoiled corporate heir. Wu Suowei's plan to get revenge by stealing Chi Cheng away starts as pure spite and stops being simple once real feelings get involved. The original Chinese serialization runs 283 chapters plus 5 extras.
Seven Seas is targeting an English volume one in early 2027, in a large-trim paperback edition under its Danmei imprint.
Why the Revenged Love License Matters
Revenged Love isn't arriving in English cold. A 2025 live-action adaptation, subtitled in English and available on Viki, YouTube, and GagaOOLala, already gave the series an international fanbase before Seven Seas' announcement, which is a meaningfully different path to a licensing deal than a novel that's only ever existed as text. It's also a signal about which corporate-rivals-to-lovers plots are proving exportable: the enemies-to-genuine-feelings structure here is a familiar romance shape that doesn't require deep genre knowledge to follow, which likely helped its screen adaptation cross over to non-Chinese-speaking audiences in the first place.
Bundling it into a five-title announcement alongside Golden Assistant and three other novels also shows Seven Seas continuing to treat danmei as a steady, multi-title category rather than opportunistically picking one breakout hit at a time. For readers deciding whether to wait for the licensed edition, that steadiness matters: a publisher treating a genre as an ongoing program, rather than a one-off gamble, is a reasonable signal that a given title will actually reach a finished print run instead of stalling after volume one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is Revenged Love about? A: Revenged Love follows Wu Qiqiong, dumped by his girlfriend for a richer man, who reinvents himself as entrepreneur Wu Suowei to prove his worth. When his ex's new boyfriend, corporate heir Chi Cheng, blocks his business success, he schemes to steal Chi Cheng away out of spite, only for the revenge plot to turn into real feelings.
Q: Who wrote Revenged Love? A: Revenged Love (逆袭) was written by Chai Ji Dan and runs 283 chapters plus 5 extras in its original Chinese serialization.
Q: When does Revenged Love release in English? A: Seven Seas Entertainment is targeting an English volume one in early 2027, in a large-trim paperback edition under its Danmei label.
Q: Is there a Revenged Love live-action adaptation? A: Yes. A 2025 live-action adaptation is available with English subtitles on Viki, YouTube, and GagaOOLala, and helped build the series' international audience ahead of the print license.
Q: What other danmei titles did Seven Seas announce alongside Revenged Love? A: Seven Seas announced Revenged Love as part of a five-title danmei wave on February 5, 2026, alongside Golden Assistant, The Sword Named No Way Out, Transform Me, Mark Me, and Look Up at Me.
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References
[1] Seven Seas Entertainment: Revenged Love license announcement [2] DanmeiNews.com: five-title danmei license wave, February 2026
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