Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
A hotel caught fire, and among the trapped people I saw my girlfriend, who had claimed she was overseas on a business trip.
Her clothes were disheveled, and she was nestled intimately in the arms of her male secretary.
After we were…
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English · Contemporary
Three days before my wedding.
My fiancé suddenly called me and said he had come from five years in the future.
“Our wedding has to be postponed!”
“Otherwise, three days from now, you’ll become depressed and kill yourself at the wedding…
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English · Contemporary
My wife casually gave the keepsake I had worn for ten full years after my father’s death to her male best friend, who had just returned from overseas.
She said, “It’s just a cheap little peach-wood charm. Ryan’s been having terrible…
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English · Contemporary
“Ma’am, your husband completed the equity transfer registration yesterday. You now own zero shares.”
The lawyer slid the corporate registration documents toward me and pointed to the signature on the last page.
The three wildly scrawled…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Ethan Moore, suffers from severe social anxiety.
Whenever he goes outside, he has to wear a baseball cap and a mask, fully covering himself.
Whenever marriage comes up, he becomes so resistant that his entire body…
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English · Contemporary
My wife had cheated, and my son wasn’t mine either.
She had told me that herself on our wedding day.
But by chance, I discovered that my son had the same extremely rare Rh-negative blood type as I did.
I secretly took a paternity test…
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English · Contemporary
Vivian had severe depression and was always trying to end her life.
Every time before she slit her wrists, she would go to the church and pray for me.
"I'll gladly trade my life for Maya's success in career and love."
Maybe God heard…
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English · Contemporary
One week before our wedding, my phone rang with a call from an unknown number.
Julian had been kidnapped. The kidnapper gave me an ultimatum: wire three million dollars in twenty-four hours, or Julian would be dead.
I hadn't worked in a…
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English · Contemporary
Six years of marriage. I gave up my career to focus entirely on taking care of our home.
Then came the text and photo from his so-called unforgettable ex.
"Thanks for the gift, Chase! I love it so much. Elena is truly the luckiest woman…
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English · Contemporary
On our weekend getaway, my boyfriend, my brother, my childhood best friend, and our friend Chloe agreed to shoot a travel documentary together.
I wrote the script. I rented all the gear.
We made a pact that everyone would appear on…
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English · Contemporary
During my third miscarriage, Caleb’s childhood sweetheart called, threatening to jump off a building.
Once again, Caleb abandoned me in the operating room just for her.
He said, "Serena’s life is in danger! I have to go save her!"
That…
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English · Contemporary
My girlfriend rigged the championship fight, handing the gold medal I had bled for to her golden boy.
All because he already had bronze and silver—and only needed gold to complete his collection.
At the victory party, she casually told…
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English · Contemporary
My wife tampered with my paragliding gear.
All so her first love could take home the championship.
By the time I noticed the defect mid-air, it was already too late.
In the final seconds of my life, I called her.
Before I could even…
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English · Contemporary
I was an A-list movie queen’s dirty little secret.
To the world, she was an fiercely independent, career-driven single woman.
Behind closed doors, she openly flirted with pretty young college boys.
Whenever I dared to ask, she would…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
PROLOGUE
After Julian broke his promise for the hundred and thirty-eighth time, I heard him tell his friends the cold, ugly truth.
I was just a stand-in. A pathetic stray who looked like Camilla, someone who couldn't survive without the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
PROLOGUE
Five and a half years ago, to save my dying mother, I signed a contract to become a wealthy heir's secret stand-in wife.
For two thousand days, I took care of Julian Vance’s every need. I raised his son, kept his home, and…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Prologue
I loved Julian Sterling for eight long years. For eight years, I genuinely believed I would one day become his bride.
Until I ran straight into his wife, Vivian.
Not only had they been married for three years, but they also had…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Ex's Wedding, Hypocritical Tears, Vengeance, Face-Slapping
At his ex’s wedding, my husband cried.
In the six years we’d been married, it was the first time I had ever seen him shed a tear.
He hadn’t even cried at my father’s…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Family Trauma, Anguish, Golden Child vs. Scapegoat, Fake Disability, Ghost POV
On the day I died, my biological parents were busy throwing a lavish birthday gala that had the whole city buzzing—for their adopted daughter.
To pay…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Sensory Sensitivity, Provocation, Home Invasion, Broken Engagement, Sweet Revenge
I have had severe sensory hypersensitivity to pungent odors since I was born.
Yet, for the ninety-ninth time, my fiancé, Justin Hayes, brought…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Hidden Surgery Schedule, Stealing the Lead Surgeon Spot, Scheming Golden Boy, Instant Karma
When the hospital director's mother was admitted in critical condition, my wife intentionally hid the surgery schedule from me just so her…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
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My fiancée posted a video clip on SnapChat, and forgot to mute the sound.
From the background, I heard a man call her name: "Would you ever use your hand to help him with his needs?"
Chloe answered, "No."
"I earn a seven-figure…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Everyone assumed I jumped from the eighteenth floor of the Hayes family penthouse because of postpartum depression.
Only I knew the true breaking point. It was what I overheard my husband, Julian, telling the love of his life:
"She's…
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English · Contemporary
The day the wealthy Vance family brought me back, my scumbag biological father tossed a fifty-million-dollar black card at my face.
"Learn from your sister. Don't go out there embarrassing us."
Evelyn clung to his arm, giggling.
"Dad,…
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