Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
I was born with a natural milky scent. Any baby who came near me would stop crying.
The owner of the maternity care center was amazed by my talent and offered me a $50,000 salary on the spot to work there.
But I refused immediately…
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English · Contemporary
On May Day, my cousin had a wedding. I specifically turned down several major clients.
I cleared out the top-floor banquet hall of our family's five-star hotel to host her wedding reception for free.
Who knew that during the toasting…
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English · Contemporary
I joked with my husband Damian about having an affair.
Who would've thought he'd let out a long sigh of relief when he heard the news?
"Emma, that's great. Actually, I've been keeping something from you for a long time too."
His face…
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English · Contemporary
After seven blind dates, all seven men ran away.
They all ran off to chase my cousin, Vivian.
My eighth blind date sent me a message at midnight: "Does Vivian have contact info for all your blind dates? She added me first."
A…
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English · Contemporary
After three years together, I stood by Ethan through his rise from nothing to a fortune worth millions.
I thought our struggles were finally over, until I caught him shielding the company's new intern in his arms, calling me a vicious…
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English · Contemporary
To make it to my childhood friend's birthday party, fire captain Ethan Shaw locked me inside our house.
And that day, a fire really did break out.
I covered my nose and mouth and dialed my husband's office, crying for help:
"Help... I'm…
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English · Contemporary
At the wedding, when the couple was exchanging vows, Sebastian suddenly spoke up:
"Mila, the truth is, the person I really want to marry is Vivian."
"Last night, she cried her heart out, saying she couldn't live without me, begging me…
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English · Contemporary
Because of an accidental fire, my husband Ethan's stepsister Lily suffered severe burns all over her body.
But he was convinced that I, out of jealousy, had deliberately locked the storage room door.
In his rage, he imprisoned me in…
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English · Contemporary
My childhood sweetheart had his heart broken by me. Seven years after he left to study abroad, he finally came back with his new girlfriend to meet the parents.
And I had finally been told by the hospital that after seven years of…
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English · Contemporary
I had been dating Ethan for five years.
The day before our wedding, I discovered over ten thousand photos of the same girl saved in his cloud storage.
There were photos of her sleeping, smiling... even intimate photos.
And thousands…
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English · Contemporary
When my birth mother drugged me and dragged me onto tech mogul Mr. Holt’s yacht, I couldn’t help but laugh at the cabin door:
“This boat is still as ugly as ever.”
The fake heiress, Vivian Jones, thought I’d lost my mind. She pinched…
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English · Contemporary
During our vacation trip, my water broke on the way to the airport.
Someone helped flag down a taxi, and just as they were about to help me in, my husband rushed over and blocked them.
"My wife has a history of fraud. The last person…
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English · Contemporary
The day my fiancée cheated, I proposed without hesitation.
The night before the wedding, I knelt on the floor of my rental apartment, organizing six manila envelopes.
Each one contained evidence of my fiancée's affairs over the past…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone in my family thinks I'm a frail, introverted good girl.
But no one knows I've been lusting after my stepbrother Ethan for a long time.
I've even secretly written a dark romance novel with him as the protagonist.
In the book,…
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English · Contemporary
After losing my leg in a car accident, my wife and my best friend took care of me devotedly.
I was deeply moved and threw myself into rehabilitation.
Until a message popped up on my newly opened online store.
"Can you ship the cross…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After catching Liam cheating, I cut ties with him without hesitation.
Later, I joined a tour group to clear my mind, only to encounter a rare blizzard and get trapped in a glacier at minus thirty degrees.
On the verge of death, Liam…
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English · Contemporary
When I was three, scavenging for food, I was bullied until a couple rescued me.
Back then, I still didn't know that the blonde woman was the head of the New York Mafia, and the tattooed man was the leader of all the Motorcycle Clubs in…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Michael, was away on a business trip in France. On Thanksgiving Day, he asked me to go back to his hometown and spend the holiday with his parents.
I took a red-eye flight back to Michael's family home. The moment I walked…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When I was being sexually assaulted by a strange man, my brother Sebastian's lavish wedding was taking place downstairs.
I called him for help.
His cold, disgusted voice came through.
"Playing the victim again? Dora, why don't you…
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English · Contemporary
My son had a high fever in the middle of the night, so I rushed him to the pediatric hospital where my husband works.
But my husband was in a meeting, and the one on duty was an intern.
She grabbed my son's arm with a displeased…
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English · Contemporary
When Xavier brought his eighth assistant to me for hymen reconstruction surgery, Eleanor, my mother-in-law, sent me a message: "Still not divorcing? This is the eighth one. Are you some kind of masochist?"
This time I didn't have a…
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English · Contemporary
I've been able to see ghosts since I was a child. I can't speak to them, only watch.
On our fifth wedding anniversary, I prepared a whole table of food and waited for my husband Ethan to come home. When I looked up, I saw his…
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English · Contemporary
Before I married my childhood friend Ethan, I had been married once before.
My ex-husband Victor was my first love.
Three years into our marriage, I came home early from a business trip. When I opened the door, I caught him kissing…
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English · Contemporary
The day of my divorce, I got hit by a car.
When I woke up, everyone had a line of text floating above their heads.
The nurse: [27 years old, eight years from now, breast cancer.]
I picked up my phone. The first contact was my…
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