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English · Contemporary
My wife was a total psycho drama queen. Every other day, she concocted some twisted way to "test" my love.
One day, she hired a gorgeous escort to lure me into a hotel room while she hid under the bed listening.
The next day, she waved…
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English · Contemporary
My aunt left a will, leaving her entire one-million-dollar estate to me.
My father, Robert, snatched the paper and ripped it to shreds.
"What does someone on her deathbed need this kind of money for?" he sneered.
"Now that the will is…
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English · Contemporary
After five years of marriage, my wife was finally pregnant. Both my mother and I were over the moon, eagerly anticipating our baby's arrival.
Never in my wildest nightmares did I imagine that the moment I went on an overseas business…
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English · Contemporary
My husband drove our divorced neighbor’s son to preschool every single morning, rain or shine.
At first, I didn't mind. She was a single mom raising a kid on her own—giving them a ride along the way seemed like a harmless favor.
But…
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English · Contemporary
After five years of marriage, my husband finally discovered that the woman at home was just an android.
He went utterly insane, tearing the city apart trying to find me.
Little did he know, I had already been dead for five years.
Five…
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English · Contemporary
I secretly pulled every string to turn my girlfriend into the top sales champion in our company.
Yet, at her grand victory party, she turned down my marriage proposal for the ninety-ninth time.
All because the "one who got away"—a man…
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English · Contemporary
In my past life, Chloe claimed she found me a great job, but instead she tricked me into an elite VIP lounge to hostess for sleazy clients. She even smeared my name, telling Mom, Dad, and all our relatives that I was a…
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English · Contemporary
Austin was twenty-seven. I was thirty.
He despised it when I tried to act sweet, and he hated the faint smile lines near my eyes.
"Chloe, acting needy when you're twenty-two is cute. At thirty, it's just pathetic."
I merely nodded.…
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English · Contemporary
The campus golden boy was kneeling at my feet when the floating comments flashed across my eyes.
[This psycho villainess kidnapped the male lead. She’s dead meat.]
[Seriously. He’s going to lock her in a basement for the rest of her…
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English · Contemporary
I took a campus dining hall job just to save up for the brand-new iPhone 16 my first boyfriend had been begging for.
On my twenty-eighth day on the job, I caught him dropping thousands on his "childhood best friend."
Heartbroken, I…
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English · Contemporary
On the eve of my wedding, I was abducted and subjected to an agonizing, livestreamed nightmare.
As the captors snapped my fingers one by one, Julian stared desperately through the screen from the other end:
"Don't touch her! Take me…
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English · Contemporary
Ever since my father-in-law was hospitalized, we hired a young male caregiver. Ever since then, my wife, Chloe, started visiting the hospital way too often.
The guy was reckless and clumsy. Once, he even gave Arthur his medication twice…
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English · Contemporary
I nearly killed myself landing the massive contract with the State Architectural Institute. Yet, my husband claimed I was dead weight holding the company back.
He handed all my hard-earned credit straight to his precious first…
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English · Contemporary
All it took was one comment from my dad: "Chloe's hair looks really pretty."
That night, while I was asleep, my mother took kitchen shears to my waist-length hair. She hacked it off into a jagged buzz cut, leaving my scalp looking like…
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English · Contemporary
Four years into our marriage, my husband’s mistress deliberately pushed me off the balcony.
I begged her to save my baby.
Instead, she buried her face in my husband’s chest, sobbing like a terrified victim.
And my husband held her,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
During a game of King's Cup, my best friend, Vanessa, drew the Joker.
She flashed a sweet smile. "I choose the King of Spades to be my boyfriend for the next three months!"
"Wait, is this a reward or a punishment?" someone laughed.…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
One week before our wedding, my fiancé demanded an early rehearsal.
During the walk-through, he claimed looking at me made him too nervous, so he asked my best friend to step in for me.
I believed him. We swapped spots—she played the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I wanted to prove myself on my own merit, so I hid my family background and took an internship at our own company.
Instead, my manager made my life a living hell.
I tried to keep my head down and avoid drama, but she only got bolder.…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Tags: Cheating Ex, Betrayed by Best Friend, Female Awakening, Sweet Revenge, Karma
In the six years I was with my boyfriend, I never received a single flower.
He always said, "We’re basically an old married couple. We don't need all…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
**Tags:** Biased Boyfriend, Brother’s Widow, Female Lead Awakening, Secret Marriage, The Regretful Ex
When Ethan’s older brother died in a tragic car accident, his widowed sister-in-law mistook Ethan for her late husband due to severe…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At the start of the semester, our dorm set a rule: whoever landed a boyfriend first had to treat everyone to dinner.
Logan Hayes and I had been high school sweethearts and stayed together after graduation. Naturally, I was the first one…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My dad died in a car crash. The driver was my fiancé’s sister.
Ethan knelt outside my front door in the pouring rain all night. He begged me through tears, swearing his sister suffered from severe psychosis and had no idea what she was…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After almost drowning once, I started hearing plants talk.
Ever since, weeding sounded like a slaughterhouse, and pruning branches felt like watching an amputation.
Yet because of it, I fell head over heels for all things green,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My parents only ever cared about my younger brother. When I was fifteen, my mother forced me to drop out of school and work to support him.
It was Julian Vance who saved me. He paid for my education and got me back into the…
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