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English · Contemporary
On our fifth anniversary, I found an old phone in my husband Ethan Lloyd's safe.
The password was his first love's birthday.
Inside were records of all their sweet moments together.
Yet in his current photo gallery, there wasn't a…
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English · Contemporary
I am the purest-blooded elite mermaid. My tears turn into priceless pearls, and my heart's blood can bring the dead back to life.
When Ethan Hunt went bankrupt, drowned in debt, and was being hunted by his enemies, I pulled him from…
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English · Contemporary
Twenty years into our marriage.
The chat thread between my husband Ethan Moore and me had been reduced to nothing but cold numbers.
The screen was filled with nothing but 1s and 2s.
Me: "Working late in the lab tonight?"
Him: "1" —…
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English · Contemporary
At the wedding ceremony, the officiant asked my wife Oliver to give her marriage vows.
I never expected her to slap herself in front of everyone.
"This slap is for blaming myself for choosing wrong. Three years ago, I listened to my…
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English · Contemporary
My husband Wesley said in an interview that he had already distributed all his assets.
The host joked that he must have left a fortune for his son and wife.
He smiled gently and softly denied it:
"I only left them enough money to…
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English · Contemporary
The housekeeper Levitt's daughter Lavinia stays at my place every weekend during school breaks. Out of respect for her mother's years of service to my family, I never said anything.
Until one day I came home to find the door code had…
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English · Contemporary
Working during my shift, looking at an ECG chart—someone reported me for trading stocks.
The hospital immediately moved to fire me to appease the public outrage.
"Thiago, you've crossed the line this time. You're a doctor. How could…
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English · Contemporary
During my company's long holiday, my birth mother insisted on arranging for me to take a budget road trip to Alaska in a broken-down RV with a 50-year-old homeless man named Derek Stone.
Derek was balding with terrible breath and looked…
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English · Contemporary
After I died in the study room fire, I opened my eyes again and found myself ten years in the future.
I dug out my phone from my backpack and carefully called my brother Ethan:
"Ethan, can you come pick me up?"
He didn't answer.
On…
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English · Contemporary
I woke up during my ectopic pregnancy surgery.
My eyes met My husband Ethan's.
As the lead surgeon, he showed no surprise whatsoever.
Instead, he spoke in an utterly calm tone: "Actually, you don't have infertility issues. Four years…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone at the corporation envied me — from a lowly janitor to the wife of the Vice President.
My husband doted on me. I never had to lift a finger.
But no one knew that in private, he would have people bind my legs with rope.
When…
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English · Contemporary
During my last outdoor activity in college, I unfortunately encountered a mudslide.
When I woke up in the hospital, I saw Julian Smith standing by my bedside in a suit, frowning at me.
I opened my mouth, but before I could speak,…
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English · Contemporary
On my first night on call at the new hospital, I encountered my wife, Natalie Warren, who claimed to be on a business trip abroad.
She lay on a gurney outside the delivery room, heavily pregnant, blood pooling beneath her.
My hand was…
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English · Contemporary
The night before the wedding, someone sent me a VIP hotel room key.
The room number was the same one where Lucas had proposed to me.
I thought it was a romantic surprise he'd planned before our wedding.
But when I pushed open the…
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English · Contemporary
My sister, Charlotte, craved living in the moment and had no interest in marriage.
And I was greedy for money, so I took Charlotte's place and married Xavier, who was supposedly ugly and fierce.
Rumors spread that he despised me, only…
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English · Contemporary
On the day of my prenatal checkup, I discovered that my husband had booked me a post-miscarriage care package instead of a postpartum recovery suite.
I was about to laugh it off as a mistake when he said flatly:
"I didn't get it wrong.…
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English · Contemporary
I was sitting in first class on my flight home when a blanket suddenly hit my leg, thrown from the seat in front of me.
A flight attendant hurried over and crouched down, her face full of apology:
"I'm so sorry, ma'am. Miss Foster says…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend Sophia was schemed against by her scumbag ex-husband and forced to leave the marriage with nothing.
I took her into my own home.
I took her traveling everywhere, got drunk with her, and even gave her a credit card to…
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English · Contemporary
I was born in a perpetual haze, my mind often muddled and confused.
Three years ago, in a daze, I brought home a drunk, handsome stranger.
When he woke up, he stared at me for a moment, then suddenly said, "Let's get married."
Too…
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English · Contemporary
I rarely went back to my hometown during vacation, but after dinner, my dad ordered me to wash the dishes.
I froze. "Don't we have a housekeeper?"
My mom frowned. "Laura works so hard taking care of us every day. Since you're back,…
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English · Contemporary
I bought a secondhand laptop online. When I opened it, the wallpaper was a full nude photo of my fiancé, Lachlan.
I was stunned. Was this fate bringing something that belonged to him back to me?
Just as I was about to call Lachlan to…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend Robertson has an annual salary of $500,000. He said once he saved up $200,000, he'd marry me.
But I waited from age 25 to 33, and he still hadn't saved enough.
The first year, he said he'd just started working and…
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English · Contemporary
After Hearing My First Love Rafael's Inner Thoughts, I Pulled My Investment
When I was walking home with my first love, I suddenly heard his inner thoughts.
[Claudia is so annoying, always insisting we leave school together every…
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English · Contemporary
When I was eight months pregnant, I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs, ending up in the hospital.
While waiting for a family member to sign for emergency surgery,
My husband Nathan's voice came through the phone, sounding…
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