Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
At eight months pregnant, I accidentally discovered that my husband, Ethan Smith, was having an affair with my adoptive sister who had come to take care of me.
When I caught them, his tone was flat:
"So you saw everything? Actually, I…
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English · Contemporary
After ten years of marriage, I finally got pregnant with the heir to the Sawyer family.
On the day of my prenatal checkup, I caught my husband accompanying his first love through childbirth.
An hour later, Ethan Sawyer ordered someone…
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English · Contemporary
On my wedding day, my fiancé was taken away for raping a female student.
I chased after him in my wedding dress, wanting to clear his name.
Only to learn that he had turned himself in voluntarily.
He said to me apologetically:
"Lily's…
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English · Contemporary
The night I slept with drunk Mabel, I had just broken up with my ex-girlfriend.
Out of responsibility, I married her.
Our marriage was peaceful and stable.
I once thought this would last forever.
Until my ex-girlfriend passed away from…
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English · Contemporary
After discovering my husband, Ethan Holt, came back from a business trip where he'd been cheating, I didn't fall into hysterical arguments.
Instead, I calmly sat him down with my pregnancy test results.
Either divorce, or cut things off…
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English · Contemporary
The day the TV drama wrapped, I was once again thrust onto trending topics by paparazzi photos.
But the person in the photos wasn't me.
It was my husband, Gideon, the Best Actor, kissing Lillian Ross, the second female lead who played…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Ethan Smith, is a major internet influencer with tens of millions of followers across all platforms.
Online users ship him with another female influencer named River Johnson.
During their joint live streams, they create…
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English · Contemporary
After my husband's unexpected death, I stayed to care for his parents.
I served my paralyzed father-in-law for five years and accompanied my mother-in-law Lillian through the rest of her life.
But when I went to handle the inheritance,…
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English · Contemporary
Five years after I left Giovanni, everyone in our class received his and Michelle's engagement invitation—everyone except me.
The hotel where he was getting engaged was the same place where I worked as a server.
A classmate recognized…
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English · Contemporary
At the engagement party, my fiancé Mario promised my father he would love me forever.
After the party ended, I stumbled upon a cheating photo on Instagram.
In the picture, a man with a body shape similar to Mario's was holding hands…
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English · Contemporary
On the night my husband Simons went on a business trip, he sent me a million-dollar transfer.
He told me the truth about his years of infidelity.
[This million dollars is my compensation to you.]
[I'm going abroad to live with her.…
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English · Contemporary
My mother had severe OCD about cleanliness.
To prevent urine from splashing on the toilet seat.
As a boy, I was forced from a young age to sit down when using the bathroom.
Until that day in the school restroom, when I stood in…
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English · Contemporary
Your wife is sleeping in my bed right now!
In the photo, Chloe was sleeping with her eyes closed.
Her exposed skin was covered with marks left after lovemaking.
I received this provocative text and photo while I was in the kitchen…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
The day before I was to exchange engagement rings with Ethan Gould, Vice President of Gould Corporation,
Isabella Carter, heiress of Carter Group, suddenly showed up at my door claiming to be family.
She said she was the real daughter…
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English · Contemporary
Ever since I gained weight during puberty, my childhood friend Chase stopped talking to me on his own initiative.
But on the day of the NYU guaranteed admission interview, he handed me a glass of milk.
I was so touched that I drank it…
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English · Contemporary
Movie star Ethan Shaw once promised me that when he won his fifth award, he would propose to me.
But on the night of the award ceremony, he only thanked his first love, Nina Grant.
Backstage, I overheard his conversation with his…
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English · Contemporary
In the fifth year of our marriage, I died saving Ethan Matthews.
The only thing I left him was our four-year-old son.
After that, Ethan raised our son alone, living with memories of me.
Until he met Sophie, who pursued him…
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English · Contemporary
Alysa Johnson knelt in the pouring rain, her clothes soaked through, outlining curves that shouldn't have been visible on a sixteen-year-old. Three supercars worth tens of millions were parked around her.
"Please, give me back my…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone thought I'd lost my mind---my husband just died, and I burned down the factory we'd built together.
But they didn't know that a week ago, I caught my supposedly dead husband embracing his first love, smugly plotting:
"The…
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English · Contemporary
I was an orphan saved by Ethan Reed.
He cherished me, adored me, made me the most envied girl in the city---yet he never married me.
That day, I overheard him talking to his best friend about me.
His tone was indifferent.
"She's…
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English · Contemporary
My husband's mistress bonded with a Heartthrob System.
It attracted countless powerful men to fall for her.
Just because she said she liked kids, my husband made the child I had through three years of IVF call her "Mom."
I broke down…
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English · Contemporary
On a reality show, my sister and I both fell into the water.
My husband, Holt, jumped into the water without a second thought to save my sister.
He held her close with concern and urgency, leaving without looking back.
I was left…
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English · Contemporary
After trying on the wedding dress, Ethan gently pulled the seatbelt over and fastened it for me.
"Babe, I've seen you in the wedding dress. I won't be attending the wedding."
I froze in shock. "What do you mean?"
He smiled and kissed my…
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English · Contemporary
I was pale from menstrual cramps.
The moment I asked for leave, my department supervisor Lydia Rivers threw a stack of adult diapers at me.
"Who are you putting on this dying act for? Are you actually dead from the pain right…
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