Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
On my wedding day, my fiancé Lucas's best friend Sienna showed up wearing my wedding dress and made videos.
I watched the entire ceremony through a livestream.
Lucas even fed Sienna champagne mouth-to-mouth while his friends cheered…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I'd been searching for three years, and I finally saw my mother's heirloom at the auction house—a ruby ring.
But no matter how much I bid, Vivian Carter, a college student my ex-husband Zachary Hart once sponsored, always outbid me by…
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English · Contemporary
While at work, I accidentally sent a photo of a car I meant for the auto shop to our work group chat instead.
A new intern sharply questioned me:
"Joanna, why are you sending photos of my car? Are you eyeing my sports car or…
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English · Contemporary
After three years of marriage, Ethan remained obsessively germaphobic to the point of pathology.
No kissing allowed, and he insisted on wearing five layers of condoms.
That was, until the day I brought him soup at his office and found…
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English · Contemporary
Before our honeymoon, my husband secretly canceled our tickets behind my back.
He switched to a flight for a solo trip with the girl he grew up with.
He even booked a romantic hotel.
Even his buddies couldn't stand it and tried to…
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English · Contemporary
Dad bought cotton candy for my sister and me—one for each of us.
I happily took mine, but my sister burst into tears.
"Why does she get the same as me! I knew it—once you had a second child, I wouldn't be the only precious one…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
I'm a cheapskate—I rented a haunted house.
The first night I moved in, the faucet turned itself on.
I yelled at the empty air, "Are you gonna pay the water bill?!"
The water stopped instantly. I thought that was just the…
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English · Contemporary
My parents told me and my boyfriend to go register our marriage before the New Year.
On the drive to the courthouse, my boyfriend suddenly squinted at me.
"Are you sure you want to marry me?"
"What if I told you I slept with another…
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English · Contemporary
After my family went bankrupt, I became a mistress of my ex-boyfriend, a mafia boss—his on-call sex toy for whenever he wanted.
Thinking of my mother lying in the ICU, I swallowed my shame and studied moves from adult films,…
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English · Contemporary
In the eighth year of our marriage, Blake finally bought me roses from the flower shop again after such a long time.
He hugged me with a smile.
"Tori, I got these flowers especially for you."
I pretended not to know that those roses…
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English · Contemporary
My husband’s mistress really knows how to manipulate him.
Every so often, she pulls a disappearing act.
Adrian adores her. Each time she vanishes, he drops everything—his work, his responsibilities—and frantically searches for her…
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English · Contemporary
My fiancé, Derek Stone, deliberately pursued the girl who bullied me in middle school—Vivian Ford—to get revenge for me.
He promised me:
"After I punish her a hundred times, I'll dump her immediately and marry you!"
But when his…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Maxwell was in a meeting when he accidentally opened a hidden folder, exposing sex videos of himself and his secretary, Vivian.
To protect Vivian's privacy, he forcibly dragged me onto the stage and publicly announced our ten-year…
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English · Contemporary
Mom loved to distill her parenting philosophy into rules.
My older sister, Aria, was raised as a little princess. Mom always called her "baby," and she grew up spoiled.
When I was born, Mom assigned me a different label: the last four…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On Christmas Eve, my parents half-jokingly announced:
"Whoever gets home first between you and your brother gets the house."
I rushed into the elevator first and headed up to the 20th floor.
But when the elevator doors opened again,…
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English · Contemporary
At eight months pregnant, I went to Everett Ford's office to deliver some documents.
Feeling the sweltering 115-degree heat in the office, I was about to turn on the air conditioning when his female secretary stopped me.
"I'm on my…
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English · Contemporary
After the company's video conference ended, my girlfriend, who was away on a business trip, forgot to turn off her camera.
All the colleagues in the online meeting saw her having intense sex with her male assistant in the hotel.
When…
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English · Contemporary
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Thanks for Taking My Ruin, Dear Sister!
The day my parents divorced, two agreements lay on the table.
One meant staying in the old neighborhood with my dad, who was drowning in gambling debts.
The other meant moving to the coast…
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English · Contemporary
Three years after breaking up with Adrian Whitmore, he came looking for a surrogate, while I was competing for the highest surrogacy commission.
When our eyes met, his lips curled into a cold sneer.
"Didn't you marry into a wealthy…
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English · Contemporary
Lucas and I were a couple with disabilities—his legs were paralyzed, and I was born mute.
To make ends meet and pay for his treatment, I worked three jobs a day. Then one time while cleaning windows at high altitude, I had an…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Our family was so poor we could barely afford to eat, yet the lottery ticket I casually bought won five million dollars.
My brother's eyes turned red as he lunged at me, snatching the ticket and trying to tear it up.
My dad, who…
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English · Contemporary
Ten years after my falling out with my mother, she fell ill.
My selfish sister Meredith wasted no time dumping her at the hospital.
For the last three years of my mother's life, I kept her alive with my life savings of a million…
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English · Contemporary
Before the Wedding, My Fiancee's Assistant Drunk Drove and Killed Someone.
I rushed to the hospital, but my fiancée, Chloe, presented me with a confession.
"Leo just turned twenty this year. If he goes to prison, his life will be…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Xavier Monroe, is known for being completely devoted to our daughter.
But the new young nurse doesn't believe it.
She even made a high-profile bet with people about it.
And on the very day our daughter's heart condition…
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