Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
After eighteen years in the slums, my sister's billionaire father came to claim her.
The day she left, Serena-the sister I'd never gotten along with-insisted on taking me with her to that better life.
Everyone was jealous. They…
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English · Contemporary
Five months pregnant, when I went to book my prenatal care, I discovered my CEO husband, Liam, had booked out the entire luxurious maternity retreat.
Thrilled, I snapped a picture to post on Instagram.
But as I raised my phone, I saw…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After remarrying Jesiah Spencer, I became the perfect, compliant wife.
Jesiah once said, "If you'd been this agreeable from the start, maybe we never would've divorced."
Even at a college reunion, his drunk friends would mock me,
…
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English · Contemporary
Before Valerie's grandmother passed away, her dying wish was for Valerie to marry me.
So, even though she still loved her high school sweetheart, Valerie stuck to our engagement.
Until her high school sweetheart killed the puppy I'd…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Five years ago, Foster went bankrupt. Hounded by creditors, he was almost killed. He just said:
“Chloe, please, help me.”
I sold my heart for a million to pay off his debts, agreeing to have an experimental bionic heart…
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English · Contemporary
My wife was a master of the silent treatment.
A flicker of unhappiness, a slammed door, and she'd be gone for ten days, sometimes half a month.
I'd grown used to it, used to adjusting my emotions, smiling, and taking care of our…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At the family banquet, my mother ordered the guards to drag me to the center of the hall.
“She’s a fraud,” she said calmly. “Strip her of any claim to this family and apologize to your sister.”
My brothers stood beside her, watching as…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend died for his first love, and I died in a car accident as a result.
After we were reborn, we stayed out of each other’s lives. That was the silent agreement.
I never expected to run into him again at a nightclub—
down on…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I took care of my husband in a vegetative state for three years.
On the day he woke up, he publicly identified my cousin as the one who had saved his life.
I thought he had simply mistaken her for someone else.
Then I heard him say,…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
My manager fined me six hundred thousand dollars for eating a snack bar during overtime, saying company rules mattered more than any contract I had closed.
What she didn’t mention was that I had just finalized a billion-dollar…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After the car crash, I faked amnesia.
I thought it would shake them up.
Instead, my son brought another woman to my hospital room and called her "Mom."
My husband didn't say a word to correct him.
They thought I'd forgotten it all.
They…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
The military base housing was ablaze. Scarlett, the doctor tending to my husband, and I, were both trapped inside.
I was about to scream for help when I heard Nealon’s voice from outside, sharp and commanding:
"Clara is my family;…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I was rushing to fly overseas to close a multi-billion dollar deal with European high society, but my private jet was intercepted right as it was about to take off.
A man in a suit stormed onto the plane, yelling:
“Who gave you…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband walked onto the press stage with another woman and a child at his side.
after working through the night to prepare for the announcement of our marriage and the launch of the company's new flagship technology,
Ten years of a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I caught my boyfriend cheating—red-handed—only to be accused of being “too dramatic.”
While he comforted his other woman in the bathroom, I packed my suitcase in silence.
Five years of love, unpaid labor, and self-abandonment ended…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My wife had an affair and ended up pregnant.
Her parents smiled and asked me to be understanding.
The other man moved into my house, slept in my bed, and expected me to keep footing the bills.
They called it family.
So I agreed.
I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On the day my husband welcomed another woman into our home, my sons stood beside her—and watched me fall into the river without stopping me.
For eighteen years, I held this family together.
I changed a man’s fate, raised children…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The night I found some other woman in my pajamas, sleeping in my bed, I just stopped coming home.
I stopped replying, stopped taking his calls, and moved in with my bestie instead.
When I finally came back on the fourth day,
Jason…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My fiancé was playing a kissing game with his childhood friend, Scarlett, and I ripped into him for it. To get back at me, he uploaded our intimate videos online and started selling them.
When I confronted him, he just shrugged,…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
My wife Chloe's adopted sister, Sophia, had taken her own life. Before she died, hundreds of photos of me and her were found in her study.
Behind each photo, the words "MY LOVE" were scrawled.
So when I got a second chance at life,…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Julian Sterling, is a genius painter, but he suffers from a severe emotional disorder.
Even when I fell down the stairs, pregnant, and pleaded for his help, he just asked indifferently, "Why are you always crying?"
I used to…
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English · Contemporary
My CEO boyfriend of five years suspected my loyalty.
He demanded I collect 10,000 messages of goodwill from strangers before he'd even consider marrying me.
Yet, his ex, Seraphina—who had dumped him three times—just had to ask him…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Times were rough. My husband's salary plummeted from ten thousand dollars to two thousand dollars.
That was right after our daughter, Lily, was diagnosed with a severe heart condition.
To cover the exorbitant medical bills, I took out…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband's ex-girlfriend was in a vegetative state, unconscious, and he was the one taking care of her.
“Vivian became a vegetable because I married you, Zara. We both owe her. It’s my responsibility to take care of her.”
For three…
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