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English · Contemporary
At the altar, my fiancée stared at the little ring bearer with overflowing maternal tenderness.
Her long-time obsession took that exact moment to speak up.
"Serena, would you be willing to be his mommy?"
As if she had just won the…
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English · Contemporary
On Christmas night, I set up a magnificent fireworks display on the mountain peak for my wife.
But I waited until dawn, only to see her publicly announce her relationship with our company's junior designer.
In the video, Julian Hayes…
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English · Contemporary
My daughter held up the provocative black lace teddy my husband’s secretary had deliberately left in our house, looking at me with pure innocence.
"Mommy, what is this?"
My mind went completely blank. A wave of humiliation and fiery…
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English · Contemporary
After I helped my wife’s racing club win its very first championship, she promised she would finally announce our marriage to the world.
Yet, the moment the awards were handed out, the newly hired backup driver dashed onto the stage,…
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English · Contemporary
On my fiancée's birthday, she told me she was heading back to her small hometown to visit family.
Wanting to surprise her, I secretly drove after her.
But the second I stepped out of my car, I saw her childhood best friend decked out in…
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English · Contemporary
On our third wedding anniversary, my wife lied and told me she had to go on an out-of-town business trip. In reality, she snuck off to a clinic and aborted our baby.
When I found out the truth, my heart turned completely to ash.
I…
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English · Contemporary
On our wedding night, Evelyn Carter brought her male secretary into our brand-new penthouse.
She let him wear the pajamas I had just bought and lie on the king-sized bed I had meticulously decorated.
All because the secretary, Julian…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I kept my vow and pursued Alexander Hayes for three years, confessing my feelings ninety-nine times.
Yet he always treated me like a scheming, clingy gold-digger, heaping humiliation upon me and ignoring me completely.
Later, when his…
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English · Contemporary
On Valentine's Day, I posted my boyfriend on Instagram for the first time.
Not long after, a comment made my blood run cold:
"Wait, isn't that Mr. Sean Carter from our firm? Hasn't he been married with a kid for years?"
The comment came…
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English · Contemporary
My brother-in-law's son was diagnosed with acute leukemia. The doctor warned that without an immediate transplant, he wouldn’t make it.
After testing the entire family, only my six-year-old daughter, Maya, came back as a perfect…
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English · Contemporary
This afternoon, I got a text message from seven years in the future.
The sender was me. Chloe.
I thought it was some new kind of phishing scam and muttered in disgust:
[Scammer, get a life!]
Then the other side sent a photo of an empty…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
In my past life, during the military academy’s physical exam, my childhood best friend reported me for color blindness—just so my spot could go to an impoverished girl.
"She has it worse than you, Nina. She needs this way out more than…
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English · Contemporary
At our wedding, right in front of everyone, my fiancée slipped the ring onto her male best friend's finger.
The entire hall fell dead silent.
Holding the mic, her voice was dripping with tenderness. "Back when we played house as kids, I…
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English · Contemporary · Fantasy
After passing out from working overtime for days on end, I mysteriously started seeing strange numbers floating above people's heads.
After a bit of digging, I realized what the number meant: the number of abortions they’d had.
When my…
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English · Contemporary
While agonizing cramps kept me curled up in bed, drenched in cold sweat and unable to move, Shawn was busy taking care of his childhood sweetheart because she was on her period.
When I ran into him at the hospital by chance, he showed…
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English · Contemporary
Three years of marriage, and no matter what I did, I could never get Julian to touch me—even though he suffered from severe touch starvation.
All because his first love, Yvonne, supposedly died in a car crash after an argument over our…
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English · Contemporary
My overbearing mother-in-law, Victoria, had hated me since day one.
Desperate to get me out of her son’s life, she took my photo and personal portfolio to the most exclusive matchmaking agency in the city, putting me up on their…
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English · Contemporary
Seven months pregnant, and Christian still had me climbing up and down a step stool in the living room, hanging Christmas decorations.
All to welcome his childhood best friend, Chloe, who had just returned from living abroad.
His…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On my third day back in the Lakeshore District, my neighbor Lucia arrived with her injured daughter and had me summoned to the Blood Oath Hall.
She said my son Rocco had held a gun to Ella, forced her to hand over the port shift key,…
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English · Contemporary
Whenever I brought up getting married during our five years together, my boyfriend always refused.
"It’s not the right time yet. Wait until I’ve saved enough for a down payment."
I didn’t understand his obsession and tried to reassure…
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English · Contemporary
While my fiancé was in the fitting room trying on his suit, his phone lit up on the couch.
"Babe, I just put down the deposit for the luxury maternity retreat. When are you finally going to break it off with her?"
I glanced at his smug…
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English · Contemporary
The night before our engagement gala, my fiancé’s childhood best friend told me she had a surprise for the bride.
She lured me to the hotel’s penthouse glass conservatory, locked the heavy doors from the outside, and activated the full…
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English · Contemporary
During our company's Family Day art gala, my coworker Wayne came to me, his eyes bloodshot.
"My son has leukemia. Please, put his painting in the prime centerpiece spot. Give him one last piece of joy in his life. I'm begging you."
My…
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English · Contemporary
The day the SATs ended, a female student broke down in tears and accused me of sexual harassment.
"He touched my thigh! When I said no, he threatened me, saying he’d make sure I never got into college!"
She collapsed to her knees,…
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