Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
I spent ten years with the brooding, disabled Julian Thorne, pouring my heart into making him fall for me.
And I felt a deep pity for him.
So, when the system declared the mission a success, I didn't leave that world.
Instead, I used…
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English · Contemporary
Before my brother Adam died, he entrusted me with the child he and his same-sex partner had adopted. He begged me to raise Liam until he turned eighteen.
I hated my brother, and naturally, I hated Liam too. So, even though we lived…
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English · Contemporary
To buy Brendan a hearing aid, I worked three jobs a day.
When my step-brother, Julian, found out, his eyes darkened, sharp and intense. "You're working yourself to death for some guy. Are you planning on moving in with him?"
I…
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English · Contemporary
I’m a top-tier litigator, or at least I was. When I handed in my resignation, everyone cheered. My resignation was approved faster than a speeding bullet. Only Chloe Sterling, an intern from my fiancé’s law firm, was visibly…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone in the city’s most powerful circles knew Julian Sterling was obsessed with my skin, pristine as moonlight.
He even splurged a fortune to build a suspended crystal palace, just so he could sketch the most exquisite artworks on…
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English · Contemporary
When I performed the pre-marital health screening for my best friend, Chloe, she tested positive for HIV.
Her eyes were red-rimmed as she begged me not to tell her boyfriend, Derek:
"Stella, please don't tell him. I love him so much.…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My college dreams were shattered, leaving me with no choice but to find work.
Ashamed, I cut off contact with everyone.
My yearbook was locked away in a drawer, gathering dust.
Seven years later, I skipped our class reunion.
My old…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The guy I’d been crushing on for ages, the class president, finally went public with his relationship.
At a party, his girlfriend, Chloe, deliberately asked me, “What’s your ideal type?”
I looked at Liam’s face and described a type…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I used to confess my feelings to my crush all the time, thinking he couldn’t hear me.
Today, after learning a few sassy lines, I was ready to go all out.
“Hey, big guy, I was just thinking... wanna hop on a 'rocking horse' with…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At 00:45 AM, a woman with a knife appeared in our dorm room, killing my roommate on the bunk below. The police investigated, but strangely, they declared there was "no such person." It was like the killer was an invisible ghost, utterly…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After the zombie virus outbreak, my boyfriend of six years traded me to a shelter just to get himself in.
Just as despair consumed me, a cold voice echoed in my mind.
“Ding! Host, you have successfully bound to the Apocalypse Spa…
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English · Contemporary
When I rescued young entrepreneur Adrian Pierce from his creditors, he was in a complete mess. But it was nothing compared to how devastated I was when he ruined my family years ago.
I pinned his hands behind his back against the…
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English · Contemporary
I used to be the Empire's strongest Alpha general. To avoid scaring my sweet little puppy, I desperately hid my true identity, pretending to be gentle and kind in front of him.
Until one night, I saw him twist his slender waist and…
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English · Contemporary
I Bought a Mystery Box for Fun, But It Turned My Life Upside Down
I impulsively bought an expensive mystery box just for fun. To my disappointment, I only got a black collar. Frustrated, I was about to leave a bad review for the seller…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend always gushed about my figure, saying it was a *crime* I wasn't a model.
After I graduated and couldn't find a job, he kept pushing me to audition for modeling gigs.
He even picked out the scantiest bikini for me.
Once I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
It took me five minutes to turn my arrogant, self-proclaimed elite wife into a penniless woman, saddled with a debt of eight hundred million dollars!
Just five minutes ago, for her brother who had recently undergone a minor procedure,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
His 99th Broken Glass
When Julian smashed his ninety-ninth glass, I finally broke up with him.
He exploded in rage. “Just because of a broken glass?”
“Eleanor Vance, don’t forget you were the one who came begging!”
I hadn’t…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
This year, the weather authorities had issued multiple extreme heat alerts.
Our company’s new CEO Assistant suggested we all go to a forest in the wilderness to escape the heat.
But I’d been reading the news. The place she suggested…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My fiancé, Julian, hired a new assistant while I was away on a business trip.
She was his junior mentee from college, a classic sweet-faced nuisance.
She swapped Julian’s black coffee for a sugary kiddie drink and decorated our…
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English · Contemporary
I was the true heiress, my identity swapped.
Five years after giving birth out of wedlock, my biological parents finally came to claim me. They told me I had to fulfill an engagement with the Maxwell family's scion.
I brought my…
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English · Contemporary
Before my father-in-law passed away, he handed me a bank card with three million dollars.
"Lily, as the eldest daughter-in-law, you should be the one to hold onto this three million."
In my previous life, I was so deeply touched by…
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English · Contemporary
At Damien Thorne’s funeral, I stood in a simple black dress, my face impossibly calm.
The lawyer finished reading the will aloud. I took the microphone.
“I’m donating all of Damien Thorne’s assets and estates,” I announced, my voice…
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English · Contemporary
In my past life, my late father raised two girls, Isabella and Chloe, with the explicit understanding that one of them would become my wife, the matriarch of our family. They were both breathtakingly beautiful and exceptionally…
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English · Contemporary
Under the unforgiving midday sun, I was on a delivery run, carrying a customized Western meal worth a whopping eighty-eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
When I reached the mansion gates, I heard bursts of laughter…
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