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English · Contemporary
On the day of our daughter's three-month party, Damian's first love—and his late brother’s widow—Tiffany, showed up at our doorstep.
After his older brother, Logan, died in a tragic car accident, Tiffany was diagnosed with severe PTSD.…
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English · Contemporary
The day before our wedding, my fiancé got into a car crash.
When I rushed to the hospital, he was holding another woman in his arms, looking at me with pure coldness.
"Who are you?"
After the doctor diagnosed him with amnesia, I had no…
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English · Contemporary
The day Chloe showed up at our front door, flaunting her three-month baby bump, Julian kicked me out of the master bedroom in front of everyone.
"Chloe is pregnant with my child. She can't be stressed right now."
"From today on, this is…
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English · Contemporary
Three days after our wedding, I received a photo from an unknown woman.
In the photo, my new wife, Nicole, lay in bed.
And the man pressed intimately beside her was none other than my most trusted friend, Austin.
When I confronted her,…
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English · Contemporary
In the dead of night, an alert chimed on my phone from the smart security system. Someone was tampering with the front door lock.
I reached to dial 911, but my husband, Mason Vance, grabbed my arm and stopped me.
"Stop being so…
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English · Contemporary
After a grueling year and a half, I finally helped my client recover $600,000 in debt.
When the case wrapped up, he broke down in tears, squeezing my hand and calling me his savior.
The very next day, he vanished into thin air. Not a…
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English · Contemporary
All because I picked the chunks of pure pork fat out of my plate during a family dinner.
The second we got home, Mom’s eyes turned bloodshot, and she blew up in my face.
"How did I raise such an ungrateful, wasteful brat?"
"When I was…
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English · Contemporary
My childhood best friend’s girlfriend was visiting his place for the very first time, and I spent hours in the kitchen whipping up a feast for them.
She took one look at the lobster on the table and flew into an absolute rage.
"You made…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Five years after breaking up with Julian Sterling, I ran into him at his engagement party—to his adopted sister.
He was the golden boy of the night, while I was just the hired pastry chef for the lavish reception.
"Elena, looks like…
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English · Contemporary
On my wedding night, just as I was carrying my new bride toward the bedroom, my deadbeat brother-in-law stretched out an arm to block my way.
"Logan, you want in? That’ll be an entrance fee of $8,888."
I thought it was just a typical…
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English · Contemporary
After being married to Julian for seven years, I always assumed the "seven-year itch" was nothing more than an empty myth.
That was until the daughter of the man who saved his life walked into our world.
At first, I didn't think much of…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone in high society laughed behind my back, calling me Sebastian Pierce’s most pathetic, desperate substitute.
I had played his devoted doormat for five whole years before he finally agreed to marry me.
Yet on the eve of our…
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English · Contemporary
Ever since my wife, Chloe, had a miscarriage, her emotions had been completely unstable. She needed to see a therapist regularly.
Every single time, I drove her there and waited outside, never once allowed into the session room.
Seeing…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
On the day of my daughter's eighteenth birthday, I discovered she had been switched with another baby at the hospital.
After bringing my biological daughter home, I thought our family was finally complete.
I never expected that within a…
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English · Contemporary
Three years after our wedding ceremony, my legal marital status was still blank.
Every single time we were about to sign the marriage license at City Hall, something would go wrong with Julian’s resident intern.
This was the…
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English · Contemporary
In the company WhatsApp group, our admin manager, Brenda, publicly tagged me.
[@Chloe, send me the receipt for your $1,200 company phone for the archives.]
The second I sent it over, she walked it back.
[My mistake. Send the receipt for…
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English · Contemporary
When Julian went bankrupt, the first thing he did was ask for a divorce and offer to walk away with nothing.
I thought he just didn't want to drag me down with him. So I took on three extra part-time jobs to stand by his side.
To save…
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English · Contemporary
At our engagement party, my fiancé refused to move forward unless I signed a prenuptial agreement first.
To him and his circle, I was nothing more than a calculated gold digger.
When I fell in love with Julian Vance, a ruthless…
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English · Contemporary
I returned from my business trip to find a new lock installed on the master bedroom door.
My fiancé, Ethan, was hunched over his phone, browsing furniture.
"Serena’s new rental place is awful. I offered her our master bedroom for…
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English · Contemporary
To support my son's college prep, I turned down a prestigious medical fellowship to become a full-time stay-at-home mom. Yet, my underachieving husband despised me, claiming I only knew how to beg for money and had become totally…
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English · Contemporary
On the day we got our marriage license, my fiancée added her male best friend's name to the deed of my newly purchased house.
I had just emptied my life savings for the down payment and hadn't even received the title deed yet.
Right…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Julian, is an elite psychotherapist specializing in clinical hypnotherapy.
Six months ago, right after my mother passed away, I fell down the stairs and suffered a traumatic miscarriage.
My body eventually healed.
Yet, my…
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English · Contemporary
I had been following a small, cozy couple’s account on Instagram.
It documented the sweet little moments between the blogger and her boyfriend.
They would tease each other over sharing a single bowl of noodles, smiling and calling the…
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English · Contemporary
After they declared me recovered, I was finally released from the psychiatric facility.
My family stood outside the clinic gates, nervous, holding their breath.
"Are you... still going to look for Lucas?" Julian, my older brother, asked…
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