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English · Contemporary
The first time I noticed something was off was when I smelled an unfamiliar body wash scent on her.
We always use the same brand and fragrance at home. So that day when she came home and leaned in to kiss me, I immediately sensed…
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English · Contemporary
I died during the cooling-off period of my ninth divorce from Olivia Reed.
My soul hovered above the VIP hospital room, watching her spend millions on her childhood sweetheart's scribble of a painting.
She looked at my body, riddled…
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English · Contemporary
After learning that I voluntarily gave up my promotion opportunity to her beloved junior colleague, my wife, who had always been adamant about not having children, surprisingly agreed to have a baby with me.
When the junior colleague…
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English · Contemporary
I knelt on the floor, my fingertips touching the cold tiles as I scrubbed at invisible stains.
"A blind man, good for nothing but eating," my mother-in-law's acidic voice pierced my ears. "Hurry up, you can't even clean the floor…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
In the operating room, my surgeon husband and his mistress nurse abandoned a patient for forty minutes, leading to the patient's death.
Afterward, my husband demanded I sign a medical malpractice waiver.
That's when I realized he…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
For her first birthday after marriage, Riley had saved every spare penny from her part-time delivery job for six months to buy her husband, Julian, a tie.
It was a beautiful light smoke-gray, absolutely perfect.
She planned to hide it…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I had dedicated years to figure skating, and to repay the immense sponsorship from the Harrington family, I married Julian Harrington.
In our seven years of marriage, he'd taken on dozens of women, even setting them up in the same…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Mason, was crippled and deep in debt after a brutal attack.
In just one month, he tried to end it all four times:
slashing his wrists, jumping from a building, carbon monoxide poisoning, and even mixing prescription…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Daniel, never lied.
He said I had a ‘fat gene’ that would shorten my life, so I needed to diet. I bit back my protest and agreed.
He told me I was a bad omen for my parents, that my presence could harm their health, so I…
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English · Contemporary
On the day of the graduation ceremony, I mustered up the courage to confess my feelings to my long-time crush.
But I accidentally got hit by a car.
When I woke up, my crush was standing in front of me, looking at me with a cold…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Clock Out. Or Die.
As quitting time approached, a pop-up notification flashed across everyone’s screens within the company network.
**[Please log off promptly at 6:00 PM. Otherwise, you might die!]**
I thought it was just some lame…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The moment Isabelle filed for divorce, a single call was all it took for Marcus to drop everything, abandoning me to rush back to her side.
I tore the pregnancy test result from my hand, walking away without a single glance back.
Five…
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English · Contemporary
In the midst of a zombie outbreak, my girlfriend insisted on delaying our evacuation. All for the sake of her cowardly, useless childhood friend to catch the last rescue helicopter.
This was the final evacuation operation after the…
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English · Contemporary
On the day we were supposed to get married at the courthouse, my boyfriend Samuel Lee had someone kick me out and brought in Rachel, his childhood sweetheart.
He looked at me nonchalantly and said, "Rachel's child needs legal custody.…
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English · Contemporary
After my wife was reported for embezzlement by a business rival, I took the blame and went to prison for her.
She promised she would wait for me at our home, but she never visited me even once.
I thought she was just busy and didn't…
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English · Contemporary
The night before the college entrance exam, my stepsister poured boiling water all over me.
My forehead, face, and hands were all burned to varying degrees.
The doctor told me I needed to be hospitalized immediately.
I refused. I…
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English · Contemporary
The day after I had a fight with my husband over his first love, a young, energetic guy showed up at my door soaking wet.
"Please, can I stay here?" he begged.
Without hesitation, I let him stay for three months.
During those three…
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English · Contemporary
Olivia Harper watched in disbelief as her husband Marcus threw a lavish party to celebrate his first love's daughter getting into community college. Meanwhile, their own son Ethan, the school valedictorian, was forced to work as a…
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English · Contemporary
Working overtime until midnight, I was about to head home when floating comments suddenly appeared in the sky.
[Is this the lucky girl chosen by the male lead to be escorted home? She's so ordinary, I wouldn't even give her a second…
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English · Contemporary
The first time I noticed something was off was when I smelled unfamiliar body wash on my husband.
We always use the same brand and scent at home. So that day, when Lucas came home and leaned in to kiss me, I immediately sensed…
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English · Contemporary
I was feeding 7-year-old Lily some pumpkin porridge when Nathan stumbled drunkenly through our front door.
His collar was askew, and there were obvious red marks on his neck. "Olivia, someone spiked the drinks at the fundraising gala,"…
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English · Contemporary
Two months after a car accident left my face disfigured, my husband Jack and his sophisticated sister Olivia got together.
When my parents found out, not only did they not blame Jack, they actually urged me to step aside.
Even my own…
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English · Contemporary
My wife went on a 3-year business trip abroad. When she returned, I went to pick her up at the airport.
To my shock, she wasn't alone - there was also a 6-month-old baby.
My coworkers joked: "The kid may not be yours, but at least…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The day college applications were due, my childhood sweetheart, Asher, who’d pretended to be poor for three years, was finally going to confess his true identity as an heir to a vast fortune to his goddess, Seraphina.
He claimed he’d…
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