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English · Contemporary
Only seventy-two hours left until my ten-year anniversary at the company—and my three-million-dollar stock option payout.
But the newly appointed twenty-two-year-old Gen Z Vice President just slapped a "Voluntary Resignation Agreement"…
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This was the ninth time Maya had ruined my wedding with Ethan.
I was so furious that I wanted to call the cops and have her arrested, but Ethan stopped me.
"Chloe, please. Maya is my patient, and she’s emotionally unstable. As her…
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English · Contemporary
Only a hundred days left until the SATs, and the entire school was gathered for the honors assembly.
I, the girl who had held the number-one spot in our grade for three consecutive years, was standing on the second-place tier of the…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend's friends have all tried to get into my bed.
They were all sent by my boyfriend himself.
But every single time, I rejected them without hesitation.
Every time I passed his "test," he would shower me with expensive…
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I had been in a secret relationship with the billionaire who sponsored my education for six years.
In public, Julian Vance treated me as his most capable executive assistant. At home, he was a clingy, doting lover who showered me with…
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My lifelong dream was to become a professional prima ballerina.
But during the Bernice International Ballet Competition, a group of armed thugs crashed the stage.
Just as my final routine was ending, they shot the overhead chandelier,…
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The gallery my husband and I ran survived solely on my paintings.
I had always created my art anonymously. No one knew that the mysterious artist behind those viral masterpieces was actually me.
Until Arthur Sterling, the billionaire…
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I was known as the mad wife of the city's most ruthless mafia don.
Every time my husband took a new mistress, I would point a gun at them to scare them off.
To punish me for my jealousy, he bought her luxury cars, penthouses, and…
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Working late at the office, my wife suddenly sent me a video on Snapchat.
"Babe, there's a creepy homeless guy right outside our door. I'm so scared!"
In the video, a man in tattered clothes was sitting on our porch, muttering…
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I was born with a failing heart. Out of sheer desperation, my parents turned to an old superstition. They adopted Chloe Mercer, a girl born at the exact same hour as me, believing she could act as my "astrological shield" to absorb my…
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I’ve been with Logan for five years. He always said that if I wanted to be his doormat, I had to act like one.
For five years, that’s exactly what I did.
One call from him, and I’d rush home in the middle of the night, even if I was a…
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At the company's annual holiday party, my boss, Carter Hayes, suddenly announced that this year's year-end gifts would be drawn via a mystery box raffle.
One colleague won a 50-gram gold bar.
Another won $100,000 in cash.
But when my…
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Ethan loved me. Everyone knew it.
He spoiled me so much that I didn't even know how to boil water. He turned me into a completely dependent princess.
And then, he suddenly let me catch him being intimate with another woman.
That woman…
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At the live broadcast of the university's New Year's Gala, a world-famous pop star smiled as he handed a signed photo to my husband.
His gaze swept over the woman standing beside him, and he offered a warm blessing.
"Professor Carter,…
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English · Contemporary
Because of a brain tumor, my optic nerve was compressed, and I went blind.
Devastated, I wanted to end my life, but then Carter broke into my world like a ray of light.
For a long time, I thought I was the luckiest woman alive.
Until a…
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Only ten minutes left before the wedding, and my phone buzzed with an incredibly sickening photo.
In the picture, a man was so emaciated he was nothing but skin and bones, groveling on the floor like a dog.
And my bride-to-be, Vanessa…
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Arthur complained that I was a terrible cook and useless at housework, so he bought "Lily," the ultimate AI homemaker.
Lily could cook gourmet meals and gently reminded Arthur to take his medication.
Frustrated, I pulled her plug.…
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English · Contemporary
I sponsored a high school kid when I was in college. Eight years later, I never expected him to show up at my doorstep with his girlfriend.
"Chloe, you've supported me all these years. In my heart, you’re just like a mother to me."
"Now…
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The day my Oscar-winning fiancé won his big award, he publicly confessed his love to a rising starlet.
I stood backstage, watching them embrace and kiss passionately under the flashing lights.
At the after-party, I took off my…
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English · Contemporary
My groin suddenly exploded with agonizing pain.
Testicular torsion.
If I didn't get surgery within an hour, the tissue would die.
I would lose my ability to have kids forever.
Drenched in cold sweat and shaking uncontrollably, I begged…
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English · Contemporary
After my adoptive parents found their biological daughter, Tiffany, who had been missing for years, I didn't just lose my family—I lost my fiancé, Ethan Vance, too.
When I came home holding my positive pregnancy test, I caught them…
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On our wedding day, my wife, Vivian Sterling, suddenly frowned, her body trembling slightly.
That night, I received a mocking text from her ex, Ryan Vance:
"Your wife's expression at the wedding was priceless. She was wearing the…
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The day before my prenatal checkup, my husband left town under the guise of a business merger.
But that night, I saw an Instagram update from the top influencer his agency was promoting.
"The billionaire CEO threw me a surprise birthday…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend never peels shrimp for me.
He always says it smells too fishy and grosses him out.
I never complained about it.
Until tonight, at a party with our friends, when he peeled an entire plate of shrimp for his childhood friend,…
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