Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
On the night of my father's 70th birthday gala, my wife Chloe's lover, Tyler, crashed the party.
He projected their sex tape onto the massive screen and grabbed the microphone to mock me in front of everyone:
"Ethan Miller, do yourself…
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English · Contemporary
At a gala, Ethan was drunk. He slid a diamond ring onto my finger.
Just when I thought he was proposing, he whispered another woman's name:
"Sera..."
But my heart didn't break. After all, I was just his hired girlfriend.
My only job was…
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English · Contemporary
On the night of our rehearsal dinner, Ethan Miller picked up my custom-designed wedding ring and slipped it onto his assistant Chloe’s ring finger.
Chloe smiled, her eyes crinkling into half-moons as she waved her hand under the crystal…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone knew Ethan Wright was a rigid, boring man.
But during our three years of dating, he wrote me a love letter every single month.
I treasured those letters like gold. They were the only reason I forgave him for missing countless…
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English · Contemporary
To promote our meal-prep ghost kitchen as the "cleanest eats in town," my husband, Tyler, forced me—his pregnant wife—to host a livestream. He wanted me to eat ten of our signature Teriyaki Bowls back-to-back, just to prove our food…
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English · Contemporary
Late at night, in the middle of working overtime, my best friend sent me a Snapchat photo of my boyfriend cheating.
It was taken in a hotel hallway. He had his arms wrapped tight around a strange woman, kissing her like no one else…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend and my fiancé got together.
But I didn't make a scene.
Because my best friend had lost her memory in a car accident while trying to save me.
To help her recover, our group of five friends decided to play along with her…
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English · Contemporary
As I was tucking my daughter into bed, she suddenly asked,
"Mommy, why does Daddy call someone else 'baby'?"
"Didn't he say that only you and I are his babies?"
My hand froze in mid-air as I was pulling up her blanket.
"Sweetheart, when…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend, Mia, and I were the ultimate "pocket princesses" of Manhattan’s elite—kept by the city's top tech tycoon and its most ruthless hedge-fund billionaire.
I was Chloe Miller, the always-on-call, hyper-efficient personal…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend suddenly told me that our wedding date had to be postponed.
"Melody’s 18th birthday gala is on the same day, and she really wants the Crystal Ballroom. I already canceled our booking and transferred it to her."
It was…
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English · Contemporary
My wife, Chloe Miller, allegedly went bankrupt, leaving behind a staggering debt of ten million dollars.
To help her pay it off, I sold my house, sold my car, quit my job, and subjected myself to high-risk clinical drug trials as a…
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English · Contemporary · Fantasy
The night everyone vanished, I was pulling an overtime shift, drafting the layoff list.
It’s been ten years. I thought I was the only survivor.
Today, the computer that had been dead for a decade suddenly booted up.
The printer spat out…
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English · Contemporary · School
My girlfriend is incredibly rich.
She often takes me to high-end restaurants, gifts me luxury watches I’ve never even heard of, and flies me all over the world.
But my roommate thinks money is tacky. He constantly urged me to break up…
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English · Contemporary
I had been on the donor registry for three long years, and my turn had finally come.
But just because his childhood best friend said she "wanted to see what a cornea looked like," my fiancé went behind my back and authorized the…
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English · Contemporary
An unexpected car accident left me blind in both eyes.
And the only person in this world who could still be considered my family, my cousin’s widow, came to take care of me.
That night, my sight returned, but I saw an unbelievable side…
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English · Contemporary
When we were dating, Carter always called me the tortoise from *The Tortoise and the Hare* because I was always one step behind everyone else.
He never took me to his friend group's parties. He’d say, "Sloane, you’re not that sharp, and…
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English · Contemporary
Ethan changed the passcode of our $10 million dream penthouse to his female assistant's birthday.
It happened to be the exact day of our seventh anniversary.
When the door clicked open from the inside, Chloe Miller was wearing my…
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English · Contemporary
After another cold war with my doctor boyfriend over our wedding jewelry, I scrolled past a shocking relationship thread late at night.
The title of the post was mind-blowing: [I’m a VIP club hostess, and I fell in love with the ER…
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English · Contemporary
I had a heart attack and collapsed straight into the fresh, boiling asphalt at the highway construction site.
It has been two days. My body is already bloated from the heat, but my hand, stiff with rigor mortis, is still gripping that…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Five years of marriage, and my husband’s childhood best friend, Chloe Bennett, ruled our lives. She called herself a "human lie detector," specializing in micro-expressions. With that fake title, she nailed me to the pillar of shame as…
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English · Contemporary
A month before our wedding, a brutal hit-and-run on my way home from a party left me in a vegetative state.
The moment I finally opened my eyes, the first thing I heard was that my husband was marrying someone else.
Outside my hospital…
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English · Contemporary
Before we got married, Ethan confessed to me that he had an ex-wife and a daughter.
"I promised Olivia that I would go on a vacation with her and Lily once a year."
"But don't worry, the rest of the time, I'm all yours."
I understood…
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English · Contemporary
On our third wedding anniversary, I opened the birthday gift my husband, Julian Vance, gave me.
It was a photo album.
When I opened it, my heart stopped.
Every single page was filled with explicit photos of him and a younger woman.
When…
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English · Contemporary
My mom made a million dollars on crypto.
I was planning to buy my first condo and was only fifteen thousand dollars short of the down payment.
I called my family to ask for a loan, but they rejected me without a second thought.
"You’re…
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