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English · Contemporary
I collapsed in the kitchen and was rushed to the hospital. That very day, I was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
The nurse found my son's and daughter's numbers in my phone's emergency contacts.
But when she urged them to pay the…
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English · Contemporary
Reborn. I swore to stay far away from Julian Vance, the man who had tortured me to death in my past life. Instead, I chose to embrace Liam Hayes, my childhood sweetheart who had protected me for years.
I thought this was my…
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English · Contemporary
I’ve been able to see floating live chat comments ever since I was born.
But I never knew what those glowing words actually meant.
Until the moment Mom collapsed right in front of me. Looking at the words scrolling rapidly across my…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Julian Vance forced me to get on my knees and apologize to Lily Brooks for the ninth time, slapping a check right onto my face.
"One hundred thousand dollars for every time your knees hit the floor."
I calculated my mother’s remaining…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Serena had been an affair interventionist for ten years. Ironically, I became the proudest trophy of her career.
At her live-streamed celebration party, Serena linked her arm through my boyfriend Ethan’s. She looked at the camera with a…
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English · Contemporary
I spent eight years working as a VIP hostess in the city’s most exclusive nightclub.
I endured handsy, drunk rich guys touching me, swallowing my disgust every single night. All of that was just to buy my fiancé a luxury car and a…
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English · Contemporary · Fantasy
I saw my son on the street with a strange man, and he was calling that man "Daddy."
But that man was my wife’s stepbrother.
It turned out my wife was completely brainwashed by her toxic family. She actually did something so unforgivable…
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English · Contemporary
In my past life, right after my best friend gave birth, she flexed the gift her husband gave her on Snapchat.
"The perks of being a boy mom! Look at the designer gift my hubby got me!"
With just one glance, I saw right through it. That…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend, Chloe Carter, had been kept as a secret mistress by a mysterious billionaire. In just two years, she had undergone three abortions.
This time, she asked me to accompany her to the clinic again.
The moment I saw her, I…
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English · Contemporary
On the day Ethan Vance lost his memory in a car accident, we had just picked out a name for our baby.
He threw away every single memory of me, along with the photos of the nursery, straight into the trash.
The only person he remembered…
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English · Contemporary
I suspected someone was pretending to be my husband.
I even suspected... he wasn't human.
Because Ethan had been acting too weird lately.
He had been left-handed for over ten years, but suddenly, he was using his right hand. Even the…
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English · Contemporary
At my promotion and raise celebration dinner, just as I was cutting the cake, a pregnancy report was slapped right onto my face.
Immediately after, my usually sweet and submissive boyfriend, Julian, stood up with red, teary eyes. He…
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English · Contemporary
After I was released from prison, Julian Vance used every toxic method in the book to force me to remarry him.
He threatened me, begged me, locked me up, and even dragged his favored step-sister, Chloe Miller, to kneel before…
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English · Contemporary
At our wedding reception, we were playing a game of "Undercover".
In this round, the secret words were "The Bride" and "The Best Friend."
When it was my husband Asher's turn to describe his word, he said:
"We slept in the same bed last…
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English · Contemporary
My long-distance boyfriend sent me a "good morning" text at exactly 5:20 AM every single day.
At first, I thought it was the ultimate romance.
Until I was added to a Snapchat group. There were ten of us in total.
The latest message in…
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English · Contemporary
In the live stream chat, fans were spamming the screen, begging him to talk about "the one that got away."
He leaned back in his gaming chair, a smirk playing on his lips. "Yeah, there was someone. Back then, I just wasn't good enough…
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English · Contemporary
Two years after Ethan and I got remarried, we had a child.
He actually kept the vows he made before our remarriage.
No flirting, no cheating, completely devoted to the family.
I thought we had returned to the days before there was a…
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English · Contemporary
A week before the wedding, the hotel suddenly notified me that the reception I booked had been canceled.
I quickly opened the wedding booking app and scrolled to the order page. The status showed "Canceled," and the transaction time was…
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English · Contemporary
To complete a college summer field research project, my best friend Zack Miller and I went back to his rural family cabin deep in the Southern countryside.
His dad welcomed us with an overly excited grin:
"Well, lookee here! This gal is…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
The first thing I did after being reborn was buy a mountain of designer clothes and jewelry—for my Beagle, Cooper.
In my past life, Carter’s childhood bestie, Chloe, was obsessed with copying my style.
From head to toe, she mimicked…
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English · Contemporary · School
I am Valerie. My sister is Vivian. We are identical twins.
She was the golden child. She got into the most prestigious elite university in the city.
I was the black sheep. I got into too many street fights, so my parents sent me away to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Ethan, has a severe hearing impairment in his left ear. He can barely hear anything on that side.
But whenever the three of us go out together, he always shields my best friend, Maya, on his right side. He would lean down,…
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English · Contemporary
My husband is a strong, built Marine captain, but he has sexual dysfunction.
Five years into our marriage, and I'm still a virgin.
Every time he returned from deployment, I tried everything I could to seduce him.
But he always remained…
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English · Contemporary
I went to the office to report to my husband, Carter Vance, when I caught a whiff of a strange yet familiar, metallic, musky scent.
"Why does it smell so weird in here? Let me open a window."
Just as I was about to walk behind Carter's…
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