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English · Contemporary
After transferring to the office, my stunning looks made me the target of my boss’s harassment and my colleagues’ nasty rumors.
My team lead, Marcus Vance, even set up a trap, trying to lures me into a hotel room under the guise of…
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English · Contemporary
Right after my father died, his illegitimate daughter, Chloe, rushed back to the country to steal my family's estate.
As the only child of his legal wife, I had the inheritance laws and a solid will on my side.
Yet, I still lost the…
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English · Contemporary
My dad is the richest man in New York, but my monthly allowance is only fifty dollars.
My mother always told me that my dad abandoned us. She said he despised me for being a girl, left a divorce agreement when I was six, and vanished…
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English · Contemporary
I was known as the most delicate rose of the Upper East Side, and no one dared to touch me.
That was because behind me stood the three most powerful dynasties in New York: the Vances, the Sterlings, and the Brookses.
My fiancé, Julian…
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English · Contemporary
My name is Logan. In our social circle, I’m known as the ultimate doormat.
For five years, I held the empty title of Chloe Montgomery’s fiancé. I never pushed for marriage, never demanded we sign papers, and never restricted her…
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English · Contemporary
Julian Vance was forced to marry me when I was eighteen.
He was miserable; I was thrilled.
I knew that to Julian, it didn’t matter who he married. I was just a pawn to satisfy his family's demands.
I foolishly believed that over time,…
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English · Contemporary
Seven years of building the company from nothing with Ethan Vance, and we finally went public on the New York Stock Exchange today.
But that very afternoon, he blocked me on Instagram just so he could announce his relationship with…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After five years of marriage, Tristan Shaw and I were famously known as a respectful but detached couple.
He was notorious in our social circle for his absolute self-control, and he was no exception even with his wife.
Even when making…
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English · Contemporary
Five years of marriage, and Ethan Vance had turned our home into ninety-nine different kink rooms.
The models he brought back could easily open a packed nightclub right in our living room.
I chose to turn a blind eye to all of it,…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
"I’m not going to be your mistress. If you want to get married, tell your wife to be the mistress instead."
This was the last text message I saw on Marcus Vance’s phone before I died.
Only then did I finally understand why my reputation…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My wife had been texting some guy non-stop lately. I was convinced she was cheating.
But she claimed it was just an AI romance game called *The Crimson Bride*, and she was only chatting with a virtual character.
I checked the app.…
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English · Contemporary
Five years into our marriage, Marcus suddenly brought home his foster sister.
"Chloe just went through a terrible breakup abroad," he said, gently wiping a tear from Chloe’s eye. "She has no family here. She can stay with us and help…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Charlotte and I are sisters.
The difference is, she is the proud, legitimate heiress of the Sinclair family, while I am just the dirty little secret—the illegitimate daughter my father had with the housekeeper.
When the ultra-wealthy…
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English · Contemporary
When I was ten years old, my mother brought home a filthy girl. From that day on, she stopped loving me.
She gave my brand-new princess bed to her, cancelled my piano lessons, and used the refund to pay for the girl’s private…
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English · Contemporary
By the time I walked my mom, Eleanor, out of the clinic with her breast cancer diagnosis, the sun had already set.
I held her ice-cold hand as we pushed open the front door of our house.
The living room was dark, save for the glow of…
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English · Contemporary
In the seventh year of our marriage, an exclusive interview with Ethan Davis was published on Instagram.
The photo showed him standing next to his mentee, Hailey Brooks.
The caption was eye-catching:
[Ethan Davis: Great architecture has…
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English · Contemporary
Five years of marriage, and Ethan Sterling spoiled me rotten.
Because I was always freezing, he relocated our entire lives to a sunny estate in Southern California.
Knowing my obsession with lychees, he bought the only private lychee…
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English · Contemporary
On the day I was discharged from the hospital, a thug rushed straight at me with a knife.
My wife, Chloe, had just stepped out with my discharge papers and billing statement.
Without a second thought, she threw herself onto my back. The…
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English · Contemporary
My mother cried and told me.
She said the caregiver would tie her to the wheelchair and starve her every day after I left for work.
I thought it was ridiculous.
An eighty-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's—it was only normal for…
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English · Contemporary
On the eve of my boyfriend Ethan’s groundbreaking AI model launch, my own parents locked me in the basement.
Right outside the door, my dad was giving an interview to the tech media. His voice was dripping with pride and excitement.…
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English · Contemporary
Right after my boyfriend Tyler's ice hockey championship game, I was on my way to the locker room to surprise him.
Instead, I walked right into him passionately kissing Scarlett Brooks, the captain of the cheerleading squad.
The bouquet…
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English · Contemporary
On my wedding day, my circle of toxic frenemies came to my bridal suite and asked how much wedding allowance my husband had given me.
In reality, Marcus had only given me ten thousand dollars. But I lied through my teeth without…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
My mother always preached the rule of "Equal Value Exchange." The better the college you got into, the more allowance you received.
She put a literal price tag on my and my twin brother Noah’s college lives based on our schools.
"Get…
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English · Contemporary
At the party, when my boyfriend Gu Huai’an was holding Lin Zhaozhao, his first love, by the hand, I heard the other coworkers whispering beside them,
“Shen Yan was still delivering documents in the middle of the night. She has no shame.…
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