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English · Contemporary
The day before our wedding, my fiancé got into a car accident.
When I rushed to the hospital, he was holding another woman in his arms. He looked at me with cold, indifferent eyes and asked,
"Who are you?"
After the doctor told me he…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
My wife of five years had an affair with her personal trainer. To buy him a new car and a house, she actually framed me for spousal rape!
I was sentenced to ten years in prison. On top of that, she used a staged "rape video" to…
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English · Contemporary
On the eve of the wedding, I found my husband, who had supposedly died in a shipwreck, kissing my sister in public under the guise of his twin brother.
I tore his shirt open like a madwoman. When I saw the familiar birthmark below his…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When Julian Vance's men dragged me into that abandoned warehouse, I never imagined that the man I had loved for three years would order ninety-nine slaps to my face, all for another woman.
Over the phone, his voice was freezing, devoid…
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English · Contemporary
Eight months after my terminal cancer diagnosis, I found a secret will in my wife’s study safe.
According to the document, all of her shares, properties, ten private jets, and five private islands would be unconditionally transferred to…
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English · Contemporary
Julian’s secretary’s husband had died in a tragic car accident.
The shock sent Chloe, who was eight months pregnant, into early labor.
Being a woman and a mother myself, I knew how brutal childbirth could be. I made some homemade…
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English · Contemporary
I won a five-million-dollar lottery on my business trip.
But my boss demanded I hand over every single penny to the company. Otherwise, he threatened to sue me for embezzling corporate funds.
To make things worse, my apprentice stabbed…
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English · Contemporary
I’ve always been a coward—submissive on the outside, but fiercely proud on the inside.
My adoptive parents sold me to a creepy old hillbilly in our run-down mountain town for fifty thousand dollars.
And all I did was argue the price up…
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English · Contemporary
I kicked Julian’s kept girl out of NovaTech’s headquarters myself.
When Julian found out, he was absolutely furious. To show off, he immediately took his little mistress on an overseas vacation.
"Next month is her birthday. I promised…
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English · Contemporary
My husband's first love wanted to see a high-altitude bungee performance.
So, even though I was three months pregnant, they suspended me from a platform a thousand feet in the air.
I was shaking all over, crying and begging them.
"I'm…
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English · Contemporary
In the third year of our marriage, Austin's startup was on the brink of bankruptcy.
He knelt in front of me, begging me to accompany his biggest investor to a dinner.
"You don't have to do anything. Just sit there. Mr. Vance likes your…
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English · Contemporary
In the past, Hailey was the only one who got to have birthday cakes.
But this time, for my own cake, I had specially chosen my favorites—strawberry and white chocolate. I even had my name written on the chocolate plaque.
After waiting…
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English · Contemporary
"Friday night, VIP lounge at Club Spade. I’ve pre-ordered ten bottles of Ace of Spades! See you there, babes!"
Chloe leaned against my cubicle partition, sipping Coca-Cola through a straw. Her peach lip gloss left a sticky, greasy ring…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Ethan’s expression froze, and his face turned pale in an instant.
“Ava, listen to me explain…”
Before he could get the words out, his phone rang.
Lately, someone had been calling him at this exact time every day.
Thinking about it…
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English · Contemporary
When Ethan got home, I was in the walk-in closet trying on clothes.
Ever since he publicly mocked me a year ago, saying nothing I wore could ever look as good as Chloe, I hadn’t bought a single new outfit.
Ethan walked up to me,…
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English · Contemporary
Chloe Miller’s wild photos were spreading like wildfire in our Snapchat group chats.
She was on a king-sized bed covered in rose petals, wearing a skimpy playmate bunny outfit, complete with a fluffy white tail clipped to her back.
In…
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English · Contemporary
Ethan froze, his eyes casually drifting to the screen.
His brows instantly knitted together.
"Were you snooping through my messages?"
"The notification popped up on its own," I explained calmly, looking straight at him.
"So you…
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English · Contemporary
Austin went on nagging for a long time before he finally noticed I was standing by the door, completely silent.
Assuming I had realized my mistake, his tone softened. "Elena, I’m not trying to be hard on you. But you went too far this…
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English · Contemporary
On our wedding night, Julian and Chloe had a wild, scandalous night at a six-star hotel.
She even FaceTime-called me to gloat. I didn't even bother to listen—I just blocked and deleted her.
By the time I handled the PR control with…
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English · Contemporary
"Still acting tough, huh? Once we get to the camp, they have plenty of ways to break you."
Jerry wiped my bloody spit off the steering wheel.
I kept biting my tongue, using the excruciating pain to fight off the heavy sedation.
"It's…
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English · Contemporary
Ethan slammed on the brakes, and the SUV came to a smooth stop at the red light.
He didn't try to persuade me otherwise, nor did he ask what I was going to buy.
Instead, he just turned around and gave me a look of pure, unbothered…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When the hallway outside my hospital room was in absolute chaos, I was staring blankly at a single obsidian cufflink and a separation agreement on my bedside table.
On the last page of the contract, two names sat side by side: Summer…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
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I was hemorrhaging on the operating table, clinging to life by a thread.
My husband, Julian Sterling, refused to sign the C-section consent form.
He said, "My wife’s stomach cannot have a scar!"
My attending OB-GYN,…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
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Ever since I got pregnant, my husband, Ethan, had been incredibly attentive, catering to my every whim. Wanting to show my appreciation, I decided to surprise him at his office with some homemade seafood chowder—his…
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