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English · Romance · Contemporary
One week before the wedding, the hotel suddenly notified me that my reception booking had been canceled.
I rushed to open the booking app and swiped to the order page. The status indeed read *Canceled*, and the timestamp showed it was…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On the sixth year of our long-distance relationship, I secretly flew to New York City to give my girlfriend a surprise for her birthday.
Inside the trendiest bakery downtown, my eyes caught the custom cake the guy next to me was…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Cold, biting wind whipped across my face.
I gasped, my eyes snapping open.
In front of me was a blindingly white ski slope, and a man stood right in my face, holding up his phone.
He was gripping a ski pole, and caught on its sharp…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Six years ago, to keep from dragging down my boyfriend while he was building his startup, I cruelly told him I had fallen in love with someone else.
He was completely heartbroken by me, went overseas, and never came back.
Six years…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My husband finally came home after being stationed abroad for ten long years.
I should have been thrilled. But the exact moment he stepped through the door, every single hair on my arms stood on end.
Ten years. And he hadn't aged a…
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English · Contemporary
I got dumped and laid off on the exact same day. The reason was absolutely ridiculous.
It was all because my boyfriend, Ethan, went to a Tarot reader, and the psychic told him:
"Your current girlfriend is leeching all of your good…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend vanished without a trace three years ago. I searched every corner of the city, posted flyers, and exhausted every lead, but found nothing.
Until last week.
He suddenly appeared at my doorstep, covered in horrific…
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English · Contemporary
My girlfriend had been missing for three whole years. I had searched every corner of the city, followed every lead, but found absolutely nothing.
Until last Wednesday, when she suddenly showed up at my doorstep, covered in bruises and…
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English · Contemporary
When I was sixteen, a killer broke into our house, tortured and murdered my mother, and burned the place to the ground, erasing all the evidence.
I was there. I watched the whole thing.
My dad, my uncle, the cops—they asked me over and…
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English · Contemporary
My childhood best friend lost contact while working deep undercover abroad. I immediately filed an application with the department to go in and assist him.
When I finally found him, he was rotting. He had been tortured beyond…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
My intern, Chloe, used a cheat called [Success Transfer] on me. No matter how many multi-million-dollar deals I closed, the moment twenty-four hours passed, her name would magically appear on the contract.
Even the clients' memories…
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English · Contemporary
I was the biological daughter they finally brought home, but I suffered from a severe, life-threatening peanut allergy.
On my very first day back, my father set a brutal house rule: everything we wanted—from clothes to food—had to be…
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English · Contemporary
On our tenth anniversary, I received a notification that David had died in a plane crash.
The Jonathan family blamed me for his death, calling me a curse. That very night, they kicked me out of the house.
To survive, I dragged my…
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English · Contemporary
Every night during FaceTime calls with my long-distance boyfriend, I noticed traces of another woman in his apartment.
A pair of pink thongs on the sofa, a used condom on the hardwood floor...
But every single time, someone had an…
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English · Contemporary
The last time I called Mom, I had not eaten anything for seven days.
When I was five, Mom and Dad adopted a girl from a remote fishing village.
From that day on, she slept in my room, wore my dresses, and called my mom and dad hers.
And…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My CEO husband asked me to go to the airport and bring him the underwear he needed for his business trip.
I got in the car right away and arrived within thirty minutes.
His friend praised me. “A wife really is more virtuous than a…
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English · Contemporary
I had been with Ethan for three years, and he had one unbreakable habit.
Every night at ten-thirty, he would send me a sixty-second voice memo. It was always him reading romantic poems or classic prose.
I treasured those voice memos…
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English · Contemporary
On our seventh wedding anniversary, my husband, Julian Vance, spent forty million dollars at a charity gala to buy back my late mother’s diamond necklace.
But the moment he secured it, he turned around and gently fastened it around…
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English · Contemporary
I had been with Christopher for seven years. Seven years of a long-distance relationship.
He came from a dirt-poor background but had a sky-high ego.
I walked on eggshells to protect his precious self-esteem. Not only did I pay cash…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I accidentally cast the spicy photo I sent my online boyfriend onto the conference room screen.
Even worse, I realized my clingy online boyfriend—the one who calls me "Mistress," begs for cuddles, and worships the ground I walk on, is…
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English · Contemporary
The ultimate penalty of the escape room was a mystery box filled with live, crawling roaches.
Charlotte, my so-called best friend, shrieked and recoiled in disgust. But as she backed away, she instantly grabbed the hand of Brandon—my…
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English · Contemporary
While I was trying on my wedding dress, Julian’s best friend suddenly tagged me on Snapchat:
"Stella, the invitations are shipping the day after tomorrow. Have you noticed the bride’s name isn’t yours yet?"
Looking at myself in the…
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English · Contemporary
I died on the night my sister, Natasha, became a legend.
It was the finals of the International Youth Dance Championship. The spotlight was blindingly bright, and everyone in the crowd was screaming her name.
But the person standing…
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English · Contemporary
On my thirty-seventh birthday, I bought a cake and brought it to the company.
I had planned to celebrate with my coworkers that evening, but I never expected to receive a layoff notice the moment I walked into the office.
The boss’s…
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