Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
I was born without a uterus. It was a secret I kept from everyone, even my parents.
On my eighteenth birthday, my parents found their biological daughter.
At her welcome-home gala, the real heiress, Melody, held her champagne glass and…
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English · Contemporary
For seven years, Theodore gave all his love and attention to Audrey.
I spent three agonizing years waiting for my big moment at the perfume awards, only for him to walk the red carpet with her instead.
He even stole my exclusive…
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English · Contemporary
My mother-in-law, Helen, dragged a four-year-old boy in front of me and claimed he was my husband’s love child.
She sobbed hysterically: "My son made a mistake, but the child is innocent. Just accept him, Chloe."
The mistress stood…
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English · Contemporary
To prepare for our Valentine's Day date, I loaded ten thousand dollars onto my VIP house account at a three-star Michelin restaurant.
But my boyfriend stood me up at the last minute, claiming he had to work overtime.
So, I took my…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend invited me and my boyfriend to an amusement park.
While we were drinking water, my boyfriend, Ethan, naturally opened the bottle for Chloe first.
Chloe smirked playfully.
"Failing Boyfriend 101, are we? How could you not…
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English · Contemporary
On the day Ethan got his big break with a job in the city, he did something he'd never done before.
He bought me a massive bag of imported chocolates.
It must have cost him at least fifty dollars.
Before the chocolate could even melt…
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English · Contemporary
On my roommate Daisy's birthday, she did something unbelievable.
She didn't just bring a creepy older man back to the tiny studio we shared.
She actually tried to force me to watch a sex tape of the two of them.
And to make matters…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The contractions felt like a rusty saw dragging back and forth across my lower abdomen.
Every breath I took tasted of thick, metallic blood.
I was lying in the delivery room of Vance Private Hospital.
Cold sweat had long soaked…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On my wedding night, my mother-in-law, Evelyn, lined up a row of brass cremation urns and creepy old family portraits right in our bedroom.
"Our ancestors will be watching you two make love tonight. They will bless me with a grandson…
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English · Contemporary
It had been six months since my wife, Amelia, started cheating on me.
Today, her assistant-turned-lover, Julian, showed up at my house, demanding I pack my bags and leave.
I gave him a faint smile. "I’m not divorcing her."
"Amelia’s…
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English · Contemporary
The moment I stepped off the plane, I was blocked by my daughter, Barbara, whom I hadn't seen in three years.
She screamed at me in front of the entire crowd.
"Robert, step up and be a father! Pay your child support!"
"Mom works…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At the grand finale of the National Young Architects Championship, I was just one step away from winning a hundred-thousand-dollar cash prize and a junior partner offer at Aura Architects, the top firm in the country. But my own sister,…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
A devastating fire left me in a coma from severe oxygen deprivation. When I woke up, my vision was badly damaged — and i had retrograde amnesia.
Back home, a handsome, gentle man took my hand and told me he was my fiancé. That we have…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Six months after my husband, Caleb Frost, received his kidney transplant, his first love, Scarlett, had been the one taking care of him. She had even specially procured a custom herbal remedy for him. The broth was garishly bright in…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On a night of torrential rain, I fled barefoot from the hell of Southeast Asia back to my home, my soles streaming with blood all the way.
I endured three years in a water dungeon, with blood drawn and medicines tested on me every…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
To cover the astronomical medical bills, I married Finn Waterford as a stand-in bride — the billionaire everyone said had less than three months to live.
On our wedding night, he sat in his wheelchair, coughing up blood, yet he pinned…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The day after our flash marriage, I found out the man I'd married the night before was my ex-husband's uncle.
At a family dinner, Damon saw us walk in arm in arm—and crushed his wine glass with his bare hand.
My new husband, Marcus…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend and I were the most talked-about game designers in the industry. The romance game we co-created, "Heartbeat Echo", was about to launch.
At the press conference, the investors asked us to put on the game’s matching…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
For our graduation trip, I spent weeks planning a cozy, rustic getaway to the Silverwood cabin retreat. But Chloe, the class princess, mocked me in front of everyone, calling me a pathetic, uncultured loser who had never seen the real…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At the godparent announcement gala, Lily’s son was wearing the heirloom emerald pendant my mother had left for my future child.
I lunged forward to grab it back, but Ethan shoved me away hard.
"Chloe, are you seriously stealing from a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
"How's the water temperature, honey?"
Caleb Rivers stared at the woman in the bathtub — she had stopped struggling — and laughed like a man who had lost his mind.
For a $300 million inheritance. To marry his pregnant mistress. Caleb had…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Seven years into my relationship with Julian Croft, when the fire broke out, he put the only gas mask on the face of his sweetheart.
"Sophie has asthma. Hold your breath a little longer — rescue is almost here."
I watched the burning…
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English · Contemporary
My billionaire parents publicly announced to the high society crowd that I, the biological daughter of the Andrews family, was actually just an adopted child.
Mrs. Gable, our nanny, leaned against the doorframe, stabbing her words…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I faked my own death to slip away, spending three months at a secret facility working on a classified medical project.
The day the project wrapped up, the entire city was tuned in to watch a lavish wedding broadcast live.
On the screen,…
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