Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
My brother, Ethan Hayes, was born a total romantic.
But even more so, he was the ultimate doting big brother, loving me, his sister Chloe, more than any woman.
On my first day of kindergarten, I got into major trouble.
Ethan…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On Christmas Eve, I braved the heavy snow, hurrying home. On the way, I scrolled through a trending post.
[My family's parasite insists on coming for Christmas dinner, but we just want a cozy holiday as a family of three. How do we…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Everyone knew Ethan and I loved each other to our very core.
To save me, he'd given me the only bottle of antitoxin, ready to die himself.
To protect him, I'd used my body to shield him from a kidnapper's knife, taking a fatal blow…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
My mother always said that people don't learn from being told; they learn instantly from experience.
When I was little, I reached for a kettle of boiling water, and she just stood by and watched coldly. I screamed and cried when I got…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My father was a raging alcoholic. Every time he got drunk, he'd abuse me and my brother, Leo.
Afterward, he’d always throw a few hundred dollars at me as compensation.
I accepted it calmly, sometimes even buying him his favorite…
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English · Contemporary
New Year's Eve.
Scarlett Hayes shivered, freezing in her short skirt while hiking.
I casually remarked, "Maybe don't wear a short skirt for hiking," and her eyes immediately welled up.
My boyfriend, Ethan Blackwood, instantly frowned.…
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English · Contemporary
Growing up, the game I hated playing most with my older sister, Chloe, was hide-and-seek.
Chloe was absolutely terrible at hiding.
I found it incredibly boring, no challenge at all.
But one day, Chloe disappeared, and no matter how hard…
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English · Contemporary
I was Ethan's secret lover for five years, his chief designer for five years, and all I got in the end was: "You think you deserve love?"
The day he got engaged, he forced me to design the ring for his fiancée. Then my father came for…
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English · Contemporary
When I went to replace my bank card, the teller casually mentioned that I had a quarterly patent income of $300,000 under my name.
But as the patent inventor, I had never seen a single cent of it.
Following the account trail, I…
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English · Contemporary
My dad died in a car accident when I was ten.
Only later did I learn that the crash wasn't an accident. The brakes had been tampered with.
And the person who did it was my mom.
My dad died never knowing his wife had already found…
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English · Contemporary
My cousin Schumacher was getting married, but my wife refused to attend the wedding with me.
I'd expected this—just like how she always found excuses not to visit my hometown with me.
Though I was prepared, facing relatives' questions…
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English · Contemporary
That year, when our relationship was at its worst, David cheated on me with a college student.
The girl Photoshopped intimate photos of me with other men and sent them to provoke me. I went straight to her school, grabbed her by the…
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English · Contemporary
On the fiftieth day after I donated a kidney to my mother-in-law, my husband, Marcus Thorne, had also been gone for a month.
My surgical wound was severely infected and festering, but after emptying my pockets, I couldn't even afford…
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English · Contemporary
He personally signed the organ donation consent form, diverting the life-saving heart intended for his own daughter to his first love's son.
For seven years of marriage, I concealed my identity as the heiress to a multi-billion dollar…
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English · Contemporary
In my past life, my wedding car suddenly burst into flames. My fiancé, Ethan Thorne, to save his delicate adopted sister, Serena, who suffered from claustrophobia, cruelly locked me inside the burning vehicle.
He carried a pregnant…
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English · Contemporary
The day my dad remarried, my stepmother, Sharon, gently welcomed me into her home. She’d simmered chicken soup for three hours just for me.
But as I picked up a drumstick and took a few bites, she suddenly grabbed the scalding hot soup…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I'm a straightforward, love-struck girl who only falls for powerful people.
The brilliant, unattainable genius shamed me for my bad grades. I thought he was so charming.
My fault, I'm too dumb. I'll learn.
My super-handsome first love…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My parents, because I wasn't "perfect" enough, implanted an AI chip in me.
They said it would completely transform me.
After the chip was implanted, I became the perfect daughter they'd always dreamed of.
But the side effect was that…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
Years into our marriage, when the critical condition notice for me arrived, Caleb Reed didn’t hesitate. He suggested mortgaging our house.
To cover the sky-high medical costs, he, who once held himself so high, now toiled day and…
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English · Contemporary
Olivia spent eight years by Ethan's side, watching him work his way up from first officer to captain.
During his busiest year, I quit my job and planned my meals around his flight schedule.
Once, I asked him, "Can you take me up to see…
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English · Contemporary
The Sterling family, who had always longed for a daughter, finally welcomed their little heiress, Lily Sterling.
Grandpa Richard Sterling was so thrilled he immediately announced he'd be leaving his multi-billion dollar fortune to…
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English · Contemporary
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To come back home and marry me, Hayden Cross spent four whole years stationed at an overseas peacekeeping base.
Everyone knew Hayden would lay down his life for Vivian Sterling.
In his first year, just to secure a priority slot to…
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English · Contemporary
At my mom’s funeral, my fiancée Georgina suddenly spoke.
"Actually, your mom had a heart attack because she walked in on Phillips and me having sex."
My eyes widened in disbelief.
Phillips was my mom's boyfriend. My girlfriend…
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English · Contemporary
“Mia madre è una maiale grassa e imponente.”
Outside the kindergarten, my six-year-old son introduced me to the other kids in Italian.
The kids didn't understand, they just laughed along.
I understood, because every single sound in…
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