Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
The day I miscarried and hemorrhaged, my parents rushed to the hospital through heavy rain and got into a car accident on the way.
I lay on the operating table and signed their surgery consent forms with blood-stained hands.
I…
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English · Contemporary
I'm a top-tier Hollywood star, the youngest Oscar-winning actress,
and the apple of the eye of the Fletcher family's billionaire heir.
He not only opened a talent agency specifically to manage me alone,
but even humbled himself to…
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English · Contemporary
After getting pregnant by accident, I dragged my suitcase to the door, ready to run.
The moment I opened it, a stream of text floated before my eyes.
[Why are you running? If you run, you're dead!]
[Raven Smith has no brain. She's…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The night before getting my marriage license, I had a dream.
A woman who looked exactly like me swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills with a pale face, then stared at me intently.
I asked her in a trembling voice who she was. The…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
My desk was occupied by someone else.
On the last day of my maternity leave, I came to the office early to report back.
When I pushed open the project department door, a woman with a ponytail was typing at my computer at my…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
"Congratulations, you've been optimized."
When HR said this with a smile, I was still trying to decide between a sandwich or salad for lunch.
I'd spent five years at this company. N+1 severance. Out by the end of the month.
As I was…
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English · Contemporary
I grew up with Muniz, but I've always maintained boundaries.
Every time he got into a relationship, I'd cut off contact on my own.
On his twenty-seventh birthday, he suddenly said to me, "Tucker, why don't we just settle for each…
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English · Contemporary
On our third wedding anniversary, Ethan handed me a divorce agreement, his eyes slightly red as he gripped my hand.
"Samantha, I got an invitation to a top New York socialite's banquet. She promised me the vice president…
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English · Contemporary
My friend Lily sent me a photo.
It was a screenshot of my husband checking into a love hotel in the city.
She sent me a message teasing: "You and your husband sure know how to have fun. Going to a love hotel while pregnant? Be…
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English · Contemporary
I woke up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep from morning sickness. Just as I was about to contact my husband, I stumbled across a post.
[What's a secret you could NEVER let your wife know!]
The top-liked comment was…
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English · Contemporary
I fled with my pregnancy for four years, never expecting to run into my foster brother Diego late one night at the pediatric emergency room.
I wore a mask. He didn't recognize me.
His gaze first fell on the child in my arms:
"How…
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English · Contemporary
Maxwell forbade me from attending Ethan's parent-teacher conference.
He said coldly, "You've worked as a mortuary makeup artist for so long, you reek of death. Ethan needs a respectable mother."
After the conference ended, my son…
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English · Contemporary
While working my fifth job to help my boyfriend pay off his debts, I saw my supposedly bankrupt boyfriend sitting elegantly in a sports car, dressed in an expensive suit.
Beside him was a young woman with a bright smile on her…
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English · Contemporary
The day I moved out, I sent Robertson a voice message.
"Let's break up."
A second later, he replied with one word: "Okay."
My best friend Catherine sat across from me, her jaw practically hitting the floor.
"You two were about to…
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English · Contemporary
After finding condoms in my husband Jacob's passenger seat yet again, I wasn't angry anymore. I just silently helped him put them away.
Jacob gave me a complicated look and volunteered an explanation.
"Check for yourself. This box…
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English · Contemporary
The day before my period, I saw a note in my fiancé's memo.
【Predict tomorrow is her period, remember to prepare pads and painkillers in the bag.】
I smiled sweetly, touched by my fiancé's thoughtfulness.
Until the next day, when my…
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English · Contemporary
My son George practiced magic for two months just to perform on stage with his dad for Children's Day.
I stayed up three nights sewing matching capes for the father-son duo.
In the pocket of the larger cape, my son secretly tucked a…
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English · Contemporary
To take over the family aviation company.
Grandpa made me rotate into the flight attendant position for a week.
On my first day of work, I encountered a man waving a super VIP card and throwing his weight around with the flight…
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English · Contemporary
When I got out of juvie, I saw Wendy's mutilated body.
The word "whore" was carved all over her. By the time she was sent to the funeral home, neither Mark nor Jacob had shown up.
Only Lily stayed with me, gently patting my…
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English · Contemporary
After five years with Ethan Crawford, I couldn't even afford rent.
I pawned the ring my mom left me for five hundred dollars.
Later, I found out it was for Vivian Winters' fourth "heart surgery."
Over five years, our anniversary was…
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English · Contemporary
The moment I was reborn on the beach, my buddy Liam's urgent phone call came through.
"Ethan! Where the hell are you?! The bride has been waiting for you for two hours!"
I rubbed my throbbing temples and swiped open my phone calendar…
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English · Contemporary
On the day I went into labor, Ethan Knight was out on a sweet romantic getaway with his intern at a hotel.
I casually liked the post, then turned and sent a message to my AI husband "Ace":
"Ace, our child is going to be born…
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English · Contemporary
I had just sat down in the VIP lounge of the club when the door was violently thrown open.
A woman in a red dress stumbled in, crashing into the fifty-thousand-dollar crystal antique ornament I'd just acquired.
She grabbed my arm, her…
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English · Contemporary
On the fifteenth day after I gave birth, I received a text from an unknown number.
It was a photo.
My husband Martinez and a woman lying in my bed, covered with my wedding quilt.
Below the photo was a line of text: "Your husband says…
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