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On the day I was supposed to marry my childhood sweetheart, Finnick Foster, I became a runaway bride. As the flight took off, I deleted every trace of my past life. Six years later, I had to return because my parents' graves were being relocated. Right at the entrance of the funeral home, I crashed straight into Finnick's arms. He gripped my wrists so hard it hurt, his eyes bloodshot. "Why did you run?" He had lost a lot of weight, and the dark circles under his eyes made it look like he ha

1 Mom was really sick, and she felt bad that I'd been crushing on Sarah, my stepsister, forever with zero luck. She actually asked Sarah if she'd marry me. Sarah, looking at Mom with this totally pleading look in her eyes, said, totally blank, "I will." Our wedding night? Her soulmate, Chad, shows up, screaming his head off. "After all these years! How could you do this to me?" he yelled. Then, right there, he offed himself. I freaked, but Sarah? She handled it. Cold as ice. She even made s

Melody Sinclair constantly nagged me about being frugal. She made me wear the same patched-up suit for five long years. Even the gifts I gave her on holidays were returned for cash. She claimed she was saving up to buy me a brand-new car once we had enough. But on our wedding anniversary, she took the two hundred thousand she had saved and bought a Porsche Panamera for her childhood sweetheart. She even left a comment on his post: "I'll be the one to make your childhood dreams come true." Th

1. After I discovered the marriage certificate was a forgery, I stopped answering Eamon’s endless calls. I also stopped managing the trivial affairs of the Sterling estate. I spent my days and nights away from home, losing myself in the underground bars of lower Manhattan with my best friend. Eamon didn't seem to care. He thought I was just throwing a tantrum like some immature high school girl. That is, until he returned from a ski trip in Aspen with his female executive. At the family's T

1 I was being dismembered by a killer while my father was hosting a lavish eighteenth birthday party for my adopted sister. When I called him, desperately begging for help, the only thing that reached my ears was his venomous voice. "What kind of act are you putting on now? If you want to die, just go ahead and do it. Stop disgusting me!" The very next day, my father went to the police station to lead the investigation into the dismemberment case that had shocked the entire city. He collect

I waited at the steakhouse for three hours to celebrate our third anniversary, only to receive a cold text from my husband. When I saw him gently shielding his "fragile" ex-girlfriend from the rain, I knew our marriage was already dead in all but name. 1. I waited at the restaurant until eleven on our third wedding anniversary. The dishes on the table had been reheated three times before going cold again. The candles burned down to the very bottom, their flames licking the foil holders. The

Chapter 1 I died in the year my husband hated me the most. I couldn't take his endless cold shoulder and the icy silence of our home anymore. I took a handful of pills and ended it all. At the crematorium, he watched the roaring flames behind the glass window. A rare, twisted smile touched his lips. "A woman as filthy as her doesn't deserve to remain whole, even in death," he muttered. When the worker handed him the wooden urn containing my remains, he didn't take it. Instead, he swiped his

It was our fifth wedding anniversary. I was dressed in a custom tuxedo, waiting for my CEO wife to announce our secret marriage at the gala. Suddenly, her first love was hit with a scandal. Ignoring my presence, she stepped onto the stage and spoke to the cameras. "Xander and I are indeed in a relationship. Please support his new project." Amidst the cheers, Xander leaned in and kissed my wife passionately. I didn't cry or make a scene. I simply smiled and joined the crowd, clapping for

1. They took my uterus. Seven months pregnant. My husband kicked me so hard the placenta detached. I hemorrhaged on the ice. His reason? Someone told him I slapped his first love across the face. My brother Marcus―the one person I had left in this world―found out and just stared at me with pure disgust. "You deserved it. If you ever lay a hand on Olivia again, I'll make you regret it." The hedge fund they ran together collapsed. They hung the CEO title on me and shoved me into federal pris

My childhood sweetheart, who promised to marry me right after college, proposed to the fake heiress, Grace Jenkins, at my graduation ceremony. However, Kieran Grant, the famously ascetic billionaire of Manhattan, publicly confessed his love to me right after that proposal. During our five years of marriage, he was incredibly gentle and spoiled me rotten. That was until I accidentally overheard a conversation between him and his best friend. "Kieran, Grace is already a famous artist. Are you

The school family event had just finished, and my son was begging for ice cream. I braved the scorching sun to buy some, only to hear him say, "Dad, we can get rid of Mommy now, right?" Zane Grayson stood beside him, a look of tenderness in his eyes that I had never seen before. "Yeah. Summer's storyline is over, so she can stay here forever now," he replied. "How about we let Aunt Summer be your new mommy?" My son cheered and jumped for joy. I turned around and tossed the ice cream into t

Chapter 1 After calling off our wedding for the ninety-ninth time, Miles Crawford got down on his knees to apologize again. "I am so sorry, baby. Chloe got into a car accident, and she had no one else by her side. I only went to help her out." Just as my heart was about to soften, his true thoughts echoed directly in my mind. 【God, this is so annoying. Why do I have to apologize every single time? I just do not want to get married. How can she not see that?】 【The car accident was completely

1 When I handed over my starting spot as the esports team's star player to her precious ex, Ashley, my girlfriend, rewarded me with an early wedding. I thought everything was finally falling into place. But then, during the ceremony, Brad, the ex, whipped out a freakin' knife and started cutting himself. "Ashley, please, don't marry him!" he screamed. Ashley, who's usually cooler than a cucumber, completely lost it. She begged me to save Brad's life. Everyone in the room was staring, wait

1. On our seventh wedding anniversary, I found a first-class ticket to Reykjavik buried deep in Damon's nightstand. I thought it was a surprise for me―after all, it was the number one honeymoon spot on the bucket list we made when we were dating. But as I waited late into the night, all I got was a short iMessage from him: "Company crisis. Have to fly to the West Coast. Don't wait up." At 3 a.m., unable to sleep, I saw Cora's Instagram story. She was Damon's first love, the one that got awa

The holidays were approaching, but the weather was insane. It had been snowing non-stop for an entire month. My bestie, Skylar, was dead set on going back to the remote, backwoods mountains to meet her deadbeat boyfriend's family. I was terrified for her safety and tried everything to stop her, but she wouldn't listen to a word I said. Even my fiancé, Gavin, who grew up with me, was worried about her. He actually forced me to drive them all the way up there in the middle of a blizzard. Three

1 My husband's long-lost soulmate was dying of liver failure. In his desperation, he dragged me to a cold operating room and forced me to donate my liver to her. I begged him, sobbing that our baby was already six months along. The life inside me was kicking, but Jasper didn't care. He looked at me with nothing but pure, unadulterated disgust. "You spent five years stealing me away from Rosalie. Haven't you taken enough from her?" he spat. "Can you stop being so damn wicked for once in your

I worked my heart out as the CFO for a whole year, counting down the days until my year-end bonus. When the day finally came, the company gave me exactly one cent. Meanwhile, the newly appointed Associate CFO, who had barely started, walked away with a five-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. My boss had the nerve to tell me, "Mona, you young people need to learn patience. This penny is the company's way of testing your character." I told him it wasn't a problem at all. Then, I spent the next thr

1 I was at a bar, keeping my newly divorced best friend company while she drank her sorrows away. She was crying, telling me how much she envied the ten years of wedded bliss I had with my husband. Just then, I heard suggestive flirting coming from the booth next to us. The man who had hugged me and given me a sweet morning kiss just hours ago... Was now shamelessly pinned under another woman, lost in a heated make-out session. Eventually, he became the laughingstock of our entire social ci

1. The night before my engagement party, my fiancé―A-list Hollywood star Chase Sterling―lost a dare on the reality show Extreme Challenge. The penalty was to pretend to be a couple with his "best bro" Harper Wynn for 24 hours. But in front of millions of viewers on a live feed, he got down on one knee and pulled out a vintage Tiffany ring. The live comments exploded: "OMG, are they for real?!" "What about his fiancée then?" "The way Chase looks at Harper... I ship them so hard." "So Harp

Three months into my pregnancy, a once-in-a-century polar vortex hit the East Coast. My husband, Fletcher, was worried that his widowed sister-in-law, Brielle, couldn't survive the freeze alone. He suggested she move in with us, and I agreed without a second thought. I never imagined that on her very first day, she would demand I hand-wash her underwear. I refused and warned her that if she kept acting up, I'd kick her out. That night, Fletcher dragged me out into the freezing wind. The