All works

1 I encountered a great white shark during the Labor Day holiday. My husband is a professional marine animal trainer. Yet, he deliberately cut our daughter's finger, using her to lure the shark away. He did it all just to save his first love's daughter. By the time I arrived, the blood had already stained the sea crimson. I called my husband, desperate for an explanation. But all I got was his impatient roar through the phone. "I'm sick of this! The rescue team is already there, what mor

The day I was hospitalized after a car accident, the doctor told me to contact family to sign the consent form. I dialed Tara Lind five times before she finally picked up. Before I could speak, her icy voice snapped, "I told you I'm in a meeting! Do you have to keep interrupting me?" The moment she hung up, I looked into the room next door and saw her standing right there. She was gazing tenderly at the man lying in the hospital bed. "It's okay. Don't worry, I'm right here with you." I had

1 After 99 failed proposals, I discovered my boyfriend's secret. He never touched me. But he poured out his love to a photograph. His voice breaking, he confessed, "I love you, my heart belongs only to you." "Even if I can't have you, my body and soul will always be yours." My heart turned to ice. The woman in the photo wasn't a stranger. She was his older brother's adopted daughter. His niece, who called him "Uncle." ... The dim nightlight shone through the crack in the door. In the

1 My sister had no idea that everyone in our family could hear her inner thoughts. When my parents finally brought me home, she welcomed me with a warm, bright smile. But inside, her voice sneered, "Wait, isn't she that girl who snatched Mom's purse last time? She must be in some kind of trouble, right? I should probably help her out!" What my sister didn't know was that I had been reborn. And this time, I could hear her inner thoughts too. When the St. Claire family picked me up, Xenia st

I had just finished work and was passing the cafe downstairs when I saw Melody Thorne laughing with a young man. The man was touching her, fixing her collar and brushing hair behind her ear. I stood by the window for hours, watching his hands stay on her the entire time. Eventually, he confessed his love to my wife. Melody didn't get angry. She just smiled. "Don't you know I have a husband?" The man didn't care at all. "A beautiful woman deserves a real man. I'm sure Mr. Reed would understa

1. On our fifth wedding anniversary, I found an old iPhone in Elias's private safe. The passcode was his first love's birthday. Inside, I found a complete record of their past―sweet text messages and photos, all perfectly preserved. Meanwhile, his current iCloud Photos didn't have a single picture of me. My fingers scrolled through the old chat logs, my chest tightening―not with anger, but with a cold, sharp clarity that had taken far too long to arrive. He had never deleted her. For five y

1 My sister-in-law, Brenda, she's obsessed with sushi, right? After she got pregnant, she started losing weight, but her stomach just kept getting bigger and bigger. I swear, I thought she wasn't carrying a baby, but a freakin' giant tapeworm. And wouldn't you know it, I was right! I caught it one night, saw this huge worm slithering out from under her nightgown for some air. I totally freaked out, dragged her to the ER that night to get de-wormed. They pulled out this tapeworm that was, li

The day my dad was in critical condition, my girlfriend, Leighton, was at a luxury hotel celebrating her childhood friend Jaxon's birthday. I called her a dozen times before she finally picked up. "Leighton, Dad keeps calling for you. Can you please come and see him?" I pleaded. She sounded incredibly impatient. "I just saw him yesterday, and now he's suddenly dying? Is he going to be dead tomorrow, then?" "Stop being so dramatic. This is the 99th paper star I'm folding for him. I'll be back

1. After four years together, Elias suddenly suggested we go to City Hall and make it official. But a week before our appointment, deep inside his camera bag, I found a few perfectly preserved concert ticket stubs. They were for my favorite indie rock band, a band Elias was always too busy with work to see with me. I sat on the old leather chair in my study for a long time, clutching those tickets. I didn't move until the sky outside was completely dark. Then, I finally stood up and called

1 It was like my whole family had been born again. They acted like they knew the truth, like they understood that the fake daughter, the one they'd coddled, would eventually run the family fortune into the ground with her loser boyfriend. They'd end up trapped in their own mansion by that lowlife, tortured until they died. And it would be me, the real daughter they'd thrown out years ago, who'd have to bury them. Right now, Chrissy Cunningham was acting all innocent after bullying me, tears

Chapter 1 In the seven years from our college days to marriage, Grant cancelled fifty-two trips with me. Every single time, he brushed me off with the same old excuses. He said he was slammed with hospital projects, stuck on emergency business trips, or tending to a sick relative. He always promised he would make it up to me next time. I believed him fifty-two times. That was until last month, when I found a leather travel journal in his study. Tucked inside were fifty-two flight tickets to

I am a professional pearl diver. This time, I barely made it back from the shark-infested depths alive. But as I climbed onto the jagged rocks of the cove, I saw my husband. He was pinned against the stones, lost in a heated embrace with his childhood sweetheart. "Gavin, darling, everyone says you're the perfect husband, tending to your mother-in-law's deathbed every single day," Ruby whispered breathlessly. My husband's voice was dripping with a dark, playful affection. "Sweet Ruby, are yo

My social-climbing fiancé, Travis, ran off to chase a rich heiress, leaving his bedridden father behind. His greedy uncle, Barnaby, brought a group of men and dumped the old man right at my doorstep. He knelt there, trying to guilt-trip me in front of the neighbors. "You're his daughter-in-law, you have to take care of him!" In my past life, I was forced into that mess and wasted ten years of my youth serving that old man. As soon as he got better, Travis returned in glory with his flashy m

My first love, Caleb, knelt outside the Silver Citadel for seven days and nights. He did it just to break our soul-bond. He wanted to marry a human girl named Elara. I was heartbroken, so I turned around and married Lucian, the King of the Shadow Court. He had chased me for a thousand years. For three years, he treated me like his world. I finally got pregnant, but then I found a dark secret. He was putting an anti-fertility draught in my breakfast every single morning. The pendant he never

Gavin Harrison came back from his business trip with a limited-edition designer figurine for his niece. He completely forgot the custom-made fountain pen he had promised me. I looked at his indifferent face and felt a hollow ache in my chest. At the family dinner that night, I calmly announced I wanted a divorce. The room went silent before exploding into chaos. Everyone accused me of being dramatic and making a scene over nothing. Gavin barked at me in front of everyone. "Skylar is my

Chapter 1 Five years after I passed away, my husband wanted me to take the fall for his childhood sweetheart again. This time, it was a DUI case. He barged into my house with forged evidence, only to find the place empty and gathering dust. Frustrated, he pounded on the neighbor's door. The neighbor looked at him with pity and said, "Seraphina? She's been dead for five years." "I heard the victim's family from that old case wasn't happy with the sentence. They kidnapped her the day she got o

We had been together for eight years. To celebrate, my girlfriend booked a hundred-million-dollar yacht to propose to me. I had just finished my final therapy session and headed to the date with a heart full of hope. But instead of a romantic evening, I heard her childhood friend, Jude, making a joke out of my binge-eating disorder. The proposal video had been swapped for a humiliating clip of me having a breakdown and stuffing my face. The triggers were too much. I had an episode right ther

Chapter 1 A sudden tragic fire took both my life and that of my husband, Caleb Moore. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the exact day we signed our marriage license. In our past life, everyone saw us as the picture-perfect couple. Yet, he refused to touch me or share a bed with me for our entire marriage. It was only on my deathbed that I learned the truth. I was merely a stand-in for his first love, and he had made a silent vow to keep himself pure for her memory. After waking up

My wife hid it from me and gave the house I bought for our fifth anniversary to her old flame as a homecoming gift. The date happened to be May 20th, our special day. I threw the deed on the table, my eyes red as I confronted her. She looked at me with cold, indifferent eyes and spoke with pure impatience. "Don't twist things. It's just a greeting for an old friend. If anything was still going on between us, you wouldn't even be in the picture." But that same day, she posted on her secret s

I was in love with Silas Dawson, the man who adopted me and became my world. To be near him, I pushed through my deepest fears and joined the military. But on the day of my discharge, he gave the only permanent civilian position to Seraphina Vance. She wasn't just Silas's fiancée; she was the daughter of the man my father had supposedly wronged years ago. "Avery, you owe this to her," he told me. That single sentence stripped me of the will to fight back. Without a second thought, I accept