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On my way to save a life, the ambulance was stopped at the entrance of a remote town. They claimed the road was built with their own money. Every outsider had to pay a toll just to pass through. Knowing the patient was in critical condition, I reached into my own pocket to settle it. Little did I know, this three-mile road had more than one predator waiting for us. I begged them to let us through, desperate to save the patient. The leader of the group sneered in my face. "Cut the crap. Ev

It was one week before the SATs. My biological parents finally tracked me down. They took me back while my adoptive parents were away. It wasn't because they missed me. They just wanted to hand my hard-earned Ivy League spot to their useless fake daughter. In my past life, I might have agreed just to feel loved. But this time, I've been reborn. 1 "Rosie, this is your sister. Try to get along, okay?" My mother introduced me to the girl who looked exactly my age the moment we stepped insi

Before the flight took off, my fiancé, the Captain, brought a suitcase onto the plane. He claimed it was a special gift from his childhood sweetheart and forbid me from touching it. I couldn't shake the bad feeling, so I sneaked a look and found high-risk contraband hidden inside. I turned it in immediately, using my own professional merits to offset his negligence just to save his career. His little sweetheart was arrested, detained, and sentenced to prison. He didn't say a word at the tim

My father gave me a choice between the two Vance brothers for our family's arranged marriage. Without hesitation, I chose Silas Vance. The room went silent. Everyone in the elite social circles of the East Coast knew I had been obsessed with Jasper Vance for years. I had even told the world I would marry no one but him. In my past life, I got exactly what I wanted and married Jasper. But right after our wedding, he crawled into bed with my foster sister, Seraphina. When the family elders foun

1. The day Chloe Linwood married Leo Vance for the third time, the New York winter was as cold as her fingers clutching the divorce papers. He leaned against the car door, his expression a familiar, gloomy tenderness she had seen twice before. "This time, I'll change. I swear," he said. "Fine." She slid into the driver's seat and rolled down the window. "But if I catch you one more time―" "There won't be a fourth time," he interrupted, his voice as sincere as it was after the avalanche in As

When Zev York was framed and fired, I hid my billionaire identity and invested in him for three years. I worked behind the scenes to help him reach the top of the corporate ladder. On the day of his ultimate success, he kissed my forehead. He whispered that he had a special surprise waiting for me. I thought my years of sacrifice had finally paid off. I was so blinded by love that I ignored the cold, malicious glint in his eyes. Just as I moved to embrace him, he suddenly grabbed me by my hai

The girl who once swore she would marry no one but me ran away from our wedding. She chose her high school sweetheart, Merrick Hayes, leaving me standing alone at the altar. As I stood there in total humiliation, Tessa Vanderbilt stepped in. She was a high society heiress who had supposedly crushed on me for seven years. She saved the day by becoming my bride. For three years, our marriage was a dream. We were the picture of domestic bliss, or so I thought. Everything changed at the New Year'

1. Fifty-six times. He has rejected marking me fifty-six times. I stood on the Moon Altar, wearing the white ceremonial gown prepared specifically for tonight. The silver moonlight spilled onto my bare neck―the exact spot where his mark should have been. My wolf was whimpering inside me. "Mate..." Her voice trembled in my mind. "Why is he leaving us again?" I didn't answer her. I didn't know the answer myself. Five years. For five years, Declan Thorne―the Alpha of the Silver Crest Pack, m

My daughter took me to court. She sued us because I left our house to my son. She claimed I was a sexist who favored boys and demanded half of everything. I cried and begged her not to ruin her own life. She was still so young. She just smirked, saying I was finally scared and that it was too late for regrets. My husband told me to let her go. He said we should just act like we never had a daughter. This was the first case of familial gender discrimination in the age of Artificial Intelligen

My wife took up photography after she retired. Every July, she would fly across the globe to capture exotic landscapes and natural wonders. She kept this up for ten years straight. I truly believed it was her passion. That was until my daughter accidentally gave me the wrong camera to take in for repairs. Only then did I realize her ten-year commitment wasn't to art, but to a secret love. My wife's camera was filled with thousands of photos of her and her childhood sweetheart, Bennett. Th

Chapter 1 We were playing Truth or Dare at a party when Harrison Cole lost the round. He chose truth without hesitation. "Chloe and I have a child together." My entire body froze as I stared at him in disbelief. Everyone in our circle knew that Chloe Campbell was my beloved younger sister, and Harrison was the man I had just legally married yesterday. He spoke casually, his tone laced with callous flippancy. "Three years ago, I had too much to drink. She was wearing something sexy, and I l

1 Just because I refused to donate stem cells to my older sister, my lawyer mother dragged me into court. I desperately tried to explain to her that I had a severe blood clotting disorder. Losing that many stem cells would literally kill me. Instead of listening, my mother screamed at me through her tears. "Stop faking it! Do you really have to watch your sister die before you're satisfied? How did I raise such an ungrateful, heartless monster?" In the end, I lost the lawsuit. They extracte

Everyone in the tech department called Zane Rhodes a devoted husband. Because of a deep-seated trauma from my past, I had never been able to be intimate with him. Zane acted like he truly cared, even kneeling before me multiple times, swearing he would wait until I was ready. He even went as far as telling the world he was basically asexual just to protect my reputation. When he lacked the funds for his game development, I secretly used my hidden identity to bankroll his entire team. But th

In the fifth year of our marriage, Garrett's ex-girlfriend, Joyce Bennett, came back into his life. A single "Long time no see" from her completely shattered his composure. He swore she was nothing more than a memory, yet he abandoned me for her time and time again. On our anniversary, he did not come home at all. When I opened my phone, I saw Joyce's latest post―a photo of their hands intertwined. "Not everyone will wait for you forever, but someone always will." In that exact moment, my heart

It was the first day Yara and I returned to our rightful places. Quentin, my childhood sweetheart and the man I was supposed to marry, gripped my hand in front of our parents. "It's you I want, Valerie," he said, his voice firm. "I don't care about your title or your bloodline." Yara hugged me through her tears, her voice trembling. "Sister, we will always be family. I would never dream of taking anything that belongs to you." Everyone told me I was lucky. I had lost my status as the Vance

When I flew to Paris to shoot wedding photos for an anonymous VIP client, I discovered the bride was Chloe, my girlfriend of eight years. She wore a pure white gown, kissing another man right beneath the Eiffel Tower. She whispered to him: "I belong to you for all eternity." On our scheduled wedding day, I didn't show up. Instead, I broadcasted the entire Paris photoshoot across the giant screens for all the guests to see. Since she loved him so desperately, I decided to give them my wedding

1. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. “Dr. Wallace, I’ve filed for divorce. I want to join your Mars exploration project and move to Houston with the team. I want to lead the development of the next-generation rover’s navigation algorithm.” I looked the lab director straight in the eye, my tone leaving no room for negotiation. Dr. Wallace was clearly taken aback. He took off his glasses and studied me for a moment. “Evelyn, you’re the most brilliant navigation engineer I’ve ever met.

1 During my broke years, I impersonated my sister to take care of her blind fiancé for fifty grand. The day he regained his sight, I vanished. We met again at a business interview. I was a nobody intern reporter, while he, restored to his former glory, was the powerful young heir of the Hayes family. He was being interviewed: "We heard that during your illness, you were indebted to your fiancée, Ms. Chloe Williams, for her unwavering support. Are you two getting married soon?" He smirked, raisin

My uncle's family, who moved abroad ten years ago, finally returned. At the New Year's party, they were flaunting their supposed success as if they owned the world. My cousin brought along the scumbag who had spread disgusting lies about my private life in college just to mock me. "Quinn, Zack is the Head of Product at Lumina Tech. If you beg him, maybe you won't have to sell your soul for money anymore!" "Head of Product?" I calmly pulled out my phone and made a call. "As of today, he's u

1. I finally let go the day Sam abandoned me for Chloe's birthday. Again. He took her to the observatory to watch a meteor shower. I didn’t make a scene. He bought her a four-figure Hermès scarf. I just smiled and told him, "Boston winters are cold. You should get her a matching hat." He thought I was finally becoming "understanding." He had no idea that I had already submitted my application to Doctors Without Borders. He didn't know I was closing my credit cards, deleting my social media