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I once bowed my head with every step outside a historic mountain shrine, praying for my comatose boyfriend of many years to wake up safe and sound. Finally, Carter Grayson woke up. But all I got in return was his endless humiliation, night after night. I watched helplessly as he stripped away everything that belonged to me, just to win a smile from the girl of his dreams. My heart turned to ash, and I finally chose to leave. But the man who had carelessly tossed me aside instantly went comp

When the metal crunched and I was lying on the pavement, unable to move, Stella Vance didn't even look back. She led Silas Reed away as if I were invisible. "I already called the ambulance for him," she said, her voice cold. "Come on, let's go celebrate your birthday." The hospital needed a family signature for my surgery. I called her dozen of times, but my phone just rang into the void. After I got out of the OR, I saw Silas's post on social media. "Stella is the best person in the world

On my sixth birthday, my parents took me out to celebrate and never came back. My older sister kicked me out of the house years later, calling me a scheming, toxic jinx. On the day I died, I could not stop myself from dialing her number one last time. "Keira, I'm dying," I pleaded into the receiver. "Can you please come save me?" She was at the movies with her golden boy, Weston. Her final words to me were ice cold. "Talk to me after you're dead." Just as she wished, I really did die. 1

While my fiancé was proposing to his dream girl, my body―dead for three years―was finally discovered. I had been dismembered, my remains rendered unrecognizable. Not even my closest friends or family could identify me. And neither could he. Everyone who saw my remains was sickened to their core. What kind of malice could drive a person to commit such atrocities? The perpetrator had even discarded the unborn life I carried within me. My fiancé, consumed by a performative sense of duty, pic

1 I scalded my husband's secretary's hand with hot water. He locked me in the sauna for eight hours. Just before I lost consciousness, my husband had someone let me out. He warned me, "This is just a small lesson. If I ever see you hurt Nancy again, it won't be so easy." I lay on the stretcher and calmly replied, "Okay." ...... The day I was discharged, I heard a party going on inside as I stood at the front door. "Ashley, why don't you divorce Josh if you hate him so much?" Ashley's fri

1. I completely fell apart when Soren transferred the entire seventy-five-thousand-dollar bonus―our down payment money―to that waitress for her heart surgery. I grabbed the nearest bottle of whiskey and hurled it against the wall. Expensive amber liquid and shards of glass exploded everywhere. I screamed at him, using every vicious word I could think of. "Get out! Take your fucking diseases and get the hell away from me!" "I wouldn't give a damn if you and that woman dropped dead in a Chicag

During the Labor Day weekend, I went to the historic cathedral to buy a blessed medallion for my wife's safety. I never expected to find her there with her rumored lover, kneeling before the altar and praying for a baby. The moment she saw me, Sophie Thorne's first instinct was to shield that man behind her. "Don't make a scene, Nate. I'm just giving him a child, that's all," she said coldly. The man smiled with pure satisfaction. He looked exactly like her first love who had passed away yea

My "genius" son learned calculus at the age of seven. My wife said I was damn lucky to marry her. "If you had married any other woman, you wouldn't have had such a smart kid!" She was explicitly and implicitly showing off her superior genes to me. Later, during an interview, my son also thanked her first. But when the reporter mentioned me, his face turned cold. "If his genes hadn't lowered my IQ, I would have graduated from college by now!" Chapter 1 "Mom, let's not invite Dad next time

After two years of long distance with my boyfriend, I quietly resigned from my job and moved across the country to his city. I hid in his apartment to surprise him, only to find a handwritten notebook titled, "999 Things to Do with Piper Lewis." Piper Lewis was not me. Following the very last item on that list, I drove out to the canyon bungee jumping platform. Before I even stepped onto the observation deck, I heard my boyfriend's roaring voice echo through the valley. "Piper! This is the

On our tenth wedding anniversary, my phone chimed with a bank alert for a hundred-thousand-dollar luxury jewelry purchase. A second later, my wife's male assistant sent me a photo of two hands with fingers tightly intertwined. I stared at the matching diamond bands in the picture and quietly froze her authorized user card. Moments later, the assistant called me in tears, begging me not to get the wrong idea. "Kellan, it's all my fault! I texted the wrong person. Please don't take it out on Y

My girlfriend stole my recommendation letter just so her first love could study under a world-renowned mentor. When I confronted her, she acted like it was the most natural thing in the world. "You're so talented, Silas. You can succeed on your own, but Xander can't," she said. Right then and there, I announced I was quitting the research project and moving abroad. Gemma, who had been lecturing me for being immature, froze. "Your family is broke. How could you afford to study abroad? Stop b

I waited ten whole years for Garrett. I waited until he finally completed his classified government research program and came home. A decade ago, he made a solemn promise to marry me the moment he returned. I gave him my youth, waiting from twenty-five to thirty-five, only to watch him come back and propose to my stepsister. He told me coldly, "I have no interest in marrying a middle-aged woman. At your age, it is simply too late to do anything worthwhile." Yet as long as you truly desire to

On the eve of our wedding, I found a secret digital diary my girlfriend had written for her first love. I was about to confront her when my phone buzzed. It was her. "Wyatt, I'm going to be late coming home from the reunion tonight," she said, her voice casual. A second later, a notification popped up on my feed from her obsession, Jasper. The caption read, "A candlelit dinner just for the two of us." In the photo, Selena was draped across Jasper's lap, lost in a passionate kiss. I didn't

On our wedding anniversary, my wife's male assistant posted a photo of a luxury car on his Instagram. The caption read: "The car Boss Evelyn gave me is a dream to drive. This is the best birthday gift I've ever received." I recognized the car instantly. It was the same one my wife had given me for my birthday last year. I didn't hesitate and left a comment right under his post: "Is that car actually yours, or are you just posing?" A second later, my phone rang. It was the assistant. "I'm s

On the day Corbin ascended as the High Lord of the Zenith Court, an immortal brought a newly ascended fairy to challenge me. "Lady Daphne wishes to serve under the High Lord's banner. I brought her here specifically to spar with Talia." Corbin smiled, agreeing without a second thought. "Talia has been in the Celestial Realm far longer than this fairy. To keep things fair, let her fight with only ten percent of her power." With a flick of his hand, he bound my divine energy. Everyone in the

My son was gasping for air, his face pale and clammy. I went to the local pawn shop, clutching the last of my family heirlooms. I just wanted to get enough money for his medicine. But Gavin, my husband, snatched the purse right out of my hands. "The boy is still breathing, isn't he? He doesn't need a doctor," he sneered. "I have a much more important use for this money. What would a brainless housewife like you understand?" I begged him, but he walked away without a second glance. Eventua

1 I threw myself a birthday bash, ready to drink champagne and dance the night away, but then Justin Foster waltzed in with some nobody, introducing her as a clueless intern. Clueless, my ass. She spilled wine on my custom-made dress, helped herself to my diamond necklace. But all Justin could say was, "Cut her some slack, she's just a kid." And then she "accidentally" ended up in Justin's bed, got knocked up and had the audacity to kneel before me, cradling her baby bump, all while saying, "

The Yates family, tech giants of the city, claimed I was their long-lost son. They brought me back to their mansion from a remote mountain temple. But the moment I arrived, my father called me a fraud. He looked at my traditional robes and mocked my beliefs as primitive superstition. Milo, the fake son who took my place, spread rumors that I was a freak practicing dark arts. My uncle, Jude, pretended to be concerned while warning me to stop my nonsense. "Asher," he said with a sigh. "The Y

Chapter 1 I had been working on my mission to win Harlan over for six years. Now, he wanted a divorce to spend his first love's final days with her. She supposedly had terminal cancer. I didn't agree at first. I told him that if we divorced, I would forget him entirely. Harlan didn't believe me. He slammed the divorce papers onto the table, his face twisted with disgust. "She's dying, Sienna. Can't you stop being so selfish and quit lying for once?" Later, it turned out his precious Celine h

Five years into our marriage, Victoria Foster brought her boy toy to the annual Foster family gala. The moment I took a single step toward him, Victoria signaled her bodyguards to slam me to the ground. "Stay the hell away from him," she snarled. "Don't you dare pull your filthy tricks on Dylan." "Just because I married you doesn't mean you have any right to act superior. You are nothing more than a stray dog the Foster family bought." Everyone in the grand ballroom held their breath, waitin