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Everly City was about to crown its most beautiful debutante. My cousin, Isabella, ruined my face just so she could take the title. What she didn't know was that this pageant was a trap. It was organized to find a wife for the brutal, bloodthirsty Third Prince, Killian Sterling. Rumor had it that he was a monster. Worse, he was said to be physically incapable of being a man. The moment she won, the engagement gifts started pouring in like a flood. My fiancé, Nathaniel, panicked that night. He

I hit the jackpot for twenty million dollars. I quit my job and prepared to move back to my hometown. My boyfriend, Kaden Sterling, reminded me not to show off my wealth to my family. I laughed at him for being so paranoid. Kaden didn't say anything, but he changed my emergency contact on my phone to his number. At the station, I called my dad to pick me up. He asked me why I was coming back so suddenly. I joked that I was sick and was coming home to be a leach and recover. I waited until e

1 When the shipwreck happened, my husband and I both fell into the freezing water. His body was completely submerged, but he used all his strength to push me above the surface. Looking at his increasingly purple lips and pale face, I knew his life was fading fast. I cried and said, "Let me go. I'll die with you." My husband still held me up stubbornly. "Rory, hold on a little longer. Rescue is coming soon, and I need you to live." I sobbed uncontrollably. "If you die, what's the point of me

My first surgery after being transferred back to the city hospital was to deliver a baby. The woman lying on the operating table was Macy Jenson, my wife of three years. We had been living in different cities for the past two years. I stood by the table, my hands trembling as I held the scalpel. Macy didn't even look at me. Drenched in sweat, she screamed for her childhood sweetheart, Jasper Cross, who was waiting outside. When our eyes finally met, she didn't show any guilt. Instead, she sn

1 I had been with Sierra for eight long years when she accidentally walked in on my secret conversation with the System. Thinking on my feet, I spun a lie, telling her I was an operative sent from another dimension just to make her fall in love with me. From that day on, Sierra stopped coming home at night, turning into a completely different person. She let her rich friends mock me ruthlessly, and she even forced me to watch her cozy up to other men. Little did she know, that so-called mis

On my birthday, the two childhood sweethearts who swore to spend their lives with me took me scuba diving. But halfway through, they abandoned me in the open sea, fully aware that I couldn't swim. They left because their shared crush got a leg cramp on the beach, and they rushed ashore to drive him to the emergency room. As my oxygen tank ran empty, a crushing weightlessness dragged me down. I nearly drowned in the dark waters. Against all odds, I survived and crawled back to shore. I called

1. Three days until the wedding. My fiancé, Liam, just changed the groom's name on our marriage license at the county clerk's office. He changed it to Ethan White―the boy next door I grew up with. All because of Chloe, his late best friend's sister, and her so-called "ultimate loyalty test." I stood outside the private room of his bachelor party, peering through the crack in the door. I could see them all drinking and laughing. Someone jeered, "Dude, you really changed the name to Ethan? T

Five years after we relocated to California, my wife, Natalie, brought her first love and his daughter straight into our home. "Derek and his daughter just arrived, so they are going to stay with us for a while," she announced. We had a massive fight over it. On my birthday, Natalie tossed a set of divorce papers right in front of me and urged me coldly. "Just sign it quickly. Derek needs his green card, so we are only getting a fake divorce." I frowned, trying to ask for an explanation. I

1 I chased Ethan across the country for Olivia, my best friend. He didn't even look back. A year later, I got married. Ethan flew back the moment he heard. ... Seeing my wedding ring, the usually arrogant Ethan completely lost it. He forced a smile, his voice trembling, "Avery, are you going to take that off yourself, or do I have to do it for you? I'll buy you any ring you want, just get rid of that one. Please." It was a small wedding, just a dozen close friends and family. My husband, Davi

"Slow down... please, I can't take anymore..." Inside the humid gym locker room, my small frame was pinned between three massive, muscular men. I let them do whatever they wanted with me. Meanwhile, my boyfriend was just outside the door, keeping watch... ... My name is Eia, and I'm a college freshman. Since I turned eighteen, I've spent my nights in the beds of all kinds of men. They gave me pleasure, but none of them could truly satisfy me. That was until a chance encounter led me into

My grandfather was dying, and his final wish was to see me perform our family's ancient shadow puppetry on the stage of the National Grand Theater. But on the night of the performance, I was blocked at the entrance. I only then discovered that my girlfriend, the event planner, had secretly scrapped my act. She did it just to give her secret crush's rock band a slot on stage. I stood outside in the freezing wind for three hours, watching them walk out arm-in-arm, laughing about their successf

The most stoic billionaire in New York's elite circle was set up, and he broke his self-imposed vow of celibacy with me. Afterward, he tracked me down and offered me ten million dollars as compensation. As I stood there in silence, my so-called best friend suddenly acted as if she were the one offended. She snarled at him, asking if he thought his stinking money could buy everything, and prepared to reject it on my behalf. Just as I was about to speak, a row of scrolling comments―a live cha

My husband and I were planning to buy a simple commuter car. However, my mother-in-law screamed at me, calling me a low-life who didn't deserve it. Later, she demanded my husband give the money to his younger sister so she could buy a car instead. I didn't argue. I just made one phone call to my father and had her son fired from his job. I left a divorce agreement on the table and revealed my true identity. I'm done playing house with a gold-digger. I'm going back to my family mansion to l

My father hired the youngest medical prodigy in the city, Silas Sterling, to be my private doctor. He was cold and quiet, but his medical skills were unmatched. To let him focus on his research, I built a top-tier lab for him and blocked all the criticism from my family. I thought I was his only true friend and patron. I believed that if I gave him everything, his cold heart would eventually melt. But later, a sudden car accident damaged my kidneys. The best doctors in the city said only Si

The expedition team entered the remote desert to survey rare minerals. Suddenly, we hit a heatwave―over 150 degrees Fahrenheit. I was on the verge of fainting from severe dehydration. I scrambled to open my backpack, reaching for the electrolyte water I had prepared in advance. Just as I pressed the bottle to my lips, I realized it was half-filled with urine. I turned my head and saw Silas, my wife's childhood friend. He was chugging my electrolyte water without a care in the world. I wa

Every time my husband went to stay with his childhood sweetheart, I burned one of the love letters he once wrote me. I had just burned the ninety-ninth one. "Yara is terrified of the dark, and she can't be left alone right now. Besides, it's not like we can be intimate while you're pregnant. I'll be back tomorrow morning." I calmly pulled out a medical report. Sterling was in such a rush to get to her that he signed the bottom without even looking at the text. He tried to pacify me with a fa

My parents "accidentally" stewed the research subject I had been cultivating for three years. They stood before me, overflowing with self-reproach. But Mom, Dad, I have been reborn. I know you did it on purpose. To get a fifty-thousand-dollar bride price to fund my brother's pursuit of a wealthy socialite, you deliberately ruined my studies. You manipulated me into marrying a violent, older man. 1 The day I was beaten to death by that monster, my soul drifted in the air. I watched my parents

Grandfather was on his deathbed, and his only dying wish was to watch me perform our family's legendary heirloom piece, "Tempest Gathering", on the national stage. Yet on the night of the gala, security blocked me at the theater doors. That was when I discovered my girlfriend had secretly scrubbed my performance from the lineup, all to give her idol crush and his boyband the spotlight. I waited in the freezing rain until the curtain fell, only to see her walking out with her arm wrapped aroun

1. In my past life, I was adopted by a regular working-class family, the Millers. My sister, Isabella, was taken by the notorious Moretti crime family. However, Isabella didn't last five years in the Moretti household before she was kicked out. She died miserably on the streets. I, on the other hand, relied on my grades to get into a top-tier university. I went abroad with my adopted brother, Julian Miller, and built a massive business empire with my own two hands. Later, with the blessin

Graduation was over, and I wanted to experience what they call the real world. My dad offered me a luxury summer getaway to celebrate, but I turned him down. Instead, I decided to head back to my hometown and get a part-time job at a local boba shop. On my first day, I put on my best polite smile and asked a senior coworker for help. "Excuse me, could you show me where the creamer is? I want to learn how to make the house special." Suddenly, she snapped. She spat sunflower seed shells direc