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On the day of our engagement party, my fiancée dropped a bomb on me. She told me she was pregnant with her male best friend's baby. "You know Chase has always had health issues," Rowena said softly. "I couldn't just stand by and watch his family line end." Under the stunned stares of all our friends and family, Rowena fell straight into Chase's arms. "Thank you so much, baby. You went through so much for me," Chase whispered, wrapping his arms tightly around her. He then looked right at me w

I spent three years as a vegetable after a truck slammed into me while I was saving my fiancée. For those three years, she never left my side, even praying on her knees across miles of rugged mountain trails to beg for my recovery. The day I finally woke up, she spent a fortune on a rare pink diamond at an auction. She proposed to me in front of millions on a live stream: "Hudson, whether in life or death, I want to be by your side. Can we have our wedding next week?" Looking at her tear-fi

On our tenth anniversary, the Sterling Group launched its new flagship fragrance. My wife, Vanessa Sterling, announced to the crowd that the perfume would be named "Elias." Minutes later, her secretary, Elias, posted on his Instagram story: "Best birthday gift ever. Thank you, Vanessa! I'm so touched!" Vanessa commented below his post: "May you stay eighteen forever, handsome and free." I didn't call her in a frenzy to demand answers like I used to. Instead, I calmly put my phone down. Afte

I was the one who stayed with Seraphina Vance when her left leg was amputated. I was so afraid she would feel like an outcast that I intentionally destroyed my own left leg too. I thought she would be moved by my sacrifice. But the moment she stepped out of the shadows, she slept with her driver in the back of a car. She told him, "I could never truly be with a cripple." "Caleb, I want to have your baby right now. I want to marry you." It was sickening and hilarious at the same time. We h

On the day of my son's tenth birthday party, my younger brother posted on his social media. He was holding my son's hand with one arm and had his other arm around my wife's waist. He looked incredibly happy. "Being surrounded by the people I love most... this is what true happiness feels like," the caption read. I left a comment right under the post. "Since you love them so much, you can have them both." A second later, my phone rang. It was my wife. "Nathaniel Sterling! What is wrong with

The day I discovered Madeline was terminally ill, I nearly died to secure a Life-Sharing Pact. I fought through hell to return to the human world for her. But when I arrived, a blonde boy was standing by her side. He stole my fame and called me an ugly monster. He locked me in a cage and cut off my tail, the source of my Incubus power. Madeline just laughed, kissing his lips while looking at me with pure disgust. "A monster who once abandoned me still wants my love? In your dreams!" she sn

The final piece of Jared's grand masterpiece was missing one rare pigment. As a pigment artisan, my wife, Cecilia, ignored her pregnancy and insisted on trekking deep into the mountains to find raw azurite. Jared finished his painting, but Cecilia lost our baby. In the hospital room, she snapped at me when I questioned her reckless behavior. "It was just an early-stage embryo! Once I recover, we can always have another!" She assumed I would continue to indulge her selfishness as I always ha

It was my wedding day, and the venue was packed with guests. Right before the vows, my future in-laws decided to raise the stakes. They demanded my entire paycheck after the wedding and wanted me to pay for my brother-in-law’s new condo in full. My fiancé stayed silent the whole time. He just leaned in and whispered for me to “be sensible” and “stop making a scene.” I looked at my wedding dress, which had cost me three months' salary just to rent. Suddenly, it clicked. They never saw me as

It was the third year of my life with Sarah Sterling. At my company's gala, she played a video on a loop. It showed her being intimate with my biggest rival. Since then, she invited the colleagues I hated most to our home every day. During these parties, she treated me like a lowly waiter. I even had to hand out protection to them. Gary Miller, the man I had competed with for five years, sneered at me. He told me that no matter how much I won at work, Sarah said he was better in bed. Listenin

The intern nurse suddenly looked up and asked me, "Summer, is the hospital stiffing you on your night shift pay? " "Why would you say that? " "I just saw the shift stipend sheet. My intern night shift bonus is 800, but yours is only 600... This must be a typo, right? " She blinked her innocent eyes, her cotton swab nearly dropping to the floor. At that moment, the smell of disinfectant felt especially sharp in my nose. From that night on, my phone started lighting up at two in the morn

I wanted our future child to take my last name, but my boyfriend was dead set against it. "A kid who takes their mother's name is just asking for trouble," he argued. "They'll get bullied mercilessly." I laughed and asked him a teasing question. "Why would they get bullied for that? You didn't go around bullying kids for their last names in school, did you?" His expression instantly shifted into something uncomfortable and stiff. A chill ran down my spine. Later that night, I secretly dug thr

1. On Christmas Eve, without telling a soul, I drove six hours to Liam's city. I spent four hours that afternoon in his apartment. I cooked a full Thanksgiving feast―roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, creamy mashed potatoes, gravy, and a pumpkin pie I learned to make from YouTube. While waiting for him to get home, I scrolled through Reddit and saw a post trending at the top. "What's something someone has done that proves they truly love you?" In the comments, one reply had way more upvotes

Chapter 1 The day I was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer was the same day my husband's first love returned to the country. He rushed home in a frenzy, only to throw a divorce agreement on the table. "It's been three years, June. It's time for you to give up your seat as Mrs. Harrison." I tried to show him my medical records. He only sneered at me with pure disdain. "Such a pathetic trick. Do you really think I'm that gullible?" …… It was our third wedding anniversary. I sat alone at

The magnificent sanctuary hides the rot of human nature. In the face of a deadly game, once-inseparable best friends can turn into bitter enemies in a heartbeat. Everyone is selfish. Everyone is terrified of the grave. I’m scared too, but I refuse to lose. Yet, why does the victory I’m clutching so tightly feel like a hollow hallucination? Among us, who is human? And who is the monster? 1 Today, twelve of us folklore majors headed to the Ridgeview Mountains to investigate a sanctua

1 The plane was going down. My wife, Sarah, a flight attendant with emergency training, chose to protect her old flame, Liam, helping him escape, while tossing me a parachute. "You're a liar, Ben," she spat, her face twisted with disgust as I reached for her, "You deserve to die! Don't think I don't know you used to be a skydiving instructor!" A wave of bitterness washed over me. She remembered I was a skydiver, but she forgot that years ago I'd shattered both my arms saving her from a rock cl

Chapter 1 My mission to win his heart had officially failed. The system gave me a final grace period of five days to put my affairs in order before pulling me out of this world. During those five days, I finally transformed into the submissive, understanding wife Jesse always wanted. I let him dote on Nola without a word of protest, watching him give away all our household labor credits and ration vouchers to her. He even handed over his own spot for the upcoming state university exam. Yet

On the eve of our wedding, I placed the preserved floral bouquet my late father gave me on the nightstand. I wanted to carry it down the aisle as my bouquet. The next morning, it was gone. When I finally found it, it was sitting in the trash can inside Shannon’s male assistant’s office, scorched beyond repair. I rushed to Shannon’s office to confront her, only to hear their voices coming from behind the door. “Shannon, you gave me the keepsake Jayson’s dad left him. Won’t he be furious if he

I suffered from severe touch starvation. Whenever my breasts became engorged with milk, I couldn't release a single drop without my husband's soothing touch. I wrapped my arms tightly around my own body, trapped in an agonizing craving. "Trevor, I'm in the company breakroom. Please come help me." I never expected the man pushing the door open to be my executive director. 1 The touch starvation hit me with brutal intensity. I hid in the company breakroom with a breast pump, but nothing w

Silas Grant posted a photo. A woman's hand rested on a hotel pillow. The silver Cartier bracelet on her ring finger glimmered under the bedside lamp. I had visited four different boutiques to buy that exact bracelet for my wife on our third anniversary. Someone commented in the thread: “Another one?” Silas replied: “Someone else’s wife.” I saved the screenshot into a folder named “Evidence.” Then, I made three phone calls. The first was to the company’s legal counsel. The second was to

The day my son won a prestigious lifetime achievement award in scientific research, I died alone on the freezing pavement. On stage, he thanked his professor father, his biological mother who had just returned from overseas, and even the family housekeeper. He did not say a single word about me, the foster mother who had broken her back raising him. When my husband, Chester Miller, heard the news of my death, his first reaction was to cut all ties. "We separated years ago," he announced cold