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1. This life, I personally orchestrated every single time Lorenzo Moretti and I would miss each other. He remained in the heart of Chicago’s power, while I went to the depths of the Nevada desert. He chased me to the desert, so I locked myself away in a secret federal facility. As I lay dying, he knelt outside the reinforced glass of my hospital room, screaming, begging to see me one last time. I ignored him. With my last ounce of strength, I wrote the final decryption algorithm on a whiteb

1. "I want a divorce." I said it across the dining table of our Manhattan penthouse, to the man I'd been in a contract marriage with for the past year. He just glanced up at me before setting down his black coffee. "Alright," he said, his voice as calm as if he were discussing a corporate merger. "I'll have my legal team draft the asset division documents. We'll sign after the one-month cooling-off period." Clean. Efficient. But that night, as I was killing time scrolling through Reddit, I

The day before our wedding, I received my husband's wedding photos―with another woman. I looked at the two of them in the picture and calmly asked Silas for a divorce. His little assistant called me, sobbing, begging me not to be angry. "Rowan, it's all my fault. I sent them to the wrong address. Please don't fight with Silas because of me." Through the phone, I heard Silas comforting her in a gentle voice. "It's fine. She won't get mad. She can't live without me." I hung up the phone, left

At the lavish proposal she had supposedly planned for me, my girlfriend suddenly announced that she was her past flame’s secret mistress. She declared proudly: “So what if I’m his mistress? Simon and I were together for eight years. We gave our firsts to each other, and we are each other’s true love.” Then, Simon appeared on cue. Right in front of my face, she got down on one knee, proposed to him, and kissed him passionately. I turned around and proposed to her older sister instead. On our

It has been five years since my sister and I became each other’s only world. That world shattered at the garden gala hosted by Lydia Warwick, the senator’s daughter. They said she slipped and drowned in the lake. But I knew the truth. It was because of Sterling, Lydia’s fiancé. He had praised my sister’s beauty, saying her eyes were the most captivating he had ever seen. Lydia went insane with jealousy. She ordered her thugs to torture my sister, to break her body, and finally, they threw her

1 At the annual bonus gala, my CEO boyfriend had just announced he was giving me a 30% stake in the company. Suddenly, his secretary stepped up and literally snipped the microphone wire with a pair of scissors. She walked onto the stage, grabbed his hand, and declared to the room, "I am the CEO's real girlfriend. Who do you think you are, trying to take 30% of the shares?" Ethan, the man who had always treated me with nothing but love, didn't stop her. Instead, he looked at me and told me t

My daughter's school organized a family day, and without a second thought, she chose her private tutor to go with her. I stood in the crowd, watching the three of them look like a perfect, happy family. I didn't say a word. When Annie spotted me, she intentionally spoke up so I could hear her. "Miss West, I wish you were my real mom. You're the one I love the most," she told the tutor. Leo heard her and pulled the blushing woman into his arms, his voice dripping with sweetness. "I'm with An

1. I had already decided to dump my ambitious lawyer boyfriend, and he was completely clueless. He promised we’d get married the second he made partner at his firm. For that promise, I hid my identity as the Sinclair family heiress and wasted nearly five years with him in a shitty apartment in Queens. But on the day we were supposed to go to City Hall, as I stood there all dressed up, I watched Liam Donovan lean down and kiss a woman in a wedding dress. I pulled out my phone and saw the Ins

The day of the national design competition finals, my wife promised to be there to witness my big moment. But even as the ceremony ended, she was nowhere to be found. I didn't see her message until after the awards were handed out. It had been sent thirty minutes earlier. "Silas has a sharp pain in his stomach. I need to check on him first. I'll find you later." I called her, but a man's voice answered. "Call back later. Aria is asleep." Every time I had a major milestone, he was either sick

My mother-in-law was dying from a rare poison. I was the only toxicology expert in the city who could save her. Just as I was about to rush out the door, my husband, Xander, grabbed my arm. "Today is the grand opening of Serena's Horror Manor," he snapped. "You're supposed to be the 'pauper' jump-scare actor. Where do you think you're going?" I looked him dead in the eye and told him we only had a thirty-minute window. If I didn't get there now, his mother wouldn't make it. Xander just ro

1 It was early winter. The heating hadn't kicked in yet, and the house felt like a walk-in freezer. I rubbed my frozen fingers and stared at the dim glow of my laptop screen. For the first time in my life, I felt a strange sense of peace. My screen was flooded with messages from my advisor. He was practically begging me to consider the study abroad program. "You have a natural eye for color, Phoebe. You have your own vision. If you go, you'll reach heights you can't even imagine here." "Thi

Chapter 1 I never worried about the vultures circling my fiancé. Everyone in the elite circles of New York knew my reputation. No one was stupid enough to cross me. But then I returned from a six-month executive program in London. I arrived at the office just in time to see a young girl sitting in Sterling Vance's passenger seat. I didn't storm over to confront them. Instead, I had my assistant schedule a dinner with Sterling and all his top executives. If a man can't be loyal, I don't need

Xavier Blackwood had a woman who occupied the first half of his life. She was his first love, the one who got away. Yet, I never doubted his love for me. When I was twenty-one, I fell dangerously ill. I could barely take care of myself. At that time, Xavier's company was just starting out. He didn't say a word but bought a cot to place right next to my bed. If I made the slightest sound, he was awake before I was. He handled everything, even the most embarrassing parts of my recovery. I coul

I returned from my studies abroad only to find a new woman in our house. She acted like she was already the future mistress of the Vance family. She even bragged about how she would put me, the sister-in-law she had never met, in my place. But no one had told her that my brother was actually adopted. I am the only true heir to the Vance empire, and even my brother has to walk on eggshells around me. 1 When my brother picked me up from the airport, my parents were already waiting at the doo

I am the only Soul-Blade Broker left in this world. As long as I reclaim a soul within seven hours of death, I can bring anyone back to life. In my past life, I lent my blade to Alistair Blackwood, the heir to the most powerful family in the city. I warned him not to take his young son on a trip to the mountains. He ignored me, and an avalanche buried the boy alive. His grandfather, Silas Blackwood, came to me with millions in cash. He begged me to climb the Mountain of Blades to save his gran

My husband has a low sperm count. After years of struggle, I finally managed to conceive. I was just days away from my due date. But then, my husband demanded I go to the lab in place of his childhood sweetheart. He claimed her child was sick and she needed to be away. I repeatedly warned him that it was a radiation lab. Exposure would cause irreversible damage to me and our unborn baby. Quentin just told me I was being dramatic. "Cecily has been working in that lab with her child for a long

Listening to the ragged breathing and high-pitched moans coming from next door, my chest rose and fell rapidly, and I felt a fever burning through my skin. For a woman who has been widowed for five years, those sounds were nothing short of a lethal temptation. My hand drifted under my clothes without me even realizing it. My heart pounded against my ribs, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t suppress the restlessness growing inside me. Suddenly, a soft, honeyed voice drifted from outsi

Chapter 1 On our wedding day, Corinna's ex-boyfriend sent over his critical condition notice from the hospital. He claimed his dying wish was to wear a tuxedo at a wedding just once before he passed. To fulfill his pathetic fantasy, Corinna handed him the high-end designer tux I had spent a fortune customizing. She even prepared to walk down the aisle with him instead of me. I laughed in utter fury and slapped her across the face. "Why the rush? If he wants a tux so badly, it's simple. Once

Chapter 1 Corbin's executive assistant was having another one of her depressive episodes. He slid the divorce agreement across the mahogany desk toward me. "It's just a formality, Lauren. Once she stabilizes emotionally, we'll remarry immediately." I flipped through the pages, paused, and looked up into his eyes. "I leave with nothing? No spousal support, no assets?" An impatient crease formed between his eyebrows. "It's just a fake divorce! Do you really have to be so petty and nickel-an

1. Our ten-year relationship ended today. My lawyer boyfriend, Adrian, stood me up again for one of his "important" clients. On our 10th anniversary, the day we had planned to hold our wedding ceremony at the town hall, they let me down. But then, I saw it on Instagram. A picture of him and his childhood sweetheart, Chloe, holding a marriage certificate. Her caption read: "Some roads always lead you back home." My phone immediately blew up with DMs from my and Adrian's mutual friends, all