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Books by 黑红岚柏
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Back to Three Days Ago, I Swallowed the Morning-After Pill 重回三天前，我吞下避孕药
The boy next door doted on me for ten years. Then, because of that one night, I got pregnant, and his one true love was so heartbroken that she slit her wrists. My uncle personally ended my pregnancy, then drove me out of his home. From then on, I was a sinner. To atone, I signed up with Doctors Without Borders and died in Congo. Until my final moments, all I could think about was my uncle. Now that I, the troublemaker, was dead, he must be happy. In the underworld, Granny Meng said my obsession
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After I Gave Her the Antidote, My Sister Went Mad 把解药让给我后，姐姐疯了
My sister and I were both poisoned and left unable to speak. There was only one antidote pill, but my sister snatched it and swallowed it first. From then on, her songs captivated the capital, and she successfully moved into the Eastern Palace as the Crown Princess. But the Empress believed that letting an entertainer rule the country would bring ruin, so she sent my sister to the Cold Palace, where she died miserably in a lotus pond. Unable to speak, I could only marry a military general. After
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The Long Road 漫漫
I followed Zhou Ye for seven years, from school uniform to black dress, from innocence to ruthlessness. The day he went straight, his brothers teased the college student, calling her "sister-in-law." I stood in the shadows, watching those hands that had been stained with blood carefully tie her shoelaces. "Lin Wan." Without looking up, he said, "Don't be like her." "You can roll around in the mud. She can't." I turned and walked out into the rain. His phone had an appointment saved at a bridal s
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My Wife Accused Me of Killing Her for the Insurance Money, So I Made Her Wish Come True 老婆污蔑我杀妻骗保，我送她愿望成真
My wife jumped into the sea on our wedding anniversary. I gave everything I had to save her and get her ashore. After I was taken to the hospital, she disappeared. The daughter I treasured accused me of killing my wife for the insurance money, while my devoted mother slandered me as a gambling addict. Even my younger brother, whom I had raised myself, brought a group of people to break both my legs. I thought the police would clear my name. But they found searches on my phone about killing my wi
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On Our Wedding Day, My Girlfriend Became Another Man’s Wife 结婚当天，女友成了别人妻子
Half an hour before the wedding ceremony, my bride still hadn’t arrived. After dozens of unanswered calls, she sent me a text: “Hubby, I’m really too nervous. My panic disorder is acting up. Can we postpone the wedding for a few days?” I agreed, then went out to apologize to every friend and relative who had come. I kept smiling as I saw off the last guest, only to hear a familiar shout from the banquet hall next door: “I’m willing to marry you!” I pushed open the doors and saw the bride who was
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Warmth 暖暖
Zhou Wang was someone else's childhood sweetheart. After he got together with me, everyone thought I had stolen his childhood sweetheart's place. I asked Zhou Wang what he thought about it. While playing a game, he took a moment to ruffle my hair carelessly. "What's the big deal? Is this really worth getting worked up over?" Then he got careless and was slaughtered by the other team. He slammed his keyboard and started cursing me out. I looked at him and smiled. When I got up to leave, he
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On My Wedding Day, My Military Officer Childhood Friend Came to Steal Me Away 我结婚当天，军少竹马来抢亲了
On my wedding day, my childhood friend, a young officer, came to steal me away, kicking open the doors of the hall with a group of young men from the military compound. He said he wanted to marry me and take me away from my wedding. But not long after we left, he let go of my hand and laughed nonchalantly. "Guys, I won the bet again. That's a hundred straight. Pay up, as promised." Then he turned to me. "I was just joking. You didn't take me seriously, did you? You can go back in and get married
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On Our Wedding Day, the Groom Was the Bride's White Moonlight 新婚当天，新郎是妻子白月光
On the eve of our wedding, my fiancee's old flame insisted that his name be written on the invitations. Without a second thought, my fiancee did as he asked, putting my name in the corner. Even my mother-in-law accepted her absurd behavior. At the wedding, the bride's friends and family mistook her old flame for the groom. They treated me, the real groom, like some beggar who had come for a free meal and kicked me out of the banquet hall. I didn't explain who I was. I simply turned and left. As
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My Wife Is Going to Teach in the Daliang Mountains, and I Personally See Her Off 妻子要去支教大凉山，我亲自站台送别
While doing my wife’s laundry, I accidentally found a train ticket to Daliangshan in her coat pocket. That was how I discovered she had secretly signed up for a fifteen-year teaching assignment there. Her first love was teaching there too. With two weeks left before departure, my wife had an abortion and ended our child’s life. She contacted her best friend, friends, family, and former colleagues, and held farewell dinners over and over. She just never told me she was leaving. Three days before
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Before I Died, My Husband’s Family Begged Him Three Times 我死前，老公的家人去求了老公三次
I was eight months pregnant. After my husband forced me to donate blood to his first love, I died alongside my baby in the nursery he had decorated himself. Before I died, my husband's family begged him three times. The first was his older sister, who had never liked me. She told him my blood wasn't clotting and my arm wouldn't stop bleeding. He sneered. “Qin Shengsheng has really come into her own. Now even you take her side?” Then he shoved his sister out of the hospital room without a second
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He Seized His Brother's Widow by Force 他对兄弟遗孀强取豪夺
Everyone says that marrying Zhou Zhiyu is the blessing I earned through half a lifetime of good fortune. He loves me dearly and remembers all my preferences. I said, "I want matcha qingtuan from the capital," and he flew there and back in the middle of the night to buy them for me. I said, "I'm not feeling well tonight," and he immediately got dressed and went out into the cold to cool himself down. But the man who said he needed to cool himself down turned around and went to the home of his
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My Fiancée Took the Fall for Her Childhood Sweetheart and Sent Me to Prison. Reborn, I Went on a Rampage 未婚妻为竹马顶罪将我送进监狱，重生后我杀疯了
I spent seven years in prison. I thought my fiancée from back then would have married someone else by the time I got out. But Zhou Yun had been waiting for me all along, and on the very first day after my release, she took me to register our marriage. I was grateful beyond words as I cared for my paralyzed father-in-law, supported her younger brother, and raised our children… I worked tirelessly for her and our family for thirty years, wrecked my health, and was called a useless coward, yet I ne
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After Giving My Seat to a 50-Year-Old Dad on the Bus, I Got Pregnant Overnight and Gave Birth to Quadruplets 在公交车上给50岁奶爸让座后，我一夜怀孕生下四胞胎
On the bus, I gave my seat to a fifty-year-old father of four. He smiled at me adoringly. "Thank you, my dear wife." I didn't take him seriously, but the next day, he became my new coworker. Every day, he followed me around calling me his wife, and claimed the fruit of our love would soon be born. My coworkers teased me for having a thing for old men and insisted I take responsibility for him. I thought the man was just mentally unwell, and still didn't take him seriously. But three days later,
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Five Months Pregnant, I Performed a C-Section on My Husband's Mistress 我怀孕五个月给老公的小三做剖腹产
On New Year’s Eve, five months pregnant, I was urgently called back to the hospital to perform a cesarean section. Halfway through the operation, a man’s anguished roar came from outside the door. “Yueyue! Don’t be afraid, I’m here with you! When you’ve had the baby, let me marry you and bring you home, okay?” The familiar voice left me stunned. Only after the operation ended successfully did the man rush in, eyes reddened, and embrace Lin Yue. That was when I recognized him. It was my husband o
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Mr. Jiang, This Is Where We Part 江先生，就此别过
With the wedding just around the corner, Jiang Yanli's first love was in a car accident and could only remember him. Jiang Yanli immediately postponed our wedding. “The doctor said I should do everything I can to cooperate with Yaoyao. We'll hold the wedding once she's better.” To play the perfect boyfriend, Jiang Yanli brought Ji Yao back to live in our home while I was away on a business trip. He even put the wedding dress my mother had left me on her. The wedding planner called to ask what da
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I Have the Male Tomie Syndrome 我有男富江体质
Though I’m a man, I was born with Tomie’s constitution. Everyone who sees me falls madly in love with me, so much that they dismember me to keep me all to themselves. Every romance I’ve had has ended with me dying and coming back to life. That is, until I met Gong Yuchen, the only woman unaffected by me. At last, I found some stability. But in the end, she cut my scalp open with her bare hands: “Xinghe has been bullied since childhood. He needs your allure.”
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The Gentle Breeze Is Hard to Describe 清风难言
Every time my husband missed our wedding anniversary, he gave me a supercar as an apology. I'm about to receive my seventh one. "If you get bored, take the new car for a spin. I'm only going to spend seven days with Hanhan. Be good and wait for me to come back." I quietly watched the man hurry off with his luggage. Ever since we got married, he'd never once attended an anniversary celebration. These priceless luxury cars were all proof that he'd traveled the world with his first love. He knew ho
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After My Underworld Girlfriend Locked Me in a Water Prison, I Gave Up on Her 被黑道女友关进水牢后，我死心了
My queen of the underworld girlfriend fell for the young son of her enemy, the latest hostage she’d taken. Fu Qinglou’s stubborn refusal to yield, even at the cost of his life, made her unable to resist him. The eighteenth time I brought her foot-washing water at the wrong temperature, Zhao Huanru kicked me to the floor. Ignoring the two bloodied teeth I spat out, she ordered her men to drag me to the water prison. "I can’t stand that fawning look of yours! You’re a man with no backbone. You’re
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The School Hunk Stole My Talent, So I Handed Him the World Championship 校草偷我天赋，我反手送他世界冠军
The school heartthrob is bound to a Speed-Stealing System, making him one second faster than me in every race. As long as I perform normally, he can use his credentials as a National Class One athlete to get recruited by Tsinghua University. When he realized I’d discovered his secret, his face went white with fear. He was terrified I’d slack off at the trials or simply withdraw. He asked my girlfriend to talk me into giving the race my all. I asked her, why should I hand him a spot at Tsinghua f
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My Daughter Rebels, and I Watch the Online Mob with a Smile 女儿叛逆，我笑看网暴
My daughter wanted a tattoo on her forehead, so I kindly tried to talk her out of it. She listened obediently, but after she came of age, she became an ordinary office worker, while the girls she'd used to hang out with started livestreaming and bought Maseratis. She resented me for blocking her path to riches and wanted to stab me to death. I stopped her with one hand, opened the PowerPoint I'd been keeping records in since she was little with the other, and said, "Wait."
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True Colors Revealed 原形毕露
When my wife was drugged at a drinking party and dragged into an abandoned warehouse, I didn't rush in to stop it, heedless of my own safety like I had in my previous life. Back then, I'd ruined my own prospects to keep her from making a politically damaging mistake. But in return, she slapped me to the ground, then grabbed me in disheveled clothes and shouted that I was a shameless rapist. From then on, I was known throughout the military as “the rapist.” “What a beast! How could anyone do some
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After I Died, My Aunt Went Mad 我死后，小姨疯了
On my eighteenth birthday, I confessed my feelings to Shen Nongqing, but she sent me abroad to study. Later, I developed brain cancer and suffered unbearable headaches, so I had no choice but to ask her for help. But her first love accused me of having gone astray overseas and getting hooked on drugs, claiming I was just suffering a relapse. Shen Nongqing immediately had me brought back to the country and locked away to kick my addiction in an abandoned villa on a mountaintop owned by the Shen f
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After Being Hypnotized, I Forgot My Wife and Son 被催眠后，我忘掉了妻子和儿子
My wife is one of the world’s top hypnotists. But when the man she had always cherished ran someone over and killed them, she hypnotized me to help him escape punishment. “Qin Lin can’t go to prison. Forget what happened and take his place. I’ll make it up to you when you get out.” Even our five-year-old son nodded along. “You’re just a useless dad anyway. Once you’re in prison, Uncle Qin Lin can be my dad instead!” Just as they wished, I forgot all about them. But after I lost my memory and lef
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After Tearing Up the Moonlight's Script, the Heiress of the Capital Circle Goes Mad 撕掉白月光剧本后，京圈大小姐疯了
The moment I was about to jump off a building, a ledger appeared in my mind. It turned out I was the doomed white moonlight in a redemption story, and my girlfriend was a young heiress from the capital's elite circle. To test me, she pretended to be poor and went to university with me, watching me get bullied without lifting a finger. After I died, she reclaimed her identity and began taking revenge for me. At my grave, she lit a cigarette with hundred-yuan bills and said I was the only boy who
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After My Girlfriend Erased Our Matching Tattoos, I Lost My Memories of Winning Her Over 女友洗掉情侣纹身后，我的攻略记忆消失了
The young male model at my girlfriend's company sent me a video. In it, Ye Qingyan was having the tattoo of my name on her chest removed. The pain brought tears streaming down her face. "Maybe you should leave it after all," the young male model asked with a teasing grin. Ye Qingyan shook her head, her tone resolute: "No! No matter how much it hurts, I have to get it removed! I can't let you all think I'm tied to Liu Yan for the rest of my life." "I'm still young. I need to try things with more
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My Son and I Were Caught in a Terrorist Attack, and the Killer Was My Wife 我和儿子遇到恐怖袭击，凶手竟然是老婆
While traveling abroad with our son, Su Yao and I were caught in a terrorist attack. The terrorists fired indiscriminately into the crowd. To protect our son, I took several bullets and collapsed, covered in blood, in Su Yao's arms. Su Yao grabbed a gun and shot the terrorist dead. Then she rushed me to the best hospital in the area and brought in a renowned medical team to save me. Clinging to my last breath, I told her to save our son first. But, choking back sobs, she told me that a stray bul
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My Childhood Friend Returns, and the Substitute Steps Aside 竹马归来，替身让位
When I was caught up in a plastic surgery scandal, Lu Luosui was photographed by paparazzi with the woman he called his unattainable ideal, who looked just like me. He denied ever dating me and said he loved only one person. Netizens said I'd gotten plastic surgery to look like her and win his love. Overnight, I fell from my pedestal and became a laughingstock online. My haters celebrated, then followed my car on a rainy night and ran me to my death. After I died, Lu Luosui went insane and kille
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In the Tenth Year, I Stopped Loving Him 第十年，我不再爱他
Because Gu Shuo stood me up, a drunk dragged me into the woods. After that night, Gu Shuo promised to marry me, love me, and protect me for the rest of my life. But before our wedding, I received a screenshot of a chat between him and his assistant: “You don’t like Xu Yuan. So why are you marrying her?” “I owe her.” I suddenly didn’t want his pity, or him, anymore. I ended the pregnancy and left for good, but he cried and begged me to come back.
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Reborn in Burning Love 重生焚爱
My water broke, but my husband wanted to go buy matching rings with the woman he still loved. I didn't beg him to take me to the hospital. I simply waited to die without crying or making a fuss. In my previous life, when I realized my water had broken, I grabbed his pant leg and cried, begging him to take me to the hospital. In the end, both my baby and I were safe, but Lin Yumo's depression flared up and she killed herself. My husband acted as if he didn't care, making me nourishing soup and ge
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Where the Green Hills Long for Silence 何处青山盼无声
I pursued the aloof prince for ninety-nine lifetimes. In my first life, I died saving him from a blazing inferno. In my second life, I died taking an arrow for him. It wasn't until my ninety-ninth life that he finally remembered my name and agreed to marry me. I thought he had finally developed feelings for me and was willing to accept me. But when I was eight months pregnant, he cut open my belly with his own hands. It turned out that he had remained unmarried all his life because the woman he
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A Mismatched Marriage to a Commander in the 1980s 八零错嫁首长丈夫
The day my daughter suddenly came down with meningitis, I begged my husband, Lu Liao, to get the special medicine she needed to save her life. Instead, he scolded me and hung up. "Are you using the child as an excuse to make trouble again? Stop bothering us!" "Fu Lu, if you keep getting jealous, we're getting divorced!" As our daughter lay dying and called for her father, Lu Liao was celebrating the birthday of his childhood sweetheart Ning Haiying's son at the state-run restaurant. I sent him t
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Love Like a Blood-Soaked Rose 爱如浸血蔷薇
I was the Blazing Rose of the special forces. But on the eve of the championship finals, I retired and willingly became a personal bodyguard for my beloved, Lu Ting. On our wedding day, Lu Ting and I were ambushed by our enemies. They restrained Lu Ting and took turns assaulting me in front of him, destroying all my power. Afterward, Lu Ting's eyes were bloodshot as he promised he wouldn't look down on me. But then he turned around and married Qingxue, the Lu family's adopted daughter. Than
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Five Years After My Death, My Wife Forces Me to Trade My Life for Her Second Husband's 我死后五年，夫人逼我给继夫换命
As the man my wife had stashed away outside sliced through the tendons in all four of my limbs with a dagger, leaving me to be beaten and tortured to death, my wife was in the capital demoting me to her lover and preparing to marry someone else. The man looked at me with a vicious smile. Still unsatisfied, he ordered the beggars and bandits tormenting me to put me, barely alive, into a steamer, where a crowd of thousands could feast on me. I died without a whole body. Five years after my death,
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My Best Friend Gave the Wrong Injection and Blamed Me, While My Younger Brother’s Childhood Friend Made Me Take the Fall 闺蜜打错针甩锅给我，弟弟竹马抓我顶罪
During the night shift, my best friend said her stomach hurt and begged me to give a patient an injection for her. I flatly refused, then watched as a woman eight months pregnant, about to give birth, died from the wrong injection, taking her baby with her. In my previous life, just after I gave the injection, the pregnant woman's husband rushed into the nurses' station and broke my nose with a punch. “It was you! You gave her the wrong injection and killed my wife and son!” But I had clearly gi
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To Get His Comrade's Little Sister into the Art Troupe, My Husband Cruelly Broke Both My Legs 为了让战友妹妹进文工团，丈夫狠心将我双腿打断
One month before the arts troupe auditions, I was kidnapped and had both legs broken. I would never be able to stand onstage again. My husband, Xiao Changyu, went white-haired overnight. Even after calling in the military, he could never find the real culprit. I dragged my injured legs from doctor to doctor, but none could help. Afraid I might do something foolish, Xiao Changyu brought his younger sister to live with us and take care of me. But I spent every day in tears, unwilling to step outsi
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After I Was Hypnotized, I Forgot My Mother and Little Brother 被催眠后，我忘掉了妈妈和弟弟
After my younger sister drove a car and killed someone, my mother, one of the world's top hypnotists, hypnotized me to get her off the hook. "Your sister Wanwan is timid and afraid of going to prison. As her older sister, you should help her. Forget what happened and take her place in prison. Mom knows you've always been the most obedient." Even my younger brother, whom I had raised from infancy, nodded along: "You're just a useless nanny anyway. Once you're in prison, Sister Wanwan will take go
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Reborn, I Personally Broke the Phoenix Man's Wings 重生归来，我亲手折断凤凰男的翅膀
It was only when I was dragged into an alley that I realized my boyfriend had long been in cahoots with my best friend. "Yaoyao! I put up with all this for so long just to help you get your revenge one day! Don’t forget about me." My boyfriend bowed and scraped before Xu Yao. I flew into a rage and cursed him out, but he kicked me hard in the stomach. "Yaoyao is the Xu family’s eldest daughter. Her three brothers treat her like a treasure! You’re just a pathetic nobody with no family backing you
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After My Fiancée and Family Abandoned Me, I Turned Myself Over to the State 被未婚妻和家人抛弃后，我把自己上交国家了
After I entered the country's top laboratory in my sophomore year, everyone was convinced I'd taken a shortcut. My mother threw away the gift I'd made with my own hands and sneered: "I don't have a son who lies all the time." My fiancée warned me: "Remember that you're the Qin family's son-in-law." Later, my younger brother destroyed my left hand, and they told me to drop the matter. After I was sent to the hospital and woke up, I called my grandmaster. "I'm willing to join the national classifi
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I Livestreamed My Recovery from Addiction, and My Ex-Girlfriend Went Wild with Regret 直播我戒毒后，前女友悔疯了
It was the third year since I was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. My ex-girlfriend, the one I had supposedly “abandoned,” was now a no-nonsense criminal police captain. She led her team in a raid on my rental apartment. Every day, I needed high doses of morphine pills just to stand upright and look vaguely human. When she saw me covered in needle marks, convulsing as I reached for the medicine bottle on the table, she gave a cold laugh. “What happened? Seven years apart, and you've turned y
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In the Name of Love: A Tenderness That Eats Away at the Bones 以爱之名，蚀骨柔情
My husband took our son and me to an amusement park, where we were in a car accident. Our son died at the scene. I was dragged for dozens of meters, and when I came to, my lower leg had been amputated. My husband unexpectedly lost his memory, forgetting everything he had ever felt for me. Then he turned around and married his childhood sweetheart, Ruan Ying. Just as I was about to jump off a building and end my life, Shen Zhouyuan, my orthopedic surgeon, took the initiative to confess his love f
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After My Undercover Girlfriend Died, I Became the Underworld's First Lady 女友卧底牺牲后，成了黑道夫人
My girlfriend was killed while undercover. I couldn't let it go. I was willing to give up everything to achieve the goal she'd once pursued. But when my identity was exposed and I was beaten half to death, I saw the crime boss with his arms around his pregnant fiancée. She was my "dead" girlfriend.
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Unforgivable 无法原谅
Just when Jin Huan and I were fighting hardest over our divorce, he got into a car accident while traveling with Lin Yirou. His secretary called to ask if I could go to the hospital and stay with him. I thought he just needed me, as his spouse, to sign a few admission forms. But I never expected Jin Huan to pull me into his arms from the hospital bed, his voice trembling. “Qiqi, where did you go? You scared me to death.” I looked at his secretary in confusion. He lowered his voice and said, “Mr.
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After the Top-Tier Star Exposed Her Sugar Daddy 女顶流自爆金主后
I’m a top-tier star, the kind who was destined for greatness. But I have one bug: I can’t lie during interviews. So I’ve always pretended to be aloof and never accepted surprise interviews. The day I won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, my team was so excited that we all forgot about the crowd of reporters outside. “Miss Lu, we heard you were kept by a powerful tycoon to get this award. Is there anything you’d like to clarify?” I wanted to stay silent, but my mouth wouldn’t let me. “It’s
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During the Car Accident, My Wife Chose to Save Her One True Love 车祸时，妻子选择救白月光
My wife married me out of spite to get back at her first love. For three years of marriage, I loved her with all my heart and did everything I could to treat her well. Everyone said I was the only one who could thaw her heart of stone. But later, her first love and I were in a car accident at the same time. During the golden hour for rescue, she chose him without hesitation. She didn’t know that I was the one who was more badly injured. That day, I suffered a severe blow to the head and died on
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The Ungrateful Daughter's Influencer Dream 白眼狼女儿的网红梦
Influenced by her teacher at school, my daughter gave up her dream of working in aerospace and turned to making suggestive videos, hoping to become an internet celebrity. I tried earnestly to talk her out of it, but she said, “You don’t understand me at all. I don’t want you to be my mom anymore. I want Teacher Shen to be my mom.” I smiled faintly and gave her what she wanted. When the other parents demanded that the teacher be replaced, I was the only one who stood firm. Because I was reborn.
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They Laid Off the Company Landlady 裁员裁到公司包租婆
I was a key member of the business team for three years, then suddenly got demoted. My boss told me, “Work if you want to. If not, get lost. The company will keep running without anyone.” My boyfriend also abandoned me after cozying up to the boss's daughter. So I left. When I came back, I brought a rental contract and said to my boss, whose company was on the verge of bankruptcy: “Hello. I'm here to collect the rent.”
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