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Family drama & emotional wounds

Favouritism, misunderstanding and unheard pleas.

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01
After the Second Sunrise — original cover8.7

CompletedAfter the Second Sunrise

Tania remembers giving up her inheritance and caring for Chester after Juliana encouraged their marriage. An attack finally exposes both his false disability and the person he has always wanted to protect. Reborn at the moment the sisters choose their partners, Tania refuses the arrangement that once consumed her life. Her second chance begins by questioning the family loyalty she previously accepted without hesitation.

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02
The Rejected Jinx Is A Billionaire Heiress — original cover9.0

OngoingThe Rejected Jinx Is A Billionaire Heiress

The Tucker family sends her away after college so Jessica can pursue a wealthy heir without competition. With two suitcases and no sense of belonging, she believes another rejection has ended her place in the family. A stranger carrying an old photograph instead reveals that she was switched at birth. Her biological parents, owners of the New York Monarchs, have spent twenty-two years searching for her.

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03
Abandoned Heiress, Now His Mafia Bride — original cover9.2

CompletedAbandoned Heiress, Now His Mafia Bride

Clayton encounters Ivy Dillard at the grave her family created after abandoning her years earlier. He accuses her of inventing her death and tries to take her back to apologize. Ivy’s husband, Chicago Capo Collin Richardson, intervenes before Clayton can force her away. The reunion reveals how little Clayton knows about her present life and sets up her determination to confront those who discarded her.

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04
Another Chance at Life — original cover9.2

CompletedAnother Chance at Life

A tragedy during their honeymoon exposes how deeply his wife remains attached to Tyler. Returning to their teenage years gives them a chance to separate, and he lets her choose her first love. Ten years later, she mistakes his presence at a gala for continued devotion. He is there to find his son, revealing that the future she assumed he would spend waiting has already become a life of his own.

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05
A Vasectomy for Her Lover: I Sent Her Packing — original cover8.6

CompletedA Vasectomy for Her Lover: I Sent Her Packing

While waiting for a procedure, he reads an anonymous post celebrating a long campaign to take over a friend's life. Its claims about parents, work, marriage and children sound increasingly familiar. A newly uploaded photo appears to have been taken inside his own home. The discovery forces him to reconsider the relationships behind a decision he had accepted as an act of trust.

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06
Because I Once Saw the Light — original cover8.0

CompletedBecause I Once Saw the Light

After her parents’ divorce, Tiana once stayed with their indebted father while younger sister Tamara chose their mother. His later financial improvement and affection contrasted with Tamara’s neglect and death. Given another chance, Tamara eagerly chooses him, leaving Tiana the journey to their mother’s new home. She does not know that his earlier transformation depended on Tiana’s exhausting repayments and a serious illness, rather than an effortless change of fortune.

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07
Abandoned Luna: Claimed by Two — original cover7.7

OngoingAbandoned Luna: Claimed by Two

After ending a marriage built on lies, Aria Graves faces her father’s threat against her mother and is sent to the Silverfang Pack in her sister’s place. Alpha King Damien Rothwell claims her, but his half-brother Ethan also wants a future with her. Ethan is someone Aria once helped learn to read. Caught between family coercion and two competing attachments, she must decide what she wants for herself.

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08
Apocalypse Rebirth: My Gold-Eating System — original cover8.0

OngoingApocalypse Rebirth: My Gold-Eating System

Joanna returns from an apocalyptic death to two months before disaster. Her mother’s bracelet contains a gold-consuming system that unlocks extraordinary storage. Remembering the catastrophes ahead, she gathers resources instead of repeating her former vulnerability. When relatives and friends who betrayed or abandoned her seek help, their demands meet someone determined to control her supplies and relationships on different terms.

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09
Carmen's Second Life — original cover9.3

CompletedCarmen's Second Life

Two sisters adopted from the same orphanage choose very different households. Carmen finds warmth in the modest Moss family, while her sister’s prestigious new home becomes a source of suffering. Jealousy eventually turns fatal. Returning to the day of their choices, the sister claims the Moss family for herself, assuming she can inherit Carmen’s future. Carmen knows that happiness was never as automatic as that decision makes it appear.

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10
Choosing Someone Better — original cover8.2

CompletedChoosing Someone Better

Asked to choose an arranged-marriage partner, she surprises her family by selecting Terrence Garvin instead of Bradley, the man she pursued for years. In her previous life, twenty years of marriage ended with the discovery that Bradley had always loved her sister. Returning to the choice gives her a chance to take another path. Bradley’s reaction to her new wedding reveals that he expected her loyalty to remain unchanged.

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11
Choosing the Right One — original cover8.8

CompletedChoosing the Right One

Asked to choose a husband from a wealthy family, she selects Nathaniel Chapman instead of George, the man she once loved. Her first marriage helped George gain an inheritance, but his affair with her sister turned into resentment and ultimately murder. Rebirth offers a different choice and a chance to avoid that future. What she does not expect is that George remembers their previous life as well.

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12
Betrayed Bride: Marrying The Ice Tyrant — original cover8.4

OngoingBetrayed Bride: Marrying The Ice Tyrant

Exposing Carter's affair with Sienna costs her the support of her adoptive parents, who threaten the bakery she built and rewrite her part in a past rescue. She approaches a powerful billionaire with a proposal for a publicity relationship. He offers a two-year marriage instead. Before she can adjust to the change, a young girl's question about a new mother makes the arrangement more complicated.

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13
Betrayed Bride: Proposing To The Dragon Lord — original cover8.8

OngoingBetrayed Bride: Proposing To The Dragon Lord

Betrayed by Julian and relative Isabelle, an adopted daughter is blamed by her family and promised to older Lord Valerius as punishment. She refuses to remain a bargaining piece. Drafting a business proposal, she leaves the household and plans to approach powerful Gideon Montgomery instead. The plan is to negotiate with a dangerous man on her own terms instead of submitting to the future her family prescribed.

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14
Crazy Rich Actions — original cover9.4

CompletedCrazy Rich Actions

Marceline Blanc’s attempts to please a family devoted to adopted sister Bella end in confinement and death. Reborn on her engagement day, she hears a system promise enormous rewards for disruptive behaviour. She overturns the celebration cake and rejects demands that she keep yielding to Bella, choosing to confront the family whose approval she once sought.

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15
Faraway Wilds — original cover8.1

CompletedFaraway Wilds

As university applications close, the family and childhood friend Brandon Carter focus on Maddison Sullivan’s choices. Her twin is remembered only as an afterthought and told to stay in the same city without much discussion of her own wishes. The scene echoes years of favoritism in their childhood. She decides to apply far from home, placing distance between her future and the roles others have always assigned her.

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16
Fruit of Ruin — original cover7.4

CompletedFruit of Ruin

A childhood family tragedy makes mangoes inseparable from the end of a marriage. She tells Alan Holt that giving her one will mean he wants a divorce. Years later, he appears to defend that boundary against Larissa Fennimore, his childhood sweetheart. A drink served at a celebration reveals that he and Larissa have instead made it into a joke. The gesture changes how she understands his promises.

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17
Betrayed by Blood — original cover8.0

CompletedBetrayed by Blood

An intern ranger is killed during a supposedly routine survey after a climbing rope is sabotaged. Supervisor Mark Thorne and the ranger’s sister, Emily, are both involved. Waking three days before the expedition offers a chance to change the outcome. With memories of the betrayal still clear, the ranger prepares to survive the assignment and, if possible, stop Emily from becoming part of the same tragedy again.

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18
Betrayed by My Boyfriend, Claimed by the Mafia Boss — original cover9.4

OngoingBetrayed by My Boyfriend, Claimed by the Mafia Boss

Catherine's family sides with her sister after Marco's betrayal, then tries to trade Catherine into another marriage. Lorenzo offers protection through a contract of his own. Becoming his wife reveals the Mafia power behind his business identity, while his growing possessiveness challenges the limits of their arrangement.

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19
He Picked the Wrong Side — original cover8.9

CompletedHe Picked the Wrong Side

A woman and her mother-in-law, Georgina, are enjoying a hotel pool when another guest orders them out. The stranger boasts that her husband owns the property and treats them as intruders who cannot afford to stay. The claim catches both women’s attention for a very different reason: the hotel belongs to Georgina’s son. An unpleasant encounter begins exposing a second relationship neither of them knew about.

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20
I Heard My Husband’s Illegitimate Son’s Thoughts — original cover8.5

CompletedI Heard My Husband’s Illegitimate Son’s Thoughts

Scarlett is about to help a baby left beside the road when she hears his thoughts. He knows that the encounter was arranged so she will adopt him into the Lumley family and unknowingly support the people plotting against her. What appears to be a chance rescue becomes a warning about her own household. Understanding the plan before it begins lets her choose a different response.

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21
I Took Revenge After My Fiancee Left With Another Man — original cover8.6

CompletedI Took Revenge After My Fiancee Left With Another Man

In his first life, intervening when the factory director’s son takes his fiancée into a warehouse leads to a false accusation. The resulting marriage brings further betrayals that destroy his parents and eventually his own life. Reborn outside the same warehouse, he hears the familiar voices again. This time, he walks away rather than repeat the decision that allowed others to turn him into their scapegoat.

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23
Burned by Poison, Saved by the Devil — original cover8.3

OngoingBurned by Poison, Saved by the Devil

Targeted by her cousin Hailey in a scheme to destroy her engagement, a woman encounters Demetrius Maddox while both face grave danger. Hailey brings the fiancé and Bolton family to expose her supposed disgrace, only to discover Demetrius is a feared Chicago power. The woman offers her knowledge as a doctor to treat him, attempting to negotiate safety from a family she believes wants her dead.

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24
Marriage of Another Life — original cover8.1

CompletedMarriage of Another Life

Reborn on the day she and Tilda Wright choose their husbands, she discovers an ability to hear other people’s thoughts. Tilda intends to take the apparently gentle man her sister married before, leaving her former abusive partner behind. The exchange does not provoke the expected fear: memories of that first marriage reveal that neither choice was as simple as Tilda believes.

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25
Mom Tried to Wife-Swap Me — original cover8.0

CompletedMom Tried to Wife-Swap Me

A week after giving birth, Kyla finds a post by a mother who wants her older daughter divorced so the younger daughter can take her place. Among critical replies, someone suggests fabricated affair photos to exploit postpartum stress. The poster agrees immediately. Moments later, Kyla receives a message from her own mother questioning Bruce's fidelity, connecting the online scheme to her marriage.

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26
My Brother’s Spot Sparks a Hidden Identity — original cover8.4

CompletedMy Brother’s Spot Sparks a Hidden Identity

Matt leaves an important meeting after Timothy calls about a lost exchange-program place. At school, a boy claiming to be a Smith family heir boasts about the laboratory his mother donated, while a teacher urges Timothy to accept the outcome. The family name changes Matt’s response: he knows exactly who belongs to that household. A call to his mother begins exposing the authority being used against his brother.

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27
Chosen as the Cursed Alpha's Seventh Bride — original cover8.0

OngoingChosen as the Cursed Alpha's Seventh Bride

Unable to awaken her wolf, Emilia Taylor is sent away to marry Sebastian Simons, an Alpha surrounded by rumors about six dead wives. Her family expects the marriage to end badly. What they do not know is that Emilia can now hear other people's thoughts. Sebastian alone remains unreadable, turning the secrets around her new husband into a mystery her unusual gift cannot easily solve.

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28
Chosen by the Beast Alpha — original cover9.4

OngoingChosen by the Beast Alpha

Lena Foster endures family abuse and betrayal by her former mate, Luke, before her father sells her to Dominic Voss of the Bloodmoon pack. Rumors claim that an ancient curse will turn Dominic into a mindless beast unless he meets specific demands involving a woman and an heir. Entering his tower, Lena expects another danger. His attention introduces a complicated, coercive relationship whose outcome she cannot yet understand.

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29
My Dead Husband Impregnated My Student — original cover8.8

CompletedMy Dead Husband Impregnated My Student

A teacher lends money to Renee Blue to help her family through a medical crisis. At graduation, Renee refuses to repay the loan, claiming she is pregnant by the teacher’s husband and should take her place. The claim makes no sense: that husband died seven years earlier. An encounter involving the teacher’s driver reveals a very different explanation, turning an act of kindness into a confrontation over deception and assumed wealth.

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30
My Father's Point-Based Game — original cover9.3

CompletedMy Father's Point-Based Game

A parent introduces household points that supposedly allow earned rewards. The narrator works toward a mathematics competition application while a stepbrother receives preferential treatment. When enough points are finally saved, the father transfers their benefit to the other child’s demand for shoes. A torn application and another broken promise bring the accumulated unfairness to a suicidal crisis.

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31
My Wife vs. a Mango… Guess Who Won? — original cover8.4

CompletedMy Wife vs. a Mango… Guess Who Won?

A mango becomes tied to the family tragedy he witnessed as a child. He tells Irene Johnson that offering him one will mean she wants their marriage to end. She initially appears to respect that boundary, then joins childhood friend Steven Carter in turning it into a joke at a celebration. Recognizing that the promise has lost its meaning to her, he treats his decision about divorce as something that cannot be laughed away.

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32
Forsaken by the Pack, Mated to the Secret Lycan King — original cover8.3

OngoingForsaken by the Pack, Mated to the Secret Lycan King

An assistant discovers that Alpha Jase Davenport, her secret partner, is publicly courting her stepsister Kira. Her mother then threatens her inheritance unless she accepts an abusive older Alpha. Reading her father’s will reveals another possibility: a legal mating bond can release the trust without family approval. She searches for indebted Rogue Babe Vincent, planning a paper marriage that could give her access to her money and a way out.

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33
He Let Me Go, A Zillionaire Took My Hand — original cover8.1

OngoingHe Let Me Go, A Zillionaire Took My Hand

A crash exposes where Katherine stands in her fiancé's priorities. Ending the engagement also means withdrawing the investment, creative work and professional support her family has taken for granted. Her brothers expect her to return, only to find their own careers faltering without her. With a different partner beside her, Katherine no longer treats restoring their comfort as her responsibility.

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35
Not My Brother's Keeper — original cover7.7

CompletedNot My Brother's Keeper

A new manager stops a restaurant owner’s sister from leaving and presents an inflated bill filled with implausible service charges. Explaining her relationship to the owner only earns more suspicion. Rather than argue over every fee, she contacts her secretary and makes her continued investment conditional on her brother addressing the manager’s conduct. An ordinary meal becomes a confrontation over authority, money and the business her family runs.

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36
My Mother Called Me a Liar — original cover8.2

CompletedMy Mother Called Me a Liar

Briana Hayes has a serious health condition, but her mother insists she join a school activity to avoid appearing partial. When Briana becomes unwell, a nurse dismisses her distress as pretence, and her mother demands that she continue. Her worsening condition brings blame instead of care. The failure to believe her turns a supposedly collective good deed into a fatal crisis.

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