

Seth Palmer tirelessly pursued Vera Lane for six years before finally winning her hand in marriage. However, Vera remained wholly devoted to her prayers, never consummating their union. It isn't until Seth finds her praying over a photo of her stepbrother, Steven Lane, that he realizes Steven is the one she has loved all along. Heartbroken, Seth divorces Vera and leaves the country. By the time Vera comes to her senses, Seth has already fallen in love with Sophie Hall.

Days before Christmas, my girlfriend, Tessa Coleman, decides to take her assistant to the beach for the holiday. I don't argue or make a scene. I even help her pack her bags. But she sneers at me, mocking me for finally learning how to be sensible now that my legs are useless. As soon as she leaves, I reach out to her sworn enemy. In my last life, when I tried to stop her with my crippled legs, her assistant ended up brutally murdered at the beach. Tessa had acted like nothing had happened, but once I recovered, she hacked off my legs and killed me mercilessly. That was when I finally realized that she had hated me all along. This time around, I'll make sure she loses everything.

Seven years ago, Grace Smith saved Chad Larson but was left mentally impaired in the process. Her parents died while searching for her. Devoted to her, Chad remains single, yet his mother refuses to accept it. Her interference drives Grace away. Years later, just as he's diagnosed with cancer and pressured into marriage, he discovers the beggar he once met was Grace. Heartbroken, he races to the hospital as everything spirals out of control.

Amelia is deliberately hit by a scheming woman. Lying injured in hospital, she sees her husband neglect her cruelly and tend to her attacker instead. Broken-hearted, she chooses a life-saving surgery that wipes out all her memories, leaving her painful marriage and past behind. Her husband only realizes his irreversible loss when it is too late.

On the surface, Ciara Wood and Vance Gerber seem like the perfect couple, but each harbors a secret: Vance is drawn to the student he's sponsoring, while Ciara still mourns a love lost five years ago. After their divorce, Vance struggles to discern whether his lingering feelings are mere obsession or true love, while Ciara finds unexpected happiness with someone new—someone determined to claim her heart.

On her wedding night six years ago, Gina Cole's husband, Hugo Leed, sold her to Mike Patton. Nervous and terrified, she never realized that the man before her was not her husband. From that night on, Mike spent six years searching for her and eventually acquired Hugo's factory in the process. Meanwhile, Gina endured years of abuse as Hugo, convinced she had been unfaithful, treated her with cruelty.

Ethan Carter’s wife has cancer. He plans to persuade his parents to sell the old family house to cover her medical expenses. However, his mother asks him to lie and claim that he himself is ill, as a test for his wife. Convinced that his wife would never abandon him, Ethan agrees. Back home, he follows his mother’s words and fakes his own illness. To his shock, his wife files for divorce the very same day. She even brings her mother and prepares to sue him for a divorce.

For five years, I let my husband's fated mate take whatever she wanted. My place beside him. His time. His attention. The tenderness that used to belong to me. I even told myself I could survive watching my own son choose her over me, because a broken family had to be better than no family at all. It wasn't. On the tenth anniversary of the bond my husband and I chose for ourselves, he canceled our ceremony and told me his fated mate would be taking my place beside him. Then my son gave her the Luna necklace his father had once given me and told me she was his real mate. That was the moment I finally understood something I should have learned five years ago. No matter how much of myself I gave to that family, I would never be the woman Adrian chose. So I filed for the dissolution of our bond. None of them believed I could really walk away. My husband thought I was bluffing. His fated mate thought she had won. My son didn't even look back. Then, three days later, a call came from Moonfall Island: Adrian Blackwood's Luna was dead. This time, I left them with nothing but my ashes.

On her wedding anniversary, doctor Aria is assigned an unexpected patient: Abigail, her husband's first love. And standing beside Abigail at her appointment is none other than Aria's husband, Michael. That day, Aria makes two life-changing decisions. First, get rid of the husband. Second, get rid of his baby. She calmly ends her marriage and terminates her pregnancy, then disappears from Michael's life without ever telling him. When Michael finally learns that Aria left him—and that she had been carrying his child before—he is forced to face the truth about his feelings. But by then, Aria has already started a new life. And in the end, all Michael can do is watch the woman he lost walk into a future without him.

I am diagnosed with severe systemic lupus erythematosus, and I only have three days left to live. When my husband rejects my 188th plea for help, I take my test results and enter the hospice care center. "Hello, I'd like to schedule my own cremation process and apply for government aid." Ten minutes later, they arrive. Before I can speak, my lawyer husband, Jasper Horton, coldly slaps me across the face. "You're faking a terminal illness just to steal attention from Janice?" My doctor brother, Casey Carter, snatches the medical report from my hand and scoffs at it. "Lupus? If you're going to fake being sick, at least make it believable. Only one in a million people gets this." I endure the pain in my body, return to the counter, and hand in the application form and my medical records once more. The staff member sees the butterfly-shaped rash on my wrist and sympathizes with me. "I have no family left," I say. "I'm requesting cremation in three days, location doesn't matter. I just don't want my death to burden anyone."