

"In the fifth year of our marriage, my husband, Asher, insists on bringing another woman with us when we move abroad. Liana has been by his side for nine years, he explains, and he owes her too much to leave her behind. I don’t cry, argue, or demand that he choose. Instead, I calmly book her a seat on our flight. Asher believes I’ve finally accepted their relationship. But on the day of our departure, I watch him board the plane with Liana—then turn around and take a different flight home. He chose the woman he couldn’t abandon. **So I abandoned our marriage instead.**"

Born with a rare heart condition, Betty Quinn is abandoned by her parents and forced to survive on her own. At eighteen, while working at a bar to pay her tuition, she meets Hubert Spark—the man who becomes her lover and the only family she has ever known. But everything falls apart when Hubert's first love, Roxy Graham, returns from abroad.

Evan Stone, a rural teen, wins a top university admission—only to have his wife Clara Carter swap it for her first love. He wastes forty years in obscurity, scorned by his children, while Clara leaves everything to that man and admits she never loved him. Then Evan gets a second chance. He returns, determined to reclaim his future—and this time, he won't look back. But Clara soon realizes she can't live without him.

Just before New Year's, a group of thieves poses as distant relatives and forces their way into Avery Kane's home. They vandalize her late mother's room and even pressure her to accept Howard Boden as her boyfriend. When she refuses, he storms into her company, fires loyal staff, hires unqualified relatives, and drives it toward bankruptcy. After Avery's father returns, they set things right and finally enjoy a peaceful New Year's.

Adam Irwin, the factory's only college graduate, secretly loved the director's daughter, Rhea Catton. Risking his life to save her at the annual party, he was falsely accused of rape, ruining his life. Reborn that day, Adam exposes the truth, outsmarts Rhea and Jeff Payne,finds justice and true love, while her family regrets trusting the wrong man.

After losing his mother to cancer, Yale Mond falls into deep despair. Soon after, his girlfriend Lillian Jones is diagnosed with leukemia. Not wanting Yale to endure another heartbreak, Lillian hides her illness and ends their relationship.Devastated, Yale goes abroad to study medicine.Five years later, he returns as the director of a hospital, bringing with him a miracle cancer drug.Unbeknownst to him, Lillian’s leukemia has worsened after she secretly gave birth to their daughter Annie. Unable to afford treatment, she ends up living under a bridge. Through Annie, Yale finally finds Lillian, and the long-standing misunderstanding between them is resolved. Using the miracle cancer drug, Yale saves the dying Lillian, and the family of three is finally reunited.

"My whole family can see the countdown to my sister’s death. We all know she’ll die on her sixteenth birthday, so she always comes first. The pretty dresses are hers. Every family outing revolves around her. Even our parents’ time and attention belong to her. When her sixteenth birthday finally arrives, I’m burning with fever. Afraid I’ll ruin her last day, my parents lock me in the storage room. “Mom, it hurts. Please let me out.” “Enough. It’s her last day. Can’t you just bear it?” “But I really don’t feel well…” Slowly, the sounds outside the door fade away, and my consciousness slips away forever."

Three days before our wedding, my fiancé, Raphael Russo, was killed in a gang shootout. They didn't even find a body. As I was drowning in grief, comments suddenly flashed before my eyes: 【Wake up, girl! the coffin's empty! He faked his death! The scumbag ran off to be with that scheming bitch chloe, the one pretending to be sick!】 【While you're crying your eyes out at the funeral, Raphael is fucking Chloe’s brains out in a hotel bed.】 【When he comes back, he'll claim he has amnesia. You won't know a thing and you'll forgive him. You poor thing…】 A month later, news of my marriage to Mafia Don Marcello Falcone spread through New York. Raphael’s right-hand man cornered me, furious. “How could you betray the Boss?” I tightened my grip on Marcello’s arm and smiled. “A girl can’t mourn forever, can she? I’m sure Raphael, in spirit, would be happy for me.”

When my husband, Joe Stork, lost everything, I left him. After he regains his fortune, I return every year. In the first year, I return, holding our daughter. He gives me a huge sum of money and tells me to stay away. The second year, I return with a cancer diagnosis. He merely gives me more money without sparing a glance. For the third and fourth years, I disappear from his world as he wishes. But in the fifth year, he receives a call from our hungry daughter.
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On their fifth anniversary, Jessie Eves caught her husband with his mistress, who was in her late grandmother's opera costume. She then cut ties with his company, sold her shares, and flew abroad to restart her opera career, vanishing from his life forever.