I came to Chicago with my friend to visit her boyfriend. Three days in, her boyfriend said he'd show us "something fun." The car kept driving —farther
and farther out. By the time we realized something was wrong, we were locked inside an abandoned factory. My friend was gone. Her boyfriend
shoved me into a room and threw me a line: "Your friend sold you for twenty grand. Stay put and wait for arrangements." I scanned the room. A few
men in black suits leaned against the doorway. Silver-gray pins on their chests. Shield-shaped. Dark red thorns. An inverted dagger. The family crest of
Caleb Richardson -don of the New York mafia. I was held captive by him for three years. I barely escaped with my life — And now l've been handed
right back to him.
"Selene was diagnosed with Silver Poison at eighteen, a terminal illness. To avoid hindering her lover Cain's future as the Alpha Heir, she feigned infidelity at the urging of Cain's mother, driving Cain away to the North. Seven years later, Cain returned, accompanied by a new partner and on the verge of a bonding ceremony, while Selene was in a critical state. Upon their reunion, Cain, filled with resentment toward the 'traitor' Selene, treated her harshly. It was only when Selene was dying that Cain learned the truth about the betrayal from her neighbors. He then abandoned everything to stay by her side for her final moments. Selene passed away in Cain's arms, and Cain spent the rest of his life longing for and honoring her memory.
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I was an emergency physician. After finishing a night shift, I had just walked out of the hospital entrance when a colleague from the hospital called me. "Dr. Doherty, hurry back. A critically injured patient was just brought in. The chief wants you to return immediately and help with the resuscitation." I turned around without thinking. But then a stream of floating comments suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. [Do not enter the operating room! Do not take part in this resuscitation!] [The patient is already dead. If you go in, you will be taking the fall for the hospital director's daughter!] [This patient's family is powerful. You will not only be sentenced to death, your parents will also be forced to jump to their deaths as well!] My steps stopped cold. A few seconds later, my heart tightened. I decided to believe the comments. I would gamble on it. My eyes swept quickly across the ground. I immediately locked onto an uncovered deep shaft on the road. I gritted my teeth, shut my eyes, and threw myself straight into the opening.
Wife Is Trapped 30 Thousand Feet Deep, but I Refuse to Rescue Her
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Reese, a chief deep-sea engineering engineer, was betrayed by his wife Danielle and his half-brother Owen in his previous life. The two staged a 10,000-meter deep-sea accident on their own, trapped him to death in the rescue submersible, and then pinned all the blame for the incident entirely on him. Reese was utterly disgraced, and the Starlight Group — the business empire founded by his mother — was seized and embezzled. His enemies, however, reaped both fame and fortune by treading on his remains: one was hailed as a heroic grieving wife, the other celebrated as a genius scientific icon.Reborn with full memories of his past life and sent back to the eve of the accident, Reese voluntarily turned himself in on the night of the incident and was held in the detention center. Despite repeated pleas, coercion and inducements from colleagues, his father, and the parents of the students, he refused to come forward to rescue Danielle, who was supposedly "trapped" in the deep sea. Instead, he watched coldly as Owen staged his grand performance of an "epic remote rescue".At the nationally broadcast commendation ceremony, he pressed forward step by step with ironclad evidence. Starting with the technical impossibility of the physically locked remote system, moving on to the financial proof of their secret patent embezzlement, and finally digging up the long-buried murder of his mother from twenty years prior, he exposed this self-orchestrated death scam layer by layer, and laid bare the crimes of Brandon, Maya, Owen and Danielle before the whole public.In the end, all the villains were brought to justice. Reese reclaimed the Starlight Group founded by his mother, purged all of Brandon's old loyalists, and established the world's leading deep-sea technology R&D center. The 10,000-meter deep-sea probe Breaker, which he personally designed, was successfully launched and broke multiple world records in one go. The light of truth and justice finally pierced through the ten-thousa
Alex Carter, a prominent Chicago trial lawyer, has been married to Ivy Morgan for six years. When intern Leah Foster joins his firm, Alex mentors her personally—they work late together, message privately, and Leah comes and goes freely from their apartment. Though Ivy voices concerns, Alex insists the relationship is purely professional.
After Ivy publicly warns Leah, Leah lures her to a parking garage with a fake distress message and hires Mason Reed, a violent ex-con, to attack her. Ivy, seriously assaulted, files a civil suit. What destroys her faith in the marriage is Alex's response: instead of believing his wife, he becomes Leah's attorney—and wins.
The day Alex celebrates his victory, Ivy arrives with a suitcase and two documents: a divorce filing, and medical records showing the pregnancy she had never told him about had stopped developing—and that she had signed the consent forms and undergone the procedure alone. That night he was preparing Leah's defense. On the same day, he won his case and lost his child and his wife.
The case soon unravels: Mason demands his payment, and deleted emails, secret videos, and voice recordings between Leah and Mason prove her goal was never to scare Ivy but to destroy her. Alex turns the evidence over to police and publicly admits his judgment was wrong. Leah is imprisoned; Mason faces charges; Alex loses his partnership and his license is disciplined. His boundary-crossing messages with Leah also surface, forcing him to admit he had enjoyed her admiration and dependence, allowing her to believe she could one day replace Ivy.
Ivy rebuilds through therapy and painting, finalizes the divorce, and leaves Chicago for an overseas opportunity. Alex finally accepts she had told the truth all along—but by then, it no longer matters. What truly destroyed the marriage was never Leah alone, but the moment Ivy needed her husband's belief most, and Alex chose the other side.
"""Plan a wedding for my husband and his mistress,"" I told my assistant. ""Seven days from now. The same night I leave him for good.""
People called Simon Fulmer the most devoted Don in Lake City. He lit up the sky with blue fireworks for our fifth anniversary. He knelt in the street to tie my shoelace. He swore he would die before he ever cheated.
They didn't know the fireworks were meant for his first love. She hated blue, so he gave them to me.
That night, while he posted ""I'll love you forever,"" she was in his bed.
So I signed the divorce papers he had once handed me himself.
On my birthday, his guests walked one floor up to his wedding with her. The giant screen showed them everything. By then, I was already on a plane home.
Five years ago, he had sworn to my father that if I ever came home heartbroken, he would never set foot in our territory. If he did, he would lose everything.
Then word came that I had died in a car crash.
He came anyway. He knelt at my coffin and lost his whole empire.
He never noticed the masked woman in the crowd, watching him cry."
Aurelia Rossi gave up her name and identity for love, willingly marrying Vittorio Falcone, the ruthless Don of the Falcone family, and sacrificing everything to help him build his criminal empire.But her best friend, Carina, secretly set a trap. She falsely claimed she’d been drugged with an aphrodisiac, luring Vittorio into believing only he could save her.Vittorio locked Aurelia to the iron gate of the wine cellar and forced her to listen as he slept with Carina. The devastating trauma shattered Aurelia both physically and emotionally—and caused her to lose the baby she was carrying.Bleeding and heartbroken, Aurelia finally woke up to the truth.She filed for divorce without hesitation, returned to the Rossi family, and chose to marry Orion, her childhood sweetheart who had never stopped loving and protecting her.But on their wedding day, Carina suddenly appeared with a poisoned blade and took Aurelia hostage. The poison and the shock left Aurelia suffering from amnesia.With Orion patiently by her side, Aurelia slowly began piecing her memories back together.And this time, she finally walked down the aisle and finished the wedding that had once been torn away from her—leaving Vittorio, Carina, and her painful past behind for good.
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