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A Love Forged in Resentment
I met someone named Chen Ye.
Everyone says he is loyal, kind, and a rare good person in this world.
But I think he is vulgar, hypocritical, and the most despicable and shameless scoundrel in the world.
Yet I kind of like him.
Away from Love
The woman who lived across from us was beautiful, with a captivating, mature allure.
Every man in the building was bewitched by her. Only my husband scoffed.
But when the elevator suddenly plunged,
he completely forgot about me and our daughter. He turned around and pulled her tightly into his arms.
So tightly it was as if he wanted to press her into his own body.
Beyond the Palace Walls
That dog of an emperor ordered me to marry a young eunuch, and I didn’t even blink before agreeing.
Yet, on the night of the wedding, I was tied up and hauled into the emperor’s bedchamber before I even had the chance to remove my bridal veil.
Broken Love
My husband had an affair with the Married Woman downstairs.
I hid in the hallway, smoking with the Married Woman’s husband.
We didn’t dare return until they’d finished.
Later, they became even more brazen.
The Married Woman’s husband said, “I’m going to catch them in the act. What about you?”
I kept nibbling on my skewer, unconcerned.
“You go catch them, I’ll come too!”
Dark Fairy Tale
While we were conducting a quantum computing experiment, my graduate student suddenly asked me a question. “Professor, do you know what it means when they say, ‘Primordial Chaos Gives Birth to the Two Poles’?”
I set down the equipment in my hands, but before I could speak, she began to strip off all her clothes right in front of me.
She placed my hand against her softness, her seductive eyes locked onto mine.
“Primordial Chaos Gives Birth to the Two Poles, and the Two Poles Return to One Place.” “The height of nobility is also the height of debauchery.”
Expired Old Love
I fell in love with a poor boy, but later broke up with him because he was poor.
Years later, he became successful and famous, while I, serving food, accidentally stained his girlfriend’s bag.
The young girlfriend sneered, “Do you recognize this bag? Can you afford to compensate for it?”
I smiled and handed her my own bag:
“A limited edition Birkin, three times the price of yours. Is it alright if I compensate you with this?”
Feeding the Demon
The Supreme God cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness. He was without desire or longing, stern and impartial.
To prove that she held a place in the Supreme God’s heart, the Fairy Maiden deliberately slaughtered Meng Family Village.
Kneeling on the ground, she wept like a rain-drenched blossom. “Your disciple has committed a grave sin. Master, please punish me. Grind my bones to dust and scatter my ashes.”
The Supreme God stared blankly at that beautiful face. In the end, he could not bring himself to do it.
He summoned the Nine Nether Yin Fire to burn the village and destroy all evidence, then ordered his disciple to return and copy scriptures in repentance.
I crawled out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, selling my soul to the Evil Demon for one thing alone: revenge.
The Evil Demon’s voice was beguiling. “What do you want?”
I looked back at the roaring flames behind me. “I heard that a thousand years ago, the Supreme God killed his wife to prove his Dao. Give me a face identical to his dead wife’s.”
Fool’s Game
Chapter 0
On April Fool’s Day, a pregnancy test with two distinct red lines fell out of my coat pocket.
I turned to my wife in surprise. “Are you pregnant with our second child?”
Her voice was flat. “Chen Wei, we haven’t had sex in six months.”
I froze for a second before quickly spinning a lie.
“It’s a prank prop! It’s April Fool’s Day, I was just messing with you. Gotcha, didn’t I?”
As soon as I stepped out of the house, I called my mistress to demand answers.
If she was pregnant, she needed to get an abortion immediately.
She had a worse temper than I did and denied it outright.
What a joke.
I only had two women in my life, and neither of them was pregnant.
Was this pregnancy test supposed to be mine?
Four Years After Marriage, I No Longer Love
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In the fourth year of our marriage, both Lu Jingli and I had affairs.
He kept a female college student, treating her like a treasure.
Behind his back, I supported a pure-hearted male college student, reliving the passion of youth.
I had thought he was already tired of this messy marriage.
But on the day he discovered my betrayal, he went crazy, insisting that we return to our family together.
Good Girl Gone Wild
It was the fourth year of my relationship with Fu Jingsen.
He had grown tired of my dullness and lack of change.
A young, trendy girl had successfully seduced him, leaving him infatuated.
Yet, he told his friends,
“It’s just a little fling to try something new.”
“When it comes to marriage, of course, you still choose a Good Girl like Shen Ci.”
With the wedding fast approaching, everyone urged me to consider the bigger picture.
However, Chen Xu, the most notorious playboy in our social circle, stopped me. “Hey, Good Girl, do you dare to be rebellious for once?”
At the wedding three days later, Fu Jingsen stared at the hickey on the side of my neck. He was so furious that he couldn’t even hold his bouquet steady.
I gave him a faint smile.
“Just trying something fresh. Why are you so angry?”
“Only after trying it did I realize how boring you actually are. You don’t have nearly as many tricks as he does.”