All Novel
My Wife Doesn’t Want Me Anymore
My wife suddenly wanted to check my phone.
I wasn’t nervous at all.
Until she sent a message in the Brothers Group.
“Guys, guess which girl I’m with right now?”
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?”
The Eight Years He Forgot
When Nie Feng and I were about to file for divorce, he was in a car accident and lost his memory.
His memory was stuck eight years in the past.
Eight years ago, he loved me the most.
My Husband, The Intern’s Lover
During an online meeting, the new intern accidentally turned on her camera.
Just as I was about to remind her, her boyfriend appeared on screen.
Oh, isn’t that my husband who’s been away on a business trip for a week?
Secretly Replacing My Husband’s Lube with 502
I found a bottle of women’s lubricant in my husband’s bag.
I didn’t argue or make a scene.
I quietly replaced it with a bottle of 502 super glue.
At 2 a.m., the new postpartum nanny was taken to the emergency room.
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!”
The Princess and the Spy
Before the war between our two countries, my Consort suddenly became close to me.
He was no longer distant and respectful, and even took the initiative to share my bed.
Someone warned me: “Princess, those who are not of our kind must have different hearts. You must be careful.”
At night, I asked my Consort, “Will you… always stay by my side?”
He kissed me and said, “I wish to be with the Princess, night and day, for all lifetimes to come.
If I ever break this vow, may I never be reborn.”
Four Blood Paintings
When I was a child, my father once gave me a ten-yuan bill as pocket money.
He said he had picked it up on the road.
I remember very clearly that on the back of that bill, written in black ink, was a line:
“There is a pyramid scheme on the fifth floor. Help.”
I took the money to show my father, and he smiled and told me,
“Who knows how many people have used this bill? Who knows when those words were written? Maybe the person who wrote them has already been rescued.”
I was in a hurry to buy chocolate, so I didn’t think much about it.
Because chocolate is sweet, after all.
Not long after, there was a piece of news on TV.
“A man mistakenly entered a pyramid scheme den, was beaten to death, and then dismembered.”
As a child, I stared blankly at the television.
My father also stared blankly at the television.
I asked him what was wrong.
He shouted at me angrily, telling me not to meddle in his business, and then left the house.
At the time, I didn’t know what was going on; I just felt confused.
It wasn’t until the New Year, at the family dinner, that my father got drunk and cried uncontrollably. In front of all the relatives, he confessed to picking up that bill.
The place where he found the money was directly below the den mentioned in the news.
In other words, the words on that ten-yuan bill were very likely written by someone who had fallen into that pyramid scheme, possibly even the person who was dismembered.
He sobbed, clutching a bottle of liquor, saying that it was his fault that the man died. The whole family comforted him, but I just stood aside, dumbfounded and at a loss.
So… I used that money to buy chocolate…
Something indescribable seemed to awaken within me.
Throughout my later life, I would often think of that ten-yuan bill.
I wondered, was the original owner of that money alright? Was he really rescued? Or… did that money really come from the man who was dismembered?
If it really came from him, he must have endured painful beatings and inhuman torture before finally seizing a chance one day to write those words for help on the bill and toss it out the window.
He must have clung to hope for rescue until the very moment he died.
Yet my father ignored that hope.
I always ask myself, if I had been the first to find that bill, could I have saved him? Or would I have overlooked the writing, just like my father?
This thought haunts me like a ghost, tormenting my mind more and more as I grow older.
Until that day.
A new “bill” appeared before me.
…
I Doomed Them All
The Crown Prince fell in love with the Mute Girl who saved him and insisted on breaking off our engagement.
Out of kindness, I advised him:
“The Mute Girl is alone and without support. Why not take her as a concubine first?”
The Mute Girl felt humiliated and, overwhelmed by shame and anger, took her own life.
Ten years later, the first thing the Crown Prince did after securing the throne was to depose me as Empress and exterminate my entire clan.
“This is what you all owe Ruoruo.”
When I awoke again, it was the day of my sixteenth Birthday Banquet.
The person seated at the head of the table asked me what I wished for.
“I only wish for Your Highness the Crown Prince and Miss Liu… to grow old together in harmony, forever united in heart.”
I bowed reverently:
“Your Majesty, please bestow a marriage upon the two of them!”