Two months after I died, it finally occurred to my parents that they'd forgotten to bring me back from their trip. My father scowled in frustration. "She was supposed to walk back herself. Does she really need to make such a big deal out of it?" My brother, ever smug, opened our chat and sent an emoji, along with a message. "You'd better die out there. That way, Scarlett and I will split Grandma's inheritance." He received no reply. With a frosty expression, my mother said, "Tell her if she shows up for her grandmother's birthday on time, I'll let the whole pushing-Scarlett-into-the-water thing go." They never believed I hadn't made it out of those woods. After digging six feet into the ground, they finally found my bones deep in the forest.
I was a housewife with severe OCD and a serious cleanliness obsession. I accidentally entered what I thought was a wholesome parenting game where I beat the crap out of my rebellious son, smothered my adorable daughter with love, and ripped out the corpse-stitching on my husband to sew him back up. On the day I cleared the game, the three of them tearfully sent me off. Only during the final settlement did I learn the truth: my husband was the ultimate boss of the horror game. My son was an infamous demon who left no players alive, and my daughter had crushed the skulls of a hundred players. Wasn't this supposed to be a parenting game? Turns out, I had walked straight into a horror game.
There's a custom in our village. Before getting married, every man has to bring his girlfriend to the chapel to pay their respects. If they come back out safely, it means the couple is destined to live happily together for the rest of their lives. Both of my younger brothers are married at 20. Meanwhile, I'm 30 and still single. It's not that I don't want to settle down, but every girlfriend I bring into the chapel ends up breaking up with me after she comes out. Some even try to kill me. My new girlfriend thinks our village is hopelessly backward and insists on going inside. My father, the village chief, brings her in himself. When they come back out, she pins me to the ground and tries to strangle me to death. I just can't understand it. What's inside that chapel that has the power to change them so drastically? If Dad already knows that every woman who goes inside will come out different, why does he insist on bringing them in?
From as far back as I can remember, I knew my mom hated me. She gives me sleeping pills when I'm three. When I'm five, she tries pesticide instead. But I'm hard to get rid of. By the time I'm seven, I've already learned how to fight back. If she refuses to give me food, I flip the table so no one can eat either. If she beats me up until I'm on the ground, writhing in pain, I go after her beloved son the same way, leaving him bruised and bawling. That's how we stay locked in battle until I turn 12. Everything changes when my youngest sister is born. I'm clumsily trying to help with her wet diaper when Mom suddenly shoves me against the wall. The look in her eyes holds both disgust and fear. \"What were you trying to do to my daughter? I knew it. You take after that monster of a father. Why didn't you just die with him?\" I hold my aching head. For the first time, I don't fight back. I believe she's right. My existence is a mistake. I should never have been alive.
For over thirty years, Harlan's wife Janet pretended they were struggling financially while secretly spending her money on her ex, Connor Sackett. When their son Asher lands in the hospital, Harlan struggles to find the final fifty dollars for his medical bill, while Janet claims she has nothing to give. After Harlan's mother sacrifices her own medicine to help him, Harlan discovers proof of Janet's secret wealth and her relationship with Connor. What hurts even more is learning that Janet secretly gave away his factory job and pension to Connor decades ago. After thirty-five years of sacrifice, Harlan finally decides he has had enough and files for divorce, determined to reclaim everything Janet took from him.
The Fullerton family has ruled the business world for a century, believing that only the strong deserve to survive. As their adopted son, Daniel has spent 26 years proving that he is stronger, smarter, and more capable than anyone else. But during the succession ceremony, his father shocks everyone by choosing his biological son, Simon Fullerton, as the rightful heir.
After years of sacrifice, Daniel is humiliated, abandoned, and treated like a servant by the very family he dedicated his life to. Simon takes pleasure in destroying Daniel's reputation, while former allies and even those who once admired him turn against him.
But they have made one dangerous mistake.
They assume Daniel has nothing left.
Behind his silence lies years of ambition, business success, and secrets the Fullerton family knows nothing about. When the family pushes him too far, Daniel finally stops trying to earn their approval.
Now the abandoned heir is ready to show them exactly what they threw away.
When I was discharged from the psychiatric hospital, my brother and sister-in-law personally came to bring me home. They treated me like the most precious person in the world, sacrificing everything for my happiness. My nephew adored me, my sister-in-law spoiled me, and my brother trusted me without question. To outsiders, we were the definition of a perfect family. But months later, after every property, every dollar, and every dream they owned had been transferred into my hands, I destroyed them one by one. During a nationwide livestream, I proudly confessed to every crime. Everyone believed I was an ungrateful monster. No one knew that if I hadn't betrayed them first... I would have been the one buried.
After three years of marriage, Emily Carter finally discovers she's pregnant and prepares a homemade lunch to surprise her husband, billionaire CEO Daniel Carter, with the joyful news. But before she can reach him, his ambitious secretary mistakes her for one of the women trying to seduce the boss. Humiliated, assaulted, and left fighting for both her life and her unborn child, Emily's world shatters. When the truth comes out, Daniel realizes his greatest mistake wasn't trusting the wrong employee—it was failing to protect the woman he loved most. Now, betrayal will be answered with justice, and those responsible will pay a devastating price.
Adriana Rhodes never imagined that moving into the Wells family home would turn her life into a nightmare. After her mother marries Mr. Wells, Adriana becomes the target of her stepbrother Rhys Wells, whose resentment follows her everywhere. Accused of theft, humiliated in front of others, and abandoned by the mother she once trusted, Adriana struggles to protect her dignity and dreams of a better future. When Rhys sabotages her college applications and makes her life unbearable, she decides that leaving is the only way to reclaim her freedom. But walking away from the Wells family may be only the beginning of a journey filled with painful truths, regret, and unexpected consequences.
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