Like Roses, in Summer's Tender Kiss

A single rainy day tears a family apart in After the Cruel Marriage Broke Up. When her husband suffers an asthma attack, his assistant Vivian Snow calls with an urgent plea for medication. Bedridden with a severe fever, the wife is unaware of the emergency. Her mother-in-law, Jenny James, answers the call instead. Choosing not to wake her sick daughter-in-law, Jenny braves the torrential downpour to deliver the life-saving medicine, only to meet a tragic end in a devastating car accident.

Five years after Harrison Gilbert’s betrayal, Sibyl Pruitt crosses paths with him again. Clad in delivery clothes, Harrison tearfully claims he only pushed her away and faked an affair with Gloria Cobb to shield her from his bankruptcy. It is a heart-wrenching performance, but Sibyl isn't buying it. Just three days earlier, she overheard him at a luxury Stoneridge restaurant boasting to his friends about his scheme to marry her because she is an easy target. His game of deception has officially begun.

After a viral post falsely labels his five-star catered lunches as pig slop, a CEO faces intense public backlash and accusations of being an evil boss. Even his co-founder, Dustin Jager, suggests switching to a meal allowance to appease the angry staff. Deciding to give the employees exactly what they asked for, the protagonist cancels the hundred-dollar-per-head catering. He introduces a twenty-dollar daily reimbursement plan instead, triggering immediate chaos within the company.

After suffering a debilitating cerebral infarction, the protagonist is heartlessly abandoned by his wife, Jamie. Holding a deep grudge, she runs off with his money and a man named Tony, even selling his home and leaving him to freeze to death in the winter cold. Given a second chance at life, he wakes up back at the pivotal moment Jamie asks for a $100,000 beauty salon package. This time, instead of trying to restrain her, he enthusiastically encourages her indulgence.

Post-surgery, I unearthed Braden’s digital admission of his infidelity with an intern. The betrayal turned fatal when his mistress, Kandy, assaulted me, leading to the loss of the child my husband once craved. Despite saving my life from a fire, a disabled Braden pleaded for me to shield his lover from prosecution. He chose her over our lost infant. I refuse to simply walk away; instead, I will methodically destroy every aspect of the life he holds dear.

When Brianna’s CEO husband, Mr. Mitchell, chooses to celebrate his secretary Lucy's birthday instead of helping Brianna retrieve her father’s body, their marriage reaches a breaking point. After Brianna leaves a simple birthday comment on Lucy's post, her husband calls to berate her for being insensitive toward his lonely employee. He even suggests her father's remains can wait. Brianna realizes his disrespect has no bounds and prepares to finalize their divorce before he even returns home.