My Fashion Criminal

She spent her afternoon preparing for a perfect anniversary, wearing the navy silk dress she bought just to see Ryland's face light up. She booked their exact rooftop table at Aurelio's, ordered the same wine, and poured her heart into a four-page letter she couldn't say aloud. But when her groom abandons her for another woman, their beautiful past shatters, leaving her to face a devastating modern betrayal.

On their third anniversary, Cordelia is humiliated when her husband, William, ignores her to attend to his first love at a high-profile gala. Having endured three years of a cold, neglected marriage, she finally decides to reclaim her dignity. She demands a divorce on the spot, shocking the elite guests. As she walks away from the billionaire's shadow to start anew, William realizes too late what he has lost in his pursuit of the past.

After a night of intimacy following their SATs, childhood sweethearts Walter Sterling and his partner endure a four-year long-distance relationship. A surprise birthday visit reveals Walter’s infidelity, leading to a desperate reconciliation where he drops out of school to prove his loyalty. They marry, and Walter becomes the perfect husband. However, while pregnant, she discovers the same woman from his past has returned as his secretary, shattering her peace in this modern novel.

While the rest of the world joyfully welcomes a new year, one soul quietly slips away in the dark. In the modern novel After Becoming Each Other's First Love Substitutes, a tragic demise on New Year's Eve is met not with grief, but with bitter resentment. As life fades from her body, her mother bursts into the room, scolding her for being lazy and lifeless. Instead of comfort, her final moments are filled with cruel demands to take her bad luck elsewhere and die outside.

Following college entrance exams, my deceased mother inexplicably returns. She is pregnant despite prior sterilization, drinks mango juice despite a fatal allergy, and bears a butterfly tattoo where her birthmark once was. While my father dismisses my panic as exam stress and a DNA test bafflingly confirms her identity, I refuse to believe this impostor is my parent. Years later, returning home to transfer my household registration, I unearth a hidden spirit tablet that exposes the dark reality.

Just one month before their wedding, Julia’s fiancé reunites with his former lover at a repair shop, leading to a passionate affair. Confident that Julia will never discover his betrayal, he boasts to friends that she is merely the most practical choice for his future. However, he underestimates her resolve. Following a major illness, Julia reevaluates her life and realizes he was never her ideal partner. Honoring her family's wishes, she abandons the cheater and selects a new groom to marry instead.