Contemporary Romance Web Novels & Hidden Identity Face-Slapping Stories

For seven years, Evelyn Hart loved only one man. She gave up medical school, cut ties with her wealthy grandfather, and built her life around her husband, Adrian King. Then she was diagnosed with a rare heart disease. The same day she received the diagnosis, she watched Adrian kneel in front of another woman and propose. The woman was her adopted sister. Evelyn didn't cry. She quietly signed the divorce papers and disappeared. What Adrian never knew was that Evelyn wasn't just a housewife. Years ago, she had secretly founded a biotech startup under a fake name. After the divorce, she returned to her real identity and transformed the company into a global empire worth billions. Three years later, Adrian's corporation was on the verge of bankruptcy. The only company capable of saving him? Hers. When he entered the boardroom and saw Evelyn sitting at the head of the table, his face went white. "Evelyn..." She smiled coldly. "Mr. King, if you're here to discuss business, take a number." But the man who once abandoned her wasn't the only one who wanted her back. Standing beside her was the world's youngest billionaire investor. And he had no intention of letting Adrian get a second chance.

“Five years of silence, and you think you can just waltz back into my life?” I spat at him. For five years, I was the obedient wife. I owed him my life after he pulled me from a fatal car crash that erased my past, so I accepted his coldness. I accepted that his attention, his warmth, and his loyalty belonged entirely to his stepsister. I even accepted it when he demanded I donate my kidney to save her. I told myself the pain was just the price of gratitude. But on the operating table, the illusion shattered. The trauma unlocked my missing memories, revealing a truth I was never meant to know: I wasn't a nobody. I was the hidden heiress to his greatest rival,and my husband had buried the truth to protect the uncle who orchestrated my accident. I signed the divorce papers the moment I woke up, walked out of the hospital, and vanished. Two years later, I have returned. No longer the amnesiac girl he controlled, I built my own empire in the shadows and walked straight back into his corporate world to finish what was started. But Raphael is waiting. He never signed the divorce papers. He still calls me his wife. Now, he's offering a dangerous ultimatum: listen to the devastating truth about my mother and his five years of lies, or walk away forever. I just have to decide if the man I hate is the only one who can help me win the war that's coming.

Ariana Cole is called useless in her own home. Her stepmom and stepsister drug her and push her into the wrong hotel room to ruin her. Cold CEO Ethan Knight, the No.1 billionaire in the country, has also been drugged by his enemies. A waiter mixes the keys, and Ariana ends up in his room. She doesn't seduce him. She soaks herself in ice water to fight her own drug, argues with him rudely when he thinks she is a trap, and saves him with acupressure and an antidote. Then she disappears. Ethan searches the whole city for the rude girl with a butterfly tattoo. To avoid a forced marriage, they sign a 1-year contract marriage not knowing they already met that night. He thinks she is a gold-digger. She hides that she is secretly the boss of Starlight Corp, the No.2 company, plus a top hacker, designer, and doctor. What he doesn't know is that the Cole family is not her real family. Her real family, the richest Hartley family, has been searching for her for 22 years after she was swapped at birth. A wrong room brings them together. Will a contract keep them together?

On the eve of the most anticipated wedding of the decade, glamorous socialite Brianna vanishes without a trace. To save her family from ruin and avoid the wrath of the ruthless CEO Alexander Vance, her sweet twin sister, Aria, is forced to step into her shoes. ​Aria expected a life of fake smiles and high-society secrets. What she didn't expect was Alexander—a cold man who instantly notices that his shallow fiancée has suddenly changed. As Alexander gets drawn to the warmth of his new bride, tension mounts and desire flares. ​How long can Aria keep up the lie when the billionaire's touch feels all too real?

Mira was hired to fake a relationship. She never planned on falling for the man that she was pretending to love. She was a wedding planner, and not once in the 211 weddings she planned did she wanted one of her own. Until billionaire CEO, Adrian Cole needed a fake date in the hopes of saving his company. It was suppose to be one dinner, one gala and nothing more. The contract was supposed to protect them both. Falling in love was never part of the deal.

I gave Kasen Thorne my heart and built his multi-billion-dollar empire from the shadows. His reward? Handing me divorce papers so he could marry his fragile, manipulative mistress. He thought I was just his plain, obedient, charity-case wife. He thought I would cry and beg him to stay. He didn't know I was Maeva Sterling—the trillionaire heiress of the world's most powerful conglomerate. With a single phone call, I declined his credit cards, revoked his patents, and bankrupted his entire life's work. To avoid federal prison, the arrogant CEO who threw me away is forced to sign a new contract: becoming my personal assistant. Now, the man who broke my heart is forced to pour my coffee, carry my bags, and stand guard at my door while the world's most elite, dangerous billionaires line up to date me. Kasen is forced to watch other men kiss my hand. He is forced to stand in the shadows while I rule my empire. But as new enemies circle and foreign tycoons try to steal my crown, Kasen proves he is no longer the foolish boy who left me. He has become my ruthless, devoted guard dog. And he is willing to sacrifice everything—even his own life—to win his Queen back. He threw me away for nothing. So I bought his soul for one dollar.

Briony was devastated when her boyfriend proposed to her best friend in front of her. Not only was she betrayed, but she was also publicly humiliated. Five years later, she became popular after writing her heartbreaking love story into a novel. Her ex-boyfriend was offended. When he condemned her, she swore she would have nothing to do with him anymore. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Briony accidentally hit a child with her car, who turned out to be the son of Alexander, her ex-boyfriend! As punishment, she was forced to be his nanny until his cast arm healed. Since then, they got entangled again.

Shapeless, fat, only good for her money. That's what her husband said about her, the night he let her die. Riya Lance died knowing exactly who killed her, poisoned by her husband, betrayed by her best friend, and robbed of everything, even her own identity. Now she's back on the morning of her wedding, with a second chance and a plan. Smile, play innocent and let them walk into the trap. The only thing she didn't plan for was Mateo Rutherfurd, the ruthless billionaire who warned her about Kelvin in her last life. He watches her too closely, he touches her too gently, and he looks at her curves like they're the only thing he's ever wanted. Some people get a second chance at life. Riya got a second chance at them. But is she ready to risk her heart a second time?

For three years, Elena Vance lived a suffocating, submissive lie as the hidden wife of the ruthless billionaire Liam Sterling. Pushed to her absolute limit by his coldness and betrayal, she walks away from the marriage with nothing but her dignity. When she returns to her eccentric, ultra-wealthy family, her submissive facade completely drops. Backed by her fiercely protective brothers, an over-the-top cousin, and a powerful father who challenges her to prove her worth, Elena is thrust into the corporate arena to reclaim her rightful place as the heir to the multi-billion-dollar Vance Group. As Elena transforms a failing hotel empire into a global powerhouse, a deeply regretful Liam desperately tries to track down the "simple" woman he lost, only to realize too late that his ex-wife is the brilliant, untouchable queen of his fiercest corporate rival.

Everyone thought Ethan Carter was a worthless son-in-law. For three years, he endured insults from his wife’s family, watched them treat him like a parasite, and swallowed every humiliation in silence. Even his wife, Sophia, believed he was nothing more than a burden she had been forced to marry. Then their marriage finally falls apart. Sophia hands Ethan the divorce papers in front of her entire family, expecting him to beg her to stay. Instead, Ethan smiles. Because the moment he signs those papers, he no longer has any reason to hide. Ethan Carter isn’t poor. He isn’t useless. And he was never an ordinary man. He is the last heir of the Carter Empire, a family whose wealth and influence can shake entire countries. For years, Ethan deliberately concealed his identity to discover who could love him without his fortune. Now that the test is over, the billionaire heir has returned. The people who once mocked him now fight for his favour. The families who humiliated him come begging for forgiveness. And the woman who abandoned him slowly realises that the useless son-in-law she despised was the most powerful man she had ever known. But Ethan isn’t interested in forgiveness. He has a list of everyone who betrayed him. And this time, he won’t be the one kneeling.

“I know you’re pregnant, Valentina. That’s why you have to die tonight. Two lives for the price of one. Efficiency was always my strong suit.” On her third wedding anniversary, Valentina is gifted a shallow grave. Her husband, Kennedy, was never a billionaire. He was a fraud who drugged her, watched her drown in a poisoned bath, and buried her so he could marry his mistress. He never expected the gardener to hesitate. Never imagined she would claw her way out of the mud, pregnant, broken, and alive. And he certainly didn’t expect her to return. Dragged from the storm by Ian Kingston, a titan so powerful Kennedy is nothing more than a disposable employee, Valentina finds herself mistaken for Misha, Ian’s vanished wife. “You have 365 days to prove you aren’t her, little bird. Until then, you wear my name, share my bed, and follow my rules.” Trapped in a ruthless case of mistaken identity, Valentina signs the contract and becomes Misha Kingston, cold, untouchable, wrapped in emerald silk and Ian’s dangerous protection. The next time Kennedy sees the wife he buried, she isn’t in a coffin. She’s on his boss’s arm. Wearing a crown. Looking down at him from a throne he can never touch. But Valentina hides a child conceived by her enemy… While being claimed by a king who refuses to let her go. He buried a wife. Now he’ll kneel before a goddess.

To save her dying father and pay off his astronomical medical bills, Evelyn Vance agrees to a loveless contract marriage with Lucian Blackwood—the ruthless, feared "Tyrant of the Capital." ​To the world, Evelyn is just a fragile, helpless blind bride brought into a dark empire as a pawn. Her greedy stepmother and treacherous stepbrother think she is easily manipulated, while Lucian's jealous inner circle views her as useless. ​But they all made one dangerous mistake. ​When Evelyn lost her sight two years ago, her hearing became hyper-acute. She can hear the faintest whispers through thick doors, track heartbeat fluctuations in a lie, and decode encrypted phone calls from across a room. ​While her enemies scheme in the dark, Evelyn hears every betrayal, every corporate plot, and every dirty secret before they even strike. And as her cold, dangerous husband plays a deadly game of chess with the underworld, he has no idea that his "helpless" bride is listening to his every command—and orchestrating her own brilliant revenge right beside him.

Cassandra was just a regular scholarship sophomore law student. Well, until, a drunken decision leads to a one night stand with the most eligible bachelor in California. Now she is pregnant and he is offering billions just to have her as his Contracted wife and mother to his heir. But she has a secret, she is the illegitimate child of his family biggest business rival. Admist Corporate wars, family feuds and betrayal, Cassandra must choose: to destroy him or to love him?

One wrong photo is all it takes for Madeline's life to come crashing at her feet. After getting drunk at a bar, Madeline stumbles into the wrong hotel room and ends up in the arms of the hottest Billionaire in the city; Nathan Tate. Unknowingly to them, their moment is captured and by the next morning the internet is flooding with pictures of their intimate moment. Madeline's husband is furious, her mother is enraged, in short, her whole life is up in flames. But the solution her billionaire one night stand offers is beyond her expectations; a contract marriage.

Sarah thought she had finally found a family. She gave her husband everything, her love, her fortune, and even her dignity. In return, he gave her a fake marriage, used her wealth to build his empire, and secretly shared a bed with the woman who treated her like a servant. Then the apocalypse came. When the world froze, Sarah and her five year old daughter begged for shelter. Her husband chose his mistress. Her daughter died in the snow. And Sarah followed her into the cold. But death wasn't the end. Sarah wakes up thirty days before the apocalypse, with her daughter alive, her fortune still within reach, and every memory of the betrayal that killed them burning hot in her mind. This time, she won't beg. She'll take back her money. She'll build a fortress. She'll prepare for the cold apocalypse that's coming. And while her husband and his mistress are still busy enjoying their wealth, Sarah will quietly take back everything they've stolen from her. They think they have all the time in the world to live their perfect lives. They don't know that the countdown has already begun. Thirty days until the world freezes. And this time, Sarah intends to be the one watching them freeze.

Claire married Nathan because her father owed his family a debt he could not pay. Nathan never wanted her, he called her a burden in his own house. When he throws her out one stormy night, accusing her of betrayal, he does not know she is carrying his child. Years later, Claire returns to Chicago, not as the timid wife he remembers, but as a woman who built her own life from nothing. Nathan wants her back, but this time, forgiveness will not come easy.

Bella Wilson's marriage shattered in an instant when she found evidence of her husband Mike Wilson’s infidelity. The breaking point came at the Grand Astoria Hotel, where Bella witnessed Mike being intimate with Lucy, her own best friend. That betrayal ended tragically when Lucy stabbed Bella repeatedly until she died, while Mike simply watched with a gaze as cold as ice. However, fate gave her a second chance. Bella woke up in the past, exactly seven months before her cursed wedding day. Armed with memories of the future, Bella swore she would avenge every drop of blood she had shed. While acting as a naive bride-to-be, Bella secretly built her financial independence and worked at a conglomerate owned by Dominic, Mike’s eternal rival. The wedding that was supposed to be a happy day has now turned into a stage for public execution. Amidst the flames of revenge, will Bella be able to complete her vengeance as Dominic’s presence begins to heal her dead heart?

For three years, Ariella Xaviers loved her husband fiercely - even when billionaire tycoon Nathan Evans never gave her anything other than cold glances and distant words. Three years of silent agony. Three years of whispers about her inability to bare a child. Three years of pretending that all would be fine again. What Nathan didn't know is that his obedient, timid wife isn't the broke ordinary wife he thinks she is. While he is too busy with work and spending time with another woman, Ariella is counting down - 30 days, 29 days, 10 days..until she leaves her marriage. By the time he discovers the truth; her identity, her sacrifice, the divorce paper he'd unknowingly signed - his wife was already gone. And for the first time- the cold, untouchable billionaire tycoon is the one heartbroken. Five years later she returns, richer, colder, impossibly beautiful—with an adorable little boy who looks exactly like him. Now the ruthless billionaire who once ignored her is obsessed with winning her back. But Ariella is no longer alone. At her side stands Alan Black - a dangerously charming billionaire who adores both mother and son…and is ready to go lengths to keep them. As scandals explode, secrets unravel, and two powerful men fight to win her heart, Ariella must decide: Can the man who broke her ever deserve a second chance? Or will she choose the one who taught her how to love again?.

"Tonight, I just want to feel something other than trapped," she whispers against his lips, and everything changes. Maddison Whiter's world shatters when her fiancé abandons her during a kidnapping, choosing to save his best friend instead. Rescued by William Chen, billionaire CEO and enigmatic boss of the Black Herd organization, she escapes death only to face a worse fate: her family's demand that she marry a predatory older man. In a world of calculated moves and cold arrangements, can two damaged souls find something real? A steamy billionaire romance of redemption, power, and choosing love over obligation.

When Claire McAvoy met Ryan Pierce, she had no idea who he really was. All she saw was a man cornered in a dimly lit alley, about to be mugged. Acting on instinct, she stepped in. She wasn’t much of a fighter, but prison had taught her a few things.‎‎ Ryan, was more surprised than grateful at first. A fragile-looking stranger rushing into his business was the last thing he expected. He wasn’t helpless, far from it, but something about her determination made him curious. ‎That night marked the start of a series of unexpected encounters and chance meetings, stubborn conversations, and moments neither of them could quite explain. From those clashes and coincidences, an unintended love story began to take shape… a story tangled with secrets, trust, and two people learning to fight not just for themselves, but for each other.