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Love has passed the wind and it stops

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Three years before Christmas, my boyfriend Sam Clarke dumped me after hooking up with the richest man's daughter. On my way home, I was attacked by thugs. After being assaulted, I was left to die in the wilderness, but Zac Reid saved me. Later, I left my hometown and spent three years living with Zac in a cheap rental apartment....

Refuse to marry the vicious childhood crush

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When I returned to Christmas 1975, the day my childhood sweetheart Cassius Sullivan proposed to me again, I deliberately tarnished my own reputation, claiming he was just the most unremarkable among my many boyfriends. In my previous life, I had accepted his proposal with joy and anticipation, only to be reported the very next day and lose my job at...

Hear my mute mother-in-law's inner voice

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Even though my husband's mother, Patricia Cooper, is mute, strangely enough, I'm the only one in the family who can hear her thoughts. On the day Patricia was hospitalized for surgery, I heard her inner voice. [These hospital sheets make me itch all over. I wish Isabella could buy me some cotton sheets.] I immediately bought a cotton bedding set...

My five-year-old daughter is a liar

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My five-year-old daughter Ada Hunter has a serious problem with lying. When I took her shopping for school supplies, she actually screamed on the street that I was a human trafficker, nearly getting me dragged to the police station for questioning. When we got home, before I could even explain what happened, she threw herself crying into my husband Charles...

My girlfriend is locked in male assistant's home

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On the day of our engagement, my girlfriend Claire Reeds was nowhere to be found and remained missing even late into the night. I anxiously asked around among friends and was even ready to call the police. However, I saw her activity on her assistant Callum Murray's Instagram. 【Boss came to my place specifically to discuss a project, but then...

Blind Box Love Game with the nobleman

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My name came up in the rich boys' adventure game at this elite school. A week later, Sebastian Kingsley, the school's top student, confessed his feelings to me. Flattered beyond belief, I agreed to be his girlfriend. For an entire semester, he doted on me completely, showering me with affection. Everyone envied me for winning Sebastian's love. But right before...

My daughter forces me to eat a poisoned cake

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On my birthday, I suddenly heard my daughter Emilia Henderson's thoughts. She was thinking: "Dad said that as long as Mom eats this cake, she'll miscarry smoothly. Then Ms. Thomson can become my mom." My body stiffened for a moment, and I looked toward Emilia. She gazed at me innocently: "Mom, hurry up and eat it. Dad and I made...

My son tricked me into eating allergy cake

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

To make me miscarry, my six-year-old son Aaron Bennet deliberately tricked me into eating almond cake that he knew I was allergic to. At my hospital bedside, he hid behind my husband Marcus Bennet, his face stern and refusing to apologize. He said, "Grandma told me that if you have the baby sister, you won't divorce Dad. I don't want...

Kill me and my 3-year-old son for his first love

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

In my previous life, I used the child in my womb to force the nearly bankrupt Ethan Johnson into marrying me. On our wedding day, his first love Jasmine Cowell left behind a suicide note and jumped into the sea. In her note, Jasmine wrote: "True love can never triumph over power and influence. I admit defeat." After learning this...

My boyfriend can't let go of his first love

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My husband Daniel Ferguson promised me he would only fulfill ninety-nine wishes for his first love, Aria Smith, who had lost her memory due to an injury. But when I quietly finished counting those ninety-nine wishes, I saw him tenderly embracing Aria. Later, I stopped clinging to him and let him go take care of Aria. However, I asked him...

Married to a disabled young master

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The day before my wedding to Erik Garrett, Erik's childhood friend Alaia Nelson was married off to the disabled and ill-tempered Wyatt Spencer. Erik felt sorry for her, so he brought all his friends to crash the wedding and steal the bride. That same day, the two of them hastily held a simple ceremony and quickly registered their marriage. All...

Sell my acceptance letter for money

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I was reborn back to Christmas 1970, the Christmas when I took the SAT exam. After receiving my precious college acceptance letter, I sold it and used the money to dine at a fancy restaurant. When my paralyzed husband Jacob Wood learned about this, he was so furious that he stood up immediately, while his beloved Aurora Ruiz kept hurling...

My sister chose to marry a super-violent man

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Back to that night when we were drugged with aphrodisiacs, my sister Madison Blair decisively grabbed Victor Hastings, the town's violent-tempered football player, and dragged him into the cornfield. In my previous life, Madison and I were both drugged at the same time. She quickly chose Kevin Sinclair, the promising honor student, leaving me forced to settle for Victor. Afterward,...

As a sacrifice, I'm God's first love

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On Valentine's Day, my boyfriend Alexander Sinclair said he wanted to take me home to meet his family. The moment I arrived in the small town, he had me tied up and handed over to a group of strangers. Alexander held his first love Sharon Foster in his arms and said coldly, "If I hadn't tricked you into coming back,...

Married to the brother-in-law who haven't children

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My parents, Robert Reed and Carol Jenkins, and I were all reborn together—right on my wedding day. In my previous life, my parents favored my sister Isabella Reed. They married Isabella off to Admiral Vincent Longfellow while forcing me to marry Frank Wilson, the factory owner's mentally disabled son. However, Isabella, who followed Vincent to the island garrison base, spent...

Nude video goes viral and make me cesarean for DNA Test

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

During Labor Day weekend, I was in my second trimester and had come on a trip to relax. After spending one night at the hotel, I somehow became the star of a viral video. In the video, I was scantily clad, my fingers trailing across one man's chest after another, my gaze seductive and alluring. When my husband Bryce Roberts...

The girl I sponsored revenged on me

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Rebecca Wilson, the impoverished student I'd sponsored with hundreds of thousands of dollars, showed up at my door on the day she got into college carrying two bags of potatoes to repay my kindness. She was sweet and adorable, instantly catching the eye of my playboy childhood friend Ross Davis. Knowing how hard it had been for her to escape...

Instead of my sister marrying the vegetable heir

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

"I've made up my mind. I'll marry the Montague family's vegetable heir," Ophelia Somerset said, leaning casually against the doorway of Somerset Manor, a cold smirk on her face. George Somerset, her father, almost dropped his cigar onto the priceless Persian rug. Suddenly, he straightened up from his leather chair, lines of worry smoothing out on his face. "You've finally...

I'm not the one who's terminally ill, he is

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When the blizzard hit, Keith Jennings's dream girl Karen Duncan was stranded at the airport. To rescue her, he abandoned me—Madeline Rogers—alone at the hospital. They spent fifteen days together during the blizzard, while I was trapped in the hospital corridor for fifteen days, wishing I were dead. When Keith found me, I had already fallen into a coma, clutching...

After rebirth, my husband chooses beautiful classmate

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My husband Walker Torres and I loved each other for a lifetime. After sixty years together, we were reborn back to the 1980s. To meet Walker again, I arrived at our shared university early, but he was half a month late starting school. Watching Walker stride toward me with determined steps, sweetness and anticipation filled my heart. I had already...

Faking death and took the place of his brother

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After my husband Lincoln Taylor's unexpected death, I didn't return to my parents' home or remarry. Instead, I devoted myself to caring for Lincoln's parents, Landon Taylor and Ariana Taylor, as well as his brother Weston Taylor's pregnant wife, Sofia Taylor. However, six months later, I overheard the heavily pregnant Sofia asking Weston, "Will you really treat the child in...

100 Engagements, 100 Abandonments

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

At our 100th engagement party, Landon Stewart once again abandoned me without hesitation. We'd been together for seven years. At the previous 99 engagement parties, he always said his childhood friend Madelyn White wasn't married yet, and he couldn't betray their promise. Clutching the ring in my hand, I couldn't help but ask for the first time: "If Madelyn never...

99 missed appointments, I'm tired

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've been married to Jameson Ramos for five years, but he's broken his promises to me 99 times for Nora Peterson. After he broke another promise this time, I found two plane tickets to France in his office. Jameson said coldly, "I was planning to surprise you on our wedding anniversary. Since you've already seen them, I'll meet you at...

After rebirth together, Ex-boyfriend regrets abandon me

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After my boyfriend Christopher Harrington and I were both reborn, we tacitly understood each other without saying a word—neither of us brought up the idea of staying together. He followed his first love to New York for work, while I stayed in my hometown. Five years later, leveraging his past-life experience, he quickly became an industry leader and even had...

My mother-in-law deliberately disobeyed me

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My husband's mother, Maria Ortiz, seems unable to understand what I'm saying. My husband Ryan Ortiz mentioned he wanted shrimp, so we had shrimp for every meal for an entire month. Ryan's sister Ivy Ortiz said she wanted potatoes, so we had potatoes with every meal for a whole week. But when I said I was allergic to peanuts, Maria...

My wife set me up as a criminal

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The day before my college acceptance letter was supposed to arrive, the police took me away, and I spent five years in prison. During those five years, my wife and daughter never abandoned me—they waited until I was released. I was grateful to them and worked desperately to earn money after returning home. Until one day, I accidentally overheard a...

My fiancé who favors the widow of comrade

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Christmas 1979, at the Florida Hospital morgue... "I agree to donate Maxwell Stevens' body to the University of Florida Medical School for use as a silent mentor." Vivian Stevens' voice trembled slightly, yet carried unwavering determination. "But I demand to sign the donation agreement right now." After signing the agreement, she watched with her own eyes as Maxwell's body was...

My wife hurt me for her adulterer

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

As Christmas approached, my five-months-pregnant wife Madeline Stuart accidentally fell into the water. At the time, my neighbor, Police Officer Rita Wilson, jumped in without hesitation to save Madeline, but she ended up in a vegetative state. When I arrived at the scene, it was already crowded with people. Madeline was soaking wet, wrapped tightly in a blanket, with water...

40 years of sexless marriage is an illusion

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

In my previous life, I was the commander's wife that everyone envied. However, on the battlefield, my husband Anthony Moore suffered severe injuries to his vocal cords and groin. He lost his male function and ability to speak. From that moment on, Anthony and I lived forty years of a sexless marriage. I never despised him, spending half my life...

Back to the day I proposed to my boyfriend

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On our eighth Christmas together, I took a knife for my doctor boyfriend Joel Lawrence. He promised I could ask for anything in return. Everyone thought I'd use this chance to propose. Instead, I said calmly: "Let's break up." Then I turned and walked away. Joel just laughed mockingly and made a bet with everyone: "She's just trying to get...

Framed me, but I had my uterus removed

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The first thing I did after being reborn was to schedule an appointment with a doctor for a hysterectomy. In my previous life, my boyfriend's first love opened a livestream account to establish herself as a "gynecological expert." When she saw me vomiting, she deliberately diagnosed me as pregnant during her livestream. My boyfriend immediately exposed me on the spot,...

Sister-in-law used child's urine to preserve the fetus

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ever since my husband Mike Sterling's parents, Helen Sterling and Robert Sterling, retired, they've been bored out of their minds. So they made a rule: whoever gets pregnant first gets the family heirloom pendant and that vacant luxury apartment. As it turned out, Mike's sister Amber Reed got pregnant before I did, but it wasn't long before she was diagnosed...

My daughter coaxed me into hiding her adulterer

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My daughter Nicole Phillips is having an affair with a man named Bryce Clark. She came to me in tears, begging me to help cover for her. Her fiancé Percival Harrington is from a wealthy family. If he discovers her affair, he'll never let her off the hook. Nicole coaxed me into hiding Bryce in my closet. But the ones...

10 years after my husband's death, a woman was pregnant

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm known as the good guy at the hospital. When Patricia Adams was hospitalized after a car accident and came to me for help, as her attending physician, I often helped cover her medical expenses out of sympathy. She was very grateful to me, promising she'd get a job after discharge to pay me back. However, after her discharge, she...

Azoospermic Boyfriend Chose Easy Pregnancy Sister

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

A prime-time reality dating show was launched, promising participants a substantial cash prize if they successfully paired up, got married, and had children. In my previous life, I participated in this show with my adopted sister to win the five million dollar prize. I ended up pairing with Ethan Walker and we got married. But after marriage, we couldn't conceive....

The scumbag husband exchanged babies to set me up

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I, Rylee Grant, was reborn back to Christmas 1975. At that time, I was only three months pregnant. I told no one and quietly had an abortion. But from then on, I still wrapped my belly with padding every day, pretending to still be pregnant. This was because in my previous life, my husband Wyatt Courtland's first love Grace Wilson...

Five-year-old daughter says she's reborn

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My five-year-old daughter Anna Lewis declared in front of the entire family during dinner that she was a reborn soul. She said, "In two minutes, Mom will personally hand me over to human traffickers and gouge out my eyes." Everyone thought Anna was just talking nonsense. However, two minutes later, Anna really disappeared. When we found her again, her eyes...

I'm not gonna let my brother save the Commander

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

General Adam Foster accidentally fell into the water, while his aide Gavin James was off with his adopted sister Janet James, setting off fireworks in the distance. After my rebirth, I, Milani James, didn't panic and run to find Gavin like I had in my previous life. Instead, I rushed to the riverbank without hesitation and personally pulled Adam to...

Marry childhood crush instead of his twin brother

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My colonel husband Ethan Collins died in the line of duty, but I didn't hesitate to cancel his identity registration. Three days later, on the wedding day of his twin brother Logan Collins and childhood friend Violet Myers, I resolutely took the substantial death benefits and married someone else with my son Anthony Collins. Everyone called me cold-blooded and heartless,...

Deadly Drawing by Five-Year-Old Daughter

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My five-year-old daughter Zoey Perez has autism. She refuses to speak and spends her days drawing with crayons on paper. When a classmate had a birthday party, she gave that child a portrait she'd drawn. But after taking one look at the drawing, that little boy jumped from the building. The child's parents insisted that Zoey's drawing killed their son,...

Ninth engagement or twentieth anniversary of acquaintance

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My boyfriend Steve Hull has a female best friend who's practically glued to his side. On the day of our ninth engagement, he left me standing there alone at the venue. All because that day marked the twentieth anniversary of when he and that girl first met. "It's just postponing the engagement, no need to rush. Are you that afraid...

The life of my daughter has been exchanged

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After my rebirth, I decisively called my mother-in-law, who favors sons over daughters, to the city to help me take care of my daughter. In my previous life, when my daughter was craving mango cake, she broke out in red rashes all over her body and had trouble breathing after just one bite. My husband pointed at me and cursed:...

My best friend snatched my good luck dog

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When my good friend Sofia Gomez, who had always been afraid of dogs, suddenly told me she wanted to buy a pet dog, I knew she had been reborn too. In my previous life, I bought a pure white toy poodle at the pet market. Ever since that pure white toy poodle came into my home, I was blessed with...

My husband cuts my hair for his childhood crush

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Leon Oliver's childhood Christmas playmate Sofia Wilder had gone bald from intensive chemotherapy, and my hair was just the right length to make a wig. To help my hair grow better for Sofia's wig, he coaxed me into taking all sorts of supplements. He even used the excuse of caring for my health to make me quit my job as...

Their elaborate scam cost me my baby

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When I was eight months pregnant, I was pushed down the stairs by Chloe Harrison, my husband Gabriel Wellington's secretary who had been harboring a secret crush on him for eight years. When I woke up, my child was gone, and my uterus had been completely removed. Gabriel wept and swore to severely punish the perpetrator. As a lawyer, he...

Back to the day I chose my husband

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm the adopted daughter of the Anderson family, raised alongside their three sons since childhood. Whoever marries me will inherit the massive fortune my parents left behind. Their grandfather, George Anderson, has even promised that my husband will become the future head of the Anderson family. In my past life, I chose Frederick Anderson, whom I'd harbored a secret crush...

I remarried after my husband faked his death

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Six months after our wedding, my husband Ethan Stone volunteered for disaster relief. With my six-month pregnant belly, I managed everything in our new home while caring for Ethan's stroke-ridden mother, Emily Stone. Six months later, when the disaster relief volunteers returned, all I received at the train station was a thin coffin. The deputy officer Harold Hayes who escorted...

Forty years of contracted marriage, but he loves my sister

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

During the forty Christmases of my arranged marriage with Christopher Edwards, we were the model couple that everyone in Washington envied. However, when I was on the brink of death from a heart attack, he locked me in a room and forced me to sign divorce papers and a corneal transplant consent form. Christopher coldly told me, "Natalie Morris, you've...

After I die, read my memories publicly

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

As New York's most notorious madwoman, I died. The entire city of New York celebrated my death with jubilation, even setting off fireworks for half a month straight. All of this was because I had squandered my husband Benjamin Kingsley's Christmas savings, pushed him from a high-rise building, leaving him permanently disabled and requiring long-term treatment in Switzerland. My stepsister...

Ditch me for the seventh times for his secretary

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I had carefully prepared dinner for our seventh wedding anniversary, but my husband Alexander Sinclair still didn't show up. On our first wedding anniversary, Alexander's secretary Madison Blair said her relative had died. Alexander didn't hesitate to change out of his suit and put on black funeral attire to attend the service. I waited for him on the observation deck...

After first love return, running away from the wedding with my sister

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

To pay off our family's debts, my sister Daisy James and I, Vanessa James, are about to marry the twin sons of New York's wealthiest family, the Hoffmans. I'm supposed to marry the cold older brother, Colton Hoffman, while Daisy is set to marry the playboy younger brother, Marcus Hoffman. We thought this would be our fate for life, but...

My sister cut my face to become a princess

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On Thanksgiving Day, my sister Taylor Reed drugged me unconscious, then secretly used a knife to slash my face. Actually, I had already woken up. Not only did I endure the pain without making a sound, but when I heard Taylor bragging about going to Dubai with our remarried father Dominick Reed to live like a princess, I couldn't help...

Married to the spoiled man, always flirting with me

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

When I returned to 1980, I quietly changed my heart's desire from my original choice to the wealthy young man next door who always loved to flirt with me. My senator father, Tom Brown, was somewhat surprised by this but still respected my decision. In my previous life, Tom asked me which of the boys at the military base I...

The beautiful lawyer said she was reborn

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The new lawyer at our firm, Chloe Hill, claims she's been reborn. A publicly traded company wanted to sign a ten-million-dollar contract with us, but she told our boss Josh Green that the company had problems. If we took on this case, our firm wouldn't just lose—we'd face massive compensation claims. Josh listened to her advice with some skepticism. The...

Making me have an abortion to dispel the evidence

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After I got pregnant, my boyfriend Paul Ortiz's grandmother killed herself by running into a wall right in front of me, leaving behind a secret. Everyone who knew this secret died. First Paul's father, then Paul's mother, and finally Paul swallowed pills and committed suicide right in front of me. The media hounded me relentlessly, the police summoned me for...

Pregnant, boyfriend's family all died

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've been married to my husband Riley Hudson for ten years, and after finally getting pregnant, my entire family wants me dead. When we went to the mountain chapel to pray, Riley's mother Gina Hudson deliberately bought the wrong cable car tickets, forcing me to climb the mountain path for two hours and nearly causing a miscarriage. I cried to...

Flooding, revenge on the woman, robbed the supermarket

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After the flood hit, every household was running short on food. As the owner of the supermarket, I dumped all the food from my warehouse into the floodwater. In my previous life, when the flood struck, my parents and I emptied our entire supermarket inventory to help the villagers. But the village chief's daughter, Alyssa Johnson, led the charge in...

After each abortion, the husband brings back a woman

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Every time I miscarried, my husband Samuel Whitman would bring home a woman who resembled his first love. He would order me to personally put the condom on him and watch them make love with my own eyes. Afterward, he'd make me bring water to clean their bodies. I did everything he asked, just hoping he would make love to...

Almost got drugged, I'm saved by the whole Internet

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After my boyfriend Ethan Perez failed to steal my family's assets, he actually planned to drug me and have his friends rape me, even wanting to film it to blackmail me. Fortunately, a kind netizen overheard him and his mistress Jessica Carter plotting at a restaurant. That netizen posted online: [Please share! Let's find Scarlett together. Her boyfriend is planning...

My sister gave up the wealthy father to me

Fri Apr 03 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

In my previous life, when my parents Micah Campbell and Faith Campbell divorced, they made me, Alexa Campbell, and my sister Anna Campbell choose between them. Anna didn't hesitate to choose our wealthy father, fantasizing about living a luxurious life and inheriting millions of dollars. However, Micah had already found someone new. After his new wife Alice Carter bore him...