I Was His Backup Bride

He called me ‘marriage material’—but not worth loving. On the eve of our wedding, I discovered Mason’s spreadsheet: every woman ranked, every feeling reduced to a checklist, and my own column stamped ‘suitable for marriage.’ His heart still belonged to Jordan, the wild first love he’d never dare choose. My world collapsed, but instead of breaking, I ran—straight into the life I’d buried, the mother I’d lost, and the courage I thought I’d forgotten. As family secrets and old wounds ignite a public showdown, I must decide: will I keep living for someone else’s rules, or finally claim my own story? If you were chosen for convenience, can you ever become someone’s first choice—or is the bravest thing to walk away?

For three years, I was forced to slip into the Callahan heir’s bed, a shadow of his fragile wife—my own identity erased in the darkness. When I begged for a place in his world, he offered only cold rejection and cruel truths: I was nothing but a servant, never worthy of love or status. Desperate to save my sister from a worse fate, I offered myself as a widow bride to a dying man—trading one gilded cage for another, as the man I secretly loved watched in stunned silence.

On the day of my wedding, I let my conniving half-sister take my place at the altar—giving my childhood fiancé exactly what he wanted. But when he realizes the bride in his arms isn’t me, all hell breaks loose, and the secrets that tore us apart threaten to ruin us all. Betrayed by blood and love, I’ll finally choose my own destiny—even if it means shattering the lives of everyone who ever doubted me.

To save his disgraced family, Caleb Lin marries me—a nobody with nothing but callused hands and a borrowed name. For three years, I played the loyal wife while he pined for his childhood sweetheart, Grace. Now that his father's name is cleared, all that's left is a divorce agreement and a heart that never truly belonged to me.

I married Chicago’s most coveted bachelor in my sister’s place, only to become a ghost in my own marriage—unwanted, untouched, and tormented by suspicion. Every night, Jake shuts me out, his body close but his heart locked away, leaving me desperate and humiliated. But when I discover his secret online confessions—and the twisted truth behind his distance—I realize our cold war is just the beginning of a forbidden, addictive game neither of us knows how to win.

I was always her backup plan—until she asked me to take the fall for a mistake that wasn’t mine. When Lila, my childhood friend and the girl I secretly loved, showed up sobbing and pregnant, I was supposed to save her like always. But this time, I’m done being the background character in my own story. In a high school ruled by secrets and SAT scores, reputations are everything and rumors spread faster than wildfire. When Lila’s new boyfriend pushes me too far, old loyalties snap and I’m left with nothing but the truth: I can’t keep fixing what’s broken, not when I’m the one left shattered. But as Lila’s world unravels and she begs me to step up, I’m forced to decide—will I finally fight for myself, or let her drag me down one last time? What happens when the backup refuses to play along?

He was my first heartbreak—and now, as the fiancée of a wealthy man with too many secrets, I’m about to meet the ghosts I thought I’d buried. I was always the 'good girl,' the safe choice, until a proposal ring and a scandalous pregnancy upended my carefully planned life. Carter offers security, but his world is full of women I’ll never measure up to—and tonight, he’s inviting me into his circle for the first time. But nothing prepares me for who’s waiting there: Tyler, the wild love I never got over. When midnight falls and old wounds resurface, will I cling to the future I chose, or risk everything for the boy who broke me? When your heart is split between comfort and chaos, which do you betray?

I was just an extra in someone else’s love story—until my forced marriage to the second male lead became my only shot at survival. For three years, he cared for me through every illness, but when the heroine needed saving, he left me to die. Now, as I demand a divorce, he’ll do anything to keep me—even if it means crossing the line between love and obsession.

After three years of marriage, Marcus Ellison discarded Aubrey for his mistress, expecting her to quietly handle his wedding to the other woman. But when Aubrey leaves without a word, she shatters every small-town expectation—and finds herself swept into a marriage of convenience with a decorated soldier. Now, as her ex returns demanding loyalty, Aubrey must choose: obey the man who broke her, or fight for a future that’s finally hers.

On the night before my wedding, the maple spirit I raised ripped out my heart and stole my face—walking down the aisle in my place, wearing my skin. My family, blinded by love, can’t see the imposter living my life, while I’m forced to watch, powerless and erased. But Michael, my cold-hearted fiancé with a violent past, is the only one who suspects the truth—and the only hope I have of reclaiming my stolen life.

Eight years together, and Marcus erases me with a single word—'childhood friend.' At our friend’s wedding, I watch him give my favorite plush and his heart to another, while the crowd cheers for their new romance. Betrayed and humiliated, I open our hotel room door to hear him with her—and realize the man I loved is gone forever.

He sold his house a month before our wedding—and didn’t even tell me until it was done. At first, I tried to brush off the unease, but a lawyer’s question made me wonder if I knew the man I was about to marry at all. Every text, every excuse, every strange suggestion—renting, investing, splitting everything fifty-fifty—only made things murkier. When I tested him with a lie of my own, his mask slipped, and what I found at his supposed house shocked me. Now, with the wedding looming, I have to decide: is Lucas hiding a harmless secret, or am I about to walk down the aisle with a stranger? What else has he been keeping from me?