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A man repeatedly sits on the same chair, each time more weary than before, until it becomes clear that life itself is wasted in the cycle of repeating the same mistakes.*This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

After helping her fiancé secure a multi-million-dollar deal, Stella York witnessed him cheating on her with her younger sister, Kim York. The pair brazenly flaunted their affair in front of her, while her grandma and her father pressured her to break off the engagement and surrender her fiancé, Henry Chase, to Kim. In her darkest moment, Stella met Kevin Ford, the young heir of the Ford Group, and the two fell in love at first sight, embarking on a new life together.

After helping her fiancé secure a multi-million-dollar deal, Stella York witnessed him cheating on her with her younger sister, Kim York. The pair brazenly flaunted their affair in front of her, while her grandma and her father pressured her to break off the engagement and surrender her fiancé, Henry Chase, to Kim. In her darkest moment, Stella met Kevin Ford, the young heir of the Ford Group, and the two fell in love at first sight, embarking on a new life together.

Nora Shepard, born into wealth, is the daughter of a corporate chairman and an art school graduate. Her parents insist she stays home to help with the family business after graduation. Galen West, a family friend, grows up with Nora and plans to marry her. Meanwhile, Luna Keats orchestrates a car accident to kill her own parents, gaining sympathy and becoming the adopted daughter of the Shepard family. She studies art alongside Nora, often copying her ideas, and later works as Nora's assistant. Luna's ultimate plan is to destroy Nora and take everything, including Galen. She succeeded by killing Nora. But what she didn't know is that Nora is reborn. Konwing what will happen in the future, Nora is determined to reclaim everything and tear Luna up! This time, she will have her revenge!

After leaving behind her life as a billionaire heiress, Renee dedicates herself to helping her husband recover from a vegetative state and pursue his NHL dreams. However, after suffering a devastating miscarriage, she is faced with a brutal truth: the man she sacrificed everything for might have chosen someone else.

When ambitious casting assistant Cleo Marlowe risks everything to convince movie star Blake Wilder to act in her movie, she doesn’t expect him to say yes, or for the paparazzi to catch her walking out of his house. Branded as the girl who slept her way to a get ahead, Cleo becomes Hollywood’s favorite rumor. But while her reputation takes a nosedive, the notoriously cold and gruff Blake starts to show up for her in ways she never saw coming.

When nurse Cindy gets caught in a deadly mafia shootout, ruthless crime boss Allan D'Angelo saves her life by declaring she's his fiancée. Now she's a prisoner in his world - living in his mansion, wearing his ring, and playing a role that could get her killed.

She and her boyfriend had been in a long-distance relationship for four years. After high school, she went abroad to study and, not wanting him to feel insecure about his own modest background, kept her wealthy family’s status a secret, pretending to come from a regular family and claiming she was studying abroad on student loans. Through four years apart, she always believed in his love for her. However, at a reunion back home, she saw him arm-in-arm with her family’s adopted daughter, and in that moment, her illusions shattered. The adopted daughter had been using the family name to her own advantage, posing as the true heiress. At the reunion, she and a group of classmates mocked and humiliated her, but the real heiress wasn’t hiding anymore—she called in her three brothers, who swiftly put them in their place.

Joyce Shaw, a gifted girl from the countryside, enters Juhama University with big dreams, only to be framed for crimes she didn't commit. Expelled and blacklisted, she works in the shadows for five years. Her world changes when Liam Rute, a powerful heir, saves her, seeing the star she truly is. When her past is brutally exposed and her mother falls ill, Joyce decides to fight back. With Liam by her side, she's ready to reclaim her name, her future, and her stolen spotlight.

Rita Foster sacrificed her space research dreams for her family, becoming a housewife, but faced betrayal when her husband brought back his manipulative first love Monica Hughes. After Monica schemed to turn Rita's family against her, Rita pursued space research, heartbroken. Her departure caused family chaos, exposing Monica's deceit. Eventually, though the remorseful family sought reconciliation, Rita prioritized her career.

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