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A single mother returns to the city she left seven years ago after breaking up with her ex to seek treatment for her son’s leukemia. Upon learning of her return, the ex immediately searches for the lover who had vanished for years. The son encounters a man at the hospital who he feels resembles his father, but ultimately, the two miss each other. After the misunderstandings are cleared up, will they be able to reconcile and mend their broken relationship?

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Poisoned by her husband, she is reborn at the brink of death. This time, she will not be a victim. She will settle every score they own her, unraveling secrets and reclaiming her life in a world of deceit and power struggles.

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 Chloe's first day of camp, her nemesis Morgan reveals that she's a virgin to all of the other counselors, and the guys at camp compete to see who takes Chloe's V-Card. But when she's saved by bad boy counselor Asher, she meets the first person who gets her to let her guard down. Can Chloe and Asher's relationship a summer of crazy campers, wild bonfires, and a hoard of counselors who want to tear their relationship apart?

Mia's impulsive kiss with mysterious bartender Troy pulls her into the violent underground fighting world where he reigns undefeated. When she saves his opponent's life during a police raid, their dangerous attraction ignites. But Troy harbors a devastating secret. His manipulative girlfriend Amanda uses this pain as a weapon, while crime boss Serge plots revenge for his own dark reasons. When Mia is kidnapped and used as bait to destroy Troy in the ring, she must save the man she loves from becoming the monster he fears. In this brutal world, love becomes the ultimate fight for redemption. He stole her pulse. She might save his soul.

Opal is a smart, witty, and resilient young woman, navigating her career with ease as the indispensable secretary to CEO Silas. As she faces the persistent entanglements of a past love and family interference, Silas begins to be drawn to her. Caught in the whirlwind of work and romance, Opal bravely chooses her own path to happiness.

As a boy, Joseph hated studying until his mother brought Jane to be his little “housekeeper.” Her patience and warmth changed him completely, and he secretly vowed to marry her one day. Years later, Joseph has become one of the world’s most powerful tycoons, and the first thing he does with his success is return to the countryside to make Jane his wife.

A betrayed young man, once crippled and left for dead, rises to power and returns to repay the girl who saved him. Mistaken for a criminal by her family, he soon discovers it was her cousin who saved him all along and proposes to her instead.

Emory Bailey, a legendary cultivator who had lived for millennia, spent his life seeking the path to the next realm. But when his fiancée, Ruth Lynch, was murdered by the Mauve Sect, his purpose shifted—revenge became his only mission. Another 2,000 years passed, yet Emory remained trapped in the lowest realm, his power seemingly bound by an unbreakable curse. Just when he felt desperate, he met a woman who looked identical to Ruth. Meanwhile, the Mauve Sect folks had finally broken out from their seal, returning to wreak havoc once more. This time, Emory vowed not to let any of them escape.

Retired Crash Dummy Turned Highest Self I used to wear my pain like armor I thought being ride or die made me strong That sacrificing myself for love meant I was loyal That being chosen meant I had to endure being broken first But the truth is, I was a crash dummy for pain. I was male centered Raised in a dynamic where I believed love had to be earned by pleasing fixing and proving And because of that, I attracted someone who mirrored everything I hadnt healed A narcissist who didnt just hurt me he exposed me He mirrored my abandonment wounds He mirrored the emotional neglect I had normalized He mirrored the gaslighting I grew up with and learned to call love That relationship wasnt a curse It was an initiation It forced me to see myself To stop pretending To stop calling trauma loyalty To face my inner child who never got chosen who never got protected who never got told she was enough just by being And for the first time I chose her That pain led me to my power That heartbreak cracked me open That darkness made me meet my light I stopped chasing love and started becoming it I stopped begging for the bare minimum and started expecting divine alignment And the moment I stopped identifying with struggle my true lover came The one who sees me holds me and respects me not because I earned it but because hes aligned with the healed version of me The version that knows what she deserves The version that no longer mistakes intensity for intimacy The version that no longer crashes for love I am no longer the girl who thought love meant pain I am the woman who met herself and then met her match*This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest