How To Destroy Your Ex in 10 Days
by Yan Stellar
💘 A hot teenage romance with betrayal, revenge, and sweet love topics…
- Genre
- YA/Teen
- Chapters
- 30
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 2.2K
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Two weeks ago, Zoe had it all, a perfect life, a perfect boyfriend, called Liam Madison, but she did not realise Liam’s best talent was faking it. Zoe thought she was an ideal girlfriend, straight A’s, ignoring all the red flags, and never rocking the boat.
Then Madison’s close friend’s post came up on her phone during lunch. It appeared Liam and her best friend were having an affair, leaving Zoe heartbroken.
A week later, Zoe met Jaxon Reed, a chaos maker and delinquent, and Liam’s biggest enemy. He asked her if she wanted them to be publicly shamed and emotionally unstable, and she agreed.
That’s when things got very real. Operation petty revenge started, we leaked messages, stirred the pot, and started burning reputations. The problem is that Jaxon now has his hoodie in Zoe’s closet, and they shared a kiss. That’s what started as a revenge mission and has now turned into something deeper.
Themes Discussed in How To Destroy Your Ex in 10 Days
😭 Betrayal and cheating
🦸🏻♀️ Female empowerment
🎖️ Reputation in high school
👩❤️👨 Enemies to lovers
Reasons to Read How To Destroy Your Ex in 10 Days
👧🏻 Vulnerable girl finding out who she is
🍓 An unexpected romance with lots of juicy drama
💬 Witty dialogue that will keep you engaged
❤️ Teenage love
Meet The Main Characters
👩🏻 Zoe
Zoe is presented to the readers as a perfect girlfriend, smart, loyal, and obedient, until her boyfriend cheats. She is a girl who tried to live life the correct way until she met Jaxon, and he unleashed the beast within her. Revenge brings out a version of her she did not realise was there, and she actually likes it.
🧑🏻 Liam
Liam plays a dark figure, betraying Zoe’s trust and cheating on her with her best friend. He is called and is only good at one thing: faking love. But he will have to face the consequences of his actions and learn from his mistakes.
👦 Jaxon
Jaxon is reckless, impulsive, and has a magnetism as the school’s bad boy. He understands what it is like to be humiliated and wants justice for Zoe. Jaxon’s charm draws Zoe closer to him, and they begin looking at each other in a new way.
💋 This young adult romance will take you back to your college years and remind you of the tension that arises between best friends and lovers.
How To Destroy Your Ex in 10 Days synopsis
Two weeks ago, I had it all. Perfect GPA. Perfect boyfriend. Perfect life, if you ignore the fact that Liam’s main talent was pretending he cared. I was so good at being the perfect girlfriend — straight A’s, playing nice, not rocking the boat. Until Madison’s Close Friends post came up on my phone during lunch. Spoiler alert: Liam was wearing my hoodie on a bed that wasn’t mine, and Madison was, well, half-naked.
“Oh,” she said when I walked in on them. “Zoe.”
No apology. No shame. Just flat, rehearsed indifference. My boyfriend and my best friend? Yep, they were in it together. So much for my perfect life.
I drove home like a robot, all while pretending this was some sort of weird prank that would “blow over” in a week. Spoiler: it didn’t. Then enter Jaxon Reed — my personal nightmare — swaggering into the picture like he owns it.
“Do you want them publicly shamed and emotionally unstable?” he asked. I said, “Yeah. I want that.” And that’s when things got real.
We started our little revenge operation, leaking texts, causing drama, and by the way, I’m absolutely pretending that I didn’t enjoy it. I mean, sure, revenge is petty, but have you seen Liam’s smug face? The more I let Jaxon help me burn my high school reputation to the ground, the more I couldn’t stop thinking about how good he was at it.
But—plot twist—I can't date Jaxon. No, because he’s a walking disaster, a reputation killer, and oh yeah, my ex’s worst nightmare. Plus, my friends would definitely disown me, especially after they saw me wearing his hoodie—his very distinct hoodie that I was definitely not supposed to be wearing.
But let’s be real, this is me we’re talking about. I’m in too deep, the drama’s wild, and Jaxon just kissed me. On a school night. In a library. In the middle of plotting my ex’s downfall. And honestly? I didn’t hate it.
But we’re not supposed to be a thing, okay?
Read How To Destroy Your Ex in 10 Days – chapter 1
If you’d asked me two weeks ago, I would’ve told you I had the high school dream life.
GPA: solid.
Boyfriend: Liam Carter — varsity soccer, dimples for days, the kind of jawline that made moms weirdly flirty.
College: Berkeley-bound with a scholarship pending final confirmation.
Friend group: elite-tier. We had the corner table in the cafeteria — not assigned, but understood. Me, Leah, Macy, Jamie, and Madison freaking Kim.
Leah knew every one of my secrets, including the ones I swore I’d never say out loud. She was my first call, my emergency contact, my ride-or-die since sixth grade science fair. Macy and Jamie were the loud, chaotic balance to our quiet scheming — they kept things fun, fast, and just on the right side of dramatic.
And then there was Madison. Madison Kim, whose name people always said in full like it was a brand or a punchline or both. She was effortlessly terrifying in the best way — editor of the school paper, straight-A everything, interned at a real publishing house over the summer. Nepo baby to a streaming exec and a fashion model, with the wardrobe (and networking skills) to prove it. She walked through school like it was her personal runway-slash-boardroom, and somehow still managed to be genuinely nice to me. Annoying, right?
Everyone either wanted to be her or befriend her — and she knew it.
My days were a blur of AP classes, color-coded notes, and group chats named things like Prom Posse 2025 💖, where we made elaborate plans none of us had time for and sent memes we were too smart to laugh at but did anyway.
We had plans. Prom court domination. Matching grad caps. Dual college essays about “teamwork in relationships.”
(I know. Gag. But I was committed.)
Tropes
- Betrayal
- Secret dating
- Bad-ass
- Romantic Suspense
- Young Adult
- Steamy
- Heartbreak