stages of locs

For ten years, Amiliya "Ami" Reyes has lived by a single, unshakable truth: the boy who killed her family bought his way out of consequences, and one day she would make him answer for it. She was eleven when a car crash on Route 9 took her parents and younger brother — and left sixteen-year-old Levi Cross, son of a billionaire CEO, as the only survivor behind the wheel. The story vanished from the news within days, the settlement buried under legal language, the boy's name quietly protected by everything his family's money could arrange. Now twenty-one, poor, and running on three jobs and no sleep, Ami takes a drafting position at Cross Industries for one reason: to find the last piece of proof she needs before her decade of quiet investigation runs out of road. She doesn't expect to be assigned directly to Levi — cold, controlling, and utterly unaware of who she really is. She definitely doesn't expect to fall for him. What neither of them knows is that Levi has spent the same ten years believing something that isn't true. He has no memory of driving that night — only fragments, guilt, and a story he was handed in a hospital bed at sixteen by a father who has spent a decade making sure his son never asked the one question that would unravel everything: *what actually happened in the rain on Route 9?* As hatred gives way to attachment, and attachment gives way to a love neither of them can control, the ground beneath both of them begins, slowly, to shift. A fabricated betrayal tears them apart. A decade-old lie starts to come apart from the inside when Levi, alone, finally forces himself to read the file he's spent ten years too afraid to open. And when the truth threatens to surface for good, someone with everything to lose decides that the one witness who could destroy it all needs to disappear — the same way, on the same kind of night, as the family she's never stopped grieving. *The Seven Stages Of Love* moves through the seven traditional stages of love — attraction, attachment, love, reverence, worship, madness, and the death of ego — as a romance, a psychological mystery, and a reckoning collide. It is a story about the difference between guilt and truth, the lies families tell to survive themselves, and two people who have to burn down everything they believed about each other — and about themselves — before they can build something real.

Side story from the Main Plot, only fun, humor, and romance

It is delibirate story of how a young boy goes through the stages of grief. Death, loss, and suffering will always be present but what matters is how he handles it. "A child could only know so little, but what if he knows more?"

Hành trình của sân khấu và ánh đèn. Hành trình của anh và em. Anh là sân khấu, còn em là ánh đèn.

016 is one of thirty successful experimental candidates created inside a classified government research facility. Each was taken in from different sources mainly from orphanages or rescued from human traffickers and subjected to years of intense physical, mental, and biochemical conditioning. They weren’t saved. With technology at it's peak global conflicts became more frequent and harder to end, world powers began turning to alternatives. Candidates like 016 now called Assets are sold to countries on the verge of collapse. One Asset is as valuable as a nuclear weapon, sometimes more depending on rank. Their existence is hidden from the public, and their purpose is simple: complete the missions assigned to them. Inside the facility, children are classified into three groups: Assets (A): the successful candidates. Valuables (V): those still undergoing experimentation. Wastes (W): the ones who are seen as failures or the ones who didn’t survive. suddenly a phenomenon appeared: an eight-meter-wide black rift in Southeast Asia. No light could penetrate it, and those sent inside didn’t return. Of the 1,000 soldiers deployed, the few who came back died on the moment after stepping out or mentally broken muttering only two words: “Devils” and “Gate.”

The story begins with Nelarma. Formerly known as Hereva, Nel has been reborn. (Uh oh, yet another reincarnation novel) However, he isn't the only one reborn. There is another. His name is Kai. He and his twin brother seem to be the only other ones in this world who can understand his struggles. Though Kyln hadn't been reincarnated, he has had more than enough knowledge passed on to him by Kai, so he can easily relate to Luke. Unfortunately, Kai isn't exactly the type to connect with others. Watch as I torture them *cough* Kai *cough*, and see why the two *cough* or more *cough* have been reincarnated into this new world. (If you are in any way uncomfortable with the LGBTQ+ community, I don't recommend reading this book)

In her past life, Su Yaoguang bought Xiao Yanci, supported his education, and helped him rise to great heights. She became his wife. Everyone praised him for never abandoning the farm girl who funded his rise. Su Yaoguang also believed she had found a good man. Unexpectedly, when she was seriously ill, she saw Xiao Yanci bring his first love and a child who resembled them both to her bedside. "Dad, mom, when will this person die?" the child asked, holding Xiao Yanci's hand. Xiao Yanci responded, "Soon, just wait a bit longer." That was the moment she realized: she had wasted her entire life on the wrong man. Returning to the age of fifteen, Su Yaoguang pointed at the bloody young boy: "I want him." In her past life, no matter what she gave Xiao Yanci, she only received a cold expression. This time, the young boy, like a wolf cub, dropped his guard; everything Sister gifted was the best. Sweet as milk. Devoted beyond reason. He melted her completely. Until one day, the young boy took a high position. Not wanting history to repeat itself, Su Yaoguang packed her things and slipped away at night, only to run into a man as noble and unattainable as a deity. "I've heard you call us siblings everywhere. Good sister, shouldn't we change what we call each other?"

Amelia Lockhart has one mission: make the top idol Ethan Quinn fall in love with her, then break his heart, so that Ethan Quinn can successfully pass his tribulation and return to his position as a High God. There's just one problem: as the most hated woman on the internet, Amelia is the last person anyone would pair with the nation's golden boy. But when she lands a spot on a dating show alongside Ethan, she sees her chance. She does all the heavy lifting and is dependable enough to make him see her differently. As a result, Ethan starts pretending to be weak. The fans are confused. Their untouchable idol is... blushing? Getting clingy? Calling her "jiejie" in that voice? "Sis, I surrender." "Sis, you can only spoil me like this." Amelia is losing control of the plan. She was supposed to seduce him and walk away. So why is he the one coaxing her to stay, and why is it getting harder to say no?

Lin Jingjing and her friends transmigrated together to the interstellar era, and she became a Grade D Spiritual Ability User. At the very beginning, she was mocked by others and was almost beaten to death. Lin Jingjing was furious. So what if your grade is high? Does having a high grade mean you can do whatever you want! Not wanting to be bullied, Lin Jingjing, who wanted to become stronger, trained hard every day. Just so that one day, she could trample these powerful experts under her feet, one by one. Until the day the mutant beasts attacked, Lin Jingjing was in a daze after her spiritual power suddenly materialized as she tried to save someone. Isn't it that only S-Class experts and above can materialize their spiritual power? How could she, a mere Grade D, do it too?

Shen Lu opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into a wasteland world, becoming the fake young lady who was kicked out of her home. With her is her equally miserable fiancé, the future major villain. Fortunately, her golden finger activates, and in this wasteland world where the average person can't even get a single hot meal, she embarks on the path to riches through food. Egg waffles, spicy hotpot, and crawfish. Braised pork belly, crock-pot soup, and egg fried rice. ... From a small stall to a small shop. Then from a restaurant to a holiday resort, in less than two years, Shen Lu's name became known throughout the world. Countless celebrities and dignitaries hold out Star Coins, begging for just one bite of Shen Lu's cooking. The Shen Family, who had used her up and ruthlessly abandoned her, regret their past actions, crying and shouting as they beg for her forgiveness. Shen Lu crosses her arms: "Sure. Why don't you slit your throats first to show me your sincerity?"