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You can never go home again. But Mick Lawler is doing just that after ten years. Mick left California when his first love, Joe, chose his twin sister, Raine, over him. Joe and Raine married and a broken-hearted Mick left behind everything he’d ever known.<br><br>Settling first in Chicago, Mick met his fellow lawyer, Zach Covington. When Zach left Chicago for sunny Florida, Mick went along. Life is great. He has a good job, a nice apartment, and Zach close by. Sure, Mick is in love with seemingly unobtainable, Zach, but just having Zach in his life is enough.<br><br>When Raine calls to tell him Joe is dead, Mick agrees to return but not alone. Zach insists on going. Once there, Mick has to deal with his grieving twin, his estranged parents, and his newfound, sudden sexual relationship with Zach. But his family want their prodigal son to move back home. Sounds great. But there’s Zach and Florida. His new idea of home.

Born through infidelity and having a whirl of a rocky but mysteriously shameful start into life, Sam has loving siblings but they don’t know the secret yet. The dark secret that their mom has been hiding for ages in the attic hidden in the waves. Wonder what that would be?

They had a home. They lost it. Now they roam the roads of a new wasteland. But the Undead or not the greatest enemy that humanity faces off against.

I was waiting at home for my fiancé to celebrate my birthday. Instead, I watched his wedding on an Instagram live stream. The bride was my stepsister. The officiant was my brother. Trembling, I dialed my fiancé's number. He roared in front of all their guests, "Are you fucking checking up on me again? You're pregnant, can't you just sit still? Or are you so needy you'll just die without a man? " "But... It's my birthday today." My brother snatched the phone. "Don't be so pathetic, Larissa. Drop the whole pity-me act." I glanced at my phone screen. The abortion appointment. "Fine. We'll get a divorce."

What happend to him. the sweet boy I knew to this. This boy with the stricking blue hair and a cigarette in his mouth. He wanted to runaway and he took me as well.

In 2025, 58-year-old software engineer Nick Jones dies full of regrets—only to wake up in 1985, back in his 18-year-old body with all his future knowledge intact. Armed with wealth, ambition, and the stories yet to be written, he sets out to rewrite history, starting with the publishing industry before expanding into technology, media, and entertainment. With a second chance at life, Nick is determined to rise beyond wealth and become a legend.

Jarmin is a professional photographer. He is shy and kind. A pure and elegant boy at age 25. One day, he meets a guy called Charilliot at a photo shooting day. They noticed each other. A day later, Charilliot met Jarmin on the way he walks home. ------------- I see the light through your eye. The first time, I know that we will be together.

What does it take to find who you truly are, and what people do you belong with? Simple: A Road trip. Sometimes the answers that we search for in outside realms are buried deep within us. Coming of age was never easy. We are all teens entering a new world full of responsibilities, crazy nights and lots and lots of trouble. When seven teenagers start realizing life is not as easy as it has always been, but much more complicated. All they want to do is seek an escape from all of their problems. Aiyanna takes it upon her to help everyone including herself. Her and Jason plan a road trip to find the real happiness for a soul. All seven people with different problems combined together to go on a roadtrip without even properly knowing each other. Its going to be hell of a trip, there's drama, there are fights, there's some fun moments with strangers that you've come to realize are now your friends. Relationship's are healed and new one's are formed. But more than everything their problems are solved.

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[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?