the hot rice plate story

At 16, Stacy Evans dropped out of high school in the hopes of moving on with his life. But four years later, he's stuck in an abusive relationship with Lamar, a "friend with benefits," and works long hours at a dead-end job just to get by.<br><br>Then his mother enrolls him in a program to earn his GED. There he meets Darian, a woodshop teacher who is everything Stacy's friends are not -- smart, successful ... and who seems to take a personal interest in helping Stacy turn his life around. The two develop a rapport that keeps Stacy after school just to spend extra time with him. In intimate moments alone, they grow closer than just student and teacher.<br><br>On the right track for once, Stacy has a chance to choose between his troublesome past and a promising future with Darian. But his jealous friends won't let him go so easily.

In a world devastated by famine, a nearly blind and impoverished boy sets out on a journey to recover the legendary - Sacred Rice Grain - the only hope to saving his village. Standing in the way is a mysterious force...

A retired special forces captain finds peace serving coffee in the mist-locked village that raised him—until a wounded stranger arrives, unearthing gentle secrets about his past and testing the community that calls him *“The Bridge.”*

A young man dies from a fever and is reincarnated as a Crow, the weakest being in a world of magic and swords dominated by a mysterious Game-like System. This is my first novel so the at the beginning its kinda bad. Fight scenes improve after chapter 14 though. THE COVER IS NOT MINE, DM IF YOU WANT IT REMOVED. Read my other novel: Apocalyptic Wonderland [SYSTEM] Other upcoming novels by me that will come soon: [RICE] Reincarnated as a cat? [RICE] Reincarnated as a spider?

In the Post Futuristic Era, the world was an uneven mosaic of progress. Towering cities of chrome and glass were inhabited by humans and sentient machines working side by side, while only a few hundred kilometers away, villages still lived in wooden houses and tilled soil with iron tools like people centuries before.

romance , fight , broken heart , rich kido , poor girl spoiled CEO, thriller, lovestory, sex, passion, misunderstanding, fighting, idol , cute girl , fiction character , ambitious, love, cry , fate , destiny made lovemate , breakup , lie , truth racing journey , marriage .

Bad news: I've been crippled. Good news: I can still live off my cold, aloof master. At the age of six, Jiang Huai shamelessly clung to the soft, fragrant thigh of a white-robed fairy, refusing to let go. She took him back to her mountain and made him her one and only personal disciple. At the age of fifteen, he changed the way he addressed his master from "Mom" to "Fairy Sister." After being beaten up, he grudgingly changed it to "Master." Jiang Huai held a grudge for six whole years. At the age of twenty-one, he finally learned how to talk back to his master.

Synopsis: The Villain Woke Up and Chose Soft Rice Lin Chen was a top-tier programmer and hacker—self-taught, obsessive, and running on caffeine and spite. He spent years grinding through all-nighters, chasing deadlines, cracking systems for corporate security firms. His body finally gave out at his desk: heart palpitating, vision fading, a single thought echoing—I just want to rest. He wakes up in a penthouse suite. A beautiful woman sleeps beside him. His phone shows a bank balance with seven figures—monthly allowance. And a floating system message reads: “You have transmigrated into the novel ‘The Heiress Returns for Revenge.’ You are Shen Hao, the villain. Your fate: betray the female lead, steal her company, die in jail at the male lead’s hands. Current timeline: three days after Gu Qingyan took you as her companion.” In the original story, Shen Hao’s inferiority complex over “eating soft rice” turns into greed and paranoia. He schemes. He backstabs. He loses everything. Lin Chen, who literally worked himself to death, looks at the silk sheets, the breakfast being prepared by staff, and the utter absence of a 9-to-9 grind. Then he looks at the villain’s script. He deletes it. No scheming. No stolen companies. No jail cell finale. Lin Chen embraces the salted fish era with the fervor of a man who has seen the other side of burnout. He makes Gu Qingyan’s tea. He learns her schedule better than her assistant. He naps in sunbeams. When anyone asks if he feels ashamed living off a woman, he answers honestly: “Shame is for people who haven’t pulled three all-nighters debugging kernel panic.” Gu Qingyan, the cold, sharp-witted heiress, waits for the betrayal her instincts warned her about. But her “boy toy” has no interest in her company’s shares. He’s too busy optimizing her home network and writing little scripts to block spam calls on her phone. The male lead—destined to become her avenging husband—hasn’t even arrived on scene yet. But when he does, he’ll find a villain who refuses to be a villain, a heiress who’s starting to smile, and a love story rewriting itself one bowl of warm soup at a time. The soft rice is warm. The salted fish is unbothered. And Lin Chen is finally getting some sleep.

Di balik dapur yang dipenuhi cahaya hangat dan aroma mentega yang perlahan mencair di atas wajan, Anongnart Phongphattanakulchai, atau yang lebih dikenal sebagai Nine, percaya pada satu hal sederhana: setiap orang berhak memiliki hidangan yang terasa seperti rumah. Bertahun-tahun ia mengasah kemampuannya di dapur-dapur terbaik Paris, hingga akhirnya meraih penghargaan Michelin Star yang diimpikan banyak chef. Namun, setelah semua pencapaian itu, Nine justru memilih kembali ke Bangkok untuk membuka restoran bernama Lumiere, tempat di mana setiap hidangan dirancang seolah dibuat hanya untuk satu orang di dunia. Di sisi lain, Sarachatawee Van Rijn, atau Sasi Van Rijn, adalah nama besar di industri hiburan. Model berdarah Thailand–Belanda itu kerap berjalan di runway internasional, menghiasi billboard raksasa, dan bahkan mulai menaklukkan layar lebar. Namun di balik gemerlap lampu kamera, hidup Sasi jauh lebih rumit daripada yang terlihat. Tubuhnya menolak banyak hal: sayuran yang terkena pestisida, nanas, kacang-kacangan, pemanis buatan, bahkan beberapa sumber protein seperti seafood. Makan di restoran sering kali berubah menjadi pengalaman menegangkan, seolah setiap piring bisa menjadi ancaman. Takdir mempertemukan mereka ketika seorang produser film mengajak Sasi makan malam di Lumiere. Restoran itu terkenal bukan hanya karena rasa makanannya, tetapi karena reputasi Nine yang mampu memahami selera tamu-tamunya seperti membaca rahasia yang tersembunyi di balik senyuman mereka. Namun bagi Nine, Sasi adalah pelanggan paling menantang yang pernah ia temui—daftar alerginya begitu panjang hingga hampir seluruh menu restoran menjadi mustahil untuk disajikan. Alih-alih menyerah, Nine justru menciptakan hidangan baru khusus untuknya. Malam itu, untuk pertama kalinya setelah bertahun-tahun, Sasi makan tanpa rasa takut. Sejak saat itu, kunjungan Sasi ke Lumiere menjadi semakin sering. Di balik setiap hidangan yang dirancang dengan hati-hati, tumbuh percakapan yang semakin dalam, tatapan yang semakin lama, dan perasaan yang perlahan sulit disembunyikan. Bagi Sasi, restoran itu menjadi tempat paling aman di dunia—sebuah safe plate tempat ia bisa mempercayakan dirinya sepenuhnya. Namun bagi Nine, yang terbiasa mengekspresikan segalanya lewat makanan, ada satu pertanyaan yang semakin sulit dihindari: apakah perasaan yang ia masukkan ke dalam setiap hidangan untuk Sasi akan pernah benar-benar tersampaikan? Di antara aroma dapur, rahasia masa lalu, dan dunia gemerlap yang tak pernah benar-benar ramah, dua perempuan dari dunia yang berbeda perlahan menemukan bahwa terkadang… satu piring makanan bisa menjadi awal dari sebuah kisah cinta.

Imagine watching your life crack apart slowly… Not all at once, but day after day… month after month… year after year… until one morning you wake up and realize you cannot endure it anymore. Martha was not a bad woman. She was simply exhausted. Exhausted by the children, by the house, by the loneliness, and by a husband she once loved so deeply that she believed love alone was enough to build a happy family. But as the years passed, every beautiful thing between them began to disappear little by little… the care, the kind words, the laughter, and even the ability to speak without fighting. Until the day she raised her hand against her son for the very first time. And the moment she saw the fear in his eyes… she realized that something inside this home had been broken forever. Between a husband suffocating under the pressure of work, a wife silently falling apart, and two children who fear every night that they might lose their family… a painful journey begins to save whatever love still remains within this family, even if the cracks never truly disappear.