stages of a story

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

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.

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)

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"

Sophie Wexler transmigrated into a novel about The Galaxy, becoming the vicious, F-rank Healer-class cannon fodder. The original owner constantly caused trouble and made things difficult for the female lead, earning her the hatred of the entire internet. Upon transmigrating and seeing that everything had been ruined by the original owner, Sophie's only thought was: "What kind of nightmare start is this?!" To escape the original owner's fate, Sophie Wexler worked diligently, conducted herself conscientiously, stayed away from the male and female leads, compensated the soldiers harmed by the original owner, and strove to be a model citizen of The Galaxy, absolutely refusing to be the cannon fodder 'offed' by the Imperial Marshal! Broke and powerless, Sophie also had to support a man who'd been innocently dragged into the original owner's mess. She had no choice but to hustle. She started live streaming, became a masked singer, and held concerts. At first, netizens were scornful: 【Tsk, how good can she possibly sound?】 Later, the netizens were forced to eat their words. 【Damn, that's so good I'm on my knees!】 【What the hell, the violent episode of my Disorder Period has actually been soothed?!】 【The toxins in my Spiritual Sea have actually been eliminated!】 Her live streams went viral, the masked singer became a huge sensation, and tickets for her concerts were snapped up across The Galaxy. Sophie was content, thinking, "This time, I must have finally escaped the original owner's fate, right?" But what do you know, the man I've been doting on and supporting is actually the Imperial Marshal?! --- One day, Yancey Forrest came home to find that the boisterous person who was always claiming to be good to him was gone. His eyes darkened. Provoke me and then think you can leave? After catching her, Yancey traced his fingertips along Sophie's neck, smiling gently. "Why run?" Sophie trembled. "You... you're the Imperial Marshal?" His identity exposed, Yancey Forrest took her hand and slowly placed it on his own neck ring. "You know I won't kill you, don't you?"

The first time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom died just as her bridal sedan chair arrived at his door. The second time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom was struck by lightning just as the auspicious hour arrived. Having been 'returned' twice, her ominous reputation spread throughout the surrounding villages, and it seemed she would be left on her family's hands. Her grandmother, who favored boys over girls, slapped her thighs and wailed, "What sins did I commit in my past life, that you can't even be sold for a single tael of silver!" Ji Huan: "...You might not believe this, but I'm destined for great fortune in the future." Yikes! There's a rule that "those who are unmarried by the age of seventeen will be assigned a husband by an official"? Not to worry, not to worry, I'll just find a fake husband to deal with it. That vagrant at the village entrance... if he cleans up, he's actually quite presentable. It'll be him!

She crashed her cheating fiancé's wedding in mourning attire and walked out with a marriage certificate from the most dangerous man in the city. Sparkle Gold thought she had it all: a booming agency, a loving fiancé, and a rising-star cousin she raised with her own hands. Then she woke up in a car speeding toward the ocean and overheard the two people she trusted most plotting her death. She survived. She kept the evidence. And she showed up at their wedding to reveal the truth! What she didn't expect? The owner of the Sanctus—cold, ruthless billionaire Evan Saint—dragging her straight to the marriage bureau. "You wrecked my banquet hall. Consider this your payment plan." Now publicly married to a man she once chased ten years ago, Sparkle has a new mission: destroy the people who stole her company, reclaim her place in the entertainment industry, and win Best Actress. --- He married her for leverage. She stayed for revenge. Neither expected to fall.