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Once inseparable, Abdullah, the Crown Prince of Daura, and Kulthum Muhammad, a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, had their love torn apart by a devastating lie. Fueled by fabricated evidence, Abdullah's trust was shattered, driving him to make a decision that exiled his wife and unborn children from his life. Six years later, fate intervenes when their son, Hudayfah, is hospitalized, and a twist of events leads Abdullah to discover the truth: the twins he doubted are undeniably his. Overwhelmed by guilt and love, Abdullah returns, determined to mend the fractured family he abandoned. But the road to reconciliation is not easy. While Jenna embraces her father with open arms, Hudayfah remains guarded, refusing to accept Abdullah fully into his heart. And Kulthum, hardened by years of pain and survival, struggles to forgive the man who once cast her aside. As past wounds resurface and truths are laid bare, Abdullah and Kulthum must confront the ghosts of their separation and the love that still lingers between them. Will they find a way to heal as a family, or will the scars of betrayal prove too deep to overcome?

In the forgotten high desert town of Tumalo, Oregon, a group of friends rises from nothing during the early 1990s to build hidden empires fueled by money, music, drugs, fraud, and power. What begins as late-night plans inside an abandoned barn slowly transforms into the most dangerous criminal network the Pacific Northwest has ever seen. Julian controls the streets and supply routes through a growing cartel stretching across Oregon. Cruise becomes both a famous music artist and a mysterious chemist producing hallucinogens deep in the wilderness. Quinton manipulates the legal system while secretly operating a fraudulent underground mafia. Around them, nightclubs, stock firms, auction houses, fashion empires, and scientific experiments become fronts for greed and ambition. As wealth grows, so does paranoia. Federal investigations begin closing in. Rival organizations emerge. Loyalty starts to crack under pressure. And the same friendships that built the empire slowly become the reason it begins to collapse. Set against the rainy cities, forests, highways, and deserts of 1990s Oregon, Pacific Vice is a cinematic crime saga about power, betrayal, brotherhood, and the cost of becoming untouchable.

They called him evil, ruthless, cruel, incapable of mercy. Colder than anything in the realm of winter. Dark as the night sky in the realm of eternal darkness. He was unforgiving, forsaken and long past the point of redemption. He was real and he was here. Iyra couldn't believe the tales were true even after accounts of so many saying he was the one attacking cities and killing so many fae. She couldn't believe it, didn't believe it. Sticking to the idea it was rebels disguising themselves and spreading rumors. She was forced to believe it when he attacked her home. The heart of the winter realm. Doing away with the King and most of the court and royal fold. Forced to believe and live with the bond that exists between them.

In the kingdom of Orynthys, 14-year-old Albian Eizhard learns of his family’s ancient duty—to guard a powerful seal that imprisons monsters from an age long past. On the eve of his fifteenth birthday, he discovers the perilous awakening ritual that could either grant him the power to uphold the seal or take his life. But as the seal deep beneath their estate begins to falter, emitting a sinister omen, Albian is thrust into a dangerous mystery. Can he survive the awakening and uncover the truth behind the seal’s failing magic before it’s too late?

SYNOPSIS Mature content:- 21+ The coming together of fire and ice. Tunde and Abby are two incompatible individuals with alpha personalities who bring out the worst in each other. He's cold and dangerous. Ruggedly good looking with devil may care attitude. She's vivacious and sassy. Her beauty's alluring, her personality, hot and fiery. She's broken by her dark past which threatened her future and he's the only man capable enough to make her heal. If only she didn't find him so annoying! The passion they emit is uncontrollable, and spellbinding. Will they find an equilibrium that works for them as they struggled to hold their love together, and bring war over their enemies?

My mother's need to control every aspect of my being led me on a difficult journey to independence and acceptance on the other side of the world, with plenty of painful and occasionally hilarious stops along the way.

While being pursued by other assassins, a bored assassin who unintentionally becomes quite invincible sets out on a quest to find fever and achieve inner peace.

i was created for a purpose but what is that purpose?

In her previous life, she took the wrong "white lotus" script, causing her to die a miserable death. Heaven has let her live again, so she shouldn't have to suffer the hardships of her past life once more! Feng Moxi sheds her weakness from her previous life. Making a new choice, she must fight! There are monsters! Kill them! There are scumbags! Eliminate them! With her meager strength, she picks up a Heavy Sword and forges a difficult path forward. Unexpectedly, that arrogant and reckless person who caused her no small amount of trouble along the way eventually becomes a comrade-in-arms to whom she can entrust her back, a companion for life. The sky fills with darkness, the Demon People emerge! The Heavenly Dao returns. One day, Feng Moxi is leisurely roasting beast meat by the river. Chaoyang, having just finished fighting a demon beast, sees the crumbs on her lips and immediately leans in. "Want some?" Chaoyang dazedly nodded his head. Suddenly, a piece of burnt beast meat is stuffed into his mouth. Chaoyang pulls Feng Moxi into his embrace, gently brushes the corner of her lips with his hand, and says, "You're mine!" Apocalypse + Cultivation + Doting Boyfriend

[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?