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Five years of intense love ended with being abandoned by him at the wedding venue, as he went to appease that childhood sweetheart who attempted suicide ninety-nine times. Stella Sterling finally understood that she could never warm Jasper Hawthorne's cold heart. She resolutely cut off her feelings and went far away to Riveria, determined to start anew. Unexpectedly, after a drunken mistake, she mistakenly ended up sleeping with the man most untouchable in The Kaelon Circle, her brother's arch-nemesis—Shane Donovan! In the morning, Stella attempted to sneak away from the scene of the crime. Yet a big hand abruptly seized her ankle and ruthlessly dragged her back to the soft bed. With a lazy, restrained voice, he whispered against her ear, lightly touching the fresh ambiguous bite mark on her fair neck: "Little Stella, planning to leave after taking advantage? After kissing me like this, you don't plan on taking responsibility?" *** Everyone in The Kaelon Circle knows that Shane Donovan, the Donovan Family's leader, is cold and unapproachable. Yet no one knows that he has always kept his rival's sister in his heart. From then on, the god steps down from the altar, dyed with obsession and madness. He lavishly spends a billion to buy an entire ancient town for her, even as he traps the drunk young girl in his arms, robe wide open, revealing a toned, handsome abdomen, his voice deep and temptingly persuasive: "Little Stella, do you want to touch? It feels very good." Stella: … What happened to being cold and abstinent? Shane Donovan: Abstinent? That's for others. For you, only desire. #So the white moonlight literature became reality# #Seems like I've seduced my brother's nemesis# #The husband's pursuit is a crematorium, please burn to ashes, thank you#

In his previous life, he wrote a love letter to the school beauty and read it out in front of the whole class, but was rejected by the school beauty and became a joke to the whole class. When he was reborn in high school, Zhou Chen decided not to be a licking dog anymore and lost his loyal licking dog. The school beauty was anxious. No matter how hard she tried, Zhou Chen remained indifferent.

Whole neighborhoods sink into mud, shards of glass fall like rain, birds chatter in nonsense, and parents of young children vanish without a trace. Millions starve while others sprout layers of mold. Yet, amid the ruin, a few endure—searching for light in the wreckage, revealing what we have become. Note: this is a short story collection.

After three years of marriage, my wife still couldn’t forget her first love. Our love nest had a locked room, a promise she had reserved for her first love. As long as he returned, there would always be a place for him in our home. For him, she abandoned me time and time again. The last time, in order to fulfill a promise she had made with her first love, she deliberately drugged me, leaving me unconscious for three days. That time, I almost died. After being discharged from the hospital, I left a divorce agreement behind and vanished completely from her world. But then, she began searching for me frantically.

I lost my sight saving my boyfriend, Declan Thorne. He declared to the world, "Aurora, even if you can't see, I will be your eyes." Moved by his promise, I secretly began an experimental gene therapy. Soon, my vision started to return. But on the very day it did, I found Declan in our living room, his arm wrapped around his childhood sweetheart, Camilla Astor. Through the soundproof glass of our bedroom, they shared a silent kiss, and I could just make out the words they mouthed to each other. "Doing this right under your girlfriend's nose... Isn't it more thrilling?" "What do you think? She's the one who picked out the soundproof glass." As their cruel words sank in, the blood drained from my face. Choking back the bile rising in my throat, I messaged the NIH researcher who'd contacted me before. I accepted his invitation. I was going to leave Declan Thorne and make him regret it for the rest of his life.

At the auction I was hosting, a diamond ring was sold for the astronomical price of $1 million. The man who made the bid put the ring on his female companion's hand right then and there. The crowd erupted in cheers and applause. Perhaps at any other time, I would have also joined in to cheer and offer my blessings to such a perfect couple. But now, I only felt a chill run through my entire body. Because the man and woman below the stage were my husband, and his childhood sweetheart.

Seorang anak! apa yang mereka inginkan dari orang tuanya? kasih sayang kah? harta kah? atau yang lainnya? Menurut aybel, dia hanya meminta kasih sayang yang tulus dari orang tuanya, bukan harta, kedudukan, atau semacamnya. percuma ada semua yang dia inginkan dan dapatkan bisa dibeli. apakah kasih sayang juga bisa dibeli? jika bisa dia akan membelinya dengan harta yang dia punya. Bandel, pecicilan, blak-blakan, pintar, cantik, baik, dan misterius ada pada dirinya. namun sifatnya akan berubah menjadi cerewet, caper, dan juga manja kepada dinel. Dinel? siapa dia? kenapa aybel bisa berubah karenanya? dinel adalah seseorang yang mampu membuat aybel menjadi seperti itu hanya dalam waktu pertama kali bertemu. anggap saja cinta pada pandangan pertama. pintar, ganteng, dingin, dan cuek itulah dirinya. namun dia akan berubah menjadi ramah, perhatian khusus untuk sira. Sira? siapa lagi dia? ada hubungan apa dia sama mereka berdua? "terimakasih untuk semuanya, dari perjuanganku yang pertama-tama tidak kau hargai hingga perjuanganku sampai detik ini. kita dapat dipertemukan dengan baik namun takdir selalu berusaha memisahkan kita." kata aybel "pertemuan dan takdir kita sudah ditentukan oleh-nya. maaf jika telah membuatmu tidak baik-baik saja selama kau menyukaiku, jika ku tahu akhirnya akan seperti ini, mungkin dari awal aku tidak akan menyia-nyiakanmu." kaya dinel

Ivy was just an average schoolgirl until, at the blink of an eye, she met him and he revealed to her a dark and mysterious world full of secrets waiting to be uncovered. Despair sets in as the darkness of her reality slowly creeps up from the shadows. Was everything that she had been taught a lie?

"Tampan sekali wajahnya." "Dia beneran dosen?" "Ha?! bodyguard?! yang bener aja pah!" Bella seorang aktris dan mahasiswa di jurusan manajemen tapi apa yang akan terjadi kalau pria tampan yang ternyata dosennya itu adalah bodyguardnya juga?

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?"