coercion and grin

Imelda seorang gadis yang aktif dan lincah. Dia adalah sosok gadis yang baik dan ingin mencapai cita-citanya dengan melanjutkan jenjang pendidikannya. Dia tidak pernah berpikiran untuk cepat-cepat menikah saat usianya masih muda ini. Namun karena desakan kedua orang tuanya untuk segera menikah, akhirnya dia harus menuruti orang tuanya untuk menikah dengan orang yang tidak dia kenal. Seorang pria tampan yang dijodohkan dengan Imelda bernama Ricandra. Seorang putra pengusaha dan juga sahabat ayah Imelda yang berusia 28 tahun. Karena kondisi orang tua Ricandra yang sedang sakit parah. Orang tua Ricandra mendesaknya agar segera menikah. Tapi Ricandra menolak karena dia sudah punya pilihan sendiri. Belinda, nama kekasih Ricandra. Karena sesuatu, Belinda belum siap untuk menikah dengan Ricandra. Ayahnya Ricandra ingin menikahkan Ricandra dengan Imelda sebagai permintaan terakhirnya. Ricandra pun terpaksa menikahi Imelda, wanita yang belum pernah ia temui sebelumnya. Bagaimana cerita lengkapnya? Jangan ketinggalan setiap BAB nya.

Ardan selalu hidup untuk orang lain. Untuk senyum istrinya, untuk kebahagiaan keluarganya, hingga ia lupa bagaimana cara tersenyum untuk dirinya sendiri. Lalu, sebuah tragedi merenggut segalanya, menyisakan Ardan yang sekarat di jalanan yang sunyi, tubuhnya tertancap pada aspal yang memerah akibat darahnya yang bersimbah, sebelum hujan segera membasuhnya. ​Di ambang kematian, suara asing bergema di kepalanya. Sebuah Sistem yang tidak menawarkan cinta maupun pelukan hangat, hanya angka dan peluang. Di dunia yang kini terasa asing, Ardan dipaksa untuk terus melangkah meski kakinya gemetar dan jiwanya letih. ​Namun, di balik setiap misi dan rahasia yang perlahan terungkap, Ardan menemukan sebuah kebenaran yang pahit namun indah. Bahwa di balik rasa sakit yang luar biasa, mungkin merekalah yang mengantarkan kekuatan yang selama ini ia dapatkan. Pada akhirnya, Ardan tidak lagi berlari mencari cinta yang hilang, karena ia telah menemukan jalan untuk kebahagiaan dirinya sendiri.

Reign Thornton is in her final year of highschool. Something many would be grateful for but not her. Even though she is a senior she still has not made a single friend in school. Her antisocial and studious personality made it hard for others to get close to her, either that or she's just unlikable by nature. Everything changes when she is paired with the school's notorious bad boy. Though she fears him, she fears getting a failing grade much more. So without thinking she speaks up to him not showing fear. This intrigues him and he takes a sudden interest in her personality. Wanting to see more sides to her he takes her to different places full of life and teenagers, forcing her to get out of the hard shell she created around herself. Though at first forced she begins enjoying herself, seeing that there is more to life than just books. She meets incredible people along the way and learns about herself and true nature. Forgetting about her troubles at home and just how broken she is. Will she ever learn to trust others and believe in friendship? The relationship she has with her new found friends seems different than which she has with Nicholi, but why? Will she ever figure out her feelings of first love or will she continue to identify them as juvenile heart attacks? Find out as two worlds collide into one. And so begins the journey of solar opposites.

The end of the world didn't come with a quiet virus or a silent whimper; it arrived on the wind as an echo of booming, sadistic laughter. Inside the colossal, brutalist fortress-cities known as the Redoubts, humanity clings to survival behind massive stone walls, connected only by heavily armored steam trains cutting through the toxic waste. But outside the iron gates roams the ultimate nightmare: the Grinned. These towering, mutated giants—ranging from three to sixty meters tall—were born from the sudden, catastrophic atmospheric blowout of the Red Spill. They are not mindless beasts driven by primal hunger. The Grinned retained their human intelligence, meaning they actively strategize, engineer massive traps, and chillingly mimic the screams of lost children to lure soldiers out of hiding, smiling with manic, unhinged ecstasy the entire time. One drop of their pressurized, infectious blood into an open wound or eye turns an ally into a cackling monster in just thirty seconds. To fight these massive sadists, elite scouts rely on the Valkyrie Harness, a steam-powered aerial grapple system that allows them to swing through the air at lethal speeds. But slicing a giant's neck at fifty miles per hour is a suicide mission that requires dodging a localized rain of boiling, infectious fluid. In this world, there is no chosen one and absolutely no plot armor. **GRIN** is a relentless, multi-volume anthology where any character can die at any second. Volume One, "The Iron Gate," throws a desperate group of survivors into the meat-grinder when the outer wall crumbles, forcing an elite scout, a fake soldier, a cold pathologist, and a crew of escaped death-row inmates to fight together for the last train out. Volume Two, "The Long Road," plunges into claustrophobic psychological horror aboard an armored train stranded in the fog-choked wastes, haunted by a giant mimicking human voices over the radio. Volume Three, "The Blood Covenant," uncovers a dark political conspiracy in the high-society inner rings, exposing the sick truth of how the elite have been fueling their empires using the spinal fluid of captured giants. Trapped inside the pressure cooker of the collapsing Redoubts, the monsters outside are only half the threat. Out here, the corrupt cops, murderers, and predators standing next to you are just as lethal as the smiling giants clawing at the gates. Wipe the blood from your eyes, because the show is about to begin.

In the country of Galadar a special unit of spies operate. their job is to check and oversee the public safety and the threats that they face. Cedric (male lead) is one such officer. but along the way of doing missions he starts to know about the stuff that he shouldn't and revealing them will cause him unimaginable danger. so what will he do? continue or leave? that is the coercion he has to live in.

He's always been living with the devil and he just knew that he couldn't deal with it for too long. He on the other hand knew that this person would never leave him and couldn't. Can he really bear being apart from the man he has come to love more than his own life?.... This is an erotic novel for adults. Read at your own risk.

Every Bitten carries black teeth for each demon they bind. The more black teeth, the more power. Shikainci has zero. He is an anomaly, a boy who killed a Grin‑Eater without a single mark. The demon of stillness that chose him left no stain, no hunger, no cost. Now he trains under Ritsuka, captain of Black Fang, while the Nine Warai of Calamity rise to unmake the world. They fear him. They hunt him. And he only smiles.

Ozion has spent his life as a shadow—ignored, overlooked, forgotten. But beneath his quiet exterior lurks something far darker. He is not weak. He is not ordinary. He is a predator in a world that does not yet know to fear him. Guided by the final words of his mother—“Never die. Stay alive.”—he has honed his ability to steal power, twisting fate itself to his will. The whispers in the dark call his name, unseen forces watching, waiting. And soon, the world will realize. The weak boy they ignored will become the nightmare they can never escape.

To be resurrected, Lin Zhi binds herself to a system and transmigrates into different book worlds, becoming cannon fodder destined for tragic endings. But Lin Zhi refuses to follow the script. In every world, she fights to rewrite her fate. (1) The Scheming Gold-Digging Stand-In Used by the male lead as a tool to win over the female lead, Lin Zhi refuses to be discarded. Since he wants to use her? Then she’ll make a countermove—get pregnant first, flip the board, and end up with the real overbearing CEO. (2) The First Wife Fated to Die Early in a “Cousin” Story The reborn female lead knows her older male cousin will hold immense power in the future—and that he has always loved her. This time, she vows not to let him go. Only… “Sister-in-law, why aren’t you dead yet?” Lin Zhi smiles. “Still alive. What, are you mad?” (3) The Cannon Fodder Fiancée in a Teacher-Student Romance The aloof Master falls for his young disciple, while Lin Zhi—the fiancée—becomes the villain in their love story. Lin Zhi: “Respect. Blessings. Please stay locked together forever.” Then she decisively breaks off the engagement and devotes herself to cultivation… alongside her adorable little nephew. Who needs romance when ascending is better? (4) The Substitute Bride in a Period Drama In her previous life, she stole the marriage meant for her sister out of gratitude for a life-saving favor, marrying the factory director’s son. Who would have thought he had a “white moonlight” in his heart, leading to her tragic death? Meanwhile, the “mud-legged” man she rejected rose in status, and her sister became an official’s wife. After rebirth, her sister eagerly snatches back the original marriage arrangement, convinced Lin Zhi is doomed. She waits to watch Lin Zhi suffer. Instead— Lin Zhi’s life only gets better and better.

Accidentally bound to a quick transmigration system, Ning Yue is resistant on the surface, but inwardly, she's screaming wildly: "As long as I keep completing missions, it's equivalent to gaining eternal life, I'm going to keep transmigrating forever!" In "True and Fake Rich Daughter," she is the fake rich daughter who was abandoned. She declares, "The wealthy family abandoned me, so I will create a wealthy family of my own!" In "Era's Blessed Child," she leads her entire family to build a fortune, turning the fake blessed child into a real blessed child. In "Flourishing Age of Shengshi," having transmigrated into the Empress who was turned into cannon fodder, she simply turns the ungrateful mother and son into cannon fodder instead.