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Untunglah Bastian datang tepat waktu, bila telat sedikit saja. Mungkin keperawanan Aluna sudah kandas direnggut manusia brengsek itu. Perlahan ia mendekati Aluna, memakaikan kembali bajunya yang terlepas dari tubuh putih mulusnya. Tangannya nampak gemetaran ketika memakaikan bh di dada Aluna. Tak sengaja jemari menyentuh pucuk kecil pusat keindahan berwarna merah muda. Dadanya begitu putih dan telah basah oleh liur si bajingan tengik. Beberapa tanda merah juga ia jumpai di permukaan gundukan kembarnya, bekas gigitan kecil ulah mulut kotornya. Mulai dari detik itu Bastian bersumpah dalam benaknya, tak akan membiarkan siapapun boleh menjamah gadis itu. Ia akan selalu melindungi orang yang ia sayangi nya.

In the vertical megacity of Nadir, life is ruled by water. Twice a day, at noon and eighteen hundred, rain thunders from the pipes and people lift bowls like worshippers. High above, the wealthy live behind dry glass near the reactor “sun.” Far below, the undercity rusts under pipes and legends of an Angel who “saved the world” by dividing it. Breuk is a scarred courier who rides the city’s arteries on his motorcycle. With his crew – strategist Lig, mechanic-medic Tara, tech Limar and driver Tev – he works in the grey zone between politics and crime, sabotaging projects that threaten the lower districts while still serving the system that exploits them. A quiet fixer named Kane offers them a final, life-changing job: infiltrate the upper-tier Valeris villa and steal the “Necklace of Ascent,” a relic said to belong to the man who became the Angel and to respond only to the “fallen.” During the heist, a dying servant presses a different pendant into Breuk’s hand and begs, “Not her. Don’t let her wear it.” Realizing the display piece is a fake, Breuk keeps the true necklace and leaves the decoy behind. Soon after, the crew is ambushed. Breuk falls into the Schlund, a colossal shaft that swallows whatever the city wants to forget. The real necklace slows his fall. He wakes maimed but alive in the Grund, a hidden settlement at the bottom of the world, where people have survived for generations on fungus, runoff and scrap, feeding the Schlund with offerings so it will “forget” them. As Breuk heals and works beside villagers like pragmatic Jakk, he finds an old book: the Angel was an engineer who built an invisible barrier, the Circle of Peace, powered by the Schlund. It ended a devastating war by locking upper and lower worlds apart. “The world was saved,” the book claims. Breuk keeps asking: whose world? Lig eventually discovers a way through the Circle and descends. In the Grund, he and Breuk clash: Lig wants to use the villagers’ anger and the necklace to break the order; Breuk fears any grand gesture will destroy the people he’s come to protect. After a protest over the offering ritual ends in death and the village refuses to keep feeding the Schlund, they choose a third path: a dangerous migration. They weaken the Circle just enough for the villagers to climb through forgotten shafts into Nadir’s underlevels. The ascent costs lives but not all. They don’t topple the Heights; the rich still drink clean water. Yet the Grund is no longer a sealed grave. With forged papers, its people become “maintenance workers,” folded into the city instead of sacrificed to it. In the end, Breuk stands with Lig above the undercity. The rope from their climb hangs slack between them, unbroken. The necklace warms on Breuk’s chest; he refuses to see it as a command. He will not be a new Angel drawing lines between saved and buried. Instead, he returns to the machinery with his people, choosing slow, imperfect bridges over righteous walls.

A British seaman and an Irish nurse meet and fall in love on the ill-fated hospital ship Britannic during WWI.

A British seaman meets and falls in love with an Irish nurse onboard a hospital ship during WWI.

After an arranged marriage to seal a business deal at 18, Evelyn lives an almost perfect life with Daniel Beckett, whom she grew to love. Two years after their marriage, on her 20th birthday, Daniel got shot by drunk police officers. Meanwhile, the incident shattered Evelyn. Making her cold-hearted as she was already three months pregnant with Daniel. She vowed not to love again. Twenty-one-years later. Hazel Beckett, Evelyn's daughter, got into a prestigious university to study business management. Evelyn, now a successful CEO, throws a home party for her daughter when she meets 26-years-old Adam Hudson. A rich, cocky player. Boyfriend to Hazel's closest friend who is crazily obsessed with him. Things turn into a web of complication as the school's bad boy falls in love with the arrogant boss lady. What happens when unpredictable destiny takes its wheels? This novel shows the importance of working out our differences. The push and pull of the characters are interesting to read and creates a likable chemistry.

In the wake of several near-cataclysmic events, humanity created the Cure, a DNA-altering antidote to death by disease and old age. But all cures come with side effects: a small percentage of the population develops a wide range of powers, some lethal to others and some lethal to the wielder.<br><br>These people are called the Estranged, hunted and shunned, safe only on the Island of Exile. It is here that Kaeva and Eddie meet ... and where they set a prophecy in motion, quite possibly sealing their own demise, and even the end of Exile.

The Orbs of Eurydice - They were a simple concept, really. go down to 'The Deep Layers', fetch an orb, kill or be killed, leave... Simple. You just had to crush the orb, overcome the terror hidden within it, and leave. Except the terror usually won. People aren't stupid, they wouldn't optionally go for an orb, would they? issue is, they're stupidly high in value regardless due to their nature. Magical. Fail to retrieve one? You die. Succeed? Well, better hope 'they' listen, pay you fairly and leave you alone! Or, you know, die. Stay in the deep layers? Well, usually, you die. So when he's in nothing but bloodied rags, arrested, and forced to go onto a solo searching party as punishment? His first thoughts were simply: "This is hell." And he desperately wants to break out.

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.