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Taking Back This Battered World

As the number of domestic violence rises during the pandemic, Stephanie and Mark team up to deliver the universal basic income for the victims. ============= VOL 1 COMPLETE! Just another quarter. Just another semester. And it became another year. Even the animals at the zoos developed strange behaviours when being kept in cages. Let alone humans. With all the mobility being restricted, what had become of the most agile, most cultured, most forward-thinking species? ~*~ Stephanie is the head of a Companionship service, a talking friend serving as a physical presence in the post-pandemic world where the pandemic left only 25% of humanity. After saving Mark, a reintegrated ex-inmate, together they unravel cases of hidden domestic violence. Proposing the government to grant a financial safety net, they hope that the victims of domestic violence and other underprivileged people left without dreams can rebuild their lives in the new era. As challenges arise along the way to achieve this, Stephanie encounters new people on her path, and more importantly, a colossal shift in her reality. MC: Stephanie Marsayudi, a businesswoman refusing to back down in the face of adversity ML: Mark Zuhair, a reintegrated ex-inmate needing induction to the modern world TAGS: age-difference romance, pandemic, dystopian society, universal basic income, entrepreneurship, fintech ~*~ Follow me on Insta: @heavenlyflower_sl Read my other novel: [FL] - shares the same universe as this novel System Bug: Adventure Turned Otome I Have to Marry the Villain Updated daily. Cover not owned by author. Copyright goes to the artist who drew and posted it on Pinterest. Text made by logo design on PhotoLayers and Flamingtext.

HeavenlyFlower · Urban
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A Cheshire Cat in the Bunker

Days passed by with Stephanie still the hundred per cent inside the bunker and Mark went out occasionally to pick up clothes or food from above.

By the tenth day after Stephanie was awake, Reynaldo gave up on enforcing Mark to wear the blindfold every time he wanted to go up and back to the bunker. He had 'more important things to do' according to his words, which Mark was particularly curious about. 

"It's about Arijati's movement, I guess," Stephanie said. In front of her was a pile of snacks Mark somehow managed to collect from the supply depot because he still kept his story of having a pregnant fiance.

"I'm impressed," Stephanie chuckled at the mountain of food. "Do you want me to get fatter?"

"I can't do anything else to keep you occupied and not bored."

"I'm not a dog," Stephanie sighed. With the work and everything, she was back on the pitch running. Her calendar was fully blocked with many meetings and deliverables with the set deadlines.