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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 Memories-shaped Creature

Stephanie grabbed some flour and frozen fish fillet that was surprisingly still edible by the smell. She combed through the knick-knacks inside many cabinets and fridge shelves to find at least a lime or lemon. She found one with brownish skin, but again, the smell still told her it was edible.

Using a knife that she had to sharpen days before, she cut the lemon into two slices, and squeezed each part on a spoon to keep the pit in and the juice trickling down to the fish.

The batter was simple, a handful of flour, sprinkles of salt and pepper, and a dash of water.

The potatoes left in the basket were still intact. Somebody had left them there before the two people from Prattle arrived. In the end, they'd eat like European medieval peasants again; that was probably what the person in charge of their accommodation had thought in the first place, by giving them potatoes.