Chapter: Chapter 77: A Life that I Used to Not Have< Four Years Later >“Mimi!” I immediately stopped what I was doing, took off the mask without hesitation, and turned around. A little girl ran in my direction and hugged my waist when she reached me. “I miss you!” she said while giggling.It was Tanya, Tara’s daughter.I let out a deep sigh and then removed the gloves. “What are you doing here, little one?” I asked as I lowered down my body to level her height. “Mimi is doing dirty work; wouldn’t you mind if you caught that dirt?” she immediately shrugged.“No! I hate dirty, but if I can’t hug you because of that, then I don’t mind getting myself a speck of dirt.” she hissed. How cute! She’s too young to know these kinds of things. I just laughed and then carried her in my arms as I stood.“Just kid
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Chapter: Chapter 76: We've Finally Meet“Good morning, Mom and Aki.” I greeted them when they woke up since I got up first.“Good morning, Miss,” Aki replied while rubbing her eyes.“Good morning too, sweetheart.” my mother mumbled and immediately took herself out of bed. I smiled when she walked over to me and gave me a kiss on the cheeks. “Did you sleep well?” I nodded then she glanced at Aki. “How about you, Aki?”“Yes, Mrs. Alejandro. I had a good sleep. Thank you for asking.” Aki said, then smiled. I was about to speak when someone suddenly knocked on the door.“Breakfast is ready.” I heard Jay say behind the door. “Just come downstairs.” after he said those words, we heard footsteps walking away from our room. I immediately looked at my wristwatch, and it was already eight in the morning.
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Chapter: Chapter 75: The Struggles of the Past“How have you been?” my mother asked Dielo while we were sitting in front of the table, having dinner. “You did not even think about visiting me,” she added, and I could feel the sadness in her voice. I don’t know, but I think they are close to each other in the past and even now.“I’m sorry for that, Andrea. I couldn’t go back to the City because of what happened six years ago. I need to recover from the bomb because I got traumatized when Galeo died in front of me. The explosion was too loud and made me lose my mind for a while. I just got myself back, and the first thing I did was go back to the City and then meet Gandhara. I want to see you, but I do not know where is your home.” after Uncle Dielo’s long litany, he eats while staring directly into my mother’s eyes.The five of us remained silent while eating. I was beside my mother while Aki and Jay were
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Chapter: Chapter 74: My Uncle“Good morning, Mom and Aki.” I greeted my mother, who had just arrived in the living room with Aki. I immediately glanced at Jay, “Get the things to the car, Jay.” I said, and he nodded, then started taking the things out. “How’s your sleep, mom?” I asked as I brought my eyes back to my mother.She sat on the sofa. “I slept well, sweetheart. Thinking about today excites me, so I tried my best to have a good rest so that I won’t be exhausted on the trip.” my mother sat on the sofa with a smile on her face. She’s been waiting for the day to start. I smiled at her because I feel the same way too.When Jay finished carrying the things to the car, my mother instructed the maids again. After that, we immediately take ourselves outside. “Where’s Aki?” my mother said as Jay started the engine.“Oh, right,” Jay said.
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Chapter: Chapter 73: Quality TimeI was currently packing my things because tomorrow is when we will travel out of the City. Alchy, Zygo, Jay, and Aki will also be with us. We plan to stay there for a week, and the place that we will be waiting for is already settled by my father’s former colleague.I can’t help being excited just by thinking that we will visit my father’s rest place; my heart is already hyperventilating. I let out a deep sigh and continued packing my things.“Maybe, this stuffs are enough for a week,” I mumbled to myself after a couple of minutes of packing my things. I let out a deep sigh and turned my gaze to the side when I heard an engine. Because of curiosity, I stood up from sitting on the bed and immediately took myself to the terrace.I quickly peeked outside and saw a black Lamborghini who had just parked in front of our house. I was confused for a couple of seconds, thinking who might
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Chapter: Chapter 72: Tears“Where have you been?” I immediately asked Zygo after getting ourselves to his hotel’s dining area. We are currently at his private part of the area, facing each other while separated with a rounded marble table.Zygo stared at me with a smile forming on his lips. By his reaction, I already knew what was on his mind at this instant. “Why? Did you miss me?” he asked with a grin on his face. I was right, and he never changed.I just raised my left brow. I was about to speak out the words that I used to do, but something was playing inside my mind. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with it since we are already friends.I flashed a smirk. “Am I not allowed to miss you?” I almost burst into laughter when I saw how his expression changed. I know that he has feelings for me, but honestly, I can’t pay it back to him on how he looked at me. “Is my words enough to f
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Mister Billionaire’s Treasure
Ruchee had long forgotten what it meant to live for herself.
Since the day life stole both parents from her and left a fragile little sister in her trembling hands, she became everything at once, mother, father, shield, and sacrifice. She built her world from sleepless nights, ruthless decisions, and endless risks, caring for no one beyond the thin line of blood that tied her to the only family she had left.
People were distractions. Friendship was unnecessary. Love was a luxury she could never afford.
For Ruchee, survival was simple: keep moving, keep fighting, and never let anyone close enough to become another weakness.
Until one night, everything was ripped away.
Abducted without warning, Ruchee woke up inside a world she never knew existed, a lavish empire drenched in money, sin, and human desperation. There, beneath crystal chandeliers and behind the smiles of monsters dressed in silk, she was no longer a woman.
She was merchandise.
A rare prize.
One of the highest-valued items in the most notorious underground auction where the powerful came not to bid for possessions, but for people.
Men with blood-stained fortunes and godlike influence watched her like hungry predators, each number called dragging her closer to a fate worse than death.
But among them stood one man.
An extraordinary billionaire feared even by the underworld itself. Untouchable. Merciless. A collector of dangerous things.
And the moment his eyes settled on her, Ruchee realized the auction was only the beginning.
Will she find a way to escape before her freedom is sold to the highest bidder?
Or will she become the most prized possession of the one man no one dares to refuse?
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Chapter: Special Chapter: The Night He Put Forever on My FingerThree years had passed, and somewhere between surgeries, sleepless nights, examinations, clan conflicts, and stolen kisses in kitchens and hallways, life had finally settled into something that felt frighteningly close to peace.Not the kind of peace that came from having no storms, because Reign and I were two people born under storms, but the kind that came from surviving enough disasters together that silence no longer felt temporary.Russiana was healthier now, stronger, with color back in her cheeks and enough energy to argue with me daily. Our home, the one Reign and I built two years ago after endless disagreements over wall paint and furniture, no longer felt like a structure of wood and concrete. It felt lived in. Warm. Full of laughter, arguments, footsteps, and the familiar scent of the man I loved.That evening, after the Nursing Licensure Examination results had been officially released and my name appeared among those who passed, I came home later than usual, exhausted fr
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Chapter: Chapter 83: A Birthday Only for Him“Where are you?” Reign’s voice came through the phone in a low murmur threaded with unmistakable impatience, the kind that always surfaced whenever he could not immediately account for my whereabouts. I had my mobile trapped between my ear and shoulder because both of my hands were occupied with shopping bags, and I continued walking through the polished aisles of the department store with a smile threatening to betray me. Around me, the world was moving in ordinary rhythm, customers browsing displays, salesladies greeting people with practiced warmth, children tugging at their mothers’ sleeves, but all of it blurred into the background because the man on the other line sounded as though I had vanished for days instead of a few hours.“I’m at a store,” I replied, pretending innocence.“What store?” he asked so quickly that I almost laughed.I paused beside a section filled with beads and craft supplies, lowered my voice, and allowed a little mischief to color my tone. “That information
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Chapter: Chapter 82: Healing Hearts and Stolen KissesA week had passed since Russiana’s emergency surgery, and ever since then I had become twice as protective as before.“Oh, stop that, sweety,” I said the moment I saw her pulling notebooks and pencils from her school bag. “You just had surgery last week. Your doctor said you need complete rest for three months.”Russiana puffed her cheeks and looked at me pitifully. “But I want to study, Ruru. I’m getting bored.”I sighed and crouched in front of her so we were eye level. Her complexion was still pale, and the thought of what almost happened inside that bathroom still sent chills through me.I cupped her little face between my hands.“There will be plenty of time to study later, okay? Ruru already talked to your teacher. You are officially on leave for five months.”Her eyes widened. “Five months?”“Yes. Because your health matters more than assignments.” I pinched her nose lightly. “Do you want Ruru to get angry?” She shook her head immediately. “That’s my good girl. Then listen to me
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Chapter: I Kissed Him, Then My World CrashedThree days had passed since the night Reign dragged me out of the river and carried me back from death, and in those three days he had transformed into the most impossible version of himself. He refused to let me walk without assistance, refused to let me touch anything remotely heavy, refused to let me skip medicine, and refused, most annoyingly, to let me eat in peace.He was currently standing in front of the freezer with the concentration of a scientist trying to cure a global disease.“Vanilla?” he asked.I shook my head from the bed.He bent lower and searched again. “Strawberry?”“I hate strawberries.”He slowly turned to me, looking personally offended. “Who hates strawberries?”“I do. They taste too cheerful.”A look crossed his face that said he was reconsidering every life decision that led him to loving me. “You are difficult.”“And yet here you are.”He clicked his tongue and pulled out another tub. “Chocolate?”I considered it for dramatic effect. “That one can stay.”He
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Chapter: Chapter 80: Forgiven in His ArmsReign sank down onto the wet ground without loosening his hold on me, as if even for a second he did not trust the world to keep me safe unless I was inside his arms. He settled with his back against the cold earth and drew me carefully across his lap, one arm wrapped tightly around my waist while the other rose to cradle my face. We were both drenched from the river. Water dripped from his hair onto my cheeks, mingling with my tears, but the only thing I could truly register was the frantic pounding of his heart beneath my ear and the trembling in the fingers touching me.His forehead pressed against mine.“I’m sorry,” he whispered.The words came out broken, not like a simple apology, but like something dragged painfully out of his soul. I kept my eyes closed because I was too weak to open them for long. My hand throbbed, my ribs screamed every time I breathed, and my body still shook from cold and fear, yet despite all that, being in his lap felt like stepping into the only place le
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Chapter: Chapter 79: The Devil Came When I Screamed His NameMy heart pounded so violently that it felt ready to tear through my ribs, but before I could wrench free, Sharmon’s fist buried itself in my hair and snapped my head backward with such vicious force that a scream ripped out of me. Fire spread across my scalp. My hands flew to her wrist, nails digging desperately into flesh, but the instant I twisted enough to see her face, dread hollowed me out... whatever humanity she once possessed had been burned away. Her eyes shone with a feverish delight that made her look less like a woman and more like something that had crawled out of a nightmare.She bent close enough that I could smell the bitterness on her breath and laughed, shaking with excitement. “I have imagined this over and over,” she whispered. “Your blood, your tears, your face when you finally understand no one is coming to save you. I wanted to hear you scream my name before you die.”She hurled me forward. My face smashed into gravel. My lip split. Before I could drag in enough
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The Wicked Empress and her Possessive Beast
Feared by the world and worshipped by none, Empress Halrem Vaelith has spent ten glittering years ruling the Silver Empire with unmatched brilliance, merciless vanity, and a cruelty sharp enough to ruin men without ever staining her hands with blood.
Then the Beast Emperor came for her.
Draevor Kaine, the war-born sovereign of the Black Dominion, has crushed kingdoms beneath his boots, slaughtered monsters with his bare hands, and bowed to no living soul. Yet the moment he stood before Halrem’s throne, he did the impossible.
He knelt.
What should have been a scandal soon becomes the continent’s most dangerous legend. He lays empires, victories, and treasures at her feet. She answers him with cold disdain. He worships her with a devotion that borders on madness, and Halrem finds herself intoxicated by the one man powerful enough to destroy the world and foolish enough to love only her.
But long before he ever touched her hand, Draevor was cursed.
The day he willingly kneels for love, the woman he worships will die.
Now Halrem is slowly dying, Draevor is unraveling before two empires, and a love built on pride, obsession, and ruthless devotion is forced into a battle against fate itself.
For the Beast Emperor can burn kingdoms to ash. But he would sooner set heaven on fire than lose his wicked empress.
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Chapter: Chapter 75: The Fang in the Iron CofferHalrem had never been the sort of woman who let unanswered questions remain unanswered, a quality that made her both one of Silverhall’s greatest strengths and, according to more than a few exhausted officials, one of the kingdom’s most persistent national problems.For three days after the incident in the fitting chamber, she watched Draevor with carefully sharpened attention while pretending otherwise. Unfortunately for him, Halrem Vaelith approached suspicion the same way she practiced medicine, with methodical precision, quiet observation, and terrifying patience.“You have stared at my collarbone through four separate meetings today.”Without looking up from the treaty revision she was signing, Halrem answered calmly.“Your posture has deteriorated.”“You questioned two northern advisors about mountain hunting rituals.”“I enjoy regional anthropology.”“You threatened one of them with surgical experimentation.”“He became evasive.”The corner of Draevor’s mouth almost curved int
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Chapter: Chapter 74: The Shaman Who Recognized the ScarThe northern shamans arrived beneath falling snow, and that fact alone irritated Halrem.Silverhall had spent generations refining elegant ceremonial traditions founded upon silver banners, polished marble, disciplined processions, and restrained grandeur. The Black Dominion, meanwhile, seemed convinced that diplomacy improved dramatically when accompanied by wolf pelts, bone charms, and mystics who looked capable of accidentally cursing an entire harvest.The palace servants feared them the moment they arrived. Halrem considered that an entirely reasonable instinct.She first encountered the shamans during the final fitting consultation for the imperial wedding garments, where suffocating layers of silk, jewels, and political expectation had transformed the western fitting chamber into controlled chaos. Attendants hurried between racks of ceremonial robes carrying fabrics gathered from six kingdoms, while northern advisors argued relentlessly with Silverhall designers over precisel
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Chapter: Chapter 73: The Priests of Silverhall Begin to PanicBy the second week of the engagement, the priests of Silverhall had reached a unanimous conclusion. No sacred scripture, no theological commentary, and no ceremonial handbook had ever prepared them for Halrem Vaelith and Draevor Kaine.The marriage itself was never the problem.From a political perspective, the union was disastrous yet entirely understandable. Empires had always forged marriages through necessity, alliances, and power.What unsettled the clergy was something far more difficult to explain.The future emperor and empress behaved less like sovereigns preparing for a sacred union and more like two immense storms attempting to occupy the same sky without accidentally destroying the world beneath them.High Priest Oren discovered this reality during the official consultation for the imperial vows.The ceremonial chamber had been arranged with meticulous reverence. Silver incense drifted through the air while polished marble reflected the glow of countless candles. Ancient
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Chapter: Chapter 72: The Engagement of CalamitiesThe continent reacted exactly as one might expect after witnessing the most feared emperor in the known world kneel before the Silver Empress and openly beg for her hand in marriage with all the restraint of a starving man discovering salvation.By sunrise, every major kingdom had dispatched urgent correspondence. Southern alliances demanded clarification regarding the military consequences of the engagement, while merchant coalitions hurriedly recalculated trade routes under the assumption that Silverhall and the Black Dominion would soon operate as a single imperial power. Several smaller rulers reportedly began discussing immediate surrender, reasoning that surviving between two empires united by mutual devotion was a political risk beyond calculation.Within Silverhall itself, the palace descended into absolute ceremonial chaos.Barely forty-eight hours had passed since the engagement, yet the imperial palace had become almost uninhabitable. Jewel merchants flooded the capital c
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Chapter: Chapter 71: The Kneeling of the Beast EmperorBy dawn, Silverhall no longer functioned as an empire in its usual sense. Instead, it pulsed like a single living organism, every corridor, courtyard, and marketplace vibrating with one unbelievable piece of news.Servants whispered behind kitchen doors while pretending to prepare breakfast. Ministers abandoned every trace of composure as they argued in palace corridors. Noblewomen expressed outrage with carefully practiced expressions even as they quietly instructed their attendants to reserve the finest seats inside the imperial hall. Throughout the capital, every carriage carried the same impossible rumor from one district to another.The Beast Emperor of the Black Dominion intended to kneel before the entire Silver Court and publicly beg for Halrem Vaelith’s hand in marriage.Halrem herself spent the morning struggling to maintain the calm expression expected of an empress.It was not Draevor’s desire to marry her that disturbed her. By now, that had become the most predictable c
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Chapter: Chapter 70: The Condition That Was Supposed to Be ImpossibleAfter the kiss, Silverhall became unbearable. It was not because anyone knew exactly what had happened, but because everyone sensed that something between the Empress and the Northern King had changed.The difference revealed itself in countless small but catastrophic ways. Halrem no longer sounded entirely murderous whenever Draevor interrupted council meetings, while Draevor himself carried the unnerving composure of a man whose certainty had finally been rewarded. Even worse, the silence between them had become so charged that nearby nobles frequently lost track of their own conversations whenever the two stood too close together. Lord Vassel quietly began considering retirement, the palace servants turned to prayer, and Halrem, for her part, contemplated homicide several times a day.Kissing Draevor had solved absolutely nothing. Instead, it had made everything infinitely worse. She found herself remembering the warmth of his mouth, the stunned stillness that had overtaken him
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