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結婚記念日の日、私は家事をしながら一冊のアルバムを見つけた。 どうやら私の夫は、毎年この時期に初恋の人と一緒に結婚写真を撮り続けていたらしい。 40歳から60歳まで、黒髪から白髪へ、20年間、一度も欠かさずに撮り続けていた。 写真の裏には夫の手書きの言葉も添えられていた。「永遠の愛」と。 どうせ私のことを愛していないのなら、もう彼のために洗濯や料理をする必要もない。 子供を育て、孫の世話までしてきた私の人生。 あっという間に過ぎてしまった半生だが、今からでも変えるのは遅くない。

"Benarkah anda adalah ayah kandung saya?" Lintang Prameswari terbelalak takjub memandang tak percaya pada Ki Dalang Narendra, sosok mempesona yang terlihat masih berusia sedikit diatasnya. Begitu dahsyatnya efek yang ditimbulkan oleh Mustika Panji Anom yang dimiliki oleh Ki Dalang Narendra. Lelaki tampan yang terlihat masih begitu muda di usianya yang memasuki 40 tahun itu. "Seharusnya kamu tidak mendekati bahaya yang sejak dulu mengintaimu, Nduk! Susah payah aku berusaha menjauhkanmu dari iblis itu. Cukup ibumu, belahan jiwaku yang menjadi korban. Jangan kamu! Karena kamulah pusat kehidupanku, Putriku!" Narendra menatap nanar sosok belia di hadapannya. "Jaga dan lindungi dia, Wage! Kupercayakan keselamatan jiwanya padamu!" Dengan tegas Wage menyanggupi titah guru spiritual sekaligus penyelamat hidupnya itu. "Apapun akan kulakukan untuk memilikimu seutuhnya! Walaupun harus ada pertumpahan darah untuk menyingkirkan semua penghalangku!" Tekad Wulansari seraya memandang wajah suaminya dengan tatapan memuja. "Aku tidak dapat berhenti mencintaimu, Lintang! Tetapi, akupun tak dapat memaksakan perasaanmu padaku. Karena aku sadar akan keadaanku. Cukuplah bagiku untuk selalu menjagamu, selalu berada di dekatmu!" "Kamu adalah malaikat penjagaku. Aku sangat mengasihimu, tapi ada dendam kesumat yang harus aku balaskan demi nyawa ibuku. Demi kebahagiaan yang terenggut paksa dari kehidupanku! Aku tidak bisa menjanjikan apapun padamu! Maafkan aku!" "Maafkan putrimu, Ayah! Aku sengaja datang untuk menuntut balas!"

Setelah suamiku meninggal karena kecelakaan, aku mengelola restoran kecil untuk membesarkan anakku. Sehari sebelum pernikahan anakku, aku tiba-tiba menang lotre senilai 160 miliar. Aku merasa sangat senang. Aku berencana menjual restoranku dan memulai kehidupan pensiunku. Siapa sangka, saat aku menelepon putraku untuk memberitahunya rencanaku, calon menantu yang selalu bersikap sopan tiba-tiba menjadi galak. "Kamu harap kami menghidupimu ya? Kami baru kerja dua tahun. Kami nggak punya uang untukmu!" Calon menantuku juga mengancam putraku, "Kalau kamu berani memberi uang kita pada ibumu, aku bakal batalkan pernikahan ini!" Putraku yang marah pun bertengkar dengan pacarnya. Kemudian, dia menghiburku, "Kamu sudah bekerja keras selama bertahun-tahun. Sudah waktunya istirahat. Aku yang akan menghidupimu." Aku merasa sangat lega. Aku pun berniat mentransfer 40 miliar kepada putraku supaya dia bisa berbisnis. Keesokan hari, aku malah mendapat panggilan yang memberitahuku bahwa putraku mengalami kecelakaan. Butuh 1 miliar untuk menyelamatkan nyawanya. Aku langsung mentransfer uang itu, tetapi putraku tidak berada di rumah sakit. Saking paniknya, aku pergi ke kota tempat putraku tinggal dengan menerjang badai. Ketika menemukan putraku, ternyata dia sedang mengadakan acara pernikahan di hotel. Putraku berlutut kepada cinta pertama suamiku dan memanggilnya ibu saat bersulang. Mengejutkannya, yang duduk di sampingnya adalah suamiku yang meninggal sepuluh tahun lalu!

I am the biggest female drug lord in Riverdale, who gets shot in the head during a crackdown operation. As soon as the news breaks, the entire internet celebrates. People even crowdfund to take over a giant screen in the city square to display my obituary photo. They say I filled Riverdale with drugs and single-handedly destroyed countless families. They accuse me of leaking operation routes, causing the deaths of my ex-husband's 13 anti-drug force teammates. Hundreds of thousands sign a petition demanding my ashes be crushed and turned into tiles for public restrooms. To calm the overwhelming public anger, my ex-husband, Tyler Lowell, who is now captain of the anti-drug force, decides to launch a public hearing across the internet to livestream my entire life of alleged crimes. On the day of the trial, people thronged the city square. "A woman like her deserves to be cut up into a thousand pieces! How many families are destroyed because of the drugs she sells?" "I hear she is ruthless. She would even stoop to making a three-year-old do her bidding. She is inhumane!" "She got so many anti-drug officers killed. I want to see her end up in hell!" Tyler presses the start button with a blank expression. The crowd's furious curses come crashing down like waves. It is as if they want to tear me apart and condemn me forever. But in the next second, what appears on the giant screen is me in a uniform, standing under the national flag and taking a solemn oath. In that instant, the entire square falls silent.

비행기가 추락한 후 나는 유골조차 남지 않았다. 나의 영혼은 5년 동안 발 디디지 않은 집으로 돌아왔다. 그들은 내가 죽은 줄도 모르고 아직도 내가 집에 가서 설을 쇠기를 기다리고 있었다. 엄마는 항공사의 전화를 받고 쩔쩔매다가 한참을 멍하니 있더니 무너져 펑펑 울었다. 나는 그들을 따라 다시 사건 현장으로 돌아갔는데 뜻밖에도 그들의 머리 위에서 후회 지수를 발견했다. 동생 머리 위 후회 지수: 40%. 아빠 머리 위 후회 지수: 60% 올케의 머리 위 후회 지수도 30%를 가리키는 가운데 엄마 머리 위에는 0이 반짝이고 있었다...

After I graduated, I kept hitting walls while job hunting, but my boyfriend landed a position at a big company with ease. My boyfriend of two years voluntarily gave me his salary to comfort me. When I finally found a job, he worried about my long commute and bought me a car. All my friends envied me for having such a thoughtful boyfriend. In order to buy our first house, I secretly transferred my own salary into his account as well. A year later, we decided to get married. He held my hand and said excitedly, “I know you don’t have much saved. I don’t want a single cent from you. All I want is your whole heart.” I was deeply moved by how considerate he was. However, on the day of our engagement, he pulled out photos of me with more than 40 different men and accused me of cheating. I stared at them. I had never even seen these people before. Then, he showed me his card’s transaction history, filled with charges from a place called Sunshine Club. “I trusted you with my card, and you used my money to fool around! I’m not marrying you. Give me back my car and the 800,000 dollars you’ve burned through.” I calmly took out the card he had given me before and sneered, “Sure. Let’s settle the accounts properly.” The moment my attorney revealed the true financial statements, he was completely stunned.

“Confessions Of An Exorcist” Mason Woods is a 40 year old multimillionaire who owns Woods Travel Safe, an airline company in New York City. He lives in New York City with his three-months pregnant wife; Victoria Woods who is a cardiac surgeon and earns a good pay, his two daughters; Audrey Woods and Leslie Woods, ages eight and four respectively. A meeting with a Chinese contractor drags out longer than anticipated and causes him to miss his daughter’s fourth birthday party. Mason Woods comes out of the meeting to see series of calls from his wife. He comes back home and offers to take the family out to celebrate Leslie’s birthday- an attempt to make up for his absent.On their way to a recreational park to celebrate his daughter’s fourth birthday, they were involved in an accident and his pregnant wife and two daughters die at the spot while Mason dies on the way to the hospital. A burial is done and they are laid to rest. But a few months later, Mason Woods returns to life under supernatural circumstances and finds out that everything he owned has been taken by the government being legally dead and also that demons are responsible for the accident which took the lives of his family. He woke up to the realization that demons and ghosts are real and his family died because demons were trying to eliminate him so he won’t have to become an Exorcist. Mason Woods still overcome with guilt and grief in equal measures, leaves everything behind and move to a secluded small town, Vineyard, Utah, where he hopes to begin a new life. A life as an Exorcist. And one day hope to avenge the death of his family and stop anyone from meeting the same fate he

I've been married to the prince of the underworld for ten years and have endured countless life-or-death situations by his side. My hands, once trained to play the piano, are covered in calluses from holding guns and stained with blood. But at 28, my husband ends up falling for a young woman from the slums. She's as delicate and pure as a chamomile. She's his well-kept little secret—until I run into them at the woman's prenatal appointment one day. I storm up to him, demanding an explanation, only for him to nonchalantly hand me divorce papers. "Sonia is a devout follower of the church and can't have a child before marriage. I must make an honest woman out of her. Sign these, and you'll get 40% of the company's shares." I refuse to do as told, so he corners me. In the end, he has my crippled younger brother tied up and forced under a hydraulic compression machine. "Sign the papers, Maeve, or watch your brother become a human mince pie. The choice is yours." I fall on my knees and beg him to stop. As the machine turns on, my hands fly to my aching lower belly, and I scream as I lose consciousness. When I wake up again, I'm back in the hospital, in the same spot where I ran into my husband and his mistress at her prenatal appointment. This time, I don't confront him. Overnight, I make arrangements with a sanatorium abroad, get divorced, and run away from home. Yet the moment I truly disappear, my husband loses his mind.

Adrian Axton terlahir di keluarga mafia dalam jajaran 13 Demon Heads. Sebuah kerajaan mafia terbesar di seluruh dunia, berisikan orang-orang buangan Pemerintah dan mereka kini berkumpul untuk menuntut balas atas ketidakadilan yang mereka terima di sisa hidup. Dalam menjalani kehidupannya, Axton yang kehilangan sosok Ibu serta cinta kasih dari ayah dan kakeknya, membuatnya hilang arah. Hidup sebatang kara dengan warisan harta yang berlimpah malah menjadikan hidupnya berantakan. Axton melampiaskan kesedihannya dengan membunuh siapapun yang merusak kesenangannya. Hingga Axton bertemu sang Bibi, Delwyn. Namun, Delwyn malah memperparah perilaku menyimpang Axton dengan menjadikannya seorang playboy dengan maksud mendapatkan kebahagiaan dengan para wanita di sekelilingnya, tapi ternyata itu hanya sementara. Ia menjadi lelaki angkuh, penuh percaya diri, psikopat dan memiliki slogan "Ketampanan Nomor Satu!" Hingga suatu ketika, Axton bertemu dengan Dewa Kematian yang menginginkan nyawanya, tapi Axton malah mengajak kesepakatan dengannya. Dari kesepakatan itu, Axton mendapatkan julukan sang Casanova dari orang-orang yang mengenalnya. Apa isi kesepakatan itu hingga Axton disebut Casanova? Apakah kematian tetap merenggut nyawanya meski Axton sudah melakukan perjanjian? *** Cerita ini hanya fiktif belaka. Latar belakang mulai tahun 90-an menuju tahun 2000-an. Ditujukan hanya kepada pembaca bermental baja. Baper berlebih jika pingsan atau jantungan bukan salah author karena sudah diperingatkan. Selamat membaca, Lele padamu

***Completed*** can be read as a standalone book. please note posted chapters are currently unedited.Knight of the queen or not, I am the expendable one, the one that shouldn’t be here, and the one that shouldn’t be alive. By all accounts, I should have died 13 years ago. A question I always ask myself, every time my eyes open: why am I still alive? Why did the gods let that old priestess find me so many moons ago and bring me back from the dead? Why did they allow me to live?I still wonder what my role is in this story and believe me there is more to this story than any of us know. I can feel it, see it unfolding, almost taste it. The last three years have just been a prelude to something bigger, something yet unseen and unknown. Lamia and Mathias may be the main characters, but we all had a role, an important part to play. Unfortunately, the script of our lives had been hidden away or maybe it just hasn’t been written yet.****Sent on a quest by his beloved Queen Lamia; Hunji finds himself back at the beginning. The place where his old life ended, and where the goddess granted him a second chance. On the hunt for a witch, Hunji must face his past - A past that left him broken. When the goddess breathed new life into him, he took an oath to serve her. Now that promise is being tested.He has survived his past but it's the future that threatens to turn his world upside down. That and the little witch who he was sent to find, protect and bring home; is hellbent on throwing a curve ball at every plan he had.