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Stefan Wyatt adalah seorang yang berkepribadian tipe Alpha sepenuhnya. Memiliki.karkater yang sadar dan paham atas apa yang dia inginkan tidak mengizinkan orang lain mendikte atau mengatakan apa yang bisa dan tak bisa ia lakukan dalam hidup. Cinta bagi Stefan adalah 99% tentang uang. Wanita-wanita yang mengejarnya hanya bernilaikan seperti sebuah kurs mata uang yang bisa naik dan turun. Jika Stefan masih menginginkannya maka wanita tersebut masih bisa bertahan di sisi Stefan. Jika Stefan sudah tidak menginginkannya maka Stefan dengan mudah akan membuangnya. Audrey Smith, wanita mandiri yang terbuang dari keluarganya, tak pernah menyangka akan terjerat dalam cengkraman Stefan karena percintaan satu malam yang terjadi secara tak terduga. Akankah kehadiran Audrey bisa mengubah segala karakter Alpha Stefan yang selalu ingin mendominasi dalam hal apapun.

Aku sudah delapan tahun menikah dengan suamiku, Rangga. Selama itu, dia sudah membawa pulang 99 wanita lain ke rumah. Sekarang, aku menatap gadis muda yang ke-100 di depanku. Dia menatapku dengan menantang, lalu menoleh dan bertanya, "Pak Rangga, ini istrimu yang nggak berguna itu ya?" Rangga bersandar santai di kursinya sembari menjawab, "Ya." Gadis muda itu berjalan ke arahku dan menepuk pipiku, lalu berkata sambil tersenyum, "Malam ini, dengarkan baik-baik gimana jadi wanita yang hebat!" Malam itu, aku terpaksa duduk di ruang tamu mendengarkan suara erangan dari kamar sampai fajar menyingsing. Pagi harinya, Rangga menyuruhku menyiapkan sarapan seperti biasa. Aku menolak. Sepertinya dia lupa, pernikahan kami hanya pernikahan kontrak. Dan hari ini, adalah tiga hari terakhir sebelum kontrak itu berakhir.

Eu e meu marido, Bernardo Santos, estamos casados há oito anos. Durante esse tempo, ele trouxe 99 mulheres pra casa. Agora, estou olhando pra centésima garota. Ela me encara com provocação e, virando-se pra ele, pergunta: — Sr. Bernardo, é essa aqui sua esposa inútil? Bernardo, jogado na cadeira, responde com preguiça: — É ela, sim. A garota caminha até mim, dá um tapinha no meu rosto e diz com um sorriso: — Hoje à noite, você vai ouvir o que é uma mulher de verdade na cama! Naquela noite, fui obrigada a passar horas na sala ouvindo gemidos. Na manhã seguinte, Bernardo, como sempre, mandou que eu fizesse o café da manhã. Mas dessa vez, eu recusei. Ele parece ter esquecido que nosso casamento é só um acordo. E hoje faltam três dias pra esse acordo acabar.

It's been five years since I started trying to win over Zachary Pierce. I even went so far as to have a child through IVF, hoping it would finally make him care. But no matter what I do, I can never reach 100 percent affection from him. It always stays at 99 percent. Sometimes it even drops lower. One day, exhausted and aching, I go looking for him. As I reach his room, I hear laughter coming from inside. "She still hasn't figured out the egg wasn't even hers. The moment the baby was born, Zach's affection score for her dropped to zero." "So what if she finds out? She should be grateful that her face looks so much like Yvonne's. Honestly, I'm done entertaining her. It's exhausting." At that moment, everything clicks. All the hope I've held onto, every sacrifice I've made, they were all just a joke. I turn away and say to the system, "End this for me. Send me to another world."

When Tessa Shoreman read Henry Jennings' cancer report, she immediately paid her hard-earned money of sixty thousand to the hospital. She had saved the money from working part-time while she was in university. However, she was worried the money was not enough, so she held back her fear as she sold a kidney to the black market to get more. As she walked to the ward door with a heavy bag filled with cash, she heard shrill laughter coming from inside. "That cheap woman, Tessa Shoreman, got tricked by us again. Haha!" Tessa's hand gave pause right when she was about to push the door open. What did he mean by saying she was tricked? Tessa looked through the glass on the door to see inside the ward. When she left, the man looked extremely weak, but he was now sitting up lazily in bed. Henry had a cigarette in his mouth, and he was blowing smoke rings nonchalantly. He did not look like a cancer patient at all. "It's been two years, and that woman still has no idea." "If she hadn't beaten Serene to first place, Henry would never have left behind his life as a rich heir and planned such an elaborate scheme to become a working-class man living in a cheap rental home. The way that cheap, penniless woman looks at Henry is so amusing." "We agreed that the punishment ends when Henry and Serene get engaged. It looks like time is almost up. We've probably punished her 108 times in the past two years." "The first time was lying to her that Henry didn't have a suit for a job interview. She worked tirelessly for 72 hours straight before she earned enough money for one, but that suit was given to the domestic help to use as a cleaning cloth. The second time was tricking her into believing Henry had a high fever. She forfeited during the finals of a scientific research competition to race home and take care of Henry in the hospital…" "Sigh. Too bad it's coming to an end. I'm going to miss entertaining myself with her."

It has been 99 times that Henry and I have filed the application for divorce and then withdrawn it. Each time before finalizing the divorce, Henry always waits for me to humbly beg him to stay married. I turned down the offer to be the chief composer at a famous studio in Vienna because Henry didn't want a long-distance relationship. I deleted all my male friends because Henry didn't want me to be too friendly to them. I stopped wearing red lipstick, composing, and traveling alone, because he said married women should stay at home instead of being impulsive. Only after I finally manage to appease him will he allow me to withdraw the divorce application. After my 100th divorce application, as I was leaving, the deputy clerk asked me curiously: "So, when are you going to withdraw your application this time?" I looked at Henry's cold back in front of me, forced to smile with tears, and told myself in my heart— This time, there will be no withdrawal of the application. After the 30-day cooling-off period, we'll be officially divorced. But why did his love only find its voice when I had already walked away?

My mother-in-law, Teresa Hawke, said she was trapped inside her burning villa. I called my husband, Asher Jensen, begging him to save her. But he was too busy at some bar, flirting with his childhood sweetheart, Melanie Lanner. It wasn't until I begged him, over and over, that he finally went to save Teresa. But Melanie was snatched from that same bar, tortured, killed, and dumped. He acted like none of it mattered until I got pregnant. Then out of nowhere, he threw it all back on me, saying it was my fault. Asher pulled every string he could to bankrupt my family, driving Mom and Dad to leap to their deaths. Then he rounded up a gang of violent psychopaths and threw me in with them. I begged again and again, but he just watched me with that dead stare. "You'll suffer like Mel did before she died! She left this world in agony. Why should you get to live? That's not fair." 99 stab wounds—that was how many it took before I finally bled out and died. And then, I woke up, right back on the day Teresa screamed for help from inside that burning villa.

I've been mated to Alpha Damon for five years. I helped him build a business empire, but he kept delaying our marking ceremony 99 times. Right before the ceremony was supposed to happen, he told me the pack’s resources were tight. He demanded I stop the expansion of the Alpha’s manor and scrapped the nursery I’d designed for our future pups. Then he turned around and bought a thirty-million-dollar penthouse for Isabella, a new omega in our pack. When Isabella and I were in a car crash at the same time, he didn't even glance my way. He ran straight to her. He wrapped her in his Alpha scent, holding her tight. Their scents mingling was like a knife to my heart. In the pack council hall, in front of all the Elders, I looked at him with ice in my eyes. "I, Elena, reject you, Damon, as my mate." Through the gut-wrenching pain of the mate bond snapping, I sent a message to the Alpha of another pack. "I rejected him. I'll be at your Crescent Moon Pack tomorrow."

Emran yang sedang perang dingin denganku mengunggah sebuah postingan di media sosial. [ Seratus orang pertama yang like dapat uang karena aku baru putus! ] Dalam sekejap, sudah ada 99 repost dan like. Aku tahu dia sedang menungguku mengalah, seperti sepuluh kali sebelumnya, memohon padanya untuk menghapus postingan itu. Namun kali ini, aku langsung repost dan memberi komentar. [ Aku juga mau! ] Kemudian, aku memblokir semua kontaknya. Tiga hari kemudian, adiknya mengirim pesan. [ Tiket untuk pertunjukan kelulusan Kak Emran sudah disisakan buat kamu. Katanya asal kamu datang, dia mau memaafkanmu. ] Aku melirik tiket pesawat di atas meja, lalu membalas. [ Nggak sempat. ] Aku memang benar-benar tidak sempat, karena aku lulus seleksi dan diterima sebagai mahasiswa pascasarjana di Universitas Bajira. Malam itu juga, aku akan terbang untuk mendaftar ulang. Sejak saat itu, aku dan dia terpisah ribuan kilometer, tak pernah bertemu lagi.

전 남편과 이혼한 지 어언 1년, 뜸했던 단톡방에서 뜬금없이 나를 태그한 반하준. [냉전도 이만하면 됐으니까 그만 돌아와. 다시 시작하자.] 나는 쌀쌀맞게 답장했다. [지금 제정신이야?] 눈치 빠른 사람들이 냉큼 분위기를 파악하고 화해를 종용했다. 반하준이 참지 못하고 또 물었다. [내가 없는 동안 뭘 하고 지냈어?] 나는 아기를 토닥이는 다정한 남편을 슬쩍 보고는 답장을 보냈다. [산후조리 중.] 시끌벅적하던 단톡방이 순식간에 정적에 휩싸였다. 분노가 치밀어 오른 반하준이 108통의 전화를 걸어왔지만, 나는 싸늘하게 외면했다. 한때 그를 목숨처럼 사랑했던 여자는 이제 그의 곁에 없었다.