Apa Yang Dimaksud Dengan Setting

Sauqi dan Bia adalah sepasang sahabat yang sudah bersama sejak mereka masih berada di bangku kanak-kanak. Namun, setelah remaja, tiba-tiba Bia berubah secara mendadak, mulai dari penampilan, perilaku, dan sifatnya. Bia yang semula adalah gadis yang tomboi dan senang berkelahi, tiba-tiba menjadi seorang muslimah yang menutup diri. Bahkan, tiba-tiba Bia juga mulai menjauhi Sauqi. Sauqi dibuat bingung dengan perubahan yang terjadi pada sahabatnya itu. Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi pada Bia?

Rania Keysha Wardhani, seorang dosen filsafat yang dibuat bingung oleh sikap tunangannya. Pria itu terlalu sulit untuk dikenal, meski mereka sudah bersama sejak di bangku sekolah dasar. Ada saja hal yang membuat dirinya bertambah ragu dengan keputusan mereka yang akan segera menikah. Selalu ada cara yang dilakukan pria itu untuk menahannya pergi meski rasa lelah seringkali muncul di hatinya. Ini seperti dia yang berjuang sendirian, dan si pria hanya diam memperhatikan. Padahal kenyataannya, tidak ada yang perlu diperjuangkan dalam hubungan mereka. *** "Kamu hanya perlu diam, duduk, dan menunggu." Laki-laki itu memberi perintah. Rania terdiam. Menunggu katanya? Berapa waktu lagi yang harus dia habiskan untuk menunggu? Apa belasan tahun itu belum cukup bagi laki-laki ini? Dan apa yang harus dia tunggu lagi kali ini? Rasanya, semua sia-sia.

Nayla memiliki seorang suami bernama Rendy, namun pernikahan yang dia impikan selama ini berakhir seperti neraka baginya. Dia mendapati kakaknya berselingkuh dengan suaminya. Setiap hari, Rendy memperlakukan dirinya seperti babu dan bahkan lebih memilih selingkuhannya di banding dia. Hingga pada akhirnya, saat kakaknya membutuhkan donor ginjal, Rendy memohon padanya untuk mendonorkan ginjalnya untuk selingkuhannya itu. Awalnya Nayla menuruti permintaan suaminya, hingga saat di alam bawah sadar, dia di perlihatkan semua kelakuan suami dan selingkuhannya itu dan bahkan kelakuan suaminya saat menyakiti fisiknya. Bahkan, suaminya memaksanya untuk menandatangani surat cerai. Akankah Nayla sadar dan memilih memberontak? Ataukah dia tetap memilih sang suami? Saksikan kisahnya di novel ini.

My husband falls for my cousin at first sight while still married to me. They conspire to make me fall from grace. I end up with a ruined reputation and family. I can't handle the devastation, so I decide to drag them to hell with me as we're on the way to get the divorce finalized. Unexpectedly, all three of us are reborn. As soon as we open our eyes, my husband asks me for a divorce so he can be with my cousin. They immediately get together and leave the country. Meanwhile, I remain and further my medical studies. I work diligently. Six years later, my ex-husband has turned into an internationally renowned artist, thanks to my cousin's help. Each of his paintings sells for astronomical prices, and he's lauded by many. On the other hand, I'm still working at the hospital and saving lives. A family gathering brings us three back together. It looks like life has treated him well as he holds my cousin close and mocks me contemptuously. However, he flies off the handle when he learns I'm about to marry someone else. "How can you get together with someone else when all I did was make a dumb mistake?"

At my mother's funeral, I caught my husband passionately kissing a sales associate at the local department store. When I confronted him about it, he turned the tables and accused me of being paranoid and delusional. Later, I discovered she had been calling my husband "daddy" in their text messages. The betrayal left me emotionally numb, and I decided to step aside, giving them my blessing. What I did not expect was discovering that she was not just involved with my husband—she had been sleeping around with multiple men. When my husband finally learned the truth, he came crawling back to me with tears streaming down his face, begging for forgiveness. By then, I had already moved on with my life and wanted nothing to do with him.

Pertemanan yang sudah mereka jalin semenjak mereka masih remaja, namun itu semua kandas karena mereka telah mencintai wanita yang sama.

In the seventh year of our marriage, I caught Nolan Garrison kissing his secretary at a bar. He called me shortly after I walked away. "It was just a friendly kiss! What’s with the attitude?" he snapped through the phone. I could hear his friends in the background teasing him and saying that I would be madly jealous while pleading for him not to leave me tonight as usual. Before hanging up, Nolan warned me that he wouldn’t come home if I didn’t apologize. However, I wasn’t bothered by his threat. I didn’t care if he decided to come home or get a divorce. Three minutes later, I posted an update on my social media: “Prioritize self-love and grant others the freedom they seek.”

I set fire to my painting in front of the entire academy. Thunderous applause erupts from the crowd as everyone thinks it's some kind of performance art. Unlike them, Willow Laurent is distraught. She rushes up and grabs my hand, questioning in a shrill voice, "Cassidy Seymour, have you gone mad? This is your only chance to prove yourself!" I shake her hand off me coldly. My only chance? No… What she means is that it's her chance. In my past life, I created this masterpiece with all my heart and soul. But she stole it from me and submitted it as her entry first. Whether it was the composition, the colors, or even my original dot-stippling technique… She replicated every detail flawlessly. Then, she won the National Young Artists Gold Award, signed with a top gallery, and became a rising star. And what about me? I was condemned as a shameless plagiarist. Insults and curses gradually drowned me. "You shouldn't be an artist!" "Plagiarists are scum! They should just die!" Her fans stormed into my studio, smashed my art supplies, and broke my right hand. As I saw no end to the hell that I was living in, I jumped down from the top floor of my studio. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the very day she first accuses me of plagiarism.

Kisah seorang wanita muda yang memiliki kemampuan istimewa melihat warna hati. Kisah cinta yang menemui banyak rintangan, terutama dari diri sendiri.

"Ibu pun dengan sabar telah merawatku, dari aku kecil hingga saat ini. Meski aku bukan anak kandungmu, tapi kasih sayangmu benar-benar tulus," balasnya seraya mengusap-usap pundaku. "Aku menyayangimu, Bu." Semakin ia bicara, semakin keras aku menangis. Andai dia tahu apa saja yang pernah kulakukan padanya, apakah ia masih akan tetap menyayangiku?