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Setelah terlahir kembali, hal pertama yang dilakukan Amalia Moore adalah berlutut di hadapan kedua orang tuanya. Setiap kata yang terucap dari bibirnya penuh dengan sarat ketulusan. "Ayah, Ibu, tentang perjodohan dengan Keluarga Lewis, aku memilih untuk nikah dengan Joey Lewis." Mendengar pernyataan putri mereka yang begitu tiba-tiba, orang tua Amalia tampak benar-benar terkejut. "Amalia, bukankah orang yang kamu sukai itu Hugo? Lagi pula, Joey adalah paman Hugo." Seakan teringat sesuatu, sorot mata Amalia sedikit berubah. Suaranya mengandung kepedihan yang sulit disembunyikan. "Justru karena aku tahu konsekuensi dari mencintainya, aku nggak lagi berani mencintai." "Ayah, Ibu, selama ini aku nggak pernah minta apa pun dari kalian. Sebagai nona dari keluarga terpandang yang telah nikmati kemewahan dan nama besar keluarga, aku sadar nikah bisnis adalah tanggung jawab yang harus kupikul. Aku hanya punya satu permintaan ini. Tolong, penuhi permintaanku."

Perbedaan status yang memisahkan mereka yang diakhiri dengan kerelaan gadis itu melihat pasangannya memiliki kehidupan yang bahagia bersama dengan keluarganya, itulah cerminan cinta sejati dari gadis lugu itu.

My sister abruptly returns to the country on the day of my wedding. My parents, brother, and fiancé abandon me to pick her up at the airport. She shares a photo of them on her social media, bragging about how she's so loved. Meanwhile, all the calls I make are rejected. My fiancé is the only one who answers, but all he tells me is not to kick up a fuss. We can always have our wedding some other day. They turn me into a laughingstock on the day I've looked forward to all my life. Everyone points at me and laughs in my face. I calmly deal with everything before writing a new number in my journal—99. This is their 99th time disappointing me; I won't wish for them to love me anymore. I fill in a request to study abroad and pack my luggage. They think I've learned to be obedient, but I'm actually about to leave forever.

Evy was a simple-minded girl. If there's work she's there. Evy is a known workaholic. She works day and night, dedicating each of her waking hours to her jobs and making sure that she reaches the deadline. On the day of her birthday, her body gave up and she died alone from exhaustion. Upon receiving the chance of a new life, she was reincarnated as the daughter of the Duke of Polvaros and acquired the prose of living a comfortable life ahead of her. Only she doesn't want that. She wants to work. Even if it's being a maid, a hired killer, or an adventurer. She will do it. The only thing wrong with Evy is that she has no concept of reincarnation or being isekaid. In her head, she was kidnapped to a faraway land… stranded in a place far away from Japan. So she has to learn things as she goes with as little knowledge as anyone else. Having no sense of ever knowing that she was living in fantasy nor knowing the destruction that lies ahead in the future. Evy will do her best to live the life she wanted and surprise a couple of people on the way. Unbeknownst to her, all her actions will make a ripple. Whether they be for the better or worse.... Evy has no clue.

When my Alpha mate, Logan noticed I hadn't submitted a single expense request in three days, he reached out to me on his own for the first time ever. "Baby, I've already approved the next phase of your wolf's healing. See? As long as you learn to behave, there's nothing I won't give you." His tone was still so affectionate, as if he were truly a good Alpha, worried sick over his mate. But he didn't know that as his "Baby" flashed across my phone screen, I had already finished drafting the agreement to sever our mate bond. Before I left, the only thing I could take with me was the old T-shirt I had worn when he marked me. No one would ever believe that the beloved Luna of the Blackmoon Pack, in the three years since our bonding ceremony, couldn't even scrape together five decent dresses of her own. Every household expense I incurred had to be approved by the Luna's seal, the very symbol of my power. "Sienna, managing the books is too tiring. It will wear you out." "Just let Chloe handle the tedious work with the seal. All you have to do is be beautiful, be my perfect Luna." And so, the Luna's seal, which should have been mine, became something I had to beg for from Chloe, the Alpha's secretary who was supposedly "handling the tedious work for me." Three days ago, my wolf was on the verge of collapsing. I cried and begged him for the two hundred thousand needed for an emergency intervention. But Chloe deliberately withheld the seal, delaying approval by claiming improper procedure. Finally, my already fractured wolf went completely silent in the depths of my soul. And with that, I was done with this Alpha, too.

After years as inseparable friends, Sage and Kaiden have always known they could count on each other until hidden feelings start to bubble up. Kaiden, a beta, has secretly loved Sage, who is also a beta, since their school days. But with Sage eyeing someone new, Kaiden offers to help his friend pursue this new love interest. However, Kaiden’s “help” might not be as innocent as it seems, as it brings them closer than ever and unveils a possessive streak in Kaiden that neither expected.

My billionaire husband suffered from chronic insomnia for years. Only the sleep balm I made could help him sleep. On the night of our seventh wedding anniversary, his childhood sweetheart poured a basin of scalding water over the old camphor tree in our garden. I wept and tried to save the tree as she apologized, “I didn’t know you used its leaves to make the sleep balm.” My husband gently comforted her and ordered his men to tie me to the tree trunk instead. “What a precious tree. You’ll spend the rest of your days with it!” With my wrist fractured as a result, I filed for divorce immediately. A month later, my husband was unable to sleep late one night. He stood in the garden and stared at the withered camphor tree.

Melannie couldn't remember the last time she felt something. While Ace remembers every sting and ache. Both of their chaotic worlds collide and through every moment they share, one starts to feel and the other starts to heal. The only thing standing in between is that it's a cycle of pain, and no one knows how to get out.

Marami ang nagkagusto at nahumaling sa akin pero nag-iisang lang si Regan Gelmore sa kakaiba at syempre sobrang gwapo nito at kahit masama ang ugali niya at laging high blood ay hindi ko siya magawang balewalain, lalo pa kapag nadidikit ako sa kanya pakiramdam ko gusto ko nang ihubad lahat ng suot ko. Dahil ang galing lang naman niya sa kama at ang away namin na laging nauuwi sa isang mainit na tagpo.

Stealing from desperate men is easy for Xania, but what happens when she steals from the wrong one? Theo, a billionaire's son who makes a name for himself, unlawfully, and Xania, whose slippery fingers dug into the wrong pocket. The duo are wrong in every way, but they can't fight the attraction they feel for each other.