As Good As Dead

Halbert Stanley adalah seorang kesatria pedang dan penyihir jenius dengan mempunyai bakat menguasai 5 elemen sihir utama. Namun karena kuat dan disebut pahlawan tak tergantikan justru telah membuatnya mengalami pengkhianatan tragis dari teman masa kecil sekaligus rekan seperjuangan. Merasa tidak rela akan pengkhianatan dan mati pada saat itu juga, suara asing membangkitkan jiwanya dan kembali bangkit sebagai Undead. Ini adalah kisah pahit seorang pria yang ingin membalaskan dendamnya!

I gave up everything to become a housewife—all for Tristan Fowler and our daughter. But ever since his first love got divorced, everything has changed. Tristan despises me, and my daughter orders me around like a maid. Crushed, I sign the divorce papers, give up everything, and leave for a faraway place. So why are they the ones now full of regret?

When Jeremy Sterling is framed by his rival, he immediately urges me to run for my life. "Save yourself! Pretend you never met me!" Despite being eight months pregnant, I leap from the moving car. I kneel in the snow for two days straight. Finally, I manage to secure a witness for his trial. The ordeal costs me our baby and leaves me with lasting health issues. The radiant principal dancer I once was becomes a frail shadow, gasping at the slightest breeze and surviving on pills. Later, Jeremy claws his way back to the top. He cradles the belly I fought through 18 rounds of IVF to have and makes a solemn vow. "When the baby's born, we'll name him Ryan Sterling. I'll never forget that you saved me." Tears of joy stream down my face. But shortly after I give birth, I overhear someone questioning him. "Mr. Sterling, this is Regina Gomez's flesh and blood. Is it appropriate to register Ms. Jenson as the baby's legal mother?" Jeremy gazes fondly at Carolina Jenson, who is holding our son, and scoffs. "When I was framed, she didn't even care about her own life. Do you really think she'd care about this baby? Besides, she already lost one baby back then. What's one more?" He shrugs. "At worst, I'll just break up with her. We never got the marriage license anyway." Outside the door, I clutch my aching stomach and turn away. Since we're not bound by a marriage license, this is where it ends for us.

At the company's year-end awards ceremony, just as it is supposed to be my turn to go on stage and officially announce the relationship between my wife and me, my wife's first love suddenly proposes to her in front of everyone. Angela Reed does not refuse. Instead, she laughs brightly and promotes Samuel Hayden to the new department manager. Employees throughout the entire company cheer loudly for their romance. Seeing that I have no reaction, someone beside me cannot help but ask, "Ronald, you've worked for Ms. Reed for nine years. How can you show no response at all?" I smile as I walk onto the stage, take off my wedding ring, and toss it to Samuel. "How can you propose without preparing a ring? Here—it's yours."

Kaia Kennedy has always dreamed of meeting Mr. Right. A hopeless romantic at heart, she dreams of falling in love with a nice man, getting married, and having a perfect family. The problem is, she always ended up with men who are anything but nice. Eton Domino, a renowned billionaire who has a grudge against her father, is certainly not Mr. Right. Cold, manipulative, and ruthless, he’s not a nice man and he doesn’t pretend to be. Kaia is fully aware that Eton is all wrong for her. Her attraction to the man is just some sort of Stockholm syndrome. Because she can't possibly have feelings for the guy who kidnapped her, right?

Deadline menikah diberikan orangtuanya saat sang adik telah lebih dulu dilamar seorang pria. Kinar yang telah menutup hati karena sering tersakiti oleh cinta masa lalunya, nasib mempertemukannya dengan Galang. Perkenalan singkat membawa hubungan Kinar dan Galang ke jenjang pernikahan. Bagaimana keduanya menjalani biduk rumah tangga akibat deadline menikah dan perkenalan singkat tersebut?

Kelebihanku adalah aku pandai mencari uang. Dengan samaran bernama Samara Gwenn, sebuah nama pena yang aku gunakan untuk bekerja sebagai ilustrator terkenal. Aku memiliki analitik persentase pekerjaan selesai sebelum tenggat waktu mencapai 80 persen. Kurangnya itu disebabkan permintaan revisi klien yang banyak maunya. Dua kehidupan yang saling berbeda ini membawa masalah dalam kehidupanku yang tenang. Sehingga aku memerlukan bantuan dari Firma Hukum Dantons, yang dikatakan terbaik seantero Republik Cina ini. Tiba-tiba saja pemilik firma tersebut ingin mengambil alih kasusku dari bawahannya. Anehnya, kontrak kerja yang ia sodorkan padaku adalah perjanjian pranikah. Ia juga pantang menyerah agar aku menyetujuinya. Padahal kasus dugaan tindak pidana atas diriku belum tuntas. Dih, apaan sih, ini orang!

Everyone knows I'm Brooke River's bootlicker—I've stuck by her side for the past ten years. Now, she's getting engaged to someone else, and everyone's waiting to see me make a fool of myself. The problem is… I already got married three years ago.

My husband, an anesthesiologist, deliberately increases the sedative dosage on an accident victim so he can get a new heart for his first love, Selena Quigley. After her operation, he cares for her and celebrates her rebirth. He only remembers to contact me after she's recovered. "It's been three months since we saw each other, honey. You shouldn't be mad anymore, right? Why don't you book a flight for tomorrow so you can come home? I'll pick you up at the airport." I won't be going home anymore, though. Not now, not forever. I've already died on his operating table.

On our wedding day, Carter Hall's father took his own life in our new home. He left a suicide note, blaming me for his death. From that day forward, Carter despised me to the core. He said, "Lindsey Thomson, you deserve to rot in hell, atoning for your sins for the rest of your life." Eventually, just as he wished, I wandered the streets, mute and half-insane, living a life worse than a stray dog. But then, he regretted it.