Captain Phasma Face

On my third day driving for a ride-hailing app, I picked up a female passenger who was completely wasted. Early the next morning, the police knocked on my door. At the station, the woman pointed straight at my face and screamed, "It was this driver! He raped me while I was drunk in the car. I’m still bleeding down there!" Her boyfriend lunged at me, trying to punch me, but the officers restrained him. People at the station started pulling out their phones to record, shouting insults like "scumbag" and "pervert" at me. An officer who wore a gloomy face asked, "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" I calmly took off my baseball cap. I even thought about unbinding my chest. "Officer, there’s something I’m really curious about. I’m a woman. With what, exactly, would I have made her bleed?"

My new dormmate thinks my boyfriend is a player and advises me to break up with him. After I politely reject her, she gets mad and complains about me online, saying I'm love-addled brain. Her video goes viral, and the online community calls me an ingrate who doesn't know what's good for me. When I see the smug smile on my dormmate's face, I slap her without even batting an eye. "Stop acting like you're a champion for feminism when all you can think of is making yourself seem better than other women!"

I am a firefighter. A beam crashes onto me in the middle of a burning building. At the same time, my oxygen is about to run out. I writhe and struggle as much as I can to reach for my backup oxygen canister, only to feel my fingers brushing over a bottle of water instead. When I turn around, I see my wife, Leah Sawyer, giving the last backup oxygen canister to her new mentee, Roderick Wyndham. I begin calling out to her via a walkie-talkie. "Leah, I'm being pinned down right now, and my oxygen's running out! Where is the oxygen canister?" As Leah shields Roderick behind her, she replies impatiently, "I've already given it to Roderick. It's his first time inside a burning building, so he's frightened. Having an extra canister on him gives him a sense of security. "You're already a veteran firefighter, so you can just think up a way to resolve your situation. Don't go around wasting precious resources." I can feel thick smoke infiltrating my lungs at that moment. Feelings of asphyxiation soon overwhelm me. "My leg is broken, so I can't move at all! Without oxygen, I won't be able to hold out till I get rescued!" But Leah merely chortles in response. "Stop playing the pity card! Every time we're out on a mission, you're always the cowardly one who's terrified of dying! You have zero sense of dedication at all! I shouldn't have let you join the firefighting squad, to begin with! "What's the use of you clinging to the equipment? Giving it to the newbies is the best way of maximizing its value!" I can only smile bitterly in response. Using what's left of my strength, I switch to a public channel and begin reporting to the command center. "For the record, Captain Leah Sawyer deliberately tampered with the essential rescue equipment in order to protect Roderick Wyndham, causing me, a fellow firefighter, to be trapped in a deadly situation. "I hereby request the immediate activation of the Firefighter Emergency Evacuation Act. Also, I formally charge Leah with gross negligence and attempted homicide."

My brother wants to become the godson of a Mafia don. As his sister, I was picking out his burial plot. In my last life, I overheard the truth that the selection wasn’t an honor but a suicide mission—used once, then erased. I did everything I could to stop him, but he cursed me for blocking his path to power. With no other choice, I secretly called the police. So, my brother was arrested; his dream shattered. Instead, someone else took his place, and during a bloody shootout, that man proved himself. He became the don’s sole successor. Our family lost its home, paying the price for offending the Mafia. My parents and my brother went insane. Convinced everything was my fault, the three of them worked together and buried me alive in the hills behind town. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my brother excitedly announced he was going to take part in the selection. Looking at his stupid, clueless face, I smiled. This time, I’ll watch with my own eyes as he becomes nothing more than a replaceable lapdog.

We got caught in a blizzard—me, my fiancé Melvin Dunn, a few of his colleagues, including Sally Blom. Middle of the night, I woke up shaking. My heavy-duty sleeping bag—the one built for minus forty—was gone. In its place? A flimsy summer quilt. Sally was curled up in my bag, fast asleep in Melvin's arms. I shoved him hard. "Why is she in my sleeping bag?" He pulled me aside, whispering, "Keep your voice down. Sally's kinda fragile—she's about to catch a cold. You're strong. You'll be fine." I pointed at my feet, already numb. "So I'm supposed to freeze to death for you two because she's 'fragile'?" He frowned. "God, Peyton, stop being so dramatic. It's just a sleeping bag. Think about the team for once." I laughed, tears slipping down my face. Didn't say another word. Just crawled back into the corner, grabbed the sat phone, and called my brother—Captain of Stormfang Rescue, an elite international search and rescue team. "Hugh, come get me. The coordinates are... Remember—I'm alone."

Kado pernikahan harusnya bahagia, namun tidak terjadi untuk seorang Amel yang memergoki suaminya, Yuda sedang beradegan panas dengan anak dari sahabat ibu mertuanya, Rania. Sebuah penghianatan, tapi anehnya Amel-lah yang dituduh berselingkuh karena Yuda mendapatkan fotonya bersama dengan seorang laki-laki. Kemudian Amel dinyatakan mandul lalu diusir dari rumah dan diceraikan tanpa dia bisa menjelaskan apapun. Demi bertahan hidup, Amel menerima pekerjaan seorang pelayan pribadi Zack Lee—laki-laki muda yang sukses dengan bisnisnya, namun memiliki hobi aneh—senang sekali menyusu dan harus menemaninya tidur.

Sejak kelas 10, Alana diam-diam menyukai Alfa Raynard—kakak kelasnya yang dingin, pintar, dan tak terjangkau. Alfa hanya pernah punya satu mantan, dan sejak putus, ia semakin tertutup. Alana tahu perasaannya sepihak. Tapi ketika takdir mulai mempertemukan mereka dalam kebetulan-kebetulan kecil, ia mulai bertanya-tanya: apakah perasaannya benar-benar tak terlihat, atau Alfa sebenarnya menyadarinya?

Arabella atau yang biasanya dipanggil Bella adalah seorang gadis SMA yang tidak tertarik untuk berpacaran. Akibat sakit hati yang pernah ia rasakan, ia berjanji untuk tidak akan pernah jatuh cinta pada laki-laki manapun. Saat berusaha untuk tetap teguh pada pendiriannya, seorang laki-laki malah dengan berani mendekatinya. Meskipun sudah ditolak, laki-laki tersebut tidak lelah untuk mendekatinya. Akankah Bella luluh dengan ketulusan laki-laki tersebut?

Kisah ini menceritakan bagaimana perjuangan seorang gadis yang sedang ingin mengubah takdir hidupnya. Ia yang hidup dalam kemiskinan, membuatnya selalu diremehkan dan bahkan tak pernah dianggap ada. Bahkan disaat ibunya meninggal saja, ia masih harus berjuang mencari pertolongan kepada warga untuk menguburkan jasad ibunya dengan layak. Namun sayangnya, semua orang seakan buta akan keadaan hidupnya. Bagaimana kisahnya dalam melawan takdir?

Kehidupan Rafi yang tenang berubah drastis saat adiknya, Arsen, yang ternyata sedang berjuang melawan anemia kronis, memohon padanya untuk menikahi Amara, istrinya, setelah ia pergi. Arsen khawatir Amara akan kesepian dan terlantar tanpa dirinya, apalagi kini Amara sedang mengandung anak mereka. Dengan hati yang berat, Rafi dihadapkan pada permintaan yang tak terduga dan dilema besar, menerimanya demi adiknya yang sedang sekarat, atau menolaknya dan menjaga jarak dari takdir yang baru saja menyapanya. Apa yang akan dipilih Rafi?