Family Saga

My parents' enemy kidnaps me and livestreams chopping off my fingers just to force them to show up. For a time, the entire Internet searches for my parents. But what they don't know is that the captain who appeared in the livestream is my biological father. At that moment, he's on a beach in Hashford, setting off magnificent fireworks for his adopted daughter. And on their barbecue table, the livestream of my fingers being severed is playing. Later on, when I survive long enough to be rescued, I reach out my mangled hand to touch my parents. They recoil in disgust and leave without looking back, taking the adopted daughter out for Wersole food. But they don't know that the thing hidden within my mangled palm will make them regret their actions beyond measure.

My husband and I have been married for a decade. When I finally conceive for the first time in ten years, I realize my worst enemies are my family, who all want me dead. I've made a promise to return to the fertility shrine on the mountain and fulfill my vow if things work out, but my mother-in-law deliberately messes up the cable car tickets. In the process of hiking up the mountain for two hours, I lose my baby. In the hospital, I cry to my husband about all the vicious things his mother has done to me, but he kicks me in the stomach. "I had a vasectomy a long time ago. There's no way that bastard inside you is mine!" When he hands me the proof, I'm completely speechless. I break down in tears and run back to my parents' place. Not only do my parents hire a nanny to help take care of me, but they even move out of the house so I can rest in tranquility. When I'm eight months pregnant, I overhear them whispering in the bathroom. "We can never let Gina have the baby. I don't care if it kills her—we're all screwed if the child is born!" "Relax. The doctor already told me that Gina's got leukemia from all the formaldehyde in our new house. Even the baby's deformed!" Shocked, I burst into the bathroom to confront them, but the slippery floor causes me to fall hard. Instantly, blood snakes across the tiles. As I lie there in pain, I look up and see the cold, twisted smiles on my parents' faces before taking my last breath. I cannot fathom why my family wants me dead. I thought they'd been looking forward to his baby for a decade. When I open my eyes again, I return to the very day my mother-in-law insists on taking me to the mountain.

After the college entrance exams, my parents left me at home and took their adopted daughter on a trip to the beach. A typhoon hit, and the three of them never came back. When the news reached me, I did not cry or throw a tantrum. I had their deaths registered right away and pulled out the life insurance I had bought in advance. I received one hundred million in compensation. My fiance scolded me for caring only about money. What he did not know was that I had been reborn. In my past life, after I learned about their deaths, the huge debts they had left behind fell on me. I gave up the chance to go to college and started working to pay everything back. I fought to protect our ancestral home from debt collectors. My fiance stayed with me and cheered me on when I came home late at night from delivery runs. But he never gave me a single cent to help. At thirty-five, I finally cleared every debt. On my birthday, I bought myself a ten-dollar cake to celebrate. Just as I was about to blow out the candle, the door opened. My parents and their adopted daughter, who should have died in the typhoon, walked in dressed in designer clothes. They smiled at me smugly. “Well done! We can finally believe that you aren’t greedy for money. You’ve passed the test. From today, you are qualified to be the daughter of the Jameson family.” “Jane, this brilliant idea was all thanks to you.” My adopted sister smiled. She leaned close and blew out my candle. The only light left in my twenty years of lifetime went out with it. My body gave in to exhaustion. My heart failed. I collapsed and died on the spot. When I opened my eyes again, they were about to head to the beach in the middle of the typhoon. I bought a massive accident insurance policy for them on the spot. This time, all I wanted was for them to disappear from this world forever.

My mother gave birth to a pair of twins. I, the first twin, lived with my grandmother in the countryside since I was little. My twin brother, Felix Carter, lived with our parents during the same period. After I got accepted to a high school in the city, I was finally allowed to live with my parents. I thought I could finally have a taste of the familial love I'd been yearning for. Little did I know that this was the start of my nightmares. My parents and Felix ostracized me all the time, as though I were an outsider. Heck, my status at home wasn't even comparable to that of Felix's pet dog! One day, Felix stuffed a piece of kiwi into my mouth against my will, claiming that he wanted to help me get rid of my allergy toward kiwis. I pleaded with my parents for help with great difficulty, and yet all I received were cold glances from them. "Don't be a wuss! Are we expected to quit eating kiwis because of you?" "You're allergic to kiwis? Ridiculous! You'll get used to them after eating them a few more times!" But what my family didn't know was that severe allergies are actually fatal to the patient.

I was the real son of the Lane family, lost and left outside for 27 years. A year after I was brought back, I helped the Lane family’s company break into overseas markets, tripling its annual sales. However, at the end of the year, even the outsourced janitors got a 13th-month bonus, while the fake heir gave me just 250 dollars. “The company made money, sure, but there are expenses everywhere. You’re just a low-level salesperson. All you do is talk. You should be grateful you got that much.” I could not swallow it, so I went to argue with my biological sister, the general manager. She did not even look up. “Clive didn’t do anything wrong. You don’t have much education and no core skills. You were never qualified for management bonuses.” My parents did not care either. They were too busy planning which country to take the fake heir to for the holidays. I did not argue or make a scene. I just turned around and called Lane Corporation’s biggest rival. “A salesperson who brought in 30 million dollars in the last year is looking to jump ship. Interested? I don’t have any other demands. I just want to see Lewis Corporation go under as soon as possible!”

Sagara adalah siswa cupu yang dianggap sampah di SMA Tribakti. Suatu hari dia menghilang selama satu pekan dan kembali menjadi sosok yang berbeda dari sebelumnya. Ia tangguh, menawan, dan pandai bertarung. Seketika dunia yang dulu membelakanginya menjadi berbalik menghadapnya. Namun bukan untuk itu Sagara ada di SMA Tribakti, ada satu misteri yang harus ia pecahkan. Ada seseorang yang harus dia tangkap untuk membuka tabir sehingga ia bisa kembali ke tempat asalnya, negeri Ambarwangi.

Sejak pertemuannya pertama kali setelah perpisahannya setahun lalu, membuat Sagara yang masih menyimpan kebencian pada gadis yang pernah mencapakkan dirinya tersenyum sinis. Tatapannya yang tajam memperlihatkan betapa ia ingin membalas apa yang sudah gadis itu perbuat pada dirinya. "Lets the game, Baby" gumam Sagara dengan senyum smirknya.

Di puncak kejayaannya, Sagara Wicaksana adalah mutiara Perguruan Banyu Langit, pewaris takhta yang tak tertandingi. Namun, dalam sekejap, surga itu runtuh. Ia dituduh membunuh gurunya sendiri dan dikhianati oleh sahabat yang paling ia percaya, Rangga Pradipta. Dibuang ke laut untuk mati, takdir justru menuntunnya pada Ki Jatmika—pendekar sakti yang telah lama menghilang dari dunia persilatan. Di bawah bimbingannya, Sagara mengasah diri, menelan pahitnya kesunyian, dan memupuk api dendam selama tujuh tahun. Kini, ia kembali dengan wajah baru. Satu per satu, mereka yang merenggut kehormatannya akan diburu tanpa ampun. Tujuh tahun lamanya kebencian membakar nadinya, dan kini saatnya dunia persilatan mengenal siapa dirinya yang sebenarnya. "Aku bukan Sagara yang dulu. Aku malapetaka, yang takkan berhenti sampai kalian binasa!"

Isang pangyayaring hindi niya inaasahan na naging dahilan upang magbago ang kanyang kapalaran. Pasakit, dahas, at higit sa lahat ay pagkakautang ng kanyang mga magulang ang dahilan upang siya ang maging isa sa kabayaran. Paano nga ba niya maipagtatanggol ang sarili kung siya mismo ay hindi alam kung anong dapat niyang gawin?

Immortal enemy si Drake at Blaire simula pa noong high school. Ngunit naghiwalay ang kanilang landas nang mag-aral abroad si Drake. Pero sadyang mapaglaro ang tadhana dahil naging bagong executive secretary si Blaire ni Drake ngayon. Habang magkasama silang nagtatrabaho, walang oras na hindi nagtatalo ang dalawa. Lalo pa't nakikita ni Blaire kung gaano ka playboy at kasama ang ugali nito. Kung magpalit ng babae ay parang designer outfits nito. Pero may rules ang lalaki, hindi nito kailanman pinapakialaman ang sariling mga empleyado.  Pero paano kung ang simpleng sagutan ay unti-unting mauuwi sa malalim na pagtitinginan? Hanggang saan kayang panindigan ng dalawa na hindi tuluyang masunog ng tensyon at damdamin?