Hard Times Create Strong Men

In the second year of my marriage to Jeffery Sadler, he brought a young woman home. When his eyes met mine, Jeffery smiled carelessly and said, "Naomi, perhaps you should try it too." He added, "After all, young and energetic people are truly different." I knew he was only testing me; he had always enjoyed tormenting and toying with me. But what he didn't know was that this time, I was genuinely tempted. Later, as he stared at the fresh scratch marks on the "young person's" waist and abdomen, his eyes blazed red with anger. "Naomi Sloan," he growled, “Who gave you the audacity to actually take this seriously?”

Michelle sat in silence in the corner of the room, covered in wounds. Her white dress had now turned red as blood. Her hands held the part that squeezed between her groin, a pain she could not endure after serving her master's lust as a slave girl. The life of that nineteen-year-old girl truly felt like hell. Until Damien, a noble-class vampire, a ruler known to be very cruel and respected, comes and saves her. But instead of getting a worse life, Michelle is treated more nobly than a princess. What is the true identity of the noble-class vampire with the title 'Sir Damien Blackheart'? Why could he be so kind to Michelle, a human slave who was even considered the lowest slave among the other slaves? And what secret is Damien keeping that the other vampire nobles don't know?

The emergency center I worked in went haywire as the typhoon closed in on our town. That night, my husband’s first love made seven emergency calls in a row to me. However, she did not say anything when I picked up. By the eighth call, I thought it was a prank caller, so I gave them a piece of my mind. Then, I heard my husband’s angry voice. “Melinda! This is the eighth time Sadie's called you for help! Haven’t you made her suffer enough?!” After that fiasco, he decided to avenge Sadie by taping my mouth, tying my wrists and legs up, and throwing me into our basement for three whole days, despite it being flooded with seawater, I begged for mercy, but it was to no avail. “You knew Sadie couldn’t talk because she hurt her throat, yet you still hung up on her! I'm going to make sure you feel the same hopelessness she felt!" Those three days left me with a collection of severe infections. I ended up having to remove my kidney. Even after all that, that man still had the gall to kneel by my bed and beg me to give him another chance.

My mother was the best portrait artist in the police station. She had a strong sense of justice and brooked no evil. However, all I got was a sharp retort when I called her to save me. "You know it's your sister's coming-of-age celebration today, and you're cursing her? Kidnapped, are you? Fine, the kidnappers can kill you for all I care." She assumed it was a prank call. So, she refused to go to the police station and do her job. I wasn't saved in time and was tortured to death. When the DNA report came out, she came to the scene all wobbly. She drew a portrait of me with my bones as reference, her hand trembling all the way. "Jessica? It can't be her. This is a mistake!" She tried again and again. Yet, it didn't matter how many times she redid it as the portrait showed my face. My mother, who had hated me my whole life, teared up.

When I died with a smile on my face, right before my brother's eyes, he looked as if the anguish might tear him apart. Yet, for twenty-one years, he hadn't stopped wishing I would meet this exact end. It all traced back to my fifth birthday—the day I had innocently hoped our parents would come home from their business trip to celebrate with me. They rushed back that night but never made it. A car accident took both their lives. From that moment on, my brother resented me, despised me. He didn't just stand idly by as our cousin snatched up my work as her own; he encouraged it. And when my landlord threw me out, it wasn't a random cruelty—it was my brother pulling the strings. All he had ever wanted, from the very beginning, was to see me die a miserable death. But when he finally got his wish… why did he cry, pleading for me to come back, begging me to call him 'brother' one last time?

After a team building event, my colleague, Matthew Wells, gives me a ride to the company so I can work overtime. That very night, his girlfriend throws a fit and claims I'm a homewrecker who tried to seduce Matthew. She even produces edited photos of us being intimate. The company's management speaks to Matthew and me—he claims I regularly harass him and pushes the blame on me. The management labels me as a troublemaker and fires me. My apprentice tries to speak up for me but gets bullied and sidelined. Ultimately, she quits out of depression. I charge over to the company to seek justice for my apprentice but accidentally get pushed down a staircase during an argument. I land with my head on the ground and die on the spot. When I open my eyes again, I'm reborn and taken back to when Matthew's girlfriend starts throwing a fit.

Alexandros I am the third son of the billionare, Greg Ruffalo. Ever since i was young, I could get whatever or whoever I wanted. Everything to me is just like a toy that I can play and dispatch it after i get tired of it. But then everything changed when I first saw her, The image of her face, Her pinkish lips, The warmth of her body in my arms And I want her... But she doesn't want me. And I'll do everything just to have her. Elaine Kayod dito, kayod doon. Hindi uso sa akin ang pahinga lalo na't sa akin nakaasa ang pamilya ko. Pero kahit dalawa na ang trabaho ko ay hindi padin sapat ang nakukuha kong sahod. Kaya ng magkaroon ako ng pagkakataon na makapasok sa Millionare Men's Club, isang private club na para lang sa mayayaman ay ginawa ko ang lahat para makapag trabaho sa loob dahil malaki ang sahod. Trabaho lang ang habol ko, Pero hindi ko akalain na magugulo ng isang lalaki ang tahimik kong buhay.

Adhira, murid SMA yang jago matematika itu harus terjerat berbagai kasus demi mengungkap kematian kedua orang tuanya. Sebuah undangan rapat rahasia dari aliansi keluarga konglomerat datang padanya. Dari sana Adhira pun tahu bahwa dia ternyata juga putra seorang pengusaha berlian merah yang kaya raya. Namun setiap kali petunjuk baru muncul, para saksi mata satu per satu mati. Di usianya yang keenam belas tahun, Adhira terjerat kasus pemerkosaan yang menyeret dirinya ke penjara dan mengalami banyak siksaan. Penderitaan yang tak terelakkan itu membawa Adhira pada kenyataan bahwa orang-orang yang selama ini terlihat begitu luhur dan agung tak lebih dari orang-orang keji yang menggunakan segala cara demi mendapatkan keinginannya. (PERINGATAN: cerita mengandung adegan seksual eksplisit, kekerasan fisik dan seksual, percintaan sesama jenis. Mohon jadi pembaca bijak)

Kesialan Hifa bermula ketika tanpa sengaja dia memilih wahana internship dan bertemu dengan Ifan, musuh bebuyutannya yang angkuh dan menyebalkan. Ifan selalu menindasnya pada saat menjalani stase klinik dulu. Yang lebih parah, Hifa harus jaga bersama Ifan selama bertugas di rumah sakit. Meskipun begitu, Hifa memiliki dokter pendamping bernama Gatta yang begitu baik padanya. Namun, persiteruan hebat yang kerap terjadi secara perlahan meruntuhkan benteng pertikaian di antara mereka. Ifan menyelamatkannya dan Hifa menyembuhkan cedera masa lalunya. Akar kebencian pudar dan benih cinta tumbuh. Kedekatan yang asing ini pada akhirnya mampu mempersatukan mereka dalam perputaran roda yang seirama.

Tempat apa ini? Tidak pernah ada dunia seunik ini. Nod ingat terakhir kali dia hanyut di laut saat ombak menerjang kapalnya. Seorang gadis berusia delapan tahun itu menyelamatkannya dari kematian dan membawanya menjelajahi dunia di dasar samudera yang menyimpan sejuta misteri. Namun pesona Luxavar pudar saat dia tahu para atlic yang menghuni Luxavar ini telah membantai para manusia. Nod juga yakin istrinya yang menghilang di lautan itu pernah berada di tempat ini. Keingintahuan Nod mengukuhkan tekadnya untuk menyingkap rahasia mengerikan akan kematian kaum manusia dari penindasan para pemimpin Luxavar. Akankah dia berhasil menemukan sang istri tercinta? Dapatkan dia membebaskan manusia daratan yang tertawan di Luxavar dari kematian? Apakah gadis kecil yang sudah berkali-kali menolongnya itu akan mengkhianatinya? Trilogi Luxavar Luxavar I (Negeri di Dasar Samudera) Luxavar II (Wabah Ercendia Troub) Luxavar III (Pertarungan Terakhir)