Imperfect Pearls Novels & Stories

My pulse quickens as I wait for him to say more. "Bali was a good place for that," he continues. "Do you know the story about pearls?" I shake my head, clueless about what he meant. "Pearls form in deep water, preventing the mollusk from being hurt by a foreign object," he says. "Growing and protecting it, which creates pearl over time." I raise my brow, not expecting him to know about jewellery. But then, is there anything that this guy doesn't know about? "There's so much about purity and strength behind it." Prince wraps his arms around my waist from behind and kisses my cheek as we look into the mirror. "Just like you, Ches. So pure, so beautiful. And you gave me the strength I didn't kn

"Work hard. There is no useless person like you around me." Jean gritted her teeth. She wondered how he could hit her through the screen. Have to admit, he was so rich. It was an excellent ocean golden pearl with dazzling light and a diameter of 10 millimeters. Such a pearl was extremely expensive in the market. Jean wanted to reach out secretly to pick up the pearls. "As long as you don't want your hand, just pick them up." The man's lazy voice made Jean's hand stop immediately. She cursed him in her heart and laughed, "I'm afraid someone will step on them and fall down."

Does she have the time to feel true love and have him as her King? When your life is already planned ahead of you, do you really have a choice to change it? When you’re born with a tiara on your head, do you really think you have the chance to correct and perfect your imperfections? Probably not.

“Look, you are too smart. I could not just do something that… you would expect. You didn’t know about the purple pearls. You did not look for them before Rezef could since you had no idea they existed. There is no reason for you to find some purple pearls and think that they belong to me and Rezef would recognize them.” “How were you so sure that Rezef would use that path?” he asked. “Rezef is not dumb. He would know immediately that I was not in the estate of House Silverclaw. That’s why he would look elsewhere. I started dropping the pearls since the beginning of our journey. Purple pearls are rare in this kingdom. Not just anyone can have them. I knew that Rezef would find the first pearl

This may sound simple, the pearl was right there after all. It’s a pity that life is never that kind. The pearls were tiny, approximately 5mm in diameter. Any bright person would know the difficulty of smashing something so small. Plus, Celestials could retract these pearls as a last resort. However, the pearls could only be retracted for a full 5 seconds, and after that, this technique remained unavailable to them until a period of twelve hours had elapsed. One could only keep their pearls fully retracted, after a breakthrough into the Heavenly Realm.

Gems would never stand her up on a Saturday night. "If left in the ground without proper protection, pearls will decay, just like any other organic material. They are far more delicate than the gemstones." She felt silly rambling to this stranger. This was why she didn't have a boyfriend. They always said she talked too much about her work and never focused on them. They acted like it was her fault that she'd never really been that into them or their relationships. The man slowly turned to face her, and she was struck by his green eyes, so bright, like emeralds.

I grabbed onto my bed sheets and shut my eyes. "You're wet for me baby," he teased softly and in a voice that made me even wetter than I already was. I shivered as I released my hold on the sheets and moved my hands underneath his shirt, removing it and taking in his perfect fit. Why everything about this man has to be so damn perfect?

"Alright. I'll try it, but I'll only try it once. Don't expect me to wear this thing out there. I don't want people to think I'm wearing something cheap." Caraline walked over to the mirror, scrutinizing her appearance from top to bottom. "Deric is such a pushover. He forced me to wear the earrings he gave me. He should be grateful that I'm willing to wear these things. Don't blame me if I throw them away after I try them on." Caraline took a step back, taking stock of her appearance. The blue crystals were truly beautiful, especially when they caught the light. "This... kind of suits me."

The box clicked open. Inside was a single, heavy, black pearl. It wasn't beautiful; it was terrifying. It pulsed with a weight that made the entire tower groan. It was the regret of the First Auditor, the man who had traded his own immortality to keep the world from ending, only to realize that by doing so, he had created the Shop that would eventually consume it. I picked up the pearl. The moment it touched my palm, I was hit by a tidal wave of grief. I saw every mother who had lost a child, every soldier who had died for a lie, every lover who had been forgotten. The weight was unbearable. I fell to my knees, the floor cracking beneath me.

“When I observed the astronomical phenomena at night, I noticed unusual movements in the sky of the Wasteland. A few days ago, the heavenly dog and the golden-winged condor were suspected of manifesting and attacked the force field of the Wasteland. Someone must have entered it at this moment... I suspect Wilnas ended up dead probably because he encountered the universe’s powerhouses that had entered the Wasteland. “Patriarch, please use the Rewinding Pearl to check my son’s last memory before his death. After watching it, I’m willing to take a hundred black-clothed guards and cross the Endless Sea again to find opportunities for the Fourcade family.” When he spoke to that extent, the patria