Jiraiya Sage Mode

La septième année de son mariage, Évelyne Lavigne a découvert que son mari avait un fils de six ans. Ce jour-là, cachée derrière le toboggan de la maternelle, elle a observé Martial Thiers se pencher pour prendre dans ses bras un petit garçon joueur : « Papa, ça fait tellement longtemps que tu n'es pas venu me voir ! » « Noah, je suis désolé. Le travail a été intense. Sois sage et écoute bien ta maman, d'accord ? » Ces mots l'ont foudroyée sur place, son esprit est devenu soudainement vide. Devant elle, les deux silhouettes, l'une grande, l'autre petite, avec leurs visages étrangement similaires, lui criaient la vérité : l'homme qui lui avait juré un amour éternel l'avait trahie depuis des années ! Pourtant, ils avaient grandi ensemble, s'aimant depuis l'enfance. Elle s'est souvenue comment elle avait pris un coup de couteau pour le sauver, perdant leur enfant à naître… et jusqu'à sa propre fertilité... À l'époque, agenouillé à son chevet, les yeux rougis, il lui avait juré : « Je me moque des enfants ! Toi, et seulement toi, es ce qui compte pour moi ! » Sa voix tremblante résonnait encore dans sa mémoire, mais maintenant, cette scène réduisait tous ces serments en poussière !

Pagkatapos ng tatlong taon na pagsasama, hindi inaasahan ni Avi na aalukin pa rin siya ni Silvestre ng divorce. “Can we... not get a divorce?” Pagmamakaawa niya. Mahal na mahal niya si Silvestre. Iniwan niya ang lahat at pinili ang lalaki sa kagustuhan na makasama ito. Ngunit bigo pa rin siya, pagkatapos ng tatlong taon, mahal pa rin nito ang dating kasintahan na si Arsen. At ngayon na bumalik na si Arsen, nais na siya nitong hiwalayan. Pain, betrayal and regrets were three powerful emotions. Iyon ang nagtulak kay Avi para pumirma sa divorce agreement at tuluyang iwan si Silvestre. Ngunit lingid sa kaalaman ng lalaki, si Avi pala ay isang mayaman at spoiled na anak ng chairman ng AMC Group! Her real name is Aeverie Dawn Cuesta, daughter of David Cuesta and spoiled sister of Rafael, Uriel and Sage Cuesta! Kinalimutan niya ang marangyang buhay dahil sa pagmamahal kay Silvestre. Ngunit dahil sa ginawa ng lalaki, napagdesisyunan ni Avi na bumalik sa dati niyang pagkatao. Gone the sweet-spoken and loving Avi, hello again to the secret millionaire and spoiled Aeverie Dawn Cuesta! Anong mangyayari kung muling pagtagpuin ang landas ni Silvestre at Aeverie? Paano kung ang dating walang thrill na Avi ay biglang naging drop-dead-gorgeous and unstoppable Aeverie? Paano kung huli na para malaman ni Silvestre na nahulog na pala siya sa dati niyang asawa? At paano kung nabalot na ng yelo ang puso ni Aeverie at hindi na nito kayang magmahal muli?

'THE BIG FOUR': Steven Chase Baron Sage Iphan Carter Kane Richmond A group of gangsters who for their own interests, build up a conglomerate with the label, 'X-HABIT'. Their activities are no different from vices, but their main aim is to keep the money rolling in, Kaching! Kaching! In hard, hard currency. Betrayed by one of them, the conglomerate fades into fragments of two: X-HABIT and ICE, syndicates of their own, tugging at each other's throats. Steven's regime faces out, but he leaves behind an heir, who continues the game: shuffling, dealing and cutting cards, playing tit for tat. The heir? He's Adrian Chase. A drop dead gorgeous billionaire, an Adonis and New York's shaker. Out of the blue comes 'THE MEN', a rival who watches Adrian keenly and has eyes on everything he's got. This only lengthens the saga, creating another pile of screwed up shit. Aside from Adrian's lethal life, he's got an allergy - WOMEN. Only a quartet add up to his living: his daughter, his step sister, his step mother and his nanny. The rest are no lesser than muddle-headed, fatuous bitches. Well, there's that 'bitch', a naive Megan Stones whose world crumbles when the cold jaws of death snatch her parents away, leaving her with a mouth to feed. She is a college drop-out who's a waitress and a washer-up by day, a stripper at night. Fate punches some buttons, Chase and Stone happen to meet. Strings are pulled and sparks fly. She quenches his allergy and ignites in him, an addiction: HERSELF. Their love story has its fair share of thorns but after many times of falling and rising, they solemnize their love in holy matrimony. After tons of games, gut flaunting and bloodbaths by these rival syndicates, X-HABIT is ascribed the glory.

Quand mon mari a voulu pour la centième fois me menacer de divorce pour que je me sacrifie pour ma sœur. Je n'ai ni pleuré ni crié, j'ai simplement signé mon nom sur les papiers du divorce. J'ai moi-même offert cet homme que j'avais aimé pendant dix ans à ma sœur. Quelques jours plus tard, ma sœur a tenu des propos insolents lors d'un banquet et elle a offensé une famille puissante. J'ai de nouveau pris toute la responsabilité sur moi et j'ai supporté toutes les conséquences à sa place. Même quand ils ont proposé que je sois le cobaye du médicament mis au point pour ma sœur, j'ai accepté sans hésiter. Papa et maman ont dit que j'étais enfin devenue sage et raisonnable. Même mon mari, si froid d'ordinaire, s'est tenu près de mon lit et a caressé ma joue avec douceur en disant : « N'aie pas peur, l'expérience ne mettra pas ta vie en danger. Quand tu sortiras, je te préparerai un bon dîner. » Mais il ne savait pas que, dangereux ou non, il ne m'attendrait jamais plus. Parce que j'étais atteinte d'une maladie incurable et que j'allais mourir très bientôt.

Sage Casey Ember-Brooks, who goes by Casey, is a fast-food worker and aspiring fantasy novelist whose ordinary life crumbles when mysterious strangers ask cryptic questions about her dragon series. Her recurring dreams of golden coins suddenly make terrifying sense when Marcus Chen—a businessman with eyes that flash gold—reveals that dragons are real, living hidden among humans for centuries. Casey's unnaturally accurate fantasy writing stems from awakening genetic memories. She's a rare "Convergence" bloodline capable of harmonising opposing elemental forces. The revelation comes at a critical time: a new cryptocurrency called DragonCoin, featuring symbols identical to her dreams, creates magical interference that weakens concealment spells protecting dragon society. At the Crossroads shopping complex where she works, disruptions cause dragons to flicker between human and true forms in full view of witnesses. Caught between Marcus (a traditionalist who wants to hide her with the Dragon Council) and the enigmatic Xaihuang (who advocates ending the masquerade entirely), Casey discovers an underground chamber housing ancient dragon artifacts. When she touches a magical coin, visions reveal three futures: chaotic revelation leading to war, continued concealment resulting in magical extinction, or a mysterious third path of integration. Casey realises DragonCoin wasn't created to expose dragons, but by another awakening hybrid like herself—someone in Seattle whose unconscious dragon heritage channels ancient power through modern technology. As magical concealment fails worldwide and dragons begin manifesting publicly, Casey must race across the country to find this unknown programmer before the interference between magic and technology tears reality apart. The story explores themes of identity, integration versus assimilation, and the collision between ancient power and digital-age innovation. With her awakening abilities growing stronger and the masquerade crumbling around her, Casey faces a choice that will determine her fate and the future relationship between the hidden magical world and human civilisation.

In my previous life, my Alpha mate hated me for ten years because his childhood sweetheart committed suicide by taking silver poison after he marked me. I worked tirelessly to fulfill my duties as his Luna, enduring his indifference with patience. But all he ever did was sneer coldly at me. "How I wish it had been you who died instead." The words pierced my heart like silver claws. But when the rogue wolves invaded our territory, he still threw himself in front of me to take the killing blow. As he lay dying in my arms, he used what little strength remained to push away my hand that was trying to comfort him. "Sage," he whispered, "if only I had never met you in this lifetime..." At his funeral, the pack elders wept uncontrollably. "Alpha Kieran, this is all our fault. We never should have forced you to bond with your fated mate. If we had honored your wishes and let you bind with Elena instead, would today's outcome have been different?" Even the Alpha King, who had once supported our union, no longer stood by me. Nearly every pack member blamed me. "The Alpha saved you three times. He was such a good man. Why did you always bring him nothing but disaster? Why wasn't it you who died instead?" Everyone regretted that Kieran had bonded with me. Even I regretted it. Finally, unable to bear the pain any longer, I ended my own life before the Moon Goddess's statue with the silver dagger Kieran had given me. But the Moon Goddess granted me another chance, sending me back to before Kieran and I were bonded. This time, I decided to fulfill Kieran's wishes, give up my status as his fated mate, and leave completely to make everyone happy.

Claire Morel avait un mariage au-dessus de sa condition, mais cette ascension était comme un poignard dans le cœur. Mariée depuis sept ans à Gabriel Morel, un homme imprévisible, elle n'était à ses yeux qu'une ombre, ignorée, traitée avec une indifférence glaciale. Elle gardait l'espoir qu'un jour, après la tempête, le ciel serait clair et que sa vie serait enfin complète et heureuse. Sous une neige tourbillonnante, lors d'un anniversaire que seule elle retenait, elle a enfin compris : toute cette famille était liée par le sang, tandis qu'elle restait à jamais une étrangère, une étrangère sans lien. Son mari lui en voulait d'avoir brisé le mariage arrangé qu'il avait depuis l'enfance avec son amie d'enfance, et leur fils ne manquait jamais une occasion de lui rappeler qu'elle ne ferait jamais le poids face à cette figure idéalisée que son père avait toujours aimée. Son mari et son fils l'ont trahie pour une autre femme, qu'ils ont traitée comme un membre de la famille. Face à ce chaos absurde, elle a senti son cœur se réduire en cendres et a demandé le divorce. Elle a renoncé à la garde de son enfant et a opéré une métamorphose impressionnante, devenant une créatrice de mode internationale renommée, ainsi qu'une peintre de génie. Ses œuvres, rares et précieuses, étaient très recherchées par de nombreuses célébrités. Pourtant, alors qu'elle a renoncé, son mari et son fils refusaient de la laisser partir. Son fils pleurait en criant : « Tu es ma maman ! Tu ne peux pas prendre un autre enfant dans tes bras ! » Et même son mari, d'ordinaire si distant, a commencé à lui coller aux basques, refusant catégoriquement le divorce : « C'est toi qui m'as choisi en premier, alors tu dois aller jusqu'au bout ! Divorce ? N'y pense même pas ! »

16 year old Scarlet Paine finds herself changing in mysterious ways. She is becoming sensitive to light, able to read peoples’ thoughts, and is faster and stronger than she’s ever been. She doesn’t understand what’s happening to her, and tries to ignore it. But she can only dismiss it for so long.

Caitlin Paine, her mom, knows too well what’s happening to her daughter. She underwent the same transformation to vampire once, centuries ago. But now, in the present day, as a mere human, she has no memory of it. All she has is the journal she found in the attic—her mysterious vampire journal—telling of her exploits in another time and place, and of the vampire race being eradicated. But was there one exception to the rule? Could it be that Scarlet, her daughter, is the last remaining vampire on earth?

As Scarlet tries to fight who she’s becoming, she also tries to fight her intense feelings for Blake, a boy in her grade who she has a crush on. She can’t tell, though, if he’s into her, and with the big Halloween dance just days away, the pressure is on. She would do anything for Blake to ask her. But Vivian, the meanest of the popular girls, is also on Blake’s radar, and she’ll do anything to make Blake hers—and to make Scarlet’s life a living hell.

Luckily Scarlet has her own clique of friends to back her up, including her best friends Maria and Jasmin. They, too, have guy troubles—but it isn’t until Sage appears, the mysterious new boy, that her friends become obsessed. Scarlet finds herself attracted to him, too—and is surprised when it is her, of all the girls in the school, that he pays attention to. But her mind is set on Blake, at least for now, and she continues to hope he’ll ask her to the dance.

Just when it seems that Scarlet has what she wants, her body changes. Soon it may be impossible for her to be near her fellow humans. Soon, she may have to choose between her desire to live and her desire for love.

The day before our mating ceremony, my Alpha mate suddenly demanded I give him five hundred thousand dollars. "You're just an Omega. Even if you're pregnant, you have no right to become the pack's Luna. But our pack is facing a financial crisis right now. We don't have enough weapons or healing supplies. If you can provide funding, the pack might accept a generous Luna who contributes to our survival." To help me, Dad emptied his entire life savings: "I'm old now. Seeing you happy is enough for me. I understand Damon's position as the pack's Alpha. This money—I'll pay it for you." But shortly after the mating ceremony, Dad was sent by my mate to the frontline battlefield to fight rogue wolves. He was severely injured in combat. I couldn't afford the expensive healing herbs he needed. I had no choice Damon Blackwood to help me save my father's life. I never expected his account balance to show only a few dollars! I demanded answers. He accused me of scheming against him and dragged me straight to the pack healer to force an abortion. "You just became Luna and you're already plotting against me? Think having my pup gives you power over me? Let me tell you the truth—I don't lack women willing to bear my children!" I worked every job I could find and borrowed money from everyone I knew. But I still couldn't afford those expensive herbs. The day Dad died, I couldn't even buy him a decent burial plot in the pack cemetery. On my way home from the funeral, I saw Damon with another woman in a luxury jewelry store, selecting expensive pieces. "Turns out all Omegas are the same—always scheming. I thought Sage was different from other women. Didn't realize she was just another gold-digger trying to climb the social ladder by becoming Luna. I guess I lost this bet. Pick any gemstone you want, baby. I'm buying." But when I finally gave up and turned to leave for good, he broke down crying and begged me not to go.