Karma

Le jour où mon père et son ex sont apparus à un gala et sont devenus un sujet brûlant sur les réseaux, tout le monde se moquait de ma mère. Elle avait sacrifié une brillante carrière pour entrer dans une famille puissante, mais après trente ans, elle n'avait ni statut ni reconnaissance. Elle n'avait même pas le courage de reprocher quoi que ce soit à la maîtresse. Après une crise de larmes, ma mère m'a regardée, épuisée. « C'est lui qui m'a trahie en premier, alors je ne veux plus de lui. » « Rosalie, tu veux partir avec moi ? » C'est à ce moment-là que j'ai reçu un message de mon copain, avec qui j'étais depuis sept ans. « Rosalie, ce n'est qu'un papier à signer. Tu peux rester ma copine, non ? » Je suis restée silencieuse quelques secondes, puis j'ai hoché la tête. Alors, le jour même de leur mariage, ma mère et moi avons disparu dans l'incendie de la villa.

Selama enam tahun pernikahan, aku pikir aku sudah menjadi wanita yang paling bahagia karena punya suami yang bertanggung jawab dan sangat baik. Ketika aku sakit, dia merawatku dengan penuh perhatian dan tidak pernah memintaku untuk melakukan pekerjaan rumah sampai aku benar-benar sembuh. Jangankan menyentuhku dengan kasar, membentak pun tidak pernah dia lakukan, dan aku sangat bahagia mempunyai suami sepertinya karena kebanyakan suaminya temanku sudah bermain kasar. Namun nyatanya mimpiku hancur seketika, ternyata dia tidak hanya baik padaku, tapi juga kepada seorang wanita yang selama ini dia sembunyikan, dan mereka akan menikah dalam jang....

Orlando and I had been together for ten years. I'd looked after his sick mom, sweating out a fever of my own, and where was he? Knocking back drinks with Rosalind, playing therapist to her broken heart. I swallowed my pride at work, getting chewed out by my boss, while he spent the night companying Rosalind because she had cramps. Then, when I got the news my mom had passed, I tried calling him, desperate for support. But nope—phone off. After a wild goose chase, turns out he was at Rosalind's graduation. That was it. I gave up. But Orlando wouldn't let go. Red-eyed, he begged me for just one more chance.

When my mother-in-law was poisoned and clinging to life, my toxicology knowledge was her only hope. I ended the call and grabbed my coat, ready to rush to the hospital. My husband blocked my path. "Hold on! It's the opening of Ella's haunted castle today. You're bailing to play ghost?" I stared at him, telling him about the dire situation. The poison needed to be neutralized within thirty minutes, or it would be fatal. He rolled his eyes. "Your janitor mom can drop dead for all I care. I'll toss some Monopoly money on her grave if it shuts you up. Don't try to cross me here." His best female friend draped herself over him. "In a hurry to chase some side guy? Girl, your face is longer than Herbert's when he is all revved up. Right, buddy?" Their shamelessness was almost laughable. The kicker? Herbert thought it was my mom dying.

When my body was being dismembered, my fiance was helping my cousin choose her wedding dress. When he received my distress call, he said with disgust, "I hope you never come back! You can die with the bastard in your womb! Don't ever call me again. The mentioning of your name makes me sick!" After that, he found a body part of me in a water tank on the rooftop of a hotel. He thought it was a prank, so he actually ordered white lilies and candles to be delivered to my doorstep. Only when he found my head buried in the grass under his feet on the day of our wedding did he realize that it wasn't a prank.

Arman, 33 tahun, seorang manajer di perusahaan meubel harus lembur untuk mendapatkan uang lebih karena merencanakan liburan akhir bulan. Tapi belum waktunya pulang dari Kantor, Asha (7 tahun) menelepon nya dan mengatakan bahwa Siska (30 tahun) , ibunya menjadi setan. Arman pun tidak jadi lembur dan memilih untuk pulang ke rumah nya. Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi kemudian adalah terungkapnya sebuah rahasia dan kejahatan yang sudah dilakukan oleh Siska, sang istri.

Aku disiram segelas air oleh klien, tubuhku gemetar saat menghadapi makiannya, sementara Raisa Gunawan memeluk asistennya sambil menatapku dengan dingin. "Yoga, hal kecil seperti ini saja nggak bisa kamu selesaikan. Perusahaan nggak butuh pemalas!" Aku menyeka air di wajahku, mengambil gelas dan menenggaknya sekaligus. Lalu, tanpa ragu, aku menuang segelas lagi dan menyiramkannya balik! Siapa yang mau bekerja di sini, silakan ambil alih. Aku nggak peduli lagi!

Baik, tampan, dan bertanggung jawab ternyata masih tak cukup untuk wanita yang haus akan uang, uang, dan uang. Wildan dikhianati Ratih–sang istri–karena ia miskin, tak seperti mantan kekasih Ratih yang bisa membelikan apa yang diinginkan wanita. Namun, siapa sangka jika status Wildan yang sesungguhnya malah terkuak ketika ia telah menyandang status duda dan bekerja sebagai seorang sopir pribadi. Ternyata ia bukan sopir biasa. Ia adalah ....

The intern my husband brings home feeds our son hard liquor. My husband merely says I'm making a mountain out of a molehill when he finds out. Ultimately, our son dies. After his death, I leave the country to be with my parents. That's when my husband regrets everything.

It was only after my boyfriend, Julian Mercer, received his HIV diagnosis that he finally understood what his childhood friend, Luna Sullivan, truly meant by "life and death together". In my previous life, after Julian collapsed from anemia, Luna insisted on donating blood to him. I fought with everything I had to stop it. I told him that Luna had already contracted HIV. If she donated blood to him, he would be infected as well. He refused to believe me. Luna cried and swore that she had never even had a boyfriend. To prove her innocence, she climbed onto the rooftop and pretended she was going to jump to her death. However, she slipped. She missed her footing and fell to her death from the building. To avenge her, Julian conspired with our classmates to kidnap me. He strangled me with his own hands. I still remember his furious roar. "This is all because of your slander! You killed Luna! I will make you pay for her life!" When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day of the blood transfusion. I watched as Julian lay there, already receiving blood from his beloved Luna. I smiled faintly. HIV? Fine.