Naga Male

After I announced my exit from the music industry, the public response was overwhelmingly positive. The only person who voiced his objection was my girlfriend's rumored lover, the up-and-coming songwriter Lucas Zacker. He put on a show of sincerity in front of a crowd of reporters. "It's all a misunderstanding. Matthew is an irreplaceable talent in the music industry. I sincerely hope he returns to the stage." I shut off my phone and turned a blind eye to his public plea. In my past life, one of my songs had been identical to his supposedly original single. As such, netizens accused me of plagiarism, cursing me and wishing death upon my family. Frustrated, I posted the entire creation process online, but it couldn't stand up to the timeline. His new song had been released ten minutes ahead of mine. Just because of the ten-minute difference, netizens sent me photoshopped mourning portraits of myself and even went so far as to come to my house and vandalize it with paint. The relentless cyberbullying went on for years, and it drove me into a deep depression. My parents exhausted their life savings trying to clear my name, only for crazed fans to set our house on fire, causing my parents to burn to death. In the end, when his song won an award, I jumped off a building. But who would have guessed that when I opened my eyes again, I was reborn on the very day the new song was set to release.

Kerajaan Alam Langit mendapatkan berkah karena kehadiran sosok Alstroemeria yang melambangkan persahabatan dan pengabdian kepada Alam Langit. Sudah bertahun - tahun ia selalu membantu Alam Langit menangani roh iblis yang berbuat onar dialam semesta. Meskipun sering membantu Alam Langit, tapi tidak ada yang pernah bertemu dengan sosok yang dijuluki sebagai Alstroemeria. Hanya bayang-bayang wanita serba hitam menggunakan cadar saja atau roh iblis yang akan dibunuh olehnya yang dapat bertemu dengannya. Kaisar sudah mencarinya kemanapun, tapi tidak menemukannya. Diyakini bahwa wanita yang dijuluki sebagai Alstroemeria ini, tidak pernah berkencan dengan mahluk dialam manapun.

Suro Joyo ingin kembali ke kerajaannya, Krendobumi. Di tengah perjalanan diserang sosok yang sama persis dengan dirinya. Bedanya, yang menyerang berpakaian warna putih, sedangkan Suro Joyo berpakaian warna merah. Suro Joyo jadi-jadian ini samaran dari Badas Wikatra. Badas Wikatra pendekar dari golongan hitam yang memiliki kesaktian luar biasa. Satu kesaktian yang membahayakan, dirinya mampu mengubah dirinya sama persis dengan Suro Joyo sejati! Sebelumnya, dengan cara menyamar sebagai Suro Joyo, Badas Wikatra membunuh Maeso Item dan Trinil Manis. Maeso Item dan Trinil Manis guru Suro Joyo. Badas Wikatra juga telah membunuh kedua orang tua Suro Joyo, Agung Paramarta dan Niken Sari, serta para punggawa Kerajaan Krendobumi. Dalam pertarungan melawan Badas Wikatra, Suro Joyo hampir tewas. Dia ditolong Ki Tambung Bumandala. Pendekar yang dijuluki Pendekar Bisu. Suro Joyo digembleng berbagai ilmu dan kesaktian di Padepokan Carang Giring. Suro Joyo juga menapatkan Mantra Sakti Pemanggil Tombak Bowong warisan dari Maeso Item dan Trinil Manis. Setelah dirasa cukup menguasai ilmu dari Pendekar Bisu, Suro Joyo pamit ke Krendobumi untuk menumpas Badas Wikatra dan pengikutnya. Suro Joyo siap mengembalikan rakyat Krendobumi kembali ke masa kejayaan, makmur, dan sejahtera. Masa kejayaan untuk rakyat jelata, bukan untuk para punggawa. Suro Joyo tahu, melawan Badas Wikatra itu sama saja bunuh diri. Ilmu yang dimiliki Suro Joyo tak seberapa dibandingkan Badas Wikatra. Namun Suro Joyo siap bertaruh jiwa demi menegakkan keadilan dan kebenaran di alam semesta. ***

“Do you take this woman to be your wife? For richer or poorer, in sickness and health, will you remain faithful to her for the rest of your life?” I looked at Bridget with deep affection and was just about to speak. “Wait!” shouted someone urgently. I turned around in confusion and looked toward the audience. There stood a man holding a baby in his arms. He said pleadingly, “Bridget, our child is hungry… could we pause the wedding for a moment?” Hearing this, everyone erupted in an uproar. It felt like a bolt of lightning had struck me. Only then did I realize that Bridget had a child with another man. Bridget hurried off the stage, then turned to me coldly and said, “I only agreed to marry you out of obligation. But the moment Vernon appeared, I knew it. There’s no one else I want to marry but him.” So, she took off the ring and dragged the man away without looking back. I stood alone at the end of the aisle and clutched the undelivered ring in my hand, as a flood of bitterness crashed through every corner of my heart.

My wife, Charlene Weber, has taken me to the Scumbag Court. If I'm found guilty, all my assets will be taken from me, and I'll face 10 years of imprisonment. Charlene, on the other hand, will get to marry her ideal man—Joel Quinlan—as she wishes. If I'm acquitted of all charges, Charlene will be made to divorce me without alimony. She'll also be cursed with bad luck and disfigured so badly she'll be the ugliest woman in the world. Conversely, I'll be given 10 million dollars in reparations and gain a lifetime's worth of good luck. Everyone is advising me to admit to my mistakes, but only because Charlene has always been a virtuous, devoted wife in their eyes. They think that there must surely be some complicated grievances between us at the moment. However, they are unaware that I've been reborn. This time, I'm going to tear off Charlene's mask of hypocrisy.

After four years of marriage, I decide to get a divorce. Why? Because my wife doesn't love me. She loves her childhood sweetheart. I disappear after leaving behind a divorce agreement—I give her my blessings in her search for true love. But after I'm gone, she searches the world for me like she's lost her mind.

The day Jessica Smith and I went to pick out our wedding rings, her long-lost first love unexpectedly returned to town. When we went to pick him up from the airport, she introduced me to him, saying, "This is Sebastian Grant, a friend." Jessica made it clear that I wasn't her fiancé. She even went a step further and called off our engagement party scheduled for the next day. Just when she thought I would fight and insist on marrying her, I suddenly said in relief, "Your best friend previously wanted to hook up with me, you know? And honestly, I was kind of interested."

My wife, Rochelle Willoughby, went on a business trip for five months. When I picked her up at the airport, she showed up with her true love instead. I noticed her baby bump and was about to ask some questions, but she shoved me away like I was some disgusting piece of trash. "Don't touch me with your grubby hands. I'm pregnant with Samuel's baby. If you hurt it somehow, I'll kill you!" Then, she gently held Samuel Riverson's hand. "You must be exhausted. Let's go home." She left me at the airport without so much as a glance. I saw them off and quietly rubbed the part Rochelle shoved. Then, I contacted my divorce lawyer. Ten years. This marriage finally came to an end.

I had been the company's top sales performer—the kind who brought in tens of millions in revenue. But just because I hadn't praised my boss' girlfriend in the company group chat, she fired me without hesitation and replaced me with her cousin. Not long after, the company's sales dropped straight to zero. That was when she had come to my door on her own to apologize. "Please, come back," she had begged. "My boyfriend said he'll break up with me if you don't return."

In my fifth year of teaching at a rural school in Mount Dalon, Melissa Snow shows up with her first love by her side. "Have you had enough of this miserable life? Go apologize, and after I'm married, I might still support you. Otherwise, stay here and rot as a lonely, broke schoolteacher." People around us begin to whisper, acting like I've been handed my golden ticket out of the impoverished area and should be falling to my knees in gratitude. I simply smile. "Teaching here suits me just fine. Besides, I'm married."