Nightmare Ban Ban

“Jangan berani nyentuh gue, dasar cowok sombong! Sok pintar banget!” -Brylea “Oh, istriku sayang! Cukup akui saja kalau gue cowok tampan dan memang pintar. Hanya lo aja yang sungkan untuk mengakui,” – Ethan Semua orang menginginkan satu kali pernikahan saja dalam hidupnya dan dengan seseorang yang mereka cintai tapi bagaimana jika pernikahan itu diawali dengan sebuah perjodohan? Mungkin dijodohkan dengan seseorang yang tak dikenal itu memang sangat tidak enak tapi ketahuilah… ini sudah biasa! Karena kali ini, ada kasus dimana seseorang harus dijodohkan dengan orang yang ternyata ia ‘kenali’ atau lebih tepatnya dijodohkan dengan musuhnya sendiri. Apa yang akan terjadi pada mereka disaat perjodohan ini ternyata tak bisa terelakkan? Apa kabar rumah tangga mereka? Bertemu secara tidak sengaja saja sudah membuatnya berdebat sampai pertemuan itu berakhir lalu apa jadinya jika kedua orang ini harus tinggal satu rumah karena status mereka kini menjadi sepasang suami istri? Inilah kisahnya, dua orang yang saling bermusuhan dan terpaksa harus menikah karena dijodohkan. Selamat membaca!

"Kami tidak merasa kalah, dan mereka tidak merasa menang," ujar Cedric. Perang hanya menghasilkan lingkaran amarah dan putus asa. perang yang menjadi pondasi kebahagiaan sebagian besar orang, meninggalkan kesengsaraan bagi pesertanya. Sambil menjalani berbagai pertempuran yang tak ada hentinya. Cedric membimbing seorang anak muda yang telah kehilangan segalanya, jatuh sangat jauh ke dalam jurang rasa putus asa. Tangan kasar dan kekarnya yang terulur untuk menyelamatkan pemuda itu, adalah usaha terakhirnya untuk menebus semua kegelapan dan kekelaman di hatinya.

Paano kung ang tinuturing ni Solen Alejo na kanyang asawa ay may fiancé na pala na dapat ay ipapakasal kay Erwin Tovias? Ang lalaking taga pagmana ng lupang kanilang tinitirahan at ang ama ng kanyang anak, bunga ng Isang mainit na gabi. Nagkatagpo muli ang kanilang landas ng lalaki matapos itong masangkot sa isang disgrasya resulta ng pagkawala ng ala-ala nito. Kung kaya naman nag sinungaling si Solen upang hindi kunin sa kanila ang lupa at mag papanggap bilang mag asawa. Hindi nag tagal ay nahulog si Solen sa sarili nyang bitag at unti-unting minamahal si Erwin. Paano kung bumalik ang memorya ng lalaki? Magagawa nya kayang mahalin si Solen matapos sya nitong itago sa kanyang Mundo? Magagawa kaya nilang ituloy ang kanilang pag mamahalang nag simula sa pagkakamali? At paano kapag nalaman nyang muling nag bubuntis si Solen sa kanilang ikalawang anak? “Minahal mo ba ako? — hindi. Ginamit mo lang ako at natutong mahalin” –Erwin Tovias.

"Bandung" mengisahkan perjalanan emosional Mita, seorang mahasiswi yang baru tiba di Bandung untuk menempuh pendidikan tinggi. Dalam kota baru ini, Mita menjalin hubungan yang rumit dengan Roky, seorang pria misterius, dan bersahabat dengan Jihan dan Lita. Kisah berkembang seiring ketegangan dan konflik dalam kelompok mereka. Bab-bab awal memperkenalkan dinamika cinta dan persahabatan, sementara kemunculan Novandi menambah kompleksitas hubungan. Trauma dan konflik semakin meningkat, mencapai puncak tragis dalam kehidupan Mita. Pandemi dan perjuangan pribadi membawa Mita pada perjalanan penghadapan dengan trauma dan keputusan sulit. Bab demi bab memperkenalkan karakter baru dan membawa pembaca melalui liku-liku hubungan Mita. Kafe "NUZA" dan pertemuan dengan Farhan membuka babak baru, tetapi ketidakpastian dan ancaman kriminal memunculkan ketakutan baru dalam hidup Mita. Pada akhirnya, "Bandung" memberikan pesan tentang kekuatan persahabatan dan cinta yang selalu bersinar di tengah-tengah cobaan. Dengan puncak emosional pada penyelesaian kisah, Mita menemukan kebahagiaan di bawah cahaya Bandung yang selalu bersinar, mengukir kisahnya sebagai perjalanan pribadi yang memikat.

After three years of living with my wife’s family, everyone thought they could treat me like a pushover. Me? I’m just waiting for her to hold my hand before I can give her the world.

Matapos mamatay ng aking asawa sa isang car accident, walang sawa akong nagtrabaho sa pagpapatakbo ng isang maliit na restawran upang palakihin ang aking anak na si Henry. Bago ang kasal ni Henry, nanalo ako ng walong milyon sa lotto. Tuwang-tuwa ako, nagpasya akong ibenta ang restaurant at sa wakas ay tamasahin ang pagreretiro. Kaya naman, tumawag ako upang sabihin kay Henry ang tungkol sa pagbebenta ng restaurant, ang kanyang karaniwang magalang na fiancee ay nagbago ang ugali. "Hindi mo naman inaasahan na susuportahan ka namin, 'di ba? Halos kaka-simula lang natin magtrabaho!" Binantaan niya pa si Henry, "Kung gagastusan mo ang mama mo gamit ang pera natin, hindi na natin itutuloy ang kasal!" Nakipagtalo sa kanya si Henry ngunit pagkatapos ay sinigurado, at nangako siya, "Nagsumikap ka na nang husto, Ma. Aalagaan kita." Gumanda ang pakiramdam ko, Binalak kong bigyan siya ng dalawang milyon para makapagsimula ng negosyo. Kinabukasan, nakatanggap ako ng tawag na nagsasabing si Henry ay nasangkot sa car accident at agad na nangangailangan ng limampung libo para sa operasyon. Agad kong ipinadala ang pera, ngunit pagkatapos, nawala si Henry. Desperado, matapang akong dumaan sa isang bagyo upang hanapin siya sa lungsod niya, ngunit napunta lamang ako sa isang kasalan sa isang mamahaling hotel. Naroon si Henry, nakikipag-toast sa isa pang babae “Ma.” Ah, at ang katabi niya? Ang aking “patay” na asawa mula noong nakaraang sampung taon.

Betrayed by her fiancé, Claire is forced to marry Julian, the outcast grandson rumored to be poor and rude. Yet beneath the guise of a "menial worker," Julian is a mysterious ruler ready to destroy anyone who touches his wife. As dark secrets come to light, Claire realizes her husband is both the most dangerous predator and the protector she has always desired.

She was his mate, and instead of loving her, he banished her when she killed the love of his life...

At sixty-five, I got served divorce papers. The same day, my husband Sebastian — decked out in his wedding suit, of all things — popped a handful of sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. For years, we were the perfect couple. The kind of pair neighbors whispered about with envy. I couldn't wrap my head around it. The divorce. The pills. None of it made sense. Not until I found the photo and letter in his pocket.

Shortly after we said "I do," the Family sent my husband, Dario, down to the Mexican border. He told me it was a meat grinder down there—cartel territory. where guys were zipped into body bags every day. He said he had to go—to expand the territory, for the glory of the Family. He claimed it was too dangerous and that his enemies would paint a target on my back, so he wouldn't take me with him. I believed him. I stayed behind in his old, rot-infested house in New Jersey, taking care of his bitter, spiteful parents. I spent my days and nights in the Family's moldy laundromat, washing bills stained with blood. He told me he sent every dime he made down there to the widow of a brother who took a bullet for him. He asked me to be understanding. I never complained. Day after day, I pressed expensive suits in that humid laundromat, waiting for him to come home. It wasn't until the eighth year that a mobster came back drunk. When I asked about Dario, he froze, then sneered at me through a haze of alcohol. "Dario? Are you kidding? He’s been a King in Manhattan for years. He’s the youngest Underboss of the Corleone family." I stood frozen, the iron in my hand burning a hole right through a shirt. "And he got married seven years ago. Biggest cathedral in New Jersey. Half the mob was there to toast the groom..." He pulled a crumpled photo from his leather jacket. Snuggled up against my husband was a woman in a high-end couture gown—the very same "poor, widowed sister-in-law" he had told me about. The next day, I contacted a fixer who specialized in fake IDs. On the application for a one-way ticket to Europe—a ticket to vanish off the face of the earth—I filled in the fake name I had prepared long ago. He trapped me for seven years with a sham marriage. From now on, I’d be done with this damn loyalty.