Not Just Pretty Face

The day Adrian Knight clinched a contract with our biggest client, I "accidentally" tipped a bottle of ink across the paperwork, voiding it on the spot. Because of that single blot, the project landed in Alex Lewis’s lap, and he won Chairman Henry Carter’s favor almost overnight, moving into the Carter mansion as their future son-in-law and watching his net worth rocket into eight figures. Adrian never blamed me. He just laughed that he’d never been executive material anyway and happily brought me home as his bride. Everyone whispered that, if not for my meddling, Adrian would already be sitting in the Carter family’s executive suite instead of scraping by in an ordinary life with me. Only I knew the truth: stopping him from signing that contract had saved his life. When Adrian learned I was pregnant, he locked me in the basement, fingers digging into my throat. "If it hadn’t been for you," he snarled, "I’d be Henry Carter’s son-in-law by now. You’re the reason I lost Rachel, the princess of the Carter family." That’s when I realized he’d been nursing this grudge for years. After he killed me, I woke up, reborn on the very day Adrian first reached for that fatal contract. This time, I’ll make sure Adrian Knight gets exactly what he wants.

Kristen Sterling bounces back after a rough past, landing a job where she reunites with the CEO, Marcus Everhart, who once rescued her. Things get wild when they attend an engagement party, only for Kristen to realize it's her ex and best friend tying the knot. Marcus offers her a marriage deal to shield her from her troubling ex, suggesting to turn their fake marriage into a revenge plot, giving Kristen a chance to face her past.

On my birthday—the same day Troy hyped some "surprise" for me online—I saw a photo that afternoon. He was on my horse. With his assistant. His shirt hung open, red finger marks dragged across his chest. Caption? [First time in my life. Thanks to him.] The comments went wild: [Jealous of whoever touched those abs.] [That position... damn.] Troy liked that one. My chest went cold. I thought that side of him was just for me. Turns out—it could be anyone. I washed the horse myself. Scrubbed off every trace. Then I signed the ranch over to him. "You can give the rest away. Pick whoever you want." He lit up. I said yes to the arranged marriage.

The day before our wedding, I received an expensive suit from my wife. Not long after, her young lover called me, his voice trembling. "I'm sorry. It was my fault. My bad for mixing up your size. Please… please don't blame Sylvie." On the other end, I could hear Sylvie soothing him gently, patiently, until he calmed down. I stared at the plane ticket in my hand—a one-way trip out of the country—and calmly asked her for a divorce. Then, as if I no longer mattered, she left me with a single, cold sentence. "Just don't regret it."

My father-in-law tossed a credit card across the table and looked down at me, demanding that I divorce his daughter. In my past life, I had refused with everything I had. But this time, I picked up the pen and signed the divorce papers without a second thought. Because right then, I remembered what had happened last time. In that life, I found my wife after she had lost her memory. To support her, I worked myself to the bone, delivering 200 food orders a day. But when her memories came back, she realized she was actually the daughter of the wealthy Harretts. She saw our marriage as a stain on her perfect life. To get rid of me, she pretended to have amnesia again. She said, "Since you saved me once, I'll give you some money. But after this, don't ever show up in front of me again." I refused. I stayed by her side, enduring her insults and beatings. But in the end, she ordered our son to set the fire that killed me, just so she could marry her first love. Now that I had been given another chance, I wasn't about to make the same mistake twice.

Just because I post one picture with my younger brother, Lucas Gambino, his girlfriend Betty Gotti decides I'm the other woman. She rolls up to my place with her crew, live‑streaming the whole thing while they tear it apart. "Look at this puttana trying to steal my man!" Betty shouts to the camera. "She's got the face to flirt, but not the spine to admit it! Give me ideas, chat—I'll teach her some respect." Those psychos destroyed everything. My jewelry, my designer clothes, my bags… they didn't spare a thing. Not even the ring my parents left me. Then, with the viewers egging her on, Betty crossed the line. She had her girls strip me bare on stream. Her chat was going wild, donations pouring in—until my brother saw it. When Lucas kicked in the door to pull me out, I looked at him through eyes that burned. "Dump the girlfriend," I told him. "Or you can forget about ever being the Don."

Akala ni Hope natagpuan na niya ang lalaking makakasama niya sa buhay nang makilala niya si Rain. Naging masaya naman ang hate to love relationship nila at sa katunayan, nasa plano na nila ang bumuo ng sarili nilang pamilya. Pero hindi inakala ng dalaga na isang aksidente ang babawi kay Rain mula sa kanya. Bigla na lamang naglaho ang binata na mistulang isang bula. Two years later, she saw him again. Only that he wasn't Rain anymore. He was Dr. Kaden Aragon at ikakasal na ito sa isang napakagandang modelo. Pero ang pinakamasakit sa lahat, hindi siya nito nakikilala. She had become a stranger in her beloved's eyes. Masaya na ang binata. Magpapakilala pa ba si Hope para muli ay magbalik ito sa kanya? O 'di naman kaya ay hayaan na niya itong maging masaya kahit pa sa piling ng iba?

Pernikahan mereka dilandasi atas perjodohan antara dua keluarga. Namun, bukan berarti tak ada cinta di sana karena sesungguhnya rasa itu telah hadir jauh sebelum pernikahan keduanya terjadi. Andin sangat tahu jika kakeknya dan kakek Desta telah menjodohkan mereka berdua atas nama sebuah persahabatan. Yang tidak diketahuinya adalah Desta yang menolak mentah-mentah ide itu dan seakan membenci siapapun gadis yang akan dijodohkan dengannya. Cinta memang hadir di antara keduanya, tanpa Desta tahu siapa sebenarnya Andin. Dan ketika semuanya terungkap, ternyata cinta tak mampu mengalahkan ego masing-masing yang merasa terkhianati satu sama lain. Tapi, pernikahan harus tetap terlaksana karena ini merupakan janji persahabatan yang kedua kakek mereka pegang teguh. Bagaimana kisah Andin dan Desta selanjutnya? Akankah mereka bahagia dalam pernikahan itu?

Warning: Matured 18+ contents! MARANGYANG pamumuhay kagaya ng nararanasan ni Celestine Rain Alcazar ay isang malaking kasinungalingan. Kahit ang totoo ay nakakulong siya sa isang kahong walang kalayaan upang ipakita ang tunay niyang pagkatao. Pera, alahas, kayamanan, kalayawan, maalwang buhay, natatanging kagandahan at talino—a perfect barbie-like figure and most men are drooling over her. Sa kabila niyon ay may kulang pa rin na hindi kayang bilhin ng pera, ang isang kasiyahang matagal na niyang hinahangad. Pakiramdam na naiipit at nakalubog ang isang paa sa hukay nang magpasya ang kanyang ina sa arranged marriage kay Ezekiel Bellevera—isang playboy hunk. Hindi alam ng kanyang ina ang malalim na pagtatago niya ng mahabang taon sa kanyang tunay na pagkatao. Dahil hindi ang klase ni Ezekiel ang kanyang inaasam. She’s a mystery of being Not A Saint and she will prove that everybody is. Ngunit paano kung mahuli niya ang kayang fiancé at ang taong mahal niya na gumagawa ng milagro sa likuran niya? Kaya ba niyang magpatawad at kalimutan ang lahat o mag-uumpisa na ang paghihiganti niya sa mga Adan na sumira ng kanyang buhay?

🔞 WARNING ⚠️ THIS BOOK CONTAINS EXPLICIT SEXUAL SCENES NOT SUITABLE FOR UNDER 18! “I gave him everything,” Naya whispered, staring at the papers in her hand. The divorce papers she never saw coming. Her hands trembled, but not from fear. Now, it was rage. Across the room, Chloe smirked, her hand resting on Daniel’s shoulder. “You should’ve seen this coming, Naya. You were never enough for him.”