Painful Love

John Smith is but a common name given to a child actor prodigy. As he grows, he aspires to become the greatest actor the world has ever seen. However, a tragedy involving his parent's death made both him and his sister's downfall. On his way home from school, thinking about giving up his whole acting career, he’s looking at the ticket his sister gave him to an audition that made him dream one last time. There he meets Anastasia Frey, a girl who wears a mask of a "kind princess" who happens to be a guest judge at the said event. Seeing witness to John's superior acting skills among the other participants, she takes him by his collar to a secluded room, and guess what? Keeping her ulterior motives hidden, she offers him to become her husband and be the CEO of her grandmother's company. Sounds too good to be true, right? Can John, a virgin his whole life refuse such a seductive offer coming from a total knock-out beauty right in front of him? Even more, now that his sister is being held captive by this tyrant princess. Will his superior acting skills help him become the perfect husband and be the ultimate CEO? Can love actually bloom in such a charade relationship?

Ed grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to him, his hand wrapping her tiny waist, without a second thought he pressed his lips on hers, kissing her. It was filled with hunger, lust and passion. He yearn for her, all this while. And right now he had to show this crazy rich guy, she belongs to him. And only him. "I don't care what people say, I the only one for you." He breath slowly, but as he devour every inch of her lips, she hadn't responded, but struggles to get free. She pushed him back, getting free from his grip. "Ed, listen to me, I don't love you anymore." She gulped, wiping her lips. Wiping away his kiss. As if it some filth was rubbed was her. "No, you do." He let out a weiry chuckle. "Actually I only fall for you because of your money and fame." Areena raved harshly. This is a joke, right. she is'nt like this ... The shy Areena he fell for. Though she ignore him recently. But this isnt happening. Areena is dumping him. That not happening even in his wildest dream. But sadly this is no dream. "You're joking right." "I'm not!!" she yelled and walked towards the handsome guy, grabbing his hand. He gently grab her chin, he wiped her lips with his hankie, and landed a kiss on her. *** In a world where love between the Noble and Servile is forbidden, Ed and Areena fall in taboo relationship, despite the dangers, they cannot resist their fiery passion for one another and are willing to risk everything to be together. Areena is torn away from Ed as Dean came into her life, she must make a heart-wrenching decision between the two, who is she going to choose ...

Madin, 18 years old, is forced to dress up like a girl to go and serve in the palace as a servant. His aunt who he lives with wants to benefit from that since servants in the palace are paid. But when Madin gets there, the Prince is immediately attracted to "her" composure, unlike other girls who try to get his attention. The prince makes "her"_ him-- his servant, and with time, he starts developing feelings for him, not knowing he is a boy. Madin tries to avoid the affection from the Prince but the Prince is already in love, Madin's presence eases his weight of responsibilities... and the dealing of his siblings who are fighting to obtain his future position as the king. ~What happens when the Prince finally finds out that he fell in love with a man, also realising that even if he wants to stay away from Madin-- he cannot because he has come to desire him strongly regardless of Madin's gender. And what will the kingdom's reaction be, including the king and queen? What about his siblings? Will they use that as an opportunity to claim that he doesn't fit to be a ruler, a king.

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.

Ketika persahabatan masa kecil berubah menjadi sebuah kesalahan dan menumbuhkan banyak perasaan terlarang... Disaat itulah mereka... Oliver Benedict Guerro, Samantha Athena Dobson, Skyla Rose Tandy, Kyle Ben Dobson, Summer Rose Tandy, Maximilian Arthur Dobson, Valerie Denia Guerro, dan Raizel Ben Dobson. Ke delapan generasi muda itu harus menyelesaikan masalah hati mereka yang begitu rumit hingga adanya hati yang sempat dijaga menjadi tersakiti, dan hati yang selama ini diabaikan menjadi prioritas utama. Bagaimana kisah cinta mereka? Akankah ada diantara mereka yang benar-benar mengerti arti cinta sesungguhnya?

Sari Asrianti, gadis berusia 22 tahun, terpaksa menjadi Orang Dalam Pemantauan (ODP) karena beberapa rekan wisudanya didiagnosis positif mengidap Covid-19. Ia harus mengisolasi diri secara mandiri selama empat belas hari karena hal tersebut. Untuk mengisi waktunya selama isolasi mandiri, Sari mengikuti sebuah grup daring yang berisi sesama ODP. Oleh Mirka, moderator grup tersebut, Sari dikenalkan dengan sejumlah teman baru, di antaranya Markus yang merupakan ODP termuda karena berusia remaja, serta seorang pemuda bernama Salman. Tanpa diduga oleh Sari, Salman mengajaknya berinteraksi secara pribadi setelah sesi grup usai. Seiring berjalannya waktu, Sari semakin nyaman bercengkerama dengan Salman melalui panggilan video maupun chatting. Karakter Salman yang supel dan optimis membuat Sari menyukai pemuda itu. Terlebih lagi, tidak lama kemudian Salman menyatakan cintanya kepada Sari.

Forced into a marriage she never wanted, Scarlett Norman was humiliated when her husband failed to show up on their wedding day. Mocked by society and abandoned by the very man she was meant to marry, she stormed out, seeking solace in a hotel room near her workplace. Angry and desperate to reclaim control of her life, Scarlett made a reckless decision—she spent the night with a mysterious stranger. What was supposed to be a fleeting act of rebellion soon turned into a cruel twist of fate. The man she had unknowingly given herself to was none other than her elusive husband, the same man who had left her to face shame alone.

Daphne Laurel fell in love with one of her best friends, Rhodly but Rhodly has already someone special in his heart that made Daphne break into pieces. She tried to win his heart but she failed and one morning, she found herself naked next to her best friend Gilbert Ono. her parents forced her to get married to Gilbert even if she doesn't love him while Gilbert loves her silently. Amid their married life, Gilbert showed her his true love for her. He took care of her. Daphne can't deny the fact that little by little Gilbert captured her heart but one day, she found out that the day she woke up beside Gilbert naked was just a plan and what made her hurt the most was the truth that her husband, Gilbert was one of the masterminds of that plan. She broke up with him but when he left, her heart keep on searching for his presence and caring. What does she need to follow, her mind which keeps telling her, he doesn't worthy of her love, or her heart which keeps reminding her how he truly loves her?

Elah's financial burden and Ethan's relentless ambition collide in a contract marriage. However, when deception gives way to passion, a secret family rivalry breaks out, compelling them to face their pasts. Love triumphs over revenge in a crucial struggle for the truth, and they join forces to rewrite their own fates. Can love triumph over betrayal? Can they build a future together while escaping the traps of their pasts?

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.