Pulang: Insanity

The moment I was born, my mother implanted a chip in my brain and began shaping me into her idea of a perfect daughter. She blocked my sense of hunger so I would only have simple meals daily to maintain the "ideal" figure. She erased my ability to feel pain so she could inject me with endless chemicals to keep my skin smooth and flawless. She tampered with my senses, deleting every trace of negative emotion from my mind, all so I could remain eternally innocent. I couldn't tell right from wrong. I didn't know sadness or anger. I only knew how to smile. When the neighbor's dog died, I smiled and was scolded harshly for being heartless. When my classmates bullied me, I smiled and became the class freak. When my grandfather passed away, I smiled again, and my relatives cursed me for being soulless. Eventually, my father couldn't take it anymore. He left us. Mom, however, didn't seem to care. "They don't understand," she told me. "Everything I've done is for your own good. One day, you'll thank me." … On my 18th birthday, she planned a grand live broadcast, ready to show the world her perfect creation. She never knew that the day before her grand broadcast, I had already lost myself completely. By then, I was no longer human. I had become a machine.

Halimah, dihina miskin oleh para tetangganya di kampung karena pulang dari Kota menggunakan motor butut. Bagaimana cara Halimah membungkam mulut para tetangganya, baca selengkapnya disini ya....

In my past life, my husband brought our daughter, who was down with a cold, to his father's hospital so she could see a doctor. Later, she was pronounced dead. When I hurried to the hospital after hearing the news, he'd already transferred her organs to his true love's son's body. It was later that I learned my father-in-law was the one who extracted my daughter's organs when her vitals were perfectly fine. I was heartbroken and devastated. I wanted my husband and his family to give me an explanation for this, but he and his parents killed me by poisoning. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the moment my husband has just taken my daughter away.

Setelah Hendra kembali, aku melihat kolom voting di internet: [Setelah seorang pria berselingkuh, biasanya lebih merasa bersalah pada istrinya atau kekasihnya?] Yang memilih kekasih mencapai 99% suara. Aku berbalik dan bertanya pada Hendra, "Apa kamu juga merasa gitu?" Hendra meletakkan bukunya dan menatapku dengan ekspresi acuh tak acuh bercampur lelah. "Caroline, aku sudah kembali." "Kamu mau apa lagi?"

Grote Mendoza, the Alpha of the Valkyrie pack, has an extremely strong libido. Whenever he sees my body, he can't seem to control himself at all. He's very rough with me in bed, resulting in me fainting every time we sleep with each other. "Honey, can you endure this for me one more time?" It's been seven years. This is my 99th time enduring the torturous session with Grote. Because of that, my private part suffers from severe ulceration and infection. I thought Grote loves me, but it turns out that he's just a wolf who suffers from weird fetishes. I thought he'll slowly learn how to be gentle with me for my sake. But when I watch all 99 tapes that he and his mistress, Christine Henson, have recorded of themselves going at it, I finally realize that his gentle side is never meant for me at all. Grote blames me for not being able to be with pup thanks to my private part's condition. He allows Christine to abuse and humiliate me however she wants. In fact, he even beds her before my eyes. He refuses to believe that I will ditch him. All he does is beg me relentlessly for my forgiveness and promise me that I'll be his only Luna. Apparently, having a mistress spices up his bedroom life for him. But Grote repeatedly allows Christine to humiliate me. She forces me to become her slave and keep serving her until she gives birth to her pup. I've been enduring Grote's actions for seven years. All I get is pain and abuse that keeps worsening in return. I don't want to endure the humiliation anymore, even if it means dying right here, right now. I jump into the sea without hesitation, allowing the ice-cold water to swallow me whole. I'm willing to do anything just to escape from Grote's suffocating love that's packaged as abuse… After I die in the sea, Grote completely loses control of himself and keeps looking for me everywhere he goes.

Aku pulang setelah dua bulan berada di luar negeri. Tanpa memberitahu orang rumah, aku datang secara diam-diam bermaksud memberikan kejutan. Namun, bukannya memberi kejutan, justru aku lah yang menerima kejutan itu. Ya, kejutan atas perlakuan istri pada ibuku sendiri!

Kata tetangga, aku adalah wanita paling beruntung menikah dengan Bayu--anak Bu Menik. Gaji full diberikan oleh suamiku. Mertua juga selalu berkata aku adalah menantu kesayangannya. Selain itu, Mertua juga hanya minta beras lima kilo setiap bulan. Tak pernah lebih. Semua dijadikan alasan untuk aku agar selalu bersyukur tanpa ada yang tahu beban berat yang aku tanggung. Itu juga yang digunakan untuk merendahkanku hanya karena belum melahirkan anak. Jadi, tanpa perasaan memberi saran agar suamiku menikahi wanita yang bisa memberinya anak. Jika begitu, tidak salah kan jika aku minta mertuaku membawa pulang anak lelakinya? Biar wanita yang tidak sempurna ini menyerah dan kalah saja!

Di vila yang kosong, Keira Cintami duduk di atas sofa dalam diam. Sampai waktu yang sangat lama, pintu vila baru terbuka. Ethan Surapto berjalan masuk dari luar. Ketika melihat Keira, dia tertegun sejenak. Kemudian, ekspresinya menjadi dingin.“Hari ini, Ava demam. Buat apa kamu telepon aku berkali-kali?”

Bagaimana jika kamu yang sudah menikah dihadapkan dengan godaan untuk mendua? Memilih untuk menghianati pasangankah? Atau.. Akan memilih untuk setia. *** Almira memang menikah dengan Sandi Himawan karena dijodohkan oleh kedua orang tua mereka. Meski belum bisa saling mencintai, setidaknya Almira merasa Sandi berusaha mempertahankan hubungan ini. Namun, kehadiran mantan kekasih Sandi mengubah segalanya. Pertemuan yang amat sangat tidak terduga antara keduanya membuat Almira merasa Sandi terjebak dalam sebuah dilema. Bahkan, Sandi pernah tak pulang ke rumah. Lantas, bagaimana kisah keduanya? Apakah kedatangan mantan ini akan membuat suaminya tak pulang selamanya pada Almira? Temukan jawabannya di ceritaku ini!

Tiga tahun menikah belum juga diberi keturunan, membuat Faris tega menghianati pernikahannya. Namun, seiring berjalannya waktu, Alda mengetahui perselingkuhan suaminya itu. Setelah Alda selidiki, ia terkejut saat tahu siapa wanita yang menjadi istri kedua Faris. Akankah Alda mempertahankan pernikahannya itu, atau memilih untuk mundur? Lalu, sanggupkah Faris berpisah dengan Alda??