Romanticizing My Life

Humanity has finally done it and destroyed the world. After the spread of the killer virus that no one had a cure for, countries started to fight as greed has pushed them to expand their territories. And in the process, they provoked mother nature to take a stand. The plague evolved into something that twisted and deformed humans; they were neither dead nor alive. Just walking empty husks that fed on flesh and had one purpose, killing. The supernatural were exposed to the rest of the world; as they weren't spared and got affected, too. The result of this knowledge was chaos. Instead of creating one unity, the rest of the living were fighting among themselves and the undead. The entire world turned into a big arena and it was (survival of the fittest).

"Aku hanya kasian terhadapmu, pernikahan ini tidak didasari oleh rasa, tapi oleh paksa dari orang tua!" ucap Hazmi pandangannya menatap kosong kearah jendela. "Ketika aku meminta bahagia, Allah mempertemukan kita dan mempersatukan pada ikatan ini!" Hana menatapnya dengan tatapan sendu. Jika, pernikahan adalah suatu kebahagiaan bagi sebagian orang, bagaimana dengan pernikahan yang tidak didasari oleh rasa, tapi takdir mengikatnya begitu kuat. Apa akan berontak menyalahkan takdir?

Karra Chintya Putri tak pernah bermimpi menikah diumur yang masih sangat muda. Tapi mimpi buruk itu harus menjadi nyata sang Ayah sakit dan memintanya menikahi pemuda lebih dewasa darinya. Seno Rio Fankandri seorang pria galak, kaku, dan to the point, Seno tidak pernah pacaran apalagi jatuh cinta. Demi membahagiakan orang tuanya, mau tidak mau Seno menerima perjodohannya dengan Karra yang tak lain muridnya sendiri.

Blurb: "Kamu pasti kena karma, Erik. Ingat dunia itu berputar!" sumpah Arini mengacungkan jari telunjuknya pada Erik. Melihat lelaki yang baru saja memintanya menikah hari yang lalu sedang bermadu kasih dengan Susan, seorang model papan atas, membuat hati Arini seperti tertusuk pisau. Arini Rinjani seorang artis tidak terkenal yang sudah tiga tahun berpacaran dengan Erik harus menelan pil pahit. Keberuntungannya tenggelam setelah dia membintangi debut film pertamanya bersama Erik. Sedangkan nama Erik sendiri melambung dengan pesat. Arini rela menjadi asisten demi cintanya pada Erik. Arini bertekad jika dia harus lebih bersinar dari pada mereka. Berulang kali usahanya gagal sehingga dia harus kembali ke kampung. Setelah pulang kampung, Arini bertemu lelaki yang pernah menjadi rekan debut pertamanya. Kebetulan dia tinggal di dekat rumahnya. Apakah Arini akan bersinar sesuai dengan harapannya? Apakah karma Erik akan berlaku?

Angel Anneliese, sosok gadis SMA yang berumur 16 tahun dan berakhir menjadi seorang sugar baby. Wajah cantik, perilaku imut dan tingkah polosnya berhasil membuat pria yang berumur 14 tahun lebih tua darinya itu langsung tergila-gila untuk menjadikannya seorang sugar baby. Nick Brechtje, sosok pria yang begitu egois dan tidak peduli terhadap lingkungan sekitarnya, berhasil membuat seorang Angel Anneliese yang terbilang tidak peduli dengan cinta itu berhasil bertekuk lutut. Nick yang juga membenci dengan yang namanya 'Status Pengikat' pada akhirnya langsung terbuai oleh gadis mungil itu dan menjadikannya seorang sugar baby. Bagaimana kehidupan Angel saat setelah menjadi seorang sugar baby sesuai dengan keinginannya? Apakah dia mendapatkan kebahagiaan sama seperti apa yang dia ekspektasikan? Ataukah dia mendapatkan kenyataan yang berbanding terbalik dari ekspektasinya?

On the one thousand and ninety-fourth day of being Mrs. Harris, I asked James Harris for a divorce. His face showed a hint of confusion, but it quickly shifted to his usual, composed expression. "As you wish," he said, his tone as flat as if we were discussing whether to replace the milk on the breakfast table. He did not even bother to ask why. On the one thousand and ninety-fifth day, I gently saw him and the children off, acting as if nothing had happened, and then completely left the Harris family behind.

"I would take a bullet for you, but I never thought you will end up being the one holding the gun." *** Alice Deborah Quinto, an extrovert, strong-confident woman. A woman who will never lower her guard down to anyone. Halos perpekto na ang kanyang buhay. Ngunit sa kasamaang palad, magbabago ang kanyang landas. Upang mapanatili ang negosyo ng kanilang pamilya, nagtakda ang kanyang mga magulang na ipakasal siya sa anak na tagapagmana ng isa sa pinakamaipluwensyang negosyante sa bansa. Dean Larry Valerco, a goody-two-shoes introvert man. Siya ay isang taong may matigas na puso. Mas gustong manatili sa bahay kaysa gumala at mag-party kung saan-saan. But as the heir of their family, he needs to remain his communicating and socializing with people. Palagi siyang nakabuntot sa kanyang mga magulang, kaya hindi na siya nag-abala na ipasok siya ng kanyang mga magulang sa isang political marriage. An extrovert vs an introvert. Isa nga bang delubyo ang pagtatagpo ng dalawa?

On the highway, when the vehicles of drivers on the same stretch of road went out of control and rushed towards us, Wynn Lloyd protected me by holding me close beneath him. As a result, he ended up in the emergency room, battered.In the hospital ward, a friend praised, "Your husband is really good to you. When the car came crashing, he protected you with his life, not caring about his own."I remained silent.Indeed, he was good, but it didn't stop him from liking someone else.Wynn and I had known each other since childhood, for over a decade, and everyone said he loved me to death.But who would have thought that such a person had a mistress on the side?He pampered her in every possible way, indulging her to the extreme.

After learning the hard truth of how her twin sister Dalilah brainwashed and manipulated her mind for thirteen years, turning her into a ruthless assassin who killed hundreds of innocents including her youngest brother and best friend Valerian, twenty-seven-year-old Princess Natasha Nicholai, is executed in front of the Imperial Palace. Somehow, she gets sent back to the past right before Dalilah started putting her evil string on her mind, to when she was about to turn fourteen, and uses that as an opportunity to not let the past repeat itself, by getting her revenge on her sister and all the people who backed her and saving her younger brother as well as protecting the innocents she knows will be Dalilah's targets. But while also going after the truth about who stole her magic when she was 4yo, who sent her back and why did they do that, she will cross paths with Ethan Theodore, a dangerous and full of secrets guy, with ruby red eyes and whose destiny is directly linked to Natasha's.

"No offense but you are always so grumpy, it's actually kind of cute." I bluntly say to him and watch him throw me a nasty glare, I just giggle at that. "I'm not." he defends himself in a calm yet stern voice keeping his face emotionless. "sure." I find myself saying sarcastically. I think I'm too drunk  because there is no way a sober River will have the courage to hold a conversation with a very grumpy Killian. I expect another scary glare to come towards me but instead I meet with a soft gaze that stares at me with an unreadable expression. "I'm not." This time he says softly, I see him biting back a small smile and , he smiles. I've never seen him smiling before, not this way. Standing on the edge of life, River breathes in and lets himself adjust into a new life, into a new family. After a horrifying past he finds his life wrapped around a shaggy orphanage and several foster homes which makes it hard to believe that he is actually being adopted. Having a family was always a desire of him but to his burnt luck, he doesn't feel like he belongs in his adoptive family. Everyone and everything around him make it clear that he wasn't born to be happy. River is waiting for another push, one last push to end it all and fall from the edge and that's when a grumpy looking Killian Price steps into his life. River can't decide if Killian is the saviour or the devil himself. River's life meets with unexpected secrets mixed with burning desire, adorning the melancholic attire. Soon, he finds out he isn't the only one standing on the edge of the cliff, or he realises he is far from the edge.