Solo Project Haechan

Adrian Cain has no past. At least, not one he remembers. He woke up at eighteen with a name, a guardian, and a carefully constructed identity that led him to build one of the most powerful tech empires in the world. Now, as the CEO of CainTech, Adrian is feared, admired, and emotionally impenetrable, his past locked behind clinical amnesia, sealed files, and a steel wall he doesn't dare breach. Until the suicides start. After two employees from his most classified division die under suspicious circumstances, trauma counselor Sera Vaughn is brought in to assess the psychological impact on staff. But Sera has her own reasons for stepping into CainTech, her older brother vanished fifteen years ago, and the only lead she has left is a face in an old photograph: Adrian’s. But his name back then wasn’t Adrian. It was Daniel Ward. As Sera begins digging into Adrian’s history and as Adrian’s carefully managed psyche begins to crack, long-buried memories start surfacing: a mysterious basement, whispered codewords, and a girl calling his real name. What neither of them knows is that they were both part of a covert experiment known as Project Phoenix, designed to erase identities and rebuild human obedience from the ground up. Together, they uncover a trail of lies, altered files, and fractured lives along with a chilling truth: Adrian may have been programmed to forget what he did… and who he destroyed. Now hunted by the people who created him, stalked by a version of himself he doesn’t remember becoming, and drawn to a woman whose trust he doesn’t deserve, Adrian must face the darkest corners of his past before they both disappear into it. Because some memories don’t stay buried. Some were never meant to.

When I was three years old, my twin brothers, Silas and Julian, nearly died in an explosion while trying to save me. The Vampire King happened to pass by and turned them into high-ranking vampires. He had wanted to turn me too, so our family could stay together forever, but they refused. The King's power was too overwhelming, they said-the transformation would be agonizing. So they promised to turn me themselves when I turned eighteen. They spent every last penny they had on an impossibly rare serum-a blood-calming agent that would ensure I survived the transformation safely. But six months ago, they brought home a fifteen-year-old human orphan named Elena. Silas snatched my serum and handed it to Elena, his voice cold as ice. "You're strong enough to endure the transformation on your own. Elena is far more fragile than you-she needs this more." Julian's face twisted with undisguised contempt. He pointed at the door and snarled, "Get out! Don't come back until you learn to share!" I didn't say a word. I picked up the suitcase I'd already packed and disappeared into the rainy night. They assumed I was just throwing a tantrum. They figured I'd come crawling back in a few days. To celebrate ridding themselves of their "burden," they took the orphan on a vacation to the Caribbean coast-the trip I'd been dreaming about for years. But when they returned to the castle two weeks later, they were stunned to discover that I had undergone the Vampire King's transformation personally. Not only that-I had voluntarily signed a hundred-year agreement to join a classified isolation research project studying resistance to holy silver and crucifixes. A century of solitary confinement. I was never coming back. That day, they completely fell apart.

After my hundredth disastrous blind date, my best friend and I made a bold decision: we would have children without husbands. She chose sperm from a brilliant PhD donor. I chose a donor with an eight-nation mixed heritage. Later, the PhD donor from Kingsford University was diagnosed with low sperm motility and decided he wanted to marry my friend, Melissa Shaw. She agreed. Whenever she saw me going to my prenatal checkups alone, Melissa would wrap her arm around her husband and mock me. "You're destined to be alone," she sneered. "You can't even find a man to marry you. My husband just launched a major national research project. His future is limitless." What she did not know was that the father of my child was the Prince of Dubaria. He took me back to his country and made me his princess. The jewels I wore were so heavy they practically weighed me down. However, after she saw the yacht I posted on social media, Melissa suddenly called me in tears. "I don't know what happened," she sobbed. "My husband's project was suddenly suspended. We can barely afford baby formula for our child." She said she wanted to make up and even asked if I would be her child’s godmother. However, the moment I stepped through her door, she raised a chainsaw and hacked me to death. "Why do you get to live a better life than me?" she screamed. "Just because you chose better sperm?!" When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my best friend and I first decided to have children without husbands.

El mismo día en que confirmó su nuevo embarazo, Valeria Soto hizo otro descubrimiento devastador: su esposo, Javier Vega, ya compartía un hogar con Alicia Castillo, la joven becaria de escasos recursos a quien ella misma había ayudado. Resultaba que, mientras Valeria se consumía en la aflicción por la pérdida de su hijo, Javier celebraba con su amante el nacimiento de su vástago. Resultaba que la compañía que ella había fundado con sus propias manos, ya había sido usurpada por la amante. Resultaba que incluso la casa conyugal, que creía su exclusiva, tenía una réplica idéntica que Javier había construido para la otra. En ese instante, todo rastro de amor por Javier se esfumó de su pecho, dejando solo un odio denso y amargo. Valeria escondió el informe de embarazo y exigió el divorcio con una frialdad decisiva. Pero Javier, con su tono autoritario de siempre, respondió: —Valeria, si te arrepientes y me suplicas ahora, puedo hacer como que ese acuerdo de divorcio no existe. Ella se volvió para marcharse, lanzando con serenidad: —Señor Vega, nos vemos en la oficina del registro civil para el divorcio. Tiempo después, fue Javier quien finalmente bajó su orgullosa cabeza. Frente a una Valeria renovada e impresionante, suplicó con arrepentimiento que volviera a mirarlo siquiera una vez. Ella, sin embargo, solo esbozó una sonrisa distante: —Señor Vega, llegó demasiado tarde. Ya nunca más latirá mi corazón por usted.

—No... mi cuerpo es de mi esposo. En el gimnasio, había contratado a un entrenador personal para trabajar los glúteos. Para poder mostrarlos mejor, llevaba puesta solo una minifalda rosada muy corta, bajo la cual se alcanzaba a ver ligeramente mi ropa interior blanca. Yo ya era una persona muy sensible por naturaleza, y cuando el entrenador levantó directamente mi falda corta y empezó a tocar mis nalgas, mi cuerpo reaccionó sin que pudiera controlarlo. Al ver mi reacción, el entrenador tiró de repente de mi ropa interior, que ya estaba completamente húmeda. —¿Te pica tanto que no lo soportas? Déjame ayudarte.

Cuando me apuñalaron, luché con todas mis fuerzas para llamar a mi hermano. Solo cuando mi conciencia comenzaba a desvanecerse, él respondió, con un tono de evidente fastidio. —¿Qué quieres esta vez? —Hermano, ayuda... No pude terminar la frase. Me interrumpió bruscamente. —¿Por qué siempre tienes problemas? A finales de mes es la ceremonia de graduación de Luna. Si no vienes, ¡te juro que te mataré! Dicho esto, colgó el teléfono sin dudar. No pude soportar el dolor. Cerré los ojos para siempre, con lágrimas aun corriendo por mi rostro. “Hermano, no tendrás que matarme. Ya estoy muerta.”

Andrea Silva se vio obligada a casarse con el supuesto novio de su hermana gemela, Camila Silva, tras la huida de su hermana. Andrea quedó profundamente desconsolada al descubrir que el hombre con el que acababa de casarse estaba enamorado de su hermana y que ella solo era una sustituta hasta que Camila regresara. Andrea pensó que podría enamorar a Damine Fel, pero ¿qué pasaría si su hermana regresara y quisiera recuperar a su novio? ¿Qué pasaría si su esposo la obligara a divorciarse? ¿Qué pasaría si descubriera que estaba embarazada de él, pero él no quería saber nada de ella?

Soy la falsa heredera malvada que creció en una familia rica. Después de mi muerte, mi amor de la infancia publicó mis fotos íntimas, llamándome una cualquiera que solo sabía seducir hombres. Tras lo cual, la gente llegó a casa gritando que me merecía la muerte. Mis papás, para librarse de mi mala suerte, quemaron toda la mansión esa misma noche e incluso les dieron mis cenizas a los perros. Todos decían que me lo merecía. Hasta que el día de la gran boda en vivo entre la verdadera heredera y mi amor de infancia, recibieron mi regalo de bodas.

Al renacer, decidí escribir el nombre de mi hermana en la solicitud de matrimonio. Esta vez, le concedí a Lucas Delgado su deseo. En esta vida, me adelanté: vestí a mi hermana con el traje de novia y le coloqué el anillo de compromiso. Yo misma orquesté cada encuentro entre ellos. Cuando él la llevó a Ciudad Esmeralda, sin dudarlo partí al sur para estudiar. Porque en mi vida pasada, incluso a los cincuenta años, Lucas y nuestro hijo seguían rogándome que me divorciara. Así que cumplí su último deseo: que estuviera con ella. Al volver a vivir, solo anhelé desplegar mis alas... libre de amor.

The doors of elite research institutions aren't open to the unknown. But Rick Allen pulled Beth out of nowhere. He poured everything into nurturing her talent and promised her the world. The Allen family's compromise was simple: the Chief Young Scientist had to be Summer Belden—someone from their own social circle. From that day on, the words Rick said to Beth most often were, "Just wait a little longer." He told her to wait when her groundbreaking paper was published under Summer's name in exchange for research funding. He told her to wait again when the research she'd perfected over three years was packaged as Summer's signature work, paving the way to major awards. "The bigger picture comes first," he said. "The next Nobel Prize—I'll make sure it's yours." But when the paper credited to Summer—though written by Beth—was exposed for fabricated data, everyone reached the same conclusion: Beth, as a core member of the project, had tampered with the data to steal the credit. Locked in a glass-walled archive room, Beth looked at Rick standing outside the door. His gaze was ice-cold, full of disappointment. "Why did you touch the data?" he said. "You've ruined everything I've built." She remembered how he once told her, "In this world, yours is the only talent I truly recognize." He had promised, "I'll make sure achievements with your name hang among the stars." Now he stood with the others, judging her. He looked at her the way people look at a ruthless, ambitious fraud. When she was finally released, Beth dug her nails into her palm until blood ran down. This time, she wouldn't wait any longer.