Strawberry Shortcake Draw

Lorena Jones was sent to mate with Seth Rodriguez by her father. After she snatched him from the jaws of death, they signed a marriage contract, deciding to play the couple role to get by. Misunderstandings and conflicts kept occurring between this quarrelsome and loving couple. However, there was always an unbreakable force to make them get closer to each other. When Lorena finally dropped the guard and accepted Seth, which was supposed to be the happy ending of the story, the secrets behind Lorena's true identity unfolded. This time, where will fate take them?

"Mommy, you have to be the first person to come pick me up, okay?" These are my daughter Dorothy Grant's final words to me when she walked me out of the house this morning. But when I stand at the kindergarten's entrance with a box of Dorothy's favorite strawberry shortcake in my hands, the security guard just stares at me as though I lost my mind. "Ma'am, this place might be where Sunflower Kindergarten is located, but it has already closed its doors for three years. This place is now a retirement home." I rush into the "kindergarten" instantly. The spot where the slide used to be is now replaced by a row of flowerbeds. The room that used to be the classroom now hosts a bunch of elderly people, who bask in the sunlight. With trembling hands, I call my husband, Chester Grant, on the phone. He sounds very exasperated and exhausted over the phone. "Honey, we've been married for five years, and we choose to be childless. You've never given birth before."

Li Lian adalah istri politik yang tak pernah disentuh, hidup di balik kelambu dan aturan. Namun tiap malam, ia terjerat mimpi bersama sosok pria abu-abu yang selalu membuatnya lupa batas. Sampai suatu saat seorang jenderal terkuat yang dikutuk singgah di rumahnya dan ia diperintahkan merawatnya, Li Lian sadar dengan ngeri—pria itu nyata. Dialah lelaki yang selama ini menguasai mimpinya. “Jangan lakukan ini, Jenderal,” bisik Li Lian. Suaranya gemetar—bukan karena takut, tapi karena hatinya sudah lebih dulu menyerah. Chen Xu menatapnya lama, rahangnya mengeras. “Kalau aku mundur sekarang, aku akan kehilanganmu kedua kalinya."

Stevia Lavanza, gadis cantik dengan kemahirannya dalam memainkan biola. Memiliki tipe idaman laki-laki yang bisa bermain piano. Hingga suatu hari dia menemukan laki-laki itu. Dia Raden, cowok populer di sekolahnya karena kepintarannya. Lantas bagaimana perjuangan Stevia untuk mendapatkan hati laki-laki pendiam seperti Raden?

“Ah… uhm..” Sebuah ingatan singkat menghantam Hanna. Alarm KB—ia lupa menyalakannya pagi ini. Di negara Valthera, masa depan setiap perempuan ditentukan oleh implan KB—alat kendali biologis yang menautkan mereka dengan pasangan pilihan pemerintah sesuai DNA. Sistem itu diciptakan demi stabilitas- menekan populasi, memastikan kecocokan genetik, menciptakan keluarga “sempurna.” Tapi kenyataannya jauh dari utopia. Angka perceraian justru meroket. Kehangatan keluarga hilang, berganti hubungan hampa yang hanya patuh pada aturan. Tapi satu kesalahan kecil mengubah segalanya—malam itu ia lupa mengaktifkan implan. Tubuhnya justru terkunci dengan pria terakhir yang seharusnya ia hindari—Profesor Liam, pencipta sistem itu sendiri. Jika aturan dilanggar, implan tidak lagi melindungi, melainkan mengikat. Tubuh akan mengenali pria pertama yang menyentuhnya sebagai pusat loyalitas biologis. Dan yang paling ironis—pria itu kini resmi menjadi kakak tirinya.

Harem Reverse Seorang wanita manusia direbut oleh Kaisar dunia iblis karena diramal akan membawa keberuntungan. Namun, setelah menikah dengan sang Kaisar, ia menemukan bahwa sembilan pangeran tampan dari berbagai ras juga bersaing untuk mendapatkan hatinya.

“Jangan, Leo…” rintihnya, tubuhnya bergetar hebat saat jemari Leonardo menyentuh lembut garis rahangnya. Namun, kata-kata itu tidak sejalan dengan gerakan tubuhnya. Isabella merasa bersalah, seolah mengkhianati suaminya—karena diam-diam ia menikmati sentuhan Leonardo. Keberadaan Leonardo di atas ranjangnya, sebagai kakak ipar, berawal dari permintaan suaminya sendiri—yang tak mampu memenuhi tuntutan keluarga untuk memiliki anak. Sejak malam itu, Leonardo merasa nyaman… dan mulai sering membayangkan sentuhan terlarang dari istri adik angkatnya, Isabella.

On our seventh mating anniversary, my Alpha mate, Ronan Thorne, abandons me once again for his secretary, Evelyn Stone's sake. This time, I don't kick up a fuss at all. Instead, I calmly draw out a silver dagger in hopes of ending my life. The moment the tip of the dagger is pressed against my neck, I feel someone grab my wrist all of a sudden. "Why are you hurting yourself? Who broke your heart?" I looked up in a daze, only to see the 18-year-old version of Ronan. He's so anxious that his eyes have gone red. At the same time, he keeps trying to embrace me. "Tell me who that bastard is! I'll make him pay!" I don't explain anything at all. Instead, I merely utter his name softly. After that, the current Ronan personally locks me up in the dungeon. He claims that I need to reflect on myself—that I shouldn't target Evelyn out of jealousy. Just then, the younger Ronan appears again. He stares at the older and cold-looking Ronan outside the silver bars, then turns back to look at me with disbelief written all over his eyes. I just nod in response. He clenches his fists tightly. Soon, a furious roar escapes his throat. "He's not worthy of being your mate! I'll kill anyone who wants to hurt you, regardless of who they are!" As opposed to the 28-year-old Ronan, the 18-year-old version of him loves me more than anything else in the world. Naturally, he will definitely stick to the promises he has made to me.

Caspian Henderson has been rigid and restrained throughout his six-year marriage to Juliet Bennett, and their life together feels dull and uneventful. Even their nights together feel like a chore with a set time. He arrives on the dot, does what he came for, and leaves. Everyone in their social circle believes he's the kind of man who will never bend for any woman. That was true until a month ago, when he returned with an orphaned girl who claims to have saved his life. Her name is Willow Everly. She's cold and unapproachable—the polar opposite of Juliet, who has been doted on all her life. Juliet's girlfriends attempt to warn her. "That young woman looks like a handful. You'd better keep an eye on your husband." Juliet beams. "Don't worry. Caspian doesn't even waver when I tease him. There's no way he'd be interested in that delicate little thing." Yet in just a few days, she finds out just how wrong she is.

My fated mate, Sebastian Grant, was the most brilliant healer on the continent. Specializing in treating wolfsbane, he had saved countless of our kind. To everyone else, he was a miracle walking among us. But he had a childhood friend and fellow apprentice, Sabrina Jordan. If Sebastian was famous for curing poison, then Sabrina was infamous for creating it. For years, she studied toxins while he developed antidotes. They worked so closely together that the pack slowly stopped distinguishing danger from jokes. That was until the day she tested a new kind of wolfsbane on me and I almost died. When I woke up, Sebastian was sitting beside my bed, writing a prescription for me. "Christina, don't blame Sabrina. My mentor and I have spoiled her. She knew I'd be able to cure you, so she was just messing around. She never meant to hurt you." He said it so casually, as if I had caught a cold. Not as if my organs had been failing and I had been a breath away from death. Before I could respond, someone burst into the room shouting that Sabrina had poisoned herself. Sebastian stood up and rushed out at once, his steps hurried and almost frantic. He never noticed that my prescription was missing a key herb. Just like that, the antidote that was supposed to save me became a poison that quietly sped up my death. That was when the Moon Goddess spoke inside my mind. [You can only return to the human world if you die at the hands of your fated mate. But are you sure you want this?] I lowered my gaze to the prescription in my hand, the ink still fresh. Sebastian himself had written it. The same hands that saved countless lives had just written the final prescription that would end mine. "I'm sure," I whispered.