Surabaya Time Now

A marriage is a divine vow of a pact made by the consent of God. It's divine because it can bond the destiny of two people to one destiny by love. It's divine because it can make one work for the drawback of the other. It's divine because it can give one a shoulder where they can always lean on. It's divine because it can give birth to a new life only which a God Creator can do. If such a divine vow is made into a pact of lies, what will happen to the ones that play. Jayson and Ellen bounded by a contract of marriage only have hate and scowl for each other. Can the divine vow make them fall in love or the hate they have for the other grow to break the vow and their marriage?

Olivia Sinclair has spent her life in the shadow of her golden sister, Isabella. Married to media mogul Liam Rockwell, she thought she had it all until Bella frames her for corporate sabotage on their fifth anniversary. Humiliated, cast out penniless, and blacklisted. Desperate for a way out, she takes a shocking gig: one night with an anonymous billionaire for $1 million. But when the blindfold comes off, she finds herself face-to-face with Theodore Sinclair—her ex’s uncle. Theo doesn’t care about the taboo, he wants her, and he’s not letting go. He marries her in a whirlwind public ceremony, installs her as CEO of Nova Media Group. Now, with power, revenge, and desire on her side, Olivia faces a choice: can she trust the man who should be family… or will his obsession destroy them all?

Reborn as the long-lost Rogers heir, missing for fifteen years, I avoided every chance to bond with my two brothers in this family. When they tossed me Vivi’s discarded, ill-fitting gown for the family gala, I smiled and put it on. When they sent Vivi to get an elite education while ordering me to scrub the utility room, I picked up the mop without a word. When they let Vivi chase love and dumped her rejected suitor on me, I didn’t fight. I accepted her leftovers with a calm nod. This was all because in my past life, I had spent my entire life desperate for my brothers' approval, only to end up despised by everyone for it. When I died in the crossfire of a gangland shootout, my own son pushed my body away in disgust. "Mom, did you really waste your whole life on such a petty fight with Aunt Vivi? Dying for the family would have been a more dignified end. At least then you wouldn't have disgraced our name." I left this world filled with resentment, only to open my eyes and find myself back at the moment I first set foot in the Rogers estate. This time, I'm done fighting. The power, the name, the honor. I'm letting them have it all. I’ve already been accepted into a closed-door medical project. Soon they will never see me again.

Dorian Keene was once untouchable—admired, feared, and cruel in the way boys are when they believe the world belongs to them. Caspian Vale was the opposite: quiet, brilliant, marked, and easy to target. What Dorian never admitted was the truth beneath the cruelty—he was terrified of how badly he wanted the boy he was meant to destroy. Years later, life shows no mercy. Penniless, grieving, and battling a worsening illness, Dorian takes a job that feels like a miracle only to discover his employer is Caspian. No longer the boy he buried, but a powerful tech mogul with an unreadable stare, a carefully constructed life… and a fiancée at his side. Dorian tries to keep his distance. Caspian pretends nothing ever existed. But desire doesn’t die, it waits. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where control ends and longing begins. As secrets surface and memories fracture, Caspian is forced to confront a truth he’s spent his life denying and Dorian must decide how much of himself he’s willing to lose for a love that was never supposed to exist. ~~~~~ “Once His Nightmare, Now His Employee” is a slow-burn MM romance that drifts from longing into obsession, where power shifts, choices cut deep, and loving the wrong man may cost everything.

Three years into her marriage with Jasper Finn, Quid Ledger finally stopped pretending she didn’t know the truth: the woman he chose over her was her own stepsister. On the night he asked for a divorce, Quinn did not cry or beg. She had always known why he married her—because she was quiet and easy to discard. And it proved even in the way she left him. No confrontation or scandal, just a signature that ended everything. What no one knew was that Quinn had never been the victim they thought she was. She had seen the betrayal long ago and quietly set her plans in motion, even summoning a man who had reasons to destroy Jasper. The day Quinn reclaimed her identity and stepped back into a world that once erased her, power and danger followed: enemies surfaced, truth unravelled, and the woman they discarded became untouchable. By then, regret had finally driven Jasper to his knees. With another man involved, will it be too late for him?  

Sa gitna ng tirik na araw at putikan ng Divisoria, tanging galit ang nagpapatakbo sa pagkatao ni Claudia Diaz. Limang taon na ang nakalipas nang itapon siya ng pamilya Montefalco na parang basura—matapos siyang pagtaksilan ng asawang si Miguel, saktan, at pagbintangan ng nakaw na hindi niya ginawa. Namuhay siya sa dilim, nagtatago at naghihintay ng pagkakataong makabangon. Ang pagkakataong iyon ay dumating sa katauhan ni Vanruth Amores, isang makapangyarihang bilyonaryo, dating huwes, at kilala bilang "Ruthless CEO." Sa likod ng isang pormal na interview sa trabaho, isang mapangahas na alok ang inilatag ni Vanruth: Isang kontrata ng kasal. Ngunit hindi alam ni Claudia, ang kanilang pagtatagpo ay hindi isang aksidente. Si Vanruth ay may lihim na koneksyon sa nakaraan ni Claudia, at gagamitin niya ang lahat ng kanyang yaman at kapangyarihan upang maging sandata ni Claudia sa paghihiganti. Sa mundong puno ng mapanuring mata, kailangang patunayan ni Claudia na hindi na siya ang biktima noon. Handa na siyang humarap sa korte ng publiko at sabihing: “Judge me now.”

Millie Jordan ends up in the hands of abductors and firmly believes Stefan Leach will be there to save her. Yet he doesn't show up, and she is sullied. After she's rescued, she drags her worn body to seek him out. There, she finds him celebrating his true love's birthday. Millie wakes up from her dream and turns to Stefan's good friend. "I heard you're short of a wife. Do you think I'm the right person for the job?" She and Pierce Atkinson get into a flash marriage. He wants someone to help him fend off his family's urging for him to marry, and she wants to get revenge on Stefan. The two clicked. During a banquet, Millie loses a game of truth and dare and chooses a dare—she needs to kiss any man who's present. She doesn't even spare Stefan a glance as she sits on Pierce's lap and kisses him deeply. She's gotten into a flash marriage, and Stefan, the scumbag, loses his mind at this.

For Esmeralda, daughter of the Beta of Bloodmoon pack is an excellent fighter and arranged to marry the Alpha of the pack, being rejected by him for a human woman was not only breaking her heart, but ruining her hard earned reputation as well. Especially not when she is pregnant with his child. She was excited for him to return so she could tell him. However, on her 19th birthday, despite finding out they are destined mates, he still rejected her and resulted in her losing the child he was unaware of. Esmeralda lost consciousness after the rejection, but she remembered being saved by a stranger who turned out to be none other than Alexander Malakai, one of the Lycan Princes and her second chance mate. Caught in a new world where her relationship with him seems almost forbidden like, and throw in her newest quest to become a royal elite guard at the Academy owned by the Royal Family and Anthony being an instructor there, Esmeralda learns to navigate through reclaiming her name, winning against Anthony’s schemes and her blooming forbidden romance with the Crown Prince himself.

Five years ago, on her birthday, Joan Lancaster was served with divorce papers by the one man whom she had loved with every fiber of her being. The same man who had sworn to protect her, cherish her, and never betray her, Dean Armstrong. He cast her aside without remorse, replacing her with his secretary and stripping her of everything but her dignity. Broken, wounded, and abandoned, Joan disappeared into the night with secrets only she knew, only to return five years later as a different woman. No longer the trembling, forgiving wife Dean once knew, Joan stepped back into his world as the untouchable Ice Queen, a woman whose rise to power had struck fear in the hearts of the Chicago businessmen. But she wasn't just back, she was back for revenge. And she wasn't going to stop until she stripped her ex-husband of everything that made his name. Once a powerful man, Dean found himself begging the woman he once discarded. The woman who now had the strings to his life and could do with him as she pleased. In a world where love had once broken her, Joan would prove one thing: some women don’t come back to be loved. They come back to be feared.

I wake up one day to find that I've become the power bank of the whole dorm. When the percentage shown above my dorm mates' heads is low, they'll be tired, angry, and ill-tempered. My job is to help them recharge via all sorts of physical contact. If I don't do my part, my grumpy dorm mates will force me to charge them up anyway…