Surviving As A Genius On Borrowed Time Chapter 1

When my husband Joshua dragged his student Linda Moore into our apartment, I didn't even blink—I gave up the bed. Last time, it'd been pouring when he showed up with her in the middle of the night. Told me to crash on the floor with my daughter Mia and gave Linda the bed like it was nothing. I lost it. Fought with him, snapped at her. She bolted, slipped into a ditch, and supposedly drowned. Joshua said nothing. Then, one night, with the storm going wild outside, he pried open a manhole and dumped me and Mia in like trash. "Linda's my mentor's daughter. She's dead—how am I supposed to face him? You two can apologize yourselves." We didn't even get to scream before that freezing, disgusting water swallowed us whole. Turns out, Linda faked the whole thing. Just a twisted joke to punish me. Joshua moved her in right after, like nothing happened. Now, thunder cracked again as the door opened—and there he was, Linda right behind him.

After being missing for 18 years, Mom and Dad finally found me. Jillian Swain, the fake heiress, crumples to the floor and starts sobbing. "Goodbye, Mom and Dad. Thanks for taking care of me all these years. But now that Wanda is home, I'm sure you don't have any use for me anymore." Mom and Dad hug her, completely heartbroken. "Sweetheart, don't talk like that! You're our only real daughter, now and always!" Even Harvey Schumer, the guy I was promised to as a kid, declares his love for her. "Forget who you really are. You're the only one I love." They're all tripping over each other to fuss over Jillian. They even throw a birthday celebration for her dog while I'm barely hanging on after a car crash. So I pack up my things, accept the space agency's offer, and slip away into a five-year confidential satellite research project. But the whole family freaks out the second I'm gone, turning the country upside down, searching for me.

Angela: “I need to. We do not have time. You may not allow me but I am going anyway. It is my destiny. I cannot run away from it. I am not like one of those tea party princesses you expect me to be. I am Angela Bells and I am ready for action.” Miles: “I am not letting you go out there.” Justin: “She used magic to make herself look older and Alex is her son.” Kale: “Pfft. I want pizza!” This is the Prestorian crew and this is their enemy, the underaged Queen of Pintraid... Octavia: “You expect me to forgive you. No no no. Angela, you will wish you were dead.” Angela Bell's lived all her life in the forest of Tyle. She's known no friends but her chickens. The story of her life turns around for her when her meant-to-be parents reveal a death-calling truth. The truth's made her realize she can be what she's always wanted to be, a princess. She teams up with a set of teens she calls, the bandits after meeting them in the worst way possible. They accompany her but... when there's good, there's evil too. Her nemesis is the under-aged Queen of Pintraid, the land that destroyed hers in the very beginning. The Queen wants to finish what her evil father started. Angela might lose everything but it's a price she has to pay. Angela and the bandits are about to go on a crazy mission that will put even the Queen of England on her toes. It's an adventure of a lifetime.

Avoir une famille fait ressortir un sentiment indescriptible, que nul ne peut expliquer. Pour ressentir ce plaisir et ce sentiment d'avoir une famille, il faut avant tout en avoir. Alors qu'est-ce qu'une famille ? Darye n'a jamais connu ce sentiment, le sentiment d'avoir une famille sur qui compter quand tout va mal, une famille où elle aurait la possibilité d'avoir une mère et un père. Même avoir une famille qu'avec un seul parent serait aussi bien pour elle. Étant orpheline dès le bas âge elle sera élevée par sa tante qui n'est réellement pas une famille pour elle. Elles le savent toutes les deux mais sachant qu'elle ne peut rien changer elle subit simplement. Cherchant à sortir de cette situation qui peut la conduire à la mort, elle décide de tenter sa chance dans plusieurs domaines. Et comme la vie n'est jamais smoothe pour personne, elle aura des choix à faire. Elle tombe dans des histoires louches qui la conduisent sur un chemin inconnu. Elle trouvera une âme qui la fera sortir peu à peu du lot mais pour combien de temps ? Serait-il bon pour elle ? Seule la fin nous le dira.

เมื่อความจำเป็นบีบบังคับทำให้ ปารดาต้องแต่งงานเพื่อรักษาชีวิตของพ่อ ความกตัญญูที่มีพาให้เธอต้องเจอเรื่องยุ่งยากลำบากใจ แต่ก็ต้องจำ ส่วนชนาวินก็ต้องทำตามคำสั่งของพ่อ และตอบแทนบุญคุณของแม่ที่เป็นโรคหัวใจ เมื่อไม่อาจจะขัดขืนก็จำต้องทำตามหน้าที่ของแต่ละคน นอกจากความเป็นที่ต้องแต่งงาน ปารดาก็ยังมีความจำใจที่ต้องกลายมาเป็นคนงานในไร่ห่างไกลผู้คน เพียงเพราะชนาวิน คนที่ขึ้นชื่อว่า 'สามี' อยากจะกลั่นแกล้ง'ภรรยา' ที่ถูกประกาศิตให้ต้องแต่งงานกัน

ในวันที่เด็กน้อย ‘เจโคบี้’ ทายาทมหาเศรษฐีวัยเจ็ดขวบ และ ‘นรินทร์นารถ’ พี่เลี้ยงสาวชาวไทย ถูกพาตัวไปจากคฤหาสน์ชาร์ลสตัน ไม่มีใครคาดคิดว่าชะตากรรมของทั้งคู่จะเป็นอย่างไรต่อไป แต่แล้วชีวิตของเด็กชายและหญิงสาวก็ต้องเปลี่ยนไปตลอดกาล เมื่อเหตุการณ์อันเลวร้ายกลับชักนำให้เธอกลายเป็นนางในฮาเร็มของ ‘อัลเฟรโด วาลเดซ อัลทาซา’ มหาเศรษฐีหนุ่ม พ่อค้าอาวุธสงครามผู้ทรงอิทธิพลแห่งโมร็อกโก หากไม่ว่าอย่างไร เพื่อรักษาคำสัญญาที่มีต่อผู้มีพระคุณ นรินทร์นารถจะต้องหาทางดิ้นรนจากเงื้อมมือของอัลเฟรโด และนำตัวเจโคบี้กลับไปคืนยังแผ่นดินอังกฤษอีกครั้งให้ได้ แม้จะต้องแลกด้วยชีวิตของตัวเธอเองก็ตาม...

Katanya, langkah awal untuk maju adalah melupakan masa lalu. Tapi apakah bisa melupakan masa lalu? Kenangan manis, atau kesedihan yang pahit di masa lalu, Ilena selalu ingat, terutama pada Naftanya.

I, Xavier Locke, had married the same woman, Melanie Slater, seven times. But for the sake of her first love, Leonard Blueman, she divorced me seven times. The first time we got married, she told me, "I'll only love you for the rest of my life." But every time Leonard came back to the country, she sang a different tune. "Can't you be more sensible? How can you bear to stand by and let Lenny be called a homewrecker who snatches a married woman from her husband?" The first time we divorced, I cut my wrists to make her stay. I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, but she never showed up even once to see me. The third time we divorced, I humbled myself and applied to be her assistant at her company. I did that just so I could see her a little more. By the sixth divorce, I had learned to quietly pack my things and move out of the home we shared. My hysteria, my repeated backing down, and my tolerant compromises brought me nothing—just Melanie repeatedly divorcing and remarrying me. Time and time again, she pulled the same trick. With history repeating itself, I decided enough was enough. After hearing that Leonard was coming back again, this time, I handed her the divorce papers myself. As always, she set a date for our next remarriage. But what she didn't know… was that I was leaving for good this time.

In the Bennet family, Rue had long been jealous of her twin sister, Rachel. She concocted a plan to get Rachel drunk and send her into a stranger's bed at their birthday party, hoping that she would be expelled from the Bennet family with her ruined reputation. However, in the playful hands of fate, Rachel bedded Edward Bluemel, the richest man in the world, and became pregnant. Edward fell head over heels for Rachel, and actively searched for the woman with whom he only had the fortune to meet once. With Rue's manipulation, the couple’s reunion was prevented. Nine months later, Rachel gave birth to a pair of twin boys, which fueled Rue's flames of jealousy once more. In order to take over Rachel’s place as Edward’s wife, Rue took one of the twins and pretended to be her. With that, she managed to marry Edward, though she never had his favor since then. Five years passed, the other twin that was raised by Rachel had grown up to be a cute, kind prodigy. By chance, he entered an upper-class kindergarten where he met his twin brother for the first time…

The night I confessed my love to my girlfriend, she wept so hard she could barely breathe. She said she had seen the future, and she wanted to make a promise with me. I asked her why. She only shook her head and said, "I don't remember… all I know is that in the future I regret something terribly. Frank, no matter what happens, you must give me three chances. Will you?" I was deeply in love with Agnes Grey, so I agreed without hesitation. But later, it was as if she had forgotten all about that night—forgotten it when she clung so intimately to her male assistant. Only then did I understand why she'd made me promise that all those years ago. Because the moment I signed my name on the divorce papers, I heard a familiar voice. It was Agnes at nineteen. Through her sobs, she pleaded, "Frank… you promised me, didn't you? You said you'd give me three chances."