The Last Leaf

My mother was asking me and my sister to choose the man we wanted to marry. My sister, surprisingly, did not choose the gloomy STEM student she spent four years pursuing. Instead, she went for the rich but infamous playboy. Shock colored my mother's face. "I know he's rich, Joan, but what if you get all known and unknown STDs? I thought you loved Gil. Are you sure you're making the right choice?" That did not sway my sister's mind. That alone told me what I had been suspecting all along. Like me, my sister was reincarnated. In our previous lives, she happily married Gilbert Terrason, but he left her on read for ten long years. His cold treatment drove her a little gaga. That playboy, however, stopped his philandering lifestyle for me and loved me like his life depended on it. He gave me all his riches, and we became the model couple everyone wouldn't stop talking about. Then, it happened during the ball. On my tenth wedding anniversary, my sister, consumed by rage, burned us into cinders. Here we were, on our second chance in life. This time, I took Gilbert's hand. "No takebacks, Joan. Don't try to do a third take." My sister snickered. "As to you. This time, all the love in the world is coming to me." Ah, yes, love. Joan still did not get it. Love was the most unreliable element in any marriage.

Bagaimana jika suamimu membawa wanita lain ke rumah? Victoria Anastasia William, selalu berpikir bahwa pernikahannya akan baik-baik saja, karena sang suami – Liam Harrison – seorang dokter yang dia tahu mencintai dirinya seperti dia mencintai Liam. 2 tahun pernikahan mereka, semua terlihat baik-baik saja. Namun, tak kunjung memiliki anak di 3 tahun pernikahan, membuat Liam mulai berubah. Liam sering membentak Victoria, bahkan menyalahkan Victoria yang tak mampu memberinya anak. Liam juga sering pulang terlambat, dengan alasan masih menangani banyak pasien. Hingga suatu hari, Liam tiba di rumah bersama seorang wanita muda bernama Annabele, yang diakui Liam sebagai wanita yang dicintainya.

Mendapatkan tawaran pekerjaan sebagai ART di saat ia butuh pekerjaan dan tempat tinggal, Lulu Namari tak menolak. Apalagi yang menawarkan pekerjaan adalah Daril Rayjesta—Bos dari laki-laki yang sudah mengkhianatinya. Salah paham pun terjadi ketika sepupu Daril, Kaivan menyebarkan rumor bahwa Daril dan Lulu adalah sepasang kekasih. Dari kesalahpahaman itu, Daril meminta Lulu untuk menjadi kekasih pura-pura, tetapi apa yang dikatakan Lulu membuat Daril tercengang. “Kita nggak harus pura-pura pacaran. Karena saya siap menjadi istri Pak Bos.” Akankah hubungan mereka akan berlanjut sampai jenjang pernikahan?

I had been managing the company’s warehouse software for five years. Then the new manager came to me out of the blue, saying I didn’t understand frontline operations and that I was being fired. Looking at the five-thousand-dollar severance, I just nodded. “Fine.” He patted my shoulder after seeing me so compliant and started lecturing. “Young people should be out on the line, moving boxes! What’s the use of sitting in the office staring at data every day? “We’re a logistics company. Strength is what matters, not a tech geek like you!” I glanced at the high-end gaming computer in his office and obediently replied, “Yes, Mr. Fuller. Lesson received.” Maybe I had been too comfortable these past few years, and he thought I was dispensable. So, I handed over my ID badge and casually deleted all my personal login keys from my computer. Little did he know that the entire warehouse logistics, inventory management, and route planning software had been coded by me. I had let the company use it for free simply because the place was close to home and the work was easy. Now that I was gone, the system running on my personal cloud server was naturally inaccessible. Tens of thousands of items in the warehouse ground to a halt. As for any commercial software that could replace my system, a year’s subscription would cost exactly one thousand times my severance.

No dia do exame de admissão da faculdade, a amiga de infância do meu namorado percebeu que havia esquecido o comprovante de inscrição em casa. Ele insiste em voltar para buscá-lo, mas eu o impeço. No fim, ela perde a prova de humanas. Tomada pelo desespero, ela se joga à morte. Mais tarde, meu namorado e eu somos aprovados na Bloomdale University, a melhor universidade do país. Construímos carreiras de sucesso e ganhamos salários de sete dígitos — nosso casamento é perfeito. No entanto, no aniversário da morte da amiga de infância dele, ele me esfaqueia repetidas vezes, tirando a minha vida. — Foi culpa sua ela ter morrido. — Ele diz. — Se eu tivesse voltado para pegar o comprovante de inscrição da Ginger, ela não teria perdido a esperança e tirado a própria vida. Quando abro os olhos novamente, percebo que voltei ao mesmo dia do exame de admissão. A voz ansiosa do meu namorado ressoa no meu ouvido. — Amelia, eu preciso voltar para pegar o comprovante de inscrição da Ginger. Desta vez, eu sorrio e digo: — Pode ir. Por favor, tome cuidado.

To defuse the bomb strapped to the hostage, I had no choice—I cut off all her clothes. My clueless new wife, Dana Poole, blasted it online. She cried as she faced me. "Why not at least leave her underwear on? You were saving her, I get it—but did you have to take everything? Doesn't a girl's dignity matter? With cameras everywhere, how is she supposed to live after this? You couldn't even cover her up?" The backlash exploded. The unit benched me to calm things down. So I stopped caring. I followed procedure, no improvising, no extra effort. Then one day, at the busiest mall in the city, Dana's mom got strapped into a brand-new linked bomb. This time, the whole unit panicked.

Jacob Alfred, seorang pemuda berusia 30 tahun, belum pernah menghabiskan malam minggu bareng makhluk bernama perempuan. Kesehariannya hanya dihabiskan bersama sahabatnya, si Willy kribo. Sedangkan, emak Alf di kampung, sudah ngebet banget pengen punya calon mantu dari Alf. Hingga suatu saat, seorang wanita cantik dari masa SMA Alf dulu, datang dan mengajaknya malam mingguan bareng. Apakah ini salah satu tanda awal bahwa Alf sebentar lagi akan melepas masa lajangnya? Yuk, ikuti kisah Alf yang penuh kekonyolan dalam mencari cinta sejatinya?

“Ms. Arnold, you really should sign this divorce agreement. Otherwise, I won’t be able to answer to Mr. Fisher.” Jeremy Fisher’s personal lawyer, Cole Stewart, stood in front of Hailey Arnold with an anxious expression. In his hands were a freshly printed divorce agreement, the pages still crisp. This was the thirty-third time Jeremy had asked to divorce her. The first time, Hailey climbed onto the rooftop and jumped. She survived but broke one of her legs. The second time, she slashed her wrist with a small knife, and blood flooded half the bathroom. The third time, she swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills and spent three days in the hospital having her stomach pumped. … Every single time, she had used death to force Jeremy to compromise, but this time, she was tired of it.

An accident that killed her father made Valerie always overshadowed by fear and terror. She managed to get through the traumatic period with the help of a psychiatrist and got on with her life well. She wants to live as normal as women in general; experience romantic love stories like in books and so on. That hope began to come true with George in her life. However, it was not as beautiful as she dreamed. Nine blue candles. This scared her very much. Someone suddenly became close to her and she trusted him because he helped her. Someone else looked suspicious to her. But what does Valerie have to do with all this? Who are they… who is he?

Laurel must be willing to lose her father who died in an accident, as a result of the careless actions of a rich kid who is reckless, as well as losing her mother who died due to illness. Everything could be solved with their money and Laurel was disgusted by it. However, the years passed and Laurel's life seemed so lucky, as if God had always given His love to Laurel, and she was grateful for it. Then, she met Aaron, a CEO who had succeeded at a young age with his own efforts. They fell in love, went through everything with a pleasant little drama, until they got married. Even so, the problems never end, until one day Laurel learns a striking truth. Aaron was that young man, the young man who drove so irresponsibly that her father died. All is revealed. All the conveniences that Laurel got, all came from Aaron who did it out of guilt. Meanwhile, Aaron, who initially did everything to get back at his sins in the past, actually fell in love with Laurel. Then, what is their next story? Will Laurel be willing to forgive Aaron or vice versa?