Trash Bag Besar

Anak sulungku marah besar saat tahu aku telah menduakan ibunya. Merasa tak dihormati, akhirnya kuusir dia dari rumah. Tak disangka, beberapa tahun setelah itu dia muncul di kehidupanku. Dia tak saja hanya menghancurkanku, tetapi juga keluarga baruku.

Hari itu, ia baru saja menerima ijazah SMA-nya. Seharusnya ini menjadi momen bahagia, namun kenyataan hidupnya tak seindah itu. Ayahnya, seorang satpam di sebuah perusahaan besar, tiba-tiba terjerat hutang dari pinjaman online. Semua ini karena biaya ujian sekolahnya yang begitu mahal. Kini, keluarga mereka tenggelam dalam krisis keuangan, dan Luna merasa bersalah. “Ayah sudah terlalu banyak berkorban untukku,” gumam Luna pelan. “Aku harus melakukan sesuatu.” Ia memandang jauh ke depan, mencari solusi di tengah kebuntuan. Pikirannya berputar, dan satu ide terlintas: mencari pekerjaan. Luna tahu, hanya dengan bekerja ia bisa membantu ayahnya melunasi hutang-hutang itu. Tapi bagaimana? Di kota kecil tempat tinggalnya, lowongan pekerjaan sangat sedikit, apalagi bagi lulusan SMA tanpa pengalaman. Keputusannya bulat. Esok harinya, Luna bersiap untuk mencari pekerjaan di perusahaan besar tempat ayahnya bekerja. Meskipun ayahnya tidak tahu rencananya, Luna yakin ini adalah cara terbaik untuk membantu keluarganya. --- Luna berdiri di depan gedung perusahaan besar yang selama ini hanya ia lihat dari luar. Dengan mengenakan pakaian terbaik yang ia miliki—meskipun sederhana, ia berusaha tampil percaya diri. Hari itu, ia dijadwalkan untuk wawancara sebagai asisten administrasi. Langkah kakinya membawa Luna memasuki lobi besar perusahaan, matanya sibuk menjelajahi setiap sudut ruangan. Semuanya terasa begitu mewah, jauh dari kehidupannya sehari-hari. Jantungnya berdegup kencang, antara gugup dan semangat bercampur jadi satu. Dan dari sinilah semua kisahnya bermula bertemu laki-laki yang ternyata kakak kelasnya di SMA bernama KIM DAEHAN. Daehan menawarkan nikah kontrak dengan Luna meski mereka tetap melakukan ijab kabul secara sah, namun Daehan membuat kesepakatan dengan Luna pernikahan mereka hanya sampai 6 bulan . namun saat menjelang perpisahan Daehan tak mau berpisah dengan Luna. Bagaimana kelanjutan kisah mereka?

Uri, gadis kecil berusia 8 tahun, terkejut kala menemukan mayat sahabatnya tergeletak di balik semak dan bebatuan. Desa yang awalnya tenang, bahkan langsung terguncang. Namun, penyelidikan justru mengarah pada misteri yang lebih besar dari yang dibayangkan...!

In my second year running the company, my high school class monitor suddenly started tagging me nonstop in the group chat. [Alice, Vivian was only joking with you back then. Why won't you come to her party? Are you trying to make her feel guilty?] I didn't understand what was going on. Only after reading the messages did I realize that our class beauty, Vivian Spencer, had recently found her biological parents—and today, she had thrown a party to announce it to the world. Me: [I'm busy.] I had no intention of attending a party hosted by someone who used to bully me. But my answer didn't shut them up. Instead, it stirred up even more absurd speculation. [Don't tell me you're doing some kind of labor job and can't take leave?] [We're all former classmates. If you show up, I'll give you sixty dollars. That should cover two days of your salary.] Vivian chimed in as well. [Alice, it was just a joke back then. And I'd already dropped out by then. Why can't you let it go?] I stared at her message for a long moment before typing: [Only trash would call bullying a joke.] The group exploded instantly. [Vivian's no trash! She's a wealthy heiress. She's not even in the same league as you. Poor people really love to nitpick.] Vivian, ever the hypocrite, tried to smooth things over. [No matter what, today marks a new beginning for me. I hope you'll come to witness it. [We're classmates, after all. I don't hold it against you for forcing me to drop out. If you're short on money, I can even ask my dad to arrange a job for you.] Then she sent a screenshot of her chat with her father. When I saw her father's profile picture, I froze. Wasn't that the same profile picture as my freeloading dad? But I look seventy percent like my mom—it's impossible for me to be a fake daughter. And Vivian was two months younger than me. I let out a laugh. "Alright, I'll definitely attend your recognition party."

Jenderal Raymond Harrits adalah Jenderal Besar Nollyvia yang menguasai kota Danfell. Ia difitna dan dihabisi secara keji. Namun cincin merah saga yang selama ini memberikannya kekuatan juga memiliki kutukan. Bahwa pemiliknya tidak akan bisa meninggalkan dunia sebelum mewariskannya kepada orang yang tepat. Ia pun terbangun di tubuh seorang pemuda cacat dari keluarga petinggi pemerintahan. Cakara, pemuda cacat yang baru saja meninggal setelah koma selama tiga tahun tiba-tiba bangun dan tampak sehat. Dengan identitas barunya sebagai Cakara Lakeswara Madaharsa ia akan membalas siapa saja yang terlibat konspirasi atas dirinya, dan dengan ingatannya sebagai Jenderal Besar ia juga akan membalas dendam terhadap semua orang yang selama ini memperlakukan tubuh barunya yang cacat dengan buruk.

Menikah demi rumah sakit masih bisa ia terima. Tapi menghamili gadis ODGJ yang bahkan tak tahu arti pernikahan? Dokter Eryas dihadapkan pada dilema moral-dan misteri besar bernama Eira Ranieri. Moral atau modal, yang manakah yang Eryas pilih?

Tanpa disangka-sangka, Nur yang baru tiga bulan bekerja di rumah majikannya, mengetahui sebuah rahasia besar di rumah itu. Ia berupaya mengumpulkan barang bukti untuk melaporkan sang majikan ke polisi. Tanpa barang bukti, laporan Nur tak diterima oleh kepolisian.

I paid Curtis Robinett 200 thousand dollars a month to be a standby blood donor. My fiancée, Eden May, thought it was a waste of money. So she reassigned him to work part-time as her personal assistant instead. When Curtis accidentally submitted my marriage license appointment as a divorce filing for the 99th time, I kicked open Eden's office door. She didn't even look up. "We're in no rush to get married anyway," she said calmly. "Curtis is just careless. That's how he's always been." Later, in the emergency room, I called Eden while doctors rushed around me, my throat shredded from yelling. "Where's my emergency medical kit?" I rasped. "What did you do with it?" Curtis answered instead, his voice warm and smug. "You mean the expensive leather bag you kept in the cabinet? I swapped it out for a large party snack box. It holds everything just fine, and honestly, it looks a lot more cheerful. "Ms. May's brother and sister-in-law are both career soldiers. Your bag didn't really match that image, so I thought this would be more appropriate." My vision dimmed. My hands shook as I told Curtis to come donate blood. Eden laughed softly and cut in, "Stop pretending you're anemic just to get attention. If you're actually sick, deal with it. You're at the hospital; I think the doctors are fully capable of keeping you alive. Curtis is afraid of needles. He's not coming." Then, she hung up. She didn't appear until the surgical lights finally went dark. "Curtis had me bring you chocolate milk," she said. "It's good for recovery. It's not that he didn't want to help. He just faints at the sight of blood." She placed a settlement waiver on my bed. "I was the one who told him not to come. That 200-thousand-dollar monthly salary is his pay as my assistant. It has nothing to do with you. You didn't have to call the police for that. Sign this, and I'll go get the marriage license with you." I thought of what I had just seen in the operating room. Eden's brother, Harvey May, was bleeding out on the operating table, waiting for a lifesaving drug that never came. In the final moments of surgery, he could do nothing but lie there and die. I looked at her and said evenly, "You're the immediate family. It's not my place to sign that."

Saat sedang mandi, tiba-tiba listrik padam. Aku pun terpaksa mengenakan jubah tidur dan kembali ke kamar untuk beristirahat. Tak disangka, dalam gelap gulita, sepasang tangan besar tiba-tiba memelukku erat dari belakang. Celaka! Ternyata aku salah masuk ke kamar keponakanku…

Selama ini suamiku dianggap remeh dan dihina oleh keluarga dan saudaraku. Mereka kira dia cuma menantu miskin yang pantas dijadikan pembantu. Tapi siapa sangka, di balik semua itu, dia ternyata menyimpan rahasia besar yang membuat mereka terdiam tak percaya!