Video Utopia #hujan

The intern secretly submitted a voluntary pay-cut application on my behalf. As a result, my salary dropped from $10,000 to $2,000. When I found out and confronted him, my boss and colleagues all defended him. "The company is not doing great right now. Oscar was just trying to save costs for us. Do you have to nickel-and-dime over this?" With my salary so low, I couldn't afford the special medication for my chronic migraines, and one day I passed out at my desk during an attack. But the intern snuck a video of me unconscious and posted it on the company's website. He even whipped up a detailed 100-page slideshow breaking down how I was slacking off on the clock and dumping all my work on him. Overnight, I was labeled a workplace bully. My boss gave me the cold shoulder, and my colleagues whispered about me. Even worse, some extreme "anti-workplace-bullying" activists tracked me down to my home, showed up with two cans of gasoline, and burned me and my parents alive. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on that very day when the intern had submitted my pay-cut form. In this second chance at life, I would make sure everyone saw the intern for who he truly was.

"Tuan muda, calon mempelai anda melarikan diri." "Apa?" James, laki-laki tampan pewaris tunggal dari salah satu keluarga old money di Indonesia membelalakkan matanya karena ditinggal calon istrinya tepat di hari pernikahannya. Namida Hamasaki 23 tahun melarikan diri tepat di hari pernikahanya dengan James Oliver Baskoro 30 tahun setelah melihat video mesum calon suaminya dengan wanita lain yang dikirimkan seseorang kepadanya. Dengan hati hancur Nami pergi mengikuti langkah kakinya yang entah akan membawanya kemana. James sangat marah karena telah dipermalukan oleh calon istrinya, ia bertekad untuk mencari Nami dan membalaskan dendam padanya atas penghinaan yang ia terima di hari pernikahan dengan mencoreng nama baiknya. Siapa sangka setelah bertahun-tahun mencari Nami, James akhirnya menemukan Gadis yang sangat ia benci ketika berlibur di Hawai dalam keadaan Nami yang hilang ingatan. Nami tidak mengenali James dan telah melupakan peristiwa yang telah membuatnya berlari di hari pernikahan dan keluarganya. Tentu ini membuat James senang, karena ia pikir keadaan Nami yang hilang ingatan akan memuluskan rencana balas dendamnya.

In her third year of dating Jackson Hunter, the cool and proud Lumina Walker took out a secret loan of one million dollars to repay his debt. She even resorted to performing stripteases in a bar. Everything changed when she overheard a shocking conversation between him and his friends. "You're ruthless even to yourself! Just to get back at Lumina, you pretended to be a bartender for three years, tricked her into taking out a loan for you, and used her nude video as collateral. You even got her to strip at your bar! " "If she ever found out that you're the loan shark and own the bar she stripped at… She'd probably drop dead from anger right there and then!" another chimed in. Celia Price was Lumina's living nightmare, her tormentor for nine years since their middle school days—relentless bullying, harassment, and abuse. The painful twist? Celia was Jackson's secret love all along—for a decade, to be exact. Yet Lumina didn't cry, didn't fight back. So when her Uncle Howard called and ordered her to marry the mute oldest son of the powerful Morgan family from Crown City, she agreed without hesitation.

On my birthday, my husband, Adrian Grant, suddenly showed up with my adoptive younger sister, Bella Reed, and her child, Tia Reed. When it was time to head out, he naturally arranged for Bella to sit in the front passenger seat. Then he turned to me and said calmly, "Tia gets carsick easily. The back seat is full of stuff. Since you're healthy, just take the bus." Our friends immediately chimed in, one after another, "You're the older sister. Taking care of your niece is only right." Four cars were heading out, yet not one seat was left for me, the supposed main character of the day. I sat on the bus, swallowing my grievance, and saw Adrian and Bella interacting ambiguously in the group chat. They were even talking about topics I knew nothing about. When I opened the newly sent video, nothing except leftovers remained on the table prepared for me. Adrian even treated the birthday cake I had carefully prepared as dessert, spoon-feeding it to Bella and her daughter. Someone finally couldn’t stand it anymore and asked whether this was appropriate. Adrian, who was carefully wiping Bella’s mouth, didn’t even look up. "We’re all family. Julia won’t be angry." At that point, our seven-year marriage came to its end.

My Alpha King mate Ethan Stone didn't know that our four-year-old daughter Lily suffered from kidney failure. Before her surgery, her greatest wish was for her father to take her to the amusement park on her birthday. She wanted to spend time with him alone. I knelt before Ethan Stone, begging him to fulfill our daughter's wish. He promised he would. But on her birthday, Lily waited in the cold wind for him. She waited until she coughed up blood and fainted, yet he never showed up. Her condition worsened, and the emergency treatment failed. Before she died, she asked me with tears in her eyes, "Mommy, why does Daddy like Victoria's daughter Emma but not me? Am I not good enough?" My daughter left this world with regret in her heart! From her small hand fell a phone, playing a video. In the video, her father had rented out the largest amusement park in town and was celebrating a birthday with Victoria's daughter. After her daughter died, Olivia completely gave up and left Ethan, but the high-handed Alpha King looked for Olivia all over the world, begging her to give him another chance.

What is a girl to do? Ebony is the last sister of her litter to find her mate. It’s difficult when you’re a forest ranger in the depths of a provincial forest to find a mate. Her station’s been vandalized while she’s away visiting family. Video evidence proves a wolf did the damage. She knows the shifter’s male, because no mundane wolf is that size or can open a can of soda and leave it on a table. She gets news the next morning. Three new rangers are headed her way. She’s got six weeks to get them acclimated to the job and location. What is she to do? Three new rangers, and an unknown number of rogue wolf shifters in her domain? It’s a recipe for disaster. What she doesn’t expect is the rangers are the rogue wolves, and they have designs on her, not her domain. Benedict, Franco, and Peter. They do everything together. They work, live, and love together. They aren’t looking for their own mates. The one mate they are looking for is a red ranger wolf. How will Ebony deal with the knowledge there are three male wolves determined to share her charms for the rest of her days? Will she choose one? Or take them all? Does she have a choice? All while training them on the job. There are hot days and steamy nights in the forest where the shifters find their passion.

I was a violin prodigy. But to pay my mother’s debts, I was forced to give up everything. That’s when I met the man who would own me: Dante Moretti. He was the king of New York's underworld. The Don of the Moretti family. With a single phone call, fortunes were made. With a single glance, blood was spilled. The world didn't just bend to his will—it broke. And on that day… what he wanted was me. He gave me a five-year contract. A penthouse in a skyscraper overlooking all of New York. More jewels and gowns than I could count. Every night he needed me, I’d put on whatever lacy thing he picked out. We’d have sex. Five years. 999 times. There were moments—his sweat dripping on my forehead, his soft breaths inside me, the way he’d look at me—when I let myself dream he loved me. Then the video dropped. Him. On the street. Kissing another woman. I knew the truth. He was my keeper, not my lover. Everyone laughed. They couldn't wait to see me lose my mind, begging him to keep me. Instead, I turned my back on him. And married another man.

Before I married Gavin Whitaker, his mother put me through a so-called premarital obedience test. She made me kneel and serve tea to the entire family, so I knelt. She made me walk barefoot across a reflexology path to prove my "resilience". I went through it. She made me sign a prenuptial agreement stating that if we ever divorced, I would leave with nothing. I signed. Throughout it all, Gavin watched coldly from the sidelines. All he said was, "Sienna, don’t make a big deal out of this. Just bear with it. These are our family’s rules." I smiled and nodded, even as tears slid down my face. The final test came without warning. His mother slapped me hard across the face. "If you marry into this family, you need to understand what humility means." I didn’t move. However, upstairs in the study, where Gavin was in the middle of a video conference, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed. He clutched his face and stared at me in terror. [System Notification: You and Gavin Whitaker have successfully bound to the Empathy Sync System. From this moment on, all harm inflicted upon the host will be experienced in full by the other party.]

Pada kehidupan sebelumnya, demi sahabat baikku, abang dan calon suamiku bersekongkol untuk menghancurkan perusahaanku. Ketika melihat aku yang gulung tikar berdiri di tengah hujan deras, mereka berdiri di samping sahabat baikku sembari mentertawakanku. “Rose, kamu seperti seekor anjing saja!” Saat aku membuka mataku kembali, aku kembali ke acara tender proyek pada tiga tahun silam. Awal berdirinya perusahaan pada kehidupan sebelumnya, abang dan calon suamiku memperingatiku. Mereka tidak mengizinkan aku memanfaatkan kekuatan Keluarga Tiara dan Keluarga Qindara. Katanya, perbuatanku tidaklah adil bagi orang lain. Namun di balik itu, mereka justru menggunakan berbagai alasan untuk memberikan proyek kepada sahabat baikku demi mengembalikan senyum manisnya. Saat aku terlahir kembali, aku melihat mereka berdua sama seperti kehidupan sebelumnya, diam-diam mengambil proyek yang seharusnya menjadi milikku kepada sahabat baikku. Akhirnya aku pun telah patah semangat. Sewaktu mereka mengetahui kabar aku hendak ke luar negeri, abang dan calon suamiku memasang kembang api semalaman demi merayakan akhirnya terbebas dari beban sepertiku. Namun pada acara tender Grup Arkava pada tiga tahun berikutnya, aku menggunakan statusku sebagai istri presdir berpidato di atas panggung. Kedua mata mereka berdua malah memerah.

Hasan dianggap hilang sejak puluhan tahun lalu bersama penumpang pesawat yang lain. Kejadian ini bahkan ramai jadi bahan perbincangan nasional, termasuk di sekitar rumah keluarga Hasan. Istri Hasan lantas "menjanda" dan mengurus dua putranya seorang diri. Tanpa disadari, Ridho dan Izul pun tumbuh menjadi dua pria yang memiliki cara pandang berbeda dalam menyikapi masa lalu. Bertahun-tahun berlalu, mereka tidak tahu bahwa ayah mereka ternyata masih berjuang agar bisa bertahan hidup di tengah-tengah masyarakat primitif yang berawatak kejam. Bahkan, masyarakat setempat menganut keyakinan aneh, bahwa "kumolo" (sebuah istilah terhadap orang asing di luar mereka), darahnya boleh ditumpahkan—untuk ritual-ritual khusus seperti pemanggilan hujan—dan status mereka dianggap hina oleh penduduk setempat. Ayah mereka tak ubah layaknya budak, bahkan mungkin lebih hina lagi! Hasan berjuang keras untuk diterima, hingga akhirnya kembali ke kampung halaman. Sayang, sekembalinya ke sana, Hasan malah menemukan kejutan-kejutan lain. Kondisi keluarga lamanya ternyata tidaklah sama seperti sewaktu ia tinggalkan. Misteri demi misteri kemudian terungkap, hingga keluarga itu kembali bersatu setelah berhasil menyusun dan mengungkap teka-teki hidup yang tidak biasa. Lantas, akankah keluarga mereka dapat kembali sama?