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Saat menyewa rumah, apa kalian pernah bertemu dengan pemilik rumah yang cantik? Aku dan pemilik rumah tinggal berseberangan. Awalnya, aku mengira dia adalah perempuan cantik yang sifatnya cukup dingin. Namun, suatu hari aku benar-benar melihatnya memutar pinggangnya saat menyapu tangga. Belakangan, kami menjadi akrab satu sama lain, bahkan dia dengan ramahnya mengundangku mengunjungi rumahnya. Hingga suatu hari, aku bersembunyi di lemari di rumahnya, menyaksikan dia dan suaminya saling bercengkerama dengan mata kepala sendiri.

Demi kebahagianku dan Alex Simina, aku memutuskan untuk mengobati stenosis kongenitalku di rumah sakit. Akan tetapi, dokternya itu teman Alex. Aku juga merasa malu dengan rencana perawatannya. “Selama terapi, kita akan melakukan kontak fisik intim yang nggak dapat dihindari.” “Seperti berciuman, bersentuhan, dan …”

"Menikahlah, bapak sudah menentukan calon yang terbaik untukmu, Nadina!" Nadina Hafisa Rahmi harus menerima dijodohkan dengan anak seorang kiai pondok besar bernama Muhammad Nadhif meskipun saat ini hatinya sedang mengagumi pria lain sejak duduk dibangku SMA. "Saya telah berjanji untuk menjagamu di sepanjang hidup saya. Dan apapun yang terjadi, saya akan selalu berusaha membuatmu bahagia dan bangga dengan pernikahan ini, Nadina." Follow Instagram @annisarz.id dan @annisa_rosyidzzhr ya!

I secretly sent Lena Parker, my husband Dominic Caballero's mistress, away to Sicara. I'm defying his authority as the Don of Coastwick, New Hudson. That very night, he abducts my parents and younger brother, using their lives to force me to reveal Lena's whereabouts. Dominic pushes his phone in front of me. On the screen, I see my family tied to chairs, the timer of the bombs ticking down. 00:59:59 00:59:58 He sits across from me and taps his fingers softly against the table, like he's closing a business deal. "Alyssa, you have 59 minutes," Dominic says in a calm, almost gentle voice. "Where's Lena?" I freeze, my throat tightening as if strangled. I can't get a word out. This is the third time he's pressed me. The first time, he asked where Lena had gone, but I stayed silent. The second time, he grabbed my chin and said in a low voice, "Alyssa, don't play games." Now, for the third time, he's threatening my family's lives. "Dominic…" I call out, my voice trembling. "They're my family. They're the most important people to me." He chuckles. "Is that so? Then why didn't you think about how important Lena is to me when you sent her away?" I stare at him, feeling how utterly absurd it all is. Important? He told me before that other women were just playthings. Once he got bored, he'd dump them. He swore I was the only one he loved. But now, for Lena, he's willing to kill my family.

“Miss Green, the results show that you have late-stage pancreatic cancer. The situation isn’t good for you. If you give up on treatment, you might have less than a month left. Are you sure you don’t want to receive treatment? Will your husband agree to it?” “I’m sure that… he will.” After I hung up, I surveyed the empty house and felt sadness fill every fiber of my heart. I had thought that the pain I felt was due to my dear old friend, gastritis, but it was cancer. I sighed and looked at the picture on the table. The eighteen-year-old Zach Stone stared at me in the photo. It had been years since, but I still remembered how the snow had fallen on my hair. At that time, Zach had smiled and asked whether this counted as us growing old together.

On my husband's birthday, I poured my heart into preparing a feast and selecting the perfect gift. Yet, he didn't come home. Instead, I received a picture message—a snapshot of him at the hospital, standing outside the OB-GYN ward, his hand resting tenderly on his childhood crush's belly. Beneath the photo, a message read: [The best birthday gift and a symbol of our decade-long bond.] Furious, I called her. "Don't you know he's married?" Before I could say more, my husband snatched the phone and lashed out at me. "Yvonne just wanted to share the joy of becoming a mother. Why are you overreacting? "Yvonne and I have been best friends for over a decade. Your petty jealousy is disgusting!" I once believed his busyness was for our future, but now I knew—he had been busy supporting the girl of his dreams through her pregnancy. Clutching my own stomach, I bit my lip to stop the tears from falling. Ten years of love had drained away. It was time to let go.

I used to be so happy with my husband, Ian Shaw, until his first love got too drunk one day and was taken away by five strange men for an entire night. To protect her reputation, he told everyone that I was the one who was kidnapped that night. Everyone criticized me, calling the baby in my belly a child of shame. I questioned Ian hysterically, but he said nonchalantly, "Ruby isn’t married yet. People will laugh at her if the news spreads." I looked icily at the man I had loved for six years, shock taking over as I realized he had probably never loved me back.

At our wedding, my husband, Justin Garner, pushes me—three months pregnant—toward our enemies as an apology in order to save his foster sister, Clara Garner. "This is my sincerity. You can do whatever you want with her." I don't cry or make a scene. I quietly follow the enemies away. That's because in my previous life, I had traded all my wealth for freedom and returned to Justin's side. In the end, I was forced to drink drugs and lost my unborn baby, suffering for three days and nights. "Justin, those 'enemies' were people you hired to act, and Maxine didn't even lose her innocence. Why did you have to get rid of the baby?" Clara asks. Justin coldly laughs. "If you're acting, you have to make it look real." I died full of hatred. When I wake up again, I choose to let those people take me away. Three years later, when I arrive at a banquet on the arms of my new lover, Justin goes mad, grabbing me and demanding, "Maxine Preston, where is our child?"

After my twin sister Harper died, my Alpha mate hated me for ten years. For a whole decade, I was his Luna, and I tried every possible way to be good to him. One day, he said, “If you really want to please me so much, then just die.” So when a truck was coming at me, I didn’t even move, but I had never expected that Noah would push me out of the way to save me. He was badly injured. Before he died, he looked at me and whispered, “Charlotte, if only I had never met you, everything would have been better.” At Noah’s funeral, all the elders and members of the pack came. “I should have let Noah choose Harper as his Luna. I regret forcing him to choose you back then. You killed him!” Noah’s mother was overcome with grief. Noah’s father also said, “You know? Noah saved your life three times! He was such a kind-hearted Alpha. Why didn’t you die instead?” Everyone at the funeral stared at me with blame. Finally, I was thrown out of the funeral, lost and devastated. Three years later, with the help of a witch, I returned to the past through her spell. This time, I have made a decision. No matter what, I will never be Noah’s Luna again.

Setelah bertahun-tahun meninggalkan Jakarta, Pradnya Suri kembali ke kota yang banyak menorehkan luka itu bersama Andaru, anak semata wayangnya yang berusia 5 tahun. Keputusannya untuk menikahi Adnan Danuarta membuat hidup wanita itu dilanda banyak masalah. Puncaknya adalah saat Pramudya Danuarta, mantan suami sirinya, mengetahui sebuah fakta bahwa Andaru adalah darah dagingnya. Yang selama ini diakui Adnan sebagai anak kandung. Perang saudara antara Adnan dan Pramudya pun tak terelakkan. Namun, masalah tak hanya selesai sampai di situ. Suri lupa bahwa ketakutannya terhadap mantan suaminya tidak ada apa-apanya ketika ia akhirnya berhadapan dengan Prabu Danuarta. Kakek bengis gila yang membuat hidup Suri semakin menderita sejak menjadi bagian dari keluarga Danuarta. “Aku tidak bisa menjanjikan kehidupan bahagia selamanya, tapi kamu bisa memegang kata-kataku, Suri. Sesulit apa pun keadaan kita nanti, aku tidak akan pernah melepaskanmu.” - Adnan Danuarta “Kembalilah padaku, Suri! Atau kamu mau kita bertemu di pengadilan saja? Dan kita akan bisa menentukan secara adil, kira-kira siapa yang paling pantas mendapatkan hak asuh atas Andaru?” - Pramudya Danuarta