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"Lima belas ribu, Mas? Yang benar saja. Besok kamu tahu kan, kalau ibuku mau datang?" Kedua alis Aira naik ke atas dengan mata melebar.  "Kenapa? Apa ada yang salah? Terus ... kalau orang tuamu datang, kita mau menyambut seperti ratu, menyediakan ikan, daging, udang, cumi, begitu? Kita hidup harus hemat. Nggak peduli siapa yang datang. Bukankah orang kampung juga menyambut tamu dengan hidangan seadanya?"

Orang Jawa menyebut garwa sebagai kepanjangan dari sigarane nyowo atau yang kita kenal belahan jiwa. Disebut belahan jiwa karena memang penciptaan seorang perempuan dari tulang rusuk seorang lelaki sehingga keduanya merupakan satu kesatuan jiwa. Namun, apa jadinya jika seseorang yang disebut belahan jiwa tidak pernah menghargai pengabdian pasangannya. Menemani seseorang dari nol bukan berarti dia akan membalas dengan kesetiaan hingga akhir hayat. Ujian demi ujian dalam pernikahan itu akan selalu hadir, tetapi jika ujian yang dihadapi hanya berkutat pada masalah perselingkuhan dan perpelakoran. Akankah tetap mengukuhkan ikatan pernikahan? Ardiyanti memgalaminya. Bagaimana dia menyikapi semua baca kisahnya, yuk!

The day I found out that I was a fake heiress who had taken the place of the Jones family’s real daughter, my husband, Timothy Lane, was brought back as the true heir of the Lane family. The man who once said he loved me quickly abandoned both me and our daughter. At that very moment, the real heiress, Nancy Jones, decisively broke up with the fake heir of the Lane family and got together with Timothy. According to them, this was simply ‘making things right’. After losing everything in the blink of an eye, Micah Lane, the fake heir, kidnapped my daughter and me, forcing me to call Timothy for help. However, Timothy ignored our desperate pleas and mocked us. "You two are really something. Of course the fake heiress and fake heir go together. No wonder you make such a perfect pair of actors." On the other end of the line, I could occasionally hear Nancy's raspy, suggestive voice. As I listened to them, Micah stabbed me and my daughter to death. I died a tragic, painful death. After we died, my daughter and I were my husband's final assignment as a mortician before he left the job. The man who claimed he did not care about us fell apart the moment he saw our lifeless bodies. "Wasn't it all supposed to be a lie?! Why weren't you lying to me?! "Please, don't die! Don't leave me!"

My dormmate, Summer Lodge, always uses heavy-duty electrical appliances to cook in our dorm. I kindly remind her that it's a fire hazard and that she'll get a demerit if the college finds her out, but she snaps at me and tells me to mind my own business. One day, her oven bursts into flames and burns one of our dormmates—the daughter of an affluent family—to death. When the college investigates the matter to apportion the blame, Summer and another dormmate push the blame on me. I'm expelled and cyberbullied. My dead dormmate's boyfriend even comes after me for revenge. He shoves me and my family into the furnace at a crematorium. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to the day when Summer decides to make a meal with the oven.

Memuat adegan dewasa 21+ Diusia pernikahan mereka yang menginjak 5 tahun, Zara tak menyangka jika sang suami menjualnya pada seorang pria yang merupakan bos sebuah klub malam sebagai jaminan pembayaran hutang. Zara harus melayani seorang pria kejam seperti Dave Carpenter. Pria yang memperlakukan Zara sebagai objek untuk memuaskan hasrat besarnya. Tak sampai disana, kekecewaan dan keputusasaan yang tak terkira turut dirasakan Zara saat dia mengetahui alasan dibalik hutang suaminya

My fiancé dumped me the moment he found out about my rare blood type. "That condition of yours? Yeah, it'd just drain my wallet." I was spiraling when Vincent showed up—like some knight in shining armor, pulling me out of the wreckage. He didn't care about my blood type. We barely dated before he proposed, and for a while, married life felt perfect. Until a year later, when I overheard him talking to a doctor. "Vincent, you already took 400 milliliters of Sophia's blood last month, and now you want another 200? Are you insane? Even if you love Emma, you can't just drain an innocent woman dry for her!" "A little more won't kill her. Stop overreacting." My head spun. My whole body went cold. That's when it hit me—our perfect marriage had been a lie from the start.

To save my husband, I drank until my stomach bled. Despite making it to the hospital, no one would treat me—all because he, a prominent surgeon, forbade anyone from attending to his own wife. In a previous life, he had saved me, a deed that fate cruelly repaid: the same day he saved me, his beloved, Lily Evans, tragically died during surgery. Consumed by regret, he lamented, "If I hadn't saved you, she might still be alive." On my birthday, in a twisted celebration, he intoxicated both me and our daughter. In a horrifying turn, he used his surgical skills to ruthlessly stab us both. As I lay bleeding, I begged for our daughter's life, pleading with him to spare her, his biological child. He coldly justified his brutality by claiming that being tied to me caused him to miss his chance with his true love. Fueled by a desperate need to protect my daughter, I fought him ferociously. He inflicted thirty-eight merciless wounds on me before turning his murderous intent towards our child. As I faced death, my last sight was of him, his decision clear as he once again chose his lost love over his living family.

Shafira terpaksa menyetujui sang suami berpoligami demi mendapatkan keturunan. Hanya saja, siapa sangka hadirnya madu dalam rumah tangganya justru membawa keduanya pada konflik yang cukup pelik? Sanggupkah Shafira bertahan?

The first thing Stella Judd did after she was reborn was kneel in front of her parents to beg sincerely, "Mom, Dad, if I have to marry into the Chilton family, I want to marry Eric!" Her parents were surprised. "Don't you like Noel, Stella? Don't you remember that Eric is Noel's uncle?" Something flashed across Stella's eyes as she was reminded of a memory. She spoke sadly, "I know what will happen if I continue liking Noel. I can't ever be with him. "Mom, Dad, I've never asked you for anything. As a heiress who has enjoyed a luxurious life in this family for as long as I can remember, I know it's my responsibility to uphold this marriage alliance. This is my only request, so I hope you can agree to it."

Malam itu, sepertinya akan menjadi malam yang paling Loulia sesali sepanjang hidupnya. Loulia meringis melihat cucuran darah tak henti mengalir. Namun yang lebih membuatnya perih adalah saat ia menerawang jauh ke dalam sepasang bola mata laki-laki di hadapannya. Saat itulah Loulia sadar, bahwa ego d