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 The time ticked by, and by the time they finished shopping, it was already 9 PM.
 Li Caiyi took Shen Qiang to the city's center, where the street was busy and crowded.
 "It's very crowded here," Shen Qiang muttered while looking around. He noticed the street had lanterns decorated, and people moved around busily. "Were they celebrating something?"
 His question stopped Li Caiyi on her track. Then she looked back at him incredulously. "Do you seriously not know what day is tomorrow?"
 Shen Qiang scratched the back of his head, and Li Caiyi sighed in exasperation. "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. How can you not know that?"
 "Ah. So that's why," Shen Qiang replied flatly as if the world festival didn't strike an impression on him.
 Li Caiyi watched his reaction, but she couldn't find any sense of longing in his eyes. Usually, people would return to their family during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Shen Qiang acted like it was unrelated to him. He didn't even remember it until she mentioned it. It meant that for him, this festival brought little to no significance to his life.
 Up to a few hours ago, Li Caiyi still thought that she could spend the mid-autumn festival with her family, but who would have thought that they had never waited for her to come? They looked busy trying to save the family's face after her supposed allegation.
 Bitterness came from the edge of her throat when she recalled her family's cold eyes towards her. As if she was an unwanted person in her own house.
 Thinking about that, she couldn't help but wonder whether Shen Qiang also had a poor relationship with his family.
 "Since it's so late already, how about we go back for now?"
 Li Caiyi turned her head to Shen Qiang, and she found him looking at her with an inexplicable expression. She wasn't that slow to notice that Shen Qiang had been sneaking glances towards her many times today. Every time, his gaze was full of indescribable emotion, and it somehow made her uneasy.
 Li Caiyi avoided his gaze as she pretended to look at the lantern on the street with interest. "That's right; we should go home."
 Both of them remained motionless, despite knowing that their fun date had ended. None of them spoke a word, as though a single sound could break this comfortable silence.
 Every good thing has to end, eventually. Li Caiyi learned that the hard way. Only unhappiness would follow if they prolonged short-lived happiness, and she didn't want that.
 Instead, she would let this short happiness last forever in her memory by ending this quickly.
 Li Caiyi tucked her hair behind her ears while putting on her best smile. "Thank you so much for today. It's been a while since I had so much fun. If you are still interested, let's meet at that building tomorrow morning."
 Shen Qiang hadn't said anything, but Li Caiyi didn't have any words left to say, so she turned away.
 She was considering whether she should stay at the hotel tonight when a pair of powerful arms suddenly wrapped around her waist from behind.
 Li Caiyi gasped in surprise as she tried to maintain her balance. She jerked her head sideways, and her eyes met with Shen Qiang's deep eyes. He lazily pressed his cheek on her shoulder as she stared at her.
 His eyes were like the endless night that hid a thousand mysteries. From this distance, Li Caiyi could see how long his eyelashes were, and she suddenly forgot every scolding word that had already been on the tip of her tongue.
 "Don't go."
 Li Caiyi could feel her legs grow weaker when the vibration of his voice tickled her ears. He was too close to her comfort!
 "Can you stay with me tonight? I don't want to be alone."
 Shen Qiang's voice was as calm as always, but Li Caiyi could still feel a trace of loneliness and desperation in it, as if he was a child clinging to his mother's sleeve, begging for affection.
 He said he'd never interacted with women that much, but based on this alone, Li Caiyi could tell that this guy was a natural! He knew very well how to evoke a sense of pity from women, and she felt conflicted because of it.
 In the end, she couldn't give him a straight reply. "Let me go first, then we talk."
 Instead of letting her go, his hold on her waist tightened. "No. I want to stay like this. Didn't you say you were going to fulfil my last wish?"
 Did he have to bring that up now? That was a dirty move!
 "I did say that, but I never said I'm going to sleep with you. I'm sorry if I misread your intention, but please don't treat me like an easy woman."
 Shen Qiang's hand flinched a bit. It took him a few seconds to realize that he had upset her, and a guilty look flashed across his face.
 He reluctantly let her waist go. "No, you didn't read it wrong. I did say that with an impure intention in mind."
 The degree of his honesty never ceased to surprise her. Wouldn't a guy usually make an excuse at times like this? But this guy just outrightly admitted it without an ounce of shame.
 "However, I had never once thought of you as an easy woman. I wanted you because it was you, Li Caiyi."
 Shen Qiang's sudden declaration made her heart skip a beat.
 His voice was unyielding and mixed with a hint of aggressiveness. He hadn't averted his eyes from hers even for a second, as though he wanted to convey his sincerity to her.
 She had never received such a direct and bold declaration like this before. He perfectly caught her off guard, and he used this opportunity where she was frozen to take her hand in his.
 Li Caiyi didn't know where this hotness came from, her face or hand.
 "I won't force you to do anything you don't like, but I don't want to lie to myself or you. I want you, and only you." Shen Qiang's gaze deepened. "Li Caiyi. If you can find it in you to trust me, even if it's just a little, can you grant me a chance to hold you in my arms?"
 His words were too much for her to bear. Her head became dizzy from overheating.
 Li Caiyi pulled her hand from his, and his crestfallen face felt like a stab on her conscience. "Why? We haven't spent that much time together, and you said you already have someone in your heart. I don't understand why you would suddenly tell me this."
 No matter what, Li Caiyi couldn't stand to become a substitute woman anymore. She didn't want to feel more miserable than this.
 "Honestly, I also don't know. I don't understand complicated things like that. What I know is that I feel happy and at ease when I see you smile. That's why I want to prevent your smile from fading." He paused before he continued. "I have a bad feeling that if I let you go just like that tonight, you'll go somewhere quiet to cry alone."
 An inexplicable emotion washed over her like an avalanche. She couldn't bear to face Shen Qiang's penetrating gaze, so she averted her eyes.
 Shen Qiang saw that, and a sad smile appeared on his face. "You have done so much for me today. I want to at least be there with you when you feel lonely. Because I… probably understand how hard it is for you."
 His gentle words were like water filling in the gap in her heart and slowly filling in her eyes too. She felt so lost and empty before, but now she felt suffocated by this overwhelming emotion. And all of this was because of Shen Qiang.
 'Why? Why does this person keep saying things I wanted to hear the most?'
 Before she realized it, Shen Qiang had reduced the gap between them and tightly embraced her quivering body. "Li Caiyi, in my last remaining times, I want to protect you from anything, even from yourself. Would you allow me to do that?"
 That was the last wall of her defense. Shen Qiang, this stranger, had completely pierced and broke down her defense and pulled her out from the bottomless swamp she was in.
 The dam in her eyes was broken, and she sobbed uncontrollably.
 Li Caiyi felt so safe in his arms that she subconsciously pulled him closer to her. She hugged him tightly as though he was her last anchor to this world.
 So warm.
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 There are times when you’ll still never be good enough no matter how hard you try.
 Born with a frail twin sister, Li Caiyi gives most of her time to take care of Li Chunhua. Her parents and older brother trust her to take care of her sister, yet Li Caiyi can’t help but feel the disparity in treatment and affection given to both of them.
 In her whole life, she has never become anyone’s first priority. Not in the heart of her family, and especially not in the heart of her childhood friend, the Young Master of Meng family, Meng Renshu.
 When Li Caiyi became Meng Renshu’s wife, Li Caiyi thought she could finally become someone’s first priority, but everything fell apart in just three years.
 She decides to let everything go. Then she meets Shen Qiang in the most unexpected place. No one wants to accompany her in her life, yet this stranger offers to accompany her in death.
 “Do you want to jump together?”
 When she opened her eyes, Li Caiyi had gone back to her high school times.
 This time, she won’t make the wrong choice again.
 But where can she find Shen Qiang?!
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 Nemesis!
 If Arianna had known that irritating man would change her life in the worst way possible, perhaps she would have poisoned his coffee the first day they met. Arianna who was tricked and about to be married off to a Loan shark by her uncle's family, finally found a way to escape. However, that was all ruined when Marcel, the feared lord of the underworld captured her. The one thing she desired the most - her freedom - was taken from her.
 Marcel prided on the fact that he was well feared, respected, and revered in the city. His name caved terror in the hearts of people, however, his reputation is put to test when a familiar stranger relieved him of his property right under his nose. Anger simmers in his veins as he goes on a manhunt against the pickpocket who robbed him.
 When he gets Arianna, Marcel is sure to show her that nobody steals from Marcel Luciano and goes scot-free. On the other hand, Arianna loathes him so much and would do everything to escape that crazy Mafia. Unfortunately, what if she ends up stealing his heart as well. Read to find out.
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 "You're a monster, Marcel,"
 "Don't monsters deserve to be loved too?"
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 “A wedding, yes, but not to this girl. You will go down because of this. I would make you pay a million times over. This is my promise to you.”
 Being drugged and unknowingly having a one-night-stand with a stranger, Andromeda Kai found out that losing her virginity was not as painful as being cheated on by her fiancé and co-designer a day before her wedding.
 Even with this setback, she refused to cower. She would repay her enemies’ schemes a hundredfold and stop at nothing till she stands on top of the fashion world!
 She is prepared to do it alone - but she gets help from someone unexpected!
 With the tale of a sweet romance hanging around her life, demanding her love and attention, Andromeda is
 confronted on all sides by the undying love of Liu Xueyi, the entertainment emperor, who would use all means to make the queen of the fashion world fall for him.
 So many secrets lay in the dark while her enemies try to steal her glory, ruining her completely.
 She had her plans. He had greater plans for her. He would make her rule and bring her enemies down, not as a queen but as an Empress!
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 Have you ever wondered about unpredictable life?
 One minute everything is so good and then suddenly the next minute everything just turns around…
 Anya Owen faced such times thrice in her life due to one person. Twice she survived and started leading a happy life with her darling son.
 But could she survive the jeopardy he was going to cause again in her life?
 Alvin Matthews, the most mysterious man in the city. Nobody knows where he is, what is up to, or what he does. Some even doubt if he is alive or dead.
 Could he stop himself from falling for the little feisty woman?
 Well, he never stops himself. But he doubted if he would get killed by the stone-hearted woman before he could soften her heart.
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 Alvin watched Anya politely speaking with the butler. He leaned back on the armchair and crossed his legs, intently watching the soft smiles appearing on the delicate face.
 “Hey, Little Chipmunk, why is your mother good to all but me?” He asked shifting his eyes on the little man who was crossing his little legs playing a video game on his mobile.
 A sly smirk appeared on Zane’s face. He carelessly threw his words, “That’s what you deserve, Chipmunk Monster.”
 Alvin: “...”
 Alvin has to rack his brain to appease Little Monster... Correction, Little Master and his Devil… The second Correction, his Queen.
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 Living together with my ex-husband?
 Sarah never thought she would one day meet Michael, her ex-husband, again in the operating room with his body full of wounds and needing treatment from her.
 They were already divorced for three years, and Sarah didn’t have a good memory of the man. If she could… she would have let him die. However, she was a doctor, and a doctor's job was to save patients.
 Sarah immediately regretted her decision to save the man because it turned out that Michael had amnesia and remembered that they just got married!
 To make matters worse, she stupidly accepted her ex-in-law's request to pretend to remain Michael's wife while taking care of him. Why did she do that?
 However… during the time she spent with her ex-husband, Michael's attitude was very different from what Sarah had last remembered. He was very gentle… and loving. It made the feelings she thought were gone, come up to the surface.
 Would Sarah be able to deal with her feelings? What would happen when Michael's memory suddenly returned? Would his attitude stay the same?
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 "Wifey," Michael called, looking at Sarah who was lying beside him.
 “Hm,” Sarah answered curtly, not looking at Michael.
 "I think I'm healthy."
 Sarah's body stiffened when she heard that. Was Michael healthy? Did that mean he had remembered everything? Would he scold her for tricking him?
 "Wifey? Why are you silent? I think I'm healthy and I can do it," Michael said quietly.
 "What do you mean?" Sarah finally looked at Michael with raised eyebrows. “Do what?”
 "Making babies."
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 In her previous life, An Xiulan had been oppressed and tortured by the members of Duke An's household. Her legitimate status wasn't enough to save her from the schemes of jealous siblings. For sixteen years, she tolerated the oppression inflicted on her but in the seventeenth year, she was pushed to death into the frozen lake.
 Now she has reincarnated into the body of a youthful girl in the modern world who died in a car accident. She was given everything she was devoid of in her last life– family, love and education.
 Graced with a new life, An Xiulan is determined to strive towards a better life. She will be the best daughter. She will study hard. And she will stay away from puppy love.
 Nothing must come between her path to become a top scholar!
 But there seems to be a hitch in the plan.
 Why was the backbencher Han Zixin following her to the library, laboratory, playground and even the principal's office?
 Wasn't Big Boss Han allergic to studies?
 Why was he following the campus Belle?
 …
 Teacher: An Xiulan is a top student. We must preserve her at all costs.
 Class Ten gulped as they recalled how a certain bro-con had supplied cheating slips to his model student sister in monthly tests subsequently resulting in her topping the exams!
 Lu Xuan: No one is allowed to bully my sister!! Only I can bully her!
 Everyone in class Ten: ????
 A few days later, class Ten witnessed the delicate looking youthful girl chasing her self proclaimed brother with a hockey stick!
 The delicate looking campus Belle wasn't delicate at all!
 ...
 A delicate girl can't possibly make two big gangsters of Jingyuan Highschool dance on her tunes?
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 A world-famous hacker and daughter of the most powerful criminal family who ruled the international Underworld for many generations is killed when their organization is annihilated in a single night.
 She is reborn into the body of Iris Long, a teenage pop singer, wild party girl, and spoiled brat. For the former princess of the Underworld who lived an overprotected and shackled life, this new life is a chance to finally live the life of freedom and independence that she always wanted.
 Jin Liwei is the most powerful man in the country's business world. Cold and ruthless, he is someone only a few dare offend. When the infamous Iris Long, who used to chase his younger brother, wakes up from a year-long coma, his unfeeling heart moves for the first time and he falls hard for this unexpected genius girl.
 She wants to fly freely and soar high beyond the sky. He wants her everything, to tie her to himself and to never let her go.
 This is her journey to super stardom. This is his journey in accompanying her. Together, they will rock the world while facing many challenges.
 But what will happen when she discovers that she can never escape from the shadows of her previous life? Will she still be able to live her dream life of freedom and independence? Will he be able to protect her from the dangers?
 ...
 WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
 This novel is rated 18+ (no one 17 and under allowed). It contains mature adult themes, coarse language, explicit sexual content, and occasional graphic violence. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Please do NOT read if you are under 18 or if you feel uncomfortable with any of these elements.
 And despite of what some of the negative reviews are claiming, there is NO rape in this novel. Many scenes are deliberately made uncomfortable (clear 18+ warning), but there is NO rape.
 Also please remember that this is a work of "fiction". Thank you!
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 "You will be my wife one day."
 Declared Liu Jun - the handsome and wealthy young master to his beloved childhood friend. He vowed to marry her at all costs.
 But that vow made him a villain.
 The woman he desired didn't return his love. Crazy and heartbroken, he crashed into her wedding, who was going to marry the love of her life, Liu Jin, unfortunately his own younger brother.
 Circumstances took a drastic turn, leaving him with only one choice to pay for his sins - His death.
 But fate gave him another chance.
 Liu Jun was reborn.
 In this new life, he chose to let go of his love and start anew. He discarded his villain's identity and closed his heart forever.
 But a new encounter and new troubles come knocking on his door with the secrets of his past life that even he doesn't know.
 Will the villainous Mr. Liu find his happy ending this time?
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 Ai said, "I forgot to clarify something. It seems you have a misunderstanding that I am interested in you because I stared at you."
 Jun blinked once.
 "Rest assured that's not the case. I won't look at you that way. You are not my type."
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 Doctor Irish Lane- 28 years old, was a renowned psychologist in New York. She looked stunningly attractive, sexy, and smart—a real beauty with the flesh of ice and bones of jade to every man's eyes.
 One day, she woke up with a dashing and mysterious stranger on her bed. Recalling last night's event, she can't remember how they end up together in the huge bed. She stared at the calm face before her and was startled when his phone rang. The man woke up and quickly answered the call.
 She clearly heard the conversation he had. The stranger was getting married today! Composing herself, she hastily took money from her wallet and handed it to him without giving him a chance to explain. She sprinted to the door and disappeared from his life.
 Unexpectedly, when she started her new job, the stranger once again appeared in front of her, dragging her into a murder case his company, Runestone Group, involved.
 She refused him immediately, but no way he would let her escape.
 He calmly said, "It's very dangerous for you, being so beautiful, to get into my car in the first place. And I take no for an answer!"
 Irish tried to calm herself down and then did her seat belt. "Mr. Dover, I've told you that I also usually charge overtime pay."
 "Doctor Irish, don't you think your professional fee is high?"
 "Is it?" Irish rolled her eyes, and an idea occurred to her, "No, the price of basic commodities nowadays is increasing, so doctors should increase their salary too."
 "You are a smart woman." He said a half-sentence, and the end of his words was meaningful. "Of course, the extra money on the check was just an advance deposit. We can negotiate about the related remuneration once I'm satisfied with your performance."
 His scheming trick clearly trapped her, and it was too late for her to take back her words and realize the implication of her abrupt action.
 A dangerous game of love that is full of lies and deception. Two exceptional individuals that fate collided, leading to the past they tried to bury.
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 Scarlett's world collapses when she is drugged and forced to marry an old, filthy-rich widower with five children.
 Trying to escape her seemingly inescapable troubles, she accepts an offer of a one-year contract marriage with a mysterious gentleman. He promises this will get her out of her hostile-arranged marriage problems. She took the offer.
 If everything goes well, she will be a free and independent woman in one year...
 However, many things take an unexpected turn. The contract marriage made Scarlett's life feel like she was riding a rollercoaster. A mix of exhilaration, dreaded inferno, and joyful heaven.
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 Only a crazy person would accept his offer. And right now, she does not fall into that category. Her mind is still sane.
 "Please don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to help myself. And at the same time helping you."
 Scarlett was even more confused.
 "I know my problem is complicated. But, I think being married to a man I just met, without love, feels weird..." She said.
 "This is not a real marriage but a contract marriage that you can set up to your advantage. And also mine."
 Scarlett listened silently; inside, she was shocked and a bit perplexed.
 Xander crossed his arms over his chest while looking into Scarlett's eyes. He continued, "As I said before, I will help you, and at the same time, you will help me. I don't need to explain what my problem is. But, I assure you, if you agree to do a contract marriage with me, then your problems will be solved. So what do you think!?"
 Scarlett was in no hurry to speak. She slowly raised her head and said, "So I can put any clauses I want in the contract?"
 The man nods, saying, "As long as it doesn't hurt me."
 She offered a handshake to Xander, "Okay. You got a deal!"
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 [Mature content.]
 Chloe Carlson, 35, was a married woman living with her cheating husband— Vincent Gray, and their daughter— Mackenzie.
 Her failing marriage led her to file a divorce after 10 years, but her husband refused to sign it.
 “I know what you want Chloe, you want my money after we divorced. You want to take everything from me and I will not let that happen!” Vincent accused.
 “I don't need your Money, Vincent! I just want to take Mackenzie with me and leave!”
 At last, she left her bastard husband without taking a cent from him. She was going to carve her own path in life and give her daughter the best in the world.
 However, things aren’t working so well with a single mother like Chloe. It was difficult to find job because she was a housewife without qualification for a long time. Thus, in desperation as she needed to care for her daughter, she only had one way out.
 She contacted her brother-in-law— Vernon Phoenix Gray, 25, a young, heartless playboy, who happened to be the CEO of a skyrocketing company, asking him for a job in this tough time.
 “A job? That's not an issue. You can work as my personal assistant and take care of all my daily needs.” Vernon smirked and leaned in. “Especially in bed,” he whispered in her ear.
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 Would Chloe fall into the hands of her evil brother-in-law and become a slave of his whim?
 Or would she return to her abusive scum husband for their daughter’s future?
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 Note: There is an age gap in this story,
 Chloe is 35 years old.
 Vincent is 35 years old.
 Vernon is 25 years old.
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 All Amy needed to do was get away from her pursuers. The last thing she thought she'd encounter was being kidnapped, drugged and offered to some smelly fat old man.
 But no, he wasn't any of that. Zach was simply a god. And he was drugged, just like her. It could be the drugs or she just genuinely found him irresistible. And to her luck, he didn't resist her when she made a move on him. When she found out how much of a beast he was in bed, she wasn't complaining.
 But she knew they were not supposed to cross paths. So when she finally left the next morning, little did she know that fate had a 'little surprise' in store.
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