Lu Yan looked at the direction where Gu Mohan had disappeared towards. "My dear sister, don't panic. The drama has yet to begin."
…
In the apartment.
Gu Mohan kicked open the door and carried Tang Mo'er inside. The woman in his arms had her head hung low and she said quietly, "Let me down. I want to shower." 
"I'll help you prepare the water, hm?"
"No need." Tang Mo'er extricated herself from his arms and walked to her bathroom by herself. She closed the door and locked it without saying anything more. 
Gu Mohan stood at the balcony. The cold night wind blew strongly against his suit, forming slight creases in the darkness. Bending down slightly, he took out a lighter and lit a cigarette. His sexy, thin lips took in a long breath smoke and exhaled it out. The smoke enveloped his handsome and elegant face, enshrouding his features as he stood alone in silence.
After smoking three cigarettes, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at the luxury watch on his wrist. Half an hour had already passed, yet she had still not come out of the bathroom.
He threw the remaining half of his cigarette into the ashtray and walked to the bathroom door. Rapping his knuckles against the door, he intoned, "Mo'er, are you finished? I'll give you one more minute. You'd better open the door, otherwise I'll come in myself. If I see that you're naked, then I'll want to have you."
There was no reply. It was so quiet that Gu Mohan felt a sense of panic as he became anxious.
Stepping back, he lifted his leg and kicked the door open with an urgent force. Bam! There was a crack and the door shifted, but didn't budge, only giving way slightly as a crack formed in the wood.
He raised his leg once again and kicked the bathroom door down. It swung precariously off its hinges and fell to the tiled floor. 
Stepping over the remains of the door, he walked in.
There was a dress and nipple stickers left carelessly on the basin. It was the first time Gu Mohan had seen nipple stickers, they were nude and fleshy in colour. Such a sight caused his throat to tighten and tense up. Turning his head, his sharp eyes caught sight of a woman's figure in the bathtub.
His pupils contracted in the next second. 
The large bathtub was filled with white foam and flower petals. Tang Mo'er was sitting inside, her luscious black hair scattered messily around her shoulders with a number of wet strands stuck to her back. It was a picturesque scene, seeing her black hair tangled against her smooth, creamy skin. The woman had her head hung low, as she held her knees together and her entire body trembled. She was crying.
She cried in vehement silence, her shoulders shaking as she held back the sobs that racked her body. Determined to remain quiet, she cried till she was out of breath.
Seeing her state, a wave of panic washed over Gu Mohan and he felt a pain grip his heart. He frowned and walked over to her. Kneeling down next to the bathtub, his fingers grasped her small jaws and he said in a serious tone, "How long have you been crying? Don't cry anymore. If you continue, you're going to lose all of your energy." 
With his fingers against her face, Tang Mo'er was forced to look at him, her pale face was full of tears and her mouth was open. She choked on her tears.
Seeing that he was hollering at her, she cried even harder, a fresh wave of sobs coming out in raspy gasps of air.
Not wanting to see her in such a state, Gu Mohan held the back of her head and kissed her puffy red lips forcefully. 
Feeling triggered by the action, Tang Mo'er shoved him away and kicked him forcefully. "Let go of me. Don't kiss me. Don't touch me!"
Gu Mohan refused to. Pushing past her lips,he stretched out his tongue and buried it into her mouth, tasting the salty bitterness from the tears streaming down her face. 
"Ugh!" Tang Mo'er bit his lips forcefully.
The faint metallic taste of blood filled their mouths and Gu Mohan released her. However, his soft lips still pressed against hers as murmured hoarsely, "Are you secretly crying in the bathroom because you're afraid I had sex with Lu Qi'er?" 


After facing her fiancé's betrayal, things take an unexpected turn after Tang Mo’er inadvertently gets involved with the Capital’s preeminent magnate, Gu Mohan.

Fast-forwarding, Tang Mo’er clenches on a pregnancy test kit with two red lines—testing positive—and confronts him. “Young Master Gu, why did you make me pregnant?”

Gu Mohan hands a baby over into her arms. “My dearest wife, be good. That’s our second child.”

And so Tang Mo’er can only hustle and take care of her two children, but unbeknownst to her, Young Master Gu has also been coveting her love and affection…

This is a face-smacking, sweet-love novel set in the entertainment industry.


Tuesday, 27th September 1442
Both Heather and I had spent a solid three hours in the realm last night and Heather had managed to prepare the stickers for all of the products, including the blushers, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick and makeup basic foundation powder as well.

Instead of 15 images per sheet of sticker paper, Heather had managed to squeeze 18 images. The image was a tad smaller but this does not stop Heather from producing rather eye-catching labels that were filled with vivid and live colours too.

The images were simple and all this could be searched through thousand of selection just through a simple keyword search and all Heather need to do was to get a single image and then add another text heading or maybe an image of fruit to indicate its scent or flavour.

Once she had done a series of 18 images on a single sticker paper, she showed it to me once she had printed a sample copy. Once I told her that it's fine, she hit a 50 printouts for all the types and varieties of all known scents and flavours she could think of based on the notes she had recorded in my journal.

For every sticker page that she had done on the project, she saved it so she would be able to bring it up again to continue printing them once the stickers ran out.

She then collected all the printouts that she had made from the printer and places it next to her as she waited for me to wake up from my nap in my seat. When I heard the notification for some of the porcelain wares, I was a bit startled from my nap and I looked up and saw Heather staring right at me.

"Are you done, darling? If you are, then we should be returning back. Leave the porcelain ware where it should be at this moment. I would be heading back here in 2 days time. Huuaarrgghh... My mind seems to be a little bit heavy right now. Come on dear, let's hold hands and return back to the real world."

That's the last thing I knew and I woke up sprawled on the floor of the study while Heather was preparing breakfast at the settee area with the twins sitting down at the area. I slowly rose up and was feeling stiff after falling asleep on the cold hard ground.

"Hey dear, I thought you would wake up somewhere in the afternoon. You are feeling alright now? You were babbling in your sleep so I dare not awake you but placed some pillow and a blanket instead. Come, join us for breakfast after you wash up."

Heather greeted me as I kissed my twins good morning and gave a kiss to Heather as well and a pinch to her ample buttocks. Heh, could never get too frisky enough in the mornings, don't you think so?

I had never felt so mentally tired before...! I yawned as I washed myself up, I yawned some more at the settee area and I yawned again when Heather had sorted all the stickers according to their categories. 

Damn... I was literally yawning myself in front of everyone and there's a presentation before 7 in the evening at the Macleod Coliseum later on. 

I checked the time and found that it was already after 7 in the morning and another 12 hours later I would be addressing the whole community of the achievements that the adventurers had performed towards the betterment of this town. 

"Just hope that there won't be any interference later today, dear. Could I rest some more after this and wake up again before lunchtime? My mental is soooo tired that it seemed to sap the energy off my body as well. Phew...! Going to the realm sure is tiring."

I lamented to Heather since I was doing double efforts since I was piggybacking Heather with me, everyone, we enter the realm. 

If I enter alone, it would be considered as a single trip, then piggybacking someone would be considered as two trips instead of one. So the other night we had entered the realm exactly 6 times...! 

"It's alright dear, you can have your rest after this. Last night I had given Michelle and Gwen the medals to be given to the Adventurers so they would be preparing the podium now as we speak."

"Take as much rest as possible and you enter the realm alone if possible, tomorrow, to clear all the crates of porcelain ware in the realm, would that be alright?"

" I will enter the realm with you if I find that there's a need. Other than that you can do the prints yourself, right?"

Heather knew that piggybacking her into my realm the other night was rather a taxing as I could feel some sort of strain or pressure every time.

 Right now the porcelain wares are ready, the stickers are ready and all it needs to do was to let Molly and her team paste the sticker labels and store them in the necessary open crates in the holding area.

 Once the products are ready to be produced, the crates would be taken out and be placed in the respective factories and production lines. 

In this way, Molly and her team of workers could be redeployed elsewhere to gain more experience. 

Once they had gained the necessary experience, Molly and her team would be line leaders while Molly would be around to supervise and at the same time assist Alicia to make those fine wares for distillation et cetera.

I walked over and kissed my twins and told them to be good since Daddy was feeling under the weather today and wanted to have some rest to recover back some rest today.

The twins looked rather worried and Heather asked what I would like to have for lunch and dinner and I replied that it had been some time since I've tasted the sweet and sour deep-fried pork chops with cucumber, tomatoes, pineapples with shallots and garlic as garnishing.

"Alright dear, I will make the one-dish meal today consisting of deep-fried breaded pork chops made into sweet and sour today, all right? I will get the domain helpers to mind the children and head to the grocery store to get the things we need. Rest well, my dear. Hope you would be able to recover after your second round of sleep."

Heather pushed me away from the settee and towards the bedroom where the domain helpers had already cleared away the pillows and sheets from the study room back to the bedroom.

The domain helpers can't help noticing the stack of sticker labels and from a single glance, they knew that somehow we had spent the night burning the midnight oil. I was seriously knocked out before dinner time and had slept through the whole night till the following day.

"Alright dear, I would be off to meditate and practise my breathing exercises to regain my strength for the mind. Love you, dear... Muah Muah Muah...!!"

I literally crawled to the bedroom and plopped down on the soft mattress and was soon snoring once again as my mind drifted off to a dreamless state. We would not want me to enter my meditative state by mistake and enter the realm, would we?

Heather had the twins minded by the domain helpers as she went to the grocery market to purchase some pork chops and some breading mix with all the necessary ingredients to make the sweet and sour gravy.

She also bought a few lemons that would be squeezed to give the extra sourness to the gravy. Red, green and yellow bell peppers were added to it to add colour and flavour to the rest of the vegetables. 

Soon, with the groceries, she went to the outdoor kitchen area to prepare the pork chops while the kitchen helpers helped to chop up all the vegetables after washing them. The chops, after being washed, breaded and deep-fried were set aside before she made the heavy gravy ready.

The heavy gravy was ready in 15 minutes and then it was poured over the deep-fried breaded pork chops and served on a fairly large serving platter.

The children were hungry since they had not given any kinds of morning snack so Heather decided to push the timing for lunch earlier than usual. She went over to the bedroom and found me still sprawled on the bed like a beached starfish.

"Hey dear, you feel much better now? Hope you had your power nap while I was busy preparing lunch. It is already half past 10 and close to eleven."

"Lunch is ready and served, do you want to eat together since our children are all waiting to have lunch together today."

I fluttered my eyelids open slightly and groaned because of the weariness I felt that coursed through my brain that controls all my motor skills. 

"Help me up dear, and get me out of these clothes. I'm going to conjure up my Psi Energy orbs and put them inside the vat in the bathroom. My goodness me, I had never felt so exhausted before in my whole life. The strain on my mind really knocks me out...! "

I requested as Heather helped to pull my clothes up as I staggered to the bathroom in my knickers. I hovered near the vat that had been imbued with heating pebbles by Priestess Farah to keep the water at a constant temperature as I rubbed my hands and closed my eyes. 

I could feel myself swaying and I knew that even conjuring the Psi Energy orbs also could spell trouble for myself.

Nevertheless, I forced myself to conjure up a set of 4 Psi Energy orbs and dropped them into the water. It was bright bluish in colour and when it hits the water, it disintegrated and seemed to slightly sizzle. 

There was a small stool inside the bathroom where I sat and I began to scoop the water from the vat. The moment the water hit my head and face, it throbbed and I could almost feel the heat that was coming off from the top of my head. The water hit the rest of my body and I quickly scooped the water and splash it all over to thoroughly wet it. 

I took a little bit of hair shampoo and lather it on my hair as I took my body soap and slowly lather it around my body as well. The moment the water had hit my body earlier, I could felt tingling sensations all over the body and its a bit prickly at the same time, yet soothing and felt like many tiny hands were massaging my body. 

My body felt slightly rejuvenated as I remembered how Ceres had mentioned to me to drop these Psi energy orbs into the distillers so that the healing and rejuvenating feeling could be shared with everyone who purchases our product. 

I also remembered the wild young man who was screaming and singing in the shower while my former self was sitting at the porch of the house. The young man told my former self how he felt when he used the body soap that was imbued with Psi energy during the shower even...! 

I thought to myself and concluded that the only products that would be used to imbue these Psi energy orbs would be the Hair shampoo, body soap and the facial and body scrub. It would be great to share this wonderful little nifty miracles to the rest of the consumers, don't you think so? 

I added more hair shampoo because we all had long hair and it would be nice to have it covered with this fine bubbles. Before this, we seldom wash our hair because we have to use lye and hot water to wash the sebum off the hair. 

The ritual of hair washing was like a huge process just to get it wet and clean...! 

Now with these fine hair shampoos, we could wash our hair nearly every day except when it's wintertime...! 

"Wooooo....! I feel much better already. Goodness me, luckily I remembered how to use the Psi Energy orbs or else I would feel dreadful for the entire whole day...!" I called out from the bathroom and Heather peeked inside after she opened the bathroom door slightly. 

"That's good to hear, darling. You do have some colour on your face. Besides, don't you feel cold to wet your whole hair like this in mid-autumn?" 

"Not really dear, in fact, if not for Farah I think we only shower during summertime. Hahaha. Let me rinse my hair off and then towel it down and we can have our lunch together." 

I replied but Heather held the scoop in her hand and she was the one who poured water over my body to wash off the bubbles and on my hair to wash away the suds as well. 

It didn't take long for me to complete my shower even though it is like a buffalo taking a dip in the river without much scrubbing at all...! 

Heather got me a towel and after I had done, I removed my knickers and wrapped the towel around my waist as I tiptoed to the bathroom where a set of fresh clothes were ready including my armour that was placed at the corner of the bed as well. 

"Hmm, shall I wear my armour today? But wait, there's an award ceremony later on and I think I would be best wearing this normal clothes first before we change to our best clothes to do the presentation of the medals to the adventurers." I thought to myself as I was about to reach for my set of armour. 

So instead, I towelled down myself properly so my wet hair would not be dripping water everywhere as I changed onto my day clothes, wore a few of the accessories on me and then went down to the dining area of the conference hall where our twins were waiting for me. 

The moment they saw me walking down the stairwell, they squealed in delight and waved at me to come over and gave them a big hug since they had held their arms out to me. 

I laughed as I hugged my children and kissed them on the foreheads and cheek as they all squirmed about in their highchairs since they could feel how cold my hands were.

I saw the sweet and sour gravy that had several huge pieces of deep-fried breaded pork chops and I can't help smack my lips together. "My dear children, you must be hungry, yes? Come, let's eat now. Mummy would feed Daddy while I will feed the both of you right?"

The children clapped their hands eagerly as I took a plate, scooped some rice, placed a whole piece of deep-fried breaded pork chop on it and then scooped some of the diced carrots, cucumber, pineapple, red, green and yellow ball peppers and I slowly tore off bits of the pork chop and handed the children to hold and eat themselves.

Of course, I made sure the bits of pork chop would be easily bitten and chewed by the children as I saw them nibbled on the pieces of meat while they hold them in a pincer kind of manner. 

Heather does not have the knack of feeding an adult like me with her fingers so she used a spoon instead to scoop the rice with some of the vegetables and tore off some meat before she stuffed them into my mouth. She may end up with bitten fingers if she used her fingers to feed me instead. 

My appetite was piqued when I was spoon-fed by Heather and the children watched me as I was having too much food in my mouth that I almost looked like a hamster...! 

The children laughed as they patted my face with their dainty hands as they too followed the way I 'stored' my food inside the mouth. The lunch today was good and I had more than enough rice and dishes today. 

The children too had their fill and had washed down their lunch with some warm banana flavoured milk before they nodded off in sleepiness. The domain helpers helped to bring the children to their beds after their faces and hands were cleaned up. 

"You feel much better now, dear? You can only enter the realm tomorrow evening okay? You really need your rest and recover as soon as possible." 

Heather pressed her hands into me as she leaned across my chest as she was quite worried but she doesn't really verbally say it. 

Through her actions only was she able to show how she really felt. I looked across the mantlepiece where our crowns were and saw that all the stickers that she had done were stacked and segregated nicely so each stack would be seen as a single product and not jumbled up as a single stack. 

I smiled as I praised her for being so systematic in her work as the domain helpers also can't help but admire the printouts and touch the lifelike vivid images that had been printed on the sticker papers.

During the period of 1337-1453, a terrible war broke in Medieval England and that period was called (Hundred Year's War) and a huge turmoil ensued between the England and France with the involvement of rebels as well as opportunists. 

Prince Audemars Macleod, a descendent of King Richard Macleod of Darlington had barely managed to escape with his life when the Manor he was living in was besieged by rebels in 1440, when he was just barely 18 years old.

Let us travel through time and relive the experiences of this young Prince as he was forced to 'banished' and survive with some followers they entrusted their lives with him.

Little did he realise that he was actually living in the past of his future and had no recollection of anything except when he was narrated by a Seer that had been inducted as a permanent resident of the town he founded later.

*This is a fictional world. Most plants, vegetables, fruits and certain animals didn't exist in England that time.

*Almost all novels start off with a system. This does not reveal any hint of a system until you get to almost halfway through the novel. 

* Mobsters are included in the later chapters of this novel too. 

*This is a slow grind so bear with it as the storyline develops. Thank you and happy reading...

The hands that hugs the waist, is slowly stroking the back the side of Pam.  She knew this is coming regardless of the situation.  In all honesty she missed him a lot.  She tried so hard to keep herself busy for the past 6 months. The thought of waiting caused her to tear up few days ago, now that they are together, she can only give in to Tim and accept the mutual physical longing

Tim lifted her tank top exposing her upper body.  Pam did not resist, she looked away to lessen the embarrassment.  

"I like what I see."  Tim looked at her face fascinated with the faint section created in her abdomen.  She is probably working on her abs.  She looked toned no longer skinny. 

Pam gave out a smile but covered her face, she felt proud and happy with what Tim said but at the same time still feeling embarrassed of her exposure.  Her boobs were never big like Lissy's but it stand proud despite its cute size.  

Tim cannot help but admire what she has done to her body.  What other way to enjoy but to give those abs little kisses?  This got Pam to curl inwards as she became ticklish with the subtle kisses.  It then escalated to the twins.  Tim sucked hard on both igniting goosebumps all over Pam's body.  Pam helplessly encircled her arms around his neck to support her weakening upper body due to the burning sensation. 

Pam thought that the long-haul flight will slow down Tim however he was like a beast that has never hunted for years.  The first assault was too sudden and rough.  He forcefully got in with one push.  Tim would normally tease he, let her adjust to his size and rhythm before going all out.  Pam gasp for breath, it hurts almost just like the first time, but it got better in succeeding assault.  In the end she was the prey that got slaughtered till the last drop.   

Pam never expected to wake up with feverish feeling down south.  She was too tired last night.  Even the daily exercises she had did not help regain her strength in every round they had.  It only allowed her to stay 'alive' as Tim bullied her all night.  Her body clock tells her that it still early in the morning.   Half awake, she tried to open her eyes to check on the time from the wall clock in front of the bed.   Before she could even confirm the time, she let out a loud moan.  She realized that her legs are raised and spread wide open, the raging bull appears to be cleaning up in between.

"Tim~" 

She was too weak to resist and say another word and just let out a long moan. 

Tim responded with, 'hmmm' acknowledging her call out.  It created a vibration to that sensitive part causing Pam to moan more.  Such reaction from Pam got Tim's mouth and tongue working double time.  Early in the morning, she is literally dripping.  Her sanity is about to escape her, trembling as she reached orgasm.  Tim knew it was coming and so he ascended.  

This action caused Pam to use his last ounce of breath to tell him, "no more please…" tapping his waist. 

The bull who is in position let out an evil smile but retreated.  Tim hugged Pam spooning her.  She was almost lifeless from releasing fluid in her body.  He was still teasing her butt with his thing but Pam pleaded.  

"Tim, you are not leaving tomorrow right?"

"Hmmm...why?"  he was sniffing her neck as he answered.

"We have time to do this again, I am drained."

Tim chuckled and continued with the tease, stroking her body sensually.  In a few minutes, Pam has drifted back to sleep.  It was indeed early, at 6am she woke up from the endless nibbling in the area in between her thighs.  Tim hugged her and for few more minutes stared at her face peacefully sleeping.   He then stood up to go to the bathroom and relieve the heat that is still prevalent in his body. 

While Pam is asleep, Tim roamed around the unit, checking each area.  He took note of the place where she would normally take or do video call with him.  The mini calendar at living room got his attention.  There were stickers on some dates.  He assumed that it represents her emotion for the day.  He looked back from the months since the first sticker has been pasted.  It was a crying emoji.  There were also stickers with sweat, heart and surprise.  Noticeably few days before he arrived in Sydney there were stickers depicting, she cried.  It was a good thing that he decided to cut the US trip to spend time with her. 

It was almost lunch time and he only had coffee in the morning, he started to feel hungry.  He saw bacon and eggs on the fridge.  There was also garlic, olive oil and pasta.  He started preparing to cook for traditional carbonara.   

The table is set with the simple pasta.  Tim checked on Pam.  She was still sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt sorry for her.  He was indeed too demanding of her to satisfy his needs.  He sat on one side of the bed and stoked her hair calling her soft, "Pam… Pam."

Pam responded only after several attempts from Tim to wake her up.  But what got her to open her eyes is when his hot breath fell on her ears and said, "wake up My Queen, otherwise we can do it again."

"Tim…stop joking.  I am drained."

"I am not joking!"  Pam is still naked under the quilt.  Tim was stroking her thigh.  

Pam tried to sit not even minding the quilt falling on her lap exposing her upper body full of love bites.  She is still on daze and confused state. What surprised Tim is when she hugged him. 

"Let me rest." She said pleading once more.

"I will let you rest, freshen up for now and let's have our lunch."

At the mentioned of lunch, Pam reacted 180 degrees.  She retracted from hugging Tim.  Stood up not minding her nakedness and proceed to the bathroom.  No matter how tired she is Tim has missed proper dinner and breakfast, she needs to get something prepared for lunch.

Tim just observed her movements, seeing her walk uninhibited got him smiling.  This is how he wants her to be uninhibited even if he is around.  Looking at her body, it is to die for.

Pam had to run away before its too late.  She has always dreamed of becoming successful in IT career.  Love came unexpectedly from an unexpected man.  She was willing to take the journey towards success with him.  She was ready to dive in a romantic relationship.  Suddenly he is part of her dream, her life, all her first was with him.  It was beautiful until she was apparently just an ego game. 

Tim…he still exudes the confidence.  He still got the appeal physically and mentally.  Everyone thinks he has everything!  After Pim left him, he felt abandoned, he felt empty. Thanks to Lissy he felt complete, ‘she is the one’.   Lissy is all that I need.   

What is the truth behind Tim?  He used to be Pim’s. His girl was once called Pim.  Asking both themselves in silence…why do we have to cross path once more when each has moved on. 

“What are you doing?” has been an interesting line for Tim. Read on to find out. There are some mature content.

On the extreme left was Mix battleteam. On the right, Tall Boots, Bug, Stickers, Nx, Skitters and more names of battleteams were listed in order. The stats analyzer said, "I recommend, we go from weak to strong. The later the training tournament, the less the local top battleteams have a grasp of our internal tactics and capabilities. Though we are stronger and have no fear of them, but using such a structure would be advantageous for the national qualifiers." 
"I'm afraid we can't." Mo Huaifeng shook his head lightly. "It's the same for all of us. If we play the strong teams later, and they catch us by surprise, it would be extremely disadvantageous for us, whether for our mindset towards the competition or the countering of tactics. 
The stats analyzer thought for a moment. "That makes sense too. How about we do a give and take. Above average, below average, strong, average, going according to such a sequence, whether is it mindset or tactics, it should be more comprehensive." 
Mo Huaifeng nodded and said, "Skitters, Stickers, Wan Ning, Bug, Tall Boots, Nx, Bao Lu."
As he listed, the stats analyzer noted it down on the white board with a marker, adding, "There's still another eSports battleteam under Le Tian Club, W.J, formed last year, we can leave them to the end." 
Mo Huaifeng had no objections.
Only Ji Zhiyao was slightly stunned from hearing that.
W.J, this battleteam, the name sounded very familiar.
W.J…
!
Wasn't that his opponent in the friendly match that he placed at Silver Throne Shopping Center before he became a professional player?
What a small world.
Truly fascinating. 
Ji Zhiyao was a little dazed, Mo Huaifeng caught his dazed look with a dart of his peripherals and asked, "What are you daydreaming about?" 
Everyone looked towards Ji Zhiyao. Ji Zhiyao answered honestly, "This time last year, before I became a professional player, I played a friendly match against W.J."
Mo Huaifeng upon hearing the time frame, was reminded that he had asked Ji Zhiyao to play a match for him at the shopping center last year…
What a coincidence.
"Is that so?" The stats analyzer was full of interest. "I have only heard of this battleteam but still don't have a concrete understanding of their competence. NoHomo, what do you think?"
Ji Zhiyao spoke frankly, "Especially lousy. Back then I played a round of solo against their jungler, he could not beat me." 
Mo Huaifeng was quiet for a moment before he said, "Couldn't even beat you before you were trained, rather lousy indeed." 
Catching the contempt in his voice, Ji Zhiyao rolled his eyes and suggested. "But using them to boost the team's confidence before the national qualifiers would still be good." 
"Why are the both of you so complacent? Beware that they've already taken flight after training for a year." The stats analyzer chuckled. "Then let's still add them to the list. Anymore questions? If not, I am going to organize the list and let Yuan Wei go invite the teams."
Everyone gestured that they had no objections. 
Hence the stats analyzer took a photo of the white board and said, "I'll organize it back at my office later, Yuan Wei, I'll send it to you tonight."
"Got it. I'll start inviting them one by one tonight." 
The stats analyzer picked up the marker and started to write sequence numbers in front of the battleteams. 
Ji Zhiyao looked towards the white board and realized that this sequence was the rankings from the previous national qualifiers.
Mix Battleteam, first.
Tall Boots Battleteam, second.
Bug Battleteam, third.
Followed by Skitters, Stickers, Nx, W.J had not been formed then, thus they were placed at the end.
The stats analyzer explained, "At every national qualifiers, locally, there will be 20 battleteams qualified to participate. The competing system is relatively simple, first these 20 battleteams will be divided into A and B groups, there will be a scrimmage within the group, the five victorious battleteams from each group qualify to move on. The remaining ten battleteam teams will then draw lots and go through a points segment, after four rounds of competition, the top two teams with the highest number of accumulated points will compete against each other, the winner takes the number one spot and qualifies for the international league." 
"The competing system is generally so. As for the points segment, each round between battleteams is made up of a 1v1 match, a 3v3 match and three matches of 5v5. The 1v1 gives two points, 3v3 three points and 5v5, five points. Hence, the respective small points and the overall total are both important, but even more important than that would be teamwork." 
"Anything else you are unclear of?" 
Ji Zhiyao committed everything to memory and shook his head with the others,
Seeing that the stats analyzer had finished speaking, Yuan Wei nagged on as usual like a mother. "There are more things to take note of, Captain will advise all of you when the time comes. But all of you must take note, be sure not to cause trouble, before the national qualifiers end, you all must be well-behaved, keep your tails between your legs. Just in case any accidents happen and you are banned from competing. Things can still be arranged for the mid-laner and jungler positions, for the rest, the consequences will be unimaginable. Once the participating name list is submitted, it cannot be changed at the last minute. It's not so bad if one person cannot compete, if you implicate because there are not enough numbers and the team cannot compete, just wait for Captain to kick you out." 
With that, Yuan Wei stared eagerly at Mo Huaifeng. Ji Zhiyao followed suit and found that Mo Huaifeng very kindly made a "hmph" sound through his nose. 
This guy better f*cking not be a fool.
The stats analyzer cleaned off the words on the white board. "It will essentially be these teams that we will invite for the training tournaments, there won't be any change. Except for Skitters and W.J, we have played against the rest previously. All of you think back properly on their distinguishing features. In a while I will go send the organized materials on the battleteam to all of you, study up by yourselves, do watch the videos of last year's national qualifiers too."
Everyone nodded without a word.
Everything that was to be instructed was finally done so, the stats analyzer moved the white board to a side, Yuan Wei also walked out of the training and sat on the sofa outside. Mo Huaifeng shifted his chair, "Let's start training."
Everyone shifted their chairs back to their seats in succession. 
Ji Zhiyao had just settled in when Mo Huaifeng knocked lightly on the surface of the desk with his knuckles. "NoHomo, come out for a while."
Ji Zhiyao looked confusedly towards Mo Huaifeng and realized that he had already stood up, all he could catch was a back view. Hence he then looked confusedly at the rest, the others all had an expression of not knowing what was going on. He sucked in the corner of his lips and willingly followed outside. 
Mo Huaifeng was standing under a tree in the yard, upon seeing him, some hints of a smile could not help but appeared on his face. Ji Zhiyao smiled too. "Captain, why did you call me out here?" 
The trace of a smile in Mo Huaifeng's eyes became deeper. "Heart to heart talk."
Ji Zhiyao dropped onto the long bench at the side, asking lazily, "Because we are starting to play training tournaments, you wanted to remind me to properly adjust my frame of mind? Don't worry, my mentality is great." 
"No."
Ji Zhiyao looked questioningly at him. "Then why?" He thought for a moment and came up with the most possible answer. "Could it be about who will go on between me and Brother Xiao?"
"Mm."
Ji Zhiyao surveyed the surroundings, after finding that there was no one, he patted the empty spot beside him and indicated for Mo Huaifeng to sit with him.
Mo Huaifeng sat down and freely leaned his shoulders against Ji Zhiyao's, saying, "Xiao went to the hospital for a checkup, his wrist has completely recovered. The stats analyzer has also done a comprehensive analysis for him, currently he cannot match up to his peak period, but there also isn't much of a difference. If nothing goes wrong, for the national qualifiers, Xiao as the starter, will be the main player. But there are also chances for both of you to take turns going on, you must adjust your mindset accordingly. 
Each starting player has always been the battleteam's first choice, because they are better in terms of chemistry with their teammates and also their ability. Take Xiaofei as an example, though he was Mix's mid-laner reserve, he rarely had any chance to go on officially, during usual trainings, he also rarely worked with starting members.
Since Ji Zhiyao came to Mix battleteam, he essentially trained as the sixth starting member. Battleteam activities, training tournaments, practice with ranked matches, there would always be a fixed place for him. All of a sudden, Ji Zhiyao was expected to return to being a reserve. Mo Huaifeng was worried that he wouldn't be able to turn his frame of mind around well. 
Ji Zhiyao went speechless in a second, when he looked up again, his eyes were bright as he said, "I am indeed a little sad." 
Mo Huaifeng pursed his lips.
Ji Zhiyao continued, "But Brother Xiao's hand injury recovering, is a rather happy thing. I finally don't have to worry about being blamed when we lose competitions in the future."
Mo Huaifeng froze and his lips promptly curved up. 
He had forgotten, Ji Zhiyao might be mischievous, but he had never been disappointing.
"Don't worry. I'm still young, there are still many years to come." 
"Mm."
Ji Zhiyao turned his body and looked at him. "What about the training tournaments? Am I to take turns with Brother Xiao?"
Mo Huaifeng nodded. "Yes. Heng, Xiaofei, Xiao and you are to practice rotating your turns. Because we don't know if Xiao's hand injury will relapse, your training mission won't be easy."
Ji Zhiyao exhaled deeply, seeming like he was completely relieved. "That's great, I thought that I was going to be idle this summer vacation." 
"No chance."
He reached out his hand and grabbed Ji Zhiyao's one.
Ji Zhiyao held his hand too and let go after a while, his tone relaxed as he said, "Let's go Captain, back to training!"
…
Training in preparation for the national qualifiers was much tougher than before.
The most obvious change was, to ensure there was time to train, the dinner parties for everyone in Mix had gone from three to four times a week to once every two weeks.
That afternoon, Mix battleteam welcomed their very first training tournament, against Skitters.
Skitters Battleteam had already existed since the Chinese eSports scene just started, it was considered one of the earliest battleteams in the scene. Their former batch of members retired after participating in the national qualifiers three years ago, the current batch of members was a new generation of players selected by the club, all were very young. 
These three years, they took part in various big and small competitions and also left behind some video materials. After the stats analyzer observed and analyzed their gameplay, he came up with a distinguishing feature of Skitters.
Stable.
Way too stable.
They were completely unlike eSports newbies who were filled with eagerness, instead they were more like wily old foxes that had been around for several years. No matter what battleteam they were up against, they would always adopt the practice of making progress through ensuring stability, attacking with the way of defense and rarely initiating an attack. 
After a discussion, it would be Xiaofei and Xiao going on for this tournament. 
Ji Zhiyao moved a little stool and sat behind Xiao with his notebook, preparing to take notes while watching the matches. Heng sat behind Xiaofei. 
After selecting their champions, the match began right away.
Xiao could not control his itch once the match began and called Xiaofei along, both of them charging towards the opponent's blue daddy.
Skitter's jungler had probably saw them in the mini map and sent a signal telling his teammates to wait there. The levels and abilities of both teams were very low, after fighting head-on for a while, Xiaofei and Xiao decisively retreated.
K: "Develop wretchedly, don't wander daddies." 
Xiao: "Chill chill. It's because I haven't played training tournaments in a long time, I'm just feeling slightly excited."
Xiao returned to their jungle and began farming creeps.
Because Skitters was really too boring, only quietly killing waves of minions in their turrets, only their turret defense was top class. Even Mo Huaifeng who all along not keen of creating trouble was a little annoyed and said, "Get some tank equipment, dive the turrets for kills. Xiao take note of the opposite jungler." 
Xiao grinned. "Roger."
Telling him to take note of the opposite jungler, wasn't it telling him to get ready to counter jungler anytime?
Even if they don't like fighting, they would have to when the opportunity was created!
Xiao changed his equipment and stealthily made his way to the opponent's jungle. When Skitter's jungler moved closer, being completely unaware, Xiao who had been hiding for long rushed out and thrashed him. 
At the same time, Mo Huaifeng who already lost his patience at the bottom lane put on his equipment and directly finished off the opponent's top laner.
Two kills broke the 15 minute long deadlock situation with no kills. 
However this match dragged on until the 50th minute. Both teams were as firm as rock, everyone harmoniously developed and dragged the match to a later stage. 
Ji Zhiyao watched till even his head hurt.
Heng: "Goodness gracious, even the last match against Tall Boots at the previous national qualifiers hadn't been this disgusting. Fortunately it was Xiaofei who went on today and not me. Xiao, does your hand hurt?"
Xiao: "Still fine. F*ck, are you sure these are new numbers? Why do they not have any sense of vigor at all! Nothing like my son, full of vigor and energy, rebuts the whole world and the team dictator." 
Nuo cackled: "Amazing huh Xiao. For Chinese New Year next year, NoHomo would have couplets to hang outside his dorm's door."
Ji Zhiyao had a speechless expression.
Mo Huaifeng saw a chance and pushed down the second last turret in the middle lane whilst hiding in the bushes, then said, "Xiao take the big dragon, Xiaofei bait. Lure them all to the middle, we'll push directly from the middle lane."
K: "Tell me I'm not the only one who caught the impatience in Captain's tone." 
Mo Huaifeng: "I urgently need to pee."
Following the mindset of "no matter what we cannot delay Captain from going to the toilet", Xiaofei went to the middle lane and died gloriously in the face of their enemies, the middle lane directly became a complete mess. Xiao took advantage of that to take down the big dragon then obediently hurried to the defense turret to join the rest. 
A training tournament that dragged on for 50 minutes, finally ended within the last five minutes. In the last moment, Nuo who was used as a human shield and pushed out to block three of the Skitters' players received affectionate gazes from everyone, Mo Huaifeng's expression became incomparably relaxed and made an exception in patting his leg before hastily running towards the bathroom. 
According to Nuo's own words: "Turns out in Captain's heart, I'm of greater importance than his physiological needs."
His eyes were teary, Ji Zhiyao was especially tempted to get him to sober up quickly.
He wrote the last word and put his notebook away. Looking up, he saw his Captain, like a son of an aristocratic family, leisurely walk out of the bathroom, swung his hands and said, "Break for the afternoon, come back before 9 PM at night to train."
Nuo cheered loudly, bouncing around the whole room in a pair of oversized pants. "I'm dying of hunger, I want to eat at the sauerkraut fish place at Chang Jing Road, Captain's treat please!"
K asked, "Brother, did you not eat lunch?"
"If I had not eaten lunch I would have fainted long before the tournament. This meal can be taken as my afternoon tea, aren't you hungry after defeating that bunch of rock men from Skitters?" 


The handsome, skilled newbie livestreamer, Ji Zhiyao, has a dream. 

"One day, I want to become the most famous crosstalk actor amongst the livestreamers."

Later on, this dream is forgotten by him and secretly becomes another.

"I want to overthrow Fi-god! I want to become Mix's new team dictator!"

The rich and aloof idol of the eSports scene, Mo Huaifeng, also has a dream. 

"Two years later, Mix will definitely make it into the International League."

Soon after, subtle changes happens to this dream.

"I want to make it into the International League with Ji Zhiyao and after winning, I will f**k him on livestream."

Livestreamer to eSports pro, Captain to boyfriend, will their dreams come true?

Nobi House, Backyard

"Haah..Ha...hahh..hah..ha...

On the ground, there lay a boy that dont even have a hint of muscle on his body wearing a yellow shirt, blue shorts, and glasses, panting on exhausion.

After he lay on the ground for ten minutes he suddenly sit up. Looking at the ground and pulling the little grasses that have grown there.

"Ahhh.. this is really hard, *sigh"

It is of course, non othere than our great protagonist, Ace or now called Nobita.

After he started with the running, without even five minutes he was out of gas, in other words , he got weak stamina and exhausted fast.

"I really don't want to exercise anymore and just want to lay on my futon and sleep, but," a flash of determination flicker on his black eyes and continued,"This is for my future, base on my knowledge on Doraemon that I watch in the past, Nobita is always going on dangerous places for their adventures.

"Because of that I need to make myself stronger!" he said, then he look at his body and suddenly became depress, then he saw the sticker that is plasted on him and became cheerful again.

"Luckily, I got Doraemon to help me with this, with him here I'm sure it will be a piece of cake." he said with a big silly smile on his face, to the point that his big eyes turn into slits.

Thinking of that he was suddenly full of energy. He stand up and dusted body of dirt.

"I should probably start running again,"

Then he run again arounf their backyard.

***

5 minutes later Nobita is still running. 

After another minute, he is now again exhausted. He rested while laying on the ground again while thinking,'I can really see my effort having visible results fast with the help of the [Stickers] of Doraemon.' he thought.

Without him realizing the time, he just keep running and it only motivate him more when he see that visible result of it.

He run until he notice the warm orange light from the sun shining on him.

"Oh! I did not even notice the time" he said while looking at the sun.

After that he enter the house, he saw his mother watching tv on the living room. Without bothering her he enter the bathroom, remove his clothes and started washing and brushing his body meticulously then step in the bath slowly.

"Ahhhhh...." a comfortable sigh involuntarily escapes his mouth.

"A bath is really good" he said with his eyes close resting in the warm water.

He fall asleep without him realizing because of his exhausion.

***

An our past by, and he finally woke up, he slowly open up his eyes.

"It seems like I pass out because of exhausion," he muttered in small  

The first thing he saw is the ceiling of his room. Then he look around and saw Doraemon reading a manga and laughing at a corner.

Doraemon, who also notice him waking up said,"Oh your finally awake" he glance at him and then resume reading the manga.

"Yeah, Doraemon how did I end up in my room?" he said while slowly sitting up.

"Mama was asking me where you've gone to, because she notice that your not at the yard anymore, so we look for you around  the house and finally saw you at the bath pass out, then I carry you to your room after dressing you up." Doraemon said slowly

Nobita turn silent for a moment, then said," Thank You Doraemon!" he said sincerely.

Doraemon look at him again, then said, "No Problem" with a smile.

Ace Trickster, a man from our universe is wondering in a forest in japan during his vacation and found a mysterious tree on a forest near Mt. Fuji.

While nearing the tree, he suddenly stumble on a root, and rolled straight to the tree. Only to be granted with a life that he can't even imagine.

Join Ace through his many adventure in another universe.

____

Disclaimer: I don't own Doraemon or anything from an anime that might appear in this novel. Beside the OC.

Hey come! Join me in my adventure without a stable release

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By the way, photo is not mine just got it from google.

My best friend had this neighbor who died because of a horrible experience. Her neighbor's name was Michelle (Not the Real Name) and she grew up in a province Of Bicol in Philippines. When she was ten, her family moved to Las Piñas (A City There I bealive) just two blocks away from my best friend's house. My best friend was just a baby at that time. 

when Michelle was in high School, she wasn't afraid of ghost. When she would hear rumors, she never believed them. All she would do was laugh at them. But there was one rumor she heard the she would never forget until the day she died.... 

The Rumor of Bloody Mary(A Quite typical Topic Isin't it?) She fainted after hearing it for the first time, so her friends brought her to the school clinic. When she woke, her friend started asking questions but the only thing she said was "I'm not afraid of ghost!"

"Really?" her friends asked. They formed a circle and mumured amongst each other. Then they dared Michelle to do the Bloody Mary Ritual. She didn't it night in her bathroom. She turned off the light, shut the door, and said "Bloody Mary, bloody Mary,bloody Mary". She chanted it thirteen times, louder and louder, almost near scream, and kept glancing at the mirror on each pass. On the thirteenth time, she looked in the mirror and saw her face but it was all covered in blood! She touched her own face but there was mo blood.

The something or someone knocked at the door. She thought that she might see something creepy so she didn't answer. It knocked ten times then she started banging on the door! She wondered why nobody  could hear the banging and thought that the thing had milled her family! She screamed, "Leave them alone! Leave them Alone!"

The Banging stopped. All of the sudden, the bathroom became red and the knocking started again. It stopped after five knocks. Michelle peeked out of the bathroom and saw something red on the ground. She stepped on it and it disappeared. She sighed and went back to bed but left the bathroom door open.


Her mom woke her up sometime in the evening. Her mom said that while she checked on Michelle, she saw something flashing in Michelle's bathroom. She checked the bathroom but saw nothing. She woke up Michelle to ask her to check it out.

Her mother went back to sleep. Now it was Michelle who couldn't sleep because right in front of her just outside the bathroom was a little girl. She was drenched in blood and pleading for help. She had an ID that read "Marry Tarchwrite". Michelle closed her eyes  and when she opened the apparition had disappeared.

Two days later Michelle died of a severe heart attack. Because of what her friends did to her they all got expelled. The commited suicide because every night they saw the same thing Michelle did. Her friends all became impoverished because their parents got fired at their jobs. Michelle's mom was their boss and she didn't appreciste what her employees did to Michelle.

Please pray for the Lost souls of Mary and Michelle.




And quote, creepy isin't it? 

Story was from a Chapter of a book my friend from the Philippines sent to me via Messeng. The is a compilation story also titled "The Best of True Philippine Ghost stories and the story was by Janine. So Credit to them.

Well if YOU got a story of a creepy experience let me know just comment here And I'll create an email in order your story to be Included into this compilations as well :3 Luna Out....

|| Carlo

"I'll just complete the lock installment here and we're done." I told Adriano on the phone while I'm typing out some programming codes on my laptop, which is connected to a computer. 
The laboratory itself is sound proof and spacious. This is perfect for 3 types of engineering work, since 3 engineering students have 3 different specialties. We also installed a command center at the most hidden part of this lab and a subsidary electrical room for all of the electrical equipments here, including the supercomputer. Yes, this room was packed with other rooms in the first place, designed as one of the back-up laboratories if the major laboratories of this research centre failed.

Adriano and I decided to upgrade this facility for we were the ones who were knowledgable of mechanical and electronics fully. Axis doesn't know shit and for the ladies to focus on blueprints and paperworks. I know we could have at least Maryl around for biochem lab upgrade, but we insisted and just have her text the things she needed for research.

As of now, I'm in the command center, feeling nervous. I'm praying that I'll get this in one take. It's saturday night, I shouldn't feel this nervous.

"We're at 90%. We can test the lock in a minute or two."

"Roger that. I'll end the call if it worked." he answered

I counted as I typed down the remaining codes.

"97... 98... 99... 100. I hope it works though."

"The moment of truth." he told me.

A few seconds later, he ended the call.

Phew, that was close.

"Glad it worked well!" Adriano greeted as he approached me. "It's a great idea of yours to make a invisible sticker with a hidden barcode. It worked!"

We called it invisible sticker for it looks like scotch tape pasted on the card. I used an invisible ink to print out the barcode as well.

"I was actually having fear of getting caught earlier, gladly it went smoothly." I sighed deeply in relief.

"Ironic. You're a big fan of nightclubs and sleeping with different ladies, and you are surprisingly afraid of getting caught?"

That question made me silent and stare onto my laptop for quite sometime.

He tapped my shoulder "Yes Mr. Giovanni Montecarlo Fulgenzio, are you alright?"

"That question made me feel scared for my life, not gonna lie." I told him while taking the cords connecting the laptop and the computer.

"Kidding aside Carlo, are you free on Monday? Around lunch break?" he changed the topic.

I turned the office seat for me face him. "I have Differential Calculus class at around 12pm, why?"

"Let's take the three on a tour, and paste the stickers on their ID as well."

"Do they all have AXU-RC ID though? I mean, we do know that Maryl owns one."

"I bet they all have, AXU-RC can be made at admission's office upon request."

"But the real question here is..." Adriano made a thinking pose, with his fingers under his chin. "Won't the invisible sticker be detected upon entrance? I mean, we sticked the sticker above the AXU-RC barcode. Won't there be a conflict?"

"It won't." I answered. "I pasted mine before entering AXU-RC."

And besides, no one will know how we did it, we're future engineers anyways. Unless leaked, of course. I'm hoping somebody won't though.

I handed Adriano three plastic strips from the one of the pockets of my jacket. "Regarding to the stickers, kindly give these to them on Monday since I won't be able to see y'all."

He took those. "Sure, no problem."

-----

|| Reign

"Submerge in five... four... three... two... one."

The fifteen-minute timer started and we submerged ourselves with chains in both hands on our backs, as well as our feet.

I managed to have my hands in front first; by inserting my lower body between my chained arms. It's harder to do such when your feet are also chained since there isn't much. I took the keys from the pool floor and unlocked the chains underwater. It's easier to unlock now; I unlocked the chains locking my hands first, then my feet.

My focus was tested here, I see.

When I finished, I immediately ascended from the 10 ft. pool by floating. Yep, 10 feet. This is the deepest pool of this school for it is needed underwater training.

"Coach, I almost had my bones break!" I teased.

"Good thing you and Ms. Liu only took seven minutes for this activity. Well done guys!" He congratulated has he turned off the timer. "Okay guys, we can now have a lunch break before our discussion." and he exited swimming area ng college gym.

Maryl swam to the pool stairs to get up and I followed suit. She checked her one-piece black rash guard that she was currently wearing. "I thought this will rip while trying to be flexible underwater. Oh fudge, there's one on the back part and it's kinda big."

"Do you have something underneath though?" I asked.

"Yeah." She took off the upper part of her rash guard and tied the sleeves around her waist. "I need to buy a new one. This one was from our senior high days."

"I was actually wondering why you were still wearing that one, although it's somewhat old and it got larger on you." I asked with curiousity.

"Yeah it got bigger on me, but it ripped during the lower flexibility test."

"Maryl, Reign, there you are. We--"

We turned our heads to the voice speaking, and we saw Ian and Axis froze from such unexpected sight; a woman in black sports top and one-piece swimming suit, that is an actual official swimming uniform naman. Their faces seem like they haven't been in this swimming gym.

They're both in their main uniform of college level; That male uniform with black coat, navy blue vest and pants, green necktie. How did they escape from the guards' sights?

"We didn't expect how toned you guys are..." Ian's flustered reaction.

"Eh? I don't even have much muscle mass." Maryl responded.

"No wonder why Maryl has a lot of sugar daddies." Axis teased.

Ian cleared his throat and his face is blushing.

Is someone like Donte Adriano Marco Martinenghi crushing on Maryl Juneaux Liu? Hmm...

"Okay moving on, our station is open for use already. We'll just have to buy spy cams at Divisoria." Ian changed the topic, which clearly to distract himself.

"Divisoria dude? Are you sure?" I asked confusingly.

"Yes! When are you guys free? This Saturday?"

"I can go at Saturday." I responded.

"Me too." Maryl accepted with a nod and her arms crossed. 

"All must go, alright? No talk shit." Axis warned.

"How about Carlo though, did you tell him?" I asked.

"Carlo is currently in his Differential Calculus class, but we already relayed the message to him." Ian replied.

"Poor thing, no lunch break." I lowkey teased.

"Well, we have lunch break but we haven't eaten yet." Maryl backfired.

"I thought you guys go to different colleges and differ in majors, but why are you attending the same swimming class?" Axis questioned confusingly.

"We were only excused once a month when it happened to be scheduled on a Monday. This is actually a part of our physical training, and a ROTC requirement. Because of this, we are not required for PE classes anymore." I explained.

"There is such thing in this school?" Axis asked confusingly.

"Of course, but I know you won't participate anyways."

"So is there something more to discuss?" Maryl asked a sudden question to change the topic.

"If you guys are free, then we can take you to our main laboratory." Ian responded.

"Since it's still our lunch break, we'll just change to our uniforms. Be right back." Maryl told them and we swiftly took our own towels placed on the beach lounger for us to dry ourselves and wrap around us, and we immediately went to female's dressing/shower room.

We took our toiletries and main uniforms and entered in seperate cubicles for us to shower and get changed. I instantly got out after, and wore powder and red lipstick in front of the mirror. Maryl did the same upon exit, but she first fixed the strap of her Louboutin Mary Jane pumps. After, she put on some bb cushion and red watery liptint onto her face. She also fixed her eyebrows and wore her oval-shaped glasses. The main uniform of college women is also the same as men's, except we have a choice if we prefer a pencil skirt with a slit on right side or pants. For now, we are wearing pencil skirts.

While she was fixing her hair and doing her makeup, I checked my phone in the locker and I saw coach's text.

"Bitch, coach texted us." and gazed upon her direction.

"Hm? What did he say?" and she looked back.

"He said that classes are dismissed for there was a emergency meeting among PE professors."

"Really?"

"Yep. You should check yours later on."

Maryl went to the locker where her bag was located and organized for a bit before checking her phone.

"Oh right. We could stay at the laboratory as much as we could." and she took her backpack out of the locker.

"Let's see if we could sleep there." I took mine and we got out of the shower room together. We also took our IDs from our pockets while walking.

-----

|| Adriano

Was surprising Maryl and Lawreign a great idea? I felt like I was the one who got surprised. I didn't expect them to look different without their uniforms, especially Maryl. It was Axis' idea, the only theory I could think of is to prank them both.

Yeah, I knew them by name and appearance, and we had little to no interactions in the past, so maybe this is why Maryl's... I mean their toned body got me astonished. They look somewhat normal in their uniforms. Axis on the other hand, I tend to interact with him often because of my family's frequent dinner plans with the Salvatierras.

I first talked with Maryl last meeting, and that was our first official meeting as well. Her vibe is absolutely something. I wanted to get to know her more, but I think we'll be gradually and I don't want to bombard her with questions.

"You seem to be thinking something Ian. Was it about the fact that you shouldered the whole engineering department with this plan?" Axis asked, in which I presume has a different meaning behind.

"What do you mean? I wasn't expecting much anyways. I bet the machines themselves are easy." I answered quizzically.

"Okay okay, I'm sorry. You know how much of a dumm dumm I am when it comes to science subjects." he apolgized.

I sighed deeply and had my arms crossed. "Besides, there are 3 engineering students in our team. They are one of the smartest and the most reliable."

He nodded. "Oh right, point taken."

We were waiting for them to come out of the shower room and we're currently nearby the swimming area. It's been around 20 minutes and they haven't come out yet. Women do take a lot of time in their bathroom to make themselves presentable and confident, don't they?

"They're here." Axis said, with his gaze pointed at the shower area.

We saw Maryl and Reign in their uniforms approaching us, and it's my first time to see Maryl in her glasses. I have to admit, she looks cute. It's also my first time to see her in glasses, personally.

"Shall we go?" Reign asked us.

I took the plastic strips from my pocket and gave it to them and they looked at it confusingly. "Carlo made a restricted lock, and he ordered to put the sticker above the AXU-RC ID's barcode."

"Won't there be any conflicts?" Reign asked quizically, the same question I asked Carlo.

"Carlo said it won't. We can try when we get there." I answered.

They took out their AXU-RC IDs from their ID cases and attached the stickers above the bar code. They immediately returned the IDs to their cases after. Axis just followed the instruction because he doesn't know what the heck we're talking about. We walked from the gym to Alexandra University Research Institute. It was a little far and Axis complained about why we didn't opt for a school golf cart ride. To be frank, I think his laziness is the reason why he isn't losing weight. I didn't hear a single complain from the ladies, to think that they were wearing inches long heels.

We tapped the AXU-RC ID with the sticker on and we didn't experience any conflict. Everything went smoothly from AXU-RC entrance to our laboratory. We tested our IDs one by one to check if all of those stickers work. Axis was astonished of Carlo's work; he didn't expect that the simple plastic strip could do "amazing things", like opening a laboratory. 

The testing was done and Axis asked "Carlo made all of these? Are you serious?"

"Was that surreal to you?" I answered. "You haven't seen the best part yet."

They roamed around the facility, and I can feel they were happy with the results. Axis was the least knowledgable in engineering, so of course, everything seems like magic to him.

Axis and Reign were busy roaming around and checking some stuff and Maryl was scrutinizing at the equipments at the command center. I approached towards her and stared at the computer screens.

"Do you like it?" I asked and stared at her curious face.

She crossed her arms and looked at me with an astonished gaze. "Let me guess, you made this, no?"

I shook my head. "No. Carlo installed all of the electronics and locks here. I let him because I can see his abilities, he's just lowkey."

She nodded, but I can see her expressions turned bland. "I didn't expect this. His skills are amazing."

I nodded back in subtle awkwardness and refocused onto the computer screens. "Again, Carlo is very lowkey with his skills, I know you know."

"I know he's great, but I didn't expect to be this shocked. How many weeks did he invest for this?" she looked around the area.

"1 week in total. He spent his free time in this facility." I answered.

I did help for the large parts, but Carlo deserves the credit. He did the motherboard and of the details needed for these machines to work. And of course, to impress her with his work. I presume that she's into bad boys like him. I could be wrong, though.

Maryl nodded and sighed. "Anyways Adriano..."

"Yeah?" I gazed at her.

She looked back. "Axis told me that he might recruit Jinyoung for our team. Is it okay with you?"

Her expression changed. Is she worried about me?

"I don't care actually if he'll do. But personally, I can't trust Jinyoung."  I answered honestly.

"Is it because of the rivalry?" curiousity ran onto her words.

"No. I'm getting a hunch that he's two-faced." I looked at the computer screens again and placed my hands in my pants' pockets.

"What do you mean two-faced?" she asked again.

"You're his friend, I won't spill for now, for you gotta see it for yourself. Or he has to reveal himself." I answered.

_____
Beyond the Spectrum | Wave 5: Submerge • © mxylms

Fulgenzio, Liu, Salvatierra, Midford, Martinenghi; 5 of the most prominent families in the parallel world Philippines, in which retains its "richest country" status, now next to China. But it is not as rich and free as most people in the world think, for it may be one of the largest global hub, the economy's growth relies on a group of business tycoons.

As they thought they enjoy their riches and the first few years of adulthood normally, a plan will unite them for secrets to be revealed.

5 potential heirs, one goal.
Behind of all the fame and money they grew up with, what more mysteries lie? Are they really the same, or things are more different beyond the spectrum?

R18+ | ENG

10•16•15

(karen is in living room as Patricia bursts in the door)
Patrica: Karen Karen Karen Karen
Karen: WHAT?!
Patricia: So you like stickers?
Karen:(sighs) what do you mean? What type of stickers?
Patricia:(shakes her head as if it's obvious) just ... any stickers in general
Karen: wellll.... yeah?
Patricia:(eyes turning to stars) I GOT FIFTY STICKERS BOOKS FROM THE FLEA MARKET WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THEM!
Karen: Why would you buy 50 books of stickers?
Patricia:(sobs)...they were only 5 bucks...

This story has no plot. It has no meaning. It just someone writing crazy thing that they think are funny. I take suggestions for scenarios. Meh.

Entering the place she saw her house clean and tidy . She instantly thought of Matt and smiled 'as expected of him'. She headed to her bedroom on 2 nd floor as the ground floor had only a big grand entrance with attached grand living room and adjacent dinning and kitchen rooms.1st floor was planned to provide working space there was a lab with  modern equipments and technology for her research and a room with heart monitoring and operating devices as in case of emergency go be used.It also had a gym , study and conference room (in case if needed a video conferencing.... remember the professionalism quote) .

Straight she went to her bedroom and walked to the wardrobe , picked clothes and went to bathroom for a bath.

Her bathroom was the best part of her place wherever she stays the bathroom is counted as her priority , it really sounds weird but it is a fact. The place where most of thinking and plotting is taken place is none other the bathroom . Usually it is mostly about business and the patient's treatment but today it was something else.

Grace without taking her outfit off stand under the shower and turned it on. The water from shower was like the water from waterfall falling on her whole body . It was falling on straight the forehead dripping her face. 

Her eyes were closed and lips were curved upward as if she was smiling or pretending her hardest to . By ticking of clock time passed and finally that curve disappeared placing a straight line. The water was still flowing around her eyes. It also came from eyes but it was from shower.Her whole body was trembling , the act is pulled whole day was coming to end. Lastly only a word was able to come from her throat in an attempt to not to sop she mumbled "...mom...."

Standing under the running water her heart was bleeding 'Only if only I hadn't told u that day , only if I would have kept it to myself as I did for so long, only if I hadn't been selfish to broke down, only if I hadn't left your side , ... ..... , i am sor-.... how can I even say sorry for being terrible daughter ? ... i am so bad that a sorry can be justify me.... my mistakes... only if that day I would have kept it from you ..... '
buzzz....
buzz..
buzz...

Trail of ringing sound broke her thoughts and she was back to reality . Turning off the shower and she swip her face with back of her hand , she cleaned herself changing into fresh set of clothes , she walked out of the bathroom.

Taking her tab ,she read  new received email and on the same instant her phone again started  ringing. 
Glacing on the caller's name ,her face turned a shade darker , she picked it up and a familiar voice greeted her" Boss .. Miss Nina and Matt's arrangement in South Africa is taken care . He should just meet Aaeesha Ali who will waiting for them on the arrival in airport lounge and Matt can discuss his plan with her ." he was ordered by his boss to  manipulate the situation in South Africa and create an act as they wanted to present Matt and Nina an ordinary couple so that their connections can't be tracked by to RAGP co-op.

"You have contacted head of law and order department , i don't wad any thing to go wrong" She plainly said 

"Yes, i did ..... Um"Jo wanted to say something but has hesitating , realizing it Grace said

" Say it..."

"Well... i received a email on your official email account ...I have already forwarded it to you and ..you know they want to meet you ..what do u say about it" He was a bit nervous and informal while saying it.

 Grace was silent for the time she was thinking that the request is made officially by them , it is not like she can't reject but it is definitely going to end on person note .Mr. Hudson is his father and it will not be first time meeting them but for her it is a waste of time . Jo is sincere and the decisions of his life are all his . She is just his boss and make him resign or fire him just because his father wants . After all he is not only her secretary but actually he is so capable that the the European branch is indirectly under him and she is already ready with his promotion letter drafted in her lappy. She wants him to take over European branch.

"You know Jo it is not my place to meet them .. when are u going to tell her . Tomorrow you are going back to Europe and ..... well you know what just come to mansion ..I have something to announce so we will take then"
"okay .. i will be there" And he hang up .

I took the one path less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
                                                         - Robert Frost
 This is in what she believes and always make her own way out. Starting her career as a doctor and then a capable CEO of well known company ,her life is said to an example for outsiders but .........
                                  What the outside u see is not always a complete picture ...........
                                 The achievements are not just the result of her hardwork she has paid big price ...(the love and care of her family and friends, 10 years alone without any one to be called her own ..... living both luxurious as well as poor life .................+ ..........a lot which can't be.....,....)
She is now a ruthless and workaholic boss who just know how to get success rate high nothing else matters
What will happen when out of the blue suddenly a man claims the most precious thing of her life ....
                                for which she can even sacrifice her own company which she has given her whole life...............

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