~Catching Helen~

He was her first love.
She was the girl he gives his first kiss.
He comes from a well-off family.
She comes from a poor family.
They celebrate their same birthday date together and even was born in the same hospital.
They know each other like forever.
He is the person she must take great care physically and emotionally.
Because she was paid to do that by his family.
Since she was his baby sitter! 

[Helen]
How many times must I let myself been hurt over and over again? How many times I must tell myself he was never meant to be for me? I thought by putting a great distance between us, I can regain my self-confidence and like my own self again. In this new place, when I barely reaching my goal he comes and disrupts my life again. 

I have enough of this. I may be putting my distance but I also have my own source. Since you are here. It's a high time for me to plan my escape again.


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WARNING!
I will only start writing this one after I can catch the breath of my chaotic life. Which I don't know when but I will work hard in straightening my life. In the meantime, I will plot this story to make it more enjoyable.

WARNING! 
BEWARE OF A VERY SLOW UPDATES (Once I start it)^^III

Because my writing priority is Miss Nuggets and Lemonade and Blood Minus.

There will always be people out there who have more determination than those around them. Helen is one of those people. There is a base stereotype against the wonders beyond the high walls that protect the people that live in her village and is often implemented into children's stories. Her whole life, Helen has wondered what it would be like outside her village. After being finally motivated by another story, those walls were no longer an obstacle.

"This place is beautiful!" I said looking out into the countryside, the bright blue sky and the picture perfect rolling green hills.
"It's so peaceful here." Helen said, looking around.
"Are We There Yet?" Daisy said popping her head out the front.
"We have no idea... Jay said follow this road." Helen and Grace answered.
"Jeez it's only been an hour... we still got a long way to go." Jay replied to Daisy.
"But it's so boring!" Daisy complained, "Hey Morgana what you writing!" She asked noticing Morgana was doing something trying to entertain herself.
"I'm taking notes on plants and herbs I see, in case we need them or I need them later." She answered.
"This place looks pleasant to live in." I said noticing it was remarkably peaceful compared to other places we've been.
"Peaceful may be good to live in, but it not good for business." Jay answered.
"How comes?" I questioned.
"Well lack of monsters means lack of adventures, and adventures bring huge business, food, weapons, supplies, inns etc... so an area that's peaceful is just stagnant." Jat explained.
"Surly being peaceful means it would be good for farmland and animals." I questioned.
"that would be great is the rich barons didn't own all the land, stopping or restricting people from doing anything." Jay explained.
"Ahh I see..." I answered.
"Oh Morgana.. I need to tell you something.. but it's a bit of a secret." I said to her, remembering I needed to tell her my secret.
"That you're from the same home plane as Paul?" She questioned without even a sign of shock still writing into her little notebook.
"Wait how did you know?" I asked in shock.
"It's obvious Mother told me Paul isn't from here, you and him seem to have more of just a friend's relationship, specially to go out his way to make a deal with mother and got tricked because he was panicking. So I concluded that you guys must be from the same plane." She explained, still focused on her wiring.
"Well, I didn't know I was that obvious." I answered surprised as she worked it out the first day we met.
"You not so much.... I feel your feelings towards him is a little different, Paul on the other hand he hides it poorly." she chuckled still focused on her book.
"We've got a lot of time to burn. Tell us about you and Paul." Daisy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"All right time to get up, I need to listen to this." Jay said sitting up.
"Hey she's finally going to talk about Paul?" Grace asked popping her head in.
"Hey aren't you steering?" I instantly questioned in shock.
"It's all right, it's a straight stretch of road." She laughed.
"So where are we starting?" How they met?.. or when they were together." Grace asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Urghhh." Morgana sighed, "I'll take the reins." She offered switching places with Grace.
"Okay fine.." I reluctantly agreed. "He tell's me we first met when we was 16 on the first day of college." I began to tell the story.
"What's a college?" Daisy asked curiously.
"It's a place you go to learn things a bit like Atlantis." I answered.
"Oh, okay." She smiled.
"He say's he always remembers it vividly, I met his best friend before him because we both studied business studies together and his friend's family was from the same country and village as my family so we naturally hit it off as friends. He told me that his friends introduced me to him and it was like love at first sight, for him like his heart skipped a beat and he could never forget my smile." I recounted to them.
"And you didn't notice him?!" Daisy asked in shock.
"No, I didn't at all, maybe he didn't make a big impression on me or I'm forgetful but I did met many people that day maybe he just got lost in the mass of people I met." I answered her.
"Oh, no." Grace answered, fully invested.
"I'm sorry but I've got to listen to this." Helen said jumping in the back making herself comfortable.
"So about a year passed where we didn't really know each other he had a girlfriend at the time a Chinese girl who was in his class called Jade." I told them.
"NO!" Daisy gasped in shock.
"What's a Chinese?" Jay questioned.
"Chinese is a race, Paul is Chinese because his family is from a country called China whereas I'm Indian because my family is from India, over there everyone is human and where you come from is akin to races here. Generally people prefer to be with people their own race, my parents always preferred me to be with and marry an Indian person to keep traditions and stuff, and Paul's parents would similarly prefer him to be with a Chinese girl." I answered Jay, trying to explain as simply as possible.
"Oh understandable." Jay nodded.
"So we didn't really become friends till a year after, like some weird game of fates one friend dropped out of a trip our friend group was planning to go on. Just as we were discussing who to invite to fill the slot, Paul happened to pass by, his best friend noticed him and called him inside to meet us, everyone got to know him a little and agreed to invite him. He was a little weird at first, distance not very talkative but he was always there for us when we needed." I explained.
"Wow, so it was fate that brought you both together." Helen said eagerly, waiting to hear the next part.
"Slowly he got more and more comfortable in our group eventually becoming a great friend, everyone loved him, he was funny, smart, always willing to help and looked like he had everything planned out, but something felt odd like he didn't want to get to know me too well. He'd always avoid conversation with me getting too personal. At the time my parents we're pushing me to meet a guy called Raj, his dad was friends with mine very wealthy famous and he was Indian." I carried on telling the story.
"Dramaaaaa" Grace laughed, listening intently.
"Oh, no!" Daisy gasped, fully invested in my side of the story.
"We had a group discussion about our partners and crushes which lead to my relationship with Raj and how my parents were looking to seal the marriage. Then like a switch Paul was suddenly invested in my life. He kept telling me what Raj wasn't the right match for me and he isn't as great as everyone thinks he is. He kept making these points that at first seemed ridiculous, but it gave me some doubts." I began explaining.
"Like what?" Jay asked curiously.
"Like he's too rich you won't have a fulfilling life, I wouldn't like all the fame and limelight, he would spend all his time at work and no time for me and lastly I'd hate all the attention he gets from other women." I listed a few of the problems I could remember on the top of my head.
"Interesting." Jay asked.
"And he didn't know this Raj at all?" Grace and Helen asked.
"Nope, not at all, even till now they have never met or anything." I answered.
"How would he know so much about him?" they asked.
"No idea.. maybe a gut feeling or reading stuff on him.. Raj was a little famous." I answered.
"And he didn't have any magic at the time?" they questioned.
"Nope, as far as I know he couldn't use magic." I answered.
"Weird." They both answered.
"Then Paul and his girlfriend wasn't doing to well and broke up, we all thought it was a bit sudden but he insisted they had underlying problems. We got a lot closer at that point, I was helping cheer him up over his breakup, we would always talk to till sun rise because I always found it hard to sleep." I told them.
"And that's when you both fell for each other." Daisy smiled, predicting the story.
"Not quite actually, my parents kept pushing me to accept an arranged marriage, at that time Raj and I met a few times and I kinda liked him and he seemed so great so our family met with his family to accept the proposal and discuss wedding plans." I answered her.
"Wait what?!" They all answered in shock.
"Yeah.. I could really see my future with Raj, wealthy to the point where I wouldn't need to worry about finances and have the freedom and time pursuing my dreams and travel the world with a loving partner and family. Also, best of all my parents won't need to stress or worry about my future." I answered, chuckling at their reaction. "Soon after that.. Paul mother died, he was absolutely devastated at the time none of us knew, all we noticed was that he vanished for about a month of two, literally vanished no one could contact him or find him.. all I remember was a missed call and text one night, telling me that his mum passed away." I carried on telling them.
"His mum died?.." Daisy asked in shocked sounding saddened.
"Yes, sadly.. he told me it was sudden and unexpected... one moment she was here and then the next she wasn't." I answered, remembering how saddened he was when he told me.
"What's a text?" Jay asked.
"In my world we have a device called mobiles which let use talk to each other no matter how far we are, we can also send messages and these messages is what we call a text." I answered him.
"So then what happened?!" Helen asked eagerly, ready to hear the next part of the story.
He returned coming back to school like everything was okay and normal, like the time he vanished was the closure and time he needed to deal with the grief. During that time Raj and I wasn't doing the best either, I missed Paul dearly while he was gone all the time's we spent together in college and all the late nights. Raj being a full-time student and working in his Family business didn't have much time for me, creating doubts in my mind that just kept growing and growing. Then like a whirlwind Paul came back into my life, he told me he loved me. At first I told him that my parents would never accept it and that I'm committed to Raj, but he didn't care he said he loved no matter what happens even if my parents would never accept him. I concluded half the story.
"And that's when you realised you loved him?" Daisy questioned in anticipation.
"And.. that's the end of the story till now." I chuckled, making them all boo me.
"You have to tell us what happens next!" They all begged.
"The rest is boring stuff, really." I laughed at all of their disappointment amusing.

Emilia Patel an aspiring young adult with a heart of gold and a fiery temper always dreamt of having magical adventures like the ones she reads in Fantasy novels. 

One day, she awoke up tied up in a chair by an unknown invisible force and a robbed red haired figure informing her she is to be conscripted to Atlantis one of the four famous schools of Sorcery.

Could this really be a dream come true?

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Or just a message me to tell you you're enjoying the novel =)

People of Sisna were in a bad mood because of the cold weather and heavy working life. 

After the cold began, villagers began cultivating Red Lotus. Soon after the first harvest, they started plowing the fields for a second one. In winter, the village always continue harvesting this interesting red wheat. 
Red Lotus was an interesting thing that If there is enough cold, you could continue to harvest. 

But between every plowing and harvest, there was a short growing time. In this time, the village was in a rare holiday. So, everyone began their quiet vacation at home.

Of course, in the two houses of this village, the situation was the opposite.

The first house was the home of Director Munmer, a house where Nihan was a guest and did not leave. The other was the house of the village healer Yuzu. These two houses were already side by side, by which rest of the village could not envy these houses more.

..

Nihan, as usual, was immersed in telling his stories. These stories were composed of things related of an old war which Nihan had participated in the past. Some of them were the exotic adventures he had with the nobles he had rescued.

"... at that time, I learned the place called "The Red Room" was actually a room that opened to all good tastes of the world. But after tasting all the pleasures, the one entered the room would die no matter what. I thought for a long time in front of the room... but that great noble Bieveng told me these words as an advise so I decided not to enter.. "

Most recently he described what was the red room ", one of the great mysteries dilemma in a distant empire.

He used the names of formerly forgotten old buildings or great heros. He used mostly modified false or half true things about aristocrats, just to create a story that would fill several books' content in a day. But sometimes, just sometimes he would really tell the true stories! But nobody knew this fact. Of course, villagers couldn't separate these strange and unique moments from the other false stories.

While all the people in the manager's house listened the Red Room" with holding their breaths, no one was really sure whether the Red Room was real or not. They wouldn't care if all the story was been made up. 

After a long tired work in the fields, these people didn't care about trivial things like "fiction-forged-false" anymore.

 Probably there was no one alive and still know that place anymore. But no matter how strange it is, at a very distant point on a continent, there was indeed a real building called "Red room". These villagers didn't know that but Red Room was certainly visited by Nihan a long time ago. 

The people in the house were out of their breaths after hearing the story of the day with strange dreams and long debates. In fact, though, they kept listening to these stories all the time. But a couple who were the source of all the tense air in the house fired all the listeners. They knew after every big final of the stories, there was a chance to kick all these people. Every night....every day..

They were Manager Munmer and his wife. Both had simple and calm lives over 60 years. Of course, this man came to the village six months ago and haunted their home.

Whatever they did, they couldn't get rid of the crazy old man. So they started to experience the most animated but comedy-filled moments of their lives.

..

Same day..

Eren was having a birthday dinner with her mother, grandfather, and Helen, her mother Yuzu's best friend.

He was excited to have Helen as a guest this day, because she was the only girl in the village whose age was close to Yuzu.

Helen was alike every woman of Sisna. She looked exacly 18-19 years old from outside, although her age wasn't certain, she was really young though. The Grandi, which have quite a long life but are very unstable in their ambition or desires, don't have many children. For a long time, even the middle aged Grandi Womans in their prime ages would imitate young girls. But somehow Eren learned that the most young generation in the village were two girls and one boy. Two of the girls were Yuzu and Helen. Eren thought they would be between 20 and 25 at most.

For example, Yuzu seemed to be 21-22 years old even if she was only 2 years older than Helen. If she didn't have a mature aura, with all her acting, with the young and beautiful face she had, Eren would say she was just 17 this year. That's why Eren always found that Yuzu behaved like an adult on purpose.

Anyway, Eren was happy to be around Helen who has both a rare character and very beautiful body. Especially the rare moments when they hugged and slept together were some of the happiest moments in Eren's life. She was mature and different, with strikingly different(sexy) lines and impressively well developed body unlike other Grandies which were normally weak and thin!

She smiled a lot, inquisitively got into every job, decided to do quickly, and sometimes intend to make dirty jokes.

 She was different from most of the surly Grandies in Eren's life.

Even her hair was lighter and brighter than normal grandies have. Sometimes her hair, which turned white" rather than yellow, was unique under the sun. But even white parts of her hair shine like other grandies. 
Eren still have a hard time to understand their hairs and shining thing. "WHY JUST HAİR! IT IS NOT 
SCIENTIFIC."

From the bio class on Earth, Eren knew all of their hair on the body must have shine if Grandies' hair were different. But just hair?

Not fuc**ng scientific!  

..

At the dinner, Eren was eating chicken and rice, as well as a few plants. When the meal was almost over, Eren raised his head and looked the beautiful sexy duo. His step mother Yuzu and her best friend Helen.

"Can I ask something for my birthday?"

Eren looked so honest and pure on this moment. He bent his head to Helen and looked her sweetly.

"Of cource little Er. What do you want?" 

"We should sleep together tonight."

As someone who has decided to leave things like shyness and hesitation behind, sleeping with someone so humorous, pleasant and eye-catching was he had to achieve. Eren didn't leave these wishes to chance or destiny.(F.ck those things) 

 With the smiling Helen, they lay down after an hour. Eren didn't even see Yuzu behind him and his grandfather lying next to them on the sofa.

In those moments, he had already been surrounded by rambunctious thoughts, wrapped in Internet videos and adult thoughts. Helen's hair was constantly played with the hand of Eren. While Eren's little body was wrapped with the hands of a sexy, grown up woman. 

Eren fell asleep with a happy smile.

He had beautiful dreams instead of bad nightmares after sleeping.

...

Wind ...

Eren waited a few minutes while watching the water's flowing under the bridge. He watched Yuzu and did relieved after seeing she had gone to the field. But Eren still waited a couple minutes for safety. After being sure no one watching him, Eren crossed the bridge and followed the dirt road on the opposite side.

 As he walked with small steps, even the short distance was too long for a little boy.

 When he finally came to the entrance of the altar, he crossed the narrow wooded corridor and walked inside. Right in the middle of the altar, there was the same stone.

He remembered the day he took the bracelet and wore it on da right wrist. It was two years ago. His grandfather gave him the earth bracelet and said all his knowledge about crazy altars and secrets. 

On that day, Eren heard that the bracelet had something people usually didn't have. So wearing these things would fix the lack of concentration and increase intimacy with the elements. That's why he's never taken off the bracelet since then. But now..

He gently took off the bracelet and put it in his pocket. There was a smile on his face but before he felt something, he waited on purpose for a difference! 

 With a sudden heartbeat, as though some of the excitement and vitality in his chest were torn off and taken back. It happened in a second. Like your favourite song was paused from mp3 player while you listening all the time.

 Like a thunder, or a slow motion bad-sci-fi effect. It affect his body, brain and soul both slowly and immediately. But Eren still didn't believe whether there is really a soul in the body, anyway. 

Dumb!

 There was another heartbeat and another one and another.

one by one....then one other .. Dumb!

For the last time in the rhythm, he felt his power and energy "fall" like a teenager's depression does.

He waited for a few minutes to adjust without moving. Although the vitality he used to had decreased a bit, nothing bad happened.

 The element predisposition he had acquired for the last years, or the levels (lvl) he received for short, seemed to have not gone.

He tried to pierce his left palm with a small sharp piece he brought with him. First he had to puncture the lower vein parts by pressing on his palm and hurting his hand in a rookie way. Eren never hurt himself in both lifes he lived. It was sad but even hurting and bleed your hand was harder than it looked in hollywood movies.

With an uncomfortable expression on his face, Eren suppressed his disgust and pain. 

"You wouldn't have made an altar which measuring our levels by spitting saliva, wouldn't you? I swear you must have been a very stupid creator. They say "Holy Sky God". I say just "Brainless moron!

What a stupid lvl measure system !!", Eren lost his composure a little bit, then cursed before hardly relaxing again.

Drops of blood flowed onto the stone. One by one they all went into the stone and disappeared instantly.

The minutes passed, and after about 5 minutes again, the tiny black text appeared on the stone.

If Eren hadn't heard that this shity magic writings were the same language as his ex planet's, perhaps he couldn't have come here on his own.

 But as soon as he heard his grandfather, he was pleased. Clearly, the use of the language and the without including literature meaning behind this, Earth's language in this planet say a lot of things. 

For example right now, Eren was half sure for a guess. "Maybe this is future of the Earth. Or one of many possible futures of it. My memories or soul stuck on the planet somehow and I regained them as becaming Eren again. Borning like a new person but taking these memories made me resemble the old Eren from the past Earth! Anyway. I dont care. Fuck them all. Fuck your magic and gods! I DON'T CARE.."

He lost it again. But this time just a little bit..:/

Anyway after looking the figures, they surprised Eren when the texts on the stone came together for a meaningful way.

"Eren Han Kugyo"

"Yeah yeah we know this, you moron!"

Race: 8/6 Daedra (High Species-Superior Human) .... 8/2 Zzyxzze (Bloody Tooth Type-Monster)

The inheritance element: Electricity ... 7 "... Earth ... 5" ... Mental ... 2 "... Water ... 1" ... Fire ... 1 ". ... Darkness ... 1 "... Air ... 1" ... ... ...!

"Wtf is superior human ha! WTFUCK is this word choices!!!

 All creation are just equal! Beng different doesn't mean any shit in my eyes. Our feelings make a difference but laws, shapes, basic rules or time does not classify the living. They could differ, maybe the life but not the living, you piece of shit!"

Finally when his hard suppressed whisper finished, he saw the exact numbers!

"Holy S..."

Eren was very surprised by the absurd numbers. Also his hand was in pain so his mentality was very sarcastic at that moment.

He read the writings and numbers again with the alphabet he had always known and learned in his old life.

"My shitty native language is fuc...Magic Language here!"

After reading again and again he figured one other thing. Clearly, the scripts looked only one minute and disappeared from stone.

Eren stand up and started to walk back and forth on da floor.

 "Earth Element - Lvl 5 " 

It was quite normal. But what about "Electric Element- Lvl 7!" 

That was something out of his expectations.

He hadn't done a special study on electricity for more than 10 minutes, ignored it because Yuzu would be angry if she notice. Even though he had to sneak occasionally, all his attention and time was for the soil.

How could it be Lvl 7?

"I worked on the wrong element without knowing, Wtf?"

He thought of everything that's logical and also unreasonable, then shook his head again. It just simply disn't make sense. Eren thought, questioned and thought more. A kind of unresponsive answer was there, in his head. But it was hard for him to notice the truth.

When he was meditating for the earth element, he didn't know about the shiny electric energy that had comes out of his hands. If he had a person accompanying him, maybe he would have noticed.

He didn't hear the strange "china" or the "zZzzxzz" voices from the different parts of his body.

In short Eren continued to look at the stone without knowing any shit.

"Fuck you stone!"

..


After a few more minutes at the altar, he went back the same way and wanted to complete his day's meditation or whatever it is, before the evening came.

He went in his usual place and sat in a proper position to switch to meditation.

One of his hands was on his leg which was crossed. His head was looking down at a very slight angle, but the majority of his chest and upper body was looked across.

F..uurrrr... (very cold winter breeze..)

Eren watched the village from afar while breathing the cold air.

Somehow, just somehow it was hard to endure this ridiculous fantasy crap. Eren was lucky and taking his second chance but all this bullshit was really hard to believe for him.

While taking deep breaths, he watched the sky, Sisna Village and dawn.

Sometimes he was thinking about the old world and what was missing in this village.

Clean Pijamas, restrooms, bathrooms, a stronger warming method in winter, cleaner kitchens and a lot ,Lot More!..

Eren liked and used to sleep in this world with a beautiful woman like Yuzu whom he couldn't even imagine on Earth. But on the other hand, the clutter of the environment and ordinary stagnant life began to disturb him.

Eren sighed thinking about this village and his old planet.

He didn't meditate that day.

"What do elements and levels make anyway. Fucking retards! What do I do with magic, when I have an outfit in shit color?"

Eren couldn't stand the cold anymore and ran home.

*I died as thinking what would've happened if I lived one more time.

Without any friends, without laughter at all, and I'm sure I've never been loved.

No god, no angel, no family, no friend.. Nobody helped me! --- Not even one tiny miracle showed like the movies and books showed us!

I realized that there is no miracle, good luck or perfect coincidences in this life. I gave up of those crap.

..............

I thought everything would end. I'd sleep and rest forever. What a perfect plan for my eternity ha?

That was the fucking plan!

But no. Like Damn Earth wasn't enough, now I must live in this f*cking planet full of "Fantasy Crap".

Everyone keep talking about magic and miracles. "Just shut up would you!"

The village people who talks about evolution, the children blowing fire from their mouth, and the dragons I hear---all of these seem to mocking with me."Don't come closer you piece of.!"

I just want a normal life. I'm sorry but keep away your magic and secondhand miracles from me.  "Wait, I'm not sorry."

On this brand new life, just stay away from me!"

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** A story of the rebirth of a person who dies in a life of total misfortune. **

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***Warning: This novel contains real mature content (+18 Violence and Adult Content)***

Ever since she began playing World of Warcraft, Helen had felt a nightmarish power growing inside of her. She was troubled by nightmares every night, and those weird and creepy scenes in her dreams woke her up, making her too afraid to sleep.
However, after Sala recommended Outlast to her, Helen began to change…
Previously, it had been hard to sleep, and now she just didn't dare to close her eyes. Whenever she remembered that the fat demon-like man who chased her around throughout the game was finally turned into meat paste by the supernatural existence that worked above the laws of nature, she would shiver involuntarily.
The scarier thing was that the supernatural existence had crawled into her body!
As for the previous nightmares…
For some reason, Helen felt that the power which caused nightmares seemed to be stirring in her body again, but…
She felt like the supernatural existence inside her could instantly slam the creepy things in her nightmares into meat pies, and she thought, Are those things really scary?
While shaking her head, Helen murmured, "Forget it… I still feel like Outlast is more frightening…"
Now, she felt that she could punch any horrifying monster which had scared her senseless before; she was now very tough.
"I feel like I'm becoming a tomboy?" Helen patted her cheeks and followed the others to continue the rescue mission.
…
Although the Symbol of Life in the game could only be used once, the items re-created by the System were all top-quality. Obviously, the items that Mr. Fang gave these players were truly top-level objects.
The tremendous life energy contained in these Symbols of Life could be used more than once.
After the paladins and priests resurrected many people, the energy in these items still hadn't run out.
The people who could use the Symbols of Life must have the talent to learn Redemption or Resurrection, and there weren't many people who could do that. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people who couldn't be resurrected in the later story of World of Warcraft.
The rescue team walked through the desolate ruins and searched for orcs and humans whom they could resurrect.
During the process, these people received blessings and gratitude from countless people and witnessed the joy of coming back to life after death.
Usually, the corpses of masters were relatively intact while the civilians, farmers, and other ordinary people couldn't be resurrected even with the godly items such as these Symbols of Life.
At such moments, these people would be struck by deep sorrow and could do nothing but give their sincere blessings.
"May the Holy Light be with you." Helen prayed for them, wishing more than ever that such catastrophes wouldn't come again.
Luckily, this horrifying legion didn't have the time to go to each city and village in the Orc Kingdom, so the rescue team only needed to follow the Shadow Legion's footprints and search city by city.
"Rheinster… My friends from the Independent People's Inn Guild asked me to find an orc named Rheinster…" Sala searched around anxiously.
"Do they know what happened here?" Helen asked.
"No… I haven't had the heart to tell them the truth…"
"Many people have asked me to figure out the situation with these orcs," Commander Elven said, "Don't tell them yet."
More than anyone else, Elven knew how it felt to have a good friend die. While they searched around anxiously, he knew how impatient and anxious that the players in the distant 'East Continent' were feeling right now.
"Wait until we resurrect them all." Today, everyone got so busy that they wished they could split themselves into groups of ten so that they could do more work.
Even Mr. Fang closed his new shop when he came out.
Mr. Fang's shop was located in the busy zone of the city, and many people passed it each day. Glass, the knight captain and the senior priest of the Canglan City branch of Judgment Godly Palace suddenly saw a group of people pointing in the direction of Origins Internet Club.
[What's happening?]
[The Origins Internet Club is closed?]
Glass casually posted the news on the magic forum. [Origins Internet Club seems to have shut down. It's closed for the whole day.]
[It's shut down?!]
[It's the end of the 'Blizzard Braggers'. Hahaha!]
Countless Blizzard haters spread the news and rejoiced the downfall of the shop.
In the Radiant Light Godly Nation, Master Lywood, Master Auth, and even Peable laughed when they saw this news.
"An achievement! This time, we've obtained a great achievement!" Peable's voice shook in excitement. "Go check and see if the news is true."
…
Meanwhile, at the border of Lianshan Principality.
The battle between human elites and the soldiers of the Shadow Legion was a conflict of blood and fire. Large groups of soldiers of the Shadow Legion and human soldiers fell, and then more swarmed up.
Even the ultimate saint-level masters, the strongest beings on the continent, could find enemies who matched their strength among the enemies. The horrifying energy releasing from the battleground exploded in the sky again and again, even piercing and shattering the thick clouds and leaving shocking marks in the sky.
None of these masters noticed, or perhaps didn't have time to notice, that an invisible fear silently spread across the battleground.
It seemed that the seeds that were once planted in the depths of people's hearts had rooted and began to sprout.
Like a plague, the fear spread in everyone's mind as if an extremely horrifying thing tried to crawl out from the bottom of their hearts.
Darkness. These people seemed to see endless darkness in which the countless creepy things that had once appeared in their nightmares now took shape before their eyes.
"No…"
While shouts of fear sounded, one of the humans suddenly dropped his weapon and fled.
After the first deserter, there were the second and the third.
In fact, while some were still hesitating and struggling, they were executed by the enemies.
"What's happening?!" Grand Mage Adolf was casting spells when he noticed the weird state of a mage beside hm.
Then, as if he had turned crazy, this mage shot out a heaven-burning fire cloud. Caught off guard, his comrades were caught in the fire and fell from the sky while screaming.
"How can it be?!" In the Nations Summit, the projected images all stood up and watched the scene incredulously.
The invisible fear was still spreading. The situation made a sudden change for the worse.
Gradually, the sky above the city was engulfed by this horrifying fear which spread among the crowds in silence, turning fighters to crazy people one after another.
The city that was full of lively people was instantly turned into a ghost realm!


We’ve had systems that help the MCs make pills, steal skills from legendary masters, and even be forced to show off to earn points, but what about a system that allows one to run a virtual reality internet cafe, featuring all the classic games?

Our MC awakens in a new world (Truck-kun strikes again) and finds himself with a mysterious system that allows him to run a fully self-sufficient virtual reality internet cafe! What? Opening an internet cafe in a cultivator world? You can now surf the internet, watch dramas, and play video games?!

One Emperor Warrior cried after visiting MC’s shop, “Damn, Blizzard completes my life!”
Another Yuan River Realm cultivator gasped after drinking Sprite, “What is this sorcery?” 

What else did the MC bring to the cultivator world? Come join us on this adventure as Fang Qi faces off against cultivation sects and major forces with his collection of modern treasures.

Aria woke up in her bed and she felt dizzy. She tried to stand up when she remembered what happened before she lost consciousness. She felt furious when she remembered that Lucis Kingdom is breaking her engagement and went to her father.

When she saw her father, she acted coyly towards him before asking.

"Father, you rejected their proposal of breaking our engagement right?" she asked him.

"No." He answered back plainly.

"Why?!" She shrieked.

"We almost lost the kingdom because of your actions! We were almost destroyed! Do you know who are the envoys?! To sling mud towards their country in front of their faces?! That's right! You don't!" He said with clear frustration in his voice.

This was the first time that Aria was scolded harshly by her father and it is a new feeling for her. All her life, she was always spoiled by her father. He always gave her what she wanted, What she needs, and she can do anything she want without any repercussions because of her father's protection. So hearing him like this caused Aria to feel shocked about it.

"Father, what do you mean? I mean who are they? Aren't they just lowly envoys? Aren't they kneeling towards you because they are afraid of you?" She asked.

Marley couldn't held himself back anymore as he laughed in madness.

"Lowly envoys? Afraid of me? Those only work towards Kingdoms that are less powerful than us! Meanwhile those 'lowly' envoys you just spoke of, kneeled to me as a sign of respect! The reason why we are more powerful than other surrounding countries is because of the help we are receiving from Caelum that you call 'disgusting fisherman island'!" Aria was shocked to hear those words from her father. When she was a kid she always acted coyly towards her father so that she won't have to do those etiquette and skip politics lessons that's why she doesn't have a shred of idea about what goes around their territory.

"And those 'lowly envoys' you spoke about? Their status are much higher than you. They just spared your life twice! Aria, twice! You are also to blame why they resolutely dissolved your engagement." King Marley said while Aria is confused, the only thing that stuck in her mind is that she was at fault for the dissolution of the engagement.

"The envoys that came to break the engagement are the princes of Lucis. Noctis and your fiancee, Somnus, himself. You slung mud at their country, you want to play and capture and torture them? YOU DESTROYED YOUR ENGAGEMENT ALL BY YOURSELF! You were the cause why they want the engagement dissolved!" King Marley said as he sat down fatigued in his throne. 

Aria fell to her knees as she processed her father's words. She can't believe that the envoys she is mocking, is actually her fiancee and his brother.

"No this isn't happening. Tell me its not true father!" she pleaded but all she saw was King Marley stood up in his throne and left her to rest.

Aria sobbed as she still can't believed what just happened. She then remembered that they came here to ask for her 'dead' sister's hands.

"Its your fault, its all your fault! I tried to spare you because I've been the one receiving all of Somnus' love through the letters he gave me. You're the cause of all this!" She made up her mind and laughed like a maniac as she decided to finally end the life of her sister, Helen.

She once stumbled upon Helen's attendant at night and accidentally bumped on the messenger. She was about to punish him for bumping into her but she saw a letter entitled to Helen with Somnus as the sender. She can't help but feel jealous about it and hatched a ridiculous plan to be the one receiving all of Somnus' love.

She burned her sister's room and had Helen's attendant take her place as the one who died from the fire. Meanwhile, she scarred her face and tortured Helen before letting her out in the slums and let her to bleed out in there. When she was sure that she bled out and was about to turn back, a bunch of kids rushed towards Helen's body and picked her up.

With her sister, gone. Declared dead under the fire she created, she successfully replaced Helen as the receiver of Somnus' love. It took her a week and a half to successfully copy Helen's handwriting and sent a letter back to Somnus.

Years later, when she is parading in the plaza, she saw one of the kids that helped out Helen and she asked her guard to follow the kid covertly. She then learned about Helen being alive but weak and ordered her guard to pay a gang to harass her.

She thought that, that, was the end of it, but when she learned of the dissolution of her engagement, her hatred for Helen started to rise once more and decided to finally end her life before her obsession, Somnus, ever learns about it.

She called her trusted guards and started marching towards the slums where she knew where her sister was.

Meanwhile those hiding in the shadows started moving as they told one of their members to relay the message to me while they followed the third princess.

Somnus and I were currently eating as Somnus really can't believe that his brother was the one who made it. He then had a thought of having Helen try his brother's cooking as he became depressed.

"Thinking about her again?" I asked as Somnus nodded.

"I told you, you should've b*nged her when you got the chance." I told him trying to lighten the situation and I knew that it succeeded when Somnus coughed while eating food.

"Enough *cough* about me *cough*, tell me, how did you and sister-in-law met?" He asked me.

"Its a foolish story actually. I don't want to remember the stupidity that happened that time. But the gist of it is because of the stupid thing I did, Irene and I, have met." I said and before Somnus continued, a shadow came in and reported to me. I grinned after having heard of the report.

"What's the matter, brother?" Somnus asked.

"The shark has taken the bait." I said with a really wide grin and Somnus got chills seeing that crazy grin.

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Just letting y'all know that there's a power outage in my area so this will be the last chapters for a while since I'm going to conserve my phone's battery.

A man suddenly waking up in a body of a young father with a daughter without any idea how he arrived there.

Only the OC's are mine.

Loud thunder , howling wind and quite a lightning that lit up the rainy sky startled  Helen , she woke up sweating and her heart racing like that of a horse . She looked around , stood up slowly as though her limbs had walked miles , she searched around for the old lady but she wasn't to be found anywhere . She searched the other room but no signs of her , she walks out the door in the rain , at some distance stood the oak lady . 
    Helen called for her , but the lady wouldn't turn , she started walking towards her , calling her even more so loudly , heavy rains drowned them but she walked to the lady and touched her shoulder and asked " what are you doing out here , it's raining and it's still dark , get inside " . Helen could feel her hand moving , soon she could feel the old lady sobbing . " what happened , what's wrong? " asked Helen as she turned the lady towards her . The lady turned slowly , weeping . The rain covered for the tears , but Helen  could still tell by her eyes that she had tears . "I am sorry my child , the world is crueler than I could imagine , what all you are going through , I am sorry , I truly am " said the lady . 
"What happened , you are scaring me , please tell what happened .. w..what are you trying to say " .
          "Let's go , we need to get back here soon , and we need to find ways to make Venus speak so hurry" TARUS told his friends as they were about to leave REVINUS to seek information from Venus regarding the unknown , unfathomable and horrifying tale of blackmoon . They left the hall unnoticed, they crossed the streets and finally reached the gate , as they crossed the gate they stopped . They stopped on hearing the horn . The horn that was blown just once in the history of the hall , the sound that was never heard in recent life's , the alarm which meant the greatest disaster, the greatest threat to the REVINUS , that horn was blown .  TARUS and all his comrades stood there in shock and fear , slowly turned back , but angry of their lost quest and more afraid for what was to come . The story could not be found , they knew , thus they walked back .
       "Ahh...." a loud scream echoed through the walls of the hall , the maid scared to her death ran hither and thither  weeping badly , the cries woke the hall , everyone rushed to her , she kept shouting with no words coming out . Everyone who saw her were shocked and stood still . On hearing her cries the lord opened his doors and shouted "quiet the young lady , anybody " , but the cries did not stop . Furious PRIMUS walked out his chambers and rushed to the direction of screams. 
She kept screaming and screaming . PRIMUS rushes to her and shouted " what in the hell's name is wron..." he stopped , he stood there like a rock when she turned towards him . 
     There he saw in her hands , his baby girl , with no life , his blood born baby , with blood out of its mouth . " my lord " the maid wept as she handed him the baby . PRIMUS took the baby in the most loving way he ever did , sat down and screamed at the crowd " get the medicine , get the healers please , please , please , it's my baby , it's my girl , what is happening to us " he kept weeping . He held the baby close to his chest and cried and sang songs which he never sang when she was alive . He could not accept the death , so he sang to her and cried for hours , the crowd did not move a inch , tears rolled down everyone's cheek , TARUS was broken . PRIMUS shivering with pain and guilt would not let go of the baby , he whispered in the baby's ear "I am sorry , I am really sorry , you were my treasure, I disrespected you , I thought Ill of you , ohhh my baby , what happened to you , I love you soo much , please come back to your father , he has got none but you , please , will you , please " and wept , cried all his heart until he held her and passed out on the floor . 
       Whole crowd rushed and tried to pull the lords hands away from the dead child , he was too powerful even when unconscious, none could move his hands even by an inch . They lifted him to his cabin and waited for him to wake . After some time PRIMUS wakes up and opens his arms to see the baby . Now he knows it's time to let go . TARUS comes to him with tears and says " my lord , the princess must be given a god's funeral soon so that she lives on among the stars " . PRIMUS still did not exist in the present situation , but he realised it was time to let go . He stood up and went to TARUS and asked in his ears " where is Helen ?" . "RAYU told he delivered the leaf in the evening my lord " replied TARUS . 
      "Begin the procession " ordered PRIMUS as it would be too late , but he still was so lost in the death of his child that he didn't care to see below once , see his wife once and what was happening to her below . 
    "Your baby is no more , winds brought in the news , they told your daughter had blood out of her mouth , she's no more " told the old lady to Helen . Helen moved back n fell on her knees . She just sat there with no sense and still . Oak lady came near her , and held her shoulder . Helen started crying , the mother's pain , the mother's sorrow, no one could ever know the pain that a mother would . She cried for some time and wanted to see her child for the last time befor she was sent to stars . She rushed inside the hut and got the leaf . She held it tightly and ran towards water . She ran crying . She ran , but as soon as she reached the banks of river she stopped , she could not see any stairs . She walked in , her body sinking in water , she comes back to shore and runs again for the stairs but sinks again , runs , sinks , runs , sinks . Many times later , the oak lady stops her .
    Helen is shocked , she cannot believe what is happening . She doesn't know what to do , she looks at sky and starts screaming "why are you doing this , what have I done to deserve this , please, I beg you , let me see my baby one last time , let me hold her , let me mourn for her , you have to let a mother mourn for her baby , look at me please , what monster made you so heartless , let me till the gates atleast , I promise I won't enter your hall , just give me my baby , just hand her over and I will never trouble you ever , please " Helen kept weeping . 
    The procession came to end , the thousands of Gods stood by the baby and chanted words , but PRIMUS did not , he did not exist , he was lost . In the end , all the gods picked up their bows and arrows and pointed to the sky and .... SHOT , every arrow had different colour , it seemed like a new world was forming , the colours beamed across sky , the world could see , Helen saw it too with blurred eyes , she saw . Soon the baby turns to sparkles and slowly floats through the sky and disappears amidst the colours . She sees it , she could see everything , Helen sees her hands and clenches fist in pain and anger . She lost her baby , but she could not see her even in her death .
        Helen looks at the sky again and speaks " you people believe , just because you sit up there you are above all of us , you treat us like dirt , now I know what humanity is and what you gods are , the world is cruel because their beliefs are , and you are their belief , but beliefs are not supposed to be cruel . You took my girls life , you took the only thing that mattered the most to me , a mother's pain can never be understood , I could not see my baby as she flew across the sky , I couldn't touch her , couldn't hold her , couldn't sing to her or feed her or walk her first steps or hear her voice , you... you took that from me , you took it all frooommm meee .. " Helen screamed with tears and continued " I curse you , I curse the REVINUS , everyone in it , fate wasn't kind to me , nor will it be to you , here I give my life so that you may fall , I give up my soul so that you know may perish , and a mother's curse is the one which will sting forever , I bid goodbye to the world so that no one worships you anymore " ."nooo , what have you done child , why a life curse , whyyyy , " cried the lady looking at Helen . Helen smiles back and says her last words "NO ONE WILL BE GOD UNTIL THEY ARE HUMAN FIRST " and disappears into the sky as a fog does . 
       Air is still , water stops rushing through rocks , sky turns red , REVINUS which is already mourning begins to make sounds , the wind blows hardly , so hard , it's stroke brings down the pillars , the hall's ground shatters , the gods start falling down the sky , soon the REVINUS starts falling apart fiercely, every brick gets a count , all the gods fall apart , TARUS , RAYU and many more are gone , riza standing startled not sure what would happen next also goes . PRIMUS sat still on his throne which stood still until everythin around him fell apart . He sat there until none were left , every wall and pillar beside him fell , he closed his eyes and spoke to himself " here is the end to misery " and then the throne falls and so did he . 
Nothing was left , just dust , waste and air . 
the Oak lady after the demise, and says "THE WARS BEGIN AND  THE ASHES HEAP "
— A life for a curse , a curse for lives —

Times change , no more gods , not even a memory of them , cursed lay the world with humans ruled by other humans and what good might this lead to ? other than just WAR and DEATH , peace is never an option . But , there is hope . Someone will rise beyond the human insights to bring hope for the world which doesn't seek it only to keep the soil on earth rather than blood and bodies burnt to ASH . But , it takes a WAR to stop another .

The rest of the week was a whirlwind.

Helen and Lou stayed the whole time, but Lee had to leave on the second day because his case was pressing.

Jay enjoyed the company of the two new women in his life, he really appreciated Helen's insight in particular. She had started her own art gallery right out of college thanks to some well-placed investment she had made with the money from her part-time jobs. She was a bona fide self-made woman and for which he had utmost respect for that.


Lee was a little bit more complicated, Jay had heard from Helen; he came from a very wealthy family in Korea, but had given everything up for his dreams. His parents hadn't taken well to him running off to a foreign land and leaving his arranged marriage partner behind.
When they had realized he wasn't coming back, they had cut his inheritance off and severed all ties with him.

Lee was the prime example of a success story so that hadn't hindered him.
He had been accepted at Stanford University – where he and Helen had met – on a merit scholarship, graduated, passed the bar, opened his own law firm and had become one of the most sought after criminal defense lawyer in the U.S.

Then he and Helen had gotten married on April 24th 1994, and Jay was born on January 7th of the following year. Helen had been 22 then and Lee 26, they were now respectively 38 and 42, but both of them looked to be in their early thirties.

All in all, Jay hadn't gotten much information about his father's side of the family, but had been filled in about his mother's.

Freja Lucille O'Malley (née Lund) was half Swedish half French, and lived in the north-east of France with her husband Sean Connor O'Malley, a pure bred Irish – with auburn hair and all. They had three children, Marie, the oldest, Jean, the second child and only son, and Helen (née Hélène, changed the spelling when she moved to the US), Jay's mother.

His aunt Marie was married and had three children, all daughters aged 7, 12 and 19.

Jean was a professor at Sorbonne University in Paris and single as far as Helen knew. She wasn't sure since apparently the man was particular about the ongoings of his private life.

Jay chuckled when he realized what a melting pot his genealogy tree looked like; Korean, Swedish, French, Irish, and born in America. He had realized that he spoke French, Korean and Swedish fluently thanks to his father and mother's influence, which was really cool.

He had been bilingual in his previous life – English and Russian – and had been able to work as a freelance translator from time to time and alleviate his bills.
But he was getting sidetracked.

"Jay, upsy!" his thoughts were interrupted by a childlike voice and he looked down to see Lou's outstretched arms and puffy cheeks. Apparently, he had made the lady wait.

He chuckled and propped her up on his lap. It was the day of his departure and he was doing much better now. He could sit properly and walk a little (bed to bathroom), but could not do much more.

He had gotten a good look at the mirror and was appalled at the protruding bones all over his chest, he looked like one of those poor and hungry refugees God bless them. He had a whole new respect for those people, he was in the same condition but could barely move to go to the bathroom while they walked 2 miles a day just to get water.

Anyways, he wasn't bad looking otherwise, he had amber eyes, dark black hair and a distinctive mole under his left eye. He suspected he had dimples too, but his cheeks were too hollow to know for sure.

His hair was too long though, it reached his shoulders now and he didn't like it, he was sure his mother had something to do with that.

"Jay, you leaving?" the little girl looked at him worriedly and her eyes reddened.

Calling him big brother was too long so she had started to call him by his name. She didn't want him to leave, he wasn't like Anna's brother at all! He was very warm and she really liked it when he smiled at her and caressed her hair, she thought it would be great if it could happen everyday.

Jay looked at the little girl who was on the verge of crying and for a second he didn't know what to say. He smiled wryly, he would pack her up in his luggage and take her away if he could, but that would be a crime, huh.

That was bad, he was becoming a sis-con.

He gently kissed her forehead and tightly hugged her. "I have to leave for a bit, but I'll definitely be back in time for school. You start school this year too, right? I will make sure to go with you on that day. How about it?"

She sniffled a little and looked at him doubtfully but eventually bit her bottom lip and nodded. "Hm... you have to... you can't lie..." she whispered.

Oh my god. Too cute! He squeezed her a little tighter but not enough to hurt, and Helen chose this moment to come back with Nurse Jetson and a wheelchair in tow. She greeted her children with a blissful smile. "It's time Jay, shall we?"

Jay nodded and Nurse Jetson and his mom helped him in the chair. Once they were done, he picked Lou back up and settled her down on his lap, afraid she would start crying if he didn't do so.

He swore it was the only reason and not because he was becoming too attached to her. Yep, definitely not.

His mom pushed his chair out of his room and down the hallway, then they all boarded the elevator together down to the 1st floor where Lee had been talking to Dr. Philips and Dr. Keys. The two doctors bade Jay farewell and he thanked them for their care, before they all boarded the elevator once again to the underground floor where a black SUV was waiting for them. Lee helped Jay get into his seat, he then folded the wheelchair and put it away in the trunk while Helen took care of Lou.

They all climbed aboard and drove towards John F. Kennedy International Airport.

It took two full hours for them to reach the boarding gates, by then Jay had coaxed Lou out of his embrace with sweet nothings and she had reluctantly let go of him but not before he had promised to bring her a new doll for her to play with. His parents were apparently very amused at his predicament.

Helen held him in her arms and appeared to be unaffected but he could feel her trembling against him. He smiled and kissed her forehead, coaxing her the same way he did his sister, minus the doll promise.

When it was Lee's turn, the latter simply nodded and gave him a pat on the shoulder, which Jay was grateful for.

The airline had provided him with an attendant and he turned to her, indicating he was ready to go, she nodded and smiled, then pushed him towards the 1st class boarding gate.

And just like that, he was gone, off to Europe for 6 whole months!

When a washed-up 32 year-old singer intent on surprising his wife for Valentine's Day comes home early, he finds her in bed with the man she had always considered her "best friend". Overcome by sorrow, he ends up dying from heartache.

When he comes to, he has taken over 15 years old Jay Aslan's body, the body of a comatose. But wait there's a twist, he actually has a system?!

Follow Jay as he struggles to follow his dreams, protect his family, keep girls at bay and takes the world by storm.

To hear Helen say the title out loud, made Ellie shiver.  She still wasn't used to it. She hoped as Helen had mentioned she would forget to mind it eventually.  Ellie continued with her thoughts. "I'm glad that even though everything happened so quickly that Henry still decided that coming to England with me is something that he wants to do.  I hope that within the next month that I can decide whether or not we have a future."
"It'll work out somehow.  I know you can do it. Even if you weren't in the position you wanted to be, you would always manage to finish the race."
"I'm nothing like you, I could just be bold when I'm around him." Ellie looked past Helen for a moment as she saw someone who had the same height that Henry.  She considered it must be him for a moment before she noticed the streak of blonde hair and the woman he was lugging behind him who was dragging her feet in the uneven snow covered pavement.  Ellie remembered how Henry's arms had felt when he had touched her. Involuntarily, she looked back at her friends while setting back the cup she had been holding onto the table. "I do feel again and again that I won't be successful at all, but I can't let my ship sink without trying to save it."
Helen looked at her with concern.  "May sure not to go down while you're trying to fix your ship.  Henry isn't worth losing yourself for. There are a lot of fish in the sea since you're using ocean metaphors."
Ellie smiled and stood.  They exchanged goodbyes before agreeing that they would need to meet again soon.  Helen gave Ellie one languorous final wave before she disappeared into the crowd. Ellie's feet were sore from walking and sitting for so long.  She considered for a moment to head over to Nolan's apartment before deciding that she would instead go in a more productive and proactive direction.  Ellie stepped off the sidewalk and hailed a yellow cab taxi. The driver looked at her begrudgingly as she told him to take her to Mr. Chou offices. Mr Chou was the Wong family lawyer, technically since she was still married, he was her lawyer too now. In her conversation with Helen, she had reminded Ellie that now she had wealth she should make sure that Henry wouldn't take advantage of it. Ellie was sure that he wouldn't but wanted to be sure for her own clear thinking.
Ellie felt furthered relieved when she was told she didn't have a long wait to see the wizened old lawyer. The lawyer drew her into a conference room and the tap of his fingers slowly turned to a removal of his glasses as Ellie explained how she had recently come into her own money and land. "That's simply an extraordinary story to see that someone of our Chinese blood can also be a part of British aristocracy. I did read about it on the internet but did not know that lucky lady would be married to one of my longtime clients. How fantastic that a good fortune met a good hearted person. I'm so happy to serve you, I apologize if it seems rude by British law by comparison to American Law is simply fascinating. Some colleagues and I were just discussing your case and the logistics of it. Of course you can trust my discretion so you can remain your anonymity until the process is formalized." Chou cleared his throat as he struggled to return his excitement to business detachement. "Hearing this good news makes me wonder if the newly minted Baron, would like to retain his honors by staying married to you? I hope so. It will be so exciting to write letters with the strange punctuation. It would be just the best story to tell our prospective clients that nobility use our services."
"I can't speak for Henry. He has his own mind. Based on our past discussions I think he is still set on getting an annulment.  It's mine as well." Ellie felt the words in her mouth leave with some hesitation as she wondered if it was still what she wanted. She coughed to gather her thoughts. "Because of the immediacy of some of the repairs of my main property in the United Kingdom, Henry and I have agreed that we will be leaving together to England. If we will be there for a while it is I think a good idea to start the process here so it can be rolling while we're gone and finished when we're back."
Chou tapped his finger against the table so his heavy wedding ring clanged loudly. Both his and Ellie's eyes were drawn to it as he spoke. "I respect your opinion, but don't know if it would be the best idea to file immediately. There are many perks of being married to a Wong. As an ambitious woman you could very well take advantage of these things to further yourself. I know you have only just recovered from surgery and your circumstance has changed very quickly. I mean no offense, but before all your privileges are no longer available to you, are there things you want?"
"Henry is a wonderful man. He has always given me everything. I didn't know anything about him before I married him so these privileges I have no idea of. I would like to leave the marriage the same way I started—-with nothing. The Wong fortune is nothing I am looking for. I am sure I will be more secure to start my life single than I will be in this marriage." Ellie could see that Chou wanted her to continue but his increased interest cut off her point. She knew that she had always been a stubborn person, but the thought of growing comfortable at the Wong building made her feel strangely sick. She didn't want her good intent of just marrying him for the will to be spoiled by the security she felt with a rich partner. It was dangerous to be lulled in by a comfort that if he changed his mind would disappear. She would not stick around for him to look at her like a kept woman. She could see Chou nodding as he had a paralegal bring forth the documents. Ellie knew it was better to take this leap then let the monster of uncertainty catch up to her. She would have to stay one step ahead, even if she didn't want to. Henry had to be the one to make a decision because honestly, Ellie couldn't trust herself to look at all that money and say a firm no


Facing a marriage deadline, CEO Henry Wong impulsively weds Ellie Chen, a broke former professional race car driver dying of a wreak she had on the track. 

In return, her younger brother will receive a generous scholarship -- and Henry will have the enchanting Ellie as a wife, if only for a time. 

Then fate takes a hand, and Henry suddenly finds herself with a healthy, vibrant wife -- a siren he finds it hard to keep his eyes off of.

Henry turned to the other woman who was standing in the room as he clutched Ellie close to his chest. "You have seen it yourself now Aunt Dorota, she is such an elegant lady, with a humble character, and her kind nature is something I will never find again. And you know, she has the strength to match my mother -- she used to be a well-known race car driver you know." 

The hug around Ellie started to grow uncomfortable as she squirmed a little. She wanted to move away, but knew that would detract from all the work that had been put in upto this moment so she swiveled her head. Like a butterfly landing she put her head on his shoulder and looked at Dorota. "I'm so lucky to have you, my love."

Her words stung him.  He was clearly surprised.  But Angela did not push it further.  She turned away from him.  He was still where she left him, standing with a stunned face.  He was rooted firmly his head stooped.
	Angela could not hurt herself anymore.  She couldn't wait for him to say something she might like or something she might hate.  She picked the clothes Helen had for her and went to the bathroom to freshen up.  When she came out, the room was already empty.  She took Edward's absence as a sign that there was nothing left between them.
	Sighing heavily, she went out to the balcony.  The cold evening breeze blew her hair away from her face.  She took the chair and settled herself.  She wrapped herself with the quilt and stared blankly at the night sky.  
	Blotches of white clouds were still visible.  The big moon stared back at her its face serene and melancholic.  Angela smiled at the moon.  "I guess we're both lonely huh."  
	She lost tract of time as she enjoyed the view before her.  She looked down below the garden and saw a shadow moving from the house.  She could tell it was Edward.  She watched as he moved about the garden walking aimlessly.  He touched the flowers unmindfully.  He went as far as the end of the garden then she lost sight of him.
	Another sigh and Angela could feel her eyelids getting heavier.  She closed them for a while not wanting to sleep on the chair but to relax her mind and heart from her present dilemma. But she fell asleep almost immediately.
	In her sleep, Angela dreamed of holding a baby in her arms then Edward took the bundle from her.  The baby wailed loudly.  She could feel the baby's pain.  She struggled to get up to get the baby back but Edward pushed her away. She clawed her way towards the baby but Edward was stronger pinning her on the bed.  She cried pitifully begging him to give her back the baby but he only laughed hysterically holding the baby away from her.
	She shuddered from the pain.  Then suddenly she bolted from her sleep.  She looked around feeling disoriented.  Edward was immediately behind her consoling her.  She cringed at his touched as she remembered her dream or was it a nightmare.
	Instinctively Angela placed a protecting hand on her belly as she stirred away from Edward.  She immediately remembered sleeping on the chair.  Now, she was on the bed with Edward.  
	"Are you alright?"  Edward asked hoarsely.
	Breathing heavily, Angela stared at Edward in shocked.  Beads of sweat broke on her forehead and all over her body.  She focused on the present blinking in the dark.  Edward got off the bed to turn on the light.  He took the pitcher and poured a glass of water and handed it to her.
	With trembling fingers, Angela took the glass, brought it to her mouth and drunk her fill.  She handed the empty glass to Edward who took it and replaced it on the table.  He came back to her.  Her breath was beginning to ease out.
	"What happened to you?"  He asked sitting on the bed.  The soft bed dipped on his weight.
	"I had a nightmare."  
	"That explains your scream.  Was I trying to kill you in your dream?"
	Angela looked at him with bewildered eyes. "No."  She whispered.
	"Then why were you screaming my name?"
	"Did I?"
	"Very loudly.  I was afraid you're gonna wake the whole house up at this time of night."  Edward grumbled much to her dismay.
	"You sound like a nagging wife."  Angela complained bringing the sheets up her head before collapsing on the bed again.
	"Do I sound like a nagging wife?"
	"Yes you do.  And please let us go back to sleep.  We might wake the whole house you said."
	Angela buried herself beneath the sheets and tried so hard to sleep.  She felt Edward lay down beside her but not too close.  She turned to her side with her back to him.  She felt him turn the other side.  Morning will not be too soon, she surmised as sleep will be elusive to her this time.

	As soon as the morning light filtered through the room, Angela made her move.  She called Dominic and asked him to take her home.  She gave him the address and told him to pick her up in the afternoon so she could talk to Edward's grandma.
	Edward was already up when she finally left the comfort of the bed.  Maybe he had gone on with his day and went back to the city without her.
	She went outside to venture the garden in the morning.  She might not be able to come here again so she would make use of her time in seeing the garden by herself.
	The sun had slanted quite a few degrees since she came into the garden exploring all corners and taking pictures of the view.  She took a video of the place turning around and around memorizing them for she might never set foot in this place again.  
	She reached the far end of the garden. She turned to view the mansion at a different angle.  With the sun against her eye, the building glistened gloriously under the morning sun.  It was so breath taking.
	"It's marvellous isn't it."  Helen suddenly appeared from behind her startling her immensely.
	"You startled me!"  Angela turned to see Manny wheeling the old woman's chair.
	"You didn't see us so I figured I made our presence known to you."  Helen smiled at her.
	"I really did not see you."
	"l always take my morning coffee in this garden.  I love it here."  Helen let her eyes scanned the whole place with loving eyes.  "This had been my whole life."
	"I can see why you love it here so much.  The view is magnificent."  Angela let her eyes feast on the beautiful scene before her.
	"We built this place when Edward's father was still young and had been here since."
	"How long had you been here?"
	"I bought this villa sixty years ago.  I was young and ambitious but there was a part of me who always loved the life of the province that's why I decided to buy this."  She smiled with melancholy.
	"You must have missed your husband."  Angela replied wistfully
	"No I don't."  Helen replied almost angrily.  She then signalled Manny to leave them.  "My husband had never loved the provincial life.  He preferred the bustling life of the city.  He tried to make it big but he was always short of ideas.  He squandered quite a huge portion of our fortune trying to be someone but his dreams were too far from his reach.  Then he came home."  Her voice trailed off in sadness.
	"I'm sorry to hear about it."  
	"Don't be.  He made his choice and he was happy for it."
	Angela fell silent she found a spot to settle and settled herself.  She could sense that the old woman needed to talk about her life's story so she could unburden herself.
	"Edward's father followed my husband's footsteps.  I thought he disliked him so much for he wasn't here while he was growing up.  But I was wrong.  He followed his dreams in the city like his father.  So I moved to the cottage near the sea."  Helen smiled.  
	"You built that garden too?"
	Helen smiled.  "Yes.  I guess having a garden keeps me sane as my boys wasted their life chasing their dreams.  I wanted to be close to my son.  So I bought that property.  It was the closest I could get to the city and still live my provincial life.  I wasn't willing to give up my own life either but I could make some compromise.  But like my husband, my son failed. One day he came home with Amber, his wife.  She had Edward and I was so heartbroken to see another man in my husband's line."  
	"You feared he might leave you again like your husband and your son."
	Helen nodded.  "But Amber promised that Edward would be different.  And so Edward turned out to be half his father and half his mother.  Mathew hated Edward for being such a weakling.  He took Edward's kindness as his weakness.  But it seemed Edward had proven to them both that his kindness was the missing ingredient of their ambition.  Edward set out the city like his fathers before him and conquered it."  Helen's eyes were shining with pride.
	"When did you decide to move back here?"
	"When Edward brought home Erin to become his wife, I decided to leave the cottage for them."
	All of a sudden, the mention of Erin almost marrying Edward put a huge lump on her throat.  Was he really trying to marry that woman?  No wonder she was so adamant in getting back Edward.  They were supposed to get married!
	"What happened to them?"  Angela asked curiously her heart thumping.
	"She got pregnant long before they could tie the knot.  So Edward decided that they will get married once the baby is out.  It was Erin's request of course.  I remember him beg her to marry him so he could give the child his name."
	"Where's the baby?"
	"One day they had a fight.  It was huge.  It seemed like Edward caught Erin being amorous with one of his business partners.  She told him that she was sorry.  But Edward won't take it.  He sent her out.  But every now and then Erin keeps popping into his life and he always welcomes her back.  He must have loved her then."

Angela Lee was so deep in debt and was looking for a way out. Her cousin Dominic Lee helped her by introducing her to his boss who was looking for a fake wife.

Angela wished he was ugly and old. But she was not prepared to meet a dashingly handsome bachelor who had trouble choosing between being a gentleman or being a villain. And she was not ready to surrender her heart to a man who only want her as a contract.

Caught between her heart's betrayal and her head, Angela must find a way to make most out of her sticky situation. She preferred to love him despite the pain and closed her heart for any hope of love.

But before she married The Boss, she met Erin, a young woman with sophisticated beauty and the beauty of a woman who knew her worth. She is The Boss ex-girlfriend who warmed his bed even after the break-up. She refused to let go of the Boss and vowed to fight for a position in his life just to become his legal wife.

Now, Angela had to decide whether she wanted to become a fake wife or the legal wife.

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