I reached out and grabbed Min's shaft, my hand working steadily up and down his cock. It was warm and hard between my fingers, and I loved the elasticity and feel. Well, I had created this cock myself with the help of Pratter and Sandor. This cock would feel exactly the way I wanted it to feel, and I made it feel exactly to my tastes. Just imaging the hard thing plunging into me already excited me. It was big, but not too big. It was hard, but no too hard. It was the perfect dick for my pussy. 
"You know, Min, I've been thinking a bit." I sighed as my fingers worked over his cock. 
"Mm? Vesse?" Min asked cautiously. 
I moved myself, swinging my leg up over Min and mounting him. His perfect cock was now sticking right up under my pussy, waiting to impale me. I lowered my hips until just the head touched, but didn't slam it home. Instead, I teased the top of his cock with my pussy, squatting just enough so that it touched me, but didn't penetrate. A wet strain of lust, although I couldn't tell if it was his or mine, reached from his cock tip to my pussy lips. It was a visible conformation of how perfect our parts fit together. 
"I realized…" I continued. "That a lot of people don't tend to read author's notes and thus don't know any information about this story." 
"Re-really?" Min was breathing hard, the teasing being too much for him, especially as I started playing with his nipples, on top of two clearly feminine mounds.
"Mm… so I reckon a lot of readers don't know a lot of important details about my Tales as a Seductress." I sigh, squeezing his nipples tightly in the way he liked and eliciting a pleasing gasp. 
"Such as?" Min's face scrunched, fighting the pleasure my body was giving him. 
"For example, this story had already been out in entirety on machineslicedbread.xyz for over a year, and it is also the location of many of the writer's other erotic stories." 
"Vesse sell readers short, most know that." Min blushed. 
I finally dropped my hips down, letting that perfect cock slam into me. The warmth of it slid deep into my womb, and the feel was incredible enough my pussy trembled slightly in a mini-orgasm. That's what I got for being so teasing. In the end, I was the one who was most aroused. However, Min was flushed and breathing hard as well, so clearly it was doing it for him. 
"I'm not so sure they're aware of the blog whatsawhizzer.wordpress.com, where the author translated Arifureta, wrote Requiem to the Stars and Time and Place, and don't even get me started on his continuing series, Power of Creation and the World of Women, two very erotic and very different novels. Both have completed volumes that can be downloaded for free for all ******* supporters." 
"Of course, Vesse… aaaaa… it's tight." 
"Mmm, I'm not tight. Min is just too big." I tease as I rise my hips up and down, feeling his cock slid up and down inside me. "Either way, ******* support gets people early access to released chapters, full colored illustrations, re-edited pdfs, and some exclusive patreon-only content."
"Most reader, only want Tales…" Min shrugged, his mouth open as he panted in pleasure. 
"Ah, it's because they want to see me fucking my sexy wife." I chuckle, picking up the pace until each time my hips drop I can hear the wet sound of it sliding in. 
"Ahnn… t-tease!" Min cried out. "T-tell them… important things about tales." 
"Ah… I guess I should tell them some things. For example, this next chapter will be the last chapter of Tales of a Seductress." 
Min gasps. "Th-then, no more us?" 
I chuckle. "Of course not. Naturally, my Min and I will return in the sequel, Tales of an Enchantress. A story currently being written and released on machineslicedbread.xyz." 
"Ho-how many chapters so far?" 
"Nearly 50! Ahh… Min, right there… move your hips, ahhhh… right there!" I let out a cry as he started to hit me in the right spot.
He thrust his hips up into me roughly and a moment later I started cumming. 
As I panted and moaned, my devilish Min kept up the thrusting past my tolerance. I could barely talk, my voice coming out in a panting high-pitched moan. "Ahh… I can't get enough of Min! If readers want… want Min too… they should know about Min's story, a-a- a – aaahhhhh… a short side series following Min's origin and point of view through Tales of a Seductress!" 
"Vesse, C-cumming!" 
"Cum! Cum in me, Min!" I shouted lustfully, my tits bouncing up and down as I rode him as hard as I could. 
"I-is that all Vesse say?" Min demanded, his eyes flashing mischievously. 
"No… I have more… oh.. it's too good, you're driving me crazy with your cock, I can't stop cumming!" I cry out, my mind turning to mush. 
"Must say it or Min won't stop!" 
"Ahn… Mi-min is teasing too much, I'm really going crazy, but it's the most important part!" I cry out as I pant, erotic explosions shooting through my body as I leak all over Min's cock, my pussy clamping down in perpetually orgasm as Min penetrates me over and over again. "Next month will signify the official release of Tales of a Seductress the pdf. It includes this complete book, edited and formatted for ease of reading in a phone friendly pdf. It costs $5 to buy the book or it is free for all ******* supporters of $1 or more! Inkstone doesn't even allow simple bold and italics formatting, so it's a much different experience on pdf." 
"But what about future release!" Min demands just as he grabs my ass tightly, pulling it down until he penetrates me at the maximum level. 
A moment later I feel gobs of warm stuff shoot into me. It was Min's lust, magically converted into semen. It started filling up my womb, and for a second my eyes rolled up in my head. Min had to pinch my thigh before I could focus again. 
"Un… I feel it! I feel Min inside me!" I cried until he pinched even harder and I shook out of it. "Tales was released on inkstone to drive up interest for the pdf. Its sales success will dictate how quickly Tales of an Enchantress is finished and ultimately whether it's worth the author's time to release it on inkstone at all."
"So, if they don't pay, he stop writing? What Bastard!" 
"No, Min… ahn… it's so warm, I can feel it growing soft…" I relaxed, finally regaining my faculties. "Tales of an Enchantress already has 40 chapters out and will continue to release on machinslicedbread.xyz no matter what. However, if you want to read the completed book as a pdf, if you want to see TOAE and Min's story released on inkstone, or if you want TOAE increased in release speed (right now, it's been about twice a month), then you might want to consider dropping $1-$5 to support the author. He has many writing responsibilities, and so TOAS must prove to be financially worth his time."
With that, I lean over and take Min's lips, tasting my sweet and beautiful wife. Our tongues combine for a few minutes while our sweaty bodies heave against each other, the sweet smell of sex wafting from the pair of us. When we finally separated, Min gave a coquettish smile. 
"Basically, author greedy, want money?" Min summarized. 
"Exactly…" 
"…" 
"So, the TOAS pdf will release on 11/14/18. ******* supporters will not only get that book, but access to all other ******* content including previous finished pdfs. ******* will have various fundraising goals dictating whether TOAE will be released on Inkstone (Raise $100, TOAE once a week), Whether TOAE will pick up releases to twice a week ($200), or three times a week ($300). Basically, if there is a total of $300 increase in ******* and paypal pdf purchases between 11/7/18 and 12/1/18 (that's just 60 people buying TOAS at its retail price guys), then you will get the max releases of TOAE until this book is finished. Please support the release at *******.com/whatsawhizzer or visit the TOAS Table of Contents on Machineslicedbread.xyz to buy directly." 
"Sound good. What next?" 
"How about we start the Epilogue to Tales of a Seductress. Enjoy!"

After an unfortunate mishap with some stairs, I found myself in a fantasy world filled with sex and violence. Stripped of everything and turned into breeding stock by the first band of goblins I encountered, I turned to the only weapon I had available to me. Now, I’m a seductress, the first and only RPG class that weaponizes the art of seduction. I will survive this new and dangerous world the only way I know how: one person at a time.

By the end of the day, Riwall got the skills related to blunt and pole weapons.


---CONGRATULATIONS!---

--Skill Branch Level Up--
-Melee Combat - Level 1-> 2

--New Skill Unlocked--
<Blunt Weapon Combat> - Level 1

--New Skill Unlocked--
<Pole Weapon Combat> - Level 1


As soon as Riwall finished the last routine, Edward said a few words about how Riwall needs to keep his high-intensity approach to the training and excused himself.


Riwall made his way to the shared bath, which resembled the ones made by the Romans, and got rid of all the sweat and red clay. He took notice of how the bathwater got slightly red-colored when he entered but in a few seconds became pristine again. According to a soldier that was there, it was thanks to an enchantment done on the floor titles.


He left his clothes in a trunk in the change room and was already dreading the fact that he would have to use it again after taking a bath. However, he was pleasantly surprised to open the trunk and find out that it was also an enchanted piece and that his clothes were as clean as possible.


Immediately he noticed one of the limitations of it: the clothes would be clean, but any damage done to them would not be fixed.


{I will have to ask Joshua for a few spare sets, this one won't last a week if today's training is the parameter.}


After asking for directions, he found his way to Hector's classroom. The Adventure's Guidmaster was already there taking notes of a book in front of him. Riwall had to cough to get his attention.


"Oh, welcome, Riwall! Please take a seat." Hector said with a smile.


{His demeanor is the complete opposite of what he showed in the guild, he is all giddy and full of smiles now. Back in the Guild he barely had any reaction when mom cried!}


"First, let me tell you how happy I am to be the teacher of you and your companions. I work as a bureaucrat because I am good at it and someone has to do the job, but my passion lies in researching magic and teaching it to the next generations."


He continued.


"According to your files, I have to help the other two develop their mana pathways. I expected this much anyways. It's extremely rare for commoners to have heirloom designs like most noble houses. Imagine my surprise when I read that you already had a pathway! Give me your hand. Let me check it for any fixable problems."


Riwall was reluctant to let a stranger circle their mana through his body. Hector noticed it and said reassuring words.


"Don't stress yourself. Even if I had any ill intentions, you would not be able to do anything. Hellen came to the guild an hour after Joshua left and asked me to check you, she said you designed your pathways alone and without any guidance. As you are still young and the pathways are fresh, I will be able to fix anything done wrong."


Riwall nodded and let Hector perform the check-up, he told Friday to keep her guard up, but she rebuked him by saying that she could not even imagine what she would be able to do to stop a mage as strong as Hector.


Hector's mana was much more fluid than Erika's. It made him feel cold and relaxed at the same time.


[In some ways his mana remembers Erika's, but this coldness stands out. It is a theory, but I think each person may have their mana attuned to specific concepts.]


Hector finished cycling his mana through Riwall's mana pathways and immediately started taking notes about something.


"Excuse me Mr. Hector, but is everything ok?" Riwall voice snapped the Guildmaster out of his trance. He had a happy smile as he started sharing his findings.


"It's more than ok! I don't know how you did it, but your pathways are perfect. I have to give the merits of that to your Bless; your mother told me it was a high-grade one, so I can only assume it was responsible for this. No way someone without a deep understanding of magic could come up with such an ingenious design. We will talk more about it later, but I will give you some books about techniques to hide your pathways from other mages."


He got serious before continuing.


"Never let others know about your design. Anyone would kidnap you and hurt you to get their hands on a design like yours. Even the Marsastor's best design pales when compared to yours. As soon as I can, I will personally instruct you in ways of hiding and disguising it. You have my word."


Riwall gulped at the idea of being tortured again. Of the few things he clearly remembered about his previous life. Nothing was as clear as his memories of the pain he suffered.


The private session with Hector came to an end when Anna and Gregory arrived. Hector dismissed Riwall, but not before giving him ten books about magic and two about pathways-hiding techniques.


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Back in his room, Riwall looked disappointed at the books in front of him.


{These things can barely be called books, the handwriting of half of them is abysmal, and only one has more than 200 pages!}


[Well, these are the very first books thaught to children, what did you expect? A dissertation made by a master to his peers?]


{I expected at least something that would take us more than an hour to finish!}


[You know very well that you will only take one hour because of me. No one else can memorize a book with a single glance. On top of that, I will cross-reference the texts between them, rule out inconsistencies, fill the gaps, and finally, create a new and improved book on the subject using techniques from Earth.]


{Ok, fine, you won.}


[Get to work then! These books won't open themselves and turn the pages.] She said with a commanding voice, making Riwall flinch and salute the air.


{Yes ma'am!}


-------------------------


It took only 10 minutes for them to fill Friday's database with the book's contents and another 30 minutes for her to create a new one. Using the Earth's modern take on pedagogical techniques, the result was a book that used a simple language to convey complex concepts, making the harsh learning curve of the original texts something that could be easily absorbed even by kids.


Each of the kids received a big stack of parchment, a quill pen, and a small bottle of ink from Hector. Riwall went for the only desk of the room and got right into transcribing the book compiled by Friday.


He browsed the book in his mind and requested her to create some drawings to make some concepts even more accessible, which she promptly complied with.


She let go of all restraints they put together not to draw Edward's attention during training and guided Riwall's hands with mechanical precision.


In only 1 hour the 50 pages book was fully transcribed with impeccable handwriting. If someone from Earth were to look at it, they would say it was printed from a PDF. The drawings shared the same quality, but Riwall let himself be more creative and, with Friday's help, produced pieces that were both educational and beautiful to look at.


---CONGRATULATIONS!---

--New Skill Branch Unlocked--
-Academics - Level 1-

--New Skill Unlocked--
<Scribing> - Level 1 

--New Skill Branch Unlocked--
-Arts - Level 1-

--New Skill Unlocked--
<Drawing> - Level 1 


-------------------------


---CONGRATULATIONS!---

--Skill Branch Level Up--
-Academics - Level 1-> 3

--Skill Branch Level Up--
-Arts - Level 1-> 5

--Skill Levell Up--
<Scribing> - Level 1 -> 8

--Skill Levell Up--
<Drawing> - Level 1 -> 15


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{By Odin's beard! Look at those gains!}


[That was unexpected. We now know for sure that our previous assertions were correct. The System does indeed rewards results more than effort.]


Suddenly Riwall felt a migraine starting to take form in his head.


{Uh, Friday, should I not be immune to migraines with you here and all?}


[The System is sending a massive influx of knowledge related to <Scribing> and <Drawing>, I am already intercepting it to make it easier for you to absorb.]


True to her words, Friday took only one minute to make the pain go away, and Riwall got to experience the feeling of learning dozens of drawing techniques and a handful of scribing techniques in the blink of an eye.


{What the hell was that? So scribing is the skill that allows someone to write spell books, enchantments, and glyphs? The System only taught me a few techniques on how to avoid minor mistakes when making those three, but nothing more. The drawing techniques are kind of useless. Everything it taught me cannot produce better results than our shared efforts.}


[Don't dismiss it so quickly. Not only does this knowledge complements what I have in my database, but it offers us insights that artists have on drawing that cannot be put into words. With only this much, I am already confident we can produce drawings even better than the ones we just made.]


{Well, if you say so. Now, do you mind imprinting the content of your book in my mind?}


Friday helped his brain absorb everything in the book they made. According to it, magic casting revolves around providing a spell with three things: intent, information, and mana.


The intent dictates the nuances of the spell. If a healer wants his spell to heal, he needs to wish for it to heal the patient. Should the healer harbor ill intention, the spell will be twisted and can make a broken bone heal in the wrong way or heal the exterior of a wound while leaving the inside damaged.


Information is directly related to how mana-efficient the spell will be. If the mage visualizes how his spell needs to change the reality around him,  it will take less mana and time to achieve the results desired. For example, if Riwall wants to make a flame, he can do it in two different ways. Either he plainly wishes for it to manifest, or he visualizes all the physics behind the existence of the fire. In the first scenario, he will have to expend vast amounts of mana to achieve what could be done with a fraction if he used the second method.


And finally, the third requisite is mana itself. This mysterious energy is what fuels changes in reality. The clearer the mana, the more efficient it is as a fuel. Take Hector cold mana for example, according to the book and Friday's observations; his mana is attuned to water, which means he will have an easier time using it to cast water spells than if he tried to use it for casting fire and dark ones.


The book then goes a long way into showing how to cast your first spells. As all ten books were made with kids as the target audience, they still lacked much information. But it was more than enough for Friday to begin researching it.


[Want to try casting a spell or would you instead go to bed?] Friday taunted him.


{Like hell I would sleep after learning how to cast spells! Call my family and tell them I will be late for dinner! I will not rest until I can blow up an entire room!}



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A glimpse of the future:

 

"When I step into that arena to fight against the families that did us harm, the first thing I do will be cutting their tongues out so they won't be able to give up. You can just sit by the side, I won't hold it against you later."

 

Anna looked right into Riwall's eyes and said with a malicious smile.

 

"You make sure they can't give up, I will make sure they never forget the experience." She was so angry that her hand could not stop shaking.

 

Riwall was too emotionally invested at this moment to understand how wrong it was for a XX-year-old to say something like that.

 

"And what about you, Greg? Are you with us?" He asked.

 

Greg looked at his two friends and showed a hint of a smile before answering.

 

"You two are all I have left in my life, of course I will be with you all the way. Riwall will make sure they don't give up, Anna will make sure they regret what they did, and I will make sure to bring you two back home alive."

The dawn of Emotion Based A.I.s is here, John is the fifth test subject to have an AI implemented in his brain, and so far the first one to survive.

Blinded by the dream of immortality, the researchers push the tests to inhumane standards. John is obligated to take part in sessions of torture designed to test the limits of the AI influence over the physical and mental health. What was supposed to be a new beginning in life turns into living hell.

An (un)lucky twist ends his life. John then reincarnates with his AI in a new world where a System influences the interaction between Magic and Matter. With seemingly limitless potential and a game-like system influencing the world, the hero sets on his journey.

--AUTHOR NOTE, PLEASE READ--

I will state here my promises to you, potential reader:

1. No harem! I don't trust myself to make a harem feel natural or healthy, I never met any person who has a personality that can adapt and live in a harem for reasons that are not monetary, so I can't draw inspiration from real life. Sorry!;

2. The enemies will not be bland and illogically mean. Some may feel like that at first, but I will take great care in fleshing them out, trust me. You may end up hating some, but you won't be able to deny that they had their reasons for what they did;

3. I am using a paid (and expensive) automated editor tool, and I take longer to write because I take my time in editing the stuff I write. I am aiming to improve and I will not shy away from constructive criticism, nor take offense for no reason;

4. Characters will die and will suffer, some will get over the tragedies and improve, others will not be as resilient.

5. This novel has a lot of ground to cover, it is neither a short story, a manual on crafting, or the script of some action scene. There will be both time skips and oversimplifications of some actions for the sake of moving the story forward. Time skips will be more prominent in the first 30 chapters. I will describe crafting processes and fights with more detail if they are essential for the chapter;

6. If I took my time describing something, it's because it is important. I hate novels that wastes time describing useless stuff. If you skim over something, the chances are that something in the future will not make sense. I am an adept of "Chekhov's gun" principle;

7. If in the future Webnovel comes to offer me a contract, I will first reach for the readers to know their opinion and see if they want to donate through other sites or not. It would be a dream come true to live of writing, but not if the cost is the alienation from the people that supported me along the way;

8. I already have 31k words on my auxiliary documents, I have a plan for the story, and I will not be making changes even if someone ends up noticing some foreshadowing and figures out what will happen. The story comes first.

9. I have a wife, a job that demands 9h every day and courses related to my job (lawyer) three days of the week, it's unlikely that I will be able to do mass releases at all. I will have a healthy amount of chapters to be able to post at least 1 chapter every day continually. Don't worry.

10. I will read all the comments. I will listen to all you have to say and will try my best to accommodate demands as long as they do not hamper the path I prepared.

11. There is an arc that spans the entire novel. Each volume will be an arc in itself while progressing a little bit of the main arc. Every arc will have one or more main antagonists.


I think that's it! Thank you for reading it all. Have an awesome time reading my first novel!! <3

Getting everyone down the ladder proved to be a hassle.  I looked up at the opening as I pulled a cord and the mouth closed.  The flashlights were suddenly the only light in the oppressive darkness.  We started off.  Flashlights bobbing.  Ashley asked after a while, "Taegan, why did you set up such an elaborate set of escape paths?  Come ON, Taegan.  What were you thinking?"

"On the surface, I have been the good little boy.  Underneath I have been filled with this feeling that our parents would abandon me for no known reason.  I have no idea why I thought that way...  Our mother set up an account for each of us on a vacation to the Seychelles.  I have been using it to hide my gambling winnings...  I got into some high stakes poker games and threw in the credit card with the $1M limit in...  I have won almost every time.  The losses, Dad paid for.  The winnings went to the Seychelles in prepaid credit cards.  I can access the money via a debit card...  Then I started buying land and, well, the trailer parks...  Mom always made the joke that she had grown up thinking trailer parks were posh...  I've been picking off commercial land on this side of the freeway for a while...  Companies would go under and I would buy for almost nothing...  I got caught up in the idea that something horrible would happen and... things got out of control...  The sane part of the goal was to own  enough land that when I sold, I could be self-sufficient...  That guy, Lyonell Hurst, may have a good plan.  We need to go over it at some point.  If it is a good plan, then I will adopt it and he will be SOL.  In all likelihood, he will prove to be a con artist...  One way or another that SOB is going to pay.  On purpose or accidentally he told the A-Team that we were living there...  Or rather, I own trailer parks under the Sergai Brzezinski name and Avery Shrike sent that guy to find me in one of them.  When the A-Team realized that the trailer had an underground escape route, they must have decided to wait until I got home then try to spook us into taking the escape route... right into their hands...  Thus they would not have to invade the thing and chance having to deal with the police.  How long they are going to sit there waiting for us to come out of the basement, I do not know...  The longer the better."

An hour later we emerged from a manhole that looked down on a hotel.  An idea hit me...  I put some money in my wallet and we marched into the hotel.  I walked up the concierge desk and said, "Look, our car broke down.  We have reservations at a hotel downtown.  Could you call us a cab?"

The guy looked up at the clock and down at a clipboard, then he said, "I can take you in the courtesy van, if you want."

"Thank you.  I appreciate your help."  We loaded up and we were off.  I gave him the address of the hotel across the street from Dugan's Long Term Vehicle Storage.  I asked conversationally, "Are you working your way up in the hotel trade or going to college for something else?"

"I'm getting an MBA. I want to work in the transportation industry.  I graduate at the end of summer from the University of Houston," he said concentrating on the road.  "No bites for jobs so far.  I may have to accept something else."

I opened the briefcase, peeled off $1000 and a $20.  I paperclipped the $1000 to the card, prospectus and business plan from Lyonell Hurst.  At the next stop light, I put the papers on the dashboard and said, "I'm Taegan Shrike.  My father died over the weekend.  I will be taking over Saginaw Industries at some point.  I am now going to give you an opportunity.  I need that prospectus and business plan analyzed.  I want a full presentation on its feasibility.  If you find it wanting, then come up with your own version of it.  Do not contact the man on the business card, but I do need you to explore his background."  I waved the $20.  "You can take this as a tip for moving me and my family from here to there.  If you take up the task I have outlined, then I will want a full presentation after you graduate.  I have attached $1000 to cover your expenses.  You can take tip or project or both... or neither."  Someone honked from behind.  The light had turned green.

The man, it said Bernie on his tag, drove for a while. "Why me?"

"The prospectus and/or the business plan may have a tracker on them.  I need someone to lead the people who put the tracker there on a merry chase...  If you are clever you can lead them on a merry chase and do the project and get the job at Saginaw Industries.  What do you say?"

Again a long silence, then he said, "I could just take the money and dump the paper."

"That is one approach."

After a short silence he said, "I will take the $20 and the $1000 and do the project.  I am not sure how well the merry chase will go."  I put the $20 under the paperclip.  At the next stop light, he attached the paper to his clipboard and handed me his card.  I put it in the mad money pouch.

At the small hotel downtown, Bernie unloaded all the bags and left us there on the sidewalk.  I sent Marsha across to Dugan's.  She returned with the van.  We loaded up and started driving.  We stopped at a McDonalds with WiFi and had lunch.  I logged into my mother's business computer and started searching for a file I knew was there.  Mom had established this account in case someone was watching her other account...  Maybe I got my paranoia from her...  After a lot of messing around, I found the list of residences that had been sold but not occupied, rented but not occupied and residences bought but not on the market as yet.

I chose a rental house that had a movein date two weeks away.  We drove there and unloaded.  My mother always kept a key in a red rock in the backyard.  The security codes were in the file I had lifted.  The inside was unbelievable.  To say that the place was opulent was to say that desert is a mite hot.  White marble floors... three story high windows... two grand stair cases...  A 100 meter swimming pool in the back... a kitchen that was bigger than the trailer we had just come from.

Each of us went to a separate bathroom.  Then we met in the master bedroom and dried each other off... and rutted like weasels.  I had heard that a close call with death can cause you to want sex, but this was ridiculous.  When we were all spent, I had everyone put on a house coat and adjourn to the kitchen.  Brittany made us a dinner to die for from the food in the freezer and food closet.  I made a note of all the food we took with the intent of replacing it at some point.
<!- June 24, Friday                                        ->
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After dinner we watched TV until late, then... made love some more before going to sleep.  The next day after breakfast I drove the van across US 610 and called Jake Rearden.  He seemed stunned that I would call him.  "Anything happen at the trailer park yesterday afternoon?"  I asked conversationally.

"Oh, nothing much except about 50 very deadly men tore your house apart looking for you.  Taegan, these were top of the line bully boys from Colombia.  When they left, they were very unhappy.  One of them tried to mess with one of mine.  I called their leader out and we communicated.  I told him that I had met you once and did not know where you were.  He believed me...  Taegan, they want to kill you.  They do not want to ask you any questions.  The head honcho seemed to think that you had insulted him somehow...  I could not understand why," he said much amused.

"Sir, I have no idea.  I will have to call them and see what the problem is.  I gave them all the information they needed.  I have no idea what they could want," I said truly baffled.

"Taegan, you are playing a very deadly game.  I do not see how you can come out of this alive."

"There's a way, I have not found it yet.  My opponents are not the drug lords.  There is someone else out there pulling the strings.  Once that person is off the board, then the drug people will calm down and see reason.  Right now, I am going to go doggo and spend some quality time in front of a TV...  If I survive, I will indeed get back to you about that motorcycle shop."

He started laughing.  When he could talk, he said, "Kid, if you can survive this, I think I might just decide that retiring is a good idea.  I've always feared that a shop would be too boring.  With you as a partner, no telling what might happen."  He hung up laughing.

I dialed the phone passthrough, then dialed Wesley's number.  It rang for a while, then the genteel voice said, "My... are we back to phonebooths?"

"Well, they're not booths, but yeah, I guess so...  I hear you ran by my hideout and missed me by a bit."

"Chico, what IS your problem?  Why would ANYONE have one secret exit, much less two?  What did you think was going be chasing you?  Did you maybe have a bad trip on acid in the past and..."

"Look, sir, I think my mental state is not the question.  Yours is.  I gave you the whole Goddamned enchilada and now you are back for more...  What the hell is your problem?"  I asked, very unsettled.

"Chico, someone stole the ton of cocaine that came in on June 9th."

I paused, then said, "Oh!...  That would make me testy too...  Not that I had anything to do with it mind you."

"Yes, yes, your wretched relatives!...  Always your wretched relatives!...  Chico, can't you for once accept responsibility for what you have done?"

"Sir, with due respect, you are talking to the wrong guy.  I have always been true to my word and I definitely take responsibilities for my failings,...  AND in this case, I had nothing to do with that...  Sir, I have the wrong skill set for robbing a set of badasses like your people...  I was trained to defend and attack until help arrives...  What you are looking for is a black ops veteran... such as Avery Shrike.  You need..."

"Avery Shrike died in the jungles of Venezuela three years ago!  I have triple confirmation on that," he said vehemently.

"Dude, Avery Shrike is a master at getting one or more factions to fight each other so that in the battle he can sneak in and assassinate people, if they do not get themselves killed in the flames of battle...  I am convinced that he dug out the Peruvian sugar deal, then shopped it to Yugo Shrike, who shopped it to one of your jeffe's lieutenants who then implemented it."

Silence fell.  After a while, he said contemplatively, "I have spoken to this Yugo Shrike...  He did as you say...  He got Emilio Guzman, a Chilean, to present the plan to our jeffe...  Emilio was as you said, one of the men who broke open your door and tried to kill you in your bed... against my specific orders not to.  Yugo Shrike swears that he had nothing to do with the hijacking of the truck carrying the ton of cocaine from Waco to our processing plant in...  You have no need to know...  This Yugo said that the plan dropped on his desk from someone purporting to have a low Throne number, whatever that is.  His plan was that the 20 tons of cocaine would arrive in Waco and be captured by the DEA.  Your father and mother would be discredited and the Throne would move...  That is what he said...  That changes nothing.  The ton of cocaine disappeared in transit."

"Again, sir, you are looking at this incorrectly.  I do not have the correct training to mount an attack on a convoy like that...  Avery does...  Wait...  How many of the 31 people on that list did you grab?"

"We got 21 of them...  I was unhappy with their answers, so I killed each and every one of them."

"Excuse me, sir, has your wife ever suggested anger management?"  I asked fearing his answer.

With a bit of wonder in his voice, he said, "As a matter of fact, she did...  I was so angry with her,...  I killed her."

I said, "Would you mind telling me whether you killed Roland Shrike and his children?"

"I killed all six of those men...  I would have killed their children if they had had any."

"I see...  Sir, I'm going to crawl into a hole and hide for a week or so.  By that time I will have detected who Avery Shrike is and where he is.  Please be patient."  I hung up, pulled out the memory and tossed the phone in a trash basket.  I started up the car and went about three miles south.  I called Megan Hunt using one of the cellphones.

"Taegan, oh my God, Taegan, what the hell is going on?  Someone kidnapped 25 guests from your parents' funeral.  What is going on?"  Megan asked breathlessly.

"Megan, compare the list of 31 names I sent you with the names of the missing.  I sent the same list to the Laurentia Cartel.  The A-Team  they hired to get me has gone nuts...  Let's review.  My second cousin Avery Shrike wanted to be Throne.  That means he wanted to own 59%  of the shares of stock in Saginaw Industries.  He dreamed up a plan to use my mother's business of importing sugar from Peru to import 20 tons of  cocaine...  In the early morning of June 3rd, a trial run was made where a container with one ton of cocaine and 19 tons of Colombian sugar was  swapped for 20 tons of Peruvian sugar in Valle Verde con el Río Rojo, Colombia.  On Thursday, June 9, the one ton of cocaine arrived in Waco amid  much joyous celebration.  The go-ahead was supposed to have been given to the team in Valle Verde con el Río Rojo, to assemble the cocaine and get ready  to swap out the 20 tons of Peruvian sugar for the 20 tons of cocaine.  The swap was supposed be done on the morning of Friday, June 10.   The cocaine was
supposed to arrive in Waco on June 16.  In the early morning of June 23, someone ambushed the truck holding the ton of Colombian cocaine and stole it.  Presumably Avery Shrike did this to force the cartel to kill me and most of his relatives so he could become head of Saginaw Industries.  I..."

"Stop right there, Taegan.  That's crazy.  All of it.  That's too weird.  No one would hatch a plot like that...  You've convinced the druggies that your delusions are real.  You aren't going to do that to me."  She hung up.

I listened to the dial tone for a while.  One by one I was burning my bridges.  This series of events had gone on much too long.  I needed help getting Avery off the Goddamned board.  The SOB was like the Energizer Bunny... he kept going and going and going.  I tossed the cellphone in the trash and went in search of a WiFi connection.

I was cruising through a strip mall.  A book store advertised that they had WiFi... and coffee.  I went inside and sat at one of their tables with my laptop in front of me.  I needed to do something to make this go away.  I logged into my server back in my house and downloaded my email...  I had forgotten that I had asked my friends to make pictures of everyone they could and find out who was attending my parents' funeral... and send the pictures to me.  Somehow or another a flashmob had formed and everyone involved had made an effort to get pictures of who was there and identify who the participants were.  That meant that I had a LOT of pictures to download.  I sat there zoned out as that happened.

Then it hit me...  Avery Shrike was somewhere in this mountain of information.  He had to be.  The SOB was not going to miss a chance to show how clever he was.  A normal person who was hiding would shy away from being exposed.  Avery wouldn't...  How was he going to hide in plain site?

When I got all the email download, I logged off and sat back.  I realized that the book store had a printer for customers to use... for a price.  I got the attendant's help in attaching his printer as a network printer and then went after it.  One by one, I opened the emails and stored the pictures in a separate folder.  The task took forever...  Then I had to create PDF's from each of set of photos with a cover page being the email.  As each PDF was finished, I printed it out.  After a while a guy came over and said, "Sir, you're racking up quite a bill with the printouts."

I absently dropped a $100 bill on the table then put it away.  The guy went back to the printer.

I missed lunch.  About 4pm, the last PDF printed out.  I had consumed a full box of paper.  Making sense of all this was going to be a bitch.  I paid for my printouts with a prepaid card and went back to the rental.

The girls were swimming in the pool... naked.  I took out the cheek implants and took off my clothes and joined them.  We made love in the pool.  We made love on the couches.  We had dinner and made love again.  Somewhere in there we went to sleep.

Suppose that you are a male.

What would you do to get a job that paid one billion USD per year? 

That is the wrong question...

What would you NOT do to attain such a job?

What vile, despicable, underhanded deeds would you do to get your hands on that amount of money and position?

But wait there is more...

What if you must take the job or you and everyone you love will be killed? Would that affect your decision?

Now suppose that you are a female.

Would you marry a guy that was paid one billion USD per year?

But wait there is more...

You can marry the guy or you will be kidnapped, tortured and then killed. Plus, your flesh would be eaten by the torturer, if you did not marry the guy. Would that affect your willingness to wed the guy? I mean, how bad would the guy have to be before you screamed, "I would rather be tortured and my flesh eaten than be married to this guy."?

In the story, Teagan Shrike turns eighteen the summer before his senior year in high school. From one day to the next, he goes from heir apparent to a fortune to a fugitive from two drug cartels, the police and a shadowy relative who wants the billion dollar job badly enough to kill him for it. Teagan must make a series of life and death decisions. He must also decide whether he wants to marry the 'correct' girl and take up his position as head of a family of inbred, wealthy and deadly monsters in human form.

" sorry guy's false alarm, wrong person wrong floor. " 

" sigh " after giving a mass sigh the dispersed group regrouped near Jason as if collectively asking his stats. Jason's face suddenly formed black line's he hated being disturbed while eating, seeing Jason's face one of the colleague's who is close with Jason said

" come on Jason don't be shy, tell us your stat's "

Black line's on Jason's face darkened, what should he be shy of? but he soon let go his resentment, placing his half eaten loaf of bread in his desk drawer he spoke casually

" Highest Agility +2.4, rest above 1.5. "

" Another D class Player "

"What?" Jason was puzzled.

"You didn't watch the What's app group?"

"Not recently!" Jason shook his head. He has developed a habit of not using what's app at work.

The other party explained: "Once you scan through the office whats app group, you will definitely see a detailed PDF on the DD system. It is said that it was Created by a relevant DD system department, which consist's of all Top class Ivy league Nerds of the country. According to the PDF, for ordinary player's highest attribute should be below +2 point. and they have also created a rank system based on this. "

"Detailed illustration of the DD system?"

Jason remembered the picture sent by his Ice Princess to himself, which seemed similar to this thing. Her text also seems to say that ordinary player's highest attribute should be below +2 point but this Rank system was new. he quickly open the whats app group and looked for the rank system.

" highest attribute below +2, E class"
" highest attribute above +2, D class"
" highest attribute above +3, C class"
" highest attribute above +4, B class"
" highest attribute above +5, A class"
" highest attribute above +6, S class"

" there are player's with highest attribute above +5 and +6, WTF! " Jason was Dumbfounded, he thought he was the protagonist but world disappointed him once again. 

" there should be since they have released it in the ranking system " said the other person.

" thank fully highest attribute above +4 are extremely rare. " said another

" I don't know what effect this DD system will have on ordinary people like us." Someone couldn't help sighing.

"Yeah! This DD system is too weird."

"I hope the impact is not too great."

The original warm atmosphere, suddenly became cold. Everyone's face was more or less worried.

Jason's mood also sank, if player's with highest attribute above +5 and +6 are possible then anything is possible. what if there are also other Player's with wired talent's and cheats out there, if fortunate accident's can happen to him then others can also have their own lucky encounter. 

Within few hours, the world suddenly changed dramatically. the old era as we know of came to an end and a new unknown era was set in motion, the unknown always makes people fear and be afraid.

Unlike other's Jason was not worried about the DD system having any negative effect on him, according to the Ranking system he should be a A class player without including his other cheat's but with his cheats he should be a SSS class player, Still in his heart inevitably gave rise to worry about the unknown, but he is not worried as much as his colleagues.

Jason continued to go through the PDF.

The pictures and texts were exactly similar to the ones sent by his Ice Princess to himself earlier this morning.

The PDF thoroughly explained the importance of different Attributes, importance about completing the daily task, weekly task, monthly task, importance about choosing the right Occupation and sub Occupation, importance about Contribution Coin's and free attribute points, also explained about the DD system Shop and also about Skill and Occupation Creation.

The PDF seemed to also recommend different occupation's based on one's Highest attribute points and also recommended everyone below C class to wait and accumulate enough stat points before selecting a Occupation.

It also suggest many Base skill's for the character growth of all the player's, the base skills were equal important to every player be it E class or S class. along with various way to place ones stat points skillfully. it also suggest player's against creating their own Occupation and Skills as they require very high Perception stats and do not contribute that much to overall growth of the player.

The most important role of this PDF was that it saved lot of time for all the players. It doesn't matter whether this PDF is really from the relevant government department or not. Because of its appearance, everyone skipped the happy and curious period of exploring the DD system and learned almost every thing about the DD system.

It is also because every one skipped the DD system exploration period so quickly, everyone's attention shifted to the sudden emergence of the DD system, and the unknown risks it brought with itself.

The crowd slowly dispersed one by one helplessly.   

At 9:40 AM, a figure flashed at the companies front door.

Everyone quickly picked up and wore their fixed head sets connected to the phone and system next to them and kept it on their ears in a pretended manner. Looking towards the door.

Instead of a fat old man in a costly suit, A young man in a beige trench coat came in. with his head held high, chin lifted up slightly, eyes narrowed. His footsteps were frivolous and weird like crabs. he swang his arms back and fore with a great amplitude, his attitude was as if this company belonged to him, no as if the whole building belonged

"Todd lowell?"

Everyone was surprised. It wasn't strange if it was the boss who came in, but it was one of the two general employee's who hadn't come.

"Hello everyone!"

Todd raised his right hand and gently waved it towards the crowd.

"Todd, you are late and you dare to sway slowly at the door?"

Jason couldn't help but remind Todd where he is right now because this guy's cubical was next to him, and the relationship between them was not bad.

"Half an hour ago, I sent my resignation through a text message to the boss. This brother of yours is about to reach the peak of his life. This company is too small to bear my greatness." Todd was too proud of himself.

Everyone was envious.

This guy should have the highest attribute of more than +3 points, putting him in the genius category to act like this.

"Brothers and sisters!your Brother, I am about to climb new heights, you insist for a year, I will buy this company by next year, so that you all can enjoy the same treatment to that of boss's relatives." Todd raised his arms, waiting for everyone to applause.

But the crowd ignored him.

Player's with high attribute do indeed have promising future, but everyone her is just a colleague, it takes about a few months to get along and become close. If this guy is really hits the jackpot. A few colleagues who have good relations with Todd may come to his door for help and rest could careless.

Todd walked towards his Cubical.

"You have resigned, then why are you here?" Jason looked at Todd and asked curiously.

"Of course for Kelly Hu." said Todd raising an a eyebrow. "I have to ask her if she wants to be my girlfriend."

"Then you are destined to have come here for nothing."

Jason simply shook his head.

Kelly Hu is one of the company boss's relative. She is beautiful but very bossy and mean, and her character is like that of a Big devil. Even in front of the Company boss, she act's high and mighty.

Even if Todd is a player with highest stat of +3 points, Kelly Hu might not treat him differently, let alone promise him to be his girlfriend.

"It's okay, I know she will refuse. Today is just to show my attitude towards her and let her be mentally prepared. It is not too late for me to try and win her within next 6 months" Zhang He rested his legs on the desk.

Jason was surprised: "So confident, is it possible that your highest attribute is more than Just +3 points? Today Brian also did not come, he should also have highest stat above +3 points and resigned like you. Excluding those relatives who have not come, In our company there are two geniuses in a pool of almost more the 20 general Employees, So out of 10 Players one player is a genius with highest attribute of +3. Although it is good to be able to Stand out of 10 people, but is it enough to win Kelly Hu within six months? "

"highest attribute +3? What is this highest attribute?" Todd stared at Jason with wide eyes.

"The highest attribute of the DD system." Jason was a little confused.

"DD system? What DD system?" Jason hurriedly lowered his legs.

"Okay! I kind of understand why you are so arrogant. your feeling is that you are the only one with a game system. In fact, Everyone whose age is over eighteen years has it."

Jason looked at Todd with sympathy, he could understand Todd's mental state. Thankfully He also experienced this in the early morning. Fortunately, after the loss, God gave him another big surprise.

If he had not woken up at 3 in the morning because of his Ice Princess and experienced the DD system at 5:40 and had his dream of being the only player in the world Shattered by the timely call of his Ice Princess, he would be similar to Todd, He would wake up at 8: 40 am like his usual self by then Ice Princess would have already left for her job. as soon as he had open his eye's he would be greeted by the DD system, In his arrogance of awakening a system he would ignore the world and act out pretty much like Todd.

Todd was stunned.

His complexion turned blue for a while and then turned white again.

"Anyway, this job is not that good, it's okay to resign this job, you may find a better job. Now Let's see what your the highest attribute is and how rest of your stats are." Jason reminded.

Todd quickly turned on the DD system.

His embarrassing and gloomy complexion faded away like a dark cloud and shone like the sun in a sunny day.

"constitution, My constitution has reached +3.4 . "

"congratulations!" Jason was stunned, this guy's luck is good.

"I was scared to death thinking I fucked up." Todd patted his chest with a lingering fear: "I was so scared just now, I'm still feeling dizzy, I'll head back home. as for Kelly Hu's matter, Let's forget it for now"

Jason nodded.

When Todd left, Jason looked at the time, it was almost 9:50.

The strange boss and his relatives still did not show up till now.

He looked around, his colleagues who were at their respective cubical, were chatting with colleagues nearby.

Looking at their face, their complexion was not good.

Obviously, their previous depression has not only worsen by little, but has intensified.

The more they talk, the more panic and anxiety they have about their future.

Jason just looked at his Smart phone while turning on his computer.

Then he checked his collage whats app chat group.

It was similar to the company, this group was also lively, but the mood in the group was not high. After all, ordinary Players account for the majority in the world, and many people are worrying about the unknown changes that would emerge with the introduction of DD system in the world and what kind of variables will occur in their originally peaceful lives.

Jason could clearly feel the mood of pessimism and panic spreading.

Checking out other chat groups, they were also almost the same.

The advent of DD systems is surprising.

After being surprised, many people began to think about what kind of impact it would bring.

The answer was obviously disturbing.

The various prediction's on the Internet were almost exactly the same.

Jason felt that if not for the fortunate accident during his awakening of DD system, he would also be in a state of panic at the moment similar to the rest of the world.

For what reason Players are born?

To chase their Dream?

Or To be Free?

What are Players?

Players are incredible and strong people of the world. 

They have strength enough to collapse large Mountains and Rivers.

There're tons of incredible Players in the world.

This vast world is filled with Players worthy of conquering it.

You will become a Player someday, too.

"What?" He shouted back. 

"Run!" Lizeth fired her rifle at the holes in that building. She fired the rifle worse this time due to the fact that the Focus ability was in cooldown. Lizeth ran to Abdul's direction in order to save him.

Abdul noticed Lizeth who was running in his direction with a rifle on her hands. He pulled a pistol out of his pocket and closed the laptop. The shout noticed the insurgents and they shouted something in Arabic as they started engaging Lizeth. Dozen of bullets started flying from the hole of the building.

"Aaaah," a bullet found its way to Lizeth's left hand. She used his focus ability again to slow down time. There was five insurgent on the building. She flipped the 3x zoom on her scope and made a precision fire on the enemy. 

Still, one of those guys decided to bring the big guns. A PK machine gun. It gave sudden shiver down Lizeth's spine. She quickly aimed down sights at the machine gunner and killed him. Abdul was running into the car and started the engine. 

Lizeth went for the passenger seat and she pulled the window down to shoot at the insurgent. The focus was on cooldown. One of the insurgents picked up the machine gun and started raining down bullets at her. 

The bullets were raining down. Not to the car, but to Lizeth. She got shot in the torso and in the left hand. Abdul managed to drive the car away from that city block of Fallujah. Lizeth, the foreigner, was more shocked than Abdul since she only knew that IS had been destroyed.

"You said that IS had been pushed away from Fallujah," Lizeth shouted to Abdul for the bad intel.

"Yes, IS, not insurgents," Abdul tried to make a good reason, "C'mon, at least we have good intel."

"Good intel your head," Lizeth opened his IFAK and raised the sleeves of her combat shirt to treat her wounds. He opened a bandage and wrapped it around the wounds on her hands. Lucky for her, thanks to the bullet damage reduction, the wound wasn't as painful as she thought it would be. "It's better be worth it Abdul," Lizeth said.

"Don't worry. It's a dead drop that is supposed to be sent for the insurgents," Abdul said. Lizbeth just smacked her hand on her forehead.

"It's not from INIS?" Lizbeth narrowed her eyes.

"Yes. It's supposed to be an intel that will be transported to a country. We intercepted it, I will send it to Langley," Abdul said as he handed down the laptop to Lizbeth, "Could you send it for me Lynx?"

"Yeah, but could you let me see the INIS files? I need some Intel on this village on the south of Al-Qaim," Lizeth said as she grabbed the laptop and sent that file to Langley. Lizeth opened the INIS server through Abdul's laptop. It was a server with multiple files.

"Hmm, Abdul, which one is the file on Al-Qaim?" She put her hands on the keyboard as the mouse was pointed to the search bar. 

"Intelligence On The Stolen Russian's WMD," Lizeth typed that words on the search bar, and a folder appeared. It was a folder containing pictures and a PDF document. Inside the PDF document, there was a detail on the Russian WMD. The Russian suitcase bomb. The bomb was constructed during the Soviet era.

[Amar Al-Jamari Ibn Somali]

This is the mastermind behind everything that happened on [REDACTED]. Amar Al-Jamari, more known as Blast Amar, has stolen more than 200 tons of potential IED material on the town of [REDACTED]. Based on the Intel gathered, his location was still unknown. Intel suggested that Amar has another plan. Intel said that Amar has stolen a nuke from Grozny during the Chechnya war. 

The nuke was a portable suitcase nuke bomb that has the ability to level the entire city. The state of the nuke was unstable due to the experimental state of the bomb itself. It is advised to find this bomb as soon as possible. 

The bomb was last seen in the southern region of Al-Qaim. The village was located far away from Al-Qaim. It is expected that the area itself is quite inhabited. Tread carefully, the villager used to be a staging base of IS.

[END OF REPORT]

The bomb was a silver suitcase. The suitcase wasn't that conspicuous at all. The problem was finding that silver suitcase in a place as big as an entire city. It could be anywhere. Hell. It could be under your bed if the terrorist wanted to place it there.

Lizeth wondered how a nation as big as the Russian federation could get their nuke stolen by Insurgents. Especially when the nuke was an experimental one. Everything seemed to be too unreal if she wasn't a contractor. She was too busy with her laptop and she didn't notice that they had arrived at their next destination. It was the city of Hit.

"Lynx, we have arrived," Abdul parked his car on a town that had the same name as a verb on English. Lizeth switched her loadout to casual one which was her shirt with a shemagh. She grabbed the bag from the back of the car and they walked.

"Hit? Is this really the name of the town?" Lizeth asked Abdul as they walked on the street of that small town. Different than Fallujah, this town was more civilized. The citizens were walking like an ordinary person. The buildings in that town weren't expressing that the city was in a war-torn country. She saw that Abdul was greeting several people on the street by calling them Habibi or habibti. The people just smiled at both of them.

The situation of the city made her wonder, 'Why the hell the things I see in the news is only woman in burka when the reality isn't?' she smiled at a woman in her veil. Abdul and Lizeth walked to a house near the river of that city. It was a safe house.

"I know you're very tired. Here's the key to your room," Abdul said as Lizeth took that key and walked to her room. Abdul left her because he wanted to walk around the town.

When she opened the room. She felt a cold breeze hitting her face. The room was a room with a simple bed, an air conditioner, and a bathroom. It was comfortable in comparison to sleeping in the middle of the car. She put her bag on the floor and put off her shoes. She put her body on the bed. Comfy. She then fell asleep.

CIA. FSB. How can I be involved in all of this?

How can anything happen so sudden?

Is everything has a secret meaning nowadays?

Does the government always hiding something from us?

Everything went from dealing with street thugs to dealing with a conflict between the CIA and FSB. 

The clock is ticking. Got to find that nuke fast.
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This book contains a lot of technical terms.

Spirit Curing Pet Clinic. 
Sun Xiaomeng was sitting alone in her office, contemplating with her chin rested on her hands. 
In front of her, the computer screen was displaying two documents: one was a PDF file in English about animal behaviorism, and the other one was a Word file where the cursor was blinking. It was the Chinese version of the PDF file which was translated by a translation software. 
On her right side, a pot of bracket plant on the windowsill was bathing in the soft autumn sunshine and growing healthily, bringing vigor to this quiet and simple office. 
Behind her was a customized bookshelf that almost covered the whole wall. The bookshelf was stuffed with all kinds of professional books. Voluminous books that were as thick as dictionaries were put on the bottom, regular academic books were placed on the top shelves where she could reach them by raising her hands, and in the prime position in the middle were the latest journals and magazines in Chinese and in English. If she was going to relocate her clinic in the future, it would take much effort to move this bookshelf alone. 
It was not accurate to say that she was in contemplation: she was absent-minded. Her brain was completely vacant, a status she enjoyed very much, because she could temporarily get away from her busy schedule in the clinic and her studies so that her brain could get a rest. 
Knock, knock! 
She was woken up from her vacant status by a knock on her office door. 
"Come in." She rubbed her palms and placed her warm palms on her cheeks so that her stiff face became softer. 
Wang Qian and Li Kun pushed the door open, but they didn't come in. They just stood at the door and said, "Sister Xiaomeng, we have cleaned everywhere else except your office. Would you like to check up our work?" 
Sun Xiaomeng didn't ask them to clean this office because her "patients’" medical records were placed on her desk, and she was afraid that they would mess them up. Besides, she was the only one who usually came in this office, so it was not dirty at all. 
"No, I won’t check. You can leave earlier if you have finished your work." She trusted them and was satisfied with their work. Cleaning for a clinic was heavy work, but they had done it really well. 
In the beginning, Sun Xiaomeng was really disgusted by their stupid talking, and for a time, she really wanted to tell them not to come to her clinic anymore. But later, she found that they were very responsible at work, and since they had experience working for a pet shop, they were also good at taking care of pets. Their stupid talking was dwarfed by their excellent work, so she gradually got used to their presence in her clinic. 
"Okay, we are leaving then." They said goodbye to Sun Xiaomeng and closed the door softly. 
They didn't leave the clinic right away. Instead, they went to the cashier and cozied up to Long Xian again. It was obvious that they quite liked the new nurse. Why? Probably because Long Xian was very patient and could tolerate their stupid talking, though in the eyes of Sun Xiaomeng, Long Xian was just being polite. 
After a while, their voices disappeared. They probably had left the clinic and went back  to the university for classes. 
Knock, knock! 
Someone was knocking at the door again. 
"Come in." 
Long Xian pushed open the door and stuck in her head, "Sister Xiaomeng, Wu Yue is here. I have brought her to the operating room." 
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute." 
Sun Xiaomeng checked the calendar on her computer, and pulled a medical records file from the cubbyholes on her desk. She put it under one arm, walked out of the office quickly, made a right turn and then arrived at the operating room. 
"Hello, Doctor, I’m here to trouble you again." 
In the operating room was a middle-aged woman holding a flight case. She was dressed up elegantly, wearing a beige woolen coat that fit her well and a pale blue scarf that suited her temperament. She seemed well-educated from her behaviors and the way she talked. 
"Madam Wu, you are punctual as always." Sun Xiaomeng smiled at her cordially. Wu Yue was her long-term client, and she had been visiting her clinic every day recently. 
"I am very sorry to trouble you every day," said Wu Yue very politely. 
"What are you talking about? I’m just doing my job." Sun Xiaomeng had a very good impression of Wu Yue, not only because of her temperament and the way she talked, but also because of her decision. 
Sun Xiaomeng looked out the window, "It's a nice day today, but according to the weather forecast, tomorrow will be windy with temperature drops. Please keep warm and don't catch a cold." 
"Really? Thanks for reminding me. I will put on more clothes tomorrow." Wu Yue smiled gently. 
"Also, please keep Little White warm," Sun Xiaomeng reminded her. 
"Yes, absolutely." Wu Yue put the flight case in her hands on the ground and opened the case. She held up a Pekingese dog from the case. 
The Pekingese dog gazed at Sun Xiaomeng with its black-and-white eyes open wide, sticking its tongue out fawningly towards Sun Xiaomeng. It seemed quite perky. 
"Hello, Little White, how are you?" Sun Xiaomeng rubbed its chin and it barked twice. Little White enjoyed when she got close to it. 
Little White was a normal Pekingese dog that was wearing a pair of special shorts for dogs on its butt—this was quite normal, because many dog owners would put such shorts on their pets for many different reasons. For example, when the dogs were on their menstrual periods, or when the owners didn’t want their dogs to be sterilized nor did they want their dogs to get pregnant, or when their dogs were sick... 
Sun Xiaomeng held up Little White to the operating table, and Wu Yue put her hands on its body and touched it softly to stop it from moving. Little White was lying with its stomach on the table without moving or barking. Little White was not like this the first time it was here - it tried to run away a couple of times after seeing all the strange-looking tools and the cold stainless-steel operative instruments. 
Sun Xiaomeng opened the file and looked at Little White’s case. Though she could almost recite what was in there, she read through the file seriously out of respect to Wu Yue. 
"Is Little White’s diet schedule and bowel movements normal?" She put on the disposable rubber gloves and started the regular inquiry as diagnosis. 
"Yes, I totally follow the diet standard made by you," answered Wu Yue earnestly. Sun Xiaomeng formulated nutritional meals with ingredients precise to the unit of gram according to Little White’s age and weight. Little White seemed to be in good spirits recently, and it was probably due to Sun Xiaomeng’s nutritional menu. 
"Good to know." Sun Xiaomeng took out a small flashlight from the pocket of her white gown, turned it on and observed closely Little White’s eyes, nose, and ear canals. She then pinched its chin to observe its tongue and throat. 
She nodded towards Wu Yue, indicating everything was normal. 
Sun Xiaomeng took off the dog shorts worn by Little White. There was medical cotton and medical gauze circling Little White’s stomach and the binding was stabilized by medical tape. The furs around its stomach were shaved so short that its pink skin was visible. A bit of transparent plastic tube was sticking out from beneath the cotton. 
Wu Yue turned away her head. She couldn't bear to see it like this. 
Sun Xiaomeng took out Vaseline from the medicine cabinet and applied it on the anal thermometer to test the body temperature of Little White. 
Since they had been meeting every day, Little White felt very close to Sun Xiaomeng and almost treated her as its second owner. Though it shuddered a bit, it lay on the operating table still and didn't struggle or run away. 
Two minutes later, Sun Xiaomeng pulled out the anal thermometer and looked at the temperature indicated on it. 
"How is it?" Wu Yue asked anxiously. 
Sun Xiaomeng nodded towards Wu Yue again and smiled, "Its body temperature is normal. Little White is in good condition." 
Wu Yue exhaled one long breath, and relaxed for the first time since they met.


1. Download a suspicious game
2. Catch a few magical pets as partners
3. Go through interesting daily routines and lead the pet shop to a whole new level

Hello there everyone, how have you been?

It's been a while once again I know :3 
and you will have to wait for a bit longer for the next chapters to roll in again. A week or so.

Let me explain what I did all this time.
Well to keep it short, I started world-building the universe I have created J.K Rowling style. Thus, as I have reformed the world and solidified its foundation to some extent, I will start posting background stuff, such as lore of the world, in-depth information about characters, regions, kingdoms, organization, etc. in the "Auxiliary Chapters" section of mine. So make sure to ask if you have questions and in time I will answer them if they won't contain spoilers. For now, I will post a character overview sheet and Bazuul's profile. Slight regret for me is that I post all this on this platform since I can't post this with the original design in PDF, but oh well. 

Caution though there is one or maybe several gifts within for some of my readers. ;)



CHARACTERS                        


YLVAZAD CLAN:
 
 Bazuul Ylvazad: Main-character, 12 (Chapter 2-41), 13 (Chapter 41-...), Prince of the east; 8th TQ Realm, Primal Heaven Origin Return Constitution.
  Bram: 56, Bazuul's servant, no cultivation.
  Varanur Ylvazad: 137, Father of Bazuul, King of Ra'Lun, 8th Spirit Realm.
  A'lore Ylvazad: 102, Mother of Bazuul, Queen of Ra'Lun, 9th Origin Realm.
  Kuzan Ylvazad: 17, Prince of the north, 6th TQ Realm.
  Bing: 19, Kuzan's servant, 8th TQ Realm.
 Aurelius Ylvazad: 16, Prince of the west, 5th TQ.              
  Bree Ylvazad: 15, first princess of Ra'Lun, 5th TQ Realm.
  Karon Ylvazad: 14, Prince of the south, 4th TQ Realm.
  Aadya Ylvazad: 11, second princess of Ra'Lun, Magister in training.
  Wyetta Ylvazad: 4, the third princess of Ra'Lun, 8th Qi Condensation Realm.
  Faolan Ylvazad: 115, Grand Marshal of Ra'Lun, Brother of the king, Guardian of the Arch.


LUMINAIRE FAMILY:

  Ela'nar Luminaire: 16 (Chapter 26-...), first princess of Lumin, 8th TQ Realm, Jade Empress's Eclipse Constitution. 
  Salandar Luminaire: 124, Father of Ela'nar, King of Lumin, 7th Spirit Realm.
  Denea Luminaire: 111, Mother of Ela'nar, Queen of Lumin, 4th Spirit Realm.
  Arkenon Luminaire: 17, first prince of Lumin, Magister.
  Kwynn Luminaire: 15, second princess of Lumin, Hylion's twin sister, 6th TQ Realm.
  Hylion Luminaire: 15, the second prince of Lumin. 6th TQ Realm.
  Idriel Luminaire: 13, the third princess of Lumin. 5th TQ Realm.
  Daelin Luminaire: 7, third prince of Lumin, 9th Qi Condensation Realm.

Arya Moonsong: 164, Grand elder of the kingdom of Lumin, Ela'nar's master, 6th Spirit Realm.



DIAS FAMILY:

  Zafer Dias: 79, King of Dias, 2nd Spirit Realm.
  Callista Dias: 75, Queen of Dias, 1st Spirit Realm.
  Massimo Dias: 17, crown-prince of Dias, 7th TQ Realm.
  Apollo Dias: 16, the second prince of Dias, 5th TQ Realm.
  Hugo Dias: 15, third prince of Dias. 3rd TQ Realm.
  Daliah Dias: 11, only princess of Dias, 1st TQ Realm.



QUINTANA FAMILY:

Raul Quintana: 145, King of Ibera, 5th Spirit Realm. DEAD.
Maria Quintana: 102, Queen of Ibera, 7th Origin Realm.
Alessandro Quintana: 17, crown-prince and regent lord of Ibera, 6th TQ Realm.
Valentina Quintana: 16, first princess of Ibera, Magister and 4th TQ Realm.
Emilia Quintana: 13, second princess of Ibera. 3rd TQ Realm.


FUJIMOTO CLAN:

Jin Fujimoto: 203, the old ancestor of the ruling clan of Shasta. 2nd King Realm.
Seichiro Fujimoto: 112, "King" of Shasta, 4th Spirit Realm.
Risa Fujimoto: 111, "Queen" of Shasta, formerly from the Hyuga Clan 2nd Spirit 
Realm.
Kojiro Fujimoto: 17, 1st prince of Shasta, 6th TQ Realm.
Sawako Fujimoto: 14, 1st princess of Shasta, 7th TQ Realm. Divine Phoenix Constituion
Miyuki Fujimoto: 11, 2nd princess of Shasta, 3rd TQ Realm.


VERMILLION SWORD SECT:

  Tian Zheng: 116, aka Soundless Zheng, Patriarch of the Vermillion Sword Sect, Father of Jian Zheng, 8th Spirit Realm.
  Jian Zheng: 17, heir to the Vermillion Sword Sect, 7th TQ Realm, Sword Saint Constitution.
  Huo Jin: 97, legendary master blacksmith of the Vermillion Sword Sect, 5th Spirit Realm.


BENDER FAMILY:

  Edwin Bender: 99, King of Eras, 9th Spirit Realm.
  Markus Bender: 17, crown-prince of Eras, 7th TQ Realm.
  Hanna Bender: 16, only princess of Eras, 6th TQ Realm.
  Corwin Bender: 15, the second prince of Eras, 4th TQ Realm.


DONARIM CLAN:

  Baldr Donarim: 173, King of Donar, 6th Spirit Realm.
  Freya Donarim: 152, Queen of Donar, 1st Spirit Realm.
  Eirik Donarim: 17, crown-prince of Donar, 8th TQ Realm.
  Ragna Donarim: 17, first princess of Donar, Eirik's twin sister, 7th TQ Realm.
  Brynja Donarim: 16, second princess of Donar, 5th TQ Realm.
  Loki Donarim: 14, the second prince of Donar, twin brother of Brynja, 6th TQ Realm. DEAD.
  Thora Donarim: 13, the third princess of Donar, 4th TQ Realm.


THE CIRCLE:
  
Darwinius Fitch: 53, Outer court elder of the Circle. Grand Magister.
William Sinclair: 16, Inner court disciple, Grand Magister.


THE DIRECTORATE:

Efyr Callenhal: 199, 5th Grand elder of the Directorate, 8th Spirit Realm.
Horlet Richat: 16, 7th TQ Realm.
Nazela Amenti: 16, 6th TQ Realm.


RA'LUN COMMON:

Yao Family:
Yao Ling: 8, the young boy from the Eastern City, 5th Qi Condensation Realm, Spirit Tempest Constitution.
 Yao Yin: 6, Little sister of Yao Ling.
Yao Yu Yan: 28, Mother of Yao Ling and Yao Yin.

Stark Family:
Wolfgang Stark: 88, Patriarch of the Stark Family, 8th Origin Realm.
Angelika Stark: 85, Matron of the Stark Family, 7th Origin Realm.
Hanzu Stark: 75, Protected Bazuul once, back to his duties as the third-ranked knight of the Moon Guard, another elite group of knights in the kingdom. 9th Origin Realm.
Emilia Stark: 14, Eren's sister, 5th TQ Realm.
Eren Stark: 13, 2nd TQ Realm.

Huang Family:
Zifeng Huang: 93, head of Huang Family.
Shu Huang: 13, 3rd TQ Realm.

Rashad Clan:
Karim Rashad: 14, 3rd TQ Realm.
Tarek Rashad: 17, 6th TQ Realm, Assassin.


LUMIN COMMON:


SHASTA COMMON:


IBERA COMMON:


DIAS COMMON:


ERAS COMMON:

  Walter Fisher: 14, a commoner from Eras that fought in the last stage of the HDT, 3rd TQ Realm. Earth element.
  Derek Engel: 15, the young master of an influential family in Eras, 6th TQ Realm.


DONAR COMMON:

  Haldur Runeberg: 16, noble of Donar, 6th TQ Realm.

~~~

  - Chief Thousand Flowers: Eastern City underground boss. DEAD.
  - Aran: Former right-hand man of Chief Thousand Flowers. DEAD.

~~~

Bazuul Ylvazad's Profile:

BORN
 The seventh day of the eleventh month. Thirteen years old (28)

CHARACTERISTICS
1,61 meters (5'3) tall, has amber colored eyes and black neck long hair either worn open or tied to the back. Slight natural tan but clean skin.
STATUS
Soul transmigrated from Earth to Tiamat inside the body of the fourth prince of the kingdom of Ra'Lun.
Bearer of the Primal Heaven Origin Return constitution.
Naturalist; meaning he has the potential to control all elements and thus could possibly invoke the pure essence of nature.

SKILLS
Primal Heaven Origin Return
Darkness: Accelerated healing of the physical body; Has some and up to full control over objects, be it inanimate or alive. He can attract them towards him, push them away, and either lift or enforce the gravitational force on them. Bazuul can also merge into the shadows, becoming one of them, this makes him basically invisible, soundless and extremely swift at night.

Light: Cleansed his life vein of poison. Has pierced into the minds of others and accessed all information about them several times. Further access had been denied so far.

Shunpo Techniques
Flash Steps: Appears behind the enemy or opponent as long as Bazuul is within the range of twenty meters (so far).

Mirage: Creates an after-image of Bazuul's last position and places him behind his enemy or opponent. For now, Bazuul can use five consecutive after-images in a short time.

Arcane Codex
Sonata of the Night: Chapter two of an incomplete compendium. Sword infusion which causes the sound of wind created by swinging the sword or any other weapon to turn eerie, which then creeps into the enemy's or opponent's mind where it causes chaos, confusion and so on.

Cascading Light: Chapter three of an incomplete compendium. Helped Bazuul defeat the servant of Noxae within his inner world in chapter 33. Further aspects unknown.

Myriad Suns: Chapter five of an incomplete compendium. Used by Bazuul to establish a small sun within his inner world. Can create little particles that spread like spores which can then be ignited causing a chain reaction, creating intense flames bursting forth.

Swordsmanship
Bazuul has received sword training by Kadi, ranked fourth in the Sun Guard of Ra'Lun.
Azar, Maw of the Fiend: Obsidian blade Bazuul wields. Attracts blood from seemingly any radius and consumes it.

MISC.

Lunari's Tear: Family heirloom of the Luminaire Family. Supposedly a tear of their goddess. Has several effects such as the constant cleansing of the body to some extent, eases the mind in stressful moments or troubled times and may light the path in the dark.

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See you in a little less than a week! Peace ;)

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A bully in school, a parasite as a grown-up. The shadow of a man. A shunned member of society. 
Such are the descriptions given if one asked about a certain young man, but he couldn't care less.

All that mattered to him was his mission, vengeance. Nothing could stop him in his tracks until one day his parents died. Though even that lasted only until the emptiness overcame him once again.

What held him alive was his mission. There were five torches lighting his path, but now, even the last one ceased at the flicker of its final light. After that, in an effort to join her, he also extinguished his light.

Yet fate is a fickle mistress, and you should be careful what you wish for...because the Lord of the underworld was determined to send him into a different world.

With his protest ignored he was swiftly dropped into the body of a recently deceased prince. Plunged into the seat of a kingdom, overflowing with intrigue and schemes. In a world, as our “prince” will soon learn, vastly different from Earth.

Now known as the fourth prince of Ralun, Bazuul Ylvazad, he has to adjust and learn at a rapid pace if he wanted to survive. Something he himself wasn’t quite sure of.

The question was, did he really have a choice?


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  "Hello, assalamualaykum," I said in a small voice, holding my phone up to my left ear.

     "Walaykumsalam, please who is this?" I heard Zain's manly voice on the other side.

     "I'm Ruqayyah; your course mate, the same group on ARB101," I said timidly, twiddling with my hair nervously. 

        "Oh Ruqoyyah!, sorry I didn't check the caller before receiving it" he chuckled lightly and that made my stomach to flip. 

     "I need your help," I said and ó closed my eyes for a bit. 

    "What help?" he asked urgently as if sensing the hesitation in my voice.

     "Erm..you know..em," I stumbled with my words. It was embarrassing. 

      I mustered up my courage, "I was supposed to enrol for seven courses but I only enrolled for two courses. Please can you email me the remaining courses PDF files" I asked weakly, wishing he should say yes.

   "Okay send me your email address" he replied instantly without missing a bit. 

   "Thank you, thank you very much, I am very grateful" I chimed happily, bowing my head in gratitude as if he could see me.

Foolish girl

     I called Zaid too he also said I should send my email address. Within some hours, I received the mails from Zaid, exactly what I needed.

    I slumped down on the tattered couch in my messed up room and opened my WhatsApp to chat with Zain.

  I was someone who gave anyone or everyone she met nickname apart from their real names.

*Me* Hey baby boy☺

*Zain* Small girl

*Me* Abeg, who be small girl

*Zain* You na

*Me* Whatever, let's play twenty questions...

*Zain* Okay but dunno how to play it

*Me* I'm gonna ask you twenty questions and you gonna ask me. Vice versa

*Zain* Okay

  By the time we were through with the game, I'd learnt so much about him.

    He was in his early thirties, samosa was his favourite food. His parents were from Kogi but he was born and brought up in Kaduna. He studied mechanical engineering at Abu Zaria. His father married two wives; he was the fifth out of twenty from his father's children while he's the first out of twelve eight children from his mother.

   We talked about me too, I was in my late teen but behaved like a brat sometimes. 

  

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"It all started with a private text" 



They were two strangers

They met on WhatsApp group

He fell in love with her over time

She liked him but did not believe in love 

He would do anything for her happiness

She would be happy to be with him


But...

He was married and with a son

She was single but not wanted to mingle

He was in his early thirties

She was in her late teen

He was a Hausa

She was a Yoruba


Follow both strangers in their relationship from strangers to friends and from friends to lovers. In the midst of love, hatred, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, lies and diversities... 



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"Why do you hate your life?" Mr. White asks.

Sheen looks at him frowning, her tears shine from the moonlight while her lips tremble, shaking from the fear that he might not understand.

She's ashamed.

'What if he just laughs because it's petty?' she thought, hesitating to speak.

"Sheen, I... I am not forcing you to speak if you do not want to," Mr. White sighs. 

He looks at the city lights and rests his chin on his hand.

"You know, when I was brought here, I was so alone," Mr. White said.

Sheen looks at him with surprise, she didn't know he will talk about his life.

They are both vulnerable.

They are both lonely.

They are both broken.

And two broken pieces make a whole piece.

"I have no one, my father got too busy in the company and left me. My grandfather didn't even take a look at me. I was alone. I hated everything, my father, my grandfather, and myself,"

Mr. White remembers the days where he will have to beg for attention and end up crying alone in his room.

"I wanted to go back to you so bad, I want to run away and go back but I was just a kid. I don't know the world, I don't know anything. I thought no one wants me so I distanced myself from everyone and now, my loneliness is caused by myself."

Sheen felt sadder with what he said.

She wanted to find him when he left.

She wants to run and follow him. 

She thought she could never see him again and even forgot about him.

But here he is, so fragile in front of her.

"I was alone all my life and I have to work for myself. I have to stand on my own every time I fall but don't we all need a hand sometimes to stand up?"

Sheen smiles, she felt the same way.

She always wanted to stand on her own but when she just needs help no ones there.

"Sometimes our broken hearts shatter quickly and might even turn to dust when we keep on trying to put it back to pieces just to stay strong, why don't we let it stay broken until it heals itself? We don't have to keep on trying to stay strong, " Mr. White looks at her with a smile and kind eyes.

The moonlight shines on his face, making him look like an angel sent from above.

It's as if he's consoling her heart to stay broken for a little while.

Sheen suddenly felt like waves are coming from her eyes.

Her tears suddenly flow once again, heavier than before.

"I... am so tired," she whispers.

Mr. White smiles as she opens up.

Her hands are on her mouth, trying to hide her trembling lips and shaky voice.

"They always use me to get what they want, they only see me as a tool. It's suffocating me every time I think they can use me as a puppet and pull my strings. I thought after what happened with Kady, they will let me go, but here they are again, after Kady, it's you they want to get," she said and cried hard.

It's embarrassing for her but it's even more painful that she's going to be used against Mr. White.

"What do you mean, Sheen. Tell me, I promise I can help you," Mr. White said in a comforting voice.

He reached out his hand and touched Sheen's arm and caress it.

"They want to be your business partners, but they will only steal from you. They planned the same thing with Kady but while on the process of stealing, we had a problem with their company and Kady's family cut all the connections with them," Sheen said in between sobs.

"I see," Mr. White was shocked with the revelation, but it hurts him more to know that Sheen was used to hurt people she dearly loves. 

"They say if I don't make an appointment for them tomorrow morning they will destroy my father's business and make sure that no one will accept them anymore," She covers her face.

She's just so broken that she needs to hold herself to feel like she's still a whole.

"Okay," Mr. White said in a low voice.

He's angry to the people she is talking about.

He wants them to apologize to Sheen for hurting her for a long time.

And also, he once used to call Sheen's parent his own.

If they ever hurt them, they are hurting his own parents too and that is unacceptable.

"What do you mean?" Sheen asks.

"I will do what they want... but they will be playing with their own fire," Mr. White's eyes are full of anger and revenge.

Even the moonlight shines with it.

His devilish smile that Sheen has never seen run shivers down her spine but it still feels more comforting than anything she has ever received.

"Don't worry, Sheen, I promise you, they will never hurt you again," Mr. White stands up and leans to Sheen and held her head, "You don't have to be alone anymore," he said and kissed her forehead.

"Thank you, Clark," Sheen whispers while holding Mr. White's arm.


"Hey, Clark, I decided, I will write a story, even though I only have 3 months left, maybe I still can submit, right? What do you think?" Sheen said while smiling. 

Even though they stayed up all night they both woke up early.

Cj is still sleeping and they have decided to have a quick jog around the mansion. 

"Yes, but what story do you have in mind?" Mr. White's sweating and his breath turn to fog, Sheen can't help but stare at him.

"Well, I am not yet sure. The one I started before sucks, and I think of something new. A lady who was kicked out of her family because she does not want to marry her fiance they set her up with then she became a simple woman who works at a department store. Then she met a rude customer who turns out to be her fiance but she still doesn't know and then they always stumble upon each other. And the spice of the story is a bit of magic, this fiance is from another world where he is a king..." Sheen non-stop talks about the story until the end. "What do you think?"

She looks at Mr. White who seems to be in deep thought, " Hm," he brushed his hair and wipes his sweat.

Sheen unconsciously bits her lips while staring at him.

"I think it's good, the twist was unexpected but since you are still telling me the plot it was quite not understandable, but it was a great story. I can see tons of offers to make it a series and comics just like your first book," Mr. White said.

They are running through the wood behind the mansion and the smell of trees and dew have made Sheen feel refreshed. 

She wants to stay longer in the forest with Mr. White, she wants to stay relax for longer.

"As I have told you, I'll give time to write during your work days. As you can see, Dan is the one who usually does the things that you should do," Mr. White said while enjoying the cold morning breeze and the scent of the trees.

For Sheen, it might sound like she's not doing her job and Dan is the one who is doing it, but that is not Mr. White is telling.

She's been getting immune to the way Mr. White tells some things that might seem different to what he means.

"Why is that?" Sheen asks.

"Because he's good at it. And he's been doing it for years, sometimes it just comes off as a habit. And he's not doing anything usually so he wants to help you. I don't know why but maybe Bea has something to do with it, and his salary is quite higher than an average editor-in-chief."

They stopped to check a stream. 

It has small fishes and tadpoles in it. 

Sheen took a photo while Mr. white is sitting on a boulder while watching Sheen.

"Sheen, have you been in a relationship?" Mr. White asks out of curiosity.

Sheen suddenly stops from taking photos and almost drop her phone on the stream due to nervousness.

'Why is he curious?' she thought.

She looks at him but he was just staring at her waiting for an answer.

"No, not really. But I was engaged before to..." she began telling the story of Gerwyn being a fake fiance for Kady and how Blue kept the secret even though he is her best friend.

"And now, we're just friends. Honestly, more of a best friend," Sheen smiles while remembering Wyn. 

Then suddenly she panicked.

When he asked Wyn if they were in the city, he answered but she forgot to answer until now.

She checked the message and he said they are leaving tomorrow.

"Whattttt," she screamed at her phone while typing a reply saying that she forgot to reply and she wants to see them.

Mr. White just looks at Sheen, 'So you're single?' he thought.

"Mr. White! I have to meet someone today!" She shouted due to excitement and embarrassment to Wyn.

"Is that so, then why don't you take the day off, I have already prepared the appointment with your Uncle," Mr. White stands up and went to help Sheen through the muddy part.

"Yes, thank you, but Clark, about my relatives, they are smart and they can trick you and they are very aggressive and disrespectful if you turn them down, they can even spread rumors about you," Sheen worriedly said.

"Don't worry, I am more capable than them. I will make sure they will pay," Mr. White began walking while Sheen follows him with a frown.

"But don't be too harsh, I hate them but still, they are my relatives," Sheen sighs.

"I know, but crime is a crime, Sheen, abuse is abuse, and I know you know the consequences of such actions."

"Yes, I know that too well," she also once wish for them to suffer and now here is the chance.

"Clark, I am glad that you are my friend. You're the best!" Sheen ran to him and pat his back.

Suddenly he felt weird, 'Is this friend zone?' he thought while looking at Sheen's cheerful smile.

He felt discouraged for a second but when her face lightens up like this, he can't resist but smile as well.

'I hope I am not friendzoned,' he thought before entering the mansion.

When they pass by the living room, they saw Cj crying and throwing the pillows and books around the living room.

"Sir, please calm down, they will come back later," a maid said to CJ.

Sheen and Mr. White both looked at each other and entered the room.

"What is this about?" Mr. White asks as he watches Cj throw tantrums.

Cj suddenly stops climbing the bookshelf and looks at them, "MOMMY!" he shouted and ran to Sheen.

"Good morning," Sheen bends her knees and hugs Cj but she still looks confused.

"The young Sir suddenly scream in Miss Sheen's room when he woke up and she's not beside him, he looked for the Master but he's also not around and we try to tell them that you just went out for a jog but he won't listen," a butler answered.

"I thought you left me behind," Cj started crying again.

Sheen kissed his forehead, "No, we won't. Why would you say that?"

"I use to leave him here when I have an urgent matter to attend, that may be the reason," Mr. White massages his temples.

He suddenly felt his head ached with Cj's loud cries.

Sheen looks at Mr. White sharply, "How can you leave such cute little you behind?" 

"I can't bring him to meetings and he's so young back then."

Sheen smiled at Mr. White, of course, she knows why. 

She just wants to make Cj feel better.

"Don't worry, you won't be left behind, I'm here," Sheen carries him as they go out of the room.

Cj looks at Mr. White with a devilish smile while being carried away by Sheen.

"What the... that disrespectful brat," Mr. White whispered while glaring at Cj.

"Now, why don't we take a bath? The breakfast will be ready soon and we'll have to go," Sheen said as she prepares Cj's clothes.

"Let's take a bath, together Mommy!" Cj said while taking his pajamas off.

"No ones taking a bath together," Mr. White suddenly appeared behind Cj.

"Wah!" He screamed and jumps to Sheen.

"How can you act so childish, you even made a mess," Mr. White sits down with his fatherly tone.

Cj hides behind Sheen, "You can't always act like a brat whenever you like, aren't you embarrassed?" 


Mr. White folds his arm, "Act properly, Clark Brent White Junior."

Sheen sweatdrop with Mr. White's aura and tone then he turned to Cj, "You know when your Dad was kid, my mom used to tell me that he likes to cut the pictures from a magazine and make a flipbook," Sheen whispers then she and Cj looks at Mr. white with a mocking smile.

Mr. White shivers with their expression, "What are you talking about?" 

"And he used to take leaves and flowers then act as if he's playing cook," Sheen grins.

She's playing with him that time but she has to make it sound that Mr. White became a child as well.

"Ew, that's too girly," Cj looks at his father who stares at them confused.

"Did he cry too?" Cj asks.

"Yes, a lot, especially when I eat his food," Sheen chuckles.

Cj looks at Sheen amazed then to his father, "You were kids like me before?" 

Sheen was shocked to hear Cj, she thought since CJ's mature and smart he wouldn't ask such a question. 

She smiled cheerfully, "Yes. So, Cj, it's fine if you act like a kid, but be sure to know when and how. You can't throw things because you're upset, it's big trouble. And learn how to listen, okay?"

Cj nods happily. 

He never imagines that they were kids even though he has seen photos, he never thought how they acted like kids.

"Can you tell me more stories?" Cj asks Sheen.  

Sheen nods, "But when he's not around."

Mr. White just watch Sheen and Cj whisper and smile at each other, "Take a bath, we'll leave after eating breakfast," he stands up and leaves with a smile on his face.

Sheen, a famous book author of romance and a victim of unrequited love, finds herself in need of true romance for a new novel. She stumbles upon young men while thirsty to create the novel she needs to write, she jumps from one romance to another to create the perfect romantic book she can ever write.

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