《A Normal Marriage》Chapter 9
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Nature has a power to heal. It can heal you with a ray of light acting as hope or shower drops on your efforts and how astonishing is it to see how these factors club and bloom a flower.
"Anisha?"
Anisha who was staring at the garden through the glass windows of their bedroom turned.
" Ji mummyji!" Anisha faced her mother-in-law.
Daljeet shaked her head and marched to stand by her side,
" Anisha bete..." she eyed her daughter-in-law who looked tense for some reason, " Why did you just rush upstairs after the breakfast?"
" Ji, wo kuch kaam nahi tha to mein room aa gayi socha ki kapde dhund lu office me pehen ne ke!" ( Actually, there was no work so I came in room to check on the clothes to wear to office...)
" Oh, did you find something?"
" No I never started..." she replied hesitatingly.
Daljeet frowned " No problem let's start now! Better late then never, right?" She asked forwarding her hand to which Anisha smiled and kept her hand in hers.
Daljeet like an excited kid dragged Anisha to the closet looking for clothes, she went through the perfectly aligned clothes for a total of five minutes and then turned around giving a disapproving look.
" Uhmm, kya hua mummyji?" ( What happened mom?)
" You do not have clothes suitable for office." She stated.
Anisha bit her lip and went through the closet again only to come up with, " I can wear saree to office."
" You can. But being a secretary means you have to be on your toes all the time. How will you do that in these sarees! They are not meant to be worn in office and those which are light weighted are a bit rugged. Chalo, let's go shopping!"
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( Chalo- come on )
And that is how the roles were reversed with Anisha being the stern mom and Daljeet a kid who dragged her mom around so that she could buy whatever she deemed fit. It was hilarious how Anisha was made to agree to buy so many clothes " fit for office" after a slaughter of three hours at the market.
When the sky started turning red the two ladies or rather the older lady who had become a kid over the span decided it was enough and finally caved in to her daughter-in-law's words of going back home.
While they were sat in the car did Anisha dared to ask with downcast eyes and hands clenched together,
" Mummyji, do you have no problems with me working in the office? Please be frank...I"
Anisha's cheek was slapped lightly making her gasp and lift her head to look at Daljeet, " You are one crazy woman! Why will I shop for you when I don't want you to work?"
" I thought..."
" What? That mummyji is old fashioned and would not allow you to work! Remember your mummyji wants you to soar as high as the sky! I have only one condition."
Anisha had an expressive pair of eyes that never failed to express any emotion. Over the span of two sentences her eyes softened became teary and finally widened at the mention of the word condition.
" What condition?" she asked hesitatingly.
" No actually two conditions."
Anisha nodded her head waiting for the conditions.
" First, you will never neglect your responsibilities towards the house. You will learn to manage them together. It will be harder initially but later on you will thank me for the same."
Anisha smiled and said, " You will not be disappointed."
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Daljeet smiled before gathering Anisha's hands in between hers and said, " Second, you will never compromise your health and take care of my Abhi in the office. I know he is a very demanding boss and will make sure you have enough work that you could strangle him!" She laughed causing Anisha to laugh out loud as well. " But please never let the misunderstandings in the office damage your relationship. Promise me?"
" Promise." Anisha said softly.
" Maalkin, ghar aa gaye." ( Madam we are home."
The two ladies sauntered in with the bags and quickly Daljeet said, " Anisha make a nice cup of tea after keeping the bags in the room and after that you go upstairs, rest as well as get the things arranged. Anyways, we have around three hours for dinner."
Anisha followed what Daljeet said and was now seated on the bed staring at her phone waiting for her mother or perhaps father's call but she knew in the back of her head it was a lost cause. Sighing she laid down for sometime and browsed through her phone.
" Betiyan to jigar da tukda hoti hai. Itni Soni hove si, humesha garv se sir uccha rakhdi hai" ( Daughters are a piece of heart. They are so lovely and always keep your head high) Anisha smiled hearing that sentence.
It was her father appreciating the two siblings when they the younger got selected in IIT ( engineering) while the elder one had passed her final with distinction.
They had so much fun that day with their parents celebrating their achievement with a visit to a restaurant for dinner followed by icecream detour and a long long ride where the four of them discussed everything they could.
How she wished to go back in time and talk to the three of them as freely as before.
How Anisha wished she would have shared that one secret with them that day.
How she wished she would have been a bit smarter and not landed where she was.
A drop of tear made its presence known along with the heaviness in the throat. Anisha missed her home. She missed her family. She felt lost without them around her.
Alas, she dug the grave and now she has to lie in it.
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Rise
Su Xue, a woman in her mid 20s, is struggling both in paying rent and finding her path in life. Her latest stint has her trying to become a popular League of Legends streamer, though to poor results. One day, she is interrupted in the middle of a livestream by a surprise visit from her landlady. She is informed that she will be having a new roommate. The landlady’s nephew, Lin Feng, a 18 year old boy who has just transferred over to Shanghai for his last year of high school.Though initially opposed to it, Su Xue reluctantly agrees to the arrangement. She learns that the two share a common interest—League of Legends—and that he’s really amazing at the game. Lin Feng also reveals to her he wishes to become the best professional League of Legends player in the world.The next day. Lin Feng attends his first day of school as a transfer student at High School 13. He meets Ouyang and Yang Fan, and the trio find a common passion in League of Legends. Lin Feng is then introduced to Ren Rou, the president of the esports club with a fiery personality, and Tang Bingyao, a quiet bookworm with a love for money and a surprising talent for the game.A little about Lin Feng’s past is revealed. He was a once pro player, the youngest in history and a contender for the best player in the world. Until the finals of the Season 1 World Championship. There, he lost to his arch-rival, an equally brilliant Korean youth. That was the peak of his career, and also the turning point in his life. He stepped down from his team and disappeared from competitive play altogether. Now, after a four year long hiatus, he aims to make a comebackOver the next couple of weeks, Lin Feng learns about the upcoming Shanghai 16 School Tournament, and that his school’s esports club had performed especially poorly the previous year. He agrees to coach the club’s team and help them win the first place trophy this year. And so, he starts the members of the club out on an intense training bootcamp.Meanwhile, the Season 5 League of Legends World Championship is taking place at around the same time. Tian Tian, one of Lin Feng’s former teammates and best friend, is on one of the Chinese teams playing at Worlds. After a poor showing, he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Lin Feng witnesses everything in a viewing party with the esports club members and becomes worried.On the day of the Shanghai 16 School tournament, Lin Feng reunites with Tian Tian on the phone. He tells Tian Tian he’s going to return to the professional scene, that he’s making a new team and plans to invite him. But Tian Tian has to vow not to give up at Worlds and keep winning. Tian Tian agrees, and Lin Feng promises he’ll fight alongside him. Lin Feng then heads into his match with renewed resolve, to climb from the bottom all the way back to the top, and overcome the rival that defeated him so many years ago.
8 1136Phoenix's Requiem
Painfully shy and conflict-averse, Yun Ruoyan is a scion to a noble house only in name, a puppet embroiled in political machinations beyond her ken. At the tender age of eighteen, poisoned and at death’s door, she finds herself thrown out into the streets. Her relatives have all been executed, betrayed by her dear husband and her cousin. With her dying breath, she curses her own weakness and swears revenge.When Yun Ruoyan awakens once more, she is thirteen, transported five years into the past by the will of the heavens. Her death-defying experience has changed her: no longer is she the malleable creature she once was. But more questions await at every corner—what is the truth behind the birthmark that disfigures her appearance? What are the circumstances surrounding her mother’s mysterious death?Will the phoenix rise from the ashes, or will she fall once more in thrall to fate?
8 646Poison Physician Consort
Follow Bai Luochu on a journey back to the peak as she reincarnates into the body of an orphaned daughter of the former great general of the Cloud Water Nation.With the Three Great Immortal Sects in front of her, her mortal enemies who caused her death, how would she rise to the top again?With her astounding medical skills and ability to create heaven defying poison, Bai Luochu heals the crippled meridians of her new body and attracts the attention of all three princes of the Cloud Water Nation!
8 1749Rebirth of a Fashionista: This Life Is Soo Last Season
Cinderella went from rags to riches, but when you are already at the top, fate is more than happy to kick you down. A car accident kicks off Sheng Jiaoyang's reverse Cinderella story by trapping her soul in the body of a poor girl, leaving her to succumb to fate and wait for her Prince Charming to come to her rescue -- obviously not!Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, Sheng Jiaoyang forges her own way back up to the upper echelons of society, clearing obstacles, taking revenges, and bagging her handsome and rich childhood friend on the way.If you are tired of reading about poor damsel in distress waiting for a man to rescue her, and wants a female lead that can carry herself to the top, Rebirth of A Fashionista is the novel for you!
8 274The Attack of the Wastrel
Her rebirth gave her a second chance at life. She was back with a vengeance and wanted to make those that had harmed her pay. But to those that helped her, she wanted to repay them. Her evil stepmother? She would slowly pull out her claws, one by one. Her evil stepsister? She would crush her pride. She thought that by getting her revenge for her past life, she would be happy in this life. However, she never would have thought that danger would chance upon her time and time again. The hatred from her clan and whether their bloodline would continue to exist, lay solely on her shoulders. Luckily, on this thorny path, someone had always been protecting her. "Third Prince, have you ever regretted being with me?" That person laughed lightly and peered at her with a loving yet weary look, "As long as I am together with you, I have no regrets."
8 1461Demoness's Art of Vengeance
Jun Xiaomo, notoriously known as “Lady Demoness”, finds herself chained and bound in a dungeon. Her hard-earned cultivation has been completely crippled, and she has no means of escape. Qin Shanshan, a lady she used to called her “close friend”, mocks Jun Xiaomo, revealing that Jun Xiaomo had been used by the people around her. Even her lover, Qin Lingyu was one of the masterminds scheming against her. Jun Xiaomo watches her life flash before her eyes and realizes that she had indeed blindly placed her trust in people. Her naivety had led to her current predicament. Jun Xiaomo wanted to end it all. However, she is determined to deliver a swan song. Over the hundreds of days tormented in that very dungeon, Jun Xiaomo had painstakingly painted a complicated formation array with her own blood. With a determined look, Jun Xiaomo burns her life force to activate the array. Her sole intent? To bring with her as many schemers to the gates of hell as she could. The bright red light from thearray intensified, and the end was nigh.…or was it? Jun Xiaomo opens her eyes and finds herself alive again; time had rewound right back to when she was sixteen years of age, albeit only at the eighth level of Qi Cultivation. Armed with the knowledge and memories of her previous lifetime, Jun Xiaomo is determined to learn from her mistakes and bring retribution to those who so deserve…
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