Marriage First, True Love Later - Chapter 135 - A candlelight dinner

After a near death experience thanks to his own mother, Jake Hollander has an adverse reaction to people, baseball, and family. His feeling of abandonment is slowly lost thanks to his foster family, The Atkins. They take him in and change his mind about everything. He becomes more open, better at baseball, and craves for family. Slowly all wishes are granted.

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**Names, faces, and places aren’t real. A work of fiction. Nonetheless, it is my work of fiction so please don’t post it without permission. *I have used school names that do exist though, but I would like everyone to know that I have no affiliation with them. Nor do my views reflect their views.

[Across the past and present + past and present life + entertainment industry]

The young priest who had been trapped in the temple her entire life committed suicide after the rebels captured her, and was reborn in modern society in the body of Qi Wu, a young girl who committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

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“Rookie Assemblage Order” is a phenomenon-level talent show that has exploded in recent years. Future all-around idols, e-sports greats, top music stars, and national movie queens were still struggling to survive on this show.

However, not long after the show started, they all said that Qi Wu was the star of their lives.

Qi Wu’s daily life as a talent show participant: working, making money, and occasionally dealing with children’s problems.

Qi Wu in the eyes of netizens: strangely powerful, a boss, always crushing the audience.

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Jin Si is recognized as a poisonous flower in the entertainment industry. He can only be seen from a distance and will die if he touches him. Even die-hard fans have to admit that it would be better if their male god didn’t have that mouth.

Until one day, Jin Si posted a Weibo message.

[Jin Si V: I have always been a firm fog-onlyist @祁武]

A week later, the news that the Crown Prince of the Xi family attended the dinner together with Qi Wu, who was already a top figure in the entertainment industry, became a hot topic.

Netizens immediately exploded: Help, I got a real CP!

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“But he is a good man,” she argued to see his eyes narrow at her words.

After being torn from the only life she knew, 16-year-old Margo is forced into a new home with strangers who call themselves her parents. Haunted by memories of her past and consumed by feelings of isolation, she struggles to adapt to her unfamiliar surroundings. School offers little relief—until she meets Lucien, a mysterious boy who appears just when she needs a friend the most.Gabriel is everything Margo needs: kind, attentive, and always ready to whisk her away from her troubles. Each night, he invites her to secret places—an abandoned playground, a fog-choked garden, a crumbling train station at the edge of town—each more unsettling than the last. Yet with every chilling rendezvous, Margo feels more alive... more seen.But something isn’t right. Gabriel never comes to school during the day. Her adoptive parents never see him. And when they catch her talking to thin air, their concern deepens into fear. They say Gabriel isn't real—that he’s a figment of her imagination. Margo wants to believe them, but Gabriel feels real. More real than anything else in her life.As the nights grow colder and more twisted, Gabriel’s true nature begins to surface. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Time warps in his presence. And the places they visit seem to echo with whispers from another world. Margo is forced to ask herself: Who—or what—is Gabriel? Why does he only want her? And what will happen on the final night he asks her to come with him?As the line between reality and delusion begins to crumble, Margo must make an impossible choice: stay in a world where she feels loved, or return to one that barely feels real.But one thing is certain—some friendships never let go.