Stranger's Handbook - Chapter 146: A Trap Called Custom

“No one looks at you. No one touches you. You’re a Whitehall now... And you’re mine.” Roman’s voice was a low, dangerous growl against her neck.She tilted her chin, meeting the predator in his eyes with her own cold fire. “I belong to no one, Roman, certainly not a beast in a jersey. If you want to claim me, you’ll have to do better than your father’s signature on a contract.”She spun her wheelchair to leave, but he was faster. His hand locked around her waist, dragging her back as his palm slammed against the wall beside her head.“Don’t you fucking dare me, Estelle.”—Estelle Rutledge was the Ice Queen of the Rutledge sports dynasty: national treasure, global brand, and the financial backbone of her family’s empire.Until one catastrophic crack on the ice shattered her career… and left her in a wheelchair.In the elite world of the one percent, a broken asset becomes a liability.With the Rutledge legacy collapsing under a mountain of debt, Estelle’s own mother did the unthinkable. She sold her daughter to the highest bidder, trading Estelle’s freedom for a check from Magnus Whitehall, the ruthless billionaire owner of a professional hockey empire.But Magnus didn’t buy Estelle for himself. He bought her to be his son’s leash.Roman Whitehall is the NHL’s most dangerous beast. A volatile heir with a scandal-soaked reputation and a temper that threatens the family’s billions. To the league’s board, he’s a loose cannon. To his father, he’s a problem that needs a wife to clean up his image.The command was simple: “Be the one thing he can’t avoid… or lose your legs.”Now Estelle is legally bound to a man who sees their marriage as a cage, and her as the bars holding him in. Roman believes she’s a fragile burden. Estelle thinks he’s a monster fueled by rage and secrets.But inside the Whitehall mansion, built on power, money, and lies, Estelle discovers a terrifying truth: she is not the first “Ice Queen” Magnus Whitehall has broken.Trapped in dynasty politics and a contract signed in blood, Estelle faces an impossible choice. Will she let the Whitehalls destroy what’s left of her… or join forces with the beast she hates most and burn their empire to the ground?Because even though she hates it, Roman Whitehall may be the only man who can help her stand again.Even if he has to break her first.

In countless civilizations of the Primordial World, there is a widely known saying.When each civilization descends upon the Primordial, influenced by the Primordial Law, a few Supreme Treasures containing the Law will be born, which would make the owners the most powerful in the world.Having one Supreme Treasure is the luckiest thing one could imagine, let alone becoming the owner of two or even three Treasures.However.Yang Fan, with the power of dreaming the future reality, does not think so.He states, “It's just Supreme Treasures, can't they be picked up as long as you have hands? I had a few dreams and easily picked up five pieces.”

[Mature Content: NO RAPE]In an attempt to escape her father’s shackle and seek revenge, twenty five year old Viviana Di-grassi, better known as the infamous Lady Di-grassi, accidentally ends up in a flash marriage with a man she’d only just met. A man she had no clue was on the lowkey a tycoon. A multi Billionaire. But also… A “vampire.”Nikolas Bastiani, is the hidden boss of Bratva, a company worth billions. He’s a man drowning in wealth and power, yet starving for excitement. And, in an attempt for some flicker of it, he ends up in the grasp of a woman he last expected to lay eyes on. She wanted to use him. She needed him to escape. She craved revenge. And why would he say no? Oh please… He’d gladly give himself to her on a silver plate. Her face. Her voice. The breath she took. Nikolas Bastiani wasn’t just interested. He fell into obsession. A man who’d go on his knees for her and only her. No other!

By coincidence, Li Yunmu found a super machine from humanity’s age of darkness. From that point onwards, his ordinary life would never be the same! Aptitude? Innate talent? What are these? Could they be eaten?