Babies' Secret: My Ex Wants Me Back! - Chapter 8: First confrontation

Starting from today, I am retired. But what should I be doing? I neither have the skills, nor the mind to do business, my only advantage is this pair of hands which have taken this world. What a headache…

Note: The usage of the term “retired” here doesn’t mean retiring from old age, work etc. It’s a specific term to refer to not involving oneself in the affairs of a certain society.

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.

Tsinghua University's top law student, Ji Xizhi, accidentally enters a book and becomes the naive secondary character in an entertainment story. Bullied online and pushed to the brink of quitting the entertainment circle, she fights back.On the day of the court hearing, Ji Xizhi goes to court alone and defends herself, completely outwitting the opposing lawyer and winning the case.Tsinghua Law School Professor Jiang Qianli tweets in her support: “Congratulations to my student on winning her first case.”Law School students chime in: “Junior, the Law School is waiting for you!”Her agency, which had been making threats, is left stunned: “????”Her fans are in disbelief: “?!!!! The idol I just started following suddenly got into Tsinghua?”[Entertainment Circle + Super Scholar + Various Variety Shows + Sweet and Empowering + Strong Female Lead]