MTL - Fouls Prohibited - Chapter 13

She sold her body to save her mother’s life.She never expected the man she gave it to… would be her new boss. Or the father of her child.Isabella Howells had her future mapped out—until everything shattered in one day. Her mother was dying, her fiancé had stolen everything, and with nowhere left to turn, Isabella made a desperate decision that would haunt her forever.Five years later, she’s a single mother craving a fresh start in a quiet town. When she lands a dream job as executive assistant at StoneTech Solutions, it feels like fate is finally on her side—until she walks into her new boss’s office and comes face to face with Jake Stones, the man she thought she’d never see again.The one-night stand. The man who swore he couldn't have children but was somehow the father of her son, Timothy.Would she be able to do her job without thinking about the past? What happens when Jake Stones is bent on making Isabella his, unaware of his secret baby with her? Will she accept him?What happens when Jake's brother's schemes puts Timothy's life in danger and Isabella is forced to reveal the truth about Timothy's paternity?Will Jake accept this truth? Or will it break him and everything he'd ever come to know about Isabella Howells?Let's find out in this story of love, lies, betrayal, and a second chance that could cost everything.

Li Chang'an is reincarnated into a Cultivation Immortality World, becoming a Loose Cultivator in a Marketplace after failing to be selected by an Immortal Sect.His talent is mediocre and his status is low. Just when he thought longevity was a hopeless dream, he awakens the [Daily Divination] system.[Today's Divination · Auspicious]: You go into the mountains to chop wood and unexpectedly discover a fox den. Inside the den, you find a Jade Scroll containing a “Talismanic Inheritance.”[Today's Divination · Inauspicious]: You are targeted by a Tribulation Cultivator who is trying to lure you out of the Marketplace.[Today's Divination · Greatly Auspicious]: In the Marketplace's trading area, you discover a “Profound Water Turtle” egg with a mutated bloodline. Its actual bloodline strength is comparable to an Earth Grade Spirit Beast, yet it is being sold as an ordinary Beast Egg.[Today's Divination · Greatly Inauspicious]: The Marketplace's Array Master colludes with the enemy, causing the Marketplace's Array to be broken. A Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator is about to slaughter his way into the Marketplace, and your life is in danger.

He is Xi Liang’s legendary emperor: a decisive and ruthless king; a man of supreme wisdom; a cunning strategist.

According to legend, he once conferred the love meant for the three thousand concubines in his harem onto one woman, while the world watched in envy.

According to legend, he once executed a hundred people for her, turning the palace into a purgatory overnight.

According to legend, he ultimately sentenced that same woman to death by execution…

A conspiracy that swept through the country resulted in her tragic end. This lifetime seems to be a repeat of her past life. Can she escape the clutches of fate to attain true love in this life? In both lives, she was the Emperor’s wife, but is that ruthless man really her true love mandated by Heaven?

Did she really die, just like that?

In the end, beyond the veil of lies and mysteries, who exactly was she? Was she a woman that he truly loved, or was she merely a chess piece to be used in his political machinations?

The stories passed onto later generations remain fraught with conflicting opinions.

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A thousand-year dynasty would inevitably face decay, and a hundred-year noble family would eventually return to dust.What in this world could last forever?Was it an Immortal Body, tempered a thousand times, or the Martial Arts will, in Heart Unity with heaven and earth?Chen Mu came to this world, his sword in hand, and when he turned back at dusk, countless heroes and millennium-old Demons had all turned to dust, leaving only one person on the road paved with yellow sand.