Jyojiko

"What the fuck did you send over, Nicky?" Laurie is screaming over the phone at six fucking  o'clock in the morning.

"It has a note. And I believe that the message was clear." the name Nicky answered.

"Well that's exactly, why I am asking!"  she exclaimed angrily, glaring at the innocently looking red leather pill box, that is instantly recognizable as a famous jewelry brand, sitting on her kitchen counter, with a note that says - I heard you cry over a guy, here's a small gift to let you know that I'd marry you anytime.

With the familiar scrawling penmanship in the white piece of paper, she would know who sent her the note, even without calling the guy on the phone.

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When the guy you confessed to rejected you, and your two exes came back running—declaring they would marry you any time, what would you do?

Would you choose a familiar old love or the one that has your heart but doesn't want you?

And to add to the chaos, her mother is on a mission to marry her nearing thirty-something ass to any man who breathes. 

What should a girl do in such a situation? Run away, of course! 

But then, how far can you run away until all the life's decisions you screwed up in the past caught up with you and you ended up with no choice but to face them. 

Welcome to Laurie’s adventure and just to be clear this is not a love story BUT a quest.

[WARNING: Some chapters may contain mature R-18 content.]

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Capture A Husband: My Asian Mother's Quest

She stretched her arms over her bed before slowly opening her eyes, and got slightly disoriented because when she opened her eyes everything looked different. She blinked a few times before it registered to her sleepy brain that she's now in her own apartment.

She's back in Tokyo and no longer in Haru's apartment. She chuckled to herself. She looked at the digital alarm clock on her side table and saw the time. It is now four thirty-two in the afternoon. She slept for more than seven hours.

She pulled the extra pillow next to her and leaned against the bed headboard. And then, she leaned her back against the pillow.

She's feeling hungry but doesn't feel like cooking. She grabbed her phone next to the digital clock on her side table and turned it on. She was expecting a message from Mei Mei and she wasn't disappointed. She had several messages from her, all asking about her whereabouts.

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