(PUBLISHED by PT ELEX MEDIA KOMPUTINDO on March 31, 2021) **THIS WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT - UU HAK CIPTA NO 28 TAHUN 2014** -NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION- "To love someone is nothing; to be loved by someone is something; but to be loved by the one you love is everything..." That's simply a quote from Bill Russel. Tapi bagi Alya, ucapan itu mendeskripsikan dirinya dengan baik. She is practically 'nothing'. She knows she loves Arga. She also knows Arga doesn't love her the way she does. "Kadang gue iri ama mobil. Lecet dikit, tinggal diketok magic langsung beres. Kalau urusan hati bisa kayak gitu, pagi-pagi buta gue udah antri depan bengkel." -Alya, a successful banker but pathetic in love- But sometimes, everything happened for a reason. Seperti salah satunya ketika tanpa ia sadari seseorang telah masuk ke kehidupannya yang tengah sibuk ia tata kembali. "We are not talking about financial term. I'm not doing a retrocession here." -Radit, a man to die for- * * * RETROCESSION is the first world in Retrology Universe ||stop plagiarism. respect each other's works. please tell me if you find any illegal copies of this story||

Semua terlihat sempurna di kehidupan Maudy, seorang aktris papan atas yang juga dikenal sebagai kekasih Ragil, aktor tampan yang namanya melejit berkat perannya dalam film bersama sang kekasih. Namun, siapa yang tahu bahwa hubungan mereka ternyata adalah teater boneka? Hubungan low-profile yang Maudy sembunyikan dari publik selama ini berjalan mulus, hingga seorang lelaki dingin tiba-tiba datang dan berhasil membuatnya bertanya-tanya akan perasaannya. Di saat yang bersamaan, terungkap fakta bahwa hubungan mulus yang selama ini ia jalani rupanya bak menyimpan kacang polong di antara tumpukkan kasur. What's seen in the limelight is not always what it truly is. Because instead, she finds a definite perfection of life when the light is off. Story by: Niallgina. Cover: created in Icons8.com. Yang plagiat pasti akan ketahuan, siapapun kamu.

connected [ kuh-nek-tid ]: having a connection Alfian Djanuar Nandiardji is my first love. He is the only person I wish I could pass the future with. It used to be like that. Without knowing anything, I thought everything is fine. I will have my own perfect life soon... Until that night changed everything. "Maaf, sebenarnya rasa itu sudah lama nggak ada lagi, Na." I believe that I have laid my heart on a man who deserves it. But not with that all of the lies and what he had hidden behind me--behind the things that we called as a 'relationship'--when I have to admit that for all these years I'm just the extra person in his life. And then, it happened again, without realizing anything I have found someone... from my random lunch invitation. "Until he's gone... On the day when people told me that he's not here anymore... they don't know... for both of us, deep down in our hearts, we're both know..." ... that we're still connected."