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Survival was the first thing Lorelei had learned. Her power had marked her from birth, a curse that should have left her abandoned — yet someone still took her in, raised her, cared for her. She knew it couldn't last, knew something would shatter the fragile peace, but she clung to that faint hope anyway: that this happiness would stretch on forever. It didn't. Just as she had with her mother, her own hands had killed him. And in the wreckage of her grief, a figure emerged — the only answer to her questions, the only guide through the bloody path she walked carrying along the sorrow of those she killed.

A Mountain of unknowns. A chasm of certain death. A city of bones, red rock, and flesh. A place of buried history, And of fragmented memories. A place where secrets dwell in the walls, the ground, and even the air. Join the Explorers— Athalia, Enza, Sariel… What happened in their past? Uncover the laws of this bizarre world for yourself. Who built the city? What’s in the chasm? What exactly is the Mountain? What lies at its peak? All questions must be answered. …but time is running out…  …One day, a giant hourglass appeared in the sky over the city of Alavieska. Engraved upon its border were twelve unmissable words: “If the Mountain has not been summited when the time runs out, the Memory Reclamation will begin!”

Re: Origin Zero - The Fool Who Imprisoned Fate. At twenty-four, Zekai Krystan believes life is nothing more than an illusion people choose to believe. That changes the moment he inherits The Fool Arcana. As impossible crimes spread across the city, Zekai is dragged into a hidden war between humanity and forces beyond reality. Every mystery he solves reveals another truth that should never have existed, while an ancient power within him begins to awaken. Some seek justice. Some seek power. But the Fool seeks something far more dangerous. Because this isn't the story of a chosen hero. It's the story of the one who should never have entered the game. 22.

she just wanted to get a job only for her to get into a whole other deal "Good luck Veronica Makaya" "Wait ! how did you..." Veronica a 24 year old woman managed to land a job in a hotel after preventing someone from getting robbed, little did she know that one act will change her life forever. she later found out that the hotel is no ordinary one, but Serves as a haven for the paranormal (non humans). it also serves as a detective agency that specializes in Paranormal cases. join Veronica as she tries to adjust to her new life and at the same time battling situations involving the known and the unknown. I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com

The windows darken as Vivaldi plays. Through the glass, Isabelle watches something terrifying she can never unsee. Her husband's hand finds hers in the darkness. "Happy Valentine's Day, darling." -- Jude Larssen is a legend in London - devastatingly handsome, brilliant, ruthless, untouchable. The man who built an empire through means no one questions too closely. The CEO whose attention makes careers and whose displeasure ends them. Isabelle thought she knew what loving him meant. The surveillance exerted for his thrill. The cold distance and absent-minded, rough fucking otherwise. Three years into a marriage she thought was dead, he shows her exactly how far his devotion extends. How deep his resources run. How creative his methods. The lengths he will reach to keep her compliant. Subservient. His. But Isabelle Hann has never been easy to break. Even after everything- there is still fight in her. Still defiance in how she questions him, challenges him, seeks warmth elsewhere. Jude doesn't just want to keep her. He wants her to yield. And he has all the money and patience to make it happen. Some cages are lined with silk.

Her Ladyship Anastasia Roseline Sinclair of Florence believed she had everything: a noble title, a promising future, and the love of Aaron Dinkley—the charming son of Duke Andrew Dinkley of Fortshire, one of Flambodia’s most powerful fiefs. Childhood sweethearts, Anastasia and Aaron were raised to believe they were destined for each other. But destiny is a cruel mistress. On the eve of her succession to Duchess of Florence, Anastasia is betrayed—by Aaron, the man she loved, her stepsister, and her own family. Stripped of her title, murdered in cold blood, and discarded like refuse in the wastelands, she is left to die. Yet death does not claim her. At the brink of death, Anastasia is reborn—not as a phoenix, but as a vulture. A vulture ready to devour the flesh and bones of her enemies. Cold and ravenous for retribution. She will reclaim her crown, her dignity, and her name. And she will make them all bleed. Because revenge is a meal best served cold. ......... Crown Prince Daniel Maxwell Devonte of Flambodia is feared across kingdoms. Ruthless in battle, merciless in court, he is known as the Dragon—a warrior whose enemies tremble at the mere mention of his name. His fame attracted him more enemies than friends including his own family. His own father King Reginald the Fifth, hated him but mostly feared him because of his power. Rumours swirled in the wind that his mother the former Queen cheated on the King and that he was not his son. However, rumours based on assumptions could not be regarded as evidence. Although it did not stop the current Queen and her minion children to peck around them and use them to their advantage in order to taint his already spoiled reputation. Daniel wears revenge like armor, his fury buried beneath layers of strategy and silence. He trusts no one. Loves no one. Until he meets her. The fiery red-haired stranger with eyes like embers and a soul forged in betrayal. Anastasia. Together, they are chaos incarnate. Two broken souls bound by vengeance, drawn together by bloodshed and ambition. Their enemies will fall. Their kingdoms will burn. And the world will learn what happens when you cross a Duchess and a Dragon.

Sometimes, life asks the cruelest questions… What hurts more? losing your dreams… or watching them break in front of you? A boy who speaks through music, in a world that never stops to listen. A girl who had everything, yet lost the only thing that mattered. The city kept moving… people kept passing… but for one moment, two broken lives collided. A guitar shattered on the street… a heart already in pieces… And then, a question that shouldn’t exist: Can love be bought? Or is it born only from pain? Sometimes, the people who destroy us… are the reason we find someone who understands us. This isn’t just a story about money or a deal… It’s about two souls running from themselves… only to find each other in the chaos. Because some stories aren’t written… they crash into your life without warning.

Nightmares don't end. They layer. When reality fractures, the chosen few are pulled into worlds that shouldn't exist—each one a nightmare more twisted than the last. A warrior sacrifices everything to hold back the darkness. A prisoner fights for survival in a world of endless shadow. A girl loses herself piece by piece, becoming something hollow. A weapon walks the world, carrying stolen power it doesn't understand. Every story is connected. Every nightmare runs deeper. As the layers peel back, the truth emerges: some were never meant to wake up. Some were never real to begin with. And the ones pulling the strings have been playing this game far longer than anyone knows. Ash Eyes is a dark fantasy thriller where protagonists change, realities shift, and survival means sacrificing everything—including yourself. Psychological horror • Multiple POVs • Nested narratives • Nothing is what it seems • this also has graphic violence and body horror • psychological Trauma and identity loss • dark fantasy themes • character death and transformation

Mark did not survive the corporate world by being a genius. He survived by copying one. Whenever his logistics firm faced an impossible deficit, Mark asked himself one question: What would Reine Asakura do in this kind of situation? Reine was the cold, calculating, flawlessly logical protagonist of his favorite light novel, "Welcome to the High School of Meritocracy." Mark used her fictional strategies to climb the corporate ladder in the real world by simulating her cold, analytical thought process. Then, a twelve-ton truck suffered a brake failure, and Mark’s real world ended. He wakes up inside the biological vessel of Kenji, a painfully average, 160-centimeter-tall background character. He is sitting in a pristine white classroom. The girl sitting at the desk next to him has flat, dark reddish-brown hair, piercing amber eyes, and a perfectly neutral expression. It is Reine Asakura. He is trapped inside the novel. This academy does not operate on friendship or standard grades. It operates on a brutal "Seat Economy." Classes fight in psychological Special Exams to earn currency. That currency is used to buy the physical seats of students in rival classes. Once your seat is bought, you pay monthly rent to the enemy. If you default, you are expelled. It is a system of financial hostage-taking and mutual assured destruction. Kenji does not want to be her ally. In his previous life, he owed his entire corporate success to Reine's way of genius thinking. He was imitating her mind's cognitive process. Now, standing next to his idol, he feels the ultimate drive of a fanatic. Just as a basketball player dreams of playing a serious, limit-testing game against their ultimate idol, Kenji wants to step onto the court against Reine. He wants to prove he can dismantle the flawless genius mind that built his own success in his previous life. Kenji has one advantage: he knows the entire three-year timeline of the novel. But he also knows a mathematical truth. Meta-knowledge is not enough to defeat the super-genius, Reine Asakura, in a fair fight. If Reine detects that he can predict the future, her genius mind will adapt, and she will crush him. Kenji makes a calculated decision. He cannot fight her immediately because they are assigned to the same class. He knows her exact script: Reine will operate in the shadows for two years, secretly pulling the strings to elevate their defective Class D to the top-ranking Class A. Once she succeeds, she will transfer to an enemy class in Year Three simply to seek a real challenge. That is Kenji's strict deadline. He has exactly 24 months to gather the massive currency required to execute his own transfer to a third, opposing class. While Reine builds her empire, Kenji plays the perfect background character. He acts like an idiot. He complains about trivial things. He tricks Reine into categorizing him as harmless biological noise, even provoking her into a spontaneous, absurd bet: If he ever defeats her in a battle of wits, she has to go on a date with him. She agrees, calculating the probability of his victory at zero. She is wrong. While Reine manipulates the school from the shadows, Kenji uses his future knowledge to quietly exploit the economy's blind spots. He builds an untraceable dark pool of capital right under her nose. Then, the first day of Year Three arrives. Former Class D became Class A. Reine transfer to other class. Kenji cashes in his hidden funds, executes a hostile class transfer, and shatters his camouflage. The two-year observation phase is over. Reine’s data on foolish Kenji become suddenly obsolete. The war between a flawless super genius and a man holding the knowledge of the future has begun. #shadowmastermind #manipulation #psychological #strategy #tactic #battleofwits #pretendingtobeweak #hiddenabilities #calculation #highschool #schoollife #metaknowledge #chess #cote #cunning #ruthless #scheme #underdog #hierarchy #meritocracy #cold

In a house where the truth hides behind curtains of silence, Celine lives with her seemingly ordinary family-one that conceals countless secrets. When she discovers that her younger sister, Lilia, is no ordinary child, her journey begins into a world of stolen memories, mysterious conspiracies, and unspoken questions. Between encrypted messages, abandoned rooms holding dangerous answers, and shadows that haunt her every step, Celine must choose between protecting her sister or uncovering a truth that could destroy everything she knows.

One day, a strange suicide case comes to the detective department. Which later turns into a series of murders in just 2 days. They are unable to understand who is hiding behind these murders.

Mon\Thu - 2 new chapters. Reality is not as stable as it seems. There are moments—brief, almost impossible to notice—when something shifts. A hallway feels longer than before. A sound arrives too late. A memory no longer fits where it should. Most people ignore these fractures in reality. Juson cannot. After a series of disturbing incidents begin to follow him, buried memories slowly resurface—fragments of a past he cannot fully remember, tied to a hidden existence surrounding entities known as Omizans. As strange blue particles begin appearing around him and reality itself starts to distort, Juson is drawn toward a truth connected not only to his forgotten past… but to his own son, Herik. The deeper he searches, the more unstable the world around him becomes. And as the boundary between dimensions begins to tear apart, one question continues to haunt him— Were these memories taken from him… or did he choose to bury them himself?

This story follows three friends—fun-loving and caring Scarlett, her innocent and introverted best friend Florence, and the handsome, hot-headed Victor, who has a strained relationship with his family—who attend a midnight New Year's party that shockingly ends in Florence's brutal murder. She is murdered with a sharp object that mysteriously goes missing from the crime scene, sparking a mystery that unravels the events of that night until the case is finally solved and justice is served. But who killed Florence, and what exactly happened that night that changed the lives of the three friends forever?

History remembers wars, revolutions, and empires. But sometimes the most dangerous change in the world begins with something much smaller… a thought. In the shadow of a fractured post-war world, strange events begin to surface across continents. A quiet town shaken by something no one can explain. A distant city touched by a presence no one can identify. Decisions made in silence that ripple outward like cracks in glass. At first, the world dismisses them as coincidence. But coincidences do not plan. Coincidences do not wait. And coincidences do not reshape the course of humanity. As years pass, those who look closely begin to notice a terrifying pattern—one that connects people, nations, and tragedies separated by thousands of miles. Someone is watching. Someone is learning. And somewhere in the darkness of the human mind, an idea is growing—an idea powerful enough to bend fear, faith, and reason itself. Because evil is not always born in chaos. Sometimes… it is patient. Sometimes… it is brilliant. And when the world finally realizes what has been set into motion— it may already be too late.

We've all read those mafia romances. The one where the godly handsome, picture-perfect, extremely ruthless mafia king rejects all the gorgeous, sexy ladies ( even though he's slept with half of them ) for the beautiful, innocent, untouched, holier-than-thou common woman who only marries him to pay off her sick grandma's medical bills and then slowly ends up falling for him. This is not one of those stories. Excerpt: Lynx stepped a little closer to his target, his intentions far from subtle. "Having a good night?" he asked, pretending to watch the couples swaying across the ballroom floor. "Why wouldn't I be?" Shayna replied without looking at him. "Merely observing," Lynx chuckled. "Are you missing someone?" he continued, staring ahead. "Are there no other beautiful women for you to entertain?" Shayna whispered, slightly annoyed. "There are," he admitted, his chest rising slightly. "But there is only one I can't seem to look away from." A faint blush crept across Shayna's cheeks before she turned her head. "And what exactly do you want from this lucky woman?" A smile tugged at his lips. "A dance, perhaps. And a smoke afterwards." .......................................................................... Shayna Hazel Alonso doesn't qualify as a lady by any known definition of the word. She smokes too much, curses like a sailor, and hates male chivalry from the depths of her heart. But she has a secret. Shayna lives a double life as a corporate employee who just wants to get through the day and Vixen, the underworld's infamous prodigy, who unfortunately attracts the most questionable kinds of people. After years of betrayal—first by the father who sold her into prostitution, and then by the people she once believed were just like her—Shayna has finally learned not to trust anyone. And for the last time, she does not want to deal with any more shit. Naturally, life has other plans. So what happens when she ends up stealing from the one person nobody in their right mind would ever cross? In the underworld, everyone has a line they swear they'll never cross. Until they do. And that's when people become, for lack of a better phrase... Morally Fucked. P.S. The FMC of the story is strictly child-free and will remain so throughout the story. I will publish 1 bonus chapter per 200 collections and 2 bonus chapters per 20 golden tickets.

Jiang Che is diagnosed with delusional disorder, always fantasizing about having a family, but is treated as mentally ill and locked up for ten years. The bizarre descends upon the world, and he is pulled into an SSS-level dungeon labeled as unconquerable by humans. When facing the terrifying and eerie spirits that scare everyone, He hugs a loli with a severed limb, calling her his daughter, Referring to the old bizarre spirits dressed in bloodstained nurse attire and holding a deadly Saw Meat Knife as his parents, Facing the biggest boss of the SSS-level dungeon, he embraces it without hesitation and calls it his wife. …… The eerie dungeon is broadcast globally, and everyone sees it all. Audience: "If you don’t seek death, you won’t die; seeking death makes you die faster." "Is he insane, treating the eerie spirits as family?" "This delusional disorder is too severe; you’re only 20 years old and you’re imagining having a seven or eight-year-old daughter?" …… While everyone thought he was going to be brutally killed, He began to be accepted by the eerie spirits, who actually regarded him as family?! Jiang Che: In a family, the person who doesn’t cook can never complain about the taste of the food. Jiang Che: My wife's cooking is not salty at all!

In a nation divided between the wealthy Spires and the struggling Sinks, one hundred citizens are sent to Blackwake to compete in the Red Hunt, a televised survival game where only the strongest are expected to make it home. Each Quadrangle is made up of four Hunter Classes: the Tactician, who leads the team through strategy and decision-making; the Scout, who moves ahead to gather information and navigate danger; the Fighter, who handles combat and protects the team; and the Lifeline, who keeps injured teammates alive and provides medical support. Among them is Elowen Bradshaw, a Tactician from the Sinks who enters the Hunt expecting nothing more than a fight for survival. But Blackwake is not the arena the government claims it to be. As the bodies pile up and the island reveals secrets buried beneath its surface, Elowen begins to realize that someone has been watching and manipulating the game from the shadows. The deeper Elowen goes, the more the Red Hunt stops looking like a competition and starts looking like something far more deliberate. Because the Hunters were never chosen at random. The Red Hunt was never about finding a winner. It was about deciding who deserved to be erased, then convincing an entire nation to watch.

"Z Virus: Across the Globe" A deadly virus has swept across the world, turning humanity into mindless predators. Civilization has collapsed, and survival is no longer a choice—it is a constant battle. Trapped within the walls of a once-ordinary school, a group of teenage students and their teachers find themselves fighting for their lives against the relentless threat of zombies. With danger lurking in every corridor, they must rely on courage, strategy, and each other to stay alive. But survival isn’t just about escaping the infected. Inside the school, emotions run just as wild—fear, hatred, revenge, guilt, and the crushing weight of loss. Every character carries their own story, their own pain, and their own reason to keep going. Amid the chaos and bloodshed, unexpected bonds begin to form. In a world falling apart, even the smallest moments of love and hope shine brighter than ever. When trust is fragile and death is always one step away… How far will they go to survive?