revenge

They travel the world, livestreaming perfect moments. Beautiful cities. Perfect smiles. Millions watching. But something is wrong. People who get close to them begin to change. Subtly at first—habits, desires, boundaries. Then completely. No one notices the pattern. No one except those already inside it. This is not a story about love. This is a story about control— how it begins, how it spreads, and how no one realizes they’ve lost it.**Original Work Declaration for *The Laughter Mirror*** All elements of this work (including but not limited to the “Three-Strap and Pendant System”, “Dual-Track Narrative,” and “Lingguang Xihuan”) are the sole creation of the author. Unauthorised reproduction, adaptation, derivative works, or commercial use in any form is prohibited without the author’s written consent. Unauthorised reproduction, adaptation, or commercial use is prohibited. Infringement will be prosecuted. All rights reserved. © 2026 [NoCliantro]. All Rights Reserved.

Ather is tired of this world, tired of its answers, but then he's given an opportunity to enter into a new world. Ather will lose everything, but his will remains unbroken, because if it doesn't kill you, it'll only make you stronger. Will Ather lose everything, or will he defy his fate?

Julian sees a opening on the side of a mountain. When he investigates it he uncovers the secrets of the world and gets involved in magical activities. And through a turn of twisted events he turns into something far greater than he could even imagine.

Died in the cold. Starved. Betrayed. Devoured by the very people he once trusted. In a world where humanity collapsed into chaos, kindness was a weakness-and he paid the price for it. But fate gave him something impossible. A second chance. He awakens 30 days before the apocalypse. This time, he knows what's coming: The freezing world. The rise of enhanced humans. The fall of civilization. And the moment the people closest to him chose survival... over him. But Jae-Min is no longer the same man. Cold. Calculated. Unforgiving. Armed with knowledge of the future, a growing spatial power, and unmatched precision as a sniper who never misses, he begins to prepare-not just to survive... But to dominate. As factions rise, monsters emerge, and the world descends into war, Jae-Min moves from the shadows-one step ahead, one bullet at a time. This time, he won't be the one abandoned. This time... he chooses who lives. Warning: This novel contains graphic violence, gore, explicit sexual content, psychological trauma, and mature themes intended for adult readers only.

A dark, age-gap, forced-proximity Bratva romance, with two broken souls bound by trauma and fate. After escaping a brutal sex trafficking nightmare, eighteen-year-old Asya is left with nothing but fear and the will to survive. Pavel Ivanov, a thirty-three-year-old Bratva enforcer, is a man shaped by violence—cold, dangerous, and untouchable. When their paths collide, she finds herself under his roof… and under his protection. What begins as refuge turns into something deeper. Something neither of them expected. In a world that broke her once, Pavel will make sure no one ever touches her again. Even if he has to burn everything to the ground to do it.

Ryudien Noxes, a sixteen-year-old assassin from the feared Noxes Organization, successfully completes a mission to eliminate his own people before sensitive information can fall into the wrong hands. But on the night of the mission, everything changes. While escaping, Ryudien encounters Damnern Solv—the Fifth Strongest Warrior in the kingdom. Despite using every skill, trick, and escape method he possesses, Ryudien is completely overwhelmed. In the end, he loses his life at Damnern's hands. As death approached, only regret remained. He had never experienced happiness, never lived like a normal person—he only knew how to survive. Then, fate grants him an impossible miracle. Ryudien is reborn, but not as the person he once was—he awakens as a baby girl named Elyra. Given a second chance at life, he swears to take revenge on the man who killed him. However, fate seems to have a cruel sense of humor. Because Damnern Solv is no longer his killer. He is now his father. Caught between the hatred of his past life and the warmth of a family he never had, Elyra must face a painful question: Can she continue seeking revenge against the man who once took her life... when he is now the man she must call Papa?

On the day of her wedding, Evie Yong’s world shattered before her very eyes as her soon-to-be husband trashed all their past eight years of relationship by denying her at the altar, in the presence of everyone. Forced to watch her fiancé stolen, Evie couldn't believe her stepmother and stepsister dared to plot such a scheming plan to ruin her completely. Devastated and feeling betrayed, Evie had to come up with a quick option to save herself from all this mess, and that was when she had to flee away from her wedding in shame and soon figured out a plan to strike back in such a way that her enemies would be put into ruins, just as they once did to her earlier. ... “Mr. Brown, it seems we're both victims of circumstance. My groom has abandoned me for my sister, and your fiancée has run away. Why don't we turn this awkward situation into an opportunity?” She smiled boldly. “Let's get married, right here, right now!” Westley’s expression remained unreadable, but briefly, a hint of intrigue flickered in his eyes. He raised an eyebrow, “You're suggesting we marry each other, and also we are complete strangers?” Evie nodded in confidence. “Why not? We're both clearly compatible, and this way, we can both save face and gain a partner, except for the fact that this will be a contract marriage of six months.” Westley's gaze lingered on hers as if sizing her up. Then, he nodded slowly. “Very well, let's do it.” ... “You're either very brave or very reckless to make such an attempt in picking me as your husband in public,” he said after the marriage. “If I didn't try, we wouldn't have figured out a way to get this opportunity.” She responded. …. He's an almighty giant of entrepreneurship, standing high among moguls. She was born out of wedlock and denied by her family. She's been fighting tooth and nail to make a name for herself in the cutthroat world of entertainment, refusing to let her illegitimacy define her destiny. Two strangers are brought together under one roof, but their newfound connection has dangerous people lurking around. While the world waited for news of their divorce, they were instead blindsided by a single post from the country’s most powerful man: "Whoever said we were getting divorced? Keep waiting; too bad you’ll be waiting forever." The Internet exploded and the entire town was confused. #Sweetheart #1v1 #Secretidentity #Genius #Quicksweetsatifyingrevenge #faceslapping

Every "Diver" gets 96 hours on Earth before the Black Thirst disease drags them back... Back to Thirstfall—a brutal otherworld where a ruthless system called Ocean's Law decides who lives, who dies, and who gets erased. Most Divers break within a year. Dryden Sands lasted ten. He clawed from nothing to Rank-A with a class everyone called trash. He mapped hidden dungeons, cracked the system's blind spots, and survived things that shouldn't be survivable. Then the person he trusted most killed his family and took everything. Including his life. But dying triggered something—a relic fused to his soul that no one was supposed to find. It didn't save him. It reset him. Same world. Same body. Directly to Day one, when everything started. He knows where every secret is buried. Every trap. Every traitor. But his body is Rank-F, his new class is rated SSS, his time is bleeding out, and the system has already flagged him as something that shouldn't exist. In Thirstfall, the ocean doesn't just drown the weak. It hunts who shouldn't belong anymore. -------------- #No harem. #No romance plot armor. #Mostly survival.

After being bound by System 131, Xiang Kui started a journey of helping some female supporting roles to fulfill their ‘reasonable’ wishes in order to earn enough points to go back. First World: Beast world Side Characters  “Just because I'm not the heroine, does that mean I deserve to die?” Xiang Kui was a native in the beast world, the pampered cousin of the tribe’s chief. Just because the strongest warrior in the tribe brought in a strange woman, it meant that she have to be worse off? Not wanting to care about the heroine, she changed the beast world with her own hand without hesitation turning what the heroine values into scraps and things better than what she could make appeared. Second World: The True and False Daughter “Just because I'm not capable enough, does it mean I don't deserve to live?” Liang Kui harboured deep resentment when she found out the truth of the world. That her world is nothing more than a story for Xiang Hao Ya and her existence was used to make Xiang Hao Ya’s life better. It should have been hers, but Xiang Hao Ya was the one who played the pitiful, cross it out, her brother was the one who set off Xiang Hao Ya as the pitiful girl whose life has been taken away by her. In that case, she want nothing of the Liang Family and the Xiang Family. She will live a life far away from them, a peaceful and comfortable life while secretly making moves in secret. Third World: The Little Princess in the Apocalypse Jiang Kui was known as the pampered princess and in the world where other people become stronger, she was still the weak and willful person. Seeing that she was being used by the main leads to set themselves off and then thrown off, she decisively decided to part ways without hesitation. System: “…” no, that’s not parting ways, you directly smashed a hammer above their heads! And seeing how the supposedly revenge and action filled story turned into a sweet romance story in such unsuitable background… the system said that it gave up. Fourth World: The Ghost Story in the Magic World “That is a ghost?” Because of the ghost’s sudden appearance, Shang Kui’s life was turned upside down. In her previous life, she protected everyone silently. But this time… let the world burn. Fifth World: The Actress Refused to follow the Script ... Xiang Kui vs System: Xiang Kui: See, I have successfully performed my role well! System: (gave even more difficult character to perform again and again) Xiang Kui: *send blades to the system* System: (looking at the more outrageous script under Xiang Kui’s hand and fell flat on the ground, not wanting to take a look even for another second) At some other time Xiang Kui: What’s with that Jun Lin? System: *looks away* Xiang Ku: *sneer* System: (saw the weapon that Xiang Kui took out, shocked, and directly cried) Wooo, I don’t want this host! Give me a soft, pretty, and easily manageable host… ah! The author silently look away from the massacre scenes on the back and pretend not to see anything. ... Note: the synopsis will be updated as I write more worlds :3 Join the discord to chat with the author and other readers: https://discord.gg/pBy2wGB ... Other novels: -Flowers Bloom from Battlefield [complete] - Under the Veil of Night [complete] - 7 Path of the Lilies [on long hiatus] - 1 Year of Beginning [complete] - Villain Lady [complete] - Science and Fantasy [complete] - 2 Years of Restarting [complete] - The Quiet Empress [complete] - The Villain's Little Cat [complete] - Astral Flower [complete] - Villain Princess [complete] - Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower [complete] - Runemaster in the Last Days [Complete] - Truth and Lies Intertwined [Complete] - Cultivator in the Last Days [Complete] - ... Follow me on IG: @sora100518

Keira had always known where her life was going to take her. Everything was planned out since she had been chosen to enter the Task Force. A prominent group that served the King of the Werewolves. But things had spiraled out of control when her cousin was murdered, and she was given the title of "Captain". Things were looking up for this acting Captain until she found something that she thought she would never have... a mate.

Synopsis He wasn’t born. He didn’t reincarnate. He didn’t transmigrate. He simply… began to exist. Arthur’s first memory is an endless void—silent, empty, eternal. No body. No past. No identity. Only a distant light… and the moment he became something. Then, in an instant, he’s thrown into a human life. A mother. A father. A name. But Arthur doesn’t understand any of it. What is a family? What is emotion? What does it mean to live? He has knowledge—but no experience. Words—but no meaning. A mind that understands everything… except the world he’s been forced into. And worst of all— The void hasn’t let him go. It calls to him. Pulls at him. Consumes him when he least expects it. A place of perfect peace… that might take everything from him. Because Arthur was never meant to exist. And if the truth behind his existence is revealed— He may disappear just as easily as he appeared.

When a temporal anomaly hurls young commander Yukihira Yuuki and his hyper-advanced Global Defense Initiative space fleet into an alternate Earth, he finds a world where Nod and GDI never existed—only a desperate humanity locked in endless war against the enigmatic Sirens, relying on sentient weapons known as Shipgirls to survive. Armed with overwhelming technology yet lacking understanding of this world’s unique forces, Yuuki stands at a crossroads: remain an observer and preserve his fleet’s integrity, or intervene and reshape the balance of power. Choosing ambition over neutrality, he sets a bold new directive—to recruit Shipgirls into his command, unify them under a reborn Azur Lane, and establish it as the foundation of a new GDI. As alliances form and tensions rise, Yuuki’s campaign to bring order to this fractured world may either liberate humanity… or ignite a conquest that echoes far beyond this Earth.

Hero Killer Synopsis In a world where superhuman abilities, known as Kore, are inherited through bloodlines, Jin-Woo is born with a power that seems weak and insignificant compared to the overwhelming abilities of others. His older sister, Yoo Ara, is a rising hero, shining in the spotlight with her radiant abilities. Meanwhile, Jin-Woo struggles in the shadows, overlooked and dismissed by everyone, including his sister. But when Jin-Woo accidentally gets caught in the aftermath of a battle between the most powerful hero of the generation, Kang-Woo, and a dangerous villain, he discovers that his Kore, the power of shadows, holds far more potential than he ever realized. Though Kang-Woo is invincible and revered, Jin-Woo sees the darker side of the hero world. Disillusioned with the corruption and hypocrisy within the Hero Association, Jin-Woo becomes a vigilante, hunting down corrupt heroes and villains alike. Armed with his growing abilities, he steps into a world of shadows and danger, determined to carve his own path. As Jin-Woo’s powers evolve, he uncovers a secret organization known as the Obsidian Order, a group with ties to forbidden Kore experiments and shadowy figures that could change the fate of the world. Now, he must choose whether to fight for justice in his own way or to succumb to the darkness that calls to him. In a world of heroes, villains, and shadows, Jin-Woo is neither—he is the Hero Killer.

Synopsis of The Shadows Ascend In a world shattered by the appearance of the Tower of Eternity and the subsequent rifts that ravaged the Earth, humanity is forced to survive amidst the ruins. The Tower looms over the remnants of civilization, offering unimaginable power to those who can ascend its endless floors—but at a terrible cost: the soul of the climber. Kael Valen, a bitter and cold-hearted survivor, is one of the Rift Servants—a class of people forced to venture into dangerous rifts to collect valuable resources for the Syndicates that now rule the Earth. Once a hopeful boy, Kael’s life was ruined when his family was torn apart by the Tower’s arrival. Sold into servitude, Kael has learned to trust no one, survive at all costs, and most of all, hate the Tower and everything it stands for. When Kael stumbles upon an ancient, mysterious power within a rift—the Null Nexus, an unshaped shadow that offers strange, unexplainable abilities—his world changes. But this power, still untamed, is not without its risks. As Kael fights to control it, he realizes that the Nexus is more than just a tool for survival: it’s a key to understanding the true purpose of the Tower—and perhaps a way to destroy it once and for all. Joined by Lira Thorne, a ruthless climber with a deadly secret, Kael must navigate the deadly rifts, betrayals, and twisted politics of the new world, all while avoiding the watchful eyes of the Eclipsed Order, an ancient cult that worships the Tower’s power, and the Syndicates that seek to control the resources. But with each passing day, Kael’s control over the Nexus weakens, and the shadow begins to consume more than just his body. In a world where survival is a constant gamble and power comes at the price of humanity, Kael must decide: will he use the power of the Nexus to destroy the Tower and save the remnants of Earth? Or will he succumb to the darkness within, losing himself in the process? "The higher you climb, the darker your shadow becomes." --- This synopsis builds on the key themes of survival, power, and sacrifice, while giving a glimpse into Kael's motivation and the dark world he's navigating.

Synopsis: Ezekiel’s life was a tragic tale of addiction, loneliness, and missed opportunities. A failed existence marred by a deadly overdose, his life seemed to end in darkness. But fate had other plans. Reincarnated in the body of Darius Lionhart, a 16-year-old prince with immense potential and godly mana reserves, Ezekiel is given a second chance — one that comes with power, intrigue, and danger. Darius, once seen as a weak and illegitimate son, is reborn as a man with limitless potential. Blessed with infinite mana and empowered by the mysterious chains that bind him, Ezekiel embraces his new identity with a ruthless resolve. His jealous brothers, Elias and Asher, who conspired to poison him, are in for a shock — Darius is no longer the pawn they believed him to be. With a mind sharpened by his past life and a body capable of incredible feats, Ezekiel sets his sights on the throne. He will no longer be the victim of his family’s schemes. Instead, he will become the most feared force in the kingdom, ruling with an iron fist and a heart of ice. But his journey will not be easy. Old rivals, deadly enemies, and even his own father — the legendary King Kael, an SSS-ranked battle god — stand in his way. To survive, Ezekiel must outmaneuver everyone around him. The throne is within his grasp, but only if he can navigate the deadly politics of the royal court, the manipulation of his siblings, and the countless challenges that await him. Will he rise to become the ultimate ruler, or will the kingdom’s power struggles consume him? In a world where only the strongest survive, Ezekiel will stop at nothing to claim his birthright. The Lionhart bloodline will either bow to him, or it will burn in the flames of his ambition.

In a world where magic is forbidden and witches are hunted, Ashlynn Blackwell has hidden her mark of the witch since birth. The night of her wedding she's betrayed and her secret is exposed. Attacked by her husband and his knights, Ashlynn was abandoned and left for dead in the wilderness. Rescued by the vampire lady Nyrielle, Ashlynn is offered a choice: die as a human or embrace her power as a witch. Bound by a mystical blood pact, Ashlynn is plunged into a world of ancient magic, immortal vampires, and deadly political intrigue for the chance to find eternal love. [Bronze Winner: Weekly Love Tales - Vampire] [Book of the Month: September/October 2024]

In a quiet Tonga village in Southern Zambia, farmer Mwiya Sikalima and his wife Nalubamba live a peaceful life guided by tradition and respect for family. When a relative named MaSimukonda arrives at their homestead claiming she is searching for land to buy her own farm, the couple welcomes her with open arms—as Tonga culture demands. But as weeks turn into months, her true nature slowly begins to surface. Manipulation, mistrust, and hidden intentions begin to poison the peaceful home. When Mwiya refuses to believe his wife’s warnings, their marriage is pushed to the edge of collapse. Only when the truth about their guest’s past is revealed does Mwiya realize the danger he allowed into his home. In a culture where hospitality is sacred but family unity is even more important, he must make a difficult decision to save his marriage before it is too late. A powerful story about trust, culture, and the dangers of welcoming the wrong person into your home.