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The Quietest Knife

Willow wakes in a hospital bed injured, medicated, and alone. She is informed that her life, as she understood it, ended weeks earlier. Her fiancé is there. Calm. Controlled. He explains that they broke up before the accident and that the separation was mutual. He says he remained by her side only out of decency. He is already involved with someone else, his boss’s daughter, and speaks as though this version of events has always been established fact. No one in the room challenges him. The doctors attribute Willow’s disbelief to concussion and trauma. Nurses lower their voices and repeat the same explanation with careful reassurance until it becomes official, documented, and final. Each repetition strips away her certainty, replacing memory with doubt. When Willow looks to the one person who could contradict him, she finds no relief. Her fiancé’s closest friend, a man who has never hidden his dislike for her, says nothing. He offers a brief nod that confirms the narrative without words. With that single gesture, the past is closed. Every detail they present contradicts what Willow knows she lived. Weeks have been erased. Conversations have been rewritten. A relationship has been reassigned without her consent. If she resists, she will be labeled unstable, emotional, and unreliable. She will be the only one insisting that reality has been altered. So Willow stays silent. Within that silence, something colder begins to take shape. She begins to question why her fiancé needed the past rewritten at a moment when she cannot safely object. She begins to wonder why his closest friend chose this precise moment to agree. She begins to realize that decisions were made about her while she lay unconscious and defenseless. The Quietest Knife is a dark psychological romance centered on gaslighting, betrayal, and power disguised as care. It follows a slow, deliberate descent into manipulation, control, and revenge, where harm is inflicted quietly and authority wears the mask of concern. This is not a story about forgetting. It is a story about being rewritten calmly, professionally, and without resistance.
dr_ban99 · 159.5k Views

Shadow leveling

Sung-style underdog taken to the extreme: Elias Crowe was once a promising D-rank Hunter trainee—until a betrayal in a high-risk Gate left him crippled, his mana core shattered, and labeled "permanently unawakened." Disgraced, broke, and mocked as "the living corpse," he survives by taking the dirtiest jobs: bait duty, corpse disposal, anything the real Hunters won't touch. During what should have been his last raid (a suicide mission to pay off crushing debt), Elias dies... briefly. In that darkness between life and death, something ancient answers: the fragmented will of a forgotten Shadow Monarch, granting him the "Shadow Leveling" system. No grand tutorial, no OP start—just a brutal mechanic: every time he kills (or nearly dies), he can steal a fragment of the enemy's shadow, converting it into experience, stats, or summonable shadow soldiers. The catch? He starts at Level 0—no skills, no gear, no mercy—and dying for real means permanent erasure. Elias claws his way back from the bottom: soloing goblin nests, outsmarting parties that once abandoned him, building an unstoppable shadow army one corpse at a time. As he rises, old enemies resurface, Guilds take notice, and the system evolves in terrifying ways—unlocking necromantic powers, shadow teleportation, and the ability to "level" entire battlefields by turning fallen foes into his legion. Fueled by cold revenge against those who left him to die, Elias vows to become untouchable. But the deeper he dives into the Gates, the clearer it becomes: his power isn't a gift. It's a curse tied to an apocalyptic prophecy—and if he reaches the top, the world might burn in shadow.
Sahil_Ashat · 882 Views