tragedy

hoshiharu ──── bl japanese novel

I never thought witnessing a murder would land me in… this. Now there’s a ghost following me around, bossing me like I’m his personal assistant, demanding I fulfill his three impossible wishes—or he’ll haunt me forever. Oh, and the wishes? One involves getting a cold, savage girl to kiss me (good luck with that), another is digging up a past that even she doesn’t remember, and the last… well, let’s just say it might ruin everything I thought I knew about my life. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to survive school, and, somehow, survive this selfish, funny, and incredibly proud ghost who hates how kind I am to everyone. Somehow, I have to play along, keep my sanity, and maybe, just maybe… not get killed in the process. This is Just a short story about my life... But believe me it's still worth it.

Hello! I’m currently in the process of rewriting (The hymn of Vivshi) I’m sorta half way done. So if you want the canon chapters just read up to chapter 56 of currently! more chapters will be updated as time goes on. Freedom exists in many forms. Each person has their own perspective on Freedom. One might say Freedom is the ability to go and do whatever you want but what comes after you do whatever you what? The interpretation of Freedom is endless and due to all of these ideas of what Freedom could be, Gods called Aeons are born. In this story you will witness fairytales about conservation, passion, rejuvnation, fear, joy, nihility, serenity, dexterity, desire, remembrance, breakage and guilt.

THYLONIUS(12) a young boy, is trapped in a burning building with his sister CNIDARIA (13) a young girl, on the day both of their parents leave from their home in Sierra Leone to visit America. As far as he can tell the area is being terrorized and burnt down to a crisp for reasons unknown. Both of the siblings are lucky to escape with their lives but not without a cost. Time has passed, now refugee orphans on the streets of Liberia abandoned by their country and parents. Thylonius meets a strange man LUCIUS (42) a pale American man, who claims to know their parents and that they are still alive. Cnidaria is skeptical of the man but accepts his offer to assassinate the parents that abandoned them in return for taking them under his wing. They are successful, which begins their lives as child soldiers. The cost for murdering their flesh and blood is not light, Supernatural occurrences start happening to the siblings both physically and other worldly. There's more to their past and family that meets the eye and it puts them on a path to take on the entire world.

Elias Kierski dies. Three times. Each death comes from the same hands—his own team. When the world rewinds for the third time, something breaks. The Predator System, a tool meant to guide hunters, awakens with a mind of its own. It whispers. It observes. It evolves. And Elias begins hearing echoes of himself from previous cycles— including the version of him that the System tried to erase. Dungeons react to his presence. Administrators watch from behind the world’s code. Hybrids stalk him through collapsing timelines. Now Elias must survive a cycle that should never have existed… while his abandoned first self, Cycle Zero, crawls back from the void to reclaim him. He isn’t chosen. He isn’t blessed. He is the error the world failed to delete. And the Predator System hungers.

Some people are born to be remembered. Others spend their lives chasing it. Ariana Larken has always dreamed of leaving a mark on the world-of being admired, talked about, and never forgotten. She idolizes Evelora Sainthill, a woman who seems untouchable, perfect, and timeless. Inspired by her, Aria is determined to shine, to be a legend in her own right. But the desire to be remembered comes with a cost. As Aria chases fame, perfection, and immortality through her impact, she begins to realize that history remembers more than just the triumphs-it can also trap those who reach too far. A story of ambition, dreams, and the price of wanting forever, Stuck in History asks: What happens when the desire to be remembered takes over you completely?

Mel, a girl who was born imperfect in the world where being different is a crime and justice is served for those perfect. Avoiding from being pursued by the empirean king ànd queen while she uncovered the whole truth of her existence and genealogy. Will she bring the light on the utterly landmass of darkness? Or she will meet her impendent doom?

In a distant past, the seven Ancestral Beasts clashed, and the blood they spilled rained onto the entire plane, infecting humans and animals alike, making them part of their powerful bloodlines. As a small village’s hunter, Liam was unaware of the consequences of that legendary battle. His sole goal was to become a cultivator to gain the strength and resources he needed to avenge his family. Yet, when Liam’s Ancestral Bloodline awakened, he uncovered a connection between his family’s killers and the Dragon King, a connection that could expand his revenge to the entire Kingdom. -------------------- Discord link: https://discord.gg/mefzf3aQJ8 Instagram: eocnovels X: @EoCNovels Cover artist: https://digitalrowye.com

They thought they were just leaving their world… But the moment time stopped— something else began watching them. A world where nothing exists behind you… And everything in front of you wants you dead. In a place where power decides worth— Yuro will face a question no one should answer: Who deserves to live?A hero is not always meant to stay a hero.

He once ruled as a feared dungeon boss. Now he’s raising a human child. After abandoning his collapsing dungeon, Zortheus never expected to find an infant alone in the wild, or to become her father. Disguised as a quiet villager, Zora, he gives Lila the peaceful life he never had, burying the monstrous past she must never learn. But with her growing dream to become an adventurer, the outside world inches closer to the very truth he fights to hide. And as old threats stir again, their quiet life stands on the edge of a secret away from unraveling. The world remembers him a villain. She only knows him as Dad. Two truths that cannot meet… or everything breaks.

Betrayed, plotted against, and killed. Elodie Adedara’s corpse was left to glaciate in a cold abyss… but why does this protagonist wake up seven years later? … Far away, off the outskirts of the Solaria kingdom, where the sun and warmth were scarce. A dark cave, lit only by the dim reflection of silver chains, suspending a single person to an icy wall. The person's skin, dark and covered in winters frost. The hairs on her head and eyelashes were grey, covered by tiny icicles. Her lips, pale of all color, cracked, and like the rest of her, cold. But, slowly, her lips were the first to melt. Her eyes started to flutter open, revealing brown eyes flickering with white. A bright, illuminating, magical white. "Kill the queen. You must kill the queen. That is why you are alive." The iridescent shimmer of white began to spread across her body, intertwining itself with the natural ebony color of her skin that was stuck to her bones. The intense frail appearance of the girl filled out into a healthy complexion. The melting ice dripped like water down her skin, and the more that dripped, the more alive the unconscious body seemed to become.  Just as a first warm breath escaped the girl's mouth, a spiteful emotion bubbled up to the surface, flashing across the girl's eyes. Pain, suffering, and betrayal. Those were the three most prevalent in her expression. One of the three must've been a feeling strong enough to revive the dead. The chains on her arms were thick and bulky, frosted over with a glaze of ice and frost. In a second however, she ripped her arms away from the stone that in prisoned her, falling weakly to other side, where her other arm remained suspended to the ice wall. A screamed ripped out of the girl who had just awoken, the voice of regret. It echoed against the walls of the cave. Her restraints shattered in a horrifying unison, metal bits flying in different directions in the room. Falling to the ground, her shivering body hit the ice floor below her. The ice ground made direct contact with her knees and forearms. Under the intense contact, they scraped and peeled. Yet, the girl's hands and knees held strong as she stood up. Her dark, raven black hair fell in front of her face, a protruding but delicate nose bridge interrupted its flow.  "You will never be forgiven..." Were the first words to leave the girl's lips. The white flickers and crackles in her eyes and across her skin had calmed. The iridescent shimmer had also vanished, and yet,  Now was the moment the girl appeared the most intimidating, warm tears of anger had overtaken the melted ice on her skin, obstructing parts of her vision. She raised her head, and with it, a stem of green glow manifested from no where. In her palms, the white shimmer of light had now turned a threatening forest green. In this icy prison was where the infamous evil witch was held captive. It would also be the same place which this story begins.

Xia Lihua was born with a beautiful voice. A voice as sweet as hers was hard to find. She used to be her cousin sister's shadow singer. Her family exiled her to the United States when she was set up by her cousin sister and stepsister. She returned to her own country after completing high school in America only to discover her father had given orders for some guys to murder her. After narrowly escaping death, she was saved by a friend who rushed her to the hospital and with the help of a genius hacker she was able to eventually escape from the country, hiding in Milan for two years. Except for her grandfather who doted on her, the rest of the Xia family assumed that she was dead. After three years, she returned, stronger than ever, to face-slap the scumbags and exact retribution. She is now the nation's sister- a top idol and a movie queen. She is also known as the Ice Empress in business world! People called her the Nightingale because of her melodic voice, little did she know that she will be become the night songstress of the man whom she hated the most. She didn't know that she was the reason why the demon king couldn't sleep at night. All he could think about from morning till dusk was her. He could wreck devastation on earth for her, and this time he would do anything to keep her. The devil bigshot has made up his mind and is chasing her! Netizens: Is Emperor Yang pursuing you, sister Hua? Xia Lihua: No! He is just my ex-fiancé and a die-hard fan. Emperor Yang: What ex-fiancé? Bullshit! Tell them that you are my wife, little bird. Author note: The author is not Chinese and this is her own story. THIS IS NOT A TRANSLATION. [ Update: Cover art by- @dixerqua ;) (DO NOT STEAL!!!) ]

Danil had already let go of the world long before the world let go of him. When he opens a sealed door in an abandoned school, he finds something that should not exist. Now he walks a hidden side of reality where the dead have debts and the living pay them.

“Doing the wrong thing for the right reason… never ends well for anyone.” Seven great races ruled the continent of Eldarion. Humans weren’t among them. To the world, mankind was nothing more than background noise, as insignificant as a breath of air, as laughable as a failed joke of creation. A race with no promise. No power. No future. Tyler was born into that world—a world where every “hero of humanity” was fated to fall before they could rise. So he abandoned the path of heroes entirely. He chose the road stained in shadows. He chose the power no sane soul would touch. He chose to become a demon— not for glory, but for survival. His purpose was simple: Ascend as the Demon King. Stand as a monstrous shield when the true invaders finally tear into their continent. And he succeeded. He rose higher, darker, and stronger than any being before him. But power has a price. A price he only understood when it was far too late. For in climbing toward salvation, He became the very abomination he once swore to destroy— The Desecrator. And the world whispered: “There is no lesser or greater evil. There is only evil.” Yet a more profound truth lingered in the dark: “Because sometimes, only one Evil can devour another.” *** Discord - https://discord.gg/4xbt5Nwrtn *** #Yandere #ComplexCharacters #NoHarem #Dark #RareBloodline #Magic #Slowburn #FatedLove #Demons #Dragons #Otherworlders #RunicSorcery #Evil-FL

An ordinary world exists beside another—one built on strength, secrecy, and survival. When long-buried connections begin to resurface, the boundary between them weakens. A boy pulled from normalcy. A girl who has already learned to endure. A warrior chasing a name of her own. A prodigy weighed down by the cost of his brilliance. A presence born of sound, longing for something beyond the island that binds him. Anakoa is a hidden land, shaped by trials and unspoken rules. It does not reveal itself willingly, and it does not forgive those who trespass. As old wounds reopen and unseen forces begin to move, these lives converge—some drawn by choice, others by fate. What waits beyond the veil is not a single story, but many—intertwined, unfinished, and dangerous to uncover.

On a fateful night, William—an ordinary man from Earth—finished a ruined route in his favorite game, Sinners Academy: Love at the End of the World. The next moment, he was eaten alive by the game’s final boss herself, dragged screaming into her world, the world he had ruined. And when his eyes opened again, he was no longer William. He was reborn as Louis Drakeheart, the third-rate villain of that doomed game—grandson of the Dragon King, son of Earth's unparalleled scientist-Esper and a Holy Dragon Goddess, yet still the failure who never awakened his draconic blood. He was known as the Mad Prince, the abandoned heir. The laughingstock destined to die forgotten in the Dimensional Labyrinth. But fate had finally bled him a cruel gift. Death Loop. Every agonizing death sent him back in time with his memories intact and sanity fragmenting piece by piece. One death at a time, he clawed through impossible regressions, devouring knowledge, forging forbidden strength and shattering limits once thought impossible to overcome. No longer would nobles trample him. No longer would horrors beyond the Dimensional Boundary devour his kingdom. No longer would his mother's eternal slumber remain unbroken. Through rivers of his own blood and the crumbling edges of his mind, Louis Drakeheart shall rise again, and again, and again... Ruthless, unhinged, unstoppable. The world that spat on him will kneel... or burn. This is the chronicle of the Spiral of Madness: the ascent of the Heir of Ruin, the Bringer of the End. And of her—the sole shadow who walks every loop beside him, the only soul who remembers every sacrifice. [Time Loop Powers] + [Cultivation + System] + [Villain MC] + [Reincarnated Inside a Game] + [Unique and Original Power System] + [Fast Paced Battles And Suspense] + [Revenge] Over 100k words for FREE.

Han Jae-Won, commander of the elite Black Wolf Squad, died with guilt in his chest and blood on his hands. Betrayed by the comrade he trusted most, and forced to watch his entire squad executed in front of him, he whispered his last words alone: “I didn’t want to die like this…” But death wasn’t the end. Jae-Won wakes up in a newborn’s body—reborn in a peaceful world far from war, bullets, and betrayal. Yet the memories of his fallen pack follow him. The pain, the loss, the rage… none of it fades. Now, armed with the experience of a soldier, the instincts of a leader, and a second chance at life, he will rise again in a world unprepared for him. This is the story of a broken soldier reborn with the will to climb, dominate, protect, and one day—avenge.

Ten years ago, a scientist was murdered after refusing to turn human emotion into a weapon. His son was declared dead in the fire. He wasn’t. Now grown, Ayan uncovers his father’s hidden research — biochemical compounds capable of amplifying fear, panic, and obedience. In the wrong hands, it could control minds. In the right hands… it could expose an empire. As powerful executives and political figures move to silence him, Ayan launches a quiet war from the shadows. But the deeper he goes, the harder one question becomes: Can he destroy the weapon… without becoming one himself?

Five (5) strangers wake up in a forest. They don't know how they got there. As time passes, they realize they aren't alone...they are being watched, and their lives become an experiment. Why are they here? Will they make it out alive...or are they trapped forever?

A collection of stories from the perspective of different people trying to survive in a broken world. There is no hero, there is no harem, there is no demon lord and their is no hope. The only thing that awaits is misery and loss and the tale of broken men and women.