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“Get on your knees." My voice sliced through the room like a serrated knife. Ragnor didn’t hesitate. He sank to the cold stone floor, his knees hitting the ground with a heavy thud that synchronized perfectly with my beating heart. Ryker and Reign followed, their heads bowed, their Alpha pride crumbling at my feet. "We didn’t have a choice, Candace," Ryker groaned, his head bowed so low his forehead nearly touched the tops of my boots.  "Everything we do is a choice, Ryker," I whispered, leaning down. "Since you believed a lie over me, now show me,” I commanded, my voice dropping a lower octave. "Show me exactly how much you're willing to crawl to keep the mate you discarded." "Anything, Daisy," Ragnor choked out, his large, calloused hand reaching for my ankle. His touch sent a traitorous bolt of sparks through my skin, but I didn't budge. He pulled my foot closer, his heat seeping through the silk of my dress. He didn't just kiss it; he buried his face against my boot, breathing in my scent with a hot desperation. I looked down at the three most powerful men in the pack, all of them reduced to rubble before me, and I felt the tears burn behind my eyes. "It's a pity that’ll never be enough,” I said, my voice turning to ice.  "Then break us. Do whatever you have to do, just don't walk out that door. Don’t give up on us," Reign growled, looking up, his hazel eyes burning with lust. “We will burn in hell before we let that happen,” I forced a brittle, empty laugh. “Say hello to the devil, he’s no different than the beasts you’ve become after what you put me through,” I pushed Ragnor’s hands away, my touch merciless as I used my knee to shove the other two back.  "I’m done with you all. Go fuck your sweet Didi. I will get my release elsewhere,” I snapped, my voice coming out stronger than I expected especially with their bodies pressed against mine, and their lips sending tingles across my body.  I felt their eyes drilling holes into my back, hotter than a thousand lasers all at once as I strode out. I knew they were watching my retreat, but I didn't turn around to let them see the single, traitorous tear that had finally escaped my guard. I couldn't let them know how much their choices had truly cost me. I was the devil they’d made with each torment. And devils didn't cry. ~ Born the daughter of royalty, Candace Sinclair was once the noble daughter of the formidable Alpha of GraceSpring Pack until her perfect life became a nightmare in one single night. Labeled the offspring of a traitor, she was plunged into a miserable life of shame, scars and utter disgrace and condemned to serve as an omega slave among those who had once bowed to her. However the Moon Goddess wasn’t done with this queen. On the night of the full moon, Candace was rebonded to the beastly triplet Alphas—Alpha Ragnor, Alpha Reign and Alpha Ryker Pendragon, her sworn enemies. The triplets planned to reject her. They would have succeeded… if this wasn’t Candace’s last shot at being mated. Having survived three brutal, excruciating rejections, Candace seized control of her fate at the last minute, forcing them into a bond they never expected with her. That night, the triplets who once loathed her swore to make her life a living hell. But Candace doesn’t care—she will endure every torment if it means uncovering the conspiracy that destroyed her father and plundered her happy family into misery. But Fate is a bastard. Soon, this queen becomes the one obsession they can't escape. The one they crave so desperately they’ll lose their minds just to be buried inside her, until they lose themselves completely.  As cruel truths claw their way to light in this twisted game of love, betrayal, danger and passion, the Pendragon triplets start to see her for who she is—their queen. But Candace is done begging for scraps of their love. She is done being a weak toy in their twisted games. This queen wants them where they belong— groveling on their knees…forever?

My life used to be simple and happy. I married the man I loved after nine years together. We had a ten-year-old child and a peaceful home. I believed nothing could break the life we built. Then my adopted sister returned. Mian. At first, I thought it was a blessing. We hadn’t seen each other in years, and I believed our family would finally feel complete again. But slowly, things started changing. My husband began defending her more than me. My parents started believing her words over mine. Even my own child seemed to prefer her company. Every misunderstanding somehow pointed back to me… and every time, Mian was there to comfort everyone else. The strange thing is, she never argues with me. She never openly fights. She only smiles… while everything I love slowly slips out of my hands. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just my imagination. But the more my life falls apart… the more it feels like my sister didn’t come back to reunite with the family. She came back to take my place.

"1,000 years ago, the world of Animans trembled before Nemesis, the Jabbarin Maliqun of Destruction and WEAPONS. To save existence, the 4th Hidden Maliqun King sacrificed his life to seal the monster within the Orb of Ruin. Peace was restored, but the darkness was never gone. It was waiting. In the modern era, six brothers are born at the exact same moment—a miracle known as the Nuplets. Among them is Thunder, a young man who is special because he is Qadirun Maliqun of THUNDER,LIGHTNING,ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETICS and his 5 brothers are also Qadirun Maliqun. But Thunder carries a secret even he doesn't understand: the Orb of Ruin has awakened inside him.

Magic is the art of reducing the ambiguity of the possible. Ambra Tural can't do it as well as the others. Not yet. Her problem with mana is a carefully concealed secret that she is ashamed of. When she is admitted to the Red Tower, however, she realizes that the system is the first to hide: fragility and danger, more than anyone wants to admit. In a world saved by magicians, Arthur Laplace is the founder of modern magocentrism, his legend speaks for itself... But his story? The Legendary Magus is the story of a girl who faces sudden but necessary choices.

Before meeting Shen Xu, all Zhen Yuan wanted was to seek the dao and cultivate to the peak. After meeting Shen Xu, he thought the dao was important, but his wife was the most important. When Shen Xu transmigrated into a book, he mistakenly believed that Zhen Yuan was not a character in the original story. What he didn't expect was that his husband was the most mysterious and powerful unnamed character in the original novel.

Opening the newspaper: "The Terrifying Clown of Bull Street Appears on Kos Street," "The Man-Eating Witch Caesar Flees Towards the Queen's Quarter," "The Casanova Sylvie Wins Over the Princess," "A Dragon-Winged Young Girl Appears Above the Monastery Outside the City," "The Great Saintess Saint Syl Arrives Today in Her Faithful Suramar!" "Ahem..." Saint Syl, somewhat embarrassed, put down the newspaper in the carriage. Damn it... Opening the newspaper, it's all me...

The Prelude: The Cosmic Reset Ten years ago, the universe blinked. The Velociraptor Disaster—a surge of raw, conceptual Urza energy—shattered the ANIMAN VERSE"s Universe. Entire planets were turned to ash by beasts made of pure aura. In the chaos, a mysterious force sealed the disaster, but the world was changed forever. Five children were found, born of the legendary Mufasa, each carrying a fragment of the power that almost ended existence. The Early Days: The Backbenchers of G.O.D. The story follows Khandaker G.O.D. L Tech Lam Dino Lion, the youngest of the five brothers. Lam is a cold, multi-tasking genius who sees the world in code and tactical data. Alongside his brothers—Draz (Urza/Time), Krodh (Destruction), Bayu (Air/Metal), and Asadullah (War/Lightning)—he trains at the WC Academy. While the brothers engage in high-octane brawls that level school courtyards, a shadow looms. Lam encounters a terrifying anomaly: The Five-Armed Man, a being who carries a cosmic drum and plungers, radiating a power that dwarfs the "Kings" of the world. The Frost Lands Mission: The First Trial Mufasa assigns Team 5 their first real-world mission: The Rescue of the Northern Frost Lands. A legendary tyrant, Frostera the Duke, has awakened and is siphoning the life force of millions of civilians to open a Multiverse Portal. Guided by their mentor, the Red King, the brothers infiltrate the North. They face Glod, a Diamond Sentinel whose skin is invulnerable to physical harm. The battle pushes the brothers to their limits: Lam uses his "Sicnecal Bin" to calculate the molecular flaws in the diamond. Red King enters a state of "Red Fury" to combat Glod’s "Fist that Surpasses Time." The Tragedy: Mission Failed The victory over Glod is hollow. While the brothers focus on a massive diversion—a falling glacier—the Duke’s Frostland Hounds emerge from the ground. In a traumatizing sequence, the brothers are forced to watch as the civilians they were sent to save are slaughtered and eaten. Mufasa arrives in a rage, incinerating the remaining Icerians and the Hounds in a single shot. However, the true horror is revealed: the Five-Armed Man has resurrected the Duke using necrotic Green Flames, transforming him into a black-ice monster infused with void energy. The Galactic Scale: The Five-Armed Man's Power Mufasa engages the Five-Armed Man in a battle that breaks the planet's orbit. Despite Mufasa unleashing the Flame God’s Breath, the Five-Armed Man remains indifferent. It is revealed that the Five-Armed Man recently fought and defeated an entire universe in the Icerian Totality just to pass the time. The Duke survives, slapping Lam away like an insect, proving that the gap between the brothers and their enemies is still a vast canyon. The Current Status (Ending of Episode 15) The TEAM 5 to their home planet ANIMAN PLANET, , in disgrace. The mission was a total failure. Lam is fueled by a cold, calculating revenge. Mufasa is preparing for a world-ending invasion. The Duke is prepping his Icerian Vanguard for the "Black Snowfall" to freeze the L-Clan’s home world.

In the year 799 A.D., a brutal war erupted between humanity and a nightmarish species known as the Narvans—grotesque beings born of shadow, chaos, and hatred. With their monstrous powers and thirst for domination, the Narvans pushed humankind to the brink of extinction. In humanity’s darkest hour, a warrior named Vaelion rose to lead the resistance. A mysterious figure shrouded in legend, Vaelion wielded unmatched power drawn from an ancient source known as Prāṇa—a divine life force that flows through all living beings. Under his command, the humans launched a desperate counterattack to reclaim their world. But victory came at a cost. Vaelion vanished after the final battle, leaving behind whispers of his sacrifice... and a prophecy that his legacy would return when the world once again faced annihilation. Centuries later, the Narvans begin to stir once more. As the seal on their realm weakens, strange events unfold—and one young man, Lioran, discovers that he may be the one destined to carry Vaelion’s will forward. Torn between fate and freedom, burdened by a power he doesn’t understand, Lioran must awaken the truth of the past, rally broken warriors, and confront the horrors that once nearly destroyed humanity. The legend of Vaelion was only the beginning.

The Contract Obligation A Dark Billionaire / Enemies-to-Lovers Romance I walked into the lion’s den to save my family. I didn’t realize the lion had been waiting for me all along. NORA Desperation is a dangerous motivator. When loan sharks threaten my little brother, my only play is a terrifying bluff: walk into Blackwood Tower and attempt to blackmail the most dangerous billionaire in the city. KILLIAN Nora Finch is a foolish little bird flying straight into a glass wall. She thinks she caught me off guard. She thinks she’s bartering with a secret ledger she doesn’t even understand.

I spent eight years fighting cancer. Lost my hair, lost my strength, and eventually… lost the fight. And just as the darkness took me... Ding! {Cronos Protocol initializing… Injecting Affinity: Time … Innate Affinity detected… INFINITY?!} So yeah. I died, got isekai’d, and immediately broke the System so badly it started arguing with me. Too late, buddy. For I am alive! And not bald! And I'm gonna make it count. Even got a cosmic Affinity no one’s supposed to have, cool Time Magic, and Infinite Mana Regen. Which is good, because the world is collapsing faster than my old immune system. Because apparently… Eldritch monsters are straight-up falling from the sky. Gods are answering prayers a little too literally. And a 3000-year-old organization is hunting me because I “stole” two of their Chimeras. (Yeah, I’m keeping them.) While I… just wanted to have fun. Nah, I didn’t die of cancer and got isekai’d just to roll over for fate again. Let come who may… I’ll beat them all the same.

Traveling to a world where ghost stories and abnormal creatures are rampant, Serie not only becomes a beautiful, fragile, and sickly girl like a porcelain doll, but is also taken in by the salvation organization as an S-level abnormal creature and imprisoned in a steel fortress in the deep sea. But Serie didn't care, because she found that as long as she closed her eyes, those witches condensed by fear, desire and power would open their demon eyes on the other side of the world. They were walking taboos and also puppets dancing on Serie's fingertips. Each witch has a completely different form and ability. Complete tasks, light up the skill tree, and continuously upgrade and evolve. Beautiful and powerful S-class witches appeared one after another like mushrooms after rain—— "The Witch of Pleasure plunges New York into a lewd abyss?" "The Dread Devourer ate the Golden Gate Bridge clean?" "The Slaughter Witch rules the battlefield, weaving nightmares for her enemies with threads of blood?" "The ruling witch made the organization's top executives betray her and become her loyal servants?" Alarms on the radio sounded one after another, and the employees were talking about Serie's trumpet, some with fear, some with admiration, and some with vigilance, but they would never know that the culprit of all this was that useless and cute girl who was tied with chains and restraints and did nothing every day except act coquettishly and wait for food. Serie said nothing, just buried her face in the pillow and continued to play the simulation game: "Let's open a new account... I want to try a different evolution path this time."

Haruko could hardly believe it — she had actually transmigrated into a melodramatic female-oriented novel. And she had become a cannon fodder villainess! Facing a death flag right at the start, Haruko decisively transformed into a yandere loli and confessed to the female lead. “Ichiko, the one I like is you!” “You clearly said you liked me — so why are you still going to someone else!” “I won’t allow you to like anyone else. You can only like me!!!” She would confess, make her fall in love, and then fake her death in front of her — making herself her one and only. But gradually, Haruko noticed something was off. The female lead seemed to have been raised into a yandere. “Hey, Haruko, you can only like me too, okay?”

The Martin and Jones Adventure Series follows brilliant archaeologist Professor Jones and his courageous assistant Martin as they travel to mysterious and dangerous places across the world. From the glowing secrets of Roktochura Mountain to the haunting whispers of an ancient forest and the terrifying science hidden beneath a graveyard, every journey tests their courage, intelligence, and friendship. Blending thrilling adventure, scientific mysteries, and emotional moments, the series takes readers deep into unknown worlds where every discovery could change history and every shadow may hide a deadly secret waiting to be uncovered.

She awoke in an underground place, remembering bits and pieces of her memories from hundreds of years ago. During the time she tried to break free, people came and talked about a trial. However, as these people leave again, she breaks free from the chains holding her in this place. With all the vast knowledge she has, she helps people on her journey and is now back roaming the Kingdom, wishing to uncover the truths behind these past events as well as keep a promise she had once made. Being unable to stay long in the Kingdom, she had to flee to the Alliance. There, she meets a lot of people and also finds a place where she can get some hints about the past events. She is proclaimed a criminal, searched by the Kingdom. Their accusation is that she was responsible for the murder of a princess. Yet Feyra knows she isn't the murderer, making her seek out every sign that would lead her to the actual motive behind everything. The events of the past seem different than they have been described, making Feyra have a bad feeling and leading her to discover even more of the dark side of the Kingdom. Will she be able to find everything and get enough evidence to prove not only her innocence, but also topple the system of the Kingdom? Cover by @sera_ambren