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Mirror in the Dust

In the 170th year of Yong’an of the Great Wei Dynasty, a secret scandal broke out within a princely household, one that shook both the imperial court and the immortal sects alike. The only son of the Northern Garrison Prince, infamous throughout the realm as utterly worthless and rotten to the core, was in truth the lowly son of a stable slave, switched at birth years ago by the Demonic Sect. The real heir, meanwhile, turned out to be a true disciple of a Sage, newly appointed top Scholar, having already cultivated a breath of Righteous Qi of the Vast Heavens. For a time, all of Great Wei erupted in jubilation. People everywhere congratulated the princely household on rectifying the origin and returning to the source, on finally recovering their qilin-born prodigy. ....... “Yeah, it really is worth celebrating, if only this so-called fake heir weren’t me.” Gu Fangchen faced the Northern Garrison Prince and the true heir who had come to confront him, then glanced at the randomly assigned profession hovering above his head: [Emperor (1 day)] [Skill One: Mandate of Heaven (Passive)] [Skill Two: Power of Life and Death (Active)] That year, the Northern Garrison Princess Consort was still gentle as water, doting on her child to the point of indulgence. The Eldest Princess was cold as frost, proud and aloof, a single smile worth a fortune. The Younger Princess was sweet, foolishly adorable, obsessed with heroic young knights, and most of all despised shameless villains. The Grand Princess struck fear across battlefields as a peerless war god. The female State Preceptor could overturn clouds and rain with a mere turn of her hand. The moment Gu Fangchen opened his eyes, he knew it: He had transmigrated to become an emperor. Those who follow me shall prosper. Those who oppose me shall perish.
ExoEight_ · 181.9k Views

The Sharkings: Origins

Looking for a unique, thrilling, and expansive story? Beware! This story, 19 years in the making, is legendary! Announcements/News: Actively updating — Revised Volume 3 complete, Volume 3 Relaunch Underway! I'm back with Volume 3! Trailer dropped on my YT! A Brand-New chapter every 3 days! Actual Synopsis: Saga 1 - Major Arc 1 (Possible Spoilers) Volume 1: A special family happily lived in a secluded and sacred forest. However, their peaceful lives take a dark turn when two strangers appeared. An evil organization and the dangers of the outside world threaten their lives. How will three boys face against the cruel reality of the world? Volume 2: Three special boys attend an academy, seeking knowledge of the outside world. After a shocking turn of events, they seek to get stronger, obtaining special weapons from a secretive master. With fearsome and hungry monsters in their way, how will they learn to wield such weapons? Volume 3: Three special boys protect their home from a jealous prince and a hungry princess. Everything went as planned until they ended up elsewhere, outside their home... How will they withstand and survive the outside world? Volume 4: Three special boys defend outside society from a giant, fearsome prince. With the outside's military intervening, how will they ally? Also featuring a bittersweet rivalry between two close apprentices and shocking revelations of a dissolved noble family. Volume 5: Three special boys finally invade their enemy's main base of operations. As they confront the leaders, how will they manage a victory over them? Featuring backstories and climatic battles of significant characters. Saga 1 - Major Arc 2 (Possible Spoilers) Volume 6: Three special boys join the fight against new enemies of humankind. Monsters, created and locked up in a dark lab, were released. Featuring a time skip, how much stronger did the boys get? Is it enough to stop their new superior enemies or will they fail at their final mission of saving humanity? Volume 7: Featuring a rivalry between two monster species and an insidious reason for it, how will two young brothers solve the prolonged and bitter quarrel? How will they make it back to their homeland with reinforcements for humankind? Coming soon... Volume 8: Synopsis arriving soon... :) Even bigger synopsis in the auxiliary volume! Say what?! If you want free early access, contact me in my socials. XD Here are my socials: https://linktr.ee/habo_
Habo · 237.7k Views

Competition Unknown

[Warning: Some content in the novel may be upsetting to some readers. Contents include injuries, sickness, mental health, intense medication, fight scenes, and intense gore. Lastly, this novel is a semi-reality dark fantasy trope. Read at your own risk.] Chapters and Release: Release days: Everyday Release time: 3pm UTC Status: Unedited. (Will edit after main story conclusion. Specifically from the start.) *** Synopsis: A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl happens to find herself approached by a strange woman after a rough day—who happens to know her plans on running away. Astonished, she tried to interrogate, but ended up getting dragged into another universe and another world. There, she finds out that experiments are being ran on fourteen other candidates set aside for her. Being the last candidate, she is told that she might be the first one to face demise. But she is determined to find out what is up with this facility. Eventually, she comes across an astonishing fact—that this whole world and setting is similar to that of a book she read during her younger days. And the protagonist happened to be her own cousin, who also killed her at the near end of the novel. *** (Prologue) Listen... No one is judging no one here. And so am I. The world has been cruel these days. Being modern means being rude to people on the street who are below your rank—That is what they believe. I find this all frustrating, why move with a state of mind that could as well kill you someday. You don't know if this person is a lawyer, a far relative, a doctor, a politician. But you already get the gist, don't you? And like any other teenagers my age, I really want to run away from all this. It's not like I am an orphan or from a poor household. I am from a family which is a standard class in economical terms in this world. And yet, I want to run away. Haha! Anyways. I did succeed. I wonder at what cost? I am away from all that hostility of course... But now I am in another world. Not reincarnated. Not transmigrated to another body. I am with my own soul in my original body, but in another world. This world... is weird. Thinking back, I remember reading a strange book when I was young. This book actually speaks about this world. I am a character there. Funnier thing, I don't know what is up with it either. It appears to me that the writer decided they want to see the 'live-action' version of it. So now... I am the actor playing my own character.
WaterMask · 265.5k Views

Djinn Hunter: Infernal Requiem

500 years ago, an unimaginable war broke out between humanity and the Djinn. Mankind stood on the edge of extinction, for the Djinn were far beyond anything humans could understand. They could not be touched. They could not be killed. They could not be stopped. The Djinn were crushing the war with absolute ease. Until some of them chose to stand with humanity. These Djinn, who betrayed their own kind, revealed the greatest secret of their race to mankind: Djinn could be killed. But that knowledge came with a price. In order to fight back, humans had to unite with the very beings they feared. And thus, a forbidden ritual was born: The Djinn Binding Ritual. Through this ritual, humans learned how to bind Djinn to their will and wield their power as their own. And from that moment on… Djinn Hunters were born. Centuries passed. But the war never truly ended. It only changed its form. Now, the Djinn roam the human world after sunset, hunting in the dark and growing stronger with every life they take. And above them all stand the most feared of their kind: The Ten Ifrits — rulers of the Djinn Realm, each powerful enough to bring catastrophe upon the world. And then, one night… The life of a lonely and ordinary boy named Kaito was shattered forever. On what should have been a normal evening, his mother sent him out for a simple errand. But by the time the sun had set… everything had changed. When Kaito returned home, he found an Ifrit slaughtering his family and feasting on their remains. Frozen in terror and standing at death’s door, Kaito was saved at the last moment by a Djinn Hunter. But that night, he lost far more than his family. He lost the life he once knew. Driven by grief and a burning desire for revenge, Kaito follows the path of the hunter who saved him and finds himself within the Djinn Hunters’ Union. There, he meets two others: Ren and Aiko. Together, the three of them set out on a deadly journey against the Djinn, the Ifrits, and the darkness consuming their world. But the truth Kaito is chasing… is far greater than the monster that murdered his family. Because in the deepest shadows of this world, there is something that people only dare to whisper about in fear. A legend. A calamity. And perhaps… the true end of this war
MrCoco · 24.2k Views

The Awakened Cannon Fodder Is Being Chased By The Crazy Leads

#Cannon Fodder, Second Chance, Male lead fall in love first, Bloodline Awakening, Possessive ML, Weak to Strong FL, Business World# In a world with a clear hierarchy between powerful Awakened bloodlines and weak humans, Severine Vale never believed in miracles. That is, until a sudden series of dreamlike memories forces her to awaken to a truth she was never meant to know: She is living inside a novel. Her Awakened dorm-mate, Alina Hart, is the protagonist. Meanwhile, Damien Rhodes, the Wolf Awakener, is the male lead—whose story begins with “I bully you because I hate you” and ends with “I bully you because I love you.” And Severine? She’s nothing more than cannon fodder—a side character who dies five years later under the male lead’s 'revenge'. Realising the truth, Severine avoids the original plot at all costs—only to discover that even the smallest flutter of her actions sends the entire story spiraling off course. The main characters begin knocking on her door one by one. Worst of all, fate pushes her into a moment that never existed in the novel. One night, Severine barges into a forbidden room… and straight into the territory of a Villain—Killian Rhett King, a person so ruthless that even Damien fears him. Severine only wanted to stay far from the story. But how is she supposed to escape when crazy leads' presence in her supposedly peaceful life keeps growing… and growing?
Kuroitsuki · 612.5k Views

The Last Step

- Disclaimer: Chapters are long and detailed. Slower pacing and character driven narrative. The Last Step is an epic fantasy spanning years of chapters, where history, ideology, science, and humanity collide in a world ruled by magic. Once, humanity stood at the bottom of existence. Magicless. Powerless. A race hunted to the brink of extinction. To the world, humans were little more than intelligent animals, fit to be enslaved, toyed with, or discarded. Their survival was never expected. Yet somewhere in forgotten history... someone changed that fate. Now, 7,000 years later, humanity stands beside the very races that once ruled over them, wielding magic that should have never been theirs. Few remember how that miracle came to be. Kaiser Everhart is one of them. Not as a chosen hero. Not with divine blessings. Not with overwhelming strength. Only with a mind that refuses to end his story. Born into a life that could only be described as hell, Kaiser Everhart grew up believing humanity was selfish, cruel, and undeserving of faith. All he ever wanted was a quiet life. A place where he could finally understand what happiness felt like. Instead, the world refused to leave him alone. Drawn into a continent where primordial beasts roam forgotten lands, where dragonics shape empires, elves preserve ancient civilizations, demons struggle against a curse of their own existence, beastkin, dwarves, and fairies each reign over fields humanity could never hope to rival, Kaiser finds himself standing among races that have mastered magic, divinity, and power over thousands of years. Yet the deeper his journey goes, the more one question begins to consume everything: Can humanity be saved... if humanity itself is its greatest enemy? This is not a story about becoming the strongest. It is a story about changing the world one impossible step at a time. Long before Kaiser Everhart was born, another man walked a remarkably similar path. One who devoted everything to humanity... Only to lose faith in it. As the past slowly awakens, two ideals begin moving toward an inevitable collision: The man who abandoned hope in humanity. And the man still searching for a reason to believe. Somewhere between them stands Kaiser Everhart, unaware that every step he takes is leading him toward the one person who understands him better than anyone else ever could. A slow-burning saga of politics, philosophy, science, war, romance, psychological manipulation, civilization-building, and the fragile hope that even the weakest race can create its own future. The road is long. The answers are earned. And every step matters. Discord: https://discord.gg/3tRarQqWJj
KaisefR · 583.4k Views

Fated: The Alpha's Unwanted Luna

Viola was once the pride of her pack, destined to rise above everyone on the day she received her wolf. Instead, that day marked her fall. She had been the villain in countless stories, untouchable and adored by the Alpha heir, until the night her wolf was supposed to awaken, and fate played its cruelest joke. She fell to the lowest rank in her pack, rejected by her sworn mate. Stripped of status, strength, and even her wolf, she was forced to live a life worse than that of an omega. Imprisoned and alone, Viola’s only hope of escape lay in finding her wolf, or her fated mate. Only, a dark past kept her powers dormant… and her fated mate didn’t want her. Sebastian Kade is powerful, ruthless, and chained to a past he refuses to release. Viola Linden does not belong in his world, and he wants her gone. Fate, however, disagrees. This fragile, stubborn girl refuses to leave his orbit. He does not believe in love. He does not want her. He has already lost too much. An Alpha who swore off weakness, hardened by loss and haunted by a prophecy that feels more like a curse, Sebastian is certain he will never allow another woman into his life. But the Moon Goddess is rarely kind. Viola carries something ancient within her, something dangerous, something powerful enough to defy him. Hate twists into desire. Desire ignites into fierce passion. And passion threatens to become love. But when Sebastian discovers what Viola truly carries within her, will it save him… or destroy everything he’s built? ~~~ WARNING: MATURE CONTENT! #Slow burn #Spicy #Morally Gray ML #Adventure #Angst Discord server: https://discord.gg/VMM9DXw3yP
Ash20 · 1.4m Views