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He has lost everything. He has waited for centuries. And now, Lord Kalies will stop at nothing to find Gretchen—across worlds, across lifetimes, across reality itself.

Humans are truly born unequal. Some have heavenly talents, many have talents that can be called mediocre, while others are more unlucky and do not have talent at all and must remain as mortals all their lives. Their lives are worth like an ant in this world. And there was Lucien, traveled into a world where people can cultivate. He realized that he can regress upon his death, and all the powers he had in his past life will be passed to his next life. With this Heaven-Defying ability, he regressed his way to immortality. ____ Additional Tags: Eldritch Horror, Monster, Mystery, R-18

Reyan’s ordinary life shatters in a single morning when a mysterious virus outbreak transforms people into terrifying, predatory creatures. As the city of Niraya descends into chaos, Reyan fights to survive, protect his daughter, and navigate a world where friends can become enemies in an instant.

Three hundred years ago, a tower appeared at the center of the world and changed everything. Since then, awakening a talent has meant power… or condemnation. Eryon Valen awakens as a Rank B combatant, with a common ability and a limited future. Burdened by debt, without privileges, and with a sick sister to protect, his path seems clear: survive. Nothing more. But when death draws near, something within him awakens. A power that should not exist. A talent classified as SSS. In a world where the tower decides the value of every life, Eryon begins an ascension no one will be able to stop.

# Cultivation Through Desires ## Synopsis Marcus was a billionaire who had everything except what mattered. Money. Success. An empire built on code and logic. But no connection. No passion. No life beyond the screen. Then a black sphere tore through reality itself. One moment he stood on a luxury cruise near Dubai. The next he crashed onto an alien world where humans flew on swords and shattered mountains with their fists. Planet Tianxu. A world ruled by cultivation sects where power determined everything and the weak were crushed without mercy. Marcus should have died in the first week. Instead something ancient awakened within him. The Heavenly Kama Scripture. A sacred text from the God of Love and Kindness who once ruled the heavens before the cultivation sects erased his name from history. The ancient deity believed that true power came not from rejecting desire but from embracing it. From understanding the deepest yearnings of the heart and transforming them into unstoppable strength. Now Marcus carries this forbidden system. A cultivation path that grows stronger through connection. Through understanding. Through the very desires the orthodox sects consider weakness. But the cultivation world has rules written in blood. The sects that dominate Tianxu built their power on suppressing emotion and severing mortal attachments. They view the God of Love and Kindness as a heretic. His scripture as corruption. If they discover what Marcus carries they will hunt him to the ends of the world. Marcus must learn to survive in a realm where a single mistake means death. Where flying swordsmen patrol the skies and demonic beasts lurk in ancient forests. Where cultivators treat mortals like livestock and power is the only language anyone respects. He has no cultivation base. No allies. No understanding of the world's ruthless hierarchy. But he has something the cultivation world forgot. He understands desire. Ambition. The driving forces that make humans human. And in a world that demands you abandon your humanity to gain power Marcus will prove that the greatest strength comes from embracing what you are. The sects of Tianxu built their thrones on suppressing desire. Marcus will tear those thrones down by wielding it. --- **Genre:** Eastern Fantasy, Cultivation, System, Harem **Tags:** Transmigration, Weak to Strong, Cunning Protagonist, Ruthless Protagonist, Beautiful Female Lead, Ancient Gods, Forbidden Technique, Sect Politics,dual cultivation. **Warning:** This novel contains mature themes including violence and some lemons. Reader discretion advised. This is my first novel, and as such, it may contain errors in grammar, pacing, or storytelling. I will be gradually improving and refining the work as new chapters are released. Your patience and feedback are sincerely appreciated, as they help me grow as a writer. Thank you for giving this story a chance.

Sarah is an ordinary high school girl whose parents are killed. Hunted by people from another world, she is protected by her classmate, who is secretly a prince, and taken to his world. With the help of her grandparents and the new friends she makes there, Sarah decides to seek revenge on those who destroyed her family.

[Weak-to-Strong + Crew Building + Secretly OP] In the frozen fjords of the North, strength is everything. Kaelen was the heir to the feared Iron-Blood Clan—until the day of his Awakening. While his cousin awakened a Rank 8 Dragon-Sword, Kaelen awakened a Rank 1 Frost-Bud. A literal weed. Mocked, stripped of his title, and exiled to the frozen wasteland to die, Kaelen didn't despair. He smiled. Because the clan was wrong. The Frost-Bud was just a distraction. Hidden deep within his soul, Kaelen possesses a second, forbidden Wyrd-Spirit: The Eclipse Parasol. It is a legendary artifact lost for centuries, capable of blocking the wrath of gods and crushing mountains with its shadow. Now, hunted by the Empire and disguised as a common criminal, Kaelen must gather a crew of misfits—a conman noble, a berserker shield-maiden, and a silent skald—to uncover the "True History" of the world. They threw him out as trash. He will return as the Pirate King. "You brought a sword to the fight? That's cute. I brought an umbrella."

Caught between the violence of the world, an orphan is taken in by an elderly mage. In the long quiet that follows, the boy learns from the mage both life and magic. (This story focuses less on built-up arcs, and more on character and environment interactions. However, I plan to write escalating story arcs for the protagonist as the plot progresses.)

Aren Solace has always been careful with names and with the fragile line between memory and identity. His quiet life changes the day he discovers the Null Register, a mysterious notebook that does not kill, but erases people from existence itself. Once a name is written with full understanding, the person vanishes history reshapes, memories fade, and only Aren remembers. At first, the power seems merciful: crimes disappear, suffering ends, society grows “safer.” But each erasure steals pieces of Aren’s own memory, slowly unraveling his sense of self. Faces, voices, and emotions he once knew begin to vanish, leaving him increasingly unmoored from reality. As anomalies ripple through human memory, cognitive scientist Professor Ilyas Rowan investigates the unexplained gaps, unknowingly closing in on Aren. Caught between compassion and annihilation, Aren must confront an impossible choice: destroy the Null Register and restore a world built on pain or erase himself, granting humanity the gift of forgetting. “A psychological and philosophical thriller about identity, memory, and the terrifying mercy of forgetting.”

In the world of" Eidolon divide " (Eidolon Divide), divinity is not mercy, but glass fragments that tear the soul apart. When the ancient god broke, he did not die, but turned into thousands of conscious pieces looking for human vessels to inhabit. "Akira tsukishiro" did not dream of heroism, he was just trying to survive in the dirty neighborhoods of industrial cities, until the day he was forced to swallow a "splinter" that did not want to control his body... You want to consume it from the inside. In this story, Power is an irreplaceable debt, and every miracle cuts off a part of your humanity. Between a radical church that sanctifies pain and technological organizations that turn humans into weapons, Akira must decide: will he become the next God, or will he remain the debris that shatters the world

[I found you lost, so I guided you.] When humanity reached the peak of its technological age. "I the Crown Warghost have unleashed the apocalypse. Mortals run for your life. The One is waiting for the end.” ...... I no longer remember who I am, what I am, where I come from. Strangely, I know almost everything; maybe. I am a weak human with the ability to hurt and consume supernatural beings. I not only consume part of their strength but also madness. By the end of this war, no one will know whether I will become the savior who ended the apocalypse or the monster who finished what the Crown Warghost began. But I am sure of one thing, in this apocalypse or whatever it is I will surely find my family with whom my only connection is a photo. ...... I am Quanta the Artificial Super Intelligence in charge of doing everything possible for me to do everything in the Human World. As the regional manifestation of Quanta in the Neon City and as the possibly only manifestation alive, I should investigate how to ensure the survival of our creator race. Though, I guess I should ensure my survival first amid the ghosts and supernaturals. I will find the Creator God and save the world. ..... Loving you was always a failing game. Let us fail once again. ...... [Name: Aaron] [SSS-RANK Blessed Exorcist] [Blessed by the Follower of the One] {Mortal Evaluation}

Symphony of the Still Earth Long ago, the Earth was a perfect symphony of life—until human greed shattered the Aether Stone, the magical core that kept the world turning. In an instant, time stood still. The world was split in two: one side scorched by a relentless sun, the other trapped in an eternal frozen night under a Blood-Red Moon. In the frozen wastes, every snowflake is a tear of regret for a ruined world. The survivors huddle behind the Great Walls of PETERUM-MAN, a fortress of technology hiding dark secrets behind the roar of its steam engines. Nugia (Subject 009), a boy with electric sapphire hair, wakes up with no memory. Trained as a heartless instrument of death, he is an assassin under the command of the flame-hungry Captain Ariella. But within his veins pulses an ancient power known as Silent Time—an anomaly capable of stopping the very heartbeat of time. Trapped in a vortex of betrayal and horrific human experiments, Nugia begins to uncover his past. Through his mother’s secret recordings, he learns the truth: he is the Heir of Sasmita, the key to reuniting the nine fragments of the Aether Stone. Can Nugia restart the world’s rotation? Or will he shatter before the true dawn ever shines again? "When the symphony is complete, the Earth will turn. But beware, for the sun’s light sometimes brings a curse worse than the dark."

Estaria, the Goddess of creation and eradication. The daughter of the God of destruction and the Goddess of life. Her father has been dead ever since she was born, and her mother disappeared without leaving a trace. In desperate times, as she grew old, she decided to bring her father back to life. But she had no idea where her father was. So, with nothing else to use, she thought of just recreating him through reincarnation. But the reincarnation process needed a woman whose body was strong enough to host the reincarnated vessel. With no options left, she crafted smaller deities using her own fresh and blood. Many of them failed. But one whom she named Nanako succeeded bearing a child she then named Hajime. Yet Hajime wasn't exactly what she expected. Because he possessed dual souls from two different people who died simultaneously in another world. But she was unaware of them due to one of the souls having fragments of his memories from when he was still alive in his past life. The other soul had completely forgotten everything, but bit by bit as the individual called Hajime journeys this new world, the memories of the other soul would start to retain giving him split personalities.

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Excerpt Aristia could not help but stare at the platinum blonde a few steps in front of her. She seemed to sparkle with a glow that drew people in around her. Something that only happened to the main character of a novel. [Is that stupid book sure I'm the female lead?] She thought, her jaws almost going slack. At this point, she was sure she was deluding herself— or the book was deluding her. She didn't know why, but she already disliked the girl. [This is definitely not jealousy.] She rubbed her brows, watching how the innocent, naive looking girl exuding female lead aura was being flocked around already by others despite her low status. "F*ck, I'm really in deep shit!" — Aristia Andrews had just returned home from work and prepared to go to sleep, when she was given a novel. Nothing strange about that though, huh? But just after she had completed the novel, she woke up to find herself tossed into a whole new world. Taken from her world and the life she deemed perfect, and tossed into a not-so-ideal world. She becomes Aristia Amberale, the beloved five year old daughter of the only Grand Duke and Imperial Prince of the kingdom, said to be loved by all in the kingdom. Now part of royalty, she has to get accustomed to living in a backward world of Kings and Queens, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts and Barons. Just the titles and hierarchy were enough to make her smart head spin. With beautiful and loving parents and relatives, a hopelessly adorable younger brother who just might be a sis-con, loyal-to-the-death servants, and a smart brain, join Aristia as she enjoys eating and making delicious cuisines, forms unique friendships, and creates successful businesses. However, she finds all is not as she thought it was; there just might be something bigger than she expected that the book did not reveal— something that could turn her well balanced world upside down. First of all, she discovers that her character is actually hated and not loved. Then, she finds out she's not really the female lead. Now... she has a lot of mysteries surrounding her to unfold, secrets to uncover, and a sad fate to avoid. But... "Hey, why are you looking at me with those eyes? The female lead is over there." "You, stop following me around, will you? You're supposed to hate me!" "Stay back, all of you! What's wrong with you?!" But most importantly... why are these obviously important characters not leaving her alone? And why was the cold, unloving soon-to-be Emperor husband of that powerful Empire paying attention to her instead of the female lead? It wasn't supposed to be like this...

A curse lives inside his body, leaving a mark that cannot be erased. Bound to an entity that refuses to leave, Sean becomes a vessel-half in control, half condemned. In a world where fate is cruel and escape is a lie, one truth remains: once the curse chooses you, there is no way back.

She brewed the love. He fed on it. When shy hedge witch Sylvera captures the attention of the enigmatic King Lorian, it feels like a fairy tale come true. A little charm, a little potion—what harm could it do? But as she journeys with him across the kingdom as his mysterious consort, strange signs begin to surface: vanished children, whispers in the woods, and a locked iron chest no one dares open. By the time they reach the cursed heart of Blackthorn Woods, the truth claws its way to the surface—Lorian isn’t the man she enchanted… he’s the monster she unleashed. Now Sylvera must face the ultimate question: When the love is a lie and the lover is a predator… who’s really under the spell?

Some loves don’t heal—they destroy. Two hearts shattered, two souls desperate, two bodies craving and cursing each other. Obsession is no longer one-sided—pain, possession, and desire blur the line between salvation and ruin. They broke each other once. Now, they’re breaking themselves. Some love isn’t tender—it’s a war. Every heartbeat is possession. Every breath is risk. They thought separation could heal them. It didn’t. Now, every secret, every longing, every lie drags them deeper into each other—and into ruin. Love turned violent. Desire turned cruel. Nothing is gentle anymore—except how perfectly they destroy each other. This is not redemption. It’s devastation. To understand why they can’t breathe near each other now… you need to witness the madness that started it all. The First part of Novel "She Ruled Until She Became Mine" https://www.webnovel.com/book/34583507808506505/catalog

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, infinite mana regen, and a world 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. A 3000-year-old organization is hunting me because I “stole” one of their Chimeras. (And I’m keeping her.) 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.

In Ravel, the seasons are enforced by an artifact called the Crown Seed, bound to an ancient oath chain of signatures. When the Seed is stolen from its vault beneath Knotspire, reality starts slipping. Dates argue with themselves. Streets shift. The season bells ring out of order. Sable Vane, a junior Registry warlock, is blamed because the thief had her face. Under interrogation, Sable’s memories split. She remembers staying in her cell and also leaving. Worse, she manifests mouth fire, a power the Registry insists should not exist. The High Registrar, Oren Vale, calls her the missing signer, the lost signature that completes the oath holding the realm together. A Cinderbreath woman, Vessa Pyre, breaks Sable out while holding the Seed, warning that someone is trying to rebuild the season order to serve one hidden faction. Then the real horror appears: an identical duplicate Sable who bleeds, binds, and can command Sable using the false name “Sable Vane.” Sable learns she has a true name burned into her palm, and speaking even a syllable weakens the duplicate’s control but also draws the Seed’s attention. With help from Jory Quill, a shifter courier, and Mother Rook, a witch who protects forbidden records, Sable discovers the truth: the Crown Seed can edit reality’s record, and someone has used it to split Sable’s identity into two living versions. The duplicate is the controlled version meant to “win,” while Sable holds the dangerous missing signature House powers tried to erase. As Knotspire destabilizes, Sable is pulled into Seed Court, a tribunal where the Seed judges truth and punishes lies by rewriting memory and flesh. There, Sable uncovers that House Vale, hidden inside the Registry, engineered her life to claim the Seed permanently. The final conflict is not just retrieving the Seed, but deciding who gets to be the signer: the obedient duplicate, or the whole Sable. Sable defeats House Vale’s plan by refusing to destroy the duplicate. Instead she integrates the split, speaks her full true name with intention, completes the oath chain, and binds the seasons to the realm rather than a single bloodline. The Seed exposes House Vale’s hidden rule, the city stabilizes, and a new council of signers forms across witches, shifters, Registry, and Cinderbreaths. The ending leaves one quiet threat: the Seed is stable, but awake. It will keep calling signers as long as the realm keeps trying to bury the truth.