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Beyond the Black Page Higo Ren was an ordinary man who had grown tired of the modern world. Trapped in repetitive days and unfulfilled dreams, his only escape was his obsession with martial arts and ancient legends. One night, inside an abandoned library forgotten by time, he discovers a single intact book among countless ruins. Its pages speak of distant worlds, cultivation, and power beyond human limits. But the final page is different — a pitch-black page, untouched by decay. The moment Higo Ren touches it, searing pain floods his mind… and his life ends. When he opens his eyes again, he awakens in another body — that of Lin Lao, a weak boy beaten to death by slave traders in a brutal cultivation world where only the strong survive. Carrying Lin Lao’s memories and his own unbroken will, Higo Ren realizes this world grants no mercy. Sold alongside other children to a demonic sect, hunted by fate itself, Higo Ren must grow stronger step by step. From the depths of despair, from chains and blood, he begins his journey of cultivation. In a world ruled by power, secrets, and ancient forces, will the truth behind the Black Page lead him to immortality… or drag him into an even darker abyss?

A forced bond. A hidden power. A love that could break the pack. Julian Thorne has spent his life hiding his true strength. As the "delicate" son of the Silver Moon Alpha, he is the perfect sacrificial lamb to trade for peace. His destination: the Iron Ridge, a pack known for its brutality and its ruthless commander, Kaelen Volkov. Kaelen is a man of scars and silence. He doesn't want a mate, especially not a pampered prince from a rival territory. He expects Julian to be a ghost in his house quiet, compliant, and out of the way. But Kaelen didn't count on Julian’s fire. As the full moon approaches, the "Moonlit Bond" begins to take hold, pulling them together with a physical ache that neither can ignore. But Julian’s dormant Alpha scent is starting to wake up, and Kaelen is hiding a dark past that involves the very people Julian fled from. In a world where only the strongest survive, they must decide if they are enemies, allies, or something far more permanent.

I thought God was a myth—something we tell ourselves to hold on to hope. ​ Well, I met one, and it was terrifying. ​I am Ray. My life wasn't what anyone would call pleasant. It was a big ball of tragedy, misery, and every fucked-up thing you can think of. Even the way I died was laughable. It was the final punchline to a very long, very bad joke. ​But then I met it. "A God." It wasn’t a kind light or a grandfather in the clouds. It was something else entirely. For its own reasons, it decided to give me a chance to start over. It handed me a completely new life. Author here!, leave comments,likes and review. I'm open to ideas

“Husband… please don’t hate me…” Those were my wife’s final words as she died in front of my eyes. I ruled with iron and blood. I crushed anyone who threatened my vision…. men, women, even the innocent. They called it madness. I called it survival. For years, I held back. My wife pleaded with me, gentle and desperate. She carried our child and swore she would end it all if I didn’t stop. I listened. I spared them. They repaid mercy with betrayal. They slaughtered my people, destroyed everything I built, murdered my wife, and left me broken in ways no one could ever explain. Two years of endless torture followed. “Accept our God and die quickly,” they demanded. I refused. Not out of faith. Out of pride. They shattered my body, then ended me. As death claimed me, only two things burned inside: Endless hatred… and bitter regret. Hatred for the weakness that let them rise. Regret for the empire I never finished claiming. But death was only the beginning. I awoke in a new flesh…Augustus Vane, heir to a proud but cowering werewolf clan, bowed beneath human masters. Fate has granted me a second life. This time, nothing will chain me. Not love. Not mercy. Not kindness. Not anyone. This time… I will conquer the world! •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• EXTRA TAGS: #Evolution #War #Tragedy #NonHumanLead #RuthlessProtagonist #AntiHero #DarkFantasy #Werewolf #Schemer #FromWeakToStrong #Grimdark #Strategy A/N: Please read at least ten chapters before deciding whether to continue.

After her real identity was exposed,Yan Yuxi was forced to go into hiding inorder to escape the law. However,her brother's friend betrays her and almost hands her over to the enemies. Left with no other means to escape,she jumped out of the window of her hotel room. What she didn't expect was that she would end up transmigrating in to the novel her crush had given her to read. In the novel she becomes Yan Xueying ,a palace maid chosen to become the Crown Prince's Trial Wife and the crown prince Ye Jianrong looks exactly like her real life boss and crush Captain Xu Yi. From a despised palace maid belonging to the weakest tribe she rose to power fighting alongside her husband. But at the end of the trial marriage period,will her husband choose her or banish her like other trial wives? And if he chose her,can she bear the thought of sharing him with someone else and being just his concubine instead of his legitimate wife ?

In a dystopian city torn between technology and history—where society is regulated and obedience is hummed through the streets—Mara survives by staying unnoticed, haunted by nightmares she doesn’t fully understand. Her life changes when she picks up something she was not supposed to and meets a hooded man. When someone close to her disappears without leaving a trace—records, places, even routines forgetting they ever existed—Mara is left holding onto what the city refuses to remember. What follows is a slow unraveling: distorted realities, fractured memories, broken timelines, and people who should not exist. A psychological mystery where care lingers like a defect, reality bends under pressure, and forgetting is the most dangerous force of all—in a world where feelings are anomalies.

Some stories begin with a hero. This one begins with a disappearance. A girl hidden from the world is stolen under impossible circumstances. Every trail is a lie, every ally a suspect, and every enemy already waiting in the dark. Noah doesn’t know why fate chose him—or if fate chose him at all—but he knows one thing: finding her is only the beginning. Because the deeper he looks, the more the world itself begins to unravel.

In a world divided into floating nations and space-bound planes, "Cruel Rulers" have turned paradise into prisons. Joshua Kirishima (23), a warrior who wears a blindfold to contain a reality-shattering "Void Eye," and his lover, Roselia Hanamaru (22), a shadow-shifting strategist, are on a desperate hunt for their vanished parents. Armed only with a "Book of Fate" that breathes with cryptic poetry and demands answers to impossible questions, the two embark on a journey that will take them from the highest heavens to the deepest archives of history.

# 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.

Reincarnated as the Last Ice Demon is a slow-burn, brutal dark fantasy about survival, logic, and the cost of permanence in a universe built to consume itself. Once a man who lived by calculation rather than faith or heroism, the protagonist dies forgotten on a rain-soaked scaffold—only to awaken in Hell as something that should not exist. A lesser demon, weak, hunted, and surrounded by endless hunger. Worse still, he is cold in a realm ruled by fire. Ice demons were erased long ago. Not defeated—removed. Their existence disrupted Hell’s endless cycle of consumption, and so they were sealed out of history. His rebirth is not destiny or prophecy, but a flaw in reality itself. This is not a story of redemption. It is the story of optimization. Driven by pure logic, the protagonist does whatever increases his chance of survival, power, and control—no matter the cost. Mercy is inefficient. Emotion is noise. Every choice leaves a mark on his body, his mind, and the world around him as ice spreads where it should not, freezing heat, halting decay, and drawing attention from forces far greater than him. Hell is only the beginning. As realms beyond Hell are revealed—mortal worlds, preserved domains where time barely moves, and spaces between systems—the cold begins to shape more than battles. It shapes territory. Faith. Kingdoms. Wars that never escalate because they never get the chance. Told through multiple points of view, Reincarnated as the Last Ice Demon blends visceral body horror, deep lore, and psychological descent into a long-form epic where power is earned through irreversible change, and the greatest threat is not destruction—but stillness. Fire consumes. Ice decides what is allowed to remain.

The world has limits. His dream does not. Thirteen-year-old Adlet dreams of becoming a Protector — warriors who stand between humanity and the evolved creatures known as Apexes. But dreams like his are not meant to survive. He was born in a quiet farming village, far from danger, far from glory, far from anything that could ever lead to such a path. No lineage. No mentor. No place in a world that has already decided who is allowed to rise — and who is meant to remain where they are. Yet the dream took root anyway. When an unexpected encounter grants Adlet access to a power he barely understands, his path begins to diverge from everything he was taught about Protectors… and from everything the world expects of him. Leaving behind the safety of his home, Adlet steps into truly dangerous lands where survival is never guaranteed. Each battle becomes a lesson — not only in strength, but in instinct, restraint, and the hidden rules governing both power and the world itself. Progress is slow. Mistakes are costly. And nothing is given freely. EFU: The Shaping World is a slow-burn progression fantasy focused on growth through experience, tactical combat, and a living world whose deeper truths reveal themselves only to those willing to face it head-on.

Billions of light years away, on a planet where magic flows through every creature, two dominant species battle for supremacy, 'Humans and Ants'. In this world, Ants aren’t just insects, they are the most intelligent and powerful race who challenged humans, wielding magic and evolving in ways no one can predict. Reborn as an ant in this brutal, predator-filled realm, Kai refuses to accept a life of insignificance. With a sarcastic system, ultimate skills, bizarre evolution choices, and a talent for chaos, he sets out to defy fate. From dodging death against Dragon Men, Ape Men, Wolf Men and Termite Kings, etc to building his own army, Kai’s journey is one of relentless growth, cunning strategy, and outrageous battles. Survive! Evolve! Conquer! The world isn’t ready for the rise of the most overpowered ant in history. --- Join Discord for character images- https://discord.gg/dyDgAt2EaW [ -WAS 2025 CONTEST- ] ---- Show some support by:- 100 comments= 1 extra chapter. 300 power stone= 1 extra chapter 50 Golden tickets= 1 extra chapter. 1 Castle= 5 extra chapter. 1 Spaceship= Personalized Chapter (Suggest a setting, item, or conflict you would love to see.) 1 Golden Gachapon= Create a Custom Side Story (2-3 Chapter mini arc featuring your favorite character and concept.) Or Design a Character (By submit a name, look, and backstory idea for a supporting character that appears in the main novel.) Warning: Dark, Bloody, Brutal Killing, R18 twist, few sensual adult and Yuri chapters. 18+ read only. Thank you for your amazing support! Every support keeps this story alive and growing. -------------------

The Creator is not so mysterious after all. He is just some guy. Read as he tries to save the world without losing his humanity. The road ahead is treacherous, and sometimes, strength is not the answer. Not a translation. This thing came about as a way to share my zzz theories and headcannons. Timeline might be a bit wonky.

New World. New Body. Zero Instructions. Suzumi was just an ordinary girl until she woke up in a parallel reality—trapped in the body of a man. Now, she must navigate the challenges of a masculine life, from mastering a new voice to surviving unfamiliar social rules. In this world, everyone expects a man to be a hero, but Suzumi is just trying to figure out how to walk in her own shoes. Can she successfully reinvent herself, or will her past identity blow her cover?

In a system that survives by erasing names, one man chooses to remain—quietly. He does not seek recognition. He does not leave traces. And yet, every correction he makes prevents something far worse from happening. Behind sealed offices and silent approvals, a hidden mechanism decides who is remembered—and who is quietly removed from existence. As small inconsistencies begin to surface, the line between protection and manipulation starts to blur. The more he fixes the system, the clearer it becomes: some names were never meant to be saved. A dark urban mystery about control, disappearance, and the quiet cost of staying invisible.

Reo Kagami is an ordinary high school student living an ordinary life. His days are measured in familiar routines—crowded classrooms, late afternoon bus rides, and the small, unspoken moments that make youth feel endless. When he grows close to Yui, a classmate who makes those routines feel lighter, Reo begins to believe that some days are meant to be remembered. Then the nights begin to change. What starts as a recurring dream—always the same school bus, always the same route—slowly begins to fracture into something unfamiliar. Faces lose their details. Places repeat themselves with subtle distortions. Each dream leaves behind a residue that bleeds into Reo’s waking life, altering how he sees the world and how the world responds to him. As time moves forward and Reo grows older, the dreams persist—changing, expanding, and demanding to be understood. The line between memory and reality begins to thin, and the past refuses to remain silent. Something Rode With Me is a long-form psychological horror story about grief, guilt, and the places we revisit when we never truly leave them behind.

Trapped in a looping nightmare of betrayal and public executions, Noctis spends “lifetimes” reliving the same village tragedy—framed by the only friends he has, condemned by the people he tries to save, and reset by an uncaring world that refuses to let him die or change. When his mind finally fractures one cycle too far, a buried system—the Echoframe—awakens and offers him a different path: break the spiral or be broken by it forever.​ Noctis chooses defiance. He begins to rewrite the script of his punishment, turning each reset into data, each betrayal into leverage, until he stops being the designated victim and starts becoming the anomaly that the nightmare can no longer predict. His resistance leads him out of the cursed village into monster‑ridden caverns, where he sacrifices almost all of his core to hatch Astra, a living shadow-child, and forges a soul‑bond that slowly restores his stolen emotions and gives him someone to protect besides a world that fed him to the gallows.​ Guided and judged by the Echoframe, Noctis earns legendary rewards—Echo Sense, Bond Surge, and the mythic combat style Asterian Spiral—but each power forces him to confront what survival has turned him into. As he trains alongside Astra and the feral hunter Noua, Noctis must decide whether he will remain a weapon shaped by endless cycles of pain, or become the one who shatters the system itself—even if that means rewriting the fate of everyone who ever sacrificed him to stay alive.​

In the city of Oakhaven, light is law and shadows are sin. But when sixteen-year-old Caspian awakens to a darkness growing inside him—an obsidian arm that consumes light itself—everything he knows is shattered. Pursued by the ruthless Luminarchs and hunted by creatures born from corrupted light, Caspian must escape a city purging its own people, protect his sister from the fires of sanctification, and confront a power within him that is both weapon and curse. Guided by the enigmatic Vaelis, he learns that survival means mastering his shadow, but each victory draws him deeper into the mysteries of a world where the line between light and darkness is deadly thin. From the burning streets of Oakhaven to the forests beyond, The Obsidian Veil is a tale of fear, power, and the choices that define a hero—or a monster.

A isakai story where I man with a full lovingly family is iskied into a world with different species races dimensions, wildlife and god's and demon lord where thier blessings decide your personality and power that you will have. the main character, Elijah, has to find his footing in his new horrifying trauma inducing world while dealing with a mysterious power that couses him to sleep and see the events after before during his death he, having lost most memories, will have to figure out how is how and why he should care for certain people in his dream while being traumatized by the world he is currently in. will he still care for his family? Will he somehow gets back to his world and live happily with them, or will he be too broken inside to feel anything for his former family come find out. (first story ever posted online, i hope you enjoy my mediocre writing skills "I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com,") zachscp013-■■■ out

Orion Stone was broken long before he ever killed. From childhood, he learned how to wear a mask - how to smile, speak, and live among others while hiding what lay beneath. Behind that mask was a man obsessed with death, drawn to it from both sides of the table. By day, he was a respected doctor. By night, a meticulous serial killer. For years, he lived freely. Untouchable. Until Detective Granger ended his game. Exposed to the world, stripped of his false identity, Orion was swiftly processed and sentenced to death. The lethal injection claimed his life… ...or so it should have. Death was only the beginning. Orion awakens in another world - one ruled by a volatile energy called ether, where strength decides everything and mercy is a weakness. Born into the powerful Varyn family as the son of an unofficial third wife, he is shunned, ignored, and cast aside from birth. But he is not powerless. His rebirth is marked by the awakening of the Eyes of Dominion - mysterious golden eyes that grant him control over people, ether, and reality itself. Eyes that bend wills. Eyes that command submission. Eyes that should not exist. In a world as cruel and unforgiving as this one, Orion thrives after refinding himself. As shadows move within his own family and greater forces stir beyond it, Orion must grow stronger in secrecy, manipulating allies and enemies alike. Step by step, from the bottom of the hierarchy to its very peak, he will carve his path. With the Eyes of Dominion watching over the world… It is only a matter of time before the world kneels. P.S. This is my WSA 2026 Entry - all support with powerstones and reviews is appreciated :)