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With a stepmother comes a stepfather—but for Loretta, the cruelest truth was this: her own mother treated her worse than either. “You will marry in your sister’s place,” her mother declared, her voice cold and final. Loretta’s breath caught. “Why? Isabella is the one who caused all this. Why must I pay for her mistakes?” Because the man waiting for her was no ordinary groom. Everyone knew Kevin Goodman was cursed. Two wives—both dead within a week. A fiancée—gone before the engagement day had even ended. To be tied to him was to walk willingly into the jaws of death. Yet, bound by his grandfather’s will, Kevin needed a wife… and an heir. He was the rightful successor to a vast empire—the kind of man women once dreamed of marrying. But now? What was wealth… when it came with a death sentence?

In Null, chaos energy decides everything. The strong rule. The weak kneel. And the worthless are thrown away like trash. Sekhmet Dawn was supposed to die as a sacrifice. Instead, he swallowed a frozen shard of forbidden blood and awakened something impossible. A hidden Blood System. A dead Blood God’s will tried to steal his body. His mother’s mysterious pendant shattered and turned into an Abyss-class artifact. And in one night, Sekhmet went from prey to a growing nightmare. Now he can become stronger by drinking blood. Enemies are no longer just enemies. They are food for him. A way to gain more power. A stepping stone on his path. But Null is not a world that lets monsters rise quietly. Ancient vampires want him. Gods are starting to watch him. The powerful Ancient family that ruined his father’s life has finally noticed him. And the more blood he takes, the closer he gets to a terrifying truth about himself. He is not normal. He was never normal. And the thing growing inside him may be far more dangerous than anyone can imagine. Hunted by powerhouse of null. Targeted by noble houses. Surrounded by beautiful and deadly women who wants him. Dragged into bloodline wars, family politics, and ancient secrets. Sekhmet has only one way forward. Drink Blood to grow stronger. Crush anyone who stands in his way. Because in Null, mercy is weakness. And the boy meant for the altar may become the next blood god to shake the Gods Halls. They wanted a sacrifice. Instead they created a monster. (Another Name: Blood Lord) Join Discord for character images- https://discord.gg/nFg72Gew

The Rusty War between factions ended. A new era began. Optimus saved everyone and in doing so, broke reality itself. Welcome to a world where the rules no longer apply, where the old limits shatter and nothing is impossible. Unexpected truces. Unlikely alliances. Pure madness. Pure chaos. This Novel Is The Revised Version Of Transformers The Darkest Prime that is On Wattpad and Now Shelved. This novel is being migrated to another novel which will take a few time.

Gwendolyn is a charm caster who was never given a charm. In a world where every caster manifests a magical ability at sixteen,Gwen wields raw, uncontrolled power with nothing to anchor it. Her flares have made her a danger to everyone around her, and after the latest incident, her family sends her away again, this time to live with her aunt Ariana in a remote, unfamiliar town. Isolated from everything she knows and increasingly convinced something is fundamentally wrong with her, Gwen tries to settle into her new life under her grandmother's watchful, shield-reinforced control. But the town itself is hiding something: people have been disappearing without explanation, and Gwen starts to suspect the disappearances aren't unrelated to her own condition or to what she really is.

After confessing her love to her childhood best friend, Gabrielle finds herself rejected and sold to a cruel high official in exchange for power by the best friend whom she loved so much. Hurt, betrayed, subjected to abuse, and stripped of her noble title Gabrielle begins to lose all hope until one day she runs into a man from a neighboring kingdom in need of help. Despite the danger Gabrielle agrees to help this man get back to his kingdom only to find that he is King and he is smitten with her. Will Gabrielle find her happily ever after with her new found love or will a sudden change of heart from her childhood best friend tear them apart?

"Melina, we no longer need the Flame of Ruin." "For I have already obtained from beyond this world the power to deny the world itself." "Someday I shall become the Sun, and a radiant Age of Life will dawn anew..." The fallen leaves tell a story: Beyond the fog, in our homeland, the Lands Between, the Tarnished has become the Elden Lord. Under the King’s rule, people will surely call it, The Age of the Sun. —————————— Elden Ring fanfiction — DLC to come, striving to lead everyone to a happy ending. Volume 1: [ Limgrave - Weeping Peninsula ] Volume 2: [ Caelid - Liurnia - Nokron - Land of Shadow - ...] This is a translation. All credit belongs to the original author and to Elden Ring, the game that inspired this work. I only recently started playing Elden Ring, and came across this fanfiction along the way. I’m translating it as I read, so I’m discovering the story at the same time as you. I’ll do my best to make it as accurate and faithful as possible, but since I’m still new to the game and its lore, feel free to point out any mistakes or offer suggestions. Updates would be 1-2 chapters daily. Tarnished, may you find your way to grace. Title: Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Author: 油炸小青龙 The cover artwork is not my own. All rights and credit belong to the original artist.

When Lyra inherits an isolated estate from an uncle she barely remembers, she sees it as a chance to leave her old life behind and start over. But the village surrounding the Hollow doesn't welcome her. People stare when she passes. An old woman warns her that the house takes what it wants. And the longer Lyra stays, the more she realizes that the estate isn't as abandoned as it appears. There are whispers behind the walls, locked rooms no one will explain, a family journal with pages torn out, and servants who become strangely nervous whenever Lyra asks about the Hollow's past. Then she discovers a name that everyone seems determined to forget: Elias Hollow. Seventeen years old when he disappeared, Elias was the last heir of the family—and someone has written a warning beside his name: Never speak of him. But the Hollow has already begun speaking to Lyra. And the closer she gets to uncovering what happened to Elias, the more she begins to wonder whether inheriting the house was really a coincidence... Some secrets are buried. Others are waiting.

Life is dark and meaningless. That was what it had taught every single day I'd been cursed to live it. And now, finally, it was coming to an end. My arm ached where the needle pierced the vein. Already, my fingers were numb, spots spinning in front of my eyes. Something clattered onto the pavement. The needle. It must have slipped out of my hand. Nothingness swirled around me, bringing the first sense of peace that I'd felt since...ever. But that was okay. It meant that there was no one to miss me, and no one I would miss. Well, perhaps there would be a few, but they could always find others to extract their cruel, sadistic pleasure from. My last breath was rough and shallow, the last beat of my heart pitifully fail. I sank to the alley floor, eyes closing, welcoming the blessed nothingness of the end. Only...death was supposed to be dark, wasn't it? And since when did 'nothingness' have so many gods? Discord: https://discord.gg/PX3xqJdZMY

Lin Yue has never been afraid of being alone. At twenty-four, he has already lived through more than most people ever will—not in grand, tragic ways, but in quiet, suffocating ones. Growing up as an orphan passed between cold institutions and indifferent guardians, he learned early that attachment leads to pain. By adulthood, he lives a detached, monotonous life, working night shifts and avoiding unnecessary human connections. To him, living is simply continuing. Everything changes on a rain-soaked night when he returns to his apartment. The hallway feels wrong—too long, too silent. Then, a voice calls his name from behind. Calmly, without hesitation, Lin Yue ignores it and keeps walking. That single decision triggers something unseen. When he reaches his door, the number has changed to “404.” The moment he steps inside, reality fractures. Lin Yue is pulled into a game called the Flow, a system of endless horror instances where players must survive deadly scenarios governed by obscure and shifting rules. Failure means erasure. Survival means being dragged into the next nightmare. Unlike other players, Lin Yue adapts quickly, relying on observation, emotional detachment, and his ability to remain calm under pressure. But something is wrong. Despite breaking rules and defying logic, Lin Yue is never punished by the System. Instead, he is marked—singled out by an unknown force. His actions begin to distort the behavior of instances, as if the world itself cannot fully process him. That is when he notices him. Gu Yanchen, known as the Arbiter, is a being feared by all players—an enforcer of the System who exists to maintain order and eliminate anomalies. Cold, precise, and seemingly inhuman, he should have killed Lin Yue the moment he deviated from the rules. Yet he doesn’t. Instead, Gu Yanchen watches. As their paths intertwine, Lin Yue is forced to confront something more terrifying than death—connection. Gu Yanchen, who should be nothing more than a mechanism of judgment, begins to act with intention, even obsession. Faced with this impossible choice, the Arbiter hesitates—for the first time. That hesitation fractures the system itself. Rules collapse, instances distort, and the Flow begins to unravel. In a world where everything is designed to erase humanity… What happens when two people refuse to let go? “The System wants me dead. But its Arbiter won’t allow it.”

Meet Yuki Homura! A 15-year-old high school first year from Neo-Tokyo, Japan in the year 2072. The world has felt the effects of nuclear war. One effect of the war was super-powered human beings! Go. All. Out: X-VERSE.

Alan, a ruthless Archmage who slaughtered an entire Magistracy for revenge, finally meets his end… only to awaken in the body of a broken fifteen-year-old boy dangling from a noose. Now inhabiting the skin of Severus Snape, Alan brings with him memories of blood-soaked battlefields, forbidden runes, and magic so terrifying it makes Avada Kedavra look like a child’s prank. He has no interest in Dumbledore’s war, Voldemort’s ideology, or teenage drama.

Jin Yeong was just another office worker—forgettable, unremarkable, and stuck in a life that never went anywhere. He wasn’t strong. He wasn’t talented. In a world of ambition, he was just… there. Then, the sky cracked open. A voice echoed across the world, mocking humanity’s weakness. A system was given. A chance to survive. People awakened powerful abilities—fire, lightning, super strength. Jin got this: [Limitless Weapon Mastery] "Any weapon you wield is used at its maximum potential." No fire. No magic. No enhancements. Just a simple skill? But soon he and the world will learn a simple truth: It’s not about what you wield. It’s about how you wield it.

"Rosse... huh..." Rosse stared blankly at the boy in the mirror, momentarily at a loss for words. The boy in the mirror had a smooth and fair face, well-defined features, exuding a sense of cold and stern aura. His deep, dark eyes shimmered with captivating light, and his whole body radiated a noble temperament. He had transmigrated, or perhaps it was memory awakening, and directly became a Celestial Dragon. ’This is just, way too good!’ However, his identity was a bit awkward. His name was Jaygarcia Rosse, a standard Celestial Dragon name, and his grandfather was Jaygarcia Saturn, one of the current Five Elders, and also the first Five Elder to be removed in the original One Piece. ——— [Ding! Defeat System at your service!] "Defeat System? What's the function?", Hearing the pleasant system prompt, Rosse felt even better. ══════════════ [Host: Rosse] [Strength: 63/100 (G+; even Marines are stronger than you)] [Overall Rating: A (All you’ve got going for you is status)] [Abilities: None] [Skills: None] [Note: Defeating enemies grants you rewards equal to the enemy’s overall rating -1. Killing or crushing the enemy grants a reward equal to the enemy’s current overall rating.] [Note: You can only receive the kill/crush reward for each person once, and defeat rewards do not conflict with kill/crush rewards.] ══════════════ [TAGS: #EvilMC(Not morally gray but total dark MC) #Clever #MultipleFemaleLeads] 1st World: One Piece 2nd World: Bleach 3rd World: COMING SOON....] ═IT'S A TRANSLATION═ RAW: 海贼王：活恶魔

Wade, codenamed “Cyclone,” publicly wields Gas Control and is hailed by Vought as its most obedient Supe. Secretly, every handshake, charity event, and stray trace he leaves—hair, skin, even micro blood samples—feeds his hidden power: Gene Extraction. He’s not interested in showboating or vague “justice.” His plan is to decode countless superpower genomes and brew the strongest, most stable power serum—then launch his own company so ordinary people can gain abilities with a single injection. While superheroes, fools, and humans plot against one another, Wade looks past Earth to the stars. And it all began with a single admissions interview at Godolkin University.

More than - That Time They Reincarnated a Rapper - Jean Vinson died powerless. Xiro Mikazuki refuses to do it twice. After his life on Earth collapses around him, a sudden death should have erased Jean's story forever. Instead, he awakens before a goddess and discovers an ugly truth: His life was never entirely his own. Reborn on the magical world of Gaia as Xiro Mikazuki, he enters his second life with memories intact, a monstrous Soul Core, impossible potential, and one promise to himself— Never be helpless again. Gaia is a world where warriors shatter mountains, Skills evolve alongside the soul, monsters build civilizations, magic can rewrite natural law, and Outer Gods quietly manipulate history from beyond the Mortal Realm. Xiro was supposed to become another piece on their board. He has other plans. Alongside the brothers, family, lovers, rivals, and monsters who become his people, Xiro rises from gifted child to warrior, Demon Lord, king, and something even Heaven may not be prepared to name. But strength doesn't heal every wound. The stronger Xiro becomes, the more he must decide what freedom actually means. Is it having enough power that nobody can control you? Protecting everyone you love? Building a kingdom where your people can live without fear? Or becoming so dangerous that the universe finally has to negotiate with you? The 13th Kingdom: Reincarnation is an adult LitRPG/progression fantasy filled with brutal battles, romance, sex, comedy, brotherhood, kingdom building, political warfare, evolving races, divine conspiracies, hip-hop and anime influences, and a magic system where science and mythology collide. This isn't the story of a hero chosen by destiny. It's the story of a man deciding whether destiny still gets a vote. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warning !!! If the use of the N-Word or African-American Vernacular English offends you, this is NOT the book series for you. * Who Will Love It Readers who like: - Overpowered Protagonists - Harems - Anime-Style Escalation - Progression Fantasy Systems - Dark Fantasy Politics - Explicit Mature Content - Hip-Hop References - Irreverent Narration - Mythological/Cosmic Lore - Found Family - Antihero Kings - Romance mixed with Violence - Big Emotional Power-ups - “Rule of Cool” with actual internal logic Those readers are gonna eat. * Who Might Bounce Off Readers who want: - Very clean traditional prose - Minimal profanity - Slow-burn subtle romance only - Low-density magic systems - Restrained power scaling - Smaller casts - No explicit adult material - Traditional heroic morality Those readers may struggle. A story about a man who died powerless, was reborn with the potential to become a god, and gradually discovers that freedom means more than becoming strong enough that nobody can tell him what to do. The 13th Kingdom: Reincarnation is what happens if you start with an adult reincarnation LitRPG, give the protagonist the personality of an actual grown man instead of a blank-slate isekai hero, build the magic system like fantasy physics, let the supporting cast develop into protagonists of their own stories, and then keep widening the world until gods, governments, demons, churches, kings, cosmic beings, and alternate versions of reality are fighting over who gets to decide the future. Patreon.com/VesselHouse - Read ahead a week when you join for free or one of the support tiers. - Weekly Chapter Release - Every Friday. Join the support tier to avoid the wait for the public release.

Some stories don’t end with love. Some hearts never heal. And some people love so deeply, it becomes fatal. Ayla Wilson loved Silas Williams for twelve years. For twelve years, he never looked back. She never asked to be chosen, only to stay close. Her love was quiet, invisible, and consuming. She learned how to exist in his shadow without touching his life, how to survive on distance without hope. Until the night she ran. A wedding gown soaked in rain. A locked door. A father who sold her future without remorse. With nowhere left to go, Ayla chose the one place she never should have, Silas. But the man she returned to was no longer a distant memory. He was controlled, restrained, devastatingly silent. He let her stay. He protected her. He never promised love. A marriage formed without desire. A home built on unspoken care. A devotion that grew deeper in silence, until one loss shattered everything. And Ayla learned that "loving someone who cannot say it back can destroy you just as completely as being abandoned." Silas Williams was never cruel. That was his greatest mistake. He didn’t raise his voice. He didn’t abandon her. He didn’t betray her love. He simply believed that staying was enough. Silas protected Ayla in the only ways he knew quietly, responsibly, without asking for anything in return. He gave her shelter, stability, and a place beside him. He believed love was something proven through actions, not words. He never realized that silence can wound deeper than rejection. He never understood that for someone like Ayla, love needed to be seen, spoken, and held before it was too late. And when everything finally broke, Silas learned the cruelest truth of all: "You can do nothing wrong and still lose everything." Redemption did not come with grand gestures. It came with regret. With absence. With learning how to love someone who no longer belonged to him. Cause some realizations arrive only after love is gone. And some men spend the rest of their lives chasing the damage they never meant to cause.

- 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

The dance ended with a final, graceful spin. Lord Greyson released Dydra with a courteous smile, his admiration lingering in his eyes as he gave a slight bow. “A pleasure, as always,” he said lightly. Dydra returned the smile out of habit, though her thoughts were already elsewhere. She gave a small excuse and stepped away, her gaze drifting across the ballroom as if searching for something—someone. But whatever she sought, she did not find. A faint frown creased her brows. Without another word, she turned and slipped out of the ballroom, heading toward the quiet of the garden. The cool night air should have calmed her. It didn’t. “You’re letting other men touch you?” The voice came from behind her—low, unhurried… almost lazy. But Dydra’s entire body reacted instantly. A sharp shiver ran through her. She didn’t need to turn to know who it was. That voice carried something unmistakable beneath its calm surface—something restrained. Something dangerous. “I—it’s not—” Her voice broke mid-sentence. Panic tightened her throat as cold sweat formed along her skin. “Need I remind you,” he continued evenly, each word measured, “who you belong to?” The calmness was the most terrifying part. Not anger. Not shouting. Just control—tight, absolute control. Dydra parted her trembling lips again, but no sound came. Her mind went blank. Then suddenly— A hand closed around her waist. Firm. Possessive. Her breath caught as her eyes squeezed shut on instinct, her body going still. “Dydra,” his voice dropped to a whisper, closer now. “Who do you belong to?”

Humans were all living with each other in peace from the beginning. They do things together in unity and without violence. But as time goes on, abilities and other strange powers started to manifest, and these abilities started to cause a rift between them. The strong started oppressing the weak and then the world became Imbalance. Some humans started becoming inhuman, while some became so vicious and evil. Some of them were having having dark evil powers, some of them were pertaining to magic and the normal elemental ability users. In order make peace, they made a deal. After that, they all seperated and went to form places which they call realms. It was far from the human dimension. Those who has dark evil powers moved to a seperate place called the dark realm, and organised themselves. Those who uses magic and humans who uses normal abilities elemental abilities remained where they are which was called the mortal realm, but the magic users remained in another location, not mingling with the humans who uses normal abilities. The humans who lost their humanity and became cursed spirits, undead, demons and so on, moved to a separate realm called the abyssal realm. There was a man who lost his way to his realm and went to another realm. He met a woman there. And as time went on, the both them had affair, and later disappeared. Their disappearance was about to cause war. These two lovers had two children, a boy and a girl. After they were born, a revelation was given that, one of the children will be responsible for the end of the war and will be at the top of the world, he'll rule all the realms.

Warning - Dark romance. Age-gap romance. Werewolf bond. Emotional obsession. 18+ Elara Romano’s world crumbles the day her father dies, leaving behind one final wish: she must live under the protection of his oldest friend—Alessandro De Luca, the ruthless Alpha of Regina’s most powerful werewolf pack. Thirty-eight, cold, and untouchable, Alessandro had long promised her father he would protect Elara… but never imagined the pull of a bond he could not resist. In the shadows of the grand De Luca estate, rules are set, boundaries tested, and a mate bond awakens—one that neither Elara nor Alessandro can ignore. As whispers of danger, betrayal, and jealous rivals stir through the city, every stolen glance, every denied touch, and every secret shared brings them closer… and further into darkness. Between promises kept and desires forbidden, Alessandro and Elara must navigate a world where love is a curse, protection is a chain, and claiming what is theirs could destroy them both. release rate : 4 guaranteed chapter daily upload Support goals: 90 power stone in a week = +1 bonus chapter on Sunday. 10 golden ticket in a week = +3 bonus chapter on Saturday