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Summary of the Story: The Price of Misplaced Trust The story follows Rina, a kind and intelligent girl whose life takes a tragic turn after she rescues her long-lost friend, Leva. While Rina offers Leva loyalty and a home, Leva—hardened by a troubled past—responds with envy and betrayal. Through manipulation and lies, Leva poisons the mind of Rina’s mother, causing her to turn against her own daughter and embrace Leva instead. Feeling abandoned and broken, Rina finds a brief moment of solace in caring for a stray kitten, but its eventual death plunges her back into despair. In a cruel twist of fate, Rina is accidentally struck and killed by a car driven by her own mother, who was searching for her in a state of distress. Upon realizing she has killed her daughter due to her blind trust in Leva’s lies, the mother loses her mind. The story serves as a haunting warning about the dangers of hasty judgments and the devastating consequences of misplaced trust.

Ignis, a reincarnated demon prince, was betrayed by his father, the Demon Lord, and his mother’s body was burned to ashes. Reborn into a poor family with weak fire magic, he begins a dark journey of revenge, technology invention, and resurrection attempts while fighting ranking demons to collect blood energy. Now he must face his past life father while protecting those he loves.

Aira Grace has spent her life yearning for love in a house ruled by power. The daughter of influential politician Marcus Grace, raised without a mother and ignored by an ambitious brother, Aira grows up believing love must be earned through patience and sacrifice. Rowan Royce is born into blood. The son of a retired mafia leader, carrying the weight of a shattered family and an elder sister lost to betrayal, Rowan lives by one rule—never trust what love shows on the surface. When a political feud between the Grace and Royce families leaves his father injured, Rowan’s world hardens into revenge. Their paths cross through Rowan’s younger sister at university. Aira falls for Rowan without knowing the storm surrounding him, and Rowan—despite his cold restraint—allows her into his life. When Aira begs him to marry her, Rowan agrees, hiding vengeance behind wedding vows. To Aira, the marriage is imperfect but precious. She loves him through his silence, his distance, and the hostility of his world. Happiness shatters when Aira discovers Rowan’s true identity—his hands stained red by the mafia life he never escaped. A violent confrontation drives her into flight, straight into a carefully laid trap. Her enemies steal her unborn child through a forced operation, then manipulate Rowan into believing his wife ended the pregnancy herself. Broken by misunderstanding and blinded by hatred, Rowan abandons her in the hospital—yet never fully lets go. He ensures her recovery from a distance, torn between revenge and the woman he loves but cannot forgive. When news reports claim Aira has been murdered, Rowan descends into madness. His mercy disappears. One by one, his enemies fall—until the truth surfaces. Between cruelty and devotion, revenge and misunderstanding, Rowan and Aira suffer the most. Yet in a world built on blood and lies, they discover that survival itself can be an act of love.

She was their greatest warrior. They threw her away like she was nothing. Sage Blackwood spent six years bleeding for the Crimson Howl Pack. She trained their fighters. Defended their borders. Buried their dead. And when she uncovered a corruption that went all the way to the Alpha's throne, they repaid her loyalty with silver chains and a death sentence. She escaped with broken ribs, silver-burned wrists, and a wolf so poisoned it could barely breathe. They left her in the Deadlands to die. She didn't die. Found by a mysterious Alpha named Rhett - a wolf with no pack and a past he refuses to speak about - Sage begins to heal. But Rhett isn't the only Alpha drawn to her. Three others emerge from the shadows, each one powerful, each one dangerous, and each one triggering a mate bond that should be impossible. Rhett. The protector with gentle hands and a blood debt that could destroy them all. Kieran. The exiled prince whose brilliant mind sees her as a political weapon - until his wolf decides she's something far more. Zion. The feral Alpha who has never submitted to anyone - until he laid at her feet and bared his throat. Dorian. The shadow operative who knows her secrets better than she does. Because he's been watching her for years. Four Alphas. Four bonds. One ancient prophecy that says a wolf like Sage - a Quintessence - hasn't walked the earth in five hundred years. She can bond with all of them. She can forge a pack powerful enough to shake the foundations of the werewolf world. But Crimson Howl wants her dead. Kieran's ruthless mother wants her controlled. And a darkness older than the packs themselves is waking up - drawn by the scent of a power that was never supposed to exist again. Sage didn't survive the chains and the silver and the fall to be someone's weapon. She survived to be a queen. She just has to live long enough to claim her crown.

When the Emperor of Valtheris dies, the empire does not mourn. It prepares for war. Princess Seraphina Vale was raised to be ornamental graceful, silent, obedient. But when the Scarlet Throne is left empty, she is forced to claim it before the nobles tear the kingdom apart. There is only one problem. The imperial army does not answer to her. It answers to General Kael Draven the ruthless strategist known as the Kingmaker. The man who has placed rulers on thrones… and removed them just as easily. To secure her crown, Seraphina is bound to him in a political marriage meant to keep the empire stable. But power is never shared. It is taken. In a palace filled with spies, rebellion, and whispered betrayals, every glance is a challenge. Every touch is a calculation. Every alliance hides a blade. He believes he controls the empire. She intends to prove him wrong. As civil war brews and enemies close in from beyond the borders, Seraphina must decide: Will she rule beside the most dangerous man in Valtheris… Or will she destroy him before he destroys her? In a kingdom where the throne devours the weak, love is not a luxury. It is a liability. And only one of them can truly reign.

Sebuah kisah yang akan mengikuti pria bernama Astra, melakukan perjalanan balas dendam nya, tapi akan terhambat karena keluguan nya, dan kebaikan nya terhadap sesama spesies nya diawal-awal cerita nya, ia juga akan merasakan pengkhianatan, sedikit cinta, kehangatan, pemulihan, kehilangan, trauma yang kembali muncul, penyesalan, Kehampaan, dan gejolak batin yang akan membunuhnya secara perlahan, juga dengan kewarasan yang akan perlahan-lahan mulai terkikis. akan kah dia mencapai balas dendam nya? atau apa kah ia akan bahagia? mana Gweh tau njing, makanya dibaca! eh ajg, bisa liat kan genrenya, fantasy, medieval abad pertengahan cuman dipadukan ama sihir dan berbagai macam kekuatan aja, dengan efek samping yang beragam tod... *note* aku membuat novel untuk diriku sendiri,dan ini juga novel pertama ku, jadi kedepannya aku akan berusaha memperbaiki nya, aku juga sedang belajar membuat novel ku sendiri, ini semua adalah ide gila yang bertahun-tahun kupendam, dan sekarang aku akan melakukan nya sesuka ku... jangan berharap dari rendahan seperti ku ini...

When seventeen-year-old Damon Vale lost his mother, his whole world cracked—not with grief, but with an impossible truth. Damon is no longer just a high schooler dealing with gangs and betrayal; he is the secret descendant of the celestial Queen of Woewyn, a realm where memory, time, and spirit intertwine. Raised on Earth by a mother who lied to save his life, Damon is burdened by a forbidden power that literally bends light and is constantly on the verge of purging his own body. Now, ancient gods and demons are pouring onto Earth, some disguised as humans, Chronisouls— some torment, some help. For Damon, the choice is simple: Embrace the divine power that burns him from the inside out, or watch his life on Earth, including the one girl who sees past his walls, shatter forever. From quiet rooftops(literally) to cosmic wars(also literally), Damon must discover if saving existence means losing the fragile human he was trying to be.

On July 5th Year 1648, in the fourth Era, the Inguld Republic suffered the greatest disaster to ever happen. The rising of the second Sun. Hundreds of thousand of people died. Abel Michealson, a police officer and a fellow victim of the tragedy, seeks to join the kingdoms secret force in charge of investigating the matter The Order of the Hidden Walkers, I order to find out the truth about the Incident. Fueled by vengeance, he seeks to find the cause of such a thing, leading him to a web of mysteries and supernatural secrets he never expected.

In a distant past, the seven Ancestral Beasts clashed, and the blood they spilled rained onto the entire plane, infecting humans and animals alike, making them part of their powerful bloodlines. As a small village’s hunter, Liam was unaware of the consequences of that legendary battle. His sole goal was to become a cultivator to gain the strength and resources he needed to avenge his family. Yet, when Liam’s Ancestral Bloodline awakened, he uncovered a connection between his family’s killers and the Dragon King, a connection that could expand his revenge to the entire Kingdom. -------------------- Discord link: https://discord.gg/mefzf3aQJ8 Instagram: eocnovels X: @EoCNovels Cover artist: https://digitalrowye.com

In a world where sinners are judged harshly — what if simply being born was your sin? Abandoned at three for the color of his hair. Raised in a forgotten church on the outskirts of a kingdom that would sooner spit at his feet than meet his eyes. Aleck has known since he could walk what the world thinks he is. He just refuses to believe them. In a world that never chose him, Aleck still dares to want one thing. Someone who will.

Mikhael was supposed to die nameless, just another body that disappears into the Empire’s system. He doesn’t. He lives long enough to see how it really works. The nobles stay on top because they have seals, they have stolen power, and they have a faith built to keep everyone else obedient. When Mikhael kills a Duke, it doesn’t set him free. It puts a mark on him. Now he is locked inside House Romulus, forced into a role he never chose, watched from every angle, taught rules that were designed to break him into something useful. Lionel is close, but not close enough, and Mikhael is running out of patience. Something has also started to speak inside his head, quiet at first, then clearer, as if it has been waiting for him to crack. Book One follows Mikhael’s arrival at House Romulus, the daily control disguised as “order,” the lies holding the estate together, and the choices he makes as he starts planning the fire.

"A marriage isn't a union—it’s a cage of ink and bone." When Ren’s father gambles away his family’s future, the debt is bought by the most dangerous man in the North: Blackwood Vane. But Vane doesn't want coin; he wants a possession. To settle the score, Ren is forced to sign a contract to marry Vane’s son, Julian. Though he wears a wedding ring, Ren isn't a husband—he is a trophy. Behind the closed doors of the estate, it is Vane who controls every breath Ren takes and every word he speaks. Julian may be the one standing at the altar, but Vane is the one holding the leash. In a house built on secrets and stolen lives, Ren must navigate the treacherous waters between a cold husband and a father-in-law who sees him as his own. To survive the "First Debt," Ren must find a way to break the contract before the walls of Vane’s obsession close in forever.

The Writ and Ruin Two different things that hit the world 20 years ago, bringing with them devastation and death. Now anyone with a high Ruin density is forced into an Imposition, either they die or they come out as Marked Lucas goes into his first imposition and goes through many trials and tribulations, he comes out with more than he bargained for.

At eighteen, with a sick mother and no resources beyond nine days of planning, Mara Solé de Varra intercepts the world's oldest White at a thursday fair — and emerges from this encounter not with a solution, but with a test, a new name, and the growing suspicion that she has been discovered before she even discovered anything. Becoming Caen's disciple under a new name, she discovers that a Will she has always carried places her at the center of a chessboard that has existed for much longer than she has... and at the center the Whites themselves observing from within with the neutrality they should maintain. This is the story of a young woman learning the rules of a game that has been built around her and deciding, what to do with it...

Ryo Kenzaki was just a high schooler. Ordinary. Forgotten. Content to fade into a crowd and wait for the end of the day. Then a star fell from the sky, and everything changed. In a moment of instinct, he pulled a bleeding woman from a crater—and learned that the world he knew was a lie. The Human Realm exists on borrowed time, separated from the Hunting Realm by a crumbling threshold. On the other side, monsters wait. Creatures born when Hunters break—warriors twisted into something that only remembers hunger, their humanity consumed by an endless need to kill and feed. When a Spider creature hunts Ryo across burning ruins, he's dragged into the last sanctuary: a dojo at the edge of both worlds, run by a woman who expected his arrival. Tsukihime offers him a choice—one that isn't really a choice at all. A blade. A Kizugami—a weapon forged from wounds themselves, blessed with a terrible awareness. It doesn't serve the wielder. It judges them. And in the moment Ryo touches the hilt, he feels it: the blade seeing into him, searching for something, finding him wanting. But there's no walking back. A Kaimon hunts him. A cosmic Eye watches from the sky. And somewhere in the gathering darkness, something vast and inevitable is moving toward the world's end. Ryo never wanted to be a Hunter. Never wanted to inherit a curse he didn't deserve. But fate, it seems, has already made its choice for him. The only question left is: when everything is stripped away—when he's forced to become something other than human—can he still stand as himself once more? Or will the blade consume him like it has consumed all the others? Character Art by @_iamskiddy

Kenji was a shut-in neet who blamed the world for his pathetic life until a freak accident ended his miserable existence. He expected nothingness, but the universe wasn’t done with him yet. Now, reborn as Lafayette Dumica Tide, he has to survive in an unforgiving world that will stop at nothing to see him fail. To survive, Lafayette must unlock the true power of the Chaos Dragon and break the Six Divine Seals. But his biggest obstacle in achieving that goal: is himself. What to expect: Fast and often brutal pacing. Similar to that of JJK. The story can and will change on a dime. As in characters react realistically to situations rather than doing it for the plot. The mc starts off as a loser but as the story progresses he becomes something darker, dangerous even. No late game gods or infinite scaling. There is a hard ceiling and multiple characters reach it, not just the mc. No harem ending but multiple love interests and realistic relationship dynamics. Upload schedule: Daily drops: 1 chapter every day. double drop: 2 chapters on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Story is inspired by the depth Mushoku Tensei’s world building and Re:Zero’s character development for mc Fights inspired by JJK

[TW; mature content; smut; grumpy x sunshine; hate-to-love] --------------- He’s sunshine. He’s a cold blade. They’re doomed from the start. --------------- Alex is the fated Crown Prince of Vellara. Handsome, idealistic, and an outstanding swordsman, all he wants is to run away from the throne and its suffocating duties. William is his soon-to-be Court Mage—a stubborn man with cold eyes, a sharp wit, and a past full of sorrow. Alex refuses to be bound to someone who slapped him in front of the entire court, yet his attempts to sabotage the Crown Pact come to nothing when the king sends them on a mission that may be a deadly trap. As court intrigues and assassination attempts force them closer than either expected, Alex and William find themselves entangled in a bond far deeper and forbidden. Will love bloom between a prince and a foreign commoner, or are they fated to be torn apart by duty and social rank?

To gain the power of a God, you must first lose the soul of a man." ​In the neon-drenched metropolis of Aethelgard, magic isn't a gift—it’s a debt. Every spell cast, every miracle performed, costs a memory. The elite Mages of the Silver Guild rule from their floating spires, sacrificing the childhoods and first loves of the poor to fuel their golden utopia. ​Damian was supposed to be their ultimate battery. A human vessel branded with the Seal of the Void, designed to swallow the city’s magical waste. But the ritual went wrong. ​Instead of becoming a hollow shell, Damian became a black hole. ​Now, Damian is on the run in the rain-slicked slums of the Low Sector. With every enemy he consumes, he grows stronger, but a piece of his past vanishes forever. He has forgotten his mother’s face. He has forgotten his father’s name. Soon, he will forget his own humanity. ​Hunting him are the Silver Knights and the terrifying Black-Winged Inquisitors. They want their weapon back. But Damian is no longer a weapon—he is a reckoning. ​He doesn't care about saving the world. He doesn't care about justice. He only wants to find the people who stole his life and make them pay... even if he has to swallow the entire world to remember why. ​"The Void doesn't forgive. It only eats."

Four college students playing Soul Knight suddenly find themselves transported to Terra due to a roommate’s gacha-fueled oath. Their bizarre appearances immediately mark them as Sarkaz impostors upon arrival.

She was never chosen to save the world — she was forged to survive it. Etani is a half-fae assassin who understands the rules of survival: power is taken, mercy is punished, and every victory has a cost. She was never meant to be a heroine — only a weapon. When fate drags her from the shadows into the heart of political and divine conflict, Etani is stripped of her power, betrayed by courts and gods alike, and forced into leadership she never wanted. Each battle reshapes her. Each choice costs her something she cannot replace. As assassinations give way to crowns, and kingdoms become bargaining chips for gods, Etani must navigate brutal power struggles, shifting alliances, and enemies who would rather break her than kill her. Survival demands sacrifice. Power demands blood. And destiny does not care who it destroys along the way. This is a dark epic fantasy of ruthless survival, morally complex choices, and a female lead who does not seek redemption — only control over the chaos determined to consume her. For readers who enjoy dark fantasy, morally grey protagonists, and stories where power is both weapon and curse, Etani is a completed 12-book saga of transformation, vengeance, and the thin line between predator and prey. Content Warning: This series contains graphic violence, sexual content, torture, murder, cannibalism, domestic and sexual abuse, mental illness (including depression and suicidality), abortion, and miscarriage.