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In a future where the line between reality and virtual reality is all but erased, RPG games reign supreme. A young programmer, driven by an intense urge to escape poverty and an unwavering dream, pours his soul into creating Bloodbound Ascension, a ruthless online game. But his journey ends tragically when exhaustion claims his life, only for him to awaken within his own creation as an NPC trapped in one of its deadliest Towers. Armed with the knowledge of every trap, secret, and monster, he must navigate the brutal world he designed, struggling to survive against other NPCs and the merciless mechanics of Bloodbound Ascension. In a realm where the line between creator and creation no longer exists, can he rewrite his fate, or will his masterpiece become his tomb?

She died— and woke up as the second son of one of the most powerful families in the hidden world. To survive, she must become him. Perfectly. Because in this family, mistakes mean death. But the longer she plays this role, the harder it becomes to stay herself— especially when there are people who are starting to see too much. — Slow burn | M/M | Dark fantasy | Academy

(BL) Action / Romance Novel. Kai Langford has always lived in the shadow of his twin brother, following orders and blending into the background, until a mysterious vial awakens a dangerous power within him. Thrust into a world of relentless experiments and constant threats, he must fight to survive. Everything shifts when he meets Test Subect: 012, a bright, curly-haired boy whose smile sparks a fragile connection that challenges Kai’s trust and awakens feelings he never knew existed. As he struggles to master his newfound abilities, Kai must navigate a world determined to break him while protecting the people he’s come to care for.

Scarlett Snow, a 22-year-old CEO, spent years rebuilding her father’s company after his tragic murder. Through relentless dedication, she transformed it into one of New York’s top-ranking companies. Just when life finally seemed to be falling into place, everything collapsed. Two days before her wedding, Scarlett discovers her fiancé, Jason Sinclair, in bed with her best friend, Alia Mantara. But the betrayal runs deeper than she ever imagined. Jason reveals documents—signed under her name—that transfer all her assets, including her company and her late father’s properties worth over three billion won, into his control. With nothing left to hide, Jason turns against her completely—and moves to reopen her father’s murder case abd she is the prime suspect— the police would be more than thrilled to help. Alone, hunted, and stripped of everything, Scarlett has only one option: disappear. Under a false identity, she flees to Russia with a single burning vow—to reclaim what was stolen, uncover the truth behind her father’s death, and make those who betrayed her pay. Little does she know just how close and yet impossibly far her father’s murderer truly was to her. But fate has other plans. On her way, Scarlett is attacked. In her desperate escape, she collides with Xavier Grey—a ruthless, calculating, and dangerously charming Mafia Don. To Scarlett, Xavier is the perfect weapon she needs for her revenge— cold and calculating, with a heart devoid of any feelings. She offers him a deal: help her take revenge and uncover the truth behind her father’s murder. Xavier agrees… on one condition. He wants her body, her loyalty, her complete submission to him alone. With no other choice, Scarlett steps into the dark world of the Mafia—where power is everything, trust is an illusion, and secrets are deadly. But somewhere between danger and desire, something begins to change. Scarlett—who swore to feel nothing but vengeance—finds herself drawn to the very man she should fear. And Xavier? He doesn’t do love. As buried secrets begin to surface and the truth behind her father’s murder edges closer, Scarlett realizes the cost of her choices may be far greater than she ever imagined. Because in a world where love is weakness and trust is fatal… falling for Xavier Grey might be the most dangerous mistake of all. The story is a revenge-driven mafia romance that pits a vengeful, heartbroken woman against a dangerously charming Don. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION ⚠️. THERE ARE SOME EXPLICIT AND VIOLENT SCENES IN THIS NOVEL. MUCH LOVE ❤️

Ives has been pushed to his limit by his relatives, bullies and society. Just when he was about to end it all, he receives a game which he plays and suddenly inherits a colossal fortune. A new world opens up to him, one where getting what you want isn't a matter of “What if?” but “How much?”. One completely closed off to anyone who isn't in the higher rung of society. Ives will play the game. Get back at those who hurt him. Discover dark truths of his past and even worse ones about the capitalist nightmare he now inhabits and thrives in. His end goal is to rise to the top where he can decide the fate of this world is his wish — to put an end to this corrupt society. For this, he will risk it all, spinning the wheel of fortune over and over again till he gets what he wants.

A soul from our world is chosen to reincarnate into a world that's mix of Twilight and Vampire Diaries in this world he can either become the top predator or be slain like a sleep. MC x Serena x Maysun x Jennifer

Zekai is twenty-two and has already decided that life is meaningless. He has no job, no ambition, and no interest in the future. While others chase purpose, he watches from the sidelines, convinced that the world runs on illusions people are too afraid to question. Then his grandfather dies during a circus performance. The death is ruled an accident. The silence afterward is not. Something is left behind—something old, something deliberate. From that moment, Zekai begins to notice what others cannot: patterns beneath coincidence, intent behind tragedy, and a presence that seems amused by his existence. The city changes around him. Crimes grow stranger. People disappear without explanation. Whispers spread of a figure who appears in moments of fear—part savior, part nightmare. Zekai does not seek to become anything. He only reacts. Yet the more he intervenes, the more the world pushes back. Every choice carries consequences he cannot escape. Every step forward reveals another layer of truth he was never meant to see. Some paths offer power. Some demand sacrifice. Some do not allow turning back. As Zekai is pulled deeper into a hidden side of the city—where justice, guilt, desire, and fate collide—he is forced to confront a question no one can answer for him: Is freedom something you choose… or something taken from you the moment you play along? Because this story is not about destiny fulfilled. It is about what remains when the final number is reached— 22.

Marista is just another orphan in the convent. No one cares whether she is hungry or not; for most of them, she is invisible, and if required, the convent will not hesitate to dispose of her In a desperate situation, she kills the priest, it is her first murder, and chaos spreads because of it. In this chaos, she steals the seven gold coins and runs away. After finding out this, every predator wants her head. Thrown into the underworld of ancient bloodlines, she becomes a pawn in this game. Where powerful vampires use the young as fuel and discard them when their use is over.

Two boys died in our world. They woke up in another. Ruben and Corbin did not ask for a second chance. They did not ask for their new Egos, paranormal abilities born from trauma and death. They did not ask to be framed for a massacre that killed sixty-two people, or to become the most wanted outlaws in Ostara, hunted by the very system that was supposed to protect them. But when the strongest Paladin in history, a man called "The Star Wished Upon By Humanity", takes them in, they learn that survival is not enough. To clear their names, they will have to navigate a world of assassins, terrorist organisations, and a political conspiracy that reaches the highest seats of power. With war coming and nowhere left to run, two teenagers from another world must decide what they are willing to become. Because in this world, the only thing more dangerous than an enemy is a friend you cannot trust.

[Ding!] [Host is in close proximity to the reincarnation vessel of the goddess Hestia.] [Ding!] [Make the Elven Princess your Soulmate.] [Ding!] [Primordial Goddess Gaia has cursed you to remain abstinent for four years. Failure will be render the organ useless.] ~~~~~~~~ A quiet, introverted chess prodigy died the very day he earned the title of Grandmaster–by a cruel twist of fate. Now reincarnated as Shin Silverheart, the only son of the Grand Duchess Elara Silverheart. Shin found himself in a world of magic, surrounded by world-toppling beauties and yandere wives– The girl he met the first time he opened his eyes to the new world, claiming to be his wife and his soulmate, Mira Ousia–the saintess of the primordial Goddess Gaia. She is the dream of every man, an extremely loyal, cute and gentle-natured wife who is fully devoted only to him. She became his first wife in this world by performing a soulmate ritual which binds two individuals' souls, joining their fates together for eternity, even beyond death. Cursed to die at the age of thirty by the goddess herself. Determined not to lose his first wife, Shin aspires to become the strongest in the universe—stronger than even the divine beings. To achieve his goals and become the strongest, Shin awakened the "Sin System." A system that thrives not on virtue—but on desire, obsession, and corruption. With each quest, each conquest, he's growing more and more powerful. To protect what is his and claim whatever he desires, Shin walks the path of desire, obsession, and corruption.

At eighteen, Haruto has already lived a lifetime of silence. For 5 years, he has survived alone in a cramped, hollow house, abandoned by the world. He never stepped foot in a school, yet he possessed a genius that no classroom could teach. To escape the suffocating boredom of his reality, Haruto turned to the only world that welcomed him: Gaming. Living on the meager wages of a shopping mart job, he couldn't afford a life, let alone a console. So, he built one. From junkyard scrap, discarded circuits, and shattered LCDs, he engineered a high-performance rig that shouldn't have worked—but did. It was his only masterpiece in a world he found utterly gray. Everything changed the night a shooting star answered his silent plea for excitement. Haruto is transported to Aetheria, a realm divided among four great races: Humans, Spirits, Elves, and Gods. He is immediately thrust into a trial of worth, forced to face the overwhelming presence of three Goddesses. Against all odds, he is chosen as the successor to "AETHERIS," the primordial force of reality. With the legendary title of "Star-Child," his Mana becomes linked to his very emotions—a source of infinite power. But the gift comes with a cruel twist. In Aetheria, everyone lives by the HUD, a system screen tracking levels and skills. Because he inherited a God's power, the system glitched: Haruto has Infinite Mana, but his Level and Skills have been reset to absolute Zero. Now, the Master Gamer must grind like never before. While he lacks skills, he carries a secret the world isn't ready for: He gains experience 1000 times faster than any living being. His goal is clear: reach Level 100, eliminate his boredom, and confront the God of Nothingness—an entity the world has long forgotten. Many allies and enemies will join his journey, but Haruto is playing a different game. And in this game, there are no save files.

A woman who tried to be the best she could was betrayed by her parents and sister for money, now that she's reborn, she won't make the same mistake again

[WARNING: R18+] [MATURE CONTENT] [Strictly for Adults Only] In a house of monsters, the most dangerous thing isn't the truth…it's the feelings neither of them can afford to have. Two rival mafia dynasties. Four dangerous brothers. And one girl who is their greatest mistake. Sin isn't here to be a trophy. She isn't an amateur. Born into a rival dynasty, she knows the Mafia game better than the men who play it. She wasn't sent here to destroy the Riccis...she chose to. Her mission is simple. Go undercover, get close to the four Ricci brothers, find their secrets, and dismantle them from the inside, and watch their empire burn to the ground. She thought she could play them all like instruments. She thought she'd seen every kind of monster the underworld had to offer. Then she met Matteo. Cold. Calculating. Hardened beyond anything she'd faced. While the other brothers were easy to manipulate, Matteo is the glitch in her perfect plan. He is the wall she can't climb and the lock she can't pick. He doesn't just play the game...he rewrote the whole rules. Now, the woman who came to destroy a kingdom is finding herself trapped in his orbit. It was never supposed to be real. It was never supposed to be love. But the more she tries to ruin him, the more she realizes that she might be the one getting ruined. "She came to burn down their empire. She just didn't realize Matteo Ricci was the one holding the lighter."

He was forbidden. My brother's best friend. Also the most dangerous man in the country. And I signed myself over to him. Leah Thorne had one rule: stay away from Dimitri Valentino. It shouldn't have been difficult. He was ruthless, feared, and devastatingly beautiful in the way that only truly dangerous things are. The kind of man who owned nightclubs, commanded armies, and made grown men weep with a single look. The kind of man her brother Mike trusted with his life. The kind of man she had absolutely no business wanting. But one shattered marriage, one bottle of whiskey, and one catastrophically bad decision later, Leah wakes up in Dimitri's bed with a signed contract on the nightstand and six months of her life no longer her own. Her body. His rules. No exceptions. The contract is iron-clad, the penalty clause suffocating — fifty million dollars she doesn't have. And Dimitri Valentino, the Wolf of the Italian underworld, has absolutely no intention of letting her go. He says he'll ruin her for other men. He's not lying. Because beneath the cold control and the thousand-dollar suits is a man who has wanted her for seven sinful years — who has memorized the curve of her smile, the sound of her laugh, and exactly how to take her apart piece by piece until the only word left in her vocabulary is his name. Eve came to him broken, looking to feel wanted. She never expected to feel owned. She never expected to love it. Six Months Contract With The Mafia God is a scorching dark romance about forbidden hunger, dangerous obsession, and the catastrophic moment a good girl stops running from the wolf who has always been hunting her. Some contracts change everything. Some men are worth the fine print.

Zirinos is a monster who, with the power of an entire galaxy on his back, lives without fear or concern, killing and raping, that is, until his father dies and his killer sends him to another world with the intention of seducing women and then killing them. Is Zirinos, in fact, as bad as you think? Will he be able to get his galaxy back? From another world, Denis, a good guy, dies and appears in the same world that Zirinos' father's killer sent him to, but instead of killing after seduction, he has the noble mission of protecting. And, last but not least, Helena tries to find a meaning to live without following the orders of her emperor... Do the paths of three completely different characters converge into an epic tragedy? Maybe.... Who knows. Read and find out for yourself. *I release chapters every day or every two days, I shall not "drop" the book. I want to write until I die. I feel enough love to finally put into practice what I consider good but simple in relation to this work. I hope you like it! I am, too, open to criticism!

In a fantastical world where strength reigns supreme, power determines everything. With strength, you can have it all—you can ignore reason, abandon morality and virtue, and even trample on the most basic human rights. ... Since that’s how the world works, don’t blame me for refusing to play by the rules anymore! Thank you for the support, friends. If you want to read more chapters in advance, go to my Patreon. Read 30 Chapters In Advance: patreon.com/Kira1997

Etching is an art of magic so dangerously versatile that the difference between a master and a corpse is often a single misplaced rune. Gherm, a young hunter from a remote, self-sufficient village, discovers this reality when he stumbles upon the remains of a master scribe and activates a schema that rewires his very constitution. He returns home with a strange power that makes him unimaginably strong. But raw strength means little against coordination. When a heavily armed slaver caravan infiltrates his village, everything burns. His mother is wounded. His sister is dragged away in an iron cage. With nothing left, Gherm turns his hunt toward men. What he doesn’t understand is that the power he awakened has already placed him inside something far larger than himself.

In a world of magic, being born without it makes a person ordinary. Unless the rest of the family has it, then it makes them a waste of space. And if the family is well known? Then congratulations!!! You are a stain on your families name and are probably despised by most people you know. Safe to say that you are probably desperate enough to jump at almost anything that could get you out of this situation. "The deal is simple, I give you missions, and if they are completed, I give you power, what do you say?" The grin stretched even larger as the spectral being held out a translucent hand. "What kind of missions?" "Don't worry, from what I can see, they won't violate your moral compass." ... "Deal."

Title: THE LAST TYRANT: Rebirth of the Villainous CEO ​Synopsis: Betrayed by his partners and left for dead, Franko, the ruthless architect of the Amara Empire, wakes up in the past with a cold heart and a System that rewards his most villainous instincts. ​He isn't back for redemption. He isn't back to play fair. ​With the "Rebirth System" guiding his every move and a future-knowledge of every market collapse, Franko begins a brutal ascent to reclaim his throne. From the heights of the Amara Tower to the shadowy boardrooms of the Western Syndicate, he will crush the Sovereign, manipulate the Watchers, and prove that in a world of sheep, only a Tyrant can rule. ​"I didn't come back to join the game. I came back to end it." ​[Daily Updates @ 6:30 PM | CEO | Villainous Protagonist | Kingdom Building | Revenge]

Storm was a young dragon from a small clan of dragons that hid away in a mountain range in the continent of Xylos. On the anniversary of his 50th year of hatching, human hunters found the clan and slew them. Storm lost himself into hatred and vengeance and for 50 years he hunted and killed humans mercilessly until a chance encounter with a childhood friend he though long dead freed him of the madness that plagued him.