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In a floating kingdom of aerial islands inspired by a cruel otome game, where a matriarchal society treats men, especially those from poor, unremarkable noble lineages, as mere disposable “mobs,” accessories for marriage or servants with no future, Shade Fou Bartfort, an 18-year-old young man, struggles to survive as the fifth son of a decaying inland barony. Reincarnated into this merciless world, he carries memories of his former life as an overworked Japanese salaryman and knows perfectly well the hidden rules of the “game”: arrogant female protagonists, radiant capturable princes, and a system that crushes anyone who isn’t at center stage. His already precarious existence turns into an absolute nightmare when, at eighteen, Shade is suddenly infected by the mysterious Nightmare Spell, an ancient curse that drags the chosen into deadly trials while they sleep, turning failures into horrific monsters in the real world. With no privileged resources or elite training, his chances of surviving the First Nightmare are nearly nonexistent. But the Spell detects the anomaly of his reincarnated soul and awakens a rare, defective, and perversely powerful Aspect: [Sex Beast System]. To gain essential Vital Points, which prolong his life and allow him to survive the Spell’s increasingly lethal trials, Shade must perform sexual acts, with greater rewards for virgins and insatiable permanent tasks. His point consumption is absurdly high (one per minute), forcing him into a constant race against death. Worse still, deadly poisons punish him for infidelity or loss of control, and the [Beast Awakening] temporarily turns him into a creature driven by extreme sexual desire, putting everything around him at risk. With his meta knowledge of the otome game’s “original world” as his only initial advantage, and a Flaw that keeps him in the shadows (easily ignored by protagonists and fate alike), Shade decides to subvert the dual system that oppresses him: the dark Nightmare Spell and the oppressive matriarchal society. In academies filled with seductive and dangerous nobles, aerial duels, summoned monsters, and romantic intrigues manipulated by powerful women, he will use cynical intelligence, addictive sexual powers, and ruthless tactics to ascend, transforming from a forgotten virgin mob into an unpredictable beast that devours the world that rejected him. A fusion of desperate survival, uncontrollable desire, and calculated revenge in a universe that punishes mobs… but was never prepared for a sexual beast who knows every weakness of its queens.

In this world, magic is not inherited… it is torn from the heart, and human worth is measured by a coin extracted when needed. Mythical stones decide who is worthy of wielding power, while stolen coins feed on human fates. When a forbidden force chooses a demon named Lilithia as the heir to a legendary stone, the system that claims justice begins to collapse. Mages thrive on blood, and the Drakhaen : descendants of dragons, enforce a balance that fears the truth. There are no heroes… and no absolute innocence. Only those who understand the game survive. As ancient seals shatter and the Ravagers of the Vein emerge, Lilithia’s existence is revealed to be more than a key to salvation… She is the door that will force the world to confront its own lie. Featuring a dual LitRPG system of Living Stones and Heart Coins, where power grows through synchronization, stolen fate, and dangerous progression. ( Original System LitRPG ) [Gender : Male Lead]

Harley Hartwell came back to Grayhaven for one reason. The truth. Once an FBI investigator, she now works Major Crimes in the same city where her parents were murdered twenty years ago. But the deeper she investigates, the clearer it becomes— The past was never buried. And someone has been waiting for her to return.

Her father’s debts sold her future. Alina Rossi never imagined she would be forced into marriage to save her family’s collapsing empire. Lucien Moretti is ruthless, untouchable, and feared in both business and the underworld. He doesn’t believe in love. He believes in control. To him, she is a contract. An investment. A possession. But Alina refuses to be owned. What begins as a cold business arrangement soon turns into a dangerous game of power, obsession, and desire. And when the ruthless billionaire starts breaking his own rules… Who will fall first?

With a stroke of misfortune, Lucas lost his life at the hands of a madman. Yet fate granted him another chance. Reincarnation into a new world. only for him to lose his family while still young. In a realm brimming with magic and secrets, Lucas, now named Amon, leads a poor and ordinary life, no different from any commoner. Upon awakening his class, Amon got a mysterious Death-related Class. However, its true powers remain dormant, its potential unknown even to him. Whether it is a blessing or a curse is yet to be seen. One fateful night changes everything, opening the path to Arcadia Academy. Will his destiny finally change after joining academy? Can he rise to power? Or will his cursed luck drag him into even greater danger? Will he be swallowed by death once again? Follow Amon’s journey as he unravels the secrets of the world, driven by curiosity, while struggling to survive between life and death. Thus, a new journey begins… --- Read my review for more information about novel. And you can ask me questions there. --- Discord Link:https://discord.gg/tyurKdrbpW [No Smut]

"This is a story of a collision between a brilliant detective and a cold-blooded psychopath. As their paths converge in a deadly game of wits, only one question remains: when the dust settles, who will be left standing?"

Willow wakes in a hospital bed injured, medicated, and alone. She is informed that her life, as she understood it, ended weeks earlier. Her fiancé is there. Calm. Controlled. He explains that they broke up before the accident and that the separation was mutual. He says he remained by her side only out of decency. He is already involved with someone else, his boss’s daughter, and speaks as though this version of events has always been established fact. No one in the room challenges him. The doctors attribute Willow’s disbelief to concussion and trauma. Nurses lower their voices and repeat the same explanation with careful reassurance until it becomes official, documented, and final. Each repetition strips away her certainty, replacing memory with doubt. When Willow looks to the one person who could contradict him, she finds no relief. Her fiancé’s closest friend, a man who has never hidden his dislike for her, says nothing. He offers a brief nod that confirms the narrative without words. With that single gesture, the past is closed. Every detail they present contradicts what Willow knows she lived. Weeks have been erased. Conversations have been rewritten. A relationship has been reassigned without her consent. If she resists, she will be labeled unstable, emotional, and unreliable. She will be the only one insisting that reality has been altered. So Willow stays silent. Within that silence, something colder begins to take shape. She begins to question why her fiancé needed the past rewritten at a moment when she cannot safely object. She begins to wonder why his closest friend chose this precise moment to agree. She begins to realize that decisions were made about her while she lay unconscious and defenseless. The Quietest Knife is a dark psychological romance centered on gaslighting, betrayal, and power disguised as care. It follows a slow, deliberate descent into manipulation, control, and revenge, where harm is inflicted quietly and authority wears the mask of concern. This is not a story about forgetting. It is a story about being rewritten calmly, professionally, and without resistance.

Shen Zhe was once the radiant sun of the architectural world—haughty, aloof, and untouchable. Lin Yan was merely a fading shadow, a ghost lurking in the corners, watching him with a distorted gaze. ​One accident. One fake funeral. And Shen Zhe vanished from the face of the earth. ​When he finally opened his eyes, he found himself shackled in a room heavy with the scent of pomelo blossoms. His captor was none other than the timid girl from his past. ​Torment, humiliation, and madness... Lin Yan sought to crush his pride, to break him until he became her ultimate pet. But she never realized that deep within the darkness of captivity, another monster was slowly awakening. ​"Yan, you can cage my body, but I will devour your soul. Let us rot together in this cage... until death do us part."

In the era of the Old World, there walked women who did not merely cast magic, but breathed life into the world. They were the weavers of Black Magic, more commonly known as Witches. For thousands of years, the earth has been barren of them. For a Witch is not born, she is wrought. The scholars of the Old World claimed three conditions unlock this forbidden power: First, there must be the Drowning of the Heart. The woman must be pushed past the breaking point of human sorrow. Grief must become the water that drowns her humanity. Second, there must be the Sharpening of the Will. Hate must become the steel of her spine. She must choose not to weep, but to burn. Third, and most rare, there must be the Anchor of the Beast. A Witch without a tether is but a storm that consumes itself. She requires a devotion that rivals her own: a dragon who would trade his divinity to stand in the shadow of her thorns. When these three tides collide, the Mage dies, and the Witch awakens. It is said that when the Witch returns, the mountains will breathe again. The dead woods will scream, and the kingdoms of men will be reclaimed by a garden that never sleeps.

He saved her from one monster to become her own. Bought at a Yakuza auction, Nicole’s innocence was a currency for cruel men. Until Kenji Soma took her. For six years, he was her ghost, her captor, her obsession. Now, the ruthless billionaire heir has come to collect. His price? Her absolute submission—in his boardroom and in his bed. He’ll use her body as his canvas for pleasure and pain, teaching her that the line between hatred and need is the thinnest of all. To survive the war raging around them, she must surrender to the one man who promises to ruin her in the most exquisite ways.

This story is kind of based on the Arthurian legend. ******* He was called many things. Bastard, the False King, The Traitor, Treacherous Knight. Sir Mordred was a villain, one who according to the prophecy of the grand wizard Merlin, would destroy the kingdom of King Arthur Pendragon. And he did but at the cost of his life. As he lay dying on the bloody ground of Camlann after the mighty clash between him and Arthur, a bloody tear fell down his face. All he wanted was to be acknowledged by his father but all the things he did eventually led to disaster. Now with death’s cold hands grasping him, he hoped for a short peace before the fiery rings of hell. But that was not the end of his journey. ******* “Hold up.” “What is that infernal noise?” “Oh my goodness! It's driving me crazy! And it's not stopping!” Mordred sprang awake, slamming his fist on the digital alarm clock on the nightstand. 'What in Merlin's Beard is happening!?', he thought when he realized something. Well, a lot of things. First of all. How the heck is he alive? Second. What is a digital alarm? That's when memories that didn't belong to him flooded his head. They felt familiar but everything was wrong. How the heck is Morgan Le Fay his sister? She was his aunt! And how is the wizard Merlin so young! “Oh. I get it now”. He, Sir Mordred has been reborn in the body of a different version of himself, in a modern and futuristic world where he is the youngest son of Arthur Pendragon. But even in this world, He is the hated son of the High King. "Now what?", Mordred realized that the world he is in now is different from his previous one, with the only familiar details being the names of the people he knew. “Oh? Are you still reading?” Mordred smiled, looking at the readers. “Well, how about you join me on this new crazy journey in a crazy new world of heroes, villains, monsters, and even gods?” “Are you ready?” "Let's go!" ********************************************** The story is loosely based on the Arthurian legend. I am only using the popular names but the plot is different. The story is purely fictional with a few things from the actual legend being incorporated along with some stuff from other popular works. The characters may have different personalities from the original ones from the legend. There will also be names that may seem quite familiar as well. The cover image doesn't belong to me. Please check out my other work: The First Deviation.

He was born without a name and given one at fourteen. Now, at twenty, Vincent Wolfgang hunts monsters for a living in a city of gaslight and rot, armed with a Soul Truth that lets him name things into certainty and erase them into nothing. It should be enough. It would be enough, if something vast and patient weren't using the city's shadows as a drawing board, and if his power weren't pointed at a question older than civilization

After the universe is corrupted by Ink energy, an orphan boy of unknown origin is raised by a hardened mechanic in a mechanical sanctuary. As survivors gain abilities based on how much ink corruption and pain they endured, the boy awakens a unique power that allows him to construct reality itself. His journey exposes the true nature of Ink, the cosmic entities behind it, and his own mysterious origin.

Ten years old. Bored. Already bending space like it owes him money. Assassins, elders, and armies come for him. They leave broken. Crows whisper secrets in the fire. Factions plot in shadows. Mandates of fire, lightning, wind, and shadow clash around him — all of it trivial against his patience and skill. This is Tor’s world. He notices everything. He spares almost nothing. Step in his world. Try not to die. Character Concept Images: https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpush.fm%2Ffl%2Fhttps-www-royalroad-com-fiction-199093-the-journey-of-tor-book-1-descent%3Futm_source%3Dig%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_content%3Dlink_in_bio%26fbclid%3DPAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnJeVD6BxC31tSwp7duykK_ZKJmQLcqVMgyKjcWi1D4aiUaRZNqlsKzp4Yid8_aem_BmeHP5cs3Yz6BT6qFj31bg&e=AT0xs5NvT_GfVrUqvwvbxuoBNwDRPBdSp0Dq2N0lEd9FQOBk-NESooYfakXb9CPlghjHhM0wFx9Ql4HUp4bL3fVji1u3TLHuAorG4a4Adw

The world shattered two centuries ago. When reality fractured, an unknown force tore open the fabric of existence. Beasts poured through the cracks, and humanity was driven behind walls to survive. From that chaos rose the seven cities — the Cradle — humanity’s last bastion against extinction. But survival came at a cost. An infection spread. The Unraveling — born from beyond the fractures — forced humanity to awaken through deadly Trials, pushing them to unlock their potential or be consumed. To uncover the truth behind their annihilation, humans now venture deeper into distant realms, chasing answers hidden behind the veil of reality itself. But the farther they descend, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Ren was never meant to be part of this world. Born Insignificant at the bottom of the slums, he faced a life of death and decay. But the Unraveling had other plans. When the call of the Trial reached him, his destiny changed forever. Now thrown in a world where failure means erasure --- Ren must endure the Trial, and descend the realms that fractured the universe. Descending the depths of reality, what truth will Ren discover about the world?

Sold in a secret underground auction to the highest bidder, Jade Anderson braces herself to be claimed by a man twice her age, until a single, earth-shattering bid slices through the room and silences every voice. Purchased for a price no one dares to challenge, she is delivered not to a faceless buyer, but to the most feared man in the criminal underworld, a ruler whose empire is built on blood, secrets, and absolute control. Escape was plausible, but why would she run off now that she was under the same roof as the man who killed her father?

In this world, everyone Awakens at sixteen. Not skills. Not powers. Memories. They remember who they were before this life. A general. A tyrant. A saint. A scholar. A monster. The Awakening is called humanity’s greatest inheritance. Governments built academies around it. Corporations monetize Lineage compatibility. Families marry for blood compatibility scores. Because the higher your Past Self… …the faster you replace yourself. Except Kael remembers nothing. And when someone dies near him… he doesn’t inherit their identity. He inherits only their power. Not the memory. Not the voice. Not the personality. Just the ability. Which means something is wrong. Because Awakening isn’t reincarnation. It’s overwrite.

Abel Garden lived an ordinary life for 21 years. Then a Gate appeared. In a world governed by the Crucible, those who see a Gate must enter it within 72 hours. If they fail, Daemons will come through instead. Abel is thrown into a series of Trials filled with daemons, sea-born horrors, and hierarchies built on bloodshed. Survival demands more than just will. It requires strength. Beyond that, it requires ambition and brutal transformations.

Six guardians. Five demons bound by blood. One lie holding the world together. On the last human continent, demons wage an endless war against mankind. Chosen as the Dark Guardians, five warriors borrow demonic power by offering their own blood — believing they fight to save what remains of humanity. As truths are buried by those in power, enemies are shaped by lies, and blood is offered beyond its limit, the guardians must face the question no weapon can answer: Who is the real enemy — and what happens when a demon loses control… or a human doesn’t?

The world doesn't end in fire or judgment. It changes quietly. After a global phenomenon no one can explain, a small fraction of humanity begins manifesting systems that pull heroes, villains, demons, and legends straight out of fiction. Each person gets one character slot. Power grows through conflict, influence, and survival. Aren Vale is chosen too but he sees his system is broken. join Aren as he grows on his own, slower than the rest, offering no clear rewards and no shortcuts. As the world slips toward chaos, bringing an apocalypse and fantasy bleeds into reality, Aren must survive long enough to discover what his framework really is and what kind of monster or savior it intends him to become. Note guys sorry for no cover am stumped here but if you have anyone who can help on a low budget I will be glad