betrayal

The realm of Nara is formed of three great kingdoms and countless small islands, each watched over by a Guardian God. To preserve balance and prosperity, the people are bound to offer a human sacrifice once every five years. The gods receive, and the kingdoms flourish. But the sacred order begins to crumble when the deities, descended into living form, can be killed. When gods bleed, faith shatters, and Nara is pushed toward chaos. What remains of a world when its protectors are gone?

Alisha steps into university life hoping for a quiet new beginning, unaware that some encounters are never accidental. Alex is cold, controlled, and wrapped in shadows he refuses to explain. He lives by rules no one questions and emotions he never shows—until Alisha appears. Something about her unsettles him, cracks the walls he built so carefully, and pulls him toward feelings he never planned to feel. When a mysterious night leaves Mandy—Alex’s sister—terrified and silent, questions begin to surface. She insists someone was chasing her, yet refuses to say more. What she saw—or who she recognized—remains buried behind fear and loyalty. As Alisha is drawn closer to Alex, she senses danger she cannot name. Voices feel familiar. Reactions feel too intense. And the darkness surrounding Alex begins to move. What happens when love is not just a feeling, but a test? What if the person meant to save you is also the one being hunted? In a world of secrets, silence can be more deadly than truth. And sometimes, love is the chase that changes everything.

After my husband cheats, I get my revenge by sleeping with his powerful, estranged father. But my plan backfires when I'm framed for murder and left to die in prison. There, I learn a devastating truth: I'm the secret heir to a vast fortune—the very reason they betrayed me. Now, if I survive, I'll rise from the ashes to claim my legacy and become the stepmother from hell. I have only one goal, to make my ex-husband call me "Stepmother."

Han scrapes a desperate existence from the trash heaps at the edge of a world where magic is harvested from monstrous beasts and sold by corporate titans like Dawn Enterprise. When he’s caught trespassing, he’s offered a way out: sign a contract to be the fifth member of a legendary hunting party for 20 missions, and earn an "armament"—a magical artifact that grants the powerless a chance to rise. Blinded by hope and illiteracy, Han signs. He soon learns his party is a farce. His teammates are powerful, resentful professionals, and their leader, the radiant and cruel Third Light, treats them all as disposable props. The hunts are not for glory, but for gathering specific, rare beast shards. As Han endures mockery, terror, and near-death, he realizes he isn't a hunter. He’s the pack mule, carrying the components of a ritual he cannot comprehend. When the ritual is complete, it rips open a path to a forgotten castle, the prison of Azeru, the Sacred Soul Beast—a majestic, ancient dragon bound not by chains, but by his own unbreakable oaths. Han’s contract was never for an armament. It was a bill of sale. He is the "willing slave" delivered to Azeru in exchange for one of the dragon’s sacred scales. Abandoned by Third Light, Han expects a fate worse than death. Instead, he finds not a monster, but a lonely, principled sovereign. Azeru, who despises humanity’s cruelty, shows Han a devastating kindness, reshaping his own divine form to accommodate his frightened, mortal "guest." In Azeru’s gilded cage, Han learns the true history of power: of fallen kingdoms, of the avarice of Third Light’s father, the entity called Daystar, and of a duty so heavy it can paralyze a god. When the time comes for Azeru to pay his debt, he does not give Han up. Instead, he bequeaths to him the last relic of the kingdom he once served: The King's Crown. It is not an armament of brute force, but one of sovereign will and soul-deep authority, a fragment of a lost age's majesty now fused with Han's own desperate spirit. With the Crown burning on his brow and a dragon's bittersweet farewell at his back, Han steps back into the world. His goal is no longer survival, but revenge. He will hunt the hunters. He will make Third Light and the shadowy Dawn Enterprise answer for the lives they commodified. But the Crown is a beacon. In a world where power is the only currency, a treasure that once commanded kingdoms draws every predator, mercenary, and hidden power from the shadows. As Han stalks his prey, greater hunters begin to stalk him. He must learn to wield a crown meant for kings while living like a fugitive, navigating a web of ancient grudges and fresh betrayals, where every ally might covet the power on his head.

Vex is a nobody—a scavenger from the slums, armed with nothing but a rusty machine stitched together from tractor parts. Her opponent in the Royal Star League? The Crown Prince Lyron, piloting the 'Archangel'—a 300-billion-credit masterpiece. The commentators are laughing. The betting odds are zero. But Vex has a secret: the 'Engineer's Eye'. Where others see perfection, she sees flaws. She sees the 0.5-second cooling lag in his shield. She doesn't just win; she tears his cockpit open with a wrench. "Hey, Your Highness. Nice engine. It’s mine now. As for your life? That’ll cost extra." Overnight, Vex turns from "trash" to the Empire's most controversial prodigy. Thrust into the elite Royal Military Academy, she enters a snake pit of politics. But the Academy hides a darker secret: the 'Ghost Engine'—a forbidden technology that devoured her parents and now whispers to her. Caught between a humiliated Crown Prince and a ruthless Grand Prince, Vex has a simple plan: If you can't fix the system, break it down for parts.

“Stop crying. I’ll marry you. Calm down.” Cold. Emotionless. That is Duke Morvex, the monster duke whose half-blood lineage comes from the terrifying wolf demons. And I, Valerie Austin, wake up in the same bed as him, the ruthless duke who should never have touched me. But the biggest problem isn’t that forbidden night… It’s the truth everyone in the empire already knows: Duke Morvex is engaged and soon to be married.

In the year 2050, a young physician swears the timeless oath to protect life—only to be thrust into a brutal war months later. Conscripted as a combat medic, she saves countless soldiers without ever firing a shot. But her final act of mercy becomes her undoing: betrayed and blamed, she dies while trying to rescue the very life that ends hers. Yet death is not the end. A mysterious voice calls to her—“Your duty is needed somewhere, little one.” She awakens in a new body, in a strange yet hauntingly familiar world: Terra. Ravaged by Catastrophes, plagued by Infected, and divided by the politics of nations like Ursus, Lungmen, and Laterano, Terra is a land where suffering is constant, and healers are needed more than ever. Armed with nothing but her medical knowledge, her oath, and the remnants of her past, she must navigate the shadows of Originium, the weight of her reincarnation, and the ethical dilemmas of a world where saving a life can alter nations. Here, her oath is not just a promise— It is her identity. And Terra may break it… or give it new meaning.

*Marked by the Last Omen* Kieran Vale learned early that survival was not a reward, only a habit. He grew up in a city that forgot people like him, where hunger was ordinary and silence was safer than hope. Kieran never expected more from life than to endure it, one quiet day at a time. Then the sky fractured, and the world he knew folded in on itself without warning. He wakes in the Shatterlands, a realm stitched together from broken futures and ruined timelines. Cities hang frozen mid-collapse beneath a fractured sky, and the air hums with something watching. Monsters roam freely. Humans awaken strange powers. Survival becomes a contest governed by rules no one understands. That is when the mark appears. Branded into Kieran’s back like a living wound, the eye-shaped sigil burns with heat and dread. Along with it comes visions of his own death, moments before they happen. Every time the mark activates, his body moves on instinct, avoiding fatal blows before his mind can react. The mark saves him. And every time it does, someone else dies. At first, Kieran refuses to see the pattern. Death is everywhere in the Shatterlands. But the truth becomes impossible to ignore. Each warning redirects fate, sparing his life at the cost of another’s. His power does not prevent death. It transfers it. As the Awakened organize into fragile factions, Kieran becomes something worse than powerless. He becomes dangerous. Others gain weapons, elements, or control over beasts. Kieran gains fear. Rumors spread of disasters that follow him, of a man marked by an Omen that demands payment in blood. Kieran tries to isolate himself, to suppress the mark, to survive without triggering it. But the Shatterlands do not allow neutrality. Every hesitation invites annihilation. Every refusal costs lives. When he meets Iria Solenn, a calculating survivor who can access the memories of the dead, Kieran begins to understand the truth. The Shatterlands were not an accident. The Awakened were not chosen at random. And the system governing this realm is not cruel or kind. It is indifferent. At its center stands the Arbiter, an unseen observer that enforces balance and watches humanity struggle beneath impossible choices. To it, Kieran’s Omen is not a flaw. It is a mechanism. As Kieran grows stronger, the mark evolves. The visions linger longer. The outcomes grow clearer. And for the first time, he glimpses futures where the deaths are not random. They are chosen. Kieran must decide whether to let fate claim lives in his place, or to take control and decide who pays the cost of his survival. In a world where power demands sacrifice, he faces a truth more terrifying than death. The Last Omen was never meant to save the world. It was meant to see how far a human could be pushed before breaking. And the system is watching.

In a city that never pauses to listen, Amara has learned how to survive quietly. By day, she is a rising urban planner tasked with reshaping neighborhoods that raised her. By night, she walks the streets alone, carrying memories of a love that ended without closure and a childhood shaped by loss, resilience, and unspoken dreams. Amara believes strength means endurance until the city introduces her to Ethan Cole, a photojournalist chasing stories behind cracked walls and tired faces. Their worlds collide where concrete meets memory. As Amara fights to protect her community from erasure and Ethan confronts the truth behind his own emotional distance, love becomes less about escape and more about choice. The city tests them through ambition, betrayal, cultural difference, fear of vulnerability, and the weight of past wounds. When the City Learns Her Name is an intimate urban romance about a woman reclaiming her voice, learning that love does not weaken ambition, and discovering that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let yourself be seen. This is a story of streets that remember, hearts that heal, and a woman who becomes unforgettable first to herself, then to the city.

There is a moment of tenuous peace in Terra Solara, so named after the god Solarius, the Radiant King. It is said that it was he who transmitted the warmth of life to the first humans, his first and most loyal followers, who were the founders of his religion, the Cult of the Eternal Sun. These, however, did everything they could to extinguish the warmth of life in other people for their own gain, political ascension, religion or even their own pleasure, so that seven petty kingdoms emerged from a single continent. Any notion of peace is quickly forgotten when there is constant political and religious intrigue in every kingdom. Even if one tries to avoid participating in confrontations, confrontations have a tendency to bring people together.

Neiki Hyuga transmigrated into the Naruto world as Neji’s older brother—a branch family genius branded with the Cursed Seal of the Caged Bird. On the night his father Hizashi Hyuga is forced to die for the clan, Neiki’s Byakugan mutates: he can absorb the eyes of dead Hyuga and evolve his own. From that moment, he stops being a victim and starts quietly turning the Hyuga clan into his hunting ground. Praised by Konoha as one of the “Twin Prodigies,” Neiki smiles in the light while, in the dark, Hyuga begin to “disappear.” Main family, branch family—it makes no difference. Every corpse is another step toward a transcendental Byakugan and the collapse of the cage that bound him. When Neji and Hinata finally confront him as a wanted traitor, the truth cuts deeper than any kunai. “Why did you betray the village—betray our clan?” “My foolish brother… the real question is: why are you still loyal to those who put a cage on your eyes?” This is the story of a transmigrator who refused to be a caged bird— and chose to become the blade that slaughters the flock instead.

The world is entering an age of machines, industry, and order—but something older still decides what is allowed to exist. A young private detective, known for solving impossible cases, begins to dream of places that do not end. When people vanish without cause and rooms behave incorrectly, he discovers that these are not accidents, but corrections. As he follows these disturbances, he uncovers fragments of a buried history—sealed concepts, erased eras, and a system designed not to rule, but to stabilize. Each mystery brings him closer to a dangerous understanding: The world is not held together by truth. It is held together by what has been removed. And noticing that makes him next.

His mouth was on mine before I could think. "This is a mistake," I gasped against his lips. "The best ones always are," Bryan growled, backing me against his office door. His hand slid up my thigh, lifting my gown slowly. "Sign the contract, Alice. Give me six months. Let me use you the way they used you." "And then what?" I asked. "Then we destroy them together." His thumb traced my bottom lip. "Every single one.” Alice Morgan thought the worst betrayal was catching her husband in bed with her best friend, but she was wrong. The real betrayal was discovering they were both part of a corporate conspiracy that destroyed her career, her reputation, and nearly her life. Three years later, she's rebuilding in a new city when she walks into Bryan Hale's office, the ruthless billionaire CEO who's been hunting the same people who ruined her. He has the power and resources, and she has the evidence they've been trying to bury. Together, they make a perfect team. But their alliance comes with a binding contract that ties their fates together legally and financially. If one falls, they both do. Trust isn't optional; it's survival. As they plot revenge by day and battle their explosive attraction by night, the lines blur between partnership and obsession, because when you make a deal with a man like Bryan Hale, you don't just risk your fortune. You risk your heart, and Alice already lost that once.

Isabella Romano has always known her father’s gambling addiction would destroy their family—she just never imagined it would cost her freedom. When Giovanni Romano loses $5 million to the Salvatore crime family and can’t pay, his debt is called in by the most feared man in New York: Dante Salvatore, the 32-year-old Don who rules the city’s underworld with ruthless efficiency. But Dante doesn’t want money—he wants something far more valuable. He wants Isabella. Forced into a contract marriage to settle her father’s debt, 24-year-old Isabella becomes the unwilling wife of a man she’s been taught to fear. Dante is everything she despises: cold, violent, controlling, and dangerously possessive. He claims her as his property, locks her in his gilded mansion-prison, and makes it clear she’ll never escape. But Isabella isn’t the submissive bride Dante expected. She fights him at every turn, challenges his authority, and refuses to surrender—even as the explosive chemistry between them threatens to consume them both. As Isabella navigates the treacherous world of mafia politics, she discovers that Dante isn’t the monster everyone believes him to be. Beneath the ruthless exterior is a man haunted by tragedy, bound by duty, and desperately alone. The more time she spends with him, the more the lines between hate and desire blur. But their forced union has made Isabella a target. Rival families see her as Dante’s weakness. Traitors within his own organization plot to use her against him. And when a ghost from Dante’s past resurfaces, threatening everything he’s built, Isabella must decide: will she run from the man who imprisoned her, or stand beside the beast who would burn the world to keep her safe? In a world where love is the ultimate weakness and trust can get you killed, Isabella and Dante must learn that the most dangerous chains aren’t made of steel—they’re forged from passion, obsession, and a love worth dying for.

Romeo and his mom moved to another city, he had to join a new school. There, he found friends, he goes through cases where he falls in love with a girl his best friend also loves. The story doesn’t only have good friendships, but also bad friendships, family issues with most characters and a whole lot.

Lena Skye is a very hardworking woman who's only 24 years of age. Despite what she's going through with her family, especially her father, she finds it hard to neglect her young siblings because of the situation at home. Mysterious life changes again but no one knows that the road she takes will design her final destiny. Moody Wilson Wiskey, Lena's only supportive best friend. He usually lives his own life. His family is rich, but he decides to live his life far away from them, which we don't know why? No one knows his true intentions. Sometimes that's what makes Lena worry at some point. Mr Brine Whiskey, a young and handsome man who's father owns Big Future Company, the world's largest company, but mostly his father, Mr Edwin Whiskey, usually manages it with the rest of his team. Brone doesn't like spending most of his time in the office, but he prefers travelling to every part of the world just to explore and experience life. ' Lexy Seal. He's a well known CID. A very extravagant and respected man in his work. A secret investigator of serious crimes and no one has ever known his identity apart from his team. They call themselves Team Blue Six (TBS Group). They only wear blue suits when they are in a serious investigation crimes. The Rest of the story let's find in the book. Keep Reading and giving back your feedbacks.

Noah, an omega hated by his own family, fought his way into a prestigious university for geniuses. To pay his tuition, he worked himself to the bone… only for his elder brother to steal every coin he saved. Noah followed him to a luxury hotel to retrieve the money, but Noah walked straight into a trap. His brother had planned to sell him to three powerful men. Cornered and drugged, Noah used nothing but courage and wit to escape— but he ran straight from the frying pan into the fire. Because the man he crashed into was stronger, colder, and infinitely more dangerous… and Noah had no idea he was the Alpha President of Wesnot Country. --- Adam Reynolds, the iron-blooded Alpha President, was on a diplomatic visit when his rut unexpectedly broke through. With no medicine, he was rushed to a nearby hotel suite to suppress it. He intended to endure the pain alone— until a sweet, irresistible omega pheromone drifted past his door. Instinct snapped. He dragged the omega inside… and lost control. --- When Adam learned the next morning that the omega he touched was a civilian student, he prepared to at least make up for what he had done, quietly. But Noah was not the fragile omega everyone assumed. The next day, headlines exploded across the nation: “President of Wesnot accused of forcing himself on a young omega!” To protect himself—Adam is left with only one choice: Marry the scheming little omega who had exposed him.

From the age of four, Haruto has borne the weight of a life destined for sacrifice. During the Third Great Shinobi War, he lost both of his parents, and his infant younger brother perished alongside them, leaving young Haruto to face a world of shinobi clans, hidden powers, and political intrigue alone. At eight, he also lost his twin sister, and soon after, he and his twin brother were separated, forcing him to navigate a life filled with enemies, uncertainty, and betrayal. By twelve, Haruto is no ordinary boy. Haunted by past losses and thrust into deadly conflicts, he must survive relentless hunters, uncover the treachery of trusted leaders, and confront enemies that strike from both shadow and light. Alongside friends—and secret allies whose loyalty is tested to the extreme—he fights to restore peace while struggling with the heavy burden of responsibility no child should bear. Even as victories are won, dark forces stir. Hidden rebellions, ruthless political schemers, and mysterious powers from beyond the known world threaten everything he holds dear. With each mission, Haruto learns that true strength isn’t just skill—it’s the courage to protect those you love, even when the world seems determined to tear them away. As Haruto grows, so do the scale of his battles. Friends lost, secrets unraveling, and enemies waiting in every corner, he must prepare for a war that could change the very balance of his world—and discover the truth behind his own mysterious powers before it’s too late.

5 chapters/week Arjun dies in an accident—only to awaken in a silent void where a masked figure offers him a second chance at life. When he returns to the world, nothing is the same. Bound to a mysterious experiment and burdened with powers he doesn’t fully understand, Arjun begins to realize that survival comes with a hidden cost. As fragments of truth surface, he is forced into a path where every choice is a question on his existence.