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Anna thought her life ended the moment she saw her husband, Daniel Clafford, in the arms of her sister. She had already lost her unborn child something Daniel never even noticed and now, with her last shred of hope shattered, she decided to leave quietly. But fate was cruel. Before she could walk away, she was pushed off the balcony of the Clafford estate. Only… she didn’t die. When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day of her wedding, her sister having run away and Anna forced to take her place as the replacement bride. This time, Anna swore things would be different. No love. No expectations. No more foolish devotion to a husband who only brought her heartbreak and cold indifference. Yet something is wrong. The Daniel of this life isn’t the same man she remembers. He refuses to ignore her, refuses to let her go, and most shockingly—refuses to divorce her. “I’m telling you, Anna. Stop bringing divorce into our conversations,” Daniel warned, his voice taut. His heart ached, but seeing her unyielding expression made his resolve crumble. With trembling hands, he cupped her face and whispered: “Please… give me a chance. I promise I’ll love you right this time.” But Anna only laughed bitterly. To her, Daniel Clafford was still the same man—wicked, calculating, dangerous. He married her with a motive. And now he dared beg her to stay? Dream on, Daniel Clafford. Because this time… Anna was determined to make him taste his own medicine.

At six years old, a catastrophic car accident did more than break Lin Yan’s life—it shattered his existence across time. While one half of his soul remained at the accident site as a kind, innocent boy who grew up to marry a powerful CEO, the other half was sucked into a temporal portal, teleported into a grim, high-tech future. In that neon-drenched hell, he became a god-tier Hacker and Architect, eventually captured and tortured by the "Ravens" for his Origin Code. The two halves only reunited when the future-Architect was executed and the past-Innocent committed suicide, merging their fractured memories into one reborn body in 2016. Now, Lin Yan is a walking anomaly. His dual soul causes a violent "System Overheat," forcing his mind to broadcast his deepest loneliness and traumatic memories as a telepathic signal—a broadcast audible only to his family and his destined anchor. He is a man who fears the very touch he craves, trapped between the innocent boy’s need for love and the Architect’s cold, survivalist fury. Enter Lu Jingho, the "Zero-Point Sentinel." He is the only human whose touch can "cool" Lin Yan’s burning consciousness, muting the broadcast and grounding the Architect's reality-warping powers. Together, they must protect the Twelve Sovereign Seeds from the Ravens and stop a cosmic God-Frequency from rewriting the human race. To save the future, Lin Yan must first reconcile the boy who was left behind with the man who was broken by the future.

The Merger or the Grave. Akarat Group and Sutthi Corp have spent a decade trying to bleed each other dry. But when their shared benefactor a dying billionaire with his hand on their debt issues a final ultimatum, the war moves from the boardroom to a secluded glass estate. The terms are simple: successfully merge the empires in six months, or lose everything. The catch? Phin and Kavin must live, breathe, and work together in total isolation. No staff. No escapes. Just the "Untouchable" and the "Storm" trapped in a house where every wall is transparent. The Mask of Malice. For Phin, silence is a weapon and his three-piece suit is a shield against a world that raised him to be a machine. For Kavin, the merger is a chance to finally break the man he has spent ten years obsessing over. But as the forced proximity peels back their corporate veneers, the "hate" they nurtured since university is revealed for what it truly is: a starving, primal hunger that threatens to consume them both. The Price of Power. While Phin’s lawyer and Kavin’s brother conduct a frantic, secret affair in their shadows, a far more dangerous predator looms. Madam Wei, a puppet master with a vendetta, begins pulling the threads of Phin’s traumatic past to ensure the merger and the men shatter. As the lines between dominance and surrender blur, the two Alphas realize that winning the business means nothing if they lose the only person who understands the crushing weight of the crown. In a house of glass, there are no secrets and the truth might just be the most violent thing of all.

"In my past life, you died to get me out of the cage. In this life, I’ll build a golden palace to keep the world away from you." Li Meilin died in a roar of flames, her hand locked in the grip of Xie Zihan—the man who had shared her year of torture in the underground Syndicate. She was the discarded heiress; he was the runaway son of the Mafia King. They died as nobodies, mere shadows in the dark. Now, the fire has brought her back. Reborn on her eighteenth birthday, Meilin wastes no time. With the help of her loyal Mother Wu, she crushes her family’s plot to steal her inheritance and cancels her engagement to a traitorous fiancé. But her heart isn't on revenge—it’s on the boy who is currently starving in a basement. She finds him. Xie Zihan is eighteen, a genius coder working three part-time jobs, oblivious to the fact that his Mafia father is scouring the globe to bring him back to the underworld. Meilin founds Lin Capital and Shenghua Biotech, becoming the city's most feared mogul overnight. She "hires" Zihan as her secret weapon, moving him into a fortress of luxury. She provides the medicine for his mother and the servers for his genius. The world calls him her "kept man." They don't know he’s the architect of her financial empire. They don't know she’s hiding a Prince from his own Throne. The hunt is on. The Queen is ready. And this time, no one burns.

Amelie Cavanaugh has faced many hardships in her life. She was orphaned at 8 years old, ran away with her brother from foster care at 14 years old, and constantly worked to achieve her goal of the university. Just when her life is going to plan, her life is turned upside down one blustery November day as her brother is injured during a football game. Billionaire Dr. Nathan Michaels is next in line to take over Michaels Investment Group as his grandfather, Carrington Michaels, is retiring. The problem, the board members think his playboy ways need to be in line for the CEO position. Solution: Carrington Michaels tells Nathan he has 6 weeks to get married, or he will lose the company. A chance sighting of the stunning brown-haired Amelie in the hospital cafe sends Nathan's world into a spin, but when he turns around after receiving his order, she is gone. Who is she? Where did she go? How can he make her his? Will it even matter when a dark family secret involving both families could threaten any chance of happiness?

Driven by betrayal from her family, Annabelle wanted revenge but lacks the means and resources to execute it so, she made a proposal to the man who was once her rival only to be rejected and be offered a new, schocking proposal. Annabelle was left with only two options, accept his proposal and have everything or decline and lose it all. As shocking as he was to have his rival coming to him for help, what was most shocking was that fact that her presence alone stirred the beast sleeping within him. Uncertain of what he felt, he stalled, contemplated, but ultimately, he wanted her. She was his but he couldn't have her because she was a human. But where there is a will, there's always a way. **** “If I am to aid you in your revenge against your family, I want something in return. Something I would need." He stated, and her frown deepened. "You lack nothing. What else could I possibly give you that you would find useful, Mr Quinn?" "Let's see…" Annabelle watched him tap his chin thoughtfully with furrowed brows. "....a wife," "What?!" Annabelle nearly choked on her own saliva at his words. "You are right. I have everything and lack nothing except for one. A wife," he repeated Had Annabelle thought she hadn't heard him before, she certainly did now. "So what's it gonna be?" He asked, tilting his head slightly. "Marry me, and we have a deal.”

[Mature Content R18+] [Slow-Burn Dark Romance] Two days before my wedding, my fiancé told me he would marry my twin sister, because it was her dying wish. My family, his family, everyone dear to me, turned me into a villain for being defiant. The decision was final. The bride had changed. They forced me into a golden cage, waiting for my turn to be another substitute. Then he came. The man who should have been my enemy offered his hand. Led us into one wild night. "Be my wife. Six years. Let's have a contract for exactly that long." "You lost your mind. You promised-" "And I'll give you five years. You can be free. Do whatever you want with the Kingston name. I promised that." "Wh... what?" "But you must promise me, you will be back, and let's live like we burn for each other in that last year." "Rafael... what are you planning to?" "Get things back to their right place." I was tired of being anyone's pawn. So, I play my own game. Five years later, I am back. Revenge is an understatement. The price for my suffering is due. My children keep asking for their father. They'll meet him soon, but there's a problem:  I’m not sure who the real father is. "Viona... I never stop loving you. Tell me they are my flesh, right? I want you back. I want us back." My ex-fiancé shamelessly pleaded before me. "They are mine. The four of them are mine." And there he was, my contracted husband declared with a glare that was ready to burn the whole society down. This should be a simple game of power. But love always meddles between the players. ====== Author's Note: This Novel is a character-driven plot with slow-burn smut. Every character has their own motivation and is layered. Every choice has no easy way out. If you enjoy slow burn, this might be to your liking. Please read all the free chapters before you decide to continue or not. Thank you for giving this story a chance.

Everything was going on well until the night before her wedding, Lin Shuyin’s fairytale life suddenly crumbled from her fiancé's call, dragging her to reality... Her fiancé abandons her for her stepsister, her father and stepmother escape, abandoning her to fend off the reporters and media, and by morning, she’s framed for her grandmother’s murder. Thrown into a cruel underground prison, she dies beaten and broken. But death is only the beginning. An ancient soul awakens within her, a woman who spent a century trapped in a lab, experimented on, and injected with beast blood. When her soul awakens, the weak and naive Shuyin is gone. In her place rises someone colder, sharper… unstoppable. Then comes Lu Yuze, her ex-fiancé’s uncle, a man wrapped in secrets and power. He saves her from the abyss, but not for free. His price? Her blood, and her bone marrow… to save his dying daughter. The only thing Lu Shuyin wanted was revenge, and asked for a contract marriage, and money, these were the most important things to survive out there... In a world where betrayal runs deep, love becomes the most dangerous experiment of all. She’s no longer the victim. She’s the revenge they never saw coming.

A love triangle, between Theo, Kayla and Hari, highschool romance.

Aira was never the girl people chose. She was the temporary one… the easy one… the one everyone used and left behind. Her whole life, she kept saying sorry— sorry for existing, sorry for loving too much, sorry for not being enough. But one night, at her lowest, Aira decides she’s done begging for love. Now she wants money, glow-up, power, and revenge. So she starts writing her pain into a book… hoping it’ll finally change her life. And then a comment appears. From an anonymous account with a cat profile picture: @whyisthiscatreading “Your book… it didn’t feel fictional.” Aira doesn’t know who he is. She doesn’t know his face. She doesn’t know his real name. All she knows is this— someone out there is reading her pain like it belongs to them… and the more he reads, the more obsessed he becomes. Because this time, Aira won’t be the girl people leave behind. This time… she’ll be the girl they’ll regret losing.

One shot/slice of life/ Mature,spicy, explicit moment between Xavier and Starlight.

Five years ago, Gianna Aldo was left at the altar by the man she loved—and lost everything in a single, devastating day. Now a celebrated jewelry designer, she’s built a glittering life from the ruins of her past. But when fate throws her back into Zane Whitman’s world through a cruel twist she never saw coming, the wounds she thought had healed begin to bleed again. Long-buried secrets soon rise to the surface, threatening to unravel everything Gianna believes about their past. Yet she refuses to be shaken. She is no longer the broken bride who once waited in white. Instead, she is the woman who will burn his empire to the ground. This is the second installment in the Dark Revenge Series, though it can be enjoyed as a complete standalone. However, to gain deeper context, check out Book 1: Dark Revenge of an Unwanted Wife.

Jasmine Towers married billionaire Keith Acland in an arranged marriage meant to benefit two powerful families. There was no love, no romance—and Jasmine accepted it. As the CEO’s wife, she devoted herself to maintaining the perfect image and raising her son to become the rightful heir of the Acland family. Everything collapses when Keith’s former lover returns… with a child she claims is his. Overnight, Jasmine’s position is questioned. Her son’s inheritance is threatened. And the woman who once stood quietly beside her husband is pushed out of her own home. Betrayed by her husband and abandoned by high society, Jasmine is forced into a ruthless battle for survival—where losing means watching her son lose everything. Jasmine must fight to protect her child… and reclaim what was stolen from her.

Summer’s marriage to Gideon had been nothing short of a fairytale. Their days were filled with joy and peace until one incident ruined everything completely. The man she loved the most accused her of cheating. ======= “Who is the father of the child?” Gideon thundered, squeezing her shoulders. His crushing grip made her wince in pain and fear. “It’s yours. Why won’t you believe me?” “I wanted to. But these reports tell different story.” He threw the paternity test reports at her. “Hope is not my child?” The ground shattering revelation rattled Summer. She tried everything to save this marriage, but it didn’t turn well. Hidden conspiracy and betrayal tore her world apart, costing her everything, including her own life. The moment she thought it was over, she found herself gone back in time. She had been reborn. Armed with the knowledge of what was to come, she vowed to protect herself and her family. ====== “Since I’ve been given a second chance, I’ll not let the history to repeat.” She thought she would stay far away from Gideon, but fate had other plans. He appeared in front of her again six years later. This time, he didn’t want to kill her. He wanted to trap her, torment her, and own her. Would Summer let him ruin her again? Would she be able to change her fate this time? “In this life, you can never escape me,” Gideon hissed. Summer looked into his eyes coldly. “We ended things six years ago. I’ll never let you crawl back into my life again.” Pinching her chin, he declared, “No one can stop me from reclaiming you, not even you.”

Marcus and Zara had been dating since she was sixteen, and almost a year had been spent having him by her side. He happened to be the billionaire’s heir. She was sure they would be mates, destined after all. But her boyfriend had found his mate, and it wasn’t her. A ruthless, super-rich Alpha Kane Sterling descended upon Zara's pack and found his destined mate there.

Scarlett "Scar" Vance doesn't believe in luck. She believes in odds, psychology, and knowing when someone's bluffing. Three years ago, she was a dealer in the Hollow—the slum island they forget exists. Tonight, she owns the Red Ace, the most profitable casino on Spade Island. The previous owner left her three things: the keys, $30 million in debt, and a bullet hole in his forehead. The Seven Houses think she's easy prey. They're wrong. DOM THORNE runs security for half the islands. He taught her first hustle in the Hollow ten years ago. Now he watches her take down card sharks with a smile, and wonders if she remembers his face—or his mechanical arm. ASHER BLACKWOOD built the tech that runs her slot machines. He was her fiancé before the fire that "killed" her. Now he knows she's alive, and he's buying her debts to keep her close. She keeps hacking his systems to remind him: she doesn't owe anyone. KAI NAKAMURA controls the fights where she earned her start. He doesn't care about her casino—he wants to see what happens when a Hollow rat takes the crown. He's betting on her winning. He's also betting on the chaos. JULES STERLING keeps her secrets in code. They built her new face together after the fire. He's been in love with her for three years, three months, and four days. He also knows she'll never forgive him if he says it out loud. Four men. Seven islands. One throne. Scar doesn't want their protection. She wants their respect. And then she wants to change the rules—so no other Hollow kid has to burn to get out. No chosen one. No easy love. No guarantees who wins. Just Scarlett Vance, holding aces, waiting for someone brave enough to call her bluff. [WARNING: Slow-burn reverse harem with morally gray characters, graphic casino violence, and emotional manipulation. ]

Aanya Lu is a simple, hardworking girl who believes talent and honesty can change fate. She has no idea that her past is soaked in blood—and that her future is walking straight into danger. When she joins one of Shenzhen’s most powerful companies, she catches the attention of Zain Yan—a flawless CEO in the eyes of the world, but a ruthless and broken man behind closed doors. Zain gives Aanya an important project, mentors her, and pulls her closer to him. To Aanya, he is strict but fair. To Zain, she is nothing but a tool. Years ago, Zain lost his mother and younger sister on a blood-soaked night. The man responsible was Lu Kang—Aanya’s beloved uncle, the man she trusted like family. Zain plans to use Aanya to destroy Lu Kang completely. But fate turns cruel. Aanya’s intelligence and hidden strength attract the attention of the underworld’s most feared ruler—the Dragon King. Seeing her as a future threat, he orders her death. For the first time, Zain’s perfect plan collapses. The girl he meant to sacrifice becomes the girl he risks his life to protect. Surrounded by bullets, betrayal, and blood, Zain makes a shocking move— A forced contract marriage. In front of the world—and in front of Lu Kang— Zain declares Aanya as his wife. Now Aanya is trapped in a marriage she never chose, tied to a man full of secrets, and standing at the center of a war she doesn’t understand. Is she merely a pawn in Zain’s revenge? Or the only weakness of the Heartless Wolf? As buried truths rise, as the connection between the Dragon King and Lu Kang is revealed, and as Aanya uncovers why Zain really chose her— It won’t just be love or trust that breaks… but the very cage imprisoning a wounded heart.

**She came to steal a plant. She left utterly destroyed and completely his** Aria Chen is a woman who wears many masks: brilliant hacker, underground artist, medical prodigy. But none of those identities can save her dying mother from a rare disease with only one cure a nearly extinct medicinal plant called Vitalis Radix, cultivated exclusively on the private estate of billionaire CEO Damien Blackwood. Desperate and running out of time, Aria does the unthinkable: she infiltrates his fortress-like mansion as a maid under a false identity, planning to steal the plant and vanish before anyone discovers the truth. The plan is simple. "Get in. Get the plant. Get out." Until she meets him. Damien Blackwood is power incarnate ruthlessly intelligent, devastatingly handsome, and dangerously observant. From their first encounter, the attraction between them is explosive, undeniable, and completely forbidden. When he makes her his personal maid, Aria thinks she's been given the perfect access to complete her mission. She has no idea he's been waiting for her. He knows exactly who she is. And he's going to make her pay. But his punishment won't come in the form of police or prosecution. It comes in whispered commands in the darkness. In his hands claiming every inch of her virgin body. In the way he teaches her that pleasure and control are two sides of the same coin. "You're mine now. Every hole. Every moan. Every desperate whimper when you beg me to let you come." Aria is a virgin who's never experienced desire, never understood her own body's capacity for pleasure. Damien becomes her sexual awakening and her complete undoing. He introduces her to a world of dark eroticism she never knew existed remote-controlled vibrators she must wear while serving his dinner guests, sex in his office while he's on business calls, punishments that leave her marked and aching and desperate for more. She becomes addicted. To his touch. To his dominance. To the way he makes her body sing with pleasures she didn't know were possible. Every encounter pushes her boundaries further. Every night in his bed pulls her deeper into obsession. He's possessive to the point of madness, jealous of every man who looks at her, determined to own not just her body but her very soul. "When I'm done with you, you won't remember your own name. You'll only remember mine." As Aria falls deeper into Damien's web of dominance and desire, her mission becomes impossible to separate from her feelings. Her mother is dying. Time is running out. But every night in his arms makes her question what she's willing to sacrifice. When he finally catches her in the greenhouse, hands covered in soil and guilt written across her face, the confrontation is explosive. "Did you really think I didn't know? That I haven't been ten steps ahead this entire time? You played your game, Aria. Now it's time for mine." Betrayal. Rage. Raw, punishing sex that blurs the line between fury and passion. READER WARNING: This is a DARK EROTIC ROMANCE with explicit sexual content including: ** Virgin heroine's complete sexual awakening ** Dominant alpha hero with possessive/obsessive tendencies ** Power dynamics and consensual control (employer/employee) ** Public sexual situations and exhibitionism elements **Use of sex toys for control and pleasure ** Punishment scenarios (spanking, discipline) ** Intense jealousy and possessiveness ** Morally gray characters who make questionable choices ** Explicit language and graphic sexual scenes ** Pushed boundaries (always consensual) ** Emotional intensity and angst This book contains a GUARANTEED HEA but the journey is dark, twisted, and absolutely filthy. If you want safe and sweet, this isn't your book. If you want a billionaire who plays dirty and a heroine who learns to crave it, "Welcome to Blackwood Estate. where every rule is meant to be broken, every boundary is meant to be pushed, and love is the most dangerous game of all."

The most unlucky woman in the world vs The most mysterious man in the world. A piece of paper declaring a marriage alliance between two enemy families was not her business. Because she would never be picked as the bride anyway. Officer Tai Liwu's bad luck was not just broken heels, exploding cars or birds pooping on her head. It also extended to her dating life--which did not exist. She had resigned herself to a lifetime of arresting bad guys and surviving death with zero romance. But when her sister has a panic attack before walking down the aisle, Tai Liwu is shoved into the bridal hall and told to smile. On the other side of the aisle, City Lord Shen Weijun was dealing with his own disaster: his twin brother, the intended groom had drugged him, put him in the grooms clothes and bolted! Forced to step in under a false identity, Weijun expects nothing more than a political farce. After all, their families are sworn enemies and this wedding is supposed to be a ceasefire, not a love story. But trouble brews when Weijun finds himself falling for the sharp-tongued police officer who can arrest a pickpocket with one hand and chase after her hat with the other. And yet, he is reminded all the time, that this is not his wife, but his brother's. And Liwu, her "bad luck" takes a twist when on her wedding night, she awakens a bad luck system!

Warning! 18+ Explicit content. Lyvana Montclair’s wedding to Mark Vaughn was supposed to be a fairytale. Instead, it was a death sentence. On their wedding night, the man she loved showed his true face — and then someone shoots her dead. ​But death didn't stick. ​Lyvana wakes up two years in the past, on the eve of the engagement that ruined her. To claim the inheritance her father left behind, Lyvana’s grandmother demands one unbearable price: marriage to Mark as it was her father’s final wish. Refusing to die again, Lyvana plots her escape and her revenge. Her best friend offers a dangerous solution — one that could ruin everything... or not. The plan is dangerous: find a man so spectacular and so "perfect" that her grandmother will forget Mark ever existed. A man who can win a seat at the Montclair table and dismantle Mark’s influence from the inside. But after a series of strange coincidences and near-misses, Ava begins to suspect that history may be repeating itself... Someone still wants her dead. Then enter Julian Blackwood. Dark, enigmatic, and powerful. Julian is the last man who should ever notice someone like Ava. Their arrangement was supposed to be a temporary business deal. But Julian doesn't play by anyone's rules. As he begins to hunt the man who hurt her, Ava realizes that while she hired him to be a shield, Julian is playing for keeps. ​The deal was temporary... His obsession is not...