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*"He couldn't save his family from the war — so he decided the world didn't deserve him anymore. He was wrong about that last part."* --- Arjun Delos Reyes lost everything in the aftermath of World War II — his father, his mother, his younger sister, all of them gone in the violence that swallowed Southeast Asia while the world was busy celebrating peace and he survived, carrying that survival for three years like a punishment he never asked for until in 1948 he walked to a cliff outside Manila and stepped off. His body died but his soul didn't move on — instead it expanded outward through time itself, past the Philippines, past the century, past every war and discovery and quiet human moment that ever happened, until a Voice found him in that silence and spoke to him the way a teacher speaks to a student who has finally run out of excuses, and that Voice didn't comfort him, it gave him a mission. Travel through every era, move through past present future and every branching timeline in between, change the moments that bent human history toward catastrophe — save Mahatma Gandhi from assassination, give Alan Turing the protection his own government denied him, ensure the discoveries that could have arrived decades earlier actually do, redirect the quiet decisions made by politicians and scientists and ordinary people whose single choices echoed for generations across every country and every timeline. There is one rule — he cannot interfere with anything that involves his family, not to warn them, not to watch them, not even to stand on the same street, and the moment he tries time itself removes him, and he has tried, he knows exactly how it feels, he will try again — and somewhere out in the threads of history someone else is moving through time making their own changes and they left four words in his private ledger that nobody else should have been able to touch, four words in German, and he hasn't figured out yet whether they're a warning or an invitation. --- **THE CONTRACT** 5 Reviews — 1 extra chapters 10 Golden Tickets — 1 extra chapter 50 Powerstones — 2 extra chapters 100 Collections — 3 extra chapter Targets double, rewards double — 100 powerstones means 4 chapters, 200 means 8, no ceiling. --- **GIFTING TIERS** Massage Chair — +1 chapter Car — +3 chapters Dragon — +4 chapters Castle — +12 to chapters Spaceship — +21 chapters Gachapon — +25 chapters Every platform gift counts toward bonus chapters based on its value — nothing goes unrecognised. --- **UPLOAD PROMISE** All reward chapters will be uploaded within 2–9 days of the goal being hit, tracked weekly and posted publicly so you always know where things stand. --- *Don't read it... unless you're ready to get addicted.* --- **EXTRA TAGS** #TimeTravel #DarkFiction #HistoricalFiction #WebNovel #SoulsOutsideTime #Gandhi #AlanTuring #RealHistory #MoralGrey #GeniusMC #PhilosophicalFiction #BillyBat #MultipleTimelines #SecretWar #NoSystemJustBrains #DeadButNotGone #ManipulatingHistory #LoreHeavy #CinematicFiction #OP_MC #DarkButHopeful #TimelineMission #MindGames #AddictedAlready #MustRead ---
DraftZero · 106 Views

Affection: True Love

"Beneath her feet, I swear my oath. Upon her ashes, I shall claim my throne." Thirteen years is an eternity to nurse a grudge. For Alaric Vane, the world is nothing more than a collection of frayed rags stitched together by the crushing poverty of the Gray Cradle orphanage. Ever since his parents vanished without a trace, Alaric has lived by a single law: protect the family that remains, or be consumed alongside them. But when the Kingdom of Oakhaven decrees that the Gray Cradle be razed to the ground, Alaric does the unthinkable. He crawls before the City Governor—a woman of lethal beauty, with hair as red as fresh blood and piercing yellow eyes. To save his foster siblings, Alaric signs a soul-crushing contract of enslavement. He becomes a shadow beneath her feet—a human "footstool" stripped of every shred of dignity. Yet, the sacrifice was a lie. Within the gilded walls of the governor’s estate, Alaric uncovers the bitter truth: the orphanage was leveled long ago. Every humiliation he endured for a year was merely a game—a grand deception by a woman who wanted a new toy to break. Alaric’s rage is a dormant volcano, but he knows he is not yet strong enough to erupt. Within the remaining years of his contract, he begins to weave a web of his own. Under the guidance of a secret ally and a surge of magic born from utter despair, his once-fragile frame transforms into a terrifying threat. Now, the Governor begins to see Alaric through a different lens. The sadistic satisfaction of belittling him has soured into a torturous obsession. She has fallen for the man she enslaved, unaware that behind Alaric’s mask of obedience lurks a predator counting down the days. A four-year contract. A single vow of vengeance. Alaric doesn't want her love. He only wants to watch Oakhaven burn, just as she burned his world to the ground.
Zeils_Evanescent · 203 Views