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In the war-torn lands of Vireth, fire and shadow are not just weapons—they are a legacy. Kael Varos, heir to the Sun Dominion, is feared for his white flame: a power so devastating it consumes anyone who loses control. He believes in order, strength, and that mercy is weakness. Lyra Selwyn, shadow prodigy of the Moon Court, has mastered restraint where others falter, her magic twisting and bending the darkness around her with lethal precision. She trusts no one—especially not the man whose flames burned her soldiers alive. When an unprecedented surge of forbidden Eclipse magic threatens both kingdoms, their rulers force an unthinkable solution: Kael and Lyra must be Bound in essence, a life-tether that will kill one if the other dies, and magnify their powers when they are together. Enemies by blood, rivals by instinct, they are thrust into proximity, forced to navigate deadly political intrigue, assassination attempts, and the fragile truce between their nations. Each glance, each step, each spark of power becomes a test of control—and temptation. As the ritual approaches, the tension between fire and shadow reaches a breaking point. They are learning—slowly—that power is nothing without trust, and love is not weakness but survival. But the deeper they are bound, the more dangerous their connection becomes. For Eclipse does not respond to loyalty or skill—it responds to alignment of hearts and wills, and if Kael and Lyra lose themselves to it, the world itself may burn. In a story where every glance could ignite a war and every step could trigger catastrophe, can fire and shadow find balance—or will their bond consume them both?

Anastasia’s life had always been loud in the quietest way possible. To the world, she was just another girl with too many thoughts and not enough answers. To her friends, she was Ana the one who laughed a little too hard, loved a little too deeply, and somehow always felt out of place, even in rooms she was born into. Her chaos didn’t begin with heartbreak. It began with silence. Ana came from wealth the kind that didn’t need to announce itself. Generational. Polished. Political. Perfect. Among six children, she was the outlier. The dark-skinned girl with pink lips and watchful eyes who never quite blended into the family portrait. While her siblings carried confidence like inheritance, Ana carried questions. She learned early how to smile without being seen. In high school, she loved the wrong boy the right way. It looked romantic from the outside hallway glances, late-night calls, the kind of attachment that makes teenagers feel immortal. But inside that relationship, Ana was shrinking. He was possessive in subtle ways. Distant when it mattered. Warm only when he wanted something. She called it love. It was slow drowning. But the real mistake the one that rewrote everything didn’t happen during a fight. It happened at night. Lonely. Hurt. Desperate for someone to understand her, Ana did something small. Something ordinary. Something dangerous. She messaged someone she should never have messaged. Not out of betrayal. Not at first. She just wanted advice. A different perspective. A voice outside the suffocating walls of her relationship. She typed out her frustrations. Her confusion. The things she was too embarrassed to admit to her friends. She pressed send. That was it. One message. One conversation that felt harmless. One person who listened a little too carefully. Who asked the right questions. Who understood her a little too well. He didn’t arrive like a hero. He arrived like comfort. And comfort can be far more dangerous than chaos. What started as advice became dependency. What started as conversation became secrecy. What started as harmless slowly turned into something darker something intoxicating. Because sometimes the person who saves you from drowning is the same one who pulls you deeper. Ana thought she was venting. She didn’t realize she was opening a door. This is not a story about a girl who falls in love. It’s about a girl who confuses attention for salvation. Who learns that vulnerability in the wrong hands can become a weapon. Who discovers that some connections don’t destroy you loudly they reshape you quietly. This is a story about a message that should never have been sent. About obsession dressed as understanding. About desire wrapped in danger. About the kind of darkness that feels like home before it feels like ruin. This is Ana’s story. And once you step inside it, there’s no going back.

In the dying light, even the strongest hearts burn to ashes. How much blood must be spilled before survival feels like triumph? How many betrayals can a soul endure before it shatters completely? What price does destiny demand when gods watch and monsters wait? Nytheris walks a path carved from fire, shadow, and fleeting love, haunted by the past and hunted by forces beyond her reckoning. Every choice scalds, every victory leaves ashes—but in the darkness, will she rise from ruin… or be consumed before the final dusk falls?

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.

"It's a love story about a fangirl and an idol. The girl is from another country, India, and the idol is from Korea. What begins as a one-sided love gradually turns into a two-sided love story."

Nilhilus von Veristan, the one who led the Empire of Veristan during its greatest period. In just a single generation, the Empire pushed back the Wailing Wall back 1200km, planted the imperial flag on the tallest palace in capital of demonkind, and united humanity under one banner. This is the story of the return of the Swordsmaster Emperor, Nilhilus von Veristan after thousands of years. May the divine light of Veristan shine once more.

Su Yan didn't just transmigrate to the Douluo Continent; he arrived with the ultimate cheat: a Dimensional Chat Group capable of recruiting female characters from all five Douluo eras. His first login nets him a "Critical Hit" reward: the advanced Nine Yang Divine Skill, Six Meridian Divine Sword, and Lingbo Steps. With supreme power in hand, his real challenge begins: managing his chaotic members. Bibi Dong: "Shameless group owner! You slandered Yu Xiaogang! Just try and hide from me!" Qian Renxue: "The blind Douluo upstairs, you are truly unworthy of being a mother." Liu Erlong: "Bibi Dong, you old hag, you deserve every bit of loneliness!" Xiao Wu: "Stop arguing! I really just met Tang San... I don't want to sacrifice myself! Someone save me!" Ning Rongrong: "Brother Su Yan, please! Tell me where the immortal herbs are right now!" Zhu Zhuqing: "Su Yan, you saved my life. I will repay your grace... with my body." Dugu Yan: [Waiting for her turn to make a demand.] --------------------- Check out advanced chapters on : patreon.com/Veni_V

Why is it, that no matter how many world shattering heroes rise and fall, no matter how many times a realm is said to be depleted of resources, a hero rises again - burning all the resources they find as they go? Another inheritance is always found, another spirit herb, magical artefact... and no one asks why they never seem to run out... ...what keeps creating all these fortunate encounters? Why? And what happens if it stops? --- Warning, this book is a slow burner - rather than a fast paced DBZ style novel --- AUTHORS UPDATE: --- First 30 (one-sixth of) existing chapters have now been edited and reuploaded. Very little has been changed plot or event wise. It's been grammar, clarity, pacing/smoothness, period accuracy, and detail/sense layering. --- Apologies to my Readers My life has gone completely insane since 2019. I am prepared to start again, but I'm going to be slowly posting revised and clean chapters first, taking down old chapters as the new edits completely replace them. Unfortunately, Webnovel doesn't alert to updates to old content. I'm managing a couple of chapters a week worth of editing. By the way, if anyone thinks AI can do the work of writing for you, I say that it's an invaluable editing tool and soundingboard - but I find it still takes three to four hours of rewriting and discussing with the AI to update each chapter to a state I'm happy with. The payoff is that the AI keeping track of the novel events, characters, plots and threads as I go; trying to keep all that straight and losing focus is a big part of what blocked me last time, so hopefully, once I get to new content things will flow smoothly. --- This work was written and revised by the author with the assistance of a trained AI editor. All final choices, worldbuilding, and character voices were shaped by the author’s intent and hand.

Ren died at eighteen doing the one thing he was always going to do — protecting his little sister. The God of Death called it a mistake. Fate called it impossible. Ren called it Tuesday. Reincarnated into the body of a young assassin in the magic world of Alveria, Ren — now Kai — arrives with six cheat skills, two lifetimes of memories, and the dangerous knowledge that he's basically living inside his favorite genre. The weakest of his skills, a humble F-rank ability called Skill Forge, lets him create new powers from experience alone. No limits. No ceiling. Just potential wrapped in the most unassuming package possible. He's got a lot of catching up to do. A guild to join. A world to learn. And somehow, a growing number of powerful, beautiful, very experienced women who can't seem to leave him alone. Kai was a virgin in his old life — not by choice, but because trust didn't come easy to a boy who grew up the way he did. In Alveria, that changes. Slowly. Messily. In ways he absolutely did not see coming — even with Absolute Memory. This is the story of a boy who shouldn't have died, a skill that shouldn't be possible, and a second life that's turning out to be everything the first one wasn't.

He chose every single member of his squad. She was the one he never chose. Kang Dae-hyun is a legend. The kind of detective other detectives tell stories about. So when the Commissioner gives him orders to handpick his own special investigations unit, he does what he does best—he chooses the best of the best. A veteran who's seen it all. A tech genius who can find anyone. A former special forces soldier who never backs down. A rookie with impossible instincts. A profiler who reads people like books. Perfect. Balanced. His team. Then the Commissioner makes one more call. Yoon Seo-ah was Korea's most famous actress. Now she's a freshly graduated police officer with zero field experience, zero street knowledge, and zero business being anywhere near a real investigation. She doesn't want to be on Team Zero. He doesn't want her there either. But the Commissioner doesn't explain himself. He never does. And in this job, you don't ask questions—you solve cases. Now the most untested detective in Seoul is working alongside the most unorthodox squad in police history. Murders. Robberies. Conspiracies that reach higher than anyone wants to admit. Case after case, they'll have to figure out if she sinks or swims. If she becomes one of them. Or if she tears them apart. What happens when a woman who spent her life pretending meets six people who deal only in truth? Do they solve the cases? Do they fall in love? Does she find the justice she never said she was looking for? Or does someone on Team Zero have secrets that could destroy them all? No one knows. Not even them.

Hérése is a good, mature, and understanding child. But following a trauma during his childhood he became silent and distant, despite psychiatric sessions, nothing improved. He had just moved to town for his return to college, ready to start a new life. For him, who had only known study, school and home, he had just entered a new world, a universe opposite to anything he had ever seen before.

When the worlds began to fracture, people started appearing from other timelines, some vanishing in hours, others trapped forever between realities. Among them was Choi Haneul, a breathtaking Omega whose beauty turned into his curse. For a week, he ran from cameras, hunters, and Alphas obsessed with claiming him. The world called him “The Otherworldly Omega.” But only a few knew the horrifying possibility: Haneul’s pheromones matched the forbidden scent of Eunoia World the same world whose rare pheromone-drug caused Korea’s 2019 catastrophe. Thousands died. Entire families were erased. And the company responsible, PharmaCorp, walked free after a single year of bail. Since then, the world has lived in fear of Eunoia. Fear of the pheromones that can break bodies from the inside. Fear of the travelers who might carry them. One stormy night, chased through the streets, Haneul saw a car door open and dove inside. not knowing that the owner of the car, Kang Taekyun, would rewrite his fate forever. Kim Taekyun, the cold and disciplined CEO of Korea’s most powerful medical empire, lost his wife two years ago in a tragic accident that left his five-year-old daughter mute. Since then, he has lived by duty, not desire, bound by tradition, pressured to remarry, and chained by a past that still bleeds. He has money, power, and silence. What he does not have is warmth. Until an Omega from another world hides in his car, trembling, drenched, and smelling like the first breath after grief. Haneul was supposed to disappear like every other traveler. Instead, he becomes the only one who makes Taekyun’s daughter smile again and the only person who touches the heart Taekyun believed had died. But time does not forgive stolen moments. Nor does PharmaCorp, who will do anything to claim an Eunoia Omega. As the fractures between worlds spread, as more travelers bleed into Korea without warning, as fear grows and blood is spilled in the name of “finding the Eunoian,” Taekyun must choose: Obey the world that forced him into coldness, or fight the world that seeks to erase the one person who brought him back to life. Because loving someone from Eunoia means loving someone the world was never meant to keep.

“This is a xianxia work written by a Việt Nam author.” Title: The Law of Kings. Author: Thường Tầm. The story is set in the era of Dharma Transition within the cultivation world. By that time, cultivators no longer practiced Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment as before, but had completely shifted to an entirely new cultivation system. Entering the Dao, Heart Manifestation, Heaven and Man, Spirit Dao, Domain Dao… A realm where every breath and every heartbeat could become an opportunity for breakthrough. That is not all. A man from another world appeared and rose to become the Immortal Emperor. Later, after he vanished without a trace, the culture of that other world began to descend and spread throughout the cultivation realm. Every household came to know of mobile phones, refrigerators, and items that did not originally belong to this world. Even the sarcasm and catchphrases of that other world gradually began to influence the way people thought. Just when the situation seemed peaceful, a great war erupted among the Thirty Six Kings. They were the chosen ones, competing for the still vacant throne of the Immortal Emperor. So in this era of Dharma Transition, what connection truly binds together the disappearance of the Immortal Emperor and the War of Kings?

This story revolves around Aarav, a quiet, perfectionist science student in Mumbai, and Priya, a creative transfer student from Kerala who tells stories through her camera. In this book their coming-of-age journey explores school traditions, family pressure, and social divides, all set against vibrant campus life. Key arcs include friendships, festive events, public scandals, heartbreaks, and a dramatic choice between love and truth, culminating in an uplifting ending where young love and justice triumph.

[WARNING: MATURE CONTENT] Reborn into the world of her favorite novel, 'Auberon's Edge', as the maid of an unimportant side character - the doomed princess who would be married off to the villain and then killed in a fit of anger some time after they were married - Rache is faced with a moral dilemma: does she use her knowledge to flee the to-be-conquered nation and live somewhere she knows will be safe, or risk upturning the fate of the book by warning Princess Airie about her impending doom? Before Rache can decide, she's ambushed in her bedroom by the princess' guard. Knowing how dangerous the black hearted prince of Sidera is, the princess declares she's forcing her maid to go in her place due to the maid bearing a striking resemblance to her own rare features, while the real princess goes into hiding until her parents can find a way to get untangled from Sidera's web. "Remember, if the prince finds out the truth, he'll kill you first." Trapped in a marriage to a cold-hearted sadist who only loves violence, railroaded into a pointless ending before the story even begins. There is no escape to this twisted romance but death. Rache - the new Princess Airie - will not go so quietly into the night. "Let's break up!"

Let’s not pretend like we haven’t heard this story before. Mana descends upon an unprepared world. Dungeons rupture reality. Monsters pour out. Humanity awakens in response—some with sparks, some with power capable of leveling continents. Aris Ashborne was born into that world. His problem? He was too damn cute to be taken seriously! Media companies treat him like heaven’s favorite mascot. Fellow awakened dote on him as if he isn’t ranked among the strongest humans alive. Confessions pile up. Stalkers appear. The title “Cutest Awakened” follows him everywhere. No one seems interested in how he earned his S-rank. It’s hard to command fear when people are asking what skincare routine you use. Oh well. Being underestimated has its own perks too. Truth is, Aris Ashborne is one of the few people that has transcended the ranking system entirely. He is among the few that could very well rule the world if he wanted to. But for now, he is contempt with being called a cutie. After all, monsters don't look the part.

Aiden White arrives in Forks, Washington, hoping to leave his troubled past behind. After years of chaos, neglect, and hard survival in the city, the rain-soaked quiet of this small town feels like a second chance, or at least a place to disappear. He moves in with Steve, a man he barely knows, and prepares to start over at a new school with new faces. But Forks isn’t just sleepy.