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Theodore Kline meets an untimely death after endless bullying from his classmates and a shitty home life. But he didn’t die; he found himself in a world where you had to play games to survive. Play games to survive. Refuse? Die. Twist: the games have high stakes, and you can die when playing. A scrawny kid who has never fought his entire life was forced to fight for his life. As the games increase, so do the stakes. But the real question remains: how did Theodore get into a land full of life and death games, and how does he get out?

Julian Thorne went to the big city with the intention of getting a job after graduating from college. His parents entrusted him to his cousin, Marshal, who had been living in the big city for years. Thinking he would find a great job in the city, Julian instead received a very attractive but also strange offer. "I'll give you $1,200 a month as long as you agree to be my contract husband." All he had to do was smile and acknowledge himself as the husband of the handsome and popular math teacher, Arcane Romano. "I used to hate math so much. But now I have a math teacher as my husband?" Although it was just a contract, sparkle of something they didn't realize began to grow between them under the same roof. Is it love? Or is it just a duty as a husband? Surrounded by many beautiful and intelligent students. Plus, a colleague who is so attentive. Does Julian have a chance to be with him forever? "Could he possibly love a clumsy guy like me?" -Mr. Romano Contracted Husband-

In the drab monotony of his 9–5 cubicle life, Lyden Snow never expected anything more exciting than another spreadsheet—until Angela, a four‑hundred‑year‑old succubus of breathtaking beauty, materializes on his commute and shatters his world—literally. One electric liaison later and a screeching car crash send him hurtling into a hospital bed, where he awakens to a staggering truth: he is no longer fully human, nor is his life bound to a single reality. Drawn into the hidden realms that lie parallel to our own, Lyden must traverse the perilous Borderlands—domains woven from ancient myth and ruled by primal forces. There, the “Pillars” that uphold both mortal and immortal worlds are under siege by an unknown darkness. To save everything he holds dear, he must master the unexpected powers pulsing within him, forge uneasy alliances with dragons, merfolk, and other supernatural beings, and confront a conspiracy that reaches back to the dawn of creation. As Lyden’s circle of allies grows—each bearing their own secrets and desires—so too does the danger. Seductive succubi vie for his loyalty, legendary beasts test his mettle, and gods long thought dead stir in their slumber. Every battle brings him closer to the heart of the enigma: what is the true origin of his newfound abilities, and why do the very forces of myth converge around him?

He was used. He was discarded. He died like a nobody. During the apocalypse, Caspian Shade was nothing more than a tool— manipulated and exploited for his cheat talent, then cast aside once he outlived his usefulness. His end was pathetic. But death was not the end. Caspian regresses one year before the apocalypse begins, returning with memories of betrayal, suffering, and a future drenched in blood. This time, he swears revenge—on everyone who used him. Yet as he retraces his steps, Caspian discovers a terrifying truth. The forces behind his manipulation… His death… The apocalypse itself— None of it was as simple as it seemed. And the talent he once believed he understood? Its true nature doesn’t merely break rules— It challenges the very laws of existence. From his first planet to the vast cosmos, watch as Caspian Shade rises— scheming, conquering, and evolving—building an empire that spans reality itself. Not as a hero. Not as a pawn. But as the one who will reign eternally— The Supreme Gold Sovereign.

Hi! My name is [Redacted], but most people just call me Focaccia Bread — or Foca. I’m writing this mostly for fun, but also to share my stories, my questionable life choices, and the music that somehow came out of them. Come along for the ride as I recount how I accidentally built a successful entertainment company and somehow helped create actual music legends. Fair warning: I do not tell stories in order. My brain jumps timelines like a fever dream, so expect chaos, time skips, and zero apologies. I’m weird. I’m quirky. I embrace it with both arms and half a bagel. I know — I’m cringe. But at least I’m free. XD If you wanna listen to the Jams (Music) appearing here, you can go listen to them in YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@FocacciaBread-Music) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ecDiwv85yqoktTR4h569L?si=CHJzNohaTwiTgukcKickMQ) and other streaming platforms.

Selene, an omega and the weakest among her pack is secretly in love with Micheal, the most feared Alpha. When fate brings them together as mates, they spend the night together but Micheal calls it a mistake as she would be the weak line of his pack. He rejects her and she runs into the woods. Years later, she is saved by Micheal's guards from rogues and appears with a son of special and strong abilities. What will Micheal do now that he is already married to his childhood sweetheart? What is fate preparing once again?

"So needy, little El," he murmured, his voice thick with dark amusement. Then, i felt the press of his finger at my entrance. When he plunged it inside, a jolt of pure, electric shock seized my body. I jerked, but their hands hend my hip down, pinning me.  What was this new, overwhelming sensation. I clenched around his finger involuntarily, a broken moan escaping me as he pulled out, only to thrust back in slowly. This wasn't fair. They were the ones who had deceived me. Why was i the one being punished like this? Another skilled finger found my clit, rubbing tight, frantic circles. I didn't know which was one of them was doing it as Kieran's pace inside me wasn't slowing and my body was jerking helplessly with every thrust. With my hands still pinned, i was completely at their mercy. The control I'd seized has been ripped away too soon. It wasn't fair. But stars above, I wanted more. **** I don’t want to be with the triplets, so I will give them a reason to reject me, by getting entertained by these male entertainers that makes my body feel different” *** Treated as a scapegoat to please her sister. Her boyfriend of two years saw her as someone to pass time and “pay his checks” and will blindly do anything for him. And he goes ahead to be engaged to her sister, Priscilla, who faked an incurable illness to gain everyone’s sympathy and make Eleanor’s life miserable. After a devastating heartbreak and a near-fatal accident, Eleanor’s life takes an unexpected turn when she begins experiencing unnatural abilities. Things that no ordinary human should be capable of. Then she meets the enigmatic CEOs of Vexxons, a powerful tech empire, and feels an inexplicable pull toward them, followed by a voice filled with resolve whispering in her mind. When the Vexxon triplets, the tycoons to the most advanced tech firm in the world cross paths with Eleanor, their inner wolves recognize her, but they don’t. But they are hiding a dark side of them. They think they already have their mate but Eleanor is their real destined mate. Also, Eleanor is human… or so they thought. Now, torn between her painful past and a dangerous, supernatural future, and a prophecy, Eleanor must navigate a world of power, secrets, and primal instincts. Can she embrace her true nature and heal from the betrayals that once broke her? what happens when she finds out even people close to her are also werewolves? Will the shadows of her old life destroy her before the triplets can claim what is theirs? Fate has chosen her. But will she choose them back? I appreciate your support, and would want you to help make this story last. your support is my income. I hope I don’t disappoint

Frank Tulliver and Timothy Dawson are masters of a cold world. Frank, a man who reclaimed his legacy through "ruthless" ambition, believes his heart is better "warmed by gold" than by the vulnerability of love. For him, life is a ledger where he "inhales profit and exhales losses". Timothy, the "astute and all-knowing" heir, views the world with a "curt and pragmatic" eye—until he encounters a girl who doesn't fit into a balance sheet. Enter Lydia Rivers. She is a "rare gift" in a society of "city boys" and "calculated alliances". She possesses a "quaint elegance" and "insanely expressive eyes" that speak a language these men have long forgotten: the language of the heart. As Lydia’s honesty and charisma dismantle their defenses, the "honorable" men of St. Georges find themselves entangled in a "tangled web" of their own making. The pursuit of power is replaced by a desperate thirst for the one thing money cannot move: true affection. In a high-stakes world where "numbers do not lie," Frank and Timothy must decide if they are willing to burn their empires to stay warm in the glow of a woman they can neither buy nor borrow. It’s a war of the few good men who are Greedy for Love and Love for Money.

I own nothing. Julia Wicker was about to be attacked by Reynard the Fox, a trickster God when time froze as the God who rules all chose her as the vessel for his power as she had knowledge and power to rule all as she took Reynard’s divine spark to make an example of him but also to all evil or Gods who abuse there power to harm the innocent in the multiverses. MC is Lesbian cause after that she’s done with men in romance and OP.

Wish thought that if she ever got a second chance at life, she would at least wake up in a better story. A spoiled princess. A doomed villainess on the path to redemption. A heroine adored by powerful husbands. Anything would have been fine. That's how stories were supposed to work. Instead, fate—and whatever twisted cosmic editor writes destinies—casts her in the one role she should never have been reborn into: the fat, ugly, unwanted maiden chosen for sacrifice. She awakens in a body mocked by her tribe, pitied by her parents, and avoided by every man. In a world where beast forms define worth, hers is a joke—a puff-fluff fox, a useless cotton cloud that couldn't frighten a butterfly. Worse still, she is the doomed extra whose sole purpose was to die during the Mating Moon Ritual—her death the trigger that allowed the real female lead, a beautiful, weak princess, to earn the devotion of the four almighty beast deities. The Wind Deity—hot-headed, wild, and dangerously unpredictable. The Solar Deity—arrogant, playful, and impossibly radiant. The Sky Deity—silent, calm, and shrouded in mystery. The Night Deity—cold, calculating, and merciless. Except Wish doesn't die. And her survival breaks everything. The plot stutters. Events twist. Characters act wrong. The world itself seems to notice her refusal to disappear—and begins trying to correct the mistake. Now hunted by fate and trapped in a society where beauty is worshipped, mating marks define destiny, and the weak are meant to be sacrificed, Wish is given one impossible condition for survival: She must derail the story completely. The only way to do that is to draw the attention of the four beings the world revolves around—creatures meant to be untouchable, distant, and divine. One is bound to her by a ritual that should have killed her. One meets her with hostility instead of fate. One sees her existence as a threat that must be erased. One should be incapable of feeling anything at all. They were never meant to notice her. The story was never meant to let her live. So how is she supposed to survive a world that measures worth by beauty and power, when she is fat, unwanted, powerless—and armed with nothing but a useless fluffy fox? Can she break the story that wants her dead? Or will she die exactly as the plot demands?

Dr. Nina Reeves was drowning until a billionaire sociopath taught her that good people don't win, they just die poor. This dark romance psychological thriller follows a brilliant criminal psychologist whose ethical world shatters when Zachary Hale walks into her office for court-mandated therapy. He's a tech mogul, diagnosed sociopath, and the most dangerous man she's ever met, not because he's violent, but because he sees her hunger for power before she admits it exists. In this enemies-to-lovers corruption arc with morally grey characters, Nina discovers that being good kept her drowning in debt while her father died of cancer. Zachary offers her everything: $500,000 salary, her father's treatment covered, and partnership in building a criminal empire where psychological manipulation is the ultimate weapon. This billionaire romance with dark mafia undertones isn't about redemption; it's about revelation. Every corporate crime Nina helps orchestrate, every corrupt politician she coaches, every enemy she destroys using her psychology expertise, she becomes more of who she was always meant to be. The possessive obsessive male lead doesn't fix her. He frees her. Fans of antiheroine stories, forbidden therapist-patient relationships, and office romance gone criminal will devour this contemporary romantic suspense. It portrays a strong female lead who chooses darkness actively, not as trauma response. The forced proximity of therapy sessions becomes a twisted courtship where power dynamics shift, ethics crumble, and love looks like obsessive possession. With fast-paced chapters ending in cliffhangers, this dark thriller romance explores whether corruption is freedom when the alternative is helplessness. The FBI is closing in, former friends become enemies, and Nina must choose: return to powerless goodness or embrace becoming Zachary's perfect partner in every criminal sense. Warning: Contains morally complex characters, criminal activity, manipulation, and a love story with no redemption arc. Just pure, unapologetic descent into darkness.

I’m your average girl—well, *was*—who spends most of her days buried in CEO romance novels. Yeah, I know, *so cliche*, right? But hey, we all have our guilty pleasures. So, what about work, you ask? Well, my job made it easy to read the day away as long as I got my tasks done by the end of the day. Sounds perfect, right? Simple, right? Well, that's because I was a librarian. *Past tense.* Why? Because some arrogant, narcissistic jerk gets me fired. Why? Apparently, I didn’t notice him walking up to the counter because I was too busy getting lost in my latest book. Now, you’d think any *normal* person would just tap me on the shoulder and say, “Excuse me.” But no, this guy *decides* to get me fired. Rude? Oh, you bet. But that’s not even the worst part. Oh, no. The real problem started when I decided to get my revenge. That’s when I got tangled up with him… in more ways than one. Now, not only am I working for this narcissistic jerk, but I’m doing it undercover. Why? Because apparently, he has an issue with women working for him... especially when things get *too close* in the sheets. (Yeah, you *get* where this is going.) So, I’m pretending to be a man. Why? Because I need the job. It’s high-paying, and it’s my ticket out of my miserable, *pathetic* life. I mean, revenge is great and all, but I’ve got bills to pay. Money’s my new love, and there’s no way I’m letting some petty rivalry get in the way of it. The tricky part? Balancing my need for cash with the fear of being exposed. I’ve got two huge secrets: one, I’m the woman who shared the sheets with him. And two? I’m a woman, disguised as a man, and praying every day that my cover doesn’t blow. One wrong move, and my entire life—my job, my reputation, my *revenge*—could come crashing down. So, yeah, no pressure. But hey, what’s life without a little drama, right? Right."

Beneath a city where moonlight bleeds crimson and secrets breathe in the dark, Aira Kurohana lives a fragile life haunted by loss and unanswered questions. Her fate shifts the night she crosses paths with Raven Noctis, a cold, enigmatic man bound to the shadows by a cursed bloodline. Drawn to him by an inexplicable pull, Aira soon discovers that loving Raven means stepping into a world of forbidden power, ancient vows, and a past soaked in tragedy. Every heartbeat she shares with him brings her closer to danger and closer to a truth that could shatter her soul. As enemies from the shadows awaken and the line between love and obsession blurs, Aira must choose between saving her heart or surrendering it to a love destined to destroy them both. Torn between light and darkness, Crimson Shadows of the Heart weaves a haunting tale of passion, sacrifice, and the painful beauty of loving someone born to ruin. In this world, love is not a refuge, it is the deadliest curse of all.

Cain was fired, drunk, and alone. Then he found a beautiful woman standing naked in the road. She's Lucifer, the actual Devil, bored of hell and desperate for company. He's just a human with nothing left to lose. Together, they cook eggs, watch TV, and fight angels. But when an ancient mark awakens on Cain's arm, their strange friendship becomes the spark that will ignite the end of the world. Can he survive until New Year's Eve? Disclaimer: This is a low fantasy with high power scaling; fights can happen outside of Earth. This is still my first time writing, but I believe this story is one of a kind. I put my heart into crafting it. I'm not writing just to give readers something to read, but rather, I want them to feel the story itself. Thank you for trying my story! I hope you enjoy reading! I appreciate you so much.

Rolan, a 35-year-old office worker from Earth, never imagined his life would end under the divine wheels of the most feared deity in all dimensions — the God of Reincarnation and Transmigration, known only as Truck-kun. But fate, it seems, had grander plans. Awakening in the body of a dead teenage cabin boy drifting through the perilous seas of the One Piece world, Rolan quickly discovers his new vessel wasn’t ordinary — it came bound to a mysterious and powerful System. Armed with this cheat-like ability and memories of a world that once viewed pirates as fiction, Rolan decides to abandon all notions of destiny or morality. In this chaotic sea ruled by monsters, Marines, and legends, he’ll carve out a new path — one driven not by justice or dreams... but by freedom. Will he rise as a pirate feared across the Grand Line? After all — this is no longer Luffy’s story. This is Rolan’s era — the tale of a man reborn to live as he wishes, in a world where only the strong can truly be free.

Ten years ago, mana descended upon Earth in the form of Gates that opened into other worlds. These Gates contained Magical Beasts of unfathomable strength and power that preyed upon humans and sought the destruction of everything around them. But along with the Gates, humans gained the power of Gifts—super abilities that allowed them to fight back against the monsters and take back their world. Now, the Superhumans with Gifts are tasked with defending the people and ensuring that the Gates, which open all over the world, do not bring about the end of them all. ... Jason Marc was just your regular seventeen-year-old high school student whose father abandoned him ten years ago. He worked two part-time jobs while also helping his mom with her diner to aid with the finances, but he could have never guessed that his entire world would change on the eve of his eighteenth birthday. Now, with more power than any one man should possess and an army at his beck and call, Jason works toward protecting those close to him while finding out the truth behind the emergence of the Gates—and preventing the end of the world.

She was drowning in poverty. He was paralyzed by grief. Emily Greene is barely surviving, working multiple jobs to care for her sick mother and seven-year-old daughter. When billionaire Victor Hawthorne offers her an impossible salary to be his caregiver, she can't refuse. Even if the wheelchair-bound recluse treats her like the enemy. Victor Hawthorne spent five years building walls no one could breach. The last thing he needs is a compassionate woman who sees past his cruelty to the broken man beneath. But when his company's board demands they need stability by him getting married or lose everything, he makes Emily an offer, become his wife in name only. Three years. No emotions. Just business. What begins as a cold transaction transforms into something neither expected. As Victor learns to walk again, both physically and emotionally. Emily discovers a strength she never knew she had. But when shadows from his past supposedly return and betrayal threatens to destroy them, Emily must build her own empire and Victor must prove he's worthy of a second chance. Because real love is never just business.

What if the entire Island of Sodor from Thomas The Tank Engine, with it's people, all to important engines, livestock, rails, technology, etc. was Isekai'd to another world? Or I got tired of looking for TTTE Fanfics and them being shipping, edgy, or one shots so I decided, "Fine, I'll do it myself..."

Li Na is one bad day away from losing her family’s noodle shop. Her last shot? Entering the Celestial Gauntlet—a secret, high-stakes cooking competition for the supernatural elite. The prize is a wish from a god, but the real challenge is Jin Long. Jin Long is the Gauntlet’s arrogant, inhumanly handsome host. A billionaire hybrid dragon, he’s cursed to slowly turn to stone. The oracle says only a dish made by a mortal chef with a “heart-touch” can save him. So, he picks the most infuriating, passionate competitor he can find: Li Na. Forced to be mentor and apprentice, their kitchen clashes are explosive. He’s all cold, perfect technique. She cooks with chaotic, fiery emotion. But as the competition gets deadly(with magical forests, jealous fox-spirits, and ingredient sabotage) their hate turns into something dangerously hot. Now, Na’s cooking might save his life, but his dangerous world of ancient clans and dark secrets could get her killed. Someone is rigging the game, and winning might cost more than just a wish.

Jade was nothing but a mocked student in oversized hoodies until she agreed to help her trainer with last-minute gym inventory on New Year’s Eve. However, a single mistake—sending a private video to the wrong contact—shatters her life in seconds. Publicly humiliated at a New Year’s party, betrayed by her boyfriend as part of a cruel bet, Jade stood drenched in filth and laughter, stripped of dignity in front of the entire school, until the Alpha Triplets arrived. And with it, a ruthless bond shackled her to all three, as well as revealing she was the lost daughter of the Lycan King. The Alpha Triplets, known for their coldness and brutality, searched for their mates to break their feral curse before their 25th birthday. But when they found their mate in the form of a weak, frail girl, disdain was all she got. With a new identity and a transformation in her life, Jade is tossed into deadly Lycan politics, brutal mate bonds, a fourth bond, a throne soaked in blood, and an attraction from the Rogue King himself. What will she do when she discovers not everything is as it seems? How will Jade survive the chaos that follows in her quest to win the Lunar Crown Student of the Year and evade the dangerous love of her fourth mate, now turned enemy, who sought out her heart? Four Alphas. One girl. And Fate's Twisted Game of Love and Power.