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House Of Puppets

Arthur Moreau vanished during a live broadcast. No warning. No transition. No last words. One moment he was finishing a world event in front of four hundred thousand viewers. The next, he was gone entirely, and what arrived somewhere else was Gepetto: his character, his creation, the most feared Marionettist ever built in a game where power was the only language that mattered. The skills are real now. The strings are real. The puppets move, and what they touch does not reset. In a world fracturing between an empire in succession, a republic bleeding from the inside, and gods who can die and apparently do, one man with no allegiances and no name anyone knows is building something. Not an army. Not a throne. A web. Quiet. Patient. Precise. House of Puppets is a story about control, belief, and the specific cost of choosing to matter in a world that was not built for you. The puppeteer pulls the strings. But someone always holds his. House of Puppets pursues what works like Lord of Mysteries and Reverend Insanity have already proven possible: the moral complexity, narrative architecture, and literary substance of the greatest fantasy epics, sustained in the webnovel form. What distinguishes it is the rhythm of its telling. Where webnovels traditionally cycle through tension, climax, and relief in measured intervals, House of Puppets builds a single rising curve of tension across each volume, accumulating weight and consequence until reaching a true structural climax. This is the architecture of literary novels written for publication. Here, that same structure unfolds daily, uncompromised, built with the same care as any work that takes itself seriously.
MisterElegance · 36.5k Views

The Mafia King’s Hacker Bride

"You really think you can just hide forever? From them? From me?" "Do you really think we can be together?" she whispered, her voice rougher than she meant. "No. We can't. It just won't work." Zayden tilted his head, his thumb brushing against the frantic pulse under her jaw. "Why?" His voice dropped low, dangerously smooth. "Why can't we make this work, huh?" She swallowed, the movement making her throat press harder against his hand. "Don't forget, You're----" “Say you love me…. Or I’ll fvck that stubbornness right out of you. Bend you over this desk, and make you scream my name until you forget your own." Aylin's face turned beet red. She pushed against his chest forcefully. He didn't move an inch. ***** Aylin Monroe Alston is a brilliant hacker and martial artist with Turkish roots. She can change her identity and her looks as easily as changing clothes. Always staying a step ahead of death, she had been on the run until she crashed into him. Zayden Cole Virelli is a billionaire leading a double life. On one side, he is a successful businessman; on the other, he is a powerful mafia king. Women don’t exist in his world until a runaway hacker crashes into him, capturing his thoughts and refusing to leave his mind. A collision in a dark forest leads to one lie he told and one secret she kept. Now, the most feared man alive wants her, while the woman who can bring down empires with just her keyboard wants nothing to do with him. He’s possessive, she’s untouchable, and they’re both liars. Two worlds collided: a hacker who can take down empires and the mafia king who won’t let her go. Can their love make it through the mess they're about to create, or will one of them get hurt first? WARNING!!!! - Mature Themes - He Fell First and Harder - Mafia World - Weak to Strong - Slow burn
Balishba · 232.9k Views

Craved by the Wrong Volkov

(trigger warning. This book contains mature themes) ****** "I can't..." she gasped between broken moans, her voice trembling somewhere between pain and pleasure. Every thrust seemed to blur the line between surrender and defiance. Then she whispered a name between her sweet cries ...it wasn’t mine. I froze. A slow, humorless smile curved my lips as the sound of his name filled the space between us. “Raph…” she breathed. I leaned in, my mouth brushing her ear. Feeling her tremble from touch until my teeth nibbled her earlobes hard enough to make her whimper and her fold to clench around my fingers. “Wrong name, Lynn.” I hissed, withdrawing from the warmth of her insides. I felt her body tense. She clawed at my shoulders, a desperate plea in every touch. “Don’t…” she whimpered. Those jade-like eyes unravelled me that moment. I could feel the ache in my trousers. A troublesome little viper. A cruel smile traced my lips hiding my emotions. “You called the wrong name,” I murmured, my voice low, dangerous. “And bad girls deserve to be punished.” Her glossy eyes met mine... so full of confusion, want, and power she didn’t yet understand. If she only knew how close I was to breaking. Because the only name she should be calling… was mine. Lucien. I craved it as badly as the air I breathe. ****** For better or for worse, till death do us part. That was their vows at the altar, but her husband broke them first.. He claims an open marriage is the solution to their childless marriage and that it's to protect her own interests. But all Braelyn sees is a prison built from guilt and lies. One heartbroken night, she stumbles into a karaoke bar and into the arms of Lucien. A man shrouded in mystery, rebellion, and danger. His very presence tells her to run but it also gives her the solace she craved. She never expected to see him again after she ran, forgetting his sinful existence, but life wasn't done making a joke out of her. Lucien isn't just any man, but one who can destroy everything she believes in. The man she was never meant to meet. Her husband's uncle The black sheep of the Volkov dynasty. A man whose desire will ruin her. Lucien knows she can't be his, but he was never a man who respected social norms. He doesn't care about anything but her every sin and touch. All he wants… is her, no matter how sinful it gets.
jodiekesh27 · 417.5k Views

Tabore-Bane Making of the Sapphire Citadel

“TABORÉ-BANE Making of the Sapphire Citadel” is an epic narration of a Queen, driven by ambition. Lady Serenya, is caught in a web of ancient oaths and ruthless power plays. Yet she strives to build a living citadel that defies time and embraces her rhythm. Bound by love, betrayal, and a mysterious legacy unknown to her, she must protect all that is hers and lead the Sapphire Legion through shadows that threaten to consume. Within whispers in the marsh and the rising song of stone, this tale is a journey of a woman’s ambition, courage, and sacrifice to reach her destiny. Towering mountains, shifting sands, and enchanted realms form the setting of the epic. In this mist-wrapped Tabore-Bane, destiny is not a gift but a burden to be endured. Haunted by melodies of her distant homeland and guided by ancient relics pulsing with forbidden power, Serenya must weave strength from memory and magic to survive. As the mountain peaks hold their breath, tumult stirs in the shadows. Whispered prophecies, fractured alliances, and spectral guardians stir beneath the land, threatening to unravel the fragile hope she carries. Kaelis and Darven, Serenya’s chosen emissaries sent into the labyrinthine of the island, follow paths marked by riddles in stone to realise that they are not just scouts but catalysts in a game played by eternals. The island shifts beneath their feet and watches them, bending reality with every breath, testing those who dare tread it. Among tribal spirits, hidden watchers, and unseen dangers, a quest unfolds to unravel a dangerous dance of trust and treachery. “Taborer-bane: The Making of the Sapphire Citadel” is a fantasy of memory, power, and the endurance of hope. From frostbitten peaks to haunted marshlands, it weaves a tale of Serenya’s unyielding spirit confronting the forces that seek to silence truth and bend her world into shadow. Dive into a world rich with intrigue, ancient mysteries, and relentless courage. Discover the forgotten rites and the forging of a legend. In this struggle, the test will be of loyalty, and she may lose everything to gain freedom. Welcome into Tabor-Bane, a land not for the Light Hearted.
EvanRavinan_123 · 37.3k Views

Reborn In The 90's: Saving My Siblings With A Fishing System

In her previous life, Han Ruochen was tricked into marriage and was forcibly made the wife of the foolish brother of her husband. She failed to escape, and her legs were broken by her cousin, Han Ziyan, who not only stole her husband but her destiny. She thought that after giving birth to a son and a daughter for the fool, she would be allowed to leave, but unfortunately, fate had other plans. She was killed by her foolish husband, who beat her up until she died, and her entire family was razed by Han Ziyan, whom they had kindly adopted. Han Ruochen hated Han Ziyan to the point that she couldn’t even close her eyes even when she died. However, when she opened her eyes, she was reborn in the nineties, before she lost everything. Armed with the knowledge of her previous life, Han Ruochen started to guard against Han Ziyan and her mother, Meng Yunhan, for she knew that Han Ziyan wasn’t her cousin but her mother’s illegitimate child! And the two of them were determined to snatch her father’s fortune and ruin her siblings to fill the pit made by Han Ziyan’s biological father. But by a stroke of luck, Han Ruochen gained a ‘Golden Finger’. Not only did her strength increase by leaps and bounds, but the sea also became her golden fishing ground. She left on an empty boat and returned with tonnes of expensive seafood. That wasn’t all. With the money and strength, she straightened her siblings and made them walk on the righteous path, where they started to respect the elders and care for the young. Thefts? Corruption? What was that? Come here and let your sister straighten you up with her fishing rod!
dobby_is_a_elf · 631.3k Views

Soul Harvest System: The Blind Predator

"In the Somnium Sanctum, dreams are currency, and nightmares are weapons." He was a bastard prince, discarded in a mass grave at age ten. She was a forbidden saint—branded a heretic and executed—whose spine was carved into twenty-two cursed bones. Before she died, she buried a message in each one. When Soren's blood awakened the first bone, the Abyss Bone Tarot System came online—and the price of that power burned the vision from his eyes. He didn't lose his sight. He traded it for something far more terrifying. Now, behind a blindfold stained with his mother's blood, Soren sees what no one else can: the fractures in every soul, the cracks in every destiny, and the exact point where a person breaks. In this world, power flows from the stars. Every living soul possesses a Star Chart that defines their ceiling—and exposes their death sentence. Every soul except Soren. He has no Chart. No ceiling. No weakness they can find. The Somnium Sanctum is a thirteen-floor tower of assassins and dream-weavers, where beauty is currency and death is an art form. The elites who enter its halls believe they are purchasing ecstasy. They don't realize they are walking into the web of a blind spider. Every dream he weaves is a trap. Every illusion, a harvest. Every whispered promise, a death sentence engineered to extract the precise emotional currency his System craves. 〘 MAJOR ARCANA: The Hermit IX — FUSION: 1% 〙 〘 22 Major Arcana. 56 Minor Arcana. 78 cards to collect. 〙 〘 Each Major Arcana at 100% unlocks a message from his dead mother—and a weapon she left behind. 〙 He doesn't serve them. He devours them. One floor at a time. One soul at a time. One card at a time. From the blood-soaked Crucible on Floor 3 to the star-crowned thrones on Floor 13, Soren will climb over the corpses of kings, warlords, and gods—collecting the pieces of his mother's final gambit. The rulers of this world killed a heretic and thought the story ended there. They were wrong. She had a son. And he has a System. "Welcome to my sanctuary. Here, your deepest desire is the key to your perfect demise." 〘 ABYSS BONE TAROT — SYSTEM ONLINE 〙 〘 HOST: Soren 〙 〘 SELENE'S LEGACY: 0/22 MESSAGES 〙 〘 THE HUNT BEGINS. 〙 Tags: #AntiHero #DarkFantasy #System #UniqueSystem #RuthlessMC #Manipulation #TarotMagic #StarChart #CheatSystem #Revenge #HighIQ #Assassins #SoulHarvesting #HiddenIdentity #PowerProgression
Aetherion_Vael · 10.8k Views