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Chase Sterling always felt like furniture. The kind you don't notice, the kind that's easy to shove in a corner and forget. He was used to it: people looked right through him, brushed him off like lint. But it only takes one phone call to erase a lifetime of being overlooked. When his estranged family meets a tragic end, Chase suddenly finds himself in charge of the sprawling Sterling fortune. Turns out, riches aren't the only thing the family left him. There's a curse running through his blood, warping love into something hungry and dangerous, impossible to escape. Vivian Ashford never set out to blow Chase's life to smithereens. Just one decision (a sharp, ruthless move at graduation) was all it took to set their worlds spinning out of control. While Vivian soaks up the Hollywood limelight and collects red-carpet headlines, Chase slips into his new role as Manhattan's most intimidating heir. But no matter how far they run, something keeps yanking them back together, like a stitch in an old wound that refuses to heal.

In a past life, Daphne was a concubine whose beauty won the Emperor's heart, but earned the Empress's wrath. Betrayed and poisoned, she died a tragic death,spending her final moments in the arms of a cold, powerful general who swore to find her in the next life. But fate has a different plan. Daphne is reborn, returned to a time before her family's ruin and her own gruesome end. Armed with a mind sharpened by a lifetime of regret and a body she now vows to make unbreakable, she forges a new path. She will not be a pawn again. This time, she will protect her family and defy the destiny that once took her life. General Alaric , the man who had loved her secretly in her past life is unaware that she's been reborn. He is a living legend, a name whispered with of awe and terror on every battlefield. Yet, beneath his calm surface lies a fiercely possessive nature. What Alaric desires, he claims, and what he claims, he holds with an unbreakable grip. This possessiveness is the darker twin to his battlefield prowess, a ruthless, unyielding trait that ensures once he decides something is his, be it territory, or a woman, he will stop at nothing to secure it. In the mood for a doting and extremely obsessive husband? You're in the right place.

Aurora was simply enjoying life in her hometown until one day it was suddenly razed to the ground. She now finds herself almost completely alone in this harsh world with only her childhood friend Camilla to lean on. The pair finds themselves entangled in a fight against a hidden force that threatens to awaken an ancient threat.

Survival in a mafia romance game requires seduction, betrayal, and choosing the right mob boss. But thriller writer Tisha is armed with something far more dangerous: basic common sense. When a glitching, aggressively romantic otome game starts invading her actual life, Tisha must survive forced proximity tropes, sniper crosshairs, and four highly lethal suitors—all while protecting her utility bill, her unbranded coffee, and her deeply judgmental tuxedo cat. It’s a battle of mafia romance tropes versus the laws of physics, and Tisha is bringing a heavily dented throwing knife to the gunfight. [50 Chapters]

On her half-sister's wedding day, Fia's world shatters. Hazel, the bride, has allegedly eloped with Fia's fated mate, and over the phone he rejects her without mercy. With the Alpha groom ready to unleash war on her pack, and spurred on by her stepmother's pleas, Fia makes a desperate choice; she takes Hazel's place at the altar. But the marriage is nothing more than a cruel setup. Betrayed by her family and accused of stealing her sister's happiness, Fia becomes the perfect target for Alpha Cian's wrath. Humiliated and furious, he vows to keep her as his mate not out of love, but revenge. He swears he will break her, torment her, and make her pay until the end of time. What neither of them expects is that hate can twist, burn, and evolve into something far more dangerous. Between lies, betrayal, and a growing bond neither wants to acknowledge, Fia and Cian are bound to discover that the thin line between hate and love is meant to be crossed.

(SI/No Meta/OCxNaruto endgame/full "reconstruction" of the entire franchise through Shippuden and Boruto) Bronze Winner – Webnovel Fanfic Fiesta! I died in the wrong forest…and woke up in Konoha, in the body of a girl. I was an anxious second-grader bleeding out in the woods. In this one I open my eyes in a hospital bed, as “Sylvie” – an orphan with no clan, no past, and a body that feels strangely more right than what I left behind. The village calls me just another stray, but one loud blond boy with whisker marks decides otherwise. I become Naruto’s first real friend...and, when Team 7 forms, the kunoichi standing where Sakura would have been. This is Naruto’s tale of never giving up. It’s also mine: the boy who died once, became a girl, and refused to let anyone face their nightmares alone. And in a village built on shadows and used to treating children as tools: staying together is a war of its own. [2026 Release Schedule: 1-2 chapters from Mon-Thurs (@8gmt and 14gmt), 2-3 chapters Fri-Sun (@8gmt, 14gmt, and 19gmt)] NIDARS theme song by me: https://on.soundcloud.com/XOtDcWuWry1im7aSyO

I didn’t know a human life could have a price. Until I heard mine. The room was dark. Cold. Full of men who didn’t see me as a person only as something to own. Numbers were called out. Higher. Louder. Like they were fighting over art. Except the art was me. And then a voice cut through the noise. Calm. Deep. Final. “Sold.” I didn’t see his face clearly that night. Just shadows. Just power. Just the feeling that my life had just ended… or maybe begun. The man who bought me is not just a crime lord. He is the reason my father is dead. Now I live in his world a world of danger, secrets, and control. He watches me like I belong to him. He speaks like he already owns my future. And every time he comes close, I hate the way my heart betrays me. I want revenge. I want freedom. But in a place where shadows rule and trust is dangerous… what happens when the only man who can destroy you is the only one who makes you feel alive? Some prices are paid in money. Mine will be paid in blood.

She ran from heartbreak and stumbled into the arms of a masked stranger. Three years later, she's back — sharper, colder, and carrying the most dangerous secret in the city: a little boy with amber eyes that belong to the one man she can't afford to know. He built an empire on control. But one unmasked truth is about to dismantle everything. Some nights change your life. Some children rewrite your war.

Mara Solis thought the worst thing that could happen was losing her fiancé. She was wrong. The worst thing was finding her dead sister in his bed. One slap. One shattered wine bottle. One impossible face staring back from under stolen sheets. In sixty seconds, Mara's entire life — her engagement, her family, her grief — collapses into something uglier than betrayal. It was a conspiracy. And it has been running for five years. Stumbling out into the night with a handprint still burning on her cheek, she crashes into her neighbor — cold, devastating, and inexplicably dropping to one knee on the sidewalk. Dominic Crane, CEO of Crane Industries, doesn't do sentiment. He does strategy. And Mara Solis, standing broken-faced in the dark, is suddenly the most useful variable his empire has ever produced. But variables have a way of becoming constants. And the man who built walls from boardroom glass is about to discover that the woman he married for leverage is the only person in the world who sees the human being underneath the myth.

From overworked corporate slave to… the fat niece of a future villain? At twenty-three, my life ended in the most ironic way possible, drowning in a lake while reading an online romance novel. When I woke up, I wasn’t just alive, I was inside that very novel. And worse, not as the princess or the healer or even the tragic maid. No. I woke up as Seraphine Agro, the silver-haired, chubby niece of the story’s main villain, Duke Tayler Agro, the man who would one day summon a famine, experiment on peasants, and get publicly executed. Awesome. Now I’m stuck in a half-collapsed mansion with stale soup, a broken “Duke” father who’s too kind for his own good, and an entire kingdom collapsing into plague and hunger. And to make things worse, the hero of the story—the dangerously handsome knight Sir Alex Canva, is on his way to inspect our lands. I know the plot. I know who dies. And I’m not planning to go quietly. Armed with sarcasm, stubbornness, and a questionable diet, I’m rewriting destiny, one disastrous choice at a time.

He bought me at auction on a Tuesday. Didn't look at me when the hammer fell. Didn't look at me in the car, or when they showed me to my room, or when the schedule arrived slipped under the door like I was a problem that could be managed with a timetable. He just bought me and went back to running his city, and I stood in a bedroom that wasn't mine and understood, with the clarity that comes after everything is already gone, that hatred was the only thing I still owned. Matteo Corvelli killed my father. Dismantled my family. Then purchased the last piece of it. Me. And began, methodically and without explanation, to build me into something useful. I told myself I was surviving. Told myself the training was a map of his intentions and I was only reading it, only learning the terrain so I could eventually find the exit. I was so certain. So cautious about what I let myself feel in that house, in those rooms, in the spaces between his words where something lived that I refused to name. The problem with studying a man that long is what happens when he starts to look back.

Sera Nightwillow thought being mated to the future Alpha was her destiny. Then Darius Blackthorn rejected her publicly—not because the bond was weak, but because she wasn't "worthy enough" for his ambitions. Her birthright as the last Omega bloodline wasn't enough. She was just a political pawn. When his brother, Matthias, claimed her next, she believed it was different. He whispered promises, showed her tenderness. Until she discovered he only wanted her to access the ancient Omega powers that could make him unkillable. Lust and greed wrapped in pretty lies. The third rejection came from their enemy, Lucian Ashenfang, who infiltrated her broken heart to turn her into a weapon against the Blackthorn pack. He trained her, armed her, made her lethal—all to destroy the brothers who'd shattered her. Three mates. Three rejections. Three men who saw her as a means to an end. So when they all come crawling back, suddenly "in love," suddenly claiming she's their true mate, Sera does the one thing that sets her free: she rejects them all right back. Stripped of her pack, her name, and her identity, Sera enters the annual Mating Hunt—a sacred week where unmated wolves compete masked and anonymous to find their true mates through scent alone. No politics. No lies. Just instinct. But fate is cruel. The overwhelming scent that calls to her soul, the fourth bond that ignites like wildfire, belongs to someone impossible: Kieran Nightbane, the rogue Alpha king who was banished for killing his own mate twenty years ago. A male so dangerous, even her three former mates fear him. He doesn't know who she is beneath the mask. She doesn't know he's been searching for her scent for two decades—because Sera is the reincarnation of the mate he lost, the Omega whose death curse bound him to find her again or die mateless. Fourth time better be the charm. Because this time, everyone wants her dead before the bond completes.

Elara has always known she was different. Black blood. A burning necklace. Spirits that bow their heads. But when Dr Tian steps into her life, her necklace turns hot — like it’s trying to protect her from him. Or protect him from her. Because he doesn’t look at her like a stranger. He looks at her like destiny. Like possession. Like she has always been his.

Juno is a twenty-one-year old memory extractor for the Memory Market, a secretive business operating within Skyfell’s underground black-market network, the Underground Exchange. There, clients pay a steep price for access to the stolen memories of their targets. Above ground, the State Ascendancy promotes Urban Renewal 2.0, a sweeping implant initiative promising safety, efficiency, and progress across the city's districts. But during a routine extraction, Juno uncovers a memory that hints at something far darker beneath the program’s polished façade. The job leads her to an unexpected encounter with an ex-corporate, who helps her begin unraveling the deeper meaning hidden within the stolen data.

Julie Marie Navares seemed to be a typical young woman. Her father wished her to go to the same school as her brother, Christian Navares, which is why she moved. She thought school would be quiet because she thought her secret—her hidden talent for singing and her alter ego on stage as the POP PRINCESS—would stay with her family. But what would happen if Mark Cielo Villanueva, a friend from childhood who she hated, found out? They had just met again. Could she still keep her secret and her peace?

What if the tragic story you once mocked… becomes the world you were thrown into? Xiao Zhi spent her life mocking bad novels. As an editor, she tore apart manuscripts for their cliche plots and tragic endings... until she woke up in one of them. Now, she is the Princess destined to die. But Xiao Zhi isn't following the script. She’s using every trick she knows to outsmart the plot and stay alive. The terrifying part? The story is fighting back. Every time she tries to change her fate, the world pulls her closer to the end she’s running from. How do you escape a death that has already been written?

Fabio Casso was the heir to the Casso mafia throne, a man defined by a cold and merciless reputation. Yet, beneath that mask, he held a place in his heart for a girl he knew as Leah. Fabio never suspected that Leah was the biological daughter of Jackson Sterling, the FBI secret agent who sat at the very top of his execution list. The tragedy reached its breaking point on one blood-stained night. As Fabio completed his mission to eliminate Jackson, he found himself frozen, staring into a pair of traumatized eyes. Leah stood in the doorway, a witness to the atrocity. Their worlds collapsed in an instant. Leah realized that her lover, "Arnold," was the monster who had taken her father's life. Meanwhile, Fabio was forced to confront the reality that he had just destroyed the life of the woman he loved most. Can a love grown from a foundation of lies survive, or will it be reduced to ash by the unquenchable fires of revenge?

She was born a princess and raised as an exile. He was raised to be a prince, but he never truly belonged. Two secrets. Two lies. One marriage pact that will set the world on fire. Reina “Rei” Draven was switched at birth—ripped from her royal lineage and forced into an aristocratic household that never claimed her. Branded a disgrace and cast out as a teen, she disappeared into the underbelly of the world and rebuilt herself into the one thing they never expected—the ruthless, untouchable Queen of the Underworld. The mafia lord with a blood-forged crown. Finn Monreau grew up knowing he wasn't a real Monreau. He was a child traded between families, a temporary heir with an expiration date. Before the dynasty could discard him, Finn quietly created a second identity—a hidden business magnate, richer and more powerful than the family that bought him. Both betrayed. Both abandoned. Both ruled their empires, built from the ashes of their stolen childhoods. When a political crisis erupts and threatens both their networks, Finn and Rei are forced into a marriage pact—a union meant to stabilize their worlds, not ignite them. However, forced proximity reveals the truth that neither party expected: They are each other’s only equal. They become each other’s only weakness. And each other’s salvation. And as their double lives collide—royal blood, billionaire power, and criminal empires—they uncover a destiny set in motion long before they were born. Enemies become allies. Allies become lovers. Lovers become the most dangerous pair the world has ever seen. In a world built on lies, their love is the one truth powerful enough to destroy—or save—the kingdoms they were destined to rule.

Clumsy, chaotic, and endlessly enthusiastic, Park Ji-Ah lands her first job at an elite publishing company Hanryeon Tech—where she immediately collides with Ha-Joon Kim, the company’s cold, perfection-obsessed CEO. What begins as a daily war of nerves, paperwork, and personality clashes slowly turns into something neither of them planned: love. But loving a Kim is never simple. When Ha-Joon’s powerful family steps in, Ji-Ah is judged not for who she is, but for where she comes from. Labeled “unsuitable” because of her poor background, Ji-Ah becomes the center of a class-driven conflict that threatens both her relationship and Ha-Joon’s position. As tensions rise, chaos doubles when Ha-Joon’s other brother develops an interest in Ji-Ah’s sister, entangling the two families even further. Boundaries blur, loyalties are tested, and emotions collide, forcing Ji-Ah and Ha-Joon to decide whether love is worth standing against family expectations, societal pressure, and their own fears. In a world where perfection is demanded and mistakes are unforgiven, Ji-Ah must prove that sincerity, resilience, and a little chaos might be the most powerful things of all.

Aurelia Vale spent her entire life believing she was nothing more than a powerless human living among werewolves. Without a wolf. Without a mate. Without a place she could truly call home. In a pack that valued strength above all else, she survived by lowering her head and enduring their scorn in silence. The Alpha heirs despised her. The future Beta dismissed her existence. Even the warriors treated her as an inconvenience. When the cruelty becomes unbearable, Aurelia walks into the Moon Goddess Temple to sever her bond with the pack forever. She never expects her blood to awaken an ancient power thought long extinct. Thunder shatters the sky. Her wolf emerges. Aurelia is not human. She is a White Wolf, heir to a forgotten bloodline that once ruled over Alphas and commanded entire packs. Worse yet, the scent of five mates binds itself to her soul the moment she awakens. The very men who once humiliated her now feel the pull of the bond. The pack that cast her aside now kneels before her power. And a mysterious fifth presence watches from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to claim what he believes is his. As Aurelia flees the pack that betrayed her, her strength continues to grow and long buried truths begin to surface. Faced with obsession, regret, and a bond she never asked for, she must decide whether to grant forgiveness or tear down the hierarchy that once broke her. This time, Aurelia is no longer the one being chosen. She is the one who decides who is worthy of standing beside the White Luna.