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Chi-Ho Park is a quiet boy who has never talked to any girl in his life. He only cares about his studies and prefers to stay alone. But everything starts to change when he moves into a new apartment. There, he meets Somi Park… a girl who lives on the same floor as him. They see each other almost every day. Sometimes from their balconies… sometimes by chance. But even after one year… they still can’t talk properly. For Chi-Ho, even saying “hello” feels like the hardest thing in the world. Yet slowly, small moments begin to connect them... a simple math problem, a shy “thank you,” and a few awkward greetings. Is this the beginning of his first love… or something that will only bring him pain? A sweet and funny story of awkward love, silent feelings, and two people who are close… yet so far away.

In the glittering, high-stakes world of Aurelia Bay’s beauty empire, Fiona Flare’s life shatters on what was meant to be her engagement night. Dumped by her fiancé for someone “more aligned with his trajectory,” she drowns her heartbreak in vodka and neon at the exclusive Eclipse Lounge. There, in a haze of bass and shadows, she collides with a mysterious stranger—tall, commanding, storm-gray eyes, hands that know exactly how to unravel her. No names. No promises. Just one raw, unforgettable night of passion that leaves her marked, aching, and blissfully unaware of who he really is. Weeks later, two pink lines on a pregnancy test turn her world upside down. Single, jobless, and determined, Fiona vows to raise the baby alone—no handouts, no hunting for the man who vanished at dawn. But fate has other plans. Unknowingly, Fiona lands a dream job at Voss Éclat—the city’s dominant beauty conglomerate—run by none other than Martin Mole, the enigmatic CEO who still dreams of emerald silk and the woman who slipped out of his bed without a trace. As Fiona rises in the company, sparks fly during tense meetings and late-night strategy sessions. Martin recognizes her instantly but keeps his distance, watching, waiting, torn between his guarded heart and the fierce woman carrying his child. What starts as corporate tension ignites into forbidden desire, corporate sabotage, family secrets, and a slow-burn revelation that could destroy everything—or build an empire stronger than either of them imagined. A story of heartbreak turned fire, one reckless night turned legacy, and two people who must decide whether to fight fate… or finally surrender to it. Secret baby. Slow-burn chemistry. Power, passion, and a bump neither saw coming.

Amara Sinclair rises from a poor background into university, where she builds influence through intelligence, leadership, and resilience. She becomes student government Vice President, gains recognition, and excels academically. As her power grows, Amara faces betrayal, manipulation, and hidden systems of control. A major scandal threatens her reputation, forcing her to fight back and expose those operating in the shadows. She overcomes opposition, graduates with distinction and top honors, and transitions into the real world, where influence is more dangerous and complex. In the end, Amara Sinclair builds her own power network, defeats her enemies, and secures a lasting legacy proving that true influence is not given, but taken and controlled.

Zara Temiloluwa Adeola is a brilliant, magnetic, and unpredictable woman who owns a luxury art gallery in Lagos, a legitimate empire hiding the scars of a brutal past. As a child, she witnessed her father’s cruelty and the loss of her mother, leading her mind to fragment into five distinct personalities, each with its own way of navigating the world. Zara thrives in society’s spotlight, her charm and intelligence commanding respect—and envy. She balances a friends-with-benefits relationship with her childhood friend Taye, who knows her deepest secrets, against the intrigue of a new man, Damilola, whose presence challenges her control. As she navigates love, ambition, and danger, her past resurfaces, forcing her to confront enemies who lurk in the shadows. In the ultimate climax, loyalty, love, and survival collide, leading to sacrifice, heartbreak, and the emergence of a new chapter in her life—with the man who truly understands her. Shades of Zara is a thrilling exploration of love, trauma, and identity—a story of a woman who fights for power, trust, and the freedom to define herself.

His family was slaughtered. His dragons were poisoned. His throne, stolen. Prince Drexo Dragarian was meant to rule Astarous. Instead, he became its most wanted fugitive. But the one who should hate him the most, chose him for love. Maria Woodland. The sister of the man who destroyed his house. The deadliest sword in Snowland. She didn’t just betray her bloodline, she became his greatest weapon. Together, they rise without dragons, carving through kingdoms with steel, strategy, and a love that was never meant to exist. But in a world built on alliances and power, love is a liability. A broken engagement threatens their army. A king rises to crush them. And betrayal begins to grow from within. As war spreads across the nine kingdoms, Drexo must fight for more than a throne. Because the woman who made him unstoppable, might also be the reason he loses everything.

Isabella Martinez’s life shatters in one night. Dragged from her waitress job by loan sharks, she’s thrown onto an auction stage and sold like property to pay her father’s five-million-dollar gambling debt. Terrified and powerless, she watches as wealthy men bid on her future until HE walks in. Dante Moretti. The most dangerous man in New York. A billionaire mafia don who built a twelve-billion-dollar empire on blood and fear. When his cold grey eyes lock on hers, everything changes. He bids ten million dollars without hesitation, buying her in front of everyone. Bella expects horror. Expects to become his slave, his toy, his victim. Instead, she discovers something far more dangerous: Dante Moretti has a code. He protects women and children. He kills traitors without mercy but honors loyalty above all. And despite his brutality, despite the violence she witnesses, despite every reason she should run she’s falling for the devil who bought her. But loving a mafia king comes with deadly consequences. The Russian mob wants revenge. A traitor within Dante’s own family wants him dead. And Bella now seen as his greatest weakness becomes the target of every enemy he’s ever made. Forced to choose between the innocent girl she was and the warrior she needs to become, Bella must learn to fight, to kill, and to embrace the darkness. Because in Dante’s world, there are only two options: become the mafia queen who stands beside him… Or die. From sold at auction to ruling an empire. From victim to queen. From captive to the most dangerous woman in the underworld. This is the story of a girl who was bought for five million dollars and became worth five billion. Welcome to the mafia. Welcome to love. Welcome to war.

In his first life, Shen Qingyu, the most beautiful and gifted son of the illustrious Duke of Yun, loved Emperor Helian Jue with reckless devotion. He ignored the emperor's chilling indifference and casual cruelty. When court factions framed his entire family for treason, Helian Jue signed the execution order without hesitation. Shen Qingyu died alone in the Cold Palace at 27. Death should have been the end. Instead, he wakes up five years in the past, the exact morning he was chosen as a low-ranking consort and entered the imperial palace for the first time. This time, Shen Qingyu is done chasing affection from a man who never saw him as more than a pretty vase. Publicly, he will be the flawless, obedient Jade Consort. Privately, he will become the shadow architect of his own freedom. But the emperor starts acting…wrong. Helian Jue,once a glacier who barely remembered Shen Qingyu’s name, now watches him with raw, devouring intensity. One moonlit night, the emperor corners him against a pillar and says: “You used to look at me like I was your whole world. I want that look back, Qingyu.” Shen Qingyu smiles the same polite empty smile he once perfected. “Your Majesty must be mistaken. This consort has always been exactly who I am.” What the emperor doesn’t know yet is that Shen Qingyu has already mapped out three separate escape routes and bought loyalty from half the imperial guards. What Shen Qingyu has no clue about is that Helian Jue also came back.

‘The Era of Babel has fallen. With it, comes the advent of a new calendar, marking the rise of a new world.’ Or so many believed, yet even after the Eastern Continental Crisis, where the continent fought together against one in twelve years of conflict, something continues to stir underneath the ashes. Three years after the fall of Ganzir, followed shortly by the detonation of Babel, the Eastern Continent breathes through the smoke of its own victory, blinded by the flags they fly. The Decade War ended with crumbling cheers, the Afterwar with silenced dissatisfaction. Beneath the façade of words and beliefs, whispers spread of machines that still guard their dead city and of voices speaking through the static; assimilated, revitalised, corrupted. When a brief power blackout ripples along the Varkos Coalition’s eastern sectors, the whispers seemed to have spoke true.

Talent and change, those two define humanity. But if you lack neither innate talent nor do you possess the ability to change, what are you? As a freshman at Laxus Flare Academy, Elliot Elanderin is surrounded by geniuses and talents you couldn’t find anywhere else. Compared to them, or anyone really, Elliot is pathetically ordinary, someone without a defining skill, role, or value. One day, after battling with his inner thoughts once more, he hears a sound that felt outside of this world. That sound leads him to a girl. A girl who embodies everything he wasn’t. Elliot begins to learn about not her talent, not her looks, but her. And along the way, she learns about him as well. As that friendship flourishes, he begins to learn more about the friends he was already surrounded by. New relations develop, both platonic and romantic. New struggles are revealed, both internal and external. With these new conflicts, Elliot’s life grows increasingly chaotic. After each one, more questions arise. Fortunately, he only had to answer one. Who do I want to become? ------------------------------------------------- What to expect: -Character Driven Drama - Internal monologues - Heavily psychological and philosophical narrative -Slow burn connections -A coming of age story set in New York More tags: Psychological, philosophical, daily life, school life, drama (This story is already posted on Tapas, Scribblehub, and Royal road by me. In the description of them my ownership is mentioned)

She walked down the aisle for love. She walked into the fire for loyalty. Then she vanished — burned, broken, and buried by betrayal. Ally Miller gave up her crown for Nick Carter — trading wealth and power for a man who promised forever. But forever ended the moment he brought home another woman… pregnant with his child. And Ally? She was already carrying his. Heart crushed. Name erased. Left in the storm with nothing but a suitcase and a secret… She thought she'd hit rock bottom. Until a screech of tires stole her last reason to live — and shattered her face beyond recognition. To the world, she was gone. Dead. Forgotten. But Ally Miller didn’t die that morning . She was reborn. Seven years later, she returns as Samantha Bradley — stunning, ruthless, untouchable. A self-made billionaire with a killer wardrobe, a colder heart, and a name forged in power. He doesn’t recognize her. But she remembers everything. This time, she’s not here to cry. She’s here to ruin him. To expose secrets, tear down empires, and take back the life they stole. And she’ll do it wearing red heels — because nothing screams revenge like a woman who walks with purpose… and no mercy.

Tiana was not hard to love. She was patient. Loyal. Soft in all the places that mattered. Joshua mistook that softness for permanence. Their love began in the barracks—hidden, intense, and full of promises whispered in the dark. He was her first. Her trust. Her almost. But while Tiana waited, Joshua learned how easily love could be divided. When silence replaces affection and attention comes only with need, Tiana begins to fade—until she chooses herself instead. At the university, new paths collide. Stephen, a former friend turned quiet witness, refuses to stay complicit in another man’s cruelty. Dare, observant and steady, sees Tiana not as something to win—but someone to respect. And Nadia, beautiful and calculating, is a lady with a big heart who just wants to love. As secrets unravel and power shifts, Joshua discovers too late that control is not love, and waiting is not weakness. Because sometimes, healing doesn’t come from being chosen again. It comes from walking away—and beginning almost anew.

The black forges beneath Mount Ashen rang with hellish clamor as the Usurper Mordren forged the Ember Crown. Wrought from star-fallen iron and the screaming souls of a hundred slain kings, the relic burned with unnatural fire. Whosoever wore it could command the arcane arts of every realm: silence the ancient songs of the high elves, turn the hammers and axes of the mountain clans against their sworn lords, bend the tempests to his fury, and bind the very blood of men to his merciless will. The free houses of men, elves, dwarves, and halflings set aside their ancient grudges and rose as one in rebellion. At the bloody Battle of the Nine Keeps, amid rivers of steel and sorcery, the Crown was torn from Mordren’s brow. It was carried in triumph to the Arcane Citadel, sealed in the deepest vault, and guarded by the Grand Maester and wards woven in ages long forgotten. Yet Mordren did not die. Neither body nor spirit perished that day. He fled into the deepest shadows, his hatred a living flame, whispering promises of fire and vengeance upon the winds that carried his voice across the realm. Thus spoke the last Oracle of Eldergrove with her dying breath: “When the Ember Crown calls to a boy of no great house, the Company shall be sworn. One bearer, three bloodlines, four true hearts. They shall tread the long and bitter road of flame… or all sorcery, all kingdoms, and all hope shall fall into everlasting night.” Fourteen harsh winters passed.

A psychological descent told through fragmented diary entries. I curate exhibitions. I study beauty. I keep my hands clean. This is a diary of observation - of people, patterns, and the quiet ways lives unravel. Some things fade naturally. Others are helped.

I am ALIA a fan of Ang mutya ng section e so it's my first book so pls forgive me for making mistakes

At 32, Seo-yeon has nothing. No degree. No career. No family. No future. Only manhwa. She reads stories about people who regress and fix their lives. She laughs at them. Because reality doesn't work like that. Until the night she decides to die. And wakes up... Seven days before she lost everything in her life.

In a city where fear spreads quietly, a series of calculated murders leaves behind one chilling signature—the mark of a killer known only as Ghost Eyes. Detective Song Kang Min leads a small but determined CID team, working alongside the sharp-minded Kang Ara, whose instincts as both an investigator and a reporter bring her dangerously close to the truth. As bodies continue to appear with no signs of struggle, no witnesses, and no mistakes, one thing becomes clear—the killer is not just careful, but precise beyond understanding. While the investigation deepens, those closest to the case begin to unravel in their own ways. Kang Min balances the weight of the case with raising his younger sister, Song Ji Won, while Ara tries to protect her own sister, Ha Eun, who secretly starts digging into the case on her own—unaware of how close danger truly is. Just when the team begins to understand the pattern, everything changes. A new victim appears. Same mark. Different method. A copycat has emerged. Unlike Ghost Eyes, this new killer makes mistakes—signs of struggle, traces left behind, imperfect execution. But what he lacks in precision, he makes up for in unpredictability. The line between the original killer and the imitation begins to blur, threatening to mislead the investigation and put more lives at risk. As the body count rises, secrets begin to surface beyond the murders themselves. Powerful figures like Seo Eun Sang, a wealthy CEO with hidden ties, and Prosecutor Lee Tae Jun, who oversees the case, remain deeply involved—each playing roles that seem ordinary on the surface, yet increasingly significant as the truth edges closer. With two killers moving in the shadows—one flawless, one flawed—the CID team must untangle deception from design before more lives are lost. But in a case where perfection hides in silence and imitation creates chaos, the most dangerous truth may not be who is killing— …but who has been watching all along.

Maya Windget moves to New York City ready to embrace independence and begin a new chapter of her life at NYU. There, she meets Calvin, a charming local whose warmth and confidence quickly draw her in. Not long after their friendship begins, Calvin proposes. Six months later, Maya says yes, believing she has found the love she has always dreamed of. But what begins as devotion slowly turns into something else—dependency, distance, and heartbreak. Shattered but determined, Maya must rebuild herself piece by piece. In the process, she discovers her own strength, her worth, and the power of loving herself first. Along the way, she meets Rege, a charismatic and mature man who shows her what healthy, fulfilling love truly feels like. Resurgence is a story of heartbreak, resilience, and a woman rising again—stronger, wiser, and unafraid.

THE ASCENDED GAMBIT A decade ago, Adrian Cross was a street rat who watched the love of his life fall down a flight of stairs. Now, he is the Crown Alpha of Aurelion, forced into a televised marriage trial to save his throne. But the first stop on his royal tour is the Gilded Zest, the most exclusive restaurant in the Golden Sector. The owner is Elliot Dane, the boy who survived the fall and transformed into a charismatic, millionaire mogul with a dangerous biological secret. When a nine-year-old eco-protestor with the King's obsidian eyes drops from the rafters, the secret is out. The Crown demands an heir. The Omega demands his freedom. And in a world where biology is destiny, the rules of engagement just changed.

Six guardians. Five demons bound by blood. One lie holding the world together. On the last human continent, demons wage an endless war against mankind. Chosen as the Dark Guardians, five warriors borrow demonic power by offering their own blood — believing they fight to save what remains of humanity. As truths are buried by those in power, enemies are shaped by lies, and blood is offered beyond its limit, the guardians must face the question no weapon can answer: Who is the real enemy — and what happens when a demon loses control… or a human doesn’t?

Niko Samuel’s life was ordinary—until the King died and a corrupt Prince seized the throne. Invaded and betrayed, Niko was dragged into a brutal war that would scar him forever. When he finally returns home, his city is gone, his family sold into slavery, and everything he loved destroyed. Now, armed with nothing but rage and determination, Niko will hunt down the corrupt and powerful. In a world of betrayal and bloodshed, one man’s vengeance could change everything—or consume him entirely. The Punisher: Grand Vengeance—revenge has a new name. Disclaimer This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The maps and geography depicted in this novel are also fictional and should not be taken as accurate representations of real-world locations.