The Horizon
By @Fundamental KE
In a world scarred by the First Ninja War, Shin Yamanaka, a cynical and traumatized ex-ANBU operative haunted by his past failures, merely wants to disappear. But fate, and his forbidden Iburi clan bloodline limit - the power to turn his body into smoke - has other plans. Recruited by an shadowy organization, Shin is thrust into a cutthroat geopolitical game where ancient Otsutsuki technology dictates the balance of power. He must infiltrate the nascent Hidden Villages, unearthing a conspiracy that threatens to ignite another global conflict. With his moral compass shattered and trust a luxury he cannot afford, Shin must navigate a web of lies and betrayals, or watch the fragile peace crumble. Every mission pushes him closer to the abyss, forcing him to confront the very definition of humanity amidst a world built on engineered chakra and forgotten gods.
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The radio demon and the jester
By @Ana Jurić
In the chaotic inferno of Hazbin Hotel's Hell, the anxious and utterly bewildered Pomni, a newly arrived sinner, finds herself an unwitting spectacle. Stripped of her digital reality, she's thrust into a demonic society where power dictates survival. Her terror intensifies when she catches the predatory gaze of Alastor, the infamous Radio Demon. Energetic, theatrical, and ruthlessly amused, Alastor sees not a soul in distress, but a fascinating new toy. His smiles promise mischief, his shadowed gestures hint at immense power, and his every word drips with a dangerous charm. As Pomni desperately seeks an exit from this nightmare, she becomes entwined in Alastor's enigmatic machinations, a jester in his personal hellish circus. Will she find a way out, or merely become another note in his unsettling symphony of chaos?
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অবরুদ্ধ নগরী
By @habiba Islam
Tousif Mirza, a revered biology lecturer and scion of the influential Mirza family, harbors a chilling secret: he is a clandestine investigator dismantling dangerous criminal organizations. His calculating intellect and iron emotional control keep him several steps ahead, his every move meticulously planned. But when 18-year-old college student Adiya Khan's innocent curiosity inadvertently pulls her into the shadowy conflicts he navigates, Tousif finds his carefully constructed world faltering. Beneath modern Bangladesh's facade, a web of political dynasties, business empires, and criminal networks vie for control. Tousif must protect Adiya while confronting a conspiracy that threatens to expose his true nature and shatter the fragile peace of the 'Mirza universe.'
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I Came Here to Die, Not Do Housekeeping
By @john1208
Jadwiga Poleszuk has one guiding principle: practicality. As the most efficient mortician's apprentice in her perpetually damp village of Mokradla, she thought her greatest challenge was dealing with grieving, unreasonable families. That is, until the village elders 'volunteered' her as a sacrifice to the monstrous Gloomfang of Wyrwidąb Manor, a beast who demands a tribute to spare their soggy hamlet. Resigned to a swift and tidy death, Jadwiga is instead confronted by Lord Olgierd, a man cursed to become a grotesque, life-force-draining creature. He’s less a terrifying monster and more a self-pitying recluse with terrible decorating taste and a penchant for dramatic monologues. Now, trapped in a decaying manor with a beast who finds her blunt pragmatism both infuriating and fascinating, Jadwiga realizes the terms of her sacrifice are far more complicated than a simple devouring. She might be the key to breaking his curse, but that requires love - an emotion she finds deeply inefficient. Can a woman who sees romance as a frivolous waste of time save a man who has forgotten how to live, especially when a forgotten celestial clock is ticking down to his permanent damnation?
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The Patron Saint of Bad Decisions
By @john1208
Anoushka 'Nusha' Zakarova has one rule: never bring back the dead. As a clandestine 'Stitcher' in the grimy underbelly of Khavar, her talent for mending fatal wounds is a dangerous secret. When her beloved mentor dies in her arms, Nusha breaks her own rule in a moment of grief, a choice that paints a target on her back for her power-hungry family, the illustrious House Zakarov. Suddenly, she's forced into an unwilling alliance with Levan Gvaramia, the charismatic leader of the Silver Lily Rebellion. He sees her as a prophesied saint, a symbol of hope for his cause against the soul-rotting plague known as the Gray Blight. Nusha sees him as a dangerously optimistic fool with a death wish. Dragged across the country with her foul-tempered, six-legged 'corpse cat' in tow, Nusha must dodge her family's assassins and Levan's earnest idealism. But as they uncover the truth behind the Gray Blight, they find it's intrinsically linked to the Zakarov family's source of power. Can Nusha embrace the destiny she never wanted to save the people from a plague her own family created?
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Beginning of adulthood
By @17 Ashutosh Sharma (Class 12th med.)
Orphaned in the desolate Konoha village, Akira believes his only path to meaning is mastering the forbidden 'Mind-Sync' jutsu. This rare, dangerous ability allows him to temporarily merge his consciousness with others, experiencing their memories and emotions as his own. He seeks not power, but a desperate connection, a way to fill the void left by his lost family and understand the enigmatic world that discarded him. But each sync erodes his own identity, blurring the line between his soul and the fragmented lives he invades. As whispers of a sinister conspiracy within the village elders surface, Akira realizes his unique gift might be the key to uncovering a hidden truth, or the ultimate tool for his own self-destruction. He must learn to control the encroaching madness before he loses himself entirely to the echoes of others.
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My Pet Rock is a Miserable Prince
By @john1208
I, Oana Vladescu, was once a semi-respected alchemist. Now, after my latest 'innovative' potion turned the city fountain into lukewarm gravy, I'm a public laughingstock. My grand ambition? To hide in my room forever. But fate, a creature of boundless cruelty, has other plans. When my debt-ridden father is taken prisoner by the monstrous, reclusive Lord of the Cragstone Spire, I do the only 'heroic' thing a daughter can do: I trade places with him. My new host, Lord Calin, is a beastly figure whose curse is slowly petrifying him. The only way to break it is for someone to 'willingly accept' him. Easy, right? Except he's rude, melodramatic, and has the conversational skills of a particularly stubborn pebble. He's determined to push me away for my 'safety,' I'm determined to not die of boredom, and the castle's animated furniture is offering terrible life advice. But as I chip away at his stony exterior, I realize the curse is the least of our problems. The person who cursed him is still out there, and their motives are far more tragic than monstrous. Can I cure this miserable man-statue before he becomes a permanent garden decoration, or will we both end up as footnotes in a very weird history book?
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My Broke Husband Bought a Kill-Zone
By @john1208
Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story begins when Tazien Ro, a cold and calculating threat assessor, wakes up inside a sealed sensory-deprivation tank in an abandoned lab with missing memories and a target on her back. Desperate for a low-profile alibi, she fills in for her frantic best friend on a blind date. When a snooty waiter tries to eject her seemingly pathetic, shabbily-dressed date, Tazien ruthlessly dissects the waiter's illicit gambling debts to defend him. Instantly smitten, Rurik Danthos - Khavar City’s most lethal and secretive oligarch - decides to play the role of a helpless, devoted husband. As Tazien navigates a dark, tense underworld conspiracy, she believes she is protecting her naive partner. She thinks his sudden ability to afford military-grade security systems is just the result of a 'small lottery win.' But when a coveted underworld reward turns out to be a lethal trap, luring her to a heavily fortified offshore kill-zone, Rurik’s facade shatters. To save his wife, he doesn't just send in a rescue team - he legally purchases the entire island mid-firefight. With the truth revealed and an army at their doorstep, will Tazien kill their enemies, or her deceitful husband first?
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The Galaxy's Only Soup Kitchen
By @john1208
I died serving the Emperor of the Great Jing Dynasty, only to wake up inside a rusted disposal chute on Neo-Pangaea Station. In this grim 'modern' era of the Terran Ascendancy, humanity has conquered the stars but lost its soul - and its recipes. Everyone survives on chalky, state-mandated nutrient paste. Driven by my uncontrollable urge to feed people, I salvaged a heating coil and some hydroponic scraps to open a tiny stall in the terrifying, gang-run underbelly of Sector 7. I just wanted to offer a warm meal to the exhausted scavengers. I didn't expect Ambassador Vur-Tash, a terrifying Skarn diplomat known for despising human culture, to wander in, sneer at my noodles, and then burst into tears of joy. Nor did I expect heavily armed syndicates to stage daily bloodbaths outside my door just to secure the last portion of braised pork. But as the skirmishes around my humble shop escalate and an interstellar war looms, I realize the alien invasion and my little food stand share a terrifying connection. Will my cooking save the galaxy, or will the line for lunch destroy it first?
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Sedating the Blood Tyrant
By @john1208
Fleeing through the rain-slicked woods of Tarnstead, Rovik - the universally feared, bloodthirsty Demonic Lord of Ghal-Tir - is tackled by men in white coats. His cosmic Ascension reward was a carefully laid trap: transmigration into a Qi-starved, eerie modern psychiatric hospital where his chilling, quietly ruthless threats are treated with heavy sedatives. Desperate to rebuild his power, Rovik meticulously refines ancient alchemy pills in his room's sink, only for the head doctor to confiscate them as illegal synthetic narcotics. But the sterile, shadowy halls of Bleakmoor Institute hide a darker truth. A secret society of remarkably weak modern cultivators, the Pale Sigil, is being systematically hunted by unseen horrors in the city. Tashri, an undercover nurse and double agent for the society, is drawn to Rovik's terrifying aura, sparking a dark, dangerous romance. To secure his freedom and protect his new accomplice, Rovik sets his sights on the city's cursed billionaire benefactor. His medical solution? A literal ball of courtyard dirt and spit, forcefully traded for immediate discharge papers. Can the universe's deadliest tyrant navigate modern bureaucracy and cosmic traps to claim his freedom?
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Miasma in the Madhouse
By @john1208
Opening with a shadowy pact struck centuries ago, grandmaster alchemist Corvin Morstan awakens in a padded cell at the Bleakmoor Institute. The modern world is on the brink of an incurable, supernatural plague known as the Hollow Rot. Corvin is the only one who can concoct the cure, but his archaic speech and deadpan demands for venomous centipedes have the clinical staff convinced he suffers from a severe schizotypal personality disorder. Told in close third person, Corvin sarcastically navigates mandatory group therapy while crafting antidotes from cafeteria mold to save his younger sister, Tasia, from the encroaching infection. He finds an unexpected ally in Dr. Yvaine Helstrom, a disgraced epidemiologist who realizes his 'delusions' are actually saving the city. When Corvin brutally beats a terrifying plague-demon to death in the courtyard, the staff merely applauds his vigorous shadow-boxing. But as the dark truth surfaces - revealing his past self deliberately engineered this very asylum stay to intercept the plague's epicenter - can Corvin synthesize the ultimate cure before the rot consumes the woman he's falling for?
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The Woodcutter's Fatal Miscalculation
By @john1208
For three centuries, Cang-Jue butchered his way to the apex of the Jiu-Gou Expanse. Exhausted by the endless slaughter and paranoia, he deciphered the Primordial Stele, learning that only absolute pacifism could spare him from the impending cosmic event known as the Heavenly Cleansing. Faking his death, he retreated to the lethal Blood-Pine Basin to live as a humble woodcutter. To avoid accidental kills that might ruin his pacifist karma, he manipulated a dying, seventy-year-old beggar named Ma-Duo into doing his manual labor, teaching him an "ergonomic" chopping method that was actually a supreme assassination art. But Ma-Duo refuses to chop wood forever. Believing his cold master is suffering from a crippling curse, the elderly disciple enters the Iron-Bramble Pavilion’s brutal death-matches to win a cure. As Ma-Duo effortlessly decapitates arrogant young prodigies with a rusted hatchet, the cultivation world is thrown into terror by this geriatric monster. Meanwhile, Cang-Jue watches in cold sweat, terrified the Heavens will smite him for his disciple’s body count. Will the paranoid sovereign realize his translation of the Stele was fundamentally flawed, and his pacifism was actually a death sentence?
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The World-Ending Tyrant Refuses to Unhand Me
By @john1208
I woke up entirely by accident, dangling from a crystal chandelier suspended above the royal beast pits. Below me, covered in blood and glaring with enough hatred to melt solid marble, was Tigranes - the royal family's cursed slave. According to the fantasy novel I'd transmigrated into, this boy was fated to slaughter the royals - myself included - before saving us from an apocalyptic demon. My mathematically perfect survival plan? Drop down, claim him as my personal servant, and treat him with exactly enough calculated kindness to ensure my immunity when he eventually usurps the throne. For years, I fed him, educated him, and shielded him from the manipulative, fake Saintess Phaedra. It was a flawless strategy. The time-skip arrived, Tigranes took the throne, and I packed my bags to retire to a quiet island. There was just one massive miscalculation. Tigranes didn't just want me to stay; he barred the city gates and cheerfully promised to plunge the entire continent into molten ash if I took a single step outside. And that separate apocalyptic demon plotline? Turns out, the demon is him. Can I logic my way out of a bittersweet romance that threatens to end the world?
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