Bound by the Liar's Prophecy
By @john1208
Ziratu’s mentor dies with a gruesome warning, leaving behind a flesh-bound novel detailing how Vashnir, the Silent Arbiter, will soon slaughter Ziratu and her little brother, Kidin. Always cold and calculating, Ziratu immediately implements a flawless, emotionless plan to evade her fated murderer. She fakes an engagement to the cremated remains of a disgraced noble, believing this legal loophole will place her entirely outside Vashnir’s jurisdiction. Instead, her bizarre, deadpan attempts to dodge the deadly inquisitor only convince him she is a dangerous mastermind. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story follows their escalating cat-and-mouse game until a ritual glitch permanently binds their souls into an unbreakable, entirely non-romantic investigative partnership. Forced to hunt the city's real eldritch threats together, Ziratu discovers the horrifying truth: the novel was completely wrong. Vashnir isn't a serial killer, but the only man capable of saving Kidin. The flesh-bound book was actually penned by Ziratu's own past incarnation, an elaborate web of lies designed to force this exact partnership. But what terrifying, world-ending entity was her past self trying so desperately to defeat?
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The Hundred-Day Heir
By @john1208
Banyu just wanted to nap in the sun and keep his little sister, Citra, safe on their mountain terrace farm. But when a violent brawl with local thugs ends with a trip to the hospital, a routine blood test accidentally exposes him as the long-lost son of the Suryatama conglomerate. Whisked into a glittering metropolis, Banyu is immediately scorned by the golden fake heir, Raden, and the city's elite for his ragged clothes and endlessly lazy demeanor. What they don't know is that Banyu is a peerless martial prodigy - and he's already sensed the horrific truth his new family is hiding. The Suryatama bloodline carries a fatal genetic acceleration, and true heirs die at twenty-one without the 'Sovereign's Marrow' treatment - which is currently promised to Raden. With exactly ninety days left on his biological clock, Banyu must play the lethargic fool while systematically crippling the elites' private forces. Alternating between Banyu's sleepy brilliance and the hyper-vigilant observations of his assigned corporate minder, the story builds an intense, slow-burn bond of trust. Can Banyu steal the cure and dismantle high society before his own heart stops?
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