Revenge

Chords of the Glass-Throated Crane

By @john1208

In the obsidian terraces of Khol-Zhan, the Glass-Throated Lyre-Crane was revered not as a god, but as a vital acoustic instrument. Its haunting, subsonic songs pacified the colossal tectonic worms slumbering beneath the magma vents. But when Baron Morvath butchers the sacred bird to craft a crystalline chandelier from its vocal cords, the earth begins to violently splinter. The curse of the Crane does not kill the guilty immediately. Instead, Morvath and his cronies are afflicted with the Tremor-Plague. Jagged glass vocal cords erupt through their human throats, compelling them to emit agonizing, melodic screams that mimic the dead bird. Thura, a deaf ash-digger who navigates the world purely through vibrations, feels the tectonic worms rising to consume the innocent villagers. She discovers a horrifying truth: the scattered screams of the cursed nobles are acoustically out of tune. To pacify the deep earth, Thura cannot wait for them to die. She must drag them to the volcanic vents, break their ribs, and stretch their mutating necks to achieve the perfect harmonic resonance. Will she lose her own humanity as she physically tunes her oppressors into screaming, living instruments?

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The Proxy Groom: A Hostile Matrimony

By @john1208

For twenty years, Rydan survived the brutal smog-slums of Zelrova, building a clandestine data-broker empire alongside his ruthless childhood friend, Zarys. When the ultra-wealthy Ghalvan Corporation suddenly claims Rydan as their long-lost son, it is no fairytale reunion. They only want him as a disposable pawn to marry the terrifying, famously disfigured heiress of the Vesperi Holdings - sparing their golden fake heir, Jorlan, from the political alliance. The Ghalvan elites sneer at Rydan's lack of etiquette, laughing as they send the 'gutter rat' to the monster's estate. They don't know that Zarys's 'disfigurement' is a carefully crafted media lie to avoid suitors, or that she is the shadow-CEO of Vesperi. By forcing this marriage, the arrogant elites haven't discarded a useless son; they have legally united the city’s two most dangerous underworld masterminds. As Jorlan parades his stolen wealth, Rydan and Zarys secretly prepare a devastating corporate ambush. When the wedding bells ring, will the Ghalvan family realize they just financed their own hostile takeover?

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The Chokepoint Monopoly

By @john1208

Rivo Zann is freezing, starving, and one missed debt payment away from being processed into biological fertilizer by the Gresca city syndicates. At absolute rock bottom, he awakens the [Chokepoint System], which issues dangerous, hyper-specific missions with seemingly pathetic rewards: the deed to a rusted fire escape, the air rights to a three-foot alley, or the zoning permit for a single sewer grate. But when the city's most ruthless mega-corp attempts to lay a billion-dollar energy grid, they discover their entire route is legally blocked by Rivo's three-foot alley. Suddenly, Rivo isn't just surviving; he's installing toll booths on the ambitions of the ultra-rich. With every mission, Rivo braves violent gangs and corporate hitmen to secure his bizarre portfolio, and the rewards visibly transform his life from a hunted beggar into an urban warlord armed with municipal codes. But as he begins strangling the syndicates' supply lines, the elites decide that assassination is cheaper than paying rent. Can Rivo monopolize the city's infrastructure before the syndicates bulldoze him into the concrete?

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The Trillionaire's Midnight Delivery

By @john1208

Karys Fend, the brilliant but alienated heiress of the Fend Corporation, suffers from severe stress-induced anorexia due to her family’s ruthless expectations. The only food she can keep down is the simple, rustic midnight takeout delivered by Orik, a deadpan courier for a run-down ghost kitchen. To Karys’s elitist family, Orik is nothing but a 'slop-peddler' ripe for cruel mockery whenever he tracks mud into their penthouses. They have no idea that Orik is actually the vanished Sovereign of the Zarris Syndicate - the anonymous tycoon who secretly owns the city’s entire debt and real estate grid. Orik retired to find peace in cooking, but Karys’s fierce defense of him against her own abusive relatives slowly melts his cynical heart. When the Fend patriarch attempts to force Karys into a predatory marriage by hosting a lavish gala to impress the mysterious Zarris Sovereign, they make the fatal mistake of throwing Orik’s delivery moped into the fountain. As Karys stands alone against her family's cruelty, will Orik finally take off his delivery helmet, claim the VIP throne, and instantly foreclose on the very ballroom they are standing in?

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Hatching the Mire-Stork's Curse

By @john1208

The stilt-village of Ghol-Doro survived the caustic mudflats for centuries by worshipping the Nang-Tuk, a giant, golden-crested mire-stork that filters the toxic waters. But when the village patriarch slaughters the final matriarch stork to cure his heir's fatal rot, he unleashes a horrifying karmic plague. The stork’s spirit returns, demanding its stolen unborn brood be returned. Now, the guilty family members are violently gestating spectral fledglings, their bodies warping into living, agonizing nests. Mokhwa, a lowly mud-diver and undertaker, is tasked by the terrified elites with finding a cure. She quickly realizes there is no breaking the curse through prayers or medicine. The only way to stop the plague from consuming the innocent low-caste villagers is to safely 'deliver' the spirit's monstrous offspring. To save her home, Mokhwa must meticulously orchestrate the gruesome deaths of the corrupt elites, feeding them to the very curse they provoked. Can she finish the grim harvest before the spectral rot claims her own blood?

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The Dust-Witch of Otrevka

By @john1208

Lenya Volosova once saw futures in the settling dust, a magical heritage her family prized until they stole it, leaving her powerless and destitute. Now she cleans the grand Otrevka Archives, a ghost haunted by the life she lost. Her ordinary morning shatters when she's mistaken for a legendary, high-born diviner by the sharp-tongued Inspector Kestril Voronin, who's investigating a magical blight corrupting the city's foundations. Trapped in a dangerous lie, Lenya seizes the chance to get close to her treacherous family and their ill-gotten fortune. Guided by her devoted friend Pavlo, she navigates a world of spectral politics and simmering rivalries, her dormant powers reawakening in a volatile, uncontrollable form. As she and Kestril clash, their animosity ignites an unexpected spark, but the closer she gets to vengeance, the more she realizes the blight isn't just in the city's stones - it's in her bloodline, and the friend she trusts most may be the one who buried the truth. Can Lenya reclaim her name without becoming the monster they made her?

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The Creeping Grin of Noi

By @Annabella Macias

Noi, a gentle soul haunted by past rejections, overhears the cruel truths spoken by his closest friends - the Damos and Ava - in the confines of Ava's apartment. Each whispered word, each dismissive laugh, shatters his fragile sense of belonging. A chilling transformation begins: his sorrow contorts into a perpetual, unsettling grin, his once-kind eyes now glint with a disturbing, manic cheerfulness. Pierce, always perceptive, is the first to notice the subtle cracks in Noi's facade, the unsettling lilt in his voice, the unnerving intensity in his gaze. As Noi's 'creepy-happy-insane' persona deepens with each passing day, his friends remain oblivious, unaware of the terrifying architect of their impending doom. They believe they know Noi, but the boy they betrayed is gone, replaced by something far more dangerous, far more unpredictable.

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Elite Chronicles Absolute Mode

By @Nha Phong

Kaelen awoke to the searing agony of a forgotten ritual, bound to the 'Elite Chronicles Absolute Mode' - a cryptic system promising unparalleled power, yet demanding unimaginable sacrifices. Once a street urchin haunted by the loss of his family to a mage's decree, Kaelen now wields forbidden commands, each one a whisper from a reality far more ancient and dangerous than his own. He navigates the shadowy underbelly of Veritas, a world choked by arcane politics and power-hungry sorcerers, where every spell casts a long, perilous shadow. His quest: to dismantle the very council that branded his family as heretics and unearth the truth behind the cataclysmic 'Silence' that robbed the world of its primal magic, all while battling the insidious corruption the system itself breeds within him. Can he master its power without becoming its slave?

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Thirty Days to Crown the Pariah

By @john1208

I was sprinting over the rain-slicked rooftops of Venzor with the royal guard's hounds snapping at my heels when I coughed up my first drop of black blood. The transmigration system sent me here to save Tavren, a frail, brilliant architect framed for heresy by the cruel Ozanari royals. What it conveniently forgot to mention was that I had exactly thirty days in each world before my own soul collapsed. With the clock ticking, I burst through the stained glass of the High Tribunal. As the entire empire condemned the coughing, discarded genius to death, I stepped before the executioner's blade and publicly claimed him as my own. My plan was simple: dismantle the royals, force-feed him the stolen elixir, and survive long enough to jump to the next world. But as Tavren's shattered core heals and his obsessive loyalty turns him into the most terrifying entity in the Khandaric Domains, I realize leaving him behind might be impossible. How long can I hide my fatal countdown from a man who now holds the world by the throat?

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The Girl That Was Never A Nobody

By @Elizabeth Ng

For years, Liz existed only as a phantom, overshadowed by her favored sister, Odellia, and crushed by her family's relentless neglect. They saw a nobody, a shadow clinging to the periphery. But beneath that gentle exterior simmered a divine power and an iron will. Two years ago, Liz severed all ties, vanishing into the world, reborn not as a victim, but as a goddess and the secret Empress of the very human world that once scorned her. She commands unparalleled magic, her every wish reality, and shares an unconditional love with the nation's wealthiest man. Her past abusers, oblivious to her true stature, now discover the 'nobody' they discarded wields ultimate power, threatening to shatter their carefully constructed lives. The stage is set for a reckoning where divine retribution meets human hubris.

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A Stolen Face for a Stolen Life

By @john1208

The screech of tires and shattered glass were my husband's final gifts to me. I died as Juna, trapped in a mangled car while Brencis walked away with his mistress. But death was only a detour. I woke up months later in the body of Inesca Ruz, a famously sheltered heiress - and Brencis’s next target. Sitting across from a genius detective in a dim cafe, I slide a folder across the table, striking the deal that will begin my second life. Detective Renzo Varga was my fiercest rival in my past life, a man who despised my relentless methods. Now, he’s the only one who can help me. Playing the part of a naive, doe-eyed victim, I silently gather the bloody evidence of Brencis’s crimes, hiding my quiet ruthlessness behind Inesca’s sweet smile. I am methodically orchestrating the live TV broadcast that will expose his mistress as a serial scammer and burn their lives to ash. But as Renzo begins to recognize my old habits in this new face, and my best friend’s dark secret threatens to unravel everything, will my stolen identity survive long enough to see their absolute ruin?

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Mi alma mi venganza

By @Margareth

Phuwin es el joven heredero de la familia Tangsakyuen. Cuando tenía dieciséis años, sus padres murieron y su custodia pasó a manos de sus tíos. Desde entonces ha vivido un infierno, siendo aislado del mundo y tratado como un sirviente en su propia casa. Cuando Phuwin cumple dieciocho años y está a punto de tomar el control de su fideicomiso, sus tíos deciden que la forma más fácil de quedarse con su fortuna es deshacerse de él. Sin embargo, al borde de la muerte, el joven hace un trato con el demonio: su alma a cambio de la fuerza para vengarse. Cuando el demonio toma posesión de su cuerpo, Phuwin deja de ser el joven débil al que todos podían maltratar. Con su nueva fuerza recuperará todo lo que le pertenece. Pero el demonio tiene su propia agenda. ¿Qué pasará cuando la misión del demonio lo ponga en el camino del hombre a quien no se le puede resistir?

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The Faceless Gem

By @john1208

I was supposed to be the Rinaldi Jewel House's next star, but my family saw my talent as a threat. They stole my designs, sabotaged my career, and cast me out, leaving me to polish cheap stones in a forgotten corner of the city. My life was a quiet ruin until him: Dante Gallo, the sharp-eyed broker for the mythical gemstone supplier known only as 'The Faceless'. He mistook my calloused hands and gem-cutter's knowledge for those of his elusive employer and offered me a deal that could change everything - the power to control the very flow of rare gems his family coveted. Now, hiding behind a new name, I am systematically starving the Rinaldi empire of the resources they need to survive, buying up their assets piece by piece. My revenge is cold, precise, and everything I dreamed of. But the real 'Faceless' won't stay hidden forever, and I've just discovered the power I'm wielding is borrowed on a terrifyingly short timeline. Can I complete my revenge before my mask is torn away and I lose more than just my name?

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The Sommelier of Silence

By @john1208

Danica Volkov was a ghost in her own home, a tool to be sold by her cruel stepfamily to the decrepit Baron Valerik for a title. But on their wedding night, the Baron dies, leaving Danica his sole, unexpected heir. His final words weren't of love, but a warning - and a key to a hidden world of coded ledgers and silent transactions. Now, armed with the secrets of the city's elite, Danica reinvents herself as a sought-after 'sommelier of secrets,' a designer whose creations carry whispered messages. Her goal: to orchestrate the Volkovs' ruin at the upcoming Lumina Ball. Standing in her way is Stellan Varady, a stoic Imperial Justicar investigating the late Baron and the only one sharp enough to see the calculating mind behind Danica's flawless facade. He becomes her fiercest rival, yet an unwilling confidant in a dangerous dance of wits. But as Danica dismantles her family's reputation piece by piece, she learns that the Baron's most trusted advisor, the kindly Aleksy, is helping her every step of the way - perhaps too much. In a world built on careful whispers, who is truly pouring the poison?

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The Glass Garden's Captive

By @john1208

I held Damir Zelenko's hand as he died, his last words a cryptic warning about his life's work. The next thing I knew, his estranged son, Gavril, branded me a corporate spy who sold the family's secrets. He ripped me from my life, imprisoning me in the 'Aethelgard', the remote, self-sustaining biodome his father built - a technological marvel and my gilded cage. Gavril's revenge is simple and cruel: I am to be the sole caretaker of his father's priceless, genetically engineered flora, completely isolated from the world. He believes the solitude and the weight of my 'crime' will break me. But he doesn't know the truth. The Aethelgard is more than a garden; it's a puzzle Damir left for me to solve. As I fight to survive Gavril's cold fury and my own growing feelings for my captor, I begin to unravel a conspiracy that goes far deeper than corporate espionage. The real prize isn't a patent; it's a biological key, and the reward for finding it might be a fate worse than this prison. Can I cultivate the truth before Gavril's quest for vengeance destroys us both?

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The Cartographer's Spite

By @john1208

In the city-state of Khavaran, a family's worth is etched in the maps they chart. Anahid Kerimov, once a promising cartographer, was cast out and shamed by her own kin, the powerful House Kerimov, who spread vicious rumors of fraud to steal her discoveries. Now living in obscurity, Anahid receives a strange, posthumous delivery: the personal effects of her greatest rival, the explorer Sergo Makarian. Inside, she finds not just his research, but a secret that could dismantle the entire cartography guild - and her family along with it. Backed by a powerful guild official whose life she saves, Anahid returns to Khavaran not as a victim, but as a predator. She will use Sergo's forbidden techniques and her own sharp mind to turn her family against each other, charting a path of vengeance that will redraw the maps of power forever. But Sergo was a man of many secrets, and as Anahid follows the trail he left, she must ask: was his final gift a key to her revenge, or a trap laid by a ghost?

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I Bought My Killer's Empire

By @john1208

The cold marble of the gala floor was still vibrating from the murmurs of the crowd when my husband, Brevin, took the microphone to publicly brand me a hysterical burden. I didn't cry. Not this time. I still felt the phantom wind of falling from our penthouse balcony, pushed to my death by Brevin and his smirking mistress, Olenka. But as I stand here humiliated in my second life, a strange notification vibrates on my phone. It’s an encrypted transfer of billions, alongside a voice note recorded by me, moments before I was pushed. My murdered self knew she was going to die - and she successfully sent her shadow-empire's access codes back in time. I have always been painfully shy, but when it comes to protecting my little brother Timo, I am unmovable. With my future self’s war chest, I approach the one man Brevin fears: Zaren Ilves, my fiercely loyal childhood bodyguard who mysteriously returned as a self-made billionaire. Together, we’ll orchestrate a hostile takeover to fire Brevin on a global broadcast, while Olenka’s obsession with perfection ends on a cheap surgeon’s table. But will Zaren’s fierce devotion shatter the walls around my heavily guarded heart before the final hammer falls?

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Symphony of Spite: The Casino Queen's Lethal Jackpot

By @john1208

I never liked old Madame Vasker, so attending her deathbed was purely a sarcastic formality. Yet my husband, Bramien, chose her final breath to shove divorce papers into my hands, convinced he was inheriting the boundless wealth of the Zintaran Syndicate. I signed with a sneer. What the idiot didn’t realize was that his grandmother’s 'prize' was a lethal trap - a syndicate debt designed to execute him if he couldn't secure a billionaire's investment within thirty days. Now, he's desperately courting the city's most mysterious heiress to bail him out. Spoiler alert: that's me. As he tries to corner my alter egos - the underground casino sovereign of the Velvet Spire, a legendary cyber-surgeon, and the grandmaster of Kyroan martial arts - I simply watch him dance. When he attempts to impress me by hiring a maestro to butcher the Sonata of the Weeping Leviathan, I publicly take the bench and play it flawlessly, proving I am the legendary composer he's bragging about. But with my arrogant martial rival circling the same snare, will Bramien's destruction be my ultimate victory, or just the opening act of a much deadlier game?

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The Croupier's Final Spin

By @john1208

Brisena Vondal is exhausted by betrayal. In her first life, her husband Fario framed her for treason, leaving her to be murdered in a damp island prison while he paraded his mistress, Nysola, in her stolen jewels. Reborn at the exact moment Fario attempts to humiliate her at the Grand Solstice Ball, Brisena skips the tears, delivers a blistering, sarcastic rebuttal, and walks out. But rebirth comes with a catch she never asked for: a fading silver mark on her wrist that gives her exactly one year before her soul dissolves. With the clock ticking, she refuses to wage a tedious, drawn-out war. Instead, she utilizes a double agent within Fario's household to set Nysola up with a dashing decoy, luring the mistress to the Gilded Tide Casino. As Nysola blissfully gambles away Fario’s hidden fortune at rigged tables, Brisena finds herself entangled with Caldenor Ovesi, the casino’s enigmatic owner and her husband’s fiercest rival. Caldenor has secretly adored her for years, but as they orchestrate Fario's absolute ruin together, he begins to notice her waning strength. Will her meticulously planned vengeance be her final act, or will the slow-burn love of a rival patriarch uncover a way to stop the clock?

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Frame-Perfect Malice

By @john1208

Zaven Dalmas stood before the empire’s elites, waiting for his glorious awakening. Instead, the System branded him a 'Harmonizer' - a pacifist class utterly incapable of dealing damage. Humiliated and exiled from the Vanguard, Zaven isn't worried. As a former speedrunner of Chronicles of Oshakan, he knows every broken mechanic in the code. Slipping out of his own disgrace, he exploits a collision glitch to loot a hidden tutorial chest, snatching the ultimate class-change scroll meant for the arrogant Chosen One, Tevan. But Zaven's butterfly effect has fatal consequences. Without his scripted item, Tevan dies to the tutorial boss. Now, Zaven must shoulder the world-saving quest using integer-underflow exploits and aggro-manipulation. Told through the alternating perspectives of a world-weary Zaven and his bitter rival Vahan, the duo must navigate a lethal world using sheer game-breaking malice. Along the way, Zaven inadvertently catches the eye of a powerful merchant queen and harbors an unspoken, doomed love for a cursed royal knight. But as he plots his cold revenge against the elites who mocked him, he remains completely unaware that his most trusted confidant - the one person who stood by him during his humiliation - is secretly orchestrating the game's apocalypse. Can Zaven glitch his way out of an unwinnable betrayal?

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The Cipher of Shattered Vows

By @john1208

Jasker Varla is a prodigy, a Cipher of the Iron Circle, whose coded messages determine the fate of armies. But when his younger sister dies in a sabotaged airship flight, Jasker's world shatters, and all evidence points to one culprit: Runa Volgatis, a rival cipher with a reputation for reckless genius and a cheeky disregard for authority. Consumed by grief, Jasker enacts a cruel revenge. He publicly humiliates Runa and forces her into a marriage of servitude, binding her skill to his cause in the escalating war. Trapped in his estate, cut off from the world, Runa must endure his cold fury while deciphering enemy transmissions under his watchful eye. She maintains her innocence with a defiant smirk, chipping away at his certainty with her brilliance and unexpected loyalty. As Jasker's obsession with revenge deepens, he finds himself drawn to the sharp mind and resilient spirit of the woman he swore to break. But the real traitor is still at large, and a forgotten photograph holds the key. Can Jasker unravel the true plot before his quest for vengeance destroys the one person who can save their nation?

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I Weaponized the Tyrant, But Forgot the Timer

By @john1208

I didn't ask to wake up buried alive inside a massive, sealed hourglass in the subterranean academy of Ghalib. But since my political enemies put me here to die, I decided to use the quickest, most efficient tool for revenge: Davran. He was a feral, discarded boy whose veins had been pumped full of liquid shadows by dark-magic researchers. My plan was simple. I’d use my intellect to teach him how to control the abyss within him, raise him to usurp the Parsad throne, and then quietly retire to sleep my days away with my pet drake, Gohar. It worked perfectly. A decade later, Davran is a towering, ruthless Emperor who crushes our enemies and dotes on me. But there are complications. Minal, a reincarnator desperate to 'fix' the plot, keeps trying to make Davran a benevolent ruler. Worse, nobles who call me lazy have been mysteriously turning up dead in pieces. But the biggest problem? I just coughed up black sand. Nobody mentioned that surviving the hourglass cursed me with a hidden, fatal time limit. Now my expiration date is approaching, and my sweet, obedient weapon has discovered the truth. Will his obsession shatter the world just to keep me breathing?

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The Star-Forge Vindication

By @john1208

Roshanak spent her life dimming her own brilliance. Believing the ancient art of Star-forging required absolute humility and self-sacrifice, she tolerated every slight - even when Tahmineh, the beloved 'one of the guys' prodigy, 'accidentally' destroyed Roshanak's graduation astrolabe at the Grand Exhibition. Expecting Roshanak to forgive her as usual while the male apprentices coddled the weeping, clumsy saboteur, Tahmineh severely miscalculated. Iskandar, the icy Arch-Astronomer and Roshanak’s devoted partner, instantly sees through the tears and blacklists the saboteur from every observatory in the empire. Stripped of her adoring audience and completely isolated, Tahmineh is forced into a desperate public duel of craftsmanship to save her reputation. But as Roshanak prepares for the ultimate face-slapping exhibition, she uncovers a melancholic truth about the Star-forge: the heavens never demanded her silent suffering, but rather absolute, unapologetic radiance. Will embracing her true power finally heal her fractured spirit, or will the weight of her stolen years consume her before she finishes her masterpiece?

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Vengeance of the Rust-Born

By @john1208

Ryzalia Morcrest’s biological family had a convenient excuse for hiding her existence: raised in the lawless Rust-Steppes, she was too loud, too unrefined, and lacked the delicate manners of the Previan elite. They vastly preferred her older brother Kylian, a supposedly flawless genius whose groundbreaking Kinetic-Weave inventions brought the family unprecedented wealth. But Kylian’s brilliance is a lie built entirely on Ryzalia’s stolen scrap-tech designs. When a hot-tempered Ryzalia crashes Kylian’s lavish engagement party to demand what is hers, she is shoved into the dirt - until Voldir Hext, the ruthless, untouchable billionaire of the Zenith District, steps out of his dreadnought. He ignores the groveling Morcrest family and bows only to her. Swept into a world of cutthroat opulence, Ryzalia teams up with her infuriating aristocratic rival, Isken, to systematically dismantle her family’s legacy with cold, calculated precision. As she sets a trap to expose Kylian on live television, a shocking truth emerges. The mysterious saboteur Voldir has been hunting for a decade and the brother who stole Ryzalia's blueprints are the exact same person. Will her fiery thirst for vengeance cost her the only true family she's ever found?

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Spiced Broth and Slaughter

By @john1208

Sprinting across the amber-tiled rooftops of Jūrapolis to evade heavily armed inquisitors, Vakarė plummets into a lightless alley and lands squarely on the blind, bleeding assassin she was trying to avoid. In the grimdark novel The Cinder Prophecy, Vakarė is the Fake Saintess destined to betray Ignas, pushing the discarded killer into becoming a world-ending calamity. Her solution to surviving? Shamelessly bulldoze past his lethal defenses by aggressively stuffing him with piping-hot bowls of saffron stew. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story follows Vakarė acting like a cheeky, relentless ray of sunshine to Ignas, while coldly and systematically orchestrating the bloody downfall of both the Chantry and his former guild. Ignas, bewildered by the lavish meals, soon devolves into a fiercely loyal, strictly platonic shadow who grows terrifyingly jealous whenever anyone else receives her smiles. But their sanctuary is threatened by a devastating identity swap: Ignas is the true holy heir, and Vakarė is the shadow-born heretic. Can she butcher their enemies before the solstice, or will the Chantry burn them both?

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Blood Silk and Shattered Vows

By @john1208

I held my grandfather's hand on his deathbed as he whispered the terrifying truth: the treaty protecting my life would expire in exactly one hundred days. That same night, an assassin's poison triggered a miscarriage. Bleeding and alone in the hospital, I begged my husband, Teodoro, to come to my side. He refused, claiming his weeping ex-girlfriend needed him more. My tears dried. My heart turned to ice. I signed the divorce papers, abandoned my pathetic disguise as a submissive housewife, and reclaimed my true identity as the world-renowned fashion designer behind the billionaire empire Seta di Sangue. I have ninety-nine days to build an untouchable syndicate and forge an alliance with Zeno Caccini - a ruthless mafia boss who slaughters my enemies but treats me like fragile glass. But as bullets fly at my runway shows and Zeno's lethal devotion deepens, Teodoro makes a devastating discovery. Unearthing my hidden diaries beneath the floorboards, he realizes the sheer agony I endured in silence. Now, my arrogant ex-husband is desperately groveling to win back a woman who no longer exists. With the deadline looming, will I survive long enough to wear the crown?

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The Blind Giant's Smiling Vengeance

By @john1208

Xaida always smiles. Even when her sadistic father, Margrave Vexil, hunted her down and exiled her to the monstrous atmospheric tides. Even when she wakes up inexplicably suspended inside the glass lantern of the Vestergrip Lighthouse, surrounded by a churning, levitating ocean that defies gravity. She maintains her bubbly, airheaded facade to keep her little brother, Toben, from succumbing to terror. But beneath her dimpled grin lies a mind meticulously calculating a cold, bloody revenge. Her only obstacle - and unexpected savior - is Ghaldir, the towering, monstrous keeper of the lighthouse. He is completely blind, his eyes heavily scarred, but he reads auras with terrifying accuracy. He easily sees past her cheerful lies to the raging trauma within. When an accidental telepathic bond forms between them, they discover a profound ability to project calming sensations into each other's minds, soothing their crippling panic attacks. As their fated romance blooms in the stormy sanctuary, Xaida uncovers a chilling truth: her beloved childhood mentor didn't orchestrate her escape, but delivered her as bait. With her father's hounds closing in, can the smiling exile and her gentle giant turn their warded sanctuary into a deadly trap, or will the traitor tear their bond apart?

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The Midnight Facade

By @john1208

Standing at her mentor's deathbed, world-weary and fiercely sarcastic Tazrin Volen learns a terrifying truth: her aggressive stalker, Kryton Bhelz, has initiated a one-sided blood-pact. She has exactly ninety days before her autonomy is permanently bound to his family. To buy time for her cold, calculated revenge, Tazrin strikes a deal with Chasen Dhalor, the city's most notorious playboy, using his scandalous reputation as a political shield. Tazrin expects a shallow arrangement, but the lines blur almost immediately. When Kryton attempts to corner her at a Grav-Strike tournament, Chasen's careless grin vanishes, replaced by a terrifying possessiveness that culminates in a breath-stealing, world-stopping kiss on the stadium's kiss cam. The true shock comes when the blood-pact's toll leaves Tazrin violently ill; Chasen abruptly cancels a luxury yacht trip with a dozen models just to sit by her bed, feed her rare glow-kelp soup, and play the heartbreakingly emotional music he secretly composes. He is entirely, hopelessly in love with her. But as her ninety-day deadline looms, Tazrin uncovers a devastating twist. She isn't the only one running out of time - what happens when she discovers the unspoken, fatal countdown ticking away inside Chasen?

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A Cage of Spun Shadows

By @john1208

An ordinary morning enjoying spiced tea goes terribly wrong when Sikara Valdemar tastes arsenic in her cup - and suddenly remembers her past life. She realizes she is the doomed villainess of the novel 'The Sun's Ascent', destined to be executed. Embracing a quietly ruthless pragmatism, Sikara begins a cold, calculating campaign of revenge. Her survival plan is simple: cure Rurik, an abused child locked in the estate's dungeons who is possessed by a terrifying dark spirit, and use him as a distraction while she escapes to a quiet frontier village. But she completely underestimates the monster she is grooming. While Sikara plots her political moves, Rurik is secretly butchering anyone who dares insult her, hiding their bodies in the shadows. Years later, after successfully extracting his curse, Sikara sends Rurik away and prepares for her peaceful escape. Instead, he returns as a towering, blood-drenched tyrant. Having seized the empire's armies, Rurik locks down the borders, refusing to let his savior out of his sight. With a manipulative fake saintess plotting her demise and Sikara's most trusted ally revealed as the true mastermind behind her suffering, can she outwit the monsters she created?

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The Mourning Dove's Dowry

By @john1208

Zosia Bobrov has spent her life as a shadow in the opulent mansion of her uncle, Guildmaster Varik. Her parents' fortune, stolen after their mysterious deaths in a river barge accident, now funds the extravagant lifestyle of her cruel aunt and cousin, Ivana. At Ivana's lavish engagement party, Zosia is a forgotten ornament, a testament to her family's 'charity.' But a chance encounter with the enigmatic Inquisitor Krystof Navotny, a man tasked with policing the city's powerful guilds, changes everything. He reveals that her parents' will was a complex legal instrument, a 'Silent Bequest' that her uncle has been exploiting. To reclaim her birthright, Zosia must navigate a treacherous world of guild politics and social maneuvering, learning the art of subtle manipulation from the watchful Krystof. As she methodically dismantles her family's empire piece by piece, she finds herself drawn to the quiet strength of her unlikely ally. But the Silent Bequest has rules she never anticipated, and the price of victory may be far more than just her inheritance. What is the true purpose of the legacy her parents left behind?

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Resurrected as My Paralyzed Rival's Bride

By @john1208

Ren Muxue, the Jiyuan Empire's most feared Grand Apothecary, just wanted a quiet morning tea. Instead, she wakes up in the body of Nie Chuyin - a bullied, illegitimate daughter - and is immediately gagged, stuffed into red wedding robes, and sent to marry the paralyzed, comatose Lord Gu Beiyuan. Her cowardly stepsister fled the auspicious marriage arrangement, leaving Muxue to face her former political nemesis. Beiyuan was crippled by a rare neurotoxin manufactured by the very enemies who assassinated Muxue. Dripping with sarcasm and utterly exhausted by imperial politics, Muxue decides to use her peerless rare herbal alchemy to cure him, intending to ruin their assassins' plans and quietly slip away in the chaos. But her specialized needlework and bitter tonics are too recognizable. When the ruthless commander finally opens his eyes, he immediately recognizes the soul of his lifelong rival hiding behind his new bride's face. Instead of executing her, Beiyuan dismisses his guards, locks the manor doors, and transforms into a fiercely protective, desperately clingy husband. With the imperial court hunting them both, can Muxue survive her husband's obsessive devotion long enough to enact her cold-blooded revenge?

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Koga y Ayame

By @Elizabeth Sanchez Colin

The scent of ash and despair clung to Ayame as she witnessed her pack's horrific demise, victims of a poison mist unleashed by a seemingly weak demon. Saved by her adoptive brother, Kiba, at the cost of his own life, Ayame carries a crushing burden of guilt and a burning desire for revenge. She is haunted by the finality of loss and the gnawing fear of being truly alone. Koga, the hot-headed leader of the wolf-demon tribe, returns to a devastating sight, his pride shattered by his failure to protect his people. He finds Ayame, a kindred spirit forged in the crucible of tragedy, now a shadow of her former self. Their shared grief and hunger for vengeance bind them, but a primal, untamed attraction threatens to consume them both, challenging their loyalties and their very identities in a world now irrevocably tainted by death.

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The Billionaire's Hidden Keystone

By @john1208

Soraya Najem’s life shatters at the Qartaj Design Gala when her fiancé claims her architectural masterpiece as his own and publicly dumps her. Humiliated but blazing with furious loyalty to her family's failing firm, Soraya goes through with an arranged marriage to Kareem, a quiet man she believes is a struggling contractor using a fake name to dodge debt. She thinks this union will somehow help protect her family from Al-Mansur Holdings, the predatory rival empire threatening to swallow them whole. But Kareem's real name is Tariq Al-Mansur. As Tariq dotes on his hot-tempered wife, secretly funding her projects behind the scenes and having his disguised elite bodyguards utterly destroy her violent ex when he tries to physically attack her, Soraya falls deep into a slow-burn romance. Yet a staggering secret lies dormant in her own mind: before a recent accident erased her memories of the past year, Soraya herself orchestrated this exact arranged marriage, knowing exactly who Tariq was. What will happen when the fiercely loyal architect realizes her sweet husband is the titan she swore to defeat - and that she laid the brilliant trap herself?

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Dead Women Don't Sprint

By @john1208

The story opens with Corenza waking up mid-sprint, dodging syndicate assassins in the neon-lit alleys of Pelagosa. She didn’t want to be a reborn mastermind; she just wanted a nap. But after her cheating husband, Morovan, tricked her into signing away her syndicate shares and locked her in their burning estate, her peaceful retirement went up in flames. Too lazy to orchestrate a complex, labor-intensive assassination, the tactical genius opts for the path of least resistance: publicly 'seducing' Morovan’s worst enemy, the ruthless kingpin Davorin, who owes her a past-life favor. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story balances Corenza’s deadpan, couch-bound plotting with Davorin’s high-stress, action-packed execution. Their fake, hyper-visible romance is a weapon, drawing fire while they orchestrate the live-TV exposure of Morovan’s mistress as a prolific serial scammer. But Corenza soon realizes she misunderstood the rules of her rebirth: she is soul-tethered to Morovan. If he dies, her second life ends instantly. How can this strictly platonic power duo utterly obliterate a syndicate boss's life when they are forced to become his reluctant bodyguards?

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The Ashen Alchemist's Wrath

By @john1208

The story opens in a shadowed bazaar, where a disguised Zakhur strikes a deadly deal for forbidden alchemical catalysts. In his past life, his fierce loyalty earned him nothing: he died a forgotten meat shield while the 'heroes' fled an abyssal breach. Now regressed to his days at the elite Marakand Schola, Zakhur hides his grandmaster alchemy behind the guise of a failing student, plotting a cold, clever revenge. Told through the alternating perspectives of Zakhur and Nahid - a brilliant swordswoman and his central love interest who senses his hidden depths - the tension mounts. Zakhur bides his time alongside his charismatic best friend Tariq, unaware this trusted ally is the secret mastermind behind his past death. Zakhur intends to remain undercover, but Instructor Vahram, a sadistic teacher who tortures commoners for the amusement of the rich, pushes him too far. Annoyed, Zakhur's notorious temper flares, and he drops his heavy suppression ring. In a heartbeat, the training hall is transmuted into molten glass. With his devastating power exposed, can Zakhur protect Nahid and burn away his enemies before Tariq strikes?

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The Unraveler's Requiem

By @john1208

When the 'Great Weaving' transported humanity to the hostile continent of Voryn, everyone received a Skill from the System. Dymian received [Lesser Stitching], a joke of an ability in a world of warriors. His brother, Kazimir, a brilliant strategist, was hailed as a hero. But on the eve of their greatest victory, Kazimir was betrayed and murdered by his own inner circle, with Dymian framed for the crime and left for dead. Now, bleeding out on a forgotten battlefield, Dymian makes a choice: he uses his skill to physically stitch Kazimir's face onto his own, stealing his identity to infiltrate the very ranks of those who destroyed his life. Armed with a dead man's reputation and a power he's just discovered - the ability to 'un-stitch' the very fabric of curses and debuffs - Dymian begins his quest for vengeance. But can he maintain the facade of his calm, strategic brother while his own hot-tempered nature threatens to expose him at every turn?

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Succubus System Harem

By @Saman Kumara

Orphaned and adrift, Kaelen's life took a perverse turn the night he stumbled upon a cursed antique mirror. Instead of reflecting his impoverished existence, it granted him the Succubus System: an ability to siphon essence from sexual encounters, evolving his body and mind with each conquest. This dark power promises not only unimaginable pleasure but also a path to escape the slums and exact revenge on those who wronged him. However, the System's insatiable demands twist his morality, turning him into a pawn in an unseen war between succubi factions vying for control over humanity's desires. With each new "partner," Kaelen walks a knife's edge, balancing his craving for power with the lingering fragments of his humanity, lest he become the very monster he wields. He must master his dark gift before he loses himself completely to its seductive corruption, or become just another victim in a city where pleasure and peril intertwine.

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A Dowry of Ash

By @john1208

The black velvet box left on my doorstep contained an antique wedding veil and a cowardly letter from my parents: *We offered you to the Cernak Syndicate so they would spare us. Forgive us.* They thought they were sending me to a gruesome death. They were right to be terrified, but they severely underestimated me. I didn't weep. I packed my bags, walked into the estate of Obrezha's most lethal mafia king, and began calculating exactly how to use his men to butcher my own family. Davorin Cernak is a monster who paints the coastal streets red, yet he looks at me with a dark, suffocating devotion. He orders me to stay hidden; I walk out. He orders intruders killed; I deliberately tend to a bleeding rival soldier just to watch Davorin's jaw clench. He utterly adores my defiance. But neither of us is speaking the truth of our hearts, and time is running out. I don't know about the ancient syndicate law demanding a bride's execution if she doesn't assassinate a rival within ninety days. And when corrupt police raid our compound while I am left alone, will Davorin burn the city to ash in time to save me?

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Echoes of Silence

By @Jiya Gul

Rising starlet Y/N finds her latest film shoot at JYP Entertainment shatter into a nightmare when a ruthless criminal organization seizes the building. Caught in the escalating chaos, she's dragged into a high-stakes conference room where the world-famous group Stray Kids is held captive. Her heart pounds against her ribs, a mix of terror and burning indignation fueling her desperate struggle against her captor. The gang leader, a man whose gaze promises only ruin, dissects her with a cold, appraising stare. Stripped of her public persona, Y/N must now navigate a deadly game of survival, where every glance holds a threat, and the line between performance and reality blurs into a fight for her life and the lives of those around her. Can she escape the clutches of this shadow and protect the idols?

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The Apex Hunter's Ultimatum

By @john1208

I strike the deal in the shadows. Fifty-one percent of Tyren Aegis, mine. I survived a year of agonizing purification from the Scourge-Rot in secret, only to return to the capital and find Jorik, the man who swore to wait for me, holding a girl with my exact silver eyes. His excuse? 'She looked like you, I was lonely.' I am Xiraza Vex, the legendary Apex Hunter. I don't fight for men who can't keep their promises. Being naturally shy doesn't mean I lack a spine. I walk into his guildhall, reveal myself as his new boss, strip him of his rank, and banish him from the Apex Vanguard forever. Leaving him to drown in regret, I throw myself back into the frontlines alongside Chitter, my lightning-fox. But when my fiercest rival, Khyren Zhal, offers a temporary truce to investigate a surge of mutated beasts, we uncover a terrifying truth. The person who infected me wasn't a monster - it was my most trusted ally. Can Khyren and I survive the ultimate betrayal, or will the engineered horde consume us both?

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