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THE DEVIL I CALLED HUSBAND

She didn't plan to summon a demon. She planned to survive the night. When Lyra Voss watches her own fiancé marry her sister at an altar she was supposed to stand at — then gets arrested for a crime her uncle spent months building against her — survival stops being a figure of speech. Framed, abandoned, and locked out of everything she ever called home, she finds the only thing left in her possession: her grandmother's journal, a summoning ritual, and the desperate kind of courage that doesn't feel like courage at all. What answers her blood isn't what she expected. Kael is ancient, impossibly still, and bound to her side for one year by a contract written in her own blood. He speaks like a lawyer and moves like something that has never needed to hurry because it has always been the most dangerous thing in the room. He promises her two things: her name cleared, and everyone who touched her life made to regret it. In exchange, he wants only one thing from her. The truth. Always. What neither of them anticipates is what a year under the same roof does to indifference. How pretending becomes practicing. How practicing becomes real. How a woman who stopped trusting her own heart learns to read his — and discovers that a creature who has lived three thousand years in perfect, ruthless control has never once in all that time felt anything like this. The contract has an expiration date. Their feelings don't. The Devil I Called Husband is a slow-burn paranormal romance about the bargains we make when we're broken, the people who stay even when nothing requires them to, and what happens when the fine print of a blood contract turns out to be the least binding thing between two people who were never supposed to fall in love. Some deals change everything. This one changes both of them.
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The Bastard's Gambit

The Bastard's Gambit She died with her empire in ruins and her enemy's satisfaction as the last thing she ever saw. She woke up in someone else's coffin. The body belongs to Evelyn Ashford — bastard-born fifth daughter of the Duke, buried two days ago after falling from a gallery at the city's most notorious pleasure house. The household has already moved on. The bridal chamber has been quietly dismantled. No one is coming to mourn her. No one knows she is no longer the girl they buried. The soul now inhabiting that body belonged to a ruthless businesswoman who built an empire from nothing, survived a decade of betrayal and sabotage, and died on the morning of her final victory when a desperate old man chose a carriage crash over public humiliation. She remembers everything: every ledger, every negotiation, every lesson learned the hard way about what powerful men do to women who get too close to their secrets. She has no intention of dying twice. The problem is the world she has woken into. A kingdom where bastard daughters have no legal rights and no path forward. A household where every woman in it has spent years perfecting the art of small cruelties. A Duke for a father who responds only to logic and mutual advantage, never to sentiment. A Prince who dissolved her betrothal by letter before dawn on her wedding day and has not thought about her since. Or so he believes. Within days of climbing out of that coffin, Evelyn has read the household accounts and found a pattern no one else was looking for. Within a week, she has negotiated her way into the Duke's study and out of the east wing's deliberate neglect. Within a month, she has exposed a fraud that reaches further into this household than anyone has admitted, forged an alliance with a woman who has every reason to destroy her, and caught the attention of a man who wears an iron mask and moves through this city's political architecture like something that was never meant to be seen. He finds her interesting. She finds this dangerous. Prince Roland is colder than she expected and more complicated than she was prepared for. He places her in the household of his obsession — a courtesan named Pearl Harte whose situation is more politically entangled than anyone has said — and calls it an assignment. His body registers her transformation before his mind admits what the registration means. He treats her like a tool. He cannot stop watching her like something else entirely. The man in the iron mask offers her a wager: make his fallen associate a functioning political force in this court, and he will disappear from her life forever. Fail, and she belongs to him completely. She accepts. He adds one condition after she has already said yes. *Do not develop genuine feeling for him.* *Because he was me, once.* She does not ask what that means. She should have asked. Somewhere in this city, a man has been given her name and a set of instructions he will begin executing at first light. She does not know this. She is too busy building something that looks, from the outside, like the impossible transformation of a girl everyone dismissed — and feels, from the inside, like the most dangerous gamble of two lifetimes. She has already died once. She is not finished yet. --- *The Bastard's Gambit* is a medieval political romance featuring a transmigrated female lead, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, court intrigue, and a mystery that rewrites everything you thought you knew from the very first chapter.
ruiyao_fan · 5.8k Views

TOM RIDDLE HOGWARTS A NEW BEGINNING

Before He Became The Dark Lord… He Was Just A Boy. Born from a forbidden love potion and abandoned by the father who never wanted him, Tom Marvolo Riddle grows up feared and alone in Wool’s Orphanage. Strange things happen around him — toys shatter, doors lock themselves, shadows obey his silent rage. The other children call him cursed. The nuns call him dangerous. And when his only friend, Mary Polly, meets a tragic end at his hands, the entire world brands him a monster. But one letter changes everything. Albus Dumbledore arrives with an invitation to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For the first time, Tom steps into a world where his power has a name… and a legacy. Armed with a wand of yew and phoenix feather, a mysterious vault at Gringotts, and eyes that burn an unnatural green, Tom enters the ancient halls of Hogwarts. He meets the proud pure-blood Lucius Malfoy, crosses paths with the golden-boy James Potter, and feels the Sorting Hat whisper secrets no one else can hear. In Slytherin’s dungeons, ambition takes root. Old bloodlines stir. Whispers of the Gaunt name echo through the castle walls. Some are chosen by fate. Others forge their own. This is the story of the boy who would become Voldemort — told from the very beginning. A tale of power, pain, friendship, betrayal, and the slow birth of darkness. Book One of the Bloodline Arc Tom Riddle: Hogwarts – A New Beginning #tomriddle #harrypotter #hogwarts #slytherin #voldemort #tomriddlefanfic #youngtomriddle #darklordorigin
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Reborn as the Fat Ugly Duckling, Yet I Mated the Four Beast Deities

Wish thought that if she ever got a second chance at life, she would at least wake up in a better story. A spoiled princess. A doomed villainess on the path to redemption. A heroine adored by powerful husbands. Anything would have been fine. That's how stories were supposed to work. Instead, fate—and whatever twisted cosmic editor writes destinies—casts her in the one role she should never have been reborn into: the fat, ugly, unwanted maiden chosen for sacrifice. She awakens in a body mocked by her tribe, pitied by her parents, and avoided by every man. In a world where beast forms define worth, hers is a joke—a puff-fluff fox, a useless cotton cloud that couldn't frighten a butterfly. Worse still, she is the doomed extra whose sole purpose was to die during the Mating Moon Ritual—her death the trigger that allowed the real female lead, a beautiful, weak princess, to earn the devotion of the four almighty beast deities. The Wind Deity—hot-headed, wild, and dangerously unpredictable. The Solar Deity—arrogant, playful, and impossibly radiant. The Sky Deity—silent, calm, and shrouded in mystery. The Night Deity—cold, calculating, and merciless. Except Wish doesn't die. And her survival breaks everything. The plot stutters. Events twist. Characters act wrong. The world itself seems to notice her refusal to disappear—and begins trying to correct the mistake. Now hunted by fate and trapped in a society where beauty is worshipped, mating marks define destiny, and the weak are meant to be sacrificed, Wish is given one impossible condition for survival: She must derail the story completely. The only way to do that is to draw the attention of the four beings the world revolves around—creatures meant to be untouchable, distant, and divine. One is bound to her by a ritual that should have killed her. One meets her with hostility instead of fate. One sees her existence as a threat that must be erased. One should be incapable of feeling anything at all. They were never meant to notice her. The story was never meant to let her live. So how is she supposed to survive a world that measures worth by beauty and power, when she is fat, unwanted, powerless—and armed with nothing but a useless fluffy fox? Can she break the story that wants her dead? Or will she die exactly as the plot demands?
Cy_hello · 74.8k Views

He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact

Kailen Darkhaven had a simple, happy life growing up. But when a sudden misfortune claimed the lives of his parents two years ago, his entire world collapsed. His heart broke, his grades plummeted, and worst of all, on his sixteenth birthday—his final chance at hope—he failed to become an Awakener. By his seventeenth birthday, hungry, exhausted, and alone, Kailen collapsed in an alleyway, regretting how pitiful his life had been. As he drifted toward what he believed was death’s embrace… something impossible happened. Instead of dying, he awakened bound to a mysterious artifact—an object of overwhelming, incomprehensible power that defied every known law of the universe. For the first time since losing everything, a spark lit within him. With this second opportunity, Kailen vows to never be weak again. In a world where strength determines identity, status, and survival, he will rise above every boundary placed upon him. He will shatter every perception of strength. He will seize control of his fate. He will climb until he stands at the absolute Pinnacle of the universe! --- Tags: #Psychological #Interstellar( with advanced technology) #Unrivaled #ExtremelyFastPaced #UndeadArmy #NoHarem #RuthlessMC #Urban #Apocalypse #Mythical creatures( elves, vampires, witches, dwarves etc) #IntelligentMC(High IQ, deductive , strategic, high functioning psychopath) Disclaimer: This is purely a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real names, places, or events is coincidental. This is an extremely fast-paced novel, and the protagonist becomes absurdly overpowered. He is not the usual “hero complex” type. The villain and antihero tags are not for show. If you are looking for a “goody-two-shoes” protagonist, this novel is not for you. Kailen is a morally grey character. He makes decisions that those interested in hero complex protagonists may not find pleasant. Note for Readers (Please do not skip): Early on, Kailen awakens with a shadow affinity. Yes—it may remind you of popular works you've read… but this is only the beginning. As the story progresses, he will unlock and master multiple affinities. The shadow affinity is a nod to some of my favorite novels, but the journey, characters, and world are entirely my own. Join the Community: Care to interact with me and other readers? Help with things such as character art, fandom wiki, OSTs, and more? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/d5yf4sgb3y Credit to Nortex for the amazing revamp on the discord server
theartisan3 · 976.9k Views

Plot Breaker: I Can Copy Any Character's Power

Jiang Han died saving a child from a truck. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer on Earth. A cold system calling itself The Narrative told him the truth: every anime, movie, novel, and TV story he had ever known was real. They were all fragments of living worlds. And those worlds were starting to collapse. His mission? Enter them. Survive them. Rewrite them. His only cheat ability: Narrative Resonance. If he observes a character closely enough and understands how their power works, he can copy it. The first world gives him no help. No powers. No protection. No second chances. Just a death game where one mistake means elimination. Then come the infected trains, the giant-eaten cities, the demon-haunted nights, the ninja wars, the pirate seas, and worlds far more dangerous than fiction ever made them look. In every world, Jiang Han starts as a nobody. Weak. Looked down on. Easily dismissed. In every world, he proves everyone wrong. But the deeper he goes, the more he realizes something is terribly off. The plots are changing. Characters are acting wrong. Hidden truths are surfacing. And worst of all— he is not the only one traveling between worlds. Some players are trying to save the stories. Others are rewriting them for their own gain. Jiang Han will have to copy powers, break fate, and uncover the secret behind the collapsing worlds before the final story is erased for good. From weak to strong. World-hopping. Power copying. Plot breaking. And once he starts taking abilities from every world... the rules stop mattering.
JiangShan · 8.2k Views