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"Take my life, Tashina and I promise, I won't stop you" he assured with a bitter smile. She kept her blazing green eyes steady on him and without a second thought, she drove the dagger straight into his heart. _________________________________________ She was an opium flower, he became the chilled morning dew_ both were equally poisonous in love. An alpha no more than a moth, desiring her was a flickering fire. Beautiful, cruel fate meant to burn him and make her fade away. The steel blue soul penetrating orbs and an alpha true to his title with the hope of finding his mate faded since long. Loneliness eaten heart beating inside his desired outer then that fallen angel happened to step inside his territory. Oh! My bad. A fallen demon, she was destructively brave, a fierce, and rough vampire. Everything about her was forbidden yet inviting to his hardening heart. The fire she possessed was bound to burn him but he was willing to jump into that pit of hell that even Grim pitied him. A forbidden love tale of unfortunate lovers... The Reason I Burn For You ~***~ Volume 1[COMPLETED]: the Beginning of a Forbidden Love Tale, completed at 136 chapters. Volume 2[COMPLETED]: the Forbidden Love Tale and the Forbidden Potion, completed at 271 chapters. Volume 3[COMPLETED]: the Beginning of the End of The Forbidden Love Tale, completed at 439 chapters. Side Story and Book 2, to be released om JANUARY 2023!

Kairo: The One Who Watched Heaven Burn Genre: Dark Fantasy / Mythic Revenge / Seinen / Magic Tone: Brutal, tragic, mythological, with heavy emotional weight Kairo is the last blood of Zahrathos, progenitor of immortality—sworn for ages to carry out the will of heaven. When the First War erupts, the Old Gods are betrayed by their former disciples, the New Gods, who ascend by devouring their masters’ divinity. Kairo fights for the Old Gods and becomes the last obstacle to the usurpers’ throne. At the war’s end, the New Gods fear the undying heir of Zahrathos. They tear the Aion-Sigil (the brand of immortal lineage) from his soul and sear him with the Lethe Brand, a heavenfire seal that burns away his memories while leaving his immortality intact—cold, automatic, and stripped of feeling. Cast from the broken gates, he falls from the sky like a cinder and wakes in the mortal realm knowing only his name and a single image: heaven burning. Now in fragments he will fight the gods to avenge Zahrathos

[Revenge+Thriller+Fake Heiress+Top-tier Boss+Love Triangle+Mad Male Competition] Cora Lowell, as the unloved fake heiress of the Lowell Family, is a puppet and toy for her adoptive parents to wantonly exchange for benefits. She is imprisoned and oppressed, enduring harsh survival in despair time and time again. She spares no cost to live, just to shatter her enemies into pieces! She never trusts anyone. Until she meets Landon Lockwood: In the mire, he teaches her self-rescue and to love this world. He also teaches her self-preservation, but the price is only her pitiable true heart. "If you want love, then give me the right to covet." She returns like a femme fatale, voraciously devouring power. But Landon Lockwood willingly lets himself be used, time and again, only for her happiness. The once arrogant and rebellious dark prince actually dreams day and night about the Lowell Family's fake heiress, haunted by her. Seeing her kill, Landon Lockwood hands her a knife, and she sends her adoptive parents and their family to hell, while Landon Lockwood smiles and wipes the floor for her. "What exactly do you want? Sorry, I can't give you love!" The man gently wipes away the tears from her face, eyes full of affection: "Darling, my soul has chosen you, and for the rest of my life, I'll devote myself only to you!"

The story of Banou starts in Persian. She was a princess in Persian. On the day of her wedding, her husband to be was accused of being a traitor and the entire family to be executed and exiled. She and a maid are sent out of the capital to be sold as slaves. On the silk route, at an inn. She met a young trader and became his sex slave. He bough them to Tang dynasty. He turn out to be a Prince with his own harem. She begin her life her life in china and learn everything from scratch. She even give birth to a son. Later she was recognised by the Persian envoy. With he demand she retain back her title as princess and she married another prince. With him, they start a family of many children. However when the sultan is dying she is the remaining daughter to return back to her father to take the throne.

To the world Lucas was the perfect CEO. He led the family company to become the biggest in the country. He also had the most beautiful woman for a lover and with gorgeous looks that would make anyone fall for him, he had it all. However, it all came crashing down one day when he got that letter. A letter that made him question his very existence. A letter that unhinged him.

A fresh start, money and a little bit of independence was what Kang Jihoon hoped for when he got a job at Seoul National University. But he didn't expect to meet him. The man who claims him despite the dire consequences. “Why can’t you… just let me go?” Jihoon whispered, eyes wet with unshed tears. “Because you are mine." They are dangerous for each other.. But their passion burns even hotter with every encounter... Their union, a tangled web of love, secrets, betrayal and death.. And revelations so devastating, it makes the omega question everything he has ever known... Including his own existence..

(MATURE- DARK ROMANCE, DARK THEME, BLOOD) “What the fuck is wrong with you?! You’re fucking insane!” I shrieked as I irked away from the severed finger. “You played a dangerous game just to get our attention,” Kayden said coldly. “It’s your fault he lost a finger. Keep on with your games and someone might just lose a head.” “You think you have a little power because of the bond we have?” Rhydian’s tone was mocking, as he trailed his cold hands down the curve of my neck. “It means nothing. You mean nothing.” ….. All her life, Dahlia has been hated—branded as the traitor’s daughter after her father’s betrayal shattered the pack. When she gets admission into the Academy, she hopes to for a fresh start. But fate has other plans. After losing a twisted game, she becomes the academy’s new slave, owned by the three powerful, merciless brothers. They want to break her until she's nothing but pieces beneath their feet. But what begins as hatred slowly turns into something darker... something forbidden. Haunted by nightmares and hunted by prophecy, Dahlia discovers a power hidden in her blood—one that could destroy the world... or save it. Three mates, and one girl with a fire within her that no one can control. Not even her.

Raisa Ashwynd thought she had the perfect marriage—until a surveillance footage shattered her illusion. For ten years, she sacrificed everything to be the ideal Luna: her identity as an elite Lycan Syndicate operative, her fierce independence, even the bond with her wolf. All for Roman Ashwynd, the Alpha she loved since college. But love built on lies crumbles fast. When Raisa discovers Roman's five-year affair with Embry Wolfe—her son's personal maid—the betrayal cuts deeper than any blade. Worse still, Embry has given Roman what Raisa supposedly couldn't: a daughter named Lily, bearing the same name as the child Raisa lost in a tragic premature birth. Raisa's world implodes, and the truth becomes more twisted and filled with even more betrayal and lies and deception. Everyone she trusted has betrayed her. But Raisa is no ordinary Luna. She's a trained operative who knows how to survive, adapt, and strike back. As she methodically gathers evidence for divorce, someone from her past resurfaces—Cole Thornefell, the mysterious man who vanished from her life six years ago. Now a powerful Royal Council member and architect of the kingdom's laws, Cole appears at precisely the moment Raisa needs him most, offering protection and reigniting feelings she thought long buried. With Cole's reappearance, Roman's obsessive control intensifies. He's tracking her every move, manipulating situations to force her into making decisions she never wanted while using their son, Ethan, as an emotional weapon. As Raisa uncovers the full scope of Roman's machinations, and she realizes escape won't be simple. Roman will never let her go. Not willingly. Caught between a husband who's poisoned her body and shattered her heart, and the magnetic man from her past who sees the warrior she's always been, Raisa must reclaim her power. But revenge requires patience, and the countdown to freedom is measured in days. In thirty days, Roman Ashwynd will learn what happens when you break a Luna who was never as helpless as she seemed. In thirty days, he'll discover that the greatest mistake of his life wasn't the affair—it was underestimating his wife. Because Raisa didn't just survive the Lycan Syndicate's most dangerous missions. She mastered them. And now, Roman has become her final target. A gripping tale of betrayal, rebirth, and ruthless justice where a broken Luna rises from the ashes of her marriage to reclaim everything that was stolen—and make those who wronged her pay the ultimate price.

When war ends, what remains? Not peace. Not victory. Only scars. Parashu was born into those scars—an orphan searching for answers, a warrior hiding his weakness behind strength. At the academy, he finds bonds of friendship and love, yet deep inside he knows: his greatest battle is not against enemies, but against himself. Beside him stands Yakshini, the spirit who shares his soul. Rustam, broken by love and tragedy. Veerath, last of the Vetala clan, burdened with the truth of his father’s death. Shivam, the mentor whose wisdom is carved from regret. And Rivan, a spy of the Kara Army, torn between duty and humanity. But beyond the academy waits the Kara Army—an enemy not of monsters, but of broken men. Generals forged from grief. Soldiers fueled by betrayal. Keal Varnas, who swore that “people never change.” Kamravinash, who kills only to bring back the ones he lost. They fight not for conquest, but for hope. A dark hope that could destroy everything. As secrets unfold, Parashu learns the cruel truth: the real war is not against Kara, but against the shadows within every human heart. And sometimes, the line between hero and villain is thinner than a blade.

When she opened her eyes, she had inexplicably returned to twenty years ago, the first day of the apocalypse escape. "Classmate, you're a Superpower User, right? How about considering joining our special operations squad?" Looking at the man opposite her with sparkling, charming eyes, Xie Ning heartlessly refused: "Thanks, I have a team." "Ah, what team do you have?" "No team." "Right, you're beautiful, so whatever you say is right. How about this, you join our squad, and I will accompany you through wind and rain, and go through fire and water with you to clear dungeons and kill monsters." "Every single day, year after year?" "Mhm! I will work hard to make money, and only for you. How does that sound?" Xie Ning: ... After being reborn, her small Space has turned into a large, mobile villa, and she originally just wanted to live her own quiet little life in peace. Never did she expect to attract such a clingy, devilishly charming man. Question: How does one heartlessly and coldly reject a charmer? Waiting online for an answer, it's quite urgent...