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Su Ziyu has a golden hourglass of time. Every time the sand runs out, Su will be transported to a different world.

The eldest daughter of the Garcia family, Olivia Garcia, was famous in New York City, but she had a bad reputation that everyone looked down upon. She lost her mother at a young age and became a tool in her stepmother's hand. After successfully getting married into the wealthy family after ruining Brian Ford's reputation, she sucked blood like a vampire to feed the Garcia family. After a car accident, she lost her daughter and saw through all the lies and deception. Having been reborn, she took every step to enter the Ford family again. She was not there to pursue a relationship, all she wanted was revenge. But how could the famous Tyrant King of New York City let her get away so easily? "After getting married into the Ford family, can you still run away?" From then on, Olivia became Brian's most beloved, living a pampered life.

Before time travel, Su Mu worked as a reservoir guard. Life was easy—stable benefits, daily fishing, and not a care in the world. Until one day, during a wild fishing trip, he accidentally touched a high-voltage line... And woke up in another world. After time travel, am I still guarding a reservoir? Wait—this doesn’t look like a reservoir at all?! It's the River of Time.

In a dystopian future where Vampires emerged from the shadows in order to stop humanity from becoming extinct, a young woman with a dark past meets a charismatic stranger. As time goes by Private Love Aikawa of military Unit 4-7, finds that she may not be as human as she first thought. Battling rogue vampires, mutated creatures and her own past, Love works to unravel the mysteries behind the secretive Helsing unit, and tries to become the bridge between humans and vampires in a world filled with discrimination. This novel starts intentionally slow through the exposition and the early world and character building, BUT everything kicks into gear after the turning point in the latter half of Volume 1, and especially Volume 2, where the tone of the novel shifts. So, I hope you stick with it and enjoy the wild ride! I also added some song recommendations along the way to listen to whilst you read certain chapters, I hope this helps boost the experience. Public Spotify playlist titles (all under the name LouLou): TLAR - Book 1 TLAR - Book 2 TLAR - Book 3 TLAR - A Fire in Their Wake This is rated 'No one under 17 permitted' for (very) mature themes, including drug use, SA, LGBTQ+ discrimination, very frequent strong language, violence etc. Please note that no storyline is chosen for shallow shock value, and most are taken from personal experience, and hopefully handled with the care, respect and sensitivity they deserve. Disclaimers are added against any chapter that may cause distress. Tip Jar + updates and some extra content: https://ko-fi.com/loulou2 The majority of Volume 1, in a different order and edited as a full novel is available free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Loulou2

Berawal dari pertemuan mereka di Senior High School membuat mereka kini menjalin sebuah persahabatan yang penuh dengan misteri, teror, ancaman, dan tantangan yang berbahaya. Awalnya, mereka menjalankan sebuah misi karena rasa penasaran akan sekolah baru mereka. Namun rasa penasaran mereka membawa mereka menuju misi-misi selanjutnya yang dipercayakan oleh Kepala Polisi Park secara rahasia kepada mereka hingga membuat mereka menjadi seorang detektif. Ini adalah kisah petualangan 12 pemuda tampan yang dibumbui dengan nuansa horor yang kental di dalamnya. ***** “Berhenti sekarang sebelum semuanya terjadi.” “Kalian semua akan mati saat jam 11 malam.” “Kami sudah menyatu, dan aku adalah bagian dari dirinya.” “Sepertinya begitu. Kita semua akan mati jika kita gagal dalam misi kali ini.” ============================ WARNING! Di sini aku hanya meminjam nama tempatnya saja. Cerita ini hanya fiksi dan murni dari pemikiran penulis. Jadi ini tidak nyata. Tempatnya mungkin nyata dan kalian beberapa mungkin ada yang tahu. Tapi kejadian yang ada di cerita ini hanya karangan penulis belaka. Jadi jangan ada yang menyamakan kejadian yang ada di tempat ini sama dengan kenyataannya. Karena itu berbeda. Dapat dipahami kan? I'm just borrowing the name of the place here. This story is only fiction and purely from the author's thoughts. So this is not real. The place may be real and some of you may know. But the events in this story are only the work of the author. So don't equate what happened in this place with reality. Because it's different. Can it be understood?

A haunted river. A grieving town. A detective running out of time. When the peaceful riverside town of Ọ̀yán is shaken by a string of mysterious drownings, Detective Kareem is assigned the one case no one wants. Each victim dies with the same haunting last word: “Ẹ̀nítàn.” What begins as a local investigation soon unravels a buried legend—of a betrayed river spirit, a sacred curse, and ancestral silence that demands to be broken. As Kareem digs deeper, the river begins to whisper his name too. Whispers by the River is a supernatural mystery inspired by African spirituality, where truth is hidden beneath water, and justice comes with a price.

*R-18 Contains Adult situations and Explicit Sexual Content and Profanity* Not for readers 17 and under. **This is a sequel to If These Walls Could Talk, you could read this first but I highly suggest you read the first one. Just so you are not confused when certain events are referenced. Thanks :)** I watched my best friend fall in love with an amazing woman, a woman that I had wanted for myself before his feelings developed, but he didn't know. I can't be mad at anyone other than myself for not taking a chance when I had it. So instead of being upset about it, I'm going to be happy for them both, they're happy together and I could never betray either of them by destroying their happiness. I envy them still though, I hate feeling like this. Hopeless. I wish I could find my own partner, one that could satisfy my sexual desires just as much as my emotional desires. But what are the chances of that happening?

Born into a society tolerant of homosexuals, River Otter is confused by the white culture’s persecution of such men. As the war begins to wind down, Otter leaves the only home he has ever known to help Major James Morrow, commandant of Ft. Yanube, build a farm north of the fort. He begins a new life with the handsome major while coming to grips with growing hostility toward natives and rising danger from a local militia bent on eliminating all bloods from the territory.<br><br>As his physical attraction for the blond soldier slowly grows into a love perilous to both of them, Otter is distracted by personal challenges. As he struggles to survive the social and political upheaval sweeping the plains, can remain true to his own set of values?

When a mutilated corpse is found by a sacred river in a quiet West African village, a troubled detective teams up with a spiritual elder and a young woman with a mysterious past to uncover a centuries-old curse tied to a drowned river queen—one whose song was silenced, and who now demands the world listen.

Jin Yue survives by staying unseen. In the river-slums of the capital, he lives as a nameless wanderer...quiet, careful, and determined never to draw attention. But when a patrol leader intervenes in a moment he should not have, Jin Yue realizes something has changed. Someone has noticed him. As rumors spread of a mysterious “Moon Ghost” who hunts criminals under cover of night, the city prepares for a grand tournament...an event meant to uncover hidden talents and dangerous anomalies alike. Jin Yue wants nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, the tournament is designed to catch people exactly like him. Drawn into the spotlight against his will, Jin Yue finds himself entangled with the very man tasked with hunting the Moon Ghost, an upright cultivator whose interest feels disturbingly familiar, and dangerously personal. Beneath moonlight and blood, past ties begin to surface, secrets stir, and a truth long buried threatens to tear the empire apart. Some ghosts are born from hatred. Others are born because the world never gave them a place to live.