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Cosmic Architecture and the Universe

For three years, Li Xian, a brilliant architect with a heart of gold, was the shadow in Sheng Anqi’s life. He was the one who fixed her plumbing at 2:00 AM, brought her favorite porridge when she was sick, and waited in the rain just to see her smile. But to Anqi, a woman who built walls higher than the skyscrapers she managed, his devotion felt like a cage. After her cold rejection of his most heartfelt gift, Li Xian finally hits his breaking point. He doesn't scream; he doesn't cry. He simply says, "I'm tired, Anqi. I think I’m done." When the silence follows, Anqi initially feels a sense of victory—until the "Li Xian-sized hole" in her life begins to swallow her whole. As she starts to realize that her "independence" was actually built on his silent support, she finds herself doing the unthinkable: chasing the man she spent years pushing away. Meanwhile, chaos erupts behind the scenes. Li Meilin, Xian’s impulsive sister, and Han Jinyu, Anqi’s stoic best friend, wake up after a night of venting and drinking to find themselves in the same bed. To prevent a PR nightmare for Meilin and solve Jinyu’s financial woes, the two polar opposites sign a one-year marriage contract. Now, they must navigate a fake life together while their best friends and siblings play a high-stakes game of emotional hide-and-seek.

Five years ago, the most powerful beasts were annihilated, leading to an era of development. But to Luthor, that nightmare of powerlessness had never ended. He wanted their power, there ability to harness dark energy. When a golden star lights up the night sky as it falls towards the other continent, his instincts whisper of it being the key to a groundbreaking discovery, setting off an adventure to the place humanity has never stepped before!

In a Tokyo that is slowly fading into grey, shadows are more than just reflections—they are the physical form of human memories. When people lose their shadows, they forget their most precious moments forever. Sora, a young architect struggling to hold onto his own flickering past, encounters Hana, a mysterious girl who stands on rooftops weaving lost memories into the night sky with a shimmering glass loom. Together, they must uncover the secret behind the "Great Fading" before the city’s heart is erased entirely. A story of love, loss, and the threads that bind our souls.

In a world where the future merges with the past, architecture student Elara finds herself captivated by Elias, a man with a mysterious connection to the ancient, forgotten spaces of Venice. Together, they embark on a journey through hidden tunnels and secret courtyards, guided by a series of enigmatic blueprints that lead them to a shocking revelation about the city's origins. But as they uncover the truth, they must decide if their love is strong enough to survive the consequences of revealing the unspoken things that have been hidden for centuries.

The system didn't save humanity. It fed on it. When the world fractured at 14:02, everyone got a class, a skill, a purpose. Atlas got Shadow Siphon. While others fight to survive the collapse, Atlas hunts something more valuable than safety: the raw terror of a dying civilization, converted into pure intelligence. He is not a hero. He is not a villain. He is the only one who understood what the system actually is. [LitRPG | System Apocalypse | Antihero] [No harem. No plot armor. No mercy.]

They call her fragile. They call her a disappointment. But Alessia knows the truth: she is a mirror image of a woman who cannot bear to look at her own reflection. In The Architecture of a Shadow, Alessia survives in the cold silence of her family's marble halls, branded as the "unfinished" daughter. Her only warmth is her brother Leo, the golden heir who shields her from their mother’s ice. But as Alessia tries to find her own light, she discovers that the world outside the dining hall is just as ruthless as the one inside. When the person she dares to love becomes the one to finally tear her apart, Alessia must find out what happens when a shadow is pushed into total darkness. Is she a glass doll meant to be broken, or is she the foundation that will bring the whole house down?

In a world where silence protects the guilty and truth is buried beneath fear, one broken boy decides to rewrite the rules. Arthur was once invisible—just another victim swallowed by relentless bullying, his pain ignored and his voice unheard. But everything changes on a storm-filled night when something inside him finally snaps. What begins as a desire for revenge quickly evolves into something far more dangerous: a calculated descent into psychological warfare. Armed not with strength, but with patience and precision, Arthur begins dismantling his tormentors from within. His primary target, Michael Pradana—the untouchable golden boy of the school—hides a dark secret tied to a tragic rooftop incident that was never meant to resurface. But Arthur knows the truth. And worse—he knows how to make others remember it. As anonymous messages, manipulated evidence, and buried memories begin to surface, paranoia spreads like a virus. Friendships fracture, trust dissolves, and reality itself becomes uncertain. With each move, Arthur tightens his grip, turning guilt into a weapon and fear into control. But revenge comes at a cost. As the line between justice and obsession blurs, Arthur risks becoming something even more terrifying than the people who once destroyed him. Because in a game where perception defines reality, the question is no longer who is right or wrong— —but who will break first.

In a world ruled by magic, power is determined by mana, elements, and combat ability. Arkan has none of them. Summoned as a “Hero” alongside his classmates, he is cast aside as worthless, labeled trash for possessing only a strange skill: Molecular Architecture the ability to understand and reconstruct the structure of matter. No mana. No magic. No hope. Betrayed by the world that summoned him, abandoned by those who once relied on him, Arkan is thrown into a monster-infested wasteland meant to be his grave. But this world made one fatal mistake. They underestimated logic. Armed with his knowledge of chemistry and physics from his previous world, Arkan begins to create things never seen in a world of magic: weapons without mana, reactions that surpass spells, and power that defies the very laws of this realm. From black powder to weapons of destruction, from dangerous experiments to technological revolution, Arkan slowly transforms into a threat even the King could never have imagined.

In "The Day I Fired My Inner Critic," the author invites readers on a transformative journey from a life paralyzed by self-doubt to one energized by possibility. Born from a personal crisis during a failed business presentation, the book rejects the notion that confidence is a birthright. Instead, it posits that positive thinking is a disciplined practice of thought management, and confidence is a skill built through courageous action. Serving as a practical instruction manual for the mind, the book is structured into three distinct sections designed to dismantle the architecture of self-doubt.