worn stories

Lan Rui was just an overworked office worker struggling to meet deadlines,until one fateful day, his life was cut short by a sudden heart attack. But death wasn’t the end. Instead, he woke up in a mysterious cultivation world, inhabiting the body of a failed cultivator who had nearly perished due to Qi Deviation. Now, in the vast Cloud Market, a city built atop a powerful Second Rank spirit vein, Lan Rui must navigate the treacherous path of cultivation. His new identity is that of a low-tier Qi Refining Realm cultivator, living in the outer area, where only the weakest Loose Cultivators reside. With mediocre talent but an unexpected advantage, a floating game-like status panel. He must find a way to rise above his circumstances. Can he defy fate and break free from the shackles of mediocrity? Or will he remain stuck at the bottom of the cultivation world, forever struggling to survive? In a realm where only the strong thrive, Lan Rui’s journey to immortality begins!

By day, she's invisible. A servant girl with nothing to her name. By night, she becomes someone dangerous. Lyra survives in the underground world of the Midnight Court, a secret society hidden beneath the city where the wealthy and powerful gather behind enchanted masks to trade information, secrets, and forbidden deals. Her mask hides her poverty. Her intelligence keeps her alive. And her ability to gather secrets has made her valuable enough to survive. Everything changes when she meets him. A masked noble who becomes her regular partner in whispered negotiations and stolen touches. He's dangerous in ways that have nothing to do with weapons. He protects her without knowing who she is. He touches her like he owns her. And every night, she falls deeper into something she cannot afford. When their mate bond activates, the magic breaks. The masks that hide them both stop working. They see each other for who they truly are in the darkness, and nothing will ever be the same. He's the most powerful noble in the kingdom. She's a servant girl who should never have been in the court at all. Love isn't supposed to be possible between them. But the bond doesn't care about hierarchy or impossibility. It only knows that they belong to each other. When his world discovers she's his mate, everything she's built crumbles. Betrayed by those she trusted, hunted by enemies on all sides, and forced to choose between hiding who she is and claiming what they have, Lyra must decide if love is worth the cost of everything. The mask protected her. The bond destroyed her. Now she has to become something new to survive.

Captain Elias is a man defined by the forbidden Quintessence-a destructive power he has spent his life suppressing. His single anchor to the world was Crown Princess Lyra, whose choice to abandon her crown for his sake plunged them into treason. But the desperate flight from the Divine Slayers was not an escape-it was a trap. In the bloodied silence of the Serpent's Maw, Elias paid the ultimate price for his defiance.

Chester is a 28 year old, worn-out Cop in a world of demons, heroes and villains. With more than a decade's worth of time working in law enforcement, he's experienced a little too much of the world. One fateful night, he decides to smoke a quick cigarette in an alleyway but stops himself as he finds a curious and abandoned demon girl and takes her in. How will this encounter change his life? How is it like to live in a world where there are those who wield anomalous powers? What are the things he's seen in his time? And what is it like to spark an old flame?

My first shot at a light novel, I apologize in advance for the grammatical errors I’m very dyslexic. Please let me know what you think of it.

[FILIPINO] This is just a compilation of my works such as poems and flash fiction.

**Worthy's Worth** Worthy Winthrop had it all—wealth, status, and a future glittering with promise. But in a single, devastating night, her life shatters when she is exposed as a fake heiress, replaced by an unknown woman who claims her birthright. Stripped of her fortune and thrust into obscurity, Worthy must navigate a world she never knew existed—a world where survival hinges on cunning, resilience, and alliances forged in the shadows. Driven by an unyielding desire to reclaim her identity, Worthy embarks on a relentless journey of self-discovery and revenge. As she delves deeper into the conspiracy that ousted her, she uncovers secrets that threaten to unravel not just her past, but the very foundations of the powerful Winthrop dynasty. Allies and enemies blur as Worthy grapples with her own doubts and the looming question of who she truly is. In a landscape rife with deceit, hidden motives, and high-stakes drama, Worthy must outwit formidable adversaries, including the enigmatic figure pulling the strings behind her downfall. Every move she makes draws her deeper into a web of suspense, where trust is a luxury and betrayal lurks at every turn. **Worthy's Worth** is a riveting tale of suspense and drama, where the line between friend and foe is perilously thin, and a woman’s quest for truth and redemption could either restore her legacy or destroy her entirely.

Ruby Blake is thirty-one. She gets reincarnated after an inhumane death. Her new body is perfect. Beautiful, rich and strong. She's reincarnated into a world where traveling to other dimensions is possible. It's amazingly fun. But she has a responsibility. To retrieve her brother. Alive. Along the way, she makes 'friends' and mercilessly defeats anybody who gets in her way. This deviless will rock the world. And then she'll be killed. Or so everyone thought...

Xu Yue had countless possibilities for the future, but unknown to anyone, her destiny had already been decided. Will Xu Yue manage to escape destiny or will she follow her fate? Even if she manages to escape, how can she be sure that she has truly escaped the confines of fate? Follow Xu Yue in her journey to become unfettered. If want to ask any questions, or merely just talk check out the discord server. https://discord.gg/jK3swFGNZh

A poor fisherman's discovery of a mermaid turned his life around for good. They both fall in love and she falls pregnant, keeping her affair a secret from her kind. But one day, she was brutally assaulted and murdered by a covetous prince, thereby provoked the sea goddess to anger who decided to wreak havoc with her powers and punish the entire village for the crime of a few. But years later, the goddess' grand daughter who's half human is banished to live with humans for her defiance and this sparks a series of events when she falls in love with a catholic priest.