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Tucked away on an unmarked city street sits a nameless, exclusive restaurant—a quiet sanctuary for powerful, guarded souls who move through life behind carefully crafted facades. For twenty years, Evelyn Marsh has occupied the same back table here, mastering the quiet art of observation, control, and calculated poise. A seasoned, sophisticated figure who has spent three decades building an impeccable public persona, she is a lifelong student of human performance, able to read every micro-gesture, hidden tension, and unspoken lie in the people around her. Having outlived two polished, public marriages and navigated the high-stakes world of film and elite social circles, Evelyn exists in a permanent state of self-awareness, always observing, always performing, never fully unguarded. When rising screen talent Julian requests a private lunch with her, Evelyn agrees—not out of curiosity or eagerness, but out of a quiet recognition. Julian, a young actor celebrated for his open, transparent on-screen presence, carries a hidden complexity beneath his charming exterior. Four minutes late to their meeting, his deliberate, hesitant lateness speaks volumes: he is uncertain, searching, and quietly unraveling the divide between the self he performs and the self he truly is.

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Aki was always a problematic kid, running around doing whatever he wanted, leaving it to his brother to pick up after him. But then one day he gets himself into a situation that no one but he can solve. Who would've thought the good-looking guy he saw at the bar, who he later sleeps with that night, would be the son of his rival clan's leader? And to top it off, a new life begins to grow in his stomach. Aki couldn't curse being an omega more than now. --- Credits to respectful owner of the photo being used in the cover. If requested by owner, it can be removed immediately.

The Lockwood mansion was a gilded cage. Marble floors and crystal chandeliers couldn’t mask the suffocating weight of expectations. Zane sat in his dark room, the quiet hum of his guitar the only sound in the vast emptiness. He was born into a life of privilege, destined for medical school or a corporate throne. But that world felt cold and hollow. His heart beat to a different rhythm—the pulse of a guitar, the rush of a stage, the freedom of music. Yet in this family, music was nothing more than a childish hobby, a distraction from the "real future" they had planned for him. Every note he played felt like rebellion, but the walls around him only closed in tighter. Soon, he would have to choose: the life they wanted for him, or the life he dreamed of. But in the Lockwoods household, dreams were meant to be sacrificed.

Enslaved from birth by a power that can control him with just a thought, Gale must cope with the reality that he may never fully understand or enjoy the mysterious world he lives in. This story is submitted into the public domain through the CC0 License: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ But we hope you support us on patreon to fund the continued production of the web novel and its comic adaptation. https://patreon.com/studiohighsea

A soul full of wounds

A legendary pop rockstar from Earth dies suddenly and is reborn in a magical world ruled by gods and monsters. A Goddess recruits him to restore music — lost for centuries — to this world starving for joy and hope. He’s given a mysterious, hooded bodyguard with deadly skills and glowing eyes — she’s both protector and enigma. Together, they face dragons, goblins, and dark forces while uncovering ancient secrets about music’s true power.

"Some shadows are born from the light we never knew." Logan Ellison arrived in Detroit as a blank page, a boy with no history and a future he thought he owned. But in the city’s cold embrace, he finds Joel, a man who doesn’t just walk in the dark, he is the dark. What follows is not a romance, but a slow, poetic erosion of the soul. A dance between the hunter and the haunted, where love is a razor thin line and every touch is a step closer to the abyss. In this garden of thorns, Logan will learn that the most dangerous secrets aren't the ones we forget—they are the ones that find us.

Centuries after ‘Earth’ became Elpida, a placed gifted with magic by gods who wished to grant society a second chance. Reagan Godfrey and his friends, go on an unexpectedly eventful summer vacation, right after graduation. They planned a trip around their kingdom but they quickly realize things are not exactly as they seem. When they come across certain information they weren’t supposed to ever see, how will they save themselves from magics wrath? They’d been taught for so long that they owed everything to magic, that it was their salvation. Maybe they’d been taught wrong.

In her past life, Su Yaoguang bought Xiao Yanci, supported his education, and helped him rise to great heights. She became his wife. Everyone praised him for never abandoning the farm girl who funded his rise. Su Yaoguang also believed she had found a good man. Unexpectedly, when she was seriously ill, she saw Xiao Yanci bring his first love and a child who resembled them both to her bedside. "Dad, mom, when will this person die?" the child asked, holding Xiao Yanci's hand. Xiao Yanci responded, "Soon, just wait a bit longer." That was the moment she realized: she had wasted her entire life on the wrong man. Returning to the age of fifteen, Su Yaoguang pointed at the bloody young boy: "I want him." In her past life, no matter what she gave Xiao Yanci, she only received a cold expression. This time, the young boy, like a wolf cub, dropped his guard; everything Sister gifted was the best. Sweet as milk. Devoted beyond reason. He melted her completely. Until one day, the young boy took a high position. Not wanting history to repeat itself, Su Yaoguang packed her things and slipped away at night, only to run into a man as noble and unattainable as a deity. "I've heard you call us siblings everywhere. Good sister, shouldn't we change what we call each other?"