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Willow Hale survives the crash. Miles was driving. Nothing happened to him. That should have been the worst part. She wakes up in a hospital bed to find her life has already been reassigned. Miles stands beside her, calm and composed, holding another woman's hand. His boss's daughter. Christy Cordell. He explains everything to the doctors with quiet confidence. According to him, they broke up weeks before the accident. It was mutual. He only stayed out of decency. Then he adds one more detail. Willow ended things because she had already started seeing someone else. Zane. Miles's best friend. The one man in the room who could destroy the lie with a single sentence. Instead, Zane gives a small nod. Drugged, injured, and surrounded by people repeating the same story, Willow understands too late what is happening. One careless joke about being confused after the crash gives Miles the perfect excuse to turn betrayal into fact. In one quiet, clinical moment, her engagement disappears. Her memories are dismissed. Her heartbreak is recorded as trauma. So Willow stops arguing. She stops crying. She lets them believe she is weak. She remembers enough to know this was never a misunderstanding. Miles had already begun replacing her before the crash. Zane helped him finish it. They believe they rewrote her life while she was too broken to fight back. They believe they got away with it. They are wrong. Some men destroy you loudly. The most dangerous ones do it gently, with concern in their voices and blood nowhere on their hands. And sometimes the quietest knife cuts the deepest.

I ended up in a mobile game I'd only spent money on a few times. [Blessings of the 'Sword God'] – If you cut it, it will be severed Just one minute a day. I become a Sword Saint with a sashimi knife. N/A:im just translating the novel

* * * Nathan James is an unfortunate man. Born mediocre in an extravagant world, crippled in an accident, he finds himself at his wits end. An unending gray, tinged with the lightest bit of blue. Now, Nathan finds himself in different world with a will to blaze a path of his own. The sole man destined to… wait, he’s not got a special destiny? * * *

"For him, I was nothing more than the daughter of his mentor, someone he needed to protect." "For me, she was more precious than my life itself." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nariya Patel sought a modest life after losing her mother and witnessing her father's downfall. Independence became her sole desire, avoiding reliance on others and shunning the idea of seeking help. Yet, she found herself without a foothold in this unforgiving world. Alexie Ivanov, a maverick of free will, was adept at obtaining what he desired and taking what eluded him. Commanding others had become second nature, and he soared to the pinnacle of power, wealth, and connections. His life had emerged from the depths of hell when his former mentor, the man who extended a helping hand in his darkest times, appointed him as the protector of his only daughter. In a world where he could bend everyone to his will, there was one exception - her. Amidst trusts and betrayals, hidden rooms and secrets, the seemingly impossible happened - akin to tasting the forbidden fruit of paradise. Their initial animosity toward each other transformed into an enduring love. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nu-7 "Hammer Down" is supposed to be the Foundation's blunt instrument - send in the squad, put the monster back in the box, salt the ground, go home. For FULCRUM, breach-lead and combat medic, it's just another night walking the edge of the knife. Memetic scores that make people bleed themselves dry. Stairwells that loop forever. Warehouses where crystal spreads like a disease and turns men into glass. While Nu-7's TEAM 1 fights their way through SCP-class anomalies, someone in ALPHA-1 is watching Fulcrum a little too closely. A hidden operative moves in his shadow. Command files keep using one word: familiar. Between missions, there are secrets: - a jealous containment engineer and the medic he'd burn the world for - a forbidden relationship buried inside ALPHA-1 - quiet crushes, slow-burn tension, and off-duty moments that make the next breach bearable. This is a story about soldiers who walk into the dark on purpose, the things that try to break them, and the people they hold onto so they don't fall.

Author: Corey McCullough is an independent copy editor, proofreader, ghostwriter, and author. He lives in western Pennsylvania with his amazing wife Vanessa and their two beautiful daughters. His favorite pastimes are reading, writing, playing video games, spending time with his best friend (Vanessa), and, most of all, being a dad. Night lasts for days on the planet Jannix, and when the sun goes down over a city brimming with corruption and organized crime, no one can be certain they will see another dawn. Retired police detective Jack Tarelli has turned to the bottle to cope with these long nights ever since the unsolved murder of his wife, but when he's called to the home of an enigmatic starship tycoon just hours after a high-profile homicide, he knows his longest night yet has just begun. Led on a chase deep into the shadows of a city that never wakes, the hard-nosed and uncompromising Jack finds himself on the trail of a killer whose true motives shrouded. Was it revenge for an interplanetary business deal gone wrong? Or something more personal? As connections to Jack's own bloody past rise to the surface, it becomes clear that this is more than a search for answers. It's a race against time. And the body count is going to rise long before the sun. A Knife in the Dark is a gritty tech noir story combining elements of "used future" science fiction and film noir in a fast-paced, futuristic thriller.

He become great and gained the tittle " Prince of Combat" through his excellent upbringing and family background... She was an orphaned taken in reluctantly and achieve top ranks through her sheer perseverance only to be dragged down by her bias Master... The first time they meet, they dueled. He was fascinated by her cold and merciless fighting techniques... She scorned him for his excellent techniques that can only learned from the elites which cost millions of dollars to even glimpse... The moment her knife left a cut on his face sealed their fate to be together.

Zhao Feng transmigrated into a parallel world and became a product livestreamer. For a whole week, he promoted kitchen knives, but for six days, no one showed any interest. Not only that, the viewers in his livestream room mocked him, claiming that everything he sold was garbage. Unable to tolerate this, Zhao Feng couldn't hold back his anger anymore. In front of hundreds of viewers in the livestream room, he pulled out a military shovel and said, "You all said my stuff is garbage, right? Well, now I'm going to show you whether it's garbage or not." "Clang! Clang! Clang..." The kitchen knife struck against the military shovel and created countless sparks, silencing the whole livestream room. After a while, the screen was bombarded with numerous bullet comments. "What the hell? Who taught you to test a kitchen knife like that?" "This is insane! Such a good kitchen knife might end up ruined!" "They asked you to test the kitchen knife, and you used it to strike a military shovel? That's just crazy!" Gradually, news of Zhao Feng's eccentric testing method spread online, causing a huge sensation. Suddenly, he went viral and became incredibly popular. Not only that, but people also discovered that this livestreamer not only had a ruthless way of testing products but also exposed the behind-the-scenes secrets of the entire product-livestreaming industry.

A slow-burn academy fantasy with delayed progression and earned power. Ren can feel mana. He can feel it move, settle, and respond inside him—but he cannot manifest even a single spark. After a night of fire and screaming leaves his orphanage in ruins, Ren takes the only path that promises answers: an academy where power is measured, ranked, and tested without mercy. Injuries are expected. Failure is public. Survival is treated as competence, not kindness. While others learn to wield their natures openly, Ren is forced to train around a limitation no one understands—learning control, restraint, and strategy instead of raw strength. Every trial reminds him that effort alone is not enough in a world where power decides who is protected and who is discarded. Whatever is holding his power back isn’t weakness. It’s something no one at the academy can explain. And the harder Ren pushes against it, the more unstable his path becomes. He entered the academy to learn how to manifest. He may leave as something the system was never meant to produce.

Before Feng Yi ascended the throne, no one wanted to marry this prince who lacked presence and was out of favor. After his ascension, the harem was filled with the daughters of high-ranking court officials. They were an eyesore to look at and vexing to deal with. He felt that even favoring them would defile his own dragon body. He decided to choose a woman with a fiery, arrogant, domineering, and jealous nature to enter the palace, to cast all this "trash" into the Cold Palace on his behalf. Song Yunzhao had transmigrated to ancient times for fourteen years, all the while laying low and just trying to get by. She was just waiting for the plot to begin, then she would transform into a villainess—arrogant, domineering, fiery, and jealous—so that she would be rejected from the selection and could then choose a husband to live a carefree and happy life with. Later, Song Yunzhao watched as His Majesty smiled at her with immense indulgence and said, "Zhaozhao, come here." Song Yunzhao immediately felt that something was terribly wrong, a chill running up from the soles of her feet. The damned Emperor wore a gentle expression, but his eyes were as cold as ice; he clearly wanted to use her as his blade!