milly ashford

Yet another RAY got his story featured by the author. Leo is an orphan from very young age. Cursed with an ability due to his heritagen not by blood, but by soul. One day, out of nowhere. He was peacefully playing game and an enemy of his progenitor found him and hunt him down before helplessly killed. But, a RAY cannot enter the Cycle of Reincarnation. He instead found himself awake in another world, on a ritual site of some Eldritch God cultists summoning an Eldritch God. Why is he summoned through this method? He didn't know and only time will tell as he uncover his heritage and his existence. Cover Art not mine. I snag it from Google. It belongs to Shimhaq from Twitter/X

‎Maya Hailys never wanted a fresh start. ‎After the brutal murder of her parents, she leaves behind the only home she's ever known and moves to Ashford with her aunt and cousin, Jasmine. Determined never to be vulnerable again, Maya builds walls around her heart and keeps everyone at arm's length. ‎At Ashford Reese High, she quickly attracts attention—from jealous cheerleaders, curious classmates, and two popular basketball players who couldn't be more different. ‎Greg Dawson is charming, kind, and impossible to ignore. ‎Theo Rivera is frustrating, arrogant, and always seems to know exactly how to get under her skin. ‎As friendships grow, rivalries ignite, and feelings become impossible to deny, Maya finds herself caught between the safety of her carefully built defenses and the possibility of happiness she thought she'd lost forever. ‎But Ashford holds more than teenage drama and first love. ‎The truth about her parents' murder is far from buried, and someone is watching from the shadows. ‎When Maya's past finally catches up to her, the people she loves may be the only thing standing between her and danger. ‎In a story filled with friendship, heartbreak, jealousy, secrets, and a slow-burning romance that refuses to be ignored, Maya must decide whether opening her heart is worth the risk of losing it all over again. ‎

Legacy buried. Power stolen. Now begins the rise of a new kind of king. Once part of a forgotten aristocratic bloodline, Arthur Ashford has spent his life in the shadows — hiding behind a false name, watching the world from the outskirts of high society. But in the heart of New York’s financial world, he’s become something else: the youngest rising star on Wall Street, a quiet genius with ambition burning behind every calculated move. Just as he's about to make his mark, a mysterious digital system awakens — showing him not only his true potential but a path to build something far greater than titles or thrones. With every decision, deal, and dollar, Arthur begins crafting an empire rooted not in royalty… but in absolute control. The age of crowns is over. Now begins the era of capital.

Richard Ashford is dead. The once-proud Ashford Barony now stands on the brink of collapse. Crippled by debt, plagued by bandits, and abandoned by opportunity, it is a territory with little hope for the future. On the day of his father's funeral, Lucien Ashford awakens memories from a previous life. In another world, he was an ordinary office worker who spent his days trapped in an endless cycle of work and regret. Before he could change his fate, death claimed him in a tragic accident. Now, he has been given a second chance. But his new life is far from easy. Just as Lucien begins to understand the dire situation surrounding him, a mysterious system awakens. [Sovereign Evaluation System Activated] Unlike the systems of legends, it does not grant unlimited wealth or legendary treasures. Instead, it rewards achievement. Discover hidden talents among the people. Uncover forgotten resources. Develop your land. Strengthen your followers. Build a realm worthy of a sovereign. Yet the system's first evaluation is merciless: [Probability of Ashford Barony's Collapse: 91.7%] Faced with poverty, corruption, political schemes, and threats lurking beyond the frontier, Lucien must transform a dying barony into a thriving domain. Can he rewrite his fate and build an empire from ruin? Or will Ashford become just another forgotten name in history?

After transmigrating into the body of a doomed husband destined to die of heartbreak, Noah Ashford refuses to follow the novel's plot. Rejecting a system that tries to control his fate, he divorces his cold wife, leaves the country, and builds a powerful business empire with the help of a support system. As Noah rises to become a legendary entrepreneur, the woman who once ignored him realizes too late that she has lost the only man who truly loved her. In the end, Noah chooses freedom over destiny, proving that the greatest victory is writing his own story

Ashen Ashford wasn’t meant to exist...much less survive. He was never intended to see the world outside the lab. But discarded and forgotten, left to rot in the darkness of the lab, Ashen defies his fate, breaking free from the confines of his creators’ design, rising from the ashes. As Ashen ventures into a world both strange and hostile, he becomes a living question that no one wants to answer: What happens when what you throw away comes back stronger?

For five years, Aurelia loved a man who never loved her back. While she played the role of a perfect wife, Laurent Ashford reserved his heart for another woman. Everyone saw a powerful couple. Nobody saw the lonely marriage behind closed doors. But after a devastating tragedy changes everything, Aurelia realized she can no longer chase a man who has never chosen her. And just when she decides to let go… Laurent finally begins to see the woman he almost lost. The problem? Some realization come too late.

Melanie Carter is a struggling executive assistant to billionaire CEO Chris Ashford. She is the only person who challenges him, and everyone believes they hate each other. In truth, Chris is desperate. His grandfather's will requires him to marry before his thirty-fifth birthday or lose his company to his manipulative uncle, Victor. With only a month left, Chris offers Melanie a contract marriage—one year of pretending in exchange for enough money to save her dying sister's life. Melanie reluctantly agrees. Living together is a battlefield of sharp words and growing attraction. When someone begins attacking Chris's life, he moves Melanie into his heavily guarded mansion to protect her. The fake marriage slowly becomes real. They fall in love, desperate and hungry for each other. But Victor manipulates evidence to make Melanie believe she was only a replacement for a woman Chris once loved. Heartbroken, Melanie leaves. Victor kidnaps her and forces Chris to choose: sign over his empire or watch her die. Chris signs everything without hesitation. After Victor is arrested, Chris discovers the marriage clause was never real—his grandfather created it to force Chris to open his heart. Chris sacrificed everything for love, and Melanie realizes his feelings became real long ago. He proposes again, this time without contracts or conditions. She says yes. But as they find their happy ending, a chilling text arrives from an unknown number: "She's not safe." Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. And Anita has just become their next target.

Sophie Wexler transmigrated into a novel about The Galaxy, becoming the vicious, F-rank Healer-class cannon fodder. The original owner constantly caused trouble and made things difficult for the female lead, earning her the hatred of the entire internet. Upon transmigrating and seeing that everything had been ruined by the original owner, Sophie's only thought was: "What kind of nightmare start is this?!" To escape the original owner's fate, Sophie Wexler worked diligently, conducted herself conscientiously, stayed away from the male and female leads, compensated the soldiers harmed by the original owner, and strove to be a model citizen of The Galaxy, absolutely refusing to be the cannon fodder 'offed' by the Imperial Marshal! Broke and powerless, Sophie also had to support a man who'd been innocently dragged into the original owner's mess. She had no choice but to hustle. She started live streaming, became a masked singer, and held concerts. At first, netizens were scornful: 【Tsk, how good can she possibly sound?】 Later, the netizens were forced to eat their words. 【Damn, that's so good I'm on my knees!】 【What the hell, the violent episode of my Disorder Period has actually been soothed?!】 【The toxins in my Spiritual Sea have actually been eliminated!】 Her live streams went viral, the masked singer became a huge sensation, and tickets for her concerts were snapped up across The Galaxy. Sophie was content, thinking, "This time, I must have finally escaped the original owner's fate, right?" But what do you know, the man I've been doting on and supporting is actually the Imperial Marshal?! --- One day, Yancey Forrest came home to find that the boisterous person who was always claiming to be good to him was gone. His eyes darkened. Provoke me and then think you can leave? After catching her, Yancey traced his fingertips along Sophie's neck, smiling gently. "Why run?" Sophie trembled. "You... you're the Imperial Marshal?" His identity exposed, Yancey Forrest took her hand and slowly placed it on his own neck ring. "You know I won't kill you, don't you?"

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"