hostile gazes

Seribu tahun yang lalu, ada pertempuran yang mengerikan di dunia atas. Pertempuran itu melibatkan suku phoenix dan suku Naga yang memperebutkan kekuasaan. Pertempuran tersebut membuat kedua suku tersebut punah, dan hanya tinggal sedikit dari mereka yang kemudian merantau dan memulai hidup baru. Sementara itu, di antara sisa-sisa pertempuran, ada seekor anak burung phoenix yang baru saja menetas, bulunya tidak sempurna, tetapi mencoba terbang. Anak Phoenix itu jatuh ke dalam sebuah danau di dunia bawah dan ditolong oleh anak naga yang memiliki sisik yang sangat halus. Sisik anak naga itu berwarna biru. Anak naga kemudian menempatkan anak phoenix di tepi danau. Anak Phoenix kemudian mengolah gua yang terbuat dari pohon tua di tepi danau sementara anak naga melakukan hal yang sama. Mereka berdua kemudian berkultivasi dengan tenang sampai tidak terasa seperti seribu tahun telah berlalu. Ketika mereka bangun, mereka berdua telah berubah menjadi Phoenix dan naga yang sangat istimewa. Bagaimana mereka akan melanjutkan hidup mereka? Akankah keduanya bertemu? ikuti cerita di Legend Of Love Of Two Hostile Clans

He destroyed everything I loved. Now he wants me. Five years ago, Damien Cross was the golden boy protégé who learned everything from my father. Now he's the ruthless billionaire CEO systematically dismantling our family empire, piece by piece. Sterling Industries built three generations of my family's legacy. But Damien doesn't just want our company, he wants our complete annihilation. Every hostile bid, every stolen contract, every calculated move is designed to make us bleed. I should hate him. I do hate him. So why does every confrontation in his boardroom leave me breathless? Why does his dark gaze strip away every defense I've built? And why can't I stop thinking about the boy who once promised to protect me from everything, including himself? Damien thinks he's won. He thinks I'll surrender Sterling Industries without a fight. He's about to learn that some wars are worth dying for, and some enemies are worth burning for. In business, there are no rules. In revenge, there are no limits. But in love? There are no survivors.

He glares at his wife then the woman standing in front of him, "a mistress" he chuckles angrily, Isabella looks at him Worried, he picked up a glass and threw it on the mistress, clash, Isabella closes her eyes in fear it's like time stopped how angry was he, how did it become like this

Adrian Vale is a man who owns everything, power, influence, empires built from precision and fear. As the youngest billionaire CEO in the country, he has mastered control in every aspect of his life. Until Julian Reyes walks into his office. Calm. Intelligent. Unreadable. As Adrian’s new executive assistant, Julian is everything Adrian shouldn’t want and everything he can’t ignore. Behind Julian’s steady composure lies secrets buried deep within Vale Industries’ past. Secrets that could shatter Adrian’s empire. What begins as a professional partnership slowly twists into something far more dangerous. Tension builds behind glass walls and closed boardroom doors. Trust becomes a gamble. Loyalty becomes a weapon. Because Julian didn’t apply for this job by coincidence. And Adrian never hires blindly. In a world where power is currency and vulnerability is fatal, two men stand on opposite sides of a truth neither of them is ready to face. When control starts to slip… who will fall first?

Hostile Attraction By R.O. Lani Enemies. Colleagues. Something dangerously more. When Jasmine Ford lands her dream job at Slate and Forge, she thinks she’s finally escaped her past. That is, until she walks into the boardroom and sees Adrian Wolfe, her arrogant billionaire boss and the man who publicly humiliated her in college. Years have passed, but the tension between them burns hotter than ever. He wants her gone. She’s not backing down. Not this time. But beneath their biting words and bitter history lies something neither of them expected: undeniable chemistry. And when fate forces them into a fake relationship to save his company’s image, Jasmine must choose between revenge... and surrendering to the one man she swore to hate forever. Can you hate someone... and still crave their touch?

In a world where immortal sects run like greedy-ass corporations, weak disciples don't get trained—they get priced. Techniques? Patented. Bloodlines? Just another asset. Elders run the money like CEOs counting their stacks. Debt binds the poor tighter than chains, and when an outer disciple can't pay up? The sect doesn't cry for him—they flip him for parts. Shen Yao wakes up on a corpse slab in Jade Serpent Holdings, half-poisoned, drowning in debt, and officially labeled as trash. His body’s wrecked. His qi seed’s busted. His meridians are a mess. And proper cultivation? Yeah, that’s locked behind "access denied." Here’s the thing—being smart doesn’t mean shit if you’re weak. A broken cultivator with dirt on the sect isn’t a threat. He’s just a loose end waiting to get snipped. Then this weird-ass ledger pops up in front of him—black and gold, pulsing like bad news. ''Hostile Takeover Ledger.'' It shows him debts, hidden ownership, weak spots, and the ugly gears grinding behind the sect’s power. But it doesn’t give him strength. Don't give him revenge. Doesn’t make him untouchable. So Shen Yao starts small. Not the sect. Not his enemies. Not the damn heavens. He starts with his own broken body. Cut off from real cultivation, Shen Yao scavenges power from whatever the sect throws away—toxic pill waste, furnace scraps, busted techniques, and the shitty labor routes no strong cultivator bothers guarding. He keeps his head down. Hides his growth. Plays worthless. Survives. But every debt ledger’s got mistakes. Every empire’s got weak points. And every immortal corporation forgets to fully own someone. Shen Yao remembers how ownership 'really' works. One day, the heavens are gonna regret leaving a corpse alive.

Vivian Austin spent her entire life believing she was ordinary. Until death began following her. Then the massacre happens. As students begin dying under mysterious circumstances, Vivian discovers a horrifying truth hidden within her bloodline: she carries an ancient chaos power tied to a prophecy feared for centuries. Now hunted by powerful warriors known as TDs and pursued by the dark Holsties Kingdom, Vivian is forced into a hidden world of ancient castles, deadly prophecies and supernatural war but the greatest danger is not the enemies surrounding her. It is the darkness growing inside her. Because the girl destined to save the kingdom… may also be the one destined to destroy it.

Lilly Stilgan, an investigative journalist and the estranged daughter of billionaire businessman Lious Stilgan, follows a trail of evidence linked to her father's death and series of terror attacks. Meanwhile, Jack, a former soldier, undertakes a covert mission to uncover the truth behind the ambush that decimated his team. As their separate investigations converge, Lilly and Jack find themselves on a collision course with powerful enemies and hidden conspiracies. Together, they must navigate a dangerous path that intertwines their fates and threatens to unravel dark secrets that go far beyond what they ever imagined.

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—"