kabanata the gala gambit

One night of spring breeze, stirring the white window screen fluttering in the air.\n\nOnly a nightstand lamp is on in the room.\n\nThe light is a soft, dim yellow.\n\n......

Lin Chuyi, after meticulously selecting for three years, chose a high-quality boyfriend, only to be cheated on a month into the relationship. She decisively broke up with him and immediately took the place of the Ye Family's daughter, marrying the heir of a wealthy family, Sheng Tingyuan. She planned to leave gracefully when the Ye Family's real daughter returned. Sheng Tingyuan blocked her path, "You lied to me and now you want to run away?" Lin Chuyi, "Don't you hate it the most when people lie to you? Should I not run and wait for you to deal with me?" Sheng Tingyuan pressed her into a corner, "You're not 'other people,' wife."

Beware the Fury of the Betrayed Woman! .... In the face of crushing betrayal, Evelynn Rosetta makes a desperate bid to turn back the hands of time. But her efforts prove worse than futile, trapping her in the body of a woman on the verge of joining Night's Courtship, a perilous game with lethal stakes and an irresistible prize—to become the bride of the infamous Vampire, Maximilian Knight. Fueled by bitter hatred, Eve vows to do whatever it takes to acquire the power needed for her vengeance, even if it means winning this foolish game and marrying a complete stranger. Except this "stranger" seems to know who she really is.⁣ ... Haunted by the ghosts of the past, Maximilian Knight has been concealing his true self from the world, enduring centuries in silent despair. But just as he teeters on the brink of hopelessness, a woman bearing a familiar face emerges. Maximilian swears he will do everything to save her. Even if it means marrying a defiant sorceress hellbent on annihilating those who betrayed her. The game is on. Eve makes a gambit. For revenge, she will risk it all.⁣ ...... tags: #slowburnromance #strongfemalelead #strongmalelead #norapeorabuse #r18 Other novels: The Lycan's Sin: COMPLETED Rosie's Games: ONGOING Cover is mine. Instagram: @b.mitchylle Discord: MitchyMitch#3750

Hüte dich vor dem Zorn der betrogenen Frau! .... Im Angesicht eines vernichtenden Verrats versucht Evelynn Rosetta verzweifelt, die Zeit zurückzudrehen. Doch ihre Bemühungen erweisen sich als mehr als aussichtslos, da sie im Körper einer Frau gefangen ist, die kurz davor steht, sich der Night's Courtship anzuschließen, einem gefährlichen Spiel mit tödlichen Einsätzen und einem unwiderstehlichen Preis - der Braut des berüchtigten Vampirs Maximilian Knight. Von bitterem Hass getrieben, schwört Eve, alles zu tun, was nötig ist, um die Macht zu erlangen, die sie für ihre Rache braucht, selbst wenn das bedeutet, dieses törichte Spiel zu gewinnen und einen völlig Fremden zu heiraten. Nur scheint dieser "Fremde" zu wissen, wer sie wirklich ist. ... Von den Geistern der Vergangenheit heimgesucht, hat Maximilian Knight sein wahres Ich vor der Welt verborgen und Jahrhunderte in stiller Verzweiflung ertragen. Doch gerade als er am Rande der Hoffnungslosigkeit steht, taucht eine Frau mit einem bekannten Gesicht auf. Maximilian schwört, dass er alles tun wird, um sie zu retten. Selbst wenn dies bedeutet, eine trotzige Zauberin zu heiraten, die wild entschlossen ist, diejenigen zu vernichten, die sie verraten haben. Das Spiel ist eröffnet. Eve wagt einen Schachzug. Für ihre Rache wird sie alles riskieren. ...... Tags: #slowburnromance #strongfemalelead #strongmalelead #norapeorabuse #r18 Andere Romane: The Lycan's Sin: COMPLETED Rosie's Games: IN BETRIEB Das Cover ist von mir. Instagram: @b.mitchylle Discord: MitchyMitch#3750

Evlin was having quite the odd day. One moment, she was returning from school and making her way home, next thing she knows, she is standing in a wide room surrounded by knights and a young prince who keeps talking about how he will make her his queen. Feeling short on options, she steals the staff from one of his mages and uses it to run as far away as possible! Only problem is, she has no idea where she is, what to do, or who to trust. In a world of demons, gods, and magic... ...all she has is a loose clue from a fellow traveler from another world, the famous hero known as the Living Weapon! A man with the ability to turn his body into the world's strongest blade, and her best chance to return home! **Need a cover for your novel? Dm me on discord!**

In a kingdom where the crown is not passed down by blood, even a prince must earn it when a peasant can claim it. Keiser was a knight of the Royal Brigade, one of the first commoners ever to reach the final trial of the King’s Gambit. The gambit is a brutal tradition that decides who will become the next king. While nobles trained their entire lives for it, Keiser, born without mana, rose through the depths of Sheol out of sheer spite and made it all the way to the final trial. At his side stood Prince Gideon Aury Valemont, the king’s fourth son, who had seemingly renounced his own claim to support Keiser. Or so Keiser believed. Keiser had been nothing but a pawn. Gideon had used him as a shield and a decoy to draw assassins and rivals, all while secretly paving his own path to the throne. In the final trial, a candidate’s kingmaker must either make the ultimate sacrifice or betray their chosen king and seize the throne. Gideon chose the crown. Bloodied and broken, Keiser knelt, impaled by the very sword Gideon had gifted him. A blade forged from the core of a dragon he thought he had freed, now twisted into the instrument of his own death. With sigils seared into his flesh to kept him kneeling before the very man he had trusted most. As numbness dulled the pain, he raised his gaze... And beheld Gideon, an enthroned serpent. In that final breath, Keiser understood. The King’s Gambit had never been about valor. It was a game where victory belonged not to the strongest, but to the most ruthless deceiver. But death was not his end. Keiser woke up in the body of Muzio Auro Valemont, the king’s disgraced tenth prince… a long-missing bastard son, doomed to die before the Gambit even begins. To stop history from repeating, Keiser must find the man he once was. He must convince his former self that betrayal is coming, that Gideon will drive into his back the very blade forged from the dragon he once freed. Even if it means entering the Trials again in a body too weak to hold a sword. Even if it means bleeding himself dry just to keep pace with his own mind. Even if it means turning to the forbidden art of Blood Scripting. Keiser, now Muzio, must train, scheme, and survive... Not as the knight who flew too close to the sun, but as the bastard son hidden in its shadow. He no longer seeks the crown. He seeks to destroy all who dare to wear it. ༻✦༺ 　༻✧༺　༻✦༺ Unofficial tags are: #Transmigration, #Regression #TimeTravel, #BodySwap #IdentityRebirth #MagicSystem #Greek/Latin/Symbols/Weird-Magic-System, #BloodMagic #ForbiddenArts #StrongToWeak / #WeakToStrong, #Trial-by-Succession, #FoundFamily #Mystery, #HorrorElements, #Elves, #Dragons, #Fae, #Sirens, ━⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅━ If any of that caught your interest, give the story a try, and hopefully you'll find it better than expected.

Two love stories in one Learn all about two ill-fated gods who have their happy ending thwarted by the ruthless Jade Emperor And the clueless nine-tailed fox and dragon they reincarnate as. Follow them as they travel across the mortal realm, to the Underworld and even risk it all on an improbable gamble to take on the Heavens, --- "If I had a thousand lifetimes, I would spend them all with you." "What if you couldn't find me?" "I would never stop searching until I did." --- cover art by the wonderful lieu-rey

(BASED IN THE WORLD OF LORD OF THE MYSTERIES) When Andrei Hayes, a modern linguistics student, steals a strange coin from a shop, he doesn't expect to wake up in the body of Lutz Fischer—a small-time swindler from Feysac who just hanged himself over a debt to a gang. In a fog-shrouded harbor where order is dead and gangsters rule, two desperate men die—and a new creature is born. Now, Andrei is indentured to the Harbor Vipers, a brutal gang led by a Beyonder who sees him as a disposable tool. Trapped in the decaying port city of Indaw Harbor, Andrei must use Lutz's street cunning and his own academic mind to navigate a world of brutal Beyonders and horrors.

Okay, so picture this: you're a 22 year old lesbian who dies and wakes up as the main villain of a trashy cultivation webnovel. Even worse? You're now Empress Xue Lian, a supposedly "defective" Omega who is 100% scheduled to be killed by the story's goody two shoes heroine. Your demonic court is nagging you to marry some grunting Alpha dude to pop out an heir, and the original plot has you chasing after the boring male lead like a fool. But you've read the book. And you know the gorgeous, mega powerful heroine, Lan Yue, is secretly an "Enigma" a walking, talking fertility cheat code. So, what's a girl to do? You launch Operation: Ditch the Script. The plan is simple: kidnap the heroine. Not to hurt her, but to convince her to dump the zero personality male lead and shack up with you instead. It's a high stakes gambit of seduction, snarky debates, and proving that demons can, in fact, be competent rulers and excellent girlfriends. Essentially, it's a goofy, action packed romance about what happens when a lesbian with a spreadsheet and a serious thing for powerful older women (the ultimate jiejie) decides the original story needed a major rewrite to be way more interesting and a whole lot gayer.

Alvin was just another waiter, trying to make a living in another country where living was a battlefield. But all of a sudden his life took an unexpected turn when their restaurant had a not usual guest. One night, all it took was one night to turn his life upside down. Alvin became something he thought was only possible in myths or movies. His life meant a lot, and not just to himself. Now he must learn to steel himself to prepare for what's to come, to shed his fear of death, and to move on from the loss of his loved ones. To live like a VAMPIRE. ...and to feed like one. The only relief he had after discarding his identity as a human was that he could still eat his favorite stuffed garlic bread. As he moved on with his life, day by day, facing challenges upon challenges, Alvin started sensing something amiss about himself, about his life. Why did it suddenly start to feel like something was watching his every move from the shadow? Why did every action seem to be pushed by someone lurking behind the scenes?