the thorn and the flame

I'm pregnant! However, my stepsister tells me that I conceive a baby of my husband's superior, Eddison Zellweger. What's going on? I never slept with this guy. My husband confesses that he sent me to his superior's bed to get a promotion. Meanwhile, he has already hooked up with my stepsister. No!!! To take revenge on them, I sign a contract with Eddison Zellweger, my baby's father, the richest guy in this city. According to the contract, I have to divorce my husband and marry Eddison. However, we will divorce after I gave birth to his baby. During our marriage, he is not allowed to sleep with me. He agrees. Unexpectedly, after I marry Eddison, something is out of my control... Oh, it's a spoiled love from my baby's father.

Lin Dong transmigrates into a world dominated by Fire Mages, where inhabitants show a cult-like worship of flame. After escaping from the burning house, he awakens the Tear of the Water God and discovers that he might become the only Water Mage here. "This fire, isn't anyone going to put it out?" "You... How dare you! You're seeking death!"

The story of two couples in a parallel universe, the couple in the modern world finally met each other after years of separation, after the man she loved broke her heart, he decided to take his chance to get back his woman but an accident in both worlds involving the female leads causes their souls to merge. With one body lying in a vegetative state in the modern world and the other in the historical world, which one will survive to start another love story with the mysterious fourth prince.? Read to find out!

Excerpt: Kinsey grinning widely made Katie suspicious at him. "Do you know something? Your friends intend to punish me if I don't win today. It seems they want to prank me afterward." Katie snorted. "As if I care." "Do you know the punishment that will be given to me?" Kinsey leaned over the table causing Katie to move back and put down her scoop of ice cream. "Looks like I'll be ordered to run around the forest all day... naked." Katie's eyes bulged, hearing this. "What if I pass your cottage? Or do you want to see me naked?" Katie's cheeks felt hot as the color was as red as a tomato. But she didn't know whether her face flushed due to anger or embarrassment to hear the vulgar words of the man. Her angry was skyrocket when she saw the cunning smirk on the man's lips. "YOU....!!" "I don't mind if you see me naked. Should I go to your room?" BANG! *** What it feels like to have your emotion controls the weather? That's what happens to Katalina van Oostven. Since she was small; every time she cried, the rain would fall. If she were angry, lightning would strike. If she were happy, flowers would bloom. But this power hinders her dream; thus, at the age of 16, she sealed her power in exchange of losing her memory of Kinsey, her childhood first love. Years passed, and they both meet again at a wedding reception, but only Kinsey remembers Katie! Not only that, but Kinsey also broke their promise years ago and misunderstanding occurred, separating them again for the second time. Six years later, fate pulled them together, but Katie's seal of power already broke. She only had six years left to live! Can they resolve their misunderstanding and reunite? Can Kinsey find a way to save Katie's life? Don't forget about those people aiming for Katie's power! Read the rest at: 'The Flame Queen and Her Sly Lover.' Come to talk to me in https://discord.gg/a7ypnYw7TF *** Second Identity series: My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress (complete) The Flame Queen and Her Sly Lover (complete) Ice Prince: Rewrite the star (new) Watch Out, Dad! Mom's Here To Kill You! (coming soon) The Heir's Beloved Is Not A Human (coming soon) The Prodigy Boy Is Actually A 25 Old Girl!? (ongoing) *the cover isn't mine so the credit belongs to the owner* Feel free to check my another works called 'Elementalist: Time Controllers' Support: paypal.me/vorstinstory

He is a threat to her existence. A hot-blooded dragon of Royal blood, King Malachi is taken hostage by the humans he despises so much. Deprived of his freedom, he is imprisoned in a dark cave, his rage growing with each day of torture and humiliation. The only light he sees comes in the form of a human female, offering her care. A woman who makes him burn with equal fury and desire. A woman who has no place in his heart or mind, for only one thought sustains him. Vengeance! And even if her kindness softens his heart and her touch sets his body aflame, she will not be spared his wrath. Because once he breaks the chains of slavery, he will burn down her whole world. She is the key to his freedom. The cold-hearted princess Ravina is a woman with a mission. Eradicate the dragon race from the face of earth. But when she finds out that the very creatures who killed her parents could also be the ones who kidnapped her sister, she has no choice but to change her plans. To find her sister, she must get closer to the creature she despises. But things don’t always go as planned and soon Ravina ends up finding more than she bargained for. Caught in a battle between humans and dragons, love and hatred, trust and betrayal, Ravina must make every choice with caution. And with every step she takes closer to the fiery beast, she risks melting the ice surrounding her heart and being consumed by the flames of fury and passion.

"What if I say it's too risky?" she asked. "Then I will respond with—you are worth every risk," he smiled. ... With a troubled past and financial issues, Maxim Warner never had it easy. Coming a long way from a small town, he never stopped despite the hurdles thrown his way. Charming and aloof, now the hotshot neurosurgeon has no use for emotions and even less use for love. However, things get twisted when he takes a familiar blonde as his tenant despite the jarring red flags in his mind. She is the same woman who once held his heart within her grasp. But she crushed it back then and he would be damned if he let her do it again. He would be a good friend to her. Nothing more. End of the story. Diana Chen, an American-Chinese heiress finds her life flipping upside down when she holds an infant in her arms. A tiny life that she is supposed to protect now but it comes at the expense of everything she has. Nevertheless, on the worst day of her life, she moves to another country and decides to start a new life. And probably it is a good sign that her new house owner is a familiar face. "Oh my god, Warner, I almost didn't recognize you!" She ruffled his hair but unlike how he used to laugh or blush in the past, he did not react and the atmosphere suddenly felt strained. Let her take it back. The new house owner being a familiar face is making things awkward because the broody neurosurgeon might not be the beautiful boy with haunted dark eyes she used to know once. He is a man now... mysterious and stunning with eyes that strangely smolder her. And she is beginning to feel things that she should not feel for him. God, is it too late to find rent somewhere else? Maxim has yet to get over what the young Diana did to him while Diana has a baby to raise in her penniless state. Amidst this, the last thing they want is to look at each other across the dining table like the world lacks oxygen and their mouths are the only strategy for survival. When the thin string of patience snapped, she made a proposal, "Take all my firsts," As he looked at her in stunned silence, she continued, "I want you to take all my firsts. If you can't, then I can go find someone who will—" her words were lodged back in her throat by his consequent actions. _ When the mysteries from the past unveil themselves gradually, will the two be able to get over their differences and own up to their feelings? Or will it be the final 'The End' for them this time?

Pinning her tall body against the hard wall, he looked into her beautiful emerald green eyes as he spoke in a deep voice, "I have two options for you," his body came closer to hers as he continued, "Be my girlfriend. Or," his lips turned into a sly smile as he whispered close to her ear, "Be my boyfriend." He even dared to wink right before her as his dark orbs glinted amusingly. ----- There are plenty of things that break not just a heart but a person as a whole. Some people get broken by love and some by family. But she was broken by life itself. She left her clan to discover the world but she forgot something her grandfather once told her, 'The world outside is a scary place. It's filled with people who would want to befriend you only to devour you alive. People like us are an anomaly. And the world calls us monsters but they forget; they are also the monsters wearing a mask of an angel.' To grow stronger, she seized as much power as she could by Ruling Europe under the disguise of a man- Lord Alev Knight. But now, she's forced to come back to China where she buried her memories along with herself over a decade ago. What will happen when those buried painful memories will come to haunt her again. Will she choose the path to destroy the people who betrayed her or someone will alter her idea of revenge? And what exactly pushed her to live with multiple identities? What made her disguise herself as a man? Will she be able to find the hidden truths of her own existence? Or she'll be buried herself with those truths? Xiao Zhiren left China when he was a teenager. Now, he's back in China to find the answers that were left unknown as he watched his mother being murdered before him. Will he be able to find the enemies wearing the masks of friends? Or he'll have to wear a mask himself? 'I can conceive death but betrayal is not allowed.' She had left those words behind for him. Will he be able to find the person who left him with a promise to come back? Or like every promise, he'll be forced to believe that promises are only made to break you? ---------- Side Note: This book is actually a standalone book. You don't have to read my other book to know this one's story. ~~~~ This is the original work of the author, Xiao MeeHee. All rights are reserved to the author-san herself. ~~~~~ Other Works from the Author: "Mr. CEO Loves The Devilish Beauty" Completed "Imperfect Desires" Completed "Master's Untamed Wife" Ongoing "The Moon Mistress" Ongoing ~~~ Join Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/pxpTjqr Instagram: amaya_meehee

Ayla never expected the man she’d fall for—Leon—to be a cartel leader. Nor did she expect to discover that her long-lost father is Leon’s sworn enemy, Viper. Torn between love and blood, Ayla is forced to choose between the man who owns her heart and the father she never knew. But when she’s abducted by a mysterious enemy seeking revenge, Ayla becomes the center of a deadly game. In a world of betrayal, secrets, and forbidden love, her next choice could cost everything.

Having lived a live of suffering at the hand of illness he is reincarnated in to another world as Shu He, soon he discovers the existence of cultivating and sets himself on a path far different from normal with an unusual golden flame in hand, armed with this unique flame he moves forward, trying to live as he desires, where will that path take him? Who knows.

She was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family—abandoned by her father, oppressed by his legal wife, and humiliated by the so-called sister. She watched her mother perish in a raging fire and was thrown into the flames herself. Her name was Janice. And she died in that fire. Ten years later, under a new identity and the name “Janet,” she survives in silence. Forced by her stepmother to marry a wealthy heir rumored to be "paralyzed and disabled," she becomes entangled in a vicious struggle of family betrayal and ruthless power games. With cold eyes, she watches the hypocrites who once trampled her into the mud—one by one, they will become prey on her road to revenge. Her wheelchair-bound "husband" Philip, the feuding brothers Charles and August… But what she didn't expect was that the boy who once quietly handed her a handkerchief all those years ago would become the most unpredictable piece in her game of fate. She has returned—not for hatred, but to personally end the past that was once crushed beneath their feet.