the valley of the discarded

New book 【After I picked up a kid, I became an Elder of the mountains and rivers】is now available! Nanzhi only thought she had traveled into a novel about raising a child. Relying on her many years of "Wilderness Survival" watching experience, she hunts rabbits up the mountain for grilling every day, gropes for fish in the river to make soup, and diligently raises the child. Just when she thought her life was finally looking up and she could have her "second spring", the "husband" who was rumored to have died hundreds of times suddenly appeared. Wait a second! She seems to have ended up in a novel where the male lead is the main character! Nanzhi? Isn't that the cannon fodder and deposed wife? PS: Not a web novel about farming, the female lead doesn't have a golden finger space system. Just turned eighteen and got into university, not a novel about a powerful female protagonist.

Rancher Stetson isn’t happy to meet city girl Jennifer, who’s been sent to audit his farm by a bank. But when a washed-out road forces Jennifer to spend the night at the ranch, passion results. Will their romance be able to last?

Sudah sepuluh tahun sejak Cien Millard terjebak di dalam Death Valley. Tempat terkutuk yang dijauhi oleh semua orang. Hanya mereka orang gila dan putus asa yang berani masuk ke sana. Tepat dipenghujung hidupnya, dirinya yang dikira akan mati ternyata malah mengingat kembali seluruh kehidupan sebelumnya di Bumi. Dengan ingatan baru dan ponsel yang kini ada di tangannya, Cien bertekad untuk bertahan hidup lebih lama lagi demi bisa bertemu kembali dengan keluarganya. Hanya saja, berbeda dari cheat-cheat yang biasa dia baca, dirinya hanya mendapatkan permainan mengelola toko sebagai senjata untuk bertahan hidup. "Apa kau gila?! Orang stress macam apa yang mau belanja ke tempat terkutuk seperti ini?!"

Talia Ashford has spent fifteen years hiding behind a glamour charm that makes her look plain, weak, and forgettable. Her stepmother, Vivienne Cress, reduced her to a servant after her mother disappeared in a mysterious fire. The pack believes Talia is worthless. On the day the Alpha of Shadowfang arrives, Celeste hits Talia and blames her for bad luck. But when Talia is called to the bonding ceremony, the bonding stone reveals a shocking truth. Talia is already bonded to Kaelen Frost, the cold and powerful Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack. Now Talia must survive her stepmother's schemes, hide her true powers, and uncover the truth about her mother – all while convincing the most dangerous wolf in the territory that she is not the weakling everyone believes her to be.

Three years of marriage. Three years of being his shadow. And on the night of their anniversary, he chose her. Audrey Beckett gave up the violin, gave up her name, gave up everything to become Mrs. Sebastian Montgomery — heiress turned devoted wife to the coldest CEO in the city. She believed her quiet love would one day melt him. She was wrong. When Sebastian's first love Natalie returns from abroad with a son in her arms — a son Sebastian publicly claims as his own — Audrey finally sees the truth: she was never his wife. She was the placeholder. The respectable shield. The substitute. So she signs the papers. She walks back into the hospital in a white coat, scalpel steady, heart finally still. She doesn't beg. She doesn't cry. She leaves. But Sebastian Montgomery doesn't let go of what he owns. He weaponizes a $300 million debt against her bankrupt family. He frames her, traps her, drags her back into his bed. And when Audrey discovers she's pregnant with his child, she makes the one choice he will never recover from — she ends it, alone, in another city, while he tears the world apart looking for her. By the time Sebastian signs the divorce papers, the woman he married is already gone. Now she has powerful new allies, a career he can't touch, and absolutely nothing left to lose. He has regret, an empire, and a single desperate vow: "I will win her back. Even if it kills us both."

The Umbrae Lunae existed before man, beautiful abominations birthed in the nightmares of mad gods. They wait for humanity to misstep, for the angels to look away. For the moment when they can cloak the world in moon shadows once again. But even horrors have children. Even nightmares must feed. One child, unlike the others, finds his way to a school for young abominations. Will he be a sheep cast before the wolves, or a terror that wears the skin of wool to entice the wolf close? The flesh of his body was his only coin, strips cut to pay debts that never ended. Everyone has scars, stories in a life led, lessons learned, and licks taken. Luminous bodies touched by darkness. There are a cursed few that are the opposite, black shadows consumed by scars, twisted minds devoured by diseased hungers, bodies tortured misshapen works of gouged flesh, silver lines of blade thin cuts, ragged tears of teeth and glass. For them, the scars are marks of homecoming, the mangled wasteland the only place they feel at peace. Hell is a place. It's made of concrete, steel and glass. It's the sounds of starving kids crying themselves to sleep, huddling into small balls as creepers come and take their due of innocence and tender meat. It's eating rotten food and carrying ticks in your hair. It’s having no one and nothing while surrounded by everything. It's the life of a street kid. What abomination was birthed in the corrupt womb of man’s cast-off shit? Pretty people don't know the power of ugly. They can't see the strength in a broken soul or the power in a calloused heart. Those secrets are for the discarded alone. Only the broken understand the grace of darkness. The blessed folds that hide scars and tears, the protection of its concealing umbra.

It has been ten years since Cien Millard was trapped inside Death Valley. A cursed place shunned by everyone. Only those crazy and desperate people who dare to go in there. Right at the end of his life. Cien, who he thought was going to die, turned out to be remembering all of his previous life on Earth. With new memories and a cellphone now in his hands, Cien is determined to survive to be reunited with his family. It's just that, different from the cheats he usually read, he only gets the game managing a shop as a weapon for survival. "Are you crazy?! What kind of madman would shop in such a godforsaken place?!"

Isobel Lancey grew up believing that intelligence was the only inheritance she would ever have. Raised in an orphanage and armed with nothing except relentless discipline, she graduated at the top of the country's most prestigious state university. Her future seemed clear: a stable career, financial security, and finally a life she earned with her own hands. Then she met Kristoff Dalton. CEO of Dalton Technologies. Brilliant. Untouchable. A man born into a world where people and emotions were negotiated like business deals. Kristoff offered her a contract. One year. A child. An impossible amount of money. Enough to save the orphanage that raised her. Isobel told herself it was only practical. She would give him an heir, he would fulfill his side of the agreement, and afterward they would return to being strangers. It was as simple as that. But living beside Kristoff Dalton was never simple. He was a man of precision, his life, he already planned it out—including a marriage to the infertile woman he had loved for years. Isobel was never supposed to matter. She was only meant to solve a problem. Yet somewhere between quiet midnight conversations, the tenderness, and the burning passion they both tried to suppress, the line between obligation and intimacy began to blur. Then the child was born. And she was cast aside. For the first time, Isobel experienced pain even greater than the harrowing labor that almost took her life. But fate soon brought her face-to-face with another man just as powerful—and far more dangerous. Morgan Foster. The enigmatic CEO behind Novare’s leading AI empire. A man known for his brilliance, ruthless influence, and the mystery surrounding his private life. A billionaire feared in boardrooms.  A devoted father to twins.   And a man who seems far too interested in Isobel What begins as a chance encounter slowly pulls Isobel into Morgan’s world—a world filled with secrets, power games, and a kind of warmth she never felt before. Before she realizes it, her life becomes deeply entangled with Morgan and his children… and for the first time after Kristoff discarded her, Isobel felt she was respected, needed and loved. When Kristoff and Isobel met again, for the first time in his carefully controlled life, Kristoff Dalton realized something terrifying: The woman he once treated as temporary became the only person he was never able to replace.

Aurelia has spent three years in a loveless marriage, holding on to a man who was already slipping away. She thinks it can't get worse until his first love returns. He divorces her without hesitation. He doesn't know she's pregnant. Alone, heartbroken, and with nowhere to go, Aurelia is hit by a car. She wakes up to three powerful billionaire brothers claiming her as their long-lost sister, and they take her away from the life that broke her. Five years later, Aurelia is no longer the woman he abandoned. She runs AURELIA, a global luxury fashion empire. Untouchable, cold, and emotionally closed off. So when her ex-husband walks back into her life, begging for another chance, she doesn't hesitate. "Unless it's business, you don't exist to me." And when he discovers he has a son, he tries to claim him. The child looks at him without recognition and says, "My father is dead. I only have my mummy and my uncles." For the first time, Dominic is forced to face the full weight of what he lost. Now, the man who once threw her away is the one begging to stay. But Aurelia doesn't believe in second chances. And this time, walking away might not be his choice.

Long time ago, Four Kingdoms continues to fight to seek for a higher power and dominance with each other. They even kill mercilessly inorder to survive the chaos being held in the co-kingdoms. Sky Flame Kingdom, Sky Ice Kingdom, Hollow Earth Kingdom and Wind Fury Kingdom, these kingdoms never ever back down to their feet and will never ever makes themselves look into the ground. It is said that the appearance of Dou City who brings peace to these lands in up to this days due to the Treaty of these four kingdoms. But how long could be a treaty will be effective or how could this piece of contract could longer sustain the upcoming wars would be plotted by each kingdoms to the other Kingdoms they held grudges? At the age of six, young Li Xiaolong realized the hardship of their lives caused by the bad and cruel treatment of the Sky Flame Kingdom that covered their clan which is the Li Clan. This is rumoured that their Li Clan in the past does make Sky Flame Kingdom enraged to them and until now it remains unsolved resulting to some devastating and misfortune of Li Clan in the hands of this kingdom. Li Clan considered to be a progressive clan in the past . Having some great achievement and foundation in those lands residing in those progressive clans but now they are being dumped in the barren lands in the Green Valley where they have to start to live again and continue with their own living. What used to be said to be in a prosperous life is now entrenched in the kingdom. Could they really survive in the hands of those high ranking officials of Sky Flame Kingdom if they are getting bolder and bolder each passing days and making some evil tricks up to their sleeves?! Besides that, they even recruit those martial artists who have a decent talent in their ceremony. There are double-faced people wants to get those martial artists of Li Clan but what is the benefits for them? There's none and peace will never go on like this between these two parties.