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No continente de Yunzhou, o talento define o destino. Aqueles com raízes espirituais poderosas são destinados à grandeza, enquanto os sem talento são condenados a viver como mortais comuns. Wei Jian nasceu em uma pequena vila de agricultores e sempre acreditou que esforço poderia superar talento. Durante o teste de admissão da seita, ele descobre possuir uma raiz espiritual acima da média — mas ainda insignificante diante dos verdadeiros gênios. Porém, ninguém percebeu um estranho fenômeno que ocorreu naquele momento. Por uma fração de segundo… o tempo pareceu parar. Sem saber, Wei Jian pode carregar um segredo capaz de desafiar as próprias leis do cultivo. Em um mundo onde o talento determina tudo, ele provará que o destino também pode ser desafiado.

For as long as anyone could remember, daemons have existed. They terrorized, colonized and destroyed anything in their path. Thats when they appeared, the first humans to be able to control their mana to unleash magic spells drove the daemons to the edges of the earth and with every daemon the humans killed they seemed to get stronger. Daemons were evolving at a rapid rate and when one human was killed, the first daemon to be able to control mana was born. Magic is based into four categories. Healing magic, Battle magic, Enchantment magic and support/creation magic. No man has been able to use all of the categories. Magic levels are put into acts. The greater the amount of mana applied to a spell, the greater the act. Follow Igor Dragonstead, born into the silver lining of both worlds. He slowly grows to realize the things he must protect and ones he must end. MC is a half-human half-daemon hybrid with a character type that goes from weak to strong, but with a lot of development. Side characters will be well developed and will all have chances to showcase what they have to offer. The best part of any fantasy novel (imo) is the antagonists and my book is not shy of them. I did as much as I could to make the antagonists of this novel have so much sauce that you could feel it in real time. The book should be about 200-500 chapters, no less no more. Feel free to comment on typos, errors or even your favorite chapter or character. Author notes: I’ll try to be fast and pacey when releasing new content, there will be a lot of fun moments, auxiliary chapters and hopefully you can stay for the entire ride.

Whore, bitch, hoes; slut. Feeling as if you lost your pride, ashamed; you shouldn't Be. "Who the hell put my pride; my dignity in my Vagina." No one, literally no one wants to be aired naked. Everybody had to have a reason; who made THAT rule? Check out the reasons, tears and desires of MOST GIRLS OUT THERE.

Colors sometimes mean personality, gender and are used to describe different objects. But sometimes, people use it to put it in categories. In a Weird falling world, Kaden is struggling to find out who he is as a person and a Shy boy named Bryan helps him. Colors do not define you! This book: Mentions sexual assault and bullying Book 2 will be out next year. But Short stories for every character will be out soon.

Brixter Sy - Icy look (look a like of Theo Theodiridis and Alexis Georgoulis) one of the male greek handsome, rich and powerful for everything. He saw Jesie in an expected way. He always though about her. He felt something different whenever he was with her. Brixter promise to himself that he will do everything to make her mine. Jesie Dais - isang simpleng babae tanging pangarap makapagtrabaho upang makatulong sa pamilya. Hate nya ang mga lalaking may itsura tapos mayaman pa. Para sa kanya isang pangarap o hibang pag pinansin ka ng mga ala greek handsome.

Divorce can be nasty. Clement discovers how nasty gay divorce can be as he surveys the damage wreaked by his ex-partner in their soon-to-be-sold home.<br><br>After cleaning the mess, he goes for a late coffee and dinner snack. The lone barista, Troy, recounts his traumatic car accident drama as they close the shop and share coffee and leftovers. Troy also reveals the pain of rejection he's felt for being gay.<br><br>The two men share another connection: the next day, Troy starts a new position as a social worker, and Clement is a counselor, as well. So the next morning when Clement drives Troy to his new job, he knows they may cross paths again.<br><br>It comes sooner than expected, though, when Clement returns to Troy’s office with an abused gay teenager who has nowhere to go. Try as they might, Troy and his new coworkers can find no available foster family. Suddenly Clement finds himself with a potential new family. Can things work out for the three of them?

When a man dies on Earth, he is not chosen by destiny nor summoned by gods. Instead, he is reborn as an error—a flaw the world’s system cannot classify or control. In a reality governed by rigid rules, levels, and fate itself, he alone exists outside definition. While heroes rise within the system and gods enforce its order, he quietly observes, learns, and begins to rewrite the rules from within. His power is not brute strength, but authority—earned through understanding the system’s weaknesses. As his existence draws the attention of kings, heroes, and gods, the world faces an impossible question: What happens when someone the system failed to define decides to fix it? Glitchborn is a power-fantasy isekai about breaking limits, defying destiny, and calmly standing above the rules that govern reality.

They said my husband, Ronan Callahan, the Underboss of Chicago's Callahan family, had died in a shootout with a rival family. Nine times, I tried to join him in death, using the same carving knife I used for my gemstone work. The tenth time, as I lay in a blood-stained bathtub, my consciousness fading, I heard Ronan's mother, Maeve, outside the door. Her voice trembled as she pleaded with my husband’s twin brother, Cormac—the one who’d always kept his distance from the family business. She begged him to stop the act, saying I had already attempted suicide ten times over Ronan's death and that this charade would kill me. But the man wearing Cormac’s face—my beloved husband, Ronan—replied in a chilling voice that Cormac had died in his place, and now he had to take care of Jenna and their unborn child. He said he believed I was strong enough, and loved him enough, that once the dust settled, I would forgive him. Lying in a pool of my own blood, I laughed. So all my heartbreak and grief were just part of an elaborate deception he had orchestrated. And I was nothing more than a pawn in his cruel charade.

Kian Rathbone was reported "killed in action" during a bloody battle with a rival pack. His cousin, Liam Rathbone, was the only one who came back. The loss of my fated mate nearly drove me insane. I slashed my wrists nine times with a small silver knife, but each time, I was pulled back from the brink. On my tenth attempt, as my consciousness faded into darkness, I overheard a conversation between Genevieve, Kian's mother, and the man I knew as Liam. "Rowan has tried to kill herself for you ten times! How long are you going to keep up this charade? This girl is devoted to you. Stop lying to her!" Kian’s expression turned to ice as he flatly refused. "Liam took a fatal blow for me. It's only right that I take care of his fiancée." "Rowan is a resilient Omega. Once Sabine is pregnant with a pure-blood heir, her position in the pack will be secure. Then, and only then, can I tell Rowan that I'm Kian." The bathtub was stained crimson with my blood, but the agony in my heart dwarfed the sting of my wounds. It was all a lie. A cruel deception aimed squarely at me. My desperate attempts to end my own life were nothing but a sick performance for his amusement.

Yunyun is reincarnated into a post-apocalyptic novel with a powerful female protagonist. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine. She’s just a minor cannon fodder character… destined to die early. But after awakening memories of the novel, Yunyun accidentally reveals the future through her thoughts— [Mommy, boohoo… your scumbag husband has been cheating on you for years and even has a child with another woman. In the end, they’ll join forces to cripple and torture you to death!] [Uncle, you’ll be betrayed by an ungrateful subordinate and driven out of your own luxurious home, left to freeze to death in the snow!] [Grandpa… Grandma…] In the original story, only her young aunt—the novel’s female lead—survives to the very end, killing her enemies with her own hands… only to live on as something neither fully human nor a ghost. Before they can recover from learning their fates, another thought leaks out— [Sigh, the apocalypse is coming soon. As a three-year-old cannon fodder, can I go offline early? I don't want to suffer through the end of the world…] Looking at the little milk dumpling in their arms, pretending to be silly just so she can laze around… What else can the Bai family do but spoil her? They hoard supplies, renovate and fortify their home, and prepare in advance for the coming apocalypse. Meanwhile, little Yunyun follows her protagonist aunt, accidentally kicking off the base-building plot and helping create a super base where food and clothing are abundant, even in the apocalypse. Step by step, the Bai family rises to power. In the end, Yunyun is dumbfounded: [Wait… wasn't I supposed to be cannon fodder?! Why does this feel like a "pampered lucky baby" story?!] The Bai family: Their little Yunyun is, indeed, their precious lucky baby.