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Trapped in a loveless marriage to a ruthless Alpha, Livia’s life is nothing but silence, scars, and shattered hope. To her husband, she is a decoration—useful for reputation, disposable in private. When betrayal strikes from the one person she trusted, Livia is pushed to the edge of despair. Then she meets Aldus—the feared Lycan King of the Blood Moon Pack. Cold, powerful, and burdened by a past drenched in blood, Aldus has sworn never to love again. Yet in Livia’s broken gaze, he finds something he thought he had lost forever: home. As war brews between packs and secrets crawl out from the shadows, Livia must choose between the life that is slowly killing her and the love that could save her. In a world ruled by claws and crowns, can a wounded Luna and a cursed Lycan King defy fate—and find healing in each other’s embrace?

The heavens do not bleed; they burn. When the King of the Skies lost his heart to the earth, his grief shattered the mortal realm. But he did not seek a replacement, he sought a vessel. With a roar of thunder, he reached down and pressed a silver brand into the skin of a newborn babe, a mark that would pulse with a fevered heat as she grew, a constant, aching reminder that her body was never truly her own. For years, she lived as a ghost, an untouchable prize for a God who had not yet come to collect. She was an outcast in a village that feared the storm in her blood, unaware that the mark on her waist was a bridge between her skin and his divine hunger. But the Sky is not the only power that watches her. While the King waited in the heights for his harvest of fire, another voice whispered secrets of bone and blood into her ear. While the world threw stones, she learned the language of the roots and the hidden, thrumming rhythm of her own desire. Now, the child of the storm has grown. She carries the emerald mercy of a healer in her palms and the violet wrath of a God in her veins. She has stepped out of the cage of her childhood and into a realm where her presence is a spark in a room full of powder. She was born to be a sacrifice. She was raised to be a bride. But as the silver mark on her skin begins to burn with a new, predatory intensity, she realizes the King doesn't just want her soul. He wants the woman she has become. The King is watching. His patience is fraying. And the lightning is coming.

Eun-ji thought her college life would be ordinary—classes, friends, and coffee breaks. But her best friend, Kang Ji-ho, has always been… unusual. Teasing, protective, and impossibly calm, Ji-ho hides something beneath his flawless exterior. When a sudden incident outside campus reveals a side of him she wasn’t meant to see, Eun-ji begins to notice cracks in the world she thought she knew. Shadows, blood, and inexplicable strength hint at secrets darker than anything she imagined. With Ji-ho keeping his distance to protect her, and his enigmatic friend Han Min-jae watching silently from the shadows, Eun-ji can’t help but dig deeper. What is Ji-ho hiding? And how far will he go to keep her safe when the truth could change everything? A slow-burn, protective romance tangled with supernatural suspense. Will their friendship survive the secrets, or will love demand more than they are willing to give?

A new phenomenon, or a perhaps a new guide, appears in a world that has been ruined by the final impact that the gods had upon. In order to help, the guide named Mahina, has offered to help humanity. Mahina has chosen to help the human race by understanding the world all together; using her advantage and knowledge to change the fates of the world.

He was sealed for six centuries for a crime he cannot remember. When Leylin awakens, the world he knew is gone. The gods who feared him are dead. The enemies who betrayed him are dust. And the girl who once reached his heart survives only as a fading legend. But one thing endured,the hunger. Leylin walks a world that has forgotten why it feared him…and reminds it. One city at a time.One god at a time.One sin at a time. This is not a hero’s return. This is the rise of something far worse. The Monarch of Sin has come back to finish what the heavens started.

Fantasy with a sci-fi theme In the heart of the void—an abyss of absolute darkness, bitter cold, and a silence that crawls beneath the skin—the emptiness teemed with stars, planets, suns, black holes, and one final human body in all the universe. For an eternity, the body of Sol had drifted through that vast emptiness, fully conscious of the void around him, his form horribly twisted and broken. Until at last, a searing light, warm and brilliant, swept him away and cast him onto a strange world, saving him from that merciless abyss. But what point was there in salvation? Sol had long since lost his will to live. Time and again, he sought to end his own existence, yet the cursed body he inhabited refused to grant him even that release. Then after wandering for a time without purpose or destination, at the most strange of moments, something appeared before him—something that might at last lead him to the answers he had sought through endless ages. Answers concerning the unnatural power bound to this flesh. And perhaps, at long last, a way to sever it forever.

From elementary school to college,  Mia and Enzo have been inseparable. Their friends even call them "double tape" because they are always stuck together. Now, on their twelfth anniversary, Enzo is ready to pull off his dream proposal. But one mistake changes everything. While Mia is tidying up, she finds confidential papers she was never meant to see—a secret that shatters over a decade of trust. With this revelation, is the wedding still happening? Why is Mia so devastated by what Enzo did? Can she still accept him after learning the truth?

Ulric Cavendish, the Duke of Norwich, possesses a distinguished reputation. A tragic event within the ducal family disrupted their peaceful lives. In his urgent pursuit of a remedy, the esteemed Duke found himself compelled to solicit the assistance of "Tom of The Rookery," an apothecary known for unconventional and controversial practices.

In a world where magic is a tool of commerce and power is inherited in bloodlines older than memory, an unnamed girl is found beneath a tree — four years old, half-destroyed, and alive in ways that should not be possible. She cannot die. No blade, no fire, no obliteration can hold her. What is consumed returns. What is erased reappears. She passes first through the hands of Billy, a merchant-turned-smuggler whose pragmatism curdles, over months, into something he never names but which the reader recognizes. He sells her to Simon — scion of one of the continent's seven great families, a man of precise intelligence and a body that is slowly losing its argument with time. Simon wants the Elixir of Eternal Life. He believes the girl holds its secret. Two years of trials yield only one certainty: she is not the answer to Simon's question. She is proof that the question was wrong. Her immortality is not a gift — it is continuance stripped of everything that makes continuance worth wanting. A body without a self. Life without a witness. Then Simon finds the ship. And everything changes.

Waking up as Steve Harrington three years before Will Byers vanishes, a man from our world decides to change the tragic future. He isn't just armed with knowledge of the show, but three impossible abilities: the Dimensional Backpack, which grants him one random survival item (like a medkit or grappling gun) every period of time; Fight Master, allowing him to learn any combat style instantly; and Pain Heal, a double-edged power that lets him miraculously cure others by absorbing their agony into his own body Im uploading this into royalroad.com .

1000 Years after the Six Demon Calamity, humans were on a brink of extinction. Forced to reproduce with other races, humanity formed an agreement with the world's society: The Omni-Race Agreement. Upon turning 18, every man were to copulate with a race corresponding to the elder's choosing. A frail young man living in the outskirts was forced to have intercourse with a Succubus. However, when the night ends, he finds out that he was marked by a Succubus and has now turned into a woman! Now reborn, carrying the legacy of desire, she must navigate a world of lust, magic, and power! In a world where humanity survives by sacrifice… will she have what it takes to carry it's burdens?

The world shattered two centuries ago. When reality fractured, an unknown force tore open the fabric of existence. Beasts poured through the cracks, and humanity was driven behind walls to survive. From that chaos rose the seven cities — the Cradle — humanity’s last bastion against extinction. But survival came at a cost. An infection spread. The Unraveling — born from beyond the fractures — forced humanity to awaken through deadly Trials, pushing them to unlock their potential or be consumed. To uncover the truth behind their annihilation, humans now venture deeper into distant realms, chasing answers hidden behind the veil of reality itself. But the farther they descend, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Ren was never meant to be part of this world. Born Insignificant in the slums, he faced a life of death and decay. But the Unraveling had other plans. When the call of the Trial reached him, his destiny changed forever. Now thrown in a world where failure means erasure --- Ren must endure the Trial, and descend the realms that fractured the universe. Descending the depths of reality, what truth will Ren discover about the world?

If fate is a story already written, then what happens when someone who has already read it, decides to intervene? Thrown into the beginning of Shadow Slave, an outsider, a reader walks a path that was never meant to exist. He is not omniscient or invincible. He knows enough to make things worse.

Naia works at a global crisis center where her job is simple: identify problems before the world collapses and fix them. In another world, a different version of Naia lives in a harsh underground settlement where survival depends on instinct and quick decisions. Neither of them knows the other exists. But when reality itself begins to behave strangely, both begin noticing the same impossible thing. Something in their worlds is breaking. And if they are right, two worlds like theirs were never meant to exist at the same time.

What happens when the person most afraid of blood is dropped into the middle of the world's bloodiest war? Moore has spent his life as a shadow...a shy high school student and the youngest sibling, constantly targeted for his weak-minded nature and his paralyzing fear of conflict. But his world is upended when a mysterious figure lures him through a dream-portal into a reality ravaged by the fires of WW3. Found by a hardened band of civilian survivors, he is no longer a student; he is Code 213. In this war-torn landscape, names are a luxury, and identities are replaced by registered codes used to track the living. Under the strict guidance of his rescuers, Code 213 is given a single, brutal mission: To find the portal that leads back to his quiet life, he must shed his cowardice and endure the horrors of a global collapse. In a world that only values strength, a boy who once flinched at a punch must now fight to ensure that Code 213 isn't just a number on a casualty list. *The path home is paved with sacrifice*

We advocate gender equality over here. Smut for both boys and gals :D —————— Hi, Alex, I'm Angela, you remember me, right? Oh no, no, I am talking to you. Please don't believe I'm talking to anyone else. I was once just a typical finance student who hates her life and hates everyone else's life even more. But on March 30th, They found me, and on March 31st, I was recruited as one of the twelve Zodiac Warriors. No, not zodiac signs. Chinese Zodiacs, based on twelve different creatures. I received the emblem of the Dragon, by a specific someone too paranoid to reveal themselves to me. But I'm not complaining, because my powers includes a shapeshifter that obeys my every whim. What are my duties? Rifts to another dimension open up occasionally, and the Zodiac Warriors are the ones maintaining the barrier, preventing both dimensions from an all-out war. Oh, and stop crimes like a friendly neighbour Spiderman, I guess. —————— What's good, Amelda? Oh, you don't remember me? Yes, yes, it's you I'm talking to, I'm Ivan. On March 30th, a mysterious cloaked Them found me, and They blessed me with superpowers on March 31st: the emblem of the GOAT. Fuck! A goddamn wish come true it was! Especially since my powers include a shapeshifter, who can literally shift into the objectively most sexually attractive woman. Did I abuse my powers because of that? Of course I did, what the hell? Tell me you wouldn't, go on, tell me. She literally obeys my every whim, it's not my fault to get freaky... My duty? I don't really care much about that. I only do what a specific someone orders me to do because I work with 小龙女 (translates to Little Dragon Lady, pronounced Xiao Loong Nü), and she needs her 杨过 (pronounced Yang Guo). Didn't get the reference? Well, can't blame ya, it's about a famous Chinese story. Don't tell her but, sometimes I tell my shapeshifter to transform into her, and we... we... uh... Damn it, just read my story.

First rule of Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. A class of teenagers awakens in a cursed realm of monstrous horrors, a maze of mysteries, and blood-soaked schemes. Hope is a risk. Survival is a luxury. And for Raven, staying alive means forging alliances, tenacious hope, and enough grit needed to endure a world that wants them dead. What could go wrong? Really… what could possibly go wrong?

Kael carries a power that should not exist—a living flame bound to his soul, ancient and aware, neither fully beast nor fully myth. It does not simply grant him strength. It watches. It judges. It waits. Once hunted as a weapon, Kael has learned restraint the hard way. Beside him walks Mira—sharp-eyed, stubborn, and far more grounded than she pretends to be. Where Kael burns, she steadies. Where he hesitates, she forces choice. Their bond is slow, unspoken, and dangerous in its own way. In Phase I, whispers of Kael’s power spread. Mercenaries test him. Agents circle. A shadowed organization known as the Concord begins probing, not with brute force—but with curiosity. They want to know what he is becoming. Phase II begins with pursuit. The Concord escalates from observation to manipulation—using scouts, psychological pressure, and even a child placed in Kael’s path to test his humanity. The question is no longer whether Kael is powerful. The question is whether he can remain human while being powerful. As Kael learns to control the dragon within him, the world tightens its grip. Every encounter sharpens him. Every choice binds him further. And somewhere beyond the horizon, something older than the Concord is beginning to take notice. This is no longer a story about survival. It is a story about transformation.

In a multiverse of infinite layers, Kael Veyris emerges as a singularity of power. He does not merely fighthe reshapes wars, redefines enemies, and rewrites the rules of life itself. As gods, titans, and cosmic entities attempt to challenge him, Kael’s reality warping abilities leave them powerless. But absolute power comes at a cost. With every law he bends and soul he claims, Kael must confront the fragility of identity, morality, and the infinite consequences of reshaping existence itself.

Vill Sylas is an elf and a former apothecary who retired early because of depression. He chooses to climb the most sacred place on Ox planet, a place no other elf has ever touched, as a way to disappear from the world. During a snowstorm on the way to the holy peak of Duabonnir mountain, he helps a centaur who is being attacked by a bear. As a sign of gratitude, the centaur invites Vill to join a journey to the land of humans. Humans are fantasy beings that most elves do not believe in because they do not exist on Ox. “You believe humans are a myth because they do not live near you. They have their own place. Come with me, You will see more than planet Ox could ever give you. My name is Bebah, and I know many things than the elves of this world" Welcome to the journey of Vill and Bebah to the land of humans.