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Four Of A Kind

They say meeting your soulmate is destiny, a beautiful collision of two worlds meant to be together. ...But why did my "fated encounter" have to be a head-on collision with Cassidy Valentine, the most hostile, entitled, and terrifying girl at Hartwell Academy? And why did it involve ruining her limited-edition blazer with cheap bodega coffee? I'm Isaiah Angelo. I run on three hours of sleep, instant caffeine, and the desperate need to secure a future for my little sister. I don't have time for drama. I definitely don't have time for romance. So, naturally, the universe decided to play a cruel joke. I didn't just make an enemy of one rich girl. I stumbled into the lives of four. The Valentine Quadruplets. Identical faces, four distinct flavors of trouble. Now, I’ve been hired as their live-in personal assistant. I’m trapped in a mansion with the four most desirable—and impossible—girls in the city. Cassidy, the "Problem Child" who has sworn to make my life a living hell. Harlow, the overly affectionate airhead who thinks snacks solve all emotional trauma. Vivienne, the ice-cold perfectionist who wants to micromanage my breathing. Sabrina, the silent observer who looks at me like I’m a puzzle she’s dying to solve. The pay is life-changing. The job is suicide. Can I keep my scholarship, raise my sister, and manage the chaos of the Valentine household without losing my mind? I have a mountain of debt, a schedule from hell, and four billionaire heiresses who suddenly seem very interested in the "scholarship boy." This isn't a job. This is a survival horror game wrapped in silk sheets. WHAT TO EXPECT: - Ecchi Situations: The Valentines have zero concept of personal space, and the "accidents" are frequent, spicy, and very visual. - Harem Romance: Four identical sisters, one tired protagonist. The competition is fierce, the tension is high, and the jealousy is real. - Competent Protagonist: Isaiah is smart, hardworking, and sharp-tongued. He isn't dense; he's just too exhausted to deal with their thirst. - Class Gap Dynamics: A gritty look at the difference between the struggling working class and the absurdly wealthy elite. - Heartwarming Family Moments: Because behind the fanservice and comedy, Isaiah is doing it all for his little sister.
Rikisari · 601.8k Views

A Dangerous Kind Of Love

It is impossible for a police officer to fall in love with a criminal. That’s what Riley believed. That’s what she was trained to believe. Riley Knox goes undercover knowing exactly what she’s walking into. A powerful CEO. A spotless public image. And rumours of ties to an organisation that has ruined lives and vanished without a trace. Her job is simple: observe, listen, gather proof, and get out. No attachments. No mistakes. But nothing stays simple for long. The more time Riley spends around Nathaniel, the harder it becomes to separate the role she’s playing from the feelings she’s trying to ignore. He isn’t what she expected. He’s careful, quiet and controlled. And somehow, in the middle of lies and half-truths, something real begins to grow between them. Then there’s Melanie. She isn’t part of the investigation, but she becomes impossible to overlook. A child caught between distance and discipline, acting out because it’s the only way to be seen. Loving too loudly in a house that doesn’t know how to love gently. Riley never meant to care, but caring happens anyway. All three of them are struggling in their own way. Riley with the weight of her duty. Nathaniel with the secrets he refuses to let go of. Melanie with emotions she doesn’t yet know how to name. Somehow, without meaning to, they begin to lean on one another. Not perfectly. Not safely. But honestly. And that’s where everything starts to fall apart. Because love built on secrets doesn’t stay hidden forever. And when the truth finally comes out, Riley will have to choose between the badge she swore to honour and the people she never planned to love. The question is not whether love can survive danger. It’s whether anyone walks away from it unbroken.
Drea_Lulu · 7.2k Views

The Alpha’s Unclaimed Mate

Her blood was liquid gold. The moment it hit the basin, the scent slammed into Prince Dexmon like a charging bull.  A primal urge to mate with her followed, obliterating any concern for timing, place, or consequence.  His heart thundered, caught somewhere between hunger and outright panic. His wolf surged.  Aegon: Mate her. Mate her again. Mark her. In that order.  Dexmon: Absolutely the fuck not.  It took every ounce of control he possessed to hold back.  Meanwhile, she stood there, calm, oblivious to him coming apart at the seams.  The Moon Goddess, it seemed, truly had a twisted sense of humor.   ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ [Synopsis] Mate. He knows it instantly. She has no idea. After a year in silver chains, Serena Silverveil's wolf is silent. She escaped Viremont with nothing — no pack, no title, no wolf. Just a sharp mind, a lethal wit, and a refusal to die. A stranger saves her life. She returns the favor without knowing he's the Crown Prince of Drakenfell. But Dexmon is betrothed to Princess Agnes — the daughter of the very tyrant who kept Serena collared. So he stays silent. Agnes will stop at nothing to keep him. Murder, poisonings, dark magic, abductions, and starting a literal war. She ensures everyone in Drakenfell believes Serena is a whore and illiterate. Serena enters the royal ball on another man's arm, wearing the boldest gown in Drakenfell. Dexmon's restraint snaps. But he's not the only one watching. Fin Shadowclaw, the youngest and most powerful Alpha King in Skardos also hears "Mate" when he sees Serena. He marks her. Dexmon's wolf shoves him off and marks over his mark. Two rival Alpha Kings. One mark. And a woman who already had her heart destroyed, now torn between them. Love triangles don't usually involve mass murder. ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ Content Warning: This novel contains dark themes, dubcon, abuse, smut, explicit scenes, and morally gray characters. Reader discretion advised.  Tags: love triangle, matebond, war, royal family, betrayal, shifter, queen, underestimated, alpha king, luna
TheLoneQuill · 132.7k Views

The World's Greatest Puppet Master

"I am the master. The world is my puppet."   "Humans are foolish creatures. It is easy to tug their strings once you know their secrets, their desires, their fears, the small shameful things they bury where they think no one can find them. And I can always find them."   "Everyone has a string. I have never met a person who did not." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In a near-future city where neural implants called gizmos connect every person to a shared digital cloud, a university student named Aron Doyle stands at the edge of his own life. Poor. Invisible. Out of reasons to stay.   He logs into the cloud one final night, but someone is already waiting.   An offer. The ability to see inside people, to read their subconscious data through the gizmo signal, to know their secrets before they act on them, to find the string that moves any person before they know a string exists. The Puppet Master System.   He accepts.   By day he is nobody, the quiet transfer student  at  Shinsei University. By night, in the cloud, he is Nox. The Puppet Master. A name whispered in the digital shadows with the reverence reserved for things people cannot explain and cannot stop.   He is not the only one. Others operate across the city …puppet masters trained and placed by the organization that built the system. But they work for something. Nox works for himself.   It begins with survival. Then it becomes a service. Then the service becomes pleasure. Then the pleasure becomes something darker. Something he stopped examining a long time ago. The hunger for power.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Power is not a destination. It is a flowing current.   You do not arrive at it and stop , you are carried by it, and the carrying changes the shape of you, and by the time you notice the change you are already somewhere you did not plan to go. Take drop from the pond and you want the river. Take the river and you want the sea. The hunger insatiable. You lose yourself to it.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A single human is weak. Readable. Easy to manipulate.   Four hands can stop two fists. Not by being stronger. By being more.   Humans are strongest in tens of thousands. Their will unbendable. Unreadable.  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Driven by his hunger for power. He rises to heights no other puppet master has reached. The city bends around him without knowing it is bending.   The question remains. Who is there to stop him?   A story of a man who took one drop from the pond of power and could not stop drinking...    And a puppet master who rises to hold the strings of the world itself.
kuilei_zhenren · 916 Views

The Ice-cold CEO’s Doted Wife’s Revenge

[Warning: this story contains dark themes] **** Seven years ago, Ruby Emerald believed she had everything: love, stability, a future she could finally trust. On her wedding anniversary, she planned a surprise that would change their lives forever. Instead, her world shattered. She found her husband having sex with his ex, the words that followed cutting deeper than the betrayal itself. He said loving her made him feel small. Empty. The child she carried was her quiet miracle, who never got the chance to be born. Ruby lost her pregnancy on the very day meant to celebrate life, sealing her heartbreak in silence. When grief had barely settled, life demanded more. Her mother’s heart was failing. There was a need for surgery, which was devastatingly expensive. Her father’s debts threatened to swallow the family business whole. Ruby was drowning. Then came the knock on her hospital door. Her ex-husband’s stepfather, Max Byron, stepped inside, immaculate and unreadable, his presence commanding the room before he spoke a single word. A man of power, control, and secrets. “I can solve all your problems,” he said. Hope flared, dangerous and fragile until he finished: “My only condition… is that you marry me.” Trapped between survival and self-respect, Ruby is forced into a marriage built on necessity, not love. But beneath the cold arrangement and unspoken boundaries, something unsettling begins to grow, slow, restrained, impossible to ignore. Because the most dangerous thing about this marriage isn’t the bargain she made— It’s the feelings she never agreed to feel.
Cassy_3 · 98.4k Views

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Yohan wanted to become a part of the border agents, an elite force revered by many for protecting them from monsters. "I get stronger after every new creature I hunt. Lucky for me, I enjoy the chase." For some reason, Yohan had started to see random visions of the future in his dreams. Yohan lips curled up as he gazedl at the charming women before him. "I'll be needing your help though~" “My body is quite picky, but if an energy is pure enough, it adapts, and I power up immediately.” Yohan woke up in a strange martial world, where being skilled in pleasure arts was a respectable feat. The world of Ashwyn was in constant threat from the ten dangerous labyrinths, where demons and monsters dwelled. Not only that, over a hundred years ago, an epidemic swept the realm—Eros Overload Syndrome in men and Mana Crystallization Disorder in women—killing countless people and nearly collapsing civilizations. Though medicine and regulation eventually brought stability, these conditions became a part of daily life rather than disappearing entirely. Their existence reshaped society in unexpected ways. Relationships grew more complicated, industries surrounding relief, medicine, and pleasure flourished, and new crimes and professions emerged alongside strict laws and regulations. Amidst all this, Yohan received a quest from a mysterious woman: Tame the 7 succubus queens hidden in the dungeons to fix the collapsing world. Yohan met an attractive woman in the subway station and a remote control fell out of her pocket. When he picked it up, he saw a hint of panic flash across her face. Yohan suddenly felt mischievous. He wanted to watch a good show. So he pressed the button with an evil grin. The subway station exploded. That's how he ended up dying. He found himself reborn in the magical world of Everniel. Even though the world was in constant danger of mystical portals appearing, connecting it with the monster infested islands, it was also full of opportunities. Awakening stone being one of them. But Yohan failed to awaken any magical skill at the prime time. This didn't stop him from trying to be better, richer in life. There were many profitable professions besides being a Hunter after all. As he planned to research colleges and his future career paths, a mysterious girl sneaked inside his house. "Your soul is different from the rest," she declared. "These impure stones will never trigger your awakening." To Yohan's shock, her appearance started changing and a mature demoness appeared before him. She licked her lips. "But let me give you a gift~." And so, Yohan gained his first ever magical skill... The ability to see through anything, be it a monster's weaknesses... Or people's filthy desires.
I_Eat_Watermelon · 111k Views