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TO KILL A MAN

Ryu Hera is not a heroine. She is an R-rank menace with a calculated smile and a talent for turning power into submission. Practical, narcissistic, and unapologetically cruel, she respects no one and answers to only one man, and even that is rare, private, and never without tension. Trained in both strategy and combat, Hera is as deadly as she is magnetic. A wild rose blooming among angelic ones, beautiful precisely because she is untamed. By coincidence, not fate, she becomes the wife of Choi In-ha Valkaen. Valkaen is not a husband. He is a master strategist who views the world as a living chessboard. Every player is measured. Every pawn is expendable. Every move is intentional. Known globally as a shadow behind the most improbable yet devastating crimes, he is ruthless without emotion, seductive without effort, and untouchable by design. A mafia king with a reputation that ends wars before they begin. Hera’s mission is simple. Kill her husband. But in a marriage built on secrets, control, and mutual surveillance, nothing remains simple for long. Each shared silence becomes a test. Each calculated glance becomes a threat. And as desire, dominance, and deception blur, Hera must decide whether she will complete the mission she assigned herself, or become entangled in the man who was never meant to be hers. In a world where love is a weakness and survival is a strategy, only one truth remains. Someone will fall. And it will not be by accident.
Naphtali_Charity · 491 Views

After the Crash, the System Awakened

Leena is nineteen, a Computer Science student from a middle-class family in Bangalore, preparing to begin her undergraduate degree with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. Her life is simple, structured, and full of hope. Everything ends on a rainy night. A violent car crash kills her father, John—an honest accountant—and her younger brother. Her mother survives but is left permanently paralyzed. The family’s savings vanish in hospital bills, leaving Leena without tuition fees, stability, or a future she once believed in. She survives. That is when everything changes. While recovering in the hospital, Leena begins to hear a voice inside her head—calm, precise, emotionless. It introduces itself as a System. Not a hallucination. Not a dream. An interface appears in her mind. Task Assigned. Objective: Survive. Reward: Financial Support Activated. Soon after, money appears in her account—small amounts at first. Enough to pay bills. Enough to breathe. The System gives her tasks. Simple at the beginning. Observe. Analyze. Collect information. For every task completed, she is rewarded—money, access, influence, skills no ordinary person should possess. The rewards grow more powerful as the tasks grow darker. As Leena digs deeper into her father’s death, the System begins guiding her toward the truth. It pushes her to revisit old files, overheard conversations, and financial records tied to her father’s workplace. Slowly, a terrifying picture forms. The crash was not an accident. John had refused to help his boss cover up massive financial fraud. He knew too much. He said no. The System does not ask Leena what she wants. It tells her what must be done. Each task brings her closer to justice—and further away from the girl she once was. Power solves her problems, but it also isolates her. The more she completes, the more control the System takes. Money is no longer the real reward. Power is. And power always has a price. Now Leena must decide whether she is using the System to uncover the truth—or whether the System is using her to finish something that began long before the crash. Because the System never gives without taking. And once awakened, it does not shut down.
Mishal_1591 · 11k Views

The Gospel Of Broken Causality

The world of Caereth survives on lies. History contradicts itself. Gods rule, yet refuse to answer certain questions. Cities stand where ruins should be, and everyone has learned—quietly—not to look too closely. Faith keeps reality stable. Ignorance keeps it alive. Aerin Kael is not meant to matter. Born in the lower districts of a fractured city-state, he grows up watching laws bend for the powerful and truth become a matter of convenience. He learns early that the world only works if you accept what you’re given and stop asking why. Then he witnesses something impossible. A man is executed in public—undeniably dead. That same man speaks to Aerin later that night. Reality does not correct itself. Instead, it allows both truths to exist. Aerin awakens to a power that should not be possible: the ability to accept contradictions without breaking. Where others must choose one truth, he can hold two—and reality falters in response. Blades hesitate. Consequences arrive late. Certainty decays. But power in Caereth is never free. Every use fractures memory, emotion, and identity. Gods take notice. Factions move in silence. Wars are fought not only with weapons, but with belief itself. And beneath it all lies a truth carefully buried—that Caereth is not a world created by gods, but a reality held together by containment, omission, and necessary lies. As contradictions spread and history begins to unravel, Aerin is forced into conflicts far larger than himself: between faith and truth, order and freedom, survival and meaning. Each choice he makes stabilizes one fracture while tearing open another. In a world that endures by refusing to be whole, the most dangerous thing is not destruction— —it is understanding.
Rex_Roars · 1.6k Views