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Arcana Null : 22 - The Fool Who Imprisoned Fate

Zekai is twenty-two and has already decided that life is meaningless. He has no job, no ambition, and no interest in the future. While others chase purpose, he watches from the sidelines, convinced that the world runs on illusions people are too afraid to question. Then his grandfather dies during a circus performance. The death is ruled an accident. The silence afterward is not. Something is left behind—something old, something deliberate. From that moment, Zekai begins to notice what others cannot: patterns beneath coincidence, intent behind tragedy, and a presence that seems amused by his existence. The city changes around him. Crimes grow stranger. People disappear without explanation. Whispers spread of a figure who appears in moments of fear—part savior, part nightmare. Zekai does not seek to become anything. He only reacts. Yet the more he intervenes, the more the world pushes back. Every choice carries consequences he cannot escape. Every step forward reveals another layer of truth he was never meant to see. Some paths offer power. Some demand sacrifice. Some do not allow turning back. As Zekai is pulled deeper into a hidden side of the city—where justice, guilt, desire, and fate collide—he is forced to confront a question no one can answer for him: Is freedom something you choose… or something taken from you the moment you play along? Because this story is not about destiny fulfilled. It is about what remains when the final number is reached— 22.
Haise_Hkr · 3.1k Views

Reborn as the Fat Ugly Duckling, Yet I Mated the Four Beast Deities

Wish thought that if she ever got a second chance at life, she would at least wake up in a better story. A spoiled princess. A doomed villainess on the path to redemption. A heroine adored by powerful husbands. Anything would have been fine. That's how stories were supposed to work. Instead, fate—and whatever twisted cosmic editor writes destinies—casts her in the one role she should never have been reborn into: the fat, ugly, unwanted maiden chosen for sacrifice. She awakens in a body mocked by her tribe, pitied by her parents, and avoided by every man. In a world where beast forms define worth, hers is a joke—a puff-fluff fox, a useless cotton cloud that couldn't frighten a butterfly. Worse still, she is the doomed extra whose sole purpose was to die during the Mating Moon Ritual—her death the trigger that allowed the real female lead, a beautiful, weak princess, to earn the devotion of the four almighty beast deities. The Wind Deity—hot-headed, wild, and dangerously unpredictable. The Solar Deity—arrogant, playful, and impossibly radiant. The Sky Deity—silent, calm, and shrouded in mystery. The Night Deity—cold, calculating, and merciless. Except Wish doesn't die. And her survival breaks everything. The plot stutters. Events twist. Characters act wrong. The world itself seems to notice her refusal to disappear—and begins trying to correct the mistake. Now hunted by fate and trapped in a society where beauty is worshipped, mating marks define destiny, and the weak are meant to be sacrificed, Wish is given one impossible condition for survival: She must derail the story completely. The only way to do that is to draw the attention of the four beings the world revolves around—creatures meant to be untouchable, distant, and divine. One is bound to her by a ritual that should have killed her. One meets her with hostility instead of fate. One sees her existence as a threat that must be erased. One should be incapable of feeling anything at all. They were never meant to notice her. The story was never meant to let her live. So how is she supposed to survive a world that measures worth by beauty and power, when she is fat, unwanted, powerless—and armed with nothing but a useless fluffy fox? Can she break the story that wants her dead? Or will she die exactly as the plot demands?
Cy_hello · 54.1k Views

Mystical Reality

I used to believe my life was simple. I was a noble’s son leading a sheltered, comfortable and carefree life. My days were spent studying, laughing, and living without fear, never once imagining how easily everything could be taken away. On the night of my sixteenth birthday, that illusion shattered. In a single night, my world collapsed, and I was forced to flee with nothing but grief, a loyal steward, and my family’s hidden artifact - an ancient book known as Mystical Reality. That was when I learned how cruel and dangerous this world truly is. If I wanted to survive… if I wanted to avenge my family… then I had to become stronger. When the artifact(ancient book) finally responded to me, my life began to change. But what I didn’t realize then was that my fate had already been set in motion, entangled with something far greater and far more unimaginable than I could ever have foreseen.. ------------ More about the book/characters: Main Character: Arthur Reyes is a kind hearted, innocent, rich noble(only in first chapter but still), goes from weak to strong and linked with the mysterious artifact called Mystical Reality. Female lead: Aelira Valenor is a strong and wealthy scholar from another nation who enters the story in the later arcs. Steward: Charlie, one of the main characters in the story- a loyal, devoted steward who always stays beside Arthur. Abilities: There are so many different and unique types of abilities possessed by people called Controllers. Cultivation: Obviously, that is how they gets stronger. Romance: yes, but a slow one after the female lead enters the story. PS: JUST READ IT!!
NoodlePen · 24.7k Views