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Love in the Shadows _Unwavering Love

Some stories don’t end with love. Some hearts never heal. And some people love so deeply, it becomes fatal. Ayla Wilson loved Silas Williams for twelve years. For twelve years, he never looked back. She never asked to be chosen, only to stay close. Her love was quiet, invisible, and consuming. She learned how to exist in his shadow without touching his life, how to survive on distance without hope. Until the night she ran. A wedding gown soaked in rain. A locked door. A father who sold her future without remorse. With nowhere left to go, Ayla chose the one place she never should have, Silas. But the man she returned to was no longer a distant memory. He was controlled, restrained, devastatingly silent. He let her stay. He protected her. He never promised love. A marriage formed without desire. A home built on unspoken care. A devotion that grew deeper in silence, until one loss shattered everything. And Ayla learned that "loving someone who cannot say it back can destroy you just as completely as being abandoned." Silas Williams was never cruel. That was his greatest mistake. He didn’t raise his voice. He didn’t abandon her. He didn’t betray her love. He simply believed that staying was enough. Silas protected Ayla in the only ways he knew quietly, responsibly, without asking for anything in return. He gave her shelter, stability, and a place beside him. He believed love was something proven through actions, not words. He never realized that silence can wound deeper than rejection. He never understood that for someone like Ayla, love needed to be seen, spoken, and held before it was too late. And when everything finally broke, Silas learned the cruelest truth of all: "You can do nothing wrong and still lose everything." Redemption did not come with grand gestures. It came with regret. With absence. With learning how to love someone who no longer belonged to him. Cause some realizations arrive only after love is gone. And some men spend the rest of their lives chasing the damage they never meant to cause.
yashii_love · 56.1k Views
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Infinite Regeneration In The Apocalypse

『Radiants』 Immortal zombies that evolve by absorbing sunlight and eating humans. ———— "The sun became the source of all evil and daytime became impossiblity for the new man." — First Altered ————- Earth underwent a great change called the Third Evolution. Four suns rose and three moons lingered. The Omnibus system, an unknown entity integrated with reality pulling humans into the Osympic Trial. If they can survive they would gain incredible abilities and Talents. Billions of humans, animals, ghosts and supernatural beings failed the Test, turning them into mindless demonic creatures called Radiants. Under the sun, Radiants regenerate endlessly, evolve rapidly, and become truly immortal. Daytime ceased to be safe and darkness became haven. During his Awakening Trial, Vogue awakened into this world with the Infinite Regeneration System. While others struggle to survive in this terrifying world, trying not to make any mistake that could lead to their death, Vogue tried his best to make as many mistake as possible! Will the Omnibus System allow this anomaly to exist in its world or erase him before he becomes a threat? Follow Levi’s path to invincibility. [Extra Tag: Sadist, evolution, battle-royal, game, regenerative zombies, cosmic horror, pure-intense-action, non-consensual, non-human, gory, dark, sociopathic, consensual sex, teasing, naive female lead, cold female lead, hare…] ———————————————- Currently, there is a schedule for 20 chapters a week, 25 on a good week. [Pizza Gift= Name as side characters] [Massage Chair = Relic/Artefact Of Gifter’s Choosing & Name.] [Magic castle gift= Bloodline, Name, Items, & s*x scene with any character(no r*pe)] Support (WEEKLY): 1. Top 5 Ranking in Power Stones = 5 extra chapters! 2. Top 10 Ranking in Power Stones = 4 extra chapters! 3. Top 20 Ranking in Power Stones = 3 extra chapters! Surpass 50 Golden Tickets (Cumulative) = 1 extra chapters! ___________________________ [A/N: zero AI was used in any chapter of this book. Taking you back to the old days of pure human-written fiction. Enjoy this madness!] —————————————- [Extra Tag: Sadist, evolution, battle-royal, game, regenerative zombies, cosmic horror, pure-intense-action, non-consensual, non-human, gory, dark, sociopathic, consensual sex, teasing, naive female lead, cold female lead, hare…] [A/N: The protagonist will grow overwhelmingly powerful, not instantly, but inevitably.]
The_First_Legion · 267.2k Views

The Crowned Greed: Transmigrated into a Demonic Dragon

"Is this death?" Food. Water. A blanket. A roof. For a crippled, homeless boy like Dante, that was all he ever wanted. But until his last breath, he couldn't live the happy life he dreamed of. When he finally accepted death, he opened his eyes only to find himself in a supernatural world. A world where logic doesn't make sense and where magic isn't fairytales. And his body? It's the body of a real demonic dragon rather than his old one. Before he could understand what was happening, a spinning axe buried itself into his skull… yet he stayed conscious. Feeling that sharp, immense pain, Dante realized—he was being hunted. Hell had just begun. But whether it was his or his enemies'… no one could tell. ¢¢¢ Regarding the MC's morality: he'll keep changing. I can only promise that by the end of the story, he won't be a dark villain. Regarding r18: It's mainly for the gore and dark theme (medieval settings with no religions, I want to take my freedom in writing this). If you're here for smut, then you can leave. anything like smut will be described in a suggestive way or only mentioned quickly without description (and that's only if it's necessary, I hate smut and I won't fill the story with fanservice) Regarding romance: Slow romance (and a bit late), No Smut, Single FL, No Ntr, No Yuri, No Yaoi, No Useless FL, probably no Tsundere (Idk how to write a good tsundere fl). For characters arts (there are many), join discord: https://discord.gg/4VbkEBRmNc
Semo_1 · 367.3k Views
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The Ghazal of Eternity: Rebirth of Mirza Ghalib

In the shadowed twilight of 19th-century Delhi, where the once-mighty Mughal Empire crumbled under the iron heel of British colonialism, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib—pen name Ghalib, meaning “the conqueror”—breathed his last on February 15, 1869, at the age of 71. His life had been a tapestry woven with threads of unparalleled poetic genius, profound philosophical inquiry, personal tragedy, and unyielding wit. Orphaned at five after his father’s death in battle, married at thirteen to Umrao Begum (with whom he would lose all seven children in infancy), financially destitute despite royal titles like Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula bestowed by Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II, and a witness to the devastating 1857 Indian Rebellion that reduced Delhi to ruins, Ghalib’s existence was one of exquisite sorrow and intellectual rebellion. His ghazals, written in both Urdu and Persian, delved into the mysteries of love (ishq), the divine (khuda), the self (khudi), and the illusory nature of reality. Lines like “Na tha kuchh to khuda tha, kuch na hota to khuda hota / Duboya mujhko hone ne, na hota main to kya hota” (When nothing was, God was; had nothing been, God would still be / My very existence has drowned me; had I not been, what would I have been?) captured the Sufi-inspired unity of being (wahdat al-wujud), questioning ego, creation, and the divine in ways that transcended his era. Yet the cosmos, in its infinite mercy and curiosity, deemed such a soul too luminous to fade into oblivion. The Eternal Muse—a primordial entity embodying the creative force behind all poetry, song, and word across multiverses—intervened. Ghalib’s verses had not merely echoed human longing; they had subtly resonated with the fabric of reality itself, bending probabilities in ways even he never suspected. As his mortal form lay in his haveli in Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, his soul was offered reincarnation not into another earthly life, but into a high-fantasy realm called Elyndor. In this world, magic is fundamentally linguistic, and “the Verse-Weave” governs existence.
ReadingDreamer · 10.2k Views