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Between Silk and Ashes

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Thirty-five stories. Thirty-five women who loved too hard, too quietly, or too late. A princess poisons herself to escape her captor—and is reborn with a second chance at revenge. A scholarship student is psychologically torn apart by the rich boy who called him "best friend." A wife receives an anonymous text: Your husband is cheating on you—and the proof is exactly where the stranger said it would be. From ancient imperial courts dripping with silk and treachery, to modern apartments where a single WeChat message can shatter a life—these tales cross centuries but share one truth: love is never safe. In this collection you'll find: Reborn princesses, possessive emperors, and the eunuch who burned a dynasty Chinese gods punching Egyptian sun deities in the face Stand-in brides, gray-zone situationships, and exes who chose your sister Anonymous texts, post-coital cigarette smoke, and the wife who played last Step-brothers with teeth, contract marriages, and crushes that grew claws Not a single story ends the way you expect. Sleepless Nights is a complete anthology of 35 standalone novels, spanning ancient China, mythological battlefields, and the sharp edges of modern love. Every story is fully translated, uncut, and ready to devour. You won't sleep. You won't want to.
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MHA:Project Infinity!

In a world where 80% of humanity is born with superhuman abilities known as Quirks, the powerless are left behind—mocked, ignored, and forgotten. Arata Seigi is one of them. Born quirkless and orphaned, he survives on the pension left behind by his late parents — a hero mother who died in the line of duty, and a father who was a doctor involved in secret research. To the world, Arata is a nobody — a ghost wandering through a society that measures worth by strength. But within that quiet despair burns a defiant will. After years of ridicule and isolation, Arata vows to change the world — to end the cycle of discrimination that has turned heroes into tools and the quirkless into trash. He dreams not of fame or glory, but of revolution. When he turns twelve, fate intervenes. While rummaging through his late father’s belongings, he discovers an old pendrive — hidden within a dusty suitcase. The files inside reveal his father’s involvement in the illegal research of quirk cloning, working under none other than Doctor Garaki, the scientist serving All For One. His father’s notes detail the process of extracting, modifying, and storing quirk factors into artificial data chips — a technology that could rewrite human evolution itself. But what captures Arata’s imagination isn’t the forbidden science… It’s the possibility within it. Among his old sketchbooks — filled with drawings of heroes from his previous life — his eyes fall on one titled Infinity War. The image of Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet stirs something within him. Six stones, six forces — power, space, time, reality, mind, and soul — each capable of reshaping existence. And then, a thought takes root. If quirks can be cloned and altered… Why not combine them? Why not create six artificial quirks representing those same fundamental forces? Why not forge his own version of the Infinity Gauntlet — not as a weapon of conquest, but as a tool to shatter the chains of a corrupted world? Thus begins Project Infinity. From that day onward, Arata dedicates himself to mastering science, technology, and genetics. While other children dream of becoming heroes, he becomes a silent creator — dissecting quirk theory, gathering information from underground sources, and testing fragments of cloned quirks. Years pass, and at seventeen, Arata Seigi emerges no longer as a helpless boy, but as the masked architect of a new world. He calls his cause Nova Genesis — the birth of a new dawn. A group of outcasts, quirkless, and disillusioned heroes who share his dream of revolution. To the public, they are terrorists. To the powerless, they are saviors. Wearing his white lab coat, black attire, and the complete Infinity Gauntlet on his right arm — its six stones glowing faintly in colors of blue, black, white, yellow, pink, and red — Arata stands as both scientist and savior. Each “stone” is an artificial quirk crystal, containing immense energy forged through forbidden science. While All Might and the Pro Heroes uphold justice, and All For One manipulates from the shadows, Arata seeks something greater: balance. He doesn’t wish to rule the world. He wishes to remake it. In a society bound by hypocrisy, Arata Seigi becomes a paradox — the revolutionary who wields the power of gods, yet dreams of equality. As his six “Infinity Stones” near completion, the world begins to tremble. Villains fear him. Heroes hunt him. The government brands him a threat. But to those who have suffered — the powerless, the forgotten, the broken — Arata Seigi is not a villain. He is hope. He is the dawn that follows destruction. He is the beginning of the end — and the birth of something new. MHA: Project Infinity — A story of science and rebellion. Of a man who defied destiny to challenge gods. And of a world that will never be the same again.
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