Until My Mother's Last Breath

Ten years ago, the Thorne empire didn’t just collapse—it screamed. Sloane Thorne was only eighteen when she stood on the manicured lawn of her family estate and watched the person she loved most—her father, Silas—consumed by a fire that turned her world to cinder. The man standing next to her as the roof caved in was Arthur Vane, her father’s protégé and the man who would spend the next decade building a trillion-dollar kingdom on the charred remains of the Thorne patents. The Vengeance: Now, Sloane is back. She hasn't spent the last decade grieving; she’s spent it climbing. As a ruthless venture capitalist, she has played a high-stakes game of financial chess to corner Arthur Vane. In a single, cold-blooded boardroom coup, she buys his debt, seizes his tower, and prepares to erase his name from history. Her goal is simple: total professional and personal annihilation of the man who stole her future. The Twist: But as the "Vane" signs are ripped from the walls, the earth at the old Thorne estate begins to give up its secrets. A new excavation reveals a second set of remains, turning a tragic accident into a double homicide investigation. Suddenly, the narrative Sloane has fed her soul for ten years begins to fracture. The Trap: Arthur Vane isn't the cowering villain she expected. He is a man haunted by a truth he’s kept behind a wall of silence. When Sloane forces him into a humiliating "consultancy" role to watch his own downfall, she unwittingly traps herself in a web of shifting loyalties. As they are forced into a toxic, magnetic proximity, Sloane discovers that the "villain" may have been her protector—and the "victim" she worshipped might have been the architect of his own destruction. The Legacy: With a shadowy third party watching their every move and a "Ghost" from the past threatening to reclaim the empire, Sloane and Arthur must decide if they will continue to burn each other down or unite to face the true monster waiting in the smoke. In a world where wealth is a weapon and love is a liability, the only thing more dangerous than a secret is the person willing to die for it.

Maya is a struggling artist who finds peace in a secret rooftop garden overlooking Brooklyn. She doesn’t know that Leo, the quiet corporate lawyer from the floor below, has started leaving handwritten notes there after discovering her lost sketchbook. They become anonymous pen pals — sharing fears, dreams, and the city lights through hidden letters. Maya feels seen for the first time. Leo feels alive for the first time in years. But in real life, Leo is the lawyer handling the eviction case against Maya’s low-income apartment building. And Maya is the lead organizer fighting to save her community. When the rooftop garden is scheduled for demolition, they must choose: reveal their identities and risk a devastating betrayal, or let the only place that ever felt like home disappear forever. In this urban romance about second chances, class divides, and the courage to be truly known, one question remains — can love survive the truth?

In the Martial Heaven World, only the strong survive. Bai Hanyuan of the small Bai Clan in Flowing Spring City is ordinary by birth, but his ambition is anything but. Facing geniuses, rival clans, and mighty sects, he must fight, endure, and rise, carving his name into a world ruled by power. Blood will be spilled, divinity will be challenged, and legends will be born.

"They broke the girl I used to be. So I came back as the Goddess who would burn their world." I was Elara White-Oak, a scholar who believed in fated mates and the sanctity of the Silvermoon Pack. I spent my life preparing to be a Queen, only to be offered up as a sacrificial lamb. My fated mate, Alpha Julian, didn't just reject me; he erased me. He used my name, my status, and my heart to pave the way for my sister, Margo, before casting me into the Neutral Zone to be devoured by the dark. But the abyss didn't kill me. It recognized its own. In the rotting silence of the Void, I didn't find death—I found the Originals. I opened my veins and let the ancient, hungry spirits in, trading my humanity for a crown of violet fire. Now, I am the Shadow-Queen, and I have found a King who doesn't want a submissive Luna. Silas, the brutal Alpha of the North, craves the monster I’ve become. But my transformation isn't finished. To survive the necro-sorcery of my sister and the pathetic pleas of the man who broke me, I must undergo the Second Awakening. It is a path of pure, blinding light that will either consume my soul or turn me into a deity that even the gods must obey. Julian is begging for a second chance. Margo is plotting my downfall. But I am not looking for an apology. I am here for an execution. [What This Story Delivers] Zero-Mercy Revenge: There is no "redemption arc" for the abuser.

Zhou Xing, who had accomplished nothing, was reborn in 2016 with a life optimization system. Born into an ordinary family, he unexpectedly became a top-tier rich second-generation. The father, who used to make a living selling fish, became a leader in the heavy industry and has a net worth of 300 billion. My mother became a renowned elite lawyer both domestically and internationally. The system even offers a starting bonus of 500 million US dollars! Rebirth means reaching the peak! Zhou Xing then realized that life could be lived so recklessly. The bar spent millions! His luxury car, worth 50 million yuan, was damaged, and he was playing video games inside. He is the newly crowned national husband. The most flamboyant playboy in history, yet repeatedly praised by the state. In this lifetime, Zhou Xing is destined to stand at the pinnacle of the world.

In a world governed by unseen principles of growth and transformation, life does not simply exist—it evolves, adapts, and ascends through layered structures that bind reality itself. Beneath a land recently renewed by rain and rebirth, where ecosystems flourish and creatures struggle within the natural order, something awakens that does not belong to any known path of existence. It possesses no identity, no defined form, and no understanding of the world it inhabits. At its core lies only a singular, unyielding instinct—to grow. Not through conventional means such as cultivation or natural development, but through consumption, assimilation, and continuous reconstruction of its own being. Flesh becomes structure, structure becomes function, and function becomes something entirely new as it expands beneath the surface, silently integrating itself into the environment while remaining unseen by the world above. However, this world is far from simple. It is built upon layered realms, governed by intricate mechanisms, and sustained by forces that regulate the balance of power across all forms of life. From the smallest organisms to beings that transcend mortal limits, everything follows a system—whether understood or not. Yet, as this formless existence continues to evolve, it begins to deviate from those very laws, reshaping itself in ways that were never intended, gradually uncovering fragments of awareness and the structure of reality itself. What begins as a mindless entity driven purely by instinct slowly develops into something capable of observation, calculation, and eventually, intention. Its growth is not linear, nor is it bound by the restrictions that limit others. While some cultivate power and others rely on established systems, it adapts beyond them, learning not only how to survive, but how to dominate the very foundations that govern existence. As it rises from the depths, expanding from a hidden anomaly into a force that influences the world above, the balance between life, power, and structure begins to shift. The realms that once defined progression may no longer be enough to contain it, and the systems that once dictated growth may become tools to be rewritten. In a reality where evolution has no true end and limits exist only to be surpassed, one question remains inevitable: What does something become when it is allowed to grow without restriction—not as a creature, not as a cultivator, but as something that redefines the very concept of existence itself?

Cedric Hale was dying in a sterile hospital bed until he woke up beneath the iron-grey skies of the North, wearing the skin of a Dúnedain Ranger and speaking Sindarin as if it were his mother tongue. Transmigrated into the body of Halbarad’s kinsman just as the War of the Ring ignites, he carries the "Morgul Pact"—a parasitic system that harvests the essence of betrayal and despair to forge a "Crown of Ash and Shadow." While he rides with Aragorn and the Grey Company, the system urges him to convert genuine bonds into "teeth" for his dark crown, granting him the supernatural ability to see the "Kinslayer’s Insight" in every ally. Now, as the fleet sails toward the burning fires of Minas Tirith, Cedric must decide if he will become a rival to the Witch-king or use the "Ranger’s Last Choice" to shatter his own dark divinity for a world that may never thank him.

Sora Miragale wasn't the richest elf, unlike others who either had good lives or simple lives, she spent her life in scraps picking what she could find and sell in the deep abyss of Titan Forge. Though her life wasn't all good or simple, she had always dreamt of becoming a knight one day, fighting against monsters and beasts. But her fate was clear that day when she came across what felt almost like a dream. No, it wasn't— It was something abnormal, something that didn't belong in this world where elves only existed. [Congratulations. You have acquired the power of a Chaos Crafter.] [Do you wish to accept this offer?] [Choose your path]

A cold, "mechanical" enforcer for a brutal crime syndicate finds his frozen heart thawed by a chaotic, yapping baker, only to realize that the light he’s finally found has made them both the perfect targets for a monster far more dangerous than himself.Leo is not a man; he is a machine. Known in the grey, rain-slicked streets of Oakhaven as "The Enforcer," he operates with a terrifying, surgical precision for the city's undisputed crime boss, Vane. Thirteen years ago, a traumatic fire cauterized Leo’s emotions, leaving behind a man who treats violence like an audit and his life like a maintenance schedule. He doesn't feel, he doesn't sleep, and he certainly doesn't miss. ​Then comes Ayiesha.A "yapping dynamite" of Lebanese heritage, Ayiesha is a whirlwind of flour-dusted chaos, broken appliances, and endless stories. When Leo "unintentionally" stops at her struggling bakery, he finds himself drawn into her vibrant, nonsensical world. Ayiesha doesn't see a monster; she sees a "Lion" (Asad) who just needs a little sugar and a lot of repairs. From wrestling 50-pound flour sacks in the rain to navigating neon-themed birthday parties and bouncy castles, Ayiesha begins to recalibrate Leo’s internal compass, teaching the "Machine" how to breathe again.The stakes turn lethal when a new kind of monster enters the city—a calculated Serial Killer who doesn't follow the rules of the underworld.