survival

Clara Vance had it all. Millions of followers, a beauty empire built on glamour, and a life curated for the camera. But a lost bet with her mother sends her away from a marvelous weekend trip to Mykonos and into the dusty attic of her family’s decaying ancestral manor. The catch was her inheritance. Her task? A dreary clear-out. Her discovery? A centuries-old diary belonging to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Thorne. The ink tells a story of a forgotten history. Eleanor’s forbidden obsession with her guardian and step-uncle, Casimir Guggenheim, a ruthless railroad tycoon with a heart of stone. But when Clara touches the tear-stained pages, the scent of crushed gardenias doesn’t just fill the room, it drags her back to 1879. Trapped in Eleanor’s corseted body, Clara finds herself under the roof of the very man who haunted the diary. To the world, Casimir is a cold, untouchable magnate. To Clara, he’s a puzzle she’s determined to break. The problem? Clara isn’t the timid, fragile girl Casimir remembers. She’s a 21st-century It Girl with no filter, a strategic mind for business, a total lack of respect for Gilded Age propriety and a defiance waiting for trouble to happen. While the original Eleanor was a victim of her station, Clara is ready to burn the cage down. As Clara navigates a world where a single misstep means ruin, scheming relatives see her as a pawn, and a powerful suitor sees her as nothing but a business merger. She realizes the history books were wrong. Rewriting Eleanor’s tragic end is dangerous, especially when she starts falling for the man she was never supposed to have. History says they’re a tragedy. Clara says history is about to get a makeover.

Neva and Rhett—two young souls—find their heartstrings woven in love. But just as passion and peace begin to bloom, fate intervenes. Bleak, haunting circumstances scatter blades across their romance, threatening to tear them apart. Ishmael—a man with a heart of thorns—yearns to mend the wound of losing Neva. And in the end, rays of love and joy filter through the clouds of horror that darken his world—as Neva appears before him once more. Twisted fate entangles them all, revealing the Game of Sphere, as misery scorches their souls. A concealed life beyond turns its pages—one after another—gathering sin and virtue, tragedy and fortune, strength and frailty, creation, love... and hate. Illusion is where we live—in the garden of Eden before the fall of man. Illusion is serenity—an evermore sanguine of love. The vision of paradise in the New Earth sows hope deep in the soul. The delusory pleasures of this world ignite the flames that burn in oceans of fire. Illusive Eden is rapture. Illusive Eden is tragedy. The fall of man—even now bleeds red. The whisper whirls the dawn of a man—he who pretends to be the hero. --- The girl who once vowed to be his forever Now forbids him to ever appear. She refuses to recognize him, Disregarding all he ever was. He vows to protect her. Yet he is the terrifying truth she prays is a lie. He trips her, rips her apart— He's the living tragedy looming over her life. He once was her Elayne, now her hiraeth. He is the villain—pretending to be the hero. --- The Lord is the way— Steady through the wilderness. The King is the truth— Burning through the lies. The Father is the life— Breathing spirit into dust. She kneels before the Ruler, The God who shaped galaxies— He has called her a poet. Her tongue shall be anointed. Her poetry shall be the rivers of His word. She will scatter seeds in broken fields, And He will send the sun. He will send the rain. He will draw the roots down deep. He yields to the Ruler, The God of blazing holiness— He has called him a soldier. His fists shall be unclenched. The sword of the Spirit rests in his grip. He will shield the sower of the seeds, As storms rise against the harvest. His strength will be not his own, But drawn from the marrow of grace. This faith shall shake the mountains, For He has conquered the filth of the flesh. This flame will cleanse the shadows. For He has defeated the darkness. This love shall live on for eternity, For He has overcome the mortal world.

I am not a hero. I am the void you filled with your own shadows." Rio Isanami’s life was never normal. Since childhood, he saw colors bleeding from the air and heard whispers in the silence. At twenty-three, a horrific plane crash was supposed to be his end. Instead, it was a gateway to a nightmare far worse than death. Pulled from the brink of extinction by four selfish Goddesses, Rio is thrust into a world where humans are mere pawns in a divine game of greed. But Rio is no ordinary human. He carries the "Royal Energy"—the last remnants of the Kingdom of Hysteria, a civilization wiped out centuries ago. Gifted with a terrifying power that can shatter time like glass and freeze entire battlefields into icy graves, Rio has one fatal flaw: his power is slowly killing him. Every time he removes his protective talisman, the frost consumes his soul. Now, he must lead an SSS-Rank Party composed of the very beings who claim to own him: A Commander bearing the Mark of Life, bound by a contract she won't explain. A lethal Assassin fueled by the bloodlust of the Vampire Queen. A Time God whispering deals inside his mind, waiting for the perfect price. Rio doesn't care about saving this world. He doesn't care about the Goddesses' petty wars. He only wants the one thing they refuse to give him—Freedom. In a world where time stands still, can a broken Prince reclaim his throne, or will he become the ultimate toy of the gods?

In a world scarred by radiation and monstrous Westlings, humanity stands on the edge of extinction. When his village is destroyed, Ryo is forced into a brutal path of survival, where power, sacrifice, and loss define every step forward. As the truth behind the Guardians and Westlings unfolds, Ryo must face a terrifying question— Can a hero save the world without losing himself?

After her grandfather's death, Bai Hanyun was disowned by her parents and cast out of the Bai family. With nowhere else to go, she left the city and returned to the countryside. There, by a twist of fate, she discovered an antique mirror hidden in the basement of her newly purchased home. From that moment on, strange events began to unfold—until one day, she stumbled upon a prayer from a young general. Feng Xiyan, besieged by the Yuezhi Tribe and betrayed by the imperial court, had been driven into a desperate corner. With no access to water, food, or medicine, he and the citizens of Xiqiang City could do nothing but await death. But just as all hope seemed lost, Heaven intervened. From that moment on, the Feng Army and the people of Xiqiang City had enough food and water, living lives more prosperous than even the Emperor himself.

In the city of Qiyun, Li Feng lives a quiet life as a janitor at the Rift Operations Center—a place where elite Hunters fight deadly monsters from mysterious Xuan Gates. While the Hunters are celebrated as heroes, Li Feng is invisible, stuck in a life he never wanted. He dreams of something more, something better. Then, everything changes. One day, Li Feng is suddenly pulled into a terrifying new world through a Xuan Gate. It’s a dark and dangerous place filled with monsters, and his survival depends on his ability to fight. But just when he thinks all hope is lost, he discovers he has been chosen by a strange System that gives him powerful new abilities. No longer just a janitor, Li Feng can now fight back with energy shields, powerful weapons, and special skills. As he faces monster after monster, Li Feng begins to realize that his survival is just the beginning. The System holds secrets he doesn’t understand, and his powers might be the key to saving his city—or destroying it. With danger lurking around every corner, Li Feng has to decide: Will he rise up and become the hero he’s always dreamed of, or will he fall to the darkness that threatens everything? His journey is just starting, and the fate of Qiyun may depend on the choices he makes.

Synopsis Transported a thousand years into the past, he finds himself in a world of Pokémon—but not the kind he imagined. This ancient Pokémon world is dark and brutal, where Pokémon are known as "magical beasts" and constant conflict rages between humans and these creatures. Now a humble farm owner, Aven must use his knowledge of modern Pokémon science to survive. Watch as he cultivates the land with fertilizers, breeds powerful Pokémon, crafts Poké Balls, develops technology, and lays the foundation for a new world order. For most transmigrators, science is the greatest productive force—but here, it's Pokémon who hold that title. This is the story of a Pokémon breeder quietly farming his way to power, eventually founding the Pokémon League in an ancient world. ................... Ok, I changed it from Hisui to Ancient World (Sinnoh) because the author wrote this in 2021 way ahead of Pokemon Legend: Arceus which was released on Jan 2022, but hey the story is still pretty good and the author managed to guess most pokemon found in the game except for their new regional forms.

Humanity has done it; the Milky Way is theirs, but as they prepare to go beyond its confines, they discover reality fraying at its seams as they have been chosen as a battlefield for a war that was never theirs to begin with.

A dangerous witch has escaped the ocean, slipping into the human world where she hides in plain sight, growing stronger and more ruthless each passing day. No ones know where she is or when she might strike. Born beneath the wave, Corelia, a young mermaid, never imagined her destiny would lead her into the human world. Yet the ocean chooses her for a mission only she can complete, she is forced to leave everything she knowns behind. With her loyal best friend by her side, Mishell, the two mermaids steps into the human world armed with nothing but a mysterious necklace, a Death Shell and a mission that feels high but far more complicated than they expected. The human world isn't just unfamilar but overwhelming, secrets lurks in the dark corners, past that refuses to be buried, enemies behind friendly smiles and emotions they were never prepared for clouded their judgement. In the middle of this search, they find themselves tangled in college life... Crossing path with Q4, a popular K-pop Boyband whose presence brings unexpected distractions, dangerous attentions and feelings neither of them were prepared for. As their powers began to change and evil forces close in, Corelia and Mishell realized that capturing the witch might not be as simple as they thought. With no clear clues, no idea where to begin and hearts slowly entangled in a world they were never meant to belong, the mission became a race against time. Love and Danger collide. Trust is tested and the line between destiny and choices became blur. With everything at risk, the witch still hides in the shadows. Will they be strong enough to complete their mission or will the human world consume them even before they find where to start?

This work is a draft. The book is released on August 12. On the day the world ended, the president of Fermiris struck a deal with the king behind the dome and unleashed an army of colossal insectoid monsters. Cities burned. The sky opened. "Live until tomorrow," the quest window says, haunting him every moment. But tomorrow never comes.

INTERTWINED (WHEN TIMETAKES YOU BACK) What if the past held your future? When Isabella “Bella” Carter, a brilliant, skeptical college student from the city, steps into her campus lab that fateful day, she expects to witness science in motion, not magic. But one wrong spark sends her spiraling through time, tumbling from her modern world into the ancient Kingdom of Joseon, where honor rules, secrets kill, and one misstep can cost your life. Waking in a world that feels like a dream and a nightmare entwined, Bella becomes an outsider in every sense, her skin, her speech, her clothes mark her as something other. Yet amid suspicion and whispers, a widow and her spirited young daughter take her in, offering not just refuge, but the first flicker of belonging in a world that shouldn’t exist for her. But fate isn’t done with her yet. When Bella saves a wounded stranger on the roadside, she has no idea she’s just altered the course of history, because that stranger is Crown Prince Lee Ji-ho, heir to the throne and prisoner of duty. Bound by gratitude and curiosity, he seeks her out, and from that moment, their lives become perilously intertwined. Drawn into the glittering yet treacherous palace life, Bella discovers a world of dangerous beauty, where power wears a smile, betrayal hides behind silk screens, and every whispered secret could be her undoing. As her bond with the prince deepens into something forbidden, she faces an impossible choice between love and survival, between destiny and return. With rebellion staring in the shadows and time itself beginning to unravel, Bella must decide: is she meant to go home, or was she brought here for a reason that defies every law of nature? “Intertwined (When Time Takes You Back)” is a sweeping, emotional, and time-bending historical drama where romance burns through centuries, and one woman’s journey through the past might just rewrite the future.

Manya wakes up in a hospital. No memory. Just her mamu (her uncle), her only family. Then everything falls apart. Her first love has been taken by his own king—the custom-made Angels. She also loses her mamu to a group of blurry figures. To find him, Manya is thrust into a world she’s never imagined—flying cars, storms bending with technology. Her heart pounds. Her power thrums. Every step feels dangerous. She has to save her mamu. She has to survive. And maybe, along the way, figure out who she really is… and find a place in this strange new world. Copyright 2024 by M.S. Roopra. All rights reserved. This is a serialized version of my completed novel, available in full on Kindle.

He threw money on the bed after our one-night stand. I threw it back in his face at his own inauguration. By sundown, we were engaged. By the week's end — married. Franklin Flemington needed a wife to secure his empire. I needed a miracle to save my family. For two years, we played our parts flawlessly — the golden couple the whole city envied. Behind closed doors, I was invisible to him. When the two years were up, I handed him divorce papers without blinking. He stared at me like I'd lost my mind. "I've given you everything a husband should. What more do you want from me, Octavia?" I smiled, signed my name, and walked out. I thought that was the end. I thought I'd finally won. I forgot one thing — Franklin Flemington has never lost anything in his life. And he has no intention of starting with me. Game on.

What is the hunt? The hunt is everlasting. As long as life exists, beings will either become hunters or prey. However, even a hunter may one day turn into prey, and even the weakest prey may bare its fangs at the strong and become a hunter. The food chain dictates that blood must be spilled for life to exist. And murder is just another ugly, albeit necessary, part of life. Only those who remain at the top of mountains of corpses decide which is which. Everyone is a hunter, and everyone is prey. Even those who carry the blood of Old Valyria. And even those mighty beasts that declare sovereignty over the empty skies. __________________ Prince Baelon had three sons: Viserys, Daemon, and Aegon. Sadly, Aegon died in infancy, leaving both Baelon and Alyssa heartbroken. Alyssa was always optimistic about having more children, and seeing her son die left her lost and hollow. She, too, barely managed to survive, by the gods’ grace, overcoming the hardships the pregnancy left her with. two years later, in 86 AC, she gave birth to her fourth child, Zalarys Targaryen, First of His Name, and the one who would end it all.

On a storm-soaked night, the Unezugawa District is consumed by devils born from humanity’s deepest fears. Seventeen-year-old Haruto watches helplessly as the Abandonment Devil—an entity forged from the terror of being left alone—slaughters his parents before his eyes. Yet when the monster corners him, something is wrong. Haruto does not tremble. He does not beg. He feels… nothing. His emptiness draws the attention of something far worse. In a flash of crimson, the legendary Crimson Devil appears—an ancient entity once believed to have nearly triggered the apocalypse centuries ago before being sealed by exorcists. Fascinated by the boy who cannot fear, it offers Haruto a contract: Power beyond human limits… In exchange for a precious memory each time he uses it. Haruto accepts. But there is a truth no one knows. The Crimson Devil dwelling inside him was once meant to begin the end of the world. Instead of destroying humanity, it chooses something unthinkable—it spares the brave and forms a covenant with one. To prevent future catastrophes and hunt the very devils born from mankind’s fear, Haruto joins the Exorcists—the same organization that once fought against the Crimson Devil itself. Now feared by devils… Suspected by humans… And slowly losing the memories that make him who he is… Haruto walks the thin line between salvation and annihilation. Because if the devil inside him ever changes its mind— The apocalypse will not be stopped.

Born in the depths of Sierra Madre, Maureen “Mau” White was lost as a child and raised by a mysterious healer who taught her the secrets of medicine, survival, and strength. Unknown to the world, she grows into a prodigy—healer, martial artist, musical genius, and the hidden mastermind behind the global fashion empire M Designs. Meanwhile, the White family lives in illusion, raising an impostor daughter while a dark betrayal by a powerful relative buried the truth of Mau’s disappearance. Eighteen years later, Mau enters the city to study medicine, unknowingly stepping into the path of Tim Gail—a young billionaire who once met her in childhood and never forgot the girl who saved him from fire. As destiny pulls them closer, secrets unravel: a hidden birthright, a stolen identity, a corporate empire built in shadows, and a love born from a forgotten promise. But when betrayal, obsession, and family lies collide, Mau must decide whether to remain the girl of the forest—or rise as the queen of everything that was stolen from her.

Some girls fear growing up. Davina fears turning sixteen. At first glance, Davina's life is like any other teenager’s—awkward crushes, family secrets, and trying to survive high school. But behind the smiles and half-truths, a storm is building. When she begins to dream of deaths that later come true, Davina starts to question her reality. Is she cursed? Or is something darker pulling the strings? Sent away from home with no answers, she’s forced to confront her family's chilling legacy—one that began before she was born. Her best friend is hiding something. Her crush is not who he seems. And Davina? She's about to find out she was never meant to live past sixteen. Some ties unravel the truth behind the curse that binds them all. So the Question is: When your soul is sold before birth, how do you fight fate? My Personal Take: #WhispersInTheDark #PlotTwistAhead #SlowBurnMystery #FemaleLead #EmotionalRollercoaster #DeadlyRomance #SoulBond #BetrayalAndTrust #HerStoryMatters #FightTheCurse

Leo didn't expect anything in particular in life.He saw others make goals and dreams but life always felt dull to him.He was just another npc. However, all that changed when he was shot dead and reincarnated in another world with an immortal and ever adapting body and dropped in the middle of a forest with nothing. Watch as he travels and tries to survive in the new world full of magic and wonder.

Originally, Kamiyo who stayed in the Sand Village just wanted to grow up in a lowly way, and ensure that he could survive and live comfortably. As for the fighting and killing, let the protagonists do it. But there are unexpected events, Kamiyo's immediate boss suddenly sent him to Konoha as an undercover, and did not give him any chance to refuse. Kamiyo had no choice but to compromise and choose to go to Konoha as an undercover. However, Kamiyo's undercover career had not even begun, and he was discovered by Minato Namikaze. The most unfortunate thing was that the only boss in the Sand Village who knew his undercover identity died, and Kamishiro directly became an illegal resident. Kamiyo sat on the Kazekage, looking at the sky blankly. How can this be played? ---------------------- Advanced chapters at p@treon