betrayal

Corinne was never the princess, just her stand-in, sent to marry Alpha Barrett Locke and end a war. The crown was fake, the vows were lies, but the mate bond that snapped into place the night he marked her was brutally real. He knew she wasn’t the real bride. He claimed her anyway. When the true princess returned, he locked Corinne away to bury the scandal. She escaped carrying his child. Six years later, she returns, not as a decoy, but a self-made powerhouse with an empire of her own and a five-year-old son who has Barrett's eyes. She came for revenge. He sees his mate, his heir, and the bond that never died. This time, he’ll destroy anything to keep them both. One deception started the war between them. One child will finish it.

In the heart of the vail- an eternal storm- sits the aviary. A tall tower of stone and brass with rotating columns. Inside, a group of orphaned boys separated into flocks based on their magical aptitude. the falcons who build the wrens who heal and the ravens who kill. Training is grueling and full of surprises. Tensions run high as they seek the approval of their father figure, the architect. When Aldric receives special attention and is exiled from his flock, he seeks higher knowledge to prove himself better than the rest. Will the architect praise him further or will he fall short? A harrowing story of betrayal, death, and destiny.

Max never believed in second chances. In his previous life, he endured humiliation, neglect, and quiet suffering. He survived by staying small—by lowering his head, by kneeling, by learning that silence was safer than resistance. One night he drank himself to death, it felt less like tragedy and more like release. Then he opened his eyes again. Reborn as Lin Yushan—the only heir of a powerful cultivation family—Max finds himself in a world where strength defines worth and weakness invites destruction. The Lin household stands within Clear River City, a human stronghold hidden beneath a powerful formation in a land ruled not by men, but by void beasts that awaken with the night. Survival here demands power. Power demands cultivation. But inheriting Yushan’s body means inheriting his sins. The original Lin Yushan was arrogant, cruel, and careless. His actions left scars—none deeper than those inflicted upon Lin Xue, the servant who endured years of humiliation in silence. When sabotage nearly costs him his life, suspicion falls upon her. And in a moment that will change everything, Max steps forward—not as the entitled heir, but as someone who understands what it means to kneel and wait for pain. He confesses. The punishment is public. Brutal. Sixty lashes under the unblinking eyes of the Enforcement Hall. For the first time in either life, Max chooses not survival—but responsibility. Yet beneath this struggle lies something greater. In this world, cultivation begins with absorbing Void Essence, the raw essence drawn from the boundless void beyond the stars. In a realm where law is visible, power is survival, and weakness is unforgiven— Max must decide what kind of man Lin Yushan will become. And whether borrowed guilt can become chosen strength. Author’s Note: I’m writing the cultivation story I wish existed. If that interests you, stay awhile. Also, this will be my first book, so be patient.

[READ]: This book contains strong language and mentions of violence. Suitable for a 16+ demographic. The book cover is originally drawn by the author themselves, too. The debut installment of the HYDRA web novel series. With the passage of time, the empty seat of the Director of the Sombre Arts remains void of any of the art's successors sitting on it for years. Its recent possessor of both seat and title mysteriously vanished and was presumed dead due to extensive searches throughout the continent of Agmadoren with no leads. However, instances of chaos began appearing without reason throughout the entire nation of Galamona; the balance of natural law descended into madness, as if foul play was involved. Would our protagonist, a champion of the Maidens of Darkness, find the source of the blight that begins to seep its mayhem throughout the peaceful nation? Set in a fusion of a steampunk world filled with European-Asian inspirations, read more as you delve into this whimsical, fantasy web novel with political play, as well as an extremely detailed look at the various creatures, magic, and locations scattered in the Path of Cathedra.

They called King Kaelen the most brutal Alpha to ever lead the Black Ridge Pack, until his own blood betrayed him, leaving him to die with thirty-two stabs to the heart. He expected the void of the afterlife. Instead, he wakes up a century later in the body of Linus, the useless third prince of the Blue Moon Kingdom. ​In this new world, Linus is nothing but a decorative pawn, a frail Omega sold to the enemy Emperor Fenrir to stop a war. To the court, Linus is a pathetic sacrifice. To his best friend, Silas, he is a rival who needs to be eliminated. To Fenrir, he is just another malnourished rabbit destined for a cage. ​But they’ve made a fatal mistake. ​The boy they see is a weakling, but the soul inside is a King who refuses to be submissive. Kaelen doesn't want a soft bed or a master; he wants his throne back. As he suppresses his Omega pheromones and unleashes a century-old bloodlust, the Iron Fang Empire realizes that their Omega concubine is actually the most dangerous man in the palace. ​The original Linus is dead. The man who replaced him is a monster in silk robes, and he’s ready to show the world that even in the body of an Omega, a King always rules. ​The Emperor wanted a mate to claim. He’s about to get a partner who might just conquer him instead.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be known that this book wouldn't have made it this far without the support my dear writing buddy Rachel E. Canton who is a great writer of SINS OF THE SERAPHIM - https://www.webnovel.com/book/sins-of-the-seraphim_26438336605116805 and Derek J. Perna To Rachel & Derek, Thank you for everything! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When the last heir of Ardel lost everything, fate would bring her to her rightful protector. Anna Adhemar, the forgotten princess, found herself betrayed by the Regent. Hunted by the Bargesians and the ruthless slave traders, she desperately fled for her life. Rescued by a mysterious man, her newfound safety was short-lived as she succumbed to a potent aphrodisiac. Then, she awoke in the arms of the fearsome Knight Commander of Gerhard, stripped bare, in a foreign kingdom. Fear, confusion, and a sense of profound devastation enveloped her. But the man before her declared, "I am your husband. I married you last night." Then, with unwavering determination, he vowed, " You're my woman now. No one can hurt my woman." --- Kyren Raychard, the Crown Prince who had chosen to forsake the throne and become celibate, led the Knights of Gerhard to safeguard his kingdom’s border from slave trading activities. Outside his camp, he found Anna poisoned and delirious. The healer informed him of the only cure, of which he must race against time to give and honour her. For the first time, he felt an overwhelming instinct to protect and claim her as his own. Unaware of his deepening affection, he belatedly realised his feelings as he stood on the brink of losing her. Bound by a soul-binding spell, their fates intertwined…

In the glittering skyscraper heart of Aerthos, power isn't just measured in billions, it's measured in blood! ​By day, Aeris Rein McGuire is the Ice Queen of Diadem International. She is a perfectionist chairwoman who rules the corporate world with an iron will. Her only weakness? Her younger sister, Delilah. Or so everyone thinks. ​Delilah Highmore is the clan's unbound spirit, the carefree sun to her sister's cold moon. While Aeris builds empires, Delilah dreams of freedom. But in the jianghu, freedom is a luxury the clans can't afford. Everything changed on a perfect day that turned into a nightmare of twisted metal and shattered glass. ​A car accident should have claimed Delilah's life. Instead, Aeris saved her, leaving Delilah drowning in a debt of gratitude and a crushing weight of guilt. To atone for the sacrifice that nearly broke her sister, the carefree girl is gone. Delilah steps into the cold, ruthless world of the family company, trading her freedom for a suit and a blade. ​But as she digs into the accident and the truth of what happened to their parents sixteen years ago, the foundation of her world begins to crack. In the hidden depths of the jianghu, oaths are rarely kept and blood is never forgotten. As Delilah uncovers the terrifying secrets of the McGuire legacy, she realizes the sister she is trying to repay... might be the very person she should be running from.

After her execution as the Empire's "Cruel Rose," overworked banker Sarah awakens one year pre-death—with a Gacha System and a hunger for payback. Her old life? A rotten portfolio sunk on a prince who despised her. Now as Seraphina Rosewood, she flips the script: summoning SSS-rank legends via blood rituals to forge an unstoppable monopoly. A Cursed Paladin tanks the hits. A Shadow Archmage pulls strings from the dark. A Corrupted Priest twists faith. A gender-flipped Beast-Vampire Queen unleashes primal fury. And a Fallen Hero? Pure redemption arbitrage. As holy weapons and divine assassins close in, Seraphina plays the battlefield like a trading floor—rigging optics, weaponizing pawns, and shorting the Emperor's soul itself. Love's a bad bet; a loyal harem of monstrous elites? Infinite returns as the Empress of Eternal Night.

In her previous life, Bethany was a top-tier survivor in an apocalyptic world where clean water and food was rarer than diamonds and betrayal came quicker than bullets. Ruthless, smart, and fiercely adaptive, she rose to become the leader of The Red Dawn Alliance, a powerful syndicate of Awakened ability users. But just when she thought she'd secured peace for her people, her most trusted aide and the only friend she dared to have stabbed her in the back in exchange for power. Literally. Now, Bethany wakes up… not dead, not in the apocalypse but inside a historical Chinese novel called Crimson Blossoms Under Heaven, a dark revenge drama she had once binge-read for the plot (and the hot male lead). She’s not the heroine. Nope. Instead, she had become Lan Yue, a lowly handmaiden doomed to die after betraying her mistress, the novel’s brilliant heroine. A cannon fodder side character destined to be nothing more than a footnote. But Lan Yue had no intention of playing her role. Why fight for someone else’s glory? Why throw herself into dog-blood drama filled with betrayal, revenge, and endless schemes? All she wanted was simple: Eat good food. Sleep as much as she wanted. Live quietly, far away from the chaos. Unfortunately… the heroine had other ideas. At first, her smiles were sweet, her words dripping with warmth. But the more time passed, the more Lan Yue noticed something was wrong. The heroine’s touches lingered too long. Her gaze burned hotter than it should. And instead of chasing the male lead, she clung closer and closer to her. “Lan Yue,” the heroine’s lips curled in a chilling smile, “Where do you think you’re going? You’re mine.” Lan Yue: “...” Wait. Weren’t you supposed to love the hero?! Please also check out my other books Why Is Every Male Lead Obsessed With Me?! (BL) #Quick Transmigration Love Me, Bury Me: Restart the End #Isekai

I don’t own anything at all. Hermoine Granger was betrayed by her so called friends, Dumbledore, The Weasleys, Neville, and the light by a agreement to leave her with Bellatrix. The only ones who didn’t betray her are Luna plus Ginny, let’s not forget her favorite professor Minerva McGonagall. Now in the dungeons in the dark she was contacted by Death to be trained by the Higher Class Beings who stand the summit as she excepts. Hermoine is OP and Lesbian to never let a man touch her. Weasley Bashing Dumbledore Bashing Multi Multiverse travel. I’m gonna rewrite this.

NATURE-MAN: When the forest chooses a boy… the world must face the consequences. Mokshit is an ordinary student with an extraordinary fate he never asked for. After a mysterious incident deep within a dying forest, Mokshit awakens with impossible abilities—plants respond to his emotions, nature bends to his will, and an ancient power begins to stir inside him. What starts as a miracle quickly becomes a curse as corruption spreads, secret orders emerge, and the earth itself begins to tremble. Hunted by the Celestial Order, manipulated by a power-hungry man named Nirmul, and haunted by a truth even nature tried to hide, Mokshit discovers he is not just a chosen guardian—he is a Hybrid, born from two opposing forces: creation and destruction. As an ancient world-ending entity known as the Devourer Tree awakens, Mokshit is forced to fight battles far beyond his strength. With his closest friends Meera, Rohan, and Nikhil standing beside him, and love becoming both his anchor and his weakness, Mokshit must make an impossible choice: Save the world… or save the person he loves. In a final act of sacrifice, Mokshit destroys the Devourer—but loses everything he was meant to become. His powers vanish. The forest falls silent. And yet… the corruption is not truly gone. Now powerless, hunted, and carrying the weight of a broken prophecy, Mokshit must learn who he is without the forest—while the world prepares for the return of something far darker. Nature-Man is an emotional, anime-inspired fantasy about identity, sacrifice, love, and the terrifying cost of being chosen. The forest never forgets. And destiny is never finished.

SOLD TO THE DEVIL Daniella Montenegro has spent her entire life paying for sins that were never hers. Her mother’s death. Her father’s failures. Her brother’s reckless choices. At twenty, she dances under neon lights each night just to keep food on the table for a family that has never protected her in return. When the man she was meant to marry disappears on their wedding day, Daniella believes humiliation is the worst fate waiting for her. She is wrong. By nightfall, her father’s gambling debts come due, and desperate men make desperate bargains. To settle what he owes, he offers the only thing he has left of value. His daughter. Blindfolded and delivered like payment, Daniella is taken to the secluded estate of Santiago Torres Mendoza, a man whispered about in business circles and feared everywhere else. Powerful, controlled, and mercilessly private, Santiago is not a man who explains his decisions, only enforces them. Daniella arrives with nothing: no freedom, no allies, and no way to escape. And she carries a secret of her own. Two months pregnant with a child whose father she cannot name, she is forced to sign a contract that claims her body, her future, and her unborn child. Survival becomes her only goal as she is pulled into Santiago’s dangerous world of luxury negotiations, shadowed alliances, and corruption powerful enough to erase lives without consequence. But everything changes the moment Santiago truly looks at her. Because Daniella Montenegro has her mother’s face, the face of the woman he lost twenty-three years ago. A woman whose disappearance left wounds that time never healed and secrets buried deep enough to destroy empires. What begins as a transaction becomes a fragile and dangerous alliance. As enemies close in and the truth about Daniella’s past begins to surface, Santiago finds himself protecting the one person he was never meant to care about, while Daniella discovers that the most terrifying prison is not the contract that binds her, but the man whose darkness may be the only thing keeping her alive. In a world ruled by power, loyalty, and betrayal, the greatest threat is not the devil who bought her… But the woman who refuses to belong to anyone.

It all began with one challenge. Kairo, the untouchable king of campus. A cocky, magnetic heartbreaker every girl dreams of. A walking sin with a smirk that ruins and a charm that destroys. A Casanova who collects hearts like trophies… and never keeps one for long. Then there’s Sara, the quiet nerd who loved him in silence. Not just his body, not just the fantasy every other girl wanted, she longed for all of him. His heart. His soul. His love. But when a challenge pulled them together, his goal was to win the game. Hers was to win him. And somewhere in between, everything changed. What was supposed to be fun became chaos, twisting Sara’s already fragile life into a disaster she never saw coming. Yet, when everything crumbles, she clings to the only thing that keeps her alive, her secret blessing. Her heartbeat. Her reason to keep going.

“Honesty” is held as an anchor, and “goodness” is offered as a tribute, hoping it might be exchanged for someone’s heart… Only to discover a pitiful truth in the end: in the world of love, goodness is not a currency that can buy feelings at all. Many may see waiting as something romantic. But for those trapped in the cycle of “a love without existence,” waiting is no different from being imprisoned in a cell without bars. We willingly become the guilty secret she keeps hidden. Willingly become the shadow that supports her on days she is hurt by someone else. Willingly endure rejection again and again all because of the self-deception that whispers, “One day, she’ll see my worth.” When we become nothing more than a “placeholder”valuable in her eyes only when she has no one left yet turn into an “excess”, awkward and unwanted, the moment she finds someone new who pleases her more. By Chalam Whale

Jade was nothing but a mocked student in oversized hoodies until she agreed to help her trainer with last-minute gym inventory on New Year’s Eve. However, a single mistake—sending a private video to the wrong contact—shatters her life in seconds. Publicly humiliated at a New Year’s party, betrayed by her boyfriend as part of a cruel bet, Jade stood drenched in filth and laughter, stripped of dignity in front of the entire school, until the Alpha Triplets arrived. And with it, a ruthless bond shackled her to all three, as well as revealing she was the lost daughter of the Lycan King. The Alpha Triplets, known for their coldness and brutality, searched for their mates to break their feral curse before their 25th birthday. But when they found their mate in the form of a weak, frail girl, disdain was all she got. With a new identity and a transformation in her life, Jade is tossed into deadly Lycan politics, brutal mate bonds, a fourth bond, a throne soaked in blood, and an attraction from the Rogue King himself. What will she do when she discovers not everything is as it seems? How will Jade survive the chaos that follows in her quest to win the Lunar Crown Student of the Year and evade the dangerous love of her fourth mate, now turned enemy, who sought out her heart? Four Alphas. One girl. And Fate's Twisted Game of Love and Power.

BOOK ONE OF THE “RECLAIMING HER FATE” SERIES “Wealth, crown, wild, and heart. Together they rise, or together they fall.” Heiress of the First Werewolf Kingdom, Aveloria Valenor was betrayed, rejected, and slain in her first life. Reborn by the Moon Goddess, she vows to change her fate, only to discover she has not just one mate, but four: the one who once doomed her, the one whose power could save her, the one who tempts her freedom, and the one who has always loved her. Bound by prophecy, hunted by dark shadows, Aveloria must either choose to unite her Tetrabond or see the world consumed by darkness. EXCERPT He groaned against her lips, a low growl that sent shivers down her spine, and she kissed him back with equal fire, matching his rhythm and hunger. Their breaths tangle, shallow and uneven. His large hand grabbed her neck, tilting her head up as he deepened the kiss, causing her pulse to race beneath his touch and her body to ache for his. When they finally parted, Aveloria’s breath trembled. Their foreheads rested together, breathing ragged and lips swollen. Neither spoke. Words would have ruined it, that wild, reckless pull that said they were already too far gone. She looked at him, the one who had saved her, the one who shouldn’t have been hers, and for a moment, everything made sense. But the guilt came next to the reality. She stepped back, her heart racing. “I have to tell you something.” His expression shifted. “What is it?” “There are others.” “Others?” “Mates,” she said quietly. “Three.” He froze. “You’re serious?” She nodded. “I didn’t choose them. It just happened.” He exhaled sharply, running a hand through his hair. “I thought those were just rumors. No one believed it.” “I wish they were.” His jaw tightened, but he laughed softly, shaking his head. “Of course. The Moon gives me a mate; she already has three others. That sounds about right for my luck.” Aveloria swallowed, guilt pressing at her chest. “I didn’t mean for this to happen.” He looked at her again, calmer this time. “Neither did I.”

Richard crashes into the Marvel Universe and immediately awakens the Template System—congratulations, you’re now a mutant with the wonderfully illegal power of Plunder. Plunder: Kill it yourself, take its powers. Then evolve them. That’s it. That’s the cheat.

WARNING: SSPG | R-18 Marimar Oquendo crosses paths with the hot son of a deceased famous actress, who appears to be suffering from a mental illness but understands her pain and desires. She works as his personal nanny, babysits him, and gradually falls for him. She then realizes that he is far more dangerous than she believed, especially since he has suddenly returned to his genuine and normal personality. He was totally out of her league when she discover that he was Lev Dmitri Romanov, the Romanov Mafia's grim reaper—a murderer and mafia billionaire. What will happen to her after she runaway from the man while being pregnant of their child? Will she be able to forget that she had once been the Mafia's nanny?

The three gods: The God of Heaven, The Goddess of Hell and The God of Nature. Each of them created different concept of the world as we know it. Yet they cursed Eve and she decided that the gods should face punishment. Will she succeed in her revenge or fall into the hands of the gods? Only time will tell...