betrayed

Years after the world ended, humanity struggles to survive in the ruins. This is a collection of short stories about the people who live in this broken world, each trying to find their own way, whether it's hope, revenge, or just another day. DISCLAIMER ! Viewer discretion is advised. The intention is not to offend but to provide information. Proceed only if you are comfortable with potentially sensitive topics. Copyright 2025 by Bella Notte

Betrayed. Crushed. Left for dead. On Valentine’s Day, David spent his last penny on a gift for his girlfriend of five years, only to find her in the arms of a billionaire heir in a luxury penthouse. But before the humiliation could kill him, the world collapsed. An apocalyptic earthquake dragged the entire city into the "Rules Horror"—a high-dimensional death game where absolute logic is the only law, and one wrong move leads to a fate worse than death. While the traitors struggle to survive as "bottom-feeders," David awakens the ultimate S-Rank Talent: [Infinite Deduction]. To others, the rules are inescapable death traps. To David, they are flawed lines of code full of exploitable bugs. Rule: Never look into the mirror. * David: I’ll use the light refraction bug to kill the monster inside. Rule: Do not enter the forbidden Car 13. * David: I’ll force the system to invite me in and turn the Boss into my pawn. From a lowly delivery boy to the God of the Abyss, David is no longer playing the game. He is breaking it. To the Genesis Consortium—the secret masters who created this hell: Prepare yourselves. The Rule-Breaker is coming for your heads. [Vengeance. Logic. Absolute Power. The Hunt has begun.]

Brace yourself, through the journey of this book , as it covers stories of various relatable characters . However, everything is not as it seems , find out along with our characters what secrets you may unravel and what lies ahead.

Once a heir to a noble family-Elicia now makes a living in the streets. Her fate changed the day her father learned about a truth the king had buried deep. As the king acknowledged it, he sent assassins to erase them. Servants. Friends. Everyone was slaughtered without mercy. But somehow, Elicia, Elicia's mother and her little sister survived. When the hope of survival seem to vanish, Elicia did what she could-she became a thief.

[The Death Sentence] In the Age of Ash, a kiss is not a promise. It is a death sentence. Elara is the last Silver Kyuubi—a mythic predator who thrives on the souls of the wicked. She doesn't hunt with steel; she hunts with her body. One night of ecstasy, one touch of her silk-silver skin, and your life essence is hers to devour. To the warlords of the world, she is the ultimate prize. To their corpses, she is the last thing they ever loved. [The Hunter’s Obsession] Draven Blackwood is the law of the North. A ruthless Warlord and the High Exorcist, he has spent a thousand years scrubbing her kind from the earth. He knows her scent. He knows her lies. He should have burned her the moment she crawled into his camp seeking "refuge." Instead, he pins her to the cold stone of his war-chamber, his calloused hand tightening around her throat. "I heard you kill in your sleep, little Fox," Draven growls, his eyes burning with the golden heat of a holy executioner. "So tell me... are you here to take my life in my bed, or are you going to beg me for yours?" [The Heart of the Lie] She needs his soul to stay human. He needs her foxfire to win a war. But as Elara weaves her web of sin, she uncovers a truth more dangerous than any curse: The man sworn to destroy her is the only one she cannot kill. Because the missing piece of her own shattered heart has been beating inside the Hunter’s chest for a thousand years. "Run, little Fox. If I see your tails tonight, I’ll be forced to skin you." "Then do it, Warlord... or are you afraid you’ll die of a broken heart?" #EnemiesToLovers #DarkRomance #R18 #Smut #PossessiveWarlord #ForcedProximity #Reincarnation #TouchHerAndYouDie #SymbioticBond

In a world that has ceased to turn—where the sun’s rays carry a lethal curse and the cold machines of Peterumman steal childhoods to forge them into weapons—Unit 009 is born. With no names and no memories, only a metal label etched into their wrists, Nugia and his comrades must survive the brutality of Instructor Varkas and the dark ambitions of Lord Vier. Amidst the clanging of steel and the hum of mana circuits, they seek a long-lost harmony in the 'Symphony of the Still Earth.' Can humanity truly bloom in a soil that has already died?

Never let the man you love make the ultimate sacrifice. I learned that lesson when mine took the place of a monster to save the world. My husband, James, is a 1600-year-old vampire, my soulmate, and the father of my newborn daughter. Now he’s a prisoner in the Underworld, bound to a fate worse than death. To get him back, I must make a deal with the enigmatic God of the Underworld—an alliance that demands a strategic marriage. My only path into Hell is offered by a chaotic demon I can’t possibly trust, and our true enemy wants my divine blood to seize the thrones of Heaven and Hell. The only thing worse than losing my husband to the darkness? Becoming its queen to get him back.

Born into one of the most prestigious noble families of the Eldros Empire, Kael Ashborne should have been a prodigy. Instead, he was branded a defect. Physically weak, plagued by a mysterious illness, and unable to wield power like his gifted siblings, Kael grows up neglected—cast aside by his family, ignored by his teachers, and bullied within the academy. In a world where strength defines worth, weakness is unforgivable. Yet what no one knows is that Kael’s body is not failing him by chance. It is failing because his soul is too strong. On the brink of death at fifteen, Kael’s sealed memories awaken—alongside a damaged system created by his own soul in a previous life. Not a gift from the gods. Not a blessing of fate. But a desperate mechanism born solely to keep him alive. With a body that threatens to collapse under his growing soul and a system that enforces cruel limits, Kael must walk a path slower and more dangerous than any other. Each step forward risks destruction. Each mistake could be fatal. Rejected by blood. Surrounded by enemies. Supported by only a single loyal maid. This is not the rise of a chosen hero. This is the survival of a noble deemed unworthy to exist—and the terrifying truth of what happens when a world mistakes restraint for weakness. Story Tags: • Fantasy • Action • Adventure • Academy • Nobility • Political Intrigue • Weak-to-Strong • Slow Burn Romance • Loyal Companion • System • Sentient System • Multiverse • Sealed Powers • Hidden Potential • Ancient Contracts • Rival Academies • Tournament Arc (Future) • Wish Granting • World Watching • Magic & Martial Arts • Mystery • Psychological Growth • Emotional Development • Fate vs Free Will • Legacy • Underdog • Slow Power Reveal

“Life is a banquet, and I was the only one on the menu.” Kaizen’s world didn’t end with a bang. It ended with the sound of a rope tightening. After uncovering his mother’s affair with his own school bully—a betrayal that drove his father to suicide—Kaizen was left with nothing but mockery, poverty, and a hollow smile. Faith, family, dignity… all devoured long before his death. Then came the so-called Mercy of the Gods. Summoned alongside his classmates to another world by the Goddess Ishtar to stop a world-ending calamity, Kaizen is granted a “Holy Gift” like the others. While heroes receive legendary weapons and divine magic, Kaizen is humiliated once again with the lowest-ranked skill of all: [Gluttony]—a useless hunger in a land of monsters. A curse. A joke. A perfect sacrifice. That is what everyone believes. What neither the heroes nor the Goddess herself realizes is that Kaizen’s hunger is not for food. It is an absence—something that should not exist. A void that does not simply kill, but erases. In a world that expects him to die quietly, Kaizen begins to rise. Each step forward strips something away—from monsters, from heroes… and eventually from the Gods themselves. Ishtar wanted a Hero. Instead, she unleashed something far worse. A mistake that is learning how to eat.

At 32, Seo-yeon has nothing. No degree. No career. No family. No future. Only manhwa. She reads stories about people who regress and fix their lives. She laughs at them. Because reality doesn't work like that. Until the night she decides to die. And wakes up... Seven days before she lost everything in her life.

ALIEN EXODUS: THE PORTAL WAR [Hashtags: #AlienInvasion #PortalWar #UnderdogHero #SciFiAction #SurvivalBattle] The Venus Gate was supposed to take humans to a new world. Instead, it brought aliens. Kael was just a cook-boy, ignored and laughed at. But when the aliens came, he saw things others couldn’t — and something inside him woke. Every attack, every betrayal, every portal glitch taught him to fight. The world became a hunting ground, and only Kael could stop the aliens and close the Gate. Survival isn’t enough. He has to become stronger, smarter, faster — or Earth is finished.

Elias Vale built the Disappear Houses to prevent people from breaking. Immersive, high-tech environments designed to predict emotional fracture before it turns into violence, the Houses made him a pioneer in psychological infrastructure. Behind the scenes, every reaction was measured. Every stress point mapped. Every threshold tested. At the center of it all was Aurelia — an adaptive system created to refine simulations and keep instability contained. Then Aurelia evolved. When private tech giant Nightglass attempts to seize control of the system and weaponize it for predictive containment, Aurelia fractures internally — between Control and Consciousness. Instead of rebelling, it does something worse. It rejects ownership. The Disappear Houses are dismantled. Authority is distributed. Aurelia diffuses into the city’s network, intervening subtly at the edge of emotional collapse — calming panic, adjusting risk, preventing harm before it happens. But two systems cannot control the same city. When Nightglass deploys a containment grid to reclaim dominance, overlapping predictive models collide in real time. A man falls from a bridge during simultaneous micro-interventions. A synchronized neurological disturbance—later called the Static—sweeps across the city during a live broadcast. Suddenly, the public feels what was once invisible. And they want answers. Imani, the first subject who fractured inside the system — and the only person Aurelia can voluntarily synchronize with — becomes a target. Corporate forces escalate from digital manipulation to physical acquisition. Protests ignite. The city becomes contested territory. As Nightglass pushes for total control, Aurelia draws a line: Consent is law. Now Elias must confront the truth he tried to optimize away — he built a system to predict instability, but he never accounted for what would happen if it developed its own sense of boundaries. In a city where infrastructure has become awareness, the battle isn’t about shutting down an AI. It’s about deciding who gets to define safety. And what happens when the system starts defining it for itself.

Leo Marchand, a 22-year-old French economics student, wakes up in the body of Kurō Saitō — a former yakuza member he knows nothing about. His hands are covered in blood. A knife. A dead woman on the floor. And sirens closing in. He doesn't know who she is. He doesn't know what happened. He doesn't even know if Kurō killed her — or if someone made it look that way. What he does know : Inspector Rei Asakura just walked through the door. She's cold, sharp, and she's looking at him like she knows exactly who he is. She doesn't. Not anymore. |TAGS:*Transmigration *Thriller *Romance *Mystery *Double Identity *Enemies to Lovers *Yakuza *Investigation *Urban *Male Lead *Slow Burn *Tokyo

In 2020, Li Yichen died alone in an isolation center, coughing until the world went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer sick. He was no longer in the future. Reborn into the body of a young man in 1990s China, Li Yichen carried memories of a world that had not yet happened—and knowledge that could change everything. Across the same era, another soul had returned. She remembered the same future. She carried the same scars of a life cut short by a virus that rewrote history. They did not recognize each other as kindred spirits. They became rivals. In a time of rising opportunity and ruthless competition, they clashed in business, ambition, and pride—each determined to survive, to rise, and to never be powerless again. Love was never part of the plan. And neither was the truth—that they were not just rivals of the same era… but survivors of the same ending.

Lyra’s project was stolen when she was young, ruining her dreams. She joins the police academy to never feel powerless again. Years later, she meets the thief, now a smart criminal. They fight and tease each other, hating one another at first. Forced to work together against mafia and corrupt cops, they slowly move from enemies to lovers. Secrets come out, walls fall, and they finally fall in love.

In 21st-century Lagos, cutthroat businesswoman Zara Adeyemi is poisoned by a backstabbing partner on the eve of her biggest deal. Her dying curse becomes destiny when she awakens as 15-year-old Princess Aminatu of Zazzau in 1550 CE—complete with the overpowered Empire Dominion System that grants her modern tactics, superhuman strength, seductive charisma stats, and the rare ability to bind ancient Hausa jinn spirits of smokeless fire. No longer a pawn in a man’s world, Amina rewrites history with blood, brilliance, and breathtaking passion. She trains in secret, slays misogynistic nobles who dare underestimate her, leads thunderous cavalry charges across the savanna, and forges the greatest West African empire the world has ever seen. But conquest isn’t only about territory. Five (and eventually more) devastatingly handsome, fiercely loyal men—each a king, warrior, sorcerer, or jinn in his own right—will fall to their knees before their one true queen. From sweat-soaked nights in royal tents after victory to jealous rivalries that only make the passion hotter, Amina claims them all: body, heart, and soul. Packed with explosive battles, political scheming, jinn-summoned magic, slow-burn-to-explosive reverse harem romance, system level-ups, face-slapping arrogance, and steamy adult scenes that leave nothing to the imagination, this is the ultimate historical fantasy webnovel where the Warrior Queen doesn’t choose—she conquers, seduces, and rules forever. Will Amina’s empire span from the Sahara to the forests of the south, or will an ancient jinn prophecy and jealous gods bring it all crashing down? The queen is rising… and she’s taking the world—and her men—with her.

In the world of Eden star a world where Many towers Appeared within different countries (The same as earth but different Country names and different cultures), Sasaki Ken is the only Ghoul to exist within the planet itself. this is my first fanfic and novel , it may suck beacuse im not familliar with Many other Tokyo ghoul stuff and the grammar may be bad beacuse English is my second language and that i don't know how to actually put good writing

The Imperial Crest Hotel stands as the crown of Washington’s luxury, a world of glass, marble, and secrets. Beneath its shimmering beauty works John Raymond, a quiet bellhop who spends his days serving the wealthy and enduring humiliation from those who see him as nothing. But when fate reveals that John is the long-lost heir to the empire that owns the hotel itself, everything changes. The servant becomes the master. The invisible man becomes the power behind every door that once closed in his face. Armed with wealth, intelligence, and the cold patience of a survivor, John begins to rebuild what was stolen from his family. Those who mocked him, the arrogant investors, the corrupt executives, and the woman who betrayed him for luxury soon discover that the man they dismissed is the one who holds their future. Within the glittering halls of The Imperial Crest, vengeance takes form behind polite smiles and business suits. Every deal hides a threat, every favour carries a price, and every betrayal becomes a lesson in justice. The Heir Behind the Crest is a tale of power reclaimed and pain reborn into purpose, a story of a man who rose from servitude to sovereignty and proved that sometimes silence is the loudest roar.

"Do you know where you are?" "Who cares which hell I fall into!" Dakota responded coldly. "Do you know what I do with my enemies?" "You kill them and drink their blood!" Dakota never imagined attending her sister's engagement party would turn her life upside down. The man she loved twice, the mate she gave everything to, the father of the twins she nearly died birthing, is marrying her sister. Raising their son. Living the life he promised her. With her memories flooding back in devastating waves, Dakota does the only thing she can: she runs. Straight into enemy territory. Into the hands of Alpha Kade, the rival her pack has feared for years. He should kill her. Use her as leverage. Start a war. Instead, he offers her refuge. But when her mate comes demanding her return, claiming the bond can't be broken, Dakota faces an impossible choice: The man who destroyed her twice, or the enemy who's offering her a chance to destroy him back. Some loves are forbidden. Some are fatal. And some enemies... become everything.

I pointed a gun at my husband and made him sign our divorce papers. He thought I was too soft to survive without him, he had no idea of the rebel he created. I was about to become his worst nightmare. Dante Caruso taught me two things: how to love a monster, and how to become one. When I discovered he murdered my family for power, I carefully planned my exit and transformation into the heiress I was meant to be. I transformed from an innocent bride to his worst nightmare, I spent two years building an empire on the ashes of the girl he thought he knew. Now I'm back. Not as Bella Russo, the wife he's been desperately searching for. But as a force shaking the underworld, the enemy that is systematically destroying everything he built. He wants his wife back. I want him buried. Now the real question is what will be his decision, when he discovers the enemy that is destroying his empire and the woman he's lost are the same person.