Empress Of The Ashes

They were told to forget. They chose to remember. Now the world will burn. In the fractured realm of Oruin, where power is measured in bloodlines and secrets, the ancient Guardians once bound reality with sacred laws. But those laws were broken—and the truth was buried. Enter Grim, a reluctant prodigy with a storm raging beneath his skin. After surviving a mysterious experiment and a deadly clash with royalty, Grim discovers he carries more than scars—he holds a piece of something forbidden. Something that should have stayed locked behind time and flame. When his awakening draws the attention of the Blank Court—a secret order seeking to shatter the boundary between worlds—Grim and his four powerful siblings are forced into the heart of a war long erased from history. Each is chosen by a lost Guardian, each tested by realms of myth and madness. But even their newfound strength may not be enough. Allies become enemies. And if Grim cannot master his fire, his storm, and the shadows hunting him—then the very fabric of existence may fall to ash.

When the gods erased his homeland from existence, Astha emerged as the sole survivor—scarred, flame-bound, and remembered only by the ash beneath his feet. Branded by divinity’s cruelty and haunted by a forgotten past, he now walks the ruins of a sacred world with a single purpose: to burn down the heavens that dared to rewrite fate. Bound to him is Smritidhaara, a cursed chain-sickle forged from the memories of the erased—an extension of Astha’s rage and sorrow. But when he crosses paths with Luv, a thunderborn exile from the celestial realm, their fates intertwine in a war neither of them yet understand. As buried truths awaken and mythic beasts rise from divine prisons, Astha and Luv must confront ancient gods, dead empires, and a reality that refuses to stay sealed. With every step, the fire grows. The thunder sharpens. And the gods begin to remember what they tried so hard to forget. This is not a story of heroes. It is the beginning of a reckoning.

An orphan raised in the backroom of a worn-down bakery tavern by a kind old woman Stoic, calm, and emotionally distant, he hides a cold resolve beneath his quiet demeanor Though he avoids emotional attachments, he is fiercely loyal to the tavern's owner, the only person who ever showed him love. His life takes a turn when he’s drawn into a war that will decide the fate of the realm

A girl born of fire. A prince forged from ice. A crown that could consume them both. Ariya has spent her life running — from soldiers, from fate, and from the strange burn-shaped mark that pulses on her skin. But when a deadly ambush awakens the fire inside her, everything changes. She doesn't burn. She commands the flame. On the run, she’s forced to trust a protective warrior, a sharp-tongued thief, and a laughing chaos-mage with terrifying power. Together, they uncover a secret buried in ancient ruins — Ariya is the last Flamebearer, heir to a power feared by kings. And one of those kings is watching. Prince Ruvan was born to conquer. Cold, brilliant, and merciless, he sets a trap to destroy her before she can rise. But the more he sees of Ariya, the more he starts to question everything — including himself. Tied by a mark, haunted by shared dreams, drawn together by something neither understands... Ariya and Ruvan are destined to collide. The crown is calling. But will she wear it... Or burn it down?

Orphaned, penniless, and expelled from university, a young woman hits rock bottom—until a mysterious magical system fuses with her brain. The system offers her a simple yet brutal path: earn Knowledge Points through the mass use of her inventions, and buy access to the most advanced knowledge in the multiverse. What begins as a desperate scramble to escape debt turns into a technological uprising. She builds smarter tools, an AI companion, and an empire in Africa—disrupting corporations and outmaneuvering nations. But when her first mana-electric reactor lights up the stars, it also lights a beacon in the cosmic Dark Forest. Now hunted by alien races, she leads humanity through war, colonization, and conquest. From nothing, she rises—immortal, brilliant, ruthless—to become the Empress of Humankind in a galaxy that wants her dead.

Fame. Money. Love. All of this, Joe had for eighteen years, of his life. Until a tragic accident happened before the peak of his football career. Which destroyed it in only a few seconds. When everyone loved him, they left him alone, broken in a hospital bed. Before he could come back, he lost the last members of his family. Then his former club comes with allegations, of a broken contract from his fault, and he lost all the earned money. He was left, with nothing. For eight years, he lived from day to day studying, working, having rehabilitation for his injured knee. As they say, what one time is taken, is given back. As he accidentally becomes secretary of Megan Clark by everyone called Empress. His life changed drastically after it. He found love in his boss, who first say these words to him. ‘Secretary of the Empress’ is a story about love, which slowly grows in the main characters. Because of many things which they will meet in their journey of revenge and protecting each other. -------------------- While now great view on sky and city below show up, boss turned to me, and when she looked at my eyes, she said: “Joe, I have something to tell you.” “Yes, boss,” I said while looking at her eyes, and when she walked closer to me, we looked at each other eyes. She said, “I like you.” While hearing her words, I had no answer for this, and while I looked at her, I asked, “excuse me?” “I love you, I want you to be my boyfriend,” she said, and while I looked at her, I couldn’t believe that this has happened, and while my mind still processed her words, she looked at me, and then she said, “so what is your answer?” ------------------------- Daily upload at 8:30 and 18:00(server time) The cover is not mine.

For hundreds of thousands of years, the world drowned in war. How laughable. How detestable. How... utterly pathetic. They keep preaching justice, truth, hatred, vengeance but in the end its all the same. Too blind to grasp their own insignificance. Too arrogant to accept the simple truth. And yet, when salvation finally came, it was not by the hands of heroes, nor saints, nor those self-proclaimed "chosen ones." No, the world was saved by the very thing they feared most—a beast. Now, these wretched fools seek to cleanse their sins under a different banner. "An academy where all are equal." They believe such a farce will make the world forget their arrogance, their crimes. They think peace, when wrapped in a new name, will erase the blood they have spilled. But we have seen the light. We have been enlightened. While they wallow in their delusions, we gaze upon the truth. And in the truth, we shall be saved.

In a world where power defines fate, one mark can change everything. Li Feng, a brilliant yet feared cultivator obsessed with rising above all, walks a blood-soaked path to supremacy. But destiny turns when he finds a boy among the ruins of a slaughtered sect—silent, wounded, and bearing the mythical Phoenix Mark. The very key to unlocking a vessel of ancient power. Shen Yun, unaware of the mark on his wrist or the fate it holds, only remembers fragments of warmth and smoke. Taken in by Li Feng, he begins a life shadowed by unspoken truths, loyalty, and a slowly blooming bond that neither understands—until betrayal cracks the surface. When war brews and secrets unravel, the two are torn apart. But with the world chasing the Phoenix Vessel, and empires rising to control it, their paths are destined to collide once more. Not as strangers. Not as enemies. But as something much more complicated. Will they burn together, or rise from the ashes?

Over a century has passed since the divine war ripped the heavens apart. The gates of Hell shattered. Magic bled into the world like a spreading wound. The gods fell silent — but their echoes still haunt the earth. Far from the eyes of fate, in a quiet village on the edge of nowhere, two brothers live a simple life with their ailing mother and older brother… until the night their world burns to ash. With nothing left but a promise, Raiken swears to protect his younger brother, Ren — even if it costs him everything. Thrust into a world twisted by ancient wars, cursed blades, and secret orders lurking in the shadows, the brothers are forced onto a path paved in blood… a path set long before they ever drew breath. Some promises are forged in blood. Others… in something far darker.

When two celestial being descended Earth to wage a war against darkness, they ended up forming an unexpected bond with each other. A love so powerful, even the Gods could not deny it. When their purpose was complete, the Gods called them back. Yet they pleaded to remain, to live and love in the mortal world. Touched by their devotion, the Gods granted them a rare boon to reborn on Earth only to find each other once again. Now, in a new age, under new names and forgotten memories, two souls stirred, drawn by fate, bound by light and flame. As ancient darkness threatens to rise again, will their love bloom once again? This is the story of twin flames, Evelyn who is as gentle and pure as falling snow, and Ivan, a blazing inferno of power and pride. Join them on a journey of love, war, and awakening in a realm where nothing is ever as it seems. Stay tuned! This is only the beginning

In a war-torn empire where power corrupts absolutely, seven broken warlords branded as monsters must defy their past to forge a future worth redeeming. Once feared as "The Ghost Tigers"—Zhang Wei’s brutal enforcers—Kalima Chileshe (Hellfire Incarnate), John Mwanabeti (The Golden Fist), and their brothers-in-arms unleashed devastation across the Jade Expanse. Kalima’s flames razed villages. Chisangalalo Zulu’s breath poisoned rivers. Vincent Kabonde twisted flesh into abominations. But when the warlord they served turns their affinities against their own families, they shatter their chains, becoming hunted outcasts with blood on their hands and empires on their trail. Haunted by the ashes of Frost Moon Province—a genocide Kalima can never undo—the Ghost Tigers are consumed by a desperate chase: to escape their sins, control their cursed gifts, and find a peace that feels forever out of reach. Their only anchors are the love of spouses they were forced to abandon: - Kalima’s healer wife, Mei Lin, whose faith in his humanity is fading. - John’s fierce swordsmith wife, **Hana, imprisoned for defying Zhang Wei. - Zulu’s herbalist wife, **Lihua**, dying from the toxins he once weaponized. Their quest leads them to the **"Breath of Heaven"**—an ancient philosophy teaching control over their destructive affinities. With this fragile hope, they unite with rebels and clans to build **"The Sanctuary"** in the poisoned Mourning Moss Swamp, transforming their powers into tools of healing: - Kalima’s fire now warms forges. - Zulu’s breath purifies blighted land. - Vincent’s bone-warping mends wounds. But Zhang Wei’s vengeance is relentless. He creates monstrous Serpent’s Teeth" soldiers and poisons the empire’s wells, blaming the Ghost Tigers. Facing annihilation, they make a final stand—not with fire and fury, but with irrefutable truth. Risking everything, they expose Zhang Wei’s atrocities to the Imperial Court, culminating in a celestial aurora over the capital—a beacon of their restraint and redemption. In the aftermath, the Ghost Tigers achieve the impossible: Reunite with their spouses against all odds. Cleanse the land they once poisoned. Build a sanctuary where affinity-bearers and refugees find hope. Force the empire to acknowledge their humanity. Years later, the Ghost Tigers stand not as warlords or monsters, but as guardians of the Sanctuary—a thriving city born from ashes. Kalima and Mei Lin heal beneath blossom trees where infernos once roared. John and Hana teach children to forge swords into plowshares. Vincent and Jia mend broken bones and broken pasts. Their scars remain, but their measure is finally taken in lives saved, not lives erased. "We chased shadows... and found our light not in hiding, but in building this." — Kalima Chileshe, Sanctuary Dawn

In a galaxy scarred by the collapse of Earth, humanity clings to survival behind quarantine rings that mark the Forbidden Planet. Torin Vale, a battle-hardened salvage pilot haunted by the ghosts of the last orbital wars, navigates a treacherous scrapyard orbiting Earth’s dead shell. When an ancient AI known only as the Ascendant breaches the fragile barriers, it whispers of debts owed and futures rewritten—pulling Torin into a conflict where survival demands evolution at a staggering cost. As Torin and his fractured crew confront hostile drone swarms, digital parasites, and secrets buried beneath Earth’s storms, they must choose between escaping the past or facing the forbidden truth. In a universe where trust is a luxury and evolution is a price, Torin must decide what it means to be human — before the Ascendant claims them all.

In the mighty Longhua Empire, where power determines everything and the weak are trampled underfoot, fifteen-year-old Ling Qianxue lives as the last daughter of a once-glorious ducal house now fallen to ruin. For three hundred years, the Ling family has failed to produce a single cultivator. Mocked by rivals, extorted by thugs, and stripped of their dignity, they survive on memories of past glory and the stubborn pride that refuses to let them bow. But Qianxue harbors a secret that could change everything—a crimson jade pendant left by her mysterious mother, warm to the touch and pulsing with hidden power. When assassins strike on a moonless night, when her beloved aunt falls protecting her, when all seems lost... the pendant awakens. Fire erupts. Phoenix cries pierce the heavens. Nine Heavenly Tribulations descend. In one earth-shattering moment, Qianxue transforms from a powerless noble girl into the bearer of the legendary Phoenix Bloodline—a power thought extinct for a thousand years. But with great power comes terrible danger. The mysterious Phoenix Hunter Organization emerges from the shadows, determined to capture the last of the phoenix blood. Saved by the enigmatic Grandmaster Mo Qianji, Qianxue enters Tiandu Academy, the empire's most prestigious cultivation school. Here, she must navigate a world of ruthless competition, where strength rules supreme and the weak are devoured. Hidden enemies lurk in every corner, and the secret of her mother's identity holds the key to a conspiracy that spans centuries. With only her loyal childhood protector Xiao Hanye by her side—a boy with no cultivation talent but a will of iron—Qianxue must master her newfound powers while concealing her true strength. Every friend could be a spy. Every challenge could be a trap. Every moment brings her closer to the truth about why the Phoenix Clan vanished... and why she might be the last hope for their return. But in a world where revealing too much means death, and trusting the wrong person could doom everyone she loves, how can a fallen noble's daughter rise to reclaim her destiny? The phoenix must burn before it can soar. Her legend begins with a single spark.

He died forgotten… only to awaken in a world forged by fire, fractured by power, and ruled by monsters in human skin. Kael was an ordinary man—until he opened his eyes in Zareth, a broken realm of floating ashlands and elemental wars. Branded with a mysterious mark and a fragmented core, Kael isn’t just reborn—he’s something the world hasn’t seen in centuries. He can steal powers. Hijack fragments. Break the system that defines life and death. But in a world where survival means loyalty to ruthless factions and ancient relics hold godlike secrets, Kael’s gift is a curse—and every step toward power brings new enemies, old wounds, and the painful truth about his own past. Beside him stands Seris, a fierce warrior hiding scars she won’t speak of. Between them blooms a bond as volatile as the elements—built on trust, betrayal, and something dangerously close to love. But in Zareth, nothing is free. The deeper Kael delves into the Spires and secrets of this world, the more he realizes: Some powers were meant to stay buried. And some souls were never meant to survive rebirth.

After meeting an unfortunate death on earth, Sigrid unwillingly transmigrated into a novel world becoming Lady Sigrid Thorin the unwanted wife of the crown prince. She resigned herself to her fate and set a goal to become the empress. But to become the future empress, she had to gain the heart of her husband_the foul tempered Prince Roland Maximus a man that loathed her and would sooner kill her than kiss her. While his heart was too thin for her to squeeze into, it was rather wide for the woman he brought home on returning from a three month expedition, a woman he had sworn to protect forever. The same woman Sigrid was on a mission to destroy, an irreconcilable enemy. With misunderstandings, scheming and jealousy, thus begun Sigrid's trials to win the heart of the man that had undeniably captivated her with his dazzling smile and her mission step over the fake female lead, be crowned empress and change her fate. Excerpt. "A knife to the throat of your husband that has just returned from war, what do you hope to accomplish crown princess?" Sigrid's eyes trailed down, to the silver blade pressed against her abdomen, she raised her head and laughed snidely. "A knife to the belly of your wife as soon as you return from war, other men start by saying, honey i am home. They also don't bring home unwanted canaries as presents for their wives." Roland leaned down with a part smug and part angry smoldering look in his eyes. It was if he wished to set her on fire, and not in the passionate way. "Honey i am home." he slowly said, dragging the words out. Sigrid trailed the knife slowly over his neck, almost as if she was caressing it with her fingers. "Welcome back, i hope you don't mind but i intend to kill that canary. If you want to bring me a gift next time, try gold and diamonds. I can also accept you, just wrap a ribbon around your bare chest."

In a world where war doesn’t knock — it burns — five kingdoms battle for dominance, and behind every kingdom lies a secret… and a corpse. Koran, a boy with no legacy but a scar on his soul, loses everything in a single night. On the other side stands Zayn, a young commander with eyes that don’t carry youth… but disaster. Thrown into a brutal war shaped by primordial creatures, rituals, and combat that sings like poetry, Koran must decide: Can someone with nothing left… still rise? Can betrayal forge a hero? And can fury reclaim a lost crown? In this realm, every note has a cost. And those who hear the song… either dance or burn. Begin the journey. Trust no one. The crown is lost — and only ashes remain.

She was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family—abandoned by her father, oppressed by his legal wife, and humiliated by the so-called sister. She watched her mother perish in a raging fire and was thrown into the flames herself. Her name was Janice. And she died in that fire. Ten years later, under a new identity and the name “Janet,” she survives in silence. Forced by her stepmother to marry a wealthy heir rumored to be "paralyzed and disabled," she becomes entangled in a vicious struggle of family betrayal and ruthless power games. With cold eyes, she watches the hypocrites who once trampled her into the mud—one by one, they will become prey on her road to revenge. Her wheelchair-bound "husband" Philip, the feuding brothers Charles and August… But what she didn't expect was that the boy who once quietly handed her a handkerchief all those years ago would become the most unpredictable piece in her game of fate. She has returned—not for hatred, but to personally end the past that was once crushed beneath their feet.

"I didn't choose to be born with light and darkness... But I can choose where I step forward." For centuries, the world has been torn by war between the Races of Light and Darkness. But then came a human child—Alfair—born with both opposing elements within him. Haunted by fear, rejection, and loss, Alfair must decide who he truly is: a threat to the world, or its final hope.

In a land where old kings lie buried beneath cursed battlefields and blood-debts outlive the men who owed them, the last scion of a ruined house rises from mud and war. Eight years ago, House Varnholt was wiped from the rolls of the High March. Its keep burned, its name outlawed, its blood hunted. Garran Varnholt escaped the slaughter a boy, condemned to die nameless in the mud. Now a grown man in a world of broken lords, outlaw companies, and famine-driven levies, Garran fights to reclaim more than a ruined banner. From blood-streaked siege camps to wine-stained feast halls, from treacherous marriage pacts to doomed battlefields, he will claw his way back. Coin by coin, corpse by corpse. But the land remembers old sins. The marches whisper of cursed keeps, outlaw gods, dead men’s relics, and debts unpaid. Every man who follows Garran carries his own ruin and every step toward power leaves a trail of betrayed oaths, burned villages, and mutinous tongues. In a realm where relic swords bear names older than the crowns they served and war songs remember every broken promise, Garran Varnholt will carve a kingdom of his own… If the dead don’t claim him first.

Odogwu Orie, a bright, observant boy born and raised in the quiet farming village of Amaedukwu, grows up under the influence of his father—a wise farmer and thinker who teaches him the art of listening, observing, and planting not just crops, but ideas. Gifted with wisdom beyond his years and grounded in cultural proverbs, Odogwu sets out to the capital, Obodo Ike, to build a future that no one in his village could have imagined. He begins humbly—an intern at a powerful conglomerate called Omeuzu Group, where he is seen as just another rural boy trying to make it in the big city. But Odogwu’s quiet diligence, analytical mind, and deep understanding of people soon draw attention. From file rooms to boardrooms, he rises through the cracks by turning overlooked opportunities into visible impact. Yet in the very company he gave everything to, he eventually faces betrayal. After fifteen years of steady work—leading projects in research, social impact, and innovation—he is abruptly retrenched following the COVID-19 pandemic, cast aside like a tool no longer needed. But that is not the end. It is the beginning of a second life. Determined not to be defined by abandonment, Odogwu sets out to build something of his own: the first indigenous hotel chain in his country, with branches across the continent. Drawing on the lessons of his father, the wounds of betrayal, and the wisdom of survival, Odogwu rises—this time not as a servant of someone else's dream, but as the architect of his own

Crimson-haired, ancient, and terrifyingly beautiful, the renowned Vampire Empress had been sealed away for hundreds of years. The one to set her was Veri, a high school boy filled with delusions. Caught in the aftermath of her awakening, Veri is dragged into a hidden world of bloodlines, magic, and secret organizations where ancient powers stir and his once-ordinary life begins to unravel. In the wake of it all, the countdown for the end of the world begins.

“We are all threads in a design far older than memory. But what happens when the Loom forgets?” In a world where reality is governed by the Loom—a vast metaphysical tapestry that binds fate, memory, and magic—young Corin Thorne lives as a lowly apprentice in a crumbling Victorian city suffocated by smog and secrets. He dreams only of surviving the hierarchy of Threadweavers, those rare few who can touch the Loom and shape its strands into power. But when a forbidden ritual tears open a fracture in the fabric of the world, Corin becomes something else: a Threadbinder—marked by the Loom itself and drawn into a war older than kingdoms.

A man rejected by the will of the world he grew up in for all of his life, and a genius with infinite potential who fell as a result of making a risky bet. Under the machinations of the deceased Heavenly Emperor, Huang Xian, two unfortunate souls from entirely different worlds got saved and fused together into a new whole, adopting the identity of the latter–Theodore Winter, the heir to one of the Supreme Pillars of the Heavenly Court. As an eon-spanning competition to decide the next generation of Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress began, it brought with it a game of wits, power and plots that would shake the Heavenly Court to its core. Reincarnators, Transmigrators and Regressors were barely qualified to chase after the unprecedented monsters that had been brought into being for the express purpose of rising above the rest. Battles between peers were like peeling an onion–nobody ever knew just how many cultivation realms and Talents the other had hidden away to catch his opponents off guard. With a saint-like image and the heart of a devil, Theodore Winter entered the fray. Unbeknownst to all, other than returning triumphantly, he was entrusted with another task: To kill Huang Xian’s murderer–his wife, the Heavenly Empress! ------------------------- Read advance chapters (by paying for my meals) on Patreon: • https://www.patreon.com/sh1ro My novel series "Reincarnation Cycle's Unfortunate Bug" on Amazon: • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYHGRR8M/ Discord Server (currently under construction): • https://discord.gg/NdAjjmXSDh ------------------------- Hi there, this is Shiro / the author. Just one little cautionary warning here: Due to being set in an entirely alternate world from ours, while some terms and concepts might seem familiar at first glance, many in actuality are not. In canon, the World's Will of a world exactly like our own 'got inspired' by memories that it secretly glimpsed from the Heavenly Emperor, thereby creating extremely loosely related concepts in its own universe. So never expect anything to work in the same way as something that you are already familiar with, because chances are very high that it won't be the same at all. (Yes, I just blatantly flipped the script.) I hope you'll enjoy The Heavenly Empress' Assassin! ------------------------- Current Release Schedule: • 4 chapters per week • 1 chapter every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday (at ~11 p.m. GMT+1) (More chapters can appear as bonus chapters, so this is the absolute minimum.) • Vote with Power Stones to read more chapters in the week after the results are in! -> Top 100: +1 chapter -> Top 50: +2 chapters -> Top 10: +3 chapters -> Top 5: +4 chapters -> 1st Place: +5 chapters - Chapter length: ~2k words on average

Mia was born with nothing — not even a mother’s love. While her stepsiblings bathed in luxury, she lived in shadows, scrubbing floors in a mansion that never felt like home. The eldest child of the powerful Williams family, yet treated like a maid… or worse. Her only light? Jake — the quiet boy at school who saw her when no one else did. On her seventeenth birthday, he was the only soul who remembered. The first to make her smile in years. The first to make her believe in love. But love is a dangerous thing. Just when Mia dares to dream of something better, the nightmare begins. A betrayal so deep it leaves her homeless, heartbroken… and carrying a secret that could destroy the very family that cast her aside. They thought she was weak. They thought she would disappear quietly. But ashes don’t vanish — they rise. And Mia is no longer the girl they threw away. She’s coming back. Stronger. Colder. And this time, she’s not just surviving. She’s out for revenge.

Adolf Hitler died choking on the ashes of his Reich… only to awaken in a world of magic, monsters, and weak-willed kings. Reborn in a land untouched by blitzkrieg or bullets, he finds no swastikas, no iron crosses — only empires ripe for conquest and sorcerers too soft to rule. Stripped of title but not of hatred, he begins again. Not as a man. As a force. With steel in his hands, fire in his veins, and poison in his words, he sets out to build an empire of blood — one bullet, one spell, one corpse at a time. There is no redemption. There is no remorse. Only war. Content Warning: This story contains depictions of fascist ideology, war crimes, and morally reprehensible behavior from an unapologetically evil protagonist. It does not glorify these beliefs — it explores their horror through fiction and philosophical conflict. If you’re uncomfortable with dark historical themes or villain-centered narratives, this story is not for you.