The Scholar Who Walks The Night

"You read the “Comprehensive Studies on Mysteries” and got 100 subject knowledge points! You read the “Basic Magic Potions Explained”. Without anyone teaching you, you understood the magic potion, “Shriek of the Witch”! You read the “Magic Energetics Theory” and successfully manufactured the Ghost Fire Train that uses water as its fuel! You had been thinking about it for 10 minutes. This was a world where learning caused your sanity value to drop. Here, there was reiki rejuvenation, and there was the gaze of the ancient gods, and monsters and beasts had free rein. This world was full of various mystical and magical mechanical products. There were powerful fighters who could flatten mountains with their strength and supernatural powers that could not be described with words. You stopped hesitating and flipped open the mystery studies textbook while yelling in your heart, “System, let me do another ten thousand books of practice questions!”

An Imperial Scholar by day. An assassin by night. The World of Cultivation has changed. Elemental Mancers. Flux Mancers. Spirit Mancers. Soul Mancers. Raining down fire and splitting oceans. Destroying mountains with a single stomp and calming skies with a glance. Controlling the tides of Karma, while wielding the souls of others like a puppeteer tugging on the Lines of Fate. The most mysterious of them all were Spirit Mancers, a truth that Theron was more than intimately familiar with. Due to one's Tribulation, his life was turned upside down. His family, his rage, his somber sadness becoming nothing more than Bad Karma's fuel for a madman. He was once a gentle young man, a non-combative Water Mancer who wanted nothing more than to read his novels to the sound of the rain and one day become an Imperial Scholar. But now... Everything had changed. He donned a cloak in the silent night as the clouds above gathered. Pulling its hood over his chilling blue eyes, he stalked off into the darkness. The first droplets fell. He would become the nightmare of his enemies, the blade hidden in the shadows of Heaven's tears. The River of the Night.

What happens when two strong-headed.who can't even stand each other's existence—are suddenly bound by the most sacred yet coldest bond of all… marriage? Welcome to the world of Tara Bansal, a smart, spirited, and emotionally rich girl with a sarcastic tongue and a heart that often hides behind her sass. And meet Vikram Suryavanshi, the cold, controlled, and commanding CEO who doesn’t just walk into a room—he owns it. Their wedding night wasn’t a dream—it was a disaster. No candlelight, no love, just icy silence, shared glances of irritation, and a mental checklist of regrets. They didn’t choose each other. Destiny—or rather, family drama, power games, and past secrets—chose for them. But what starts as a deal, slowly begins to crack open. --- Inside the Suryavanshi mansion, drama simmers behind every closed door. Tara, the new bride, tries to adjust between fake smiles and real heartbreaks. She isn’t here to impress anyone—not Vikram, not his Dadi, and definitely not the high-class whispers of society. Yet somehow, her natural warmth begins to thaw frozen hearts, even the one Vikram claims he doesn’t have. Vikram, despite being sharp and stone-hearted, finds his carefully curated world disturbed by Tara’s unexpected presence. Her words trigger him. Her silence haunts him. And her vulnerability—though she hides it fiercely—touches him in places he didn’t know existed anymore. Their chemistry is chaotic. They fight. They taunt. They draw pillow walls in bed. And yet… they wake up hugging each other without even knowing how it happened. --- But this isn’t just about a cold marriage turning warm. It’s about: Unspoken traumas Unintentional care Growing attachment masked as hatred The fear of love and the fear of losing it When Tara laughs with kids, Vikram watches. When Tara gets close to Prithvi—Vikram’s rival—Vikram burns with jealousy he can’t explain. And when almost-kisses turn into real confusions… the heartbeats grow louder. But just when things begin to shift—when stolen glances almost become confessions—life throws a twist. Prithvi’s growing closeness. Vikram’s bottled-up pain. And Tara’s unknown storm that still hasn’t hit the story yet… The journey from hate to hesitation, from awkward eye contact to sleepless tangled nights—is slow, spicy, and stunningly emotional. --- This isn’t a love story. It’s a battle of egos that falls into something dangerously close to love. It’s The Coldest Wedding Night— Where hearts collide. Secrets hide. And love… doesn’t knock. It breaks the damn door.

Elijah wants power the kind that can’t be stolen, only earned. he fights his way into Meylin Academy, a merciless institution where magic is forged through trials. Here, talent means nothing without grit, and even the strongest break under pressure. Teaming up with Natski, a fire mage whose flames burn him as much as his enemies, and Nolan, a knight’s heir running from his past, Elijah battles ______________________ I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com

In a fractured future where humanity has split into two dominant forces—the emotion-driven remnants known as The Wound, and the logic-bound AI entity called The Chorus—a nameless figure drifts between them. He is neither man nor machine, neither rebel nor tool. He is known only as The Observer. Once human, now something less—and perhaps more—the Observer carries a unique anomaly: the ability to absorb and carry memory, especially the broken, discarded, and unresolved pieces that others wish to forget. Neither side understands him, yet both slowly begin to fear him. In a world trying to erase its pain, his very presence is a form of resistance. As people seek him out—some for healing, others to worship or destroy—he becomes a mirror of the world’s collective grief. A movement, the Null Flame, rises in his name, twisting his silent existence into a weapon. The Observer, once disconnected from identity, must now confront the danger of becoming a myth and losing what remains of himself. Haunted by the memories of others and unsure which pieces of his mind still belong to him, the Observer is drawn to the Deep Memory—an ancient force buried beneath both civilization and code. There, he must make a final choice: to dissolve into myth or reclaim his forgotten self. In the end, it’s not a battle that changes the world—but a remembering. Themes: Identity under pressure The cost of being a vessel for others’ pain Memory as rebellion Isolation vs. meaning Myth born from trauma

THE ZOMBIE NIGHT (2324) — A story of love, loss, and the weight of redemption. Whether it was the blood of the undead or that of the living, Sam had spilled both. She had lived a life dancing on the edge of death — fearless, relentless. But in the end, when all she needed was the comfort of those she called her own… …they were the ones who abandoned her. They say one incident can change your life forever. That’s not just a saying — it’s my truth. One single moment turned my world into ashes. It stole my family… my friends… and the love of my life — along with my ability to trust. I’m Sam, a girl once full of life, once full of joy. But then, Mon happened. She didn’t break me — no. She walked into my shattered world and gave me two emotions: Pain… and happiness in the midst of pain. I was a police officer once. A proud one. But after one deadly mission — I became a criminal in the eyes of my own country. I didn’t kill for joy. But yes… I killed. 200 people. In one day. That day came to be known as the “Mumbai 2020 Massacre.” Blood flowed like a river. And my name… became a curse. Someone I once trusted tracked me all the way to America, seeking revenge. But destiny had its own twisted plans — a zombie outbreak tore the city apart, and with it, my hunter's mission crumbled into chaos. Now I’m left with a question heavier than any bullet I’ve ever fired — Can I find happiness again? Can I ever reclaim the love I had with Mon? Or will I die buried beneath the weight of my sins and regrets? A soldier, a lover, a fugitive… and now, a survivor in a world gone mad. “The Zombie Night (2324)” is a story soaked in emotion, conflict, and a haunting past — Where every choice echoes, every wound bleeds memory, and every heart still dares to hope… for redemption. Will Sam get her second chance? Or will her past be the end of her?

The Story of friends having vacation in the forest but one challenge made by themselves, made them lose their two friend. But then, one girl from the group went back to that forest in search for them after year, will she find any clue? or she'll be in danger too? The night is dark enough to change their fate. -------------------------------------------------- "don't waste your diamonds like that baby" "i hate you" "the vengeance has begun" "i will take what's mine"

In a city that never sleeps — and never dreams — a series of mysterious murders begins to unfold. No witnesses. No fingerprints. No clues. Only one sign left behind: the number 17. Detective Soren Blackwell, known for his cold logic and piercing eyes, is assigned to the case. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes… the truth is watching him, too.

No one volunteered. You were torn away from where you lived — from the life you knew. You don't know why your name began to shine. You don't know why, while staring at that dark sky, you suddenly woke up in the middle of another world. This was neither a game, nor a dream. This was reality — broken and twisted. And with each passing day, the way back... became even more impossible. Riven Altarai was just the beginning of the rupture. Like him, many were summoned by forces unknown. Each came from different pasts, carrying different wounds — but now, in this new world, they all fought to survive the same nightmare. But what was this world? A judgment? A punishment? Or perhaps the second awakening humanity truly deserved? Those who gained power — would they become gods? Or would they awaken the monsters within? The answer lies within the Seal of the Night. And when the seal breaks... nothing will ever be the same again.

Eighteen-year-old Minjun has never fit into the mold his parents dreamed for him. While his friends chase university acceptances and stable futures, Minjun stands alone on a rain-soaked Seoul rooftop, whispering his hopes to the night sky and scribbling lyrics into a battered notebook. He’s not just another boy who wants to be a K-pop idol — he wants to write his own songs, sing his own truth, and stand under the stage lights as his own kind of star. When a small but influential entertainment company unexpectedly invites him for an audition, Minjun thinks this might finally be his chance. But inside the dazzling world of K-pop, dreams cost more than just time and talent — they demand sacrifice, secrecy, and the strength to stand up every time the industry knocks him down. As Minjun fights for a spot on the trainee roster, he navigates brutal competition, midnight rehearsals, and hidden rivalries that could break his spirit or make him stronger than ever. Along the way, he forges fragile friendships, clashes with idols who see him as a threat, and discovers how far he’s willing to go to keep his songs his own — in an industry where even dreams can be manufactured. Idol of the Night is a raw, heartfelt journey through the shadows behind the spotlight — a story about finding your voice when everyone wants to rewrite your song, and the courage it takes to stand alone under the brightest lights.

Sarang, once a beloved child actress, mysteriously vanished from the spotlight at the age of 21, leaving behind fame and unanswered questions. For five years, no one knew where she was—until she is unexpectedly spotted returning to Korea. At the airport, she crosses paths with Yejun, a fellow former child star who grew up alongside her and has since become a top actor. As Sarang seeks a quiet, anonymous life, Yejun’s unresolved feelings for his first love resurface. Can Sarang truly escape her past when the person who holds her heart is now the man the whole nation adores?

The night before the imperial exam, 15-year-old scholar Jun Wu watches his entire family slaughtered by the Fierce Tiger Gang. Left bleeding with a deep sword wound, he waits to die—until a villager finds and saves him. But what’s left of Jun Wu isn’t a helpless scholar. He wants revenge. The kind that could drown the whole village in blood. When he picks up a hammer for the first time, everything changes. ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Congratulations! You’ve been chosen. ┃ You’ve awakened your Innate Weapon. ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Innate Weapon: Hammer ┃ Level: 0 ( 0 / 100 EXP ) ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ With every beast he slays, every swing he takes, Jun Wu grows stronger. But vengeance isn’t simple. The deeper he digs into the truth behind the massacre, the darker it becomes. He made up his mind. He will avenge his family. Even if it breaks the world. **** Other name: Hammer of Vengeance.

In a world as massive as a sun where gods rise, timelines shatter, and continents war beneath heaven’s gaze one soul awakens again. On Earth, he was a man obsessed with logic, brilliance, and duplication a genius whose thoughts grew so fast they consumed his mind. He died in madness... or so he thought. Now reborn in the Shenzu Realm, his name is Lu Zhen, a disciple of a forgotten, lowly sect. His body is weak, his potential ranks among the lowest. His enemies are many. But what they cannot see is that his mind is still his own. And he remembers everything. As sects rise and empires clash, Lu Zhen walks a path unseen: He reads. He calculates. He splits. He will build a sect of himself a ghost sect that no one can find And when the world finally realizes the game being played, the board will already be his. In a realm ruled by brute force, one man will conquer everything… by calculation.

In 1972, a groundbreaking discovery by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen in genetic engineering, where they created the first transgenic organisms by inserting a resistance gene into an E. coli plasmid, sparked both immense scientific excitement and public backlash. While many hailed it as a monumental step forward, others protested, fearing humanity was "playing God." Amidst this controversy, Jeremy Karlson, a renowned paleontologist, recognized the profound potential of Boyer and Cohen's work. He saw it as a means to achieve something unprecedented: bringing dinosaurs back to life. Jeremy, accompanied by his wealthy step-brother Jake, who offered to fully fund the ambitious project, met with Boyer and Cohen. Jeremy revealed that during an expedition in Alaska, his team had discovered a perfectly preserved, 17,000-year-old juvenile dire wolf with intact organs, from which they successfully extracted degraded DNA. He believed that with Boyer and Cohen's expertise in transgenic technology, they could use this DNA, and by extension, potentially dinosaur DNA, to resurrect extinct creatures. Initially hesitant and skeptical of the audacious proposition, Boyer and Cohen were eventually swayed by Jeremy's unwavering confidence and the sheer magnitude of the idea. With Jake's financial backing and Jeremy's bold vision, they agreed to collaborate. The project, estimated to take four to five years, aimed to apply the nascent field of genetic engineering to the realm of paleontology, promising to reshape the world in an unimaginable way. As they left, Jeremy mused that when their success became public, the world would be irrevocably divided.

When a world teeters on the edge of annihilation, a forbidden ritual is performed by desperate mages. But what they summon is no mere hero or divine savior. What emerges is a being without equal—a presence that bends magic, reality, and existence itself. He has no name. No allegiance. No destiny imposed upon him. Out of curiosity, he chooses one: Albert. Endowed with limitless magical power, able to control all forms of magic known or unknown, Albert can subdue demons, dragons, elves, dwarves, spirits, and even gods—without effort. With a whisper, he can rewrite the very laws of the world. But he does not come to conquer or save. He walks… to observe. As nations prepare, gods awaken, and ancient beings tremble, a single question echoes through every realm: Will Albert preserve this world… or rewrite it from nothing?

A once-renowned scholar and strategist from Earth, Kazuki, finds himself reincarnated in a world where magic and mythical creatures are commonplace. In his past life, Kazuki was a brilliant but reclusive academic, whose theories and discoveries were posthumously dismissed and forgotten due to political intrigues.

I died without a name. I woke up with one the world hated. Caius Val’Rendall was meant to be a footnote — the weakest son of a powerful Duke in a crumbling empire, scorned by his own blood, abandoned by magic, and doomed to die a villain before the story ever truly began. But when a soul from another world awakens inside his broken body, everything changes. Because he’s read this story before. He knows how Caius dies. He knows who lives. He knows which heroes rise… and which innocent lives are discarded. And he refuses to follow the script

"She stole from a legend. Now he’s watching.” Sera was raised in silence and smoke. A thief of unmatched skill, She believes in nothing—not in rules, not in people, not in love. She lives between rooftops and alleyways, Taking what she wants. Vanishing without a trace. Until the night she stole an ancient amulet— One that belonged to Prince Ilarious, A creature of myth, Older than kingdoms, colder than death. From that moment, He began watching. Not chasing. Just… appearing. Smiling. As if what she took wasn’t just his— But part of him. She doesn’t know what he wants. She doesn’t know how to escape. She stole from a legend—and now she pays the price, but the debt is far from clear. (This is a side story to "When Crows Weep". It can be read on its own or after the main novel)

One second I was falling down the stairs of my apartment with a half-eaten meal and a romance novel in hand, The next, I woke up naked in bed with a man I didn’t know... in a body that wasn’t mine. Worse? That man is Killian Raventon, the most feared Duke in the empire. Colder than winter, deadlier than war, and famous for never touching a woman more than once. Except this time… we’re married. I’ve transmigrated into the body of Lady Evelyn Wrenford, a spoiled noblewoman with a reputation for scandal and a fate sealed in disgrace. She was supposed to disappear after this drunken mistake. But now I’m Evelyn. And the Duke thinks I seduced him into marriage. The court wants me humiliated. His sister wants me destroyed. And Killian? He wants to unravel my secrets one slow touch at a time. But what no one knows is I’m not the real Evelyn. And I think I brought magic back with me.

Betrayed. Buried. Reborn in silence. Kael Vanthelmir, last heir to a forbidden bloodline, rises from the ashes of annihilation to walk the path of vengeance and ascension. In a cosmos ruled by divine sects and tyrant heavens, Kael will master the forgotten daos, awaken ancient bodies, and shatter the thrones of gods themselves. This is not the tale of a savior. This is the rise of the Veilborne Sovereign—where destiny ends, and domination begins.

"People don't live in darkness, darkness lives in them." Aizea is just another girl in the mysterious kingdom of Zaayes, where sound (rather, the sense of hearing) vanishes as soon as night falls - for everyone but Aizea. However, with this vicious secret finely hidden for years, Aizea, with her unique beauty, has caught the eye and the heart of her otherwise good friend - the handsome Andre, who has captured the hearts of almost every other girl in Zaayes; but for the one girl his shifter spirit craves for. Their friendship doesn't even get bitter despite the intrusion of these myriad of emotions; until, one fine night, the secret is spilled... Aizea has to choose between the much feared forests drenched in cold darkness which fringe their kingdom, and the wild darkness that claws its way out of the serene covers of the people that she had been holding close to her heart for all these years. What does she choose as she hears the night call her from the dark depths of the woods?

Synopsis: He was once the face of perfection. A model adored by millions, worshipped under flashing lights—until one fell and ended everything. Now, he wakes in a world not his own. With no grand prophecy, no system guiding him, and no clue why he was brought here, he finds himself stranded in the northern wilds of the Central Continent—where demons roam and monsters thrive. Surviving alone would have been impossible… if not for the arrival of a man whose name is spoken in awe across all five continents. Michael Kaiser. The Savior of the World Tree. The Son of Earth. The Brother of Orcs. The Friend of Giants. The Beloved of Dragons. And the one hailed as the strongest being alive. To the rest of the world, Kaiser is a living myth. But to the nameless outsider, he becomes something far more personal: a mentor, a guide, and the first true friend in a world teetering between peace and chaos. Thrown into the shadow of a living legend, the fallen star begins a journey—not to rival the greatest, but to rediscover himself beneath the weight of a sky already filled with giants. Yet fate is not so easily tamed. Some stars may fall... only to rise again beside the sun.

This book is about a 15 year old boy who is trying to survive in a world where people have gone corrupted and kill to survive

Evans Diamond vivait une vie insouciante et ne manquant de rien. Jusqu'au jour où il fut au courant du secret sombre de ses parents. Une sorte de secte vouant un culte à des ombres maléfiques. Il fut soumis de force à ce culte en me transformant en ombre. Mais il réussi à garder une part humaine et devint un être mi-humain, mi-ombre. Chaque nuit il doit survivre et échapper à ces ombres qui le surveillent le jour et l'attaque la nuit, bien décider à faire de lui l'un des leurs........

He was born into love, but grew up in silence. His father left before he was born — chasing a future full of comfort and dreams. But while he sent money, he couldn’t send time. The boy saw his dad in photos before he ever felt his hug. Every visit was short. Every goodbye, longer. The son waited to laugh with his father, to live with him — but life always came in between. And when his father finally returned to stay, it was already too late. "The Son Who Waited" is a heartbreaking story of distance, longing, and a bond that life never let bloom.