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All she wanted was to save her brother. And all he wanted was a child. He bought her, bound to a contract to give him a child and disappear from his life afterwards, but what hit her like a storm was love... falling for the masked monster who bought her body. Andrew Sterling hated greedy women, and every woman he'd contracted to bear his child, heir to the Sterling Enterprises, had been just that. When Anne, his third contracted surrogate, showed up, he saw her as the very same type of woman until she peeled open his stone-cold heart. What ties them next isn't just a baby contract, but an unexpected marriage formulated by Andrew's grandfather. But a man who has always despised marriage will never be tied down, not even by his contracted surrogate, because the minute she gave him the child he needed, he would send her out of his life. But when the tables turn on him... He says to her, "With a husband as rich as me, right now you're the wealthiest woman alive." "We're only married till I give birth," she retorted. He frowns at that, feeling internally displeased. "It doesn't matter how long we're married for. From now on, everything I own is yours. If you want heaven and earth, I'll buy it for you. My wife will never be found lacking a single fucking thing." She stared at him in disbelief. When did he start feeling something for her? He couldn't remember.

In Jing Chen's previous life, he always thinks that he is but an ordinary man living an ordinary life. And after drinking a bottle of green tea that became his meng po soup to death, his short life came to an end. But, when he opened his eyes ready to see the after life, he was shocked to see.. pink, pink and PINK everywhere. Where is this, is death supposed to be like this? Cutesy and...pink? ps: I've made a mistake! this should be in my draft I won't update this until I finish the whole story. I don't know how to delete the story in webnovel. I only have two chapters of this so please don't read this yet. I'm very sorry.

The demon lord is reincarnated in a new world as the fifth son of a bankrupt noble family. Struggling to fit into his new life, he must navigate the complexities of his family's fall from grace while desperately seeking a way to return to his original world.

so, reincarnation huh? "a lot of good... a lot of bad... balanced karma." "good news you get one boon to bring with you to the next life. unfortunately for you though, you don't get to choose. totally random. ready?" join Apollo in his new life where through sheer luck (good or bad?) is raised by an all hungry, all dominant and all loving hivemind who will burn the galaxy just to see him smile. Hi, I hope you enjoy my novel. It is quite the slow burner so I hope you stick with it. https://discord.gg/uscKDXNxgj

Lin Wanyi, the daughter of the prime minister, was known for her beauty and talent—but in the treacherous world of the imperial harem, she tread carefully, seeking only a quiet and safe life. She had once dreamed of marrying into a peaceful family and living out her days in serenity. But everything changed when an unexpected imperial edict summoned her to the palace. With her father and brother offering no support, she entered the inner court as nothing more than a low-ranking concubine. Her only hope lay in her elder cousin, now an imperial consort. She had planned to keep a low profile, to live quietly behind closed doors. But to her surprise, the cold-faced, cold-hearted emperor began visiting her more frequently than anyone else. The court whispered that Lin Wanyi was favored beyond reason—yet none knew that the strong and resolute young emperor had been captivated by her from the very first glance... Translator’s Note: Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that this is a fan translation of the amazing novel by [三只鳄梨]. I truly admire their work, so please consider supporting the original if you can. I’m really excited to share my translation with you, and I hope it helps more people enjoy this story. Feel free to share your thoughts with me — I’d love to hear from you! Thank you so much for reading and supporting both the original author and my efforts. It means the world to me!

All I ever wanted was to have a peaceful life and minimal social interaction, instead I died on the day of my graduation ceremony and got reincarnated in a fantasy world filled with magic, dragons and wars with politics. Accompany Elijah, who was a law graduate in his life on earth, as he unfolds the mysteries of the new world and embark on an epic adventure which starts by the feeling that his death was a plot of fate and heavens.

The female protagonist is a wildly popular heartthrob with a natural halo. The male protagonist is a crazily obsessed and self-abasing loyal dog. Qiu Shu, the top scholar’s daughter, is pure, elegant and incomparably enchanting, captivating countless admirers. Being favored by the eldest prince, the most handsome man in the capital, and becoming his wife in a single move is truly the pride of a poor student. However, what they don’t know is that the seemingly bright and splendid female protagonist lives in a battlefield of jealousy every day. The cute and adorable young empress is unusually attached to her. The gentlemanly and upright young empress dowager has an ambiguous relationship with her. Even her aloof and proud eldest prince is actually a gloomy and petty jealous husband. [Reading Guide] 1. This novel is 1v1. The male protagonist is truly humble. Don’t read if you dislike it. 2. Male pregnancy. The female protagonist is loved by everyone. 3. There are one-sided yuri feelings. The female protagonist is straight. Don’t read if you dislike it!

What does it feel like to find yourself inside the novel of an author you hated? How will you survive in a world that's filled with cliché? Well, something similar happened here. Once there was an unpopular fantasy novel author. However, for certain reasons, he died a pathetic death. Later he found out that the world he reincarnated in was the same as the novel of an author he hated the most. The only person he never wanted to talk to again…he was reincarnated inside that very person’s novel. This is his story! The story of the man who was known by the name “Zero” in his second life. The story of how he survived without plot armor in a world filled with cliché situations, only in the favor of the MC of that novel. This is, the Author’s Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting!! ---------------------------- The cover image is not mine and I can remove it if the original owner wants. A/N - The mc is the anti-hero type and the reasons for why he is like that and what happened in his past will be revealed as you move forward in the story. UPDATE SCHEDULE - 2 CHAPTER/DAY Join the discord server - https://discord.gg/ssWjUZ4dND

Althea always knew her life wasn’t a fairytale, but she didn’t expect it to turn into a comedy of errors. When her family arranges her marriage to Adrian, the golden boy of a wealthy family, she reluctantly agrees. But just days before the wedding, Adrian drops a bombshell. A series of misunderstandings, an impulsive act to maintain the Velasco family’s honor—Althea finds herself accidentally married to Maximilian. But as the chaos unfolds, they start to wonder if this accident might have been fate’s way of arranging something they never saw coming. In "Wed, Set, Go!" love and lies collide in a whirlwind of comedy, and unexpected romance.

The Bad Setup Olivia Parker loves her independence—her career, her freedom to travel, and the life she’s built on her own terms. The last thing she wants is to be set up by her best friend, Haley. Meanwhile, Daniel, her fiancé, has been trying to do the same for his best friend, Grayson Steel. But every time they attempt to introduce Olivia and Grayson, something gets in the way. Neither knows what the other looks like—until fate steps in. When Olivia and Grayson meet by chance at a bar, their connection is instant, sparked by an impromptu game of darts. What starts as a random encounter soon feels like something more. But will they take the leap once they realize they were meant to meet all along? A slow-burn romance about fate, friendship, and love finding you when you least expect it.

In a world where killing your own heart is the first step to becoming human, Yuta is the first to fail. Now he's alive when he should be dead, hunted by a system that does not tolerate imperfection. His only companion is his beast — a golden lizard with strange eyes and a silence that weighs like guilt. But something is wrong with her. Something that shouldn't be possible.

A large group of the most ordinary people, falls into another world and becomes vampires. Their existence in new conditions is shown in the series of books - The Most Evil Kind.

> She shot him to save herself. He lived to ruin her. Now the man Annika once loved is hunting her across a trail of blood and saltwater. Revenge is simple. Love was always the complicated part.

All he did was make fun of the author for his terrible writing. How was he supposed to know that the author was a god and that he would be punished by getting transmigrated into the body of the most loathed character in the novel — the shitty side villain that was cursed by all the readers for sexually harassing one of the female protagonists. "Fuck." [How to Redeem a Trashy Side Villain — Rebooted Version]

In the 3,476th year of the Celestial Calendar, the Heavenly Emperor—whose divinity was rivaled only by his boredom—rewrote the Immortal Code of Gender Assignments during a particularly uneventful spring. According to Clause 89, Subsection Moonlight, Paragraph Absolutely-Not-Optional, any being born with an overwhelmingly high-yin spiritual constitution could only, by universal decree, be classified as female. It was simple. Efficient. Divine. Except… someone made a mistake. A mortal child was born deep within the darkest stretch of the Eternal Spirit Forest, surrounded by mist, mystery, and mushrooms that sang lullabies. He was bright-eyed, soft-voiced, high-yin… and very, very male. The thunder cracked the day he laughed. A white wolf howled. A snake offered him venom like warm milk. The trees whispered ancient songs. And the heavens? Well, they began preparing lightning bolts on standby—just in case someone down there got too clever and said something like: “Wait… is that a boy?” Boom. Thus began the most unusual cultivation tale in ten thousand realms. A tale of a child raised by beasts, mistaken for a goddess, blessed with yin that could stop hearts, and cursed with thunder that would smite anyone who dared question the Heavenly Code. This is the story of Xiulan. Or as the forest calls him: “Our beautiful, powerful, emotionally unstable daughter.” Or as heaven calls him: “ERROR 404: Gender Not Found.”

Framed for the murder of her best friend and betrayed by the very man she called husband, Zendaya's world crumbled overnight. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, her only lifeline came in the form of a cold contract offered by the city’s most powerful billionaire, Young Master Stephan, the very man she believed killed her best friend. As an illegitimate daughter cast aside by her own blood, Zendaya had no real choice: face life in prison or become Stephan's wife in name only. But five years later, she's done playing roles. Tired of being in the shadows, tired of hiding their secret daughter, and tired of the heartache she never asked for... For the second time, she asked for a divorce. But when everyone thought she'd be quickly divorced, her husband came begging "Can we not get a divorce? I’ll leave everything behind, and spend every day making it up to you… Your enemies will become mine"

"You are," he said with a smile, the same smile he always gave whenever he was sorry, the same smile that always broke my heart until it felt as if I would stop beating the next second, "most precious."

Christian Tsunade a high schooler in the respected Sakura academy, but Christian is a boy that get pissed easily, and because of this he can be violent, being someone who beats up people he is hated by almost everyone in the academy, but one day changed that, three people helped Christian to accept people and value their company, but the more Christian knew about these people the more he saw their own hell, and now Christian tries to help his friends that helped him.

She was a widow, his family took every cent, her child was taken away by her late husband family and used as a servant, she has no one to turn to. She was forced to run and never look back. Turns out her late-Husband bestfriend is helping her. He took everything back just for her.

As a lady setting the boundaries and rules can make ones relationship feel good what happens if u feel to do so. as ladies making rules isn't the real deal but making the rules effective is the real deal

In a harsh world where hope feels like a forgotten luxury, a boy faces impossible choices and the price of holding onto a dream may be more than he can bear.

One contract. Two strangers. A thousand secrets. Aria needed a miracle. Damon needed a bride. What was meant to be a cold, six-month arrangement spirals into a storm of buried truths, burning touches, and a past neither of them can outrun. Damon Blackwood—billionaire CEO, ruthless, reclusive, and dangerously magnetic—offers Aria a deal that could save her family. But behind his silver wolf ring and unreadable eyes lies a man haunted by more than just ambition. Aria thought she was marrying a stranger. She didn’t know he already knew her. She didn’t know he was hiding the one secret that could destroy them both. In a world of business rivalries, media wars, shattered legacies, and forbidden love, one fake marriage may be the only thing real enough to save them—or end them.

I am trying to learn writing on my own. So I am writing this book, which will be me drawing inspirations from others' work. - In the beginning I don't think my work will be much different from the sources. But don't get me wrong, I will never copy the characters and their story. I will be making my own characters, and the morale and ideas might not always follow what the writer of their works intended. - At the end of each story I will credit the source. Do check out I you want.

Sanjana was the perfect bride—soft-spoken, loyal, and full of dreams about love and forever. But one wedding night changed everything. What was supposed to be magical turned into silence. Her husband was kind… but distant. Gentle… but unfulfilling. And deep inside her, a fire began to stir—a craving for something more than duty, more than routine. She tried to stay patient. She tried to stay loyal. But loneliness has a sound. And sometimes, it whispers in the voice of another man. As Supriya walks the thin line between tradition and temptation, she discovers that desire doesn’t always follow rules—and sometimes, neither does love. A bold and emotional journey of a woman who was married to one… but her heart and body refused to belong to just him.