Subversive

In the world of high-stakes power plays, manipulation, and psychological warfare, Aiden Devereux is a master of control. A brilliant strategist and manipulator, Aiden's rise through the ranks of a shadowy global organization known as The Circle is driven by one goal: to claim ultimate authority over the world's most influential networks. With his unwavering focus on power, Aiden employs every tool at his disposal—deception, seduction, subversion, and mind games—to eliminate rivals and bend the world to his will. But the path to dominance is never clear-cut. As Aiden ascends, he faces growing opposition not just from his enemies, but from the very forces within himself. His manipulations begin to take a toll on his psyche, eroding his sense of morality and forcing him to confront the human cost of his relentless ambition. The deeper he digs into The Circle’s tangled web, the more he uncovers about its dark origins and the hidden figures pulling its strings. As Aiden's mastery over others reaches its peak, he encounters new adversaries—rivals with their own formidable tactics, including a former mentor who knows his every move, and a cunning seductress whose emotional intelligence threatens to destabilize his cold, calculated worldview. But it is not just outside forces that threaten him; the very manipulation he has used to control others begins to turn inward, as he starts questioning if he has become a pawn in a much larger game. When a new figure, Julian Thorne, emerges from the shadows—a strategist with a mind as sharp and dangerous as Aiden’s—the stakes become personal. With The Circle on the brink of collapse, Aiden is faced with an agonizing choice: take control of the empire he has spent years building, or destroy it all and erase the legacy of power that has consumed him. The Serpent’s Throne is a psychological thriller that explores the depths of ambition, the cost of absolute power, and the delicate balance between control and chaos. As Aiden’s world unravels, readers are taken on a harrowing journey through deception, betrayal, and the ultimate test of one man’s will to bend fate to his design.

What would you do if you had the power to change the world with a single wish? Shackled in the shadows, it is the light of the soul that forges our freedom. In a world torn apart by half a century of war, peace is but a fragile façade. Zayn, known as Sahar the Subversive, hides his identity behind a mask. Gifted with intriguing beauty and unique powers, he pursues an ambitious dream: to become a Soulmaster, a being capable of shaping the world's destiny. Marked by a painful past, Zayn has been forged in adversity. His power of teleportation and mastery of ruh, the essence of the soul, make him a threat to the powerful forces that uphold an unjust order. As Zayn fights to change the world and his own fate, he will face impossible choices. In his quest to become a Soulmaster, he will earn the right to make a wish that could reshape the world. But what wish could truly rewrite the future of humanity?

In today's dystopian world, regret is the number one leading factor behind the creation of fantasy. For a bundle of regrets such as Mark, fantasy was a place where he could choose. And choice was a liberty he never seemed to have. Abused and controlled. Just a sacrificial pawn in another man's game. He absolutely loathed it. But in the very bitter end of his drone-like life, he was given a choice. "Remember that novel you read a few years back, all while cursing it in every chapter's comments?" "...Yeah?" "Well, that was my world..." "Oh..." Mark was given the choice to transmigrate. To right his wrongs; a second chance to live a fulfilling life. But there was always a catch. Mark would never truly be free of bondage. It was up to him to snap the chains of Authority. And in his wake, there would be Anarchy. ────── If you love extra stories, I think you'll really like this. Because I love extra stories! But with all their issues and faults, I felt I could do much better. Updates will be daily, 1-2 chapters a day. English is in fact my first language! Therefore, grammatical errors are unacceptable! Don't settle for less. I frequently go back to re-edit my chapters to ensure that my story is quality. Unfortunately, that wipes out the paragraph comments and may cause a disconnect if you’re caught up as I end up retconning stuff you’ve already read :P This is just my somewhat meta (and mostly subversive) take on the 'Extra' genre of transmigration stories. I'm having a blast writing it so far, and I hope that leaks into the writing and overall plot decisions for you all to eat up. No Harem. Single FL. The Anarchy part of the title will take a bit to get to since I want progression and development to feel natural and earned. Or it may end up being irrelevant to the story, I’ll have to see when I get deeper in, just keeping it real Despite the loose tone of the story, I'm really picky about what I write, and I really try to ensure that what I'm putting out is quality. If you think I'm being a lazy bastard or if there are any glaring issues with my story, please please please leave a comment.

Imperially Yours...A blend of romance, royalty and fantasy. History is written by the victors that is why you hear the Elves tell their descendants how they conquered this land and still glorify such an exercise. This land used to belong to us. But then they came: an annexation that brought us all-all three races- together and still pulled us farther apart. And they established a social order. Elves first, Fae, and the humans at the lowest rung of that order. I cannot be disappointed with my parents enough for being who they were-humans-and then birthing me. That was a huge disservice to me. In this world, you were only Elven or nothing. I was nothing by extension. But I never embraced that status. I was destined for more-rebellion, subversion, sedition- but nothing prepared me for catching the attention of the Emperor of the Elven colonies...and I was going to pay for it. I still baffle at how I was increasingly attracted to the tyrant Emperor who was not just known to be condescending and ruthless but cold and unfeeling; unkind and cruel. In this midst of this I was going to change and experience things like I have never before and I will struggle with myself to overcome the darkness that seeks to take me with it. There are three types of Magic: Benign, Grey and Malign. Two kinds were outlawed: Grey and Malign. I possessed Malign magic within me and soon I would find out why it was outlawed...

A sudden breakup phone call broke Jiang Yuxuan's seemingly ordinary urban life but deep love. On the other end of the phone, my girlfriend Zhou Yanyan’s decisive words were like a bolt from the blue, and six years of affectionate devotion were instantly wiped out. Zhou Yanyan not only announced that she had ended her relationship with him and was about to marry Zhang Dayong, a junior student with superior material conditions, but what made Jiang Yuxuan's heart wrenched was that he had just spent everything he had on Xiaoxiao's family and was burdened with huge debts, but now he was abandoned. Like an old man wearing worn shoes. The sweet vows and the vision of working together in the past seem so pale and powerless in the face of the cruelty of reality. Jiang Yuxuan, a young writer struggling to survive in the magical city, despite his meager income, has always cared for his girlfriend in the capital with selfless love. He is willing to live frugally and even subsidize cigarette money by picking up scraps, just in exchange for Xiaoxiao's happy smile. . However, the balance of love was eventually out of balance in the face of the temptation of money and material. Xiaoxiao chose a man who could immediately realize a stable life, leaving Jiang Yuxuan to bear the pain of betrayal alone in the wind and rain. The mixed emotions of anger, despair, and humiliation swept through Jiang Yuxuan's soul like a storm. He could not accept the fact that he had been deceived for a year and a half, and he could not bear the fact that his hard-earned money became a stepping stone for other people's marriages. Just when Jiang Yuxuan was on the verge of collapse and looking up to the sky angrily blaming his unfair fate, a thunderbolt pierced the sky, seeming to respond to his grief and anger, and involved him in an unprecedented and strange situation - the "garbage recycling system" quietly arrived. In the flash of lightning, Jiang Yuxuan's fate suddenly turned. His body was strengthened by mysterious power and bound to an unknown "garbage recycling system", which indicated that his life was about to embark on a subversive counterattack. The former waste collector may become the king of garbage who can harness endless resources and reverse life's difficulties.

1946, Betty McDonald’s whimsical autobiography was as popular as baked beans; now it’s almost completely forgotten, but, tellingly, still in print. Alas, after an hour or two with The Egg & I, it was excruciatingly obvious that Betty McDonald’s book is not a classic. On some weeks, there might be as many as five competing challenges for each nonfiction slot, but rarely as straightforward as this. Literary classics cluster on the north face of Parnassus. For this vertiginous terrain there are different sherpas. Italo Calvino says that a classic is “a book that has never finished what it wants to say”. Ezra Pound identifies “a certain eternal and irresponsible freshness”; TS Eliot, much more astringent, observed in The Sacred Wood that “no modern language can hope to produce a classic, in the sense I have called Virgil a classic”. Alan Bennett wryly notes: “Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.” Among nonfiction classics, the most treacherous category is that creature beloved of publishers – “the contemporary classic”. A second cousin to that notorious impostor is the “instant classic”. Such books will have been judged by slippery criteria: popular and literary critical fashion, a changing marketplace and new technology, bestseller lists and hype. In the past 100 years, a familiar palette of blurbish adjectives has given shape and colour to a moving target: provocative, outrageous, prophetic, groundbreaking, funny, disturbing, revolutionary, moving, inspiring, life-changing, subversive… a portrait of sir walter raleigh wearing a brocaded and beaded doublet The 100 best nonfiction books: No 99 – The History of the World by Walter Raleigh (1614) Read more This list raises another troubling question: is nonfiction “the new fiction”? There are some good writers who will argue that this is so, but I believe that nonfiction (which can sometimes successfully bring together many genres) is not, strictly speaking, a genre of its own. Creatively – yes – using narrative techniques borrowed from fiction, it’s possible to give certain kinds of nonfiction the aura of a distinct new genre. Yet, at the end of the day, “nonfiction” fractures into time-hallowed categories such as philosophy, memoir, history, reportage and poetry (see below), etc. This is particularly true of “nonfiction classics” from the 18th and 19th centuries, titles such as A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume or On Liberty by JS Mill. By that yardstick, a recent classic will be quite distinct, chiefly because its literary and cultural milieu is so different

Expulsion from the Hesperian Priory didn't stop Fenrose from digging into the dark secrets of the Hesperian religion. His subversion posed a threat to the church, for the secret can turn the world upside down. Hunted by the church's deadly Inquisitors, Fenrose's only sanctuary was finding his place inside the famous mercenary band, The Disavowed. But the band posed another problem for Fenrose, as its mercenaries are some of the most capricious madmen in the world.

!ABANDONED (since 11/7/21)! The world has become a fantasy story and I am only a secondary character. Humanity has discovered what it never wanted to experience. The terror of being a dominated species, the humiliation of living their lives in the same way as a fantasy novel scenario. Their fate is already written... Can they really change it?

Five years ago, he re-entered the game again. With the opportunity against the sky, Yang Haotian developed rapidly in just a few years, and then embarked on the road of hegemony. Kill Liu Bei, close Guan Zhang, step on Sun Cao, and destroy Dong Huang. Lu Dian, Ma Huangzhao, but only the predecessors of the horse; Diao Zhen and Cai Shuangqiao, all the maids who warmed the bed... A good background game of the Three Kingdoms. The early stage of this book may be a bit slow, but the middle and late stages are definitely cool enough to fly...

From the Internet to consumer electronics, enrich entertainment life; from cloud computing to artificial intelligence to disrupt lifestyles; from new materials to nanotechnology to reshape inherent cognition; from new energy to military and military equipment, and expand the boundaries of power; from biology to clinical Application, saving countless lives ... A super-genius soul from thirty years later wears 2003, uses his vision and technology beyond this era to change the world, and initiates the tide of change and subversion in one frontier field after another ... Luo Sheng ( shèng) obsessed with technology to change the world, accidentally monopolizing the world with technology; immersed in one's own way, accidentally leaving others with nowhere to lead ... leading the tide of change and subversion, from the birth of an IT technology

[The whole world of practical teaching, Xiao Jiu will describe it ingeniously, those who have not seen the practical teaching can also watch it in the pit] The highly nurturing academy claims that as long as you graduate from here, you can achieve any employment or further education requirements; It will also give students 100,000 points worth of arbitrary consumption every month; Such a high-paying campus, but not the slightest harsh, It doesn’t matter if students desert at random in class, or even come or not; This school looks like a paradise, but its true colors are— Only the outstanding can enjoy the privileged strength of the Supreme Academy! Wandai Cheng accidentally came to this world of real education and entered the first grade C class with many bad students. As a result, the High Education Academy ushered in an unprecedented subversion. Long Yuanxiang: "You guy, you are really a villain." Horikita Suzune: "You guy, you really taught me a good lesson!" Hobami Ichinose: "Don't be provocative anymore and trouble our class, okay?" Sakayanagi Arisu: "This is my first failure."

sweetly subversive novel which seems more characteristic of its author as it becomes increasingly multilayered and labyrinthine in its masterful manipulation of the relationship(s) between fiction and truth

He sets out in the face of peril and adversities to advocate for her beloved teacher and he would be a hero of justice , a hero that his fame would reverberate across the prodigious distant hilltops of Oyugis . He is in the way for revolution of his crime-infested county , the chosen one . A revolution that will engulf the disease of human trafficking that had plagued his county. Will he later on find solace amidst the turbulent streets of his hometown?... Will he breeze through the obstacles of criminal subversion shaking the precincts of his county? Little did he know that there would come a time his beloved teacher will be seeking asylum in a faraway country away from him never to be seen. His name is , The Deuce, Himself. However, it will be a long time before he realizes that he has this colossal power of actually wiping the heinous creatures.

## Level Up the Bad Guy: A Murim Misfit's Rise In the sprawling world of Murim, where martial arts masters fight for power and honor, Jin-Sun has a problem: prophecy labels him the fated villain. Destined to bring chaos and destruction, Jin-Sun faces two choices: embrace his prophesied path or defy fate and level up as the ultimate bad guy... on his own terms. Armed with a mischievous grin and a penchant for unorthodox techniques, Jin-Sun throws the Murim world into disarray. He stumbles upon ancient secrets, challenges corrupt sects, and forms unlikely alliances with outcasts and misfits. All the while, he navigates a labyrinthine game of destiny, outsmarting the hero prophesied to bring him down and rewriting the script of his own demise. But the path of the renegade villain is treacherous. Powerful factions hunt him down, wielding mystical relics and time-honored martial arts. Can Jin-Sun master his rebellious spirit, forge his own legend, and level up beyond the shadow of his prophesied doom? Or will he succumb to the whispers of fate and become the villain the world expects? **This synopsis blends classic Murim action with a playful, subversive twist on the villain trope. It highlights the humor and underdog appeal of Jin-Sun's journey, hinting at the mysteries and challenges he faces while emphasizing his defiance of destiny.** Feel free to adapt this synopsis further and personalize it with specific details about your world, characters, and unique twists on the Murim genre. Remember, the best stories are built on a foundation of your own creativity and imagination!

In a world where ancient magic slumbers and long-forgotten forces rise once more, turmoil grips the Polychromatic Kingdom. Corruption and the subversion of royal laws continue unabated, while the different Houses vie for power. During such a time, the second son of the weakest Royal house is sent away to the Capital on his mother's orders, accompanied by his faithful knight, and guided by the famous Thunder Lord, captain of the Royal Guard. What awaits him in the Royal Capital is much stranger than he could have ever imagined. This is a fantasy world with three magic systems, one soft, one hard, and one somewhere in the middle. There's also a focus on worldbuilding, and politics, along with battles, and military strategies. Religions aren't a big focus, but are somewhat present, and always in the background of most things.