Carol The Price Of Salt

A lone young man with a troubled past stumbles upon an ancient seal in a desolate forest. But this is no ordinary mask it’s the beginning of a demonic pact. The moment it clings to his face, his fate is sealed forever. He is dragged through a trial in the spirit realm, cast into hell… and sent back. Every return marks the start of a mission. Every mission brings bloodshed. Every kill seals a soul… and every sealed soul brings the devil one step closer to walking the earth. Yet, in the heart of this darkness, a fragment of his humanity remains. A girl he meets in a quiet town sparks the last light within him. But she, too, is now marked. Their fate is no longer his alone it’s a shared descent into darkness. The mask stays hidden. But the mission is clear: 13 special souls must be sealed. And in the end, the devil will descend in his true avatar. Will the carrier hold on to his humanity... or become the very demon he serves?

Chu Ci had been abandoned by the Chu family for eighteen years until one day, the critically ill old man ordered someone to bring her back home.    Upon seeing Chu Ci, whose appearance was poor and unkempt, with his entire body being worth no more than a hundred yuan, everyone in the Chu family felt disgusted. The servants at home are dressed more decently than Chu Ci. How could their family have such a down-and-out daughter? Still considering dividing the inheritance of the Chu family? Absolutely not!  However, soon after, they discovered that something was wrong with the daughter they had left to grow up in an orphanage. She casually scores first place in the exam, has a safe filled with hundreds of thousands or even millions of top-quality jadeite, gives away a variety of high-end luxury goods, and is referred to as "boss" by various professors and bosses... Mr. Chu: As long as you make progress, the inheritance will be given to you.     Chu Ci: I just want to be a salted fish waiting to die.     A certain boss: I have a lot of money, come to my house and I will support you and take care of you.     Chu Ci: Are there any conditions?     A certain boss: Let me taste the salted fish.     Chu Ci: The salted fish is very salty and not tasty.     A certain boss: How can you tell whether salted fish is salty or not without trying it? "PS: I am an amateur translator. Please overlook any minor grammatical errors."

Half a century has passed since the fall of Wi, the nation of the Celestial Scions, once blessed by the divine entity Sahngjon. On Birahng, a remote island untouched by the swords of the new dynasty, Dahn, the last two scions of Wi and their loyal followers lie in wait, their hopes clinging to an ancient prophecy. Finally, the crimson star foretold in the prophecy appears, igniting a fire of ambition in the hearts of the two scions. Meanwhile, in the Dahn kingdom, the king, alarmed by the growing unrest among his people, dispatches his ambitious third child, Kyeong'ui, to Birahng, the island where the crimson star has descended. Amidst a clash of desires and destinies, the crimson star hangs in the balance. Whose path will it illuminate?

We all know about the love story of the hero. Like how the hero overcomes all the difficulties and reaches a good position in his life. We know about his lovestory . But have you all ever thought about the love story of the villain?If a villain loves someone a lot, how will he live? Will he be able to achieve his love? Or will he just become a villain in that girl's life! And will any girl ever be able to love that villain? There are many questions but we will get their answers in this story, so let's go... to a new and interesting story of a villain...

“What you sacrifice is what you become.” In a world where power is carved from curses, contracts, and forbidden rituals, one boy offers everything—his name, his soul, and even the right to breathe freely—in exchange for a single truth: why was he spared when everyone else died? Born with nothing but a cursed mark and a forgotten past, he awakens a system unlike any other—one that doesn’t reward strength, but sacrifice, intelligence, and will. Each technique comes at a cost. Each domain reflects the deepest scars. And in this world, names have power—but his is missing. Thrust into a fractured world of cursed relics, hidden factions, and divine laws long broken, he must navigate twisted exorcist guilds, unstable allies, and ancient beings that feed on despair. Every choice he makes echoes with consequences. Every power he gains is a step closer to losing himself. But he is not here to be a hero. He is not here to be saved. He is here to burn the system to the ground—and remake it in the image of those he lost. --------------------------------------------------- Perfect for fans of: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Jujutsu Kaisen, Shadow Slave, Reverend Insanity.

Is it better to look up or look down? Throughout human history, that is the main philosophical debate. If you look down you can do but you can't dream. If you look up you can dream but you can't do. Is it better to waste your life in the dirt or on the clouds? I thought neither, so I tried to stand on the clouds, fooled by their vainglory, only to fall back to something I didn't understand.

Trong một thế giới mà bản chất được dệt nên từ vô vàn tầng lớp của những ràng buộc vô hình, nơi từng phân tử hiện hữu đều bị khắc ghi bởi định luật của sự trói buộc và mỗi linh hồn đều là con rối bị điều phối bởi chuỗi xích vô tận của nguyên lý. Và trong chính sự điên cuồng ấy, một phản nghịch đã nảy sinh...Từ phản nghịch đó, đứa con của tự do đã ra đời, không phải như một sinh vật, mà như một dị điểm của toàn thể. Lumine là một mầm mống không thuộc về trật tự, một tồn tại gào thét giữa vòm trời bất động, một biểu tượng sống của khước từ mọi gông cùm đã khai sinh ra khát vọng tuyệt đối, hủy diệt mọi ràng buộc. Không phải bằng thù hận, mà bằng chính cơn đói triệt để với tự do tuyệt đối, Lumine và kẻ song hành đã thách thức thực tại, một thực tại vốn là mê cung bất khả phản kháng được dựng nên bởi những kẻ mang danh Thần, những kẻ không tạo ra thế giới mà lại chiếm hữu nó bằng thứ quyền lực mượn danh ý chí. Thế nhưng, ngay khi bàn tay họ tưởng đã chạm đến thứ ánh sáng rực rỡ nơi cuối đường hầm, cái ánh sáng mà họ nghĩ là sự giải thoát thì chính vòm trời ấy sụp đổ, và thực tại cười khẩy bằng tiếng cười của vô số bánh răng vận mệnh gãy vụn. Họ không bị đánh bại bởi kẻ thù, mà bởi chính quy luật đã thối rữa của cái thế giới họ muốn phá tan, nơi mọi hành động dù nhỏ bé nhất cũng bị tính trước trong một ma trận tuyệt đối của hệ quả. Đắng cay thay, cái chân lý mà họ đuổi bắt, cái chân lý trần truồng, tinh khôi và thuần khiết nhất... tự do lại nằm ngay trước mắt họ, song bị che khuất bởi sự tồn tại của một điều không nên tồn tại...Và chính vì thế, sự tồn tại của hắn không thể được dung thứ. Không phải bởi vì đạo lý, mà bởi vì hắn là dấu chấm hết của mọi diễn ngôn. Kẻ đó không nên tồn tại. Không phải bởi vì hắn sai, mà bởi vì hắn là thứ thuần túy, một lỗ hổng mang hình người trong thân thể của một thế giới đang hấp hối vì chính những gì hắn cho phép tồn tại.

In a world ruled by chaos and war, 19-year-old Rafael Ralfs Kashtanov is a man marked by darkness and determination. Haunted by sleepless nights and a burning desire for freedom, he walks a solitary path where mercy is a weakness and sacrifice is inevitable. As battles rage and alliances crumble, Rafael must confront the true cost of freedom — but will the price he pays save the world, or destroy it?

She was the price of betrayal.she was served the punishment she didn’t see coming. When Aria Monroe's father and step mom sealed a deal with the moretti family , she’s forced to replace her step-sister and to enter into an arranged marriage with Lucien Moretti, the ruthless heir,the most feared mafia family in New York. Cold. Possessive. Deadly. He makes no promises of love—only ownership. When forced by her family, Aria's freedom was signed away. But marrying Lucien means stepping into a world of velvet lies and blood-stained truths, where trust is a luxury and affection and weapon. She’s fire—beautiful, defiant, and untamed. He’s ice—unforgiving, controlling, and consumed by vengeance. Together, they burn. Lucien doesn’t want love — he wants control. Aria doesn’t want a husband — she wants freedom. But the longer they’re bound together, the deeper the obsession grows. Secrets. Betrayal. Passion. In a world of blood and loyalty, Aria must decide: Is she a pawn in a deadly game… or the queen about to take the king? And as secrets unravel and enemies close in, passion becomes war, and their bond teeters between destruction and desire. In a world ruled by power and violence, can love ever be more than a blood price?

Siddharth had nothing—no money, no status—just a heart full of love for Aadhya, his childhood friend and the sister of his best friend. But love alone doesn’t build a future. Desperate to rise from his poor beginnings, Siddharth made a mistake—one he never meant to make that brought him everything he ever dreamed of… except her.

# The Epic of Arjun - Synopsis ## Setting The dense forests of Dandakaranyam in ancient Bharath, where traditional ways of life and the code of dharma still govern the land. ## Main Characters **Arjun** - A sixteen-year-old with the classical heroic build of ajanubahu (arms extending to his knees), trained in combat and archery. Despite his warrior training, he has a compassionate heart that abhors unnecessary killing. **Devavrath** - Arjun's grandfather and mentor, a formidable warrior whose true identity remains mysterious. Though aging and ill, he possesses extraordinary combat skills and deep wisdom about threats facing the motherland. ## Plot Summary Young Arjun lives a secluded life in the forest with his grandfather Devavrath, undergoing rigorous training in archery and combat. When his grandfather falls ill, Arjun ventures into forbidden territory to gather rare medicinal herbs, despite warnings about the dangers that lurk there. In the tiger's domain, Arjun encounters a fierce tigress protecting her two cubs. The tigress, already wounded from territorial battles and desperate to protect her young, attacks the intruder. Faced with an impossible choice, Arjun reluctantly kills the tigress in self-defense but saves her orphaned cubs, bringing them home to raise as his own responsibility. This act of compassion comes with a price - Devavrath demands that Arjun double his training efforts. Through increasingly challenging exercises, including hitting targets while dodging his grandfather's attacks, Arjun's skills are pushed to their limits. As the training intensifies, Devavrath reveals a shocking truth: Arjun is not just a forest dweller but a Kshatriya with a destined role to protect Bharath from foreign threats that are gathering in the shadows. The rigorous training is preparation for a greater purpose - to defend the motherland from "foreign beasts" who wait to strike. ## Central Themes - **Dharma vs. Personal Desire**: Arjun's struggle between his natural compassion and his duty as a warrior - **Responsibility and Sacrifice**: Taking responsibility for consequences of one's actions (raising the tiger cubs) - **Hidden Destiny**: The revelation that Arjun's simple forest life is actually preparation for a greater calling - **Master-Student Bond**: The deep relationship between Devavrath and Arjun, built on trust, wisdom, and unspoken secrets ## Conflicts **Internal**: Arjun's moral conflict about killing and his confusion about his true identity and purpose **External**: The immediate physical challenges of survival and training, with hints of a larger conflict brewing for the future **Generational**: The tension between Devavrath's knowledge of greater threats and Arjun's current innocence about the wider world ## Story Questions - What is Arjun's true heritage and why is it being kept secret? - What are the "foreign beasts" that threaten Bharath? - Why is Devavrath's time running out, and what will happen when he's gone? - How will Arjun's compassionate nature reconcile with his warrior destiny? ## Tone Epic and mythological, blending intense action sequences with philosophical depth. The narrative carries the weight of ancient Indian storytelling traditions while exploring timeless themes of duty, sacrifice, and the price of protecting what one loves. This opening chapter establishes Arjun as a reluctant hero whose journey from compassionate youth to defender of dharma promises to be both physically and spiritually transformative.

Cherish Battle is the daughter of the world's smartest and wealthiest man, a living legend. Despite her celebrity status, she has no interest in fame or the spotlight. For Cherish, life revolved around two goals: staying at the top of her school and earning a place in her father's company, where cutting-edge research on alien life defines their legacy. To her, senior year isn't about prom or graduation like it is for her classmates. It's about preparing to take over the company that once saved humanity from extraterrestrial threats. But everything changes when her father makes one shocking decision: to hire one of her classmates to help save the world....

In a world of nobles, magic, and rigid expectations, Joshua Llewellyn is a charming, self-absorbed young noble who dreams more of collecting maid points than making a name for himself. But beneath his antics lies a deep insecurity—he wants to be strong, respected, and worthy in the eyes of someone he once failed to protect. When he gets embarrassed during his birthday, Joshua decides it’s time to change. Trading card games and flirty one-liners for fencing drills and arcane studies, he embarks on a journey not just to become powerful—but to discover who he truly wants to be.

Seyrim is an omega prince, but above all... he is a man who dreams of freedom. After the fall of his kingdom to the most ruthless army on the continent, Seyrim finds his life turned into a bargaining chip. Forced into a political marriage arranged by the conquering king, all that remains is for him to choose: To accept a fate he never wanted... or to fight for the freedom he has always longed for. Caught between honor, duty, and the desires of his own heart, Seyrim must decide whether he will be just another pawn on the board of power - or the one who changes the rules of the game. A story of resistance, passion, and sacrifice in the midst of an empire forged by war.

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In a world where strength determines worth, Jin—once branded a villain and betrayed by those he called friends—meets his end with a blade through the heart. But death is not the end. Waking ten years in the past, Jin finds himself in the body of Rael Drayce, the academy’s weakest and most ridiculed student. With no skills, no allies, and the face of a child long forgotten, Jin resolves to live differently this time—not to conquer, not to rule—but to find peace. Yet peace, like power, comes at a price. In a place where survival means standing above the rest, can a man who desires nothing still escape the gravity of greatness?

When a hereditary issue leaves Artemis unable to see, she tries to give up on a world she created for a book. But the world won’t give up on her, and drags her and her best friend, William, into the world dangerous world she created.

A boy who has forgotten even his own name, hating humanity and its civilization that reeks of lies, is raised by the ruthless yet honest laws of the forest. For him, life is synonymous with survival; his philosophy is pragmatism, his weapon is raw instinct. This one-man kingdom is shaken by an ancient, moon-white tree he discovers in the heart of the forest. The spiritual fruits it offers promise a chance to "ascend," but the boy's nature is not to trust, but to test. This mistrust culminates in him witnessing the creation of a monstrous abomination (Yaoguai) when he experiments on an innocent animal with the pure, uncontrolled life energy (Qi). Forced to consume the fruit himself to defeat the beast, he is driven to the brink of madness, attaining a flawed yet overwhelming power through a Qi Deviation (Qi Zou Ru Mo). Unable to contain this new, wild power, his body pushes him to create his own hell. Without a master or a technique, guided only by pain and the will to survive, he begins a journey of superhuman Body Cultivation (Tixiū). His ultimate goal is not to accept the ancient tree as a gift, but to uproot it like a prize, to possess the very source of his power. The tree's mental assaults on him reveal fragmented memories of a manor in flames and a sorrowful lullaby, hinting that a personal tragedy lies at the root of his hatred for humanity. His journey takes him to the fringes of civilization, to the Thunderclap Peaks. Here, he chooses the Path of the Rock to tame his power and, in the process, makes his first contact with established Cultivator Sects who become aware of his existence. This encounter transforms him from a mere beast into a strategist who uses pawns for his own gain. "Zarziyan: The Price of Ascension" is not just a story of empowerment, but a saga of a lonely soul searching for his identity, confronting the ghosts of his past, and in the process, transforming from a monster to a king, and perhaps even to a god. It is the tale of a conqueror forging his own path with blood and steel in a world beyond good and evil, where absolute will and power are the only law.

You live in a world where most has some kind of power related to a mythical creature. even less have multiple or all the creature posseses.One of these few is damian your husband, a very powerful mafia leader

Five years ago, I was framed and imprisoned!! Five years later, I returned in glory hold all the power of the world in my hands!! What I lost will eventually be returned to me a thousandfold!!!!

Ludwig is a broken man with no way of being fixed, thus, he suffered a contamination that could turn him into a beast if left contained. His only way to fix this is to become an experimental subject and to reveal his fate to the world.

In a world where magic is common but deadly secrets lurk beneath every shadow, Kael Veyen hides a power few possess—a mastery of both sword and storm magic. Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his hometown during a realm-shifting event, Kael survives with fragmented memories and a shadowy entity named Silas bound to his mind—an enigmatic spirit who speaks in riddles and half-truths. When a cryptic artifact surfaces—a shard of a legendary dagger once wielded by his father—Kael is thrust into a perilous quest to uncover the truth behind the vanished city and the dark forces hunting him. Joined by his loyal but reckless friend Rylan, Kael must navigate a treacherous world of shifting realms, secret societies, and ancient pacts where every answer demands a price. As the Eclipse Order closes in, determined to seize the dagger’s full power and reshape reality itself, Kael faces a choice: embrace the shadows that bind him or risk losing everything to the silent price of secrets long buried. Will Kael reclaim his past and stop a catastrophe, or will the shadows consume him first?

The story follows a college student who gets reincarnated into what initially appears to be a normal world. However, when the protagonist turns 23 and graduates, a dramatic event occurs - the world becomes submerged in the sea as 12 mysterious giant creatures emerge. These giant creatures are revealed to be born from the world's consciousness, with the purpose of "cleansing" the world, similar to how God is said to have washed the world clean. But the survivors have more to worry about than just the giant creatures. Creatures from the deep ocean have also been forced to rise up to the epipelagic zone, adding an additional threat. Overall, the story depicts a world radically transformed by the appearance of these powerful, enigmatic creatures, presenting challenges and mysteries for the protagonist and other survivors to navigate. ================================================================ Disclaimer: All rights belong to the original author(me) and to every creators work and idea that's been used in this story.

After they gave her an enernity of loyalty she the Beginning of all Concepts Gave her Children a life away from the chains that held her to forge their own DESTINY Now begins the Tales of the children of *** FAIR WARNING I WILL BE FORCACISSING ON LEON so it's more like the Tales of the child of *** but the other one will make an entrance soon (Also I don't use wifi so I will update when I get some data bundles but when I don't have it I will type the chapters in advance.) REALESE WILL BE 3 CHAPTERS A WEEK AND I I OFFLINE I WILL GIVE YOU THE REST WHEN I ONLINE

This book tells the story of Eva Monroe, a woman who, after marrying a wealthy and charming billionaire, discovers the shocking truth that the man she loves is responsible for the tragic death of her father. Eva struggles between her love for him and her strong desire for revenge. She starts to uncover dark secrets, lies, and betrayals. As the lies are revealed, she must decide if she wants revenge or to find forgiveness. In the end, a tragic twist leaves everyone broken, with love, revenge, and redemption connected in a way no one could have anticipated.