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  • Final Days of Legend by nanasinog
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    Story of the dragonlord and his knight is loved since Wacott wrote the one and only script two hundred years ago. While her work shall never rust, let us go back a thousand years to see what had really happened in the time of legend -- or as much as a certain curator of Anorus prefectural museum could research. With one keepsake safely hidden till now (or until the last winter-cleaning discovered it) to confront the history we learnt.
  • Two Crowns, One Wound by Hargahati
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    I was born with the same face, but a different fate. My sister was adored. I was cast aside. My sister was loved. I was forgotten. My sister danced in the palace halls. I wept in silence inside a rotting tower. Then I saved a prince from the river. He looked at me as if I mattered. But he proposed to the wrong one. And my mother forbade me from speaking. I wanted to scream: "It's me! I'm the one who saved you!" But my voice had already been stolen since the day I was born. TWO CROWNS, ONE WOUND The story of the discarded princess, the prince who chose wrong, and the voice that finally finds its way.
  • Roopmati: A Crown Craved In Fire by Bhaskar657
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    In a kingdom ruled by men, Princess Roopmati was never meant to sit in council halls, speak of war, or understand power better than princes twice her age. But Roopmati was never born to remain silent. Raised beside a king who saw her mind before her gender, she grows into a woman feared as much as admired-sharp-tongued, politically dangerous, and unwilling to bow before a world determined to reduce her to beauty and marriage. Yet power comes with loneliness. Every decision is questioned. Every ambition is watched. Every mistake threatens to destroy the place she fought to earn. And then comes Veer. A soldier who refuses to flatter her. A bodyguard who challenges her instead of obeying blindly. A man who sees through the control she wears like armor. Their battles begin with arguments-cold, intelligent, relentless. But beneath the rivalry grows something far more dangerous: attention, obsession, and a connection neither of them can control. Because in a palace built on politics, loyalty is never simple... and love may become the most dangerous weakness of all. A story of ambition, power, jealousy, and slow-burning desire, *Roopmati* is a dark royal romance where hearts are guarded as fiercely as kingdoms.
  • Of Smoke and Silk by Dulce_2006
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    In the distant year of 1895, Estela arrives in New York from Italy, stepping into a whole new world waiting to be discovered. Between classes, unexpected friendships, and dreams yet to be fulfilled, Leam becomes her greatest support-- and perhaps something more. But as their hearts grow closer, secrets, misunderstandings, and the daily struggle to survive will put their feelings to the test. Will they find the courage to follow their hearts before it's too late?
  • The Returnee by darulhubb
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    In the year 619 after Hijrah (1221 CE), Asim ibn Salim returns from Khurasan with war still living in his eyes. Years of bloodshed have turned him into a feared warrior, a man shaped by steel, loss, and battlefields soaked in death. But no matter how far he rides from Khurasan, the war follows him home. He sleeps beside his sword, wakes to screams no one else can hear, and wonders whether men like him are ever truly meant to know peace again. Hafsa bint Talha is haunted by a different kind of wound. After the loss of her father and a night that leaves her world fractured, she retreats into silence, Quran, and Persian poetry, clinging to faith while fear slowly consumes the parts of her once untouched by sorrow. Then, one night, their paths collide. When Asim saves her from a man in the streets of Aleppo, neither of them realizes that the encounter will leave a mark far deeper than either expected. For despite being scarred by different battles, they begin to uncover something terrifyingly fragile within each other: That perhaps Allah places certain souls in our lives not to erase our wounds, but to help us survive them. ℹ️ An Islamic love story (100% HALAL): free from explicit content, swearing, and vulgar language.
  • ༄ A Crown For No One ༄ by splinteredhalo_
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    He died in early spring. Holding a watch that wasn't his. Loving someone he was never allowed to say it to. Now he is Callum Voss, twenty-eight, ordinary life, no ghosts. Until a boy with autumn eyes opens a door - and every wall Caelum spent eleven years building comes down at once. A crown for no one. A love for every lifetime. ❝ Would it have been easier, if I were commonborn? My beloved. ❞ - A Victorian BL reincarnation story about guilt, second chances, and the terrifying truth that some loves don't need a throne to survive. They only need courage. Updates weekly ✦
  • Mithila : The Dark Bride by Skull_Idea
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    In the world where beauty is being admired, I was born in my father's kingdom as dark. Surely, beauty has been praised by many poets, writers, but ugliness - never! Now, I have turned eighteen years old and according to my father it is a perfect age to get married. Nobody asked my consent. Cause a black lady should be happy that she is even getting married....questioning and choosing is meant for beautiful ones. One day, I get to know by a maid that my marriage is going to happen with a sixty years old king who is very wealthy. At that moment, I decided, it's better to die than to marry in a hell where I was going to be used as an object. But... I had a plan to escape this hell.
  • LOVE CARRIED AWAY BY OCEANS by SevinchAshurova3
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    Life for the brilliant medical student Adam Harrington is a cold, calculated routine, fueled only by the hope of finding his lost childhood love, Lily, who vanished fourteen years ago.Everything changes when he is forced into a strategic marriage with Emily Swan - a girl with a mysterious past and eyes that haunt him with a painful familiarity. Drawn into a whirlpool of family secrets, betrayal, and a sudden, burning passion, Adam doesn't yet realize that the woman he is trying not to love is the very key to his shattered past. Driven by a desperate need to protect her, he is about to discover that some secrets are buried so deep that only the ocean can wash them clean...
  • ​The Marigold Chain by LunarLamen
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    In a time when traditions spoke louder than children, two young lives are bound by a decision they never made. He is old enough to question. She is young enough to ask. As they grow, so does their understanding of a world that treats them unequally. This is not a love story. This is a story of growing up too soon-and choosing what comes after.
  • The Century of Lament by BajaBaja
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    A Century of Lament follows the harrowing journey of Parkinson, a British-American soldier whose soul is being slowly eroded by the suffocating anxiety and relentless depression of the trenches. While he faces the visceral reality of fire and steel on the front lines, his heart remains tied to Charlotte Spencer, a woman enduring a quieter, more toxic tragedy back home. As a "Canary Girl," Charlotte spends her days in the sulfuric haze of a munitions factory, her skin yellowing and her health failing as she breathes in the very poison meant for the battlefield. Their love is an aching, fragile anchor in a world defined by pain and historical upheaval, a desperate attempt to find warmth in a cold, industrial machine. It is a story of two people caught in a cycle of tragic sacrifice, where the only thing more dangerous than the war itself is the lingering lament of what they have both been forced to lose.
  • Collateral Hearts  by verycoolkcee
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    He was accused of rape and forced to marry a disabled English heiress. In 1948, the world is a map of fresh scars. In Nigeria, Chiedozie is the "bridge"-the chosen son of an ambitious family, sent across the Atlantic to master the white man's machines and bring the future home. But England is not the motherly embrace promised in colonial textbooks. It is a land of rationing, bone-chilling fog, and a "color bar" that feels like an invisible noose. Working as a laborer on the decaying Whittemore estate to fund his engineering degree, Edozie navigates a world where his accent is a curiosity and his skin is a threat. His life is a meticulous equation of survival-until Genevieve, the Magistrate's daughter, weaponizes a lie that shatters his world. Accused of a crime he did not commit, Edozie is faced with a choice that tastes of ash: the gallows and a ruined legacy, or a marriage of convenience to Elara Whittemore, the master's daughter. Elara is a prisoner of her own body and her father's greed. To the world, she is a "broken" heiress; to her father, she is a locked vault to an inheritance. To save himself, Edozie must become her guardian. To save herself, Elara must trust a man the world has told her to fear. In a house built of mahogany and secrets, two outcasts must find a way to live within a cage of silk and stone. But as the British Empire begins to crumble, they realize that the most dangerous thing in 1948 England isn't the law-it's the heart. AUTHOR'S NOTE "I wanted to write a story that felt like a lost classic-where the prose is as heavy as the Essex mud and as sharp as a Lagos sun. This is for the dreamers who found themselves in a world that wasn't built for them. Expect chapters that breathe, settings that bleed, and a romance that earns every single spark."
  • Malayanthra Rajvansham I  by Ethereal__Soul_
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    Yuvraj Rudraksh of Malayanthra has never questioned his destiny. Born to rule, trained to obey duty, his future was written long before he could choose otherwise. Until Aparajita enters his life. Daughter of a minister, fierce in conviction and unafraid of consequence, Aparajita believes action matters more than restraint - unlike Rudraksh. When their paths cross, love takes root in a palace where loyalty is tested, secrets breathe in silence, and ambition hides behind smiles. Within the walls of Malayanthra, promises are whispered, rivals watch from the shadows, and politics bleed into personal lives. As conspiracies tighten their grip and duty demands sacrifice, Rudraksh and Aparajita must decide what they are willing to lose. For the crown. For the kingdom. And for each other. Started - 18 January 2026
  • 𝑹𝒐𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 by Sabeha_2710
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    Love knows no boundaries, nor does it care about caste, class, lineage, or social status. Neither did they. They refused to be confined by rules, barriers, or society's expectations. To truly love someone, one must have the strength to fight and the desire to hold on. One belongs to the crown, the other to an ordinary world. But love was never meant to follow status or royal rules. They never cared about society, status, family pressure, or the divide between high and low. At the end of the day, they became each other's strength, love, and safe haven of happiness. This story belongs to two souls who were different from one another, yet somehow became one. The Royal Blue - A Love Beyond Status
  •  VeerNain by TheworldofPRYA
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    In the golden age of the 11th century The mighty Aaryavansh Empire stands strong - a land of warriors ,honour and unbreakable bonds. Prince Veer destined to become a legendary king, shares a deep and growing love with princess Nain, whose presence bring peace to his restless heart but not all love stories are meant to be simple. Tara, Nain's sister, harbors feeling of her own, setting the stage the for jealousy, betrayal and political unrest. At the center of it all is princess Preet - gentle, kind and unknowingly bound to an ancient power. Saved from death as a child by the legendary Aryan mirror, her life becomes tied to a fate she does not fully understand. As war approaches and truth unfold, love is tested and sacrifices become invisible. In a world where destiny can not be escaped... One soul must pay the price to keep everything from falling apart.
  • The Chains of Nobility by Kruger_alvez
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    Amid the harsh winter of the English aristocracy, Ana Victoria Klayboorn lives imprisoned by the expectations attached to her family name. As the daughter of a powerful duke, she has always known her life would be ruled by duty - until she meets Willian Zoutrichën, a young viscount surrounded by rumors and quietly rejected by high society. While lavish balls conceal silent intrigues and the death of Queen Victoria casts England into mourning, the two find themselves torn between love and reputation. In a world where titles matter more than feelings, every choice has the power to destroy entire families. Some chains are not made of iron. They are forged from honor, tradition... and silence.
  • Bow and Sparrow by tlwidner
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    A country on the brink of civil war and Nori is caught in the middle. Noreena Phillips, daughter of retired general turned rebel leader Edward Phillips, has found herself behind enemy lines after her town was raided. To survive, she must keep her wits about her and keep her head down lest she start a war. Nobody knows her true identity and she intends to keep it that way. That is until she meets Rylan Fields, the youngest captain in the history of Rezantri's army. Rylan rescues a beaten and battered Nori from the raiders that stole her from her home and brings her back to the military camp where he resides. While she regains health, Nori tries to keep her distance, but a persistent Rylan is determined to dig into Nori's past. He is suspicious of the supposed 'farm girl' but Nori's lips are sealed. Will she be able to keep her secret and make it back home safe? Or does fate have something else in store for her?
  • Apothecary diaries's special year by BeanJolly
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    The demon slayer corps found a purple gem with shiny stones next to it, mitsuri being curious touched it, just then , a powerful light rang out, a lady with Chinese clothes and dark green hair appeared, check the story to see what happens next!
  • Trapped In The Allure Of Sins  by Zillia_ink
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    After a painful heartbreak, Clara swore never to love again. Longing for a fresh start, she prepared for her life-changing surgery... only to awaken in an unfamiliar world, where fate's allure twisted her destiny. Mistaken for a princess whose identity was yet unknown to her, she was forced into marriage with a ruthless, blood-sucking king - a man feared by all, even death itself. But Clara's new reality was only the beginning. ********** In the deepest depths of the earth lies a sacred place of endless torment - Hell. A sacred land of sorrow, pain, and eternal punishment, specially made for those who committed different kinds of atrocities on earth. Yet, the true ruler of this sacred, cursed place is not Satan, nor Lucifer, but a being far more ancient and feared. Demons, witches, immortals - even Satan himself - bow to his name. The one who whispered rebellion into Lucifer's heart, the fear that feeds on silence, the one whose existence the Bible never dared to reveal. His identity remains unknown to all humans, not because it was forgotten, but because it was forbidden. His allure thrives in mystery for what is more terrifying than an enemy you can't name? But the question remains ..... Who is this king of Hell?.... Why was his name forbidden for all mortal being?.... What is his true purpose for creating all the evil that thrives in the world?........ And most importantly why was Clara-a broken-hearted human on the brink of a new life dragged into a completely different world?..... The questions remain constant...... yet unremarkable answered.
  • DEMISELESS by pannochkadomski
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    In which a place taken in 1922, Eliza Kalinin, the rebellious postulant yet with higher faith was sent to a Basilica-Castle of Divulged Blood in a mission to gain knowledges on Royal Empire of Ruskyiev's Orthodoxy in pursuit to turn his home, Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima into an education institution. However deep down she may not realize, the holiest place in the Slavic Land she's in shall have strange things occuring... originally written by: Pannochka Domski editor : Norah Juniper
  • Cursed Love by Shuying-1989
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    Can you love someone who is destined to turn evil?....... A prince who must marry before his twentieth birthday or suffer a terrible curse.......... A huntress who is chose to be his wife...... How will it end? Love or hatred?