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  • One Of A Kind: Highschool In Cendria  by fealisity
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    Celestine Rae Almeda-kilala bilang "Rae"-is a fierce, intelligent student leader who transferred to CAS to start over, hoping to leave her past behind. Xyler Ford, a hot-headed yet brilliant fighter, did the same-seeking change, but still carrying the weight of his chaotic past. Sa pilot section ng Cendria Academy of Sciences (CAS), akala nila makakapag-simula sila ng tahimik... but trouble keeps finding them. Magbabanggaan ang talino at tapang nila-rivals turned partners as president and vice president. Sa gitna ng pride, galit, at kani-kanilang sugat, they slowly learn to understand each other... until they realize that despite everything, they're still the ones their hearts choose. Started - March 2026 (On going)
  • Red Jack by Oluwa1feranmi
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    When love collides with vengeance, no one walks away clean." Detective Aria Kane thought she was chasing a killer. Instead, she uncovered a decades-old betrayal, a family drowning in blood and secrets, and a man whose charm hid the darkest truth of all. As her feelings for Ethan Cole grew, so did the evidence pointing to his connection with the legendary killer known as Red Jack. When the final shots were fired, Aria had to face a truth she couldn't unsee - love doesn't always save you. Sometimes, it ruins you. A dark, modern-day mystery of love, betrayal, and revenge in a city that never forgives.
  • A Heart Full of Love by NavaHone0
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    100 Fans have a heart full of love when they meet 100 Actors and Actresses that have been on their bucket list since they were little.
  •  "MOHABBAT YA DHOKHA: The Game of Love" by kishu_writes
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    🔥 MOHABBAT YA DHOKHA A story where love and revenge stop being different... and start becoming the same thing. Rohan and Ananya start off like any normal college story casual talks, a soft friendship, and a connection they both fail to understand. But one mistake... one joke... changes everything. For Ananya, it wasn't just embarrassment. It became a wound that never healed. And for Rohan, it was just a moment something he never thought could destroy someone's entire world. Years pass... but scars don't fade. When they meet again, it's not love that returns it's suspicion, confusion, and a dangerous game where truth and lies start blending into each other. Then comes Kavya... a mysterious girl whose presence is tied to Rohan's past, but her truth is far more complicated than it seems. And Nisha... sometimes an ally, sometimes a warning... and sometimes the biggest question mark in the story. As layers start unfolding, one thing becomes clear no one is purely a victim or a villain. Everyone is hiding half-truths... and someone else is writing the full lie. Behind it all stands Aarav a name that turns love, obsession, and control into a deadly game. Where every message, every photo, every secret is not random... but part of a bigger plan. Now the question is not who is telling the truth... but who has been living a lie all along. Because here, love is not just love... and betrayal is not just betrayal. It's a game where either hearts win... or truth destroys everything.
  • The House That Never Speaks by SafiKadra2
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    Some families inherit wealth. Others inherit silence. When the powerful and deeply respected patriarch of the Al-Hakim family dies unexpectedly, his household does not fall into mourning-it falls into calculation. Maryam returns home after years away, only to find a house filled with silence, suspicion, and unspoken tension. Her grandfather's death is not the end of anything it is the beginning of a carefully designed unravelling. A missing sealed directive, a locked library, and a fractured family empire begin to expose something deeper than inheritance disputes. Someone in the house is lying. Someone has been chosen. And someone has been preparing for this moment for over twenty years. As secrets surface, Maryam begins to realize one unsettling truth: Her grandfather did not leave behind a family. He left behind a test. And she may be at the centre of it.
  • When The Moon Forgot Our Name by Cokeralexis
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    Every year on the same night, a woman dies beside Adrian Vale. Not by murder. Not by coincidence. But because of him. Nobody knows why. For ten years, every woman he has ever loved has died exactly thirty days after meeting him. And then he meets Seraphina. A woman who has been dreaming about him since she was sixteen. Not normal dreams. Dreams of blood. Rain. A church burning. His voice whispering: "You always come back to me." The terrifying part? When she finally meets him in real life... He says the exact same thing.
  • Return of the Unknown Soldier by Mira211931
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    A mysterious event in the past that will come and be part of their present or maybe, future. What will happen if he shows up? Will this affect them all? Is he the one going to change everything around her?
  • Black Chrysanthemum Protocol by Manyuestudio
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    In a world where power moves quietly beneath diplomacy and crime wears the face of legitimacy, Interpol launches a high-risk psychological operation to dismantle a transnational network that has remained untouchable for years. At the center of this operation is Li Wei, a man whose influence does not rely on visibility, and whose control is built not through force, but through perception. No one fully understands the structure he operates within only that those who try to expose it rarely succeed. To reach him, Interpol deploys one of its most precise operatives, Chen Yu. But this mission is different. It is not about infiltration alone. It is about proximity. About perception. About becoming something that cannot be easily questioned. As identities blur and control shifts in ways neither side fully anticipates, what begins as a calculated operation slowly transforms into something far more unstable where intention, trust, and awareness intersect in ways that neither strategy nor training can fully contain.
  • THE DARE GAME by JuliGrace
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    A mysterious app. Dangerous dares. Deadly secrets. At Blackthorn College, students are forced into a game they can't escape. As the challenges grow darker, Luca Blackbell and his friends must uncover the truth before the game destroys them all. Complete the dare... or suffer the consequence.
  • No Escape From Him by Natana_slm
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    He is London's most infamous serial-killer painter, known only as the Horned Devil. No one knows the crimson in his masterpieces is human blood. At a lavish gala, he chooses the mansion's quiet maid as his next victim... but she becomes the one masterpiece he refuses to destroy.
  • The Blue Rose Killer by Mithravindha2011
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    In the misty, quiet town of Willow Creek, the atmosphere is heavy with secrets that have long been forgotten. When a young woman is found dead on the ancient church steps during a midnight storm, the most terrifying detail isn't the body itself, but what lies upon it: "a frozen blue rose." Despite the drenching rain, the flower remains encased in a thin layer of unmelting ice-a biological impossibility that leaves the police baffled. This is the second time in two years that the "Rose of Death" has appeared, signaling the return of a shadow that haunts the town's history. As the investigation begins, the townspeople realize that the previous victim was just the beginning, and a ritualistic killer may be hiding in the mist-covered pines of Willow Creek. The story of a promising Inspector, Axton Ryder and a Forensic doctor, Irene Foster and others.
  • Fragments of a Perfect Canvas  by RustingGlass
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    Two people. One world. Two completely different ways of seeing it. Rayan sees the world differently. To others, the world is bright, colorful, and alive. But through his eyes, everything appears twisted and lifeless-like a decaying painting hidden beneath beautiful colors. Once a talented young artist, Rayan abandoned both painting competitions and the people around him after an incident he refuses to speak about. But his quiet, isolated life begins to change when Aysha-his former rival from childhood-suddenly reappears. Unlike the distorted figures he sees every day... he can see her clearly. Now forced into each other's lives as neighbors, the two slowly reconnect through old memories, unspoken pain, and journeys that begin to challenge the way Rayan sees the world itself. Perhaps the world was never truly colorless. Or perhaps some people are simply capable of bringing color back.
  • The Rune Speaker by ECollD
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    In the underground districts of Vareth, Vespera has spent her life surviving among thieves, smugglers, and broken magic. Until a violent encounter in the streets draws the attention of a professor from Astræa Academy. Suddenly offered a place among the elite mages of the city, Vespera is thrust into a ruthless world of powerful bloodlines, brutal training, and dangerous rivalries where people like her do not belong. While other students force Nexum into obedience through discipline and control, Vespera feels something different beneath the magic. Something alive. And when ancient runes hidden beneath the Academy begin reacting to her voice, she discovers a forbidden ability that should no longer exist. Because she was never simply using magic. She was speaking to it.
  • His obsession, Her cage  by VelRosa
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    --- Description He never asked for her attention. He took it. She never saw him coming. But he had always been there. Watching. Waiting. Wanting. What started as a feeling... turned into a presence she couldn't escape. And what felt like fear... slowly became something far more dangerous. Because some obsessions don't fade- they consume. And some cages... don't have locks. They have him. ---
  • The Living Boy and the Unnamed Ghost by Dreamingboy
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    On a stormy night, Ren almost crashes into a mysterious girl standing in the middle of the road. The next day, she appears inside his room. The problem? She's a ghost. And she remembers nothing about who she once was. With no clues except her existence, a strange story begins between a living boy and an unnamed ghost searching for the truth behind her forgotten past. But as time passes, something else begins to notice them. Because in a world where ghosts should never interact with humans, there are beings that have started growing envious of the ghost who could
  • Infernal: I WAS BORN WITH CURSED DEMON BLOOD?!!! by PHobiA_Boy
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    Legends spoke of a child born with cursed blood - one who would open the Six Gates and command monstrous legions destined to drown the world in blood. I believed those stories were nothing more than myths. Until the day my left eye awakened... Now hunted by the secretive Shōmen organization and haunted by powers I cannot control, I've discovered a terrifying truth: The demon blood inside me belongs to an ancient warrior whose carnage nearly ended the world centuries ago. And worse... The prophecy has only just begun.
  • The Wolf Below The Linden by MoonInkStudio
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    The Wolf Below The Linden"The first casualty, when war comes, is truth."Berlin, 1917. In a city hollowed out by years of conflict and the bitter "Turnip Winter," Eleanor Voss, the daughter of a master cartographer, serves the military intelligence bureau. She possesses a rare gift: the ability to hear a lie within a sentence like a musician hears a false note in a chord. Her life shifts forever at Anhalter Bahnhof when a dying professor presses a pale yellow envelope into her hand. Marked only with the Greek letter sigma, it carries a chilling final message: "The bridge falls on Thursday". The envelope reveals a list of seventeen names connected to OPERATION WOLFSBRÜCKE (Wolf's Bridge)-a high-stakes conspiracy by a faction of "Pragmatists" to remove the Kaiser and negotiate an end to the war. But as the names on the list begin to die in suspicious "accidents," Eleanor realizes they are being hunted. Forced into a shadow war alongside the calculating Prussian strategist Friedrich Albrecht and a British intelligence officer, Harrison Caldwell, Eleanor must navigate a landscape of shifting borders and hidden agendas. They soon discover that "Wolf's Bridge" is more than a political coup; it is a race to control a terrifying new weapon developed by physicist Werner Falk-a device capable of mass incapacitation that could either end the war or extend its suffering indefinitely. In a world where permanence is a delusion, Eleanor Voss must decide what is worth saving when the maps are already out of date.
  • Don't Trust the Silence  by ella_hart
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    For more than half a decade, the city of Elverbrook has lived beneath the shadow of a series of disappearances known as The Whisper Cases. The victims vanished without witnesses, without struggle, and often without explanation. Those later found dead shared one sentence in common: He said I would be safe if I trusted the silence. The case slowly became an urban myth, then a public obsession, and finally a graveyard of failed investigations. Now, after years of silence, the killings have started again. Dr. Alessia Miller, a criminal psychologist, is brought in to help uncover the truth. She is paired with Detective Adrian Rowan, a disciplined investigator whose life was shattered when his sister, Samantha Rowan disappeared during the original Whisper Cases. In the end, can they find actually who is behind all of this?
  • Blood & Hearts by yuvraj_writter
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    He was the kind of man people feared before they even knew his name. Cold eyes. Bloody hands. A past filled with darkness he never spoke about. She was never supposed to become a part of his world. But one unexpected meeting inside a police station was enough to tie their destinies together in ways neither of them understood. What began with silence and stolen glances slowly turned into something far more dangerous than love - obsession, attachment, and a connection neither of them could escape. But every dark soul carries secrets. And every powerful family hides monsters behind closed doors. As betrayals begin tearing their lives apart, she realizes the man she fell for is capable of destroying anyone for her... even himself. In a story where love feels like a crime and trust comes with a price, one question still remains- *Can two scarred hearts survive a world built to break them?* A story filled with dark romance, intense love, destiny, emotions, and unexpected plot twists that will change everything. Read the full story to witness how destiny plays its game between two scarred hearts.
  • Beyond The Dreamline by violentpeace02
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    Maya's life has never been normal. Haunted by strange illusions, terrifying dreams, and a past she can't escape, she's learned to live between reality... and something far more dangerous. When a mysterious teacher introduces the concept of dreamlines, Maya's world begins to shift. The visions that once felt like nightmares start to feel... real. As the line between illusion and reality blurs, Maya is forced to confront a truth she's been running from her entire life. Because some dreams aren't just dreams. And some illusions... are trying to pull her into a world she may never escape