*ONC 2024 Longlist* There was a princess Living carefree She wanted the world she wanted everything Diamonds and pearls Emeralds and gold She bathed in the riches only she could know Then the Shadow King came And asked for her hand But she said no and sent him away The Shadow King vowed to himself One day she'll be his He curses her until she pleads for mercy And so the princess has to die When the midnight strikes And comes back to life with the first rays of the sun Turn the pages Read so you know how it will end The story of the Shadow Lord and the cursed princess __________________________________________________________________________________ A classic story retold in a new, dark way. This is where the lines between hero and villain blur. Once upon a time, in a distant kingdom in the Rose Valley, there lived a young princess. Maybe a little proud. Maybe she was the sweetest princess. And maybe not. She had many suitors, but she did not accept a single proposal for her hand in marriage. She didn't want to become a king's wife, she wanted to be a queen and rule her country. But one day darkness crept into the happy kingdom. A thick fog crept through the forest. Shadows walked under the treetops. The Shadow Lord came to propose to Princess Luna. She rejected him like everyone else, despite the fact that he was the only one who managed to impress her. However, the Shadow Lord isn't about to give up so quickly. He presents a gift to the princess. For the rest of eternity, at the stroke of midnight, she will die and come back to life with the first rays of day. Again and again. Every night. An endless cycle. Because as the Shadow Lord said, "I will wait for you, even if it takes forever." Old wounds are being opened. The boundaries between worlds are blurring. Will a prince on a white horse arrive and bravely rescue a cursed princess or...?

Kim Seungmin was supposed to enjoy his recovery rest peacefully. Instead, he ended up with a loud, paranoid next-door neighbor who genuinely believes he might be some kind of suspicious criminal hiding inside Unit 1515. Now his quiet condo life is slowly turning into complete chaos. Between hallway arguments, noise complaints, public embarrassment, and a neighbor who keeps putting his secret idol life in danger, Seungmin is starting to think surviving his ankle injury might actually be easier than surviving her. UPDATE EVERY OTHER DAY @ 1:00 AM UTC

Hunchbacks don't get love. They get ridicule and scorn. That suits Wyrn just fine. As the son of a warlord, he resolves to die earning his father's respect in a tournament instead. The plan backfires and he's forced to marry a princess against his will. She's 18, beautiful, and suspicious. There is no way a king would give away his ONLY child to a random man much less a hunchback. Something must be wrong with her. And so, Wyrn decides to give her back. The only problem? She won't let him.

After three years' imprisonment for high treason, a jaded princess is given one last chance of freedom through an arranged marriage to a foreign prince, but she quickly learns that she has traded one cage for another. __ Princess Alexandra has spent three years imprisoned in a tower for the crime of high treason, awaiting her execution. On the night she is to die, a reprieve comes: rather than be executed, she will be exiled to the far-away duchy of Selica to marry a foreign prince. It is a second chance. Her last chance. But in Selica, Princess Alexandra quickly realizes that she has traded one cage for another. The people of Selica despise her. Prince Marisuz, her husband, cares nothing for her. And the palace is full of dark secrets and dangerous conspiracies, which threaten not just Alexandra, but the home she can never return to.

The technologically advanced March City is an oligarchical hell with a rigid status quo locking many in poverty. For 16-year-old high-achiever Ari, her powerful magical ability and sharp mind ensures a life of bliss and peace. When Ari's sister disappears in a series of bombings, she digs deep beneath the Darwinistic society as war ensues between powerful leaders and the dissenting impoverished rising against the city's strict laws and police brutality -- and discovers a dark secret that could shatter the entire city. But, for her sister, time is running out. Rewrite of March City: Land of the Gifted.

It was funny when I read other novels that portray people getting sucked out in a novel or an otome game. Until that happened to me. I wake up, groggy and feeling a bit heavy. My vision was yet to arrive when a sudden pain came from my stomach. And a child was born. From me. I don't know if I'll freak out and cry or just accept the fact that I died and was reborn. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Hey guys, oh and girls!!! Thanks for taking a chance to read my book!! You won't regret it, I promise! Anyways, all names and places or even events are pure FICTION and any similarities about people or events are just coincidences. My English is not that good, but you can still understand it so please bear with my grammatical errors and spellings. Thank you!!!!!

Two neighboring clans. A raging war. Amidst the threat of defeat, the matriarch proposes a truce by marrying her daughter to the enemy clan. However, the princess suddenly dies before the marriage ceremony. The matriarch forces Luwen, an orphan, to take her place. With the use of dark magic, they transfer her soul into the princess's body and she marries the successor of the enemy clan. The star-crossed couple soon encounters dangerous situations where they must rely on each other to survive. What happens when a fake marriage becomes real and Luwen falls in love with the vengeful prince who wants to destroy her clan? Can she escape the hands of the evil matriarch who has control over her life, or will she abide by her orders to kill her husband? (Current word count: 60,000 - 70,000) Wattpad Editors' Choice - December 2023 Wattpad - Magical Times - December 2023 Wattpad - Fantasy Quest - February 2024 Wattpad - From Enemies to Lovers - March & May 2024 Copyright © 2023 by Kim_Knights

Seren Ferguson marries the Duke of Blackfall after becoming pregnant with his child. It is, by all accounts, a loveless marriage. Will their relationship improve, or will she find love elsewhere, in unexpected places, from unexpected people?

After years of pain and loss, a young lady finally takes her revenge, wiping out two of Xin Dao's ruling clans. But instead of death, she is sentenced to serve under the very heir who captured her - the prim and proper successor of another powerful clan. Bound by punishment and watched at every turn, the two clash through sunny days and stormy nights, learning to survive one another as they face life and death on every mission. But the deeper they go, it becomes clearer - her true enemy is still out there, hiding behind shadows, and he may be powerful enough to destroy all of Xin Dao.

Lian snuck out of the imperial palace and exposed the village healer to be a fraud and a devil-worshipper. Cursed by the spurned fire god, Huogwai, and disgraced and cast out by the royal family, Lian set out with her manservant Emiru to the kingdom of fire to rid her of the curse of uncontrollable flames for a chance to regain her claim to the throne. But being a fire disciple meant she was a practitioner of the forbidden arts. For those that hunt her kind, the game had just started.