Bitter-sweet Stories

❝ HOW DOES THE NAME VENTI SOUND? ❞ »----------✄ Wandering around Starsnatch Cliff, you gathered Cecilia's in a small basket. However, as you near the peak of the cliff, you stumbled upon a young boy who possessed a pair of large white wings. But his feathers were torn and he was gravely injured. Fearful that he'd die, you brought him to your home to tend to his wounds. 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈 𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐌!𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 Estimated chp: 40 Forewarning: ‣ Angst ‣ blood ‣ slight mentions of sh (self-harm) ‣ implied suicide ‣ gore ‣ violence ‣ mild cursing ☆ Cover Art: @poscorn617 (twt) Character Credits: Genshin Impact 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄: Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Please do not copy, trace the plot, or repost my story, thank you.

Recommended for 15+ (Make you're own call if you think you have the maturity of roughly a 15-year-old or older, you're good) Anyway... Six years have passed since Aaravos fell... Six years of planning, failing, hoping and waiting for what's to come. But no one can predict the future. (Well, maybe Kosmo kind of can). Rayla and Callum are navigating love, loss, and the unknown of what's to come. Old enemies awaken, new dangers emerge, and every choice could destroy the world they've fought so hard to protect. Their home Can they survive what's coming... together? ...Or will everything fall to pieces?

This is a Omegaverse Story 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 - 𝑳𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒐 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒛𝒐 -𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒂𝒊 𝑽𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝘚𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 - 𝑱𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒆𝒏 / 𝑱𝒂𝒚𝒆 - 𝑳𝒊𝒚𝒂 - 𝒁𝒆𝒊𝒏 - 𝑪𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒆𝒏

Ada Lace has loved Ryan Sugar for as long as she can remember. Growing up together, Ada, the nerdy girl, kept her feelings hidden while watching Ryan Sugar, charming and outgoing, surrounded by admirers. His family's café was her haven, and it was her love for Ryan that led her to a lifelong sweet tooth... and eventually, her first cavity. 🦷 Now almost thirty, Ada is a successful electrical engineer with a spotless résumé and a love life full of holes. Just as she starts to wonder whether if she's meant to be alone forever, Garfield Miles, a handsome, gentle dentist, moves into her apartment building. For the first time, Ada is forced to confront the possibility of letting go of her one-sided love and opening her heart to someone new. #nanowatt2026 #thenanowatt #TNW2026

Beomgyu had three problems. 1. He accidentally got obsessed with an otome game. 2. He somehow brought the cold crown prince into real life. 3. The crown prince refuses to leave. Now Beomgyu has to teach Prince Kang Taehyun how to survive modern society without: - starting fights, - calling people peasants, - or exposing the fact that he literally came out of a video game. Easy. ...Probably.

Season 2 of "Lot 7" Hazel and Jaafar have learned how to live without each other. Almost. She has HBO, a new role, and a life that finally feels like hers. He has the world watching, a premiere waiting, and one invitation with her name on it. The last time she saw him like that, he was walking away. This time, he is looking right at her.

In a world ruled by hierarchy, Omegas are treated as nothing more than outcasts meant to obey, to endure, to exist quietly in the shadows of Alphas and Engimas. Wen Junhui, a powerful Engima CEO, once had everything status, family, and a husband he loved deeply. But one rainy night stole it all away, leaving behind only silence, guilt, and a son who stopped smiling. Jeon Wonwoo is gone but his presence never truly left. Three years later, Junhui is still drowning in the memory of that accident, replaying the last phone call that changed everything. Their son, Jay, grows up surrounded by love, yet missing the warmth of a father he can only remember through fading fragments. Then comes Xu Minghao, an Omega teacher at Jay's daycare, soft-spoken yet resilient, carrying his own hidden past and wounds the world refuses to acknowledge. Jay slowly begins to smile again in Minghao's presence and Junhui, against everything he believes, starts to feel something he thought died with his husband. But nothing is simple in a world like theirs. And some hearts were never meant to forget. As grief collides with healing, and the past refuses to stay buried, three broken souls must learn that loving again does not mean forgetting and that some bonds are written far deeper than loss.

One word changed her life. But it wasn't a word spoken out of love-it was a surrender to exhaustion. Siya Maheshwari, a dedicated schoolteacher in Alwar, has spent years building walls around her heart. Haunted by the shadows of a troubled family past and a love that left her broken, she has one rule: never get married. But when the weight of her family's expectations and her grandmother's tears become too heavy to carry, Siya finally gives in. She says "yes" to a search for a groom, hoping to find peace by losing her freedom. Shaurya Singh Rathore. A Lieutenant in the Air Force, Shaurya is everything Siya feared-and everything she didn't know she needed. Through patient, silence and the heartfelt letters he leaves behind, he begins to do the impossible: he makes her want to stay. As an arranged marriage turns into a journey of slow-burning realization, Siya finally prepares to tear down her last wall. But in a world governed by duty and timing, she soon learns that the most important words are often the ones we wait too long to say.

A novel told in poems where every stanza opens another crack in a perfect life. She wears grace like a gown, elegance like armor, and a crown that looks lighter than it feels. The world sees the version of her with crossed legs and flawless heels, the girl who fits neatly into society's expectations, who never stumbles, never flinches, never lets the shine slip. But beneath the polish lies a bird inked on her shoulder, glowing like a secret she can't confess. A bird meant for freedom but now trapped inside the body that tries too hard to stay perfect. Its light reaches toward the girl on the floor: the part of her that's exhausted, wounded, and quietly unraveling under the weight she's been told to carry. The impossible standards. The crown that looks royal but feels like iron. In these poems, the truth leaks through the cracks: the pain of walking in heels that were never made for rest, the suffocating pressure to be unbreakable, the soul that's losing its wings trying to stay beautiful for everyone else. This is the story of a girl who seems whole... until you look at the shadows behind her. A story of expectations, breaking points, and the soft rebellion of finally letting the bird fly free. A poetic journey of duty, quiet collapse, and the courage to reclaim your own wings.

​"The night has said all it needs to say, but the ink isn't dry-it's just moving to a new page." ​From the creator of The Whispers of Night comes a companion volume born from the same soul, written by the same pen, and carrying the same beautifully enduring scars. ​The dark may be thinning, but the poet remains unchanged. ​The Whispers of Dawn does not promise a world free of shadows, nor does it offer shallow, fleeting warmth. Instead, it is an unfiltered look at the horizon through the eyes of a survivor. It is the quiet stillness that follows a lifetime of storms, where the fragments of heavy memories, deep-seated grief, and an unyielding devotion to the Divine Mother are held up to the first rays of morning light. ​Moving away from the suffocating cold of the winter cage, this collection steps onto a road of profound definition and universal acceptance. From the silent prayers offered at stone shrines to the fierce, complex sacrifices of love and survival, Evander Nightborne explores what it means to carry a fractured heart into an awakening world. ​The ghosts have been housed. The dawn is breaking. And through the gray mists of morning, the soul finally learns to breathe again.

It was just an ordinary rainy night. Nothing special. Just me.... waiting for a ride home. And her.... running from the rain. Two strangers sharing the same small shelter, standing side-by-side, waiting for the storm to pass-completely unaware that this single moment would change everything. I honestly thought she'd be nothing more than a passing face. Just a fleeting encounter I would eventually forget once the morning came. But... I never imagined that the stranger standing right beside me in the rain... would eventually become the girl I loved at eighteen.

When you loved someone more than yourself...

In a quiet South Korean neighbourhood, Han Seo-yoon has always had five best friends by her side. Park Do-yun protects her. Jung Yu-chan makes her laugh. Do Ha-neul teaches her to dream. Moon Min-ki remembers every version of her. And Hwang Rae-won waits for her future. They walk her home after evening study, sit with her in stairwells, find her before the school bell rings, and make growing up feel a little less lonely. They have been with her through childhood, school days, lonely birthdays, quiet stairwells, and every moment she did not know how to survive alone. At sixteen, Seo-yoon believes they will always stay. But when a summer programme in Seoul gives her the chance to leave her quiet hometown behind, the bond she has relied on all her life begins to change. Because growing up means stepping forward. And sometimes, the people who helped you survive are the ones you must learn to carry differently. A tender coming-of-age story about friendship, loneliness, almost-love, quiet courage, and the kind of love that stays with you, even when life asks you to move forward.

💙 The Only Exception သူတို့နှစ်ယောက်က ဘယ်တော့မှ အတူတူဖြစ်မယ်ဆိုတဲ့ဇာတ်လမ်းမဟုတ်ခဲ့ဘူး။ တစ်ယောက်က အမြဲတိတ်ဆိတ်ပြီး မျက်နှာအေးအေးနဲ့... တစ်ယောက်ကတော့ အပြုံးနောက်ကနေ အားလုံးကို ဖုံးကွယ်ထားတဲ့သူ။ အချစ်ဆိုတာ သူတို့အတွက် လွယ်လွယ်ကူကူမဟုတ်ခဲ့ဘူး။ နာကျင်မှုတွေ၊ ခွဲခွာမှုတွေ၊ မပြောနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့စကားတွေကြားထဲမှာ သူတို့ရဲ့ခံစားချက်တွေ တဖြည်းဖြည်း ပျက်စီးသွားခဲ့တယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် ... တချို့အချစ်တွေက ပျောက်မသွားဘူး။ ပြန်တွေ့ဖို့ပဲ စောင့်နေခဲ့တာ။

Baek Eunji and Na Baekjin, two people from opposing worlds whose paths cross through secrets, violence, and hidden truths. As rivalry turns into an unbreakable bond, they are forced to face dangerous organizations, painful pasts, and the choices that could change their lives forever. WHC2 Na Baekjin x fem!oc

Trapped in a marriage with an alcoholic husband she loathes, Kitty Lyons lives with regret daily. When Levi, the only man she ever loved, dies saving the life of a child, Kitty is given the chance to switch lives with Kat, the version of herself who had been brave enough to claim Levi as her own. But what might have been is not always as good as what truly was. To get back to her children, Kitty will have to come face to face with the traumatic aspects of her own past that led her to the choices that ultimately changed her fate.

"She inherited a heart, not the life that came with it." Cordelia Ilustre spent years waiting for a miracle. At twenty, she finally receives the heart transplant that saves her life-a second chance she never thought she'd have. But recovery comes with something she never expected. Dreams. Fragments of places she's never seen. Memories that don't belong to her. And a boy whose face appears every time she closes her eyes. Determined to uncover the truth, Cordelia follows the trail left behind by the girl whose heart now beats inside her chest. What she finds is Caleb Mayari-a musician still mourning the love of his life. The girl who gave Cordelia a future. The girl he lost forever. As grief turns into friendship and friendship into something far more dangerous, Cordelia finds herself trapped between her own heart and the memory of someone else's. Because how do you compete with a love story that never got the chance to end? And what happens when the heart you carry once belonged to the girl he can't forget?

"DEAR MOON" A diary. A stranger. A story waiting to be told. When Kim Namjoon opens an unexpected parcel, he finds himself drawn into the life of a girl he has never met. Some love stories are written in destiny. Others are written beneath the same moon.

A love that was never really lost-just never meant to be kept. She thought moving on would be easy, until she saw him again and realized some feelings don't fade... they just hide. Now she's forced to choose between holding on to the past or finally letting go of the one that got away.