China-based Stories

"Why are you so kind to me? Don't you see that I can't be fixed, that I can hurt you? I want you near but I prefer it if you stay happy without me." She just wants to love him, let him know that he's not alone, and make him see that he's more than enough in everything he does. She wants to show him that there's no other like him and the reflection he sees doesn't exist. Started: July 19, 2018. Finished: July 14, 2019. First Season. |Seventeen Fanfiction| COMPLETED GROUP 2 - COLLECTION 2018-2019 INFATUATION SERIES

When we are stripped of everything, what humans have left are emotion and instinct. Thus the tale of two young children; A girl and a boy. Tensions continue to rise between the warring states of Senka and Yu. Caught in the midst, two children of unknown name and origin. They were inseparable and yet they do not know one another, where they came from or what the world was. They were just living. All until a young prince came...

In the beginning stages of the invasion, one hundred years ago, the invisible, invincible, and indestructible demons took over the Western Hemisphere and pushed all of Asia into a corner, forcing a resurrection of the Old Magic that pushed back against the demons. Behind the borderlines, humans were safe. The ones instilled with combat magic would continuously leave the safety of the borderlines and fight, slowly but surely extending the reach of the borderline perhaps an inch every decade. But for all their gains the demons were there to push the borders back with their invisible hands and tear apart those that dared leave safety to oppose them. Nekata Hiruko is a genin, a commoner ninja in the last villages of Japan. He is a master of chi magic and a skilled warrior but despises his job with all his heart. As a newly fledged ninja, he has a daily quota to fulfill: protect the borderline and kill one demon every week. On the day he was given the quota, he crosses the borderline and goes farther than anyone had gone in a hundred years: all the way to Tokyo, the location of the first demon attacks. There, he discovers that he could see the demons, making him the one person with the potential of ending their reign over the world. Just one problem: All he wants to do is go fishing.

She was never supposed to be chosen. When the King of China visited the Jiang household to witness the legendary artistry of Governor Jiang's daughters, everyone knew which sister would catch the Crown Prince's eye. Mei Ling was perfect-the biological daughter, the beauty, the one society expected a future emperor to choose. She was Daddy's favorite, indulged and adored, everything the imperial court valued. But Bai Ling was different. Adopted after washing ashore as an infant, her bronze skin marked her as foreign, her quiet strength as dangerous. She wielded her mother's artistic genius and harbored a secret gift that whispered through the earth itself-magic that made stones sing and soil bloom. When the Crown Prince chose Bai Ling over her "perfect" sister, he set in motion a love story that would defy convention, survive palace intrigue, and reshape an empire. From storm-wrecked infant to beloved empress, from outsider to the most powerful woman in China, Bai Ling's journey proves that sometimes the heart knows what society cannot see-and that being The Emperor's Favorite is earned not through perfection, but through authenticity, courage, and a love that transcends all boundaries. ©️ _RelleLebby_ // R. L.