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  • King's Over Roses by Temilove1010
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    At Royal Prestige Academy, there are only two kinds of students: those who obey... and those who disappear. Kang Ha-Yoon was supposed to keep her head down. Instead, she broke the academy's biggest rule. She stood up to the Royal Four. Now she's public enemy number one. But while the Royals are busy trying to break her... They have no idea she's hiding a past that made her stronger than any of them could imagine. Some people inherit power. Others earn it with blood, sweat... and broken fists. In a school ruled by power, the greatest battle may not be for survival... but for the heart.
  • The Unexpected Rise Before My Exit from the Entertainment Industry  by goodtea
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    NOTE: THIS IS NOT MY WORK Double Female Leads + Lighthearted Funny + Daily Life + Entertainment Industry] On the verge of her debut, she unexpectedly died. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into a first-tier female celebrity! With plenty of scandals and poor public opinion, her career was beyond saving. She thought the original owner was rich, so she might as well enjoy a lifetime of luxury. But it turned out there were only five digits left in her account... Having endured the cruelty of society in her previous life, she hadn't caught a break in this one either. Not wanting to put in effort anymore, she took a laissez-faire approach on shows, never fighting for attention. But unexpectedly, she became hugely popular!? This is purely fictional. No implications or connections are intended. Please do not overanalyze or gossip. Thank you ALL RIGHT RESERVED: 姜葱蒜
  • The Boy Without An Insignia (Story Draft) by celestialh0shi
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    In a world where insignias determine status, talent, and destiny, those born without one are treated as nothing. They are called Nulls. Arthur Lynwirth enters Eldoria Academy carrying no insignia, no noble background, and no interest in standing out. Quiet and detached, he spends most of his days avoiding attention, training alone, and trying to survive academy life beside his loud-mouthed best friend, Darius. But despite Arthur's efforts to remain unnoticed... people can't help but notice him. Professors grow suspicious of the knowledge he casually reveals. Students whisper about the strange pressure surrounding him. Even powerful Cresteds find themselves unsettled by him without understanding why. Because Arthur isn't normal. He knows things he shouldn't know. Moves in ways he shouldn't move. And at times, it feels as though something ancient is staring back through his eyes. As tensions between Cresteds and Nulls continue to rise, forgotten legends surrounding Luciel - a figure long buried within myth and history - slowly begin resurfacing. And the deeper Arthur is pulled into the mysteries of the world, the more dangerous his existence becomes. Especially when even the strongest people around him begin asking the same terrifying question: Who... or what... is Arthur Lynwirth? Filled with mystery, brotherhood, hidden power, comedy, emotional bonds, and ancient secrets waiting to awaken, The Boy Without an Insignia is the beginning of an epic fantasy journey about a boy the world saw as worthless... unaware that his existence may one day change the world itself.
  • System Alert: My Lord, Act Your Rank, OOC Warning! by AnnikaKauffman
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    She thought it is a game, until she died once.... For Sofia, who is tired of reality life, the city-builder game Savage Age was meant to be a simple escape. In this digital world, she is a powerful chieftain, leading her tribe of savages to build a new civilization. But when the game's "NPCs" start to bleed and cry, when they rise up in bloody rebellion and tear down the false safety of civilization, Sofia realizes in terror that this is not a game at all. It's a real, brutal, and terrifying new world. In this world, hunger is the ultimate enemy and morality is a luxury she can no longer afford. After witnessing a neighboring tribe's gruesome revolt and suffering a catastrophic defeat in her own self-styled "Hunger Games," Sofia's mind shatters. She is no longer a player, but a prisoner caught between two realities. She switches between worlds, witnessing blood and death again and again. Can Sofia survive this desperate fight for existence? How will she face the lives she once treated as nothing more than game data? And when the game is no longer a game, what becomes of her? Welcome to the Savage Age. In this place, every decision is a matter of life and death.
  • Children Of The Blood #1 by Valloriya
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    On the southern border of the Kingdom of Mirltha, resides a young Silla Ek Mhurkum. A neglected child, he spends his childhood navigating the mistake known as his birth. But Silla eventually realizes that without family backing, the only thing he can rely on is his strength of arm and sheer audacity. Meanwhile in the capital: After a demoralizing humiliation, the young Ayanna Wu Kyrian begins to nurture a simmering anger against the meritocracy. Using her keen mind and meagre resources, she spends her childhood searching for ways to manipulate it's rules. When these young people finally meet--it is under the mocking grin of fate, and a choice must be made. But if something so feeble as fate thinks it can dictate terms...it is sorely mistaken. From mistake and curse, both Silla and Aya will rise to the heights of legend. *Inspired by Evan Winters "Rage Of Dragons" and Alexey Osadchucks "Last Life".* Cover by: @d0moniqueWrites NOTE: I have only posted this story on Wattpad, if reading anywhere else, it has been taken without my consent. NOTE: None of this story was written through AI. It all came from the old noggin. NOTE: This story touches on LGBTQ+ themes and traditional African Spirituality, if that makes you unhappy/uncomfortable please skip. Copyright: All rights reserved. Don't re-upload this anywhere or try to pass it off as your own. We are all just creatives trying our best okay.
  • Bound by Blood: The Alpha's Obligation by Tamercy
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    "Don't think of running, Rosiana. By pack law, you must be wedded to me." Rosiana Vale has spent her entire life unwanted. Branded a wolfless burden by her father, she escaped to Blood Moon University hoping for a fresh start. Then she met Prince Nate-the first person to show her kindness. When tragedy claims him, Rosiana is forced into a marriage she never wanted. By pack law, she now belongs to Lucien Blackthorne, the Alpha King and Nate's ruthless older brother. Cold, powerful, and shrouded in secrets, Lucien sees her as nothing more than an obligation. But as dangerous truths begin to surface, Rosiana finds herself drawn to the very man she swore she could never love. How can she betray the memory of the only person who ever cared for her? And why does the Alpha King seem determined to protect her at all costs?
  • The 2234 Universe by HanBeA
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    The 2234 Universe gathers wild, thought‑provoking stories from every corner of a hard‑won Solar System. In the asteroid belt people struggle and strive. On Ariel's ice, a battered outpost fights to reboot its lungs and its conscience. In Caleb's Vein, a belt crew chases a river of living metal through the dark, trading sleep and skin for one shot at freedom. In Ethan's Saviour, a burned‑out responder on half‑pressured Mars gambles everything on a rescue that could redeem a city or expose its lie. These are hard science fiction tales built from real physics, ruthless economics, and stubborn hope. Mass drivers sing, contracts bite, robots keep score, and people still fall in love. From frost‑bright moons to dust‑red plains, every page asks the same question: what is a future worth if we forget the people in it? Facts, opportunities, and souls, all lit by the cold bright sun of 2234. Welcome to the World of 2234.
  • Ninety Feet from Home by TC_Anderson
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    Grace Callahan has never wanted to make history, she just wants to play baseball. Armed with her father's old glove, a stubborn streak, and a love for the game that refuses to let her quit, sixteen-year-old Grace steps onto the mound for the Riverbend Falls varsity baseball team, a place where not everyone believes she belongs. Every pitch brings another challenge, every mistake gives someone another reason to doubt her, and as the pressure grows beyond the field, Grace must learn that proving everyone wrong might not be nearly as important as discovering what she believes about herself. Ninety Feet from Home is a coming-of-age baseball story about family, faith, friendship, perseverance, and chasing the game you love, one pitch at a time.
  • 两分 by mafeng199325
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    "Copley Tech? Is that even a real school?" She wrote it on a form because it was her father's dream, not hers. Her manager read it out loud at the welcome dinner and gave her a nickname the whole department still uses. Sutton doesn't cry. She doesn't quit. She keeps her head down, does her work, and lets the record build - screenshots, emails, the meeting that never had her name on the invite list. Perry Ward is good at this. He knows exactly how long to hold a nickname before it sticks. He knows how much to smile when he says her name. What he doesn't know is that the man arriving for the regional conference is the one person at Ward Holdings who has never once called her Corner-store. He was her father's student before he was her boss's boss. She walks in with her file. The table is set. It's her turn.
  • Outer Reaches by lucashotle
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    New chapters every Sunday 10:00AM EST! A stowaway. A stolen ship. A galaxy that doesn't believe in hope anymore. Outer Reaches follows Liam, a reckless optimist whose refusal to accept a broken universe slowly turns survival into rebellion. As he crosses Union borders and cartel space, his belief that everyone deserves to smile begins to challenge systems built on fear, control, and exhaustion.
  • SYNC. by appiedaada
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    Everyone at high school thought Nolan was just a quiet freak. They called him "Mirror Boy" because he was terrified of his own reflection, never knowing that what Nolan saw in a mirror was something that had scared him since childhood. When a freak accident forces Nolan to reveal that he can do something impossible, stop time completely, the world around him breaks. His ordinary hometown is suddenly forced into contact with a massive, advanced civilization. But something is deeply wrong: this futuristic world is somehow completely backward in the ways that matter most. To figure out why they have these powers and why this broken utopia is suddenly bleeding into their lives, Nolan has to team up with the only two people who can help: his analytical found-brother, Orion, and his ruthless school bully, Altair. Together, they step through the static. They can walk back home whenever they want, but turning around won't make the danger following them disappear. Stranded in a foreign society governed by brutal rules, three very different boys have to learn to rely on each other to survive the city's lethal systems, because the next mistake they make might be their last. What to expect: Slow-Burn Multi-POV: A character-driven mystery told through the shifting perspectives of Nolan, Orion, and Altair. Psychological Progression: A focus on personal growth, overcoming isolation, and complex character relationships. Expanding Lore: A massive world that unravels slowly, keeping the mystery alive with every chapter.
  • Little Town Star by Dovaire
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    ⭐️Updated Wednesdays and Saturdays⭐️ Seventeen-year-old Eric Calloway has always known he was meant for something bigger than Ashridge, Tennessee a town where everyone knows your business, and what they think your future should look like. Eric dreams of becoming a star. So between school, family and heartbreak. And Then,. almost overnight,. something changes. A song. A little attention. And suddenly, the impossible dream Eric has been chasing doesn't seem so impossible anymore.
  • The Unranked by StorysmithTrev
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    Every soul in this world gets locked the moment you're Awakened. Weak. Strong. Useless. Legendary. Whatever you become, you become it forever. Mine never locked. My family spent nine years and everything they had to buy me one chance at a rank. It took Dariel Voss ten seconds to break it and call me a rat. Then the crystal looked into me and found nothing to name. No power. No rank. No shape at all. They call that a failure. I call it the one thing in this world nobody's ever seen finished.
  • TOHA : DEVOURER OF HEAVEN by Thoriell
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    Il y a des siècles, le ciel s'est déchiré, et une lumière dorée a sauvé le monde. Depuis, chaque enfant naît avec une Marque - la preuve qu'il porte en lui l'héritage de cette victoire. Toha, lui, est né sans marque aux poignets Fils de la défunte Daiken d'Avakoht, méprisé par sa propre cité, humilié en public par un cousin trop sûr de lui, il n'a plus qu'une semaine avant de partir pour le grand pèlerinage - où tout un continent découvrira, une bonne fois pour toutes, s'il porte ou non la lumière des Célestes. Mais dans l'ombre, une femme prépare tout autre chose pour lui. Une tradition qu'on croyait morte depuis quatre générations. Une montagne qui n'a jamais laissé redescendre aucun enfant vivant. Certains naissent avec le pouvoir. Toha va devoir aller le chercher - au prix de sa vie, s'il le faut.
  • JACKRZ by F_TRE-Z
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    Charlotte's Augment Capacity shouldn't exist. She has no idea what it means. The masked stranger who died at her feet may have been the only one who did. Before she can find answers, Charlotte is transferred to an elite academy run by PRODIGI, a megacorporation whose reach spans every domed city on the planet. She plans to keep her head down, but in the highest spire, her face is already on the director's screen. And PRODIGI isn't the only one watching. Cybernetic outlaws known as jackers are closing in, hunting something PRODIGI wants kept buried. ​Whatever links Charlotte's impossible Augment capacity to the Great Impact: the century-old catastrophe that forced humanity into these domes, the factions hunting her don't want her dead. They want her. ​In a world where a genetic lottery determines who can wield advanced Augments, the deadliest secret isn't buried in the past. It's written in her DNA.
  • Warrior spirit: Rise of  the iron Willed Boy by Siddhilord
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    In a world of siddhi(cosmic energy), Where strength triumphs over truth and justice ,and the poor and weak are barely treated as humans ,a 6 year old boy named Rishi strives for glory While heirs of powerful bloodlines rise arrogantly , Rishi works tirelessly to earn his place in the mahaveera shila, concil of siddhi practicing warriors But in a world where power has a price of pain , will Rishi,s willpower be enough or will the evil lurking around him crush him before he rises
  • Iron Will by theskyespulse
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    ⚠️NOTE: THIS IS THE CONTINUATION OF IRON WILL! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FIRST PART, PLEASE DO SO YOU DON'T GET LOST ON WHATS GOING ON!!⚠️ 4 Years. 4 Years since my life went to hell. I'm KK, yes that KK. The same KK who's the daughter of a NASCAR Champion. The same KK who's the niece of a 2X NASCAR Champion. The same KK who soften NASCAR's most violated driver. The same KK who started a race car when I was only 11 months old. The same KK who won the heart of America just by an old Indianapolis interview that's from 2003. The same KK whose racing career literally started in Power Wheels Drag Racing. Yes you heard me. Power Wheels....Drag Racing. The same KK who beat the Brothers at their home track in 2012...and I won the race. The same KK who was a junior drift event in Austria with a car nicknamed The Angry Matchbox. The same KK who drag raced my father at Daytona for the win in K&N Pro Series in 2013. The same KK who won the GT class during the 2014 24HRS of Daytona at 14. The same KK that won a rally race with Kyle Busch.....yes that Kyle Busch. The same KK that still has three Chili Bowl records that are still standing to this day. The same KK who stole her father's ride in 2018. The same KK who was the youngest driver in the sports history. 18 years old. The same KK that wreaked her father in 2018 Brickyard 400. I'm that KK.... Everyone tends to forget all the records I have broken through out my life, but that doesn't matter. Instead I am famous for two things: Stealing my father's ride in 2018. Wreaking my father in the 2018 Brickyard 400. And that's it... What else would I be remembered for? Winning the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series title with an open car team who originally left the sport back in '21? 
Yeah right.....NASCAR will never have a female driver that can compete in a male dominate sport. I might have been the closes, but that doesn't mean anything to anyone. I'm Ridlee, and this is my story.
  • THE PEN FIGHT RE-AWAKENING  SEASON 2  by PenFightOfficial
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    The legends have returned. But returning was only the beginning. Season 1 ended with a name that silenced an entire room. A name that reopened old wounds and forced the past to step back into the light. Now the truth begins to surface. Behind the revival of the Pen Fighting Organization, secrets that were buried for years start to rise. Old bonds are tested. New faces appear in unexpected places. And in the quiet corners of a high school far from the spotlight, a boy who never fought begins walking a path no one saw coming. Some people fight to win. Some fight to protect. And some... fight because they have no other choice. The scars of the past never truly fade. They wait. They watch. And when the time is right... they return. Welcome to Season 2 of PEN FIGHT: RE-AWAKENING
  • The Heart of the Race by StarryHorizon93
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    The Heart of the Race follows a modern Hyrule where Formula 1 racing defines heroes and legends. Rookie driver Link joins the struggling Hyrulean Racing, turning the team into unexpected challengers with his fearless talent and quiet determination. As rivalries ignite - from Ganondorf's reigning dominance to Revali's pride and Zelda's conflict between duty and dream - every driver races not only for victory, but for identity and purpose. Across roaring circuits and desert sunsets, courage, ambition, and destiny collide in a story where the true battle isn't just on the track - it's within the heart that drives it. *All characters belong to Nintendo save for some original characters. I own all the artwork used and for the story itself.* I hope you enjoy! All awards (current and past): #1 - Inspiring #1 - Underdog #1 - Revali #1 - Impa #1 - Ganondorf #1 - Paya #1 - Riju #2 - Zelink #1 - Courage #5 - Racing #1 - Link #2 - Zelda #1 - againstallodds #2 - thelegendofzelda #4 - ZeldaxLink #4 - botw
  • The Secrets Beneath Golden Academy by tieniu
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    Xianan grew up in the Soil Realm-buried deep beneath the world, the poorest and most forgotten of the five realms. To others, people like her are nothing more than worms. She never thought her life would change. Until the day her father disappeared. The only thing he left behind was a single message: Go to Golden Academy. The world is divided into five realms-Golden, Wood, Water, Fire, and Soil. Golden stands at the top, a place of power, talent, and privilege. A place someone like her was never meant to enter. And yet, to find her father, Xianan forces herself to do the one thing she has never cared for-study. Against all odds, she earns her place at Golden Academy. There, everything begins to change. She encounters things she has never imagined. She sees the cruelty hidden in human hearts... and the quiet kindness that still remains. But what unsettles her most is this- She sees someone. Someone who looks exactly like the childhood friend who vanished from her life years ago. At the same time, traces of the long-lost "Five of Golden," who disappeared a century ago, begin to surface. What seem like isolated mysteries slowly begin to connect. As Xianan and her companions journey across the five realms, they are drawn into a series of cases-each one deeper, stranger, and more dangerous than the last. And in the end, all paths lead to the same question- Is she really searching for just one person? Or is she uncovering a secret that Golden itself has tried to bury?