Vain Stories

Nie Xuanli was the daughter of an official who was gifted to the Emperor as compensation after a civil war. She was ambitious and sly, not willing to settle for the rank of Imperial Concubine. She wasn't pleased with her lower status. She used her seductive and charismatic personality to create a ladder that would reach the rank of Empress and hold her position within the Emperor's heart.

Mariella intends to marry rich. Then she'll live as she chooses. But there's a problem. The crown prince isn't as blind as everyone else, especially after he sees her true self. He now notices everything, the little lies, the carefully crafted manners, the rehearsed kindness. He is indifferent, dismissive, and dangerous in ways she can't anticipate, but she needs him on her side, because one slip, one glimpse behind her mask from the court, and everything she has clawed towards will collapse. She has spent her life perfecting the art of being the sweet, proper lady no one suspects. How to appear harmless, timid, and polite. But every word, every gesture, every tear is calculated. Because, in a world of wealth, titles, and ambition, the clever survive and the careless get left behind. And she will not be left behind. ××××× "She is deceiving you, Your Majesty!" Percival insisted, dragging Mariella back to the present, ''I swear upon my honor.'' The throne room felt smaller than before as the silence after Percival's words stretched. The King's gaze softened. "Mariella has served this court with nothing but grace." Mariella sobbed harder. The sound loud in the silent room. Finral's gaze burned into her. He had not spoken or shown any indication of revealing the truth. Maybe he was still in shock from her magnificent performance but she had to be sure. So she slowly lifted her head slightly, meeting his eyes for the briefest moment. Just for a second. And winked. The smallest movement. Gone in an instant. His lips parted. Whether from shock or apathy, she couldn't tell but he still said nothing. And in his silence, the ruling fell swiftly. ××××× Written for the open novella contest 2026 prompt 16: And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul (Quote by John Muir) Interpreted in a romantic sense.

For all her life, Amber has lived with and mother and father who care less if she goes to school, gets bullied, hacks ATM's, and hotwires cars. Never before has Amber been cared for, till she meets Loraina (Lina) and Mia. They pull Amber out of the group of outcasts she hangs out with and teaches her better ways. Still, life is hard for Amber. Then, one day, a significant change happens. Mia and Lina show Amber a world beyond. A world of hidden wonders and beauty. But underneath, Amber wonders, is this world better than her home? Is it better to fight, and possibly not survive, just to fulfil your destiny, or is it better to live in peace with 2 parents who don't care about you and never reach your potential?

●Basically,i moved to sunny bay. I became friends with Iris,then Talia and afterwards Auriana,They noticed my rainbow ring bracelet anr asked about it and said that my Grandma gave this to me,i began to be suspicious and aksed why are they always by my side and finally they explained that i am a secret prncess of Gemstones and i am in grave danger,just like a long time ago,last year to be right. Now i must join them to fight Gramorr and bring back our kingdoms●

A poem about how heartless pain is! and what it causes it just misery!

(Completed; Edited) #Second Place in the Grand Dame Awards (14th February 2019) hosted by Majestic Inc. #Reader's Choice Award (23rd February 2020) in The Blossoming Story Awards. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Reminisce and cherish the past, cringe and shudder at the past. But never live in the past. The present is pleasant, like a gift full of surprises to you, and you better open it up before someone else snatches it away from you." °•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°• He was her childhood crush. She liked him very much; in fact, she thought she was in love. But boy was she wrong! Even though he knew how much she fancied him all along, he only kept bullying her time and again. So now, she hates him with every ounce of her blood. But the twist is, he's head over heals for her now. Ruby Shaw is someone who hates her home town and would rather stay somewhere else than her old house. But she has to come back home after almost five years; back to the place which contributed only bad memories for her. When she runs into him again after so many years, would she be able to suppress her long lost feelings and force them to remain dormant? Would she let him conquer her even though she remains so adamant to stay UNCONQUERED? •°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•° "We both were crying. He was crying because he knew he was fucked up. I was crying because he was the one who fucked me up." *************** [Previously known as "I'm Over You"] WARNING: Contains usage of strong language and triggering content. Read at your own risk.

so right u get insecure sometimes..well for me it's usually all the time........but i'm working on it.

Pride's usual day. Where he's terrorizing a town of Greed followers

they stand by the commitment; silence is the best response, but at some point it's pointless. s:22-01-19 c:-

Lisa Richards has it all.... A loving family, wonderful friends, everything she could ever want. But what lurks on the surface, doesn't even begin to show the truth. No one may ever know how she really feels, how she really looks. Her mirror does, though. Her mirror knows everything.

A dark, deep, and heartfelt poem.

မေ့ဖျောက်ရန် မဖြစ်နိုင်သော လူတစ်ယောက်ရှိဖူးသည်။ ထိုလူအား အကြောင်းကြောင်းကြောင့် ဘဝထဲမှ ၊ မှတ်ဉာဏ်ထဲမှ ဖယ်ရှားမိခဲ့သော်လည်း နှလုံးသားကမူ ထိုလူအား မဖယ်ရှားခဲ့၊ သိမ်းဆည်းထားဆဲ ။ ေမ့ေဖ်ာက္ရန္ မျဖစ္နိုင္ေသာ လူတစ္ေယာက္ရွိဖူးသည္။ ထိုလူအား အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္ ဘဝထဲမွ ၊ မွတ္ဉာဏ္ထဲမွ ဖယ္ရွားမိခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ႏွလုံးသားကမူ ထိုလူအား မဖယ္ရွားခဲ့၊ သိမ္းဆည္းထားဆဲ ။

Vain မှ အခြားတစ်ပါးသော သူ အတွက်

a girl who is feeling empty in life even when pursuing her dream as an artist finds her worth in the world is in vain

Miranda is in for a surprise when she reaches Directioner's Boarding School. Her headmaster, Simon Cowell. Her teachers, One Direction. With her new friends, Katie, Steph, Sierra and Casey, and her old friend Holly, they discover the very secrets of the school, and that the school is not what it seems. Magical powers lie in the chambers, belonging to someone in the school, and they are trying to get out. Who do they belong to and why are they there? And why does Niall seem to have a crush on Miranda? Find out in the wonderful, secret, story called Directioner's Boarding School. ©2013 doggiebasher All Rights Reserved

"Because if I have to continue living in this shitty world, then I'd rather have Morgan Freeman's voice narrating my life events." Corrine Kim was an average college girl living her everyday mundane life. Studying to be a professional writer, she gave up her social life for exams and neverending essays. Nothing exciting has ever happened to her since then. That's until she wakes up one morning and ends up being the main character of her first Wattpad werewolf book. Thrown into a world full of cliches and plot holes, she has the choice to either go with how she wrote the story or make up a completely new book along the way. The only problem is that she forgot how and why she got sucked into her book in the first place. Currently on Hiatus Amazing cover by -lucidia

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