A Hard Life

Betrayed by her emperor husband, her children slaughtered, and her noble family destroyed, Shen Miao dies with hatred in her heart, only to wake up as her 14-year-old self. This time, she'll rewrite her fate. Protect her family. Crush her enemies. And carve out her place in the empire. But she never expected him, the unruly young marquis who laughs at power and claims her with a smirk, "Take the world if you want... but you're mine."

She wasn't the weakest among them; She was the reason they never fell. --•--•--•--•--•--•--•-- She lost her mother. And with her... she lost the only home she ever knew. But death wasn't the end of the truth. It was only the beginning. Before taking her last breath, Aastha's mother reveals a secret buried for fifteen years - a family that was never supposed to return into their lives. The Rathore Brothers. Seven brothers. Powerful. Ruthless. Emotionless. Men feared by the world they rule from the shadows. A world stained with blood, power, betrayal, and secrets no one dares to uncover. And now... Aastha Rathore is a part of it. A girl who walked into their dark lives carrying nothing but grief in her eyes and silence in her heart. But fate has strange ways of bringing broken souls together. Maybe some connections are written long before people meet. Maybe destiny always finds its way back. And maybe faith isn't just about believing in God- maybe it's about believing that even after destruction, life can still give you a reason to stay. Slowly, walls begin to crack. Smiles start returning. Trust forms where only darkness existed. Yet something feels wrong. Too many unanswered questions. Too many half truths. Too many people hiding things they can never say aloud. Why was Aastha kept away for fifteen years? What really happened in the past? Why does every secret somehow connect back to her? Because behind this family lies a story far more dangerous than anyone realizes. A story where destiny plays cruel games. Where faith gets tested at every step. And where nothing is ever truly what it seems. Even Aastha. She looks soft. Fragile. Innocent enough to be destroyed by their world. But sometimes the quietest people carry the loudest storms inside them. And maybe... the girl searching for a reason to live is unknowingly the reason everything is about to fall apart. ~•°AASTHA: THE FAITH By: fairytale22

𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧... 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫. "Please... don't do this. I'm scared," she whispered, her voice shaking, barely louder than her own heartbeat. He didn't step back. Didn't blink. A slow smirk curved his lips - not warm, not kind... the kind that made the air feel thinner. "Scared?" he said quietly, almost amused. "You should be." Her breath hitched. "I'm not going to hurt you," he continued, voice low and controlled, "unless you give me a reason to." "𝐒𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨" Top ranks ❤️ 3 #stalker 9 #dangerouslove 8 #controlling 30 April 2016

#1 in possesive 21/11/23 #1 in onlygirl 25/11/23 #1 in newschool 02/01/24 12/05/2025 26/10/2025 13/11/2025 #1 in youngest 21/02/24 #2 in overprotectivebrothers 19/09/24 #1 in shy 22/09/24 #1 in cliche, #2 in onlygirl, #3 mafiabrrothers 19/12/24 #2 in mafia 07/03/2025 #1 in cliche 02/12/2025 05/12/2025 #1 in newschool 31/12/2025 01/01/2026 02/01/2026 #1 in shy, #1 in onlygirl 10/02/2026 #1 in father-daughter 05/05/2026 Kyrie Sage Arena is a sweet girl with a kind heart and a quiet nature, always willing to help. Yet, she has spent her life deprived of love and care, always alone. Will she finally learn what it means to be cherished? The Romano's rule New York City with an iron grip-ruthless, arrogant, and feared by many. They can have anything they desire, except true happiness. Will they ever find the one thing their power cannot give them?

A million dollar bounty, underground assassins, torture-it's all in a days work for assassin Jessie Wright. * * * * * * Molded into an assassin by the one who killed her parents, Jessie defies orders and goes rogue. Now with a bounty on her head, her only chance of survival may be with a man who's reputation is worse than her own. Violence, Assault, Swearing.

Book One - Regina Series Stolen at four. Forged in blood. Liliana De Rosa barely remembers a life before pain. Torn from her family at a young age, she grew up in chains-manipulated, tortured, and forced to believe the people who loved her most had abandoned her. Twelve years later, she is unrecognizable. Passed between rival mafia families, some who taught her to survive, and others who molded her into a weapon, Liliana has become both lost and lethal. Behind the mask of an innocent schoolgirl hides a girl with blood on her hands-a girl who has forgotten how to simply exist without violence. But when her abusive guardians are killed in a mysterious car crash, her world shatters again. Liliana discovers the truth: She was never abandoned. She is the daughter of the most feared mafia boss alive. She has six older brothers who have been searching for her since the day she was taken. Now, reunited with the infamous De Rosa family, Liliana must face a terrifying reality: she is loved, wanted... but no longer the little girl they remember. She is broken. Dangerous. And feared even within the underworld. What happens when her family learns the truth-that their sweet sorella is one of the most ruthless assassins alive, her name whispered in terror across continents? Liliana is not just a De Rosa. She is The Regina Assassin. A killer. A survivor. And a girl who must learn if love can heal what violence has created. Follow her story through pain and love. Liliana Donatella De Rosa. Started 08/25 Finished ??? Rankings #badass - 1🥇 #badbitch - 1 🥇 #mexico - 1🥇 #colombiamafia - 1🥇 #loss - 1🥇 #spain - 2 🥈 #albanian - 2 🥈 #assassin - 2 🥈 #mafiaprincess - 2 🥈 #Italian - 2 🥈 #russianmafia - 2 🥈 #loyalty - 2 🥈

⤞ 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐈 ⤝ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴠᴀɢᴇᴅ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ sᴇʀɪᴇs In every story, men run from their past-desperate not to let their shadows poison the light of the women who enter their lives. But what if a man didn't run? What if he wanted his shadows to touch her? To own her. Haunt her. To pull her into the fire he built himself. Because she wasn't just his light. She was his bait-a living, breathing key to the monsters still hiding in his past. ✧˚ · . Aarvay Singh Raizada ✧˚ · . rose from the blood-soaked gutters of a city that never slept-only watched. Now, he stands as Asia's most feared and revered name: CEO of Raizada Group of Companies by day. Kingpin of the underground syndicate Noctis Dominion by night. Haunted by a past cloaked in grief, questions, and a wife's mysterious death... Aarvay lives in silence. In sleeplessness. In sin. ✧˚ · . Saayra Mittal ✧˚ · . knows nothing of shadows. A soft-spoken, steady girl with dreams stitched together by duty and ailing hopes- ...and completely unaware that someone, somewhere, watches her every move. Obsessing. Following. Claiming her as his. But when Aarvay and Saayra's paths cross, it isn't fate. It's design. Because he chooses her. Not for love. Not for forever. But as the trap to lure his wife's killer into the light. What he doesn't expect... Is to fall into the very fire he set. He never sinned by loving. He sinned by using love. And now? That sin might cost him the only woman who ever mattered. Tropes : ~ Age gap ~ Stalker ~ Murder mystery ~ slowburn ~ touch her and die ~ she fell first he fell harder ~ Boss x Employee

«ဖူရန်ရေ...မင်းမျက်နှာဖုံးကွာကျပြန်ပြီတဲ့» ချင်ရန်×ချန်းကျွင့် မူရင်းစာရေးသူ-ယွီလီဖန်ဟွား အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာပြန်သူ-အဲလက်စ်စတူဒီယို ကျွန်မ အသက် 19 နှစ်မှာ အသက်မရှင်တော့ဘူးလို့ ထင်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် ကုရှီးချီနဲ့တွေ့ခဲ့တယ်၊ ပြီးတော့ ကျွန်မ အသက် 23 နှစ်ထိ အသက်မရှင်တော့ဘူးလို့ ထင်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် ရှင်နဲ့တွေ့ခဲ့တယ်.. - ချင်ရန် မင်းက ငါ့နားကို ပုံစံအမျိုးမျိုးနဲ့ ရောက်လာခဲ့တယ်။ ငါကလည်း ပုံစံအမျိုးမျိုးနဲ့ မင်းရဲ့ဖြစ်တည်မှုတိုင်းကို စိတ်ဝင်တစား ဖြစ်မိနေတုန်းပဲ... အပိုင်းရေ - (၇၄၉) [completed]✓

Demetria Montella, a sixteen almost seventeen year old, teenager from Northern England, who is suffering from grief and selective mutism. She's never had a good life. Even when it was just Demetria and her guilt stricken mother, who made one bad decision, and ended up being the mother she never wanted to be. After her mother's death, Demetria finds herself in a care home. Where she is to stay...until her social worker pulls her out of class. Only to tell her she's been missing for eleven years. In Spain. Not only is she a missing person, she also has a family. A father. A step mother. And five older brothers. Will Demetria take their help? Will she take the chance to live a different life? Who will help her along the way? Will she even find help?

"ခင်ဗျားကို မုန်းတယ်!" "ကိုယ်ကတော့ မင်းကိုချစ်တယ်" ~~~ "ခင္ဗ်ားကို မုန္းတယ္!" "ကိုယ္ကေတာ့ မင္းကိုခ်စ္တယ္"