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  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Shadow-Forge Weapons by sadhanawrites
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    Sadhana Fushiguro has never been the kind of sorcerer people expect to save the world. One year older than Megumi, she drifts through Tokyo Jujutsu High with an easy smile, and Ten weapon technique, and a habit of caring far more deeply than she lets on and chaotic teasing, While the events of Jujutsu Kaisen unfold around her, Sadhana finds herself caught between missions, friendships, losses, and the quiet moments that make survival feel worth it. But even small choices can change the future. As bonds deepen and canon begins to shift, Sadhana must decide how much of herself she is willing to give to protect the people she loves, including the strongest sorcerer who slowly becomes impossible to ignore. Canon-divergent JJK with action, humor, traumedy[comety+traume],emotional slice-of-life moments, found family, and a slow-burn Gojo/Sadhana romance.
  • Spider-man : The Part After by AloveT
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    In Brand New Day, Peter Parker takes a bullet meant for Jean Grey. Somehow, Jean keeps him alive from miles away. Frank Castle calls it "voodoo magic." That was about all Frank ever told Peter about what happened after the bullet went through him. The movie never shows what that "voodoo magic" actually meant-or what Jean was doing while Peter lay in a hospital fighting to survive. And when Peter finally left the hospital, he went looking for her. Was there more to it than simply keeping him alive? A missing-scene interpretation of the hours between the shooting and Peter's recovery-and of why, afterward, Peter begins reaching for the people he thought he had to leave behind.
  • Tmkoc -A Song of Stars by KangkanaSarkar
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    Some memories are forgotten. Some promises are not. Life is a river. A river of forgetfulness It carries people forward, leaves some behind, and sometimes hides pieces of the past beneath its deepest currents. For years, life in Gokuldham has continued as it always has-filled with laughter, friendship, arguments, dreams, growing up, and the small chaos of people who have known one another for years. But beneath those ordinary days, some stories have already begun. A forgotten childhood. A promise made beneath a star-filled sky. A river that remembers what people do not. A nameless bangle waiting among the scattered pieces of a childhood long buried in the river of forgetfulness. And somewhere, far away, someone still remembers. A tiny bangle carrying a sound that should have meant nothing-yet somehow feels familiar Somewhere, a diary keeps words that have survived twelve years. Somewhere, a voice still echoes through the darkness And an echo from somewhere beyond memory, "We will meet in the full of starry nights, beside the sunken boat, where the Narmada falls in the gentle rustle of water..." But what happens when a forgotten piece of the past begins finding its way back into the present? When the lives of friends, families, dreams and unfinished promises begin crossing one another? Not every darkness is meant to frighten us. Some darkness carries memories. Some carries grief. Some carries the things we were never ready to remember. And sometimes, when you think a part of your life has disappeared forever- you may discover that it was only waiting. Waiting beneath the river. Waiting among the stars. Waiting for the right moment to return. Will you remember? Or will the river of forgetfulness carry it away again? A story of friendship, growing up, love, memories, loss, hope and the promises that time could never completely erase. Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah - A Song of Stars.
  • 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐔𝐋 | 𝐔. 𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐞 by its__ame
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    𑣲- "ʜɪꜱ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴍᴏᴜᴛʜ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ꜱɪɴ ᴅɪꜱɢᴜɪꜱᴇᴅ ᴀꜱ ᴘʀᴀʏᴇʀ." -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈────❟❛❟────┈┈┈ He was cold, built from duty and silence, convinced his heart no longer had a purpose beyond survival, until she arrived without trying to change him at all, lingering with warmth, defiance, and a quiet persistence that slipped past his defenses, melting what years of war and restraint had frozen, reminding him what it felt like to want, choose, and to feel something he was never supposed to feel again. After all, he is a married man. -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈────❟❛❟────┈┈┈ Published: August 10 2026 Finished:
  • The  Life We Never Lived  by wdymjungkook
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    Some stories are meant to be lived. Some are only meant to be remembered. . And strange enough...he was among them...
  • Weorthania : Land of Being by rollofcitrus
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    "I'm dead, Athena, but you aren't. Why have you come here?" In a strange world that has not seen life, memories are twisted and souls roam the land. Athena Everhart walks in, unwelcome - she does not belong here. She is alive. Her existence in this place threatens a fragile balance between life and death. As she searches for a way home, she encounters impossibilities that reveal secrets bound to the land. What if death was not the end?
  • Seperti Senja di Pelupuk Mata by RaaVelina
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    Berawal dari ruang obrolan sekolah, Qinara harus melewati pahitnya penolakan dan jurang kasta sosial demi mengejar cinta Ravien, cowok populer yang hidup di dunia yang berbeda dengannya. Namun, saat Qinara berhasil bertransformasi menjadi gadis berprestasi dan memenangkan hati Ravien, mereka justru dihadapkan pada kenyataan pahit : benteng tradisi garis leluhur memaksa mereka untuk berpisah, membuktikan bahwa pertemuan mereka yang indah memang tidak ditakdirkan untuk menetap.
  • Layers by maailner01
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    There are those who hold the perimeter. There are those who see through it. Shafran can take a hit and doesn't ask questions. She, however, comes without protection-fragile, desperate, with a homemade device around her neck instead of a shield. She has no license, no power, but she has sight: she sees anomalies in layers, like a painting that can be rewritten. This work is the second part in the series, story-connected to "Anchor." Familiarity with the first part is not required. This work has been translated with the assistance of AI. The original language is Russian. If you notice any mistakes, awkward phrasing, or any AI-related inaccuracies, please let me know. English is not my native language, but I'll do my best to revise the text and make it as clear and enjoyable to read as possible. Thank you!
  • Rebirth and Redemption  by Emmanuella027026
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    She died believing her husband never truly loved her. She had been the perfect wife, loyal, patient, and always willing to shrink herself to fit into the spaces he left for her. She looked past the late nights and the locked phone, ignoring the shadow of the woman whose name seemed to linger in every quiet moment between them. She had convinced herself that loving someone meant staying, no matter the personal cost. She was wrong. She died alone, forgotten, and quickly replaced, only to wake up two years in the past, trapped in the same marriage and the same cycle. But this time, the memories are vivid. She remembers every lie, every hollow excuse, and every desperate moment she spent begging for a love that was never actually hers to win. But she isn't the only one who returned. Diana Walsh remembers, too, and she isn't interested in seeking forgiveness. She's looking for a more efficient way to win. Diana knows exactly which buttons to push, exactly when the marriage will fracture, and exactly how to play the victim while she secretly orchestrates every disaster. Last time, she stumbled into Callum by accident. This time, she's leaving nothing to chance. Lena isn't going to beg anymore. She won't compete for scraps of affection, and she certainly won't die loving a man who was never truly hers. Instead, she begins to rebuild her career, her identity, and her life through a series of calculated decisions. As she climbs higher, she starts to notice something Diana thinks is hidden: nothing about this "reunion" is a coincidence. The man who once ignored her is starting to fall, but it's far too late. The woman who planned his downfall never expected to be caught. And the wife who felt like she was never enough is about to become the one force neither of them can control. This time, Lena isn't just taking her life back. She's going to show them exactly what it cost her.
  • Letters to a Dead Server by elephanttayy
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    Letters to a Dead Server is a bittersweet YA novel about the fragile reality of modern love. Blending sharp tech-infused humor with raw teenage vulnerability, it explores dual hauntings-a father who slowly drifted out of reach, and a boy across the ocean who disappears after seeing you completely-and the courage it takes to step out of green-dot purgatory and back into the physical world.
  • 𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐑𝐀 | 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐲𝐚 by Qui3scent
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    𝓦𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 24-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝓐𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝓐𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭, 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦-𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘺𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝓒𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝓢𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳ō. [ 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳ō 𝘹 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘤 ] [ 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 1-2 ]
  • The Architecture of Lie by Cardel26
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    Six best friends. Three couples. Three secret affairs tangled inside the same tight-knit group. Song Dasol, Jung Chaeyeon, and Ahn Solbin have been inseparable since freshman year - golden, envied, the kind of friend group everyone else measures themselves against. Their boyfriends complete the picture: Eunwoo, Mingyu, Minhyun. Perfect couples, perfect photos, perfect lies. Then a testpack is found abandoned in a school bathroom, and three girls are named the last ones seen there. Under pressure, they take the test themselves - and all three come back positive. Except only one of them is actually pregnant. None of them know whose baby it is. None of them know who's been secretly seeing whom behind the group's back - until the accusations start, the boys scramble to protect the girlfriends they've been quietly betraying, and the fragile hexagon of love, jealousy, and guilt they built for years finally collapses in on itself. Then, on the school rooftop where it all started, one of them falls. Accident. Or something else. Nobody will ever be completely sure. THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIE is a slow-burn, heart-wrenching angst thriller about first love, betrayal, and the unbearable weight of secrets shared between people who were supposed to trust each other most. Two endings. One impossible truth. A story about what's left of love once everything true finally comes out.
  •  Love That Found Us Twice  by writer_akansha
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    She was twenty-six. He was twenty-three. Three years separated their ages, but somehow, their hearts seemed to understand each other without needing a language of their own. They met on an ordinary night when she was struggling behind a screen, and he was just a stranger who noticed that something was wrong. Neither of them knew that a simple conversation would become a friendship. That friendship would become love. And that love would become a world of its own. Ayush became the boy who called her jaan, jaanu, and meri Rasmalai. She became the woman who called him her Ayu, her gulab jamun, her pookie, her cute little bacha. He called her his lioness. She called him her lion. They loved fiercely, laughed foolishly, comforted each other through difficult nights, and built a little world together despite the distance between them. But love doesn't always follow the path two people imagine. They lost each other. Then, against all expectations, they found each other again. Only this time, everything was different. Their second chance was quieter. Softer. Calmer. The old love was still there-but so were the wounds, the distance, and the things neither of them could undo. Because sometimes two people can find each other twice and still not be meant to stay forever. This is the story of Ayush and Akanshi. A story of two hearts that met unexpectedly, loved deeply, lost each other, found their way back, and discovered that some love stories don't need a forever to become unforgettable. Some loves are not meant to be kept. Some are meant to be remembered. And theirs? The love that found them twice. Love That Found Us Twice - by Akshu New chapters every Thursday✨❤
  • Ravenna by stonecage
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    Ravenna Vance was never meant for court. She was meant for stolen mornings, quiet rebellion, and promises whispered far from watchful eyes. But when she's summoned back; back to duty, to expectation, to a future she never chose. Those promises begin to unravel. Because in her world, loyalty is fragile and power is everything. And the closer Ravenna gets to the life she's always wanted... the more she's forced to choose between freedom... and the one person who could make her stay. Some promises were never meant to survive.
  • Static on the Line by Goodreads789
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    At fourteen, Echo_93 made a scathing album review on an obscure music forum. Within six minutes, standard_pitch replied to tear her argument apart. What started as late-night music debates turned into a decade-long digital sanctuary. Through London rain and Los Angeles sun, time zones, and life transitions, Maya and Julian built a universe out of text logs and shared audio links. They knew every anxiety, routine, and secret the other held-yet they never spoke on the phone, never video called, and never met in person. As real life demands their presence, they make a silent pact to leave their connection frozen in amber. But when a chance encounter in a crowded London cinema brings twenty years of static into sharp focus, they have to face the truth: was it ever just noise on a screen? A bittersweet contemporary drama about digital intimacy, emotional timing, and the ghosts we carry into adulthood.
  • Ink and Starlight: A Tolkien & Ancient China Crossover by nocturne_pens
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    "Human laws are a cage of ink, traveler. But by mastering the language of state integrity, we can turn their own bars into a weapon." Hè Jūnxī is a dangerous anomaly in the hyper-patriarchal capital of the empire. Left behind to single-handedly manage her family's multi-million silver monopolies while her overprotective brothers hold the frontier trenches, she rules her estate with nothing but a cold abacus, a razor-sharp intellect, and a flawless mastery of mian li cang zhen-the art of weaponised courtly deference. To the court, she is an untouched target. To the paranoid Emperor, her house is a "sovereign disease" that must be ground into dust. Legolas is a creature born entirely of borderless starlight and open air. Stranded thousands of miles from the Greenwood canopy by a fracture in space, he understands physical warfare against raw darkness-but he has absolutely no calculus for the invisible, suffocating traps of human bureaucracy. Taken in as the Hè Manor's official inner guardian, his ageless tracking reflexes must adapt to a completely new, terrifyingly dense battlefield of political physics. When a multi-generation-old legal cipher is unleashed by a generational kingmaker to legally freeze her family's grain lines and starve her brothers' front-line light cavalry, Jūnxī and Legolas must form an unbreakable vanguard of blood-trust. Together, they launch a high-stakes, hyper-calculated counter-strategy to trap the ultimate rulers of the human world inside their own system. But in a realm governed entirely by the absolute authority of the ledger, every victory carries a heavy, crushing cost. Can an Elven prince carve a trajectory of true freedom for a mountain stream whose very identity is her ultimate cage?
  • The Summer I Stopped Breathing  by plotbunnyxo
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    We spend our whole lives believing we have time. Time to fall in love. Time to say the things we've been too afraid to say. Time to make memories, fix mistakes, and become the people we're meant to be. But time has never promised us forever. Sometimes, it slips through our fingers quietly - hidden inside ordinary mornings, unfinished conversations, stolen glances, and moments we don't realize are precious until they're already gone. And sometimes, the cruelest thing about running out of time isn't knowing how little you have left. It's finally finding something worth living for. Because when the clock begins to count down, every second becomes a memory waiting to happen. And there are some summers you never truly leave behind. Some summers change you. Some summers break you. And some summers teach you how to breathe before time runs out. This is The Summer I Stopped Breathing, and this is Aimee's story. ©️ Blessing Benedicta (plotbunnyxo) | 2026
  • social distance  by DikshaNegi1
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    Amber is a first-year university student who has been struggling with social anxiety for years. In this lonely battle, she has no one to support her. Her parents are emotionally distant and see her as an embarrassment. She has tried her best to overcome her anxiety, but nothing works. She is a loner at university, with no friend group and no one to share lunch with. Her life was dark and dull until a new guy moved next door to her apartment. He helps her overcome her anxiety, and soon they form a friendship. Little does she know, this boy is carrying his own scars. Behind the mask he shows the world, he is also broken and carries deep pain inside. Can two broken people help each other fix what they have lost? Can they finally overcome their past grievances and find happiness
  • LOVE BEYOND THE STAGE| FF| GLOBAL POP| by staycoerengenemoa
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    LOVE - BEYOND THE STAGE The world knows their names. The world knows their faces. But the world doesn't know them. Retix and I-Rizz are two global idol groups living under the brightest lights in the world. Their lives seem perfect from the outside-sold-out stages, millions of fans, glamorous events and endless dreams. But behind the cameras is a different story. Rumors can become headlines. A single glance can become a scandal. A friendship can become a theory. And sometimes, the people watching from behind a screen forget that the idols they're talking about are human too. Amber and Dave know what they feel. But knowing isn't the same as being able to choose each other. Lena and Kalix feel something too. Except neither of them ever says it. Between fame, pressure, friendship, rumors, expectations and the lives they desperately try to keep private, they begin to discover that being loved by millions doesn't mean you are understood by anyone. Because when the music stops, the cameras turn off, and the stage lights disappear... Who are they when nobody is watching? LOVE - BEYOND THE STAGE 🖤 Some stories begin under the spotlight. Some feelings survive only beyond it. (First part will be uploaded on 18/9/26)
  • DUA MASA DEPAN by KARSALUNA
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    "Aku mengerti kamu tidak bisa pergi. Aku mengerti ada orang yang bergantung padamu. Dan aku mengerti bahwa kamu memilih mereka. Dan aku harus memilih diriku sendiri." Dara sudah memiliki visa ke Aldara. Tomas sudah memiliki klinik di Cangkang. Mereka tinggal di kota yang sama, dengan cinta yang sama, dan dua masa depan yang tidak bisa disatukan. Dara tidak bisa menunggu lagi. Tomas tidak bisa pergi begitu saja. Dan di antara mereka, hanya ada satu pertanyaan yang tidak punya jawaban mudah: apakah cinta cukup untuk membuat seseorang tetap tinggal-ataukah cinta justru yang membuat seseorang pergi? Dara & Tomas adalah cerita tentang perpisahan yang tidak terjadi karena cinta habis, tapi karena cinta tidak cukup untuk menjembatani dua pilihan yang sama-sama benar.