Duke Stories

An overly introverted, lazy woman found herself transmigrated into the body of the most notorious villainess in the novel she had been reading, 'When Your Love Blossoms'.At first, she was furious and demanded to be sent back home, only to discover that she had actually died in her past life. Fortunately, a system appeared before her and offered a special mission: to change the villainess's life by altering her actions and choices. Although she reluctantly agreed, hoping to return to her family, her lazy and short-tempered nature made the task far from easy. Despite her efforts to live differently, many people around her continued to harbor feelings for her. Now, let's see how our short-tempered, lazy villainess navigates these everyday challenges. Ps. Pictures not mine, credits.

They once called her the Mad Dog of the South - the spoiled, short-tempered daughter of Duke Mortane. Feared by nobles, hated by the people, and foolishly obsessed with the Crown Prince who never loved her. Betrayed by her uncle. Framed by a false saint. Abandoned by the man she destroyed herself for. She died cursing her own foolishness... until the gods granted her one final mercy- to return to the past, one year before her ruin. This time, she'll play their game with her eyes open. She'll protect what's hers, crush those who deceived her, and rise from the ashes of her former self. Because this time... the villainess doesn't seek redemption-she rewrites her story.

In my first life, I Josephine de Franzaie, fell in love with the Crown Prince Edgar who was also My fiancé, but the feeling wasn't mutual. He loved some one else. I went Mad on Jealousy and harmed his beloved. I bullied her and nearly killed her. This caused Him to execute me when he became king. Before I died my last words was, 'I wish I didn't fall for y-'. and I died In my Second life I was reincarnated as Sarah Forn in the Modern world, I was the of two loving parents who were poor. I worked hard and became a world class politician as well as the Leader of a Mafia Group.But I died by the hands of another right when I retired when I was 28. In My third life, I reincarnated as Josephine de Franzaiem again. I regained my memories of my last two lives, I'm the villain of a romance novel I read in My second life. I don't want to die again. This time I won't fall in love, I'll be good to my family, and stay away from everyone related to the main story of the novel. Come on!

Seraphina Ravelle, being the stepdaughter of Marquess Edric, always received luxury. Her mother, Isadora Ravelle, the second wife of the Marquess, abused her power and bullied her elder sister, the Marquess's first wife's daughter, Liora Ravelle. Although she loved her sister, she couldn't express it. In a desperate attempt to give her elder sister a good life, she faked a letter in her name and sent a marriage proposal to Grand Duke Izek Viremont-but to her surprise, he sent a marriage proposal to her?? How is that possible?

An ordinary high school girl got reincarnated inside a novel which she didn't even read fully. The worst she has to be the villainess but, who cares?...not her. Ashley was just a normal high school student, soon graduating. A daughter betrayed by her own parents died and reincarnated as the villainess, Katherine in the novel 'Loved is Rosaline'. Editing in process. Pictures are not owned by me.

After ending her life to escape relentless bullying and emotional exhaustion, a nameless girl awakens in the fragile body of a six-year-old noble child. But this isn't a second chance-it's a new hell. She has been reincarnated into the body of the West Duke's hidden daughter, a child locked away in the basement, neglected and abused by the very family meant to protect her. Isolated, bruised, and numb, she accepts her fate in silence. But fate shifts when the feared and mysterious North Duke visits the West in search of an heir. Amidst a sea of noble children, it is the broken girl with dead eyes he notices. Something in her stillness, her silence, her scars - calls to him. What follows is a slow-burning tale of healing, power, and the struggle to find a reason to live again - in a world both cruel and magical.

I died and woke up as Cryselle Argentum, a princess whose fate I already knew too well. This world was not unfamiliar to me. It was the setting of a novel I had once read, a tragic story where a neglected child grows into a misunderstood scholar and meets her end at the hands of her own father. Knowing that future, I resolved to survive by doing the opposite of what the story demanded. I would stay quiet, stay small, and stay out of sight. But the world did not allow me to remain unseen. I met Silas Argentum, my father, far earlier than I was ever meant to, and every interaction felt like walking on thin ice. Was he dangerous? Yes. Was he cruel? Perhaps. But he was also attentive in ways the novel never described. So tell me, if fate has already been written, what happens when the person meant to die decides to rewrite the story herself?

One day, she was Samantha Lim, a contemporary woman worn out by the unrelenting grind of the twenty-first century. Reinn, the only daughter of the powerful Hylde Duchy, is well-known for two things: her voracious thirst for attractive men and her family's ferocious lion insignia. However, the "new" Reinn's objective is different. She wants nothing more than peace, quiet, and a pleasant retirement because she was burned out in her prior life. But it's difficult to live a "peaceful life" when you've already told your parents that you would go after the most dangerous man in the empire. At first, Reinn pursued him solely to fulfill her "character's" reputation for pursuing attractive men. However, the dynamic changes when Samantha's contemporary humor and "don't-care" demeanor take the place of Reinn's typical outbursts.

Elira Wynthorne grew up believing she was the weakest girl in the kingdom of Asterfall. In a realm where magic determined one's fate-where even farmers manipulated soil with earth spells, and children summoned harmless sparks for fun-Elira remained painfully, humiliatingly powerless. Her father treated her as a bargaining chip, and the world dismissed her as "The Hollow One," a girl with no magical echo in her soul. When an arranged marriage binds her to Duke Alaric Draven, brother of the Emperor and the kingdom's most feared and respected war hero, Elira expects a quiet life of political obligation. But the night her village is attacked, something impossible awakens inside her: a cataclysmic, ancient magic so powerful it bends the laws of existence itself. Elira's true identity is tied not to her birth-but to an ancient being known in lost prophecy as The Infinite Star, a soul once sealed away to protect the world from collapsing under its might. As enemies emerge-some wanting her dead, some wanting to use her, some wanting to worship her-Elira must learn to control a power that could either save the kingdom or annihilate it. At her side stands Alaric: cold, disciplined, and feared by all... except her. Bound by duty but drawn by fate, the duke finds himself risking everything-his title, his loyalty, his life-to protect a woman who should have never existed. Their marriage begins as necessity. Slowly, achingly, it becomes something far more dangerous. Magic. Politics. Romance. Destiny.

'𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆.' But not Casanna, the sole heir of the Duke of Rosemore. She refuses to be what society expects her to. She rejects its standards, defies its traditions and breaks every expectation placed upon her. Casanna is not your typical lady. She simply refuses to be dictated to. All she ever wanted was to live at her own pace, to honor her family's legacy while quietly fading into the background. 'Not just a rose with vivid petals and thorns but something far more.' Yet peace always demands a price. What seemed like a simple dream becomes far more complicated when she meets someone who mirrors her own fire, someone who will challenge her heart and change her forever. Someone who has the same temperament as hers. PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME. ❁✿❀✾❃

I've been reincarnated into the very web novel I used to mock endlessly with my friends-and even in the comment sections. Who could blame me? It was the epitome of clichés: a forced marriage, endless misunderstandings between husband and wife, suffocating angst, the heroine's dramatic escape, and the inescapable regret of the so-called male lead. Predictable, frustrating, and utterly tiresome. Yet here I am, inhabiting the role of that very heroine in 'Husband Is Regretting.' My first priority? Divorce the walking red flag I've been shackled to. But for some reason, the more I ignore him, the more fixated he becomes. And if that wasn't confusing enough, a side character who was supposed to appear only once suddenly approaches me with a bold question: "Shall I be your secret lover?" What on earth is going on in this story? Owner of the cover X\@irt_5433

၂၁ ရာစုကနေ ချည်အရုပ်လေးထဲကို ကူးပြောင်းသွားခဲ့တဲ့ ကျောင်းသားလေးနဲ့ သူ့ကိုကို မြို့စားမင်းတို့ရဲ့ ပေါ့ပေါ့ပါးပါး ဂယက်လေးတွေပါ

Once, they were inseparable. Then duty intervened. Forced into a strategic marriage to preserve political order, Duke Evander Auremont left behind the only man who had ever truly known him. Duke Theodore of Northcrest did not protest. He simply walked away. Years later, the marriage ends-exactly as it was meant to. But loneliness was never part of the arrangement. Now in their fifties, with reputations intact and hearts far less guarded, Theodore returns determined to claim what he never stopped wanting. Because devotion delayed, is still devotion. And neither of them is young enough to waste what remains.

"She was the first daughter who, without a second thought, stood strong, even when death was staring her in the face."

July 1920 arrives at Downton Abbey with more than summer heat shimmering over the Yorkshire lawns. Word spreads like wildfire through the servants' hall: The king and queen are coming to visit including their niece, Her Royal Highness Princess Ione Grace. Ione is young, luminous, and quietly radical in spirit. Auburn hair catches the light like burnished copper; green eyes miss nothing. Her Welsh accent flows gently, musical without affectation. To her, hierarchy is a fact of society, not a measure of human worth. When the King and Queen depart Ione remains for a week, undertaking her first solo official engagement in the county. The experiment, as the palace calls it, is meant to shape her into a modern royal woman. What it shapes instead is something far more dangerous. Thomas Barrow has spent his life mastering masks. Sharp wit, sharper ambition, and a heart guarded behind barbed wire. Then Ione looks at him-not through him, not past him, but at him-and the world tilts. Their affection grows into love slowly, dangerously. For Thomas, it is a reckoning. What does it mean that he loves her? Is love a fixed star, or can it surprise us? For Ione, it is rebellion wrapped in devotion. A princess may smile and wave, but she does not marry a footman. Thomas faces the brutal arithmetic of class and power. To pursue Ione openly could cost him his position, his safety, perhaps even his freedom if scrutiny turns cruel. Ione confronts the gilded cage of monarchy, discovering that compassion alone cannot dissolve centuries of expectation. Together, they endure separation, public scrutiny, and private doubt. They are forced to ask whether love is strong enough to defy an empire's unwritten rules. In a world stratified by birth and bound by rigid codes, their relationship becomes a quiet revolution-a challenge not only to class, but to the narrow definitions of identity imposed by society.

[Yandere Grand Duke x female! reader] ❝ There is no divinity in this love you hold for her, only damnation. ❞ ❝Then let me burn.❞ __________ [Y/N] is a young, wild woman working at a brothel. On a hazy summer night she meets an older man lying about his identity- upon learning he's royalty, the Grand Duke Isidore Demorte, he offers her a proposition, to be his companion for the next three months until he returns to the north to fulfil his arranged marriage. What begins as a simple arrangement soon grows complicated. As the wedding approaches, feelings neither of them intended begin to surface, and Isidore finds his control slipping in ways he does not fully understand. Descending into jealousy, feeling his temper slip and the quiet violence of wanting what he cannot keep, he must make a decision. Fulfil his duty, or let obsession be his ruin.

Nobody is born to be evil, they are made. Syera Achilles, the sole Lady of Achilles house of County. Due to her parents sudden death the kind and sweet little girl became an ignorant and wicked lady. One fateful night, she was dragged to the palace for allegedly attempting to assassinate the crown princess. Just like that, she was killed on the spot the the man who she cherish and loved. It was quite unfortunate until she comes back to the past, with an oath to change hers and her family's fate. She pledge to kill the man who took her life along with the other people who brought doom to her family. But will she ever succeed of killing the man whom she loved?

Hello my loves I got bored so let's play~ This is just me and my brain

Set in 1804, Portugal Book Three of The Tailored Short Story Collection "May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other." 1 Thessalonians 3:12 - Surely, he had dove's eyes for his beloved Keshiya. The moment he looked upon her in Ulliards Apothecary, all he knew, all he wished to know was how to gain the affection of the beautifully spirited herbalist who knew nothing more than to be herself. And so he wrote; 'Sweet Keshiya, my heart yearns for the day I am to return. I wish to lock eyes with you, but I pray the Lord keeps you until my voyage runs its course. I pray you, think of me, for it will delight my soul to know my precious one has spared a moment to remember me. I miss you, my darling. I wish to make you smile. Yet, the memories we made, I cherish, and by His grace, they will keep me until. Yours forever, Manoel.' - This is the story of a Duke and an Herbalist falling in love. - If you're looking for a swoony, heart-wrenching, redemptive, wholesome, Christian story under 50k words, The Tailored Short Story Collection is for you. The stories range in theme, but all feature romance, gentle and kind male leads, faithful, adorable, lovely, and gracious female leads, swoony moments, and potential tears and heartache, while Christ remains as the center. Book One: Captured Book Two: By The Way (One Shot) Book Three: Keshiya - Published: January 12, 2026 Completed:

A fluffy and laid-back everyday reincarnation story. PLEASE READ TAGS! . . . . . Fran, a 6-year-old villainous noble, remembers his past life while laughing maniacally. To escape the painful future that awaits him, he leaves the mansion and does his best by talking to various people. A fluffy and laid-back everyday reincarnation story. He's growing bit by bit. TRANSLATED BY YOURS TRULY! Story Rankings (as of July 27, 2025 5:40 PM) The Duke's Beloved Third Son Aims to Escape as a Villain!? Most Impressive Ranking #219 isekai out of 21.6K stories Other Rankings #181 adorable out of 13.2K stories #794 villain out of 29.8K stories #74 nobility out of 2.41K stories #742 shounenai out of 5.53K stories #5 slowburnbl out of 19 stories