Asianlit Stories

[ extended novel version of 'all for you' ] [ UPDATES EVERY TUESDAY & SATURDAY 6 PM IST ] Arya was always prepared for an arranged marriage. A union that would have her parents doing most of the work at first. Then, she'd learn to love the man - whoever he was. Turns out, learning to love wasn't a difficult thing at all for a married couple. ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ wordcount: 14, 478 words © galaxylane 2026

●And suddenly it was 2015, and everyone came to know that Ekan had died. But no one knew that he had actually died back in 2012, on a winter night, and that he had been dead for a long time.● ____________________________________ Ekan had always been living under the control of his mother. His father also never took his side. His life was all set by his parents and his only work was to follow it until he met Surya. Surya - the ice prince of the school who took his breath away but would Ekan able to make Surya fall in love with him? Would he succeed in getting his own happy ending? Description is crappy but I promise that story is good. [Small town romance; bl; he fell first, they fell harder] [good plot, crappy writing]

Told in two interweaving storylines, The Ritual and My Son, this is the story of two women, connected by a single life. What binds the women is a single act of courage, a life shaped by discipline and love. My Son details the story of a mother who raised a boy with steady hands and careful love, holding on in small, deliberate ways even as he reached beyond her grasp. The Ritual details how, saved once from the sea by a boy, Siu-man carries the ripple of his courage across decades, from lost identity cards to yearly offerings of oranges, discovering how a single act can shape a life forever.

Celie's whole world is music, yet she often feels like it is burying her. Gone is her love for the sweeping crescendos, the shimmering piano keys, as her taskmaster mother insists that she attends and wins competition after competition. But as she begins an unlikely friendship with her biggest opponent, the vibrant and mysterious Will Santos, she finds herself wondering if he is the one to rekindle her passion for piano, or if he is simply another competitor waiting for her to fall.

[ lovelorn duology # 2 ] Karthi x Nyra

In order to mend their relationship, Sam is shipped to another town to spend the summer with her estranged father. As she tries to make the two short months more bearable, she meets a girl named April May and together they write history and explore life's thunderstorms.

Annie is a charming Korean American girl who just graduated from college. It was her dream to work in Wall Street all her life. She gets into Lehman Brothers with the help of her best friend, Daniel, but work is demanding and tough. Senior Bankers are jerks. To escape from stress, she decided to attend a conference in Rio, Brazil. Nam Joo Hyuk, the heir of Samsung is there attending the same conference. In a city known for its exotic beauty and passionate love, they fall for each other as if it was destiny. They visit beautiful places around Brazil, having experiences of a lifetime. When they go back to their respective cities, they realize their relationship is not about smooth sailing; they face an unexpected headwind that threatens to blow their love away.

It's during these long nights when lonely souls find company amidst lonely strangers. --- Noah is a lost soul. He is nothing but worn out eyes, a rigid boy in a seventeen-year-old body, and a lonely shadow wandering around the streets of Tokyo. Alone under the city lights, he finds company and refuge in a stranger he barely knows. A girl named Yuuki. But what if all along, this stranger was in fact, no stranger at all? Before Noah can confront the familiarity of it all, Yuuki disappears without a trace and the boy is left to unearth the secrets of both their mysterious pasts entangled into one single thread of gold. Midnight traffic. Ice cream. Convenience stores. Indie music. Cars. City lights. Stars. Interlaced fingers. Beeping sounds. Vending machines. Street food. A shared kiss. Long nights. This is not a love story. It's a story of fate. --- Genres: romance, teen fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction and angst. Language: Contains Tagalog chapter titles and occasional Japanese dialogue but the rest of the story is in English. Updates: Nightly (GMT+8), around 6pm to 11pm. Disclaimer: This story will be tackling parallels and connections between the Japanese-Philippine history and the individual cultures of both countries; so if ever there are any language or historical inaccuracies, please feel free to correct me kindly. Furthermore, this novel contains themes of mental health/illness, suicidal tendencies, angst, bullying, and slight inappropriate language. Status: Currently on-going. --- Long Nights | 長い夜 | ᜋᜑᜑᜊ᜔ᜅ᜔ ᜄᜊᜒ All Rights Reserved 2022.

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Tae Shin is a simple boy with simple dreams, who likes to hide his half-forgotten past into the shadows of his low self-esteem. Kim JaeHwan is a sole heir to a gigantic multi-billion conglomerate, who likes to reminisce the ghosts of his happy childhood a little more than what is healthy. Their childhood friendship was one that could be described by a pretty montage. Flashes of memories stuck in rose gold resin and sparkles. They held hands wherever they went, until life snatched Shin away and made him a shattered mess of the human he was. Only JaeHwan remembers the pretty parts; Shin is left with hollow nightmares of his childhood abuse and a crippling case of amnesia. When fate places them together once again, in the elite school of Royal Boys High, JaeHwan's memories blur and fuse with his fantasies. Where he dreams of loving his lost childhood friend once again. Shin would remember him, wouldn't he? Cover and story art by myself. |Featured on: @FreetheLGBT : Coming of Age @YARomance Reading List: Semesters of Love @TeenFiction Reading List: The Full Spectrum (Diverse Lit.) @WattCliche Reading List: Beating Hearts @AmbassadorsIN Reading List: Teen Fiction|

There wasn't a place in the ocean that would not catch fire if he dropped a match. That's what Natalia reminds herself when she tries to pick up the pieces during the aftermath.

Hyeja is a 25-year-old Korean girl pursuing her dream as an anchorwoman (announcer in Korean). She has a special ability - she can turn back time with a special watch. Joonha is an aspiring reporter with a dark past. When fate brings them to the same place over and over again, he can't help but fall for her. Everything seems to be going well until her dad gets into a car accident and she turns back the clock one too many times. She wakes up and realizes she's 75! Can she go back to her real self? This story is based on the TV drama with the same name but has a surprise ending!

It may feel good to be pretty, but the problem with being beautiful is that there are thousands of people who look like you. Ugliness, however, is unique. ------------------- One girl, a walking-talking example of contradictions -- ambitious but naive, kind but blunt, social but awkward -- is living in perhaps the most competitive society in this world. She has a dream, a fairly conventional and acceptable dream, one which every parent would approve of. Unfortunately, millions of others share this dream, and in order to fulfill hers, she has to eliminate her competition, literally. Throw in a fair share of drama. Friends and family, crushes and exes, decisions and choices, and the life story of an Indian teenager would be complete. ---------------------- The last few years of school are the most memorable; grades, stress and career mixed with friends, fun and dreams. But most of the time when we are planning our awesome candid picture-perfect life, we end up crossing the 'i's and dotting the 't's. ------------------------------------ COMPLETED ON JULY 14, 2018 Featured in the teen fiction reading list of Wattpad India! Cover credits: @reluctantbibliophile

Andrea was happy in high school, she had best friends, the best grades, courses she actually liked. But it's all changed now. Now at university she's struggling to make friends, and is constantly bombarded with feeling alone. Her best friends have effortlessly settled in, made friends they hangout with, living their best lives. So one day she decides to change - herself.

Naomi Zhao has spent the last four years trying to forget anything and everything about David Han, the only person who had ever managed to break, and mend, her tenacious heart. But she's different now: less fragile, more resolved, and determined to move on, live her life, even if it's without him in it. Except he ends up back in her small town, with his residency compassed and completed, and absolutely set on picking up all the broken pieces he left her in.

"You shouldn't stare so hard. You might not get to see the best baseball player pitch one." Kane smirked conceitedly. I gagged at his response. "Good. I don't think you're worth looking at." I said as I step back to leave. It's not great watching your crush kiss another girl, the mean girl. And no, she's doesn't wear pink on Wednesday, I did. I chuckled at that lame inside joke. "What's funny?" Kane asked as he quickly follow suited with my own uneven step. Step, two step, stop. I turned to glare at him. "Can't you leave already?" I asked annoyed with his appearance at such lame moment of my life.

A group of young people find themselves sharing a house for two years. People that never thought would have to mix with are put in a tight spot when they apply for the open house vacancies. There will be some laughing, some crying, some fights and most of all a whole bunch of drunken parties and hooking up. But most importantly in these two years of their lives they'll not only help each other along the way but they'll find themselves. A few girls always equals drama, add a couple of testosterone filled ego maniacs to the mix and that spells a recipe for disaster. *** Family is where the heart is. - Unknown