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Wren Phillips sticks to what she knows. Photography, books and avoiding athletes at all costs...specifically hockey players. While every other girl at Briar University is trying to jump their bones, Wren treats them like the plague. Wren doesn't do relationships. She doesn't do love. She doesn't believe in it. That is until puckboy Dean Di Laurentis struts into her life with that smirk and that dimple. And he's sure that he is the exception to her rule. He's used to being chased but this time, he's the one that's doing the chasing. She's stubborn, but he's persuasive. Dean Di Laurentis x OC

👑🗡️🖤 DARK ROMANTASY | ISEKAI / VILLAINESS | OVERPOWERED MC | ENEMIES TO LOVERS | SLOW BURN | 👑🗡️🖤 I woke up on a throne, possessing enough terrifying magic to destroy a city. My court is filled with lethal, dangerously attractive men who either want to kill me, worship me... or both. After eighty hours a week in corporate hell, getting hit by a delivery truck landed me in a feudal one. I am now Elora, the absolute "Holy Queen" of Nocturne. The problem? The old Queen was a bloodthirsty, tyrannical monster, fated to lose her head by winter. The perk? I inherited her crown, her authority, and her ridiculously overpowered magic. I can disintegrate assassins with a flick of my wrist, but surviving the political viper's nest of the royal court is a different kind of war. This kingdom is drowning in dark secrets, succession crises, and noble vultures plotting my assassination. They expect a sadistic tyrant to play their deadly games. Instead, I'm going to confuse the hell out of them with tax reform, budget cuts, and absolute indifference to their brooding. But ruling an empire is hard, especially when the romantic tension is thick enough to cut with a broadsword. I just want a nap and a quiet pension. But in a court full of drama and treason, surviving might require playing dirty... and fighting the urge to fall for the exact people fated to ruin me.

Sixteen-year-old Zaria Imani Washington has always known one thing: her mother raised her with love, grit, and absolutely no answers about the father who disappeared before she was born. Then a biology class DNA assignment changes everything. When her ancestry results trigger an international security alert, Zaria discovers the impossible. Her father isn't just alive. He's the Emperor of the Dragon Empire. Thrown from the streets of Washington, D.C. into a palace filled with ancient traditions, political rivals, impossible expectations, and a family she never knew existed, Zaria must learn what it truly means to inherit a throne. But crowns aren't the only thing waiting for her. A witty movie star with a talent for getting into trouble keeps stealing her first dances. A graceful Empress opens her heart like she'd been waiting a lifetime for a daughter. An ambitious cousin believes the throne belongs to her. And somewhere between two cultures, two families, and two worlds, Zaria discovers she was never meant to choose one half of herself over the other. She was born to become something entirely new. Because dragons don't ask where they belong. They make history.

Clara Whitmore has learned that people do not always stay. So she keeps her world small: university, work, family, books, and the photographs she takes with an old analog camera. Ethan Vale seems impossible to miss. Confident, admired, and always surrounded by people, he has perfected the version of himself everyone expects to see. They move through the same city, carrying different kinds of silence. A chance encounter on the subway brings them briefly into each other's lives. A nearly empty photography exhibition brings them face to face. She sees loneliness where he sees freedom. He hides behind a smile. She hides behind distance. And somewhere between late-night streets, unfinished conversations, and photographs of things most people overlook, they begin to see each other more clearly than either of them intended. A Few Steps Away is a slow-burn college romance about trust, first impressions, hidden passions, and the risk of letting someone know who you really are. © 2026 Nebula. All rights reserved. This story and its characters may not be copied, translated, adapted, or reposted without permission.

Some people meet by chance. Some people become memories. We became something much more dangerous. For four years, we were each other's almost. Almost friends. Almost lovers. Almost brave enough to say what we really felt. Then graduation came. One goodbye. One misunderstanding. And two people who promised themselves they'd move on. Years later, fate throws us back into each other's lives at the one place we never expected... university. The problem? He's no longer the boy I used to know. And I'm no longer the girl who waited. Maybe time changes people. Maybe love doesn't. Or maybe... somewhere between our hellos and goodbyes, we simply forgot how to be strangers. **A slow-burn university romance told through both of our eyes, where every chapter reveals a different truth... and every heartbeat hides a secret.** ✨ New chapters drop every Sunday at 7:30 PM WAT! Engage

It started with a friend request. One conversation became a habit. One habit became feelings. Somewhere between "maybe" and "forever," we found a love worth fighting for.

The Space Between Sentences Dr. Arthur Vance, one of the world's leading cognitive psychologists, is found dead in his locked study. There is no murder weapon. No forced entry. No eyewitness. Only a room full of ordinary facts that refuse to fit together. Detective Inspector Marcus Vance is certain someone is lying. As contradictory testimonies, cryptic research notes, and impossible timelines begin to overlap, he uncovers a manuscript that suggests Arthur had been working on one final experiment-one capable of revealing how easily the human mind mistakes certainty for truth. The deeper Marcus investigates, the more every answer creates a new contradiction. Every witness tells the truth. Every clue is genuine. Every conclusion feels inevitable. Yet somewhere between the evidence and the story built from it, something has gone terribly wrong. The Space Between Sentences is a psychological mystery about memory, perception, and the stories we unconsciously write to make sense of the world. Read carefully. The most important clues are not the ones you miss. They're the ones your mind invents.

Sometimes the darkest secrets are the ones hidden within us. Esther has spent her entire life trying to understand the strange visions and pain she believed were her curse. But meeting a mysterious stranger shatters everything she thought she knew about herself and the world around her. Beyond the boundaries of reality lies an ancient faerie realm, where magic comes with a price and the past never forgets its promises. He came to take her. She was supposed to be nothing more than part of his command. But the farther they travel, the harder it becomes to tell captivity from salvation - or an enemy from someone she can trust. Now Esther must uncover the truth about what she truly is... before the power within her changes not only two worlds, but herself.

𝐕𝗂ⱺᥣ𝖾𝗍 𝐏α𝗋𝗄𝖾𝗋 "𝑰𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔... 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒆. 𝑰𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔... 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑." 𝐂ɦα𝗌𝖾 𝐊𝗂𐓣𝗀𝗌ᥣ𝖾𝗒 "𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚." ───୨ৎ──── Violet Parker believes life is much easier with lemonade, oversized hoodies, and random conversations with pigeons. Getting lost on the first day of university? Normal. Accidentally roasting strangers? Also normal. Becoming neighbors with the grumpiest hockey captain on campus? ...That definitely wasn't part of the plan. Chase Kingsley likes silence, black coffee, and routines that never change. His mornings begin at 5:15 a.m., and his evenings end with coffee on the balcony. He has absolutely no interest in loud freshmen. Unfortunately for him... His new neighbor is Violet. Between escaped rubber ducks, loud music, ridiculous conversations, burnt toast, lemonade, coffee, and countless unexpected moments, two completely different worlds slowly begin to collide. Violet became Chase's favorite kind of chaos. And Chase became the one person Violet never knew she was waiting for. A slow burn about finding Home in the most unexpected person. --- Just read the first 10 chapters... then tell me you don't want to keep reading.....😉

Non ci siamo persi. Ci siamo solo trovati nel momento sbagliato. Ci è mancato un battito. Un treno. Un passo. Io correvo verso qualcosa che ancora non sapevo nominare. Tu restavi fermo a proteggerti da ciò che sentivi troppo. Non è stata distanza. Non davvero. È stato tempo. Un tempo che non ci ha voluti insieme, ma non ha mai smesso di metterci sulla stessa traiettoria. Ci siamo cercati nei silenzi, nei "visualizzato" senza risposta, nei voli prenotati troppo tardi e nelle parole dette a metà. E ogni volta che sembrava finita, bastava uno sguardo per ricordarci che non era una storia qualsiasi. Era la nostra. Solo... un passo fuori dal tempo. Questa è la storia di Livia e adesso è anche la vostra storia.

A short story of two mafia enemies that can never be together.

Serena Kennedy is nothing short of kind, quiet, beautiful and intelligent, and with her bestfriend giving her mixed signals? she's certainly confused aswell. then comes her brother's bestfriend, Jaxon Landry, who the girls at school are going mad over, quite literally. and Serena strongly refuses to be one of them, but Jaxon isn't one to back down without a fight. things start to get hard for Serena when the line of friendship with Jaxon starts to blur into a hazy mess, more like her mind. Serena is even more confused between her mind and heart, one says this, and the other says that. Serena finds herself caught between the comfort of the love she's always dreamt of and the feelings she never saw coming.

Meg Harrison has a plan: straight As, a top-tier college, and a one-way ticket out of the town that never believed in her. She doesn't do distractions. She definitely doesn't do boys. Eric McGregor used to have everything. The charm. The grades. The kind of life people don't question. Now he's barely holding it together and running out of ways to hide it. They're not supposed to matter to each other. Not when a tutoring arrangement is the only thing forcing them into the same space. Just a few sessions. Just a grade. Except he pushes. She pushes back. And somewhere between tutoring sessions and crossed lines, it stops being just school. Because the worst kind of person to fall for is the one who sees exactly who you are... and doesn't look away. He's a distraction she can't afford. She's the one thing he didn't plan for. And neither of them are ready for what comes next.

Being chosen for the Grand Ball of the Diana Invicta Military Academy in Aurisel was more than the forbidden dream of every eligible young woman in Velantria. It was more than being noticed or being chosen. It was the chance to step across a threshold from which no one ever returned unchanged. Throughout the entire month, every knock at the door from the delivery man stole the breath from the city's young women. They all waited for the same silver envelope, sealed with silver wax bearing the Academy's crest. The kind of invitation capable of rewriting the course of a life. The moment Vireya saw the letter resting in the delivery man's hands, her world tilted beneath her feet. Her pulse thundered so fiercely that she thought she might faint. She had dreamed of that moment for years-perhaps even more than she had dared to desire it. Yet nothing could have prepared her for what the Academy would demand in return. That invitation looked like a promise... perhaps it had always been a beautifully disguised sentence.

A collection of JanJingjing one-shot stories and AU about love, loss, hope, and the moments that quietly change us. Each story is complete on its own, offering a different journey-some heartwarming, some heartbreaking, but all written to leave a lasting feeling long after the final page.

🌸 Characters 🌙 Aanya A quiet and reserved young woman who hides her emotions behind a calm expression. Though she seems distant, she has a kind heart. Meeting Vihaan slowly teaches her to trust, smile, and embrace happiness again. ☀️ Vihaan A cheerful and kind-hearted young man who finds joy in the little things. His innocence, warmth, and genuine kindness brighten the lives of everyone around him, especially Aanya's. 🌅 Together One carries silence, the other carries smiles. Brought together by fate, their journey begins with friendship and slowly blossoms into something far more beautiful.

One scandal changed everything. After months of relentless rumors and public scrutiny, Choi Yeonjun is sent away to a university under the guise of "taking a break." To the world, he's the reckless member of TXT-the bad boy whose name is always attached to another headline. At Hanseong University, no one expects him to change. Especially not Serena. While everyone else judges the version of Yeonjun they've seen online, she notices the quiet moments no one talks about-the kindness he tries to hide, the loneliness behind his confidence, and the weight of a reputation he never asked to carry. The closer they become, the harder it is to ignore the truth: not every headline tells the whole story. But when the past refuses to stay buried, Serena must decide whether she's fallen for the boy behind the rumors... or the illusion he created to survive. Sometimes the person everyone warns you about is the one who needs saving the most. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. While inspired by real public figures, all events, personalities, relationships, and situations are fictional and created for entertainment purposes.

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Born into the wrong families, two girls grow up living completely different lives. Hope lives a life of luxury as the daughter of a world-famous singer, yet she struggles to sing and constantly fights for her father's approval. Bold, aggressive, and passionate about dancing, she feels like she never truly belongs in her perfect family. Meanwhile, Avery grows up in poverty with a sweet heart and a breathtaking voice that captures everyone's attention. Despite living a difficult life, music flows naturally through her soul - unaware that the talent she carries comes from the man who is actually her real father. As fate slowly pulls the two girls together, hidden secrets from the past begin to surface. A mistake made at birth threatens to change everything they know about love, family, identity, and destiny. When the truth finally comes out, who will remain with the family they've always known... and who truly belongs where? A powerful emotional drama filled with music, secrets, jealousy, heartbreak, and the unbreakable bond between parents and children.