Overlord Volume 14 Novels & Stories

She froze, breath caught, facing the storm in his delinquent brown eyes. He leaned over her, hands gripping the rail, boxing her in. The air was thick, too heavy to breathe. Her gaze locked on his unwilling, yet unable, to look away. The closer he leaned, the harder her heart pounded. She bit her lip, nerves twitching. No matter how far she ran, he always found her. “Why do you keep chasing me?” she asked, barely above a whisper. Her voice trembled, as if volume might shatter her. He didn’t answer. Silence roared between them. His cold and expressionless never left her face. “Do you like me?” she pressed, ignoring the disinterest in his eyes. She needed something. He gave a soft tut, then brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, twirling it lazily. The touch was light, but his closeness made her pulse race. “‘Like’ is a bit heavy, Tinkerbell,” he murmured, voice low and indifferent. The nickname slipped out like smoke, mocking, yet oddly tender. He leaned in, close enough for her to feel his heat. Close enough to unravel her. But his eyes stayed dark. Empty. She swallowed hard, unsure what hid behind them. “It’s strange,” he added, voice softer now. “But you’re the first woman I’ve ever aknowledged as a lady, Snow White.” — She was the good girl. Quiet. Overlooked. Her life, a shadow. No warmth. No safety. For a moment, she thought she’d found love, someone who saw her. Someone worth clinging to. But he broke her. When he left, he took her love and her self-worth. She hated herself after that. Then she started to rebuild. And that’s when Zachary Gonzalez appeared. Mysterious. Magnetic. Dangerous. Everything she shouldn’t want.

Beberapa hari setelah Kaisar Song Renzong mengumumkan Pangeran Zhao Kong menjadi Putra Mahkota, guncangan besar terjadi di Ibukota. Pangeran Zhao Kong terbunuh. Sebelum kejadian tersebut terjadi, Pangeran Zhao Kong meminta bantuan Empat Pendekar Wangi untuk membawa tiga anaknya yang masih kecil, Zhao Shing (14 tahun), dan si kembar berbeda jenis, Zhao Ming dan Zhao Rong (5 tahun) pergi meninggalkan Bianjing. Tokoh utama dalam cerita ini adalah Zhao Shing, putra pertama Pangeran Mahkota Zhao Kong. Saat berusia empat tahun Zhao Shing atau Chiu Kang (nama samaran) terjatuh dari kereta kuda yang mematahkan tulang leher dan punggungnya sangat parah, sehingga dia hampir mati. Karena harus bertindah cepat demi menyelamatkan anaknya, Pangeran Zhao Kong terpaksa menyalurkan tenaga dalamnya agar Zhao Shing bisa bertahan hidup. Untuk menyambung tulang-tulang yang terpisah, Pangeran Zhao Kong setiap bulan menyalurkan tenaga dalamnya. Namun, beberapa tahun kemudian tubuh Zhao Shing tidak lagi dapat menahan besarnya tenaga dalam di tubuhnya, sehingga usianya diperkirakan tidak akan bertahan lama lagi. Bagaimana Zhao Shing akan mengatasi masalah yang menganggu tubuhnya itu? Apakah dia akan mati, atau malah menjadi seorang pendekar besar di dunia persilatan? Dan, mampukan dia mendapatkan haknya kembali sebagai pewaris takhta Kekaisaran Song yang sah?

Raja Xuan Tao Ming adalah raja angkuh paling kejam yang menggunakan ketakutan dan desakan untuk berkuasa. Bahkan anak kecil yang berani menyebut namanya tanpa keagungan akan langsung dipenggal, tepat di hadapan banyak orang. Suatu hari, peramal pribadinya berkata bahwa akan ada anak laki-laki yang menjadi kematiannya. Untuk menghindari ramalan itu, Raja Xuan Tao Ming mengundang seluruh anak laki-laki ke istananya untuk dibantai habis-habisan. ****** Li Chen, anak yatim piatu berusia 14 Tahun yang memiliki profesi sebagai pencuri di ibu kota kerajaan Datong. Suatu hari, kakek sekaligus gurunya meminta Li Chen untuk melanjutkan perjuangannya membebaskan masyarakat kerajaan dari Penguasa Tirani, Raja Xuan Tao Ming. Dari sang kakek, Li Chen mengetahui bahwa rupanya dia masih memiliki ibu yang terkurung di dalam istana raja. Li Chen pun bermaksud ke istana untuk menyelamatkan ibunya. Bersama teman-teman baiknya, Li Chen melakukan sesuatu yang belum pernah dia bayangkan. "Saat dendam tidak bisa dibalaskan, langit akan tertunduk malu. Kematian ini akan menjadi penebusan dosanya atau penebusan dari kebaktianku, Dua musuh tidak bisa hidup di bawah atap langit yang sama. Salah satu di antara kami harus mati, Kisah ini akan menjadi bentuk dari keberanianku. Agar seluruh dunia tahu siapa aku dan apa yang telah aku lakukan." ******

My name becomes the sensational topic on the trending list thanks to my company's employees, who have cyberbullied me relentlessly. It all started when an intern named Cecily Plinkton posted a complaint on her social media feed, claiming that the seafood thermidor, a new food item that had just gotten released in the company's cafeteria, was sold for 14 dollars, which was four dollars more expensive than before. "What a scum company! Are the higher-ups that crazy over money? They're just leeching from us white-collar peeps repeatedly!" The entire Internet doesn't hesitate to curse me out. They claim that I'm a cold-blooded capitalist who's greedy enough to charge her own employees for lunch. No one cares about the fact that I've been shelling out my own money in order to upgrade the cafeteria's food choices just so I could make the employees happier. Every day, they get to eat over hundreds of dishes to their fill for free. Every week, the expensive dishes, such as lobsters and crabs, are charged at the net price. Thanks to these free benefits, the administrative department has been suffering from almost a one-million-dollar loss every year. So, I announce that the food prices in the cafeteria will be changed to reflect the current market's prices. At the same time, I've fired the head chef and the kitchen staff and left the meal preparation to another company that produces instant meals. As soon as the announcement is made, the entire company goes into a frenzy. The employees all crowd outside my office while begging me to bring back the benefits with tears streaking down their cheeks.

Clara Sterling is twenty-seven, polished, and on the move. After being wrongly blamed for a student’s breakdown at her previous school in Boston, she accepts a mid-semester teaching position at Blackwood, a prestigious private academy known for its reputation and the secrets. She hopes for a fresh start. Instead, she encounters Gabriel Vane. At nineteen, Gabriel is sharp and carries an unexpressed grief. He is the student who resists management and demands attention. After losing a year to his father’s death, he returns to Blackwood feeling incomplete but more unpredictable. When Clara steps into Room 14 on her first day and meets his intellectual challenge, something inside him stirs for the first time in a long while. What starts as a battle of wits over a poetry anthology evolves into a connection neither can put into words or control. Gabriel hacks into her private file, and instead of reporting it, Clara replies to his note. The distinction between teacher and student blurs gradually until one rainy Tuesday afternoon in a locked classroom, it vanishes completely. Yet Blackwood is keeping an eye on them. Someone has reported their interactions to the headmistress. Even worse, someone removed pages from Clara’s file before her arrival, indicating that she didn’t get the job despite her scandal in Boston. She was chosen because of it. As their relationship deepens and threats converge, both Clara and Gabriel must confront the same question: what does it cost to want something you were never meant to have? The Lesson Plan is a dark, slow-burning forbidden romance about desire, grief, and the precarious space between authority and intimacy.

Este é o nono ano em que Dante e eu comemoramos o Mês Sem Donos. O herdeiro aparente da família Corinni acredita que isso fará nosso relacionamento durar mais. Todo ano, após nosso aniversário de namoro ele está livre por um mês, e nos mantemos fora da vida um do outro. Se algum de nós encontrar alguém mais adequado, devemos desejar felicidades. Se não, voltamos ao que éramos depois de um mês. Ao meu redor, os homens da família estouram champanhe sem restrições. — A mais um ano de liberdade! Parabéns ao nosso Subchefe por reconquistar seu status de solteiro! — A aposta da família está aberta! Faça sua aposta à esquerda se acha que eles ainda vão se casar, e à direita se acha que acabou de vez! Por entre a fumaça espessa dos charutos, eu me sentei no canto de um sofá de couro, observando friamente, como se toda essa farsa não tivesse nada a ver comigo. A mão de Dante estava enrolada na cintura de Scarlett enquanto ele passava por mim, sussurrando. — Não crie ilusões. Você sempre será minha única Donna. — Sou uma pipa. Por mais longe que eu voe, a linha sempre estará na sua mão. Apertei meus dedos frios contra o suave volume da minha barriga, com o rosto vazio de expressão. Dante, desta vez na mesa de apostas da família, estou apostando no “fim”. Vou desaparecer completamente do seu mundo. Essa linha de pipa da qual você tanto se orgulha? Hoje à noite, eu mesma vou cortá-la.

TWO PINK LINES, ONE NIGHT STAND --- Beth Williams knew the rules at Knight Tower: clean, stay invisible, never look the billionaire in the eye. She broke them all at the masquerade gala. One spilled drink on CEO Adrian Knight became a $50,000 dance. One dance became one elevator. One night in a masked stranger’s arms became two pink lines six weeks later. Now Beth is fired, homeless, and pregnant with Adrian’s baby. He doesn’t remember her face from that night, but he remembers the scandal: a cleaner accused of corporate espionage. When she tells him the truth, Adrian voids his engagement to shipping heiress Valeria D’Souza and moves Beth into his penthouse that night. There are no phones. No unlocked doors. No escape. Adrian calls it “protection.” Beth calls it a gilded cage. He’s haunted by his mother’s death in childbirth and believes control keeps people alive. His heir will not grow up poor, endangered, or unloved, even if he has to become a monster to guarantee it. But Valeria brings a knife to Beth’s throat. The board demands a paternity test. And when Beth bleeds at 14 weeks, Adrian flies them to a private island with no way out. Trapped together, Beth learns Adrian kept her hairpin from that night. He never forgot her. She was his first choice in ten years, not a mistake. When premature labor, CPS, and his own trauma collide, Adrian must decide what he fears more: losing control, or losing her. Because Knights don’t lose what’s theirs. The question is whether Beth will choose to be his.

Bah voilà jme présente ! Moi, c'est Zaïna, orpheline, j'ai 15 ans, je suis Comorienne mais avant tous Musulmane. Malheureusement je ne sais pas pratiquer. J'y connais rien. On ne m'a jamais apprise. On m'a poser à mes 1 ans apparemment. Bref ma vie jvous la racontera après. Bref physiquement ? Jfais 1m60, un truck comme ça ! J'ai une couleur de peau matte. J'ai un corps normal et les formes la où il faut. J'ai les yeux marron claiiiir qui vire au marron foncé quand jsuis énervé. Les cheveux noir/marron, tous est en fonction du soleil. A l'ombre tu les verras noir et au soleil tu les verras marron. Bref ils sont long et y'a beaucoup de volume ! Mais personne sais. C'est chignon ou natte, jamais je les montre. Bref assez parler dmon physique. Jsuis une meuf genre qui parl pas, qui calcule personne mais quand il faut j'ai une grosse bouche et sa peut aller loin en deux quatre six. Dans cette orphelinat, jparle à dégun depuis le drame (A suivre...). On m'appelle même la "muette". Ok leur délire mais m'en bas les couilles je leur répond pas. J'ai un coeur en pierre, double portes blindé, double serrure et trois codes. Rien ne m'atteint à part mon passer mais personne la connait. Bref mes journées se passe comme ça: Réveille => école => boxe => chambre et je bouge plus de la journée. Ah oui oui depuis cette incident j'ai décidé de plus me laisser faire. Mes parents ? Même vu pas jparle. Ils m'ont abandonné dès ma naissance tsssss et voilà ou je suis maintenant DANS UN ORPHELINAT DE MERDE . A suivre...

"I, Alexandra Madden, reject you, Sebesian Will, as my mate." "How dare you? You can't do this to me Alexandra, we are fated pair." Alexandra turns to face her ex-best friend, who happens to be her Alpha. He is the same person who leave her and allow other bully her year's ago. "I don't care." *********** Being born as a human sucks. Getting bullied just because you are human among wolves is worse. This is what happened to Alexandra. The one who used to love and adore her now hates her and let others bully her. Simply because she is not present? This all started when she turned 14; the first person to mock her was her own best friend, and everyone else in her group took the alpha side and left her. But things change on her graduation day, when she presents as an Omega, not only Omega but a powerful White Wolf. ******* Sebestian Will hates humans; they are the ones who killed his parents when he was just 5; they took away his butterfly; and when his best friend Alexandra wasn't present, he cut all the ties to her and let the others bully her during high school. When they enter the university things change, Sebestian makes girlfriend, and he seems happy. He would never look at Alexandra, but Alexandra doesn't care because she knows their friendship ended during high school. But things change on their final graduation day, the Full Blood Moon day, when Alexandra is present infront of everyone. ************ "She is present as an pure white Omega." "She is so beautiful." "You are my mate, Alexandra." "I am your nothing, Sebestian, I am rejecting you." "You are our Princess Alexandra, please come back home." "I will fight for you, Alexandra; I will fight for us, my beautiful butterfly."

「大学を辞めたくないなら、俺の手の中に落ちてこい」 　幼い頃から私を見知っていたと言う９歳年上の男が、ある日突然そんな言葉と共に私の生活を一変させた。 ―― 　母の入院費用捻出のため、せっかく入った大学を中退するしかない、と思っていた村陰 花々里（むらかげ かがり）のもとへ、母のことをよく知っているという御神本 頼綱（みきもと よりつな）が現れて言った。 「大学を辞めたくないなら、俺の手の中に落ちてこい。助けてやる」 　なんでも彼は、母が昔勤めていた産婦人科の跡取り息子だという。 　学費の援助などの代わりに、彼が出してきた条件は――。 クスッと笑えるラブコメ（全32章） （改稿版 2020/08/14〜2021/08/19）