Novelas y relatos de Serpent Symbolism

Serena, jeune femme de 23 ans, gourou prometteur du secteur technologique, a vu sa vie basculer lorsqu'elle est tombée amoureuse de Julian, un jeune tech prometteur du même secteur. Elle était prête à abandonner ses rêves dans l'espoir qu'il lui offre une vie digne d'être vécue. Julian était la meilleure chose qui soit arrivée à Serena. Il était aimant, gentil, travailleur et attentionné. Tout a basculé lorsque Serena a réalisé qu'il n'était pas celui qu'elle prétendait être. Julian utilisait Serena comme un pion pour la tromper. Serena a été dévastée d'apprendre qu'il n'était pas l'homme qu'elle pensait avoir épousé. C'était un serpent vert dans l'herbe verte, mais il était déjà trop tard. Julian avait manipulé Serena pour qu'elle vende ses parts dans le groupe de sociétés de Seju. Une société qui lui appartenait, mais qu'il dirigeait. Il utilise l'argent pour bâtir son propre empire. Lisez pour découvrir comment elle a réussi à faire tomber Julian et à restaurer son empire déchu. Serait-elle capable de réussir dans sa quête de vengeance ?

A century ago, the war between humans and beastkin nearly destroyed the world. To restore order, the five major beast clans—Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, Serpent, and Peacock—formed an alliance with humanity. Under the Treaty of Balance, every hundred years, a union between humans and beastkin must occur. The first child born of this union—a half-beast—will inherit the throne and rule over the Human-Beast Alliance. In my past life, I chose Max, the Dragon Clan's heir. Known for his unwavering devotion and noble bloodline, he seemed the perfect mate. I gave birth to the first half-beast child of the generation—a rare white dragon. Our son was named the next ruler, and Max rose to unmatched power. My half-sister, Alice, chose the Tiger Clan—seduced by beauty, blinded by arrogance. Her husband betrayed her, and she was left barren and disgraced. She envied me. Hated me. One night, she drugged me, set our home on fire, and watched as the flames devoured me and my son. But fate was not done with me. When I opened my eyes, I had returned to the day of the choosing ceremony—the moment that would decide our mates, our fates, and the future ruler of the realm. Only this time… Alice had already climbed into Max’s bed. She had been reborn too. But what she didn’t know was this: Max is not the devoted prince she remembers. He is brutal. Possessive. A beast of blood, not love. And this time, I won't make the same mistake.

Some stories begin with love. Lyra’s begins with a fall. Once, she was the heart of the Sterling Estate—an orphan girl cherished by three powerful Alphas who swore to protect her. Lyra believed in them with everything she had. Trusted them. Loved them. Until the day they chained her to a chair… called her a murderer… and destroyed her with their own hands. Betrayed by her family. Framed by a serpent in silk. Cast out and broken, Lyra was hunted to the edge of the world—where Genevieve finally revealed the truth behind every lie, every tear, every stolen glance. Then she pushed Lyra off the cliffs to die. But Lyra didn’t beg for mercy. She prayed for revenge. And the Great Mother answered. Reborn five years in the past, Lyra returns to the moment it all began—armed with memories of betrayal, cruelty, and the cold touch of death. This time, she refuses to be their victim. She will rewrite her fate, destroy the girl who stole her life, and walk away from the three men who once shattered her soul. But something is wrong. The Alphas who once condemned her now watch her with guilt. With hunger. With something dangerously close to devotion. They remember. As enemies close in, secrets unravel, and a forgotten royal bloodline awakens within her, Lyra is forced to face a truth far more dangerous than betrayal— What if the monsters who broke her… would burn the world to save her this time? Power. Revenge. Desire. Redemption. This time, Lyra doesn’t fall. This time, she rises.

I was the most spoiled little princess in the shifter world, because I had four powerful daddies. Darius is the head of the Dragon clan, and the King who rules over the entire shifter world. The other three are the heads of the Lion clan, the Serpent clan, and the Eagle clan. Everyone fears their power. My mother was their childhood sweetheart. When she was killed by rogue wolves, they found me still barely breathing inside her, and saved my life. The four of them spoiled me rotten. Whatever I looked at twice, it would be sitting in front of me by the next morning. Every girl in the shifter world envied me. Until the year I turned sixteen, when Vivian came back. She was the daughter of their first love. From that day on, my four daddies were completely different. Vivian cried to Daddy Darius and said I'd pushed her down the stairs. Without a single question, he threw me in a cell, bound my wrists in silver chains, and made me kneel on broken silver shards for seven straight days. Then she went to Daddy Orion and said I'd stolen the necklace her mother left her. So Daddy Orion melted down the only ring my mother ever left me and had it remade into a necklace for her. The last time, Vivian stabbed herself and cried that I'd tried to kill her. Daddy Rex didn't even ask. He just sentenced me to four years in the silver prison. The silver prison holds the worst criminals in the shifter world. The guards whipped me with silver every day, forced me to wash everyone's clothes, and some weeks I went days without a bite of food. Today, when my door got kicked open again, I was huddled in the corner shaking. I hadn't eaten in two days. Then I heard the Moon Goddess's gentle voice. “Child, do you want to leave here and go back to your mother?”

Shantali Mae Cross, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Ancient Arts, encounters an impossible phenomenon during her night shift—smoke from the heating vents coalesces into the form of a cobra near ancient Egyptian canopic jars, showing her visions of possible futures. She sees herself accepting a promotion, arguing with a dark-haired man in a hospital, wearing a wedding dress, and standing at a graveside in autumn. Shaken by the experience, Shantali becomes obsessed with understanding what she witnessed, diving into research about serpent smoke divination practices. Her investigation reveals that others throughout history have experienced similar visions at crucial crossroads in their lives, but those who became consumed with interpreting and controlling their prophetic glimpses inevitably destroyed the very relationships and opportunities the visions had shown them. As Shantali spirals deeper into her research, she begins shutting out her boyfriend David, a fellow security guard who loves her deeply. When David witnesses the cobra phenomenon himself, he helps ground her in reality rather than obsession. Through her studies, particularly the warnings left by Dr. Amelia Thorne—a researcher who died alone after chasing similar mysteries—Shantali realizes the cobra's true message: choose love over fear, presence over obsession. The visions weren't warnings of tragedy but glimpses of a life fully lived with all its ordinary struggles and profound connections. When David proposes, Shantali chooses their real relationship over her pursuit of supernatural answers. She completes her research by writing a fictional novel about her experience, transforming obsession into art while helping future cobra witnesses understand that some mysteries are meant to guide rather than be solved. The story explores themes of choice versus destiny, the danger of sacrificing present love for future certainty, and the wisdom of embracing life's uncertainties alongside those who love us.

On my eighteenth birthday, the High King summoned the heirs of the four great clans—the Vampires, the Werewolves, the High Serpent Clan, and the Merfolk. He laid their portraits before me and said, "Choose one to be your bondmate." I did not hesitate. I pointed to Damon—the werewolf with no noble bloodline, born in a forgotten corner of the realm. The entire court erupted in disbelief. Everyone knew who I used to love. Alpha Iris—the heir of the most powerful Lycan bloodline. For seven years, I chased him with blind devotion. No matter how harshly he treated me, I never gave up. I confessed to him over and over, sometimes right in the royal court. I even performed a blood-binding ritual—slitting my wrist—to earn the right to marry him. In my previous life, I got what I wanted—I married him and we performed the mate bonding ceremony. With that union, he inherited the High King's resources and rose to become the ruler of all four clans. However, what I did not expect was that after our wedding, he turned around and marked my adoptive sister. My parents were furious and sent her away. From that day on, Iris hated me with a vengeance. He surrounded himself with women who all looked eerily like her. One by one, they came—each more vicious than the last. With his silent approval, they tore me down, piece by piece, until I was nothing more than a joke—no longer the queen I once was. The suffering pushed me into severe depression. Only suppressants keep my wolf form from spiraling out of control. Until one day, my medication was replaced with a slow-acting poison. He was the one who did it. I died alone, locked away in the cold palace, a child still growing inside me. However, fate gave me another chance. In this life, I would not make the same mistake. When the High King once again asked me to choose a partner for the marriage alliance, I chose Damon—the one no one ever noticed—without even blinking. I thought I was finally free of the past. However, the moment the engagement was announced… Alpha Iris lost his mind.

Ils l'ont jetée dans les ténèbres parce qu'elle ne valait rien à leurs yeux. Pendant dix ans, Ivy n'a pas vécu ; elle a pourri. Dans la chambre la plus sordide d'une maison close, son corps fut un territoire d'oubli, son visage une carte que personne ne voulait mémoriser. Mais dans ses yeux, une flamme a brûlé, alimentée par chaque humiliation, chaque rire méprisant. Sa laideur était sa prison, mais elle deviendrait son arme. Elle a compté les jours, les heures, les souffrances. Elle a thésaurisé chaque billet souillé comme une balle pour son futur revolver. Sa vengeance serait une œuvre d'art, et elle en serait le chef-d'œuvre. L'argent a acheté un nouveau visage. Une beauté de glace et d'acier, une arme de séduction massive. Elle n'était plus l'ombre ignorée ; elle était un fantôme taillé pour hanter un seul homme : Alexander Vance. L'homme qui possédait tout. L'homme qui l'avait possédée, sans même le savoir. Il l'a remarquée. Désirée. Possédée à nouveau, croyait-il. Il a cru offrir un bijou à sa maîtresse. Il ne savait pas qu'il serrait sur son cœur le serpent qui allait l'étrangler. Maintenant, installée dans le cœur de son empire, Ivy sourit. C'est un sourire qui cache l'écho des chaînes. Chaque mot doux est un poison. Chaque caresse, un coup de couteau. Elle le dépouille, pièce par pièce. Elle corrompt ses alliés, vend ses secrets, sape sa fortune. Elle n'est pas une amante. Elle est un cancer. Sa vengeance ne sera pas un meurtre. Ce sera une dissection. Elle veut le voir à genoux, ruiné, regardant son monde s'écrouler et comprenant, trop tard, qu'il a été détruit par l'ombre qu'il n'avait même pas daigné regarder. La chute commence !