Dao Equaling the Heavens - Chapter 10 - 5 Officials and People

Born with the fate of a slaughterer, but all he wanted to do was help.

CONTENT WARNING:/This novel contains mature themes, explicit sexual content, strong language, and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised./---She ran from the devil who raised her…And married the one who wore a crown.After her parents’ tragic death, Lydia Andreyevna’s life became a nightmare. Stripped of her name, inheritance, and freedom by her uncle—Lord Alexander—she was treated like property and promised to a Count four times her age.Desperate to escape, she fled into the cold night… and straight into blood.A stranger. Wounded. Beautiful. Terrifying.She should’ve left him.But she didn’t.She touched him once—and fate branded her forever.Her uncle caught her the next morning. Her escape failed. But when she begged Queen Olga for protection, the Queen offered her a deadly bargain:Marry the masked Grand Duke of Zolotaria.The king’s hunting dog. The butcher of the East. The devil in a crown.The man feared by kings.The heir to the throne.The same man she once saved.Ivan Romanov.They say he bathes in blood. That he kills without blinking. That he conquered kingdoms with a smile behind a mask. That no one sees his face—and lives.Some call him the devil. Others call him Death’s favorite son.But behind the mask is the same man she found dying in the dark.The same voice that haunted her dreams.The same hands she once held.Now, he’s her husband.Her jailer.Her obsession.She doesn’t know if she’s his prisoner, or his weakness.Cold and untouchable, Ivan doesn’t share his bed. Doesn’t share his secrets. But she sees it—the hunger in his eyes. The pain in his silence. The way he looks at her like she’s the only thing keeping his demons at bay.She should fear him.She should hate him.But the moment she dares to take off his mask… it’s already too late.Because Ivan wants her—her fire, her body, her heart.And in his world, what he wants, he keeps.Even if it means burning down the kingdom.She thought she was running from hell.She ended up in his bed.And the most dangerous thing of all?She doesn’t want to leave.

[Warning! +18 Content Below!]Williams Everett had it all—Oxford PhD, six-figure salary, respect from everyone who knew him. Yet the successful orphan-turned-businessman felt nothing but soul-crushing boredom from his predictable corporate life.His only escape? Novels.After leaving a scathing review on a trashy erotic academy novel, he wakes up inside it as William Cross, a no-name extra with a catastrophic problem.[You are Cursed][Catastrophic Allure: All heroines and villainesses will develop obsessive yandere tendencies toward you]The catch? Sleep with them, gain overpowered abilities. Refuse? Well, they might just kill anyone who gets too close to you, or worse.Now this apathetic man must survive Celestial Heights Academy—where only the world's elite gather and weakness means death—while being hunted by dangerously possessive women who can't decide if they want to keep him or eliminate all competition.In an academy that only accepts the best, can a lethargic extra with no talent survive the heroines and villainesses?Or can they survive him?----If you are looking a novel that is highly based on smut then this novel is not for you!The novel main mostly one MC character development with some smut scenes in-between.

After his wife suddenly rose to fame on a variety show and asked for a divorce, Chen Yu left with his daughter with nothing but the clothes on their backs.At the moment he received the divorce certificate,“Congratulations, Host, for unlocking the Divorce Achievement and activating the Perfect Counterattack Life System.”Chen Yu made his way from catering to entertainment, medicine, and the financial industry before venturing into the field of technology.When his ex-wife Fang Yuan came to see their daughter, intending to mock Chen Yu, she was stunned by the scene before her!All those entertainment industry big shots she had tried so hard to cozy up to were now revolving around Chen Yu.Regretful, Fang Yuan wanted to reconcile with Chen Yu, but then she discovered their daughter's teacher Tong Ya...