Soul of Searing Steel - Chapter 855 - The Night Vanishes into the Morning of Endings

[Warning: r18+/strong mature content]Amidst the clash of desire and betrayal, who will dare to sacrifice everything for the sake of love?With the ability to foresee the future, Tarah could propel kings to unprecedented heights of success or plunge them into the depths of irreversible failure. But when her kingdom fell, Tarah was forced to offer herself into servitude to her captor in exchange for her brother’s life, becoming a spy in a dangerous game against Ezekiel, the future Dragon King of Ebodia.Haunted by a prophecy of his doom by a woman’s hand, Prince Ezekiel has meticulously avoided female company throughout his life. However, everything changed when he met Tarah, the new fated Seer of Ebodia. Initially only caring about ruling the world, Ezekiel now finds himself strongly enamored by Tarah, at the risk of losing sight of his own goals.Caught between safeguarding her brother's life and the growing affection for the domineering ruler, Tarah faces a dilemma. Will she navigate this dangerous path, risking everything for her heart's desires?*********Excerpt:“You can't escape me. There's nowhere in this world where you can hide from my reach,” Ezekiel whispered, his breath warm against her neck.Her throat tightened as his lips grazed her skin.With a firm yet gentle grip on her chin, he tilted her head, urging her to meet his intense gaze, causing her heart to pound in her chest.“I'm here to make you remember every detail of the agony you've caused me,” he declared.“Agony?!” she protested.“Yes, your cruel betrayal. Leaving me, breaking your promise...”

The true daughter of the Everett Family, who wandered in the countryside for eighteen years, Lynn has returned. Everyone says she is a rural bumpkin with no talent or virtue, and crude beyond compare.However, she accidentally drops her aliases one by one—The Phantom Hand, top hacker, genius designer, Alliance Hierarch of The Netherworld Syndicate, and others—causing their faces to be slapped resoundingly.She is further spoiled by her wealthy parents and five influential brothers, and also cradled by Imperia's “The Living Reaper,” a man feared by everyone, who holds her in his arms and pampers her.“My little friend is timid, so don't frighten her,” he warns.Everyone: “...”

Xiao Yi, an orphan raised by a disrespectful old man, possessed mysterious ancient martial arts and a unique skill in traditional Chinese medicine. At the age of twenty, he suddenly received the most baffling mission from the old man: to attend the renowned first-tier university, University Z, as a student, initiating his spectacular modern urban life. In the city, he began to write his own eternal legend...

A weary historian dies and finds himself in a different world awakened in a life as the notorious young Duke of a southern state. His nation is weakened, his army underfed, and his neighbors revolve around his lands menacingly. No one believes his land is going to hold out until winter.But this newfound duke is no naive simpleton his enemies recollect. He carries with him the experience of centuries of war and empire, of starting and ending monarchies. From Caesar to Napoleon, from the Mongols to world wars, he has learned from each of them—and his strategy is to make history his very own arms.He organizes his smashed levies into well-trained formations, rebuilds his castles, and turns his villages into supply centers. Where others see defeat, he senses opportunity. As he triumphs, rumors spread: of a pennant red as winter snow that shall not go to ground, of a bloody duke who writes his name in gore and flame.Is he a savior who's constructing a new empire, or a tyrant who's going to bring the world to endless war?