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After being kicked out of her home, Sophia planned to raise pigs to survive. She found an old pig trough, a container used to feed pigs, and brought it home. But after using it, her pigs grew thinner for no reason. One day, she noticed the trough could swallow anything she threw in and then spit out treasures like gold, jade, and ancient items. She soon discovered the trough was connected to the past, to a powerful war general named General Yves who nearly conquered the Western Land before dying young. His kingdom collapsed, but through the trough, things from his world kept reaching hers.

"The notorious Butcher Zhang died!" words soon spread across the town, sparking both excitement and grief. Just on the night before the burial, an odd scratching sound comes out of the coffin. But no one knows that inside Butcher Zhang's body lives a transmigrator's soul.

--- Curtains & Cages is a slow-burn LGBTQ+ romance wrapped in psychological drama and fame’s unforgiving glare. Elián Voss, a beautiful but emotionally repressed actor trapped under his stepmother’s control, delivers a haunting audition that goes viral overnight. As the world begins to see him, a mysterious media mogul watches from the shadows, drawn to Elián’s pain and talent. Their lives collide in a web of fake dating, buried trauma, and dangerous obsession—where love might be the only thing real. --- MAIN CHARACTERS ELIÁN VALE - Role: Protagonist, dancer, truth-seeker - Traits: Observant, emotionally guarded, fiercely loyal - Arc: Begins as a performer haunted by Ava’s disappearance. Transforms into the architect of a rebellion against the Archivist’s surveillance empire. - Key Relationships: Son of Marisol, stepson of Celeste, nephew of Mateo, stepbrother to Julien CASSIAN RHYS - Role: Director, Ava’s ex, co-conspirator - Traits: Charismatic, guilt-ridden, obsessive - Arc: Once the golden boy of the company, Cassian is unraveling under the weight of his past decisions. His journey is one of reckoning and redemption. AVA VALE - Role: Elián's biological sister, missing dancer, catalyst of the story - Traits: Vulnerable, defiant, enigmatic - Arc: Though absent, Ava’s presence drives the entire narrative. Her journal, footage, and final performance reveal a dancer who refused to be commodified. THE ANTAGONIST. The Archivist - Role: Mysterious, masked figure; curator of surveillance - Traits: Calculated, theatrical, omnipresent - Arc: Turns art into control. Archives pain, edits reality, scripts finales for others. ALLIES & TRUTH-SEEKERS ISLA VALE - Role: Ava’s and Elián's step- sister, whistleblower - Traits: Sharp, strategic, emotionally armored - Arc: Brings Ava’s hidden truth to light. Key to understanding the contracts, the surveillance, and the real finale. --- MARISOL VALE - Role: Elián, Isla, Ava’s biological mother,vanished dancer - Traits: Fierce, intuitive, protective - Arc: Former dancer who tried to expose the surveillance system. Disappeared after a fire at the old theater. --- UNCLE MATEO - Role: Elián’s estranged uncle, former stagehand - Traits: Quiet, resourceful, loyal - Arc: Took Elián in after Marisol vanished. Estranged after Elián joined the company. May have helped Marisol build the resistance. --- THE INSTITUTION VIVIENNE MARCEAU - Role: Celeste’s sister, Juliene's mother - Traits: Polished, calculating, emotionally distant - Arc: Married Elián’s father after Marisol’s disappearance. Pushed Elián toward the spotlight, not the truth. --- JULIEN MARCEAU - Role: Elián’s stepbrother ( vivienne's son) - Traits: Charming, ambitious, morally gray - Arc: Grew up in the theater world but became a producer. Resented Elián’s talent. May have leaked the footage to control the narrative. --- CELESTE MARCEAU - Role: Studio head, former mentor - Traits: Elegant, secretive, morally compromised - Arc: Once a guiding force, now revealed to be complicit in the surveillance. Her motives remain unclear — protection or power? --- THE BOARD (UNNAMED) - Role: Shadowy figures funding the Archivist’s network - Traits:Powerful, untouchable,invisible (for now) - Arc: Appear in Marisol’s journal as key players in the cover-up. --- MINOR & REFERENCED CHARACTERS LUCA - Role: Dancer who impersonated Ava in the “One Night Only” performance - Traits: Fragile, manipulated, theatrical - Arc: Delivered the chilling line: “You made me.” Possibly coerced by the Archivist. --- .M. - Role: Alias used in a comment on Elián’s viral video - Traits: Cryptic, protective - Arc: Likely Uncle Mateo, signaling he’s watching and ready to help. ____

All credit goes to Exterminatus from Royal Road

What would you do if you were told to kill? Actually, you don't get a choice.

Marin Ashveil has always been bound by silence—her voice cruelly taken to conceal a power she never chose: the empathic blood of the “Grey-Eyed Wolf.” When Imperial heir Elias Bloodmoor’s forces massacre her village and drag Marin into the heart of a conspiracy, she must decide whether to hide her gift or wield it to save an empire teetering on the brink of madness. Stripped of words but not of will, Marin channels her empathy to calm berserk Alphas, thwart assassination plots, and expose those who would harvest her blood for power. As court intrigues and war-lord sieges entwine, she and Elias forge a fragile alliance, advancing through ruined cathedrals, hidden catacombs, and storm-tossed battlefields. With every act of mercy, Marin risks her life—and the silent promise that drove her from a cage to a crown. Now Regent of Empathy in the newly formed Tricameral Council, Marin embarks on an “Empath Pilgrimage,” lighting saint-ash beacons from village to frontier to heal fractures old and new. But when dark magic and embittered war-lords threaten to shatter the hard-won peace, Marin must choose: surrender her gift to preserve her life… or unleash a wave of compassion powerful enough to remake the world.

Amongst a time of blood and enslavement, one girl struggles not to lose herself to the bloodshed.

The story begins with a young woman who has completed school. Having been hurt by love in the past, she now wants to focus on her life. However, she becomes very close to a gentleman where she works. They did not expect this to occur, but they fell deeply in love. He becomes the only individual she can trust. Her family, however, is poor. Her mother wishes that they were rich, and so she always tells her daughter to marry someone rich. One day, the rich man happens to catch sight of her. He is drawn to her at once, but she does not like him. He is quite persistent and has a controlling nature. He discovers her address and begins sending her parents large sums of money and luxurious items. Her mother loves the money and pushes her daughter even harder to marry him. The girl is stuck. She wants to be with her boyfriend, but the pressure from her parents is too much. When she takes her parents to meet him, her mother says no right away since he does not have enough money. Her boyfriend tries speaking with her mother and promises that he will be able to provide for her. The mother makes it seem like she agrees, but when the girl goes home, both parents inform her that she must break up with him. Then, the rich man proposes a marriage contract to the mother. The contract says that money will flow to the family forever if the woman weds him. Her mother promptly signs. Now, the girl must make a difficult choice: marry a man she does not love to save her family from poverty, or struggle for her own happiness and possibly lose everything, including the love of her family.

David, a quiet and unassuming young man from Katni, moves to Jabalpur for a job at a courier company. In search of accommodation, he meets Ana, who agrees to rent him her apartment. A friendship slowly begins between them. When David’s mother learns he has settled down, she visits him and insists he consider marrying Eva, the daughter of her friend. Though David objects, out of respect for his mother’s delicate emotional state, he agrees to meet Eva—but devises a plan to sabotage the proposal by appearing in dishevelled clothing and behaving frivolously. Eva is amused, but David’s mother is humiliated. The proposal is rejected, and she returns home in anger. David and Ana’s relationship gradually deepens. He learns about her troubled past: a missing mother and an alcoholic father. Just as a bond begins to take shape between them, David is transferred to Bargi, a rural town outside Jabalpur. Concerned by the change, Ana promises to visit him, reassuring both David and his mother. David moves, and in time, adapts to the slower pace of village life. In Bargi, David befriends an elderly woman affectionately called Old Mother. Known for her kindness, she quickly grows fond of David and invites him into her life. He also meets Sheila, her reclusive housekeeper, a woman weighed down by sorrow and silence. As David becomes part of their world, he learns that Old Mother’s son, Peter, lives in London and hasn’t visited in three years. Over time, David uncovers Sheila’s past and her reasons for living in isolation. One rainy day, Ana visits David in Bargi. Caught in the worsening weather, he takes her to Old Mother’s home for shelter. There, Ana is stunned to find that Sheila is her long-lost mother. A painful confrontation ensues. Ana accuses Sheila of abandonment, while Sheila explains she fled due to Ana’s abusive father. Old Mother urges Sheila to return to Jabalpur, but she refuses, fearing her past. Tensions escalate, and in the aftermath of a bitter argument, Sheila quietly passes away in the night. Ana is devastated by her mother’s death and blames herself. Old Mother consoles her and travels with her to Jabalpur to share the news with her father. Meanwhile, David, consumed with guilt for bringing Ana to the house, isolates himself. Weeks later, he quietly visits the large house and finds Peter, now returned from London, working in the garden. Old Mother thanks David for posting the letter that brought her son back—though David never sent one. Puzzled, he realizes it was Ana who had written the letter. Old Mother gently confronts David about his absence. Suspecting unresolved feelings between him and Ana, she misinterprets his silence as indifference. To clarify matters, she calls Ana to walk with David and explain everything. David is surprised to see her, and during their walk, Ana shares that she plans to go to London and become engaged to Peter. She attributes her decision to the kindness and support she received from Old Mother after Sheila’s death. David, heartbroken and unable to express his own feelings, quietly accepts the situation. As he prepares to leave the large house, Old Mother hands him an envelope and asks him to deliver it to a family in the village. When David arrives at the house, he is surprised to see Eva, the woman he once tried to avoid marrying. Their reunion is unexpectedly warm. As they walk together afterward, they laugh about their first awkward meeting. By the time they part at the bus station, a genuine connection has begun to form—hinting that a relationship once prematurely rejected might now have a second chance.

My husband cooked for me every day, yet caused me to miscarry again and again. He prepared meals in various ways, all to test which foods were harmful to pregnant women. After getting the results, he warned his childhood sweetheart, "You must never eat these." It turned out he was only using me as a test subject. With just one sentence, I made him regret for the rest of his life.