Shangyou Fusu
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Pampered By The Cold Panther Alpha
Sci-fi I survived ten years of a brutal, flesh-tearing apocalypse on Earth, only to wake up in a damp, alien jungle.
Before I could even catch my breath, a squad of heavily armed men ripped the glowing core out of a truck-sized mantis monster.
Then, one of them shifted into a massive, two-headed black hound and cornered me against a tree.
My energy reserves were completely dry. Facing a team of elite, beast-shifting predators, a direct fight was absolute suicide.
So, I suppressed every ounce of my S-class killing intent, huddled in the dirt, and forced my eyes to well up with terrified tears.
I expected to be interrogated or killed on the spot.
Instead, the moment they caught my scent, the ruthless killers froze in utter shock, their hostility vanishing into thin air.
"A wild female..."
They whispered the words like I was a priceless, fragile artifact.
I quickly learned the absurd truth of this universe: females were incredibly rare, powerless treasures worshipped and protected by powerful beast-men.
Without missing a beat, I clutched my head and faked a flawless case of amnesia.
I played the helpless victim, letting their terrifying, notoriously untouchable alpha leader carry me to his starship, secure my legal citizenship, and hand me the keys to a luxury villa along with a hundred million credits.
After a decade of fighting for scraps, I finally had a ticket to a perfect, pampered life.
Now, I just have to make sure these overprotective men never find out about the world-destroying power dormant inside me. Rejected While Pregnant, I Reclaimed My Power
Mafia While I was pregnant, my husband held a party downstairs for another woman's son.
Through a hidden mental link, I overheard my husband, Don Dante Rossi, tell his consigliere he was going to publicly reject me tomorrow. He planned to make his mistress, Serena, his new mate.
An act forbidden by ancient law while I carried his heir.
Later, Serena cornered me, her smile venomous. When Dante appeared, she shrieked, clawing her own arm and blaming me for the attack.
Dante didn't even look at me. He snarled a command that froze my body and stole my voice, ordering me from his sight as he cradled her.
He moved her and her son into our master suite. I was demoted to the guest room at the end of the hall.
Passing her open door, I saw him rocking her baby, humming the lullaby my own mother used to sing to me.
I heard him promise her, "Soon, my love. I'll sever the bond and give you the life you deserve."
The love I felt for him, the power I'd hidden for four years to protect his fragile ego, all turned to ice.
He thought I was a weak, powerless wife he could discard. He was about to find out that the woman he betrayed was Alessia De Luca, princess of the most powerful family on the continent.
And I was finally going home. The Untouchable Widow's Ruthless Vengeance
Billionaires I spent three years keeping the Baldwin tech empire from crumbling after my husband died. But his nephew, Haden, despised me, convinced I was just a gold-digging widow who stole his inheritance.
The breaking point came when our biggest rival stormed into my executive office. His daughter slapped a sonogram on my desk, claiming she was pregnant with Haden's baby to force a hostile corporate merger.
Instead of denying the obvious trap, Haden used the moment to completely humiliate me. He pointed down at his expensive leather shoe right in front of our worst enemies.
"Come tie it for me. Auntie."
After forcing me to kneel, he dragged me to his penthouse in a psychotic fit of jealousy, tore my silk shirt open, and violently accused me of carrying his dead uncle's bastard. Meanwhile, our rivals threatened to tank our stock and ruin the family name if I didn't approve the marriage contract in three days.
They all thought I was completely cornered. They thought my cold silence meant I was a fragile woman finally broken by their ruthless power plays. They didn't know I had already spotted the doctored pixels on their cheap, fake ultrasound.
I smiled and agreed to their three-day deadline.
They thought I was preparing a press release for a Wall Street wedding. They had no idea I was preparing a superyacht, a heavy-duty crane, and a bucket of bloody chum to feed the fake bride's real lover to the Great Whites on a live broadcast. Sweet Revenge Of The Stolen Heiress
Fantasy I was only three and a half years old, living in a damp basement and beaten daily by Enoch Pruitt with a heavy leather whip.
"Get up, you useless waste of space!"
He always told me I was a stray he had picked out of the garbage.
But during one brutal beating that nearly stopped my heart, time froze, and a glowing figure called The Chronicler appeared.
"You are not an abandoned orphan, Clare. You carry the blood of the highest gods."
He revealed that I was the stolen daughter of the ultra-wealthy Barrett family.
Then, he showed me the horrific ending of my previous life.
I had died right here on this bloody dirt floor.
My real parents and three brothers went completely insane with grief, turning into ruthless monsters who destroyed themselves and the entire world to avenge me.
Meanwhile, the Pruitt family kept torturing me, locking me in a woodshed and feeding me moldy bread.
The memory of my bones breaking and my real mother's agonizing screams crushed my chest.
Why did I have to suffer like an animal while my true family tore the world apart looking for me?
This time, I refused to die in the mud.
I accepted my divine blood, my eyes glowing gold as I summoned a bolt of purple lightning to strike my abuser.
I just needed to survive the night.
Because my real father's heavily armed convoy was already tearing up the mountain, ready to burn this hell to the ground. Married To A Five-Year Deception
Romance My husband, Jackson, was holding hands with a dead woman.
For five years, I believed my adoptive sister, Scarlett, had died in a fiery car crash. My perfect, blissful marriage was built on her ashes.
But tonight, at a charity gala, I saw her hidden in the shadows with him. She was alive, and beside them stood a little boy with my husband’s dark, curly hair. I overheard everything. My family had faked her death, destroyed evidence to save her from prison, and set her up in a beautiful new life.
My marriage wasn't love. It was a five-year "penance," a sacrifice Jackson made to keep me from asking questions while he, my parents, and my "dead" sister lived as a secret family.
My phone buzzed. A text from her, taunting me.
“You should come see all the beautiful things my family has given me.”
When Jackson found me moments later, his face a mask of fake concern, the urge to scream was a physical force inside me.
But I swallowed it down. I looked into the eyes of the man who had demolished my world, forced a smile, and pulled him into an embrace that felt colder than the grave Scarlett was supposed to be in. The White Wolf's Pregnant Mate, Marked For A Second Chance
Werewolf The Healer told me I was finally pregnant. After two years of doubt, I was carrying the heir to the Blackstone Pack. This pup was supposed to be the key to our future, solidifying my place as the Alpha's Luna.
But just as the joy set in, a Mind-Link from my best friend shattered my world. It was an image of my mate, Damien, pressing another woman against a wall, his mouth devouring hers.
When I confronted him, he dismissed it as "blowing off steam," blaming the pressure of needing an heir.
But the real blow came when I overheard his mother praising his mistress, Seraphina. She was six months pregnant with what they called a "true Blackstone heir."
While I, his fated mate, was just an "empty shell."
Fifteen years of love and loyalty, all for nothing. The business empire I built for our pack was just a tool. Our pup, the miracle I was cherishing, was worthless to them. I was just a political necessity with a weak bloodline, waiting to be replaced.
That night, at the Full Moon Celebration, I was supposed to announce my pregnancy and beg for their acceptance.
Instead, I walked onto the stage, looked Damien in the eye, and spoke the ancient words of severance.
Then, I opened a private channel to the one man who could help me burn it all to the ground.
"Kaelan," I sent. "I agree to your plan." The Tycoon's Daughter: A Bitter Inheritance
Billionaires My mother' s hand, fragile as a bird' s wing, tightened around mine.
For eighteen years, she' d sacrificed everything, her hands chapped and sore from cleaning houses, all so I could go to Northwood University.
But with her dying breath, she whispered a secret that shattered my world: "Your father… Richard Thompson."
Richard Thompson. The tech mogul whose face graced magazine covers. My father. It was impossible. A fever dream.
"He has to matter now," she rasped, revealing a promise he' d made to care for me.
The last thing she said before the flatlining monitor screamed her final moments was, "He will hate it. He will hate you. But he will do it. Make him keep his promise."
I walked out of that hospital an orphan, holding a crumpled number that was both lifeline and curse.
When the sleek black car pulled up to my crumbling apartment, I knew my life was over-and just beginning.
My new home felt like a museum, or a very expensive prison.
My half-siblings, Emily and Ben Thompson, greeted me with icy disdain.
"Stay in your lane," Ben sneered, "The one you came from."
I was a ghost in their pristine mansion, eating alone, walking on tiptoes, a cheap paperback thrown in the trash when I dared leave a trace.
Then came the university lecture, taught in French, which I couldn't understand.
My scholarship, my mother' s sacrifice, felt meaningless.
Just as panic swelled, Ben, still with closed eyes, slid his tablet onto my desk.
Real-time translation, a silent lifeline, an unexpected act of protection.
"Don' t fall behind. It' s embarrassing," he grunted.
And then Jessica, the girl I thought was a friend, outed me in the cafeteria.
"So you' re the tech mogul' s bastard daughter," she announced, her voice dripping with venom.
She mocked my mother, sneered at my attempts to belong, and shoved me, my lunch tray clattering to the floor.
I saw red.
Something inside me snapped. I lunged, my fist connecting with her nose.
Blood, screams, chaos. Expulsion loomed.
But my father didn' t come. He sent his assistant, who bought off Jessica' s family with a briefcase full of cash.
Another message: I was worthless, easily bought, and completely alone.
The bullying escalated. Vandalized lockers, spilled books, tripping hazards.
No one would sit with me. I ate lunch in a bathroom stall, enduring it all in silence.
Until one afternoon, in a deserted alley, Jessica and her friends cornered me.
"No one' s here to save you now," she gloated, "Your rich daddy doesn' t care, and your fake siblings hate you."
Just as the football players moved in, a black Audron screeched around the corner.
Ben and Emily emerged, their faces cold and menacing.
Ben punched a football player, breaking his nose.
Emily slammed Jessica' s head against a brick wall, dragging her whimpering form before me.
"You touched our sister," Emily' s voice was dangerously quiet. "She is a Thompson. Now you know the rule."
Back at the mansion, in the aftermath, Ben explained their silent contempt.
"We hate you, but you' re our problem. And we don' t let anyone else mess with our problems."
Then, in the sterile bathroom, with Emily bandaging my cuts, they revealed their mother' s tragic death, her art destroyed by Richard.
And how their own dreams had been crushed by his iron will.
My gift, the glass butterfly, had not been an offering. It had been a ghost.
My tears, long held back, finally fell.
"He' s trying to break you," I whispered to Ben in the cold, dark basement where Richard had imprisoned us.
"He wants obedient successors," Ben replied, recounting his dreams of game development, his mother' s art, all crushed by Richard' s ambition.
"I hate him," Ben confessed, his voice raw.
"Me too," I whispered back, a cold, hard rage solidifying within me.
Then, Emily' s studio, a vibrant space of creation, was a scene of methodical, vicious destruction.
Her hands, tools of her trade, wrapped in bandages, tendons severed.
"He cut her," Maria, the maid, sobbed. "She will never… sew again."
My fear burned away, replaced by a cold, clarifying rage.
"You' re the only one he can' t break," Emily said, her empty eyes burning with desperate intensity.
"You have to be our shield, Sarah. You have to be our weapon. Get strong. Get smart. You have to be the one to break him."
"Okay," I said, my voice steady and clear. "I will." Her Betrayal, His New Horizon
Romance "I need you to be understanding, Ethan." Chloe' s voice barely registered as she packed, her thumb flying across her phone screen. My girlfriend of three years, who I' d poured my heart and soul, and every penny I earned, into building her company, was leaving.
Not for a business trip, but for her ex-boyfriend, Jake. His father had just passed away, and apparently, only Chloe truly understood him. "He needs me," she' d said, as if that explained everything.
I sat on the edge of our shared bed, the words like a physical blow. Then came the kicker. "And my dad," she continued, "You know his health is fragile. He needs to see that I'm with a man who is supportive and understanding." This wasn' t just about Jake' s grief; it was a twisted test for me to prove my worth by financing her emotional affair.
My money was good enough for her father' s exorbitant medical bills, my time good enough to build her empire, but my feelings? An inconvenience to be suppressed. A cold clarity settled in my gut: it was over.
She didn't even say thank you when I handed her all the cash I had and the keys to my car-the car she demanded, along with money for Jake' s "funeral expenses." "I knew you'd understand," she' d said, just before walking out the door, leaving me in the sudden silence of the apartment I paid for, heading to comfort another man.
The second the door clicked shut, I moved. Not with anger or hurt, but with a cold, clear purpose. I packed my work, my clothes, everything I owned-leaving behind every trace of her. Then, I canceled every payment to her and her demanding father.
"It' s over, Chloe. Don' t come back to the apartment. You are on your own." I blocked her number, her social media. I felt only profound relief. For the first time in a long time, my future was mine. The Billionaire's Calculated Comeback
Billionaires The harsh fluorescent lights of the ER flickered over Sylvia' s pale face, her party dress torn, mascara smudged.
She was my vibrant, wild fiancée-to-be, now fragile and broken from a "roofie" incident.
I knelt at her gurney, proposing in that sterile room, promising to be her anchor, to always keep her safe.
My life as a simple craft brewery manager felt real with her, far from the corporate schemes of my wealthy family.
But the night before our engagement party, rushing to find her, I found her apartment door slightly ajar.
Then I heard it: "Wasn't the fake roofie stunt enough? This isn't fair to Caleb!" and her callous response, "Caleb's just too... vanilla. I have needs."
The 'roofie'-a performance. My devotion, my comfort, my entire world built on her calculated lie for "content."
The woman I loved, mocked me, played me for a fool, shamelessly indulging in an illicit party with her sleazy manager.
Every word of sincerity, every act of tenderness I gave her, was met with cold, manipulative mockery.
How could the woman I was ready to marry be so utterly fake, so greedily hollow, so ruthlessly cruel?
My world collapsed, but in the ruins, a new, chilling clarity emerged.
I pulled out my phone, scrolled past her name, and dialed a number I hadn't touched in a year.
"Dad. About that merger... I'm in."
She thought she was playing games with a vanilla brewery manager. She had no idea she was messing with Caleb Wright, the heir to Wright Oil.
The game was far from over. It had just begun. The Wife Who Walked Away
Modern For thirty years, I lovingly maintained our family home, a legacy from my parents.
Now, in my late fifties, a promise resonated: the Italy trip my husband, David, made me under wedding fireworks.
When I finally brought up that cherished dream, he scoffed, "Too old for that."
Days later, on his laptop, I saw it: five plane tickets to Rome and Florence.
For David, our son Mike, his wife Jessica, our grandson Leo.
And my sister, Emily.
Not for me.
My dream trip, his very promise, was given to everyone else—especially Emily, whom David openly admired.
This wasn't an oversight; it was a deliberate, casual cruelty.
I drove them to the airport, listening to their excited chatter.
At the curb, David publicly humiliated me over a "lost" passport, grabbing my arm.
Even after it was found, he didn't apologize.
They just rushed to the gate, leaving me alone.
No one looked back.
The humiliation burned, hotter than anything before.
My family, my entire life, simply walked away, discarding me.
Thirty years of giving, of being taken for granted, culminated in this brutal moment.
This was my reward.
I watched them disappear, then turned and walked out of the airport for good.
I drove straight to a real estate agent, listing the house—my house, inherited and solely in my name.
Then, I booked my own one-way ticket: Paris, France.
My flight was in three days, the same day they were due in Rome.
My old life was over. You might like
Tundra Survival: While Others Freeze, I'm Building a Base
Qijia Lady When the global countdown hit zero, humanity was instantly teleported into a brutal, frozen wasteland.
The system's rule was absolute: keep your campfire burning, or be permanently erased from existence.
While others arrived in thin pajamas to freeze in the sub-zero wind, I had spent my final hours on Earth preparing, bringing a full survival pack and a cordless chainsaw.
By unlocking a hidden inventory system, I endured back-breaking labor to chop down ancient pines, hoarding over a hundred units of life-saving wood.
But when I offered to trade my surplus for coal and blueprints, the public chat completely turned on me.
"You selfish monster! You're hoarding resources while people are dying!"
They cursed me as a ruthless pariah, demanding I hand over my hard-earned fuel for free to save strangers who hadn't prepared at all.
I watched the survivor count plummet from a thousand to barely three hundred in just four days, listening to the agonizing screams echoing across the ice.
I couldn't understand why they felt entitled to the results of my blood and exhaustion, expecting my compassion to warm them while I froze.
With the inhuman howls from the dark forest growing louder, any lingering sympathy in me completely died.
I calmly blocked the public channel, tossed another piece of coal into my roaring fire, and opened my private messages to build my own fortress. The Villain's Popular Apocalyptic Bride
Xing Bao Julia was anchored to the freezing concrete floor, forced to watch the man beside her get his head blown off.
The mechanical system in her head announced she had transmigrated into the apocalyptic novel Wasteland Frenzy-right at the villain's execution phase.
A tall figure in an immaculate black suit stepped through the blood. Byron Serrano, the man the original host had tormented for years, grabbed her jaw with an ice-cold leather glove.
"My dear fiancée, now, it is your turn."
His henchman pulled out a rusted skinning knife, aiming the serrated edge directly at Julia's right eye.
The system blared a fatal crisis warning. She was going to be brutally tortured, skinned, and murdered to pay for the sadistic games of the body's previous owner. The agonizing phantom pain and the suffocating stench of rotting meat paralyzed her.
She screamed internally, cursing the chains and the unfairness of it all. Why did she have to die for a vicious persona she never chose?
Just as the blade touched her skin, the system triggered a time rewind.
Julia gasped, waking up in a luxurious bed exactly three months before the apocalypse outbreak.
The system immediately ordered her to take a bloody whip and punish the heavily injured Byron downstairs to maintain the plot.
Julia coldly refused.
Instead, she sold her fifty-million-dollar inheritance for five million in immediate cash, bought an underground doomsday bunker, and secretly bandaged the bleeding villain's wounds in the dead of night.
This time, she would survive her own way. Claimed By The Savage Alien Alpha
Mischa Taube Cora crash-landed her escape pod on a brutal alien planet, only to be immediately hunted by a massive six-eyed beast.
A colossal black wolf dropped from the canopy and crushed the beast's neck to save her. But before she could even breathe, the wolf transformed into a towering, naked primitive man with glowing gold eyes.
He hauled her back to his savage tribe, where she was instantly treated like garbage. The women sneered at her fragile human body, and the men eyed her like fresh meat.
The tribe leader's jealous daughter even handed her a waterskin laced with a terrifying alien breeding drug, hoping to turn Cora into a mindless spectacle of lust in front of the entire settlement.
"Drink. You look like you're dying," the daughter sneered, waiting for Cora to lose her mind.
Cora was terrified and completely out of her depth. She didn't understand why this lethal Alpha warrior looked at her with such dark, consuming possessiveness, or why he was willing to slaughter his own people just to protect her.
How was a stranded human supposed to survive in a terrifying world where every plant, beast, and local wanted her dead?
"BEEP! Critical Warning! Liquid contains high concentrations of alien aphrodisiac herbs," her implanted AI assistant suddenly echoed in her skull.
Looking at the hostile tribe and the fiercely protective Alpha shielding her, Cora silently activated her tech interface. She wasn't just going to be a helpless pet in this savage world. 949: The Score That Blew Up My Family
Juline Walden My mother, Karen, stood by my hospital bed, her face cold as my heart monitor slowed. I was dying from organ failure, a sudden, rapid illness, while my older sister, Brittany, thrived as a popular influencer, celebrated for achievements that were, in truth, always mine.
This wasn't just sickness. It was the "Exchange System"-a chilling secret weapon my own parents had wielded. They' d systematically pilfered my successes, my health, even my Stanford-bound SAT scores, to fuel Brittany's fabricated "genius." My entire life was a lie, a resource to be drained for her benefit.
My father, Rick, a silent accomplice, watched as I withered away. Every talent, every ounce of robust health, funneled into Brittany. As the final heart monitor beep flatlined, darkness consumed me, the bitter truth of their monstrous deceit searing my soul.
How could my own family turn me into a mere resource, stealing my very life until I perished, all to elevate another's hollow existence? The injustice suffocated me. Was I truly just a battery for my "genius" sister, erased from history by those who should have loved me?
Then, light. I gasped, bolting upright in my own bed. It was a month before the SATs-the turning point where my life last pivoted to its tragic end. The memories of my death, of Karen' s icy words, were vivid. This time, I would not be their victim. I knew their system. And this time, I would break its rules. The Galaxii Series Omnibus 1
Christina Engela Just think about it.
As frontiers go, this is probably the most final of them all, not because it may be the last
frontier, but because as long as we try to cross it and explore it, we take it with us. No
matter how far we go, the frontier will always be just that much ahead of us, tantalizing our
curiosities. Thus, we can never really cross it in so far as just push it back a little.
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect,
not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier – as wide as it
is deep. Stars shine coldly in the unimaginable blackness. Out of the darkness, a tiny speck
caught the distant light of stars – a tiny gray speck that, as it moved, seemed to grow
larger, catching the light just so until it revealed itself to be a ship.
Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling
his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and
some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he
lazily …
Wait-a-minute! His Twisted Game, Her Rebirth
Luo Chengfeng The fluorescent hum of the deserted office was my constant companion, a symphony to my late-night grind as an architect, building dreams one blueprint at a time.
Then, out of nowhere, text shimmered in the air, a chilling heads-up display only I could see: "[Target acquired: The Architect. She' s working late again. Perfect.]"
My blood ran cold as more lines appeared, taunting me with plans for a "Chivalry Challenge" at a $5,700 prize.
It finally clicked-Mark Johnson, that slimy social media influencer who' d turn women' s fear into profit, had found me.
He came, smooth as ever, with a drugged coffee, mocking me while I fought through a fogged mind, my desperate calls for help swallowed by his practiced lies to the security guard.
My brothers came back for me, their faces illuminated by flashing lights, my last-ditch effort to crash his car paying off just as I succumbed to the drug.
But the nightmare wasn' t over; Mark walked free, his lawyer spinning tales of my "manic episodes," leaving my brother Chris to face assault charges for defending me.
The injustice burned, fueling a rage that cleared the haze: he wouldn't win, not if I could help it.
"This isn't over," I declared, my voice steady, eyes fixed on my brothers, ready to dismantle his empire.
Then Michael sent me the link-Mark' s new video, painting me as the aggressor, a "crazy" woman.
Scrolling through the venomous comments, one caught my eye: "DesignDiva88," my colleague Lisa Chen, claiming she' d told him to "back off."
She was complicit, a willing accessory, and with that, I knew exactly how to begin. Love's Betrayal, A Mother's Vow
Xiao Youzi Ava stepped off the jet, eager to finally hug her daughter, Lily, after eighteen months away on a critical mission.
A familiar face, her handler, handed her a tablet, saying, "Welcome home, Ava. Everything is ready for your debriefing tomorrow. Tonight is yours."
Her eyes immediately landed on a headline: "Tech Prodigy Lily Thorne Exposed as Fraud, Groundbreaking AI Code Auctioned Off by Estranged Husband Mark Vance."
And then the photo. Lily, bound to a chair on a brightly lit stage, her face pale, a mixture of shock and utter devastation.
Her estranged son-in-law, Mark Vance, stood beside a woman Ava didn' t recognize-his new fiancée, Chloe.
He was sneering into the camera, declaring Lily would be finished, blacklisted, her future one of "menial jobs and constant public humiliation."
The tablet shattered in Ava' s hand, cracks spiderwebbing across the screen.
Her blood ran cold. The rage was a physical force, shimmering in the air around her.
How could he do this? How could a man she once trusted betray her daughter so completely, so publicly?
This wasn't just a betrayal; it was an execution.
"The mission isn' t over," Ava declared, her voice unnaturally calm, her gaze fixed on something far beyond the horrified handler. "It just began." The Butcher's Heart, A Boy's Hope
Qing Cheng The acrid smell of disinfectant and old wax assaulted my seventy-year-old nose.
One moment, I was Butcher Betty, cleaver in hand, surrounded by the familiar scent of my shop.
The next, I was a stranger in a sterile, enormous kitchen, wearing a stiff uniform, feather duster in my hand.
Then, a cold, mechanical voice boomed directly inside my head: "Transmigration successful. Welcome, Host 734."
My new identity: Betty, the cruel and sycophantic housekeeper of the Anderson family, tasked with following a novel' s plot.
My first directive: lock eight-year-old Liam, the biological son, in the dark, damp basement without dinner to solidify my loyalty to the adopted son, Kevin.
I looked at the small, terrified boy cowering in the corner, his eyes wide with a wariness that shouldn' t be in a child.
This wasn' t a character. This was a scared, hungry kid.
The system blared warnings, demanding I adhere to the script, that I become the villain.
But I was a butcher. I fed people. I didn't starve them.
"The plot can go to hell," I muttered, grabbing a saucepan. "This boy is getting a hot meal." 
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