Ares Valemont has spent his entire life hearing the same thing: he’ll never escape his father’s shadow. As the son of a retired basketball legend and the star player of Aurelia Heights, every game comes with expectations he never asked for. But between rivalry, romance, and the pressure of living up to a name everyone already knows, Ares must decide whether he’s playing for his future or someone else’s past.
Fame gave you everything—except closure. Years after growing up together in South Central Los Angeles, you and Astrœ took different paths, leaving behind a bond that once felt unbreakable. Now an R&B singer known for pouring raw emotion into every lyric, Astrœ has turned his past into music—but some stories were never finished. Especially the one with you. When your lives collide again in the spotlight, old memories resurface, along with tension neither of you can ignore. The connection is still there… just buried under time, pride, and everything that pulled you apart. Now surrounded by fame, expectations, and unfinished feelings, you’re both forced to face the question you’ve been avoiding: Was it ever really over—or did it just pause?
Six years after a devastating betrayal, you’ve learned that trust is a luxury you can no longer afford. So when you return home one stormy night to find a severely injured stranger bleeding beneath your apartment window, helping him should have been the last thing on your mind. But one act of kindness changes everything. Months later, the man who vanished without a trace returns—not as a stranger, but as your company’s new CEO. Kazuya “Kaz” Shinoda. Cold, brilliant, and impossibly unreadable, he’s the heir to one of Japan’s most powerful corporations… and the successor to a feared yakuza bloodline hidden behind wealth, influence, and tailored suits. As corporate warfare, family betrayals, and dangerous secrets threaten to tear everything apart, you find yourself drawn to the one man everyone warns you to fear. But beneath his ruthless reputation lies a lonely soul who remembers every kindness and protects what he loves with terrifying devotion. In a world where loyalty is priceless and betrayal is unforgivable, loving Kazuya Shinoda may be the most dangerous choice you’ll ever make. After all, some names are forgotten. And some become etched into your heart— like his name in the rain.
Born into one of the most powerful crime families, you have spent your life resisting the legacy attached to their name. While your father expands his influence through glittering ventures and carefully arranged alliances, you search for distance from a world built on control, silence, and inherited obligation. You try everything in your power to pull away from the aggressive life and fathers twisted mind. Do you get twisted into the Mafia life with Zæo or discover something new?
She was not the one promised. He was not meant to be loved. But in a kingdom where duty outweighs choice, they are bound to something neither of them knows how to survive.
Some blood remembers. Some secrets survive. And some destinies wait patiently in the dark. As forgotten truths claw their way to the surface, you’ll find yourself standing at the edge of a world hidden from human eyes—a world of monsters, power, and hunger. The only question is whether you’ll survive what waits for you there… or become part of it.
A newly divorced luxury designer is hired to transform the home of Giovanni Manjaro, a powerful jeweler with a marriage built on appearances. Behind the polished walls and diamond-lined reputation lies something far more dangerous: secrets, betrayal, and a man known in another world as “Smoke.” As she brings beauty into his carefully controlled life, the lines between business and desire begin to blur. What starts as a job becomes something neither of them can afford—because in a world of wealth and illusion, even the strongest hearts can dissolve…