MTL - Xiling Empire - Chapter 1413 Fortress & City

He took her as payment.He never expected to fall for her fire.When Mira Valente’s brother vanishes with cartel money, the mafia comes knocking—and she’s the price.Cold, ruthless, and untouchably powerful, Jace Romano doesn’t need a wife. But Mira? She’s defiant, sharp-tongued, and everything he wasn’t prepared for.Forced into a marriage she never wanted, Mira enters a world ruled by silence, blood, and shadows. Jace may own her freedom, but not her soul. She refuses to break, even as the lines between hate and desire begin to blur.But when secrets surface, betrayals cut deep, and war brews on all sides, Mira and Jace must choose: destroy each other—or fight to survive something neither of them ever saw coming.A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers mafia romance filled with power, passion, and the kind of love that could ruin them both… or make them unstoppable.

“Screw magic, I want to learn how to do cool flips and stuff.”

Magic is awesome, until you've studied it for centuries.

Doevm reincarnates into a human to experience the path of a fighter to its fullest and swears not to rely on magic.

There is only one problem, a goddess stands in his way.

She pits him against both the hero and the villain for all of eternity.

How will he escape this, with magic or his fists? Maybe both?

One minute, Ember was reading a trashy R-18 novel. The next, she woke up inside it- not as the villain but as cannon fodder. Her brother is one of the male leads in the heroine's harem.Doomsday is only a few weeks away. Her only salvation is the Lust Paradise System. To build a base so strong that it can withstand the disaster of the outside world.The only catch is that everything is powered by sexual energy.To build a new world, Ember must gather followers. Following their primal instincts, they use lust to make a utopia.And her brother?He's been waiting for a long time.--------DISCLAIMER:Reader Discretion AdvisedThis is a work of fiction. All names, places and characters are products of the author's imagination.Contents include:Mild ViolenceNudity (Partial and Full)