Completed & Bingeable

I'd read *The Ten Days of Dying* (十日终焉) on Tomato Novel (番茄小说), a Chinese time-loop story—brilliant opening, but the quality dropped in the second half and I lost interest. So when I noticed another time-loop story sitting high on Royal Road's rankings, my first reaction was resistance. Not this again. Also, my English isn't great—I'd need translation software to get through it. Then one evening, fresh out of the shower and lying in bed with some time to kill, I talked myself into reading the first chapter—toggling between the original and a translation. It wasn't bad. Just one more chapter before sleep. Then one more. Two all-nighters and a lot of stolen minutes later, I'd finished the whole thing. Zorian is a selfish, talented teenager trapped in a month-long loop. Every cycle begins with his little sister Kirielle bursting in to wake him up—at first it's funny, even a little annoying. By the later arcs, that same "good morning" makes you want to cry. That single detail is the entire novel in miniature: the same events gaining completely different emotional weight through repetition. By the end of Book One, when Zorian is being hunted by the red-robed figure, my palms were actually sweating—it's not common for a web novel to make you physically tense for the protagonist's safety. The magic system is DnD-rigorous enough that you can reason alongside him, and unraveling the world-scale conspiracy is genuinely addictive. But the most important thing: the back half doesn't collapse. Not "barely holds together"—it stays great all the way to the finish line. The final chapters pay off every single thread from 800K words of setup. For someone burned by *The Ten Days of Dying*'s decline, discovering that a time-loop story can be excellent from start to finish was the biggest surprise of all.

I got into Worm through its fan fiction—after making dozens of cover images for Worm fanfics, tweaking them over and over, I figured I had no excuse not to read the original. (Don't ask me why I was making covers for novels I hadn't even read.) A single web novel spawning dozens of fan works is practically unheard of in English web fiction. Reading the original meant losing sleep. Real sleep loss—not the "just one more chapter" kind, but the "look up and it's dawn" kind. Taylor Hebert goes from a bullied high schooler shoved into a locker to an existence that makes gods despair—and every step costs something. Her power is controlling bugs, which sounds laughably weak, but Wildbow spent 1.68 million words proving that the power doesn't matter. What matters is how desperate, how ruthless, and how willing its user is to bear the consequences. This isn't a happy ending. The further you read, the heavier it gets—a feeling that reminded me of *Attack on Titan*: you watch someone you've been rooting for walk somewhere you can no longer follow, but you understand why they had to go there. This book may ruin other superhero stories for you. Here, doing the right thing often demands a terrible price. Honestly, I've always wanted to see Worm adapted into an animated series. ByteDance just released Seedance 2.0, and unlike previous half-baked prototypes, this one feels like it could be an iPhone moment for film production. The cost of making things is collapsing—superhero battles that used to need tens or hundreds of millions of dollars may soon cost a fraction of that. Worm and its dozens of fan works form a massive universe tailor-made for this new era. It may not be long before we see an AI-driven Worm series.

A satisfying ending that stuck the landing. Rare in web fiction.

Ryan 'Quicksave' Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters.

The heavily edited version of the story will slowly be published through Kindle and Kindle Unlimited (there will be Audiobooks too). Due to exclusivity for the infinite money glitch that is Kindle Unlimited, the heavily edited section of the story will be exclusive to Amazon but a small cut of each sale goes to Royalroad.

King Joffrey Baratheon dies to the Strangler on his wedding day. In his final moments, he falls into endless agony as his vision melts into purple waves. He wakes up back at his apartments in the Red Keep, three days after the death of Jon Arryn. This is the story of how he became a scholar, a sea-captain, a general, a lover—through a cycle of endless death and rebirth.