From love, marriage, heartbreak, pain, to divorce- Mu Chuqing has been through it all in a few years with Sheng Yuchen. After not seeing each other for years, she imagines that they would be like strangers. But why is that man looking at her with anger even when holding his fiancée in his arms? Why can’t they be like strangers? ... more>>

Will he forever humiliate and torture her? Why can’t Sheng Yuchen let her go? Just what kind of cruel man is her ex-husband?

…

Ever since that night three years ago, Sheng Yuchen has not slept peacefully. Every time she cries, her tears fall like acid on his heart. His blood boils when he sees her smiling at other men the way she used to smile at him, and the beast in him might as well destroy everything around.

He can’t let her go. He won’t let her go. Even if his heart gets charred with her tears.

…

This isn’t a love-at-first-sight story!

“Boss! Miss Mu is back!”

“Got it.” The man responds indifferently.

“Boss, someone gave Miss Mu a bouquet of roses!”

“Adulterer! Humph!” The man finally raises his head, narrows his eyes, and snorts.

“Boss, Miss. Mu and that man watched a movie today, had a candlelight dinner, and…”

“And what…”

“They kissed!”

The man’s eyes spits fire, and he can’t sit still anymore. He suddenly stands up from the sofa.

“B-Boss, bad news. Miss. Mu and that man are going to get married in the Netherlands!”

The man slams the table. “Which plane? Shoot it down!”

“Yes!”

“Wait!” The man suddenly stops him.

“Boss, do you have any other instructions?”

“Blast the male adulterer. If she loses even a hair on her, I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle what comes next!”

“…” <<less

Summoned the Diablo 2 high-level druid and transmigrated to become the principal of an ordinary community school in the Marvel universe.... more>>

Alvin stared into Director George's eyes and said in a cold voice: "I'm going to dig out the scum who use my students to do bad things out of their nests.
I'm going to pull out their hearts and see and make them pay a price they'll never forget. I want them to know! Here is my school! This is my place!" <<less

The war that raged between the Church and the Witches for five centuries finally ended in peace but a few short years ago. However, nestled in the shadowy places of the world, the embers of that age old conflict still smolder.... more>>

Attending the Royal Academy of Magic of the Kingdom of Wenias is a struggling student named Sable, who has no memories of his time before being enrolled. At the command of Headmaster Albus, he left the Kingdom to travel to the southern reaches of the continent, where anti-magic insurgents are still a force to be reckoned with, as part of a special training regimen. Accompanying him are a party of individuals strong in both ability and personality; there's the one known as the Witch of the Dawn, Roux Cristasse, who seeks the forbidden knowledge of primeval magic in the 'Grimoire of Zero,' the genius girl Holtz, as well as the school's sole beast, Kudd.

Just what truth shall they uncover in their journey to the south...? <<less

Welcome to the world of 《Trans s*xual Online》.... more>>

This is a virtual space (Virtual reality area).

You can live how you wish here.

However, there is one condition.

Your gender is reversed in this world.

Men as women.

Women as men.

Haven’t you ever wished you could

become a different gender from the one you are right now?

That becomes true in this world.

The time flows differently in the world of《Trans s*xual Online》 than in the real world.

One day in the real world is equal to 1 year in this one. (tln: not quite accel world)

For those current generation people whose lives are so busy they cannot enjoy a normal VRMMO this virtual space (Virtual reality area) was created――.

That is this 《Trans s*xual Online》.

In this world you can live without rules (laws) however you wish.

You can spend your time managing a ranch.

Thoroughly study cooking.

Dive into the dungeons looking for treasures, knocking down monsters with your companions.

Smith weapons and train to become the fiercest warrior.

The tale only depends on the number of players.

The degree of freedom on this VRMMO is virtually limitless. (tln: pun intended)

Now then, please enjoy 《Trans s*xual Online》 to your heart’s content.

2114.5 (Probably May 2114)

From everyone at the Development Management Department for《Trans s*xual Online》 <<less

"Can you be useful to me?"... more>>

"I... I can be..."

The first time they met, she knelt trembling before him, begging for shelter. The s*ave caught his interest, and he brought her back to his palace.

She could've never imagined that in one night she'd go from a spoiled little s*ave princess of a defeated kingdom, to becoming a powerful prince's pet.

He kept her by his side... spoiled her, cared for her, loved her, and gave her meticulous care and high status. Whatever she wished... she could do so under his name.

But, she angered him and chose to run away. He captured her within a day.

"Don't forget, my little dearest, everything I have given you can be taken back..."

In a spur of anger, she hit him, her feeble hands striking against the flesh of his cheek. Gnashing her teeth in anger, she said, "Do you have the ability to take my child back?!" <<less

Hariyama-san, Center of the World is a series of connected short stories by Narita Ryohgo, the author of Durarara!! and Baccano!. They’re basically strange or... more>> supernatural events that are seemingly unrelated, except that every one of them involves the title character, Shinkichi Hariyama, as a minor character in some capacity. The last story in each volume ties all the previous stories together. It doesn’t take place in the Naritaverse (consisting of Durarara!!, Baccano!, Vamp!, and Etsusa Bridge) <<less

In order to go back home, Su Wei is forced to bind with an unscrupulous system.... more>>

And the only task of the system is to eliminate the blackening value of the male supporting characters.

But who can tell her why the blackening value of these male supporting characters keeps increasing after they sleep with her willingly?

System: “Maybe it’s because you’re not using the correct sleeping position? I heard men like to be on top, why don’t you try it?”

Su Wei: “Get lost!”

BEEP BEEP BEEP – Warning! Blackening value of the male supporting character has exceeded the limit!

“…” Su Wei, with tears in her eyes, throws herself at the handsome man who is about to turn into a big villain, touches his sexy abs, twists her waist, and lets out a delicate moan, “Ah, it smells so good!”

The man smirks, pinches her waist fiercely, and speaks in a low and hoarse voice, “Huh, a woman who says one thing but means another.”

Su Wei: “Do you believe that it’s the system forcing me?”

System: Meow meow meow? Sorry, the signal is not good. This system will retreat for now!

One-sentence synopsis: The male supporting character blackens at the drop of a hat.

Contains a wife-chasing crematorium, also known as “The Male Supporting Character is Sick” and “The Forced Business of the Female Lead”

Couple: The sarcastic and optimistic female lead X various male supporting characters who blacken and turn into villains

Male lead: A heartless black-hearted dog who doesn’t do his job.

Female lead: A fallen girl who is targeted by the black-hearted dog.

System: Writing system named “tr*sh Chicken” with lots of kinky ideas, the king of plot twists.

A sweet petting story!!! The entire story is completed.

The order of the following worlds can be adjusted~

First World: Blackened School Grass x Childhood Sweetheart ✓ Completed

Second World: Disabled Crown Prince x Fated Princess ✓ Completed

Third World: Zombie Boss x White Moonlight Missy ✓ Completed

Fourth World: Imperial General x Mermaid Little Wife √ Completed

Fifth World: Immortal Cultivator x Crossdressing Little Rebel √ Completed

Sixth World: Omega Little Wife x Abstinence-type Crown Prince √ Completed. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

It's boring if you only read love stories, right?... more>>

Try this novel. But don’t read it alone! Make sure there’s someone with you since you might start feeling strange. Or you might just hallucinate about things that shouldn’t be. This novel is not for those with a weak spirit but for those who want to work their mind and strengthen their heart. The more you read, the more you will think and faster your heart will beat. Don’t believe me? Try it… <<less

A 45-year-old salary man dies in a train accident and is reincarnated as a newly born baby in a different world. For some reason, he... more>> has special skills: “Gift of Natural Talent” and “Identify.” In order to make the best of this advantage, the protagonist resolves himself for his second life. <<less

First Outer World Story:... more>>

[I’m going to have you quit being a human being.]

“Haaaaahhhhhhhh!?”

And then I ended up becoming a Demon King from a human being to build a labyrinth. <<less

Yan Yi Ming transmigrated into the hottest otome game at present. She became a female cannon fodder destined to be ruthlessly abandoned by the male protagonists; a stepping stone on the white moonlight female protagonist’s path to success.... more>>

The system informed her that only by replacing the female protagonist and becoming the white moonlight of the male protagonists then could she successfully escape and return to her world. After years of painstaking efforts, utilizing all kinds of strategies, and adopting various identities did she finally succeed in conquering the four male protagonists. She recovered her true body and eagerly awaited to go home but found that she was unable to go back.

A weak reminder from System:

Please read the user manual carefully: –

1. Become a white moonlight, and

2. To extricate oneself and make a successful retreat from the male protagonists.

Yan Yi Ming looked at the second condition and suddenly found herself in a pickle. <<less

“If you love me, you must change for me!”... more>>

With just one sentence from Ye Linghan, Ji Ran went from an Alpha to an Omega. Ji Ran endured adverse reactions after changing his physique and endured Ye Linghan’s repeated injuries. After Ye Linghan divorced him, heartbroken Ji Ran turned and left. As wished, Ye Linghan realized his mistakes and wanted to remarry Ji Ran. <<less

In the winter of three years ago, the first locked room mu*der in Japanese history was committed.... more>>

All of the evidence pointed to the defendant. It was certain they were guilty. And yet, they were found innocent and released. Why? Because the crime scene was a perfect locked room no one from the police or the prosecutor's office could solve.

"Since the room was locked, it was impossible for the defendant to have committed the mu*der. It's no different than if they had a perfect alibi." That was the argument of the defense, and that was the argument the judge sided with.

The ruling sent a ripple throughout Japanese society. No matter how suspicious you were or how much evidence you left behind, as long as you managed to create a locked room that no one could solve, you were immune from prosecution. With the common anti-mystery fiction talking point "there's no reason anyone would ever actually commit a locked room mu*der" completely overturned, the rate of locked room mu*ders in Japan skyrocketed.

When the police proved unable to deal with the surge of locked room crime, the Ministry of Justice published an official categorization of all known locked room tricks as an investigative aid. When that proved insufficient, Division Zero of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a police division dedicated solely to solving locked rooms, was created. When that still proved insufficient, locked room detectives, private investigators specializing in locked rooms, were officially licensed by the state and authorized to participate in police investigations. Calling a locked room appraiser, someone specializing in searching buildings for secret passages, is now a common first step in criminal investigations.

On the other side of the spectrum, locked room agents, assassins and crime planners specializing in locked room mu*ders, have become some of the most notorious criminals in Japanese history, and even a cult worshiping the scenes of locked rooms as a way to purify the souls of the deceased has made rapid inroads into Japan.

The protagonist, Kasumi Kuzushiro, is an introverted, somewhat cynical high school student who loves mysteries. Kasumi often finds himself dragged along on bizarre journeys by his flighty childhood friend, Yozuki Asahina. Due to their staggeringly bad luck, these trips often leave them in the wrong place at the wrong time to be caught up in locked room mysteries. Fortunately, another of Kasumi's childhood friends, Shitsuri Mitsumura, is the greatest locked room expert in the world, and can always discover the truth.

Hm? How did a high school girl become the greatest locked room expert in the world?

It's simple.

She's...

Volume 1 was the grand prize winner of the 2022 This Mystery Is Amazing! awards. <<less

Fourth Outer World Story:... more>>

In that world, there are people, gods, and monsters that take their vengeance on each other. This is a story that unfolds in one of the many city-states in such a world, beginning with a contract between a human boy and a God. <<less

To pay back her debt, Tang Tian was forced to sell herself to a ghost matchmaker, who wed her to a dead person. She never believed in ghosts and thought it would just be easy money.... more>>

Since then, however, she obtained an unusual mobile phone that broadcasts an eerie radio station announcement every night at midnight.

Little by little, one horrific ghost story after another came true.

Who will help her? <<less

This story is about a strange woman who is looking for her lover in her past life but she always finds the wrong one.
1v1

Ever since he traveled to this world, Shen Qianling has been troubled by three things the most. The first is too many fans, the second is too many fans, and the third is too many fans.... more>>

Qin Shaoyu: “Another group of people came from down the mountain and said they wanted to learn how to make rainfall from you”. Shen Qianling was shocked, “when did I master this skill?” <<less

This is a detective story filled with all kinds of people—from those with abnormal behavior to the mentally unstable—with numerous absurd cases with handsome men and beautiful women interwoven in them.... more>>

A series of missing children, corpses down the drain, a mu*derer who died and was revived, an obsessive serial bomber who targets public buses, the bloody words on the walls belonging to a family all mu*dered……. <<less

Imagine having the opportunity to be able to enter different worlds created by numerous novels and stories. Which kind of role would you like to play?... more>>

Do you want to be the illustrious protagonist, either good or evil, or just be a supporting role standing behind the protagonists?

Our villainess boss, Ming Shu, would choose none of the above. Claiming missions from the Harmony System and driven by her endless passion for snacks, the world traveler, Ming Shu, embarks on the path to make the mission target hate her as much as possible by gaining Hatred Points. But it turns out she is not alone on her journey… <<less

Luo Qiu became the boss of a ‘club’ by chance. ... more>>

It was a weird club that sold strange items and with a servant girl that had 300 years of working experience. Countless people with dreams, hopes and ambitions came to the club to exchange anything precious they own for what they want. They would offer their lifespan, items, and even their soul. Every successful trade would increase Luo Qiu’s lifespan by a little.

“Tribute successful, your lifespan has increased by 99 years.”

As thus, Luo Qiu began his endless life as the club’s boss. <<less

A former detective chases after his missing daughter, but what he uncovers in the darkness is…... more>>

Third “Konomys” (このミステリーがすごい!) Grand Prize recipient

A story of descent into lunacy over a single girl.

The 17-year old Kanako has disappeared, leaving behind a trace of drug use in her room. Akihiro Fujishima, a former detective and her father, is in pursuit of her whereabouts. Three years earlier, Naoto, who was tormented by his classmates, fell in love with Kanako, who saved him…

The story of the present and the past intersect, and the outline of Kanako gradually emerges from the blurry darkness. Yet the more one delves into her disappearance, the more unintelligible she becomes. What manner of shocking ending awaits at the end of the tunnel? The recipient of the grand prize of the 3rd “This Mystery is Amazing!”, this work overwhelmed every member of the selection committee. A lurid work of dark emotion that will enrapture the hearts of all who read it. <<less

A man, burnt out from excessive overwork, returns to his hometown to get away from it all. He soon grows bored and decides to visit a beach he used to play at as a child.... more>>

There he stumbles upon a man on the sand wearing strange clothes who speaks of even stranger things: he is at the beach to see the upcoming meteor shower, even though it is supposed to occur almost a week later.

But he finds a strange comfort in watching the sky at the mysterious man’s side and decides to return the next day to ‘wait for the stars’ with him.

This is just the beginning of a series of interconnected tales that span across time and space, and share a feeling of quiet peacefulness, like what you feel when gazing up into the starlit night sky. While reading these you may begin to feel there is more out there–and more inside yourself–than you ever imagined. <<less

“Sanctuary” was the first holographic online game of the Blue Star system.... more>>

Qiao Nan unified the devil race, pacified the human world, and almost killed the gods when the “Sacred Realm” was deleted.

Qiao Nan, who should have been ejected from the game, was trapped in the game, experiencing one censored internal test after another.

During this period, Qiao Nan changed countless camps, magic, elves, sea, human, and even the divine realm, relying on the deletion of the file, but also recklessly increasing the goodwill of the NPCs and races.

Then on a day when Qiao Nan was quietly unaware, “Sanctuary” was publicly tested.

Thinking the file had been again, Qiao Nan once again chose the Demon camp.

The man who was appointed by him as the Archduke of the Demon Clan knelt down on one knee and kissed his hand.

Welcome back, my king

Qiao Nan: ????

However, the situation was still much more than that, and when he went to the other races, he found that things seemed to be a bit big. The high priest of the elves, the prince of the sea race who had been imprisoned for a hundred years, the great hero of the human race a hundred years ago, and the god of light …… who was forced to sleep in the divine realm all cast a respectful yet frenzied gaze at him.

Qiao Nan: Wait, what’s going on?!

The worlds seemed to have…… fused. <<less

Can jianghu wanderers ever refrain from messing around?... more>>

The turbulence of the world fostered us, whose existence upon joining jianghu going by as quick as a blink.*

"In this world where war erupts throughout, jianghu is a cycle of vengeance and retribution. You either persist, or you perish."

Many years ago, a young Chu Xiwei who recently joined the sect was chilled to the bone by those words he happened to have heard.

Seeing that his young disciple was scared quite enough, Ye Fusheng leisurely sipped his tea, "What I just said is pure nonsense."

Every young chivalrous individuals joining jianghu would happen upon one martial art scroll or another. Ye Fusheng was so often tricked by this preconception in his younger years that when he got older, he decided to hoard other people's scrolls.

But jianghu didn't work as simply as that.

It was a society of using one's might to carve one's path, of competing for artifacts and debating one's skills.

Legends would never fade with the withering time, just as hatred would not disappear in a peaceful age.

As the golden time passed, all splendor would be reduced to dust. With it, Glimpse of Grace** was sealed away from the world.

Notes:
* From an unnamed poem, by an unknown poet (rumored to be authored by Li Bai).
** The sword name is 惊鸿掠影, which in context of the story can also be separated into its short title: 惊鸿 – Jing Hong, and the name of an organization 掠影 – Lue Ying. <<less