The protagonist, a female university student, time slip back to Edo near the end of the Bakumatsu era and encounters Takasugi Shinsaku and Kusaka Genzui,... more>> members of the Choshu clan, by coincidence. Her days with them are lively and pleasant. The circumstances around Japan, on the other hand, are growing increasingly aggressive. She begins to look for something she can do after being inspired by Takasugi and others who are deeply concerned about the country. What is the answer she comes up with after struggling and worrying in the era of the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which is vastly different from the present day? <<less

This bizarre story is about a girl, who transmigrated to olden days using her bracelet with the identity of an assassin. But this assassination will... more>> not be repeated again. <<less

This novella by author Bi Yu is set against the backdrop of China's War of Resistance against Japan. It focuses on the battle of wits and bravery between the intelligence agents of the Kuomingtang and the Chinese Communist Party. It has heroics, assassinations, war, love, vengeance, and more.... more>>

The Rebel holds human life in esteem, showing compassion for the uncertain fate of people deemed insignificant. It contains a chance encounter with love and love's regrets, and the choice and persistence to keep faith. <<less

In a fragrant abode, a woman accidentally inhaled her ancestor's ashes, causing an ancient ancestral hall to collapse with a single sneeze.... more>>

Having barely crawled out, she found herself surrounded by a husband and a group of distinguished guests, all demanding peculiar and exotic fragrances from her.

Powders to change hearts, to foster love, to correct errors, to show gratitude—she had an assortment of them, but what she truly possessed was an urn of ashes.

Neglected as a daughter, still uncherished as a wife, her life had been harsh. Yet, overnight, her fortunes turned, transforming her from mud to a cloud of prosperity, all thanks to that urn of fragrant powder.

Gaining her freedom with decisive actions, she prioritized her career. But as she did, a predestined love fell into her lap, leaving her dazed. This enigmatic man, was he bad or simply foolish? <<less

A collection of riddles. Please exercise your brain.

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

"Kenzo, a skilled assassin in ancient Japan, falls in love with Princess Akemi, forbidden by her tyrannical father, the king. Their secret love blossoms,... more>> but they are separated when the king's soldiers capture Akemi. Kenzo embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her, and after overcoming numerous challenges, they are reunited. Together, they escape the king's grasp, vowing to forge their own destiny filled with love and freedom." <<less

A series of three historical fantasy novels written by Toriumi Jinzo, based on Tezuka Osamu's "Dororo" manga series.

Set in the Qing Dynasty, the story follows the fate of the precious sabers as a highly skilled Imperial bodyguard named Zhuo Tianxiong attempts to transport them to the Forbidden City under the protection of a security escort agency. When various parties attempt to hijack the shipment, the blades end up in the unlikely hands of two couples: Lin Yulong and Ren Feiya and Yuan Guannan and Xiao Zhonghui. As they are pursued by Zhuo Tianxiong, the senior couple of Lin and Ren are injured and then forced to teach the younger couple of Yuan and Xiao the "Couple's Saber Method" so that they can make use of the Mandarin Duck Blades and escape Zhuo... more>> Tianxiong.

The story then shifts to Zhuo Tianxiong's pursuit of Yuan Guannan and Xiao Zhonghui. When the latter's family are drawn into the fight and a tragic tale is unfolded that involves her father, Xiao Banhe, and his wife Madam Yuan. With the fight for the blades reaching its peak, the characters are forced to face harsh truths and the secret to the precious sabers is finally revealed. <<less

This is a two-part movie novelization, written by Nakamura Masaru, the screenwriter of the movie Dororo (2007).