1 drop of blood = 1-Up... more>>

Other people game overnight, I game overnight and bleed.

Ever since the dimensional storms descended upon Earth, numerous dimensional zones have appeared, bringing with them all kinds of dimensional creatures—Immortals, Buddhas, Devils, Angels, Elves, etc.

Yet, all these strange dimensional zones can turn into dungeon instances on my phone. Other people risk their lives adventuring, I spend all my time gaming.

Monsters drop dimensional crystals that boost stats, imbue new skills, and join me as Companion Beasts. These Companion Beasts fight alongside me or alone, augmenting me with their skills and strength. Rare monsters in real life? I’ll just restart the game with a drop of blood to grind it.

I really need a blood transfusion. <<less

Life Mission – a game that has become a reality.... more>>

What started out as a virtual reality game, after being suspended out of the blue, has turned into a reality. The perks are amazing and real – where points can be used to buy precious metals and cures for terminal illnesses. But so are the consequences. Death in this new reality game… is just as real.

Our MC was one of the best players in the virtual reality game. But will he be able to become the best in this new version?

Who will die and who will survive?

Resident Evil-esque later in the story <<less

A world where God will grant abilities called Skills to those who come of age. The protagonist, bestowed with two skills, uses them and rises... more>> to an existence called a hero. <<less

On the day his father, the head of the Ma family, died and the mansion was engulfed in flames, Ma Jae-seung lost his memory.... more>>

In the midst of not remembering anything, the only person left by his side was Shin-woo, the suspect of the incident.

Ma Jae-seung’s rut came suddenly when he was suffering from endless anxiety and loneliness and was unable to make friends due to his title as the successor to a leading group.

And so, when he opened his eyes, Jae-seung was not alone.

*

“Let’s do it one more time.”

He disliked it, yet liked it. It was his first experience. <<less

Her husband had a woman. From the moment she found out the secret, her perfect family fell apart. ... more>>

In spite of this, she turned a blind eye to it and in return, Rivianna lost her child.

She wanted to die, but a cruel fate brought her back to life.

And so life began again. Rivianna decided not to get divorced again this time.

Instead, she made up her mind. She would sell her husband.

"Do you know that there are a surprising number of people who want you to disappear."

"What?"

“So I sold you.”

She sold her husband to the person who gave her the highest price out of all the people who hated her husband.

"Aren’t you curious? Who really bought you?" <<less

A challenging plot that pushes your mind to it's limits. Cases that have never been revealed to the public. Cruel, pe*verted, horrifying, exciting, real, and shocking!... more>>

The first book of the series: "The Corpse". Uncover the shocking truth behind the case!

Nine bags with corpses inside were thrown from a highway. Inside the cut open bladder, there were traces of small, ice-shaped shards. In those 2,000 cars zooming by, who is the culprit?

​The female body that was tied up in a garbage dump had been completely covered in wax. How will they go about finding her true cause of death?

Halfway through a phone call, there were sounds of a struggle. Did the phantom lurking on the campus really swallow those girls?

Medical Examiner Doctor Qin personally takes up the scalpel, diving into the cases. Reaching a whole new level of shock and suspense!

The barren mountain corpse, mu*der at the gates, campus forbidden ground, road of spirits, floating on top of the water, flying through the skies… every case will keep you on your toes, unable to sleep! <<less

Retrovision: An ability to delve into the past of others, which is triggered when he harbors animosity towards them.... more>>

"What were you thinking before you saw 'that'?"

"Something bad. I wanted to kill the culprit."

"...why?"

"They had something I didn't have, and yet they weren't satisfied with it. They killed the people they should've loved."

Must justice always stem from good intentions?

No, he will protect the innocent through inferiority and anger. <<less

(Taken from the author’s own summary)... more>>

Liu An’an, who had been away from her hometown in the county, returned anew, at the news of the demolition of her old house. She left the train station and called a cab to go home. Everything seemed normal. However, what happened next completely exceeded her imagination.

The female cab driver suddenly locked the car doors and said, “I want to die together with you.”

Faced with the sudden threat to her life, Liu An’an had no choice but to put everything she had into it. Who was this unknown woman? Why was she doing this? And what happened in Liu An’an’s past?

In the fierce downpour, where would the fate of these two lead them to?

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This is a baihe RPG-styled story originally posted on a forum. I sorted it out and posted it here.

A short story of just 150K Chinese characters. Genres are suspense and mystery, and it has two endings. Its old title is “Xiao Liu”. <<less

As a child, Kyoichi Utsume was spirited away, but somehow he returned to our world. Now in high school, he's a loner famous for his... more>> all-black outfits, his arrogant attitude, and his extensive knowledge of the occult. Then one day, he meets her, and things between the two worlds are never the same. <<less

Kim Mu-ryeong is the youngest member of a famous exorcist family.
He grew up receiving love from his entire family and was considered a genius.
The kind that appears once every hundred years.... more>>

“Mu-ryeong, let me make a request.”

After enrolling in high school, Mu-ryeong began to do simple exorcism work.

The apartment’s elevator is acting weird.
Someone is having constant nightmares.
Even things like getting rid of a stalker or acting as a boyfriend.

It was more of a problem-solver job than exorcism,
But Mu-ryeong, being someone who helped anybody,
There was nothing he couldn’t accept.

But even for Mu-ryeong, there was one person he avoided…

“Ki Hwan-young?”

Tall and handsome with a mysterious, intimidating aura,
And known for being impolite and having no friends.

One day, Ki Hwan-young came to see Mu-ryeong.

“My shoulders feel heavy lately.” <<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

In her previous life, she had trusted the wrong person with her heart. She had thrown everything away for that man, dooming her entire family to the point where even their bones had become ash in the wind. In this life, she caught his fancy. Upon starting her life over, she joined hands with her Jiangshi* husband; punching white boned demons, fighting fox spirits…... more>>

In the midst of this chaotic world, she joins him in pursuit of a common goal…

*A Jiangshi is the Chinese Hopping Zombie which drinks blood instead of eating brains likes western zombies. So we didn’t use zombie because it would give the wrong image… or use Vampire which technically covers all blood-drinking creatures because it isn’t that either. <<less

In this world, There are Confucians, Daoists, Buddhists, Demons, and Arcanists.... more>>

Xu Qi'an, a police academy graduate, suddenly finds himself waking up in a prison, set to be exiled to the frontier three days later...

His initial goal was to protect himself in this world with no human rights and to be able to live a leisurely life as a rich man.

...

Many years later, Xu Qi’an looks back on the past, with long-dead enemies and friends, as well as the numerous bones he has left behind.

As the Yangtze River flows eastward, the waves wash away the heroes; right and wrong, success or failure will all turn into nothing but history.

However, just like the sun’s rays gleaming over the towering mountains, after each sunset, a new sun will rise. <<less

A novelization of the game, Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, with some slight difference.... more>>

The story follows Junpei who was abducted and placed aboard an empty, sinking cruise liner along with eight other people. The cruise liner resembles the RMS Titanic, a ship which killed over 1500 in the early 20th century. The nine people were forced to participate in the "Nonary Game", a deadly game which involves numerical bracelets, small bombs in each player's stomach that will detonate and kill them if they disobey, exploring the ship and solving escape-the-room puzzles in order to survive and escape before they drown in 9 hours. The players also attempt to find out why they were kidnapped. <<less

She’s cold.... more>>

Expressionless.

Scary.

An ice.

They said no one’s on par with her. They said she’s notorious and vicious. Nobody can withstand her coldness. But they don’t really know her well to say those things.

She’s actually strong. She cares for her comrades. She has a sense of justice. She’ll do anything to protect her loved ones.

She might be nobody for the others.

But she’s somebody to us.

For she, is our Ice Goddess. <<less

In the Heavens or on Earth, only I shall be immortal! In the vast Divine Lands, at the western border, upon the recommendation of his... more>> best friend, he began walking on a path he had never thought possible. The Cloudlink Sect, as the ‘Final Path’ of the 7 main sects of the Divine Lands, on their sacred disciple acceptance ceremony that happens once every 5 years, took in a single 5th generation disciple who had a beggar-like bearing. With the gates of cultivation opened wide for him, will this bright and mischievous child be able to mature into a powerful Immortal that rules the world? <<less

Alpheril, the serf singer of Grand Duke Heron.
Her excessive beauty becomes a poison and strangles her thin throat.
Her unwanted talent weighed down her limbs like a sharp trap.... more>>

She thought that all her life, she would be chained to the Grand Duke’s fingertips and live like a puppet.

Unexpectedly, after his death, freedom comes to her.

A man appears before her in the secluded mansion.

Terenzio Heron, known as the unfortunate genius, the Duke's illegitimate child, and a pianist.

"Sit down. Since you're the one I finished the piece for, it seems only fitting that you should be the first to hear it."

"Sure. Have… have we... met before?"

Is it merely kindness born from simple loneliness?

Their relationship, initially driven by simple loneliness, deepens and lengthens with strange whims,
Shakes Alpheril's once quiet life like a violent storm.

***

"Everything you need to remember remains because I remember it all."
"What do I need to remember?"
"Me."

As Alpheril stared intently, Terenzio smiled faintly.

“I remember you, Alpheril.”

She couldn't really understand it.
Even if she were to eternally capture only his smile in her eyes, she couldn't seem to grasp the meaning behind it. <<less

Yamato, whose only has outdoor hobbies was suddenly surrounded by a strong, blinding light while climbing, then was mysteriously transferred to a world with two moons.... more>>

While puzzled, Yamato made “surviving” his most important task, and happened to encounter and help a girl being attacked by beasts.

After going with her to her village, the villagers gave a meal and a night’s lodging to him, her benefactor, despite the extreme food shortage they were suffering.

As thanks, Yamato decided to make use of his modern knowledge and the survival skills he cultivated in the outdoors, in order to save the village.

Thanks to his “repayment” the village will develop to high specs, improving their weapons, opening fields for cultivation, and receiving the guidance of cultivation and hunting. <<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

One day he suddenly found himself in hell.
All he had was the desire to live and a predation ability.
From the first to the ninth thousand circles of hell, he absorbed dozens, hundreds of thousands of demons.
Even the seven great dukes of hell bowed down before him.... more>>

– Why would you wish to go back? Doesn't his highness have everything that’s in Hell?
– What do I have?

Nothing to eat, nothing to enjoy!
The only things in Hell are the barren lands and terrible demons!

“I'm going back.”

After ten thousand years he returns to Earth. <<less

It all started after he picked up a black eye mask in the school’s sports field.... more>>

Within a campus completely enshrouded in thick fog, one’s appearance was hard to discern.

On top of the classroom podium lay a piece of sharpened chalk. Upon the blackboard, a message was scrawled in white.

“May all students enter the classroom with your admission ticket ten minutes before the exam starts. The exam instructors will inform you of the rules. Please follow them and refrain from cheating. The exam will start at midnight sharp. Those not at the testing site at that time are considered to have abstained.”

Geng Cong: “If one egg tart and one bag of dried blueberries are dropped at the same time on the tenth floor, which will hit the ground first?”

Jiang Shi’s jaw dropped.

Geng Cong: “Should we calculate air resistance?”

Jiang Shi: “Nope. If I eat both of them, they won’t have a chance to hit the ground.” <<less

Eerie prayers were heard, and each name was distinct.
“Lord of the Ashes”
“Colorless City”
“Mist of the White Shore”
“Spirit of the Ancient”
” Dream of the Void”
“Ruler of the Chaos”... more>>

After Shen Yi transmigrated to a new world, mysterious groups seemed to be wanting to Summon him nonstop. The church, wizards, investigators, saints...

Every summoning group had something they desired. And at the same time, they offered various sacrifices.

Shen Yi was overwhelmed with annoyance, but there was nothing he could do to put a stop to it.

Eventually, he was successfully summoned by cultists.

And the first problem Shen Yi had to face was... A sacrificial little girl, who had slumped on the altar! <<less

In the era of the Republic of China... more>>

He Yunqin, the second son of the owner of Shanghai Tang Yarn Industry, met Yu Hongdou, a female student at St. John's, while he was looking into an unsolved case. He Yunqin found, guarded, and then abducted his wife before they were wed. He Yunqin adored, cherished, and loved his wife after their marriage. <<less

At the age of three, he spoke three languages, at the age of four, he memorized the Vreio family’s aura technique.... more>>

He invented the magic formula when he was five, but… no matter how good his brain is, his body was born with the curse of not being able to learn mana.

“Ordinary humans have no qualifications to be part of the Vreio Family.”

After he died like that, he didn’t expect to be reborn.

His new family was a small noble family. He is now named Lewis, son of Hebron Baron.

“Nothing is limiting me now.” <<less

I try to live my new life with the experience of a ‘sword master’ from my previous life!