“This is a story about a shou who commits su*cide because of an incurable illness but whose spirit refuses to leave, and so he stays beside the gong and watches the gong’s regrets.”... more>>

Note: The first 24 chapters of this version roughly corresponds to the first 10 chapters of the WN version. After that, the trajectory of the story changes. <<less

“If it means suffering, I don’t need to be loved.”... more>>

An explosive journey of the Meta Detective Tsukumojuuku’s soul threading its way on the dance floor scourged by the trumpets sounded by God/Seiryouin Ryuusui, the maestro to serial mitate mu*ders based on Genesis and Revelation to John from the Bible. <<less

A beautiful princess locked up in a western forest castle and a fire-breathing dragon.... more>>

Contrary to what was known to the public, the two were not just a simple kidnapper and a hostage.

A butler? A guard? A never-aging friend of her late mother?

Either way, he was a hundred times better than the dumb princes that woke Mikaela up in the morning.

Then one day, after being poisoned by the prince, the dragon lost consciousness.

His body was gradually getting hotter and hotter……

"If I were a human, I would have to say I must have been senile."

Unbelievably, at some point, Mikaela was no longer a young girl.

His sweet princess, raised by his own hands.

The princess, who has been pestered by princes for ten years, cried out.

One well-raised dragon, I don't envy the ten princes.

NO MORE PRINCE! <<less

“You were my enemy who always defeated me, but you were also a pretty good companion.”... more>>

“Shut up! What do you think will possibly change if you say that now after all this time?”

He, who was more like her than any other. That was why they were so fixated on only each other, why they were so madly obsessed about only each other.

The only difference between them was that one wholeheartedly wanted to have the other, while the other wholeheartedly wanted to defeat him.

This was the very reason why this catastrophe had happened despite that they were the other’s sole companion.

“This life is over. But in the next, I won’t be your enemy, but your knight.”

If there is a next life, I will offer up my sword to you.

A brightly burning flame was pathetically extinguished.

And so, Ianna Roberstein, a duchess of the Kingdom of Roanne and the strongest swordswoman on the continent, died at the hands of the Conqueror Arhad Roygen, the emperor of the Bahamut Empire.

‘But why am I alive?’ <<less

Wanted: Contract Wife... more>>

Requirements:

Age between 25-30 years old, physically healthy and neat appearance. IQ above 130. Have a permanent job.

Agreement:

Provided with contract money and a standard annual wage of a university graduate. Clothing and housekeeping are provided. After the contract is completed, special benefits such as studying abroad will be provided.

Attention:

Not a lifetime contract. The maximum contract period is three years. The contract will be renewed every year. No physical contact or any complaints are allowed.

Please attach your CV, medical certificate, and IQ test certificate. Interviews will be conducted after passing the document selection.

***

The world seemed to have gone crazy when I saw the advertis**ent for a ‘contract wife’ in the newspaper that day. I thought it was too much. However, it was a disaster to say that the woman chosen by the main character of the ridiculous newspaper advertis**ent was my own 20-year-old sister, who has an age difference of more than 13 years with that man. What a freak!

After taking the trouble to keep my sister away and save her, the man said to me with a flat face. ‘No pheasants, only chicken.’

Chicken? Who’s a chicken? Now he’s offering me to be his contract wife! <<less

The series follows Shen Shengyi as he changes from a ruthless professional killer to a chivalrous xia. In this story, old grudges surface and Shen... more>> Shengyi’s friend hires him for one last hit. But the target is someone Shen Shengyi knows intimately… <<less

'N-No. I don't think this is it...'... more>>

When the time came for her to experience her first time, Daon was in complete shock.
This was because her boyfriend's thing was incredibly small.
All the romantic fantasies she had dreamed of came shattering down in no time.

After breaking up, she only wallowed in her despair for a brief moment.
Her older brother's friend, whom she had known since she was young, began to catch her eye.

"......!"

She could see an outline of something long and thick on his right thigh.
It looks like her ideal preference remains intact.
Ba-dump. Ba-dump. Daon's heart began to beat faster.

Love bloomed out of trivial things, but it also cracked due to trivial matters.

"What does the fact that the bastard has a small thing have to do with you kissing me?"
"You're big, Oppa!"
"How could you possibly know that?"
"I saw it!"

...Damn it.

"You should have hidden it better, Oppa..."

Daon continued to sneak glances at him with a carefree expression.
Whenever their eyes met, she'd start giggling. He could hardly believe this was happening.

"Sleep with me just once."

...This was ridiculous. Seriously.

"I won't beat around the bush. If you sleep with me just once, I think I can continue living on those memories alone." <<less

A tale of solitude by Maijo Otaro following Naruo, a boy with a mane on his back, in his constant search for speed.

This is the third and the last part of the story arc collectively known as The Legend of Chu Liuxiang [楚留香傳奇]. Although not absolutely necessary, reading the first two books is recommended, since there are references to these books.... more>>

Returning from the Great Desert (see Book 2), Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua have a series of encounters with Li Yuhan and his wife, Liu Wumei, a former apprentice of the Stone Avalokiteśvara (Shi Guanyin). Eventually, these encounters led Chu Liuxiang to the final showdown against the Shuimu Yinji, the mistress of the Holy Water Palace, and solved the mystery of the ‘Trush’.

The chapter started from chapter 63 as the continuation from The Great Desert which ended at chapter 62. <<less

Balsa the spearwoman is a wandering warrior, who takes on the task of saving lives, in atonement for a past sin. On her journey, she happens to save a prince, and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard. And he is going to need one, for his own father, the emperor, wants him dead.... more>>

Batchelder Award Winner <<less

My little sister hanged herself, and my devastated mother called me. An amused trespasser showed me a video of my sister's r*pe, and pointed me... more>> to the location of the rapists' beloved daughters. I grab my stun gun and enact my kidnapping plan. But the city is also home to Jack the Stabber, whom 77 girls have fallen prey to. <<less

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

While on a school field trip in the Czech Republic, Kang Hyuk happens to stumble into a shop called “Archmage.”... more>>

To his disbelief, the shop is actually owned by an archmage… from another world! Forced to become the Archmage’s disciple, Kang Hyuk is punted into the Kallian Continent, where might and magic overwhelm and wyverns fly high in the sky…

In this world, people are either sword-wielding knights, magic-wielding mages, or spirit-wielding summoners.

There hasn’t been anyone yet who can do all three… until now. <<less

Due to an accident, Chu Ling, an Omega, was forcibly marked by a strange Alpha named Han Gu. The government stipulates that the marked Alpha and Omega must be married. The two were forced to live together on the premise of marriage, and Chu Ling had to break up with his ex-boyfriend.... more>>

After cohabitation, both parties are affected by the mark, are particularly sensitive to each other’s pheromones, and are also extremely thirsty for each other’s bodies. From the beginning of the two people’s rejection and resistance to instinct, to understanding each other, and finally falling in love with each other. Willing to let the other person into his heart.

“If I give you another chance, will you choose him or me?”

“I choose you.” <<less

Morimi takes on the classics! Five reimagined masterworks of Japanese literature come to life once more on the streets of Kyoto. From burlesque depictions of... more>> friendship to thought-provoking explorations of ambition and solitude, Morimi brings the classics into the modern age with his signature wit and unmistakable style. <<less

The story takes place in Kong Sang Continent, and revolves around the tumultuous love story between Zhu Yan, princess of the Chi Yi Tribe and Shi Ying, the royal prince and the great priest in the Jiuyi mountain. ... more>>

When he was only a child Shi Ying’s mother was framed, and he was banished to Jiuyi Mountain to cultivate. During his teenage years Shi Ying meets Zhu Yan and takes her as his disciple. With the time Shi Ying began to develop romantic feelings for Zhu Yan. However because of their relationship as teacher and student, both of them do not voice out their feelings.

Fate also stands in their way when they stood on opposite sides in political struggle and undergo life and death situations. However, they eventually put aside their issues, and work together hand-in-hand to protect Kong Sang Continent.

This is the prequel to the Mirror series. <<less

The arrogant man who seeks perfection, hotel CEO Min SeonJae.... more>>

The woman who expresses the shape of love, hearing-impaired florist Lee YeonJung.

He finally realized why he put the woman inside his car at the parking lot as if he was kidnapping her. It wasn’t out of sympathy. He had never once felt sympathy for anyone in the thirty-two years of his life.

He was sexually attracted to her. Unbelievably attracted.

“I’m… using you righ’ now, you know.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

No matter what it took, he wanted to leave traces of himself in her silent world. <<less

During a dinner party at a secluded mountain villa, while the invited guests are engaged in a strange game over an ultra-luxury clock, the owner of the villa, a female writer named Mori Reiko, is met with an unnatural death in her study.... more>>

With this, the curtain rises on a deadly game of deduction!　

Embroiled in the game are Enomoto, a crime prevention consultant (whose main profession is a thief!?), and the lawyer Junko, who tries to solve the mystery of a perfectly locked room protected by the wall of time…

Note: "Wall of time" here means alibi. <<less

Since the death of Bowen, the boy she loved, Tianyi has secretly heartbroken, difficult to let go, and innocently fall to entanglement with girlfriends Ye Xixi and Yu Feng. So annoyed until she began to like to listen the singing of boy next door Ling Xia on the balcony. Their band’s song fresh and warm gave her a subtle comfort.... more>>

And Ling Xia towards the literary gifted, delicate and sensitive Tianyi, quietly fall in love, and if… <<less

This story is set during the end of the Sui Dynasty, a time where multiple powers struggled for supremacy and power.... more>>

Into the fray enters two orphans Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling; these two youths by many chances and luck obtain ‘The Secret to Long Life’ allowing the two to obtain profound martial abilities and a chance to rise to the top in this age of turmoil. <<less

After his best friend runs off with his fiancee, Seiichi heads for a town where UFOs have been spotted, hoping to escape from reality. Along... more>> the way, he meets a young man named Natori who's hiding his face with a baseball cap, and it seems he has things he wants to keep hidden too. Two wounded people, on a journey to a second life. <<less

Thrown in prison and awaiting death for a crime he didn’t commit, Fan Kuzhu must now find a way to escape and find out who... more>> framed him. But when he gets out he learns that losing everything is just the beginning of his heartache. <<less

Disco Wednesdayyy, an American detective specializing in missing children, lives with six-year old Kozue Yamagishi in Chofu City, Tokyo. One day, a seventeen-year-old girl "invades"... more>> Kozue's body right before his eyes, and with it, the door to the biggest case in human history opens. A soul thief, a black bird man who embodies all evil, and a series of deaths of great detectives gathered in a strange cylindrical house—— "You are at the center of this disaster." Just Facts! Chasing only the truth, run through three thousand worlds, Disco! <<less

He is the emperor who rules the whole of China, except he is unable to control his own heart. Without her, ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains are just like dust.... more>>

Ruan Wu Shuang: She is the daughter of the current prime minister. Her natural disposition is tranquil and calm and has no interest in manipulative tactics. However, she is still fated to enter the imperial palace and become embroiled in the power struggle.

Bai Li Hao Zhe: He is the second prince of the current emperor, well versed in civil and military tactics. He marries Ruan Wu Shuang to make use of the Ruan family’s influence to successfully become the crown prince. Step by step, he ascends the throne.

She is well-aware that she is just his pawn, yet falls for his real or imaginary gentleness. While he constantly reminds himself that she is a descendant of his enemy, so he cannot fall in love with her. Yet he also loses himself in her gentleness, gradually forgetting his original intention…

Lingering and deep love cannot overcome past events, the grievance entangling two generations of people.

He implements his revenge plan progressively. No matter how well he calculates, he still forgets to include himself in the calculation. If not for the heartache that feels like bone erosion when losing her, he will not realize that he had unconsciously fallen deeply in love with her long ago…

In the face of new and old flames of hatred, will they be able to let go and live together until the white hairs of old age? <<less

My dream was you, Na HaYeon.... more>>

Model HaYeon has been in a relationship with actor Taewan for a long time. The love that started at the tender age of eighteen is about to end at twenty-nine.

"Let's break up now, Taewan. Let's stop."

"Why do you want to break up? Are you telling me the love is gone?"

"No, the love isn't gone."

The love had never gone away for a moment. From the moment he walked over with the springtime as his backdrop, it had always been there.

"I still love you."

"Then why?"

Taewan shouted out as if he couldn't understand.

"I don't have the confidence to love you tomorrow."

"......"

"That's the reason."

Me, the one who tells you it's the end even though I said it wasn't.

You, the one who knows it's the end but can't end it.

This love that only gives us more wounds as we stay together...

Will we be able to protect it? <<less