This is the first of the five novels that are collectively known as The New Legend of Chu Liuxiang [楚留香新傳].... more>>

Rumor has it that a strange island called the Bat Island contains numerous treasures and luxuries. The island was actually a black-market auction place featuring exclusive items, such as martial art manual that was not supposed to be passed on to outsiders, as well as secrets, of Jianghu. From time to time, the island’s master, who was known as the ‘Bat Prince’, would send exclusive invitations to select guests to visit the island to participate in this auction. All business deals were conducted inside a pitch-black cave to maintain secrecy.

Through a series of serendipitous events, Chu Liuxiang and his friends Hu Tiehua and Zhang San make their way to Bat Island with other companions. Along the way, some of their companions were mysteriously mu*dered. On the island, they eventually uncovered a sinister plot masterminded by the ‘Bat Prince’. <<less

“I love everything about you. And that includes your entire digestive system .”... more>>

‘Don’t open your eyes, Rachel’, she whispered inside her head. ‘Don’t open your d**n eyes.’ But still, she couldn’t keep herself in the end. She opened her eyes and she was greeted by the most handsome face she had ever wanted to see in her entire life, only a few inches away from hers!

“Hi!” Melvin greeted with a smile.

Then without any preamble, she just heard herself speak. “Will you marry me?”

She almost slapped herself. How could she ask him that thing when they had only been together again for only a few minutes after eleven years of not seeing each other?

“Yes, Rachel,” Melvin answered. “I will marry you.”

Okay. Now, what? <<less

‘Benjamin’, the Tasmanian tiger was charged with the duty of being a caretaker for ‘Sintu’, the last dugong from Thailand who had just become extinct minutes ago.... more>>

Extinct animals do not truly disappear forever but remain wandering in this world. They live among humans by taking on their appearance in order to wait for a certain important something…

Within this awkward and disastrous learning period of trying to understand the actions and thoughts of humans, Benjamin becomes attached to one human, a biologist devoted to studying genetics. Yet he felt troubled. He wished to entrust the entirety of his love and hope into these hands.

…But could he come to trust humans once more? <<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

First-year high school student Yu Azuma sets four rules for herself to live her high school life in order to “definitely become an idol.”... more>>

This moving coming of age novel depicts the 10-year journey of a girl aiming to become an idol, with a current top idol as its protagonist! <<less

Mariella is a maid who dreams of rising through the ranks by becoming the mistress of a nobleman.... more>>

She is convinced that a blind man she meets by chance is a noble,

and she takes great care of him, pretending to be Lady Marianne.

One day, the man disappears, leaving a proposal for marriage.

Unaware of Mariella’s true identity, he sends a proposal to the Riedenburg family.

Mariella worries that her identity will be discovered.

A disorientated Lady Marianne offers to marry him off in her place…

—

“I’ll go.”

“What?”

Mariella repeated, unable to understand.

“I’ll marry into the royal family. For you, in person.”

“…”

The young woman said, sounding eager.

A hint of amus**ent in her eyes behind her gentle expression.

Mariella knew what Marianne was thinking.

She was jumping for joy at the opportunity.

The chance to be the heroine of the popular novel she always carried with her. <<less

In 1987, as martial law is lifted in Taiwan, A-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, h*mophobia, and social stigma.

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

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

The more you know, the more you don’t know.... more>>

Arriving at an unknown continent, Witsen was left to venture this mysterious land all alone when his companion died after getting attacked by beasts. Perhaps just a coincidence, he came across a teenage girl named Karile and the two travelled together. However, things are not as simple as they seem. The more Witsen learnt about the world, the more questions he had in mind. Where will this journey to seek the truth lead him, and perhaps even the world to? <<less

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also... more>> a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old dormitory "Chikuseisou" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter the Hakone Ekiden relay marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices. <<less

A (not-so) hopeless romantic writer. A weird (not-so-much of a) stranger. A lot of (denied) feelings in between. A (continuation of the online) connection that... more>> ends on 11/23. <<less

Bo Bing is a medical student who went to Japan to pursue further studies, a young girl in a foreign land she met a senior student, Ye Zheng Chen who is also an aspiring doctor in the same university as her. They shared some common factors, become fast friends and gradually fall in love. Ye Zheng Chen love Bo Bing deeply and affectionately call her ‘lass’ instead by her name. However, Bo Bing later discovered that Ye Zheng Chen is in fact already engaged to another girl and was upset she is being lied to. Ye Zheng Chen tried to explain his difficulties but Bo Bing fled back home before he can tell her the... more>> truth.

Three years later, Bo Bing’s fiancé is being charged and she is told that only Ye Zheng Chen has the ability to help her. Bo Bing is therefore being forced to trade herself to Ye Zheng Chen in order to save her fiancé. She also learns the secret that Ye Zheng Chen has been hiding from her since their days in Japan three years ago… <<less

Zuo Qinghou was a famous martial artist in the Jiangnan region and the master of Cup-Throwing Manor. His beloved daughter, Zuo Mingzhu, died after contracting a strange disease. In the meantime, another young maiden, Shi Yin, also died from illness. At the moment of Shi Yin’s death, Zuo Mingzhu suddenly returned to life and claimed that she was Shi Yin. It seemed that if Shi Yin’s spirit has possessed Zuo Mingzhu’s body. Zuo Qinghou asked his close friend, Chu Liuxiang, to help him resolve the bizarre case.... more>>

Through his calm and wit, Chu Liuxiang gradually unraveled the mystery and learned the intricate love story involving young men and women from feuding influential families in Wulin. <<less

I have a foster father…... more>>

Um, that’s not the important part. I just want to say, why doesn’t he understand the differences between boys and girls in this world? He insists a p*rnographic picture is actually a diagram of acupuncture points. And also…why did he raise me as a boy for 15 years?! It’s impressive that he can write prescriptions, but I studied poisons.

But, why is he a Fang Hua Beast… <<less

When they married, he promised to paint her lips with rouge. That year the blossom slowly bloomed. However, over time, blossoms wilt and promises... more>> are broken. <<less

A bloodbath takes Lu Qing's parents, but gives him the love of his life.... more>>

He is always willing to give everything he has to him, not wanting him to be cold or hungry.

The more he looks at his brother, the more contradictory feelings he has towards him.

How can he smell his brother's scent and feel restless inside?

A quest for revenge has left Lu Ziqu an orphan for the second time, but fortunately, this time he has Lu Qing. He is pampered even when he is naughty, and he is used to him even when he is naughty, because he is Lu Qing.

But... while watching his younger mentor having a good time with another woman, he felt a pain in his chest?

Is it possible that he is lovesick?

A pair of brothers who depend on each other for their lives, a unique love story between them, revolving around a fight in the forest. <<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

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gaming industry has seen an explosion in popularity. One of the most popular games ever released is Mystery Maker, a VR RPG where players can create baffling puzzles in a virtual space and challenge other players to solve them.... more>>

As a promotional stunt for the game's upcoming sequel, eight real life great detectives have been hand chosen by Kurata Chikage, executive director of MegalodonSoft, to challenge each other to a match in a demo of Mystery Maker 2. Among them are Kamo Touma, a magazine contributor well known for his investigative work overturning false convictions, and his wife's cousin Ryuuzen Yuki, a recently debuted mystery novelist.

However, on the day of the demo event, the detectives are all drugged. When they awaken, they find their smartwatches are locked to their wrists and they are shown videos of their families and loved ones being held hostage. They are contacted by a Gamemaster, who tells them that if they wish to save themselves and their families, they must play a death game called "Delicious Death for Detectives".

As scheduled, the eight of them will play Mystery Maker 2's demo, and the Detectives will challenge the mu*der puzzles created by the mu*derer. If the Detectives are not able to reveal the mu*derer and their tricks before the time limit, all players will be killed. However, if the mu*derer is exposed, both they and their hostages will be killed. And if a Detective makes an accusation but gets even the tiniest detail wrong, they will be mu*dered by the Gamemaster's secret accomplice, the Executioner.

Now the only way for the eight detectives to survive is to expose the mu*derer and Executioner lurking among them, even if they must risk their lives and those of their compatriots to do so.

Which is an especially big problem for Kamo, because he's the one who's been chosen as the mu*derer! <<less

A short story/oneshot written in 1926 about Yunluo and Yingman, two girls who become close after being cast in the same play.

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

Assassinate is a short story written by Priest, part of Machine Fantasy – A Dream of Steampunk (机械幻想 – 蒸汽朋克之梦), a steampunk anthology published in 2015.... more>>

Set in a fictional London, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Edward Lander’s name was both renowned and hated by the empire, which needed his groundbreaking intelligence, and by the anti-science organizations who detested such unnatural progress. While the empire expended its effort in protecting him and the anti-science organizations set assassins after him, Edward Lander only wished for his unspeakable feelings to reach the object of his affection. <<less

An ordinary youth is forced to study at an academy he has never heard of before.... more>>

On his first day of school, what awaits him is—

“What kind of race are you, you can’t even transform!”

“You feel shame from being mistaken as being my race?”

“Your scent is identical to a human’s; you might be grabbed and drained if [he’s] hungry.”

“Since you’ve helped me, you’re now my ac-com-plice…”

His classmates are an elf, werewolf, fox spirit…

His dorm roommate is a dangerous darkblood with handsomeness level to the MAX.

The youth’s school life is bound to be ordinary no longer!

“Please let me graduate aliveee~” T_T <<less

Everyone bears a love like a tattoo, leaving a permanent mark that cannot be obliterated. Zhenrong is Xiaosu’s tattoo. Xiaosu is Yuzheng’s tattoo. In this lifetime, nobody can replace the tattoo engraved upon one’s heart.... more>>

In order to seize headlines, willful entertainment reporter Du Xiaosu disguises herself as a nurse to slip into a hospital, where she fatefully encounters neurosurgeon Shao Zhenrong. When she meets Doctor Shao, the epitome of a true gentleman, she embarks on a relentless pursuit of his heart before finally winning his love.

Alas, happiness is as volatile as fireworks. It is impossible to fully grasp the feeling with your fingers before it slips away again. Just as they manage to receive everyone’s blessing, the appearance of Shao Zhenrong’s second brother Lei Yuzheng shatters all of Du Xiaosu’s hopes and dreams.

“I met her first.” The moment he speaks these words, Lei Yuzheng knows that he has truly fallen in love with Du Xiaosu. Only, they met at the wrong place at the wrong time. Due to the pain of a betrayal in her youth, Du Xiaosu allowed a singular moment of sorrow to get the better of her. Their first encounter was a mistake, as they were both intoxicated. Nevertheless, the sentiment of love has no concept of beginning, running endlessly deep. That senseless moment of passion rendered itself an eternal memory for Lei Yuzheng.

As for Du Xiaosu, the only one in her heart is the perfect and tender Shao Zhenrong. Little did she know that a mere moment of indulgence would plunge her into an emotional struggle between two worthy loves. In the end, Du Xiaosu must come to terms with the fallout. After all, you can deceive the world, but you cannot deceive your own heart.

Ultimately, this is a story about waiting. Du Xiaosu resolutely waits for Shao Zhenrong. Indeed, she may wait forever without turning back. Therefore, she may never know that behind her is someone who is waiting just as persistently for the moment she finally turns around.

The graceful descent of snowflakes silently vanishing against the surface of the sea: these ostensibly myriad flowers are nothing more than passing dreams, just like their love. <<less

On a certain day when I was 6 years old, I, Leah Flores, suddenly regained memories of my past life while watching the coronation ceremony of the crown prince after escaping from an orphanage.... more>>

Is this the world of the manga [You and The White Rose] that I read in my past life...?

Duke William-sama, a character in [You and The White Rose], falls in love with the heroine but struggles to watch his friend, the crown prince, and the heroine fall in love with each other. In the end, he sacrifices himself and dies while protecting the crown prince.

William-sama was my favorite character in my past life. "I want William-sama to be happy."

With these thoughts, I knocked on the door of the Order of Knights, pretending to be a male.

"She, or rather, "he" will definitely protect William-sama's well-being with all my might!!" <<less