This stands at the forefront of strategy guides to Life (a shitty video game)!... more>>

Life is a bad video game. This commonplace phrase is, unfortunate as it might be, the truth.

After all, Life has no simple, easy rules. The rules it does have are nothing but irrational and unfair. The strong claim that Life has a high level of freedom, but the weak have no choice but to cope with an overwhelmingly disadvantageous design.

That’s why it’s a sh*t game.

Since I, Japan’s leading gamer who has experienced and mastered a multitude of games, say so, there can be no mistake.

— However, that person, on top of having mastered gaming to about the same level as I, declared to me that Life is a god-tier game.

Destined to be a top-tier character, that person is the school’s perfect heroine, Hinami Aoi. And to top it off, she even says she will teach me the rules of Life?

…… Normally, I wouldn’t believe such a thing. However, Hinami Aoi is someone who does not fit into a frame like ‘normal’ at all!

From the winner of the 10th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence. A low-tier character takes on life’s strategy guide, but with instruction from a pretty girl! <<less

In the fourteenth year of Chenghua, the imperial harem had one Consort Wan, just as the Western Depot had one Chief Eunuch named Wang Zhi. Crown Prince Zhu Youcheng was barely eight years old, and it was uncertain whether he could grow to adulthood without a hitch.... more>>

The Emperor was mediocre, and feckless. Eunuchs deceived those above them and kept those below them in the dark. Court officials patched up leaks left and right. Those doing evil were arrogantly savaging, and those doing good were helplessly sighing.

With the ways of the world like this, how could the ways of the Heavens possibly be just?

That year, Tang Fan transferred into Shuntian Prefecture from Hanlin Academy, taking up a post as a sixth-rank Judge. <<less

Ei Tokisaka is born into a gangster family, but he disbands the gang when his father, the boss, passes away. Now it's been two years... more>> since he took over running a small diner, and there's never a dull moment with his former gang members stopping in for a bite, as well as his neighbor and number two of the Higa gang, Sojun Higa. Ei and Sojun are childhood friends that ran into each other again as adults, and now Sojun is a regular at his diner. One day Sojun pins Ei to the floor, leaving him bewildered. Ei can't help but notice Sojun more and more...?! <<less

Unrequited love is like a pot of strong wine. You know perfectly well that it will make you dizzy, let you lose yourself, and that it will be painful. Yet like moths to a flame, it is gladly endured.... more>>

You take care not to overdo it, but I will not stop until I get thoroughly drunk.

However, for any amount of drunkenness, one day I'll have to sober up. <<less

King Ji Yue of Qin is the tyrant that all seven kingdoms are frightened of, yet there is one person, delicate and weak, with a pretty visage, that dares to be domineering in front of him. The young king looked down at beautiful youth and the cold dagger that was on his neck. ... more>>

In a cold voice he asked, "Wei Lian, you wish to revolt?"

Wei Lian smiled, and l**ked his lips: "If you are good to me, then I will serve the king. If you are not good to me, then I will kill the king." <<less

A man is stabbed by a robber on the run after pushing his coworker and his coworker’s new fiance out of the way. As he lays dying, bleeding on the ground, he hears a voice. This voice is strange and interprets his dying regret of being a virg*n by giving him the [Great Sage] unique skill! Is he being made fun of?!!... more>>

Piccoma Award 2021 <<less

Upon realizing that his degree in an unpopular field of study might present challenges in his job search, Qi Chen approached the task with a sense of apprehension. However, when he stumbled upon a recruitment post, he instantly sensed that something was amiss. ... more>>

The job position advertised was for a Cultural Relics Restorer, but as Qi Chen read through the listed job requirements, he couldn't help but feel a sense of confusion and disbelief.

The requirements were as follows:

1. Preference will be given to candidates who possess extensive knowledge of various metal antique restoration techniques.

2. Strong mental resilience and the ability to swiftly adapt to unexpected and surprising circumstances are highly desirable traits.

3. Candidates must possess the capacity to defend themselves and be comfortable with living life on the precipice (This requirement is of utmost importance).

Perplexed, Qi Chen couldn't help but wonder about the perplexing final requirement, which seemed completely unconventional and out of place in the context of cultural relics restoration. <<less

On the Third-Year of Kaihuang, as the Great Sui unfolds its curtains to welcome the glorious Tang Dynasty in succession to the Northern Dynasty, Yang Jian established a secret agency, the Jiejian Bureau in preparation to unify the world.... more>>

In a stormy night filled with snow, a convoy of tribute sent by the Kingdom of Khotan was ambushed and massacred with not a living soul left behind. The Second Commander of the Jiejian Bureau, Feng Xiao came forth to investigate the case under Imperial Orders.

A gathering of storms would soon take place in a little city which sat on the frontier, called the City of Six Crafts, where all the top martial powers across the lands would meet.

The ever successful Second Commander Feng meets a dead end when he ran into a Master Daoist with ailing health.

All would be unknown if they had never crossed paths, but once their paths crossed, Second Commander Feng realized this ailing man had more secrets than himself. <<less

Reborn to 1996, Bei Yao became a four-year-old little dumpling, living opposite the world’s catastrophic devil who had a crush on her twenty years later. Devil Pei Chuan was now five years old, with disabled legs and inferiority complex. ... more>>

Later they became seventeen, Bei Yao became a “school flower” of her high school. Pei Chuan froze, clasped his wheelchair tightly, and warned her, “Don’t say you like me, or else …” Bei Yao hugged his neck and smiled sweetly at him. Pei Chuan couldn’t help but hold her waist, and his suppressed emotions broke out. Belonging to his heart for two lives, Bei Yao wanted to know what the devil was like. <<less

On his 17th birthday, Shen Chi was kicked out by the Shen family.... more>>

He bought himself an innocent and beautiful virtual girlfriend.

From then on, the poor little guy would always get lucky somehow.

When he couldn’t afford a computer, he accidentally won a computer worth tens of thousands of dollars.

when spending his birthday alone in a rented house he received an expensive adult gift.

When the game broadcast platform delayed his wages, it was acquired the next day.

Until the double row live, he shyly introduced to the audience. “My girlfriend.”

Especially innocent ~

However, a man’s lazy and low voice came from the microphone: “Correction, it’s boyfriend.”

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As the future head of the Yan family, Yan Xue Xiao was still studying abroad when he ran into a kid who added the wrong number.

He wanted him to stop worrying about making a living.

He wanted to let him live with pride and recklessness.

He also wants to give the teenager the best thing.

Step by step spreading bait circles into his home.

The whole world knows the news that Yan Xuexiao returned to power, and the Shen family is no exception. They gritted their teeth and bought valuable ancient and famous paintings to please him, only to find that the teenager the man was holding tenderly –

It seems to be the one they abandoned …… Shen Chi.

[The young Shen Chi thought he would rot and take root in stagnant water, until he saw the moon in the sky running towards him]
The lonely young master was attacked by X step by step <<less

Shen Qingxian is the Honored Lord Lianhua, only lacking ascending to the heavens.... more>>

Gu Jianshen is the Demonic Emperor Jiuyuan, only lacking destroying the three worlds.

Everyone believed that a meeting between Shen Qingxian and Gu Jianshen must result in a war spanning the three worlds, the two of them dueling to the death.

Until Shen Qingxian went through a hundred years of closed-door cultivation, and spied upon heaven’s mysteries.

Words of heaven’s mysteries: For ten thousand years, no one in the cultivation world has ascended to the heavens. This is because the Heavenly Staircase has long since collapsed. The only way to set this right is to follow the directions of this jade scroll.

Jade Scroll Writing: 1) Meet with Gu Jianshen. 2) Get drunk together with Gu Jianshen……. 13) Pass a ‘spring night’ together with Gu Jianshen…….

Shen Qingxian: “……” <<less

On a certain day, Ji Xiao Li led his newly-acquired disciple into a dungeon, feeding him all sorts of priceless red and blue potions.... more>>

Teammate: F*ck, tyrant, do you have an ore mine at home?

Ji Xiao Li: How did you know my family owns an ore mine?

【Teacher Orders a Salute：disciple, enter the sect, accept my guidance. Tell this teacher, what is the sect’s ancestral creed?】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp：Master, there are only you and I in this sect, what ancestral creed?】

【Teacher Orders a Salute：Evil, evil disciple! I said to say it so say it!】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp：……】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp：Beat to death YueJian Chunhe that son of a b*tch!】

YueJian ChunHe = Milk Tea Small Crisp = Ruan Fenghe

Teacher Orders a Salute = Ji Xiao Li <<less

Wen Jianing, who won the best actor award at the age of thirty-four, was reborn in a twenty-year-old young man, Ke Xinhang, overnight.... more>>

Ke Xinhang has defective g**itals, but he is full of yearning for the entertainment industry. Taking the opportunity of an audition, Wen Jianing wanted to return to the entertainment industry, but he also met his former career opponent Lu Jinlang.

To Wen Jianing’s surprise, Lu Jinlang, who was not familiar in the past, seemed to have the intention of supporting him. <<less

Distance is a social platform that (just like other social platforms) can display the distance between parties. Ting Shuang had chosen someone that was 287 kilometres away from him, thinking that it was very safe. After all, when there’s more than two hundred kilometres between them, they wouldn’t awkwardly chance upon each other in real life, right!... more>>

Unexpectedly… The next night, 287 kilometres suddenly became 4.8 kilometres???

And even more unexpectedly… In the afternoon of the third day, 4.8 kilometres suddenly became 3 metres???

3 metres?????

Metres?????

I’m having a lesson right now, doesn’t 3 meters mean that the person I was flirting with is in the classroom right now? <<less

In the second year of our parents’ divorce, I ran away with my Ge.... more>>

Originally, Mum took Ge with her and threw me to Dad.

Now, my household registration record only has two pages. The head of the household is my Ge, and the other page is mine. <<less

He was treated harshly by his environment, and no one was ever nice to him. But as long as there was such a person, a corner of the curtain would be opened for the person in the cage. Then, a person like him would also find the light. This was an animal’s instinct, a desire to survive.... more>>

Su Beimo was a beam of light, opening the door of the ‘prison’.

It was him who saved Liao Nanqing, who had been living with an inferiority complex. <<less

A 34-year-old NEET otaku, chased out from his house by his family, found that his life is reaching a dead end. He then recalled that his life could actually have been much better if he had made better choices in the past.... more>>

Just when he was at the point of regret, he saw a truck moving at fast speed, and three high schoolers in its path. Mustering all the strength he had, he tried to save them and ended getting run over by the truck, quickly ending his life.

The next time he opened his eyes, he is reincarnated to a world of sword and magic as Rudeus Greyrat. Born to a new world, a new life, Rudeus decided that, “This time, I’ll really live my life to the fullest with no regret!” Thus starts the journey of a man yearning to restart his life. <<less

Ding Xuerun, a good student with both moral and academic excellence, had a wound on his face on the day he transferred to school. Lou Cheng thought he was being pretentious and repeatedly provoked him, “Don’t pretend to be a good student, what homework will you do?” It was not until after the monthly exam that Lou Cheng found out that he really was an excellent student, the first in his grade. ... more>>

After playing basketball, he showed off and pressed his drenched jersey onto his clean deskmate, “Do you know what is meant by virtue, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetic sense*? It’s no use getting good grades. Smell it. This is called the smell of a man. “

Then one day, the teaching building’s lighting tripped, and the whole class cheered in the dark. No one noticed that in the back row of the most corner, Lou Cheng pressed his little deskmate against the wall and kissed him.

Lou Cheng: Puppy love is so sweet and scheming.

The two-good students will be attacked by X sorrows when they disagree with each other. <<less

GuQingPei, the new director who was poached with a high salary, his first challenge at his new post was to help his boss raise his son!... more>>

A rich, hot-tempered, and arrogant second generation princeling best at causing trouble -- YuanYang who had been cultured in the army for many years is rebellious and domineering but GuQingPei has the confidence to make him bow down and submit. No one in this life has dared to make him (YuanYang) feel so grievous and troubled! Facing GuQingPei’s treacherous smiles and oppressing advances step by step, forcing him to learn to take over the family business, YuanYang decides to give GuQingPei a profound lesson. Instead, he loses control of the situation and they developed into another type of relationship!

With GuQingPei and YuanYang's equally opposing and hostile attitude... like enemies….will they look at each other with hatred or will it ignite into a different kind of spark!? <<less

Qin Fang was one of the most handsome guys in C National University. His visuals were impeccable, but, the problem was, he was a great troublemaker, and knew how to fight. ... more>>

Xing Yan was a stellar student in the Chemistry Institute, but his temperament was cold and introverted, and he communicated little with others. The first time he met Qin Fang, the two forcefully rammed their shoulders into each other. When their four eyes met, both knew that the other was not any good person.

Qin Fang jokingly flirted with Xing Yan, saying, "I’m Qin Fang, sophomore in Global Commerce. You can come find me any time, your Fang Ge will wait for you."

Later, on a quiet evening, Xing Yan was smoking on the balcony. Qin Fang used his legs as a pillow, his expression containing a little embarrassed smile as he pointed to the evening sky and said, "Actually, Qin Fang was a name I changed myself, my original name was… Jian Xingxing*."

From then on, I was not afraid of even the darkest nights, since I could just raise my head to see stars.

*T/n: The novel name, in chinese pinyin, is Jian Xing Xing (捡星星) while the mentioned original name of the character is Jian Xingxing (简星星). However, the "捡(jian)" in the title means to pick up, while this 简 (jian) is a surname. The same two characters that follow are xing (星), meaning star. <<less

The story of two alphas failing at blind dates together. That is, except for their last one.

Question: What is it like being married to a scumbag?... more>>

Chu Yu: Every year I spend over three hundred days thinking about getting a divorce, every month I spend thirty days thinking about how to kill him, and every day I spend twenty-four hours thinking about boxing his ears. <<less

In a Mary-Sue novel, the readers all liked the Devil Venerable, the second male lead who devoted himself whole-heartedly to the female lead. However the female lead only loved the male lead who abused her physically and mentally.... more>>

Readers: Why doesn’t the female lead like the Devil Venerable?!

Devil Venerable: This Venerable also wants to know. But what I really want to know is why I even like the female lead at all.

In order to understand why the female lead wasn’t attracted to him, the self-conscious Devil Venerable brutally interrogated the entire cast of characters from the novel.

Background characters: I have so many things I want to say but I don’t dare to say it to his face!

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After obtaining the book, the Devil Venerable discovered that the book described the world he lived in. This book said that after he sacrificed himself for the female lead, the fourth male lead, his silent and loyal subordinate Yin Hanjiang, blackened and attempted to kill her as a sacrificial offering for his lord.

Devil Venerable Wenren E: Yin Hanjiang, this Venerable wants to know why you wanted to kill the female lead.

Yin Hanjiang was silent.

Wenren E: If you refuse to speak, this Venerable will cut out your tongue and have it with alcohol!

Yin Hanjiang: …

Wenren E: What the hell are you blushing for?! <<less

Lian Xi was born with yin-yang eyes. Since he was a child, from day to night, he would be begged by ghosts to do things for them.... more>>

Helping ghosts fulfill their long cherished wishes would result in a reward. However, prior to finishing the task, no one would know if the reward would result in a blessing or a curse.

Once Lian Xi completes helping a ghost with something, the little ghost would start to glow with light.

If it was a gold light, that meant a blessing. If it was a red light, that meant a curse.

If it was a blessing he could win the lotto. If it was a curse he could step into dog sh*t every time he walked out of the door.

After finding bugs in his takeout for three days in a row, Lian Xi came to realize: “Only by pretending to be dead can I save my world!”

Originally he thought that he could live his life peacefully by pretending to be dead, but who knew that more and more ghosts started appearing around him. Not only them, but more and more strange people too. Until suddenly one day, a pure golden light passed by in front of him. Lian Xi’s mouth fell open, dumfounded, and then he reached out and grabbed it!

Gold Light / Lie Chen: ???

Lian Xi (*Organizing his breathing*): Hello, may I ask, do you have any long cherished wishes? A good deed results in good karma. I’m not interested in money falling from the sky, the most important thing is I’m kind and like to help people. I’m a modern-day Lei Feng and a current-day red-scarfer. I want to help you solve your heart’s problems so you can happily enter reincarnation and return to being a good person~~

At the same time, in the underworld’s Manor of Hell-

“Oh my Lord! The King of Hell has gone missing! The River of Forgetfulness has stopped flowing!”

Believing himself to be the Black Reaper, black-tongued, amnesiac King of Hell Gong x Suddenly turned into the White Reaper, cold exterior warm interior, pretending to be dead Shou. <<less

The meaning behind Lin Mu’s name is the forest at night.... more>>

Every time Lu Rong signs his name, he would sign it wrongly, calling himself “Little Deer.”

Very long later, Lin Zhao signed with her fingers, smiling at the two people.

She signed, “The little deer is sleeping in the forest at night.”

A special group of people, a special progress of life, and a special love.

My silence, and your affections.

Please, world, treat us a little more warmly. <<less