Emperor Ying Changchuan, the Great Founder of Zhou: Known for ending chaos and expanding borders as a “traitorous minister,” he established harsh laws impacting millennia,... more>> his life a mix of achievements and faults. Thousands of years after his death, he still divides opinion, earning both fervent admiration and intense criticism, truly one of the most controversial figures in history. In a museum a millennium later, Jiang Yuxun, a vocal critic, remarks, “Ying Changchuan’s relentless militarism and grandiose conquests must have made life unbearable for the common people of his time.”
No sooner had he spoken, than he found himself transported to a banquet, boldly voicing these opinions aloud. … …Beneath the twelve imperial crowns, the man from the history books looked at him with a faint, enigmatic smile: “Would my esteemed minister care to elaborate?”
Knowing Ying Changchuan’s penchant for devising cruel punishments, Jiang Yuxun could only think: Is it too late to opt out now? In the next instant, the usually reticent Jiang Yuxun discovered he was afflicted with a ‘truth-telling’ debuff. Every question Ying Changchuan asked, he answered with unvarnished truth. That day, Jiang Yuxun’s words echoed through the grand hall. All the court officials were stunned into silence, everyone certain that he had sealed his own fate. <<less

[Exclusive Serialization] Last Savior, the world's greatest virtual reality game. In this game, every user must choose their "Patron Spirit" to accompany them. Patron Spirits... more>> range from Grade 1 to Grade 9. Naturally, every user desires the highest grade, Grade 9. But... my Patron Spirit grade is peculiar. [...What on earth is going on?] "...Indeed." And that was very, very strange... <<less

I became a character in a horror movie drenched in blood and clichés. But as the role of a serial killer...?

There were women approaching me, who had decided to die.

Your game friend, whom you mistook for a man, is actually a shy girl with a complex over her white hair!?... more>>

A frustrating coming-of-age love comedy about a reclusive girl!

“Schwarz was a girl………..?”

Yuuma and Schwarz are partners in an online game. But when they meet face to face in real life…he finds out that person is a shy girl!

so he decided to try making friends for her, who has never been able to make one due to her natural white hair complex. He also try to avoid from betraying her by trusting her “as a friend” .However, the numerous of unconscious and intimate skinship gradually makes him aware of her as the opposite s*x.

A sweet and frustrating coming-of-age story is intertwined with a shy, white-haired beauty in this story. <<less

Shiraishi Gomichi, an ordinary high school student, has a secret. He has a memory of his previous life. In another world, different from this one, Morimichi was a 'hero" who saved humanity. However, this is only the story of his previous life. In this life, it was supposed to be a normal student life, but the appearance of Mai Shiina, a girl who moved into the same class as him, changes his ordinary life. She was a reincarnaited witch like Gomichi, who once plunged another world into disaster. They had killed each other many times in their previous lives, but when Gomichi asks her what she wants now, Mai tells him.... more>>

"I can't live without you!"
"What... ?" <<less

Professor Park, a Wasteland solo survivor for the past 7 years.... more>>

Depleted supplies. A broken generator. A crazy gang tracking him down.

At the brink of death, he makes a desperate decision!

“Shit! You call this a game?!”

To go inside a game! <<less

Until that one moment, my life was spectacular.... more>>

I was surrounded by many friends and even thought their smiles had some trust in them, so much as a sliver.

However, none had faith in me. Not them, not my teacher, not even my girlfriend. They all refused to listen.

I’ve then learned that “mutual trust” is nothing but fiction. The sad reality of their pretend friendships overwhelmed me, and since then, I haven’t been able to build proper human connections.

So, please, just leave me alone…
Don’t talk to me anymore…

There’s no soil for trust to bloom between us, people whose eyes can’t see beneath the surface. <<less

Ryouma Saeki and Yuina Kanzaki, who had been together for as long as they can remember, decided to go out with each other at a certain point. However, from there Yuina started to show her unmannered appearance. ... more>>

Ryouma, who fulfilled all of her demands, started to wear black rimmed glasses, overgrew his bangs, wore a fake beard which made him feel filthy, and became average in exercise and studying.

One day, Ryouma, who was suspicious because Yuina became moody and less likely to go home with him, followed her.

The incident that happened there led to him being dumped by Yuina.

“You are no longer cool and I don’t get excited when I am with you. That’s why I decided to go out with Kenji-kun and so we’re breaking up. Bye – bye “.

Ryouma, who was betrayed as a result of devoting himself to his childhood friend, thought: [If I've been dumped, then my current look no longer means much anymore].

Hence Ryouma no longer holds himself back, and the attitudes surrounding him suddenly changes! <<less

When I reincarnated, I became a pig! But if I get a cute girl to take care of me, this kind of adventure doesn't sound bad at all.... more>>

I'm an ordinary otaku who lost consciousness after eating raw pig liver. Just when I figured that I was reincarnated into another world, I discovered I became a pig!

While I was collapsed inside a pigpen, Jess, a girl who can read people's minds, helped me out.

Oink! She's cute! From a pig's perspective, I could catch a glimpse of something underneath her skirt hem. It was white...

"Um, I can hear your thoughts..."

Oh crap! My desires are being exposed!

"If that is your wish, just a peek is okay."

Eh, what...?!

A life where an innocent girl takes care of me and accepts (albeit a bit taken aback) my beast-like desires. Yeah, it's not so bad being a pig.

This was supposed to be our oink-oink-like grand adventure, but... Hey Jess, why is your life being targeted?

Now, this pig with no magic or skills must use his knowledge, wits, and sense of smell to save this girl from her cruel fate! <<less

Two years of marriage that was as sweet and happy as a dream. But one day, her husband disappeared without a trace.... more>>

Han Seo-ryeong, a blind and ordinary housewife, wandered around looking for him, only to be told;

“You’ll never find him.”

Her husband turned out to be the best secret agent with many faces.

“Our marriage was everything to me, but it was just ‘work’ to him?”

Feeling like her world was collapsing, Seo-ryeong unleashed her suppressed madness.

“If I do bad things, can I cross paths with him?”

Unable to catch him, she decides to get caught first!

What she didn’t realize was that the husband she was searching for so long was just around the corner. <<less

“Evelyn, we don't need you anymore. Get out of this country immediately.”... more>>

The Saint, Evelyn was suddenly told that one day.

Evelyn, who has been praying for her country at the temple since she was five years old, is now twenty-eight years old.

Evelyn's former fiancé, Alex, the First Prince, and her sister, Mary, ridicule her.

“How pathetic of a woman to be late getting married after her magic has weakened!”

(Late marriage... that's because you broke off your engagement with me last year and got engaged to my sister, remember?)

Evelyn has been expelled from both the temple and her family home, leaving her to fend for herself. The only thing she has left is her weakened magic power.

Evelyn lives for the day, using her healing magic, but an encounter with a man changes her life forever.

“I'm glad you're not married yet… It's the only reason we're here.”

(That's not fair to say!)

A former Saint uses her healing magic diligently everyday, while being pampered by a sweet young Count and adored by the people.

—By the way, I was wondering if my magic power is really weakening. <<less

“Let’s get a divorce.”... more>>

The child was gone, and we were back to square one.

No matter how much I loved Woo Jin-ha, I didn’t have to do anything s*upid anymore. <<less

The plan was perfect.... more>>

And there was no better match than the prim playboy of the Escalante family.

“After we get married, everything will be different. You will be more free than before our marriage.”

“What about you?”

“Under the duties as your wife, I will do what is justifiable. It will be done regardless of you.”

“So, you’re saying you’re going to have a child but you’re not going to do this kind of thing with me?”

This was because she didn’t need a decent husband, but a man who would someday be legally removed from her life.

When he can fill the petition up with the names of the women he fooled around with overnight, then she can become a successful Ortega woman.

But then…

“I am not going to lay a finger on a woman who is not you, and until you give birth to a child, until you give birth to the next child, and then regardless of any child, I will satisfy you and I will make you satisfy me.”

“……”

“I don’t need such dog-like freedom or privacy that you want to give me so badly. There’s no such thing as that in the first place from the marriages I know of.”

The Duchess of Escalante refuses to live with the Duke of Escalante. Divorce due to unilateral fault.

“I’m a son of a bit*h but I’m more faithful than you think. Inés Valeztena.”

Inés Valeztena strives for a wonderful life.

“So I will never betray my family.”

Until her promiscuous fiancé betrays her by saying he will not betray her.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t live a life separated from me. Inés Valeztena.” <<less

On the day of the celebration for defeating one of the demons who ruled over the land, the young assassin Noel was exiled for what he could not control. Deemed unworthy of continuing in the Hero of Light's party due to being 'tainted' by his attribute of Darkness, he was left alone.... more>>

In his despair, Noel stumbled upon young girls who have also been subjected to unjust treatment, which led him to make a decision. He would form a party of those with the same attributes of Darkness and become a hero who'd save the world, finally basking in the limelight he could never even touch.

Eventually, the legend of Noel and his companions, hailed as the true heroes behind the subjugation of the demons, would be spread far and wide. His journey—their journey begins here and now.

On the other hand, the feeble Hero of Light and his party would soon crumble, their downfall and destruction absolute. <<less

Born with a scary face Sakamoto Akizuki has always been feared in his school, however one night he witnesses a girl's death.... more>>

He is faced with a choice where he is asked a question by a mysterious person, "for half of your life span will you revive her?" After following through with his decision the girl is brought back to life and now begins the romantic comedy between Akizuki and the girl Yumesaki. <<less

This was a story that began and ended with tears.... more>>

Yakumo Saegusa, a boy who lost his mother to a strange disease, the “Chloride Blight,” in which the whole body slowly turns into salt and crumbles, met a girl in the music room.

She was a beautiful and gifted piano player named Yuzuki Igarashi. Her delicate fingers were capable of both piano and wring bullies. She struggled to live up to her mother’s excessive expectations in the dark while presenting a strong front. Yakumo, who had seen Yuzuki in all her various forms from a distance closer than anyone else, was unknowingly drawn to her.

Graduating from elementary school, Yuzuki grew more beautiful and charming, and by then, became the object of people’s love and admiration. By the time she entered high school, Yuzuki, already a professional pianist, left for Italy to learn her craft. Yakumo, acutely aware of the overwhelming difference between him, a nobody, and Yuzuki, an international pianist. Eventually, he began to write a novel.

His reunion with her came suddenly one day—and that reunion would come to change his destiny forever.

Grand Prize of the 16th Shogakukan Light Novel Award. <<less

Shortly after her nineteenth birthday, Florence was told that she was incapable of bearing a child. It was a fatal flaw for the daughter of a nobleman.... more>>

She was about to give up on life, thinking that she would have to become the wife of a man who was not much older than her father.

Suddenly, Stanley, her father’s squire, who had been like a brother to her since she was a child, was chosen to be Florence’s fiancé.

“They say you and I are to be married.”

“‘Yes, sir. Yes, I’ve heard that.”

This is a story about two people who had a master-servant relationship, but gradually came closer to each other after their engagement. <<less

Grand winner of 2023 world munpia contest, manhwa announced... more>>

Cheon Yeonho, a game director, dies from overwork and is sent to Hell. The only thought in his mind seeing the hellish scenes of Hell was…

“It would be fun to make this world into a game.”

Surprisingly, he does get the chance to make his dreams a reality. He goes back in time, to his college days in 2008. He will pursue artistic and gameplay perfection to make the games on Hell with the help of his colleagues and friends.

*****

The day I fell into Hell, I thought,

It would be fun to turn this world into a game. <<less

The once wealthy and powerful Ryuuzen clan has been all but destroyed. Their misfortune began in 1960, when a majority of the family was wiped out when their vacation villa was buried under a landslide. However, search and rescue teams discovered something even more shocking: A majority of the bodies they discovered showed obvious signs of having been mu*dered before the landslide.... more>>

As though it were a trigger, what came to be known as "The Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan" spread throughout the descendants of the family's only survivor. By mu*der, by su*cide, by accident... it seemed none who held the name "Ryuuzen" could live to see the age of 35, and now, the family has been reduced to a single woman, lying in a hospital bed, days away from death.

Kamo Touma was once just another of the endless parade of sleazy tabloid journalists looking to exploit a prominent family's tragedy to sell magazines, but Ryuuzen Rena's kindness melted his frozen heart, driving him to quit his old job and become an investigative journalist specializing in overturning cases of false arrest. Eventually, he and Rena were married, but now, the curse threatens to steal away their happiness.

Kamo prays for a miracle, and his prayers are answered by the Hourglass of Miracles, an artifact spoken of in rumors and urban legends, said to grant one wish to anyone who obtains it.

"Meister Hora", a guide for those who obtain the hourglass, tells Kamo there is only one way to break the curse and save Rena: He must travel back in time to the year 1960 and catch the culprit of the original Ryuuzen Family massacre.

Who was the culprit of the mu*ders that took place almost 60 years ago? Why did they steal away the lives of the Ryuuzen clan? What is the true nature of the "Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan?" And perhaps most mysteriously of all... What is Meister Hora's goal in all this?

Winner of the 29th annual Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. <<less

“As long as you wield that sword and I remain a witch, there will come a day when you’ll have no choice but to truly kill me.”... more>>

From a tender age, Oscar, the Crown Prince of Farsas, was burdened with a curse of infertility. When he reached the age of 20, he sought out Tinasha, the most formidable witch on the continent, in a desperate attempt to break the curse. Unexpectedly, he returned with Tinasha by his side, serving as his guardian. Over the course of one year, until their contract expired, he became entangled in her enigmatic past, unveiling a destiny far grander than he could have imagined. <<less

Physically confronting your abusive superior might be cool and satisfying when it happens in a drama, but, as Kazuo Sugishita is learning, it's less cool when you're sitting at home afterwards, terrified to learn how you'll be punished when you return to work the next day. The sentence he faces sounds surprisingly lenient - just a temporary reassignment to the company's entertainment department while things blow over. But he changes his mind when he gets the specifics: Kazuo has been assigned as manager-in-training (read "servant") to Shiro Hoshizono, the "Star Watcher": A pompous, showoff-y, completely insufferable talent with no actual talents except using his sickeningly sweet words and foreign model looks to seduce lonely middle... more>> aged women into paying for the privilege of hearing him speak.

The day after his new assignment, Kazuo and Hoshizono leave for Saitama Prefecture, where Hoshizono has been recruited to become an image character for a campground in the mountains, alongside a group of other colorful characters, including a romance novelist with the looks of Cleopatra but the personality of someone's grandpa and a UFO obsessed conspiracy theorist.

But the morning after their arrival, their host is found strangled to death in his lodge, the road back is buried in an avalanche, and... you can probably see where this is going.

Turns out, despite how he comes across normally, Hoshizono is actually a genius detective!

The novel features a unique chapter naming scheme where each chapter is titled as a three to four sentence summary of its own contents, focused upon what information about the case is discovered and what evidence appears, for ease of reference.

A nominee for the 50th annual Mystery Writers Association of Japan Award, long story category. <<less

Meet Sora and Shiro, a brother and sister who are loser shut-ins by normal standards. But these siblings don’t play by the rules of the... more>> “crappy game” that is average society. In the world of gaming, this genius pair reigns supreme, their invincible avatar so famous that it’s the stuff of urban legend. So when a young boy calling himself God summons the siblings to a fantastic alternate world where war is forbidden and all conflicts–even those involving national borders–are decided by the outcome of games, Sora and Shiro have pretty much hit the jackpot. But they soon learn that in this world, humanity, cornered and outnumbered by other species, survives within the confines of one city. Will Sora and Shiro, two failures at life, turn out to be the saviors of mankind? Let the games begin… <<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

Kei Arakawa, an average salary-man somewhere around his thirties, fell into a chasm between worlds. In exchange for a single limitation, he gained the ability to perceive someone or something’s status. But apart from that skill, he has no skills any ordinary person wouldn’t have. All he could do after ending up in another world, was to gain insight into something’s status, and use that information for his own growth and survival.... more>>

One day, as Kei was being assaulted by enemies, a certain individual appeared and saved his life. But it just so happens that this individual has an enormous secret――

This is an adventure fantasy where our MC encounters some beautiful women in another world, and throws himself into fierce battles with powerful beasts.

This series has been adapted to a manga, with updates being published under the Comic Valkyrie label.

This novel is a recipient of the 3rd annual WebNovel Award, with three volumes published to date. <<less