I woke up from playing a daughter-raising game.
The problem is, I've become the aunt who's been bullying the heroine for years!
To make matters worse, I lost the ‘player’ who could have saved her.
Logging out was not an option, all I had left was a pile of debt and the protagonist I had to raise.... more>>

To get out of this game, I must raise my niece well and see the ending.
Then, a mysterious stranger shows up and hands me a suspicious marriage proposal...

"I haven't really thought about marriage before. It's too hasty."
"You didn't even give me a chance, are you refusing right away?"
"I'm a bit cold-hearted."
"I like that about you, being cold-hearted."

Eden Bertenon, the Grand Duke, a name only mentioned in the game, had asked me to marry him.
A man who proposes to a woman he's never met before without so much as a glance.
Although I couldn't understand his intentions or reasons, he might be a clue to a hidden ending.

"Okay. We can be a married couple who can divorce anytime under an agreement."

It was a contract marriage where we promised divorce at the same time as the proposal.
I got a rational husband.
I thought all that was left was to raise the heroine safely to see the ending...

***

"You like clean things. You don't like holding hands or anything ambiguous, why are you doing this?"

He didn't answer immediately. The silence continued, and the lantern flickered dimly. Was it because of that? Suddenly, I felt like flames were jumping in his eyes. Eden, who had been staring at her eyes for a long time, said in a low voice.

"I know. I wonder why I’m like this."
"......"
"I usually think this kind of talk is a pathetic excuse or a poor attempt, but..."

He suddenly twisted his lips and laughed.

"I'm doing this right now. Like a fool." <<less

Ling Jing Shu lived with humiliation and heavy burdens all her life, and only at the moment before death, she suddenly woke up and repented.... more>> If god gives her a chance to live for a second time, she will say three words to the man who let her down: You Get Lost!! <<less

Thanks to the Goddess, he was reincarnated into nobility!　That should have been great―― but the skill he got, 【Toxin Decomposition EX】 was simply too plain, and he was made fun of everyday at home……... more>>

However, at one time, he noticed he could eat the magic stones of monsters with that skill and absorbs their abilities, furthermore, he was informed he was the prince of the neighboring country!

What awaited him at the royal castle was an environment where he could train and experiment with the abundant amount of magic stones, bringing out his strong potential――and finally, even acquiring the ability of the legendary monster, the Dullahan!

Surrounded by an assertive fiancée and a clumsy knight girl, the new life for the boy who will become a “King” begins! <<less

Reborn back to 1995, Jiang Ning, who had just graduated from junior high school, was asked to drop out and work in the factory.
Working was not an option; Jiang Ning simply wanted to continue her education. To do so, she needed to earn enough money for high school tuition.
Looking at the crayfish crawling everywhere in the field ditch, Jiang Ning carried a cage: "Let's start getting rich by selling crayfish!"... more>>

*Wucheng had two prestigious high schools, side by side, and they had been fierce local rivals for many years. Wucheng No. 1 Middle  School had consistently outperformed Wucheng Senior High School.

Song Peifeng, as the top scorer in the Wucheng entrance exam, handsome and tall, became an unforgettable figure in the memories of numerous female students at Wucheng Senior High School.

Jiang Ning's performance in the entrance exam was not good. She barely made it into Wucheng No. 1 Middle School with the minimum admission score. However, during the first citywide joint exam, she directly surpassed the top scorer from the rival school, and from then on, in major and minor exams, as well as academic achievements, Song Peifeng couldn't overturn Jiang Ning's dominance.

Many years later, during a reunion of Wucheng Senior High School and Wucheng No. 1 Middle School alumni, they discussed the outstanding alumni of their respective schools.
Wucheng Senior High School alumni proudly mentioned their school's entrance exam top scorer, Song Peifeng. On the other hand, Wucheng No. 1 Middle School alumni highlighted their school's competition-admitted student, Jiang Ning, and recounted the achievements the two had accomplished over the years.

The alumni of the two schools, separated by a hotel screen, raised their voices to outdo each other, each vying to prove the superiority of their alma mater.
Suddenly, someone weakly raised their hand, pointing towards the entrance: "The outstanding alumni you're talking about, aren't those two holding hands at the entrance?"
#A Love Story of Equals# <<less

Three months after their marriage, Jian Hang and Qin Moling still slept in separate rooms. This marriage was decided by the Old Master of the Qin family, and Qin Moling had no feelings for her. ... more>>

In the eyes of outsiders, when Jian Hang who came from an ordinary family married into the Qin family, she was a sparrow who flew up a branch and became a phoenix. Many people were waiting to see her become a joke as the abandoned wife of a wealthy family. But Jian Hang indeed did not lose out on this marriage, and so she decided to live a good life together with Qin Moling.

That night, she took the initiative to find him and talked about a topic that was trending on the Internet.

Qin Moling only gave her a few perfunctory words.

Seeing that he had no interest, Jian Hang got up and went back to her bedroom. After a while, there was a knock on the door.

Jian Hang didn’t open the door and said in a disinterested tone: “If you have anything to say, just say it.”

Qin Moling: “The hot search you’re concerned about was the 22nd earlier, but now it has been promoted to the 2nd and tagged as ‘explosive’.”

Jian Hang: “…”

PS: As the title says, marriage comes first, then love. The male lead goes from never being in love, to having his heart quicken, his desires aroused, to being completely devoted.

……

There’s no real antagonist to speak of, just the story of two hard-headed people trying to get along in a marriage neither of them was keen on—until, of course, everything clicks together.

The female lead is not a wilting damsel-in-distress. She’s also a ‘domineering CEO’ in her own right, kicks business ass, and eats arrogant bosses for breakfast—all done with a gorgeous shade of lipstick. <<less

I am tired of being judged solely by appearance.
I wore the mask that they had made for me, showing only what those people wished to see.
Whenever I attempted to remove this forced mask, I was invariably met with such disappointment in their gazes.
As it was becoming increasingly burdensome, that’s when I met her.... more>>

Leila von Este.

Though she was born as the empire's only hyper-dominant omega,
She was entangled in the scandal of being 'the omega forsaken by the gods'.
Her unkempt and gloomy black hair, poorly maintained, framed her eyes…
Which shone like a beautiful rainbow but, tragically, could not see.

While her situation was indeed pitiable, to me, her misfortune became my sole refuge—my succor.
She was truly the perfect omega bestowed upon me by the gods.

...And it had to remain that way forever.
Even if it meant capturing her and locking her away should she dare to think of leaving my side. <<less

"Actually, I had a life-changing encounter that will greatly affect my future."... more>>

Sara Himekawa, Rin Kohinata, and Yumena Takamori are high school girls known as the 'S-class beauties.'

While the class is filled with envy-inducing love stories, there's Haruya Akasaki, the quietest guy in class.

In fact, the guy they're talking about is Haruya Akasaki!!

A romantic school harem comedy about a shy boy and the 'S-class beauties' has begun." <<less

Ellie was a girl who couldn’t talk or even write well.... more>>

By chance, she begins listening to three people’s secrets.

The three start to develop an interest in Ellie who hearken to their words.

However, a couple of days later, Ellie disappears without leaving any traces.

With Ellie’s disappearance,

Hayden, who confessed that he has a crush on a man.

Lennon, who enjoys games involving riddles.

Lebrado, who has a secret fetish.

The three men start searching for her, yet no one comes to figure out where she had left.

Since they would only talk about their own stories and had no clue about hers.

Voiceless Ellie.

That was my name.

***(After the tables have turned)***

I began to speak again and by the favor of someone truly dear to me, I became an “Count”.

The commoner Ellie who once couldn’t talk, can now let out a voice as “Count Phever”.

And when the time came to reunite with the three people,

“……Ellie?”

The Ellie you know from the past is now gone.

“You’ve got the wrong person.”

Perfectly spoken, the words echoed throughout my body. <<less

"Can they really share the daughter of the goddess? You shall have them. With a spear and a sword."

In order to be reborn, Shen Mubai took up the task of saving the male lead from the path of suffering. Xuanzang struggled through eighty-one trials before he finally obtained the true Buddhist scripture, and yet she, Shen Mubai, had to toss in her entire self. ... more>>

Shen Mubai: Are all male leads this strange? Thanks. I want to make a complaint.

System: What does him being strange have to do with me?

Note: Xuanzang is a character in Journey to the West based on the historical buddhist monk Xuanzang. He journeys to obtain the Sanzangjing, “Three Collections of Scriptures”. <<less

In the Frontier County of Aulanthia of the Livitium Imperial Kingdom, there lives Princess Syltianna who is……so ugly, both in her face and in her personality. One day, Princess Syltianna, widely known with the name the Ragweed Princess of the Livitium Imperial Kingdom, is evicted by the First Queen Consort and killed in a dark forest inhabited by demon beasts. She is then saved by a passing witch, and upon her revival, she regains her memory of her previous life as a high school boy on Earth, and decides to live in the forest as the witch’s apprentice.... more>>

“Nobles and whatnot are just a pain in the back, I’d rather live as a commoner,” she says, deciding to wash her hands off of it. Moreover, she goes the whole way to diet in between her devout training as a witch. She is supposed to live a quiet life, but after overachieving so many things, she brings her own downfall. She thinks to herself “Huh? What about my plan to live a life secretly like a weed in a forest?”

This is largely a heartwarming fantasy story. The characters are modeled after the familiar fairytale format, with princes, witches, and evil queens, but our MC is just too strong to be dealt with by any ordinary means. <<less

She fell into a novel.... more>>

If she can find true love, then she’d be able to have a happy ending.

However, after the story reached its end, what greeted her was death.

And when she opened her eyes once more, she returned to the very same beginning.

She fell in love yet again,

But the ending was, still, death.

Poison… strangulation… illness… falling… being crushed… burned alive… starved to death…

As she welcomed her 117th birthday,

Carynne Hare decided to become a mu*derer. <<less

Qin Yi used to think that cultivation was all about a peaceful mind and the indifference towards fame and wealth. He is ready to abandon all mortal desires and enjoy eternal solitude when he later realizes that he is a human after all, and on the lonely cultivation path, he could really use the warmth of another pair of arms… ... more>>

Of his companions, the prince wants to rebuild his kingdom; the princess is looking forward to her heroic life; the priestess needs to experience the secular world; the “dumb snake” could use a confidence boost; and his “clubbie” wants a human form.

But would everyone get what they wanted? <<less

Fallen noble Elena is manipulated into secretly assuming the identity of Veronica, the deceased princess of the grand duchy. At first, Elena is dazzled by... more>> the royal life she always dreamed of, but when the real Veronica returns alive and well, Elena is mu*dered by those she once trusted. However, death isn’t the end of her story. Elena wakes up several years in the past with her memories intact. Her once-trusting heart has iced over, and she now has only one thing on her mind—revenge! <<less

After five hundred years, Great Demon Hunter Mi Wan was reborn into the modern era. With the strength to crush all demon clans, she opened... more>> an expensive pet shop. A single diagnosis costs three hundred thousand dollars, and for a million dollars, she can expel and treat demon poison. However, due to her unstable spiritual power after rebirth, Mi Wan will go into a coma whenever her spiritual power is depleted, and her soul will fly to the male protagonist’s side. The male protagonist is the current demon king who possesses the highest demon level, has a hobby of buying land and building parks, is devoted to the peaceful coexistence between humans and demons, and protecting the environment. <<less

Iruma Takumi, a 40-year old salary man, was dragged into a hero summoning just like in a template. What was his fate? The Goddess sent him and the heroes to the other world separately.... more>>

With the Goddess’ overprotective support, he landed in a different world looking handsome, rejuvenated, and quite different from a Japanese.

Although he wanted a slow life while working in the manufacturing trade, that was not permitted by the Goddess’ special body and abilities.

Would Takumi be able to live a peaceful life in a different world? <<less

The protagonist, who has been transferred to a world where chastity is reversed, tries to live normally, believing that there isn't much difference from the... more>> previous world. However, he gradually come to realize the truth through the heroines. <<less

I want an S-Rank skill too! I want it so badly, I would even die for it!... more>>

[You have awakened an S-Rank skill.]
[But it only works when you die.]

Eh !? WHAT IS THE POINT OF GETTING ONE IF I DIE !? <<less

According to what her manager, Ah Zhu Jie said, Yan Xi was just a twenty-eight tier small celebrity who graduated from an unknown art school with a non-specialized degree, without any acting skills, works, good family background and fans. Forget about being a celebrity, she wasn’t even worthy to be called an actress. An internet celebrity with plastic surgery that opened a taobao shop was way more famous than her. Of the three hundred thousand fans in weibo, two hundred thousand of them were low-quality ghost fans that she bought with money from her own wallet.... more>>

She was only able to continue acting because of her gold lord Gong Ding Chen. But Yan Xi didn’t know her boundaries and employed the old technique in the entertainment circle: to buy keyboard warriors to attack the only girlfriend that Gong Ding Chen had publicly announced, which was the big star Chen Man Xi. The ending was as expected, she ended up losing any chances to shoot, her fame had gone down the drain and everyone wanted to beat her up.

Therefore, carrying the triple burden of breaking up, cyberbullying and the humongous debt that her gambling-addicted uncle had left behind, Yan Xi killed herself by slitting her wrist. Outrageously, Yan Xi didn’t die and developed dissociative amnesia instead. Yan Xi, who had lost her memory, seemed to change into a completely different person… <<less

Liu Feng unexpectedly possessed the ability to travel between two worlds. He also has a storage space and became a second-hand dealer of the two worlds.... more>>

He began his life as a city lord in the other world when he used a glass from earth to purchase a city.

This is a wonderful world in the cold weapon era. In this world, Liu Feng can see catgirls, fox girls, rabbit girls, and elven princesses any time he wants.

Princess: Liu Feng’s city is the world’s most fortunate city.

Princess: I will definitely move in and live there, even if I have to ** the status of a princess.

Graduate: The technology and ideas used by Liu Feng’s city surpass this world by a thousand years.

King: That place has the world’s tallest buildings and has the world’s strangest things. That place is the world’s wealthiest and most magical city. <<less

There is a kind of magic, based on card magic, drawing inspiration from the summoning of astral magic, and imitating the creation of manifested arcs through imagination.... more>>

Combined with various magical effects, it creates a variety of monsters with magical powers.

This magic is called "Summoning Magic" by Calvin. <<less

One day, I opened my eyes and found myself in a wuxia novel.... more>>

I became a female servant in the Sacheon Dang Clan, a family of poison and assassination!

Wash clothes stained with Dang Clan’s poison? Clean the training hall where they trained with the poison?

What if I get poisoned and die? What? This is the law of the strongest player?!

…Aren’t they crazy people? Please save me!

However, as I survive day by day, the main characters in the novel come to me.

“Child. Would you like to learn martial arts from me?”

The poison king, Dang Jung.

“You are not just anyone. When I get back, I will… send you an official letter.”

The young lord of the Namgoong Family, Namgoong Hwi.

“Young Miss. It would be best for you to follow me obediently.”

Jinseong, the future number one swordmaster.

…I, will I be able to survive safely under the strongest player? <<less

I got s**ked into a novel full of villainesses, and taming them is the only way to survive!

Xie Tao got a boyfriend.... more>>

They have never met.

He would send her many things, snacks she had never eaten before, expensive-looking gold and silver jewelry, wine brewed from the first snow, tea boiled with plum blossom dew, and books of strange tales she had never read.

She could imagine what his life must be like, as poetic and picturesque as an ancient painting.

Because of him, Xie Tao's life fundamentally changed. She no longer had to work several jobs because he didn't allow it.

Her life was no longer strained because he always sent her real gold and silver.

But she didn't know that every WeChat message she sent him was transformed into a sealed letter and sent to another time and space.

There, it was a chaotic era of changing dynasties.

The man she fell in love with was the most stunning blank space in this world.

One day, Xie Tao mustered the courage to video call her boyfriend.

???

My boyfriend is so handsome, wah wah wah!

His eyes are so beautiful! His eyelashes are so long! His skin is so fair!

But wait? Why is he wearing ancient robes and sporting an ancient hairstyle?!

At that moment, the young nobleman in her phone screen, dressed in bright brocade, wearing a gold crown and jade belt, with long, dark hair, had eyes like amber and a gentle smile, calling her "Tao Tao."

---Modern, soft, poor girl with no money X Ancient, smart, rich, and powerful national advisor <<less

Female Lead’s Perspective:... more>>

At five years old, Bó Ruò Yōu’s parents passed away. Her uncles looked for a Taoist Priest to divine her fate. Apparently, she was a woman who brought ill luck to her family and jinxed her father and mother, and it was asserted that she would die young, unable to live past the age of eighteen.

Under the banner of changing her fate, her uncles chased her out of the family door.

After she departed, her assets were seized, and her marriage contract was taken away. They wrested away everything, only waiting for her to die at eighteen.

They waited and waited, but before Bó Ruò Yōu even reached eighteen, what awaited them was how she used her corpse dissecting and bone examining skills to shake Jiangnan.

The influential and the nobility invited her to make the dead speak, the princes and marquises entreated her to redress an injustice for the living.

And behind her, also stood a man that could strike terror in the entirety of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Male Lead’s Perspective:

Wielding the Embroidered Emissaries above, Assuming the Judicial Commission below.

The ruthless and intractable Huò Wēi Lóu had the power to subvert the courts and commons, but he snorted disdainfully at female charms.

Hence, on their first encounter, even if Bó Ruò Yōu came from an official family and possessed a matchless countenance, he still detested it like a worn-out shoe.

Later, after seeing her long, slender, and fair hands examining a female corpse in red robes, breaking past her ghosts and seizing back her life, clearing up the long-standing injustices of the past…

Huò Wēi Lóu: Truly fragrant, truly and genuinely fragrant! <<less