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

Shen Jingheng, the youngest and most outstanding admiral in the galaxy, the dream lover of countless Omegas, unfortunately has a flaw and is severely allergic to Omegas—... more>>

Other Alphas can smell the Omega pheromone with no problems, but he had to use various anti-allergic products all the time, otherwise he would have all kinds of strange symptoms. In addition, he is also an out-and-out perfectionist, pursuing full marks in everything.

But he never expected that there would be an unforeseen event in his life— His 100% matching spouse is actually the famous little crybaby Omega in the whole galaxy. Except for a face, this Omega is useless.

No way, since it is a destined 100% match, he has to get married even if he doesn’t like it. As a result, after marriage, there was a problem that even the most invincible admiral in the world could not solve.

……How can I complete my wife’s hug request without being allergic? He is perfect, so he must ask me to be a perfect husband! He! Definitely can not let his wife cry!

…It’s so difficult, how can it be harder than fighting? Ancestor, please stop crying? <<less

I'm dead.... more>>

A cheating husband thinks that his affair partner is a better woman for him.

He think He'll be happy without me.

I died leaving my husband who didn't know the reality. <<less

"Do you know about the Patrolman?" ... more>>

This is a tale about a new urban legend that is born from a series of mysterious incidents. After 8 PM at night, while walking and looking at their smartphone, people are warned from behind that—"it's dangerous to walk and use your phone at the same time".

However, when they turn around, there's no one there. The "Patrolman" urban legend says that if you ignore the warning and continue to look at your phone, someone will push you from behind at a pedestrian crossing when the traffic light is red.

At first, it seemed like a common urban legend, but strange events kept happening to those who heard the story…

This is the story of how a new urban legend is born. <<less

In the early years, it was all about school, but later on, it was the entertainment industry.
The “21st Century Elite,” Song Nanqiao, had a... more>> system accompanying her through a time leap.
However, she ended up in the shoes of a loser.
And this loser was madly infatuated with the school flower.
“Wen Wenyao looks so good. Aren’t you moved?”
The system began to wonder…
Song Nanqiao: “No… I don’t like her…”
System: “But your compatibility with her is 100%. You must like her…”
Song Nanqiao: “I don’t!”
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Song Nanqiao was focused solely on her studies and work, avoiding romantic entanglements.
But slowly, Song Nanqiao began to notice that the school flower was secretly paying attention to her.
One night, Wen Wenyao grabbed the hem of her clothes and hesitated for a moment before shyly asking, “Did you… used to like me?”
Song Nanqiao: “Uh… well, maybe I used to, but I might not anymore.”
Wen Wenyao held her hand and whispered in her ear, “But I’ve liked you for a long, long time… I really, really like you…”
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A gentle and elegant noble who is incredibly good-looking X seemingly a loser but actually a powerhouse of the 21st-century elite. <<less

Once the words "I love you" passed her lips, she died, over and over.... more>>

It was December 24th, Christmas Eve, and High School Student Riichi's long-held feelings for Natsumi had been returned. Yet before his happiness could sink in, she lost her life right in front of him. Once he regained his senses, he had returned to two days prior... He learnt that the words "I love you" had become a trigger to rewind time. He attempted to avoid the confession from his beloved but she would always do so, and die once again.

"I love you, Riichi. I love you."

Trapped in an endless Christmas Eve, will Riichi manage to overcome the recurring tragedy and seize his future? <<less

Yu Cheng and Qin He met by chance. Yu Cheng was a famous little tyrant in middle school but was trained by Qin He to become an obedient dog.... more>>

Gradually, they developed feelings for each other but were reported, and one was forced to transfer schools while the other was left suffocating in insults.

The interrupted contact became the last straw. People were buried in it, and cries were isolated. Qin He finally became a person buried in love.

The obedient dog became a crazy dog again, and the once bright and showy teenager became a walking corpse…

Yu Cheng (Gong) X Qin He (Shou) <<less

There is no connection between each story. The collection includes Corpse Phenomenon, A Shameless Prince, After the 102nd Night, and A Gift of Grace. As... more>> well as four other super short stories in a chapter.  <<less

Zhao Mu was tapping on the window again. ... more>>

Li Yu opened his eyes, it was exactly midnight. One tap after another, this young man, Zhao Mu, who studied music has always had a special sense of rhythm.

One long, one short, like he was trying to convey a message, Li Yu was dazed for a moment then closed his eyes in silence, tears rolled down the corner of his eyes and landed silently on the pillow, leaving a faint mark.

“I love you, too.”

He whispered, “I love you, too.” <<less

This incident happened when Daiki, a second-year student attending a public high school, was about to celebrate the second anniversary of entering into a relationship with his childhood friend Reina, with whom he had confessed his feelings. ... more>>

The long and enjoyable days of summer vacation had ended, and a few days into the start of the second semester, on a day when Reina had arrived early to school for student council duties, Daiki, who had arrived at school alone, found a lost item while changing into indoor shoes at the shoe lockers near the front entrance of the school.

This event shattered their daily life and led to the unraveling of the relationships among childhood friends. <<less

I thought that if I walk with you, it would be for a lifetime. But I don’t know how far the end of a lifetime really is.... more>>

I thought it was at least far enough to share until we are both old. But I died before the wedding. <<less

A socially anxious loner. The class big shot. They seem worlds apart yet are the best of friends. Like a little sun, Kewei opens up multiple facets of life for Xiaorong. She starts to ease into social interactions, discovers an interest in creating stories, and experiences conflicting emotions of self-deprecation and pride.... more>>

A sudden, unforeseen event. An incomplete work. Longing and obsession. How will she find her way out?

“Meowmeowmeowww!” <<less

Ever since the death of someone important to me, I've been living recklessly. After I became a high school student, there was a girl in my class who remained hospitalized due to "luminescence disease." This disease is named for the fact that the bodies of those who suffer from it glow faintly when exposed to moonlight, and that glow becomes stronger as their time of death draws closer. The girl's name is Watarase Mamizu.... more>>

After learning that she doesn't have long to live, and there are things that she wants to do before she dies...

"Will you let me help you with that?"

"Really?"

As this promise was made, the time that had frozen for me began moving again - <<less

In order to save the empress, the emperor goes deep into the thousand-year-old pond without regard for safety, tricks a dragon abandoned by his clan... more>> out of the pond and back to the palace, coaxes people to pull out its scales and dig out its heart, and finally discovers… that it is the lover he has been looking for for ten thousand years. <<less

Since the world has forsaken me, I will also forsake the world.

Xie Huai was notorious at school for being a poor student. He loved fighting, sleeping, and skipping classes as he didn't like studying.... more>>

When he was caught skipping class by the class monitor while climbing a wall, the class monitor brought him back to the classroom without saying a word.

When he was caught fighting in the alley by the class monitor, the class monitor beat down the group of people and then brought him back home without saying a word.

When he was caught sleeping in the classroom by the class monitor, the class monitor took off his own uniform and draped it over him without saying a word.

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Later, every day when Jiang Xu passed by the back wall of the school, there was no familiar figure climbing over the wall.

When he passed through the alley, there was no familiar noise of fights coming from inside.

During class, when he turned his head to take a glance at the sleeping boy, all he saw was an empty seat. <<less

A story in which a woman, after learning that the world would end in ten days, sets out to finish one last thing: mu*der her ex-girlfriend.... more>>

However, she ends up befriending, and spending the world’s final days with, the little sister of her ex-girlfriend instead. <<less

Pei Jiu picked up a girl by the riverside. He settled her on the mountain, and planned to send her back once she recovered. This delicate girl was a useless crybaby, so Pei Jiu had to be a nice person. He cooked her food and washed her clothes. He let the troublesome girl ride on his shoulders so she could pick fruits. During winter, he would warm up the bed for her. One day, she hugged Pei Jiu’s arm with a smile. “Big Brother Pei, you’re really an honest and a good man. I will marry you and give birth to your babies!”... more>>

Pei Jiu eyed her critically and scathingly enumerated her shortcomings. She was ignorant and spoiled. She only knew how to pester and flirt with people all day long. Give birth to babies? Go ahead, give birth to caterpillars.

The delicate girl bawled so hard that she passed out. The next day, Pei Jiu returned to his mansion and told his servants to prepare for his wedding ceremony. When he returned to the mountain in the evening, Pei Jiu opened the door as usual, but he found that the cheeky girl had disappeared. He searched the whole mountain for her to no avail. No one would act like a spoiled brat in front of him anymore. What a headache.

Note : 娇 (jiāo) : tender/delicate/pampered/spoiled <<less

Yi Zhize, an elite lawyer who graduated from a renowned university of politics and law, is a hotshot in the A City legal circle. He is a handsome man with excellent practice and elegant taste, but his personality is indifferent and cold, a flower of the high mountains. In recent times, due to several bloody cases he has taken on, he has had a series of nightmares for several days in a row, triggering mental anxiety. Yi Zhize was introduced to psychiatrist Ou Tingyun by a friend. What he never imagined was that that afternoon's mundane first meeting would be the start of a lifetime of entanglement. Who has become the cure for who, and... more>> who has become the patient for whom?

"Zhize, shall I help you or shall you help yourself?"
"You, help me."
I sink into hypnosis.
"Tingyun, you...?"
"Shh, do as you're told."
You delve into seduction <<less

The Third Prince, Zong Luo, and the King of Beining, Yu Beizhou, have been at odds with each other.... more>>

Water and fire were never compatible. Their tit-for-tat confrontation was exhaustible.

Unfortunately, things went awry. After an imperial edict came, Zong Luo laughed facing the heavens. His ink hair was scattered, and he closed his eyes and committed su*cide under the city gate.

However, he woke up again.

Following that, he became entwined with Yu Beizhou once more, till death eventually came upon him.

His enemy’s face was stunning, flamboyant, and sinful. Only after staring at him did he only notice a little bit of light floating within his unfathomable eyes.

“Senior martial brother,” Yu Beizhou said in a low voice, grasped his sword in hand, and touched his eyebrows intimately, “We meet again.”

…….

That night, Zong Luo had a dream.

He dreamed that after his death, the man sewed up his uncollected body, and kept it in an ice coffin for nine years.

Glory, wealth, and world domination that will last for thousands of generations- Zong Luo didn’t want it, but Yu Beizhou got it all.

However, no one knows that after going to court every day, after the tyrant dismissed the palace servants, he would walk into the cold bed chamber alone.

“Senior martial brother, it’s already nine years.” Yet it’s still so cold no matter how warm it is.

“I hate you so much.” He held the body in his arms and muttered to himself.

-Hate is the strongest form of love- <<less

At the beginning of his transmigration into a book, Pei Jing knew exactly what he should do. Following the generic plotline, he was supposed to take the protagonist, who would face a challenging destiny, as his disciple. He would use love and tenderness to influence him, cling to his thigh, and incidentally prevent his descent into darkness.... more>>

However, the plot took an unexpected twist, and the protagonist still succumbed to darkness. The blackened protagonist personally inflicted harm upon Pei Jing, crippling him, destroying his cultivation, annihilating his sect, and casting him into endless hell.

Pei Jing: “Hehe, interesting :)”

And so, in the depths of hell, he too succumbed to darkness.

Emerging from the Abyss of Ten Thousand Ghosts, the once pristine Immortal in white transformed into a blood-red Asura. He severed the protagonist’s limbs and sealed him in the depths of the sea, thinking it would be the end. However, he didn’t anticipate that it was only the beginning. He was reborn, but in a body that was not his own.

After transmigrating into the book, Pei Jing’s first task was to find the protagonist, take him as his disciple, and search and search. And finally, at a certain street corner, he found him…

Pei Jing’s heart filled with joy. He bent down and reached out his hand to the protagonist, saying, “Young friend, are you willing to become my disciple?”

The protagonist raised his dirty head, looking confused.

However, at that moment, another person’s hand reached out and touched Pei Jing’s.

That person was dressed in black, with a mysterious and alluring appearance. Smiling, beautiful yet dangerous, he said, “Immortal, what do you think of me?”

Pei Jing: “???”

And just like that, he ended up taking two disciples at once. It seemed like quite a lucrative development—but wait, wait a minute, isn't this development a bit unusual? <<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 the apocalypse arrives, Song Ke, who grew up in the abandoned area, unexpectedly awakens her special ability. Within her field of vision, all objects can be transformed into handy spiritual tools with just a thought. She becomes the sharpest blade, now possessing the most flexible scabbard. Wherever she goes, zombies of all kinds cower in fear.... more>>

After wandering alone for several days, Song Ke encounters a troublesome man. The man has a broken leg, and speaks weakly as if on the verge of death, yet there’s a smile at the corner of his mouth that is strangely beguiling.

“Little girl, I have nothing to offer you in return. How about offering myself to you?”

Suspiciously eyeing him for a couple of seconds, Song Ke slowly summons her spiritual tool.

“Speak up, how do you want to… die?”

One thing leads to another, and her adventurous path… takes a peculiar turn? She ends up gathering a series of strange teammates.

A year after the apocalypse, a bizarre rumor circulates among the major surviving bases:

It’s said that the top-ranked awakener team “V587” on the scoreboard are all burly and sturdy, capable of frightening children with their bear-like physiques and iron-like strength.

Their name alone exudes power: V587, how commanding and domineering!

V587 punches the Zombie King, kicks mutant beasts, robs the Death Prison of Sin City, and KOs the tyrannical rulers of District C with one move!

No matter how difficult the mission, it’s flawlessly cleared when it falls into their hands.

Their feats become the talk of the Alliance, earning admiration from countless ability users.

Until the grand opening of the inaugural global awakeners challenge, the enigmatic V587 members gather, making their first appearance.

The crowd’s faces turn dumbfounded, “Wait, who are these elderly, young, sick, and two wheelchair-bound cripples? V587? Nooo!”

Overpowered Stutterer x Cunning Smiling Tiger

【Reading Guide】

This is not a space-oriented story. It’s set in an alternative future with a significant technological gap (about 50 years ahead) and uses fictional terms with no direct prototypes.

Combines superpowers with cyberpunk elements, featuring a main storyline alongside team adventures.

Team recruitment is relatively slow at the beginning. The protagonist’s team consists of 7 members, each with their own flaws. <<less

On that day, by that sea. She was the one to teach me the meaning of life—... more>>

Osakabe Kengo, a young man responsible for a bus accident resulting in the deaths of many passengers.
He left everything behind and went to Jodogahama, a scenic spot in Iwate Prefecture, to heal from his trauma.
There, he meets a college student, a girl named Shirakisawa Honoka. During his stay at a guest house run by her mother’s family, he realizes he’s gradually falling for her.

Eventually, the two fall in love. However, the burden of his past, that tragic accident, hangs like a cross of sin over his shoulders.

“Just two years. Wait for me.”

He arrived at this decision after all his worrying, and the following day, he stumbled upon the astonishing truth of Shirakisawa Honoka— <<less

As Olivia embraces her new life with Duke Bikander, her family and ex-fiancé desperately cling to her, begging for a love they never gave—will she forgive or forever leave them behind?... more>>

Olivia loved with all her heart, but her family and fiancé did not reciprocate her feelings. Despite her mother’s belief that sincerity will prevail if she tries her best, Olivia painfully realizes after fourteen years of unrequited love that this is not always the case. When Olivia wanted to leave and start anew, she coincidentally meets a handsome man she saw at a victory celebration for war hero Duke Bikander. The man turns out to be the Duke himself, who asks Olivia to allow him to cherish her as the most precious person in his life.

On the day she takes the Duke’s hand and leaves everyone behind, her family and ex-fiancé, who never showed her any love before, suddenly try to hold onto her. It’s ironic how they try to do so now that it’s too late. <<less