Yoshifumi Matsuda, who has been bedridden for over five years due to illness, reflects on his life with regret from his sickbed. He believes that... more>> his current situation is his family's fault, and if he had been born as a woman, life would have been more enjoyable. In that moment of thought, he hears a voice from nowhere, and Matsuda's consciousness is engulfed in darkness. When he next wakes up, he finds himself in a room in the familiar apartment he used to live in, transformed into a baby girl. <<less

The Duchess of Farrens is a prominent noble family that supports the backbone of the Kingdom of Istoward.... more>>

Elaine Farrens, the duchess of Farrens, after her misdeeds and attempted usurpation of the country, finally died, her life taken by her own daughter.

In her dying moments, her high pride was finally broken, and she truly regretted what she had done, but it was all in vain.

The duke family itself was destroyed, and its notoriety was to be forgotten in time.

However, Elaine regained consciousness the next thing she knew. And what’s more, she was giving birth.

She immediately realised that it was useless to try to understand her situation in such a situation, and decided to face the life in front of her, thinking about it after the birth for now. <<less

Luo Ning was a cannon fodder, a female supporting character in an entertainment circle, loved-by-all novel. After being reborn, she refused to be cannon fodder again!... more>>

The anti-fans clamored: “Luo Ning is just a flower vase. She can’t sing, dance, or act. Every day, she only knows how to tie herself to the top celebrities to gain hype. She has nothing but good looks.”

Later, when Luo Ning appears in front of the public, singing and dancing beautifully, showcases the four arts and survives in the wild, cooks delicious food, can draw talismans, looks beautiful, has a high IQ, and has super-explosive acting skills…

The anti-fans get a good slap in the face: “Big sister, I choose you!!!”

Suddenly, one day, a trending search went viral.

A photo of the mysterious king of the silver screen, Lu Xun, kissing Luo Ning’s cheek was released, and the scandal quickly became the top headline.

Fans and non-fans alike couldn’t believe it. “How could this be? The photo must be photoshopped. Luo Ning is trying to tie herself to the best actor to gain hype and rub off his popularity and traffic. There is no limit to her shamelessness!”

Before Luo Ning could respond, Lu Xun, who rarely posted on Weibo, clarified first.

@LuXunV: The photo is real, the shameless person is me!

After that, everyone could see the best actor showing his relationship on Weibo in different ways every day. Whether it was showing Luo Ning’s delicious food, or her beautiful photos.

The fans and the public were struck by lightning. We didn’t expect you to be this kind of best actor… <<less

After the battle, the beautiful senior sister shyly raised her face in front of you and slowly closed her eyes. At this time, you… ... more>>

[Choice 1: Kiss her lips gently. Reward for completion: Thousand Leaves Wonder (Earth Grade, High Tier)]

[Choice 2: Kiss her on the forehead. Reward: Sword of Yin Yang (Earth Grade, Low Tier)]

[Choice 3: Hug her. Reward: Netherworld Treasure Scales (Black Grade, High Tier)]

[Choice 4: Say it as fast as you can: Senior Sister, what are you doing? Are you trying to seduce me? You've only fought with me once and want to be my girlfriend? Are you sure? Ah, do I go too far? But actually, I've always treated you as my sister. I'm sorry. Completion reward: Randomly basic attribute points+1]

Eh? The choice this time was too simple. Of course, it was four. <<less

──A strong shock to the head.... more>>

This is my only memory, and the reason why is that I have no prior memories is because I have amnesia. I woke up in my hospital room, and when some visitors came to visit me, I realized something.

I have three girlfriends.

Each of my three girlfriends is unique and attractive in her own way. Asuka Minato, a childhood friend who always takes care of me. Saki Arisugawa, a charismatic model in the same class, and Hina Fueno, an introverted otaku junior with a small-animal-like appearance, who was proclaiming herself as a fan of mine for some reason (?)

I have three girlfriends, I have no memory of my past, and my school life begins with a state of unbelievable anxiety.

The ‘me’ in the past. What in the world did you do──?! <<less

"I'm the one who made a mistake, and you're the one who's punishing me."... more>>

The chuunibyo king and the guitarist whom he once betrayed.
Sui Qingchi X Fu Cuo <<less

The news that Song Yu had hanged himself exploded in an ordinary morning; churning, cracking and burning for a month before subsiding. People slowly began to accept the fact that the pride of the entertainment industry, the youngest movie emperor, had passed away.... more>>

Only Zhou Yanqing didn't believe that the person he regarded as a beacon of life would end his life so easily. He began to investigate the truth behind Song Yu's su*cide. When he slowly approached the truth, a strange car accident made him reborn to two years before…

He was like a butterfly in the tropical rainforest of the Amazon River. He flapped his wings two years before and changed Song Yu's life ever since. <<less

Yuxiu’s acting career is over at the age of twenty-eight.... more>>

He is banned as soon as he becomes an actor, and riding a roller coaster was not so exciting.

On the recommendation of his assistant, he comes to a mountain villa to relax.

The owner of the villa is a fair-skinned and beautiful sick man. He has a little wolf dog by his side, who cares about his health and is considerate to him.

——But eight years ago, Yu Xiu was that little wolf dog.

Ye Yuchen and Yu Xiu recall the old days: What a mess.

Yu Xiu ignores it.

Ye Yuchen: Do you want my help?

Yu Xiu: What’s your condition?

Ye Yuchen strokes his chin and thinks for a while: Hmm… Come to my room at night?

Everything seems to be back to the original point, everything has changed yet nothing also has changed.

It is only later that Yuxiu realizes that it is not the origin, but the anchor in his heart.

–

Yu Xiu × Ye Yuchen

Beautiful, strong, and tragic movie king top × mourning hidden from the world gold master bottom

28 years old × 30 years old

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Yu Xiu is attacking, it’s not the reverse!

The two are only two years apart, and they were seniors and juniors in the early stage.

Dual perspectives, not many scenes in the entertainment industry, interspersed with college days, reality, and memories are divided between 50-50. <<less

On April 1st, 20XX, I came across something good and something bad. The good thing is that I obtained a transmigration machine and could travel... more>> around through transmigration. The bad thing is that when it got halfway through the transmigration process, the System crashed——《Tang You’s Memoir》 <<less

Having recently lost his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Subaru decides to travel to Hokkaido to “see the stars”. In Hokkaido, he is reunited... more>> with his high school classmate, Tokizawa, who harbors unrequited feelings for him. They haven’t seen each other since the day Tokizawa confessed during their graduation ceremony, and now they’re going to live together for one month. Ten years have passed since, but Tokizawa’s persistent feelings start to confuse Subaru and perhaps he may even feel something backー. <<less

In front of Kosei Meguru, who has lost his memory, appeared a pure and simple beauty, Tanzawa Shirayuki.... more>>

「──I was your lover.」

Shirayuki says this with a blush, kissing Meguru on the cheek.

The next day, another captivating beauty with a devilish charm, Saikawa Mako, appears and becomes furious.

「You really do have amnesia, unforgivable.」

Suddenly seizing Meguru's lips, she says,

「──Because I’m your real girlfriend. But you absolutely must not tell Shirayuki. It was a secret relationship.」

Meguru is haunted by Mako’s words, “All that’s left for me is you, my accomplice”.

Confused about what is true, Meguru accepts the secret love triangle… But as he starts to remember the pure love he had with these girls, who are also best friends, it becomes a curse that begins to eat away at him── <<less

On a lucky day, Jiaxin met her old classmate that she never forgot, but the old classmate did not recognize her.... more>>

That’s just right, familiar people are not easy to speak to. The first step in the relationship is to stimulate hormones~~

【Doctor of Physics, Social Disordered, Beautiful Face-lifted Girl x Truck Driver’s Mouth and Body Warming Attack】

Xingjia caught a cold and immediately called Tan You.

Tan You: “See a doctor if you have a cold, I will only see the car.”

The lucky Jiaxin: “I don’t need you to look at my illness. I am hungry, and I don’t want to eat takeaway.”

Tan You made a porridge and delivered it to her door: “Satisfying one’s physical needs is the basic requirement of adults.”

Jiaxin took a sip of the porridge slowly, and glanced at Tan You’s calloused fingers: “I can’t satisfy myself, so I’ll give myself to you.” <<less

What Lin Nianyin regrets most in her life is that she failed to protect herself when she was young, which resulted in her daughter being born prematurely and weakly. Even though she has been carefully nursed back to health, she still died ahead of her.... more>>

After her daughter left, she divorced her husband and couldn’t sleep well at night. She often imagined that it would be nice to go back to the beginning.

She never imagined that when she opened her eyes, the villa turned into an adobe house, and she return back to 1970 her daughter was still in her belly, unborn.

Lin Nianyin clutched her belly and swore that she would take good care of her daughter no matter what in this life and never make the same mistake again.

What Wei Mingchuan regrets most in his life is that he failed to protect his wife and daughter, which resulted in his daughter’s early death and his wife’s lifelong depression.

After his daughter left, his wife divorced him.

Overnight, he became a loner.

Who would have thought that after just taking a nap, he would return back to 1970, and nothing had happened yet?　

The first thing Wei Mingchuan did was to ask for leave and go home. <<less

Cen Jing transmigrated into a book and was promised by a system that if she obediently completes her tasks, her parents and family will lead... more>> a worry-free life forever. Following the plot, she disguises herself as a man and gradually climbs up the social ladder, becoming a cunning and deceitful character in the eyes of the world, and ultimately killed by the protagonist. With the mission accomplished, the system departs, and she closes her eyes, ready to embrace death. However, upon opening her eyes again, she finds her soul stuffed into the body of a recently deceased little girl. Before leaving, the system had given her a gift, allowing her to live freely… <<less

Novelization of the game.... more>>

“The girl who had her memories erased and the boy who had his voice taken away. Ten years later, they meet at “the place of the promise.”

“A protagonist who was left completely alone after her parents died in an accident. One day, she discovers a single photo in her parents’ room, with ‘Azakawa Village’ written on the back. In the photo, her mother and father, she as a young child, and a grandfather she has no memory of at all.

‘Could this possibly be my parents’ hometown?’

With loneliness and anticipation in her heart, she travels to Azakawa Village.

However, that place was somewhere she should never set foot in – the place of the promise.” <<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

As a cultivator, Minran has always devoted herself to the task of escaping death and living cautiously. But it seems as if…she’s done a little better than that?... more>>

During a certain adventure, a group of cultivators were caught in a trap.

The high-rank demonic cultivator laughed uproariously, “You’re all doomed now that you’ve been been struck by this deity’s heart-burning demonic prison!”

Everyone was in a panic.

The demonic cultivator said, “Unless one of you can bring out the root soil of the Liantian Flower!”1

The cultivators: “Who would pay attention to something like that!”

Minran silently opened her storage ring, retrieved the storage bag marked 564, and poured out a large mound of soil from the roots of a Liantian flower.

The demonic cultivator: “…Unless you also have powder from the coffin holding this deity’s corpse, it’s still the end for you!”

Minran silently took out storage bag 619.

The demonic cultivator: “…And the ten-thousand-year-old silt from the snow at the top of the iceberg in the coldest part of the sea connected to the underworld….”

Before the cultivators’ expectant eyes, Minran embarrassedly dug around for a while, until it was all piled up in front of the demonic cultivator, and smiled shyly while the demonic cultivator vomited blood in anger. “Thank you for your help, I wouldn’t have known how to detoxify without it.”

The demonic cultivator: “…Blergh!”

He vomited three liters of blood, then died!

(A xianxia story with no romance, everyone please support it~) <<less

Liu Ruosong had known Fu Yan for twenty-seven years, and he had never associated the words "savior of the world" with him—until one day he woke up from a dream, turned his head, and saw his lover, separated by the boundary between life and death, standing right beside him.... more>>

"... I didn't do it for anything ," Fu Yan gazed ahead, oblivious to his own abnormality, and continued to answer the question Liu Ruosong had posed earlier, "If I had to say, it's so that you can still take pictures in places you'll like in the future."

He said it casually, but it wasn't until much later that Liu Ruosong learned that behind this "promise" was a solid sixteen years lost in the crevices of time for Fu Yan.

"Fu, on this special day, do you have any birthday wishes?"

"I want to watch the sunset with you, does that count?"

[Retired Fighter Pilot (top) X Outdoor Photographer (bottom)] [Fu Yan X Liu Ruosong]

Notes: 1: Auto-save gameplay, they both start anew, but the save points are different. There are no superpowers, no traditional cheats; it took four restarts to complete the game.

2: Part post-apocalyptic, part mystery, the romance is very sweet, and the plot (perhaps) has moments of angst. <<less

Can jianghu wanderers ever refrain from messing around?... more>>

The turbulence of the world fostered us, whose existence upon joining jianghu going by as quick as a blink.*

"In this world where war erupts throughout, jianghu is a cycle of vengeance and retribution. You either persist, or you perish."

Many years ago, a young Chu Xiwei who recently joined the sect was chilled to the bone by those words he happened to have heard.

Seeing that his young disciple was scared quite enough, Ye Fusheng leisurely sipped his tea, "What I just said is pure nonsense."

Every young chivalrous individuals joining jianghu would happen upon one martial art scroll or another. Ye Fusheng was so often tricked by this preconception in his younger years that when he got older, he decided to hoard other people's scrolls.

But jianghu didn't work as simply as that.

It was a society of using one's might to carve one's path, of competing for artifacts and debating one's skills.

Legends would never fade with the withering time, just as hatred would not disappear in a peaceful age.

As the golden time passed, all splendor would be reduced to dust. With it, Glimpse of Grace** was sealed away from the world.

Notes:
* From an unnamed poem, by an unknown poet (rumored to be authored by Li Bai).
** The sword name is 惊鸿掠影, which in context of the story can also be separated into its short title: 惊鸿 – Jing Hong, and the name of an organization 掠影 – Lue Ying. <<less

Every shopping district used to have them, the gods of commercial blessings called Blessed Ones. Now, one is coming to my local shopping district. Most are supposed to be old ladies but this one is…a third year middle schooler.... more>>

Not only that, she’s got a “butler” accompanying her and they transferred together into my class! It’s custom for Blessed Ones to never touch money so apparently the “butler” is supporting her in her daily life. But still, never touching money? That’s crazy!

What’s the truth behind it all? And why, why does she smile so wildly? I can’t stop thinking about her… Is this love? <<less

Ethel, the youngest princess of Lentoria, found herself in love with a young swordsman who saved her castle from a demon attack. However, the young swordsman had a secret that he had to hide.... more>>

Ethel tried to get closer to him, but the secret was revealed when he fought with demons.

Everyone thought that the young swordsman died when he fell into the river at the end of the battle, but a few days after, there was information that he might be living on a hill in the downstream land.

Princess Ethel escapes from the castle with the desire to meet him. She climbed the hill with the help of a boy who guided her, but the truth she met was … <<less

Five web novel legends play a super shameless game.... more>>

Zhao Zhao thinks: I’ve gotten myself involved in a broken game.

CP: Ye Luan (Twelve Leaves) x Zhao Yijia (Zhao Zhao), 1V1, Happy ending

Side characters: Tian Gai, Sleepy Fox, Qin Hai <<less

2nd place in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi~! 2019 comes a new one-shot by Ishikawa Hiroshi.... more>>

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Sou Uehara visits a Seaside Hospital.

He was once hospitalized at this very place.

His former companions suffered from an enigmatic disease that killed them off to the point of extinction. Those who survived however, have still not been discharged yet.

Sou reminiscences the events that happened “That day”.

The disease’s spread to a certain region of a city,

The deaths of the adults it lead to,

The power of an affected child,

And furthermore the conclusion of the battle――. <<less

A former detective chases after his missing daughter, but what he uncovers in the darkness is…... more>>

Third “Konomys” (このミステリーがすごい!) Grand Prize recipient

A story of descent into lunacy over a single girl.

The 17-year old Kanako has disappeared, leaving behind a trace of drug use in her room. Akihiro Fujishima, a former detective and her father, is in pursuit of her whereabouts. Three years earlier, Naoto, who was tormented by his classmates, fell in love with Kanako, who saved him…

The story of the present and the past intersect, and the outline of Kanako gradually emerges from the blurry darkness. Yet the more one delves into her disappearance, the more unintelligible she becomes. What manner of shocking ending awaits at the end of the tunnel? The recipient of the grand prize of the 3rd “This Mystery is Amazing!”, this work overwhelmed every member of the selection committee. A lurid work of dark emotion that will enrapture the hearts of all who read it. <<less

Mashiki is the young owner of the antiquarian bookstore "Mukyuudou," and his friend, Senagaki, works in the same industry. The two have shared a secret... more>> sense of guilt ever since they were children. Senagaki's father was an "antiquarian book dealer" and a hated figure in the old book world, but Mashiki's grandfather saw his talent and took an interest in him, and so their two boys grew up together like brothers. One summer afternoon, however, an incident changes their relationship... Dense emotions wrapped in a transparent glass style. A story that reflects like the sparkle of a fish leaping in the moonlight. <<less