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

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

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

A cold, uncaring husband, and unreasonable mother-in-law, and a wrongful death — could your life get any worse? What if you were given a chance... more>> to change things? When Amber is sent ten years back in time at the moment of her execution, she finds herself face to face with the younger version of her husband, but something’s different about him... He’s completely at her beck and call! Will she be able to prevent the past from repeating itself, or will her life spiral into misery once again? Operation: Leveling Up My Husband to the Max begins now! <<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

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

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

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

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

Wen Xia's childhood love is a kaolin flower, and the way that kaolin flower treats him, there are basically three types of attitudes:... more>>

"Don't touch me."

"Don't look at me."

"Stay away from me."

Wen Xia has been busy pleasing him but the other person is indifferent, and he is discouraged. I'm not doing it, can't I not like you anymore?

However, many years later, Wen Xia, who was once the proud son of heaven, fell with his family. At this time, the flower of Kaolin came to the door and wanted to marry him.

Wen Xia sneered: "Are you humiliating me?"

The cold face Kaolin flower said indifferently: "This is work, I will pay."

Wen Xia agreed.

After marriage, the flower of kaolin is still the flower of kaolin, and the two of them did not offend the river water until one day, Wen Xia found a diary at home —

x year x month x day,
Wen Xia talked to me, I was too nervous to answer him properly.

x year x month x day,
The girl from the class next door put a love letter to Wen Xia's desk. I saw it. I was very annoyed. I wanted to take it out and throw it away...but no, it was someone else's wish.
I accidentally said something serious to him, will he hate me?
Alas, I like him.

x year x month x day
Wen Xia hugged me! QAQ
He is so cute.

x year x month x day, sunny,
I can't let him touch me anymore, my heart can't stand it, I will die.
Is there any way to make him not so cute?

Wen Xia: "...?"

Who are you? <<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.

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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

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

Shou Xu Nuo wakes up one day to find a handsome and yandere man where his bed should be. As Xu Nuo tries to navigate life while being tossed around by this supernatural man, he discovers that something is not quite right. Who is this man and why does he seem so familiar? When he tries to remember just what it was he had forgotten, things go horribly wrong.... more>>

“My beloved, I will sleep by you. This is our love nest…and our grave.” <<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

"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

In Fukuoka, crime reaches new heights in the seedy underworld. In the Hakata ward of the city, there are various individuals with special talent that... more>> consists of professional killers, detectives, informants, and professional revenge seekers. Among those a so-called "killer of professional killers" is becoming more than just an urban legend. Private detective Banba is on the case, but when he uncovers a dark conspiracy, it may be the one curveball he can't hit. <<less

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

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

──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

The protagonist Vasily Ivanovich Kaminsky (Vasya) is the president of a private security company, but is the boss of the Red Mafia. He interests Eun-han with his handsome face and appearance that was enough to walk on the runway as a model.... more>>

The Lead Yoon Eunhan.

A money launderer who settled in Miami after many twists and turns and lives a good life. In front of the vicious Red Mafia boss Kaminsky, he trembles like a rabbit, but in fact, he is famous in the gay society as a demonic bottom.

Story

Yoon Eun-han, who left Korea when he was kicked out due to an unfortunate incident 10 years ago, is enjoying a stable life as a money launderer in Miami, USA.

The only unsettling factor in his life is his main customer, Red Mafia boss Vasily Kaminsky. In fact, in terms of appearance and body shape, he was a exactly Eun-han’s type, but unlike his monk-like appearance, he was the boss of a brutal mafia. He was someone who thought that getting rid of problems was easier than lifting a finger. He was afraid that he was interested in Eun-han, and after hearing information from his subordinate that Kaminsky is ‘Bi’, he raises his level of vigilance… but the goddess of fate was not so merciful to Eun-han.

Eun-han’s life, who prided himself on not committing any major crimes and living a modest life until now, suddenly turned upside down after 10 years and started to get more twisted after the appearance of his cousin Sung-han, and Kaminsky spurs his fate even more…

“Live wisely. okay?” <<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

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

"Emperor Laskaris! Let's pull out your eyes and get rid of future troubles!"... more>>

The year when the promised future got closer than ever. The supposedly delightful Christmas gift contradictably ended in a devastating ruin. And even the Empire began to fall on a hellish curve.

"I don't care if I become a villain. If I can change my civilization and the fate of my country, I will gladly call it my burden."

On August 26, 1258 AD, with a memory of 50 years between dreams and reality, eight-year-old Ioannes Laskaris woke up from a long sleep and the world around him changed forever! <<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