The beta has always regarded the alpha next door as his brother-in-law-to-be.... more>>

Then,

His brother married someone else.

- Confessions to a kind beta. <<less

A former gangster repays the debt he owes to the lawyer who saved his life.

For more than 20 years, Xing Zhongwan has been an unwelcomed illegitimate child. He was suddenly called home to fulfill his mother’s dying wish by caring for a half-dead man from the Qi conglomerate. ... more>>

Qi Yun used to be the most prominent child and heir of the Qi Family until a car accident took away his legs, eyes, and fiancée, crippling the once great phoenix into becoming a mere insect. With the Qi family in a predicament, only one person came to mind, the “daughter” of the Xing family who had once been divorced by Qi Yun. With high hopes, the two families forced the two young people together to deepen their relationship. <<less

Huo Yu, a rich second generation with Doraphobia, suddenly became a small kitty cat, and the bound system told her that she was cursed because of her persecution of the Heroine, and that she needed to exchange the female lead's happiness points to regain her human form... more>>

The Heroine of this world happens to be Lin Shuwei, her tortured rival.

Before Huo Yu could come up with a countermeasure, she was picked up by Lin Shuwei and became her cat. She endured humiliation, carried burdens, and relied on being cute and spoiled to increase her happiness points.

***

Lin Shuwei always thought that President Xiao Huo hated herself, until one day she discovered that Xiao Huo not only personally saved her from bullying, but also hired an army of fans to fight against the haters. She even became the number one fan in her fan club.

Xiao Huo would use an alternate account to engage in battles with the haters, and she would send her sweet messages every day, showing great concern for her. She was her die-hard fan!

Lin Shuwei observed her silently and found that Xiao Huo became cuter and cuter and more and more like her cat.

***

Since appearing on a variety show together, Huo Yu and the rising actress Lin Shuwei were hailed as the best CP of the year.

Huo Yu was cold-faced when she was asked about her relationship with Lin Shuwei: Working relationship, not familiar!

However, that evening, Huo Yu posted on Weibo:

In a romantic relationship, thanks for your concern @Lin Shuwei

The onlookers were bewildered, and the fans of their CP were ecstatic.

At that moment, the protagonist, Huo Yu, was squinting her eyes as she lay in Lin Shuwei's arms, doing her best to increase her happiness points. <<less

When he meets him at the worst possible time, there is light in his life, and everything has been there ever since. ... more>>

Liang Xincheng is a little star who has always been lukewarm, relying on CPs to attract fans, causing Xia Yuanhang to misunderstand him and have a prejudice against him at the beginning. And yet, because of the attention and fans they have been getting from acting in the same drama together, the two tacitly reach a long-term CP agreement. <<less

In all my life, I’ve only made two mistakes that I regret. The first was filling out my entrance exam application wrong, and the second was offending Zhong Yuan. If I had to use an idiom to describe the impact of my mistake, it would be simply, ‘Life is no better than death’. And if I had to use an idiom to describe Zhong Yuan’s offenses to me, it would be simply, ‘Too many crimes to record’. And yet, for as evil and wicked as he was, he attracted girls the way that flowers attracted bees and butterflies.... more>>

It happened that one day, for some reason, I taunted Zhong Yuan, “The King of Hell sent you to torture some more people, didn’t he?” Without a change in expression, he replied, “In order to torture fewer people, I decided to just choose one person to torture for the rest of my life.” I asked him, “What do you mean?” He smiled at me and answered, “If you don’t go to hell, who will?” <<less

Our MC, Yuri [裕理], always has dead look in his eyes because of his too frequent encounter with misfortunes. One day, he comes up with the idea that his luck may take a turn for the better if he maxes out his Luck stat in the world of VRMMO, and so he steps into the game world under the name Yuri [ユーリ].... more>>

He chooses ‘Summoner’ as his job and ‘Bow’ as his weapon—hailed as the strongest of their kind on the game’s strategy guide site—and is raring to go on an adventure, but… they turn out to be the worst job and weapon in the game?!

Furthermore, Yuri also comes to learn that the pure Luck build is ridiculed for being useless in battles. With the triple bad choices (plus the fact that his avatar is a beautiful girl because he picked the option of Random Character Generator!) Yuri falls into despair.

This is an adventure diary of Yuri who will eventually rise to become a player who is known as ‘Raid Boss’, ‘Wild Last Boss’, ‘Why Does a Beginner Weapon Do More Damage Than the Strongest Weapon?!’, and ‘Please Don’t Let the Hidden Boss Wander Around in the Wild!’. <<less

One day, Kim Jiho, who earns a living by pickpocketing on the street, leaves the facility he was living in after being hit by the owner of the facility. After walking on the street endlessly because he has nowhere to go, he sits down in front of the road and thinks.... more>>

If I get hit by a car and die here, it'd be good if it's an expensive car.

While he was thinking like that, an expensive car stops in front of Kim Jiho, and the man who rides that car asks.

"Wanna hop in—If you have nowhere to go."

Kim Jiho, who thinks there is no goodwill without hidden intention, makes up his mind and follows the man. But the man doesn't make any demands after taking in Kim Jiho.…. <<less

The cobbled roads of Enid where horse-drawn carriages travel ・Lavilio City... more>>

A hotblooded Raymond was assigned to a special bureau in the police department that was in charge of exterminating a blood-sucking monster known as ‘Genty.’ At a secret evening party where Genty are rumored to frequent, Raymond meets Oliver, a skilled hunter who specializes in hunting down those monsters. Raymond, for some reason, gets partnered with Oliver, the melancholic and beautiful young man, yet unfriendly and with a sharp tongue, and gradually finds himself getting enchanted by his green eyes. However, Oliver refuses to acknowledge Raymond.

One day, Oliver brings up the fact that ever since he was a young child, he’s been followed around by a Genty and that anyone that gets close to him is killed. <<less

“You good-for-nothing bastard.. You are the son of a Sword Saint, yet you dare pull such a defective Class!?”... more>>

During the〈Divine Blessing Ceremony〉of the 15-year-old Elma who came from a lineage of Sword Saints, he had manifested a commonly deemed defective class known as the Heavy Knight. He had been deprived of his position as the next head of the Edvan Household and was then exiled. The Heavy Knight class had an unbalanced status and useless skills, to top it off, it was even said to be a class cowardly and indolent people have.

But, Elma knew better—that this world was the world of the game he had used to play before—and that the Heavy Knight class was the strongest class to exist. Elma made full use of the knowledge he had in his previous life and began his efficient walkthrough of the world he was reincarnated into. <<less

For a certain LoL competition, a certain online streamer famous for pissing people off was currently explaining and broadcasting it at the same time.... more>>

Streamer: This support, so tr*sh.

Streamer: If that jungler was my teammate, I would already be idling at the fountain and playing piano for him by now.

Streamer: I recommend that this player go back and properly practice how to last hit.

Audience: What bullshit! If you’re any better, then you do it!

Streamer: I, your dad, really can do it.

Audience: Okokok. If you can do it then I’ll chop off my head so you can kick it.

A few months later, the LPL’s veteran pro team TTC announced a new mid laner. A boy with flashy blue hair appeared in front of the audience and played Zed to utter perfection, killing everyone he saw, causing all the female fans to begin toeing the line of infidelity.

During the MVP interview after the match, everyone held their breath and eagerly watched this newcomer.

Only to see the boy accept the microphone, smile and ask, “That water friend with the StarTV user ID ‘Suburb King 101,’ my team’s address is on the official website, when will you be mailing your head over?”

…

After a certain regular season match finished, the staff member went backstage to urge the team members to go onstage and conduct their interviews, only to see TTC’s new mid laner and jungler standing in the corner.

TTC’s number one ace · jungler daddy Road pressed their team’s new mid laner Soft against the wall. He lowered his eyes and asked slowly, “In the interview later, do you know what to do?”

That quick-tempered mid laner, who had solidified his image as a troll in the audience’s eyes the very first time he went on stage, was currently blushing completely red. “I know. I won’t curse at anyone… I definitely won’t curse at anyone.” <<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

When Ye Mo suddenly woke up, he realized that everything around him seemed to have changed: He has been transmigrated into the modern Earth where... more>> spiritual energy is scarce. His pretty master from his former world was nowhere to be seen. Most importantly, he found himself in the body of a young man who has been abandoned by his clan for an embarrassing reason… <<less