My husband, Xie Wu Chen, was a genius sword cultivator, while I was just a mortal.... more>>

Xie Wu Chen despised foolish people.

To catch up with him, I worked hard at cultivation, but he remained indifferent:

"You have no spiritual roots, it's a waste of effort."

Later, he ascended, and I remarried.

On the day of my wedding, he descended to the mortal realm, his sword placed against my husband's neck:

"Do you really want to marry this useless person?"

I stood before the sword, holding my mortal husband's hand, and looked straight at Xie Wu Chen:

"Yes, because he never thought I was s*upid."

Xie Wu Chen sneered:

"Just because of that?"

I nodded seriously:

"Just because of that." <<less

This is a short story of a Mackerel meeting with the Emperor.... more>>

Rank 3rd in Syosetsu's top 100 in Funny category as of 11/27/22.

A good read for a break from long novels and chapters. <<less

“Until the day humanity falls.”... more>>

In the year 2020, Earth’s magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.

In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.

An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.

But An Zhe’s mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng’s eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds…

Silver Award winner at the 12th Chinese Nebula Awards for Chinese Science Fiction. <<less

A demon was in trouble, so he decided to summon on a human helper. 

Mimizuku, a small girl with chains on her wrists and ankles and the numbers "332" branded onto her forehead, wanders into the Forest of Night... more>> seeking to be eaten by a monster. However, when the ruler of the monsters, the mysterious and beautiful "King of Night," refuses to eat her, she tries to formulate a way to convince him otherwise. <<less

“Let’s make a contract. You’ll be owned by me.”... more>>

“I shall serve you as if I loved you, my lady.”

An earl's daughter and a lover of paintings, Riz, is told “Give yourself to me” by John, the temporary art gallery manager employed by her uncle. However, those words weren’t of love or romance, but because he wanted the “Holy Eyes” that could see the demons lurking in paintings which Riz had. Pressed into a contract by John, who was actually a demon, the response Riz gave was— that she was going to own a demon!?

This is a love fantasy concerning the painting of an unconventional young lady and a caustic demon! <<less

The holographic online game NPC Feng Lianzhu and an interstellar dragon were bound together by the system, swapping to complete each other’s tasks, and the worlds on both sides were chaotic.... more>>

Interstellar World: Holy shit! The cosmic dragon that only robbed actually helped the weak, promoted justice, and went to college!

Online Game World: WTF? What’s going on with Feng Lianzhu? I’ve respawned ten times and my equipment was completely blown up, and he’s only dropped a drop of blood?

This spicy chicken game is not humane! There was no announcement for these setting changes! Recruiting full-level players to form a team, 30 teams, players with a ranking below 100 will not be used. <<less

Five hundred years have passed since the humans went extinct at the hands of the fearsome and mysterious 'Beasts'. The surviving races now make their homes up on floating islands in the sky, out of reach of all but the most mobile of Beasts.... more>>

Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to fend off invasions from these creatures. Into the girls’ unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything in his final battle five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

Unable to fight any longer, Willem becomes the father that the girls never had, caring for and nurturing them even as he struggles to come to terms with his new life, in which he feels the pain of helplessly waiting for his loved ones to return home from battle that his 'Daughter' once felt for him so long ago. Together, Willem and the girls gradually come to understand what family means and what is truly worth protecting. <<less

Chi Qiong was the only surviving ancient divine phoenix in the heavens and earth, having slumbered for billions of years before being awakened by a mediocre spirit contract master named Yun Xiguang in modern times.... more>>

He discovered that the wings that once overshadowed the heavens had turned into tender little wings, and his once majestic figure that towered over ancient beasts had become a round, chubby, fluffy body that could be held in the palm of one’s hand—a mere fledgling.

Chi Qiong gazed sternly at the spirit contract master Yun Xiguang with his tiny, bean-like eyes:

"Human, become my spirit-servant; lend me thy aid to restore mine ancient power, and I shall grant thee ten thousand years of glory."

However, when he opened his mouth, all that came out was: "Chirp, chirp, chirp!"

In order to show this ignorant human his might, Chi Qiong bestowed upon him a single phoenix feather.

Yun Xiguang picked up the downy feather that had fallen to the ground and sighed: "Sigh, the only spirit beast willing to respond to me is a little chick that sheds feathers. What else can I do? I’ll just have to dote on it."

—

[Modern Spiritbond Master Shou X Ancient Divine Phoenix Chirping Gong] l <<less

He was the first animal on this planet to have emerged from the waters to walk on land.... more>>

He sat on the sandy beach, looking down at his hands.

He had five fingers on each hand, joined together by blue webbing. He stared at his hands. The webbing disappeared, seemingly absorbed into his body.

His skin became hard and dry. Textures began to form.

He sat there, pondering.

Who am I?

He seemed to be experiencing rather than thinking.

He could sense the damp heat of water vapour caressing his body; hear the quiet sloshing of water from afar, wave after wave; feel the grains of white sand digging into his skin.

He experienced things. But when he reached with his hand, he could not seem to grasp what they were.

He reached again and touched the corners of his mouth, noticing its upward arch. He made an expression known to humans as a smile.

Soon, the expression shifted into something else.

He sat there, cried and laughed, crying and laughing, as his chest rioted with brimming emotions. <<less

At a unspecified point in the future, the Earth dies. Then, a genius engineer only known as “Y” manages to revive the Earth using only gears and clockwork. Thus the world is renamed “Clockwork Planet”, with cities being build inside the planet’s gears.... more>>

A thousand years later Naoto Miura, a student and lover of machines living in the Kyoto gear, finds a crate has crashed through the roof of his apartment. Inside the crate is a coffin containing the broken body of an automaton.

Using his superior sense of hearing, Naoto fixes the automaton, who is named RyuZU Yours*ave, who reveals she has been broken for over 200 years. RyuZU promises complete loyalty to Naoto and the two become close. Later they meet two people trying to find RyuZU: Dr. Marie Bell Breguet, the youngest person to become a “meister”, a group of master engineers; and her bodyguard Vainney Halter.

A month after their encounter, all four appear in Akihabara, Tokyo, having now become the world’s most infamous terrorists <<less

It was the twenty-third year of Tianxi. Rumours traversed the streets that the all-knowing Imperial Advisor suffered a great calamity and could not help but enter seclusion to focus on cultivation. However, the commoners secretly clapped their hands and rejoiced. In the winter of the same year, a young monk appeared in the Hui Zhou Fu’s Ningyang District. ... more>>

The monk’s monastic title was Xuan Min, his memories all missing, yet was versed in the arts of Feng Shui Kan Yu. On the very first day arriving in Ningyang, he did not hesitate to take care of a dangerous manor, picking up Xue Xian, who was hidden there, along the way.

Since then, Xue Xian – who had been all-powerful in the first half of his life – gained a new life pursuit: to get this baldy who had only a good outer appearance to take his last breath and “smile from his grave”.

Xue Xian: If you are unhappy, then I will be happy. If you die, I’ll laugh my ass off.

Xuan Min: … <<less

After being fired, Lu Qingjiu finally decided to return to his hometown to farm.... more>>

At first, he started raising a pig, and then he found that the pig could solve more high-level math questions than he could.

After that, he started raising a flock of chickens, and then he found that his own fighting ability was one-tenth of that of a single chicken.

Finally, Lu Qingjiu finally realised that this old home wasn’t quite right… Especially a certain person by his side who constantly stared at him day in and day out.

Lu Qingjiu: “Are you drooling because of the spicy stir-fry I’m holding or because of me?”

Bai Yuehu pointed at the stir-fry.

Lu Qingjiu: “Then can you let go??”

Bai Yuehu reluctantly glanced at Lu Qingjiu’s arm, before loosening his teeth. <<less

First World:... more>>

In a future world where biological mutations occur, Yu Yan transmigrates as a researcher in a biological laboratory.

His research subject is a genetically mutated experimental subject, carrying various dangerous viruses, yet considered the villain of this world.

Originally in the plot, he was a psychologically deranged and malicious cannon fodder, constantly tormenting this experimental subject, so when the latter escaped, it casually disposed of him.

Yu Yan, a lazy corporate drone, always ready to slack off.

Second World:

Yu Shi, true to his name, is an honest person who enjoys handicrafts and housework the most.

Transmigrating into a strange world to work as a caregiver for a patient in a large family? Truly a perfect match for his professional skills!

Although this patient is strange, capable of spinning cocoons and transforming into butterflies, the working environment is excellent and the benefits are abundant, leaving Yu Shi very satisfied.

As for villain, what concern are they to this simple and industrious worker?

Third World:

Yu Le transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation as a minor cannon fodder, but with a twisted sense of amusement, he immediately sets his sights on the villain.

The villain, who in the future will kill his master and betray his friends, has now become a devoted senior brother in the sect, practicing Pure-Heart technique, and secretly admiring his junior sister.

Yu Le exposes his pure demon body, revealing his demonic bloodline ahead of time, and with a mischievous smile at his collapsing face, says, “Your crazed appearance looks really good, I like it.”

Fourth World:

Yu Mo opens his eyes to find himself dressed in women’s clothing, participating in a ritual dedicated to the Moon Goddess.

In this world, worshipping the Moon Goddess is considered heretical, and if discovered by mainstream followers of the Light, he could be killed.

But Yu Mo remains unfazed because the Moon Goddess’s proxy has already infiltrated the Light Church and risen to a high position.

This successful spy villain is regarded by the ladies of the imperial capital as a mature, stable, gentle, and considerate gentleman.

Yet Yu Mo’s assessment of him is: “A love-struck fool.”

Fifth World:

Yu Guang, as the eldest brother, is a responsible beacon of righteousness.

He grabs hold of that dark, malicious, insecure, and utterly hopeless natural-born bad guy, laughing heartily and saying,

“There’s no difficulty we can’t overcome. Come on, roll up your sleeves, and run with me to bask in the sun!”

…

System: So you’re all just going to do whatever you want, regardless of whether I live or die?

…

# Yu Family’s Five Brothers: Binding with the Villain Supervision System, Crossing Different Worlds to Monitor (Really?) the Villains #

#Sweet Stories# <<less

【Adorable, timid ghost uke X affectionate, wife-pampering, powerful exorcist seme】... more>>

How to successfully catch a timid and cute ghost?

Step One: Never draw the curtains of the room.

Step Two: Always stay alone in the corner.

Step Three: Accept all the gifts he brings.

Looking at the severed tail of a house lizard at his feet, Lian Yi picked it up without flinching, placing it in his room’s drawer. There were many such things — dilapidated toys, a bottle filled with some unknown viscous liquid, broken pens, a sparrow feather and so on…

Lian Yi closed the drawer and went to knock on the wardrobe door: “Are you there?”

A moment later, the door creaked open a crack from inside, revealing several slender, pale fingers, then a delicately beautiful face, shyly looking at him.

***

After spending some time with the human who had kept him, Nan Deng’s days had become more comfortable and nourishing.

This person, although always icy cold, neither laughing nor talking, treated the ghost Nan Deng quite well. He would protect him, indulge him, and feed him. Nan Deng liked him very much and wanted to always be with him.

Until later, Nan Deng accidentally discovered the real identity of this person was an exorcist.

A ruthless, cruel, slaying ghosts without blinking exorcist.

——The natural enemy of ghosts.

Nan Deng trembled in fear and fled in the night.

However, he wasn’t able to get far before he was found by Lian Yi.

Lian Yi was no longer pretending. With a gloomy countenance, surrounded by ruins filled with corpses and overwhelmed with menacing energy, his voice was soft and low, urging, “Nan Deng, come here.”

***

Lately, a piece of news had been circulating among the ghosts.

Yezhang Tower had suddenly collapsed, and the Ghost King imprisoned inside had escaped.

The ghosts cheered and were ecstatic, preparing to pay respects to the supposedly ruthless, fierce Ghost King.

“The Ghost King shall lead us to conquer the three realms!”

“Decapitate those damn exorcists!”

“Brothers, charge!”

However, when the ghosts, led by the grievous energy, finally found the fabled Ghost King, they saw him trembling behind the most powerful human and Chief Exorcist, Lian Yi, saying, “They’re so scary…” <<less

Banished from her cultivation sect, Yan Hui accepts a hunt to earn money. She encounters the snake demon she’s hunting but is wounded in the fight. The snake demon flees, and she is forced to stay in remote mountain village until she regains her magic. During her time in the village, Yan Hui stumbles upon several mysteries. Who is the strange boy that seems to be hiding his true nature? And who is the woman dressed in white? ... more>>

Yan Hui finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy. With fingers pointing at her former shifu as the culprit, Yan Hui sets out to find the truth. <<less

【if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you】... more>>

The abyss, the most feared thing by the human race today. The animals infected by the abyss mutate into monsters, and humans are reduced to walking corpses.

Lu Tinghan is an abyss watcher. He has been guarding the world’s most terrifying abyss for ten years.

This abyss is not only scary, but also strange.

Throw the garbage down, after a few days, the garbage will be buried safely next to the abyss – like someone took a shovel and tossed it all night to bury them.

Throw hazardous waste down, after a few days, the waste will be thrown back with unbridled fury.

Lu Tinghan: ?

Ten years later, he left the post and became the youngest general in the Alliance.

The next day, the abyss was also gone.

——The whole thing disappeared and turned into flat land.

The whole world was shocked.

Until one day, there was a knock on Lu Tinghan’s door.

A boy with little devil horns stood outside the door, with delicate features and bright eyes. Obviously, he was scared to death, but he still plucked up the courage to say: “Hello, I, I am Abyss, can you continue to stare at me? QAQ”

He added: “I have helped you bury the garbage every day, oh!”

During their long time together, Lu Tinghan learned two things:

1. Staring at your abyss every day, the abyss will be happy

2. When the abyss is happy, it will purr toward you <<less

Lin Yi failed the college entrance exams and chose a diploma mill university.... more>>

And as deserving of a diploma mill university, the first line of the admission letter read:

[Student Lin Yi, we regret to inform that you are admitted to the Unnatural Engineering University.]
The second line: 【For your safety, we ask that you read the campus rules repeatedly.】 <<less

It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it.... more>>

Lin Qiushi soon found that a sense of disharmony and incongruity began to pervade everything around him.

Then, one odd day, he pushed open a door, and he discovered that the hallway he was familiar with turned into a boundless corridor.

At both ends of this corridor were twelve, identical iron gates.

He pushed one of the doors

Thus, the story begins.

Ruan Nanzhu said to Lin Qiushi, “When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze back into you.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Qiushi sank into deep contemplation. He then pulled down the zipper of his trousers and aimed at the abyss…

Ruan Nanzhu: “…Put your pants on properly!”

Super shameless, ill-pampered gong X Shameless, calm shou; a combination of double [or extreme] shamelessness. <<less

– The planet [Earth] has entered the abnormal state [Apocalypse].... more>>

– You have failed in saving the Earth. The Authority, [Vintage Clock (EX)] rewinds the world’s time.

For Yu Jitae, it was a message he had seen many times.

It was tiresome.

It would have been great had he died with everyone else.

But he couldn’t, for his authorities that made him the strongest existence, brought him back in time whenever he died.

And even with his strength, he couldn’t protect the broad earth against the maddened dragons.

– The world’s time will soon begin.

As the clock resumed ticking in the direction it should, his 7th iteration came to a start.

Fortunately, he finally had the gist of it. <<less

After the disappearance of his parents, Chen Ge inherits the family-run haunted house attraction at an amusement park. Struggling to bring in customers, he discovers a black phone that grants him the chance to improve his haunted house with expanded scenarios, mastery of skills, the possibility of inviting supernatural inhabitants, and even clues as to what happened to his parents—but first, he must complete terrifying and dangerous haunted quests within 24 hours.... more>>

——

The hearse with the weird odor slowed to a stop before the entrance. The sound of pebbles could be heard bouncing on the ceiling. There were footsteps coming from the corridor, and there seemed to be someone sawing next door. The door knob to the room rattled slightly, and the faucet in the bathroom kept dripping even though it had been screwed shut. There was a rubber ball that rolled on its own underneath the bed. Wet footsteps started to surface one after another on the floor.

At 3 am, Chen Ge held a cleaver in his hand as he hid beside the room heater. The call he was trying to make was finally answered. “Landlord, is this what you meant by ‘the house can be a little crowded at night’‽” <<less

Lin Shuishi was born paralyzed from the waist down, but died in a car accident while trying to save his mother. Unexpectedly, he was transmigrated into the body of a "Ger" (man who can bear children) in ancient times. Before he could even collect his thoughts, he was gagged and tied up, with the villagers planning to carry him to Dongshan Mountain as a sacrifice to the wolves.... more>>

"Am I going to die this quickly...?"

But Lin Shuishi shouted in his heart:

"I finally have legs! Even if I'm going to die, I'll choose to run to death!"

And so, the pack of wolves on Dongshan Mountain witnessed a

"two-legged beast" madly running through the snowy forest...

The wolves thought this was some sort of madness, feared it might be contagious, and decided it needed to be dealt with! So, they called upon the Wolf King's brother, who also had two legs.

Without a word, the second leader, Fuli picked him up and threw him into his own wolf den.

The next year, due to their constant hard work day and night, they ended up with a cub.

But when the wolf husband, Fuli, looked at the eleven cubs in the Wolf King's den, and then at the lone cub born to his little husband, his dark golden eyes were filled with confusion!

"Am I not as capable as the Wolf King? That shouldn't be the case! Oh well, I'll just have to work harder from now on!"

(Insert terrified expression of Lin Shuishi here) <<less

In the tides of time, humankind has lost their position as the wisest of all creatures. The Steel City that suddenly rose in the center... more>> of the eastern lands and a man-made god, ‘Father,’ have replaced them. Mechs have taken over the world of this petri dish, Astrolabe, that the ancient Creators have left behind. One day, a young human s*ave named A-Ka finds a black-haired male on a beach of Desolate Sea… The world of Astrolabe is about to reboot, so what will become of the future of the humans, androids, and mechs? <<less

Ye Tong was a timid and useless evil spirit.... more>>

Lu Yan was an extremely bold and incomparably talented man that could touch evil spirits.

Evil spirits needed to rely on absorbing human fears for sustenance, but Lu Yan wasn't afraid at all, and Ye Tong was an earthbound spirit so he couldn't leave......

So Ye Tong had to worry about being hungry everyday, and get frightened by Lu Yan, get mocked by Lu Yan, had this and that done to him by Lu Yan...... <<less

Chaos had risen, signifying that the next generation of the Demon King was about to be reborn.... more>>

In what seemed like another usual attack from demons, Nemo Light was heading towards a shelter when he ran into Oliver Ramon, who was heading back to town to find his father, being chased by a demon. In the process of saving him, he inadvertently formed a contract with it.

As they returned to town, they found it ablaze, and while trying to figure out why, they were wrongly accused of being demon worshippers and were hunted down by the church.

With no options left, they set about becoming mercenaries to survive while slowly discovering that their ordinary lives may not be so ordinary.

Thus began the adventure of a gentle knight and an unwilling mage. <<less