A grieving soul is filled with mysteries, traumas, scares, and horrors. A compilation of short stories told from the perspective of those souls, unhinged, as they quench their thirst for blood. Beware as the stories might haunt you, even in your sleep. ... more>>

A book containing multiple short stories with disturbing themes and topics. Written by Malaysian writers, with various styles of story-telling and narration. It’s sure to get the readers fascinated with each writer’s weirdly-build world of imagination. <<less

After Song Juyao died and emerged from the virtual world, she learned that her entire life had just been a reality show which was led and controlled by others.... more>>

One billion viewers watched this live broadcast, all of them pointing fingers at her and ridiculing her life whilst the director team thought up every possible method to design setbacks for her, pulling her into the mud over and over again.

Then, Song Juyao was reborn. This time, her memory was not suppressed.

This was a crazy world. People were discontent and bored of their lives. They had also lost their enthusiasm for various kinds of entertainment, falling to the point of seeking all sorts of thrills in order to arouse their emotions.

Later, they found a precious treasure. She was perfect. They held her in the palm of their hands and went wild for her. They even regarded her as a God and worshipped her fanatically. <<less

The system allows her to save the world. A confused Jiang Xueqing was cast into various worlds, and into the XX story of the blackened... more>> male protagonists who will destroy the world. <<less

Unexpectedly, I grabbed the collar of the blind beast. ... more>>

Grand Duke Eléon Clevent fell into the abyss from the Empire’s Greatest Knight. Rona succeeded in making Eléon, who is obsessed with anger and frustration, into a human being again.

Soon after, Rona found her family and left his side.… When the Grand Duke’s eyes were healed, he was desperately searching for her through the entire empire.

“Young Lady, have we met somewhere?”

“It’s my first time meeting you, Your Highness.” <<less

Amane Shiranui, a high school boy who dreams of becoming a novelist in the future was writing a novel in his classroom after school, which... more>> also happens to be his daily routine. In a classroom where no one was present, he was writing a novel in pure secrecy. Takane No Hana, named after the girl Takamine Hana, who happens to learn about this out of sheer coincidence. A dull literary boy and an unattainable flower, when two people of opposite spectrum who should never encounter each other; meet; the flow of overall destiny twists. <<less

Perhaps love is like a beauty.... more>>

***

Cheng Yan is a talented but unsuccessful actor who has been in the entertainment industry for ten years. Because he always kept himself clean, refusing to accept the “unspoken rules”, he doesn’t have his company’s backing.

He is almost 30 years old, but due to a music video from his early years, he catches the eye of a wealthy businessman, Xia Shaoqian, who is seeking the feeling of a “first love”. Under his company’s pressure, and unwilling to accept that his career is going nowhere, Cheng Yan finally becomes a kept man.

This is a story about pain, ambition, and desire… but also a tender and unexpected romance.

***

A Contemptuous Beauty is the name of a song set in the novel. The beauty refers to neither the shou nor the gong. <<less

Florentia was reincarnated as the illegitimate child of the richest family in the empire.... more>>

She had thought that everything would go well in the future.

But her father had passed away, her relatives left her at the doorsteps, and the honorable family she was so proud of was completely ruined….

But is this real?

She drank a little (a lot) and was hit by a carriage,

When she opened her eyes again, she was seven years old?

Moreover, the Second Prince, who was the enemy of her family in her previous life is following her around like a dog!

“Tia, you’re prettier than me.”

“….Are you kidding me right now?”

“No. I mean it.”

Alright, both the Second Prince and the family are mine!

In this life, I’ll have to become the Overlord. <<less

What kind of people are in the Menghuilou?... more>>

The people of the world (Tian xia ren) said: "lowly people who use s*x to serve others!"

Guan Fengyue said: "The ones who use the lowly people's serve are the real lowly!" If there are no lowly men, where would there be lowly women?
Since they are all lowly people, can't everyone live in harmony?

cannot! Yin Gezhi had a dark expression on his face: "I hate lowly people the most in my life!"

However, fate makes fun of people,Guan Fengyue, being a lowly person, originally wanted to use a piece of red silk to fall into the arms of the prince of Wu, who would have thought that she gained two catties from eating too much, that the red silk could not help hanging, and she fell naked into Yin Gezhi's arms with a "clang".

Many years ago, he once had a long sword and iron horse, and he was so heroic under the battle flag, which confused Lidu Erlang's eyes.

Many years later, who wore tulle around her body, and her clothes gradually fell off in the brothel, licking her lips and smiling charmingly: "Ten taels of silver for one night, as you are good looking,I'll give you a 20% discount." <<less

After the fall of the Galactic Federation, long-time lovers Lu Li and Xie Jianwei defeated the alien invaders, and formed the Empire with Lu Li as commander. Everyone thought that all was well between them, but...... more>>

Xie Jianwei one day found out that Lu Li’s personality had split into several parts.

They were all individuals, yet they were still the same Lu Li. How could Xie Jianwei bear to watch as each Lu Li plotted to kill the others?

Xie Jianwei used his SSS-class spiritual strength to enter Lu Li’s inner world, where Lu Li was god, director and actor all in one. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Xie Jianwei had to act along with Lu Li’s delusions, or else the dreamworld would collapse, worsening Lu Li’s condition, and splitting the personalities even further. <<less

“… He passed away many years later. When I wrote his obituary, my fingers trembled so much I couldn’t even push the lens. Most things in my impression have been blurred, leaving only a shadow.... more>>

I suddenly remembered the moment when I fell in love with him. This feeling is very clear. How can I describe it better — like the wind passing through the trees, like a deer stepping over a river, like a branch of a flower caressing a butterfly’s wings. It happens to be inadvertent, but oh-so vivid and soul-stirring.”

——Zhou Yuan

Pessimistic, glum, and has a heart disease shou x deep in the closet and gentle doctor gong

/ Short / HE <<less

Feng Yang, a celestial phoenix whose spiritual roots were cut off by his biological father, plunged into the human world, where he opened the first psychological clinic on a street every weekend, in the hopes of gathering merits by rescuing humankind and regaining the chance of ascension.... more>>

The smooth sailing clinic suddenly welcomed a delusional patient…

Feng Yang: How can I help you?

Ban Yu: I can sense my dragon qi coming from your body! At a single glance, I know that you’re my fiancée!

Feng Yang: …Get lost! <<less

‘Even if our marriage, which the emperor has decided, becomes my revenge on you. Shouldn’t you endure it, my lovely bride?’... more>>

* * *

When her father’s strategy, which led to rebellion in the neighboring country to make his son-in-law king, had failed, Deatrice, who lost her fiance, ended up getting engaged with the emperor’s favorite knight to avoid the crisis that befell her family.

As the duke’s daughter, marrying a knight was a shame. What’s even worse was that the person she had to marry, the emperor’s favorite knight, was Lucius Elliot. He was her former lover, who she had to break up with because of her father’s opposition six years ago.

Lucius was a passionate and affectionate lover. However, he lost his title and his land and was pushed to the battlefield after he was proven to be an illegitimate child by the Deatrice’s father’s trick.

Six years later, the two of them faced each other with the situation reversed, bearing the bad memories of the past. Deatrice was becoming heartbroken by Lucius’ action, which she couldn’t tell whether it’s an act of revenge or regret… <<less

Riella, who runs a small flower shop, suddenly inherits all the property of Duke Herron, the most powerful jeweler.... more>>

Just because of her special “ability.”

However, there was an original heir who was decided to receive a huge inheritance.

Prince Haun, the king’s younger brother and a jeweler, appears in front of Riella, embarrassed by the unexpected inheritance and speaks.

“Everything in Duke Herron name were suppose to be mine. So I’ll get it back. Everything, including you.”

***

A long time ago, a ray of light fell on a world where nothing was visible.

The light that spread over the ground became a beautiful flower of color.

The light that spread through the ground became a jewel of a beautiful color.

In this way, light became a flower, a jewel, and each color, and came to be with people <<less

~ The Kami-sama that everyone mocked was, in fact, the Supreme God with peerless beauty ~... more>>

“I’m sorry, Eleanor. This doesn’t mean I have any ill will against you.”

My childhood friend — the Saintess Amalda, forced me to marry the so-called “Incompetent God”, who was a very ugly Kami-sama.

And yet, Amalda herself agreed anew to marry the Supreme God, and was full of happiness.

On the other hand, my previous engagement got broken, and I was driven out to the corner of the shrine; I was in a difficult position as I had to accompany the ugly, incompetent god while living inconspicuously.

… That’s how it was supposed to be, but this deity was not “incompetent” at all? Besides, I don’t know why, but the other deities seemed to revere this Kami-sama, though…? <<less

Komiya Youta is an ordinary high school boy with everything but an ordinary family environment.... more>>

When Youta enters high school, his father offers him the condition of living alone.

[To have a girlfriend by your seventeenth birthday.]

If he break the promise, living alone ends immediately and his Father said he is going to be engaged to a shut-in daughter.

Youta thought he had a year to spare, but from the first day of school, he had a one-sided love affair that persisted until he entered his second year.

Then, ten days before the limit came.

A beautiful girl who is called the goddess of the school appears in front of Youta.

“Will you go out with me?”

With that one sentence, Youta gave up his one-sided love and became a boyfriend with the most beautiful girl in his grade. ……

“I might really stab you in the back if I saw you talking happily to another girl.”

She was cool, but unexpectedly jealous.

Youta’s involvement with girls has suddenly increased since he started dating.

The drama (Shuraba) unfolds with all kinds of girls and girlfriends, including the girl he had a crush on, the prince’s girl, his fiancée, friend gal, her sister-in-law, and others.

Youta may not know, but he is actually disrupting the flags.

Behind the scene, the girls are fighting over him. <<less

A middle-aged man who once spent his youth on gal games found himself waking up in the world of his old favorite galge, “Under the Clear Blue Sky” popularly known as “Kumosora” as the protagonist Naruse Yuuki.... more>>

Kumosora is a typical visual novel drama game that he used to play and is completely familiar on how to capture the game’s heroine’s route. Now he’s ready to embark on capturing the heroine – NOT!

Why?! Because the way to get the happy ending is too difficult!

That’s right. Kumosora is a typical Japanese Romance-horror style galge set in the countryside with lots of depressing elements! And the game developer is a nasty guy known for his R18 humiliation game! No matter what route the protagonist takes he must endure a gruesome, painful and excruciating ordeal!

“I will never capture any heroine! I’m going to smash all these depressive flags before they even appear!”

Using his knowledge as a former broker and the knowledge about the future. The middle-aged man builds up his financial strength to gain power.

“A depressing event at the head shrine, buy it and block it! Yakuza trying something to do lascivious to the heroine? Hire a mercenary and crush them!”

This is the story of a man who reincarnated in a depressing game and refuses to capture any heroines. And using his financial power, he forcibly destroys any depressing flags.

But the saved heroine won’t stay silent…

“Puhihi. Yu-kun. good morning”

“Oi! Heroine – san, stay away! I don’t want to go down on your [3000 years of Loneliness] route!” <<less

Jiang Jiuqing is the princess of a vanquished nation. No one knows her extreme cleverness hidden under her ordinary skin——she also doesn’t want others to know either. Staying out of things is her manner towards handling affairs, and wanting nothing is the norm in her life. However she has a white moonlight. After not seeing him for many years, he has now completely blackened, causing trouble everywhere——The world’s number one lobbyist, the peerless and magnificent Young Master Ji Yu.... more>>

Jiang Jiuqing had always thought that the reason why her white moonlight is a white moonlight is because he has forgotten about her, and will never belong to her. He is her master, and she assists him in lobbying the world. They are just allies, a symbiosis relationship, mutually using each other.

A long, long time later, Ji Yu said——

“This world is frantic and absurd. Malicious people die an ugly death, and the merciless people are sought after. I was never reluctant to leave until I met you.”

There are thousands of people in the world, and thousands of beauties, yet it is only you who can disturb my heart.

Are you ready to fall in love with the smartest and most cold-hearted people in the world?

The calm and cool-headed princess of a vanquished nation x the ruthless and revengeful number one lobbyist.

Male and female leads are both very strong, white cuts black.

“White cuts black” = someone who looks very gentle on the outside, but in fact, is actually very ruthless and two-faced <<less

The overhead of the Tang Dynasty, the story of capturing the spirits.... more>>

“The stones on the other mountains are hard enough to carve and polish jade”.

To Prince Cheng, Lin Chengyou, Teng Yuyi is the piece of “jade” that he can not capture.

The proud son of the heavens is on the road to chase his wife to death. <<less

The first time Wei Lan and Xie Si met, she thought, the three obediences and four virtues as well as kindness and generosity could be cultivated. So long as the person himself was good looking, it was enough.... more>>

Many years later, having reached the highest official position, while facing the bunch of colleagues she had teased and having the vinegar king Xie Shi behind her back, she felt that her face hurt. It really hurt.

This is a story of a female Prime Minister from a matriarchal society that kept climbing up the official ranks while falling in love when she transmigrated into a patriarchal society.

Pompous and outstanding female x Facial paralysis Vinegar king male.

Female lead transmigrated while the male lead was reborn. <<less

“To be my wife, you have to keep the three things I said earlier. Can you do it? If you don’t want to, go back now.”... more>>

What Sang-yeon wanted from Minju was a wife and a ghost bride. A being that exists, but does not exist.

“No, this is my home now. I’m not going back.”

Minju and Sang-yeon agreed to a secret marriage between the two unbeknownst to the rest of the world.

Why didn’t Minju suspect it even once?

She should have been suspicious of Park Sang-yeon, a world-renowned conductor representing Korea, when he said he loved her.

As to the real reason why he wanted to marry her. <<less

Se-eun broke up with Do-won, who was trying to keep their relationship secret while hiding his engagement.
She meets him, the representative of an important business, five years later.... more>>

“Are you saying you’re no longer the old Jeong Se-eun anymore?”

“If that’s all you need, I’ll stop…”

“You don’t think the relationship with Shinhwa Department Store is very important.”

Dowon wants to have her, even if he must utilize every single tool in his arsenal to do so.
Se-eun acknowledges all her regrets and accepts his request.

* * *

“No other woman while you're dating me. As you already know, one person at a time, that's my rule. Neither a hidden fiancée nor a wife.”

“Anything else?”

“Anytime I want it to end it, that’s the end of the relationship. Also, no one should know about our relationship.”

Do-won put down the cup he was holding and stood up.

“Then I have to satisfy my needs as much as possible in a short period of time…”

He grabbed Se-eun's arm and slowly pulled her up.

"Right?"

He lowered his head without waiting for an answer. Se-eun closed her eyes tightly as his hard body presses against her firmly; his hot lips covered hers. <<less

Arhin, a girl who is about to get married like she is being sold because her family's prestige is deteriorating.... more>>

“Would you like to kiss me once?”

In order to have her first kiss with a wonderful person, she kissed a handsome man at a party, but her marriage was canceled.

However, her family was still in dire straits, so she disguised herself as a man to join the knights who were said to give a lot of money…….

"Have we met before?"

The handsome man was there. Of all people, he is the commander. <<less

Ahelissa Seraf, a traitor who became a helper of the tyrant.... more>>

“Your parents abandoned you. So forget about it and live.”

She grew up as an orphan in the Pelanders, the assassination guild of the Kingdom of Lobel. However, Ahelissa, who had grown into an adult, ignored their warning. She left her home as an independent woman to search for her parents who had abandoned her. Instead, she finds an injured man in an alley near her house and helps, and unable to turn her gaze from the pitiful lad, she offers a helping hand.

The man was none other than the most powerful in the Kingdom of Lobel. The king.

“There’s something I want to check.” The man caressed her skin with his calloused hands and whispered, “I wish you could come with me to my palace. That’s my suggestion.” He was acting strange, spouting dangerous suggestions.

It was even stranger that Ahelissa couldn’t find herself rejecting his proposal. <<less

Crown Prince Cael appeared before Irene, the knight abandoned by the kingdom to whom she had been loyal to all her life. He had declared to worship her, kissing the ground she walked on, for he desired to be her husband.... more>>

For a moment, Irene’s heart shook.

Will Cael be able to capture Irene’s heart? <<less

As a river demon who loved life, Yun Fanfan found it hard to believe that there were still people who did not want to live... more>> in this world. Thus, with a system on her, she embarked on the journey to save the male gods.
 
"Host, the male god, needs warmth!"
 
Hold on, I’ll immediately...
 
"Ho... host, the male god seems to have fallen for you."
 
"Ah..." says Yun Fanfan.
 
Holding a knife, the male god approached closer, step by step, as he said, smiling, "You said you wouldn’t leave me."
 
Can you please put the knife down first and then talk? <<less