“Musketeer Code – no all for one, just one for all.”... more>>

Gibbs, Ray, KJ and Troll – a group of the most popular male students that had the best relationship in an elite boarding school. The four created the Musketeer Code – the rule that did not allow anyone among them to have a steady girlfriend, but any kind of scandals was welcomed to be shared with the others.

Until that rule was broken… and a psychotic chick sparked a tragedy that would haunt their lives. Then — <<less

What I promised my childhood friend, You-kun.... more>>

I’ll be with you forever……..

So I’m going there too. <<less

The youth, a seminary student, one day saw a prostitute with a tattoo of a blue flower on her arm in a back alley. From... more>> that day on, his happiness was shattered. <<less

I, Bouchi Hiro, was ostracized by the entire school because I stood up against the student who held an absolute power in the school. But no matter what kind of bullying I received every day, I never yielded. Today as well, I was getting beaten up behind the school building. But at that moment, I heard the students screaming―That was the moment when the world was transformed.... more>>

On the school grounds, the students were being attacked and killed one after another by monsters that seemed to have come out from an RPG. Using this opportunity, I managed to escape and return home safely. Then at that time, I realized that I had a strange power dwelling inside me. A skill called “Shop”.

As long as I could pay for it, I have the ability to buy variety of items on Earth, and even fantasy items that couldn’t possibly exist on Earth. In this world, where humans were gradually being wiped out, I decided to make the most of my new skill to live a slow, comfortable life free of worries.

It was truly thrilling and delightful to see all the people whom hated and ostracized me being killed one after another because they didn’t have the power I did.

This is the payback story of a boy who was once bullied, and uses his skill to take advantage of those who are now left with nothing. <<less

N/A

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

Lin Feng was a diligent and hard-working person. He studied hard, did his best to make his family proud, and not get into trouble, but when he saw a girl being taken advantage of, he had to intervene. Being tricked, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail due to being framed for a crime he had never committed, losing everything. Before his life was over, he would first take those who ruined his life with him.... more>>

Suddenly, he opened his eyes. Instead of dying, he woke up in the body of a different world's Lin Fen, alive. This other Lin Feng had been killed as he was tr*sh at cultivation. This world was one where the strong had no regard for human life, killing freely if they had the strength. Called “tr*sh” and thrown away, he will rise to new heights, going against heaven and earth's will.

“Do not judge others ignorantly within my presence.

Those who think of harming someone should be ready to be harmed.

Those who are open and respectful shall receive my kindness and respect.

Those who plot against me are seeking their own death.

This is true, for I am death… I am Lin Feng.” <<less

You are a single father living alone with your 16 year old daughter.... more>>

But one day —

Your daughter dies.

su*cide.

A month later, an extra game APP appears on your phone. The main character of the game is your daughter, who is being abused, violated, and ravaged.

The APP suggests that you have the chance to reset her life. <<less

If one day, you accidentally go to the Republic of China… then meet your fiancé, who is a cold and dark man with whom you are engaged to; his brother, who is elegant, melancholy, gentle and understanding; an entrepreneur, who is a powerful businessman, who invests in a factory to save his country; a professor, who is a gentleman, elegant and cool, who is full of knowledge; and a young mixed-race young master, who is trendy, fun-loving and playful… what would you do?... more>>

Shi Yao’s goal is to embrace any one of them and then immediately kick his fiancé out, and from then on, he will be rich, have three wives and four concubines, and live happily ever after… Haha!

Wait, isn’t my fiancé not interested in me?

Why is my fiancé’s brother so clingy?

Why is the entrepreneurial boss looking at me strangely?

Why is there a hint of immodesty in the Professor’s proper manner? <<less

A noble lady seek revenge After she was killed by her fiance.

This bizarre story is about a girl, who transmigrated to olden days using her bracelet with the identity of an assassin. But this assassination will... more>> not be repeated again. <<less

We have the legend of the Saffron Maiden since ancient times
Legend has it that she was a little girl who committed su*cide
Later, many... more>> strange things happened
And several people died
But the truth is something else... <<less

This is the kingdom of Fazan.... more>>

During a party at the royal castle, the First Prince declares to his fiance:

“Millia: regrettably, I am breaking my engagement with you.”

And the moment before Lady Millia, the Prince’s Fiance, was about to be sentenced to deportation…

The body of the First Prince’s paramour was discovered!

Lady Millia, whose engagement was just broken, was suspected of being the mu*derer, however…

She was a detective in her previous life?!!

And so she challenges the mystery to prove her innocence. <<less

“You useless worthless fool! I cared for you for so many years yet—you have [Farmer] and a skill called [Poison Resistance]!? What a disgrace!”... more>>

The ritual taken at the age of 15- [Heaven’s Blessing].

Under that, I was given the job [Farmer] and skill [Poison Resistance]. Though born in a famed noble house of swordsmen, Under the heap of abuses and shouts, I had my seat as the inheritor to the house taken away and exiled from my house by my father.

At loss, and with no future in sight—-It was revealed that the skill [Poison Resistance] was actually [Null Poison]. And then, an encounter with an ancient book; I would come to learn the usefulness of my skill.

Yes, what was considered a waste skill, [Null Poison], was actually a strong skill that could quite literally nullify “any” kind of poisonous substance. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

On the first day of the second semester, Yuzuru Kazuki finds himself suddenly trapped in a phenomenon where he repeats the same day.... more>>

The reason is unknown.

Faced with something that cannot be explained by science, Yuzuru feels helpless.

However, changes begin to emerge within the repeating days.

The first time——a love letter was dropped into his shoe locker, but he ignored it because the girl didn’t specify where she would be waiting.

The second time——the love letter had a meeting place written on it. When he went, he was confessed to and rejected the confession.

The third time——there was no love letter, but the girl who wrote the love letter approached him directly.

Unlike other people, the girl takes different actions every time.

But then, she casually muttered,

「——I can just start over again.」

Upon hearing this line, he starts to think that the cause of this phenomenon is her, Akari Sakurazaka. <<less

It's boring if you only read love stories, right?... more>>

Try this novel. But don’t read it alone! Make sure there’s someone with you since you might start feeling strange. Or you might just hallucinate about things that shouldn’t be. This novel is not for those with a weak spirit but for those who want to work their mind and strengthen their heart. The more you read, the more you will think and faster your heart will beat. Don’t believe me? Try it… <<less

Don’t know since when there was a box inside the elevator in the corridor.... more>>

An ordinary cardboard box, a bit large, placed neatly against the wall in the corner of the elevator and occupied nearly a quarter of the space.

The box wasn't sealed shut.

It was dark inside, who knows what was inside of it. <<less

Lu Hui is a genius, but he has an odd temperament. ... more>>

The director of Linhua City’s Bureau of Public Safety, Gao Zhengcheng, personally invited Lu Hui to head the serious crimes division, taking over to solve particularly tricky homicide cases.

And so opens Linhua City’s collection of cases. <<less

Lin Wen had a secret. And ever since a certain point, he started feeling like he was being watched.

A newlywed couple are mu*dered in their bridal chamber on their wedding night leads to open fighting between Ouyang and Sima Manors. Amazing Constable Shen Ying personally takes on the case.... more>>

A gold hairpin holds the key to finally exposing the truth of this mu*der case…

The Bloody Bridal Chamber is Book #4 of Hong Kong author Ximen Ding’s Amazing Hawk Constables wuxia mystery series. <<less

While gathering therapeutic herbs in the highlands, Monica, a pharmacy apprentice, notices a man and a lady who look out of place. The man turned... more>> out to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as I approached to warn them of a dangerous cliff ahead!? Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the mountains by himself, without an escort, and with a woman? His Royal Highness was pushed by the woman as she hesitated to approach, and as a result, he fell off a cliff. What ought I to do? What ought I to do? Will Monica's future be bright after she unintentionally became a witness? <<less

The Rainy Mansion was a house that looked damp and gloomy even on a sunny day. It was a place where the boundary between the living and the dead was ambiguous.... more>>

When a mu*der case happened at the Rainy Mansion, it seemed it could be easily solved because the heritance dispute among the residents was well known.

The detectives investigating the case were perplexed by the strange deduction made by Ayano Hayase, a beautiful woman who was freeloading at the mansion.

“The open roof is a locked-room.”

“There is a granny ghost inside the closet.”

It was said that the criminal cases at the Rainy Mansion would always end up being cold cases. And now, a serial mu*der had occurred there.

A rookie detective, Tanimoto, was working hard to solve the case while being puzzled by words and action of the poker face beauty Ayano. <<less

A woman’s pale shoulder and back appeared in the dark. Soon, a scalding iron brand approached her skin. The iron branded her skin with ‘娼’ to indicate her stigma as a prostitute. With this stamped on her body, she was now branded as a prostitute and could no longer escape this status for the rest of her life.... more>>

Amidst the pain burning into her flesh, she remembered. The man who had ruined her family. The man who had killed her family. The man she had once loved. She would have her revenge.

***

EunSeo’s eyes widened in astonishment and fear.

After she had decided to accept her fate as a prostitute, she knew that she wouldn’t be able to reject anyone.

However, not this man. She would accept every other man in the world, but she could never give herself to this man.

“I…” He opened his mouth and spoke in a low, grave voice. “I bought you.” <<less

Every city has malice and grievances which cannot be eliminated, and the place where they gather is the city’s chasm. Those who trespass into the chasm would realise that they will never be able to resolve those grievances. All they can hope to do is to find a way out before they are devoured by it.... more>>

General summary: Two men were trapped in a hospital that had a sudden blackout. Relying on a flashlight and a record book, they have to source clues from the book’s entries about the hospital’s paranormal history to find an escape route.

Suspense √ Horror √ Puzzle solving √ Pseudo detective work √

Men flirting with each other in dangerous situations…… ☓

The original plan was to leave the romance ambiguous, but the main characters started writing their own slowburn love story while running away from danger together.

CP: So obvious there’s no chance of ever boarding the wrong boat. <<less