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

"Living under one roof with a beautiful girl, isn't that great?... more>>

The protagonist, Aoi Yonemura, decided in his heart not to date girls anymore due to a trauma from middle school. He proceeded to a high school that not many of his middle school classmates applied to, which required him to commute by train from his home. However, just before entering high school, someone new moved in under the same roof.

She was a doll-like beauty. But, this beauty despised boys!? It's a romantic comedy where a boy with such trauma and a girl who dislikes boys end up living together under one roof." <<less

Tang Xicheng walks out of the dormitory building and sees Liang Yuzhi talking on the phone by the railing. She hears three sentences:... more>>

“Sending someone to school.”

“Well… it’s a relative’s child.”

“What can I feel?” He laughs faintly, “Can’t even talk, so boring.”

The story revolves around a 6-year age difference. It’s about a narcissistic male protagonist who thinks a naive and sweet female protagonist is deeply in love with him, only to find out that’s not the case. <<less

Pei Wanyue, beautiful and successful Eldest daughter of the Pei family. Was going about her daily life until her friend started acting strange........ more>>

Friend: I won't let you hurt my favorite character!

Pei Wanyue: ?

Friend: You can't have the male lead!

Pei Wanyue: ??

Friend: So what if you're the female lead? I have transmigrated for a reason! I will take your place!

Pei Wanyue, finally fed up: *dials the mental hospital* Hello, there is a schizophrenic patient here-

.....

Male lead: I love you so much that I will **** you and keep you chained in my own little garden

Pei Wanyue: *slowly backs away and pulls out a knife*

......

He had not known her but ink on paper read in the darkest of nights of his own demons.

"the universe knew how much I long for you to actually exist...."

???: "And the universe knew how much I long to indeed exist and be with you" <<less

It is said that all unexplainable mysteries that occur in our world is part of the fragments of "God's nightmares." When these nightmares floats into people minds, they are mixed together with their fear, ill intentions and insanity. Bit by bit as the world is manipulated, it creates the tales of nightmare.... more>>

Shirano Aoi, a boy who treasures his ordinary daily life and Tokitsuki Yukino, a girl who is haunted by her past encounters each other in "Cinderella's Nightmare," which was created by humans insanity. What is the fate awaiting for them——!? <<less

Following the collapse of the Republic of Zeon’s autonomy, the Earth Federation government declared an end to all wars. However, the absolute control exerted by... more>> the Earth Federation government has caused the system to decay. Government brass abused their privileges and forcefully deported illegal residents into outer space in a practice known as “manhunting”. The year is Universal Century 0105. In order to break the decayed system of the Federation, the secret society “Mufti” begins its operations… <<less

“If you don’t kill me, then you can do what you want with my body!”
“If you can get me in the mood within a... more>> month, then sure.”
A princess who makes a bet with an assassin… Is the only way to save her life to seduce him? But…
“I tend to want to kill the people I like.”
It seems that she’s screwed either way!?
This is the romantic comedy between a princess trying to save her skin and an assassin who has fun watching her struggle! <<less

"What exactly are you planning to do?" ... more>>

"I want to join forces with the Pretty Cure girls."

"You've misunderstood me, partner. I'm referring to your enigmatic presence, switching between being a hero and a villain, constantly gathering darkness. What is your true purpose? Where are you ultimately headed? Who are you fighting for?"

"I'm fighting to win the hearts of a few Pretty Cure girls and make them my wives." <<less

"There was nothing Su Kexin wanted more than to marry an ordinary man. So, who could explain her sudden ascension as a CEO's wife? He... more>> promised her a lifetime of happiness, flooded her with endless affection, and treated her like priceless treasure. She thought that perhaps, this was her happily-ever-after. Yet, he threw a stack of papers in front of her one day and said, "Su Kexin, lets divorce." She finally understood how it felt like to fall from high above and crashing onto ground zero. Five years later, she returned and encountered him again. This time, however, there was a moe little bun of a child at her side. The little bun blinked at the man and said, "Mommy, this mister looks a lot like me." <<less

Luo, a young moss remover with an unfortunate background, and a masked girl who was confined to an abandoned castle, known as the “Child of Misfortune.” The two accidentally meet, part, and eventually reunite by fate.... more>>

A “journey of trials” to save the world from ruin. Awaiting them at the end is either inescapable despair or an unthinkable miracle. A classic and quintessential “boy meets girl” story. This is a love and adventure fantasy from another world. <<less

Everyone only has one "lifetime" in each life. ... more>>

Someone once said: People come into the world with an incomplete soul. Moreover, it will take a lifetime to find their other half, a Soul Mate. Only by finding them will your soul be complete.

Inside the music academy, two halves of the soul meet because of music.

Can they really be together forever when they met in music room 1314? <<less

I grew up in a dysfunctional family, surrounded by neighbors, no, strangers who looked at us with sneering eyes. My father, he was a hoodlum and my mother a lady of the evening or for better or worse, a harlot. I thought it was normal, that this life I lived was normal. After all, this was the only life I’ve ever known.... more>>

Though most of the time, they hardly bothered over my well-being and dread going home, home to that deserted house. Gradually, I began to hate life… or so I thought ‘till a girl of my own age, yet older than me, appeared like a spring flower.

Her name was Qing Qing and she was born in the middle of winter.

I call her Big Sister Qing Qing.

When she smiled, she had those two sweet dimples adorning her cheeks as her pair of beautiful long hair shone under the rays of the sun. Her pink pleated skirt was an elegant contrast to her white and fragrant figure.

Looking at her… my heart thumped…

I think she stole my heart without notice, without me knowing.

And I fell hard. <<less

In my past life, I was quite crazy about beautiful teachers in the academy and gave my all to them.... more>>

Now that I think about it, it was all useless. Only my abilities are supreme.

After returning and gaining consciousness, when I hold my sword, the teachers who abandoned me gaze at me greedily.

Why, is it the first time you’ve seen the ‘Heart Sword?’ <<less

The main character, Kajiyama Nagito, has been popular with girls since he was a child, but in the winter of his second year of junior high school, he was stabbed in the abdomen with a kitchen knife for refusing a confession from a yandere girl, and ended up wandering between life and death.... more>>

Nagito managed to survive, but he became afraid of being popular with girls, and after entering high school, he started to aim to be a friend character instead of a hero.

He was able to make Machida Yoshiharu, a friend in the same class as him, the main character, and while acting as a friend character himself, he succeeded in getting Yoshiharu and a girl to get together with his pride in his comic skills and his good looks.

One day, however, Sagisaka Ruria, the beautiful girl he had hooked up with Machida, appears in front of Nagito and asks him to make her the “losing heroine” <<less

Because of a mission, Su Wen fell into immense pain. In order to protect her loved one, Shen Zhiyi chose to make Su Wen forget about herself. However, this means that Su Wen may never love Shen Zhiyi again.... more>>

Shen Zhiyi: Su Wen, how have you been lately?

Su Wen: Dr. Shen, I don’t like the way you look at me. I am not a patient. Stop wasting your time on me, you won’t gain anything. No living person will get even the slightest bit of information from me.

Shen Zhiyi: Su Wen, you’re too tense. Relax a bit, I’m not a bad person. But when you mentioned “no living person,” I don’t quite understand. Can you tell me why?

Su Wen: It is more convenient to deal with dead people, they never tell lies. Living people are different, and all living people tell lies. Especially psychiatrists, they will tell lies.

Shen Zhiyi: You are so straightforward.

Shen Zhiyi: You don’t remember me, do you? Well, I suppose I should have known that.

Su Wen: Dr. Shen, you seem lonely.

Shen Zhiyi: People are all lonely. I’m no exception.

Su Wen: Take your eyes off me and you might be happier.

Shen Zhiyi: Why have you been obsessed with this matter?

Su Wen: You misunderstood, I am not obsessed with anything. I simply don’t like your eyes, that’s all.

My dear, please remember me. – Gentle and attentive attack, Shen Zhiyi
x
Don’t pay attention to me. I don’t know you. – Confused and lost, Su Wen. <<less

Synopsis: Coming from the Blue Star, Wang Luan, who had been a woman for over twenty years, transmigrated into an ABO world where humans have six genders. She becomes a female Alpha capable of getting pregnant, and the troubled expression on Wang Luan’s face reveals the pain of her new and different body.... more>>

Wang Luan: Help!

As a useless young lady from the noble Wang family, she is assigned a SSS-ranked male Omega as her partner. This hamdsome Omega, Yan Qiongyu, appears gentle and elegant on the surface, but has a hidden dual personality.

The original body’s emotionless father treats her as a tool and urges them to mark each other for procreation every day. <<less

I'm the one who's been possessed by this novel.... more>>

'I need an utterly shameless fiancée.'

As cliché as it gets, I became the Duke's fiancée... No, I interviewed to become one.
Am I out of my mind? Who interviews to become a fiancée?

* * *

The best output that the Baron family can produce.
I became the contracted fiancée of the Duke Etica, who holds the empire's strongest power and wealth.

If I endure by the side of a man nicknamed the tr*sh Duke for just two years, I'll receive a fortune that is more than enough, even if written across several generations.

"Don't forget. The moment the Duke likes me, you will become my dog."
"You, of all people, should not forget. The moment you show any hostility towards me, even a little, the promised property documents will turn into scraps."

...Thanks to this jerk, it's not easy.

***

Jeffrey Etica was convinced.
This life is entirely his own, and no one else can interfere.
He believed that he wouldn't even let anyone grab the hem of his clothes, let alone a leash.
But why do all decisions keep wavering, and why does he feel this way?

"You won, my Aurora."
"..."
"Now I'm a dog on a leash, forced to lick your feet, my dear."

But does everyone know that? How one of their kind deals with another.
To deal with the tr*sh Duke, the fiancée also needs to be formidable.

"Really? Then bark. Like a dog." <<less

Underground action story that takes place in Yokohama!... more>>

Why did a boy from a prestigious school, who has lived a simple life, turn himself into a villain?

Eigo Hayashiki, a boy with hyper memory syndrome (hyperthymesia), lives a lonely life, envied by those around him because of his special ability. After one particular incident, he is finally abandoned by his family and loses everything.

The boy is rescued by a mysterious woman, Secret, in Yokohama, and despite his confusion, he becomes familiar with the underworld of the port city.

Yakuza, Chinese Mafia, informant, hitman, and a hostess at the age of high schoolers are interwoven in the chaos of Yokohama’s underworld.

This is the story of a former honor student who comes into contact with Yokohama’s unique outlaws and solves various cases as a villain. <<less

While having a long distance relationship between Japan and Boston, one day when Hirosaki asked me to come to a party, I reunited with Maki... more>> Kurose, a former boyfriend who had a bitter trauma in his first love. <<less

“Please, let go. Don’t make me hate you any more than I already do.”... more>>

Adelaide had risked her life in exchange for playing the role of the Duchess, but she never had any intention of loving Klaus.

He was a Northern noble with an elegant facade, yet lacking in any true nobility. Dealing with such a Duke was always a source of embarrassment for Adelaide, who had lived her whole life as a noble lady.

They were merely using each other. So there was no way that this could be love, just something as insignificant as that.

“You mean something to me.”

The more she fell for him, the deeper she fell, everything became a mess. Like an uncontrollable fire.

“Do you have any value other than yourself?”

Klaus sharply rebuked her with his lips against her throat.

“I want everything from you, even your very breath. How is this not love?”

“You’re completely insane…”

In the worst possible way, you made me realize. The fact that all we have left between us is nothing but hatred. <<less

“Xu Hui, Xu like promised, Hui like brilliant glow. What about you?”... more>>

“Bai Lu.” (Literally translated White Jade but a homonym of White Egret)

“Oh, like ‘A flock of egrets in the sky?’”

Bai Lu smiled.

Lu (Jade) and Lu (Egret), she and him are like this one word difference.

The beginning is not great. When they first met, he was lonely, jealous, and escaping from everything, as if the whole world was his enemy.

She was quiet, petite, wearing glasses, had thin eyebrows, and her presence was faint.

She was different from the other girls who always approached him. She was silent and indifferent. It was as if she didn’t exist, yet there were traces of her everywhere.

Bai Lu calculated every step she took, carefully in control of the pace. Neither hot nor cold. Like a shadow.  

She said: “You knew that you are different.”

Xu Hui smiled humorlessly, his body shifting. He sat up straight. The smile on his face had not dissipated. He said nonchalantly, “How so? Do I have two heads?”

Bai Lu’s voice fell lightly on Xu Hui’s lashes, “You know that it’s so easy for people to fall for you.”

Xu Hui froze. <<less

Would you like to live with a beautiful woman? Of course, there's that one too ......... more>>

One day, after working several part-time jobs to pay off his father's debts, Akira finally runs out of energy and collapses on the side of the road. It's Akira who was helped by Eri, a beautiful older sister who happened to pass by. However, the beautiful older sister has one habit and two habits ... and cohabitation has begun ...? <<less

Xu Zhi chased Lu Ming for a year, had a two-year relationship that could not be made public, and was a fool for three years. She wrote songs for Lu Ming's artists to sing, and for Lu Ming she gave up the chance to become famous. And for all the important moments in her life, Lu Ming was absent. After another one of his absences, Xu Zhi brought up the breakup, and Lu Ming disdained her, betting with a friend, "In less than a month, she'll be begging to get back together." Xu Zhi didn't beg to get back together, and she completely disappeared from Lu Ming's world. Soon after, a music competition program brought... more>> out a dark horse, the ghost singer Xu Zhi, all her original songs appeared in the major search platform. The mentors extended an olive branch and handed out offers of cooperation to her, and Xu Zhi quickly burst into the limelight.

Lu Ming couldn't believe that Xu Zhi just didn't want him anymore. When the rain poured, Lu Ming stood in front of Xu Zhi's house waiting for her to turn back. After waiting for half an hour, the second floor window opened and a tall man loosely draped in a black bathrobe leaned against the window, his handsome face showing the laziness of the aftermath in the night, "My wife is asleep, what is the matter with Mr. Lu looking for her?"

Soon after, Qi Cai announced his romance with Xu Zhi in a high profile. Xu Zhi's new boyfriend, was the popular superstar Qi Cai.

On the day Xu Zhi and Lu Ming broke up, Seven Points Media played "Good Day" for a whole day. <<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

“If you want to be happy, you must spend your life with the ‘future you’ whom you are destined to be with…” Yusuke Kanzawa, a high school student who dreams of future happiness more than anyone else due to his unfortunate upbringing, is told this by a fortune teller one night. At first, Yusuke was skeptical, but then he begins to think that the “future you” might be Yuri Takase, a talented and talented classmate, and his feelings for her grew.... more>>

On the other hand, Yusuke’s “search for the future you” becomes increasingly confusing when Haruka Kashiwagi, a school idol who is convinced that she and Yusuke have a strong bond, and Ryo Tsukishima, who saved his life in middle school, approach him.

Each of the three girls has her own reasons for fighting to change the future after graduation, and each has her own reasons for needing Yusuke. As Yusuke confronts various difficulties with the girls, he learns the secret of his birth and the true meaning of the term “future you”.

Will Yusuke be able to change the future in their three years of high school?

And who is Yusuke’s “future you”?

Which future will Yusuke choose? <<less