Lucia grew up not knowing she was a princess.... more>>

But when her mother died, she entered the palace and had the chance to see her entire future in a dream.

In her dream, when she reached 19 years old, she was auctioned off to the bidder who offered the highest dowry. Her life became miserable from then on.

When she woke up from her dream, she was determined to reshape her future, realizing that she had plenty of time before the crucial turning point.

Thus, she begins her journey to change her dark future. <<less

"Your Highness, there’s something I’d really like for my birthday."... more>>

"What is it?"

"Will you promise to listen?"

Then the man blatantly laughed.

But who would point out his arrogance – a young Northern Duke who’s not even afraid of the Emperor? He could even get a throne if he wished for it.

But it was just a sweet lover’s birthday wish.

"Alright. I swear."

So, Juliet spoke lightly,

"Please break up with me. I don’t love you anymore."

A fiance just for show. A succession of meaningless nights.

Now is the time to end seven years of unrequited love. <<less

Nurse Bai Yan and Mayor’s assistant Kang Jian suddenly got married, but they realized that this was not a Cinderella and Prince storyline. He already had a lover in his arms, and there were political enemies watching from behind. Her mother-in-law regarded her as a thorn in her eye, while her father-in-law and her mother were old acquaintances. It was all very confusing. ... more>>

Later, Bai Yan stated: if you are a sparrow that accidentally becomes a phoenix, don’t take it too seriously, it’s just a legend.

One flower that never withers, one that stays fresh throughout the seasons in the river of time, one that shines in your purest years with its youth and beauty, and one that you remember with a gentle smile even as you age gracefully.

We’ve all had beautiful first loves.

There is always a most cherished memory hidden in our hearts.

Love is elusive, but marriage is very realistic.

Love is a matter between two people, but marriage is a matter between two families.

There are always various reasons why two people in love may not necessarily walk down the aisle together.

What should you do if you cannot marry the person you love?

After Kang Jian and Bai Yan broke up, their lives went through many ups and downs. The road of love was long and uncertain, and the hand of fate was unpredictable. Where would their love end up? Would they forget each other in the world or stay together through thick and thin?

Do you have a paper rose in your heart?

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Adapted into a Vietnamese Drama <<less

In a Mary-Sue novel, the readers all liked the Devil Venerable, the second male lead who devoted himself whole-heartedly to the female lead. However the female lead only loved the male lead who ab*sed her physically and mentally.... more>>

Readers: Why doesn’t the female lead like the Devil Venerable?!

Devil Venerable: This Venerable also wants to know. But what I really want to know is why I even like the female lead at all.

In order to understand why the female lead wasn’t attracted to him, the self-conscious Devil Venerable brutally interrogated the entire cast of characters from the novel.

Background characters: I have so many things I want to say but I don’t dare to say it to his face!

–

After obtaining the book, the Devil Venerable discovered that the book described the world he lived in. This book said that after he sacrificed himself for the female lead, the fourth male lead, his silent and loyal subordinate Yin Hanjiang, blackened and attempted to kill her as a sacrificial offering for his lord.

Devil Venerable Wenren E: Yin Hanjiang, this Venerable wants to know why you wanted to kill the female lead.

Yin Hanjiang was silent.

Wenren E: If you refuse to speak, this Venerable will cut out your tongue and have it with alcohol!

Yin Hanjiang: …

Wenren E: What the hell are you blushing for?! <<less

“Arrogant Prince. You’re not the only one who can toy with others.”... more>>

Valentia Syner, the greatest mind in all of the Imperial Academy’s history.

Her fellows at the academy called her “The Iron Maiden”. Some did it out of jealousy. Others, out of contempt. But no one ever approached Valentia. Even her own family avoided her.

The first person to ever reach out to Valentia was the playboy of the Imperial family—the Prince, Lexus.

“Who dares to slap the Imperial Prince?”

Their first meeting went terribly. They exchanged awful words and there was even a slap involved. But over time, the two of them became very close.

However, Valentia discovered a terrible truth just before she was about to confess something to Lexus—she was pregnant with his child.

Valentia had to run away to protect herself.

And then a few years passed.

“Did he just say you were his mom?”

That awful man, Lexus appeared once more before Valentia, who was living a quiet life with her lovely son, Elijah. <<less

Evan traveled to England at the end of the nineteenth century; a fictional duke and a place that did not exist, which made him realize that where he was located was a fictional world, the world in a book, and he was the most despicable and shameless existence in the world.... more>>

In order to survive in this world, Evan had to play a pure priest, step by step to attack the cold duke, and eventually become the winner of life! <<less

Bai Xunyin was inadvertently traumatized by stress during the year she graduated from Middle School. She became a “little mute” who couldn’t speak. In her first year of high school, she spent her days listening to the cynicism and discriminatory bullying of people around her until her second year of high school. Bai Xunyin met Yu Luoyin. He was clear, elegant, with straight eyebrows and star like eyes. He was the most handsome boy in school, and was the dream boyfriend of all girls in school. But for Bai Xunyin, Yu Luoyin was the first to protect her, smile at her, discuss topics with her, and the person who had lunch with her. The onset... more>> of her crush was turbulent and confusing in her teenage years.

Bai Xunyin’s diary during the second year of high school was filled with the name ‘Yu Luoyin’. Bai Xunyin did not extravagantly ask for Yu Luoyin to like her, but she didn’t expect that in the third year of high school, she would inadvertently see his “true personality” in the corner of a corridor. Under Yu Luoyin’s gentle, elegant and handsome appearance was a scumbag. He faced his two tr*shy friends, smiled and said-“The little mute started to like me. Our bet ends here, I’m bored of staying with her.” Bai Xunyin could not speak, but her eyes knew how to cry. Since then, she never looked directly at Yu Luoyin again.

Afterwards Young Master Yu ridiculed her, mocked her, broke a table, apologized, and even hurt himself, he used various methods but it was still useless. He could only kneel in front of Bai Xunyin, his eyes red, and his voice hoarse, begging—”Yinyin, forgive me once. For the rest of my life, I will never dare to do this again.” *You are my unspeakable incurable pain. It hurts when I think of you, but it hurts even more when I can’t think of you. <<less

Li Zhenruo never imagined that he would be the first person to be completely out of the Li family’s power struggle, and not only that, he also perished in an “accident” that was carefully planned for him.... more>>

However, this is not the end for Li Zhenruo, he wakes up after the “accident” and finds himself transformed into a Garfield, which gives him a chance to return to the Li family and find out which of his three brothers is behind the “accident”.

At the same time, he is also surprised to find that this does not seem to be an ordinary cat, it can actually…… transform. <<less

～Can He Build a Harem in the School without Getting Caught?～... more>>

Theophil Krause is a young court wizard and undoubtedly one of the most elites in the country.

He is loyal to his duties, but there is one thing he is even more passionate about – its his ambition to corrupt highborn women of his choice and build a harem for himself.

For that, the Elreis Magical Girls Academy is a suitable hunting ground. It is a garden of prideful women, but only the ladies of famous high-class families were able to attend there, and of course, where all boys were forbidden from entering.

It is to the extent that even the most bottom personnel are thoroughly selected and sieved for their abilities so that there won’t be a need for a single male in the school, but after corrupting the headmaster, Julia, into something that can’t live on without his member, he succeeded in infiltrating the school as their first male magic teacher.

As he is also a court wizard with a good reputation, he was well received by the noble ladies in the class. But even with all that adoration, he only plans to aim at the best of the best.

He entices several women in the academy; the students, the student council president, and the school’s teachers, and even the school nurse, achieving the ultimate pleasure by corrupting the innocence that these haughty women protect the most.

However, it is not without risks, as the more his women grew, the more the attention he gains from the powerful chancellor, which is also the founder of the school.

Will Theophil succeed in making his dream harem? Or will he fail and lose everything before he makes it to the top?

Making use of his body manipulation magic and mind-reading techniques, plus his wits as an excellent court wizard, Theophil’s plan to get the best girls for his harem as he outwits the chancellor has already begun! <<less

Li Tingyan and Lin Chi initially considered their relationship nothing more than a matter of mutual benefit.... more>>

They met in a small bar when Li Tingyan was at his lowest point. The love of his life was getting married the next day, and he was invited merely as a guest, not the groom.

Lin Chi, on the other hand, was entirely motivated by physical attraction.

Li Tingyan's physique and face were exactly to his liking, making him single-mindedly desire a night of passion.

What was supposed to be a one-night stand inexplicably continued.

In the hotel, Lin Chi lay on the bed, letting Li Tingyan help him with his shirt collar.

Li Tingyan, half-kneeling on the ground, held his ankle. Despite being a distinguished gentleman of high status, he was willing to do these trivial tasks for Lin Chi.

Yet, as the sunlight hit his face, his eyes remained calm and unruffled, like a deep, serene lake.

Lin Chi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

….

Much later, Lin Chi despairingly realized that he had indeed fallen for Li Tingyan.

This was unacceptable.

Turning a casual fling into true love was a recipe for disaster.

Moreover, for someone like him, a king of the nightlife, to fall for a virg*n was even more ridiculous and laughable.

He immediately wanted to escape.

But after just one day of trying to flee, he was personally caught by Li Tingyan in a crowded nightclub. Ignoring his protests, Li Tingyan carried him directly to the car.

Gentle and refined top × sexy and flamboyant former playboy now smitten bottom <<less

The golden ratio is synonymous with architectural aesthetics and the most ideal proportion of the human body.... more>>

The people next to Huo Zhixiao every morning must all meet the golden ratio, so Ding Yinan never thought that one day he would wake up beside Huo Zhixiao as well.

0.618 is recognized as the most aesthetic ratio standard, but in my eyes, you are the only aesthetic standard. <<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

Jenna’s hatred towards Dex Peralta started since he has played with her because of an interview she has to get from him for their campus paper.... more>>

He was tagged as the “campus king.”

He was their university’s varsity team captain and the most infamous bad boy and campus heartthrob at the same time.

He does not want to be interviewed by her.

That’s why she has to make a move to make him agree to take the interview.

She has to change herself so he’ll take notice of her.

But that seems to be the root reason for him to play with her heart.

Fast forward to the present time. Jenna was now a media person.

And it seems that history is repeating itself.

With Dex’s come back to the basketball scene, she has to take an interview with him, again.

But she has learned her lessons.

This time, she would not let her heart be played by Dex again. <<less

One day, Prince Redmond—Lumiere’s fiancé, a duke’s daughter—suddenly became a yandere.... more>>

For a long time now, he’d tend to his business as a proper gentleman. Their relationship was more similar to that of business partners…

…However, that came to an end when he suddenly whispered sweet nothings to her.

“You only need to remain within my sight. Don’t you like it as well? Lumiere, you belong only to me.”

(Gross—!)

Nevertheless, he was His Highness the Crown Prince, a man with a promising future. Lumiere, who had no power to veto, took a desperate measure.

“Alright, I shall pretend to be the type of woman he loaths the most to incite his ire!”

Be it a white marriage or an annulment—she was prepared for them! She’d absolutely escape from that yandere!

…Even though she was willing to risk dying, for some reason, His Highness began to dote on her even more! Moreover, the other male aristocrats also transformed into yandere and surrounded Lumiere!?

If left as it is, the country might fall into ruin because of these yandere—!?

Hey, Silver, stop laughing and help me out!

The story of a villainess who struggled to triumph over yandere for the sake of fulfilling her dream, along with her loyal butler—Silver, a skirt-chaser? <<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

Lee Mo Yan, known as "Lee", an elite of the legal world who is approaching his forties, had worked hard to pave the way to get to where he was. However, all that he worked for vanished into thin air when a political scandal broke out involving a politician he backed and when his lover dumped him. Finding himself in a worrisome situation, Lee received an unexpected invitation from an upperclassman from his past.... more>>

Upon returning to T City to become an office worker after living in Los Angeles, he encountered Ke Luo, the boy who had left him without saying farewell. Pretending it was nothing, he continued to live frivolously. That is, until he fell apart after realizing that he was a substitute for someone else…

Could this sadness be love arriving a little too late? <<less

My name is Kazuma Nakatani, I have a childhood friend whom I love since little named Maho Mizutani.... more>>

Maho had been in a relationship before, she dated a guy named Takuya Murakami in the third grade of middle school.

Takuya is a flirtatious and good-looking guy, to be honest, I don’t like him.

Even though I had held back my feelings for a long time, I decided to confess to Maho.

We became lovers and we both are deeply in love with each other.

But one day, Maho cancels our dating plans at the last minute and she is acting strange... <<less

“Even if no one believes in me, you must, Miss Saye. I am a man who has decided to become the Sultan because you are a woman who belongs to the Sultan.”... more>>

Saye, who was a young flower who had not been picked in the Sultan’s harem, survives the crisis of the 9th Prince, Kainer, who is the son of the previous Sultan, starting a rebellion. Saye, who struggled to even keep herself alive, only wishes to escape the harem and step out into the world. But Kainer, who has become the Sultan, has no intention of letting her go and shocks her by telling her that she was the only reason he had become the Sultan…

“You are the Sultan’s flower.”

Whenever his lips passed by, Saye softly cried out moans.

“I became the Sultan because that was the only way to obtain that flower. So, please quietly remain here.” <<less

Set in early-20th century China, this story takes off in the port city of Tientsin (Tianjin) that is divided into lands called concessions and owned... more>> by several foreign powers. Shen Liangsheng is a charismatic and cunning playboy, a son of a rich businessman, who has profits as his top priority. He meets Ch'in Ching, an average school teacher who appears mild but actually holds a patriotic heart for his home. The two cross paths and sparks fly. But will their love hold strong through the imminent forces that will tear the country apart...? <<less

I, Jiro Togawa is a first-year high school student who has a precious childhood friend, she is a beautiful girl named Shiori Katahira.... more>>

I was planning to confess my feelings to her when I enter high school, but as soon as we entered high school, I was NTR’ed by Kajino Kippei, he is a flirtatious guy from the same grade as us…

On top of that, I saw them having s*x on the bed in Shiori’s room.

Heartbroken, I skipped school for the first time in my life.

I want to die, but I don’t have the guts to kill myself.

Then, a gal who is in the same grade as me, Suyama Arisa, approached me.

She has beautiful blonde hair, brown-coloured skin, and really huge breasts.

Suyama-san is very kind to me, who is a very dull guy, and comforts me when my precious childhood friend was stolen from me.

And from there, my fate changed. <<less

The weak and taciturn Li Chengxiu suffered all kinds of bullying during his school days. Shao Qun’s frivolous moment of interest gave him the tiny sliver of warmth back then. Yet, it also pushed his young self into a much deeper darkness. ... more>>

Ten years later, they met again. To Shao Qun, Li Chengxiu was a piece of dessert that he didn’t dare to try in the past, so he approached him with an ulterior motive.

This time around, will it be an atonement for the past, or the beginning of yet another catastrophe? <<less

“Don’t get the wrong idea, okay. I definitely don’t like people such as you!”... more>>

This template tsundere phrase marked the beginning of mine and Aotsuki Miyuu’s story. Because of her cold and indifferent attitude, she always stands out negatively in class. However one day, we ended up talking more and more with each other, and I started to see the warmth behind her cold words. Why is she so distanced and unaffectionate towards people despite being so kind? That seems to be related to her past that I don’t know about…

This is a story about love, telling the coming along of a boy and girl until they finally act affectionate towards each other. <<less

There are six billion people on Earth and yet, we know each other. This is such a huge coincidence, so why don’t we be together?
You care about me just like how I care about you, so why don’t we be together?
I like you; coincidentally, you like me too. Since fate has brought us together, why don’t we be together?
The porridge today is so delicious, such a rare thing, why don’t we be together?
The weather today is pretty good, why don’t we be together?
That little dog is so cute, why don’t we be together?... more>>

Lu Nanxuan, for so many years now we have been just like two kids, running after and hiding from each other. I’ve grown old and am also tired. I can’t run after you anymore. Let us, properly and truly, be together…

And so, there were joyful tidings at Nan Home. <<less

Jiang Bai (江白) was sitting in a bar owned by a friend of his classmate and was singing with his guitar.... more>>

When he looked up, he suddenly saw a handsome uncle leaning on the bar, looking towards him.

Jiang Bai threw a wink over, and Ya Bu (雅布) felt as if his heart had been hit by an arrow.

“Hey you, this song… I can also sing it…” <<less