In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gaming industry has seen an explosion in popularity. One of the most popular games ever released is Mystery Maker, a VR RPG where players can create baffling puzzles in a virtual space and challenge other players to solve them.... more>>

As a promotional stunt for the game's upcoming sequel, eight real life great detectives have been hand chosen by Kurata Chikage, executive director of MegalodonSoft, to challenge each other to a match in a demo of Mystery Maker 2. Among them are Kamo Touma, a magazine contributor well known for his investigative work overturning false convictions, and his wife's cousin Ryuuzen Yuki, a recently debuted mystery novelist.

However, on the day of the demo event, the detectives are all drugged. When they awaken, they find their smartwatches are locked to their wrists and they are shown videos of their families and loved ones being held hostage. They are contacted by a Gamemaster, who tells them that if they wish to save themselves and their families, they must play a death game called "Delicious Death for Detectives".

As scheduled, the eight of them will play Mystery Maker 2's demo, and the Detectives will challenge the mu*der puzzles created by the mu*derer. If the Detectives are not able to reveal the mu*derer and their tricks before the time limit, all players will be killed. However, if the mu*derer is exposed, both they and their hostages will be killed. And if a Detective makes an accusation but gets even the tiniest detail wrong, they will be mu*dered by the Gamemaster's secret accomplice, the Executioner.

Now the only way for the eight detectives to survive is to expose the mu*derer and Executioner lurking among them, even if they must risk their lives and those of their compatriots to do so.

Which is an especially big problem for Kamo, because he's the one who's been chosen as the mu*derer! <<less

Within almost every melodramatic novel, there’s an affectionate male supporting role who is infatuated with the shou protagonist. To be there when the shou is being attacked by the gong, to offer love when the gong abandons the shou protagonist, fighting for justice when the gong betrays the shou.... more>>

As a catalyst between the romantic love of the shou and gong, he dedicates his light and heat to his identity as a spare tire without any complaint or regret.

Lin Ziran’s task is to play the part of the affectionate male partner in different worlds. However, after he went there, he discovered that the way that each world’s plot opens doesn’t seem to be right at all. <<less

I thought that if I walk with you, it would be for a lifetime. But I don’t know how far the end of a lifetime really is.... more>>

I thought it was at least far enough to share until we are both old. But I died before the wedding. <<less

Se-yeon died unjustly due to her boyfriend’s obsession.... more>>

Upon waking up, she found herself possessing an Extra, Princess Priscilla, inside a novel.

The extra character that appears at the beginning for a few lines and dies. On top of that, Priscilla was a concubine to a war-obsessed Emperor.

“The moment the Female Lead shows up, I can be free!”

I just have to survive until the Female Lead shows up, but why is the Emperor obsessed with me? <<less

“What are you thinking about?”... more>>

“I’m thinking about a guy.”

KyungHyun stopped in the middle of a deep kiss and sighed. His lips began to form a smile, but his fierce glare said otherwise. Possessiveness and jealousy spread across his sculpted face.

“Will you tell me his name?”

His easygoing and languid voice reached her ears.

“Why?”

“So that I can shoot him down.” <<less

Yi Zhize, an elite lawyer who graduated from a renowned university of politics and law, is a hotshot in the A City legal circle. He is a handsome man with excellent practice and elegant taste, but his personality is indifferent and cold, a flower of the high mountains. In recent times, due to several bloody cases he has taken on, he has had a series of nightmares for several days in a row, triggering mental anxiety. Yi Zhize was introduced to psychiatrist Ou Tingyun by a friend. What he never imagined was that that afternoon's mundane first meeting would be the start of a lifetime of entanglement. Who has become the cure for who, and... more>> who has become the patient for whom?

"Zhize, shall I help you or shall you help yourself?"
"You, help me."
I sink into hypnosis.
"Tingyun, you...?"
"Shh, do as you're told."
You delve into seduction <<less

Ian, who was a hitman, finishes his last mission and drives the knife across his neck.... more>>

[I’ve never seen the place where I woke up after I stopped breathing.]
Somewhere with strange people and endless dark forest.

One could occasionally hear crying at dawn.

As soon as he realized that he was in someone else’s body named ‘Ian’, the high gates were opened, and he met the owner of the mansion, who had blue blood on him; the color of the serpent.

“I’ve been worried a lot since you got back covered in blood.

It’s good to see you breathing fine.”

His hair disheveled and as dark as the night. Tall, dark skinned with slender eyes, the aura around him felt slightly dominant.

[Ah, he’s the man I had already killed.]

Ian realizes the moment he looks at his face,

He can’t think of his name or the reason why I killed him.

The man had a suspicious attitude…. <<less

After bankruptcy, second-generation Zhou Qian suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to a mental hospital for recuperation.... more>>

“Keep away from Zone X.”

“Do not open the door of Room 1 in Zone X.”

“Do not approach the most dangerous patient, 03X87, in Zone X.”

These were the three prohibitions of the hospital, but Zhou Qian violated all of them. Consequently, he truly opened the door to a new world—a world of monsters.

“If I were a monster, would you still love me?”

The lunatics in the asylum all over the world were swept into a peculiar game.

If they couldn’t escape, they had to fight until the end.

He would walk up to the most terrifying monster in legends, watching him bow down until he was willing to reveal his most genuine form… <<less

At the age of 12, Shen Yue accidentally fell into a pond while feeding fish. That’s when she realized that her parents were not her real parents, and her five brothers were not her real brothers either. She was just a fake heiress to the Shen family!... more>>

Knowing she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to just lie down and give up. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well just lie down and relax.

“Big brother, is working at the company fun? Let me check it out,” she thought, wanting to enjoy the perks of being a Shen daughter while she still could. Those luxuries would be out of reach soon enough.

“Second brother, is acting fun? Let me give it a try,” she schemed. What? They pay you just to lie still like a corpse? This is a job she had to get!

“Third brother, is that gun realistic? Let me see,” she said, examining the firearm. Not bad, though the recoil is too strong. She’d need to find a smaller one to play with next time.

“Fourth brother, will the teachers be mad if I sneak into your research institute? Let me take a peek,” she plotted, eyeing her handsome professor. A little hugging wouldn’t hurt!

“Fifth brother, that medicine you’re working on smells nice. Mind if I try a little taste…” she asked casually before sampling it. Tastes good! But now my head feels itchy—I better not be growing a brain!

On the day the real heiress returned, Shen Yue’s five brothers shielded her behind them. “Dear sister, can we keep her with us? She’s a bit slow, it’d be dangerous for her out there alone.”

The true heiress scoffed coldly, masking her sly intentions beneath a guise of innocence.

But in the end, she realized this Shen Yue really was quite dim-witted. Oh well, might as well let her stay. <<less

One day, gates opened, and the world descended into chaos. At the same time, Sa-yoon found himself face-to-face with a bizarre system window.... more>>

"You have been selected as humanity's 'evil.' (b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b"

Forced into the role of a villain and driven to the brink of insanity, Sa-yoon kidnaps Han Geon-joo, the key to escaping the damned system.

"...What's your objective?"

"Recruiting talent?"

"By kidnapping someone? What are you, some kind of gangster guild?"

The trait that could help him break free from the system: 'The Resister.' To activate it, Sa-yoon aims to raise Geon-joo to S-rank while maintaining a close relationship with him...

After lavishing Geon-joo with praise and nurturing him, just as he was on the cusp of reaching S-rank, he vanished without a trace. Eventually, he reappears before Sa-yoon as an S-rank hunter.

"F*ck, what the hell are you doing?"

"You think it's okay to discard people like old shoes?"

Who was the one who abandoned whom first?

"If you want to know what it feels like to crawl on all fours, go ahead and try running away again."

A precarious reunion and ominous signs from the gates. Can Sa-yoon truly break free from the system? <<less

Xie Mu’s task was to make the scum gongs fall in love with him.... more>>

He skillfully disguised himself as a white lotus, delicate and pitiful, kind and naïve.

Even if he became an existence thrown away by the slag gong like a cheap pair of shoes, it did not matter, because Xie Mu would quickly make him kneel and apologize, even willing to dig out his heart and present it on a silver platter.

And once the slag gongs fell in love, he would, step by step, lead them into hell.

[I didn’t abandon you, it’s you who abandoned the amnesiac me]
[I didn’t cuck you on purpose, I was being forced ah]
[Even though I used you as a substitute, it wasn’t on purpose]

What could be crueler than abandoning someone only to want them back and find out that they’ve become forever out of reach? <<less

In his past life, Shi Shan exhausted all his schemes only to fail to win over his love. After Wen Yang died, he was thoroughly reduced to a madman!... more>>

After rebirth, Shi Shan has but a simple wish: make Wen Yang a winner in life.

In this lifetime, he will live for the sake of atonement.

He will conscientiously and diligently help Wen Yang chase his wife, abuse his slag father, and pave the way to the height of his career. But when he was once again backed into a corner by Wen Yang, Shi Shan began to wonder whether or not he had been too fierce!

With careful watering and sincere nurturing, it turns out the seeds of love can only flower and bear fruit in a felicitous environment…

Shi Shan wants to tell to his past-life self: work hard to love, be sure to stay level-headed, discard the indifferent attitude, and please don't hold on to hate. <<less

Joo Yi-Gyeol, who sleeps 22 hours a day has Rostov Syndrome.... more>>

Learning to escape from the body while asleep, he follows a golden butterfly he encountered one day and crossed to another dimension.

And there, he met the 4th prince Seth and saved him multiple times…

* * *

“Who said you could die as you please?”

Seth’s hands wrapped around Yi-Gyeol’s face. His cheeks, wrapped in those big hands, felt excessively hot.

“You can’t die even if you want to.”

Seth’s face came close. His and Yi-Gyeol’s foreheads lightly touched.

“I am the owner of your body. You can’t die without my permission.”

Yi-Gyeol could just inwardly shed tears at Seth’s mysterious remarks. <<less

Family background is all that matters!... more>>

The protagonist, born into a famous family, died in despair.

He is reincarnated in the world of a certain upstart novel. And he is a villainous aristocrat.

What occupies his mind is the idea that ‘ ‘
In his new life, he decides not to fall into despair, but to kick down the annoying upstarts (‘those who are originally of low status’). <<less

When his world was shattered, he was left with nothing but despair... more>>

In the era of men and men, men can also get pregnant

Li Xiao married Cheng Mu, envy of other people because they are together just because of a good partner

But their world changed when there was no news from his stomach

Li Xiao was forced to have a relationship with his father-in-law in order to carry on the family lineage

It turns out that there are many things, not only together is wonderful…

The days of self-deception, whether or not the day is ended. <<less

Fish cannot live without water.... more>>

She stared at the fish in his hand and said, “I’m like this fish.”

He put the fish back into the river and said to her, “Then I’ll be your water.”

Later, the water dried up.

The fish died. <<less

My little sister hanged herself, and my devastated mother called me. An amused trespasser showed me a video of my sister's r*pe, and pointed me... more>> to the location of the rapists' beloved daughters. I grab my stun gun and enact my kidnapping plan. But the city is also home to Jack the Stabber, whom 77 girls have fallen prey to. <<less

I entered my favorite romance-fantasy novel, which I have read many times. ... more>>

Thanks to the body of a wealthy commoner, I bought the status of a fallen aristocrat, attended a noble family’s gathering and observed the romance of the characters in the original novel.

I wanted to return to the real world after witnessing the ending.

But somehow, even after the ending, I was not freed from the body I possessed and remained living in the original novel.

As a result, I acquired the stories behind the scenes that I refused to comprehend.

My favorite sub male lead, Caelus, has died.

Living impoverished in the original work without him, I eventually fell ill and died.

Now, I wanted to return to reality.

However, the irony of fate has returned me to the end of the novel overnight. This is definitely… to save my beloved, right? <<less

That year, I lost a friend, left another friend, went away to study in Japan…..... more>>

If memories would, just like this song, sing out this period of grey from the years of our youth; that would be a beautiful story. <<less

It was revenge. Gu Ze wanted Meng Fu to pay for killing his wife and child in a hit and run.... more>>

“Meng Fu, why don’t you kill yourself?”

“Mr. Gu, I can’t...”

“Then I’ll make sure you suffer.”

Only after stripping naked and lying in bed did Meng Fu finally realize what Gu Ze meant.

“Mr. Gu, please. I was wrong...”

“I want to see you suffer, Meng Fu. Only when you’re in pain will I be able to feel a little better.”

But it was when he truly did slit his wrist and laid in a pool of blood did Gu Ze feel his heart break again.

But he did not dare to tell him. “Meng Fu, did you know? I’ve secretly fallen in love with you.” <<less

Yu Cheng and Qin He met by chance. Yu Cheng was a famous little tyrant in middle school but was trained by Qin He to become an obedient dog.... more>>

Gradually, they developed feelings for each other but were reported, and one was forced to transfer schools while the other was left suffocating in insults.

The interrupted contact became the last straw. People were buried in it, and cries were isolated. Qin He finally became a person buried in love.

The obedient dog became a crazy dog again, and the once bright and showy teenager became a walking corpse…

Yu Cheng (Gong) X Qin He (Shou) <<less

“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

They’ve been entangled together for 12 years. A gong whose affairs had become second nature, and a shou who was depressed and liked to torment... more>> himself. Cracks cannot be mended, one can only intentionally choose to either ignore or endure it. <<less

There was a chance that a crowd of media companies might dig out his measly few works and praise them a bit. That way, his three years of hard work wouldn’t have been in vain.... more>>

He had been popular before, and he had been hated by the netizens before, all those who come into the world must eventually go. He had left an innocent su*cide note on Weibo and set a timer for the post, so once his car rolled into the Lushui River, he might even be able to entertain the netizens one last time. <<less

As an obscured and transparent slag gamer in the gaming world, Bai Lian Hua (White Lotus) had always been fond of those tr*sh forum posts.... more>> Until one day: “White Lotus! Go check out the forum! 233333! You’re getting flamed!!!” <<less