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What makes dragons strong? It's not their power or magic, but their mind. Arrogance, greed, Iron Will, and the lack of human restraints. What would happen if you threw such a creature into human society? Would they understand humans? What does love even mean to them? This is the situation that our MC, Arad Orion found himself in. A newborn dragon bringing "Might make Right" to the humanoids, but why? Due to an abnormal condition, the mighty void dragons are on the brink of extinction. Their bodies have suddenly started rejecting their kind. Due to that, Arad's mother dropped his egg into a forest where he could hatch safely, leaving him with a fragment of her consciousness and informing him of the condition of their race. From that point, his goal became clear. To save their race by either finding a cure for their condition or going the second route of making more void dragons. But, sadly, nothing is ever that easy. Finding a cure is almost impossible. Arad is still practically a newborn and cannot tap into the terrifying might of his race, and his rarity makes him a prime target for mages and scholars seeking to study the dying race. Dragons are arrogant, proud, and vicious. Yet those feeling extends to those whom they love. You who touched a dragon's love, Retribution is an insult, and life is a crime. Beware as merely existing draws the dragon's wrath. Follow Arad on his journey as he grows from a naive wyrmling to a grown dragon with enough wisdom and power to stand with the strongest of the world. *** If you liked the story, please support it with power stones and comments! The story now has a Discord server. Please visit it to see character art by me and the community. https://discord.gg/CPJXDj6Adg *** You can contact me at Discord at any time Alen_Tanor#1599 And last. Please don't forget to leave a review, it really helps!

Born as the fourth prince of a decaying empire, Wu An was raised to be brilliant, polite—and irrelevant. Cast aside by his brothers and ignored by his warlord father, he wore his mask well: the quiet scholar, the forgotten son. But when a strange light drags him from his modern world into a twisted imperial court filled with ancient rites and fractured thrones, he awakens in a body shaped for power—and vengeance. To survive the throne room is to master the battlefield. To win the war is to become a monster. When war erupts in the north, Wu An unleashes a brutal campaign of subterfuge and slaughter. But beneath every victory lies something far more terrifying—visions of monks with bone-bead rosaries, scriptures written in blood, and gods that do not belong to this world. At the heart of the empire is a secret buried in ink and ash, and behind every smile in the capital, a knife waits.

Synopsis A modern woman. A tainted reputation. A crown she never wanted. Lynn Carter, a sharp-tongued gamer girl, never expected to wake up as Eleanor Sterling—the infamous “Scarlet Rose” of the Visterian Empire. Known for her beauty, cunning, and ahem, scandalous escapades, Eleanor is the last woman King Sebastian Leohart would ever choose as queen. Too bad her father, the prime minister, forced the marriage to consolidate power. Now, trapped in a body with a wicked past, Lynn must navigate a court full of vipers, a husband who despises her, and a swarm of suitors who think “notorious” means “available.” But this modern girl has a few tricks up her sleeve. Dare to underestimate her? She’ll outmaneuver you with wit sharper than a dagger. Dare to scorn her? Watch the empire’s “first harlot” become its most brilliant strategist. Dare to ignore her? Pray you never see her smile—especially while she’s burning your armies to ash over tea. And then there are the men—so many infuriatingly gorgeous men—who can’t seem to decide whether to ruin her or worship her: The King: Sebastian Leohart, the frosty monarch with blood-red eyes and snow-white hair. He married her for politics, but he can’t seem to stay away. The Scholar-Saint: A genius as pure as untouched snow, who loves her despite her body’s sins. The Warlord: A conqueror who would raze kingdoms for her smile, even as she drives a dagger into his back. The Shadow: Her most loyal knight, guarding her by day, and burning for her by night. But beneath all the glitter and games, something darker stirs. Eleanor’s soul wasn’t the first to inhabit this body. And someone wants the new queen dead...

Born with peerless talent, profound looks, and unfathomable strength, Young Master Zhao woke up one day and chose violence. --- Greetings, Fellow Daoists. This ancient scripture records the rise of a new Immortal Venerable. The one who defied fate, defiled heaven, and dominated all under the Nine Skies. They called him mad. They said he was courting death. But Young Master Zhao simply smiled and turned the heavens into his mount. From arrogant Ye Chen to the invincible Yang Kai, every so-called Son of Qi was but an insect crushed beneath his foot, stripped of destiny, reduced to stepping stone for his cultivation path. In a realm where the strong seize fate and the weak become dust, he was born with everything. While others pondered why the sun followed them, he was already a Holy Realm powerhouse, tearing through sacred mountains and enslaving ancient dragons with a single flick of his sleeve. From holy maidens to dragon priestesses, From Eastern princesses to Western empresses, From Northern jade maidens to Southern mature elders. One might count the stars in the heavens, But not the names in his harem scroll. If Fellow Daoists still do not know the difference between heaven and earth, then this scripture shall enlighten thou. --- BE WARNED, FELLOW DAOISTS! This is no ordinary scripture. Reading further may shake your Dao heart, weaken your spirit veins, and send your cultivation into irreversible Qi Deviation. Those beneath the bone age of 18 must avert their eyes, lest they be pulled into a forbidden dual-cultivation realm with no escape. This scripture contains a potent fusion of Yin and Yang, Male and Female, light and Dark. A sacred technique long prohibited by the righteous heavens! Only those with profound Dao harmony may begin to comprehend its lewd profundity. --- To the Young Masters of prestigious orthodoxy clans, wise sages & hermits, divine emperors, immortal venerables, great elders, profound sect masters, and even the all-knowing constellations: Support this rebellious scripture against the heavens by donating your Power Stones and Spirit Stones generously, And let the Lewd Dao rise once more! It's the fated time for us, the Lewd scholars, Cultured Daoists, Lustful Sages, sinister constellations, debauched emperors and horny Young Masters to stand against the righteous heavens and obtain the true Cultured enlightenment that has been suppressed since the dawn of time. For Lustful Dao!!! The Dao creator: LewdScholar Available at the celestial sea of Webnovel, if you are seeing this profound scripture somewhere else, then it won't contain any profound might. ---- Also, engraved below is the sacred glyph one must embed into their jade slip to locate the hidden gateway to the Cultural Holy Land: # https://discord.gg/PY4BVUPyPF Only those with a stable Dao heart and firm Yang essence may survive the trials within. This Venerable One does not boast idly, but let it be known that, the Cultural Holy Land harbors the greatest treasury of jade maidens’ immoral portraits across all Nine Realms and Thirteen Forbidden Heavens. From elven saints to beastkin war priestesses, from immoral demonesses to corrupted nuns, All forms of cultured yin exist here... awaiting worthy dual-cultivation partners. Fellow daoist, do you have what it takes to be a true dual cultivator? Enter only if you dare to cultivate with your soul, body, and lower dantian. If not, break your left hand, kowtow 100 times and ROLL!!! *** Exclusive discord role to those who purchase second tier privilege and above , to enjoy additional exclusive chapters on discord. ( Exclusive chapters contain no plot development )

At the heart of the city of Axis, a boy who should not exist sends a team into the Pit—a vast, reality-warping abyss where science and sorcery blur. He is called the Director. He looks eight. He speaks in riddles. And he knows too much. Chosen by him, a war-scarred captain, a blade-wielding survivor, and a brilliant but timid scholar descend through a labyrinth of forgotten relics, fractured minds, and living nightmares. Each floor tests their strength. The Director tests their purpose. But as they go deeper, one question rises louder than the rest: Who is leading them... and why?

My name is Riveron. This is my story. Concubine-born, scorned by my own blood, probably forgotten by name. In my last life, I clawed through a slum. In this one, I claw through a noble cage. Two different lives. Same goddamn suffering. I was born into a MARTIAL WORLD, where emperors rule with iron fists, where blades split mountains, and the words of the weak meant nothing. But none of that mattered to me. I only wanted one thing: ESCAPE. Escape this house. And so I chose the quickest path: Imperial Scholar. Rise through merit. LEARN, climb, climb, and climb. It was a good plan. It should have worked. But I was blind to a much bigger plan brewing behind the curtains. The day I left home, I thought I’d reach the capital. Finally, to walk the path of the sages. Instead, I was AMBUSHED. THEY BROKE ME. Limbs shattered. Hope erased. Pride reduced to screams. I survived only by leaping into the sinkhole beneath the lake. And somehow… I SURVIVED. An angel saved me. But that wasn’t the only miracle. I awakened a system. For every gift I give, I can trigger a critical return. Is this my second chance? My shot at carving a throne into this world? Fate's gift, maybe? But Fate will regret it. I’ve killed before. I’ll kill again. I’ve conquered once. I’ll conquer more. Back on Earth, I rose from the dirt. But here, in this lawless world? There are no rules to bind me. No laws. No morals. No social media cancel culture. Only power. And power… that answers to me. I will rise. I will reign. I will live unbending once more. How different can this world be? ---------------------------------------------- System | Harem | Action | Adventure | World Building | Cultivation | System | Martial Arts | No Yuri | No NTR Warning: Coarse use of language/ Detailed Blood and Gore ---------------------------------------------- The cover picture is mine.

Introduction One: When Jiang Shouzhong finally resolved to help his wife vanquish demons and uphold the righteous path of the human world, he saw nothing but piles of white bones. Standing atop the battlefield of Asuras, the demoness was none other than his former wife. —— Introduction Two: Above the temple halls, beneath the rivers and lakes, where the world of humans and demons divide, along the righteous and evil paths, countless charismatic individuals weave lives full of fireworks, unable to exhaust the tales of snow, moon, wind, and flowers. Kings and generals, peddlers and pawnbrokers, scholars and swordsmen, fiends and phantoms, they are all but pages in a book—each of varying thickness, some with twists and turns, others dull and ordinary, filled with ups and downs, joy and sorrow, or a mix of good and evil, with causes and effects unending. And the book of Jiang Shouzhong's life is undoubtedly the most captivating of all. ——

In the world of Aethelgard, destiny is forged by the "Skill" granted by the heavens. Legendary heroes wield S-Rank powers that can sunder mountains, while commoners make do with simple abilities to till the fields. For Kael Virein, his destiny was a curse. Branded "Skill-less" on his sixteenth birthday, he becomes the ultimate failure—an object of scorn and pity in a society that worships power. Cast out and destined for a life of mediocrity, Kael is ready to accept his bleak future. But what the world saw as a flaw was, in fact, a power beyond their comprehension. Kael doesn't possess a Skill because he isn't a user of the world's system—he is its Administrator. He can see the very code of reality. While others struggle to master swordsmanship, Kael can edit an enemy's status to [State: Deceased]. While mages chant complex spells, he can rewrite the laws of physics with a single thought. The mockery turns to shock, the shock to terror, and the terror to absolute reverence. Follow Kael as he embarks on a journey from a reviled outcast to a living god, turning legendary swords to dust, deleting cataclysmic spells from existence, and taming world-ending beasts with the ease of closing a program. His absolute, terrifying power becomes a beacon, drawing the most powerful and beautiful women in the realm to his side: a proud ice princess whose worldview he shatters, a seductive demoness who finds his power the ultimate aphrodisiac, and a brilliant scholar who seeks to understand the "glitch" that is Kael. But with every line of code he rewrites, Kael uncovers a deeper, more sinister secret: his world is not what it seems. Aethelgard is a cage, and its "gods" are its wardens. To protect his new home and the women who have pledged their hearts to him, Kael must confront the very creators of his reality. They mocked him for being born skill-less… But he’s not bound by the world. He’s the one who wrote it.

I died and got reincarnated into the world of a game I used to play. I know the dangerous future that will happen so I have to get stronger. I trained in using a sword and tried to learn magic from any source to get stronger and avoid the bad ending even if I'm not the protagonist. This world has talents. Almost everyone in the world has at least one talent. There are talents in swordsmanship, archery, magic, and many others. Some of the lucky ones got great talents that if they trained in them a lot they could easily be considered as the strongest individuals in the world. But some are unlucky and received weak or weird talents. And I was one of the unlucky ones to get a weak talent. I have a talent in slip magic. One of the weakest magic to exist. It's only purpose is to make a target slips and falls. At least that's what I thought. Once I trained in this magic, I learned that this magic is beyond of just making someone slips and falls. This is the greatest magic that have not been studied by researchers and scholars. This talent help me not just to use slippery magic. But it helped me to become a master of friction magic and makes me able to easily manipulate friction. With this magic, I will survive in this dangerous world until the world is at peace.

An Imperial Scholar by day. An assassin by night. The World of Cultivation has changed. Elemental Mancers. Flux Mancers. Spirit Mancers. Soul Mancers. Raining down fire and splitting oceans. Destroying mountains with a single stomp and calming skies with a glance. Controlling the tides of Karma, while wielding the souls of others like a puppeteer tugging on the Lines of Fate. The most mysterious of them all were Spirit Mancers, a truth that Theron was more than intimately familiar with. Due to one's Tribulation, his life was turned upside down. His family, his rage, his somber sadness becoming nothing more than Bad Karma's fuel for a madman. He was once a gentle young man, a non-combative Water Mancer who wanted nothing more than to read his novels to the sound of the rain and one day become an Imperial Scholar. But now... Everything had changed. He donned a cloak in the silent night as the clouds above gathered. Pulling its hood over his chilling blue eyes, he stalked off into the darkness. The first droplets fell. He would become the nightmare of his enemies, the blade hidden in the shadows of Heaven's tears. The River of the Night.

Kaito was just an ordinary office worker—overworked, under-caffeinated, and nursing back pain from a chair he swore he’d replace six months ago. His only escape? Fantasy novels, strong tea, and the quiet hum of a café on a rare peaceful morning. Then came the blinding light. Now? He’s been accidentally summoned to a divine realm by a flustered priestess who mixed up the magical paperwork and pulled in the wrong guy. Oops. Stranded in a world not meant for him, Kaito finds himself face-to-face with a radiant Dragon Goddess named Aurelya—who can’t return him home, but offers him a blessing and a chance to start over in the magical land of Aurethria. Granted the unique skill Scholar’s Insight, which lets him read and understand all magical languages and ancient texts, Kaito begins his new life as a sixteen-year-old bookworm with no combat skills—but an overpowered brain. Can a sarcastic, tea-loving introvert survive in a world of scrolls, spells, and dragons? Can he keep his head down long enough to avoid divine attention? And will the Dragon Goddess ever stop feeling guilty for yeeting the wrong guy across dimensions? A slow-burn, slice-of-life isekai full of magic, mishaps, and unexpected bonds. Because sometimes, saving the world starts with being a cosmic mistake.

In the shadow of Silver Peak Mountain, the Winter Moon Festival approaches - a party where wolves find their true mates. For 18-year-old Lily Carter, being an omega means living on the edges of pack life, watching others find love while she expects to be paired with another forgotten omega. All her life, she's watched Luna, the Beta's daughter, receive admiration from everyone - especially from the Alpha's triplet boys who will one day lead the pack. But on the night of Lily's 18th birthday, which falls during the festival, her world shatters when her fated mate mark shows - linking her to one of the three powerful brothers. Now Lily must manage jealousy, dangerous pack politics, and her own insecurities as she tries to discover which brother is truly meant for her. As threats emerge from within and outside the pack, Lily discovers hidden strengths that show she's far more than "just an omega." With three potential mates - the charming diplomat, the fierce warrior, and the thoughtful scholar - Lily's destiny is far greater than anyone could have dreamed.

Torn from a life on modern Earth, Alph awakens in a new body, in a harsh medieval world where a mystical "Awakening Ceremony" reveals one's most compatible path. But Alph's destiny isn't tied to ancient rituals or the expectations of his snow-bound village. His true awakening comes with the activation of a mysterious game-like system panel, granting him an unprecedented advantage: the ability to learn and master any profession he chooses. No longer just a scholar with borrowed memories, he is a transmigrator armed with a cheat that could redefine the very meaning of power and skill in this new reality. From these humble, confusing beginnings, Alph embarks on an extraordinary ascent. With the potential to become a true Master of All Paths, he must navigate the dangers of a world steeped in magic and conflict, harness the boundless capabilities of his unique system, and forge his own legend. But will limitless potential be enough to survive, thrive, and perhaps, understand the reason for his second chance at life? I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad and ScribbleHub.

"May the blinded see" The Window to the Soul. Gods system of which all who are born are attached to. Bestowed the destiny they are divined to fulfill. Each person is born with a "Class" that determines their future. Beginning at level 0 at birth until the age of 10 where they become level 1 and are allowed to begin earning experience by fulfilling their class quests and using their skills. The vast majority of people on the Grand Continent are born into simple classes. Tailor, Trader, Cook, Scholar, Farmer. Among others. All of which whose leveling will likely stagnate once they reach level 5. Unable to progress because their Class quests needed to level up become increasingly more unfeasible to fulfill. And by then, most will be in their old age. With the exception of those who rule over the peasant classes. Those who were born with combat classes who level considerably faster with the abundance of monsters that plague the Grand. None more powerful than the Holy Order of Paladins that aids in governing the continent. Liore is a peasant of a distant village, born to Farmer and a Chef. Born with the Farmer class like her mother. She was destined to be in the shadow of her older brother who was born with the "Holy Swordsman" Class. After her brother is sent off to train with the Holy Order, leaving her with his old training sword as a keepsake, Liore attempts to follow her brothers training with futility. Leading her into grave danger that almost takes her life until she stumbles upon an ancient artifact that gifts her abilities beyond her god given class. Emboldening her pursuit for her own destiny and sending her spiraling towards great power. With all of the strife that comes along with it...

The fat and stupid ugly girl Yang Ruoqing was ridiculed in the village and was forced to jump into the river by the man who had arranged a marriage with her. When she woke up again, her soul was replaced by a top agent. Facing a poor family, she led her family to work hard on the farm bit by bit and gradually became rich. While working hard on the farm, she healed her hidden injuries, got a better figure, and became a great beauty. The hunter in the mountains never left her side as she turned from ugly to beautiful, and spoiled her to no end. He was much better than the weak scholar. Unexpectedly, the hunter was not simple, and his identity was extraordinary.

Warriors train their bodies. Scholars fill their minds. Every cultivator must have both and the talent to harness qi. But when the youngest princess of the murim lord was born, her golden core had to be sealed immediately because her talent for harvesting qi was too strong. Follow her as she regains her talent as the weakest murim princess. Warning: Psychologically painful. Happy ending. Emotional healing. Prepare tissues.

Kael Virex was supposed to be nothing—another forgotten soul in a world where power is measured by the class etched into your soul. While others wield flame and steel, Kael was left classless, a ghost in a system-defined world. Until the voice spoke. A whisper in the dark. A system unlike any other. Not forged in discipline or light—but born of hunger. Now, Kael bears a name few dare speak: Lustbound. His touch steals more than warmth. His dreams are no longer his own. And his power… it’s growing. Hunted by zealots, studied by scholars, and desired by those who should know better, Kael must conceal the truth of what he’s become. Because this world has no place for Sinborn. But the system has already chosen him. And it doesn’t plan to let go.

I died from a divine typo. Not a noble sacrifice. Not a badass blaze of glory. Just… fatally misfiled. As an apology, the gods offered me three "powers of my choosing." So I reached for the overpowered, the broken, the god-killers— Rejected. Rejected. Rejected. In the end, I was stuck with: Appraisal: Slightly Misleading – lies more than it helps, unless you're a genius (I am). Minor Alchemy – can transmute pocket lint into chalk. That's... useful, right? Negligible Telekinesis – I can move a spoon. Slowly. But here's the twist: I don't need brute strength. I have plans. I'll rewire this fantasy world one thread, one trap, one impossible invention at a time. And along the way? Well… turns out MILFs are everywhere in this realm—gritty guildmasters, elven rangers, dark-elf scholars, succubus diplomats. They're powerful, proud, and very much not looking for some reincarnated nobody. Which is exactly why I'm going to make them fall for me—slowly, strategically, passionately. Tags action | adventure | reincarnation | r18 | system | magic | superpower | comdey | weaktostrong | harem | slice of life | medieval | milfs | slowburn

A scholar posed a question to a ruler: is it better to be loved or feared. That was the only thing that the tyrant king thought of as he watched his people kill him. Only death was not the end. The tyrant king now called Magnus deals with the hardest task being a baby. More specifically beings a baby with a loving family. Oh and i guess living in a new planet that has mana and was once ruled by six gods that betrayed their creator for power.

You are already having enough nightmares and demons in your day to day life. What happens when you start getting haunted by nightmares from an ancient world or maybe, as the legends say, memories from your past life? WARNING: SENSITIVE CONTENT On her 18th birthday, Li Juan had a nightmare that changed her life forever. She saw a queen of an ancient kingdom being murdered in her dream. Even though it was just a dream, intrigued by its content, she starts searching for its meanings and interpretations. Today, Li Juan is a research scholar at the archaeology department and she is on a quest to find a lost city. While searching about the lost city, she realises that her past and present life is being intertwined with three men who claim to own her heart. "Li Juan, you belong to me," declared her Highschool crush who also happens to be her current boss. "Li Juan, we are destined to be together," proclaimed her celebrity crush. "Li Juan, both of our families, wants us to become a couple," proposed her family friend. "Wait a minute!!! Are you sure the "Li Juan" whom you all mentioning is really me?" Even Li Juan herself finds it difficult to believe their claims, " I am sorry to disappoint you all, but I have already fallen in love with my research career." "But Li Juan, I promised that I'll help you to find your Queen," A blurry image of a man from her memory reminded her. Who is that? Through her broken dreams and shattered memories, Li Juan is still searching for the one who made the promise, to find the Queen from her dreams !!! No Mature content on first 20+chapters, but later chapters are under PG-18 Disclaimer: 1. Slow-paced romance with lots of mysteries. 2. Lengthy chapters (Minimum 1.5k words/chapters) 3. There are several chapters that deal with abusive toxic relationships and bullying. 4. The cover is not mine, I will remove it if the creator demands. 5. Read my other story, "No where to run: Trapped with my Archenemy" on webnovel # FIRST 100+ chapters are currently under editing # Support me on ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/monsoonmangoes0502

The night before the imperial exam, 15-year-old scholar Jun Wu watches his entire family slaughtered by the Fierce Tiger Gang. Left bleeding with a deep sword wound, he waits to die—until a villager finds and saves him. But what’s left of Jun Wu isn’t a helpless scholar. He wants revenge. The kind that could drown the whole village in blood. When he picks up a hammer for the first time, everything changes. ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Congratulations! You’ve been chosen. ┃ You’ve awakened your Innate Weapon. ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Innate Weapon: Hammer ┃ Level: 0 ( 0 / 100 EXP ) ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ With every beast he slays, every swing he takes, Jun Wu grows stronger. But vengeance isn’t simple. The deeper he digs into the truth behind the massacre, the darker it becomes. He made up his mind. He will avenge his family. Even if it breaks the world. **** Other name: Hammer of Vengeance.

In the cursed city of Eldermere, where the streets shift like living things and the sky bleeds black fog, a disgraced scholar named **Kael Arvantis** is given one last chance at redemption. The ruling theocracy—the Order of the Eclipse—tasks him with deciphering an ancient tome, *The Ashen Codex*, said to contain the true name of a forgotten god sleeping beneath the city. But the Codex is no ordinary book. Its pages whisper to Kael, showing him visions of a hollow world where everyone he’s ever loved is already dead. As he delves deeper, he realizes the Codex isn’t just a key—it’s a *hunger*. And the god it describes? It’s not sleeping. It’s *watching*. Now, Kael must navigate a labyrinth of lies, cults, and his own unraveling mind before the Void claims him—and the city—forever.

He was a nameless scholar—an obsessed historian who lived only for one purpose: to uncover the truth about Emperor Jin Muyeon, the most feared and vilified ruler in ancient history. To the world, Emperor Muyeon was a tyrant who razed cities, slaughtered the royal Shi bloodline, and seized power through blood and betrayal. He even took the princess of the Shi Dynasty as his bride—the daughter of the very king he killed. But the historian saw through the myths. Jin Muyeon was once a broken child, born in chains, forged by cruelty and war. His reign, though brutal, was not without reason. After completing his life’s work—an exposé revealing the emperor’s tragic past—the historian mysteriously dies. Only to awaken… as Jin Muyeon himself. Reborn in the body of the young would-be emperor, and equipped with a strange, divine System, he is now faced with the very choices that shaped history. > 【Skill Unlocked: Bloody Uprising】 【Choice: Spare the princess / Kill the princess】 【Warning: Timeline deviation detected. Consequences unknown.】 With full knowledge of how the future unfolds, he must now walk the line between tyrant and savior. Will he change his destiny—or repeat the bloodshed once more?

Since ancient times, there have been whispers of a mystical realm known as the Spirit Realm. Throughout the ages, scholars and poets have offered countless interpretations of its existence. In poetry, it is recorded: “From Qi to Tang, this mountain steeped in desolation; the Spirit Realm, silent and remote, visited by few.” “The Spirit Realm defies description; its ghostly wonders are beyond pursuit.”

The female protagonist is a wildly popular heartthrob with a natural halo. The male protagonist is a crazily obsessed and self-abasing loyal dog. Qiu Shu, the top scholar’s daughter, is pure, elegant and incomparably enchanting, captivating countless admirers. Being favored by the eldest prince, the most handsome man in the capital, and becoming his wife in a single move is truly the pride of a poor student. However, what they don’t know is that the seemingly bright and splendid female protagonist lives in a battlefield of jealousy every day. The cute and adorable young empress is unusually attached to her. The gentlemanly and upright young empress dowager has an ambiguous relationship with her. Even her aloof and proud eldest prince is actually a gloomy and petty jealous husband. [Reading Guide] 1. This novel is 1v1. The male protagonist is truly humble. Don’t read if you dislike it. 2. Male pregnancy. The female protagonist is loved by everyone. 3. There are one-sided yuri feelings. The female protagonist is straight. Don’t read if you dislike it!

They say there is a lamp. Old. Forgotten. Passed from hand to hand. No one knows who crafted it, or when it first appeared. No forge claims its birth. No scholar dares to trace its trail. But everyone remembers the stories. A whispered name, passed from village to village, court to court, battlefield to battlefield. Some say it glows when touched. Others say it hums when it chooses its master. All agree on one thing: It grants three wishes. And with each wish, the world bends. Gold appears from dust. Enemies vanish like smoke. Dead lovers rise. Kingdoms fall. Gods weep. But there is always a price. They say the genie sealed inside once walked the world as a man—a kind man, too kind for the life he left behind. Now bound to the lamp, he watches everything. Remembers everything. He does not sleep. He does not age. He only waits. For the next hand. For the next master. For the next wish. And deep within the lamp, in a chamber of endless stars, a voice echoes to no one: "Wish carefully… because I must answer."

The Stone Emperor, freed from his stony slumber, marched north with Kael’s dagger in hand, his veins burning with vengeance. Along the way, he forged uneasy alliances—a rogue Vein-Touched scholar, a witch bound to the old gods, and a scarred mercenary with a grudge. Together, they carved a bloody path toward the Black Spire, where the noblewoman, now a writhing abomination of flesh and shadow, awaited. In their final battle, the Emperor unleashed Crimson Blood Genesis, drowning her in a storm of molten ruby. Her last scream faded as her body dissolved—not into death, but into something worse. The dagger pulsed. Hungry.

Disguised as a young man, Xiao has lived quietly for years, determined to stay unnoticed. After fleeing her village at age six, she found herself in Madame Ping's care, the sharp-minded but kind owner of the renowned Yiji house: The Whispering Fan House. There, she had abandoned her past identity to start anew—safe, silent, invisible. It wasn't until a persistent royal scholar who kept crossing her path dragged her into palace politics, a wrongful arrest, and a promise she can't escape. And as the Mirror Rite approaches, Xiao's quiet life begins to unravel. For better... or for worse.

At the heart of the city of Axis, a boy who should not exist sends a team into the Pit—a vast, reality-warping abyss where science and sorcery blur. He is called the Director. He looks eight. He speaks in riddles. And he knows too much. Chosen by him, a war-scarred captain, a blade-wielding survivor, and a brilliant but timid scholar descend through a labyrinth of forgotten relics, fractured minds, and living nightmares. Each floor tests their strength. The Director tests their purpose. But as they go deeper, one question rises louder than the rest: Who is leading them... and why? “Every floor tests them. One of them is testing back."