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Cry Accompanying A Forehead Slap

A Woman Without a Mask

At 28, Clara Hayes has mastered the art of wearing masks. To her colleagues, she’s the perpetually cheerful graphic designer who never misses a deadline. To her overbearing mother, she’s the dutiful daughter hiding her anxiety behind polished smiles. To the world, she’s a woman who “has it all together”—except she’s crumbling inside. Clara’s life unravels during a corporate presentation where a panic attack strips her façade raw. Humiliated and exhausted, she flees to a quiet coastal town, renting a cottage owned by an eccentric, free-spirited potter named Marisol. There, Clara stumbles upon a dusty journal in the attic, its pages filled with haunting sketches and anonymous confessions from a woman who once lived there decades earlier. The entries mirror Clara’s own suffocating duality: “I paint myself in colors the world approves of, but my soul is a grayscale.” As Clara tentatively befriends Marisol and a reclusive widower, Eli, who runs the town’s crumbling bookstore, she begins confronting the lies she’s told herself for years. Through their unconventional guidance—and the journal’s cryptic wisdom—she starts shedding her masks one by one. But vulnerability comes at a cost: her corporate career teeters, her mother’s disapproval intensifies, and a buried trauma from her teenage years resurfaces, threatening to drown her newfound courage. When Clara’s raw, unfiltered artwork—created in secret—goes viral, she faces a choice: return to the safety of her old illusions or step into the terrifying freedom of living unapologetically. But the journal hides a final secret, linking Clara’s journey to the cottage’s mysterious past, forcing her to question whether true authenticity is a rebellion… or a homecoming.
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FACE SLAPPING EMPEROR: The rise of a legend

Yang Kai, a disciple at the Jade Mountain Sect, has always been the laughing stock of his sect. Born with weak spiritual roots, he has struggled for years with stagnant cultivation and constant ridicule. An underdog through and through, he’s known for his lack of talent and his hopeless future. But when fate intervenes and a mysterious Face-Slapping System activates within him, everything changes. With the power to earn cultivation points every time he humiliates the arrogant and powerful, Yang Kai’s life is turned upside down. A simple slap leads to an incredible surge of strength, and for the first time in his life, Yang Kai feels the weight of power coursing through him. But the system demands more—more humiliations, more face slaps, more confrontations with the arrogant disciples who have made his life hell. When Yang Kai is framed and expelled after winning a sect tournament, he is forced to go rogue, relying on his new-found abilities and determination to rise from nothing. Along the way, he uncovers an ancient inheritance, an ancient bloodline, and the hidden potential that has always been locked within him. As he enters a high-stakes competition to join an even larger sect, Yang Kai is thrust into a world of power struggles, dark secrets, and betrayals. But with his sarcastic and shameless personality, combined with his growing strength, he’s ready to face anyone—and slap them down. Will Yang Kai’s underdog journey lead him to the top, or will his reckless face-slapping ways get him into more trouble than he can handle?
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