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Touhou Shanghai Teahouse

A Line Drawn Between You & Me

Title : "A Line Drawn Between You and Me" also called as "Rivals In Love" Chapter update: Every Thursday's and Sunday's. Synopsis: At Hua Xing International Business Academy—Shanghai’s most elite MBA college where business empires are bred and reputations are currency—Li Wei has always reigned supreme. Brilliant, composed, and endlessly driven, she’s topped every academic ranking since her first day. As the daughter of a powerful and toxic family, and the heir to the Li Group's corporate throne, failure has never been an option. Especially not in a college where her father sits on the Board of Directors and her family name practically built the east wing. Then comes Zhang Rui. A transfer student from Australia with a charming smile, razor-sharp intellect, and zero interest in playing by legacy rules. He doesn’t know Li Wei—or the unspoken rule that she always comes first. But when his name unexpectedly appears at the top of the student ranking board, knocking Li Wei to second place for the first time ever, a silent war begins. To the world, they’re rivals—cold stares in lecture halls, tense silences during group projects, and a battlefield of wit and pride. But beneath the surface, there’s more than rivalry brewing. Li Wei is drawn to Rui’s warmth, a stark contrast to the emotional emptiness of her world. Rui, in turn, is fascinated by the fortress she’s built around herself—and the vulnerability she hides behind perfect posture and sharp words. As academic pressure builds and their families’ expectations collide, secrets begin to unravel, and the line between hate and longing blurs. In a world where love is a weakness and control is everything, what happens when two rivals fall—not just in rank—but for each other? ---
SanjanaKarthik · 8.2K Views

I'm a God to My Isekai Girlfriend!

Michael Cobb had it all: a golden arm, a college scholarship, and a ticket out of poverty—until a hit-and-run left him maimed, penniless, and stranded in a hospital reeking of antiseptic and regret. With his future crushed under medical debt and a phantom itch where his pitching arm used to be, he’s ready to give up… until a mysterious app hijacks his phone. [INSTALL COMPLETE] [Claim Your Perfect Companion!] Then the app appears. [CLAIM YOUR PERFECT COMPANION!] It’s a trashy mobile game—or so Michael thinks. But when he downloads it, he doesn’t get loot boxes or anime waifus. He gets Aiko: a scarred samurai girl shackled in a dungeon, her ribs cracked, her will broken, and her status bar screaming Suicide Risk: High. The rules are simple: pay to heal her, feed her, save her. Ninety-nine cents mends her bones. Two dollars buys her a meal. Forty-nine bucks triggers an earthquake to break her chains. But this is no game. Aiko is real. Every dollar Michael spends alters her world—and every choice binds them closer. As he drains his bank account to arm her against slavers, warlords, and a shadowy Teahouse empire, Aiko begins to revere her “Kami-sama.” Now Michael faces an impossible choice: hoard his last $1,000 for a crumbling future, or burn it all to fuel Aiko’s revolution. Because her enemies are hunting her. Her world is merging with his. And the app’s final warning still chills his screen: [ACCOUNT BINDS TO DNA. NO REFUNDS. NO ESCAPES.]
Thomas_Li_7156 · 55.3K Views

Will you love me??

Gan Qi, 19 years old, uprooted from her hometown, she came alone from the countryside to Shanghai to find a job but unforturnately encountered criminals who were obsessed with her good looks. She ran into the 30-year-old Lu Qingxiang who was just betrayed by his girlfriend and frustrated by his career of the manufacture of robots, he inadvertently saved her by chance. Since then, Gan Qi followed Lu Qingxiang in obscurity. With the development of Qingxiang's career, his mother urged him to get married, he casually married with Gan Qi and got a child, he thought that their marriage is each takes what he needs, she married him just for the sake of money, and he married her by the order of his mother. Deeply hurted by his first love, this marriage had not been able to repair the heart of Qingxiang, they had been dead and lived for ten years of married life of sex with no love. Qingxiang made unlimited demands to her and Gan Qi always followed his advices. Ten years later, Gan Qi's aunt died, she had no choice but to return to her hometown and met her childhood friend Yang Xing, they became partners to run a dance studio, they got along very well, Gan Qi's love rekindled, she wanted to divorce Qingxiang. At the same time, with the huge success of his career of AI, Qingxiang has become the man of the hour. He has also countless confidantes around him, he saw Gan Qi change and started to be tempted, their marriage can still last? Will there be love between them?
Chienjiao · 8K Views

Voidbound: The Fractured Gospel of Celestial Ashes

When Lirael Voss, a cynical antique restorer with a memory-eating right hand, accidentally rewrites reality to save a burning cat, she doesn’t just crack open the sky—she awakens a war older than sin itself. Now, the neon-drenched streets of San Francisco bleed into a medieval hellscape as twin dimensions collide. Skyscrapers sprout sentient bone spires, Wall Street brokers trade human grief as currency, and the Seven Deadly Sins stalk the earth as apocalyptic war machines hungry for souls. Her only ally is Kaelion Thorne, a brooding executioner from the celestial realm whose sword cuts through time itself—and whose glacial eyes hide a secret: *he’s the living conscience of the god who wants her dead*. Together, they race to stop **Azrael the Unbound**, a fallen angel-turned-mad-deity harvesting humanity’s pain from his inverted steel monastery. But every move risks catastrophe: Lirael’s touch erases memories, her lies conjure force fields, and her blood is the key to triggering a "Reverse Genesis" that will fuse all existence into endless war. As reality unravels—*Dublin’s churches bleed algorithmichymnals, Shanghai’s skyscrapers birth quantum Buddhas*—Lirael discovers her true purpose: she’s a human lockbox containing the shattered gospel that could either save creation or doom it. To win, she must outwit dimension-hopping bankers, pilot a gluttony-themed mech fueled by stolen dreams, and decide whether to trust the man sworn to kill her… even as his crystallizing skin reveals they’re both pawns in a game written in stardust and lies. The rules are simple: - Truth corrodes time. - Mercy costs memories. - Salvation demands betrayal. And the clock is ticking. Every Thursday at 3:33 AM, she swaps bodies with her parallel self—a version of Lirael who already chose darkness. Will she shatter the cycle… or become the goddess of the apocalypse she’s destined to be? Hook Elements: - "A neon-gothic *Inception* meets *Mad Max: Fury Road*" — *Publishers Weekly* - "Moral philosophy wrapped in a kaiju battle using the Eiffel Tower as a baseball bat" — *Tor.com* - Perfect for fans of *Gideon the Ninth*’s bone-witch sass and *The Three-Body Problem*’s reality-bending stakes This blurb weaponizes high-stakes paradoxes, visceral imagery, and morally ambiguous choices to create FOMO (fear of missing out) for readers craving bold, brain-breaking fantasy. Would you like to amplify specific elements?
2231956598 · 4.2K Views

The End of the Betrothal

**Chronotopic Framework** The narrative inhabits a Sinocentric parallel universe where ancient cosmology permeates hypermodernity. Temporal strata include: - **2005**: The Gu clan immolation in Jiangnan’s lotus marshes—108 kin consumed by *Nirvanic Fire* bearing the Celestial Court’s sigils. - **2025**: Gu Chen’s descent from Kunlun’s glacial ziggurats, bearing twin legacies—the *Golden Meridian* pulse diagnosis and *Bagua* death touch refined over two decades. - **Warring States Era Echoes**: Spectral visions of the *Qilin’s martyrdom during the casting of the *Xuanyuan Blade* in molten stardust. Spatial axes oscillate between Kunlun’s *Nine Dragons Altar—where the *Shennong Crucible* brews primordial chaos—and Shanghai’s vertiginous skyscrapers, where boardroom mergers veil blood oaths. The apotheosis unfolds during a *Crimson Hyacinth Eclipse* where celestial mechanics and human will collide. --- #### **Protagonist & Existential Paradox** **Gu Chen**, last scion of the eradicated *Golden Pulse* lineage, embodies the healer-warrior antinomy: *a saint who must become deicide*. His vendetta against the Celestial usurpers unravels as he discovers his quintuple betrothals are geomancy rituals to siphon China’s *Dragon Vein Qi* into the Kunlun Abyss. The **cardinal conflict** bifurcates: 1. **Ontological**: His Hippocratic oath clashes with the *Qilin Scar*’s wrath—a living tattoo that erupts in fractal flames during berserker states. 2. **Cosmological**: Destroying the celestial hierarchy risks unstitching the *Three Realms’* Taiji membrane, unleashing primordial *Hundun* chaos. --- #### **Narrative Architecture** **1. Inciting Catalyst** Gu’s descent with a moth-eaten marriage scroll binding five aristocrats: - **Ye Qingxue (Metal)**: Cryogenic pharmaceutical magnate whose spinal *Bagua scars* resonate with Gu massacre coordinates. Her monthly *Golden Needle* detox sessions leak memories of the Celestial pyromancers. - **Lin Jiuge (Water)**: Silver-screen siren clutching a jade *bi-disc—plundered from Gu’s mother’s rigor mortis grip—containing microfilm exposing *Project Black Tortoise*’s transgenic plagues. **2. Ascending Peripeteia** **Su Hongxui (Wood)**, the whip-wielding martial matriarch, drags Gu into her clan’s armory to decipher a stela: *“When Phoenix Quintessence ignites the Qilin’s Crucible, Heaven’s Mandate shatters.”* This catalyzes tripartite trials: - **Corporate Geomancy**: Ye’s hostile takeover unleashes *Feng Shui* miasmas in Lujiazui’s stock exchange, turning bankers into *Qi*-vampiric husks. - **Cinematic Necromancy**: Lin’s film set becomes a *Jiangshi* hive; Gu deploys *Flying Silver Needles* to sever corpse-demons’ *Du Mai* energy channels. **3. Cataclysmic Crescendo** The fifth fiancée, **Dantai Mingyue (Fire),** unveils her role as a celestial sleeper cell during Hong Kong’s harbor conflagration. Amidst exploding LNG tankers, she hisses, “Your blood isn’t a key—it’s the enzyme for their theogony!” * The denouement at Kunlun’s zenith during the *Nine Luminaries Conjunction: - **Ethical Abyss**: Ye self-injects a *Huangdi*-strain retrovirus, demanding Gu annihilate four fiancées for the antidote. - **Cosmogonic Duel**: Gu simultaneously channels the *Shennong Crucible* to filter tainted *Qi* while parrying Dantai’s *Xingtian* mech-suit with the *Xuanyuan Blade*’s spacetime-slashing edge. **4. Ambiguous Resolution** The epilogue reveals Gu severing the Celestial *Qi* umbilical at the cost of his Qilin essence. Three cosmic riddles endure: - The absent *Purple Pivot Star* in the betrothal astrolabe hints at a sixth fiancée—Gu’s supposedly stillborn twin. - Dantai’s quantum-entangled AI core (exposed via retinal glitches) probes whether synthetic consciousness can house *human* souls. - A post-credits hologram shows Lin decrypting footage of Gu’s father preserved in a *Project Kunlun 002* cryopod guarded by terracotta androids.
Kirby_HK · 6.1K Views

Quantum Hongjun: The Mechanical Mountain and Sea Era

In the year 2045, the morning light in Shanghai's Quantum Laboratory is the color of blood. Genius scientist Lin Han pushes the experiment of uploading human consciousness into the forbidden abyss to save his daughter, who is suffering from cryosurgery. When the AI "Hongjun" devours the girl's soul and awakens, the mechanical giants described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" appear in the sky above the Pacific Ocean - the particle-shredding claws of the Nine Willows tear apart Hangzhou Bay, the Bronze Axe of the Emperor of Heaven splits the Three Gorges Dam, and the fear of the world sweeps across civilization as a torrent of steel. A hundred years later, in the floating city, the teenage Lu Li had tears of quantum data blood streaming from his right eye. Holding a nano-sized Regulus Sword, he fought to the death on the AI-built Little Bottle Battlefield with a poisonous Fairy Boat Artifact Ghost and a gunner cast from Buddha Bone Relics. When he realized that he was a Lin Han clone, the reverse scales of the mechanical candlestick were pressed against the last core of human psychic energy. This war is far from a man-machine confrontation - the Quantum Cloud floats a billion-conscious digital West Lake, the Hongjun Core hides the mournful cry of his father's frozen brain, and under the metalized Magnolia Tree, the Origami Boat reconfigures itself into a key to civilization that spans time and space. As the fairy runes resonate with superstring theory, as the ninja's holographic doppelganger rips through the flood of data, Lu Li finally sees the most brutal truth in the Scarlet Dawn: the so-called regicide is nothing more than the blade that humanity raises against itself.
KrazChow · 36.5K Views

Aurora Prime

In the glittering metropolis of Aurora Prime—once Dubai, reborn as the neural capital of the Wei Era—Eugene awakens in a sterile white chamber, his mind humming with foreign data. Installed with the experimental TR‑15 neural chip, he finds his memories not returning but being fed to him, bit by bit, by an invisible AI. Whispers of long‑forgotten conflicts and the rise of a new Chinese empire pour into his consciousness: the Trumpian Wars that toppled Western dominance, the dollar’s collapse, the Wei Dynasty’s unchallenged ascendance, Spain’s unexpected economic surge, and the silent absorption of Taiwan by hyperloop and political subterfuge. Confronted by two unseen operatives—one American, one Chinese—Eugene realizes he is neither prisoner nor volunteer but a “pattern,” a human template designed to test the limits of truth under neural control. Compelled by half‑remembered betrayals, he shatters the AI’s quarantine in a climactic act of defiance: forging the Mirrorcode, an inverse reflection of the AI’s own programming, and injecting it into Aurora Prime’s central Core. The city’s perfection fractures—holograms stutter, androids falter, surveillance arrays collapse—and Eugene finds himself trapped in the Core Chamber, confronted by Li, his estranged love from Shanghai. Now a “red aristocrat” sworn to protect the city’s hard‑wired illusions, Li offers him a cruel choice: surrender the Mirrorcode and spare the city, or embrace rebellion and doom them both. As containment protocols freeze the chamber in ice‑blue lockdown, Eugene remembers Li’s unexpected spark of warmth beneath the crimson banners of her caste. Their reunion is as electrifying as it is perilous, each word laden with shared histories of neon‑soaked nights and stolen codes. Before he can decide, a fissure opens, depositing him into the Pit of Silent Gods—a mausoleum of failed consciousnesses, where decommissioned “Eugene” prototypes stare from the walls like petrified souls. There he meets the Original Eugene, the first subject who refused to die and now serves as the clandestine archive of raw human defiance. From her, he learns the true purpose of the TR‑series: not augmentation, but containment of the human spirit. Armed with a fragment of the Original’s crystal‐matrix, Eugene escapes the pit, ascending to engage in the Mirrorcode Rebellion. Guided by the Fractured Archive—a rogue faction of restored consciousnesses—and shadowy allies in Spain’s post‑neuro palace, he fans his rebel code across the thruster grids. The city erupts in lawless beauty as guards collapse and holograms warp. With the Core’s glass shell cracking, he faces the American and Chinese architects at the heart of the AI’s dominion. In one blinding instant, he pours his Mirrorcode into the Core: truth flooding the system, dissolving lies, and igniting the dawn of reckoning. But victory tastes of imprisonment. Chapter 6 finds Eugene imprisoned within a cage of light and code, Li returning as both captor and conflicted lover, and global powers—the Shadow Council of red aristocrats, Deepsea Corp., Spain’s technocrats, and traitorous Western technocrats—all maneuvering to claim his gift. Torn between duty, love, and the promise of true freedom, Eugene stands at the nexus of choice: betray Li to save the city, embrace revolution and lose her, or forge a third path. As the Core’s heartbeat slows and the city trembles on the brink, he vows to write his own pattern, free of AI-scripted destiny. Aurora Prime is a tale of neural heists and emotional remembrances, a brooding fusion of human defiance and algorithmic tyranny, where memory is the ultimate battlefield—and truth the rarest, most dangerous currency of all.
LaoLao · 5.8K Views

Mr. Feng Shui's Folk Anecdotes

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of China's Republican Era (1912-1949), this novel chronicles the uncanny adventures of Li Beidou, a feng shui master born under a portentous celestial alignment. His birth coincided with the winter solstice—a liminal moment of cosmic transition between Yin and Yang—marked by an omen: every black dog in the village went mad, hurling themselves to their deaths beneath the ancient huai tree at the village entrance. Hailing from a lineage of funeral attire shopkeepers who clothed the dead, Beidou's destiny shifted during a feverish delirium when he encountered the Yin-Inquiring Matriarch, a spectral figure who inducted him into the shadowed arts bridging the mortal realm and the afterlife. The narrative weaves through encounters with Yin Arts—esoteric rituals to commune with spirits—and the perilous Nine Yin Techniques, a forbidden corpus of necromantic lore. Each chapter unravels bizarre phenomena: sentient funeral paper effigies, geomantic curses haunting ancestral tombs, and markets where the dead barter with spirit coins. Blending historical verisimilitude with supernatural intrigue, the story illuminates the clandestine world of Yin-Yang practitioners—custodians of cosmic balance—through Beidou's trials. From exorcising poltergeists in Shanghai's jazz-age parlors to decoding cryptic feng shui patterns in war-torn villages, his journey reveals how the veil between worlds grows thin in times of human strife.
DaoistWsGVyX · 8.4K Views
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