*Rinat: A mysterious man who turned up at Kyrie out of the blue. Appears to have a great interest in Cyril.... more>>

*Cyril: The bartender of Kyrie who serves up lies mixed with truth.

*“Right now, I’d just like to spell those lips of yours honest for once.”

The Cataclysm swept through the world overrun by nuclear dust and toxic waste, leaving nothing standing but a single steel tower constructed by a dictator. The clicking of turning cogwheels filling that tower purged the earth and saved humanity, whose remnants gathered around the Central Tower to survive.

Against this backdrop, Cyril, a bartender in East Downtown, finds himself unexpectedly entangled one rainy day in the case of a serial killer known as “Alice,” caught in a clandestine battle of wits with a man named Rinat in a race to uncover one another’s secrets.

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A chill ran through him. Cyril jerked back, letting out a sound of dismay. The young man’s hand remained where he’d just been, hovering in the space between Cyril’s shoulder and throat.

“Ah, I missed,” the man complained lightheartedly, unclenching his fist from its failed attempt to snatch at the end of the ribbon. “You’re quicker than I thought. I shouldn’t have underestimated you—ought to have held your hands down first.”

If anything, that was Cyril’s line. Stealthy as a cat, that one.

“I was quite curious… just what it was you were hiding under that ribbon.”

“This ribbon—”

“Ah, I heard. From that corner over there.” The young man raised his hands to cut him off. “You said it was a memento of your mother’s? She must’ve been quite wealthy, to dr*pe herself in gold-dusted silk over cheap nylon.”

Cyril smiled inscrutably, inwardly clicking his tongue with annoyance. “It was a gift from my father, and he was incredibly wealthy, so…”

Now it was the stranger’s turn to smile, his ash-gray eyes curving with amusement. “Of course. If that really is a memento, that is.” <<less

This is the story of how the tough hunter Ar has captured the prince's heart.... more>>

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One day, a super handsome prince with blond hair and blue eyes suddenly takes up residence in a hunter's house deep in the forest. He ends up falling for Ar, the strongest, coolest, and cutest hunter in the village...

A wild clash between nature and civilization— a love story, or should we say, a hunting story? <<less

After 18 years of suffering, I saved another world and barely returned.
Now, I thought all that was left was to enjoy peace with my beloved family...... more>>

Ding!

[Round 2 - Starting Hard Mode.
Time remaining until the first trial: 30 days]

Hey, you bunch of unethical guys.

I can't die like this.
Before the 'trials' hit, I cleaned up the family, built up my skills, and made thorough preparations.
But why is this mysterious figure showing so much interest in me halfway through?

"I have a question about the night we met in the cave."
"Haha, what are you talking about? We were meeting for the first time, right?"
"...Aren't you curious about who caused the accident that took your parents?"

What a brat, questioning our parents' accident?
Who does he think he is?

Looking around as he suggested, I realized there were more than a couple of suspicious points.
Unseen conspiracies and hidden motives surfaced, and just when we thought things couldn't get worse, the 'trials' began...

"Don't worry, Rosha, I'll handle it."
"Yeah, that bastard is the most suspicious one."
"Who's truly insane here? It's probably you."

Oh, don't fight!
At this rate, we'll all die! <<less

My heart, my lover.... more>>

Do not pretend to be unaware of our darkness, deceived by omnipotence.

We are children of chaos, born from the pool of blood and moans.

Cruelty and indifference are inherent traits that cannot be erased, and at times, we exhibit intense obsession.

Chaos has bestowed upon us so much skill and talent, even though we are beings with no desire to contribute to anything real.

Instead, we exist as beings that embrace destruction to overcome decadence.

The order, conscience, and ethics that humans desperately want to protect…

To them, such concepts hold no value or meaning. They do not even understand what it means to be cruel.

“You know, don’t you?”

If you are only pretending to know… Would you also scornfully push me away? <<less

Marianne, Lord of Este.
Following numerous trials, she was labelled a traitor. As a result, she seeks to change the future.... more>>

"I respectfully request that you marry me, the Marianne of Este. I also… I wish for you to give me a child."
"So you mean to use me as a pawn?"

Her plan was simple. Make an agreement with Basharian, the ducal heir, who has lost his memory. In exchange for a contractual marriage and the promise of a child.

"But what about yesterday? Is it true that he does not remember her lordship?”
When she saw Basharian, her first love, he seemed to have forgotten her.
The wounds from more than a decade ago had reopened.

"Even if I were to meet a good man, I would never be content."
"What do you mean by this?"
"Our futures are intertwined." <<less

Lord, please allow me to sabotage his business again today.... more>>

That’s how my dad will not die.

***

A weaponsmith who lost his life while crafting weapons for the warrior’s party.

That foolish man was my father.

Upon realizing the future, I took drastic measures in order to save my dad’s life.

That was through sabotaging his business!

“Darn it, why is such a cool sword can’t even cut this tiny potato-!”

“It can’t even slice the ham this time!”

“There’s no way that the sword made by ‘Sir Royce’ would be this useless-!”

My trick to sabotage his business was successful.

But I didn’t stop here.

I spoke courteously to the warriors who came for my father.

“Nial Royce? I don’t know that person. I only live with my mom.”

Sorry, father.

***

My plan was a huge success.

Only flies flew to my father’s weapon store, and the warriors didn’t come to ask for a sword from my father.

I thought I could live happily with my father now…

“You….How old are you this year, child?”

The most powerful duke of the empire suddenly claimed that I was his granddaughter.

What the hell is going on here?

What is happening with me? <<less

She got stuck in the reverse harem that she used to play so well.... more>>

Not even as the main character, but as the villainess that she ridiculed every time.

“…What do I have to do to get back to reality?”

“*BEEP* and *BEEEEP* with the main characters? Or you can collect the endings by playing *BEEEEP*.”

Surprised by the helper’s explanation, she opened her mouth wide enough she didn’t even notice a bug went in.

‘*BEEP* and *BEEEEP*? It is a bit high-level, but it’s good,’ she thought.

It wasn’t surprising since the game was originally made to be women-oriented. But the problem was…

“Among the main characters, there isn’t one that even likes me! How do you *BEEP* when just by touching my fingertips they immediately wash their hands as if I am nothing but tr*sh?!”

The targeted characters of this game were male lead characters and villain haters at the same time. They didn’t like the character she was stuck in, but hated her to the core.

"That's up to you."

So, when they see her, should she hold on to men who were busy running away from her touch?

She thought it would’ve been better to die than be bothered with this level of difficulty. <<less

“Did you come to save me?”... more>>

Even though it was a question so innocent to the point of being revolting, it contained the last glimmer of hope in it. Nevertheless, the man spoke with disdain.

“No way.”

“….”

“I’m here to send you to hell.”

In her first life, Guiscard Lodbrook plunged Diana Brien right into hell.

━━━━━ ∙ʚ(✧)ɞ∙ ━━━━━

“You must bear with me.”

“….”

“Three years. Only three years…”

“….”

“I won’t hold back for three years. You have to take all of me.”

“….”

‘I know. That’s why I’m doing this.’ Diana nodded flatly. The man lowered his head, muttering softly into her embrace as if on the verge of tears.

“D*mn it. So, why did you abandon me?”

In her second life, Guiscard Lodbrook fell into the pits of hell because of Diana Brien. <<less

20XX, the era of virtual reality games.
Among them, , which I played, was a game that mixed romance simulation, horror action, and upbringing genres. ... more>>

“Oh. Don't worry, baby. I'll definitely save you next time."
'really? Then I'll leave it to you.'

However, on the 43rd day of the death of the master who had been nurtured and nurtured, a strange voice was heard and the strange 44th episode began.

“Master Diane, a new caregiver has arrived.”

The job of a nurturer, which was not originally in the game, was automatically selected, and then the unpredictable things continued to happen in the Redford Mansion, the setting of the game.

“I like Rin the best in the world. So don't die until I'm an adult and stay by my side."
“It’s said that Rin likes a man with a pretty crying face. that's just me Would you like to check it out now?”

Even so, the cute sunfish cat worked hard to protect it, and I made a data lover like a flower deer... .

[Loading system… . Partial recovery of the system for quick deployment.]
[

Favorite 2] Hey, didn't you like me? What the hell is this petty crush?
However, whenever the handsome man saw another person, the number above his head that penetrated to the inner core was even more disconcerting.

[Favorite –889/?]

It turned out that this man, the subject of the game data, must have been afflicted with anthropophobia. <<less

Ailea Elgar Euliana, she met her death by the hands of the Crown Prince, her fiancé and the man she thought was her Prince Charming and true love’s kiss.... more>>

In her wedding dress, she closed her eyes and burned to death in the castle that set afire in blazing flames.

That was her end.

But, she returned to the past, realizing how foolish she was to cling onto the love she thought they had, and so she begins to live for herself and without regrets. On her journey of self discovery, she meets someone new… <<less

I just wanted to be loved.... more>>

After awakening the power of an alchemist, I constantly made money for my family on the verge of bankruptcy.

Even though I knew it was an act that consumed my life.

But when I died for an attempted mu*der charge, no one was by my side.

Wearing the dress made with my life, my younger sister shed fake tears in the crown prince’s arms.

The third awakening was achieved by being pecked by a bird’s beak.

Milvia touched time.

Her remaining life span, as she returned to the past, is only one year.

Within that time, she will seek revenge.

So she spent a night with the man known as the Mad Knight. A man who had just obtained the rank of a baron.

The unimaginable reward she offers is only to protect her side and pretend to love her.

I will give you everything that my family once had.

Just make sure it doesn’t crumble while I seek revenge.

…But why did the proposal letter come from the duchy, who’s known to control the underworld?

***

“You are a person worthy of praise, so don’t be disheartened.”

He gently wiped her cheek with the back of his hand. His hand, holding the sword, was firm and powerful.

Suddenly, she felt his masculinity.

Milvia’s face flushed with overwhelming anger.

“I despise hypocrisy.”

Deus pushed down her lower lip with his thumb and teasingly caressed it.

Milvia was frozen, unable to even breathe, caught in his gaze.

“Don’t play nice, don’t pretend you’ve given up. When the truth is, you want to live, even if it means killing someone else.”

His words were like a dagger that pierced her heart.

Even though he knew she was trembling, Deus did not stop talking.

“Tell me you’d rather kill than die, Milvia.”

“……”

“Say those words, and I will kill the saintess if I have to, just to save you.”

His whispering smirk was outrageously tempting.

…To the point where she truly desired to live. <<less

I ran away because I didn’t want to be witch-hunted. However, the place where I ended up was a lawless area infested with crime. I gambled with everything I had, but why did the damn dice roll out of the board! ... more>>

“As long as you have that mark, you can’t get away from me.”

To make matters worse, I was kidnapped by Huzga Dias, a mu*der maniac, so I decided to tame him in order to survive. But what’s this? Why does it feel like he’s been tamed even before training? <<less

Get ready for the rip-roaring light novel that inspired a viral comic sensation!... more>>

Two years after transmigrating into the fantasy BL novel Asterion of the Starry Blue Night, Rosalite—a minor character and the sister of the tragic male lead—learns that she is fated to repeat her life every time her brother dies.

No matter how hard she tries, her brother, Rion, continues to attract toxic men and almost always perishes by the age of 20, whether by mu*der or by taking his own life, fating Rosalite to return to her 16-year-old body.

After nearly two dozen attempts to get the timeline right, Rosalite has run out of patience for all these sleazy men: Touch My Brother and You Die! <<less

Chloe Garnet, who sacrificed everything for the man she loves, died a tragic death. Foolish Chloe realized too late. She was the bait that the man would throw at the Emperor, and he was the most beautiful son of a bit*h disguised with affection... more>>

***

“I like you uncle.”

At the age of seventeen, I was so young and immature that I couldn’t hide my growing heart.

“I’ve been in love with you for a long time.”

My body shrunk at the sight of him slowly holding my chin and looking through my body, but I took courage and took a step closer to him.

“Love. So you have already reached that age.”

His fingertips swept down my face. Despite the unexpected confession, he was overly relaxed and skillful.

“I like you too, Chloe. I love you. How can I not be happy with you, who will bring me my brother’s neck in the future?”

The man whom I loved, was so sweet that he was even more cruel.

“Have the emperor’s child.”

***

When I opened my eyes again, he looked down at me with a pale face.

He was the man who trampled on my love and broke me. <<less

As part of the nobility, one must fulfill their responsibilities as a noble and keep their dignity at all times.... more>>

That was how Elysia Hellen had lived all her life.

'I thought I was on the right path, what the hell did I do wrong?'

The fiancé who was engaged to her for over twenty years,

"Let's break up the engagement. I have someone I love."

The woman he loved,

"Lady Hellen, stop being greedy and please let us be."

In the tale they wrote, she was a wicked woman.

A villainess.

A vicious woman who tormented the two and became a s*ave after the collapse of her household.

To her, who had lost everything, a man reached out his hand.

"Come with me, and I'll make the Duke kneel at your feet."

She became a villainess who pledged to him.

"I'll make you the Emperor, so help me with my revenge."

The first chapter of a new novel unfolded.

This story is about a wicked woman who became the main character.

The revenge of the villainess, Elysia, had just begun. <<less

I thought I got used to being called a ‘villain’… but even now I’m called a villainess in a novel?... more>>

Soo-in no longer needed to be a villain, nor did she want to be one.

But at one point, she felt something wasn’t right. Everything fit together so tightly, and someone was cleverly driving Beckinia into the ‘villainess’ role.

“You’ll never expect to be hit like this. Your place, from now on, I will steal it.”

In order to reveal the ugly face of Mianel, the heroine of this novel, she decides to become a villainess once again.

Meanwhile, a man approached her.

He was Prince Hysis, the half-brother of Raysid, the Prince, who Beckinia once loved.

“You can use me. In that regard, I can tailor myself as the lady sees fit, but,"

Hysis stopped talking and suddenly looked straight into her eyes.

Only then did Soo-in realize what his intention was.

The plot’s change was starting faster than I thought.

“Would you please cooperate in getting back my original position? From their point of view, this could also be called a rebellion.” <<less

Don't worry yourself over trying to take responsibility for us.... more>>

Our happiness is not something that you hold.

***

The happy ending of a romance to be written into history. Beyond that are numerous forgotten faces.

After the married couple of the Pendleton Grand Duchy decorated the century with their growth into lovers from a secretive 'Daddy Long Legs' patron and beneficiary, the act of exchanging letters within secret patronages just like them became the trend.

However, would that romantic clandestine patronage always bring happiness?

Once her roommate became the victim of an attempted mu*der case, Andie Julinas, a prospective officer who was currently attending the Academy as a student of the Military Department with the help of a patron, put forth the hypothesis that the recent serial cases of mu*ders were targetting the recipients of secret patronages.

And before she knew it, she, too, was already long entangled within the case!

"I'm the fourth son, so there's no need for a heir, and since I can't use a gun, there's no need for me to go out to the site of the incident, so I can take care of the household, not to mention I'm from the upper class, so I'll be able to educate the children well......."

"Wait, wait. What are you doing right now?"

"Proposing."

"Are you crazy?"

"......." <<less

She gave her all to make her son, 3rd Prince Leon, emperor. On the day this dream was fulfilled, she went to the place where the emperor’s coffin rested, where she found her son dying from the poison he had drunk himself.... more>>

“I… have never been happy in my life.”

Only despair was left for Elisha, who was holding onto her son’s cold corpse. “Leon…”

However, after losing consciousness, she woke up to find that her young son was looking at her with his lovely face!

“If this isn’t a dream, if it’s a new opportunity… I stole a lot of things in the name of doing it for you, so if you ask me, I will do whatever you want.”

Elisha, who vowed to become a good mother in this life, instead of piling up dead bodies and squeezing blood in a war to claim the emperor's throne, makes a different choice from the past by weaving ties with her stepson, the crown prince. <<less

When the curtain falls on the stage, I will take my stand as the Queen.... more>>

Readymade Queen Act I: Salvation and deception

A splendid world under the blazing sun, a quarrel over its true ownership.

The play began in the shadows, where no-one bothered to look.

“Your hair…it’s auburn. Even your eyes…the same color as the Emperor.”

Violetta, the Princess who had been bound by the title of a fool, was mu*dered.

The only person who had witnessed the end of her vain life, as her lady-in-waiting, was the fallen aristocrat Abigail.

Abigail predicted a preventable end for herself as well.

Until the Duke said;

“You have to be the Princess.” <<less

[If you enter the deep forest, you will be eaten by the shadows.... more>>

The shadows of the forest move when a person is not looking.

There is a shadow that mimics people in the deep forest.

The shadow of the forest speaks.]

Rosaline, of the Knights of the White Night, had gone missing after being attacked by enemy forces during a hunting contest.

However, she was found unconscious, badly injured, and lying beneath the cliff.

Rosaline, who woke up a few days later, seemed to have severe memory loss. It was difficult for her to speak even simple words.

She was found walking barefoot, in her pajamas, talking informally here and there. She would even pick up food off the floor!

She’s a strange girl no matter how you look at her. Is that really Rosaline? <<less

In her previous life, she became the crown princess, but she was betrayed by the prince and her family was annihilated.... more>>

She was killed by the prince’s sword, and when she opened her eyes, she had returned to the past. In order to survive, Sierta, who will never become a crown princess again, will somehow protect her family, and be sure to be happy, proposes a three-year marriage to Archduke Harrace Heidwig in order to survive.

Harrace, a hero of the empire, called the empire’s guardian sword, has power that even the emperor cannot easily control after the blood of a dragon.

He accepts a marriage proposal to use Sierta to break the imperial curse on him.

“I am going to marry my Majesty the Grand Duke.”

“Duke? Are you talking about Grand Duke Hedwig?”

“Yes, father. He’s the only Grand Duke in the Empire, Harrace Heidwig, right?”

“Your Majesty the Grand Duke? Where are we going now?”

“Where are we going? To the bedroom. You said that the Marquis’ wife decorated your room?”

“What?”

On the first night of their marriage, they think that they should pretend to be calm in their hearts and minds, but their bodies aren’t.

But, should we continue to use oriental medicine like this for 3 years?

The enterprising ’new destiny pioneering project’ of the sexy man Harrace who tries to escape the bondage of the brave and lovely Sierta, who is not frustrated in front of his sad fate, and the cursed family. <<less